"Popular science?" Ms. Cui scratched her head and looked at Li Feng blankly.
Li Feng explained: "I just wanted to talk to you about hybrid breeding."
Cui Shi's eyes suddenly lit up and he said excitedly: "That's it!"
"Lord, why have I tried so many times but never succeeded? I have obviously cultivated them very carefully!"
The corners of Li Feng's eyes twitched, and he sighed: "Do you still remember what I said when I told you about cross-breeding?"
Cui Shi said doubtfully: "Remember, you said that by cultivating similar grain plants with high quality and high yield, you might be able to get grain plants with both high yield and high quality."
Li Feng asked, "So is this how you do it?"
"Yes..." Cui Shi said with certainty, but looking into Li Feng's eyes, his tone became lower and lower.
Cui Shi pondered for a while, then beads of sweat suddenly appeared on his forehead, and he slammed his hands and said, "I understand! It's similar!"
"When I was doing cross-breeding, I just followed their characteristics and didn't even consider whether they were similar!"
“But why can’t different plants be cross-cultured?”
Cui Shi looked at Li Feng with some confusion.
Li Feng nodded first, and then fell silent for a moment. How should I explain the so-called reproductive isolation to you?
After thinking about it, Li Feng decided to explain it using a fixed pattern passed down from ancient times to the present.
Asked rhetorically: "Have you ever noticed that experienced old farmers plant good seeds of the same crop together and plant inferior seeds together? But have you ever seen high-quality seeds and inferior seeds of different crops being planted together?" Are you deliberately distinguishing what’s grown?”
"Huh? Huh!" Cui Shi's eyes suddenly lit up. It was obvious that he liked Li Feng's trick and did not continue to ask further.
Li Feng breathed a sigh of relief. If he went deeper into this, how could he, a half-hearted person, endure it?
Then Li Feng said nonchalantly: "If you are really interested in the principles and rules, maybe you can try to cultivate two different-looking peas."
"For example, cultivate other peas that are the same except for round grains and wrinkled grains, or cultivate other identical peas with tall stems and short stems, and then use round grained tall stems and wrinkled grained short stems, round grained tall stems and wrinkled grains. Tall stems... wait and cultivate, and finally you will see the effect of cultivation."
"But you can do these things slowly in the future. The most important thing now is to cultivate high-quality and high-yielding grain plants, especially our staple grains."
“After getting the results, we must not only have high quality and high yield, but also resist disease and lodging, and even adapt to a harsh enough natural environment.”
"Otherwise, once severe weather occurs, such as drought, strong winds, etc., the fragile plants may disappear in an instant, and ultimately food production will be greatly reduced."
Cui Shi's eyes became brighter and brighter as he listened to Li Feng's teachings. Can agriculture still be played like this?
In their time, all the basis came from the knowledge passed down by their ancestors and the experience passed down by countless people from generation to generation.
It’s not that many things don’t exist, it’s just that everyone has become accustomed to them and doesn’t feel that there is anything special, let alone deliberately pursue the principles and why this is the case.
Because this is inheritance and experience, there is no principle or why.
However, Li Feng's words are equivalent to tearing this layer of logic to pieces, going to delve into the principles and why, and then conducting summary and experiments to finally draw a conclusion.
Such a concept, while shattering Cui Shi's inherent ideas, re-established a new scientific concept of seeking truth from facts and practical inquiry.
Coupled with the large amount of ancestral methods and countless "ordinary" experiences inherited from Cui Shi, even Li Feng was far from predicting how fruitful the results would be.
After discussing the "pea hybrid experiment", Li Feng brought the topic back to the cultivation of staple food plants.
First, he concluded that different species have no future, and then gave Cui Shi a summary of the differences and similarities between wild rice and cultivated rice.
Li Feng had simply seen a video about the difference between the two types of rice when he was bored. Otherwise, he would not be able to explain it now. Cui Shi would have to spend a lot of time to find a large number of wild plants that are similar to cultivated rice and cultivate them. Finally, the real wild rice was screened out.
It is no longer necessary now. Although it is still possible to make the wrong choice, the probability of choosing the right one has been greatly increased, instantly reducing a lot of workload.
Cui Shi was fascinated by what he heard, and even took out a small notebook to write down important contents. This made Li Feng feel inexplicably ashamed.
I'm just a dabbler, and I only know better than you some things that were very high-end in your era, but are almost trashy in our era.
If you really talk about agricultural planting and cultivation, I will be beaten by you!
It's like an expert listening to primary school students' lectures and taking notes carefully. The feeling is overwhelming!
In the end, Li Feng left with smoke coming from his throat. His body was really empty!
Everything related to agriculture in my mind has been told to Cui Shi. What kind of fruits will be produced in the end depends on how well Cui Shi can do it.
After watching Cui Shi's side, Li Feng ran to Tian Hua's place.
When he learned that they were racking their brains to think about how to build cultivators and harvesters, Li Feng expressed strong support, but said he was powerless in terms of theory and had to rely on them to figure it out slowly.
He is not omnipotent. In the age of the information explosion, he must know many well-known things, but if you have not dismantled, disassembled, and assembled the machine in depth, you have no idea what the structure is inside.
Therefore, let the professionals in this group of territories study these things themselves.
Returning to the completed construction of the City Lord's Mansion, Fenglin Village now only has three parts left before being promoted to Maplelin Town: Punishment Mansion, Shangli Palace and the city wall. As long as these are completed, all the conditions for promotion to the township will be completed.
As for the newly built City Lord's Mansion, Li Feng was very satisfied.
Spacious, atmospheric, with a back garden!
Apart from being a bit deserted, there are no other drawbacks.
I drank some water at home to moisten my throat, and then went to the meeting hall to take some of the handed-in matters back to the study, ready to see if there was anything interesting happening in the territory recently.
The study room in the City Lord's Mansion is said to be a study room, but in fact there are very few books. The bookshelves are not even filled with a few shelves. The key is that most of them are newly written.
These are Li Feng's requirements for the many high-end talents in the territory. How can people of your level do it without publishing books?
Not publishing a book would be a huge loss for the entire territory!
Moreover, publishing a book is not only beneficial to the territory, but also to make you show off!
Think about it, when the territory becomes larger and larger in the future, there will be more and more people, and there will be more and more talents, and then education will be established, these books will all be textbooks, and the liberal arts and sciences will be complete. The flowers in those territories will look at them. Will you be moved to tears by the legendary names on the textbook?
If everyone brags to those outstanding juniors who have yet to publish books, bragging that their books have become textbooks for their territories, isn’t this just going to get worse!
For the top talents in this group of territories, Li Feng was so worried that he had even prepared the materials for them to show off in the future.
