Will the kemonomimi encounter Alien Ranch Story?

Then he just took the last sentence and criticized himself for mindlessly posting information without even looking at what he had posted. He even asked me which of the five types of organic matter plants' roots absorb, and started taking things out of context, saying, "Ah, Bubble said that plants absorb inorganic salt components, which are inorganic salts attached to organic matter. Is that what you call absorbing organic matter?"

In addition, plant root systems are divided into passive absorption and active absorption.

Passive absorption is a topic covered in high school biology. Your statement is correct; plants passively absorb only water and inorganic salts.

However, modern research shows that plants also have the ability to actively absorb nutrients. Of course, there are several theories about the pathways of this active absorption, which have not been fully explored. Some believe it is absorbed through carrier proteins, others believe it is through ion pumps, and still others believe it can obtain larger molecular aggregates of nutrients through a process similar to endocytosis in animals.

Finally, the question is whether plant roots actually absorb carbon sources.

The answer is also: absorption. Some seedlings are so tough that if you don't provide them with a carbon source, they'll die.

Do plant roots absorb organic matter?

The answer remains: absorption. This includes all types of organic matter; it's just a matter of the amount and rate of absorption.

Do plant roots absorb organic matter?

The answer remains the same: absorption. That's right, even benzene and aromatic hydrocarbon compounds in petrochemical products are absorbed.

Do plant roots absorb amino acids?

The answer remains the same: it is still absorbed.

There is a paper you can refer to regarding this issue.

CharacterizationComparisonofPolycyclicAromaticHydrocarbonUptakebyRootsofDifferentCrops;

A comparative study on the differences in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon absorption characteristics in the roots of different crops;

That's right, it can even absorb standard organic compounds like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons... sigh, and it's one of the methods for biological pollution control—

Therefore, being blind to information, having a selective perspective, and not even reading the entire document before copying and pasting it based on just the title are all terrible bad habits.

To add more:

Plant roots also absorb auxin, which is an endogenous hormone composed of unsaturated aromatic rings and acetic acid.

Plant roots also absorb metallic components, which goes without saying.

Plant roots absorb calcium, and some plants even have calcium stores.

Plant roots also absorb phosphate compounds

Chapter Ninety-Three: The Pig-Slaughtering Feast

Chapter Ninety-Three

Even if tons of physical goods were extracted, it wouldn't be enough for all of Hrag's men. The jam and sweet biscuits were distributed as a special allowance to the guards and sentries on duty. They had to stand guard in the freezing cold. Drinking would cause them to make mistakes, but if they didn't drink, the cold wind of Ursus would seem to suck every bit of heat out of their bodies.

For sentries on cold, boring nights, sweet cookies spread with cloudberry jam were a treasure second only to vodka, but the amount issued was limited.

Since they need to conserve the sugar throughout the winter, the farm has already arranged for all the sugar.

Transporting and selling more than 14,000 tons of supplies is not as easy as imagined, especially something like sugar. Given that each of the Ursus military transport vehicles carries 150-200 tons, even a convoy of 20 vehicles would have to make three round trips.

In other words, in terms of logistics time, they would be considered diligent if they could make two rounds before the heavy winter snow, not even considering the issue of the Reunion Movement making even less efficient rounds to the edge of Hrag's defense zone.

The approximately 900 tons of sugar and jam products that were taken as commission were simply not enough to sustain the needs of the more than 100,000 people under Hrag's command for the entire winter, so they had to use them sparingly.

Fortunately, the Integrated Movement transport team, operating under the guise of Amiya Logistics, soon delivered more useful Ursus hard currency, strong rum brewed and distilled from 80,000 tons of sugar syrup and waste molasses, and energy drinks infused with guanara.

For the Ursus army, this was a higher-class hard currency than sugar. Within the Ursus army, the first-class circulating goods were alcohol and energy drinks, the second-class were sugar and sweets, the third-class were rye bread and canned food, the next class was cigarettes, and the last class was imperial silver coins and ration coupons issued by the army.

