Agriculture Idol

Chapter 38 It's better to go home and sell sweet potatoes ([-])
"I have eaten a more famous new variety of sweet potato before, called Anna sweet potato." Li Chengxin quickly changed the topic related to his parents, "The taste is very different. Anna sweet potato also has a honey-like sweetness that spreads in the mouth. But it is a sticky variety; and the Hongdongyu sweet potato is a soft variety. Your silk sweet seems to be neither of the two."

"Xinwa'er, what are you talking about?" Brother Xiaoyong had the word "confused" written all over his face.

"Those are all new varieties of sweet potatoes that have become popular recently!" Li Chengxin explained.

Tian Ji smiled and said nothing, but everyone could feel that there was a lot of appreciation for Li Chengxin in this smile.

[Oh my god, I seem to see the kind of eyes that are appreciated by the boss in the seven 80s young and Dangerous movies]

【Before you spoke my heart out】

[This big boss Tian Ji is so imposing, this house is trembling]

"The name 'Silk Sweet' is derived from the silky texture of my sweet potato. It is a variety grafted from spring gold potatoes with high sweetness and red Ya potatoes with soft flesh. So it is indeed a new, relatively sweet potato. Difficult to define type of breed."

"Hey, Brother Tian, ​​you told me all the varieties you grafted. This... we are broadcasting live, can it be broadcast?"

"Of course there is no problem. All the research materials of my species are reported to the Bureau of Agriculture, and their information is also open to the farmers. If anyone really wants to plant, they can go to the Bureau of Agriculture to find information and graft and cultivate themselves. But in fact, even if they know It must be grown, the most convenient way is to buy my sweet potatoes."

【I think others probably wouldn’t dare to grow it even if they knew about it...】

[Is it the kind where you take someone to smash your house if you dare to plant it? 】

【Don't say it's unpredictable~】

"It's the first time I've heard of the disclosure of agricultural science materials, but I found something different again!" Brother Xiaoyong squatted beside the field ridge, fiddled with the soil that Tian Ji pulled out of the sweet potato just now, "in the soil It looks like there are white particles."

"It's true, so what are these white particles? They don't look like fertilizer." Li Chengxin picked up a few white particles in the soil and put them in his hands to observe, squeezed them, and found they were quite hard.

"That's coral." Tian Ji replied.

"What?"

"coral?"

"It's coral. The coral fossil debris sold on the market is a special fertilizer."

"Hey! It's the first time I heard that coral can be used as fertilizer. Can it be degraded?" Li Chengxin felt that his oceanographic knowledge was not enough.

"When dry corals accumulated on the seabed in ancient times, they turned into fossils after more than 5 years of sedimentation. As the terrain changed and the seafloor rose, these coral fossils became ready to be mined. These coral fossils have Impurities, it contains about 70 kinds of minerals - it is said that the minerals of coral fossils are like health supplements to sweet potatoes. After the sweet potatoes are absorbed, they will become vibrant, so that they can absorb more Soil nutrients make the sweet potato very sweet. And it is said that these minerals contain a lot of metal elements, so they will reflect far-infrared rays and easily conduct heat. The external heat is reflected by the metallic minerals, which will heat the sweet potatoes inside and outside, so when baking Afterwards, it’s going to be incredibly delicious.”

Tian Ji explained a lot of knowledge about coral fossils eloquently, but everyone didn't know how to respond.

[The words about metal elements are black technology...]

【unclear feeling】

[I don’t know much about agriculture, so I dare not comment. Is there a big boss who can talk about it? 】

【Emmmm, minke, how do you want to say it】

"Uh, alright, let's move on to the harvest!" Li Chengxin made a successful rescue.

Harvesting sweet potatoes is extremely easy. Needless to say, Tian Ji has easily pulled out a large sweet potato just now, which already shows that the soil here is very soft.

But at this time, Li Chengxin had seen different agricultural machinery placed beside the fields before, and they were the main force for harvesting sweet potatoes in large quantities.

First, the vines that grew out of the ground were harvested with special machinery, and the vines and sweet potato leaves were already packed when they came out from the back of the machine.

Sweet potato vines and leaves are piled up in small packages, and the workers behind the farm machinery pick up these small packages and pile them into rectangular baskets.

Tian Ji introduced: "These sweet potato vines and sweet potato leaves are considered agricultural by-products, but my 'Silk Sweet' plants still pay more attention to the roots of sweet potatoes. There is nothing special about the vines and leaves, and compared with sweet potatoes that eat leaves, the yield is lower. It is also pitifully small, and some poultry and livestock farms will buy it. The main purpose of cutting off the vines and leaves is just to prevent its transmission part from being entangled by the vines when the sweet potato excavator enters the field later. .”

After the vines were harvested, the field workers drove the vine harvesting baler to the side of the road and replaced it with another machine, which was the sweet potato excavator mentioned by Tian Ji.

Under the leadership of Tian Ji, Li Chengxin and Brother Xiaoyong sat at both ends of the machine, and Tian Ji operated behind the machine.I saw that the front part of the machine picked up the soil from the ridge and the sweet potatoes inside, and transported them to the conveyor belt, and then shook off the soil on the sweet potatoes on the conveyor belt. Remove the remaining vines and roots on the top, and you can put the sweet potatoes in the box beside you.

