On March 3, 1657, the first task decided in the early discussions: the second large-scale reclamation operation in the wilderness, finally began in the wilderness east of the Red Mansion.

Wasteland is on this island, and for an island with an area of more than 600 square kilometers, the traverser has only developed a land area of less than a fraction.

In order to facilitate irrigation, the newly reclaimed area planned by Lao Wang is located on the south bank of the Moon River, about a kilometer north of the Red Mansion.

An east-west tributary of the Moon River made a great bend there, forming the shape of a circular peninsula surrounded by water on three sides, and the arable land area of that bay was close to 500 acres.

Lao Wang named this land directly "Hewan Land", and this name has been retained like other place names named by the travelers on this island.

At 8 a.m. on March 3, a 70-member burning team gathered outside the gate of the Red Mansion.

Up to now, burning wasteland is a familiar job for everyone, but it is the first time that 70 people have gone to the field to burn together.

The wasteland had been burned the year before, but it wasn't completely burned because of a nearby wildfire.

Fortunately, the river bay land is adjacent to the sugarcane and sugar beet field reclaimed last year, and there is a ready-made fire isolation zone in the middle, so the workload of developing the isolation zone is much less, so that this burning can save a lot of things, and can also save a lot of oil.

On this morning, the weather was beautiful, the wind was beautiful and the wind direction was suitable, the plot of 500 acres was vertical and horizontal, three bulldozers acted separately, only two back and forth, and soon opened three isolation belts with a width of about ten meters, and then everyone was simply divided into several groups, with ignition materials and simple plastics, along the line of fire isolation belts, and began to set fire in three directions at the same time.

With the gradual depletion of food and beverages in the supermarket, there are already a lot of empty plastic bottles accumulated in the cave, except for a small half that is used for other purposes, most of the empty plastic bottles are made of this gasoline.----

Although this area has experienced a wildfire last time, nature is extremely resilient, and after just over a year, the entire river bay has become a grassy meadow again, and the mangrove forests on the banks of the river bay in the distance are also growing luxuriantly, with birds and frogs chirping, and a piece of life.

According to the information brought back by Ren Ke and Wei Hong, who had gone there to hunt crocodiles a few years ago, it is still a habitat for waterfowl and crocodiles, and of course, it is also a breeding ground for mosquitoes.

However, although this meadow is lush, it is nothing at all for this group of people, after all, everyone has traveled to this wild place for more than two years, and they are no longer newcomers, and they are all familiar with all this.

Different from the past, in the group of people who burned the wasteland, there are also people who are responsible for harvesting wild meat, they have various tools in their hands, in order to prevent the threat of occurring, Gu Jin and others also have Colt python **** pinned to their waists, many people are holding shovels, steel drills and various common cloth bags and plastic woven bags in supermarkets, etc., people are looking at the smoke billowing grass, at this time, there is no nervousness and fear in the eyes of everyone, but full of hope waiting for all kinds of animals to come out of the fire.

These animals include the python that everyone used to scream and dodge when they saw it, but now everyone still screams whenever they encounter this kind of reptile, but there is no fear in that tone, but the joy of seeing delicious prey.

Especially the group of trainees who have experienced the training of sailing and sailing, some of them have the courage to rush up directly, and then pick up the tail of the big snake with their bare hands and play a few laps, and when the brothers have played enough, they will skillfully cooperate to stuff the python into the big woven bag.

However, the premise is that these snakes are non-venomous, if you encounter a poisonous snake, everyone will unceremoniously slap the sapper shovel to death or cut off the snake's head, these German multi-functional military quenched high-carbon steel sapper shovels are everyone's favorite when they go out in the wild, since more than a year ago Lao Zhu and ** after a dangerous confrontation with crocodiles by the Moon River, these sapper shovels have been sent to everyone's hands as a self-defense weapon.

Therefore, if you really encounter a crocodile, it will be even more lively, the brothers never let Captain Gu solve it with a gun, one of them sent first, the task is to tease and pull hatred in front of the crocodile to divert the crocodile's attention, and then the other partners took the sapper shovel shovel steel drill directly from the side, and directly slapped it cruelly, stunning the crocodile on the spot.

Next, the group disembowels the crocodile on the spot!

This made a group of old people stunned, and said in their hearts that it was probably the environment that changed people, these people have traveled since they crossed over to later from the sea adventure, all the way to the present, and they don't feel that they are particularly vicious and cruel at all.

The burning operation ended in the evening of three days, and the devastation caused the ecology of the originally vibrant riverbank to be subversively destroyed, and in just three days, it was transformed from a lush grassland into a blackened, smoky, bare black earth.

At this time, the mangrove forests on the banks of the river were also burned to the point that only the charred trunks remained, and the stumps covered the banks.

In short, the 500-metre-radius Hewandi lost its original character forever, and soon became a land for growing sugarcane and sugar beet, and after a few years, the low-value output of sugarcane and sugar beet could no longer match the land price here, and the riverbank gradually became a commercial and residential area, and later, developed into a bustling university town, which is the central campus of the world-famous comprehensive university, Hewandi University.

Of course, that's another story.

Burning land is only the first step in reclamation, and the next step is to level the land, plough the land, dig ditches, build ridges and other tedious and arduous field operations.

Although the construction machinery team led by Gu Jin is the main force of field operations, there are still a large number of branch ditches and ridge finishing work that requires manpower to complete, obviously for these dozens of people, 500 acres of land is definitely a large area, everyone continued to sweat on this land, and it took two weeks to basically meet the land consolidation requirements of Lao Wang.

As an agricultural expert, Lao Wang has developed a special farming plan according to the local climate characteristics, not only the land consolidation requirements are high, but also a lot of various preparatory operations before planting, and in the next few days, it is necessary to divert water for flood irrigation, Lao Wang said that this is because the annual rainfall is uneven, and flood irrigation is to ensure soil moisture in the dry season.

The whole process of flood irrigation of 500 acres of land took three to five days, and during this time, Lao Wang would definitely not let everyone wait, so except for a few older people who stayed on the newly reclaimed land to continue the flood irrigation operation, everyone was pulled to the forty acres of mature sugar beet and sugar cane fields to rush to harvest the work. Obviously, this is another very difficult job.

From March 15 to 20, four cane harvesters converted from wheelbarrows and tricycles were again hauled to the ground, and four groups of 16 strong laborers began to harvest the sugarcane.

At present, there are a total of 20 acres of sugarcane, except for a bundle of sugarcane sent by Lao Wang to Taotaohai, Donghai, Hainan and indigenous children, all of which will be replanted on the newly cultivated land.

Because the harvested sugarcane is not resistant to storage, once the roots are cut off, they must either be eaten or used to extract sugar within a few days, or they must be cut into sugarcane knots as soon as possible as seedlings.

Normally, the whole sugarcane storage for one and a half to two weeks is the limit, and as a seedling, the sugarcane knots must be planted on the same day, otherwise, it is likely to rot in this climate, even if it is not rotten, it will affect the development of sugarcane seedlings, so this is a time-grabbing job.