Wolf King

The yield per mu is about 1600-1800 jin of alfalfa, and the total yield (fresh pasture) harvested is about 280 million jin.If such a tonnage of forage has modern processing equipment, even a small forage straw processing factory only needs a few workers to work for a few days; but in a different world where there are no chicken feathers, this " The troubles of happiness" are really troubles - all the staff go to battle to dry, bundle, and stack, as long as the land around the tribe can be set down, they are all piled with pasture, and the open space in the tribe where people can walk is also full of pasture; Within a few days, almost everyone could smell the fragrance of alfalfa in their dreams, and every nightmare was in the shape of alfalfa...

It’s not that grassland residents haven’t seen so much pasture. Each tribe actually prepares more forage than this amount during the winter. There are many—who the hell is rushing to complete the whole process of harvesting, drying, bundling and storing within ten days like this time!

Just like this, the cub Ayun kept urging and talking too slowly and wasting time all day long. If there was no excuse to beat him, the patriarch would really want to beat him!

Finally finished the work of alfalfa storage, and when they were driven to build water trucks, dig water canals and dig ponds, the clansmen with hoes lined up silently and walked to the front, while Ayun behind him wrung his fingers and muttered that he couldn’t understand, Anyone who can understand it will be horrified by just listening to it:

"26 first-level labor force, 23 second-level labor force, seven third-level labor force..."

"One-level plus two-level water conservancy repairs, it is barely enough to rush to finish the farmland water conservancy, but the river project is a bit overhanging..."

"No, no, we can't expect that there will be no water this summer and autumn. In any case, the river on the north bank has to be artificially reinforced..."

"It doesn't work if you don't recruit people to get some salt..."

"Wanniao Wanniao's next working hours don't seem to be enough no matter how you arrange them. Do you want to open more night shifts..."

Hong Ye, who was walking in front of Xiao Yun, stopped suddenly, bumped Xiao Yun with her back muscles as hard as iron, and turned her head stiffly: "Ah Yun, how much do you want us to do?"

Xiao Yun rubbed his nose, and pushed Hongye forward: "You are wrong, Hongye, it's not how many things I want to find for you, but how much preparation we can do before the peak of the flood. No matter what we do now No matter how much sweat you sweat, as long as you can avoid flooding the farmland and let the floods drive you around, it's worth it, right?"

Yu in front couldn't help turning his head: "Our tribe has lived in this area for many years, have you never heard that the place where we live will be flooded?"

"Isn't that natural? The location of your tribe is the upper reaches of this river. If the upper reaches flooded you, then the place where we are standing now should be the country of Ze. There are watery swamps everywhere. There's no place for people to stand."

Xiao Yun raised his hand and pointed to the northwest: "Didn't you realize when you were doing activities near this river that the water of this river is relatively shallow near the upper north side, and the river surface is not wide, about ten meters But over there, near the exit of the underground world, the water surface of the river suddenly doubles in width, and the bottom of the river is invisible at the deepest point, what does this mean?"

The soldiers on patrol usually don't care about this when they have nothing to do. They couldn't figure out what Ayun was trying to say, so they all turned their heads and looked at him blankly.

"It shows that the water source of the tributary of this river of the earth does not only come from the river of the earth. After the tributary bypasses the area to the northwest, there is another source of water flow." Xiao Yun said, "Last year we went to fetch stones near the underground world. At that time, I found that the water level of the upstream and downstream of the river was not right. Although I couldn't follow the past to see which stream of water was added, the increased water source made the downstream part of the river more turbulent and the volume of water increased. Bigger, there's no doubt about that."

"That is to say, our downstream location is twice as likely to be flooded as the upstream location of Mao Mao's tribe." Xiao Yun looked at the clansmen, "So, do you still think that the water conservancy of the river is dispensable? ?”

"..." Hongye and the others were expressionless. Although they couldn't understand, Ayun seemed to make sense.

Yu: "...Wait, who is Mao Mao?"