"Lord Kal'tsit, what exactly did you do on the snowfield?" Herag raised the bottle in his hand, the clear liquid swirling slightly inside. The label was very simple: "General Winter's Rum" (Winter's code name comes from her nickname, a fairly common Ursus nickname; Winter is currently in kindergarten).

Cookies baked with sugar and refined flour, jam, and now rum and energy drinks—did she control a mobile city dominated by the food industry there?

Rhodes Island is still on its way, so it shouldn't be Rhodes Island. Or is it the Queen's backup plan or partner?

Unable to understand it, Hrag could only choose to put it aside for the time being. In any case, what they were doing was beneficial to the Ursus people, and his men no longer had to live a life of hardship.

Ursus is the cradle of suffering. If it could truly become a rich land that produces milk and honey, then why would the people of Ursus need to fight generation after generation on the battlefield for a little bit of survival resources, sacrificing half of their people to feed the other half?

With the cloudberry harvest complete and the wheat planting finished, there is still one task to be done before the first snow of winter arrives: the dairy cows artificially bred by Xia Lin have reached about 24 months of age and can begin mating and calving, entering the lactation period.

The entire lactation period of a dairy cow is approximately 305 days, and the annual milk production of a single dairy cow during one lactation period is approximately 6000 liters.

Moreover, due to the cold winter and spring climate in Ursus, Xia Lin would have a great deal of work to do if she were to raise dairy cows there.

The feed alone is very troublesome. First of all, in winter, 15%-20% of the energy it consumes is used to maintain its body temperature.

Therefore, Xia Lin must add about 20% extra concentrated feed to the dairy cow feed, a high-energy nutritional paste made of potato starch and sugar, supplemented with carrots, cloudberries and raspberries to supplement fiber and vitamins, and also feed egg powder and fish bone meal.

Meanwhile, the cow sheds need to be equipped with large central temperature control systems to maintain a constant temperature of 18-20 degrees Celsius, and on the rare sunny days, the cows also need to be taken out for a walk in the pasture.

It can be said that these cows have better food, living conditions, and medical care than these Ursus people and even some minor nobles, and no one thinks there is anything wrong with this. They even worry that the cows might have a poor appetite because they have been kept indoors for a long time.

Poor appetite leads to a decrease in breast milk protein, resulting in a decline in both the quality and quantity of the milk.

White Rabbit has been looking forward to milk ice cream and milk cake for two years. If anyone makes any noise at this crucial moment, she will really use a hand cannon to kill the insects.

Although Xia Lin's herd is not yet large enough to form a complete ranch, the average annual milk production is expected to be around 10 tons. In the Ursus snowfield, milk is a more desirable ingredient than sugar, since sugar is at least easy to store and transport, while milk is much more troublesome.

Besides dairy cows being bred, beef cattle that have reached the standards for slaughter and breeding must be slaughtered before winter arrives and they begin to consume the fat and energy they have accumulated.

Besides cattle, pigs and sheep also met the slaughter standards. It must be said that compared to the hardships of farming, slaughtering herds of livestock made everyone very happy, and a burly Ursus man volunteered to be the butcher.

However, Xia Lin, who has automated slaughtering and cutting equipment, doesn't need this. So, the main job everyone can do is quickly sort the cut meat from the conveyor belt, stuff it into ice-filled storage boxes, and happily move it to other processing areas.

Apart from the fresh meat reserved for the traditional Chinese slaughtering of livestock, the rest must be processed into easily stored cooked meat products, including traditional Ursus meats such as smoked beef jerky and pork bacon, as well as canned dishes such as braised beef, braised pork, and beef stew with potatoes.

The offal will be cleaned and shredded, then processed with potato starch into Xia Lin's next flagship export product: pink ham sausages, or luncheon meat. This doesn't need to be shipped to places like Lungmen, since it's cheap.

But whether it's the surrounding infected settlements, civilian towns like Schutzburg, or soldiers on the Ursus blockade line, they will soon find that this stuff will become their winter staple, just like cabbage.

Although they might initially think that their superiors had acted out of kindness, after a winter, these canned luncheon meats bearing the Xia's Agriculture and Animal Husbandry label will likely become the deepest nightmare in their memories.

