Don't mess with that dragon

Chapter 54

Looking at the large field in front of him that had just been reclaimed and planted with rattan cuttings, Austin felt a sense of satisfaction in his heart. He started from scratch and overcame many difficulties to save this foundation.

Soon, this foundation will usher in a new era.

As long as the planting can be successful, it will basically solve the food problem of the orcs, and only then can the population of the family members under the blue young dragon expand rapidly and form a huge force.

Originally, the orcs didn't know why Austin opened up this piece of land. They just obeyed the command because of the unique prestige of the blue young dragon. Later, the blue young dragon said that after completing this matter, it would be able to solve the food problem of the orcs. Although the orcs were enthusiastic Even though it was ignited, I still feel inexplicable as to why the blue young dragon did it.

Until now, seeing that Austin has done so much, putting rattan cuttings into the ridge, the smarter orcs have already guessed what Austin wants to do.

The Great Kava Forest is not completely closed. During the cold winter, a large number of orcs will always emerge from the border of the forest to attack the iron defense line set up by humans, and enter the border to plunder human food.

The orcs also know a thing or two about why humans can survive without hunting in the forest, that is, humans know how to farm.

In the words of Austin's previous life, farming allowed humans to feed most of the population with limited land.

In the past, the orcs in the Great Kava Forest had tried planting.

However, their planting methods are very rough, such as directly sprinkle the seeds of rice on the grass, and as a result, the seeds of the rice are either directly eaten by birds and mice, or barely escape to germinate, but all the nutrients are competed by the lush grass , only one or two thin grain seedlings are left to grow, blossom and bear fruit, and the output in the end is not as good as the original seeds.

The same goes for planting other grains. The orcs have no concept of tidying up the land in their minds, and they just find a piece of land in the wild to throw seeds without looking at the environment. In this way, the output is not as good as the input. The orcs had no idea of ​​farming.

Of course, in this vast and endless Kava forest, anything can happen, there may be exceptions, maybe some tribes just found the right land to plant the right crops, and they can get a lot of harvest every year, but this probability It will never be too big. Compared with the countless tribes in the entire Kava Forest, such lucky people are simply one in a million.

Without the relevant farming knowledge, coupled with the simple mind of the orcs themselves, the natural development of planting agriculture will not produce any results.

It is precisely because of this that after seeing what Austin did and understanding his purpose, the orcs were both surprised and vaguely full of great expectations.

Because even a simple-minded orc can see the difference between Austin's farming method and the bold farming of other tribal orcs.

Perhaps, His Royal Highness Blue Dragon can succeed.

No, His Highness Austin will definitely succeed!
Various experiences and various political brainwashing have made all orcs absolutely convinced of Austin.

Then the development of things did not exceed the expectations of the orcs.

After the cuttings were completed, God still gave me face, it rained a few times, and in the next two days, the kudzu vines in the soil had sprouted, and on the whole yellow land, dots of green were against each other, which seemed extraordinarily lively .

And this also surprised the blue young dragon. You must know that if you put it in the previous life, no matter how fast the cuttings grow, it is impossible to grow shoots in just two days, but maybe it is a different relationship in the world. Different species, different species.

In short, on the third day after the kudzu vine cuttings were cut, the vines did grow buds.

The vines are sprouting, which bodes well for Austin's farming career.

It's just that after that, until the new vines produced by the buds are enough to climb the branches, basically there is no need to manage them.

Next, Austin did not let the orcs relax, but found another plain and began to cut down trees to open up wasteland.

Austin did not continue to open up wasteland on the previous plain fields, because he was afraid of cutting down trees in groups, which would easily cause soil erosion in a world with abundant rainfall.

Therefore, in order not to be so troublesome, Austin started to open up another piece of land about [-] meters away from the original first piece of wasteland.

Although the first field hadn't been harvested yet, the budding kudzu vines made all the orcs involved in the land reclamation work feel excited and started to work on the land reclamation in full swing.

With the experience of the first field, the work efficiency of the orcs has been significantly accelerated.

With tacit cooperation, the trees were cut down and dragged away, the weeds on the ground were pulled up, and they were piled on the remaining wooden piles and burned, and the remaining wood ash was piled up together, and then used as fertilizer for the foundation of the ridge .

Then use papaya to turn over the hard soil layer on the ground with a wooden shovel, level the land, make ridges, and then cut.

Austin no longer needs to teach the wasteland reclamation work of the second field. Except for occasionally coming over to check on the progress and give pointers to the orcs, they basically leave it to the orcs to arrange the work themselves. It won't be any worse.

While some orcs were rushing to open up the second field, Austin led a group of orcs to travel all over the blue dragon's territory within a radius of ten miles.

Except for the spider cave that has not been fully explored, the blue young dragon has not found any other places where extraordinary monsters gather.

Of course, Austin's main purpose is not to find places like spider caves, but to find places where wild rice grows.

Although kudzu root was selected as the first plant to open up wasteland, it does not mean that Austin will not grow other grains.

There were various reasons before that Lan Youlong gave up his plan to plant wild rice in the first piece of wasteland, but he did not completely give up planting wild rice as a food.

After all, if planting agriculture can succeed in the future, the yield of cereals will be much better than kudzu.

To be on the safe side, and in line with the growth habits of rice, Austin decided to plant these cereal plants directly in the rice growing area.

After three days of exploration, under the leadership of the orcs, Austin discovered more than a dozen low-lying ponds growing wild rice.

Lan Xiaolong decided to choose the three ponds closest to Longchao Village as the experimental field.

Of course, compared to the complicated procedures of cultivating seedlings and seedlings in the previous life, Austin's planting methods are much simpler and cruder.

He directly asked the orcs to pull out the weeds in the pond, and after turning over the mud, he directly planted wild rice.

Perhaps in the future when wild rice is planted on a large scale, the means of raising seedlings from the previous life will be used, but now it is only used as an experimental field to record the growth habits of wild rice.

At least a year had passed by the time the first opened up land became mature enough to plant these wild rice.

Sow the seeds directly, bury them in the mud, and make sure that they will not be picked up by birds. The experimental field of wild rice is ready, and it is only waiting for the seedlings to mature and harvest in the future.

(End of this chapter)