Chapter 30 Planting and experimentation
On the way back.
Xia Wuqi, sitting on the left side of the carriage, was downcast and unhappy.
On the other side, however, Mr. Mo was happily holding a large bag of seeds and seedlings, and the harvest was full.
Return to Xianyang.
Jun Mo held these seeds and seedlings, and couldn't wait to lock himself in the backyard of the mansion.
Originally, the backyard of the main house was an ornamental garden, but now it has been transformed into a plantation and an animal pen by Mo Jun. And it was listed as a forbidden area, without Mr. Mo's permission, even the servants in the family could not enter.
no way.
Although the possibility of being discovered is not high, if some anomalies in it are discovered, it will always be a troublesome matter.
The plantation and the animal enclosure are separated by a fence.
The animal pen is currently mainly used to raise the young of some livestock and poultry, such as chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep.
Although Mo Jun in his previous life conducted in-depth research on the topic of "Disease Prevention and Treatment of Native Black Pigs", it is a pity that the results of this research are not very meaningful at present.
Because not only local black pigs, almost all livestock and poultry have not been able to achieve large-scale breeding.
Ordinary people can't afford meat, and nobles don't care about the death of one or two livestock.
So at present, Mo Jun raises these livestock and poultry mainly to satisfy his appetite.
Therefore, besides castrating the piglets for the animals in the animal pen, Mo Jun also occasionally feeds some 1% concentration of [Water of Life] to prevent them from dying.
After that, when they are older, they will change places and throw them to the servants to take care of them, and basically don't care about the rest.
In the plantation, the main crops grown today are grains, which are the current staple food:
Hemp, millet, millet, wheat, beans.
However, these crops are not for satisfying one's appetite, but for experimentation.
The problem of food shortage has been a big problem in the Central Plains since ancient times.
This point has not been resolved even after two thousand years. In fact, the Central Plains of later generations still have to rely on food imported from abroad every year to meet the daily needs of the domestic people.
At the moment, this 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 small. Now that all the common people in the Central Plains are added up, it is estimated that the total number will not exceed 20 million.
However, most of the food now is concentrated in the hands of the small group of people at the top.
And trying to get food out of the hands of these people is simply as difficult as reaching the sky. Even if they were all killed 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, what kills the most is never natural disasters, but man-made disasters.
So in order to solve the food problem, only the last two options are left.
Either find a new staple food, but whether it is potatoes or sweet potatoes, these are still too far away from Mo Jun.
Either increase the current food production.
obviously.
Mr. Mo chose the second option.
All the staple foods, vegetables and fruits promoted by later generations are basically the products of several generations of improved varieties.
Because most of the original varieties of staple foods and vegetables and fruits may taste better, but the yield is too low, and the fruit set is often small, which is not conducive to large-scale planting at all.
In the current era, the yield of grain is even more outrageous.
In an ordinary ear of rice, one-third of the fruit inside can be shriveled, and the other two-thirds of the fruit are much smaller than the rice of later generations.
Reasons for this result:
One is the issue of land fertility.
The second is the gap between genetic varieties.
It is not difficult to improve most of the first and second generation of agricultural plants. As long as more experiments and comparisons are done, the desired results will be obtained sooner or later.
It just takes a long time.
The plantation that Mo Jun created now is to help him complete this experiment.
As for his purpose of doing this is also very pure, there is no great ideal, it is purely for meritorious service and reward.
Ever since he rescued Xiong Da on the battlefield, Mo Jun knew that he was not suitable for the environment of the frontal battlefield, not because of other things, but because he was afraid of death.
If he dies before enjoying life well, then Mo Jun feels that he is at a big loss.
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A total of three cultivated lands have been reclaimed in the plantation.
It only takes less than a piece of arable land to grow the experimental crops. Now what Mo Jun has to do is to plant all the 'medicine seeds' he got from Master Yaogui.
However, before planting, Mo Jun must first soak these seeds and seedlings with 10% concentration of [Water of Life].
