Don't panic, the family boss is busy farming

Chapter 370 Flash Password
After finishing speaking, he poured the remaining half bottle of Coke into the leather water bag he carried with him, and threw the plastic bottle to Xu Da, "I can give this to you, just smell it."

Xu Da was dumbfounded, Mrs. Wang, don't bully me too much!

Seeing that her father, mother, brother and sister are going to fight if they disagree, Xu Yue hastily asked for the sake of family harmony:
"There are still a lot of energy fruits, what do you want to change?"

"Of course, planes and cannons are impossible, so don't think about it."

Xu Yue's words successfully interrupted the four people who were about to fight. The five members of the family looked at each other, thinking about the supplies they needed now.

What Xu Yue wants most is of course the seeds of various high-yielding plants, but now that she has cotton and hybrid rice, she has basic guarantees for food and clothing, and the rest of the seeds don't seem to be so impatient.

In addition, exchanging such seeds requires too much energy fruit, so Xu Yue is still reluctant for the time being.

So, she'd better see what the family members think.

Xu Erniang said: "I think the water magic circles in various factories are not enough now. We can only build factories near the water source, which is somewhat limited."

"We now have a large territory, and more materials need to be produced, and water sources are not so easy to find."

"If you have to change something, try to see if you can change some alchemy materials. I want to rebuild some power machines and use them for production in places without water sources."

Xu Yue hadn't exchanged various materials beyond her knowledge before, and she didn't know whether the technology tree could be exchanged for alchemy materials.

Nodding, I asked my sister to write down the materials, and decided to try it first, not sure if it will be successful for the time being.

Wang Pingping thought for a while, and took out a pen and paper to make a list, "We will leave Yuyang County soon and continue to send troops north. The weather conditions and geographical environment there are different from here. The further north, the colder the climate. What is more lacking now is the marching supplies.”

"Such as portable tents, sleeping bags, moisture-proof pads, tin foil, first-aid medicine, military backpacks, portable tools, etc., these can be done with our current production level, but they cannot be mass-produced and applied, which is a waste of time and financial resources."

"Also, we will definitely go to the south in the future. After leaving the flat and open road, our army will have to face a completely different combat environment. We can also exchange some anti-mosquito sprays in advance."

Speaking of this, I was afraid that Xu Yue's energy fruit would not be enough, so I reminded:
"Tents and medicines are the highest priority. Alternatives can be found for the others. Keep these two first."

Portable and folding tents require bracket steel, and Wang Dayou and other masters at the arsenal can't make them at all, let alone the rainproof cloth used for tents.

Such fabrics cannot be realized now because there is no waterproof coating.

If you use local oilcloth, it is estimated that it will be scrapped after two uses, which is purely a waste of money.

Xu Yue took the two lists listed by A Niang and Sister, settled down on the spot, and entered the research room.

The technology tree is still the same size as before, and has not grown slowly due to the increase of time.

However, because there are more and more energy fruits on the tree, it has now become a red technology tree.

Xu Yue has experience now, she will not make a wish directly, but first ask the technology tree, what can be exchanged, and the approximate price.

The technology tree flashed green light to express dissatisfaction for a moment, and discussed with Xu Yue honestly and practically using the 'flash code' that only Xu Yue could understand.

Alchemy materials can be changed, but they are very expensive.

But machine power is the cornerstone of development. If the steam engine cannot be exchanged, it can only make do with alchemy products first.

Even if it was expensive, Xu Yue had to change it.

Two hundred energy fruits are exchanged for twenty copies of alchemy materials. If Xu Erniang has no scrap rate, twenty power machines can be made.

There are still 350 energy fruits left on the technology tree. Xu Yue exchanged [-] for [-] sets of military-grade tents including sleeping bags and moisture-proof pads, and used [-] for basic medicines to fill the empty medicine cabinet in the laboratory. .

All of a sudden, only [-] energy fruits were left, and Xu Yue's fighting spirit was also ignited while her flesh hurt.

As long as she thinks that 1000 people can be exchanged for an energy fruit, she will feel excited and can't wait to expand her territory.

Assuming that there are 10 people in a county, as long as she wins a county, she can have 100 energy fruits.

Ten counties are one thousand, one hundred counties are ten thousand, one thousand counties are one hundred thousand!
In a blink of an eye, March arrived.

There is not much rain in Yuyang County this year, and the eyes of the farmers waiting for the spring plowing show melancholy and a little bit of fear.

It's the fear of drought.

"It's the end of March. Although rice has been planted, there is still very little rainfall. If there is no more rain, this year's harvest will definitely be greatly affected."

Zhou Rong from the Agricultural College stood in front of Xu Yue holding the February and March precipitation reports from various newspapers, and said worriedly:

"The two counties of Yuyang and Pinggu are not bad. They are located at the confluence of rivers, and the harvest can be preserved by carrying water for irrigation. However, the rivers in the remaining counties are too small. If they are irrigated with river water, it may not be enough."

"Of course, if there will be a heavy rainstorm next, then these worries will be superfluous." Zhou Rong sighed.

Spring plowing was the top priority. All five members of Xu Yue's family were present, and they frowned after hearing Zhou Rong's report.

"Has the news of asking the villagers to dig ponds to store water has been conveyed?" Xu Yue asked.

Zhou Rong nodded, "It has been notified that the villagers are now digging ponds. The old farmers have seen the severity of the drought. With them taking the lead, the villagers are very active in digging ponds."

Xu Da asked: "Last year, we started digging diversion canals. If we can dig through this year, will we be able to cope with the autumn harvest?"

Zhou Rong looked at his companion, Fu Bao, who was doing the specific data calculations, and she had to answer this question.

The girl looked serious, flipping through the notepad in her hand, and replied after a while:
"If the water consumption of one mu of paddy field is calculated according to the entire cycle, the water storage capacity in the natural reservoir outside Pinggu City will not be able to support the autumn harvest at all."

"However, if the water storage capacity is increased by fifteen times, then even if there is very little precipitation this year, our county can still rely on the reservoir water to complete irrigation tasks."

fifteen times?
Zhao Bei and Sima Yi looked at each other and shook their heads together. This is an impossible task.

It is easy to dredge the flow of water, but it is difficult to store it. The entire reservoir in Daqing is built on the basis of natural reservoirs. Because of limited technical materials, the water storage is not deep.

In a drought year, the role of such a reservoir is limited.

As for the Xu family, although they are already starting to build the dam and it looks decent, it is obviously not going to be used this year.

(End of this chapter)