Chapter 177 Preparing to plant the second round of crops
The production of mushrooms in the space seems to have stabilized now.
These mushrooms did not continue to fission and expand like they did when they were first transplanted.
It seems that the resources in space have a critical point after all.
When a certain category of crops reaches a certain limit, the various nutrients needed by that plant will be automatically restricted by space.
This will prevent a certain category of crops from dominating the entire space.
When I think about it, I think this space is quite scientific. Even later generations will advocate simultaneous planting and intercropping!
Luo Xuan estimated that if he wanted to increase mushroom production, he would probably have to look for jade to recharge the space.
Only by doing this can the overall area of the space be made larger, so that more crops can be harvested.
at present,
In fact, it is easy and the most beneficial thing for you is these mushrooms that you can pick once every three to five.
Now take out the mushrooms, turtles, and eels and sell them for money, turning them into circulating goods.
This plays a huge role in improving your living standards and maintaining your daily expenses.
But if it takes about the first half of the year, the role of money will be significantly reduced. By that time, only food will be the real currency.
Luo Xuan made a rough estimate in the space: There are probably more than 800 kilograms of corn left here, maybe less than 900 kilograms.
Luo Xuan put the harvested rice into sacks.
Finally, based on the bulging degree of the sacks, it was roughly estimated that the rice should weigh about 1,000 kilograms.
If you take it to the grain processing room for shelling, you should be able to get about 680 kilograms of rice and about 320 kilograms of rice bran.
With an area of 4 cents of land, the rice yield was similar to that of 6 cents of land in later generations.
It seems that the rice yield per mu in space is not particularly impressive.
However, what is grown in space is upland rice!
For example, the production of upland rice in Laos and Caiyunzhinan in later generations cannot be compared with that of rice.
The yield per acre of upland rice is inherently low, and coupled with the scourge of rats, it is not bad to be able to harvest 900 kilograms per acre of upland rice!
This is still an improved variety from later generations.
Moreover, a large amount of chemical fertilizers and pesticides are needed to achieve this yield.
After calculation, the grain yield in the space is much higher than that in the outside world, plus a lot of crops can be grown in a year.
Considering the inside and outside, there is still a lot of potential for growing crops in space.
Finish taking inventory of your belongings.
Luo Xuan sat in the space and began to carefully evaluate whether the food on hand was enough.
Only after calculating his current needs clearly can Luo Xuan decide on the next crop.
Should we plant sweet potatoes or corn?
Or expand the planting area of upland rice?
Anyway, people’s food rations should be given priority.
But there cannot be a shortage of the feed needed by these animals in the space.
Therefore, Luo Xuan must first make a clear calculation before deciding on the next action.
When the busy farming season is over, the official construction of my house will begin.
By then, it is estimated that more than 20 masons, stonemasons, and laborers will come to the construction site to help him work.
If one person per person counts 1 kilogram of grain, he will consume 20 kilograms per day.
It will take about 15 to 20 days to complete the main body of the three tile-roofed houses, depending on whether the building materials are fully prepared.
There is also the weather conditions.
Luo Xuan calculated based on 20 days: In this case, the total number of coarse grains and fine grains needed would be about 500 kilograms.
In addition, the yard needs to be hardened in the later stage, and the indoor walls also need to be plastered with lime to make them look more beautiful.
In addition, we installed doors and windows, built toilets, hardened the eaves and steps, and paved some bluestone slabs on the paths outside the courtyard...
Lin Lin finally calculated that the total amount of grain consumed in building the house would not be less than 900 kilograms.
The reason why it only takes 500 kilograms of grain to build a house is almost enough. But to make these bits and pieces later, it still requires 400 kilograms of grain.
That's because building walls and laying foundations, these larger tasks, can be done quickly.
On the contrary, small jobs such as painting walls, building toilets, and installing steps are not fast enough.
If I had built a toilet with a flushing function as I had planned before, then 900 kilograms of grain would not be enough.
Because if you want to install a flush toilet or squat pit, you need to build a septic tank and a water tower.
Septic tanks are easy to fix.
Just ask someone to dig a hole and then use bricks to build two or three compartments in the hole.
But during this period, there were no huge plastic buckets or stainless steel reservoirs.
Want to build a water tower.
Or use red bricks to build a huge chimney-like thing.
Or use reinforced concrete to pour a frame, and then use red bricks to build a small reservoir on top.
According to my current financial resources, there is no problem in building a water tower.
But Luo Xuan felt that doing that might be a bit ostentatious: a building like a factory chimney suddenly appeared in a barren mountain village?
No matter how you look at it, it feels a bit incongruous and really awkward.
Therefore, Luo Xuan decided to build a dry toilet for the time being!
Pay good attention to the hygiene in the toilet, it is much more comfortable than the rows of squatting pits in the school.
Inside the school, more than 20 squatting pits were lined up, and everyone was sticking their butts out:
"Hmm~", "Hmm~", "Huh~"
The distance between people is less than a foot. Some have white butts, some have black butts, some have pointed butts, and some have round butts.
