So for several days, everyone began to take sickles, machetes or kitchen knives, and began the hardest work of cutting sugar cane.

Obviously, once the work of cutting sugarcane starts, it cannot be stopped, so during that time, everyone is working nervously, and Lao Wang has been directing on the spot, he divided the group into two groups, one group is responsible for harvesting, and then picks out the sugarcane that grows thick and straight, transports it to the newly cultivated land, and the other group cuts these sugarcane into sections.

The main hardship of cutting sugarcane seedlings is to keep waving knives, and constantly bending over and straightening down to arrange the cut sugarcane festivals, so almost everyone in those days is complaining.

Like Gu Jinluo's boss Li Junming, a few of them are older, and it is not very hard for everyone to take care of them to supervise the flooded plot. The hardest part is the young people.

Later, a group of young science and engineering men really couldn't stand it, they applied to quit, Lao Wang could only hand them over to Sun Lao to arrange, Sun Lao happened to lack manpower, so he let these people go to the vegetable garden, kitchen or farm to do chores, as for Mr. Zhao Lao Ba, they have long stopped working in the field.

Therefore, at present, only those who can persist in working the ground are those who have experienced navigation training, and these young people who have been intensively trained are really strong, including Li Sanduo, Zhu Beiguo, Xu Zhi and Li Junming, although these are much older than high school students, but through long-term exercise, their physical strength has been good, and through joint labor, they have also gained considerable prestige among young people.

Later, the new ship went to sea, under the strong leadership of Gu Jin and Li Sanduo, in addition to Li Junming's other work, Zhu Xu and the two successively served as the captains of several proud-class sister ships, and they were the first captains in this group of sailing students.

The subsequent transplanting of sugarcane knots is relatively simple and easy, and it is only necessary to lay these sugarcane knots with bud roots and put them in the flat ground ditch.

In order to improve efficiency, Lao Wang divided the 70 people into three teams, the main team was responsible for tidying up the ditches, the other team was responsible for soaking the seedlings, cutting them and sending them to the seedling place for processing, and the third team was responsible for putting these sugarcane knots in the field and carrying out a continuous operation.

In just five days, about three-quarters of the sugarcane of the 20 acres of land was transplanted to the 300 acres of sugarcane fields in the riverbay.

The remaining sugarcane grows relatively small, and Lao Wang thinks that it is not suitable for seedlings, so it will be left for the sugar factory for trial production, and in order to ensure the freshness of the raw materials for sugar extraction, these sugarcane should be temporarily left in the ground.

The sugar cane is finally finished, but there are still sugar beets, also twenty acres.

However, this is a bit easier, as this large beet variety is easy to harvest and is an excellent ingredient for sugar production.

Lao Wang first commanded everyone to harvest sugar beet seeds from the surface, everyone wore straw hats, lined up in the field for a long time, the strength of the people was great, the work was completed quickly, and then six tractors dragged the iron plough along the bottom of the ditch all the way down, less than a morning 20 acres of land was finished.

All that's left is to pick up the beetroot and shake off the soil to separate the roots and leaves.

The breeding operation is still sunning, soaking, germination, etc., which were all trained by Lao Wang last year, so everyone is very efficient.

Except for a small part of the harvested beet seeds left in Lao Wang's experimental field, all of them went into the 500 acres of new land in the river bay, and the beetroot will be used as a raw material for the trial production of sugar in the sugar factory.

In addition to most of the beet leaves as feed for Lao Zhu, a small part of the young leaves have also become vegetables on everyone's table.

Eventually, according to the post-harvest weighing, Wang announced that the yield of sugarcane per mu in the second season had reached six tons, and the yield of sugar beet had reached three and a half tons per mu.

Of course, Lao Wang's evaluation of this is that the credit should be mainly attributed to Mother Earth, because the water and soil conditions here are so good.

Therefore, everyone, including Lao Wang, is full of confidence in the future harvest of the newly opened 500 acres of land in Hewandi, for the simple reason that the land here is too fertile.

In the past two years, Lao Wang has led everyone to grow no matter what crops they plant, and the growth can be described by the word "crazy growth".

The soil has not been cultivated for thousands of years, the humus layer is quite thick, and the islands are a habitat for birds, and guano is an excellent fertilizer, so the crops can grow without any problems.

For the yield of the newly cultivated fields, Lao Wang roughly estimated, considering that the third season may be slightly reduced due to soil, seedlings or other factors, but the average yield of field sugarcane is more than six tons, and more than three tons of sugar beet should not be a big problem.

Lao Wang believes that after reaching this order of magnitude, sugar as a trade product should have a relatively considerable trade profit, especially according to the carrying capacity of the Pride, at the end of the year, even if the Pride goes to sea once, it should have quite good benefits for going to sea.

However, at this point, everyone's hearts were suddenly crushed by a stone, and people suddenly realized that there was a serious problem that would make it difficult to continue the work in the future - that is, the labor problem.

The reclamation of the river bay land and the labor of everyone in the fields for a while have revealed a grim reality, that is, the current amount of land reclamation and land holdings has probably reached the limit of agricultural labor that everyone can bear.

This does not include the amount of work on field management and crop harvesting that will certainly increase significantly in the future on newly reclaimed land in the river.

Because it is the dry season, the amount of labor in field management is bearable, but once the time enters the rainy season, the workload is too much.

Based on past experience, all kinds of field work are likely to exhaust everyone and obviously drag down the development of future industrial projects.

The fertile soil and warm weather here have a very troublesome aspect, especially during the rainy season, when a careless approach can overgrow the fields with weeds, resulting in a lot of daily field management and a constant amount of weeding. Note that this is still just over 200 acres of land, and now, 500 acres have been added!

In fact, weeding is still easy, in the years ago, everyone had a deep experience, when Lao Wang once asked everyone to serve the sugarcane field, actually to each sugarcane carefully peel leaves, beat the leaves!

Obviously, everyone can't complain about this, because everyone knows that these sugarcane are excellent seedlings brought by the old world, and they are unique in the new world! These efforts are relevant to the entire agricultural industry in the future, and these crops must be cared for in the same way as a baby.

Weeding, loosening the soil, and draining water are just part of the farm work, and Lao Wang often "invites" everyone to the potato field to "help turn over a few vines", to "water the beet field by the way", or to spray soybeans and the like—the medicine is a soil pesticide prepared by Mr. Zhao with salt and dish soap from the kitchen earlier.

Moreover, when Lao Wang made these requests, it was usually at dinner time, and Master Wang ate relatively quickly, ate the food in the bowl by dividing it by two, and then stood up and announced, "Now that it is not yet dark, there is any temporary farm work in the field at this time, and he also said, "...... I promise that there won't be much time to lose, please help" or "Tomorrow is Sunday, please spare an hour or two to help me do a little work in the field" Yunyun.

So that for a while, when everyone was eating dinner, they all formed a conditioned reflex, as long as Lao Wang finished eating, everyone quietly stared at his movements, once they saw Lao Wang standing up to speak, they all secretly sighed and buried their heads in eating and listening honestly.

If they saw Lao Wang standing up and turning around and going to the sink and going back to the dormitory without saying a word, everyone was relieved and continued to eat and chat......