This can enhance the vitality of the seeds and make them grow stronger.
"This is······"
Suddenly, Mo Jun's eyes froze, and he sensed something was wrong.
"This part of the seeds absorb life energy very quickly. I remember that these seeds seem to be... the seeds of panacea!"
Mr. Mo knows that life like elixir and strange beasts exist in this world. The more representative elixir that appeared in the original book is undoubtedly the "Jade Blood Jade Leaf Flower".
There are more different beasts, whether it is Baifeng's white phoenix, Chilian's super-large Chilian king snake, or the mysterious tiger that appeared during the test of the Guigu faction... they can all be included in this list.
In the beginning, Mr. Mo did not think of buying the seeds of the elixir, but at the moment he spoke to Master Yaogui, he suddenly thought of the existence of the elixir, so he just mentioned it.
Originally, Mr. Mo thought that the elixir of this world is just that the properties and functions of the medicine are far beyond ordinary medicinal materials, but now it seems that the effect of these so-called "elixir" may be even more strange 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 opened and broke half of it, but after thinking about it, I simply put a whole piece in.
With new life energy supplements, the absorption efficiency of the 'elixir seeds' in the jar instantly increased again, and as the energy absorbed increased, the vitality contained in these seeds became more abundant.
Twenty-three seeds of elixir.
After absorbing two and a half pieces of [Life Crystal (Fragment)] from Mo Jun, it finally stabilized.
"Good guy, one hundred ordinary seeds can only consume one [Life Crystal], and you can drain one with ten seeds, and the consumption has directly doubled by ten times."
The corners of Mo Jun’s mouth twitched, he suddenly realized that he was just farming, and the [Life Crystal] consumed was much more than his own cultivation.
It took nearly an hour.
After planting all the seeds one by one, Mo Jun took out a black powder from his personal warehouse.
【Weathered powder】
Originally, Mr. Mo thought that these things left over from the decomposition of the human body were pure waste, and even once thought of throwing these things away.
But just three days ago, he realized he was dead wrong.
These decomposed residues may seem ordinary, but they actually contain a lot of microorganisms and trace elements. Using it to cultivate the land can not only supplement nutrients for plants, but also the microorganisms contained in it can subtly improve the geology and enhance the fertility of the land.
This thing is simply the most perfect fertilizer in the world.
One unit [weathering powder] is one kilogram.
When fertilizing common crops, a piece of land only needs ten kilograms, and a thin layer is enough.
But when fertilizing those elixir seeds, considering the special nature of these seeds, Mo Jun specially increased the fertility and used three times the amount.
Finish fertilizing.
Mr. Mo finally took out another dark green octagonal crystal from his personal warehouse.
【Inferior Element Crystal (Wood)】
This is also a new discovery that Mo Jun planted experimental crops some time ago. By decomposing the plants, he can harvest the crystals of the plant's energy essence.
And this plant energy essence can help other plants grow faster.
In fact, the energy of [Life Crystal] can also do this, but the consumption is too large, and the main function of Life Crystal is to supplement the source of life and accelerate the growth of plants, which is not suitable.
By contrast.
This [subordinate element crystallization (wood)] is not only more effective in accelerating plant growth.
More importantly, this thing is much cheaper than [Life Crystal (Fragment)].
As long as Mo Jun finds a big tree and disassembles it casually, he can easily get at least ten or more [lower element crystals (wood)].
After many experiments.
Mr. Mo finally discovered that the "growth liquid" prepared by mixing 10% [Life Crystal] with 90% [Inferior Element Crystal] has the best effect on watering ordinary crops.
As for watering the seeds of the elixir, because of its particularity, after several attempts, Mr. Mo finally controlled the ratio of [Life Crystal] to [Inferior Element Crystal] at 5:5.
While Mo Jun was concentrating on planting new crops, his life calmed down again.
In a blink of an eye.
Another half month is fleeting...
(end of this chapter)