The land in front of me is covered with tender green grass and saplings that have just broken through the ground and are no longer calf-high.
This is exactly what Yang Cheng wants.
Because planting millet requires choosing soil with good soil permeability, deep soil, good drainage, and rich organic matter for planting.
"Witch, is this here?" Hongya asked.
"Yes, it's right here. I plan to plant millet here." Yang Cheng nodded.
"Oh, Wu, it's okay to plant here. People usually don't come here, but Wu's place is a bit big. How big of a place do we want?"
Hongfang asked again.
Yang Cheng pointed to the place in front of him, drew a big circle and said, "Use them all."
"Use them all?"
Hongya's eyes widened: "Witch, using such a big place? Isn't this too big?"
"Is this place big? Why don't I think it's big at all?"
Yang Cheng shook his head and smiled.
Hongya waved his hands in circles and said, "Wu, isn't this big enough? This, this..."
He gestured for a long time without thinking of what gestures to use, and finally remembered something and said: "The open space in front of me is as big as two Flame Peng birds."
A flaming bird is about the size of a football field, covering an area of about ten acres.
Two Flame Peng Birds are as big as two football fields, covering an area of about twenty acres.
Twenty acres of land, calculated in terms of length and width, is 200 meters long and 156 meters wide. It occupies a huge space in the Qingque tribe, almost one-fifth!
Such a large occupancy rate.
No wonder Hongya was shocked when she heard that Yang Cheng wanted to use one-fifth of the land to grow millet!
"Is it big? It's really not that big!"
Yang Cheng smiled and shook his head again.
If twenty acres of land were placed in a primitive society, it would indeed occupy a large area and be an extremely huge agricultural project that would surprise primitive people.
But for Yang Cheng, who traveled from the earth or from a country that has been a farming civilization since ancient times.
Twenty acres of land, that's almost as much land as a few households in the countryside put together, and it's not worth envying at all.
Of course, if anyone has twenty acres of land now, it is still worthy of a little envy.
"Hongya, these fields are really not big. I'm worried about whether we can finish planting all the millet."
Yang Cheng smiled at Hongya again and said, "Okay, don't be surprised. Get ready. Let's start clearing this land."
Hongya and the totem warriors he brought with him, seeing the smile on Yang Cheng's face and his calm attitude towards opening up such a large piece of land, all murmured in their hearts, could it be that Wu had seen bigger land before?
Yes, after staying with Wu for so long, I have forgotten that he is not an original member of our Qingque tribe. He is most likely from a super large tribe.
It is not impossible for super large tribes to cultivate larger arable land.
Therefore, Hongya no longer bothered about Yang Cheng's plan to reclaim a large area of land, and asked: "Wu, tell me, what should we do?"
If you want to plant millet on the land, you naturally need to pull out the grass and branches on it and then cultivate it.
"You first pull out the grass on this land..."
Yang Cheng felt something was wrong halfway through speaking.
Just as Hongya was surprised, the land in front of her covered an area of twenty acres. When spring came, tender grass and saplings had already grown on it. Although primitive people were strong and physically strong, they could not put the twenty acres in front of them. It will take a lot of time to deal with all the weeds in the land.
Moreover, the Qingque tribe has said that although there are many totem warriors and high levels, the number of people and tribesmen is only so large, and there is not enough manpower. It is probably because removing weeds delays the time of farming, so it relies on the efficiency of people to pull weeds. too slow.
If the weeds are not pulled out, after the millet is planted, the nutrients in the soil will be divided and cannot be absorbed by the millet. Then very few millet will grow, so what should we do now?
Yang Cheng began to think.
After hearing Yang Cheng stop talking in the middle of his words, Hong Yazheng was still a little puzzled and was about to ask Yang Cheng why he didn't continue talking.
However, when he looked up, he saw that Yang Cheng was deep in thought, so he hurriedly shut up and did not ask any questions.
Hongya is not worried about Yang Cheng getting into trouble and being unable to think clearly.
Yang Cheng thinks like this not once or twice, but every time he can give the best solution.
Hongya has confidence in Yang Cheng!
Sure enough, after waiting for a few minutes, Yang Cheng suddenly slapped his head and shook his head in a funny way: "Oh, that's true, why do you think so much? I'm in a primitive society, so of course I have to use primitive society's methods to solve it!"
"Wu, are you done thinking?" Hongya asked.
Yang Cheng nodded and asked with a smile: "Hongya, where did I just talk to you?"
Hongya replied: "Witch, you asked us to pull out the grass on this land..."
"There's no need to pull it out now. You go to the Living Department to get some burning firewood..."
Yang Cheng suddenly thought of something again and waved his hand: "No, I'm a witch. Forget it, you don't have to go get firewood. Go dig a trench around the edge of the place I painted."
Yang Cheng's orders changed again and again, leaving Hongya and the others confused.
Hongya asked confusedly: "Witch, what on earth are you going to do?"
"Haha, what else can I do? Of course it's to cultivate the fields. I plan to do slash-and-burn farming directly, so I don't have to bother you with pulling weeds." Yang Cheng laughed.
“Slash and burn?”
Why are people always unable to understand what Wu said?
Hongya and several totem warriors beside him thought in frustration.
Slash-and-burn farming is the most primitive agricultural management method. It is a primitive farming system. First, stone axes and later iron axes are used to cut down dead roots and stems of trees on the ground. The grass and trees are dried in the sun and burned with fire.
The advantage of this is that the burned land becomes soft and there is no need to plow the land. The surface vegetation ash is used as fertilizer, and there is no need to apply more fertilizer after sowing.
But the disadvantages are also very obvious. This planting method is extensive and the yield per mu is only about 50 kilograms. It is commonly known as "plant on a slope and reap a lollipop".
Naturally, Yang Cheng would not carry out such a primitive planting method.
He is a time traveler from the Celestial Dynasty. Although he has little farming experience, he has never farmed before, so he will naturally improve such primitive planting methods.
The current slash-and-burn cultivation is just to burn all the weeds on this grassland and increase the fertility of the land. It will not be left alone.
"Well, I can't explain it clearly to you. Just listen to what I say and do it. Just go over there and dig a few trenches. Pay attention to the trenches being deep and wide. They should be filled with soil, grass and branches. Don't you even want to know about the leaves?" Yang Cheng said.
"Okay, Wu."
Hongya and the others were obedient and went to the edge of the land designated by Yang Cheng to start processing.
