The protagonist asks the worker ants to pick out the grass seeds that have sprouted in the granaries and have not been dried when they are soaked and not dried. Even the sprouted grass seeds that had been thrown into the garbage heap were picked up.

Subsequently, he commanded a large number of worker ants to reclaim a wasteland east of the fortress of "Dongyang City".

This wasteland is not large, with an area of about a dozen square meters, and the soil is fertile, with large areas of lush weeds, which is one of the important sources of grass seeds for the nest.

However, these weeds grow in a haphazard manner, mixed with many inedible plants. Countless weeds crowd each other, competing with each other for space, sunlight and moisture. This vicious competition has severely reduced the yield of grass seeds.

The protagonist leads the worker ants and tears the tall grass stalks with their jaws to cut them off. Some of the stalks, which were really tough, used glazed shards of sharp, pottery that were a byproduct of the previous failed pottery firing, which acted as axes and saws to cut through the stalks that were difficult for ants to cut through their jaws. And the grass stalks, which even a pottery knife can't help, can be burned with fire.

The harvested plants are piled aside, and after the sun has dried them thoroughly, a fire can be placed to harvest a lot of natural plant ash.

The protagonist then directs the ants to level the land, carry away the large and small rubble, and fill in the uneven ground.

Then, the ants neatly lit up small holes in the newly cultivated fields and carefully planted the sprouted grass seeds. Finally, carefully cover the seeds with floating soil to expose the seedlings.

As for the seeds that have not germinated but have been soaked and wet, they are thrown into the pit in groups of three or four to ensure the germination rate.

Since it had only rained heavily, the fields were well watered and did not need to be watered. As for the irrigation after that, it can only depend on the weather. It's unrealistic to expect the ants to carry water little by little.

Due to the actual ability of the ants, the land cannot be deeply cultivated, and the stones and roots in the deep soil cannot be removed, which will affect the root growth of the planted seedlings to a certain extent.

Another major effect of deep ploughing is to turn out the fertile soil at the bottom of the soil, which is not needed. The field was overgrown with weeds for many years, never cultivated, and has a lot of humus, which is naturally fertile soil.

The plants that produce grass seeds are not crops that have been manually selected by humans for hundreds of thousands of years, and the yield of grass seeds is not high, and the ability to absorb fertility is not so strong. At least for a few years, there is no need to worry about fertilization.

After planting the seeds of this batch of sprouts, the experimental field is considered to have been planted.

All that remains is to take care of it until the harvest. In the hot summer months, these fast-growing weeds only need two or three months to flower and set seeds, and in the autumn it is harvest season.

The protagonist designates a group of ants to participate in the reclamation of the farmland, a total of 100 worker ants, who are responsible for managing the fields. The protagonist designates one of the hard-working worker ants as the captain and names her "Shennong", which is easier to remember.

The protagonist passes on the packets of instructions to Shennong to take care of the fields, mainly responsible for driving away pests, digging drainage ditches to prevent heavy rains from flooding seedlings, and so on. The protagonist himself doesn't know how to do farm work, so he can only let Shennong report in time when he encounters a new situation.

After all this, "Dongyang City" has an agricultural economy after having a breeding industry. Although the effect on farmland is much slower than that of mealworms, it is also important. This can be described as an agricultural revolution for "Dongyang City".

The first agricultural revolution took place about 10,000 years ago in the Neolithic Age.

At that time, in the long-term practice, people gradually observed and became familiar with the growth laws of certain plants, and slowly understood how to cultivate crops.

The peoples of all regions of the world, on the basis of the gathering economy, accumulated experience and independently invented agriculture.

Archaeological data show that there were three major centers of early agriculture in the world, namely West Asia, East Asia (including South Asia), and Central and South America.

The advent of agriculture was a great revolution in human history. This revolution is known as the First Agricultural Revolution or Neolithic Revolution.

The second agricultural revolution took place about 4,000 years ago in the Bronze Age, and thanks to the use and popularization of bronze materials, humans were able to hoe and plow.

The Third Agricultural Revolution took place 1,400 years ago in the Iron Age, when the use of iron tools and the domestication of animals allowed humans to plow.

After three agricultural revolutions, human beings have changed from food gatherers to food producers, greatly increasing food production, broadening food sources, and perfecting agricultural technology.

The experimental planting of grass seed crops in Dongyang City is roughly equivalent to the first agricultural revolution of mankind.

If the development goes well, it will promote the development of "Dongyang City" in at least the following aspects.

First, after having both agriculture and animal husbandry, the food source of "Dongyang City" changed from gathering and hunting to agriculture and animal husbandry. Ants have changed from food gatherers to food producers.

This shift in the way food is obtained will change the ant's relationship with nature.

The occurrence of agriculture and animal husbandry marks a leap in ants' understanding of the natural world, and marks that ants have shifted from relying more on and adapting to nature to using and transforming nature in the production of means of life.

All production activities in agriculture and animal husbandry will require ants to understand and transform the natural world and use natural resources to serve their lives and economies.

On the basis of agricultural production, ants need to gradually carry out the activities of the sun, moon and stars, observe the characteristics of water and soil, and climatic phenomena, and accumulate experience (such as summarizing the 24 solar terms), so as to generate preliminary astronomical geography and mathematical knowledge, and push the ants' understanding of the objective world to a new level.

Second, the agricultural revolution will create the material basis for a series of social changes that will follow.

In a hunter-gatherer economy, it is difficult for ants to obtain more food than they need to sustain themselves, and even if they are obtained for a short period of time, they cannot be stored for long periods of time.

For example, the grain stored in the spring, summer and autumn seasons of "Dongyang City" is basically exhausted after winter. Even if there is a surplus, it needs to be allocated to the main nest to support the annual reconquest war against the Paving Ant Barbarian Army.

Farming and animal husbandry, on the other hand, had a relatively stable supply of food, and for the first time it was possible to produce more food than was needed to sustain itself and store it.

This allows the ant population to increase greatly, and can enable some ants to engage in activities other than subsistence (such as full-time pottery firing), thus generating a new social division of labor and the exchange of goods, resulting in wealth accumulation.

This is exactly what the protagonist needs, and the ants are still more or less ignorant and ignorant. If you want to promote knowledge and promote the development of "Dongyang Castle", it is not enough to rely on the protagonist himself to do ideological enlightenment. Only by having an objective social and economic foundation can we promote the ideological revolution.

The agricultural revolution will lay this foundation.