Xiao Yun pretended not to hear, but still said solemnly: "On our grassland, we have heard a lot of tragic things about which tribe's grassland was flooded, and which tribe's cattle and sheep were washed away by the flood. In the final analysis, it was the two big rivers on our grassland. There are countless tributaries, but none of them have a stable river course. It’s okay when the water volume is low, and the river water will only flow along the low-lying places, but when there is a flood, the river course can be diverted wherever it wants? "

"So if you want to live and work in peace and contentment, and which land you want to have long-term stability, you can't ignore river water conservancy. For example, building artificial lakes, digging artificial rivers to divert river water, building artificial dams on both sides of the river to block water, etc. , domesticate the galloping river from an uncontrollable beast into an obedient domestic animal, let him flow wherever he flows, then there will be no more flood disasters.”

Although there are some incomprehensible words in what he said, everyone can understand the general meaning. The main reason is that he used the word "domestication" so that the snow werewolf can understand it more intuitively, so it includes Including the newcomer Yu and the lazy and thoughtful Dahe, everyone's mood became complicated again—although they had had enough of the hard days of sunrise and sunset, but they felt that Ayun was really very happy. It makes sense, that is, he should suffer more and do more work to achieve his goal. What is going on? !

...Well, for everyone's benefit, everyone works overtime and overtime. This kind of boss is not uncommon for everyone.

The adult snow werewolves dig a row of water storage ponds in the lower part of the vegetable field and above the swamp. The terrain is relatively low, and they can store water in droughts, and drain the water into the swamps in times of floods; For the remaining part of the canal, the excavated soil and rocks are transported to the river bank by the way; farmland water conservancy is repaired during the day, and at night, the soil dug out during the day is used, water is added, reeds are stepped on, and the mud bricks are thrown out, and the embankment is artificially built in advance. bricks.

Rabbit cats... Adults make waterwheels and are busy in the tribe, including raising cattle and sheep, cleaning sheepfolds, managing newborn lambs, cooking food and other daily tasks, and cubs work hard to process wool products for commercial activities in autumn...

After the farmland water conservancy was basically completed, Xiao Yun drove the adult snow werewolves of the first-level labor force to repair the river embankment, and the cubs of the second-level labor force "returned" to agriculture: wheat has entered the heading and flowering period, and it needs to be topdressed and watered to ensure soil moisture; The seeds left in the vegetable field can be harvested. After the seeds are harvested, they need to be plowed, basal fertilizer applied, and re-sowed. In the case of insufficient manpower, Xiao Yun thinks it is enough to plant two or three crops of vegetables every year to ensure the supply of the tribe. , continuously planted, and there is no place to sell the planted.

The endless supply of manure provided by the cattle and sheep raised, the inexhaustible humus layer in the outskirts of the jungle, the animal bones obtained from searching the lairs of predatory beasts everywhere, the fertile black mud fermented in the swamp for an unknown number of years... …These natural fertilizers are no problem to use, they only need to be fermented one month in advance (extended to more than three months when the temperature is low).

When the wheat is mature (spring wheat has a short growth period, the planting period is around daytime, and winter wheat only needs more than 200 days), the weather on the grassland has also come to the hottest time of the year... well, this heat is only relatively speaking, Judging from the fact that Sal still needs to cover his belly to sleep at night, the highest temperature in a day is about [-] degrees, and the temperature will drop to about [-] degrees at night.

Because the over-tired clansmen have developed the resting technique of falling asleep wherever they fall, Xiao Yun directly chose a corner of the square in the middle of the clan and laid wicker and grass mats to make the group of people too hot to live in the house at night. Snow werewolves spend the night.But when the wheat is harvested, the relatively flat square will not be used for sleeping, and it must be used to dry the wheat.

Xiao Yun ran towards the wheat field when he had time since the wheat entered the earing stage. Now that the ears of wheat are full, the stalks are turning yellow, and the harvest is approaching, Xiao Yun runs more frequently in the wheat field. Charcoal for recording.

After many days of observation, he found that the relationship between the number of tillers and the number of spikes seems to be a bit metaphysical... He thought that the batch that grew vigorously and had more than [-] tillers only had three to five wheat on average. The spikes were almost the same as the ones he thought were of average growth and about [-] tillers.

As for those with fewer tillers, the average number of hanging ears is one to two, which is a bit hurtful...

"I took it too much for granted before. Looking at the situation, thirty tillers can be regarded as a prosperous growth. We should use more snacks when deep cultivating."

