141. The difficulty of aquaculture
On January 15, 997, Neil headed north to the ruins of Night Kir City with 50 cavalry, 150 demons, and supplies equivalent to a medium-sized barbarian camp.
Neil's team was tasked with exploring the ruins and gathering other barbarian tribes, so before leaving, Rand sent him off, and Rand didn't just send him to the camp gate, but rode the fire to send Neil's team to the Kolnico Pass.
"My lord, at the speed of fire, we will be at the ruins of Night Qi City in a while" Neil joked with Rant, Night Qi City is more than 100 kilometers north of the mountain pass, and Rand can indeed reach it in one day.
"It's okay, I'll send you again, you guys have worked harder than me all the way." There was a palpable frustration and frustration in Rand's words.
"You're because of those fish?" Neil guessed.
"Hmm", Lan Ting, who was riding on the flames, nodded, not wanting to say a word. If it is more precise, it is the Rand that fish farming is quite successful, but the magic fish farming has not seen the dawn of success so far.
It is said that Rand bought at least 8 containers of fish fry, which were hatched from the eggs of the monster fish and sold after they grew to a certain size.
And Rand hopes to use the concept of cages in his hometown to dig fish ponds in the land to continuously raise small fish fry, and finally raise ponds of demon fish to provide the basic source of demon meat for the demon supporters in the territory.
His idea was very simple, first set up a closed fish farm, dig a number of standard-sized fish ponds in the fishing ground, and put the fish in the container into a low-temperature pond with a cooling function, and then enter the nursery pond and wait for small fish to grow into 5-10 cm before putting them in the third adult pond.
The function of the cryogenic pond is to slow down the growth rate of the seedlings, because too many fry are bought, and Rand is afraid that it is too risky to put too many fry at one time.
There are ventilation, heating, life and other magic circles in the nursery pond, which can allow the fry to grow to more than 5 cm juveniles in 7-9 days, and the 12 square meters of the nursery pond will put 600 to 1200 fish fry.
There are already 10 adult fish ponds, each of which has life, heating, ventilation and so on, after each is completed, juvenile fish of different densities will be put in for experiments, according to the experience of the previous life, these fish can grow to the size of 1 catty in about two or three months at the earliest, and can be eaten.
What Rand hopes is to feed the magic fish fry through magic grains, so that these fish will become level 0 monster fish in about 80 days, which can not only provide meat, but also provide a source of magic.
Rand's earliest plan was relatively smooth, and more than 1,000 fry became juveniles first, but Rand didn't think that these fish were all descendants of Warcraft fish, and after they grew up to 10 cm, they had the territorial awareness and aggression that Warcraft only had.
These characteristics have been evident since the first juveniles in the nursery ponds entered several grow-out ponds six days ago, and if there are more than two juveniles in each pond, they will attack each other almost one night until only one remains.
In the only control pool, there is no feed for magic grains, so the juveniles are relatively calm among themselves, but if they are fed normal feed, the probability of the juveniles becoming a magic fish is basically zero.
For several days in a row, the juveniles attacked each other, and the thousands of juvenile fish of Rand were almost killed in the single digits, which made Rand very depressed.
Rand tried to use baskets or cages to limit the movement of the juveniles, but with little success. Rand regarded breeding exploration as a scientific research in his previous life, and constantly searched for the key variables that affect the juveniles, but the progress stalled, and because after each juvenile fish fight, Rand needed to change the water in the fish pond and recheck the magic circle, so he also delayed Wendy's arrangement to take the earth goblins to the Barony of the Galloping Horse to level the road.
"My lord, if you want me to say, these fry were originally used as rations for other fish, so why don't you send someone to catch some small swordfish, put them in the pond to raise, and then feed them with the juveniles, anyway, the pond is empty," Neil came up with an idea.
Rand felt that Neil's words were not unreasonable, the number of swordfish that became demonic beasts was not large, and there were many that did not break through, and it was easy to catch.
The point is that after several failures, he wants to put his energy and resources in something more suitable for him.
After dispersing the heart, he returned to the territory, sent Wendy out, asked her to take the earth goblins to smooth the road from Roth to the Barony of the Galloping Horse, and gave the Inuya a task to let them go to hunt for swordfish, so that they felt better.
In fact, since Rand returned to the territory, not only fish farming, but also long-haired sheep, black-scaled horses, pack beasts, grouse, gray geese, mallards, wild boars, guinea pigs and other animals raised in the camp have more or less gone wrong, and Rand is trying to solve these problems every day with the ideas of his previous life combined with the magic of this world, and breed all the species that can be raised on a large scale.
However, when you really get started, you know the old saying: a family fortune of one million, not a hoof. All kinds of farmed animals will have various problems in winter, especially insufficient feed and poor animal resistance, which can cause plague.
Even with Kaiyin, the priest of life, he could only suppress the plague, and all farming activities could only wait for spring to come.
。。 Since the development of the breeding industry has encountered a bottleneck, Rand has focused on swordsmanship and horsemanship, and in the past few days, he has begun to learn swordsmanship with several intermediate knights, and has frequently made moves, venting his anger at the unfavorable development of the industry.
In a specially compacted clearing, the white blades are staggered and the fighting spirits are clashed, and Rand spends hours practicing here every morning.
In the transcendent markets of Maned Wolf City and Longtai City, Rand bought some Dou Qi potions, which can replenish Rand by 5 percent of Dou Qi per bottle, and the price ranges from 5-7 gold coins, which is a lot more cost-effective than direct Krypton crystals.
"Did he use the Douqi potion as broth? It doesn't cost money to drink" Rand's morning training would also attract Huck and Ryan to come and watch, and his money-burning training made Huck look like a thrifty housekeeper.
"This is already a lot better" Luo Er on the side has experienced Rand's kryptonite training, so he naturally feels normal,
"I think he usually trains too little, and occasionally such assault training is not effective in improving swordsmanship." The conversation between the two of Rand was heard clearly, and he also knew that training was a daily matter, and it would not be effective without accumulation over time, but Rand heard the Blue Dragon family's point of view when he was eating and chatting with Dugan, that is, the training of fighting spirit is far more important than swordsmanship training.
In powerful swordsmanship, in the face of the gap in level, it is also difficult to fight, and in fact, the level is directly related to the use of fighting energy, the more powerful the knight, not only the more full of fighting energy, but also the more skilled the use of fighting energy.