Spore Story

Chapter 500 Agriculture is still a problem

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"Hello, elder."

"Well, hello everyone."

Nodding to the friendly Yuanren and Dunjia farmers along the way, Bai Nong walked to a farmland and sniffed the scent gently.

For the current friends, apart from the elders' homes in the Westland area, there is only one core elders' home, which is the elders' home in Pengcheng.

Although there are more than a dozen elders in the Pengcheng Elders' Home, each elder does not seem to hold a substantive position, but each person is responsible for their own differences.

For example, Chu Xia is in charge of Shadow Clan, Dark Blood is in charge of Black Bone Clan, Lingxue is in charge of elders and newcomers, Ai Yi is in charge of energy technology, Kong Huan is in charge of overall technical planning, Chu Qin is in charge of reform, Liu Yun is in charge of medical care, etc.

Bai Nong, on the other hand, has been responsible for agriculture from the very beginning.

Because of this division method, people in various industries have different perceptions of elders. For example, for farmers of the friend clan, the main figure in the elders' house in their eyes is Bai Nong.

Because almost all the farmers of the Peng family have met the elder Bai Nong.

Among them, Bai Nong often travels around to check the situation on the spot.

In addition, the territory of Pengzu is not large (even now it is only about one and a half the size of Sichuan Province (=.=)), so Bai Nong can almost say without hesitation that he has traveled all over Every piece of farmland of the friends.

Therefore, when farmers see Bai Nong, they will affectionately call him 'Elder', and for other elders and elders, if they know each other, they will respectfully call him Elder XX, but if they don't know each other... that still needs to be done. What do you say?ignore it.

"It's another harvest season."

With a sigh, Bai Nong squatted down, stretched out his hand and squeezed out a piece of reddish-brown soil, felt the quality of the soil with his body, and then looked up at the rice growing in the farmland.

Now is another harvest festival period in AD 35, that is to say, it is time to harvest rice.

What attracted Bai Nong's eyes was a lush and lush picture. Judging from the appearance alone, the effect of these farmlands should be good, at least it made the farmers feel a lot more comfortable, but in fact, the current farmland output is much higher than that of friends The effect at the beginning was far worse.

"It seems that although intensive farming and the provision of chemical fertilizers have basically stabilized the output of farmland in various places, this farming method has too much restraint on personnel. In the past slack periods alone, people who went to work in cities A lot less..."

After thinking about it in distress, Bai Nong put the slightly dry soil in his hand back into the field, clapped his hands lightly, got up and left.

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It has been three years since the Far West moved into the Peng Clan, but for Bai Nong, the biggest impact of the Far West move in is probably that it has increased the food pressure of the Peng Clan.

Whether it's Bai Nong or Kong Huan, I never thought before that the gathering of friends has a large number of people, but it has produced the current unfavorable effect.

In 32, in order to cope with the reduction in grain production caused by the climate, the Pengzu further increased the selection of grain, and at the same time, the use of chemical fertilizers and intensive cultivation methods also appeared and improved one after another. Everyone expected this to increase the yield of farmland per unit area.

From the perspective of the senior officials of the Ministry of Agriculture at that time, since the population of the Peng nationality was so large, even if the Dunjia people were included, it would only be more than 50, because each person could only farm so much, so increasing the output of a unit of farmland would not Is it the only solution?

And now it seems that this idea is not bad.

Because in the past three years, through continuous optimization of intensive farming, the deceleration rate of the average grain production of the Pengzu has been reduced by more than 70%. The reduction in production is much less, and there is even a slight increase in some areas, but this is not enough.

But this is already a commendable achievement, but Bai Nong is not satisfied, or in other words, in the long run, all friends cannot satisfy this status quo.

Because, after all, farmland yields are still declining.

Moreover, due to intensive cultivation, more and more friends are bound to the farmland, which has led to a slowdown in the industry, commerce and even technological development of the friends in recent years, and is limited by the government's encouragement of agriculture. The general trend is that even if factories in various places are short of people, they dare not go to the countryside to recruit people.

"Is it because of the weather that the Pengzu should be completely transferred to the agricultural society?"

Thinking of this, Bai Nong was a little unwilling, no, very unwilling.

Especially the development speed of the Pengzu cannot afford to slow down.

What is waiting for the friends ahead is far more dangerous existence than the scourge. Once they slow down, when the time comes, what will the friends have to fight against them.

Walking on the edge of the farmland with his wings folded, Bai Nong didn't look like an elder at all. Looking from a distance, he was no different from the farmers around him, and he might even be mistaken for a farm boy.

The simple peasant's jacket is covered with mud and grass leaves, and his agile movements are obviously cultivated by frequent walking in such a narrow field... Only the energyized body that glows faintly is able to move forward under the contemplation. To be able to tell people about his extraordinary.

Regarding the slowdown in production reduction in the past few years, the surrounding farmers all looked happy, and looked at Bai Nong with gratitude.

However, he still frowned tightly.

"Where is the way to solve the problem?"

