Section 15 Hot Crop Plantations
was nervous, and the three people who had gone out to reconnoiter touched back. ()
"How?"
"It looks like a guardhouse." Liu Zheng said, "We'll leave right away, it's more crowded here." ”
Ye Mengyan was obviously unwilling to go back so quietly, according to the routine of the special investigation team every time he was dispatched, he was unwilling to go back without picking up something: "Why don't you just take a prisoner and go back for interrogation?" ”
"Save it, our task is exploration, not combat, how to take a prisoner? Besides, the purpose of this time is to explore resources, and the second is to exercise the team, don't you see that there are people lying down? ”
"Cut!!" Zhao Xue glanced at Liu Zheng.
"How many days will you be able to get back to base?" Bai Guoshi was more concerned about Zhao Xue's injury. Just now, he had already taken the opportunity to give Zhao Xue a preliminary treatment.
"About three or four days. Today I can only walk slowly. Try to camp a little further away from the city so that you can sleep soundly at night. After resting, hurry up early tomorrow and try to get home early. ”
"Wait, everybody, help me put the mine here. Collect a little more stone samples, and I'll find something good. ”
The crowd had no choice but to help him collect the ground. All kinds of stones, when they set off, they carried seven or eight catties of ore on their backs for no reason.
It's safe to walk all the way back, after departure. On the eleventh day, the team was already approaching Bairen City.
"Password !!" A shout from the bushes beside the road startled the soldiers who were in charge. Liu Zheng jumped, "Lori! Rebate! ”
"Royal Sister!" A man jumped out of the side of the road with a fishing net hanging from his body and a branch hanging from it. Leaf's Sentinel. Probably because of the lurking sentry, he was holding a steel crossbow in his hand. A holster with a pistol strapped to his thigh.
"Why don't I seem to have seen you guys, which department?" Sentinel's eyes. Aiming straight at Zhao Xue, who was limping—the modern women in the camp were too rare.
"7911 Department." Liu Zheng reported the number. Road. Departments with code names are classified units, and they are all commensurate with their trade names on the outside.
The sentry was immediately solemn: "It turned out to be a secret unit, and it seems that it has gone far away." That's a good job, right? "The Sentinel probably wanted to get some inside information, and he set it up almost.
"Okay, how's it going?"
"I heard a few days ago that there was a beautiful female pirate in Bopu," the sentry looked yearning, "I heard that she lives in a merchant house, and she is entertained with delicious food and drink." ”
"Pirate woman?" Everyone was interested.
"Pervert." Zhao Xue saw the salivating appearance of the men, and pouted with disdain.
"It is said that there is also a unique name, called Li Huamei!" The sentinel's eyebrows fluttered, and he had completely forgotten his duties here.
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The team changed their outfits at the outskirts, replacing all their field gear with the training uniforms they wore before setting off - this was not an eye-catcher. Liu Zheng disbanded the team and went back to the headquarters first, and he still had a bunch of administrative tasks to do: writing exploration reports, filling out reimbursement forms for various consumables consumed in the mission. As for the others, they also have their own things, writing reports, sorting out specimens...... Of course, it is also indispensable to take a shower, eat a hot meal, and have a good night's sleep.
Bai Guoshi sent the plant specimens to the Ministry of Agriculture one by one, agriculture and biology are strictly two different professions, but in the eyes of the Executive Committee, they are similar. Therefore, the farm is now an important base of biology in the 17th century, not to mention that the only college student majoring in molecular biology in this time and space is here to follow Wu Nanhai to farm and cook.
As for the others, it's amazing, let's just say Huang Dashan, who grows mushroom fungus or something in the farm, but what he is best at is actually the cultivation of live bacteria/viruses in animals, in other words, as long as the executive committee is willing, he can work in 731, everyone looked at his thick beer bottle bottom-like glasses, and they all felt panicked. No one knew what was in the test tubes and medium vessels that he was babbling about in his own room, and no one wanted to know that anyone who had walked through that room had walked far since he knew his mastery.
"Is this a puzzle?" Fa Shilu looked at the specimens he had collected in his laboratory, and Lou looked at him with joy, "Very useful medicinal herbs. ”
"The Ministry of Health asked for it by name." Bai Guoshi sat down and looked around, the conditions in the biological laboratory were much better now than in the past. The opening of the glass factory has greatly expanded the equipment here - although the new glass equipment is inevitably stupid and black, there is no shortage of them.
"Recently, the collection of seedlings and seeds has been done well, and the breeding work of the hot crop garden is progressing quite smoothly." Fa Shilu said, "The hot working conditions in Hainan are quite good, and Lingao is a little worse, but it can still be overcome." ”
"What does Minister Wu think of Rezuo?"
"He's a layman for this." A smile appeared on Fa Shilu's dark and fat face, and when it came to professional standards, Fa Shilu was an agronomist, and when he signed up, he brought a cart of seeds and a miniature germplasm resource bank - the latter is a scientific research resource that is difficult to obtain. His current title is "Chief Agronomist of the Model Farm".
