It's not that difficult to open a hospital in another world, right? Chapter 1900 Gretel: The research direction is chosen and let’s get started! (Please
Chapter 1900 Gretel: The research direction is chosen and let’s get started! (Please
Chapter 1907 Gretel: The research direction has been chosen and let’s get started! (Please vote for me)
All good food is nostalgia.
Poor Grete, who has traveled through time for decades, still can't forget the taste of his previous life. He grew up in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. Although he also eats pasta on a daily basis, he still mainly eats rice.
When you travel to this world, what you eat every day is wheat, wheat, wheat. And bread is the main food. If you want to eat noodles, you have to make your own noodles, or try your luck to find pasta.
As for if you want to eat a steamed bun or something, that's even more embarrassing, just knead it yourself...
What?
rice?
There is rice in this world. It is said that it came from the very far away East, which is countless times farther than the Orc Kingdom. Along with it, there are also a few specialties such as tea and silk.
But according to legend, the Kingdom of Kent is located in the north, with insufficient sunlight and insufficient heat. Although the latitude may be similar to that of the three northeastern provinces, rice cannot be grown at all, let alone tea trees.
If magicians want to make a tooth sacrifice, they must either import it or ask the priests of the Nature Order to cast spells to induce birth. Well, it must be the case. The nature priests still have a way of setting up greenhouses, although most of them use greenhouses to grow herbs...
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This thing cannot be used as a staple food in the Kingdom of Kent!
Grete also understands this truth. Although you can get some private goods by taking other people's project funds, it's not easy to overdo it.
It is not difficult to start a small project team and give it a try. He can even build a greenhouse to grow rice for his own consumption. With his current financial resources, he can more than feed the entire Mage Tower.
However, it is still not possible to focus one's energy on cultivating rice.
Grete felt his conscience and had no choice but to choose wheat as the target of research among staple foods such as wheat, oats, and corn, as well as supplementary foods such as sweet potatoes and potatoes.
——Feeding people’s stomachs to the maximum extent is the most important thing!
When it comes to research direction, Gretel is even more confused. Unfortunately, the university he studied in his previous life, although it is a 985 comprehensive university, does not have an agricultural college:
There were still some in the past, before liberation, but later the departments were split up and assigned to the neighboring departments. Therefore, even if Grete listened to lectures, listened to the chats of classmates in the next department, and listened to classmates bragging in big classes, he would not hear anything.
Half a word.
When it comes to how to increase wheat production - he has only heard of Mr. Yuan's deeds, and he probably knows a few terms: hybridization, selection, breeding. Resistance to pests and diseases, resistance to lodging, resistance to salt and alkali...
And genetically modified?
Oh, there are also improved irrigation, improved farm tools, improved planting methods, etc... By the way, how far has the Nature Order achieved in this regard...
Gretel could only endure it and read the information bit by bit. The result was that the improvement of agricultural tools has been done very well, at least the Nature Order has iterated to the point where it can no longer iterate - but promotion is a problem;
For water conservancy and irrigation, they have also figured out the most suitable amount of water supply. However, whether the water conservancy facilities in each manor and each noble territory are well constructed and whether the water supply can be supplied as required is another matter.
Water conservancy projects are a big deal! If the landowners don’t do it themselves and the nobles don’t do it themselves, we can’t just rely on the religious orders!
Planting methods, etc., such as how high the ridges should be, what the spacing between the ridges should be, planting density, planting depth, when to apply fertilizer, how much fertilizer to apply...
For these things, the Natural Cult has also figured out effective solutions. So much so that in the core area of the Cult, the wheat grown exactly according to their methods can easily produce more than 20% more than the average per-acre yield in the outside world.
But, it’s still the same problem. Promotion, promotion, promotion again.
I want to promote it on a large scale, and I want every piece of wheat-growing land in the kingdom, every manor under the name of aristocrats and wealthy businessmen, and every yeoman farmer to grow wheat in the most accurate and meticulous way...
Grete thought on his knees and knew that this task would be impossible to complete relying on the Nature Order.
For example, there are only five, six, or seven or eight nature priests in the entire city of Heartland. One agricultural technician in each village cannot do this. Not to mention, these nature priests also have to cover treatment, research, and maintenance of nature.
task...
"Let the upper echelons of the religious order contact the royal family, and let the royal family find its own way. Integrate the nobles themselves, and find ways to promote it. They want to increase production, so let them find their own people!"
Grete just started writing without thinking. Agricultural technicians and the like, whether they are trained from old farmers, from farmers, or from aristocratic children who have read a little bit, they must find a way to adapt to local conditions.
Get a group of people out, send them to the Natural Religion for training, and then spread them across the country. By the way, it’s best to give the Natural Religion a budget to train more priests——
Naturally, the more priests there are, the more beneficial it will be to the basic strength of the entire kingdom, right?
After finishing the promotion matters, Gretel will continue to look at breeding. As you can tell, the Nature Order has also spent a lot of effort on breeding.
Whether you choose the plumpest wheat ears and save seeds every year;
Before sowing every year, use flotation to select seeds;
Or use various spells to enhance the strength of the seeds...
The Nature Order has thought of all the ways it can think of. The most illegal thing is that the Nature Order engages in selective breeding, and there is a particularly unreasonable method:
They can negotiate directly with the crops!
Yes, discuss it directly with the crops. Gretel once saw Elder Wood squatting on the edge of the field, pressing his hands on the ground, and the power of nature filled the field ridges, muttering to himself:
"Grow stronger...grow stronger...don't fall so easily...don't fall when the wind blows..."
"Work harder, there will be more wheat grains on one ear! It's best to have 40...50 grains!"
"The ears of wheat can absorb more nutrients...and grow stronger...the weight of a single grain of wheat is a bit heavier!"
...In this way, the priests of the Nature Church have selected and bred wheat that is resistant to lodging, wheat that has many grains per plant, and wheat that has heavy grains per plant...
Although the genetic traits of these wheats are not stable, sometimes they can be inherited, sometimes they cannot be inherited, and the pastors are not sure why these things cannot be inherited...
However, if the agriculturists in the previous life had this ability to use divine magic to directional growth, directional breeding, etc., they would probably laugh even in their dreams!
“So what else can I do? — select the wheat with the best traits and keep them genetically stable?”
Decided, let’s do this!
Grete slapped the table and stood up. With a bright look on his face, he gave an order:
"Let the cult bring up the best wheat and the best grains! Then, prepare the manpower. Let's do a genetic test first!"