In order to quickly relieve this passive situation, Cheng Dong finally had to suspend the railway subgrade project, in addition to the continuation of the road compaction work, he also led all the rest of the construction vehicles to support the repair of the wall.

Therefore, the project and the construction of various facilities in the vegetable garden farm lasted for five days, and by the afternoon of January 15, the plot, with a total area of more than 12 acres, was finally surrounded by a rammed earth wall with a height of 1.5 meters.

At this point, including the perimeter of the cave square, from the south side of the creek to the east bank of the Moon River, a rammed earth wall more than 1,000 meters long, 1.5 meters high, and nearly 1 meter thick completely isolated the farm and vegetable garden from the dangerous world outside.

More than 120 acres of land, half of which are farms, separated by a low wall, and the other half are vegetable fields that have been plowed by tractors.

Passing through the center of the vegetable field are two main aqueducts with a cross layout, which are actually two diversion ditches dug by excavators that are one meter wide and less than 80 centimeters deep.

Soon, water from the creek to the south and the Moon River to the west was brought in, and at the junction of the farm and the vegetable garden, there was a large septic tank two meters deep and six meters in circumference.

Hou Xianglin finally used a small amount of valuable cement and building materials in the cave to build the walls of the pond with cement, and the septic tank was surrounded by a meter-high earthen wall, which was sealed with fiberglass tiles and felt, and of course, holes were reserved, making it easier to transform this septic tank into a simple biogas tank when the conditions were ripe.

Around this future biogas digester, according to Lao Wang's instructions, the group built several simple sheds with adobe walls, palm tree trunks as beams, felt and fiberglass tiles to cover the roof. Lao Wang plans to use this place as his temporary nursery house.

From the nursery to the farm in the distance, there is a rammed earth path connecting Lao Zhu's young livestock shed, which is built in the same style as Lao Wang's nursery house, but the area is much larger.

Next to the barn is a row of low huts for poultry houses, semi-open pens, cowsheds and stables, and this rammed-earth path follows the ditch to the north and turns down the hill to the entrance square.

Two iron bars were blocked from the gaps in the wall, which had been removed from the iron cages in the caves and were used as gates for the farm and vegetable garden.

Immediately afterwards, all kinds of livestock and poultry were stocked in the first time, because the conditions of this farm are good, so it is basically wild open-breeding.

It took a full twelve days to accomplish all of this, and thus the first ranch and the first farm of the Travelers in the New World were born, and although it was very simple, everyone understood that it was a significant beginning.

The next step, in addition to burning the wasteland, is to continue the construction of the railway to the Red Wharf.

However, there is a saying that the plan is not as fast as the change, and the original initial burning of the wasteland and the farm and vegetable garden project are behind for a while, as long as the urgent need for the table is relaxed, it is necessary to hurry up to build the railway from the cave to the dock, because the first priority is to quickly carry the urgently needed materials on the Nicole.

However, the whole thing has taken a turn of the day, and the road construction project has to be delayed.

The reason was that at a dinner discussion, Lao Wang reminded everyone of an impromptu speech on the food issue, and everyone found that the matter of setting fire to the famine was far from over.

After some discussion, everyone realized that they still had to devote themselves to the cause of burning wasteland, and continued to spend a lot of energy to widen the fire barrier, with the aim of striking again---- expanding the open land to the east of the Red Mansion, so as to carry out a larger-scale burning operation.

The goal is to burn another piece of land to expand the planting area of crops, and this time in Lao Wang's impromptu speech at the dinner table, he emphasized not the problem of vegetables, but the problem of planting food and cash crops.

At that time, Lao Wang stressed that in order to ensure our food security, we should try to advance the preparation time for clearing wasteland for farming, because crops have seasons for growth, and if you miss the season, you can only wait for the next year, and now, it is the middle of summer in the southern hemisphere, and it will be autumn in two or three months.

According to my estimates, we can at least try to plant one season of winter wheat as soon as possible, and we should also try to plant some crops such as sugarcane, corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes.

Lao Wang emphasized that the latter crops, in particular, were high-yield grain crops that had not yet been popularized on a large scale in the seventeenth century, and these crops could be called invincible in terms of nutritional value, yield and industrial application value.

Seeing that everyone nodded frequently, Lao Wang immediately suggested that we should also start the brewing industry immediately after the sweet potato and corn harvest, and in this alone, we can not only consume ourselves, but also sell it as a commodity.

