Chapter 1743: Food Harvest in the North!

Northern border.

Snow and wind.

Outside the wall, the snow covered the ground like a thick quilt.

Snowflakes danced in the cold wind, as if they were the only dancers between heaven and earth.

Woohoo--

The cold wind was like a knife, scraping on the faces of the guards on the wall. Even if they wore masks, the cold still penetrated the masks.

Their eyebrows, including the knitted masks, were all ice and snow.

Inside the wall, it was a different scene.

The greenhouse was slightly bent by the heavy snow, as if it was welcoming this natural test.

In the warm greenhouse, people were wearing thin short sleeves, waving hoes to dig the soil, and sweat condensed on their foreheads, in sharp contrast to the cold outside.

On the roof of the greenhouse.

Several men shoveled snow on the roof of the greenhouse with shovels.

This greenhouse is made of PVC sun panels, which is different from plastic film. It is more solid and can even accommodate people.

In addition, the main frame of the greenhouse is made of fine steel keel, which is extremely stable and has strong pressure-bearing capacity.

If it were an ordinary greenhouse covered with plastic film before the end of the world, it would have collapsed long ago.

The snow is too heavy.

If it is ordinary light or intermittent snow, there is no need for anyone to clear the snow on the roof of the greenhouse.

The greenhouse's own thermal system can melt the snow on the greenhouse.

But now it has been snowing heavily. If the snow is not cleared for several consecutive days, it is easy to deform the greenhouse. Even the strongest keel frame has its limitations.

Dan Zheng tried his best to stabilize his body, pushed the snow away with a shovel, and pushed it to the side.

Hualala--

The snow was pushed to the edge of the greenhouse, and the edge had a slope, so it slid down.

"Damn it, it's only been two days since I cleared the snow, and the snow is already half a meter thick. When I built this greenhouse, it should have been designed to be triangular, so there would be no need to shovel snow." Shan Zheng cursed and complained while working.

After hearing Shan Zheng's words, Sun Shou in front explained:

"Brother, the triangular greenhouse will form a sharp angle at the top, which will greatly reduce the space utilization rate. In contrast, arched or flat greenhouses can provide a more uniform distribution of space, allowing crops to receive light and water more evenly, thereby increasing yields."

"Chijiwaiwai."

Shan Zheng was in a bad mood, "How do you know this?"

Sun Shou smiled and said:

"Didn't Teacher Qin and others popularize this knowledge to us in the previous training class?"

"Oh." Shan Zheng rolled his eyes.

In the middle of winter, with such heavy snow, they still have to stand on such a high greenhouse to clear the snow. It's really uncomfortable.

There are few people in the North. The planting staff and combat personnel are less than 3,000 people.

But the planting area in the north is vast, and the planting staff not only have to maintain the normal planting in the greenhouse, but also have to clear the snow.

Some people even have to take turns to guard the wall.

There is no way, the number of people here is less than one-third of the headquarters base.

When encountering such extreme natural disasters, they are much busier than before.

As the snow was pushed down from the roof of the greenhouse, the people below also hurriedly shoveled the snow on both sides of the greenhouse to the side with a shovel.

Tired.

The rapid breathing and the cold air inhaled made their throats extremely uncomfortable.

Some people even had their throats cracked and bleeding because of being too dry, and the saliva they spit out was full of blood stars.

Hula Hula~

In the outer city of the north, the flag of the camphor tree base standing on the pole fluttered in the wind.

A car drove out of the inner city.

Creak~

The off-road vehicle stopped, and Li Haoran walked down in a thick military coat.

Stepping on the snow, half of his boots were stuck in the snow.

Ten centimeters of snow.

"Who is responsible for the snow removal work on the outer city road today?" Li Haoran asked Zhu Xiao behind him.

Zhu Xiao thought for a while and replied:

"It should be Eagle and his friends."

"Let Eagle come, why is the snow so thick?" Li Haoran frowned.

Zhu Xiao hurriedly explained:

"Manager Li, I'm not speaking for them, but there are not enough people. The outer city of the North has tens of thousands of acres. With such a large area, they have to be busy clearing the snow and planting. They really can't do it."

Li Haoran thought for a while and said:

"Get in the car and take a look around to understand the situation."

They got on the off-road vehicle. The chassis of this off-road vehicle was half a meter above the ground, which was considered a relatively high chassis vehicle.

In the heavy snow, the low chassis vehicle could not be driven at all.

The off-road vehicle was driving in the snow. After driving for a while, they found that the thickness of the snow on the main road ahead was much lower.

Just in front of them, there were four snowplows shoveling snow side by side.

On the way, they saw people busy shoveling snow in the greenhouse, and there were also shovels shoveling snow in the middle of the greenhouse.

