Chapter Twenty-Seven: Thoughts on the Essentials
"Who gave them the confidence that this is not an alternative way of fertilizing?" Hua Lin expressed his disdain for the idea of these Yi people, the fertilizer from natural to artificial fertilizer began with the use of guano ore, this time he also deliberately chose some mineral-rich stones, and the reason why he did not crush these stones and scatter them into the field like fertilizer is not because he cherishes the manpower of the Yi people (on the contrary, carrying the whole stone increases the labor intensity of the Yi people), but because of the choice made by taking into account the natural environment of Yi Mountain.
The temperature in Yishan was on the low side, even compared to Shuanghe County, and this environment was very unfavorable for the potato crops he planned to grow, so he had to resort to an ancient method of warming the fields, which was to put stones in the fields.
During the day, these stones can absorb more heat from the sun than the soil, and at night, they also release heat faster than the soil, and each stone acts like a small accumulator that regulates the temperature of the soil. Other measures to warm the land, such as digging ditches around the fields to fill hot water, were too costly — he made a small piece next to the salt-boiling stove.
When the sun and rain crack the stones, the minerals they contain are slowly released into the fields to serve as fertilizers, all of which were ancient techniques used in the mountain agriculture of the Gara world, and Hua Lin moved them to Yishan as they were, because he prepared to grow potatoes in these terraces not the grains that the Yi people were accustomed to growing.
The yield of potatoes is high, the requirements for land are low, and most importantly, potatoes can be eaten without waiting for harvest, and the vines and leaves can be chopped not only for pigs, but also for people, and the disadvantage is that they are not resistant to low temperatures, and the temperature at which the grain can grow may freeze them to death.
The Yi people must not have imagined that what awaits them after hard labor will be their own painstaking digging and harvesting of pig food, and of course, a wizard who is not a member of any human rights association will have no conscience at all to feed his captives with pig food.
While the salt was boiling, he had already prepared the potato seeds on the small nursery next to the stove house, and when the land was cleared, he could plant them.
Now the benefits of so much brutal training and preparation can be seen, and before that, the people of the Yi, who had been so extensive and loose in their farming to the point of inconceivable degree, could not complete the delicate farm work of burying the potato seedlings into neat pits, and sowing seeds into the ground was the farm work they could imagine, and now they were doing it quickly and well, for fear that a negligence would send the monster behind them to some other terrible labor hell.
"Labor creates human beings. The former wizard who admired their work boasted that in his opinion the people were about to degenerate into beasts, and thanks to him, they were now more human.
Xiao Qianqiu ignored his fallacies, and his curiosity about tidying up the land soon disappeared after he understood that Hualin really disappeared after tidying up the land and preparing for farming, and what could arouse his attention was the potato seeds prepared by Hualin, cutting and planting seeds, using hot water to heat up the greenhouse to promote seedlings, fertilizer allocation, and then cutting vines and transplanting after the plants were strong, and a series of techniques that he had never seen before, he quickly thought about what kind of results would be if these techniques were used on other plants, especially those sesame grasses that were difficult to bloom and reproduce?
"It didn't work. The former wizard commented that according to the Xiao family's distribution method, there was far more waste than it was used on the right path, even if he had only stayed on Qiyun Peak for such a short period of time, he had seen an astonishing waste from various sources, a large amount of pills and other things were allocated to creatures who were only related to the so-called relatives, and a large amount was consumed in the so-called "diplomacy" As a result, not only did it not play a role in co-opting, but instead made the other families take the resources they allocated for granted, and even demanded more, and when their demands were not met, they colluded with the Death Worship Sect and eventually led to the subversion of the Xiao family.
However, it is difficult for the Xiao family to find another way, it has tried its best to purify itself under Xiao Qianqiu's proposition. Those who don't practice hard enough will be gradually eliminated until one day they are driven out of Qiyun Peak and reduced to mortals, this iron law makes the family still try to concentrate resources on potential members rather than descendants, and it is difficult to go further, the Xiao family is a family linked by blood in the final analysis, if an outsider like Hua Lin is placed above his closest relatives, I am afraid that it will collapse the next day. Just like Xiao Yinyun said, if there is no guarantee that the Xiao family is the Xiao family of the Xiao family, then no matter how prosperous it is, what does it have to do with the Xiao family?
If you can no longer care about bloodline, it is not a family, but an academy or sect.
For example, Yunxi faction.
Hua Lin's next target was there, provided that the Yunxi Sect still existed when he went.