Chapter 142 Autumn Harvest
Autumn harvest is the busiest time of the year for the people in the agricultural area.
These crops are soaked in sunlight and nutrients at the most suitable time and temperature for two seasons.
Green seedlings sprout from the soft soil, soaked in light and moisture at a stable and suitable temperature, and stretch their branches and leaves. They shake their green leaves in the wind and rain and bloom light flowers.
The crops that finally produce the fullest fruits.
They convert the light from the sky into energy that can be used by organisms and provide it to other organisms.
Producers.
The mature wheat ears with a little gold covering in brown sway in the air, and the full wheat ears hang down. When the wind blows, you can see the golden wheat waves floating, and the needle-like awns are as thin as the breath of nature, swinging greatly in the breeze.
The rice fields are interspersed with some slightly yellow-green, layer by layer, which are their slender branches and leaves, which have not yet turned yellow, but retain a little green. The rice ears have already turned brown and yellow, and they are ripe.
The dense cotton fields are in full bloom, revealing their snow-white fruits, entangled like snowballs falling on the ground, one ball merging with another. The green sugarcane forests reveal slender leaves. These mature green sugarcanes have sweet juice and plant fibers under their green and slightly black skin.
No matter who looks at it, this will be a bumper harvest.
"Remember, those plants with particularly large seeds must be collected separately. If you find any special plants, you can bring them here separately."
Chongshan is making the final mobilization and sternly declares that these people should not be sneaky.
"If an agricultural group finds good seeds, they will be rewarded. It is not allowed to rob or steal the seeds and plants of other agricultural groups. The discoverer will cancel all the selections this year. If the person lives in a house, he will be downgraded back to a wooden house."
The fields responsible for each agricultural group are divided by dirt roads, and such a large field is allocated to a separate agricultural group.
The selection of plants. Modern high-yield plants are obtained after countless generations of hybridization and selection. Although the seeds obtained from the system are not the original version of seeds, the yield of rice and wheat when they first grew in nature cannot be compared with the continuous improvement of seedlings selected by humans later.
Here I would like to mention that if the seeds are purchased from the system, the system will slightly adjust the local environment to enhance their regional adaptability.
The drought resistance will be enhanced in arid areas, low temperature improvements will be made in low temperature areas, and salt-alkali resistance improvements will be made in saline-alkali areas.
At least it can be successfully planted.
In order to prevent this group of people from having a total crop failure in the first year, even so, it has seen people who can only plant 30% of the theoretical output value of crops.
Then it can't help.
When facing some lords with special terrains - undead and volcanoes, and even underground lords, no matter how they improve the seeds, it is useless. The system will open a special seed bank for them, such as various mushrooms.
As for how they determine which crop is a good variety, the modern method is the oldest and most stable method.
Plant, plant the seeds, plant them in multiple acres of land, plant them with a control group, and control the temperature, water and light.
Using the scientific exhaustive method, they can lock in the plant they need, and it will take them decades to do this.
And... there is also an elf lady who specializes in (theoretically) botany in the territory.
The elf lady, who has not rested for a few days, was pulled to the autumn harvest site to check the seeds. The elf lady also pulled the goddess of life priest to work together to reduce her work pressure. They have a special lineage of spells that can check seeds and plants, a high-level spell.
Because the priests of the Goddess of Life only stay in prosperous territories, teach local people planting techniques, and provide wound treatment services at a stable price, the church of the Goddess of Life is quite popular in various city-states and has a good reputation.
In a sense, the churches inherit a lot of knowledge, but people in this world regard it as part of the miracle.
This is a compulsory course for every priest of the Goddess of Life.
Therefore, the proof of territory safety they issue is also the most convincing.
However, Ji Lin's territory has experts who are responsible for agricultural planting, such as Chongshan, who has the talent of agricultural experts, and Li Erlang, an old farmer. Now he is doing the agricultural planting and management of the territory and summarizing the experience. Chongshan's tasks are too heavy, and he has never touched the ground all day.
He has never consulted the priest of the Goddess of Life. He does not rely on outsiders for things that his own people can do.
However, there is no one in the territory who specializes in plant spells. Not to mention spells, people who have awakened the potential of source energy, which is a prerequisite for spellcasting, are rare in the territory (5/1000). These untrained people can't even cast an orthodox spell.
He hired two botanical experts temporarily at a price of 10 gold a day. His territory can still afford this money!
What does 10 gold a day mean... Hiring these two people for a day will cost the resources of a house.
This is still a friendly price after the discount, which is still a bargain... After all, in this world, it is not cheap to let spellcasters work for the city.
There are many spellcasters who only accept monthly payments and ask for 600 gold a month. Their skills may not even be as sophisticated as those of the two in Ji Lin's territory, a wandering elf and a high-level priest. Other lords can only bite the bullet and pay out one-third of their territory's monthly output value to hire these spellcasters to serve their territories.
Not everyone is as comfortable as Ji Lin. The output value has crossed the 3,000 gold mark and started to rush towards 4,000. At this time, most people are still wavering between 1,000 and 2,000, barely surviving.
The output value does not mean that he can get so much money every month. A considerable part of it is the food consumed by the people in the territory on a daily basis, the consumption of tools, etc., deducting these self-production and self-sales, as well as foreign trade... The remaining part is the budget part of the income to the city hall.
However, his financial situation can still be described as wealthy.
As Ji Lin picked up the newly produced iron sharp sickle in the territory and cut the first bunch of rice, this was the first time for the territory to officially plant crops on a large scale and collect them on a large scale. This bunch of rice will be preserved as a commemoration.
The autumn harvest began.