Chapter 272 Agriculture and Transportation

Chongshan stood on the grass and waved to the black shadow that fell from the sky. The carrier slowly descended after seeing his action.

This is a carrier used in the territory.

The transportation capacity of the territory is increasingly scarce. The transportation capacity provided by dozens of pack animals is just a drop in the bucket for the daily transportation capacity required by the territory.

At Chongshan's request, Ji Lin, after confirming that all threats nearby have been cleared, distributed a small amount of carrier production shares to the territory to reduce the transportation and management pressure of the territory during summer harvest and summer planting.

A cargo airship has a carrying capacity of nearly 20 tons. It can carry a large amount of materials back and forth between the two places at a slow speed at one time, and does not occupy the space of the road.

There is no need for a special berth. The airship can completely float at a height of tens of centimeters on the lawn, allowing the porters to unload and load goods on board stably.

The carrier used by the territory uses an integrated process to reduce the cost of additional parts consumed by processing multiple joints/modules. The number of processed parts and construction accuracy are relatively reduced by 20%.

This type of carrier for cargo service does not need to emphasize external protection performance, shock resistance and impact resistance like military-grade carriers, but instead improves flight stability and maintainability as well as the carrying capacity of a single ship.

The territory's Seagull-class cargo ship is more like a large and fat oval, with a metallic spine exposed on the top of the oval, which is its floating stone engine.

What restricts the production of airships in the sky island and territory is the limited production capacity of the territory.

The blacksmith shop is upgrading its industry/production equipment, replacing the original low-yield crucible smelting with a blast furnace. These large furnaces with bellows can provide a large amount of pig iron and wrought iron for the territory, and finally use the steel pouring method to make steel.

The popularization of steel materials can reduce the workload of rune craftsmen to a certain extent, and use their production capacity where it is more needed.

For example, the floating stone engine that can only be carved and manufactured by rune craftsmen controls the feedback loop of the floating stone engine.

"Mr. Chongshan, here are all kinds of seeds that the lord asked me to transport. They have been confirmed to be able to be planted in the territory."

The soldiers in gray military uniforms and the guards in blue uniforms jumped off the airship and saluted the long-awaited affairs officer.

The best airship pilots and airship maintenance engineers in the territory are all from the military. In terms of maintenance alone, the researchers in the engineering college may not be as capable as these ground staff who have become good doctors after long-term illness.

Anyone who spends a month repairing an airship that needs to be inspected every time it flies can figure it out. And they also need to teach this experience to the pilots and maintenance personnel selected from the territory who have a strong desire to drive. After completing this task, they can return to the sky island.

The guards are the tools responsible for carrying and maintaining the order of the airship and counting points.

Chongshan nodded to them and called the heads of the various agricultural groups behind him to gather and prepare to move the seeds down.

"By the way, are the new seeds that the lord mentioned also in it?"

The soldier showed a trace of bewilderment on his face, and then took out a receipt from his arms and handed it to Chongshan.

"This is the receipt, all the new seeds are on it, the lord said you will know after you see it."

Chongshan nodded, began to check the receipt in front of him, and then smiled. The territory production department has already allocated the land for planting various plants in advance, and they are now waiting for the arrival of seeds.

A crop is placed on the first line of the receipt, followed by the area where this type of seed can be planted.

'Soybean: Estimated planting area, 5,000 acres'

Five thousand acres of soybean seeds.

This is the fourth-era crop seed that Ji Lin exchanged with the system, soybean.

Soybean can be used to produce various soy products, extract soybean vegetable oil, brew soy sauce and extract protein.

Of course, Ji Lin mainly values ​​its function as a food that can be processed into side dishes and staple foods, and can also be used to extract a large amount of oil.

Soybean can make up the last piece of the puzzle of the territory's basic crops.

Now the territory is already in short supply of oils and fats obtained by fishing for sea fish, and the prices of various oils and fats sold in the lord market are not low. There are 13,000 mouths in the territory, and the food, salt, sugar, and side dishes consumed in a month are already a number that makes people's scalps numb.

It is necessary to ensure that everyone can eat meat and that everyone can eat well.

When the first season of soybeans is harvested, the territory will build a soybean processing workshop, and it will provide a series of soy products such as tofu, dried tofu, tofu shreds, tofu puffs, and bean curd sticks for the people.

Wheat, rice, soybeans, and sugarcane are the four major crops of the territory in the future.

Rice, flour, grain, and oil are all available.

Necessary living supplies can be completely self-sufficient, and the canteen of the territory has a variety of food rotations. If this continues, a restaurant operated by the government can be opened.

"Wait, what is this forage grass?"

Chongshan scanned the order and found that there was another line at the bottom of the receipt.

‘Grass: 50 acres’

“This is newly added by the lord. He specifically told me that this plant has a short growth cycle. It can be planted in newly developed fields without pre-planning.”

The gray soldier scratched his head and explained to Chongshan.

“He said that this plant is not suitable for planting on Sky Island, so it is better to send it to the territory to plant and see how it goes. This batch of grass only has 50 acres. If it performs well, we will determine whether to continue to expand the planting area.”

“Is that so?”

Chongshan touched his chin, took out a notebook and wrote down the new expansion plan. The 20,000 mu originally reserved for the territory was not enough. The summer planting plan has increased the agricultural area to 30,000 mu, which can provide up to 10,000 jobs.

The population growth rate far exceeds his well-prepared assessment plan, and these newcomers must also work. It is absolutely not allowed to idle at home.

Rights and obligations are equal, and they must work for the territory.

He even considered whether to increase the planting area of ​​the agricultural area to 45,000 mu, leaving a maximum of 15,000 agricultural jobs. Let the current batch of territory residents be a little tired when sowing, but enough arable land can be left for the subsequent new territory residents to engage in production work.

And this year's plan is to allow a ten-person agricultural team to be responsible for the cultivation of 40 mu of land, 45,000 mu... that is, at least 11,250 territory residents are engaged in production.

And the multiple food processing industries and composting and public health projects surrounding agriculture are another troublesome matter.

Compared with these, a mere fifty acres of pasture is nothing.