Don't mess with that dragon

Chapter 53 Planting
Since it is possible to use the unnamed plants in the spider cave to treat the poisonous spider poisoned by Rodney and others, it means that it is possible to use herbal medicine to detoxify and treat the disease. This shows that Austin’s previous TCM treatment method also exists in this world play a certain role.

If it is possible to combine the medicinal properties of various wild plants and herbs known to the orcs, and even taste their medicinal properties, and gather some folk remedies mastered by the orc tribes, sort them out systematically, and re-establish a medical system similar to traditional Chinese medicine, then It will have a great effect on the development of the Dragon Nest Tribe.

However, for the tedious work of re-establishing the alien version of the doctor system from scratch, Austin, who found it troublesome, handed it over to Quick, the fox-faced man who was very interested in it.

This is a very cumbersome and large project. Austin mentioned a few sentences aside, and told Quake a sentence or two of Chinese medicine theories that he had heard by accident in his previous life, and gave him some pointers on how to establish this medical system. .

Blue Young Dragon didn't intend to spend a lot of time building this medical system by himself.

Afterwards, Quick, the fox-faced man, began to visit every orc in the Dragon's Nest tribe, asking them about their experiences with illnesses, such as what herbs they used when their hands and feet were injured. In the previous tribe, there were orcs with stomach cramps. The tribal elders gave them something to eat to get them down, and what kind of herbal medicine was applied to the bite of the prey, and what to eat when they felt headache and chills was easy to heal.

The orcs have been living in the Kava Forest for thousands of years. Some tribes will always discover some strange remedies by chance or necessity. It also needs to be systematically sorted out to really take shape.

There was no rush to establish the medical system. After throwing the task to Quake, Austin led a group of orcs to continue his great cause of farming and land reclamation.

Part of the river and plain had been reclaimed before. Although Rodney's incident later involved Austin's energy, but because the blue young dragon led the team were all elite troops from the Dragon's Nest tribe, the militiamen were responsible for defending the Dragon's Nest tribe. It is also continuing the task of reclaiming the land left by Austin.

When the blue young dragon arrived at the river plain again, the orcs had turned over the [-]-acre field with wooden shovels and sticks, exposing the soil underneath.

But that doesn't mean it's time to start planting. Turning over this large piece of land is just the first step.

The meaning of turning the soil is to loosen the land that has not been changed for thousands of years, so that oxygen can enter. When the kudzu root is planted, it will help the root absorb oxygen, thereby increasing the yield of kudzu root.

The second step is to start leveling the land, leveling the loosened land into a flat land.

This unclaimed field is said to be a plain, but in fact it is one after another. It looks sunken here and raised there. When it rains heavily, the low-lying areas are easily flooded, and the high-lying areas are not easy to store water. The impact is not small.

In fact, the best way is to divide the [-] mu of wasteland land into one piece, the high-lying land forms itself, and the low-lying land forms a piece, like terraced fields. People's work will be much lighter.

But in this way, various detailed plans need to be carried out again. Firstly, these orcs are careless and may not be able to implement these fine segmentation methods well. Secondly, the physical strength of orcs is much better than humans anyway. A little more work isn't a problem either.

So under the command of the blue young dragon, the orcs began to work again in full swing.

Level the high terrain and fill the low terrain with soil.

Although with the hard work of the orcs, and the terrain of this river plain is not too rough, it took dozens of orcs to work together for a whole day to integrate this wasteland wilderness into a piece of twenty acres of level land.

At a glance, the entire wasteland has been completely leveled into a flat land. Although the remaining wooden piles are a little in the way, this piece of wasteland has indeed been preliminarily tidied up.

But this is not the time to plant kudzu.

Due to the influence of the magic tide, the Great Kava Forest is basically hot and rainy for nine months of the year, which is generally similar to the climate of a tropical rainforest.

If kudzu vines are planted directly on this unclaimed flat land, the entire field will be mired in mud in many cases, and the entire field will be soaked by rainwater when the heavy rain comes.

Pueraria generally grows in high mountains and other places with relatively dry land, which means that Pueraria does not like low-lying muddy land irrigated by water. If it is soaked in water for a long time, it may affect the yield of Pueraria.

Therefore, the third step must be continued, which is to form a ridge on this wasteland land.

Ridging can make the kudzu vines on the ridge receive more light, increase photosynthetic efficiency, increase soil permeability, and promote the growth and development of crop roots. At the same time, the most important role is that the plot is convenient for irrigation and drainage, and management is more convenient than flat furrow cultivation .

When it rains heavily, the rainwater will automatically gather towards the furrows and drain the field along the low ground, unlike flat land where a large amount of water is deposited, causing kudzu roots to soak in water and resulting in reduced yields.

Originally, Austin thought that ridging would be the easiest step.

But what he didn't expect was that the orcs of the subordinate family had grass instead of brains in their heads.

When digging the ditch, it tilted after three or two steps, and then two orcs dug together until they overlapped.

Seeing the crooked and unusable ditch at the beginning, Austin almost jumped up in anger.

In the end, the young blue dragon had to use a rope made of rattan to lay out a straight line from head to tail, let the orcs arch in one direction, and make a line mark, so as not to go off the road when raising the ridge.

After a total of three full days of busy work, the preparations for planting kudzu root were finally completed, and the ridges were neatly lined up in an orderly manner.

The last step is to plant kudzu vines.

According to the growth method of kudzu vines, there are cuttings, roots, layers, seeds, etc. In this foreign world, Austin is not so particular now, and directly uses cuttings to cut off the thick kudzu vines and remove the leaves. , Insert it directly on the ridge and pour water on it.

In fact, there are still many points that need to be paid attention to when planting Pueraria vines in the previous life, but Lan Youlong is not the kind of god who never forgets, and he does not pray for the high yield of Pueraria vines transplanted in the wild. It is already a success.

(End of this chapter)