Kai Fu Han

Chapter 548 Ears of Wheat
"With this island chain to ensure logistics, even if we are hostile to Zhao in the future, the fleet cannot go south along the mainland to supply supplies, but can also go south along the island chain to supply supplies." The colonel's staff drew two arcs on the map. Wire.

One is a route along the mainland coast.

One is the route along the island chain.

"And the most important thing is that with this island chain, the East China Sea is equivalent to the inland sea of ​​our Xinghan League." Liu Xinqi added.

The first island chain and the second island chain, which made the mainland disgusting in later generations, now have the opportunity, they must be firmly in their own hands.

Supplies and the like were all excuses, Liu Xinqi just wanted to occupy them first.

Liu Xinyuan looked at the island chain that had gone around a long way and didn't understand why it had to go so far. However, seeing that Liu Xinqi and his staff had a decisive attitude, he didn't ask any more questions.

"In this case, it will take half a year just to 'build roads'."

"Don't worry, I will give you until the end of the year to board the north shore of Liuqiu Island." Liu Xinqi replied.

"This time is quite generous. Allow me to let the soldiers of the Fourth Brigade rest for half a month, so that the soldiers close to home can take turns to go back to visit relatives." Liu Xinyuan requested.

"Okay, I'll allow you to rest for a month, and let the soldiers from far away go home to see them. You can't favor one over the other." In this era, transportation is particularly underdeveloped. The furthest distance between soldiers of the Fourth Field Brigade and their homes is more than a thousand miles. Just traveling back and forth for a month is not enough.

Therefore, the one-month rest and recuperation holiday given by Liu Xinqi is to allow soldiers who are far away to go home and have a look. Those who are too far away can only take a leave to wander around Penglai.

"Then I will thank the leader on behalf of the soldiers." Liu Xinyuan stood up and performed a military salute.

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On April 23, Liu Xinqi was invited to a farm in the south of the city.

"This farm is directly under the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. It is mainly used to research high-yield, disease-resistant and pest-resistant crop seeds, and to predict the total grain output in the territory through standard planting." Zhang You from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries introduced .

The wheat in the field is growing very well and is fully mature. The ears of wheat are much smaller than those seen by Liu Xinqi's later generations. There are not as many wheat grains on the wheat ears as those of later generations. Compared with the previous Liujiapu period in Qizhou, it has already grown. Much better.

"It looks like it's growing well. It's not affected by the locust plague?" Liu Xinqi asked.

"Penglai has basically not been affected by the locust plague. This year's locust plague has been controlled in the Jiaoshui basin." Zhang You replied.

Picking off a wheat ear: "Look, this is the latest improved wheat variety this year. A wheat ear can grow up to 28 grains of wheat. If fertilization is in place, the wheat grains will be full, and the yield can exceed half of ordinary wheat varieties. "

Liu Xinqi carefully inspected the wheat ears and found that the wheat grains on the wheat ears were divided into four rows, with seven wheat grains in each row. Overall, they were shorter than the wheat ears of later generations.

Put the ears of wheat in a pinch between your hands, and the ripe wheat grains are easily rubbed off, making them plump.

"Ordinary farmers can't do this, right?" Liu Xinqi asked.

In this wheat field, there are very few weeds visible to the naked eye, and the wheat plants are arranged neatly, ensuring good ventilation for the wheat plants.

"It can't be done. Just fertilize. It's impossible for ordinary people to have so much farmyard fertilizer at home." Zhang You replied.

The chemical industry has not developed, and fertilizer is a big problem.

Guano can only be collected on islands, and most of the islands are south of the Yangtze River.

"Minister, can we start?" A neatly dressed official came over and asked.

There are no patches on this official's clothes, and they are relatively clean. They are much better than ordinary farmers. However, looking at the exposed skin and the calluses on his palms, you can tell that this is an official who does practical things.

"let's start!"

After receiving the order, the officials went down to take command.A large group of people came from a distance, distributed in various fields under the command of officials, and began to harvest wheat.

The movements are very careful, and the harvested wheat plants are also very neat.

Half of the people are harvesting, and the other half are making various records.

"These are control fields, managed in different ways. Some have good conditions, some have poor conditions, and some have the same conditions as ordinary farmers. These data are very useful for research." Zhang You introduced.

"I understand." Liu Xinqi has also done a lot of research and knows that all research results are obtained from a large amount of data, without exception.

"Through these comparison fields, we can estimate the total amount of grain that our Xinghan League should have harvested this year. Finally, after comparing it with the actual grain harvest, we can know the extent of the impact of the locust plague." Zhang Youdao.

"Di Ting already has preliminary data. The situation west of Jiaoshui is more severe, but the harvest is not dead. There should still be [-] to [-]% of the harvest. However, the situation outside the borders of the Xinghan League is miserable. It is estimated that only [-]% of the Damingfu Road occupied this year will remain, while in Hebei Many places on the West Road have already stopped harvesting." Liu Xin said.

"Then food prices will definitely skyrocket this year."

"Yeah, I don't know how many people will starve to death."

This year has been a year of many disasters, with natural and man-made disasters coming together, which ultimately only hurt the people of Hebei.

Soon, more than a dozen fields were harvested.

Simple manual threshing machinery was rolled over, threshed on site, and then weighed.

"The field with the highest yield has a yield of 620 kilograms per mu." An official came forward to report.

"Exceeded expectations." Zhang You said pleasantly.

When the two were chatting before, Zhang Youyou introduced that the institute's estimated maximum yield this year was 550 pounds per mu.

"This is not the limit. If we continue to improve wheat seeds and research more efficient fertilizers, we can have an output of more than [-] kilograms per mu." Liu Xinqi encouraged.

"I don't dare to expect as much as one thousand kilograms. It would be great to double the yield per mu." Zhang You replied. He was cautious and did not brag about Haikou.

At present, the yield of ordinary water-irrigated wheat fields is between [-] and [-] catties. If it is doubled, the maximum yield is [-] catties.

A goal of one pound is considered ambitious.

But he didn't know that the yield of super hybrid rice in later generations has reached [-] kilograms per mu.

The yield per mu of wheat is less, but it can reach up to [-] kilograms.

"Take your time and work steadily." Liu Xinqi encouraged.

After a while, the yields of other control fields were also counted.

The control field with the lowest yield, using ordinary wheat seeds, no fertilizer, no watering, only weeding, yielded only [-] kilograms.

The yield of a wheat field under normal standard care reached 450 kilograms.

"In other words, if new wheat seeds are popularized, ordinary farmers can also grow a yield of 450 kilograms in irrigated fields?" Liu Xinqi exclaimed.

"Yes, even if it is a dry field, if you are more diligent, you can still achieve a yield of three hundred kilograms." Zhang You replied.

"Okay, okay!" Liu Xinqi clapped and praised.

(End of this chapter)