Looking at the unevenly distributed dog-like plants in this small area in front of him, Su Yan was at a loss, he didn't expect the surprise to come so suddenly.

In this hot and rainy summer, when the weather is fine, Su Yan always takes his escort team out to explore, wanting to find new crops and metal veins.

It's just that it is very difficult for Su Yan to find what he needs, the land is vast, and Su Yan is just a person, there are no fast-moving tools, Su Yan's exploration range is limited to a certain area.

In the more than two years since the search for pepper and hemp, Su Yan has not found a new crop, and the metal veins have found a little total, but it is a gold mine, gold is temporarily useless, and the dragon tribe, the associated ore of the gold mine, has no ability to mine and smelt.

Over time, Su Yan slacked off, and every time he went out to explore, he turned to collecting herbs, and finding crops and metal veins became a side task, but he didn't expect a surprise to suddenly appear, Su Yan found this new crop that looked similar to the dog's tail grass - millet.

Millet, also known as millet and millet, is a very important crop, and it is also one of the first crops planted by human beings.

The nutritional value of millet is very high, rich in protein and fat and vitamins, it is not only for consumption, it has to clear heat, clear thirst, nourish yin, tonify the spleen and kidney and stomach, facilitate urination, cure water diarrhea and other effects, and can make wine, its stems and leaves are the excellent feed of livestock again, less cellulose, soft texture, like to eat for mules and horses, and its bran is a good feed for pigs and chickens.

It is not strange that millet and dog's tail grass look alike, in fact, millet is domesticated and cultivated from wild dogtail grass, which Su Yan doesn't know, if he knows this, Su Yan doesn't have to work hard to find crops everywhere, just collect some dog's tail grass growing everywhere and try to plant it.

Of course, now it is better to find wild millet, if you use dog tail grass to domesticate into millet, I don't know how long it will take, you can only plant it once a year, and how many years can you have in your life, just like domesticating wild boars into domestic pigs, the appearance gap between wild boars and domestic pigs is huge, if you want to domesticate wild boars into domestic pigs, I am afraid that Su Yan will not be able to see the white and fat domestic pigs in his lifetime.

Looking at Su, Su Yan's excited mood could not be calmed down for a long time, and the members of the escort team were very surprised when they looked at Wang's helpless appearance, and they didn't know what was wrong with Wang.

It is not surprising that Su Yan is so excited, a semi-crop discovered before, Sichuan pepper is a seasoning, the hemp fibers on the hemp body can be woven hemp rope, and the hemp seeds on the hemp body can be used as food.

But the yield of hemp seeds is too low, last year's yield of hemp seeds per mu was only 60 catties, after the optimal cultivation, the yield of hemp seeds per mu can exceed 100 catties, and then more will be laborious, the yield of modern hemp seeds per mu is more than 300 catties, that is not known after how many generations to cultivate, relative to hemp seeds, hemp fiber is more important.

Millet is different, the yield per mu of modern millet is 600 catties to 800 catties, and the grain yield is 70% ~ 75%, with the current conditions for Su Yan to plant wild millet, the yield per mu can soon reach 100 catties, and then after optimal cultivation, it can reach 200 catties per mu in a few years or more than ten years. (This requires some modern knowledge)

The yield of two hundred catties per mu is enough.

Calming down, Su Yan approached a millet plant, stretched out his hand to touch the ears of grain, the green ears of grain have begun to yellow, which means that the millet will be ripe in a few days, and it is now the beginning of the third month of summer, and it is expected to be harvested when it has just entered autumn.

On the return journey, the "king" was delighted, and the whole world celebrated, and a grand bonfire feast was held, and even the slaves were given enough food to feed them.

At the end of summer, some fruits that can be placed for a long time are ripe and ready to be picked, and it has been less than half a year since the dragon tribe moved here, so naturally they don't know where to pick the fruits, if it is in the hometown of the dragon tribe, in a few decades, the people of the original snake tribe are very familiar with the various places where they can collect fruits, and it is exaggerated to say that they can find places with their eyes closed.

Under the guidance of the slaves, the team of the dragon tribe found those places where they could pick fruits, but the population of the original monkey tribe was small, the population of the dragon tribe was several times that of the monkey tribe, and there were more people who could pick fruits.

Soon, when autumn came, Su Yan led the team to harvest the millet first, and finally harvested about seven taels of millet (ten taels for a catty), which seems a little little, but a little scattered planting can also plant one or two acres of land.

After the "blind date", the hemp and pepper are also about to mature, and the planting team and the salt mining team set off again, this time the Xiaohua Xiaoyue sisters also wanted to go out with Su Yan, and after thinking about it, Su Yan agreed to the request of the Xiaohua Xiaoyue sisters.

Xiaohua Xiaoyue has been practicing martial arts and internal skills with Su Yan for two years, and the strength of the two women has grown rapidly, although they have not competed with other adult male clansmen in the tribe, but Su Yan feels that the strength of the two women should be able to exceed one-fifth of the adult male clansmen, this is still due to the lack of actual combat, if there is more actual combat, this proportion may jump from one-fifth to one-third.

After walking for nearly four days, the planting team arrived at the hometown of the dragon tribe, which had been uninhabited for a long time and had become dilapidated, and even some animals used their homes as their homes.

After a night's rest, the planting team began to get busy, picking peppercorns first, and the most planted in the open space outside the wall of the hometown is peppercorns, and now there are about 800 pepper trees growing up.

The planting team of more than 30 people is busy together, and it takes half a day to pick all the peppercorns, which is also thanks to the fact that the pepper trees are only in their third year, and they are not very tall, and the pepper trees will get taller and taller with time, and it takes more time to pick the peppercorns of a tree.

More than 800 pepper trees, a total of more than 250 catties of peppercorns, the average fruit of each tree is three taels, this is only the first year of fruit, after the year these pepper trees will bear more fruits.

After processing the pepper tree, it is necessary to deal with hemp, seed hemp, and cut hemp skin, a total of nearly 20 acres of hemp need to be treated.

One day to pick hemp seeds, one day to cut hemp skin, and finally harvest more than 1,300 pounds of hemp seeds, an average of about 65 pounds of hemp seeds per mu, only about 60 pounds per mu last year.

After the crops are harvested, set off home, this time all the planting team has added more weight, pepper and hemp seeds are only a small portion, hemp skin is a large portion, the average harvest of hemp skin per mu is about 150 catties, 20 acres of land is 3,000 catties.

Fortunately, there are more than 30 people in the planting team, and all the harvest is shared, and one person is only about 40 catties, which slightly affects the speed of the planting team.