Chapter 236: Reclamation of Farmland

Beside the farmland east of Ratchet Town.

Yang Yi asked Jia Gu the question that concerned him most: "Jia Gu, look, if all the farmland here is used to grow oats, how many fishmen can be fed?"

Jia Gu made a brief estimate and replied: "The growth period of oats is about 80 to 100 days, and the harvest of each acre of ordinary farmland is usually about 30 to 50 kilograms per sowing."

"In order to balance the nutrition of farmland and prevent weeds and diseases, crop rotation is required to achieve the normal yield of oats. So it is best to plant only two crops a year, and plant flax and forage grass and other previous crops at other times."

"Based on the average annual consumption of 300 kilograms of food by an adult fishman, it takes about 4 acres of land to feed an adult fishman. I took a rough look and found that there are about 500 acres of farmland in Ratchet Town, so it can probably feed more than 120 adult fishmen."

"What!? It can only feed more than 120 fishmen?" Yang Yi was greatly surprised.

Yang Yi had never been to the fields and had no idea about the harvest of farmland. He originally thought that the farmland east of Ratchet Town was already a large area, but he didn't expect that it could only support so many fishmen.

"Jia Gu, the farmland we reclaimed in Ratchet Town is not the first-level farmland, but basically the third and fourth-level farmland." Yang Yi explained.

So far, these 500 acres of farmland are still within the scope of the town recognized by Ratchet Town. These farmlands also have the system special effects attached to the system lottery buildings, so Yang Yi upgraded them all to level three and four.

If the farmland is reclaimed further, it will almost be out of the scope of the town.

If it is out of the scope, even if the building drawings drawn by the system lottery are used to build farmland, it will only have the same building functions as the drawings purchased, without the special effects of the system lottery drawings.

"Oh, if there are farmers of the corresponding level, the output will double for every three levels of farmland level increase. Your farmland can support about 250 adult fishmen." Jia Gu said.

Jia Gu didn't know that the farmland in Ratchet Town had special system special effects, and this output was estimated based on ordinary farmland.

"Oh, I forgot to mention that if you cultivate carefully, a farmer can only take care of ten acres of land." Jia Gu added.

In other words, these five hundred acres of farmland still need fifty farmers to cultivate.

"I didn't expect that such a large piece of farmland can't support many fishmen." Yang Yi couldn't help but sigh after understanding the situation.

"It's just five hundred acres of farmland, which is not big at all. At least fifty thousand or one hundred thousand acres should be cultivated to be considered a certain scale." Jia Gu said calmly.

Farmland reclamation is usually in units of thousands or tens of thousands of acres, which is why farmland should be reclaimed outside the city walls.

Fifty thousand acres of land is equivalent to the area of ​​a square with a side length of less than 6 kilometers. A patrol fishman who can run a little will take about two hours to run a circle, so what Jia Gu said is not an exaggeration.

"Then do you still grow oats?" Jia Gu asked Yang Yi.

"Plant, of course we have to plant." Yang Yi said firmly: "Isn't it just reclaiming farmland? Just as you said, Ratchet Town will reclaim 50,000 acres or 100,000 acres, and then plant oats all over it."

If it were two months ago, Yang Yi would not dare to say this, because there were not so many construction workers in Ratchet Town.

It's different now.

The construction of the level 3 earthen wall of the town in Deadwater Village took more than a month. The construction murlocs in Ratchet Town worked with the senior stonemasons of the Defias Brotherhood, but they benefited a lot.

The stonemasons of the Defias Brotherhood are all construction workers above the expert level, and there are even some master and grandmaster level ones. This is a once-in-a-lifetime learning opportunity for construction murlocs.

So over the past month, the levels of almost all murloc construction workers have been upgraded, and some with good qualifications have even been upgraded by two levels.

This opportunity to learn from high-level builders is most beneficial for apprentice builders who have accumulated a lot of experience but are stuck at the last minute. In more than a month, dozens of fishman builders have been successfully promoted to junior builders.

Among all the occupations in life, builders are the most numerous in Ratchet Town. With this promotion, there are more than a hundred fishman builders in Ratchet Town.

There will be more and more builders in Ratchet Town in the future, so Yang Yi is still a little confident now.

If it takes one or two years to work hard, Ratchet Town may really be able to reclaim tens of thousands of acres of farmland.

"I'm afraid that when the farmland is reclaimed, there will not be enough fishman farmers to farm." Yang Yi looked at Jia Gu.

"Don't worry about this matter, I'll take care of it." Jia Gu patted his chest and promised, "As long as Ratchet Town is responsible for providing Lao Chen's Storm Liquor."

"Don't worry, if you can solve the farming problem for our Ratchet Town, Lao Chen's Storm Liquor brewed in the future will be supplied to you first, and you will have enough other wines." Yang Yi also made a promise to Jia Gu.

Farming has always been something he has been thinking about. If it can be solved, it will be extremely helpful for the development of Ratchet Town.

