Chapter 149: Farming + Conquest Victory Mode (1)
After having a clear goal, Ning Yuan devoted himself to the construction of the territory.
Every day, he rode between the five cities on a white horse, personally checking the progress of each city's construction.
Building a city was originally a big project, but with the powerful orcs joining, the speed of the Condor Leader's construction of the city suddenly increased.
Although those tall orcs were clumsy, Ning Yuan didn't need them to do any delicate work, only needed them to sell coolies to carry the heaviest stones.
Of course, in return for their efforts, there must be plenty of nutritious food.
Looking at the orcs who were eating more and more, Ning Yuan now finally knew why they couldn't form a large-scale tribe, because they really couldn't feed so many big stomach kings.
Fortunately, the Condor Leader has its back against Lake Victoria, and now there is the Swan Clan, a fishing expert, otherwise it is estimated that it will not be long before the stored grain of the Condor Tribe will be eaten up by these big stomach kings.
October is the harvest season, and since this year has been smooth and rainy, the Condor Leader ushered in a bumper harvest.
Although the fields cultivated by the Condor Leader ushered in a bumper harvest, Ning Yuan issued a very strange order, that is, except for plants with fleshy roots such as radishes and carrots, all other harvested grains were not allowed to be eaten.
Because although this year is a bumper harvest year, due to the limited number of seeds in the Condor Territory, the various types of grain harvested are simply not enough for the more than 200,000 people in the territory to eat, and in order to have a greater bumper harvest in the coming year, Ning Yuan also had to make this decision.
Like carrots, white radish, carrots, carrots and other radish plants, their flowering period is April and May, and the fruiting period is May and June, and people usually eat their tuber rhizomes, so as long as the seeds are cultivated in May and June, the fleshy roots harvested in October can be eaten casually.
Food crops like sweet potatoes and potatoes are not good.
Sweet potatoes and potatoes need their tuber rhizomes to reproduce, so if you want to grow large fields in the coming year, you must keep as many of their tubers as possible.
Although sweet potatoes and potatoes can also be cultivated by cuttings, due to the high environmental requirements of cuttings, the lords of the Condor Territory are still in the exploration stage, so if they want to grow them in a large area, they must use tuber rhizomes to raise seedlings.
Not to mention plants such as rice, wheat, maize, and sorghum, whose seeds are both food and offspring, and if you want to grow these food crops on a large scale, you must preserve their offspring.
As for green vegetables such as cucumbers, tomatoes, winter melons, gourds, etc., their seeds are grown in the fruits.
In order for their seeds to grow to maturity, they must watch their fruits slowly grow old and rot, so in order to obtain a large number of seeds, the people of the Condor Territory can only watch them grow older and older until they rot.
Originally, Ning Yuan also knew nothing about this knowledge, he only knew that seeds could germinate and grow, and the rest was not very clear.
However, when he saw the other player lords exchanging their experiences in planting on the forum, he suddenly realized that he had to learn this knowledge himself, otherwise it would be difficult for the people in the territory to explore and comprehend it by themselves.
To this end, he went through a large number of books and materials.
However, some of the knowledge of planting is too profound, and the requirements for the environment are relatively high, which is impossible to achieve in this ignorant and backward era.
And Ning Yuan couldn't hide in the territory every day to study how to grow crops, so he finally picked a few more practical studies.
Rice, sorghum, wheat, corn, sweet potato, potato, and soybean are the most important food crops in human society, they are not only high-yielding, but also easy to grow, so Ning Yuan's main research is the cultivation and care of these plants.
Originally, only sweet potatoes were found in Ningyuan's territory, a grain crop.
But there are no other food crops in his territory, but it does not mean that other people's territories are not there, so at this time he can reflect the benefits of the war of aggression, although he does not have it, but he can snatch it from some people.
Although Ning Yuan took the initiative to go out and invade a limited number of times, he couldn't stand the people who were robbed by him, and they were all very rich.
Although I don't know if these seeds were also snatched from others, since the things have already arrived, Ning Yuan will not trace the origin of these things.
After gathering these important grain seeds, all Ning Yuan needed to do was to successfully plant them, and then start snowballing, accumulating more and more.
In this era, the land is very fertile, and as long as the seeds are sown in the soil, they will basically take root and sprout, so what Ning Yuan really needs to study is only the seedling knowledge of potatoes and sweet potatoes.
Although Ning Yuan had never planted the land himself, he had seen the potatoes and garlic sprout at home, so it was not difficult for him to master this knowledge.
Of course, the so-called bumper harvest also depends on who it is compared with, compared with those wild lots, Ningyuan is indeed a bumper harvest here, but compared to the territory of other players, he is much inferior here.
Although Ning Yuan could learn how to grow crops, he had never planted them himself before, so compared to those experienced farmers and agricultural experts, the little knowledge he learned was completely insufficient.
Some big guilds and wealthy local tyrant players, for the development of their territory, people directly spent a lot of money to invite agricultural experts and experienced farmers, under the guidance of these professionals, the yield per mu of farmland in their territory is much higher than that here in Ningyuan.
Take wheat as an example, the highest yield per mu here in Ningyuan is more than 500 catties, and those planes with professional guidance, the yield per mu is all 800 catties to 1,000 catties, and one mu of land is several hundred catties less, and the gap is reflected at once.
Ning Yuan had always thought that those so-called experts would be useless after coming to this primeval place, after all, the conditions here were too backward, and some modern things could not be used here at all.
It wasn't until he saw everyone on the forum posting their harvest this year that he realized that he was wrong, and he was very wrong.
Although most of the martial arts of professionals have been abolished without some modern instruments and equipment, some things are valuable experiences that have been summed up by human beings from generation to generation, and these things will never become obsolete and can be applied to various situations.
Take farming as an example, although without instruments and equipment, professionals can no longer scientifically treat seeds, and it is impossible to cultivate seeds with high yield and good resistance.
But they know what kind of seeds are best to plant, how to plant them, and how to care for them so that the crops will grow better.
And Ning Yuan was blind to this, he didn't know what kind of seeds were the best, the spacing of planting and the number of seeds, he also copied the data on some materials, and he couldn't adapt to local conditions at all.
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