Chapter 457 Sky Island Ranch
On May 16th of the third year of Tianxuan, after obtaining Lai Dima's promise, on May 20th, he continued to provide the Yi Village Territory with recruitment coupons that can recruit 99,900 general-level qualified citizens.
Qu Mao reported the news to Su Yan. Su Yan was both happy and worried. The happy thing was that the total number of self-owned population in the territory of Yi Village increased by 99,900. What was worried was that it only took five days and five nights at the end of April and the beginning of May. A total of 102,900 people were recruited and transformed into free citizens, and then these 102,900 people were allocated to 650 old villages to replace the population of the old villages to build new villages.
It seems that it is just a replacement of equal numbers, but in order to encourage old villagers to build new villages, Su Yan still needs to give enough attractive policies, and these policies will basically bring financial burden to the account of Yi Village territory.
It has only been about ten days since Qu Mao once again issued 99,900 self-owned resident recruitment coupons, so Su Yan couldn't help but have a headache.
After being complained by Su Yan, Qu Mao promised Su Yan to provide another 100 excellent-level qualification resident recruitment coupons, which is another 15,000 cheating points.
However, starting from May 1st, he started to use the cheating summoning skills to generate cheating points, and the cheating points generated by the villagers' construction of new villages. Qu Mao's cheating points exceeded 60,000 points, and even if he used up a quarter of them, he would still not be able to let him go. Qu Mao felt heartbroken.
First buy back 100 outstanding resident recruitment coupons, and Qu Mao handed them over to two fifth-tier court guards, who were sent to Yi Dao Su Yan, and Qu Mao himself boarded a A small warship headed towards Sky Island.
The heroes of the territory of Yi Village judged that the total strength of the third batch of invasion fleet landing troops of the Anti-Yi Village Alliance on Jidao Island was only more than 200,000 at most, not even 210,000.
After reporting the news to Sylvia Ocean and her naval heroes, Sylvia Ocean and the navy judged that the third batch of invasion fleets of the Anti-Yi Village Alliance was likely to increase its troops by a large margin, so they sent Almost the entire navy's energy was concentrated on the reef chain to block the troop transport line of the third batch of invasion fleets of the Anti-Yi Village Alliance.
Qu Mao was going to Sky Island. If it wasn't for the current state of war, Sylvia Ocean would really let Qu Mao go by sea, so it was just a symbolic dispatch of a small warship to transport Qu Mao to Sky Island. island.
After landing on the empty island, the three heroes Meng De, Jia Xu, and Lu Buer, the island owner Franklin Jin and the village chief Wang Mao were all waiting for Qu Mao on the civilian pier of the empty island.
As soon as Qu Mao stepped onto the wooden trestle of the civilian dock, he asked, "Franklin, how is the breeding of war horses going?"
Franklin King said: "My lord, all ten mares have conceived foals, and next year we will have ten war horses of our own born.
Of course, there are only a dozen war horses at the beginning, and it may take longer to develop our own self-supply system for war horses. "
Qu Mao nodded, and while walking towards the empty island, he asked: "How is the pasture planting on the empty island? On the Ji Island battlefield, many mounts were injured, resulting in a shortage of cavalry corps."
Franklin King, Meng De and other managers and heroes of Sky Island followed Qu Mao step by step.
The roadside trees on both sides of the road have no sense of disobedience. The entire empty island is already full of greenery, but there are no wild animals. "
Qu Mao looked at Franklin King's waving arms, and the scenery was indeed pleasant, as Franklin King said, so he nodded and said, "Well, it's very good. In just four or five months, the sky island has changed from what it is today. In the past, I thought it would take until the end of this year to form the current landscape."
Meng De said: "My lord, there are already more than 6,000 people on the empty island. During the slack season in the folded space of the different village, all the residents of the whole island will go to the empty island to plant grass according to your whimsical method.
Now on the empty island, except for the ponds, wells, and villages that have been dug out to store water, the coverage rate of pasture planting has reached 90% in other areas.
However, after Mr. Zhao Pan took the cavalry corps to Ji Island to fight, the total number of livestock left on Sky Island was less than 30, so we haven't eaten the pasture we grew ourselves for the time being. "
Qu Maodao: "At the beginning, the pasture was not allowed to be eaten because the horses would uproot the pasture as soon as they ate it. Now the artificial soil is at least half a meter deep, and the pasture root is deep enough. As long as a large number of war horses do not return, they will eat it occasionally. It doesn’t really matter if you eat grass.”
Franklin King waved his hand and said, "My lord, you may not understand enough about the hard work involved. After all, plant ash and soil are a minority, and the pasture on the empty island is mostly made of broken stones dug out of the fish pond dug in Miao Village. There are currently three flaws.
One is the temporary artificial soil made of crushed stones, which has poor water retention. If there is no natural rainfall for many pastures on the empty island, the pastures will be listless if they are not watered for one day, and the pastures will wither if they are not watered for two days. Without water, many pastures will die.
The second is broken stones, even if we have tried our best to break them into fist size or even smaller, but stones are stones after all, even if there is pasture growing on them, it will easily hurt the legs of war horses, including the pastures given to us by the residents of Sky Island. Watering, dare not easily step into the middle of the pasture, especially the pasture on the hillside.
Third, the current growth cycle of pasture grass has not gone through a year of reincarnation, so there are no self-growing seeds. More seeds are replanted by our empty island residents who found that the pasture grass was dead, and replanted the purchased seeds.
The subordinates think that the number of war horses and livestock is not particularly large, and the cost of purchasing forage for feeding is not high, so they want to put the grass on the empty island for a year or two and let them grow naturally for a year or two. "
While inspecting the pasture grass on the empty island along the stone road, Qu Mao said: "Well, since the owner of Franklin Island thinks so, let's let it go for a year or two, and we can continue to plant a batch of seeds in the spring of next year.
From a distance, the Sky Island pasture has taken shape, but at a close distance, the density of pasture growth is still not enough.
Although there are gravels underneath, the pasture has grown to two feet high and can naturally absorb dust in the air. The pasture turns yellow in autumn and the pasture falls down in winter. It can become nutritious soil and has certain water retention properties.
Continue to increase the frequency and amount of pasture seed sowing. Continue to sow pasture seeds on the root system of the existing pasture, and add some artificial fertility, which will speed up this speed.
The artificial soil formed by crushed stones can't improve the fertility at all. You can see that the pasture is so thin that it will be broken if the wind is strong. "
Franklin King nodded quickly.
(end of this chapter)