Hearing that there was wine to drink, everyone listened more attentively, and then Lao Zhu also interjected and said, Lao Wang is right, not only winemaking, these crops are also excellent feed, so Lao Wang's opinion is related to the production of our milk, eggs and meat, and it is a major event related to the daily life level of everyone here!

In the end, Lao Wang also concluded that before we have the ability to go to sea to trade in exchange for the materials we need, we must ensure the basic supply of food, meat, eggs, milk and vegetables for nearly 100 of our people, so according to the earlier estimate, the land area that needs to be reclaimed is really not small!

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but worry again, and they all said that it seems to be the same if you think about it, but we have been doing physical work for the past few days, and everyone is a little tired, can you slow down and talk about it? Many people stretched out their hands to show Lao Wang the blood blisters that came out, as well as the redness and swelling of their arms, and more people complained about the recent backache, the lack of energy to walk, and the inability to sleep, and said that the workload has been too tight recently, who can stand it? For a while, everyone complained in a disturbance, and the whole restaurant immediately became lively like a vegetable market.

However, Lao Wang was unmoved, only to see Lao Wang's eyelids drooping downward, and his head shook like a rattle, and then he stretched out two fingers to everyone and began to fall at everyone:

"Guys, you can't think like that! It's only been a few days of work, huh? I can't stand this, and there will be more tiring projects in the future? What to do then? ”

At this time, Lao Zhu, who was sitting next to him, also spoke:

"Also, our current situation doesn't allow us to relax! Ladies and gentlemen, in addition to the fact that our grain can last for about a year or two, which of the other meat, eggs, milk, and fresh vegetables is not in a state of tight supply?

By the way, everyone can eat now, don't you feel that the amount of food has increased dramatically? And they can't get fat! This is still the early stage of construction, and in the future, hehe, in short, you will experience the happiness of not being fat no matter how you eat and open up eating! ”

Well, now, everyone---- especially the group of young people, have indeed experienced this "happiness", so hurry up and open the fire barrier and prepare to continue the cause of setting fire to the wasteland......

Obviously, the people present don't think that the so-called happiness that Lao Wang said is happiness, but in the sighs of everyone, Lao Wang ignored it, and continued to follow Lao Zhu's words to make everyone worse:

"In addition, I won't digress from the topic, in short, in the future, at least about 300 acres of land need to be reclaimed as a planting area for various grains, note that this does not include the planting area of fodder and cash crops!"

Everyone listened to Lao Wang's speech, and everyone felt that they couldn't refute it, and when they were speechless, Lao Wang actually remembered one more thing, and hurriedly added:

"Oh! That's right, and there's that! Let's grow sugarcane beets to produce sugar in the future, right?

A rough estimate of the sugar yield of sugarcane is higher, and under such climatic conditions, if the sugarcane yield is abundant, the yield of one acre of land can probably produce less than 500 kilograms of sugar.

Aren't you clamoring to go to sea and trade? So let me ask you, based on the carrying capacity of our Pride, if you want to go to sea to sell sugar, from an economic point of view, you have to load it with more than 100 tons of white sugar to go to sea, right? Otherwise, if you go to sea and work hard to sell a melon or two dates, it's not worth it, right? ”

Everyone was in a daze when they heard this, obviously Lao Wang's words really couldn't be refuted, and then Lao Zhu said:

"So in this way, we have to open up at least another 200 acres of land to grow sugarcane, hey! There is also Xiaohou who needs a lot of wood to build there, but the vegetation of the savanna on this island is not very useful, so Anna gave fast-growing bamboo seedlings a temporary replacement for wood, and planting bamboo also requires a large area of land, right?

Well, even if it's 300 acres of bamboo forest, it's not much, right? In this way, the whole calculation is 1,000 acres of land! ”

"yes, yes! If you think about it, it's a lot of ......"

At this time, Lao Wang noticed everyone's frustration, and immediately changed his attitude, quickly shook his head and sighed lightly, and said to everyone with a sincere face:

"Alas...... In short, the area that needs to be reclaimed is not a small number, so everyone, everyone should continue to work hard, and the burning of waste must continue! And the scale has to be expanded, and the time has to be hurried, sooner rather than later! ”

In the end, in the case of Lao Wang and Lao Zhu taking turns to speak, they finally convinced everyone completely, and they were a little tired, didn't they say that there was a chance to struggle, it was our good fortune, okay, the good fortune is just around the corner......