Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 1699 The Team Arrives
"By the Emperor, it really is all sand!"

Standing on the edge of the void, the staff sent by the Greenery and Environmental Protection Bureau stared dumbfounded at the seemingly endless desert in the fragments of the world opposite them.

The Greenery and Environmental Protection Bureau's team is mainly composed of wood elves, who are accustomed to living in forests. They would frown at the sight of ordinary, barren land, let alone such an extreme desert environment.

Although they hadn't yet truly experienced the severity of the climate on the other side, just looking at the yellow sand that almost filled the entire space, the wood elves already realized that this mission was probably not going to be so simple.

How long until the fragments of this world are pieced together?

"It could take as little as six months or as long as a year."

They, the Great Zhou, had experienced this situation before, and had experienced it twice in a row, but there were not many people who could make accurate judgments. Shi Lei was one of them.

Because he was leading troops to guard the mountainous border, he was involved in the entire process of the world fragments constantly approaching each other.

"The reason this fragment of the world looks close to us is because it is so huge. When it actually gets close to us, you won't be able to tell that it is a fragment at all."

Having received the answer from Shi Lei, the wood elves nodded in understanding and, without further ado, quickly got to work.

Six months to a year may be a long time for humans, but for the wood elves, it's just a blink of an eye.

Time was already very tight for them, and they had to speed things up.

Just as the wood elves were thinking this, one of them suddenly noticed something.

"Wait a minute, what are those?"

Following the question, everyone subconsciously looked in the direction the other person was pointing, and they soon discovered that there were many dark figures moving about in the distance.

This made the wood elves, who had no idea what was going on, a little nervous.

On the contrary, Shi Lei remained calm.

"Those pigs were brought over from a nearby city."

"pig?"

The wood elves were completely bewildered upon hearing this, or rather, they were a little slow to process it.

Why are there so many pigs on this perfectly good border?
At the same time, judging from the tone of those words, it seemed like it was arranged on purpose!
Seeing the wood elves' confusion, Shi Lei took the initiative to explain.

"This was first discovered by Minister Zhao Geng of the Ministry of Agriculture. While the Pingyuan Farm was growing crops on a large scale, it was also raising livestock. During this process, Minister Zhao discovered that the pigs would root around in the soil to forage for food, which resulted in the sand being loosened."

"During this period, their excrement and urine will seep into the soil, indirectly fertilizing it."

The Ministry of Agriculture isn't just busy with farming; spring planting and autumn harvest are not the end of the matter. There's a lot to study in this area.

Throughout this explanation, Shi Lei's tone revealed his undisguised admiration for Zhao Geng.

Earlier, Zhao Geng also discovered that ducks were eating locusts, so he drove all the ducks on the farm into the fields to stop the locust plague.

This method was quickly adopted within their Da Zhou, and ducks became a standard feature of their Da Zhou farm.

Since then, there have been no locust plagues on any of their farms within the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Now, he has gained new insights into pig farming and discovered that free-range pigs can complete the entire process of loosening the soil and accumulating manure automatically.

Although it's not very efficient, it's convenient and saves a lot of effort. They basically only need to provide the pigs with drinking water and appropriate feed.

At other times, they can be free-range, and compared to penned pigs, they are considered free-range pigs. Even if they are slaughtered and put on the pork market, they can fetch a higher price.

Good heavens, they've really squeezed every last drop of value out of a pig. Having learned about the situation, Zhao Geng also voluntarily shared the method their Ministry of Agriculture usually used to 'slack off'.

Furthermore, an improvement suggestion was put forward.

That means you can also mix some grass seeds or other suitable seeds into the pig feed, but the Ministry of Agriculture doesn't have this requirement.

But isn't the Void Frontier supposed to be greened?

When grass seeds are mixed into pig feed, the pigs cannot digest them. During excretion, the undigested grass seeds fall to the ground along with the feces.

After fully automated soil loosening and fertilizer accumulation, sowing is also taken care of!
Of course, as mentioned before, the sowing efficiency is somewhat random, and the main focus is on planting a few seeds incidentally.

Regarding the use of pigs for sowing, the Ministry of Agriculture has not yet tried it; they can only offer a suggestion that it could be given a try.

Shi Lei's words left the wood elves completely bewildered.

Upon arriving at the scene, they found that it was indeed the case; the soil had clearly been loosened, and the excrement had given the area a foul odor.

But none of that matters. The wood spirits, who love nature and live among the forests, know perfectly well that their excrement can improve the soil and is beneficial for planting.

With these pigs here starting work ahead of time, they've saved them a lot of trouble.

After giving a brief explanation of the matter, Shi Lei led the wood elves in another direction.

"The steam excavator was just delivered yesterday."

In the Saint Laurent region, several steam excavators were also allocated for some excavation work.

Now that this has happened, they have been urgently mobilized.

As things stand, nothing is more urgent than this.

As Shi Lei spoke, he sent one of his personal guards over.

"For the next period of time, you will be working with the people from the Greenery and Environmental Protection Bureau. If you need anything, just tell my personal guards. I have some things to take care of, so I'll be leaving now."

"Thank you, General."

After seeing Shi Lei off, the staff of the Greening and Environmental Protection Bureau did not intend to rest. They quickly signaled their personal guards to take them to confirm the steam excavator and the land where the greening project was to be carried out.

Although their Greenery and Environmental Protection Bureau's main objective is environmental protection, they are not opposed to steam equipment.

Putting everything else aside, they already had a general understanding of this mission before they even set off.

This time, they'll need to dig a large artificial lake.

Without the help of a steam excavator, it might take them several years to dig it out.

Various convenient steam-powered devices have long been an indispensable part of the development of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Each steam excavator has its own dedicated work team, so the wood elves don't really need to worry about it.

The current focus is on the next step of landscaping, specifically how to do it.

The wood elves started holding a small meeting right there at the edge of the void...

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