Gently squeezed the wheat ears that were a bit prickly with his hands, and the decent grainy feel gave him some comfort, but... he picked up a wheat ear at random, kneaded the husk, and counted the grains. Xiao Yun felt the pain again. When it comes to blows—the number of grains per ear is actually only more than 30 grains? !Is it poisonous?Shouldn't there be about fifty grains per ear of wheat? !

The patriarch who accompanied Xiao Yun was originally looking at the wheat field excitedly, but Ayun suddenly changed his face, causing the patriarch to lean back in fright.

"By the way, it's a matter of variety." Xiao Yun raised his hand and squeezed the center of his eyebrows, and found a reason not to explode all of a sudden, "The wheat seeds on the earth can produce an average of fifty ears of wheat. No matter how awesome the Tauren is, they are, after all, a counterfeit Minke Yuan Longping, so the requirements cannot be so high."

One has to look ahead in everything one does. Xiao Yun doesn’t have much time and energy to be angry anyway, so he has to spend as much energy as possible on thinking about countermeasures: “... In this case, next year we must focus on effective tillers that can produce ears. The goal is that more spikes can also offset the disadvantage of fewer spikes. Hmm... Anyway, if you are idle in winter, you can also open an experimental field for winter wheat and try to breed frost-resistant wheat seeds. Whether it works or not, try it out. If you have a goal, you will get nothing if you don’t try.”

After writing down what he thought of, Xiao Yun returned to his normal expression and continued to observe the wheat field.

The patriarch who watched him quietly change his face without saying a word: "??"

Ah Yun is such a weirdo!

If it hits a rainy day during the wheat harvest, it is tantamount to bad luck. Fortunately, the rainy season on the grassland is mostly after midsummer. At this time, it will rain every now and then. It is better to choose a sunny day to harvest. Not too sad.

60 yuan field, about 600 mu of wheat, all the staff completed the harvesting work in two days - thanks to the exercise when harvesting 1800 mu of alfalfa in one go, everyone has become skilled workers, and the efficiency has been greatly improved.

The work of picking up wheat ears in the wheat field was handed over to the mantle cub and Sal (yes, the cat paws of the mantle cub would have to be borrowed for later use), and the others all participated in the wheat threshing work.

There is no thresher, but Xiao Yun has seen a traditional wooden pedal thresher in the countryside, but he is as busy as a spinning top and has no time to think about it, so the wheat threshing work can only use more primitive... …hand beating and flail threshing.

The harvested wheat was spread out on the square in the tribe, and the powerful adult snow werewolves grabbed the bundles of straw and beat them on the stone to thresh them. If they were weak, they would swing the wooden flail and beat it... Well, this flail Not only the weapons of the paladins in Diablo 3, but also the primitive threshing tools used by farming peoples. Two wooden sticks of different lengths are tied at both ends with rattan grass. People hold the long stick and swing the shorter stick It is tapped on the stalks laid on the ground, and the mature grains will fall from the ears during the tapping process.

When the wheat straw is removed, the knocked wheat grains have to face the wind with their backs to "lift the wheat"...Use a long stick tied to a shovel-shaped wooden tool to raise the wheat and let the wind blow away the impurities in the wheat grains.

The next thing is to dry it, put it into a straw bucket made of rattan grass and reed poles, and store it in a temporary straw shed warehouse...

Xiao Yun took out a large field of wheat and threshed the wheat separately, roughly calculated the total output, and calculated the yield per mu. The yield per mu is only about [-] catties, which is still unhulled yield - in the modern world, lazy people who have no intention of farming for three days, fishing for three days and drying nets for two days can at least have an yield of more than five hundred catties per mu!They are still planted on barren mountainous land, and they are still the yield after husking!The sweat and tears sprinkled in the wheat fields really fed the huskies!

The promised 100-fold rate of return on wheat!It's too much to cut more than half directly, brother!

The Snow Werewolves & Rabbits wiped the big sweat from their foreheads, and looked at the stacked straw buckets in the five big thatched warehouses with a satisfied smirk on their faces. Their smiles were full of satisfaction... Among them Most people in China have never eaten wheat at all and don't know what it tastes like, but they are happy as long as they know that these are edible foods.

