After ordering Rambo to lead his army to "Linshui City" and start exchanging large banyan trees with the Northern Expeditionary Army, the protagonist in the main nest no longer has an administrative assistant who can take charge of his own role.
Other high-level officials like Gun and Lamborghini are all generals. Although Lamborghini also has administrative ability and experience, he cannot be compared with Lamborghini after all.
The protagonist has to go into battle personally and devote all his energy to the planning and construction of the leader's nest.
In order to solve the tight food supply of the main nest "Qingqiu City" and reduce the possibility of being constrained by other sub-nests, the protagonist must invest a lot of resources to build enough breeding farms and open up farmland.
The breeding farm needs to be built in the middle and upper layers of the underground nest. Although the underground world is theoretically warm in winter and cool in summer, if it is too close to the surface, the insulation and rainproof capabilities may be affected due to the insufficient thickness of the covering soil. Sudden cold waves or heavy rains can cause massive deaths of mealworms and fly maggots. If it is too low, it will affect the supply efficiency of worker ants collecting plant feed on the ground.
At the same time, the breeding farm cannot be too close to the living areas and grain warehouses of ants, otherwise there is a possibility of plague or pollution. After all, there are a large number of mealworms and their feces in an underground closed environment. The smell is not much better, and it is also an important source of pollution.
Livestock and poultry farms in the human world have serious pollution problems:
The first is fecal contamination.
Livestock and poultry breeding will produce a large amount of manure, which contains a large amount of nitrogen, phosphorus and organic pollutants. If livestock and poultry manure is piled randomly, it will easily enter the water system with rainwater. This has caused livestock and poultry manure to become the third largest source of pollution in the human world after industrial pollution and domestic sewage and garbage pollution, and is the main cause of environmental pollution in some rural areas.
Fecal pollution is also the source of the next three types of pollution.
Second is water pollution.
The main pollution caused by livestock and poultry farms to water bodies is organic matter pollution, microbial pollution, and toxic and harmful substance pollution.
If aquaculture sewage is directly discharged into ditches or open waters without harmless treatment, it will easily cause eutrophication of the water body due to the rich nitrogen and phosphorus content in the sewage. High-concentration sewage is discharged into the river, causing continuous deterioration of water quality.
Sewage has a great impact on the production and life of surrounding humans, and even poses a serious threat to drinking water sources. In China's Spring and Autumn Period and before, the Jin Dynasty and the Yin and Shang Dynasties moved their capitals many times. According to research, people had to move away from the old capitals because a large amount of garbage containing human and animal excrement led to environmental degradation and water pollution.
Again, it’s air pollution.
After fermentation, livestock and poultry manure will produce a large amount of harmful gases such as ammonia nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, skatole, and methane. These gases will not only destroy the ecology, but also directly affect human health, causing respiratory diseases such as cough, tracheitis, and bronchitis. It not only threatens the safety of the farm, but also endangers the health of farm employees and surrounding residents.
The biological waste gas emitted by livestock and poultry in farms is even one of the culprits of global warming.
Finally biological contamination.
Feces contains a large number of pathogenic microorganisms and parasite eggs. If not treated in time, mosquitoes and flies will breed, increasing the number of pathogenic species and bacteria in the environment, causing the spread of pathogenic bacteria and parasites, causing the occurrence of zoonotic diseases, and harming humans and animals. healthy. For example, zoonotic diseases such as bird flu, swine flu, hand, foot and mouth disease that have occurred in the human world in the 21st century are not unrelated to the harsh environment caused by pollution from livestock and poultry feces.
The protagonist has learned this lesson before in "Dongyang City". Although the mealworm farm is not close to the water source of the ants and is not prone to water pollution, there is no shortage of other three types of pollution.
In terms of feces, if the ants responsible for raising it do not clean it up in time, it will soon pile up into a mountain. Although mealworm excrement is a small, hard, sandy substance that has no smell at first, once it begins to ferment over time, its smell will be unforgettable.
Fortunately, these feces are also important fertilizers, and the ants will transport them to the farmland in time.
Even so, the smell of the long-running breeding farm is not much better, and the protagonist rarely visits there anymore. That is to say, the worker ants work hard without complaining and will not ask for labor insurance benefits.
But these worker ants will also pay a price for this. The protagonist has noticed that the life span of worker ants in the breeding farm in "Dongyang City" is nearly half shorter than that of workers in other occupations.
The fate of these worker ants is often to suffer from strange illnesses, grow weak and die.
In addition to the poor air environment, the protagonist speculates that these worker ants need to use their large jaws to transport feces, which causes the bacteria in the feces to enter the mouth and eventually become sick.
Fortunately, this germ seems to need oral contact to spread, thus avoiding a major plague within the ants.
The protagonist has ordered that farm worker ants are prohibited from feeding mouth-to-mouth with other ants, and dead farm ants must be thrown into the fire and burned. Thanks to a series of measures, no major epidemic occurred in "Dongyang City".
But the only thing that is difficult to change is the short life of the farm worker ants. Fortunately, the worker ants have no awareness of rights protection. In the human world, the protagonist's farm would have been destroyed by labor unions, police and courts.
The farm can provide a large amount of meat, while the farmland can provide plant food and feed for the farm, make full use of the waste from the farm, and attract insect prey, which is an important production facility.
Compared with breeding farms that require digging underground nests, building farmland sounds simple, but the actual workload is not small at all.
Building farmland requires leveling the land, but ants basically do not have the ability to "move mountains and fill the sea", so they can only try to choose originally flat land to build farmland.
The work of removing rocks and stones is equally arduous, and the ants are unable to do anything about some oversized stones and can only let them go. Small pebbles can be moved away using the power of ants or beetles.
Then you have to clear the original vegetation on the farmland. This is relatively easy to do. Choose dry weather, use a pottery knife or stone knife to clear out a fire break zone in advance, and then light a fire to clear the vegetation.
Human ancestors practiced slash-and-burn farming in the past, and the ashes produced by burning plants are also very good fertilizers.
After planting the seeds, care is also essential. Although watering depends entirely on the weather, the ants also have to constantly patrol to capture pests.
Ants cannot plow deeply, so in order to increase food production, it is necessary to plow the land. The protagonist's method is to scatter a large number of specially searched earthworm eggs on the farmland and let the earthworms do the work. Even though earthworms will consume a lot of the fecal feed originally provided to the plants.
With the full support of "Dongyang City", the mealworm breeding farm and farmland in the main nest "Qingqiu City" were put into operation in half a month.