Along the way, there were people shoveling snow everywhere.

After seeing this scene, Li Haoran realized that Lao Ying and his men were not lazy, but because they really couldn't do it.

There are about 1,000 people in the inner city, but the area is only a few thousand acres, and there are 2,000 people in the outer city, but the area is tens of thousands of acres, and most of them are planted with crops.

At least a thousand people are needed to manage these greenhouses every day.

There are several hundred people guarding the fence, so it is estimated that there are only three or four hundred people clearing the snow.

With the rotation of rest, the manpower is even more scarce.

Li Haoran saw a greenhouse door open, and the heat inside was steaming out.

He quickly asked Zhu Xiao to stop the car and walked over.

Before he reached the door of the greenhouse, he saw a small truck driving out.

The truck bed was covered with a layer of waterproof cloth. Looking at the bulging bags, it should be the grain that has just been harvested.

Due to the space of the greenhouse, medium and large trucks cannot enter the greenhouse, so grain transportation can only be carried out by small trucks or pickup trucks.

Li Haoran walked into the greenhouse.

A greenhouse is three acres, nearly two thousand square meters, and the greenhouses are all of uniform specifications.

In the greenhouse, there is a corn harvester, which is constantly harvesting the corn, and a small truck is driving side by side.

This harvester can peel off the outer layer of leaves on the corn cob, revealing the corn kernels inside, and then transport them to the truck next to it via a conveyor belt.

In addition, the remaining corn silk and corn leaves are sprayed to the side.

Corn silk is used to dry and make tobacco.

As for corn leaves and corn stalks, they are used as feed to feed livestock in the North.

There are also farms in the North, but the scale is not as large as the headquarters base.

In addition to supplying pigs, cattle and sheep raised here to people in the North, most of them are transported to the oil city.

This is why the oil city has been able to provide a stable supply of meat products. Relying solely on the survivors hunting and catching wild animals outside cannot meet the market demand of the trading market.

Click, click--

Behind the corn harvester, more than a dozen people pulled off the corn silk and threw it into a basket, and then threw the whole corn stalk and corn leaves into the crusher behind.

The crusher crushes the corn stalks and corn leaves and uses them as feed.

Looking at the grain harvest scene in front of him, Li Haoran's mood also became much better.

Not far from Li Haoran, a man squatted on the ground and picked up the soil on the ground to study and check.

He murmured:

"The soil fertility is a little insufficient. I'm afraid I have to return the straw to the field next quarter."

These corn stalks and corn leaves, in addition to being used as feed, can actually be used as organic fertilizer and mulch. Spreading the straw directly on the land can gradually decompose and provide nutrients, help the soil maintain moisture, reduce weeds and fertilize plants.

If the straw is taken away every time and no fertilizer is added to the soil, over time, the soil will become more and more barren, and the crop yield will become lower and lower.

Now that so many crops are planted in the North, fertilizers are mainly composed of three parts.

1. Chemical fertilizers transported from the headquarters base.

2. Excrement of people and livestock in the North, which is composted to form organic fertilizer.

3. The stalks and leaves of these grains are crushed and returned to the field for composting.

"Teacher Qin, Supervisor Li is here." A man came over to Qin Luoshu and reminded him in a low voice.

Qin Luoshu heard the words and hurriedly looked back, and saw Li Haoran in the crowd at a glance.

Li Haoran's status is not low. As far as he knows, he is the son of the chairman of the management committee of the big camphor tree base. Before the ice disaster came, the chairman sent his son to the North Territory.

It is estimated that he came to gild.

Li Haoran's status in the North Territory is the director of internal affairs. In this position, except for military affairs, he can manage all affairs in the North Territory, including agriculture.

In the one-book-one-bar, there is no wrong version!

High position and power.

Qin Luoshu is a student of Professor Zhang Qiwu, who is a leading figure in the agricultural field before the end of the world.

He is now in charge of agricultural planting in the North Territory.

He has two leaders above him, one is Xie Weishan, and the higher leader is this Li Haoran.

Xie Weishan's planting skills are not as good as his, but his qualifications are better than his. He has been in the camphor tree base for a long time, so he is the principal and Qin Luoshu is the deputy.

But Xie Weishan has other things to take care of and is very busy.

So basically, Qin Luoshu is in charge of the planting management work in the North.

Qin Luoshu stood up, clapped his hands, and walked towards Li Haoran.

"Manager Li, you are here."

"How many greenhouses are being harvested recently?" Li Haoran nodded and asked after seeing Qin Luoshu.

Qin Luoshu answered:

"There are 5 greenhouses in the inner city and 55 in the outer city, a total of 60 greenhouses, and a total of 180 acres of crops to be harvested in the next week!"