Where is the privacy at all?
Everyone can smell each other's stench, and the sounds of bitterness and hatred come one after another when they are having a good time or trying to hold it back... It is really disgusting.
"900 kilograms of grain..."
Luo Xuan did some calculations, and then there was the starting capital for the sand quarry... which was actually food.
In the future, people who come to work in sand quarries will basically receive wages in the same way that urban and rural residents receive labor remuneration: basic rations + a little cash.
Through such a calculation, Luo Xuan's heart was clear.
The food in my space is enough to last about two months.
By that time, the second batch of food in your own space will be almost mature.
If there is a slight shortage of food, you can spend some money during this period and buy food stamps and food at the Frog Market.
You can also go outside to purchase some food and bring it back to make up for the shortfall.
In more than half a year, a "commune" will be established. By then, there will basically be no private property.
So no matter how much money you spend, it may be difficult to buy a few kilograms of grain at the frog market.
So from now on, Luo Xuan should try his best to distribute as little food as possible.
——Enough to help those who work by themselves, just enough to feed them.
Anyway, they couldn't save the extra food.
Because when the commune was established, all commune members’ food supplies had to be handed over.
By the time,
Three meals a day will be arranged in the commune. There will even be a "production team kindergarten", and the government will arrange a "nurse" to uniformly manage these little kids.
Thus,
This allows the members to not have to worry about such small things as cooking and taking care of children, just like those in big factories in the city: schools, hospitals, canteens, and kindergartens are all there.
Now that everyone has no worries, members can go all out and invest in agricultural production and construction.
Very good idea, haha...
After taking stock of his property, Luo Xuan took some more corn and rice and soaked them in a large empty vat filled with spring water, ready to start cultivating seedlings.
Then bury some sweet potatoes in the ground and let them sprout.
If you wait until the sweet potato vines grow to a certain extent, you can cut them off and insert radishes, and then plant another sweet potato crop.
The sweet potatoes currently in the production team will be ready for harvest in more than a month.
Luo Xuan estimated that when the production team's sweet potatoes harvested, the sweet potatoes in his own space would mature at the same time as them.
At that time, you can take out the sweet potatoes openly, sell some of them, or ask someone to help you make vermicelli and store them.
After finishing the things in the space, Luo Xuan sat quietly and adjusted the breath in his body, practicing the exercises while resting.
I have been really tired these past few days.
If my life hadn't gotten better now, and I drank the spring water in the space every day, and now I was practicing Taoist internal skills, I would still be a little unbearable!
I don't know how long it took, but Luo Xuan felt a surge of energy in his body and felt refreshed. Then he stopped meditating.
He ducked out of space.
Luo Xuan, who was lying on the floor, slept until about 4:30 in the morning, but when he saw Ji Xuyuan, who was originally sleeping on the bed, he got up early.
I started sitting cross-legged in the yard alone, practicing my luck.
"Old man, you don't even call me when you practice?"
Luo Xuan followed him into the courtyard in the dark, smiled and said to Ji Xuyuan, "You are probably practicing some profound Taoist secrets, and you are reluctant to let me share the pie, right?"
Ji Xuyuan smiled slightly, "What's the matter? The internal strength you are practicing now is actually practiced by Cheng Mao.
In fact, there is no distinction between high and low skills. As long as you practice it with enough concentration and precision, you can still understand the great way and achieve the right results.
It’s just that your foundation is still shallow and the true energy in your body has not been gathered yet, so some methods of condensing energy and shaping are not suitable for practice yet.”
"Condensing Qi into a sword, killing people invisible? Falling leaves and flying flowers can hurt people?"
Luo Xuan approached Ji Xuyuan and said, "Then teach me. This is a home trip. It is a must-have skill for killing people and setting fires! I love learning this, teach me quickly."
Ji Xuyuan smiled and said, "Stop talking nonsense. I saw that you worked hard yesterday and the boy was too sleepy, so I didn't ask you to get up. Now that you are up, just meditate with me for luck."
The two sat quietly in the yard for a while, and soon they heard the sound of production team leader Peng Zhikun ringing the bell, urging everyone to harvest rice.
Ji Xuyuan has to go back to the county town to do some business today, and it is estimated that he will have to travel for many days.
Today, Peng Zhikun arranged for me to go to the courtyard to help dry the rice, so there was no need to go to the rice fields early to work.
The other semi-laborers in the production team, young women, are vying to go to the fields because they can double their work points by joining the harvest team.
Moreover, the production team also takes care of their meals.
Therefore, the members of the production team are eager to harvest rice.
But Luo Xuan didn't want to suffer that kind of pain anymore, so he took the initiative to apply to help dry it.
Sun-drying millet is not tiring, but it is very dry.
Because the more the sun is shining, the more diligently you have to turn the rice, so that the grain can dry faster and the sunbathing can be cleared as soon as possible.
