Chapter 1907 Gretel: The Research Direction Has Been Chosen and Let’s Get Started! (Ask for Monthly Ticket)

All good food is nostalgia.

Poor Gretel, who has traveled through time for decades and still can't forget the taste of his previous life. He grew up in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. Although he also eats pasta every day, he still mainly eats rice.

When I travel to this world, what I eat every day is wheat, wheat, wheat. It mainly focuses on bread, so if you want to eat noodles, you have to make your own, or try your luck to find Italian pasta.

As for if you want to eat a steamed bun or something, that's even more embarrassing, just knead it yourself...

What?

rice?

There is rice in this world. It is said that it came from the far, far away east, which is countless times farther than the orc kingdom. It was also passed along with a few specialties such as tea and silk.

However, it has been said that the Kingdom of Kent is located in the north, and there is not enough light and heat. Although the latitude may be similar to that of the three northeastern provinces, rice cannot be grown at all, let alone tea trees.

If magicians want to make a tooth sacrifice, they must either import it or ask the priests of the Nature Order to cast spells to induce it. Well, it must be, the nature priests still have a way of setting up greenhouses, although they mostly use greenhouses to grow herbs...

This thing cannot be used as a staple food in the Kingdom of Kent!

Grete also understands this truth. If you take other people's project funds, you can certainly get some private goods, but it's not easy to overdo it.

It is not difficult to start a small project team and give it a try. He can even build a greenhouse to grow rice for his own consumption. With his current financial resources, he can more than feed the entire Mage Tower.

However, it is still not possible to focus one's energy on cultivating rice.

Gretel felt his conscience and had no choice but to choose wheat as the target of research among staple foods such as wheat, oats, and corn, as well as supplementary foods such as sweet potatoes and potatoes.

——Feeding people’s stomachs to the maximum extent is the most important thing!

When it comes to research direction, Gretel is even more confused. Unfortunately, the university he attended in his previous life, although it was a 985 comprehensive university, did not have an agricultural college:

There used to be some, before liberation, but later the departments were split up and assigned to the next door. Therefore, even if Gretel listened to lectures, listened to the chats of classmates in the next department, or listened to classmates bragging during the big class, he would not hear a single word.

When it comes to how to increase wheat production - he has only heard about Mr. Yuan's deeds, and he probably knows a few terms: hybridization, selection and breeding. Resistant to pests, diseases, lodging, salt and alkali...

And genetically modified?

Oh, there are also improved irrigation, improved farm tools, improved planting methods, etc... By the way, how far has the Nature Order achieved in this regard...

Gretel could only endure it and read the information bit by bit. The result of the review is that the improvement of agricultural tools has been done very well, at least the Nature Order has iterated to the point where it can no longer be iterated - but promotion is a problem;

For water conservancy and irrigation, they also figured out the most appropriate amount of water supply. However, whether the water conservancy facilities in each manor and noble territory are well constructed and whether the water supply can be supplied as required is another matter.

Water conservancy projects are a big deal! If the landowners don’t do it themselves and the nobles don’t do it themselves, we can’t all rely on the religious orders!

Planting methods, etc., such as how high the ridges should be, what the spacing between ridges should be, planting density, planting depth, when to apply fertilizer, how much fertilizer to apply...

For these things, the Nature Religion has also figured out effective solutions. As a result, in the core area of ​​the religious sect, the wheat grown exactly according to their method can easily produce more than 20% higher yield per mu than the average outside world.

But, still the same problem. Promotion, promotion, promotion again.

I want to promote it on a large scale, and I want every piece of wheat-growing land in the kingdom, every manor in the name of aristocrats and wealthy businessmen, and every yeoman farmer to grow wheat in the most accurate and meticulous way...

Grete thought on his knees and knew that this task would be impossible to complete relying on the Nature Order.

For example, in the entire city of Heartland, there are only five, six, or seven or eight nature priests, and one agricultural technician in each village cannot do this. Not to mention, these nature priests also have to cover the tasks of treatment, research, and maintenance of nature...

"Let the upper echelons of the religious order contact the royal family, and let the royal family find its own way. Integrate the nobles themselves, and find ways to promote it. They want to increase production, so let them find their own people!"

Gretel started writing without thinking. Agricultural technicians, etc., whether they are trained from old farmers, from village leaders, or from aristocratic children who have read a little bit, they must find a way to adapt to local conditions.

Get a group of people out, send them to the Nature Religion for training, and then spread them throughout the country. By the way, it would be best to give the Nature Order another budget and let them train more priests——

The more natural priests there are, the more beneficial it will be to the basic strength of the entire kingdom, right?

After finishing the promotion matters, Grete can then move on to breeding. It is said that the Nature Order has also spent a lot of effort on breeding.

Whether you choose the plumpest ears of wheat and save seeds every year;

Before sowing every year, use flotation to select seeds;

Or use various spells to enhance the strength of the seeds...

The Nature Order has thought of every possible way. The most illegal thing is that the Natural Society has a particularly unreasonable method when engaging in selective breeding:

They can negotiate directly with the crops!

Yes, discuss directly with the crop. Gretel had seen Elder Wood squatting on the edge of the field, pressing his hands on the ground, the power of nature filling the fields, and muttering to himself:

"Grow stronger...grow stronger...don't fall so easily...don't fall when the wind blows..."

"Work harder and get more wheat grains on one ear! It's best to have 40...50 grains!"

"The ears of wheat can absorb more nutrients...and grow stronger...the weight of a single grain of wheat is a bit heavier!"

...In this way, the pastors of the Nature Church have selected and bred wheat that is resistant to lodging, wheat with many grains per plant, and wheat with heavy grains per plant...

Although the genetic characteristics of these wheat are not stable, sometimes they can be inherited, sometimes they cannot be inherited, and the pastors can't figure out why these things cannot be inherited...

However, if the agriculturists in the previous life had this ability to use divine magic to directional growth, directional breeding, etc., they would probably laugh even in their dreams!

“So what else can I do? — select the wheat with the best traits and keep them genetically stable?”

Decided, let’s do this!

Gretel jumped into action. Between his brows and eyes, he was full of energy and gave an order:

"Let the cult bring up the best wheat and the best grains! Then, prepare the manpower. Let's do a genetic test first!"

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The last three days!

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