The conditions for selecting a site for the farm are simple: no saline land along the coast, and no more land close to the central mountain range: the topsoil is either rock or rock. Therefore, the slightly acidic alluvial land zone in the middle of the plain, which can barely be regarded as fertile, is preferred.

Considering the all-important power supply, the address is just around the corner: across the kiln area, a little upstream.

The location of the new farm is very close to the kiln area, as long as a power line is pulled, the problem of irrigation water and charging equipment can be solved, of course, there is a premise for irrigation, that is, to repair the water conservancy.

Liang Lotian only planned 200 acres of land for the farm at the beginning, because he was worried about water conservancy. The land of the farm is located a little upstream of the kiln area, and a tributary of Xingang Creek flows through the periphery, which is just right for irrigation, and there is no need to worry about the industrial sewage of the kiln area.

However, Tainan's big and small rivers have a three-month violent period every year, and the water volume during the summer flood period and the winter trickle period is very different, so Liang Letian did not dare to take it lightly, and allocated to his 300 warriors, 200 of whom are now repairing this tributary - clearing, digging deep, building water storage stations along the way, and various diversion canals for irrigation......

There is no vegetation in sight around the farm, and adhering to the consistent style of crossing the public, the local people who serve as laborers in the Madou Society have started a large-scale expansion of the "rotten land" movement on the other side of Xingang Creek.

The remaining 100 people on the farm have basically cleared out 200 acres of land these days: the trees are cut down and sent to the other side, all the roots and stones in the field are dug up, and the rest of the low vegetation is cut down, and after a few days of exposure, a fire is burned to ashes, and then sprinkled into the soil as fertilizer.

When Liang Letian and the others came to the farm on an electric tricycle, the first flood irrigation after the first leveling was underway, and the water pump was constantly pumping water into the newly built ditch. Yield is no consideration at all for newly cleared land, especially now that there are no fertilizers and pesticides, and the priority is weeding.

After the first flooding, it will not take a few days for heat-catalyzed grass seeds to pop up when the field is burned, and by that time, the big office promised Liang that their electric tractor would arrive and be ploughed just in time to kill the new grass in the field.

Then continue flooding and continue ploughing...... This unpretentious, brutal, but effective, pesticide-free work is repeated once or twice more as the case may be, until the number of booby-trapped weeds is reduced to a tolerable level.

The next step is to sow seeds.

Taiwan's climate is warm all year round, Taipei is humid and warm, and Tainan is dry and warm. Even in the Xiaoice Age, Tainan's coldest winter climate has not dropped below 15°C; So common grains can now be sown.

Of course, for a long time to come, the Crossing Crowd will not be able to grow rice.

Rice is a kind of Dongdong that requires high input in order to achieve high yield. In the case of improved seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides, it is not a dream to yield thousands of catties per mu; If you build up good farming facilities, and then import some super hybrids from the later druids, it is also possible to produce 1,500 catties per mu.

Of course, hybrids don't taste good, but that's not important – the people of Chikan, who smile at the sight of greasy fat, don't care about the taste of rice.

Ahem, all of the above is a dream.

Improved seeds, chemical fertilizers, pesticides, these three treasures are currently through the crowd is not the same, so the rice is not handsome, just like the rich second generation who left the luxury car beauty and father, if you want to plant forcibly, the production capacity per mu reaches three or four hundred catties, Liang Lotian is estimated to burn high incense.

Therefore, it is the king to honestly plant some soybeans first and explore the way.

Soybeans belong to the small flower with their own flow - natural nitrogen fixation, so in the eyes of Liang Letian, who is poor and white, soybeans are the best pioneers.

Plant a season of soybeans first, this must be crazy artificial hoeing N times, and then after finding out the local soil and fertilizer climate conditions, the farm will put potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn three kinds of special killers for the population, with a variety of seafood and non-staple foods, this is the right route to solve food self-sufficiency through the regime.

As for rice...... As long as Hangzhou is still the Caoyun terminal, a small number of rice for the adults to eat is still not a problem, is there not Taicang white grain, the emperor loves to eat, the adults also squat here, wandering around every day, arrogant and lascivious, not like a human king.

Of course, there is another important reason not to grow rice: malaria.

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Here we would like to focus on the brutality of malaria.

Malaria originated in Africa and is a virulent infectious disease transmitted by mosquitoes, commonly known as pendulum, fever, cold fever, and in the 17th century, malaria was a terminal disease.

Smallpox, plague and malaria are the same killers, but malaria is much more durable than the former – it still infects more than 200 million people and more than 1 million people die directly and indirectly from malaria each year, long after smallpox is extinct.

Europeans began to migrate as early as the 15th century after the discovery of the Americas, but Africa is not close enough to suffer from malaria.

Until 1870, Europeans controlled less than 10% of Africa's land, and the vast interior of Africa could not penetrate deep into it – malaria.

After the Aryans who came running in the sand and conquered India, they defined the dark-skinned aborigines as "untouchable" - malaria.

Therefore, malaria, like smallpox plague, is a disease that has been profoundly influencing the course of human history.

In the course of thousands of years of confrontation, humans were forced to evolve biological weapons such as thalassemia and multiples to fight malaria: twins in indigenous areas of Africa in later generations had a much higher probability of multiple births than other populations.

A small number of Banda slaves were able to survive for a longer period of time in the horrific logging and pioneering environment because they were mildly anemic and were carriers of thalassemia genes: thalassemia originated in Africa and distributed along tropical South Asia to the humid and hot regions of Fujian and Guangdong, which is consistent with the map of malaria transmission, and there were 30 million thalassemia gene carriers in the rabbit country in later generations.

However, these passive resistance is not the solution after all, and thalassaemia, a mutated gene with huge side effects, can only ensure that about one percent of individuals with mild symptoms can live to the age of leaving offspring, so that the population will not be wiped out. As for the insanely transmitted malaria, in the 17th century, it was still the culprit of the efficient killing of large numbers of indigenous people in the tropics, and it was not for nothing that Europeans did not begin to approach the interior of Africa until the discovery of cinchona bark.

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The traversal knows too well the power of malaria.

Since the day of the occupation, burning vegetation, filling stagnant water, and building drainage systems have been essential precursors to the expansion of the territory, and have never changed.

Prevention is more important than cure, everyone knows this, not to mention that the people will not come out with medicine to treat indigenous malaria.

There is a big ethical question here: who to cure or not to whom?

Drugs are limited, and the number of people who will be sent to the university in the future will rise geometrically.

There are two if there is one, which one should be damned?

Therefore, the crossing did not focus on drug treatment in the first place. In addition to a small amount of inventory for personal use, investing a lot of resources in the development of "rotten" mosquito-free areas is the right way for everyone to benefit.