The middle-aged man looked at Wang Qiang and said, "Boss, I didn't mean that, I mean, this is a plant that can be promoted and planted on a large scale, with this, we can solve a lot of food problems!" ”

Wang Qiang was taken aback, and finally understood the meaning of the middle-aged man.

The current alliance is in dire straits, with energy shortages, population losses, food crises, zombie sieges...... From a demographic point of view, the birth rate of the alliance has reached a heinous low in recent years, while the mortality rate of the population is higher every year.

The population has never been able to increase, and the biggest reason besides the threat of zombies is the lack of food. Without food, women can not get pregnant normally and can not give birth normally, weak women are very likely to have miscarriages due to lack of nutrition during pregnancy, and labor dystocia because of insufficient nutrition, even if they are lucky enough to give birth to a child, women have no milk to feed the baby because they are not full, and over time, there are fewer and fewer new births.

In Wang Qiang's own terms, he was born in the first year of the disaster, twenty-four or five years old, and he is already a young man in this era, and most of the people who are currently active in the alliance are people between the ages of thirty and fifty, and children under the age of ten are very rare!

At this time, when the middle-aged man talked about the problem of food, it was tantamount to a thunderbolt from the sky, which gave Wang Qiang a huge shock.

"What's your name? What did you do before? Wang Qiang asked.

The middle-aged man replied: "My name is Li Xian, I live in the Northland, I used to be an ordinary farmer, and I had some experience in agriculture. ”

"Farmers?" Wang Qiang was stunned.

"Yes, I farm for a living." Li Xian replied.

"Then why are you here?" Wang Qiang asked.

"I was caught in the Panshan area."

Li Xian briefly told Wang Qiang about his situation.

Wang Qiang understood, but Wang Qiang was not interested in Li Xian's situation, on the contrary, Wang Qiang was more interested in the plants that Li Xian said.

"Are you saying that these plants can be cultivated and can be cultivated in large quantities?" Wang Qiang asked.

Li Xian thought for a while, and then said: "If the conditions allow, you can promote planting on a large scale." ”

Promote planting on a large scale!

Wang Qiang's heart shook again, and his respect for Li Xian suddenly increased a lot.

"Someone's coming." Wang Qiang shouted.

"What does the boss command?" Suddenly, dozens of clever freedom bounty hunters handed over.

Wang Qiang looked at the newly recruited subordinates and thought to himself that it was really popular with the people!

"Come, come, come, follow him, listen to his commands, and gather more useful plants." Wang Qiang pointed at Li Xian and said.

All the bounty hunters laughed when they heard this, these guys are either hungry, or they have to risk their lives to fight zombies, listen to Wang Qiang, where is there an easier job than this?

Everyone agreed one after another, and Li Xian on the side was even more moved.

……

Wang Qiang led the crowd to collect plants and walked towards the grinding stone pit. Because of the twists and turns of the road, and the poor condition of the road, the troops marched slowly.

Wang Qiang paced slowly towards the snow scene in the mountains, the sun was shining on the mountains, and the snow on the mountains was slowly melting.

Everything seems to be recovering.

The future is still exciting.

"Boss, look." At this time, Li Xian's voice sounded.

Wang Qiang looked in the direction pointed by Li Xian, and saw a clump of plants growing on the hillside.

Wang Qiang took a closer look, and it was actually a bunch of flowers. The flowers are bright white, hidden in the snow, no wonder they can't be noticed by themselves, if it weren't for Li Xian's sharp eyes, he really couldn't see that this was a cluster of flowers.

"What is this?" Wang Qiang seems to be familiar, but he doesn't know the name of the plant.

"This is a tulip flower, a rubus rose, the flower color is always white, the leaves are like light feathers, the flowers are complex, and the color and fragrance are complete. The rhizomes of this plant can be roasted gum, the flowers are suitable for refining sesame oil, and the ripe fruits can be used to make wine. Li Xian said excitedly.

Wang Qiang looked at Li Xian strangely.

The more Li Xian spoke, the more excited he became, his expression became more and more strange, and finally there was an indescribable sadness.

"Are you so excited that you want to cry?" Wang Qiang asked.

"Boss, there is a saying, Tu Tu does not compete for spring, and it is time for flowers. After this flower, spring is gone! Li Xian explained.

"Spring is gone?" Wang Qiang recalled this sentence, and seemed to grasp some clues in his mind, but he couldn't get the answer he wanted.

"What does this mean?" Wang Qiang asked.

Before Li Xian could answer, Lao Lei on the side sighed: "Boss, the snow has not melted yet, spring is over, there is no sowing period, the season is all messed up, and the plants can't grow." ”

Wang Qiang finally understood, a sense of fear rose from the bottom of his heart, what does this mean, it represents the future, maybe there is a more terrifying food crisis that will envelop human beings, become the shackles of human survival, and become the most gloomy and shrouded dark cloud in the world here, which is almost imaginable.

