On the way back.

Xia Wu, who was sitting on the left side of the carriage, hung his head and was unhappy.

However, on the other side, Mo Jun was happily holding a large bag of seeds and seedlings, and the harvest was full.

Back to Xianyang.

Mo Jun held these seeds and seedlings, and couldn't wait to lock himself up in the backyard of the mansion.

Originally, the backyard of this main house was an ornamental garden, but now it has been transformed into a plantation and animal pen by Mojun. And it is listed as a forbidden place, without the permission of Mojun, even the servants of the family cannot enter.

No way.

Although it is unlikely to be discovered, some of the anomalies in this can be a nuisance if they are discovered.

The plantation is separated from the enclosure by a fence.

At present, the animal pen is mainly used to raise some livestock and poultry cubs, such as chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep.

Although Mojun has conducted in-depth research on the topic of "Disease Prevention and Control and Treatment of Local Black Pigs", it is a pity that for now, the results of this research are not of great significance at present.

Because not only local black pigs, but also almost all livestock and poultry have not been able to achieve large-scale breeding.

Ordinary people could not afford to eat meat, and the aristocracy did not care about the death of one or two livestock.

Therefore, at present, Mo Jun raises these livestock and poultry mainly to satisfy his appetite.

Therefore, in addition to castrating the piglets, the rest of the livestock and poultry in the animal pen are generally occasionally fed some 1% concentration of [Water of Life] to prevent them from dying.

After that, when they were older, they would change places and leave them in the care of servants, and basically didn't care much about the rest.

In the plantation, the main crop grown today is grains, which are the staple food of the moment:

Hemp, millet, millet, wheat, beans.

But these crops aren't meant to satisfy their appetites, they're meant to be experimented.

The problem of food shortage has been a major problem in the Central Plains since ancient times.

Even after 2,000 years, this has not been resolved. In fact, in later generations, the Central Plains still had to rely on imported grain from abroad every year to meet the daily needs of the domestic people.

At the moment, the problem is even more serious.

I really want to talk about it.

Nowadays, the Seven Countries are not actually short of food, after all, although the current food production is very low, the population is also not large. At present, the total number of ordinary people in the entire Central Plains is not estimated to exceed 20 million.

However, most of the food is now concentrated in the hands of a small group of people in the upper class.

And trying to get food out of the hands of these people is even more difficult than climbing to the sky. Even if they were to kill them all with a knife, this group of people would definitely destroy all the food before they died.

Don't think these people can't do it.

Human nature has been like this since ancient times.

Throughout the ages, the most murderous people have never been natural disasters, but man-made disasters.

So if you want to solve the food problem, there are only two last options left.

Either find a new staple food, but whether it's potatoes or sweet potatoes, these are still too far away from Mojun.

Either increase the current grain production.

Obviously.

Mo Jun chose the second option.

All the staple foods and vegetables and fruits promoted in later generations are basically the products of several generations of varieties improvement.

Because most of the staple foods and the original varieties of vegetables and fruits may taste better, but the yield is too low, and the fruit formation is often small, which is not conducive to large-scale cultivation at all.

In this day and age, the yield of cereals is even more outrageous.

One-third of the fruit in an ordinary ear of rice is shriveled, and the other two-thirds of the fruit is much smaller than the rice of later generations.

Reasons for this result:

The first is the issue of land fertility.

The second is the gap in genetic varieties.

Most of the varieties of the first and second generations of agricultural plants are not difficult to improve, as long as more experiments and controls are done, sooner or later the desired results can be obtained.

It's just that it takes a bit longer.

And the plantation that Mo Jun is building now is to help him complete this experiment.

As for his purpose in doing this, it is also very pure, there is no great ideal, it is simply for meritorious service and reward.

Ever since he rescued Xiong Da on the battlefield that time, Mo Jun has understood that he is not suitable for the environment of the frontal battlefield, not because of anything else, but because he is afraid of death.

It's hard to live a life again, and there are plug-ins.

If he hangs up before he enjoys life, then Mojun feels that he has lost a lot.

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A total of three plots of cultivated land were cultivated on the plantation.

It took less than a piece of arable land to grow experimental crops, and now what Mo Jun had to do was to plant all the 'medicinal herb seeds' he had obtained from the Medicine Ghost Master.

