Chapter 45 Time Is Money
Of the 700 mu of fertile land, 400 mu were planted previously, and they harvested once every two months. The 300 mu planted later may not grow as fast as the wheat planted previously. This grass plant will return to a state of harvesting once every three months, which is a little faster than normal crops.
The water diversion from the medium-sized lake is enough to maintain the daily drinking water of 900 people, and the daily irrigation of 700 mu of land is already insufficient. In order to support so many people and land, he directly stopped the natural growth of the crystal mine. This thing is also a big water consumer. A crystal mine of 10 mu will consume the irrigation volume of 50 mu of land.
He plans to switch to farming on the floodplain after sufficient resources are available. The land there is even more fertile. There is a freshwater river that runs through the center of the floodplain and cuts off the entire plain. After entering the big world, this river connects to the sea, and the salt content is also very low.
(Note: 1 square kilometer is approximately equal to 1,500 mu. A block of 23 square kilometers has 34,000 mu of land when fully applied.)
In the big world, the territory will have four seasons in the future. The climate at the seaside is not like the four seasons of spring in the protective shell, which can provide a perfect growth environment for plants. However, the coastal climate is more stable and there will not be a particularly large temperature difference. With the green plants everywhere, there will be no less precipitation.
There is a slight chill in the wind.
The tailor shop must be exchanged as soon as possible. He tightened his clothes and thought about future plans.
The clothes worn by the residents of the territory are still the coarse cloth clothes that were given as gifts when buying a house before, and each house gives 20 pieces. Every time I see them go out to work, everyone is wearing brown clothes, which feels like a prison break. These people with war backgrounds are very hardworking and are satisfied with a full meal.
My two subordinates value the two pieces of clothes brought out from the dungeon very much, and they usually wear coarse cloth clothes.
Animal fur, cotton, silk, and ramie are the four most common raw materials used to make clothes. Animal fur needs to be hunted, while silk needs to be cultivated and grown with mulberry trees, which equals two resources, leaving only cotton and ramie.
The application range of cotton far exceeds that of ramie.
Planting cotton...
Cotton needs...
Ahem, not that kind of thing.
Get rid of a hell joke from your mind.
He was thinking whether he should use this rare opportunity of this era to exchange cash crops, or to exchange them. To be fair, cotton is very helpful in improving the living standards of a territory. Rice, sugarcane, and wheat provide sugar and plant fiber, and two staple foods are enough.
But there are not enough side dishes.
He has a 100-man musket team and a 200-man light crossbow team, and he doesn't have to worry about the problem of meat hunting. He can get everything by sweeping the mountains, but berries can't be eaten as cooked meals.
The three crops in front of him are sweet potatoes, cotton, and soybeans.
The rhizomes and vines of sweet potatoes are edible, cotton is an important textile raw material, and soybeans, as an important source of protein, have also derived a large number of food processed products.
"Lord, I would suggest you grow cotton."
Chongshan answered him like this.
"According to the current economic model of the territory, we rely heavily on trade to obtain other resources from the market. The market competitiveness of soybeans and sweet potatoes is worse than cotton for a long time at this stage. As food, they can be replaced. But now is not the time for them to play a role as industrial raw materials."
"Cotton is not easily replaceable. After the tailor shop in the third era, everyone will need cotton. We now have a lot of good land, and it is worth using part of it to grow cash crops in exchange for minerals."
Then he smiled and showed Ji Lin the rice and meat slices in the bowl. That was the rice obtained by directly collecting wild rice from the floodplain. The taste is far less sweet and soft than the rice that has been domesticated by humans for generations in modern times. However, even this kind of rice is extremely popular in the market, and each unit can be sold for 0.6 gold.
"As for the side dishes you're worried about, I think you're overly worried."
We're happy to have meat and salt every day.
People's living habits are not so easy to change.
The territory still implements a strict food rationing system, and there are no vegetables yet. It all depends on the previous berry inventory to supplement vitamins. Ji Lin will also use the berries produced and the mature rice collected to exchange some vegetables to improve the living standards of the territory.
Now the main source of meat in the territory is to clean up various animal monsters among the second-level enemies, and a small part is contributed by the hunting spiders. Although their bodies are not edible, their eight long legs inherit the meat characteristics of arthropods and are unexpectedly good.
It's not very cost-effective, but it's not a loss.
After ensuring the most basic dietary needs of the territory, other needs will naturally come into being.
The promotion from the third era to the fourth era is different from the previous simple need to spend a certain amount of resources to upgrade directly.
The territory needs to have the necessary buildings to upgrade to the next era, and the corresponding technology will naturally start the test when it is completed. If the test is completed, it will be upgraded. If the test fails, it will enter a one-year dark age period. The era cannot be upgraded before the dark age ends.
Technology civilization iteration, the conditions for upgrading his era are:
[Emperor Era: Requirements: At least one of the three divisions of academy/government/palace must be completed once for the expansion of additional buildings in the town center, and at least fifteen technologies of the Emperor Era and before the Emperor Era]
Very convenient conditions, he already has this high-level zoning blueprint of the engineering college, when the time comes, it will kill two birds with one stone. The college itself can also research technology, and the additional building expansion of the town center, to put it simply, is to give the town center additional functions such as the Ministry of Personnel, Ministry of Revenue, Ministry of Rites, Ministry of War, Ministry of Punishment, and Ministry of Works.
It's just a metaphor, there are not only six ministries, the town center has more expanded functions.
After all the functions are expanded, the town center will be a real municipal center.
Exchange the cotton seeds and give them to the redistributors to select good land for sowing first, and then make Chang Heng and his musketeers suffer, let them serve as garrison soldiers to take care of the cotton growth for a while until the next batch of villagers arrive, and the surrounding monsters will be cleared during this period.
They are not needed for the time being.
The two hundred light crossbowmen were thrown into the farmland as soon as they came down from the battlefield. They were busy with farming, digging new canals, and sowing.
Some villagers were sent to mine wood. Now the territory is about to welcome a population of 900 people. Housing is a big problem. People can't sleep on the floor when they come.
All of a sudden, the entire territory was mobilized to engage in new work. Ji Lin raised the meat standard to once every two days to encourage production efficiency.
Time is money!
And Ji Lin, Ji Lin was thinking about other things.
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