The land was opened, and the question of what to plant was immediately put on the table, although everyone recognized Lao Wang as an authority, but this matter was related to the vital interests of everyone, so there were still many people who put forward various suggestions.

Of course, the most recommended is to plant rice, because the staple food of most people in the crossing is rice, of course, there are also people who think that other crops should be planted, such as the sister Yi Shanjing strongly asked to plant corn and sweet potatoes, when everyone was surprised that the girl actually had such a "strategic consideration", the next sentence of the sister was revealed - "French fries and popcorn are my favorite ......"

Well, regardless of the motives, the girl's suggestion objectively coincides with the opinions of the group of strategic planners at the Huotang Club.

Of course, there are other suggestions, such as the Wei Dongli brothers, who strongly recommended that Lao Wang grow tobacco.

Wei Dongli even quietly found Lao Wang in private and asked him if he could grow some hobbies such as hemp, because their brothers entered the Red Mansion relatively early, and they knew a lot about it, and they knew that Anna had quietly given Lao Wang more than ten mysterious sealed small bottles, which were said to contain a lot of very strange seeds, including hemp, a "light hobby".

Seeing Wei Donglian, who came to the door alone and made this suggestion with a mysterious face, Lao Wang frowned and replied that for the previous variety, you can consider it, or first plant it in the experimental shed in the vegetable garden to test the water in a low-key manner.

Then Lao Wang explained to Wei Dongli that the reason why he was so careful was not because of the soil and climate here, but mainly because there was a strong opposition in our group, saying that tobacco, a thing that harms future generations, should not be brought to the new world.

Wei Dongli immediately scoffed when he heard this, and replied, I don't know what those people think, now that tobacco has long been brought to the world by the French, we are just producing high-quality cigarettes to replace crude cigarettes.

Lao Wang nodded in agreement with this statement, and responded, It seems that Xiao Wei has grown a lot, I know that you are very studious, and you have not read less books in the computer data room after crossing over......

Wei Dongli said with a smile, in fact, he started taking big classes before the crossing, and to be honest, he really did a lot of homework.

So Lao Wang said again, in this case, you should also know that even cigarette planting has such a big resistance, not to mention hemp, no matter how "light" that thing is, after all, it is also a variant of **......

Wei Dongli immediately replied with a bitter face, hey, you don't know, Elder Wang, Uncle Wang! Now these days are boring, it's just a thief to die every day, there is no entertainment, no girls, no Internet! Let me tell you the truth, I think the four of us have to go to the hotel every week......

When Lao Wang heard this, he immediately said, stop, stop! Don't say this again, it's useless to talk about your old days of drinking and drinking, but it will make me angry.

After finishing speaking, Lao Wang pondered for a while, sighed and said, What, the hemp you said, I can plant a little in the greenhouse, but it is just a little bit of planting, and it is used in medicine, do you understand in medicine!?

Got it! I understand it too well, Uncle Wang! It's a cure, and this loneliness is also a disease......

Wei Dongli immediately replied excitedly.

Belch...... Forget it, I won't be serious with you, okay, next rest day, bring your brothers over and help me build a thatched hut, the kind with earthen walls on all sides, and the top can be opened and closed, pay attention to low-key and quiet......

Yes! But what is that for, Uncle Wang?

Simple greenhouse! Can't you hear it?

OK！ Thank you, uncle, that's it......

As for what to plant on the newly reclaimed 200 acres of watered land, everyone is still at a loss, so Lao Wang finally decided to say that he would wait for a month, because he should seize the time to study the soil, water and ground temperature conditions here in depth before making the final planting decision, everyone has nothing to say, after all, after changing the environment, it is necessary to be cautious and cautious when planting crops for the first time.

It has been half a year since the crossing, and in fact, many seeds of various crops that were originally preserved in the cave have now been planted on a small scale in the vegetable garden, including sisal, peanuts, sugar cane, sugar beets, potatoes, sweet potatoes, soybeans and cassava, and they are growing very well.

But the old king of corn, wheat and rice never dared to try to grow them, for the simple reason that these seeds were too precious and unique in the new world.

Therefore, Lao Wang thinks that he will never easily sprinkle these seeds into the ground until he thoroughly understands the soil, water, heat, and light conditions here, and if he accidentally loses these seeds, Lao Wang will feel that he is a historical sinner in the New World.

Although there is nothing to grow on the 200 acres of land for the time being, what to plant on the other 300 acres of land is determined - Mao Cizhu.

So in the following month, the reclamation team devoted all their labor to planting bamboo, which was tiring but relatively simple and easy, so in less than a month, all 300 acres of dry land were planted with bamboo seedlings.

Based on the current temperature, Lao Wang believes that after the rainy season, a large bamboo forest will appear in front of the Red Mansion.

At the same time, the construction of the railway embankment and the continuous advance of the exploration team and the burning team to the northwest direction.

By early July, Cao Limei's team had finally completed their mapping mission and returned to the Red Mansion, bringing back a large number of rock specimens, soil samples, and a topographic map with detailed hydrological and vegetation information.

In addition, there is a map of the railway route accurate to the meter, and of course, there are tens of thousands of words of investigation notes written by Cao Limei.

In early July, Hou Xianglin's burning team also completed the task of burning the wasteland from the Red Wharf to the Xiliu River Valley, and so far, except for Cao Limei, who returned to the Red Mansion to continue her specimen research, all the male laborers of the burning team and the exploration team were put into the road construction team in Chengdong, and all the construction vehicles were assigned to the road construction team except for the vehicles of the reclamation team.

At this time, the roadbed of the road construction team has been extended from the red wharf to the northwest direction of 15 kilometers, because of the different soil quality, the construction speed of the railway roadbed is not the same, after going inland, with the improvement of everyone's road construction experience and labor proficiency, plus the supplement of labor and bulldozer and other engineering vehicles, the progress of the road construction team has gradually accelerated.

The original average subgrade extension speed of about 1 to 200 meters per day increased to an average of about 3 to 400 meters per day after entering August.

Not only that, the laying progress of sleepers and rails has also been greatly accelerated, three truck cranes and newly added manpower can implement a shift system of people and machinery, and Boss Luo's gravel team has a jaw crusher to join.

Nowadays, everyone is not worried about fuel consumption at all - people who have experienced heavy physical labor do not care about fuel consumption.

In short, with the efforts of all parties, the originally backward sleeper rail laying progress has finally caught up.

This has also improved the efficiency of the construction site, and now all supplies, including everyone's meals, can be delivered directly to the construction site by train, so the effective working hours have also increased.

Of course, for the planned construction of more than 60 kilometers of railways, there is still a long rush time.

Fortunately, the weather on the island is at the height of the dry season during this time, and the day and night are basically in a sunny and breezy, cool and dry state, so from morning to evening, even after nightfall, it is also conducive to the weather of field construction.

The rainy season on the island usually falls from December to February, so Cheng Dong and Hou Xianglin believe that it is not a big problem to build the planned railway ring line in the next four months, not to mention that the work of laying sleepers and rails is basically unaffected by the rain and can be carried out during the rainy season.