Fa Shilu continued: "I don't know much about hot work, but I know a little. However, there is information from another time and space, and I probably know what Lingao can and can't plant. That's a lot less effort. ”
"Can you grow pepper?" Bai Guoshi read many half-baked history books and remembered the windfall profits of the spice trade deeply.
"Yes, pepper is very comfortable in Lingao. But there are two main sources of spice crops, Southeast Asia and India, and we have no advantage in competition. ”
"Oh." Bai Guoshi was slightly disappointed.
"Let's go see the farm's hot garden."
The area of the farm has expanded considerably. The newly opened land has been developed into paddy fields. The land has been carefully leveled, and permanent farmland hydraulics have been built according to Shiyan Field's standards. There are even bamboo fence walls at the edge of each field, and there are some wind-powered bird repellent devices scattered throughout the fields. The fields are marked with numbers, types, and responsible persons. Bai knew that the land was planted with good seeds from another plane—no wonder they were so careful.
Tropical plantations are similarly protected by deep trenches and barbed wire, as well as lookouts. Except for the members of the Committee of Agriculture and a small number of indigenous workers in the farm, who can enter the garden with identification, no one else is allowed to enter the garden without permission. The crops here are unique to East Asia, and if they are wasted, they will have to take a detour halfway around the world.
The seedlings of coconut, rubber, coffee, cocoa, coca, quinine, poppy and all sorts of fruits, planted a few months ago, are growing very well, and some of the easy-to-live varieties have drawn their dense branches and swayed in the breeze, looking very pleasant.
"No wonder people say that the farm is a paradise, it's so beautiful." It was the first time for Bai Guoshi to visit the plantation, although many of the varieties in this plantation were samples and seeds that he had picked by hand.
"The pineapples you picked are also growing well."
"It's a pity that it's still a small tree, and it will take another four or five years to bear fruit."
"If it's just a few pineapples to eat, Xu Wen across the strait is one of the largest producers in China, and it's not rare at all." Fa Shilu is ambitious, "Since we have mastered advanced technology, we should cultivate more good seeds. ”
The 50 coconut saplings are growing very well, and Bai Guoshi knows that the coconut has many uses, and the executive committee also attaches great importance to it. Coconut is a treasure all over the body, and it is also a relatively stable source of oil in the recent stage.
"The executive committee said that coconut trees will be used for greening in the future, which is beautiful and easy to use. It's just going to take years for these coconuts to bear fruit—"
Bai Guoshi's heart moved, and he thought of pineapple mi - not to mention that these resources are everywhere, and there is no shortage on Hainan Island, and at the same time, he can send people to collect them on a large scale while being self-reliant. On his own exploration journey, he has seen patches of wild cash crops more than once, completely unattended and left to fend for himself.
If there are enough manpower and equipment, it is completely possible to set up a "resource collection team", not to mention anything else, it is very beneficial to enrich the lives of the people. But this matter has to be coordinated by the Executive Committee - I will mention it in the evening when I go to report.
Fashiroku has been presiding over tropical crops lately, and in addition to the hot crop seedlings that were planted shortly after landfall, the Committee of Agriculture has quite a few other hot crop seeds in its hands. The hydrothermal conditions of Lingao are not the best, and now it is the Xiaoice River period, so he does not dare to act rashly to sow all kinds of seeds in the seed bank, he consulted a lot of information, in another time and space, the successful hot crops of Lingao large-scale planting are: rubber, pepper, lemongrass, sisal, coffee, clove basil, and fragrant root, although several hot crops did not continue later, but mainly because of market factors, the planting itself is no problem. The real failure of cultivation is oil palm and cashew nuts. Fashiroku regrets the failure of oil palm, after all, the oil yield of this thing is the first, and after it is scaled, it can meet most of the demand for oil and oil through the industry.
"There's a lot to grow, and there's almost everything in the seed bank, so I'm afraid that if it goes bad," he sighed, "the loss will be great." ”
"There should be more sisal and jute or something, I think there will be a big demand for hemp in the industrial sector." Bai Guoshi expressed his opinion.
Fa Shilu nodded: "Reasonable." However, the industry itself did not bring it up. ”
"That's because they can import jute, so there's no sense of urgency. If you want me to say, it is better to grow sisal, the utilization rate is high, and even the waste residue and juice are useful. ”
The long fiber in sisal is the raw material for the manufacture of cables in industrial mining and shipping, and the processed meal can be used as a raw material for papermaking, alcohol, vinegar, etc. The staple fibers produced in the production process can be used to make daily necessities such as ropes, insoles, and bridles, and can also be used as fillers for furniture. Leaf juice can produce biogas through fermentation, and can also extract sugar and feed dry yeast, a large amount of processed leaf residue is good haode feed, hemp residue is high-quality organic fertilizer.