Besides these semi-mechanized and assembly-line products, Lao Xia also personally showed off his skills, demonstrating one of the traditional Chinese cooking techniques, braising, using spices that were finally grown in the small greenhouse!

Pig heads, pig hearts, beef livers, ox tails, and pig intestines—things that are difficult to process mechanically—are washed, blanched to remove blood and foam, and then thrown into a huge braising pot. The fragrant aroma of spices mixed with the smell of oil makes many Ursus children drool as they wait by the pot, diligently feeding fuel into the furnace.

Since the goal is to utilize traditional craftsmanship rather than mass-produce braised products industrially, using an induction cooker is soulless!

(Old Xia's voice) The "soulful braised pork offal" made with a wood-fired stove and a master chef costs nearly 30 Star Coins per pound in Star Alliance Supermarket (of which the cost of wood is about 10 Star Coins), while the soulless machine-made version only costs 8 Star Coins per pound!

As for why not use highly efficient, mechanized food production methods, the reason is, of course, because—

I can't even buy a soulful hobby on the market, and you still dare to call yourself a developed interstellar society?!

A key indicator of advanced social productivity is its ability to support unlimited additional demands beyond necessary needs, also known as "wasteful surplus."

Besides braised pork, there was also traditional Ursus smoked meat that Talulah volunteered to make with Alina. At first, Lao Xia thought she was going to waste her ingredients again, but to his surprise, she was actually really good at grilling and smoking meat.

"The nobles of Ursus have a tradition of hunting, and the game they hunt is usually given to the women of their families to be made into smoked meat products. Therefore, this basic skill is included in the traditional education of noblewomen in Ursus."

"If you can't properly manage your husband's spoils and prey, it's a very shameful thing among the traditional nobles of Ursus," Talulah explained the origin of this skill.

"Old Xia, I'll give it a try too..."

"Alright, let's not waste materials." Xia Lin looked at Yelena, wondering why she suddenly wanted to try this job.

Of course, Talulah's so-called cooking skills weren't achieved by doing the cooking herself, but rather by directing Alina to do the work.

After all, tradition is tradition, and it's unrealistic to expect noble ladies to actually go into the smokehouse. They mostly mastered the key techniques and material ratios, but the actual work was done by servants.

This is because in traditional aristocratic families, the key to the cabinet containing expensive items such as spices and salt was held by the lady of the house.

Therefore, it is quite normal for the lady of the house to personally take charge of tasks such as preparing the perfume powder and applying salt. As for carrying large pieces of meat to the smoking room and enduring the smoke, it certainly wouldn't be them.

There aren't any special techniques for smoking meat. Just use a large metal bucket as a container, hang it up, and you're good to go. The key to making delicious smoked meat is the choice of fuel and the use of seasonings during the pre-treatment process.

"Yelena, you... never mind, I'll fix it later." Xia Lin looked at Yelena, who was sprinkling spices as if they were free, and thought that with so many spices, even a pile of shit would be palatable.

However, that would be too wasteful, and it wouldn't taste very good either, as the flavor of the spices would almost completely overpower the taste of the meat.

Moreover, after smoking, there may be a lot of residue on the surface, which needs to be cleaned before cooking, which is very troublesome.

In contrast, Talulah was much more methodical. She tasted each spice in small amounts, and based on their characteristics, she began grinding and combining them. Finally, she skillfully applied and marinated the prepared compound seasoning powder.

Alina was in charge of assisting on the side, while the other men from the Reunion Movement naturally helped with the work of carrying the meat to smoke and starting the fire. They didn't mind doing some work at this time.

Carrying meat to be smoked, is that what you call working? This is the attitude towards the people of the Ursus snowfields, regardless of whether they are infected or not. It's like carrying money home from a bank vault—is that working? That's called getting paid!

Smoked meat usually takes 1-2 days to prepare, and with marinating, it may take about 3 days.

Therefore, Lao Xia's braised pork was the fastest to be ready, while the freshly slaughtered meat was properly prepared by Alina, White Rabbit, and several other girls who knew how to cook.