After getting Yang Yi's promise, Jia Gu was full of energy. Nothing can motivate him more than good wine.

So Jia Gu immediately mentioned to Yang Yi: "Mayor Poseidon, although oat planting is suitable for planting under a variety of soil conditions and has no strict requirements on soil. But if you want oats to achieve high yields, it is better to plant them in farmland with rich nutrients and loose soil."

"Oh, you are an expert in this area. If you have any requirements, just let me know. Ratchet Town will fully cooperate with you." Yang Yi said.

"In order to produce high yields of oats, in addition to high-quality seeds, deep plowing and fertilization are also required. Deep plowing requires farm tools and livestock. For fertilizer, harvested ragweed can be mixed with manure for composting."

"I will have someone buy oat seeds and farm tools. Do you mean oxen?" Yang Yi asked.

"Oxen, horses, donkeys, etc. are all fine, as long as the livestock is docile, strong and has endurance." Jia Gu said.

"Gentle, strong and endurant." Yang Yi thought for a while, "There are quite a few kodo beasts in Ratchet Town. Because no murloc knows how to train kodo beasts as mounts or combat kodo beasts, there is no hope for those kodo beasts to be trained as mounts or battlefields. Recently, I am planning to train them as cargo kodo beasts, so why not pull them out to help plow the fields first."

Jia Gu thought about it and thought it was okay, so he nodded:

"What about the fertilizer problem?" Jia Gu added: "The growth period of oats is short. Applying base fertilizer during deep plowing of the soil is enough to meet the needs of the oats during the entire growth period, so the amount of fertilizer used in the early stage is relatively large."

"I understand, leave this to me."

Yang Yi is actually preparing to solve the problem of murlocs in Ratchet Town urinating and defecating everywhere.

Now the total number of murlocs in Ratchet Town exceeds 10,000. Although Yang Yi has always required murlocs to defecate in the sea, there are always murlocs who are disobedient and defecate anywhere in Ratchet Town.

Therefore, although the sanitary environment of Ratchet Town is much better than that of ordinary fishman villages, it is still far behind that of human villages and towns.

It's time to solve the problem of urinating and defecating anywhere.

Yang Yi thought about it and decided that to solve the problem of urinating and defecating anywhere, of course, the first thing to do is to rely on publicity and education. As long as the quality of the fishmen is high, this problem can be solved naturally.

However, with the fishmen's brains, it is estimated that the effect of publicity and education will not be so fast.

Yang Yi thought that this was mainly a problem of inconvenience. After all, as the area of ​​Ratchet Town expanded, it was necessary to run all the way to the seaside every time to solve the problem. This was really a very puzzling thing for the fishmen who were used to "freedom".

Therefore, building more toilets was the solution.

Now farmland needs feces as fertilizer for growing oats, which just happened to coincide with Yang Yi's idea of ​​building toilets.

Yang Yi immediately arranged it.

First, Yang Yi called the two fishman builders Gulu and Hulu from Ratchet Town together.

These two murloc builders had been helping Van Cleef some time ago, and Van Cleef was willing to teach them construction knowledge. Therefore, under Van Cleef's words and deeds, the two murlocs were upgraded to level 5 builders and became senior builders.

At present, the buildings Yang Yi drew from the lottery system are only level 1 of the town, so these two murloc builders are ahead of the building level of Ratchet Town.

This made Yang Yi very happy, because it meant that when Ratchet Town was upgraded to another level, he would not be afraid of drawing unbuildable buildings from the system lottery.

"Gulu, this lord will give you an important task now. There is a large amount of farmland in the east of Ratchet Town. I want you to build 10,000 acres of farmland within half a year. You can ask Lao Xiayan for as many helpers and materials as you need." Yang Yi said to Guru.

Guru is the oldest murloc builder in Ratchet Town. His qualification is D-level. Yang Yi intends to cultivate him this time.

There is no threshold for D-level qualifications to become a senior professional, while E-level qualifications can usually only become a mid-level professional.

It is good enough for Gulu to become a senior builder, but Yang Yi saw that Hulu, who has E-level qualifications, also became a senior builder under the guidance of Van Cleef. In addition, Gulu also has the expertise of "building buildings", so Yang Yi believes that Gulu still has potential to be tapped, and he may be able to train an expert fishman builder for Ratchet Town.

Gulu was completely stunned when he heard the task assigned to him by Yang Yi. He always followed the arrangement and built buildings one by one. He never thought that there would be a task that lasted for half a year, and a task would build 10,000 acres of farmland.

"Mayor, Gulu doesn't understand." Gulu was at a loss.

"It doesn't matter if you don't understand. You can ask, learn, and figure it out yourself."

Yang Yi said, patting Gulu's shoulder in a leader's manner, and directly confirmed the truth with an expression of "I am optimistic about you".

Meeting a mayor like Yang Yi, Gulu could only take the task with a sad face.

As for the remaining Hulu, Yang Yi asked him to continue to be responsible for various construction work in Ratchet Town. .