And the same problem, Kong Huan in the elders' home is actually thinking about it, and he and Bai Nong have a high degree of fit, the two will exchange routine memory experiences from time to time, so that Kong Huan's understanding of agriculture is not weak For Bai Nong, it's just illusory and lack of personal experience.

"The problem with the farmland now is: the grain output per unit of farmland is reduced; the population limit has caused the number of farmland to grow to the limit..."

Writing his own thoughts on the table in front of him with his thoughts, Kong Huan subconsciously took a sip of the tea, feeling a hint of fragrance amidst the bitterness, and frowned unnaturally.

"Do you really want to take the path of intensive farming?"

Recalling the appearance of the human world, his empty expression flickered, but he still couldn't calm down.

"What is there in human farmland?"

"Intensive cultivation of small farmers and small households, extensive planting of large farms..."

He sighed helplessly. For Kong Huan, even if his memory didn't shrink, his understanding of agriculture was only limited to TV, movies and the Internet, so it didn't have much practical effect at all.

As if thinking of something, Kong Huan turned his head to look at the Executive Yuan not far away, and his mental power began to connect to the communication network that recently started individual numbering.

Although it is not possible to directly connect to the patriarch, Kong Huan can connect to the data managers of various ministries, so that the speed of obtaining information will be faster. Of course, that is when he, as an elder, has the highest authority.

(If it can build the human Internet age, that kind of search engine would be great.)
With a smile, Kong Huan took back his unrealistic thoughts. The current Pengzu Technology Bureau is still working hard on the ['many-to-many' communication group] technology, which is far from the server network technology of the human network era.

With a look on his face, the data manager on the opposite side had already found the information that Kong Huan needed, and passed the information to Kong Huan word by word through the communication network.

"The key point is the population... no," shaking his head, Kong Huan looked at the data in front of him thoughtfully:
A wingman can plant up to 3 fields in intensive farming mode;
A native person can plant up to 6 fields in the intensive farming mode;
A dunjia can plant up to 5 fields in intensive farming mode;
A Shadow Clan member can plant up to 4 fields in intensive farming mode.

From these data alone, it seems that Homo sapiens planted farmland more efficiently, but this is not the case.

A Yiren planted 3 fields, but he had to consume 2 to 2.5 fields of grain, leaving only 0.5-1 field of grain for circulation in the market to supply other non-agricultural industries.

However, considering the fifth-level brain and flying ability of the Yiren, it is completely a waste to use it for direct agricultural planting. farmer;

Although an original person can plant 6 fields, he needs to consume 2 fields of grain, leaving 4 fields of grain. Compared with the two, Yiren's farming efficiency is obviously not comparable to the original person.

A native farmer is enough to supply himself and the Yiren's consumption, and there is still more food left than the Yiren's farming.

This is also the reason for the original farming model of Far West and West Land, that is, a large number of original people farmed, while a small number of original people and all winged people enriched other industries.

But the Central Plains region of the Pengzu is different. It also has personnel from both the Dunjia people and the Yingzu people.

A Dunjia man farms 5 fields, and he only needs to consume 0.5 fields, leaving a full 4.5 fields of grain for circulation;
A Shadow Clan person farms 4 fields, and he only needs to consume about 0.6 fields, and the remaining 3.4 fields of grain can also be used for circulation.

In addition, among the Peng tribe, the number of Yuanren is only half of the number of Dunjia people. Therefore, the current agricultural situation of the Peng tribe can be said to be basically based on the agricultural planting of the Dunjia people.

As for the farming of the Ying Clan people, because the Ying Clan has not yet integrated into the Friends Clan, it is only used as an emergency measure. Usually, it is just a trade between the Friends Clan merchants and the Ying Clan people to obtain part of the food.

The above situation has led to the current status quo of the Peng people. 80% of the Dunjia people are in agriculture, while only 30% of the original people are concentrated in agriculture.

However, as the grain production per unit of farmland continues to decrease, whether it is Yuanren, Yiren, Dunjia people or even Ying people, the number of fields consumed by food is increasing, but the number of fields that can be planted by a unit of people is decreasing. did not increase.

In recent years, in order to deal with the food crisis, although they have not faced it head-on, the Pengzu has also begun to encourage some original people to return to the farmland in order to store more food for the ethnic group to cope with possible future extremes. Condition.

But in this way, it will inevitably hurt the development speed of industry and commerce, as well as non-agricultural science and technology.

All of this is not what I wished to see.

"Farmland water conservancy, animal husbandry, animal assistance, and even electric motors... Most of the things that should be done have already been done. What hasn't been done is just that the technology has not reached this point. Now, how to solve this problem?"

Looking at the statistical data he had written little by little on the desktop, Kong Huan couldn't help sighing: "It would be great if there were more Dunjia people."

At this time, on the street outside the door, a figure walked past normally, but he didn't care about these illusions at first, because he just raised his head under distress, and saw the appearance of the other person.

Maintaining the motion of standing still and thinking, it was only when the night was getting dark that Kong Huan finally figured it out. Suddenly, his eyes lit up and he slapped heavily on the table.

"That's right! Although Dunjia people are hard to find, but Dunjia people are not the only ones to choose from!"

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(End of this chapter)