While he was nervous, the three people who went out to conduct reconnaissance came back. 【Read the latest chapter】
"How about it?"
"It seems to be a health center." Liu Zheng said, "We will leave right away. The population here is relatively dense."
Ye Mengyan was obviously not willing to go back quietly like this. According to the custom of every special reconnaissance team dispatched, he would not be willing to go back without grabbing something: "Why don't we just capture a prisoner and go back for interrogation?"
"Save it, our mission is exploration, not combat, how can we leave with a prisoner? Besides, the purpose of this time is to explore resources, and the second is to train the team. Didn't you see that some people got down?"
"Tch!!" Zhao Xue rolled her eyes at Liu Zheng.
"How many days will it take to return to the base?" Bai Guoshi was more concerned about Zhao Xue's injury. Just now he had taken the opportunity to do preliminary processing for Zhao Xue.
"About three or four days. I can only walk slowly today. Try to camp as far away from the city as possible, so that I can sleep more soundly at night. Once I'm rested, I'll catch up early tomorrow and try to get home early."
"Wait a minute, please help me collect more mineral and stone samples here. I'll find something good."
All the people had to help him collect various stones on the ground. When they came out, everyone carried seven or eight kilograms of ore on their backs for no reason.
The walk back was relatively safe. On the eleventh day after leaving, the team was approaching Bairen City.
"Password!!!" A shout from the trees beside the road startled Liu Zheng, who was serving as a leading soldier, and jumped, "Lori! Return the order!"
"Sister Royal!" A sentry with a fishing net hanging all over his body and covered with branches and leaves jumped out from the side of the road. Probably because of the lurking sentry, he was holding a steel crossbow. A pistol holster was strapped to his thigh.
"Why haven't I seen you? Which department are you from?" The sentry's eyes were directed at the limping Zhao Xue - modern women in the camp are too rare.
"Department 7911." Liu Zheng reported the number. Departments with code names are confidential units and are referred to by font size externally.
The sentry immediately became solemn: "It turns out to be a confidential unit. It seems that it has traveled far away. The mission was completed well, right?" The sentry probably wanted to get some inside information, so he got close.
"It's okay. How are you doing here?"
"A few days ago, I heard that a beautiful female pirate came to the store." The sentry looked longingly. "I heard that she lives in the store and is entertained with delicious food and drinks."
"Female pirate?" Everyone became interested.
"Pervert." Zhao Xue curled her lips in disdain when she saw the men drooling.
"It is said that there is a unique name, Li Huamei!" The sentry was so excited that he completely forgot about his duties here.
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The team changed their clothes at the outer base, replacing all their outdoor equipment with the training uniforms they wore before going out - this is not noticeable. Liu Zheng disbanded the team and went back to the headquarters first. He still had a bunch of administrative matters to do: writing exploration reports and filling out reimbursement forms for various consumables consumed during the mission. As for everyone else, they also have their own things to do, writing reports, sorting specimens... Of course, taking a bath, eating a hot meal, and having a good sleep are indispensable.
Bai Guoshi sent the plant specimens one by one to the Ministry of Agriculture. Strictly speaking, agriculture and biology are two professions, but they are similar in the eyes of the Executive Committee. Therefore, the farm is now an important base of biology in the 17th century. Not to mention, the only university student majoring in molecular biology in this time and space is farming and cooking with Wu Nanhai here.
As for other people, let’s just say Huang Dashan. He specializes in growing mushrooms, fungus, etc. in the farm, but his best thing is actually cultivating bacteria/viruses in animals. In other words, as long as the executive committee is willing, he can do it. While working, everyone looked at his thick glasses, which were as thick as the bottom of a beer bottle, and felt panicked. No one knew what was in the test tubes and culture vessels that he was tinkering with in his little room, and no one wanted to know - since learning about his unique skills, who had walked there? The houses were all far away.
"Is this a puzzle?" Fa Shilu looked at the specimens he collected in his laboratory, with a look of joy in his eyes, "very useful medicinal materials."
"The Ministry of Health asked for it by name." Bai Guoshi sat down and looked around. The conditions in the biological laboratory are now much better than in the past. The putting into operation of the glass factory has greatly expanded the equipment here - although the newly made glass instruments feel a bit silly, big and dark, they are not in short supply at last.
"Recently, we have done a good job in collecting seedlings and seeds, and the breeding work in the hot farming garden is also progressing very smoothly." Fa Shilu said, "The hot farming conditions in Hainan are quite good, and Lingao is a little worse, but it can still be overcome. .”
"What does Minister Wu think of Re Zuo?"
"He is an amateur at this." A smile appeared on Fa Shilu's dark and fat face. When it comes to professional standards, Fa Shilu is an agronomist. When he signed up to participate, he brought a cart of seeds and a micro germplasm. Resource library - the latter is a scientific research resource that is difficult to obtain. His current title is "Chief Agronomist of the Demonstration Farm."
