Pioneering

Chapter 214 Breeding Progress and Marriage【Two in One】

It was another day of non-stop government affairs. Although Zhong Ming never felt tired physically, his mental boredom had reached its peak.

So he came to the Wizarding Academy to see the progress of the research on "high-yielding magic plants" led by Le Qi.

After all, I have spent a lot of money this year, spending food and supplies like running water, and the pressure is really a bit heavy.

If this experiment can produce some results earlier, it will be beneficial to the promotion of fertility, the development of the textile industry...all aspects.

Agriculture is the foundation of everything.

"Dean, do you need me to notify Vice President Le Qi?" the red-haired witch Huo Lisha asked.

Ever since Huo Lisha was poached to Yaxia, she actually didn't want to face the members of her former club, the Magzek royal family.

If Zhong Ming hadn't pulled her here today, she would rather continue to study the medicine to replenish vitality.

"Shh, let's take a look and don't disturb them." Zhong Ming said.

Zhong, who is supposed to be the dean of the wizarding academy, is actually a senior wizarding apprentice
In the laboratory, Le Qi said loudly to the audience:

"Students, the content of today's experiment is to ripen the seeds of plants such as "rice", "barley", and "wheat" in a microgravity environment.

It is required to ripen ten generations, and each generation must cross the plants with excellent traits such as high yield, drought resistance, lodging resistance, and saline-alkaline sand resistance to produce the next generation, and keep the seeds;

Eliminate plants with inferior traits such as low yield, water consumption, lodging resistance, and poor toughness.

The recording format of the experimental process is...

The top three students in this experiment will get 1g of fine gold, 100g of mithril, and 10g of mithril from the first to the third respectively. "

After explaining the contents of the experiment, Le Qi also walked out the door: "Why are you here?"

With the spiritual power of the wizard of the third ring, it is not unusual to find the arrival of Zhong Ming and the other two.

Zhong Ming and Huo Lisha did not hide their bodies.

"Let's come and see you," Zhong Ming asked, "How is it going, how is the progress of directional hybrid breeding?"

"It's almost finished," Le Qi's pretty face showed a gleam of joy, and she said to Zhong Ming with her silver eyes, "The next stage can start at the end of this month at the latest."

The work of hybrid breeding and stable traits has been done for more than half a year, in fact, it has almost been done.

Crop seeds suitable for various water and heat environments have been screened and replaced for hundreds of generations and thousands of times by relying on the ripening of natural spells, and have been optimized to the limit.

It's just Le Qi's prudence, always wanting to make plant seeds with stable expression as much as possible and not easy to degenerate.

"Your research time is not short, how is the result? How many generations can the excellent traits be maintained?"

Zhong Ming asked while inspecting the environment outside the laboratory accompanied by two women.

"I have selected more than a thousand generations of each common crop. For example, the yield of hybrid rice is nearly double that of ordinary rice! It can reach more than 1600kg!"

"Pfft~" Zhong Ming was quite surprised by this number.

But when you think about it, it's not particularly surprising.

Without chemical fertilizers, cross-breeding and other methods, the rice yield of Blue Star is only 150-200kg per mu.

After having chemical fertilizers, the rice output of Blue Star increased to 400~800kg.

If combined with cross breeding, the rice can reach more than 1000kg/mu!

The Zoya world attribute energy is extremely abundant, and the gravity environment is nearly twice that of the blue star, under the influence of various environmental factors such as the super solar energy of the blue sun.

The rice here in the North Continent can reach 700-900kg/mu before there is no chemical fertilizer and cross-breeding!

Other areas with better soil and water and heat environment even have a fairy yield of 2000kg/mu!
Otherwise, with the food intake of people here ranging from three to four meals a day, to as many as five meals a day, a large number of people would have starved to death. How could tens of billions of people provide faith to the gods?
And Le Qi used magic to ripen and hybridize for more than a thousand generations!

This is much more stable than Blue Star's seeds that are marketed after a few generations of hybridization, and there are many more excellent traits that can be selected!

This Nima can be regarded as a half new species!

If the soil fertilization problem is solved later, Yaxia's rice yield may not be able to reach 2000kg/mu, or even more!
"The yield of barley hybridization increased by about 1.7 times;
After wheat hybridization, the yield increased by about 1.5 times;
Yield increased by 2.9 times after soybean hybridization;
Maize yield increased 3.5 times after hybridization!
More specific, you look at this table. "

Speaking of which, Le Qi took out a dozen documents from the space bracelet on her wrist, and handed it to Zhong Ming.

