Zerg Emperor of the End Times

Chapter 136 Planting Area Construction

Hummer took Wang Jin and the three out of the city gate, and came to the vast wilderness.

Sparse weeds are scattered in the wilderness, and from time to time, survivors in tattered clothes can be seen squatting on the ground, digging wild vegetables with small shovels, or catching flying and jumping insects with small nets.

This is the life of ordinary survivors, running around for food every day. After Wang entered the Zhuli Mountain base, although he had Zerg in his hands, he could not provide enough food for the survivors. Two meals of porridge a day was already the limit.

The food consumed by the 13 survivors every day is astonishing. Wang Jin still has two months of food left by the survivors. If the food provided by the follow-up insect swarm is added, the base can be comforted for three months.

And in three months, the sweet potatoes in Wang Jin's planting area will be harvested. If there are no accidents, the planting area will be able to provide Wang Jin with [-] tons of sweet potatoes, enough to use the base for more than half a year.

Therefore, Wang Jin is very concerned about this planting area. He will inspect the planting area every few days, listen to Zhang Zhouming's opinions, and provide more conditions for this planting area, whether it is manpower or material resources, as long as the planting area needs it. Even Wang Jin would not refuse.

The Hummer drove for a few kilometers, and a large emerald green ocean could be seen in the distance. This was a month-old sweet potato.

Because the sweet potato grows at an amazing speed, the leaves have grown very long in a month, extending more than one meter along the main vine, and the branches are covered with emerald green leaves, which is very attractive to look at.

Under the ground, the sweet potatoes have formed small stems, slowly absorbing nutrients from the land, growing and maturing in only three months.

Seeing Wang Jin's Hummer coming, the soldiers outside the planting area quickly saluted and ran to notify Zhang Zhouming.

Compared with a month ago, the number of soldiers in the planting area has increased greatly, reaching 1000, and the swarm of insects has increased to [-].

Outside the planting area, a two-meter-high barbed wire fence was erected to protect the planting area inside.

With the growth of sweet potatoes and the gathering of a large number of farmers, this planting area also attracted many mutated herbivorous and carnivorous animals.

Herbivores came to eat and destroy sweet potatoes, while carnivores came to attack farmers. For this reason, Wang Jin spent great efforts to surround the barbed wire fence, and sent additional soldiers and insect swarms to protect the sweet potatoes and farmers in the planting area.

Because the host and the swarm were stationed and monitored, the mutated beasts came and went more often, becoming the prey of the swarm, and did not cause any damage to the sweet potatoes.

In addition, the establishment of this barbed wire fence and the deployment of additional soldiers are also to prevent ordinary survivors from coming to steal.

Seeing these sweet potatoes growing, many survivors became greedy and wanted to steal them. Because the planting area was too large, Wang Jin's original troops were not enough to take care of the entire planting area, so he sent more troops.

At first, the survivors could take advantage of Wang Jin's lack of manpower to steal some sweet potatoes. After Wang Jin sent more people, this situation never happened again.

Survivors who dared to steal were all arrested and sent to prison camps for labor reform. Organized thieves were caught and killed, which greatly curbed this unhealthy trend.

Now the entire base knows that the planting area cannot be moved, and whoever dares to steal sweet potatoes will have no good fruit to eat. Either they will be arrested and sent to the prison camp to do the hardest, most tiring and dangerous work, or they will be shot to death by soldiers or bitten to death by swift beasts. No one dares to steal anymore.

Knowing Wang Jin's arrival, Zhang Zhouming, who had been busy in the planting area, ran over quickly and personally led Wang Jin to visit and explain the development of the planting area.

The entire planting area has a total of 5800 mu of land, which is divided into 100 small areas, each with 58 mu of land, and an average of ten farmers work on the small area.

Each small area also has a regional supervisor, who is the staff of the production department, who is responsible for the sweet potato planting in this area and leads the farmers to work on it.

Zhang Zhouming and Du Yuyan will check regularly, and the sweet potatoes in the responsible area will grow well, so the regional supervisor will get more food.

If the sweet potatoes do not grow well, the regional supervisor will be fined and the food will be deducted. If the sweet potatoes are seriously reduced or even withered, they will be resigned from the production department staff. If the situation is particularly serious, they will be held accountable and placed under the criminal law.

Under such a mechanism, each regional director trembles at work, not daring to be careless, for fear of losing the job he has so hard to get.

At the same time, the food rewards also motivated them to devote themselves to taking care of the sweet potatoes and arranging labor for the farmers, so that the whole planting area was thriving, and the growth of sweet potatoes was getting better day by day.

Walking slowly along the field path, Wang Jin could see that a large ditch ten meters wide and three meters deep ran through the planting area. The source of the big ditch was on a river 5 or 6 kilometers away from the planting area, and the water flow came from the river. .

There are also small ditches all over the planting area to provide water for the growth of sweet potatoes. These small ditches extend from this large ditch to ensure a continuous water source for the entire planting area.

It took [-] captive soldiers nearly a month to dig and build the big ditch, which solved the shortage of water in the previous planting area.

Speaking of those soldiers and prisoners, after digging the ditches, the soldiers began to dig fish ponds under Wang Jin's order.

So far, three fish ponds have been completed, and more fish ponds are being excavated and constructed. Each fish pond has a size of ten acres and is filled with water from a large ditch.

At this time, the fish pond was full of fish fry, which were caught by farmers led by Wang Jin. Although the river in the wild is dangerous, there are mutated fish that eat people in the river.

But with Wang Jin's insect swarm escorting them, and most of these seedlings living on the shore, they don't need to go into deep water, so the fishing went smoothly, and enough seedlings were found for the fish pond.

Now it is only time for the fry to grow. According to the estimates of fish breeding experts, it will take about 4 to 5 months based on the growth rate of the mutated fish and the amount of food that can be provided to the fish. Grow up and put on the dining table.

Now there are sweet potatoes and fish ponds in the planting area, but the breeding farm has not yet been built.

The main reason is that there are too few chickens, ducks, pigs and other animals. Wang Jin has ordered the Zerg to catch them in the wild, but it will take some time to raise the number to build a breeding farm.

After roughly leaving the planting area, Wang Jin returned to the center of the planting area when work was over at noon. This is where the farmers rest, where they eat and receive their wages every day.

When Wang Jin came here, the fragrance of vegetables wafted through the air. Wang Jin narrowed his eyes and saw the changes in the meals of the farmers today. In addition to a bowl of porridge for each person, there was also a small dish of fried sweet potatoes. The leaves are edible.

Seeing this scene, Wang Jin's face darkened on the spot, turned his head and glared at Zhang Zhouming, pointed at those fried sweet potato leaves and said with a sullen face: "What's the matter, why did you pick these sweet potato leaves, Zhang Zhouming, don't you want to do it anymore? Bar."

(End of this chapter)