Daily life in Qin Dynasty

Chapter 30 Planting and Experimentation

On the way back.

Sitting on the left side of the carriage, Xia Wuqi was downcast and unhappy.

However, on the other side, Mo Jun was happily holding a large bag of seeds and seedlings, and the harvest was full.

Back to Xianyang.

Holding these seeds and seedlings, Mo Jun 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 abnormalities in it are discovered, it will always be a troublesome matter.

The plantation is separated from the pen by a fence.

At present, the animal pen is 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 subject of "Disease Prevention and Treatment of Native Black Pigs", unfortunately for now, the results of this research are not very meaningful at present.

Because not only local black pigs, but almost all livestock and poultry at present have not been able to achieve large-scale breeding.

Ordinary people couldn't afford meat, and nobles didn'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, for the animals in the animal pen, except for the castration of the piglets by Mo Jun, the rest of the livestock and poultry are generally fed some 1% concentration of [Water of Life] occasionally to prevent them from dying young.

Afterwards, when they were older, they would change places and leave them to the servants to take care of them, leaving them basically alone.

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.

Even after 2000, this point has not been resolved.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.

Today, however, the problem is even more serious.

Really want to talk.

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 all the common people in the Central Plains are added up, and it is estimated that the total number will not exceed 2000 million.

However, most of the food is now 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 that these people can't do it.

Human nature has been like this since ancient times.

Throughout the ages, it has never been natural disasters that kill the most, 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.

Mo Jun chose the second option.

All the staple foods, vegetables and fruits popularized in later generations are basically the products of several generations of improved varieties.

Because the original varieties of most 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.

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 varieties 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 little long.

And the plantation that Mo Jun created now is to help him complete this experiment.

As for his purpose of doing so is also very pure, there is no great ideal, 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 anything else, but because he was afraid of death.

It's hard to live a new life, and there are cheats.

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 farmlands have been reclaimed in the plantation.

It only takes less than a piece of arable land to grow the experimental crops, and what Mo Jun has to do now is to plant all the 'medicine seeds' he got from Master Yaogui.

But before planting, Mo Jun first needs to soak these seeds and seedlings with 10% [Water of Life].

This can enhance the vitality of the seeds and make them grow stronger.

"This is······"

Suddenly, Mo Jun's eyes narrowed, 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!"

Mo Jun knew that life like elixir and strange beasts existed in this world. The representative elixir that appeared in the original book was undoubtedly the "Jade Blood Jade Leaf Flower".

And there are more strange beasts, whether it is Baifeng's white phoenix, Chilian's super-large Chilian king snake, or the mysterious tiger that appeared during the Guigu faction's test... they can all be included in this list.

In the beginning, Mo Jun didn't actually think of buying the seeds of the elixir, but 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 was just that the properties and functions of the medicine were far beyond ordinary medicinal materials, but now it seems that the effect of these so-called 'elixir' may be even more bizarre 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, I opened it and broke it in half, but after thinking about it, I simply put the whole piece in.

With the new supply of life energy, 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.

23 seeds of elixir.

After absorbing a total of two and a half pieces of [Life Crystal (Fragment)] from Mo Jun, it finally stabilized.

"Good guy, it takes a hundred ordinary seeds to use up one piece of [Life Crystal], but ten of your seeds can drain one piece, and the consumption has directly increased by ten times."

The corner 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 another 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 about throwing these things away.

But just three days ago, he realized he was dead wrong.

These decomposed residues may seem ordinary, but actually contain a large number 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 of [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 particularity of these seeds, Mo Jun specially increased the fertility and used three times the amount.

Finish fertilizing.

Finally, Mo Jun took out a dark green octagonal crystal from his personal warehouse.

[Inferior elemental crystallization (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 great, and the main function of Life Crystal is to supplement the source of life and accelerate the growth of plants, which is somewhat inconsistent.

In contrast.

This [lower element crystallization (wood)] is not only more effective in accelerating plant growth.

More importantly, this thing is much cheaper than [life crystallization (fragment)].

As long as Mo Jun finds a big tree and disassembles it casually, he can easily get at least ten pieces of [lower element crystal (wood)].

After many experiments.

Mo Jun finally discovered that the "growth spirit 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, Mo Jun 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 flies by...

(End of this chapter)