Zhong Ming took a rough look:
Rice: the average yield of non-hybrid is about 818kg, and the average yield of hybrid is about 1611kg;

Barley: The average yield of non-hybrids is about 584kg, and the average yield of hybrids is about 993kg;

Wheat: The average yield of non-hybrid is about 423kg, and the average yield of hybrid is about 634kg;

Soybean: The average yield of non-hybrid is about 365kg, and the average yield of hybrid is about 1058kg;

Corn: the average yield of non-hybrid is about 1085kg, and the average yield of hybrid is about 3797kg;

cotton……

tobacco……

The above is just a comparison before and after hybridization, without the naked data of fertilization!
If you fertilize, loosen the soil, and take good care of it, you will have to scramble even if you don’t know the yield.

Le Qiyu pointed to a line of data and said:

"As for the 'Earth Dragon Eggplant' you found, oh, that's the potato you mentioned, it's really not poisonous, you can eat it!
The yield per mu is more than 2000kg before hybridization, and more than 3600kg after hybridization!

If it weren't for the signs of desertification after five or six generations of soil, we don't need to cultivate other plants, it can solve the food problem in the northern continent. "

Zhong Ming shrugged his shoulders and said to himself: The soil in the world of Zoya is already powerful enough. If you change to the soil of Blue Star, which has been spoiled by you and has been planting potatoes, you can turn the black soil into sand in a year or two, don’t you believe it?
As for "Earth Dragon Eggplant", which is the plant that Zhong Ming renamed Potato, Potato, the treatment of Potato is the same as that of Blue Star.

Because of its appearance, it is considered to be a poisonous nightshade plant, but it is actually a non-toxic fungi.

The appearance of "Earth Dragon Eggplant" is almost exactly the same as that of Blue Star Potatoes, except that the skin is black!
It is equally high-yielding, and it also consumes terrible land, and because of its black appearance, people are even more convinced that this thing is poisonous...

It is even considered a harmful plant and weed because of its strong consumption of land...

However, Zhong Ming tried it himself, and it is indeed not poisonous, and the taste is slightly sweeter than Blue Star potatoes, and the starch content should be more.

"How long can the trait last?" Zhong Ming is also curious about whether the species has changed after more than 1000 generations have been passed down from generation to generation.

Le Qi wore a white dress and said proudly: "It can be maintained forever."

"Always?!"

"That's right. According to your theory, these plants have been 'reproductively isolated' from the unhybridized material, and they are already brand new species!
Only hybrid cotton has not been 'reproductively isolated' from ordinary cotton under my constant screening. "

Zhong Ming was thoughtful: "Thousands of generations of screening and intense human-promoted evolution have completely wiped out some of the invisible genes of these plants! A brand new subspecies has been born!"

"Yes," Le Qi looked at Zhong Ming with bright silver eyes, "You..."

"Well, I have something to say, I feel a little uncomfortable when you stare at me like this." Zhong Ming said uncomfortably.

"Can your knowledge about genes..." Le Qi was a little shy.

After all, in the worldview of wizards, equivalent exchange is common sense.

And Le Qi, who wanted to prostitute Zhong Ming's knowledge, couldn't afford an equivalent exchange for the incomparably precious Blue Star genetics knowledge in her eyes.

money?Magic crystal?Magic item?Wizard knowledge?

Zhong Ming is really not in short supply.

Zhong Ming spread his hands: "Sorry, I..."

"Ms. Holissa, could you please avoid me for a while?" Le Qi interrupted Zhong Ming, and said to the red-haired witch who had been listening.

The conversation between the two just now, such as "cross-breeding", "reproductive isolation", "genes", and "trait expression", made Holissa feel like she was in a trance for the first time when she first encountered the power of wizards and the truth hundreds of years ago. feeling of time.

Dazed, do not understand, profound, awe!
However, the two talked freely and logically, which made her realize that this knowledge must be extremely useful for the evolution of plants or creatures!
is close to the truth!
Then, she naturally planned to go whoring for nothing, and it would be nice to be able to eavesdrop a little more.

Huo Lisha made up her mind, as long as she doesn't drive people away, I will stay on.

Unfortunately, Lucky started driving people away.

It's impolite to listen any further.

Holissa had no choice but to leave reluctantly.

Seeing her walking away, Le Qi lightly brushed her green hair with jade hands, and moved her tall figure half a step closer to Zhong Ming, so that Zhong Ming could faintly smell the alluring natural fragrance of this half-elf.

"I know you don't need anything, and I may not be able to give you what you lack.

But how about I marry you as long as you share this knowledge with me? "

Le Qi clenched her silver teeth, blushing and whispering.

During this period of time, Zhong Ming's appearance, wisdom, knowledge and talent (Blue Star knowledge porter), hard work (forced to work overtime), plus Zhong Ming rescued Le Qi from Zhu Bi last time.

Under the halo of being a hero to save the beauty, it is inevitable that Princess Le Qi, who is upright and just at the age of love, has a great affection for Zhong Ming.