"I ate wheat cakes in the tauren tribe, it was delicious!" The ox horns he had eaten showed off to the tribesmen who hadn't eaten them.

"How delicious?" The cubs bit their fingers curiously.

Niu Jiao thought for a while: "Anyway, it's delicious!" Thumbs up.

The feather on the side: "..."

"Ah~~~~" The happy cubs rushed over and surrounded Xiao Yun who was depressed, "Ayun, Ayun, eat wheat cake!"

Xiao Yun was dangled like a kite by these snow werewolf cubs who were all stronger and stronger than him: "Alright, let's eat, eat, stop, you're going to give me a concussion~~~ ~"

Hmm... In order to avoid being turned into an idiot by the cubs of the same clan, Xiao Yun casually agreed to these guys, but the harvested wheat has not been husked and cannot be eaten.

Ancient western farmers would send wheat to the mill, coarsely grind it into wheat flour with a lot of wheat bran, and then knead it and stuff it in the bread oven to bake it into hard dead dough bread (sometimes adding wood chips or something, it’s just Sao operation) to eat directly; Chinese peasants, Qin Dynasty and before Qin would eat wheat rice... that is, rice cooked with hulled wheat, which is said to be better than dead flour bread, but it is not so strong, it is unpalatable , stuck in the throat; the use of stone mills became popular in the Han Dynasty (tofu was invented during this period), Chinese farmers mainly ate wheat flour, and various pasta cultures have been carried forward to later generations.

Large stone mills cannot be made without processing tools. Small stone mills can be made by heating them with fire, cooling them with cold water, and using the principle of thermal expansion and contraction to make the surface of the stone brittle and then processed into the desired shape. arrive.

Pound out a round rolling stone with a diameter of about 21 centimeters and a thickness of about 22 centimeters. Find a larger stone with a relatively flat side. Four to five centimeters, a width of [-] to [-] centimeters, just enough to put rolling stones in the rectangular groove, the most primitive stone mill is made.

Sprinkle the sun-dried wheat grains into the groove, and a random person will hold the rolling stone and roll it in the groove, and roll it back and forth with the weight of the rolling stone itself, which can achieve the effect of shelling the wheat grains. Wheat milling - Of course, this kind of excessively primitive stone mill is not as good as the serious double-piece stone mill, but it is simple and easy to make~ how can you care so much when you need it urgently.

Use this simple and easy-to-make original rolling stone to grind wheat flour that is not fine and has a lot of wheat bran. After fermentation, use Xiaoyun's yeast to make soy sauce and knead it into a fist-sized dough; spread the dough and wrap it with bone broth Blanched vegetables and radishes and a small amount of meat are made into very careless giant buns, and then steamed in the square steamer used to steam animal bones at that time...

Xiao Yun, who has no energy because of the crops in the wheat field, is too lazy to make more. This giant steamed stuffed bun was made by counting people's heads, and then there was a big problem... only one adult snow werewolf was enough to eat, and after eating, all the members stared at it covetously. Look at Xiao Yun.

"..." Xiao Yun, who just took a bite of the wheat bran bun, neither swallowed it nor spit it out.

After eating less than half of the bun, Qingyan silently divided half of the bun in his hand and handed it to Dahe.

The cubs who had a good relationship with Niujiao gave their buns to Niujiao, and the other three followed suit and shared them with the nearby adult snow werewolves.

The adult male cats saw how the Snow Werewolf was salivating, and even though they were reluctant to part with it, they also gave up their share.

Sal... Sal came to the grassland for so long and it was the first time he ate the food he was used to in the human world, so he reluctantly gave half of it to the patriarch.

The appetites of the snow werewolf cubs were not much worse than those of the adults, and they stuffed whatever they hadn't finished into their mouths with all their might.

The adult snow wolves who didn't share the buns continued to stare at Xiao Yun.

"..." Xiao Yun couldn't help it, and burst out laughing, "Oh my god, I'm really convinced by you, if you still want to eat, go back and help grind the noodles, and steam a lot at night until you can't eat any more! "

"Okay, okay!" Niujiao immediately ran towards the stone mill.

"I'll bring out a bucket of wheat!" Dahe ran towards the warehouse.

"Then I'll wash the vegetables." Hongye also moved.

