Chapter 256: Sugar Cane
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As long as there are cattle and sheep on the western prairie, there will be a steady stream of merchants coming, and there will be various business opportunities. He only needs to prepare all kinds of auxiliary facilities, such as stations, ports, schools, hospitals, theaters, and vegetable markets, grocery markets and even wholesale markets related to people's livelihood.
Then it will develop steadily, and establish agricultural bases and various factories around it, but I am afraid that when the time comes, it will be too late for people to grab more than 10,000 houses.
At a low price of 1,000 gold coins, the herdsmen were given priority to buy, which was also the first benefit he gave to the herdsmen. It's just that how many people have flexible minds and forward-looking visions are not something he can control.
After greening half of the city, he took Hailei into the grassland to prepare for the transformation.
The western steppe is more than 1,000 kilometers long, more than four or five times the size of the Tuke Basin. And such a large area of land is only used for sheep grazing, which is really a waste of resources in Renault's opinion.
So he decided to take out half of the grassland land and convert it into farmland, economically valuable forests, etc.
First of all, he asked the herders themselves to sign up for the herders who did not want to graze, and they would receive the cultivated land, fertilizer and seeds for free. Of course, volunteers from the Tuke Basin will also be recruited, who have been farmers for generations, and nothing is more tempting than a fertile black soil than a herding sheep.
Renault planned seven towns on the grassland, the nearest three were a hundred kilometers away from Hammer City, one was due west near the Naxi River and was called Naxi Town, one was due north, in the middle of the Nibel River and Hammer City, and the third was in the middle of them, called Grass Town.
The three towns are centered around Hammer City, fan-shaped like satellites of Hammer City. In addition to gathering people and making life easier, these three towns are also outposts of Hammer City's military defenses, and construction will begin next spring.
Before that, Renault had to prepare the land that could be cultivated.
Twenty tractors drove straight to their destination, unloaded the heavy wagons with oil drums, replaced them with huge plowshares, and then lined up in a horizontal line and began to dig deep into the ground.
At the end of the day, hundreds of acres of land are reclaimed, and these black soils with turf will be exposed to the scorching sun for half a month, and then ploughed again, and will be carefully raked before autumn, and then the fertilizer and seeds will be laid down.
What Hailei needs to do is plant a large number of trees around the town.
The winters in the western savannah are cold, so many broad-leaved trees are not suitable for growth, and in order to have economic value, Renault decisively chose three fruit trees: hawthorn, apple and peach.
These three kinds of fruit trees don't need to worry too much, usually pay attention to fertilization and insect control, and pay attention to wintering to keep warm. As for scientific pruning, grafting, etc., that is a matter for later.
Of course, when it becomes popular, we will also promote fruit crops such as grapes and strawberries that require careful care.
In addition to farmland and fruit trees, Renault has also deliberately cultivated thousands of acres of land in Naxi Town, which is specially used to grow sugarcane, and he is planting it now, he can no longer stand the fact that he wants to eat some sweets, and he has to buy honey all over the world, which is one of the reasons why he is so active in transforming the land.
However, sugarcane is a subtropical plant, and unfortunately it cannot be promoted in the grasslands, and even if it is grown, the sugar content is not too high. So Renault decided to get a thousand acres first, and let Hai Lei use the power of the demon spirit to get a few batches in the summer, boil all of them into sugar and store them, or directly pull them out to sell, presumably it will be as popular as a bicycle in the entire Oro continent.
"Renault!"
On this day, he was in the field studying how to grow sugar cane, and Mia rushed to him in a bit of a huff. It's okay in Hammer City, at least when the weather is cooler, you can still go fishing in the lake.
And in this hellish place, all the fish in the river seem to be dead, no matter how she tries to catch them, and the fishing gear that Renault gave her does not seem to be suitable for use on this kind of flowing water.
After waiting for half a month, it was really difficult to get by.
"I'm bored!"
"I didn't say it was fun," said Reynolds without looking back, "and you had to come with you." ”
"I don't care, you're responsible for getting me something fun. ”
"I ......," she had to glare at him with a resentful little look.
"Don't worry, tomorrow there will be fun and good food. ”
"Really?" Mia's eyes lit up, she had been waiting for Renault's words for a long time.
After laying down a few rows of seeds, the cane quickly grows, and then the guards work together to cut the ripe cane into small pieces and bury them in the soil.
Sugarcane is a little different from other crops in that it leaves its roots in the soil when it matures, and it can grow new sugarcane quickly, and in some places it can even grow century stubble. Moreover, this kind of sugarcane that grows from the roots is sweeter than the first one, and the growth cycle is shorter.
After a busy day, about 100 acres of sugarcane forests rose in the evening sunset.
Renaud had some harvested, peeled off the leaves, peeled off the thick red skin, and cut it into very small pieces and brought it to Mia.
"What is this?" Mia frowned at the sight of it, because the sugar cane looked so hard, like a piece of wood, and she had never eaten anything like it before.
"Try it, it's sweet. ”
As he spoke, Renault took one and put it in his mouth, and when he chewed it, the sweet juice flowed out.
Seeing that he was eating hard, Mia also tried to eat a piece.
It's so sweet!
Mia's eyes lit up, causing Kevin, who was watching from the sidelines, to drool.
"Come and taste it, too. ”
Renault beckoned Kevin and the other guards who had been following him, although they were well paid, they hadn't usually eaten much sugar, so everyone had a happy look on their faces after the first bite.
Kevin ate the fastest, and before Renault had finished chewing the first slice, he was already reaching for the second slice.
"Wait!" Renault immediately stopped him and asked, "Where's the scum?"
"What scum?" Kevin asked, puzzled.
"To eat sugar cane, you have to spit out the dregs and eat only its water. ”
Kevin's outstretched hand stopped in mid-air, his face changed, he chewed a few times just now, and swallowed it along with the scum.
So he asked with a sad face: "My lord, if I eat it, there will be no problem, right?"
Renault's head is full of black lines, which is somewhat similar to Zhu Bajie eating ginseng fruit.
"There will be no big deals, stomach aches are inevitable. "Renault scared him like an adult scared a child when he was a child.
"When you eat such sweet sugar cane, your stomach hurts. ”
Saying that, Kevin also saw it, and directly cut a few more, and ate a piece of bagasse with a few Black Iron Army soldiers. (To be continued.) )