"Yeah."

Li Haoran nodded and asked: "I saw you squatting on the ground just now, what were you doing?"

Qin Luoshu answered:

"I was just checking the soil fertility. The soil fertility in this greenhouse is a little insufficient. I think after the next harvest, I will not make the straw into feed, but return it to the field."

"Why?" Li Haoran asked, he didn't quite understand the meaning of the two words "return to the field".

Qin Luoshu thought about it, and did not answer in very professional terms, but switched to the simplest language:

"The soil also needs nutrition. Crops grown without nutrition will not have a good harvest. This source of nutrition can be chemical fertilizer or organic fertilizer. Straw like this can be turned into organic fertilizer after fermentation."

"Now I don't know how long the ice disaster will last. The fertilizer sent by the headquarters base is getting less and less, and it will definitely not be enough in the future, so I thought I would just crush the platycodon and sprinkle it back into the soil. This is returning the field."

Li Haoran understood, and he sighed:

"Okay, I don't know anything about agriculture, I rely on you, anyway, I give you the greatest authority, and you must guarantee one thing, that is, don't stop planting during the ice disaster!"

"Understood!" Qin Luoshu breathed a sigh of relief.

He is not afraid of leaders commanding, but he is afraid that leaders don't know anything and command randomly.

A leader who knows how to delegate power is precious.

Now Xie Weishan basically doesn't care about agricultural planting in the North. Now Li Haoran has given him authority, so he won't feel constrained when he does things.

Li Haoran stayed in the greenhouse for a while, mainly because he didn't know anything about agriculture, so he left after a short time.

Then he got in the car, and Zhu Xiao took him to patrol the outer city of the North.

The North Territory is very large, and it takes some time to drive through the tens of thousands of acres of the outer city.

Not to mention the blizzard weather now.

They followed the snowplow and drove slowly.

Li Haoran looked at the situation in the outer city through the car window.

This off-road vehicle was considered a high-end brand before the end of the world, with a defogger function, so even if the temperature difference between the inside and the outside was large, he could still see the situation outside clearly.

Inside the car, the heater was turned on.

Li Haoran looked outside, and the car was very quiet, with only the sound of the engine.

After a while.

Li Haoran looked at the tall and strong Zhu Xiao and asked curiously:

"Zhu Xiao, how many years have you joined the base?"

Zhu Xiao scratched his head and controlled the steering wheel with one hand.

"It should be five or six years, I can't count it exactly, anyway, I came in with Guo Peng and others, he probably knows the specific time."

"Haha, good."

Li Haoran smiled, but didn't know what to say next.

He was in charge of the internal affairs of the North Territory in the North Territory, and he was in a high position and power.

It is definitely necessary to win over some trustworthy people and arrange your own confidants.

Otherwise, if you listen to your subordinates in everything, you will be easily deceived.

But he doesn't know how to win people's hearts, which makes him feel uncomfortable.

Zhu Xiao next to him is the one he has the best impression of after contacting and observing during this period of time.

He is bold, straightforward, outspoken, and loyal to the base.

He is one of the people he wants to win over the most.

The reason why he wants to arrange some people he can trust is also because the northern border is special.

It is located in the north, far away from the big camphor tree base, and there is no Li family.

The previous old Xie was transferred back to the headquarters base, and Xiao Jun was newly stationed.

Now, of course, he believes in Xiao Jun.

But Xiao Jun controls such a large territory and has such great power. After a long time, he may also rebel.

Power is the easiest to corrupt people's hearts.

Therefore, he came here to check and balance Xiao Jun and avoid that kind of bad things from happening.

"Ahem, is there any trouble in life?" Li Haoran asked with a stiff face.

Zhu Xiao was confused by the question, "No, I just feel a little bored. I heard from Xiao Hu that there are many new things in the Oil City, and there is also a ring competition there. I feel good."

"Uh"

Li Haoran didn't know how to answer.

The positioning of the Oil City is different from that of the North.

In terms of external affairs.

The North is fully closed, the headquarters of the big camphor tree base is semi-closed, and the Oil City is open.

They are completely different.

But this ring competition can be held.

It just so happens that there are few entertainment activities now. In winter, it is also good for everyone to fight and entertain in the greenhouse.

Li Haoran nodded and said:

"Okay, then this North Border internal ring competition will be left to you to organize. I will review the prizes and give you the green light."

"Ah?" Zhu Xiao was stunned.

"I'm just talking."

"You said it very well, let's do it this way, this matter is left to you." Li Haoran said.

Zhu Xiao wanted to slap himself twice, OK!

Here comes another thing, and I found it myself.

I thought to myself: "If I had known, I wouldn't have been so rude! Damn it!"

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