Five Hundred Fifty-Seven Self-Reliance

Walking into the restaurant, Ye Han, who was tired and hungry, asked loudly: "Yuan Yu, what are you eating today?"

"Same as in the morning." Yuan Yu walked into the dining room carrying a plate, and a stainless steel basin filled with sweet potatoes and potatoes was placed on the table.

"Eat this thing again?" Duan Zhiyang wailed, "Where's the food?"

"Here it is!" Yuan Yu tore open a vacuum packaging bag, and squeezed the ketchup in the bag onto Duan Zhiyang's plate.

"I want to eat green vegetables!" Duan Zhiyang continued to wail, his plaintive voice was like a puppy abandoned by its owner.

"Do you want any food, or is it fatal?" Yuan Yu gritted his teeth, took out a few small packaging bags and threw them on the table, "Choose what you want to eat."

Ketchup, black pepper sauce, spicy sauce... Each package contains a different kind of sauce, and Ye Han gritted his teeth when he saw it: "Old Gao, sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes all day long, I'm almost turning into a sweet potato! "

Gao Kai picked up a potato: "What are you talking about, I will eat it all if you don't eat it."

Ye Han took a potato and threw it to Duan Zhiyang: "Here, let's eat a potato to improve the food."

Duan Zhiyang grinned, and took the potatoes helplessly: "There are still a few sweet potato leaves in the morning... Captain Gao, will the next batch of sweet potatoes be planted?"

Gao Kai squeezed a little black pepper sauce on his plate, dipped a little on the skinned potatoes, took a bite carefully, and said while chewing: "This thing has the highest yield, what can we grow if we don't grow it?"

"It's okay to order a variety of potatoes!" Duan Zhiyang was extremely helpless.

"The yield is too low, so we won't plant it after this wave of harvesting." Gao Kai said.

"Okay, the agricultural base has completely turned into a sweet potato base." Ye Han chewed the steamed potatoes in his mouth tastelessly, with a constipated expression on his face.

Gao Kai rolled his eyes: "What's the matter? Do you still need me to teach me politics? Can't you overcome such a little difficulty?"

"Forget it, I'm just talking." Ye Han sighed, the more he ate, the more sore his stomach became, "When will it be a head?"

"Persist for a while longer," Gao Kai said.

Several people on the table sighed at the same time, even Gao Kai himself was no exception.

What is the ultimate goal of building a moon base? It is self-sufficient, and it is the establishment of a sound industrial system, especially the heavy industry system.

The industrial system is not so easy to establish. Even if the entire country is behind the Moon Palace base, it is relatively easy and the starting point is a little higher.

Basically, there is no major premise of global government management. It is impossible for the country to build the Moon Palace base at the lowest cost. If it is a peacetime before the insect plague, the launch cost of the spaceship alone can bankrupt the country's finances several times.

But now, the Moon Palace base is on the right track, as long as the base is given enough time, it can gradually expand and develop.

However, what humans lack the most is time. Regardless of whether it is the Moon Palace Base or the International Base, they are racking their brains to figure out how to speed up the construction progress.

Regardless of the cost, both China and the United States are capable of sending a large number of people to the moon, but sending people to the moon is easy, and the next thing is to eat, drink, and scatter. Trouble, there is not enough supplies, how to feed the people who are waiting to be fed Astronaut?

No one expected that the grain output in the agricultural area would become the decisive factor restricting the speed of base construction.

In order to increase food production, the Moon Palace Base abandoned the previous plan and planted sweet potatoes on a large scale to minimize the planting area of ​​vegetables. The supply of vegetables at the Moon Palace Base became extremely tight, and it was not uncommon for each meal to be given only a few vegetable leaves. .

Originally, some vegetables could be planted in the soilless cultivation cabin, but there was only one vegetable garden, and no matter how many were planted, it would not be enough for the entire base, so in the end, they simply planted sweet potatoes as well.

Now it’s getting worse and worse, and they can’t even eat vegetable leaves. If they can eat a few sweet potato leaves, they count as extra vegetables. Monotonous food cannot provide balanced nutrition. Astronauts have to rely on vitamin tablets to maintain the nutritional needs of the body.

Sweet potatoes are worthy of the name of high yield. After a large number of sweet potatoes were planted in agricultural areas, the grain output has doubled!

The bumper harvest of sweet potatoes means that the self-sufficiency of the temporary base has doubled, and the ground will immediately re-establish the launch plan.

Sending personnel to the moon at the fastest speed, but in just over a month, the number of astronauts in the temporary base has increased to more than 200 people. Sufficient manpower has brought the construction speed of the base to several steps.

The equipment sent to the moon is the most advanced scientific and technological achievement, with a high degree of automation, and it is no problem for one or two people to manage several production lines.

There is no shortage of equipment in the Moon Palace Base right now, but there is an extreme shortage of personnel to operate the equipment. The increase in manpower is of great significance to the base, to the country, and to all mankind.

Everyone understands the truth, and can understand the difficulties above, but after a long time, a few complaints are inevitable.

Everyone ate slowly in silence, Yuan Yu hesitated again and again, and finally couldn't help but said: "How about finding a way to get some beans, let's get some bean sprouts to eat?"

"That's right!" Duan Zhiyang suddenly regained his energy, "We don't lack seeds, right? Can we grow our own food?"

"What do you want to grow?" Gao Kai ate the last piece of potato, then picked up his share of sweet potatoes, "Where does the light come from in the living cabin?"

"Let's grow those that don't need light!" Duan Zhiyang was very excited, "Won't bean sprouts, chives, and garlic sprouts all work!"

"Mushrooms, and mushrooms!" Yuan Yu's eyes sparkled, "We can grow mushrooms, and fungi don't even need light!"

Gao Kai was stunned: "You guys can figure it out!"

There are a lot of culture medium in the agricultural area, and there may be technical problems if it is directly used to grow mushrooms, but the ground should be able to solve the technical problems of growing mushrooms on the medium... It seems, it seems, roughly, it can indeed be done!

Hard work, self-reliance, no waiting, no relying... Gao Kai is full of slogans in difficult times.

It's not that he doesn't want to solve the vegetable problem, but he can't think of a solution at all. If he can grow some vegetables in the living cabin, even if it can't solve the vegetable supply problem, it can slightly improve the supply problem.

The caves that have been dug have their own uses, and facilities such as canteens and dormitories are not on the plan at all. Until now, all astronauts who have arrived on the moon still live in the living module.

The space in the living quarters is limited, but there is always room in the corner, if you can grow some vegetables... Just thinking about it makes everyone salivate.

Gao Kai took a bite of the sweet potato: "I'll go to the agricultural area to ask for seeds in a while!"

Everyone smiled from the bottom of their hearts, and Duan Zhiyang quickly came up with an idea: "They are all experts over there. Don't forget to ask what kind of plant is suitable, Team Gao."

"Do you still need to tell me?"

"What about the container? What about the container?" Yuan Yu asked, "We don't have anything extra."

"It's simple. I'll go to the smelting team to order a batch. It doesn't take much material to equip each living cabin. That's it!" Gao Kai said. 8 For more exciting novels, welcome to visit our Reading Academy