Fa Shilu continued: "I don't know much about Hot Work, but I know a little bit. But there is information from another time and space, and I probably know what can and cannot be planted in Lingao. This saves a lot of effort."
"Can I grow pepper?" Bai Guoshi had read many half-baked history books and had a deep memory of the huge profits from the spice trade.
"Yes, pepper is very adaptable to Lingao. However, there are two main producing areas of spice crops in Southeast Asia and India, so we have no advantage in competition."
The national scholar felt slightly disappointed.
"Let's go see the farm's hot fields."
The area of the farm has expanded a lot. The newly developed land was turned into paddy fields. The land has been carefully leveled and equipped with permanent farmland hydraulic engineering in accordance with experimental field standards. There are even bamboo fences bordering each field, and there are some wind-driven bird repelling devices scattered around the fields. There are signs erected in the fields with the number, type and person in charge. Bai Guoshi knew that the land was planted with high-quality seeds brought from another time and space - no wonder they were so careful.
The tropical plantations are also closely protected by deep trenches and barbed wire, as well as lookouts. Except for members of the agricultural committee and a few indigenous workers in the farm, who can enter the garden with their certificates, no one else is allowed to enter the garden without permission. The crops here are unique to East Asia. If you want to find them if they are spoiled, you will have to travel halfway around the world.
The coconut, rubber, coffee, cocoa, coca, quinine, poppy and various fruit seedlings planted in the garden a few months ago are growing very well. Some easy-to-live varieties have already sprouted dense branches, blowing in the breeze. It's swaying and looks very pleasant.
"No wonder people say that the farm is a paradise. It's so beautiful." This is Bai Guoshi's first time here, although there are many varieties in this plantation that he personally collected samples and seeds.
"The pineapples you picked are growing well too."
"It's a pity that it's still a small tree. It will take another four or five years to bear fruit."
"If everyone just wants to eat a few pineapple rice, Xuwen across the strait is one of the largest producing areas in China, so it is not uncommon at all." Fashilu is ambitious, "Since we have advanced technology, we should cultivate more improved varieties."
The 5o coconut saplings are growing very well. Bai Guoshi knows that coconuts have many uses, and the executive committee also attaches great importance to them. Coconut is a treasure all over the body, and it is also a relatively stable source of oil in the recent stage.
"The executive committee said that in the future, all greening will be done with coconut trees, which are beautiful and useful. It's just that we have to wait for several years for these coconut trees to bear fruit——"
Bai Guoshi's heart moved, and he thought of pineapple rice - these resources are not only available everywhere, but also indispensable on Hainan Island. While relying on one's own efforts, one can send people to collect them on a large scale. During his exploration journey, he himself saw tracts of wild cash crops more than once, completely neglected and left to fend for themselves.
If you have enough manpower and equipment, you can set up a "resource collection team". If nothing else, it will be very beneficial to enrich the lives of the people. But this matter needs to be coordinated by the executive committee - I need to mention it when I go to report in the evening.
Fa Shilu has been in charge of tropical crops recently. In addition to the hot-cropping seedlings planted shortly after landing on 6, the Agriculture Committee also has quite a lot of other hot-cropping seeds. The water and heat conditions in Lingao were not the best, and it was the Little Ice Age now, so he did not dare to act rashly and sow all the seeds in the seed bank. He checked a lot of information. In another time and space, Lingao Hot crops that have been successfully planted on a large scale are: rubber, pepper, lemongrass, sisal, coffee, cloves, basil, and vetiver. Although several hot crops did not continue later, this was mainly due to market factors. The planting itself was No problem. The real planting failures are oil palm and cashew nuts. Fa Shilu regrets the failure of oil palm. After all, the oil yield rate of this thing is the first in the world. Once it reaches a large scale, it can meet most of the oil and fat needs of the cross-country industry.
"There are so many things to plant, and there is almost everything in the seed bank. I'm afraid that if the seeds are damaged," he sighed, "the losses will be huge."
"There should be more varieties of sisal, jute, etc. I think there will be a huge demand for hemp in the industrial sector." Bai Guoshi expressed his opinion.
Fa Shilu nodded: "It makes sense. But the industrial department itself didn't raise it."
"That's because they can import jute, so there is no sense of urgency. If you ask me, growing sisal is better. It has a high utilization rate. Even the waste residue and juice can be used."
The long fibers in sisal are used as raw materials for making ropes in industry, mining, and shipping. The processed pulp can be used as raw materials for papermaking, alcohol, vinegar, etc. The short fibers produced during the production process can be used to make general daily necessities such as ropes, insoles, and reins, and can also be used as stuffing for furniture. The leaf juice can produce biogas through fermentation, and can also extract sugar and feed dry yeast. The large amount of processed leaf residue is a good feed, and the hemp residue is a high-quality organic fertilizer. ! ~!