It took only 2 minutes for the machine to start, and Li Chengxin and Li Chengxin each filled a box, each weighing about 30 kilograms.

After Li Chengxin and the others experienced the harvesting process, the small workers present took their place and started working with higher efficiency.

"Brother Tian, ​​these machines of yours are so powerful! Where did you buy them?" Li Chengxin's eyes sparkled with little stars.

"Haha," Tian Ji laughed boldly, "We assemble these machines ourselves. If this kind of thing is custom-made by a machinery company, it may cost hundreds of thousands or millions. We disassembled a few of them ourselves. I made old farm machinery and the like myself."

[Black technology! 】

【Brilliant! 】

【Minko is much better than I imagined】

【It has to be said that this farmer has attended an agricultural school】

"This is too powerful!" Brother Xiaoyong was a little unbelievable.

Tian Jidao: "I have seen your video, and I also think the mortise and tenon joints made by Xiaoyong are incredible. In the words of the ancients, it is 'hands-on familiarity'. When I was young, I liked to ride motorcycles. , and modified motorcycles by myself, and later in the agricultural school, I always saw all kinds of strange agricultural machines, so gradually I can make these things by myself.”

【Business mutual blow】

【True motorcycle for tractor】

"Speaking of which, Brother Tian, ​​the people you hired are all very young, not even an old man. We learned from other live broadcasts that the average age of the agricultural labor market is very high now." Li Chengxin Keep asking questions.

"Hehe, don't make fun of me. They were all gangsters with me in the past. Now some of them work with me in the fields, and some of them sell roasted sweet potatoes in the store..."

[The one in front who said that the punk sells sweet potatoes, come out! 】

[I am convinced...]

[Agriculture department mafia boss! 】

"...We can harvest more than 30 tons of sweet potatoes every day, but they can't be shipped to sell immediately." Tian Ji put his hands on his hips, his upper body leaned back a little, and in the eyes of Li Chengxin and Li Chengxin, the more he looked, the more he looked like a big boss style.

Following the small truck transporting sweet potatoes, Li Chengxin, Brother Xiaoyong, and Zhou Hao, who was carrying the live broadcast equipment, came to two huge warehouses. The exterior of the 6-meter-high warehouse is painted dark blue, exposing the neat white bricks at the bottom.The gate is almost 4 meters high, and the camera glows red under the eaves.

"Wow! This warehouse is too grand. If you don't tell me, I thought it was some kind of electronic component manufacturing factory!"

"Hehe, this is indeed the warehouse where my family puts sweet potatoes. There are about 1000 tons of sweet potatoes in the storage now."

Tian Ji unlocked the coded door, and the warehouse door slowly opened, leading into a corridor with several metal doors on both sides.

Tian Ji led a few people into the innermost iron gate, and saw that the room inside the gate was full of baskets full of sweet potatoes harvested before.

"A lot of sweet potatoes!"

In the corner of the room, a pipe spewed out mist.

"What is this?" Li Chengxin pointed to the pipe and asked, "Is it water vapor? It feels so humid."

"That's steam at 32 degrees Celsius. The harvested sweet potatoes must be steamed once in this way, which will make the sweet potatoes softer."

Tian Ji went to test the temperature of the steam.

"Is it that soft taste?"

"Yes, the sweet potatoes that have just been harvested will be very hard due to their high starch content. At this time, steam them with 32 degrees of steam to let the water and the starch in the sweet potatoes fuse to make the sweet potatoes soft, just like rice after cooking It will be soft."

After visiting this room, Tian Ji took the two of them into an adjacent room.

"After continuously steaming for 90 hours, the sweet potatoes have to be cooled. This is the cooling room."

"It's very cool this time, even a little cold." Li Chengxin shivered.

"What's the temperature here?" Brother Xiaoyong asked, crossing his arms.

"About 5 degrees." Tian Ji looked at the meter on the wall of the room and replied, "This is also a step to stimulate the sweet potato. When experiencing cold, the sweet potato will decompose the starch in the body into sugar in order to prolong its life and protect itself. It is a sweeter sweet potato. After harvesting, it takes about a month before it is shipped across the country for sale.”

"This is really Spartan education!" Li Chengxin exclaimed.

[I'm convinced, there are so many post-processing steps to grow a sweet potato, so even if there are seedlings of this variety, it's meaningless! 】

【Minke Minke, Society】

"But the time is almost up, let's start cooking the sweet potatoes!" Brother Xiaoyong said, "I feel like the sweet potatoes I ate just now have been digested."

[How can sweet potatoes be eaten besides roasting? 】

【etc?I just ate two roasted sweet potatoes, and you guys still want to cook? 】

[Pretty mom, hubby, buy me another sweet potato! 】

"So, now we know that Tian Ji's sweet potatoes are characterized by sweetness and softness. Let's see how Tian Ji brings out the sweet taste of silk." Li Chengxin nodded in agreement with Xiao Yong's suggestion.

(End of this chapter)