Chapter 117: Clone Peanuts
As soon as the adult cake was launched, it deserved wide acclaim.
In fact, there can be no bad reviews for this thing, in this time and space where agriculture and animal husbandry are greatly restricted, at least here in North Wharton, the variety of food that people can eat is very limited, and all kinds of non-staple foods are even less.
As early as when he was in the new barracks, Li Yi checked through the material conveyor, and the cultivation ingredients that North Wharton can sell in large quantities can be counted with ten fingers, only rice, wheat, corn, pigs, cattle, chickens, Chinese cabbage, lettuce, potatoes, and soybeans These ten kinds can be imagined, how many non-staple foods can be developed with these ingredients alone?
Of course, other special ingredients are not absent, but they are all imported, such as fish, and it is very strange that in order to monopolize the operation of fish, the marine agricultural planet first steamed the fish at high temperature and then refrigerated and sold, so that the somatic cells or embryonic cells of cooked fish have been destroyed, and even the most advanced cloning technology can no longer be cloned.
Not only fish, but all other animals and plants, before exporting, are either steamed, or with some special radiation technology or something, completely destroy their somatic cells and embryonic cells, so that they cannot be cloned, every agricultural planet's special species is used this measure to strictly protect its intellectual property rights, and this has become a common practice in the world, unless anyone has the ability to knock down the agricultural planet, otherwise everyone has to be honestly monopolized.
That is to say, North Wharton can cultivate and produce a large number of these 10 types of ingredients, and the varieties of each type of ingredients are still very single, for example, there are many varieties of chickens, but there is only one breed of broiler here in North Wharton, and it is also the kind of clonal clone breeding, as for pheasants, turkeys, black chickens or anything at all!
In short, the material of this era is rich and abundant, but it is also obvious to say that there is scarcity, at least in the food area, it cannot be compared with the earth of the old time and space, let alone compared with Huaguo, a big country of food, those seeds brought by Li Yi can be described as priceless in this era, and any cake can be eaten by the natives to swallow it with their tongues.
This is also the reason why Althea took peanut seeds and ran to space to do cultivation experiments, this seed can give birth to countless peanuts, which is an endless cornucopia, and she can't be careless.
The peanut planting experiment went very well, and the peanut that originally needed to be sown and grown for more than 100 Earth days in a specific season to mature took only 7 Wharton days in the culture medium, which is almost 21 Earth days, which is more than 5 times faster than the earth!
However, this is only a peanut cultivation and planting experiment, Li Yi gave Althea 10 peanuts and 5 of them to do a clone planting experiment, that is, directly extract embryonic cells from peanuts and put them into the culture medium for asexual cloning and reproduction, the final experimental results are very gratifying, the embryonic cells extracted from the five peanuts have been cloned and cultivated thousands of peanut seedlings in just three days, and then all of them have matured and produced fruit in a total of 10 days!
This is also the result of Althea's deliberate restraint in fear of the failure of the experiment, otherwise it would be easy to clone tens of thousands of peanuts at once.
The peanuts planted in the two experiments were extracted by Althea 10 each, packed in two bottles, and then sent to Li Yi for acceptance, after all, Althea had never seen this thing, let alone eaten it, and it was up to Li Yi to judge whether the experiment was successful or not.
Just seeing the appearance of peanuts through the bottle, Li Yi knew that this should be done, he didn't think that the kind of peanut in the bottle that he knew at a glance would be another species, but in order to make sure that there was no problem, he tasted one peanut rice grown in two different ways, and even ate a pure natural original for comparison.
After tasting it, Li Yi found that in terms of taste, the pure natural original product should still be slightly sweeter, of course, this may also be a psychological effect, which he is not too sure, but what he can be sure of is that there is no difference in taste between cultivated and cloned.
In terms of appearance, the pure natural peanuts brought by the old time and space are not as good as the other two, and the cultivated peanuts are full and ruddy, while the cloned peanuts are better, not only the particles are full and ruddy, but each peanut is the same size, almost carved out of a mold!
It is precisely because of this distinction that people can easily distinguish which ingredients are naturally grown, artificially cultivated or cloned, otherwise special genetic testing equipment is needed to distinguish them.
As we all know, long-term consumption of cloned or synthetic ingredients is to reduce the intelligence quotient.
It is better to eat the cultivated ingredients, and the decline rate of knowledge quotient will be much slower, or even not declining, the difference lies in the natural gene ratio of the cultivated mother, like the peanut rice cultivated in the first batch, the mother is the peanut seeds brought by Li Yi from the pure natural breeding of the old time and space, so eating this kind of cultivated peanuts does not reduce the knowledge quotient.
