Chapter 263: Sweet Potato
(This chapter is for the fantasy of the Grim Reaper 11's ten thousand rewards, and the code is finally completed after one night)
The various benefits of Wang Village are naturally covetous. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info When the news spread, several more villages immediately expressed their desire to join Wang Village.
After explaining the stakes to Gu Mu, and then explaining what things must be mastered by himself and which technologies can be handed over to others, Wang Hao handed over these things to Gu Mu to deal with.
And he personally supervised the reclamation of the fields and the construction of the wharves.
Because Wang Hu had participated in the construction of the wharf in Xie Village, Wang Hao handed over this matter to him.
The construction of the wharf is a very simple thing, and after having an experience, Wang Hu is naturally familiar with the road.
The only problem is that the pillars in the deep waters of the river are not easy to stand. However, all this is not a problem in front of the giants.
Now that the weather is getting hotter and hotter, people always like to come to the river for a dip during the noon break every day.
Because Wang Hu can't swim, he almost implicated Wang Hao when he met the red shrimp last time, so when he came back this time, he learned from the pain and decided to learn to swim no matter what.
Coincidentally, after building the bungalow, Wang Zhu, who was busy building the school during this time, liked to come to the river to wash after every work.
Wang Hu was surprised to find that Wang Zhu, who was a landlubber like him, had actually learned to swim.
Seeing this, Wang Hu rushed to ask Wang Zhu what was the secret of his learning to swim.
On a hot day, who wants to teach a man to swim, Wang Zhu repeatedly shirked it, and finally thought of a bad move.
He told Wang Hu that if he wanted to learn to swim, he would follow the ox into the water.
Grab the cow by the tail and let it swim with him, so that it won't be long before he learns to swim.
Wang Hu actually naively believed it, drove a strong cow out of the cowshed, and went into the water with a plop.
Now, bison have long been accustomed to living with people. It's definitely a good choice to be able to swim in the water on a hot day.
And for Wang Hu, who grabbed its tail, naturally he didn't care too much.
Wang Hu grabbed the tail of the ox, and at first it felt quite good, as if he had learned to swim.
But when the bison reached the deep water, it suddenly raised its tail, and a stream of blue-brown cow dung gushed out.
Wang Hu grabbed the tail of the ox, looking confused.
No one told him it was going to happen!
Wang Hu wanted to let go of the oxtail and flee back to shore.
But his feet couldn't reach out at all.
At this moment, Wang Hu finally understood what the pain of not being able to let go is.
Wang Hu thought that as long as he survived this meeting, he would be fine.
Who knows, the bison's butt is like an open valve, squirting out a large amount of cow dung from it one after another.
Wang Hu finally couldn't help it, let go of the oxtail desperately, and then swam towards the shore with a flutter.
This toss, although he drank a lot of cow dung water in the end, really let him learn to swim.
Although Wang Hu's process of learning to swim was so sad that it made people cry, the construction of the pier was not delayed at all.
He only brought a few dozen people, and in five days, the prototype of the dock was built.
In fact, if Wang Hu is given a little more manpower, the progress of the dock can be a little faster.
It's just that these manpower has been given to him by Wang Hao as much as possible.
Because there is one more important thing that the village is busy with now than building a dock. That's the cultivation of sweet potatoes.
In the end, Wang Hao decided to plant all the sweet potatoes in the wooden walls of Hwaseong.
At the beginning, when Wang Hao built the wooden wall of Huacheng, it was built according to the area where Huacheng was finally completed.
According to conservative estimates, there is no problem with 20,000 people living in the city for a long time.
And now, the entire Hwaseong, even with the wild people, is only inhabited by a little more than a thousand people, so there is still a lot of spare area.
It was precisely because of this that the surplus vacant land was freed up for Wang Hao to cultivate in the city.
After all, sweet potatoes are a plant that can be eaten raw, both on their rhizomes and vine leaves, and are a favorite of some herbivores.
If it is planted outside the city, it will take a lot of manpower to take care of it alone.
Now, by planting it in a wooden wall, we can make effective use of the extra open space, at least by saving manpower to take care of it.
Animal manure is a natural fertilizer.
The amount of feces produced by megalosaurus, cattle, chickens, ducks and fish every day is very large.
Wang Hao specially sent someone to collect these feces.
Whether it is used as fertilizer after soaking, or used to extract nitrate for making gunpowder in the future, it is feasible.
The amount of manure collected over such a long period of time is naturally staggering.
The clansmen had speculated about the purpose of Wang Hao's collection of these feces, but no one had guessed correctly.
Until today, they are used as fertilizer.
Although they did not understand the meaning of fertilizer, it did not affect them to carry out Wang Hao's orders.
In the uninhabited areas of Wang Village, because of the lack of people to take care of them, weeds that were almost a person tall soon grew.
On the first day, Wang Hao led people to cut off all these weeds with a sickle, and then piled them up in place.
By the next day, the weeds had been cut and quickly removed from the scorching sun.
Wang Hao, on the other hand, led people to crush the dried and scabbed feces into powder.
On the third day, a fire burned the weeds that Wang Hao and the others had cut out.
Not only does it increase the fertility of the land, but it also kills the eggs and seeds buried in the ground.
It is only by relying on fire that new sprouts will not emerge on a piece of land in a short period of time.
On the fourth day, the farm tool warehouse that Wang Hao had stored for a long time was opened.
A large number of shovels, hoes and other farm tools were taken out.
Some of them were saved by Wang Hao with the system day by day for such a long time, and some were cast by the copper furnace.
Under the leadership of Wang Hao, one of the largest reclamation activities in Wang Village officially began.
At the same time, a surprise occurred that Wang Hao did not expect.
That is, the sweet potato seeds, which have only been cultivated for three days, actually germinate.
On Earth, the cultivation of sweet potatoes normally takes two months in advance.
But in the Great Wilderness, Wang Hao found that the growth rhythm of various plants is much faster than that on the earth.
Otherwise, there would be no problem of roads being damaged by plants to plague Wang Hao.
Wang Hao originally thought that even if the cultivation cycle of sweet potato sprouts was shortened, it would take at least half a month to germinate, but he didn't expect it to be so fast this time.
At the same time, this incident also reminded Wang Hao once again that the Great Wilderness is not the earth, and he should never use the principles of the earth to look at the things of the Great Wilderness. If you don't know how to change, maybe you will lose money one day in the future.
Because of the early germination of sweet potatoes, the speed of reclamation has also to be accelerated.
In addition to the sweet potato seeds allocated to the three affiliated villages, Wang Village needs to reclaim at least 50 acres of land.
After an initial reclamation, the land was covered with a thick layer of fertilizer.
Because sweet potatoes like to dry and adapt to river sand.
So a large amount of river sand was taken from the river, crushed and covered with fertilizer, and the height of the sand was ten centimeters higher than that of the drainage ditch, forming the shape of a field ridge.
By the time these were done, the sprouts that had emerged from the sweet potatoes had grown to twenty or thirty centimeters long.
I found some ingenious people, carefully removed the clusters of young shoots, and planted them in the ridges at a suitable distance.
Hundreds of meters of sweet potato fields have been reclaimed in the village.
Wang Hao looked at these slightly thin buds that kept swaying in the wind, and his heart was full of relief.
He believes that when the harvest comes, the production of these sweet potato fields will definitely shock the tribesmen.
It will also give the loudest slap to those who sneered at the out-of-town people. (To be continued.) )