Although most of the dishes were Ursus-style, tending to be sweet and oily, they were just the right amount of food to celebrate the harvest for the farm workers who had been busy all autumn and were exhausted.

Deep-fried offal platter, braised offal platter, dried bean stew with meat, spiced roasted meat, grilled pork skin, pork blood vermicelli soup, traditional Ursus borscht, salted lard, stir-fried meat slices, and Lao Xia's confident creation, a ginger-braised pork hock that looks very appetizing.

The dishes laid out on the table were all elaborate and impressive. Even the more worldly-wise Shield Guards, let alone the inexperienced Infected, looked at Patriot with envy and wondered, "Is this... a noble feast?"

"Hmm—" Patriot nodded in a low voice. Although it was far from being as exquisite as it could be in terms of the containers, the plating, and the environment, the ingredients and the contents were almost at the level of an emperor's banquet.

Of course, this refers to the emperor of Ursus, who is incomparable to the emperor of Great Yan, and even the king of Kazdel's banquets are far inferior to this.

Talulah's assessment of the banquet as "King-level" was roughly in line with the standards of Queen Victoria's banquets. "The drinks were a bit lacking, there were fewer beverages, and there was no dessert. As for the main courses, they were acceptable. They were not as good as Casimir, much less as good as Da Yan, but they were still below average for a King-level banquet."

"Ah, speaking of desserts!" Xia Lin thought of something. He didn't have an ice cream machine, after all, such things couldn't be transported by interstellar transport, that would really make him lose his life savings, but he still knew how to make ice cream.

"I'll get it!"

"The cloudberry ice cream is here!" A large bowl of cloudberry ice cream was served in a clear, chilled container. "By the way, aren't you afraid of getting diarrhea from eating hot and cold ice cream like this?"

“The Ursus people are never afraid of the challenge of the cold, here you go!” Yelena grabbed the ice cream container and placed it in the center of the table, like a noble princess adorned with crystal and ice, standing in the most conspicuous place, the cloudberry jam like her golden hair contrasting against her snow-white skin.

"All I have here are energy drinks and rum..." Several boxes of leftover stock that hadn't been sold were piled up on the open ground outside the workshop, which became the temporary banquet venue. "With rum, what are you complaining about!"

Ivan casually unpacked the box and passed bottles of drinks and rum from one hand to the other, quickly distributing them to various tables amidst the jubilation of the excited Ursus bearmen.

"As for the children, there are still a few cloudberry and raspberry sodas left, but not many." After all, there are still very few children here. Everyone has just settled down and hasn't entered the baby boom yet. But after such a bountiful harvest, it's hard to say what will happen after winter.

Xia Lin estimated that she still needed to prepare for the upcoming baby boom. However, this wasn't a big problem. By the time the baby boom arrived, the dairy cows would be entering their lactation period, and 7000 liters of milk would not only be more than enough, but it could also be processed into pasteurized, aseptic boxed milk for sale in the spring. It would surely be a best-selling product that sold out quickly, right?

As for the quantity, Xia Lin's answer was... one part milk to ten parts water, then artificially added synthetic protein. Hmm, another illegal act that would get her caught by the AI ​​ladies and land her in jail for life.

However, as the saying goes, the most profitable methods are all written in the criminal code, and the Star Alliance is no exception.

Terra doesn't have a food inspection agency, at least Ursus doesn't, so of course it's a quick way to move past the innocent entrepreneurial stage and into a qualified and mature capitalist stage. Without adding water or protein, relying entirely on real milk, with Xia Lin's production capacity, whether it's enough for their own people is a technical question.

He's already a conscientious entrepreneur for making a milk drink with absolutely zero milk content without using milk flavoring, titanium dioxide (color enhancer), sugar, acesulfame potassium, thickeners, or protein.

[Friendly reminder: When you buy milk, if you find "thickener" and "artificial flavoring" in the ingredients list besides milk, sugar, and water, I can confidently say that at least half of it is made from milk.]

"PS" water, thickener, titanium dioxide powder, sugar, milk flavoring - can be used to make milk that is indistinguishable from real milk in terms of color, aroma, taste, and texture.