But this kind of mother is a pure natural seed cultivation food is almost unavoidable, because after people obtain the cultivated seeds, the first thing is not to take them out and sell them, but to either continue large-scale cultivation, so that their natural genes are constantly diluted, or directly take the cloning, or even cloning to increase the seed base and yield, and then the cloned seeds are cultivated.
Therefore, the so-called cultivated ingredients on the market now, the natural genes do not know how many generations have been diluted, and even some are cultivated by cloned mothers, although these are also cultivated ingredients, but after eating, they will still reduce their knowledge quotient, but they are just a little better than pure cloned ingredients.
Li Yi didn't plan to be a saint, since everyone did this, he didn't plan to be a maverick, when even if he decided to clone and plant all the peanut seeds produced by the two experiments to the greatest extent, expand the scale of peanut production, and get the peanut production up at the fastest speed, so as to lay a good foundation for the comprehensive development of the flower food industry chain in the future.
Of course, he also kept an eye on it, the two packs of peanuts he brought can no longer be taken out and wasted, before finding a suitable planet to plant naturally, not a single grain can be moved, these are pure natural peanuts, in this time and space with one less one, if all are used up, there will be no chance to eat pure natural organic green peanuts in this world in the future!
After the clap, Li Yi began to be the shopkeeper again.
Although the expansion of peanut production and the production and sales of compressed biscuits are big plans to make money, Li Yi knows very well that making money is not the ultimate goal, the real purpose is to find a way to spend the money quickly and transform it into his own strength as soon as possible, so this kind of thing is left to Orthea to deal with.
Li Yi's top priority now is still to absorb all kinds of memory chips, and then combine theory with practice to see if he can design and manufacture a suitable ship.
In fact, not to mention designing and manufacturing ships, even if Li Yi is asked to build a standard starship now, he can't do it, not only does he not have the ability, but also the conditions, and if he can really build his own starship, this matter will inevitably arouse the vigilance of several major families in North Wharton, and he doesn't know what kind of trouble he is going to make when the time comes.
But this does not affect his determination and confidence to work in this direction, even if he can't build it for the time being, it is okay to start with some simple and unattractive objects.
So under the guidance of Althea, Li Yi decided to design and manufacture a small mining ship by himself first, after all, the development of resource planets is inseparable from mining ships, and it must also be redesigned and transformed, even if several major families know about this, they will not be wary, and they may even laugh at Li Yi behind his back.
Don't look at it as just a small mining ship, it seems to be 108,000 miles away from those domineering side-leaking battle starships, but in fact, this thing is the same principle as all starships, although the sparrow is small and has all the organs, and can make small mining ships, then other starships will also make them.
Whether it is a fighter, a mecha or a starship, it is basically composed of nine systems, namely: energy system, power system, control system, weapon system, shield system, conduction system, induction system, auxiliary system and bone system, these nine systems complement each other and are indispensable.
Every system is a very complex science, involving countless disciplines and technologies, but if you don't get to the bottom of it, just foolish design and assembly, it is actually very simple.
The equipment corresponding to the nine systems is nothing more than the following: energy core, power engine, control terminal, artillery weapon, energy shield, circuit element, radar scanner, escape pod and its survival components, and hull structure.
These devices are actually ready-made, or that sentence, if you don't think about making these devices yourself but directly assembling and matching, let alone Li Yi, it is estimated that even those underage Wharton youth military fans can design a starship.
Of course, Li Yi's requirements for himself are not limited to this kind of starship DIY, but it is impossible to be proficient in so many systems at the same time in a short period of time, so his way is to start with the simplest system, and learn in depth one by one and fully master it.
To say that the simplest of the nine systems, of course, is the bone system, the origin of the name of this "bone system" is based on the skeleton of the mecha, and later extended to the fighter or starship, in fact, it refers to the keel structure, shape layout and hull material of the starship, these three aspects are the lowest technical content of all systems, so Li Yi decided to open a breakthrough from this system first.
Needless to say, the first thing Li Yi determined was the hull material, that is, the all-stone grinding material!
If you want to develop a gas mine on Watson 13, a ship's hull made of stone mills is a must, which doesn't need to be brainstormed at all, but Li Yi actually has another purpose - now is to accumulate experience, and in the future, his own ships will all be built with stone mills!
If nothing else, just because the stone mill can resist high temperatures, with such a starship, if you can't win the enemy in the future, you can still drill into the atmosphere of the planet and fight, and if the enemy dares to chase in, he will definitely die a miserable death!