If it hadn't been for Zhong Ming to beat Magzhek by lifting her sister's curse, Le Qi's favor for him might be even higher.

Recently, Grand Duke Majestic sent another letter, urging her not to come again, and to take Zhong Ming down as soon as possible, which would be good for both her and Majek.

So, today she took advantage of this topic to come over bravely!
"Wizards are never timid!" Le Qi cheered for herself from the bottom of her heart.

"It's no longer possible for Mo Lisa to bring you extraordinary benefits. You shouldn't have a more suitable marriage goal than me now, right?"

"If you marry me, Yasha will at least gain a loyal ally and a wizard with three rings."

Zhong Ming suddenly lost his mind, looked at Le Qi's exquisite and perfect face, "This, that..."

"What is this? What is that?"

Le Qi took a step closer, and Zhong Ming took half a step back.

"Don't make trouble, Princess Lucky, let's talk about business."

Le Qi said solemnly: "I'm not making trouble, isn't what I'm talking about right now a serious matter?

I am Leqi Yueyuhuasbo Dodd, 20 years old, silver half-elven blood, 1.8 meters tall, 52kg in weight, like to study the mysteries of nature, like desserts, hate coffee..."

Hearing Le Qi's self-introduction like a blind date, Zhong Ming was stunned:
"Le Qi, in this case, you should calm down first. As for the matter of getting married, I actually think that you still need to seriously consider it.

Kesha Lina, have you seen it?Shanna, have you seen it?
Me, a proper scumbag!Have two lovers before getting married! "

Although Le Qi had never heard of the word 'scumbag', she still understood it literally, and said disdainfully:

"Just those two women who can't live for 100 years? The black iron species, I'm afraid they can't even continue your bloodline, right?

I also inquired about the stories between you and them, an accident, a savior, other than that, you are still clean.

As for whether a scumbag is a scumbag, hehe, do you think I don't know the virtues of other nobles? "

Le Qi took another step closer, and Zhong Ming took advantage of the situation to take another half step back.

"What I mean is, why did you choose me? With your strength and status, even if you don't marry, no one in the Principality of Magzek would dare to say anything?" Zhong Ming said embarrassingly.

Le Qi frowned slightly, looking a little cute: "It's true, but I don't like my parents urging me all the time.

Instead of being forced by them to attend the banquets of those stupid princes, wasting time again and again, I would rather take the initiative to choose one that is pleasing to the eye! "

At this time, the scene seemed to recall a burst of affectionate love songs, coupled with Le Qi's beautiful face and gaze, made Zhong Ming's heart beat faster.

It was as if the god of love pulled up his divine bow and arrow, and shot an arrow fiercely at Zhong Ming's body.

Fortunately, Zhong Ming was determined, so he came to his senses very quickly. He quickly turned his head, and yelled at Celica, the strange cat who came over at some point, "Shut up! Stop singing! Why are you making fun of me?"

Apart from being Zhong Ming's personal chef recently, the strange cat Celica also came to the Wizard Academy part-time as a firefighter.

Living in Chang'an is not easy.Cats also work hard!
"Grand Duke Yaxia, don't you hate my appearance?" Le Qi stared at Zhong Ming with extremely oppressive silver eyes.

"It's not ugly." Zhong Ming took a step back, "It's quite delicate."

"Then getting along with me, isn't it uncomfortable for you?"

"Uncomfortable is not uncomfortable, and there is quite a common topic."

Hearing what Zhong Ming said, Le Qi nodded slightly in satisfaction: "Then you shouldn't be a pervert, you don't like men?"

Zhong Ming clenched his fists: "You all know that I have two lovers, why do you still ask this?"

"That's not necessarily the case, many nobles like to eat both men and women!" Le Qi said seriously.

"Then I must not be that kind of person!" Zhong Ming gritted his teeth and said, "So, why do you think I'm more pleasing to the eye?"

"Because..." Le Qi just wanted to say that it was because he appreciated his generosity to the people, because he saved herself and so on.

However, the words were not finished.

"My God, how did the Grimace (pumpkin) look like this?"

At this moment, a magic apprentice suddenly exclaimed.

Before Le Qi could look over, exclamations erupted in the laboratory one after another.

"Look, the purple grain grass (wheat) I gave birth to has a white liquid?"

"So is my oatmeal (barley)!"

"Wow, my carob (lentils) are growing so long!"

The newly assigned, newly enrolled magic apprentices are crazy!

Everyone yelled!

Zhong Ming took the opportunity to change the subject: "Princess Le Qi, why don't we go back and have a look first?"

　It's the end of the month, happy Friday everyone.By the way, I have the audacity to ask for a monthly pass...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)