Don't panic, the family boss is busy farming

Chapter 187 On the Feasibility of Hybrid Rice

After a spring rain, the long-prepared spring plowing began vigorously.

Except for the ironworks, all other factories were shut down for half a month, just to allow the spring plowing to proceed smoothly.

This year's farming method is completely different from previous years for the villagers.

The seeds are high-quality grain seeds that Miss San began to screen a month in advance, and the field was sprinkled with plant ash from the charcoal plant and fertilizer specially made from sorghum stalks and other materials before the start of sowing.

Master Wang Dayou's blast furnace worked day and night, producing a curved plow that could be pushed by human hands. Compared with before, the plowing speed was as fast as a fairy casting a spell.

Not to mention the large plows pulled by cattle, donkeys and other livestock, an acre of land can be bulldozed in no time.

Seven hundred acres of land is undoubtedly a bit excessive for more than 200 people.

But the agricultural tools in his hands have become iron plows, shovels, iron hoes, iron shovels, iron sickles, etc., and the seven hundred acres of land seem to be not as difficult as imagined.

Four hundred acres of wheat, two hundred acres of millet, and one hundred acres of sorghum took ten days to complete all sowing before the arrival of abundant rain.

Xu Yue calculated that an ordinary person needs to eat 30 kilograms of grain a month, and a person with strong physical strength needs to eat 45 kilograms. Taking 40 kilograms as a compromise, a person needs 480 kilograms of grain a year.

If the 500 people in the village are to be fed, the food needed for a year is 24 kilograms.

Then it is spread out to 343 mu of land, and the yield per mu must reach [-] kilograms to be sufficient.

In modern times, the average yield per mu is more than 600 catties, and the yield per mu is not a problem.

However, in this era, the yield per mu of high-grade fertile land is about 350 kg, that of medium fertile land is 200 kg, and that of low-grade barren land, which accounts for the largest proportion, is less than 100 kg per mu.

After deducting taxes and other household expenses, don’t even think about getting full with porridge!
Among the [-] mu of farmland in the village, the proportion of good land is pitifully small, most of which are middle and low-grade, and there are many wastelands that have just been cultivated and lack fertility.

Therefore, even if she has exhausted all the methods that can increase the fertility of the field this year, it is still an impossible goal to achieve a yield of 343 kilograms per mu.

Food is the most important thing for the people, looking at the satisfied expectations of the villagers, Xu Yue couldn't help but couldn't smile, and couldn't even force a smile.

Fortunately, there are other products in the village now, relying on selling cloth, glass, porcelain and other things to maintain the current growing plate.

After all, if you want to solve the problem of eating, you have to look at hybrid rice.

After spring plowing, Xu Yue finally had some free time.

She circled a small piece of land in the small courtyard outside the room, and put up a warning sign that no one was allowed to approach.

Not only that, in order to protect the few cotton seeds and watermelon seeds that she managed to get from the system bug, Xu Yue also specially told her family and servants in the yard not to touch her small vegetable patch.

After confirming that everyone paid attention to it, Xu Yue breathed a sigh of relief, and thought about researching the three-line hybrid rice cultivation method obtained from the system.

In the past, Xu Yue only knew to buy hybrid rice if she wanted a high yield, and she had also heard that it was not easy for the agricultural ancestors.

But it is not easy to know exactly how, presumably most people are the same as her, and have no idea at all.

It wasn't until she read this hybrid rice breeding book that Xu Yue realized how difficult it was for the ancestors to feed everyone.

It is completely different from most species in nature where "good pair good" get "better" gene reproduction, hybrid rice needs a [tall, rich and handsome] to match [short and poor] in order to produce better offspring.

It is not difficult to find a tall, rich, handsome and short, poor, but rice is a self-fertilization type. When the time comes, the pistil and stamen will pair up by themselves. You have to separate the tall, rich, handsome and Bai Fumei from the same plant and let them grow. They go to crossbreed with dwarfs.

But there are so many ears of rice, and there are 150-300 flowers on each ear, let’s not mention how to do it without harming the tall, rich and handsome stamens. Just pairing all the ears on each rice plant will make people crazy up.

Therefore, the agricultural ancestors put forward the idea, is it possible that there is such a wonderful variety that is born castrated?
The result is really there!
Thus, the current three-line hybrid rice breeding method was derived.

The standard answer is already in front of Xu Yue, but Xu Yue must first find three kinds of strange flowers in the rice world.

CMS line, maintainer line, restorer line, and each of these three types is hard to find.

And in Youzhou, a place where wheat, millet, and millet are used to growing, where can I find rice?

Xu Yue became depressed, lying on the soft blanket in the room, and began to give up on herself in a daze mode.

The busy family members didn't realize that something was wrong with their youngest daughter until the fourth day when she stayed behind closed doors.

"Boom!" There was a loud noise, and the closed door was kicked open. Just hearing the familiar aura, Xu Yue knew who it was.

"Sister?" Xu Dalang knelt down in front of the blanket with a sliding shovel, and called her cautiously.

With her eyes open, Xu Yue, who was staring at the roof in a daze, rolled her eyes and sat up helplessly.

She doesn't want her emotions to affect other people.

Besides, it's not her style to be depressed.

Looking at the mother, sister, and father who had just arrived from the county government on horseback after hearing the news, Xu Yuexin said: "The family members who are too busy to see anyone are free to watch my life and death."

"Ahem!" Xu Yue cleared her throat that was jerky because she hadn't spoken for a long time, and the whole family immediately stared at her closely, fearing that there was something wrong with her.

Wang's forehead is still stained with gray and black coal, which shows that he just came from the arsenal.

"Thirsty?" Wang asked concerned.

Xu Erniang didn't need to remind, she immediately got up and poured a glass of water, and handed it to her sister.

Xu Yue said thank you, and the whole family breathed a sigh of relief. Watching her finish drinking the water, she felt a sense of relaxation as if the child was in good spirits.

After Xu Yue drank the water, her mind was still a little confused, and she said incoherently:
"Boats, southward travel, rubber, sugar cane, and most importantly rice!"

Xu Da immediately came to his senses and asked, "My young lady wants to build a boat and go south to buy rice?"

Xu Yue nodded, it's about the same.

She looked at Aniang Wang again. After all, this is the real infrastructure leader, and she immediately grasped the point.

"Rubber can be used to make tires, shoes, leather strips, and speed up traffic. Sugarcane can be used to make sugar, and rice. I heard that you shut yourself in your room and read a book"

Sharp eyes fell on the scattered desks, "Sugar Extraction", "Three-line Hybrid Rice Cultivation Method", "World Sailing History", "Colonization and Colonization", "Utopia and Marx", "Material Dialectics", etc. Wait, the painting style gradually deviates
Mrs. Wang first touched her little daughter's forehead to check if her little head was filled with so many things and whether it was burnt.

Well, no.

Mrs. Wang breathed a sigh of relief, and then glanced at Xu Da again. It's okay to copy the Confucianism of the National People's Congress and get back so many ancient books.
Take a look at what the little girl has exchanged for these ancient books and technology trees!
Is this something a child should worry about?
Xu Da blinked, very dazed and innocent, what does the young mother have to do with him if she wants to read these books?
But the whole family is not stupid, and they have already seen the clues.

What Xu Yue wants to express is actually very simple, that is, to seize Jiaozhou!
As long as this territory is sold, a large part of the problems that bother her can be solved.

In the warm south, rice can be grown for two seasons. Even if hybrid rice cannot be produced for the time being, the food problem can be solved.

(End of this chapter)