"I'll help." Yu stood up and followed.

"—When you usually call for work, it would be nice to show half of the energy you have for eating!" Xiao Yun twitched the corner of his mouth, and when the spitting was over, the haze in his heart was swept away.He just doesn't resent the fact that the yield of wheat per mu is not proportional to the expenditure. Xiao Yun is actually quite satisfied with the fact that the tribe can have staple food other than meat... After all, the time and output ratio of meat is worse than the efficiency.

"Forget it, think about the ancient Europeans' wheat yield of only 200 catties per mu, and our wheat with hulls can produce 400 catties, which is considered a winner... Besides, this output is not the upper limit, and we will work hard to increase it to 500 catties next year. There is hope for Chinese farmers—there is no good land for Chinese farmers, otherwise their intensive cultivation would definitely not yield that much.”

In the final analysis, Xiao Yun is big-eyed and dark-hearted. Although the yield of 400 jin per mu is indeed low, he has planted a lot. He harvested more than 20 jin of wheat in one harvest. Can keep until next year.

And there is no need to pay taxes... No one here collects taxes to get the snow werewolves.

Overcoming this problem, Xiao Yun cheered up and continued to think about the task arrangement for this year: the wheat harvesting warehouse that involved his greatest energy and made him dare not leave an inch; planting vegetables and taking care of alfalfa were handed over to someone who had experience once. The people of the tribe, after fermenting and maturing the soil and fertilizer collected before, it is not a big problem to support the next vegetable field and alfalfa topdressing (I didn’t care about the vegetable field and alfalfa topdressing last time...), if the fields are sprinkled with water, the canals will be connected to the snow werewolf pups. The cubs can handle it; the embankment on the north bank of the river bank has also been repaired for a section, and it is not difficult to continue to repair down to the swamp——

"...In the current situation, it shouldn't be a big problem for me to leave temporarily for half a month." Xiao Yun rubbed his chin and looked up at the clear sky.Now is the hottest time of the year, and the temperature in the past few days of harvesting wheat should be around [-] degrees. It would be a waste not to use such good weather.

That night, all the staff enjoyed a feast of wheat food, steamed buns and scones made everyone burp.After the meal, Xiao Yun called the patriarch and eight soldiers to stop him, and proposed his next work arrangement...Take some of the clansmen to go to the seaside to boil salt.

Well, when proposing an unfamiliar project, it is necessary to communicate with the immediate superior first. In the afternoon, Xiao Yun caught the patriarch and babbled for a long time.

"Boil...salt?" Hongye was puzzled when she heard the word, "Isn't the salt gone when you put it in water? How do you cook it?"

"The patriarch went to the seaside when he was young, the sea is salty, right?" Xiao Yun smiled and looked at the patriarch.

"Yes." The patriarch nodded with a deep face. "At that time our tribe was still very powerful, and human caravans were afraid of the Tiger Clan. Please let us send them out of the middle of the grassland to the pier in the inland sea for a boat."

"Sea water is salty because there is salt in sea water." Xiao Yun said confidently, "We just need to find a way to get salt from sea water and bring it back. The salt can also be used to pickle vegetables." He deliberately licked his tongue, "Pickled vegetables are very delicious, the taste is very special, even better than the way we eat them now."

The sound of "grunt" was heard again and again, including the black panther fighter Qingyan and the rabbit mantle fighter Qiu who were listening, everyone swallowed their saliva... Ayun said that delicious food must be delicious, and it is more reliable than horns much.

"Can I follow?" Yu asked eagerly and nervously.

Xiao Yun glanced at him, he believed that Mao Mao was definitely not greedy, but wanted to know how to get salt... For the impoverished Snow Werewolf tribe, it is really a big burden to trade green salt with caravans every year.The caravan only accepts bent-horn cattle in exchange, not sheep. If the tribe's cattle are not enough, it will take a lot of work to exchange long-haired sheep with the cat tribe for cattle at an absolutely disadvantageous exchange ratio.

"Of course." Xiao Yun smiled.There is nothing to hide about unskilled things such as cooking sea salt to get salt. There are so many things here that can make Mao Mao tempted. As long as this soldier can stay smart, Xiao Yun guarantees that this group of compatriots will never escape. the palm of his hand.