"Boss, we must make long-term plans, otherwise most of us will starve to death sooner or later!" Li Xian said excitedly.

"What's the solution?" Wang Qiang asked.

"There will always be a way to ......," Mr. Li said.

The return journey began to become difficult, and the unexpected discovery made Wang Qiang's heart full of clouds, in such a strange environment, he was able to encounter a clump of tulip flowers, is this a sign of God?

Wang Qiang got a warning, so he naturally didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly sent all his subordinates out to look for food crops all over the mountains, and for this, three unlucky ghosts died in the mouths of zombies.

It took three days to search all the way before Wang Qiang led the team back to the grinding stone pit.

The current millstone pit is thriving, the land around the town has been leveled out by the free bounty hunters, houses are being built on the land, and the grinding stone pit is getting bigger and bigger.

The hundred recruits recruited by Yu Kuan and the more than 800 recruits recruited by Wang Qiang from Fangling City were combined, and Wang Qiang already had a team of 1,000 people under him, and such a team was also the strength of a reinforced battalion in the sequence of the regular army of the alliance.

Wang Qiang organized 1,000 recruits into a battalion system, Wang Qiang personally served as the battalion commander, Xiao Chonghe and Yu Kuan served as deputy battalion commanders, and set up a battalion staff headquarters to collect Wang Erye, Lao Hei, Li Bai, Mu Erkang, Liang Kun and others under the account of the general staff.

Then, the battalion set up ten companies, each with a principal and deputy company commander, each of which was composed of 30 elite soldiers drawn from the Eastern Army Corps as the backbone. Each company is divided into 10 squads, each squad is full of 10 people, and a principal and deputy squad leader are set up, and recruits with excellent training and qualifications are selected to serve as recruits.

After the system was first established, Wang Qiang focused on the training of recruits and the development of grinding stone pits, and all the recruits' energy was spent on building houses and reclaiming land, except for shooting and tactical training.

Wang Qiang transferred the strength of five companies to Li Xian, and according to Li Xian's idea, cultivated mountain fields suitable for planting on the east and west slopes, and then erected shantytown scaffolds to build a simple shantytown greenhouse.

In addition, Wang Qiang even arranged for people to collect the excrement of all the people in the grinding stone pit and set up a special septic tank to provide biogas for heating on the one hand, and fertilizer for the planting farm to be promoted on the other.

As a top priority to establish a large-scale greenhouse planting environment, Wang Qiang encouraged men, women and children who were idle in the grinding stone pit to go around looking for crops, and for a while, taro, land, lettuce, bean pods, lettuce, spinach and other plants were planted in the greenhouse.

Because of the harsh climate, the greenhouse built by Li Xian himself uses biogas heating to adjust the temperature to simulate the climate, but fortunately, the sunshine in the grinding stone pit is not bad, so the first batch of vegetables planted looks very expected.

"Boss, after this batch of vegetables is ripe, we can get a part of the planting, and we can plant it in batches in the next quarter." Li Xian said.

In these days of hard work, Li Xianke worked diligently and guided the soldiers to complete the arduous task of reclamation.

"Thank you, Li Xian." Wang Qiang said sincerely.

Li Xian's face was excited, thinking that this boss was really kind to people, and he was really a rare good person.

"No thanks, boss, this is what I should do!" Li Xian thought for a while and continued: "It is imperative that we make a batch of planting racks, and when the sunshine is a little longer and the temperature is a little higher, we can start planting tomatoes and eggplants, of course, our main source of food can still be to hit the idea of potatoes and cold-tolerant wheat plants." ”

Li Xian saw that Wang Qiang did not interrupt him, and continued to speak: "Our existing conditions are the most suitable for planting potatoes. Potatoes are plant-based and easy to feed, and can be grown all year round as long as the planting technology and environment are passable. Moreover, the harvest cycle is very short, and one season can be harvested in two months at the earliest. ”

"Really? Tell me how to plant? Wang Qiang's curiosity came up.

I used to collect potatoes when I was in the lower town, but I didn't know that there were such excellent conditions for planting.

Li Xian continued: "We can first hydroponic potatoes to the germination stage, and then cut the potatoes into pieces according to the germination state, and then cultivate them separately, and a potato can provide three to four seeds, so that we can solve the dilemma of not having enough plant seeds." At the same time, the way potatoes are grown is relatively simple, if we are careful enough, we can harvest four or five crops a year, because we don't have enough fertilizer, it is conservatively estimated that this kind of thing only has about 1,000 kilograms per acre of land per season. ”

Wang Qiang calculated in his heart that an adult's ration is calculated according to one pound per day, and one acre of potatoes can be harvested for four seasons a year, so the harvest of one acre of land can feed ten people.

This is just a possibility in an ideal state, in fact, Wang Qiang knows that in the old republic, that era of top science and technology, the harvest of one acre of land was not enough to feed a family of three. Therefore, the situation that Li Xian said is definitely an optimistic estimate.