However, before planting, Mo Jun first had to soak these seeds and seedlings with a concentration of 10% [Water of Life].

This strengthens the vitality of the seed and allows it to grow stronger.

"It's ······"

Suddenly, Mo Jun's eyes froze, and he sensed that something was wrong.

"This part of the seeds absorbs life energy so quickly, I remember that these seeds seem to be ······ Elixir seeds! ”

Mo Jun knows that there are elixirs and alien beasts in this world, and there was a more representative elixir in the original book, which is undoubtedly the "Jade Leaf Flower".

There are more beasts, whether it is the white phoenix of the white phoenix, the oversized red king snake of the red lian, or the Xuanhu that appeared during the test of the Guigu faction······ can be in this column.

At first, Mo Jun didn't actually think of buying the seed of the elixir, but the moment he spoke to the medicine ghost master, he suddenly thought of the existence of the elixir, so he mentioned it in passing.

Originally, Mo Jun thought that the elixirs of this world were only medicinal properties and functions far beyond ordinary medicinal materials, but now it seems that the effects of these so-called 'elixirs' may be even more bizarre than he imagined.

Seeing that the life energy in this jar of [Water of Life] was about to be sucked dry by the seed of the elixir, Mo Jun immediately took out another [Life Crystal (Fragment)] from his personal warehouse.

Originally, I opened it and broke it in half, but after thinking about it, I simply put a whole piece in it.

With the new replenishment of life energy, the absorption efficiency of the 'elixir seeds' in the jar instantly increased again, and as the more energy absorbed, the more vitality contained in these seeds became.

Twenty-three elixir seeds.

It took a total of two and a half pieces of Mo Jun's [Life Crystals (Fragments)] to finally settle down.

"Good guy, a hundred ordinary seeds can use up one [Life Crystal], and you can absorb one of the ten seeds, and the consumption is directly increased tenfold."

The corners of Mo Jun's mouth twitched, and he suddenly realized that he was just farming, and the [Life Crystal] consumed was even more than his own cultivation.

It took almost an hour.

After planting all the seeds one by one, Mo Jun took out a black powder from his personal warehouse.

【Weathered powder】

Originally, Mo Jun thought that these things left over from the decomposition of the human body were purely waste, and he even thought about discarding these things for a while.

But just three days ago, he realized he had been very wrong.

These decomposed residues seem ordinary, but in fact they contain a large number of microorganisms and trace elements. Using it to farm can not only supplement nutrients for plants, but also imperceptibly improve geology and enhance land fertility with the microorganisms contained in it.

This thing is simply the most perfect fertilizer in the world.

One unit of [weathered powder] is one kilogram.

When fertilizing ordinary crops, only ten kilograms are needed for a piece of land, and it is completely enough to spread a thin layer.

But when fertilizing those elixir seeds again, considering the particularity of these seeds, Mo Jun specially strengthened the fertility and used three times the amount.

Finish fertilizing.

Mo Jun finally took out a dark green octagonal crystal from his personal warehouse.

【Lower Elemental Crystals (Wood)】

This is also a new discovery of Mojun's experimental crops planted some time ago, and by decomposing plants, you can harvest the crystals of this plant energy essence.

And this plant energy essence can help other plants to grow faster.

In fact, the energy of [Life Crystal] can also be done, but the consumption is too large, and the main role of Life Crystals is to make up for the origin of life and accelerate plant growth, which is not quite matched.

Compared with.

This kind of [Lower Element Crystallization (Wood)] is not only more effective in accelerating plant growth.

What's more, this thing is much cheaper than [Life Crystals (Fragments)].

As long as Mo Jun finds a big tree and decomposes it casually, he can easily obtain at least ten or more [Lower Elemental Crystals (Wood)].

After many experiments.

Mo Jun finally found that mixing 10% of [Life Crystals] with 90% of [Lower Element Crystals] to create a "Growth Spiritual Liquid" had the best effect on watering ordinary crops.

As for the time of watering the seed of the elixir, because of its particularity, Mo Jun finally controlled the ratio of [Life Crystal] and [Lower Elemental Crystal] to 5:5 after several attempts.

And during the time when Mo Jun was concentrating on planting new crops, his life calmed down again.

In the blink of an eye.

Another half a month is fleeting······