Daily Life In Qin Dynasty

On the way back.

Xia Wuqie, who was sitting on the left side of the carriage, was dejected and unhappy.

However, on the other side, Mr. Mo was happily holding a large bag of seeds and seedlings, with a full harvest.

Return to Xianyang.

Holding these seeds and seedlings, Mo Jun couldn't wait to lock himself in the backyard of the mansion.

The backyard of the main house was originally an ornamental garden, but now it has been transformed into a plantation and animal pen by Mo Jun. It was also listed as a forbidden area, and even the servants at home could not enter without Lord Mo's permission.

no way.

Although it is unlikely to be discovered, some anomalies here will always be troublesome if they are discovered.

The plantation is separated from the animal pen by a fence.

The animal pen is currently mainly used to raise the young of some livestock and poultry, such as chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep.

Although Mr. Mo in the previous life conducted in-depth research on the topic of "Disease Prevention, Control and Treatment of Native Black Pigs", unfortunately, for now, the results of this research do not have much significance at the moment.

Because not only local black pigs, but almost all livestock and poultry at present have not been able to achieve large-scale breeding.

Ordinary people couldn't afford meat, and nobles didn't care about the death of one or two livestock.

Therefore, Mo Jun currently raises these livestock and poultry mainly to satisfy his own appetite.

Therefore, for the animals in the animal pen, except for the castration of the piglets, Mo Jun usually feeds other livestock and poultry with some 1% concentration of [Water of Life] occasionally to prevent them from dying prematurely.

Later, when they are older, they will change places and leave them to the care of servants, and basically don’t care about anything else.

In plantations, the main crops grown today are grains, which are the current staple food:

Hemp, millet, millet, wheat, beans.

However, these crops are not for satisfying one's own appetite, but for experiments.

Food shortage has been a major problem in the Central Plains since ancient times.

Even after two thousand years, this problem still has not been solved. In fact, the Central Plains in later generations still has to rely on imported food from abroad every year to meet the daily needs of the domestic people.

Now, this problem is even more serious.

I really want to talk about it.

Nowadays, the seven countries are not actually short of food. After all, although the current food output is very low, the population is also not large. Now the total number of civilians in the entire Central Plains is estimated to be no more than 20 million.

However, most of the food now is concentrated in the hands of a small group of people at the top.

And trying to get food out of the hands of these people is simply more difficult than climbing to the sky. Even if you kill them all with a knife, these people will definitely destroy all the food before they die.

Don't think these people can't do it.

Human nature has been like this since ancient times.

Throughout the ages, it has never been natural disasters that kill the most, but man-made disasters.

Therefore, if we want to solve the food problem, there are only two options left.

Either find a new staple food, but whether it is potatoes or sweet potatoes, these are still too far away from Mo Jun.

Either increase current food production.

obviously.

Mr. Mo chose the second option.

All staple foods, vegetables and fruits promoted in later generations are basically the product of several generations of improved varieties.

Because most of the original varieties of staple foods, vegetables and fruits may taste better, but the yield is too low and the fruits are often very small, which is not conducive to large-scale planting at all.

In the current era, the yield of grains is even more outrageous.

In an ordinary ear of rice, one-third of the fruits are shriveled, and the other two-thirds of the fruits are much smaller than the rice of later generations.

The reasons for this result:

One is the issue of land fertility.

The second is the difference in genetic varieties.

The difficulty of improving most first- and second-generation agricultural plant varieties is not high. As long as you do more experiments and comparisons, you will get the desired results sooner or later.

It just takes a bit long.

And the plantation that Mo Jun created now is to help him complete this experiment.

As for his purpose of doing this, it is also very pure. He has no great ideals and is simply for meritorious service and rewards.

Ever since he rescued Xiong Da on the battlefield, Mo Jun understood that he was not suitable for a frontal battlefield environment, not because of anything else, but because he was afraid of death.

It's not easy to live a new life, and there are plug-ins.

If he dies before he can fully enjoy his life, then Mo Jun feels that he has suffered a big loss.

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A total of three pieces of farmland were cultivated in the plantation.

Planting experimental crops only used less than a piece of arable land. What Mo Jun has to do now is to plant all the 'medicinal seeds' he got from Master Yaogui.

However, before planting, Mo Jun must first soak these seeds and seedlings with 10% concentration of [Water of Life].

This can enhance the vitality of the seeds and make them grow stronger.

"This is······"

Suddenly, Mo Jun's eyes narrowed and he noticed something was wrong.

"This part of the seeds absorbs life energy so quickly. I remember that these seeds seem to be... elixir seeds!"

Mr. Mo knows that there are such beings as elixirs and strange beasts in this world. A relatively representative elixir appeared in the original work, which is undoubtedly the "blood jade leaf flower".

There are even more exotic beasts, whether it's Bai Feng's white phoenix, Chi Lian's oversized red king snake, or the black tiger that appeared during the Guigu Sect's test... they can all be included in this list.

At first, Mr. Mo didn't actually think of buying the elixir seeds, but the moment he spoke to Master Yaogui, he suddenly thought of the existence of elixirs, so he mentioned it casually.

Originally, Mr. Mo thought that the elixirs in this world had properties and functions far beyond those of ordinary medicinal materials, but now it seems that the effects of these so-called 'spiritual elixirs' may be even more bizarre than he imagined.

Seeing that the life energy in this jar of [Water of Life] was about to be sucked dry by the elixir seed, Mr. Mo immediately took out another [Life Crystal (Fragment)] from his personal warehouse.

I originally opened it and broke it in half, but after thinking about it, I just put the whole piece in.

With the new supply of life energy, the absorption efficiency of the 'elixir seeds' in the jar instantly increased again, and as more energy was absorbed, the vitality contained in these seeds became more abundant.

Twenty-three elixir seeds.

After absorbing a total of two and a half pieces of [Life Crystal (Fragments)] from Mr. Mo, he finally calmed down.

"Good guy, it takes a hundred ordinary seeds to use up one piece of [Life Crystal], but you can use ten seeds to drain one piece, which directly increases the consumption ten times."

The corner of Mo Jun's mouth twitched, and he suddenly realized that he was just cultivating a field, and he was consuming a lot more [Life Crystals] than he was practicing.

It took nearly an hour.

After planting all the seeds one by one, Mo Jun took out a black powder from his personal warehouse.

【Weathered Powder】

Originally, Mr. Mo thought that these remnants of the decomposed human body were just waste, and he even thought about throwing them away.

But just three days ago, he discovered how wrong he was.

These decomposed residues may seem ordinary, but in fact they contain a large number of microorganisms and trace elements. Using it for farming can not only supplement nutrients for plants, but the microorganisms contained in it can also subtly improve the geology and enhance land fertility.

This thing is simply the most perfect fertilizer in the world.

One unit of [weathered powder] is one kilogram.

When fertilizing ordinary crops, only ten kilograms are needed for a piece of land, and a thin layer is enough.

But when fertilizing those elixir seeds, considering the special nature of these seeds, Mo Jun specially strengthened the fertility and used three times the amount.

Finish fertilizing.

Finally, Mo Jun took out a dark green octagonal crystal from his personal warehouse.

[Low-level element crystal (wood)]

This is also a new discovery made by Mo Jun when he planted experimental crops some time ago. By decomposing the plants, the crystals of the energy essence of the plants can be harvested.

This plant energy essence can help other plants grow faster.

In fact, the energy of [Life Crystal] can also do this, but the consumption is too great, and the main function of Life Crystal is to compensate for the origin of life and to accelerate the growth of plants, which is not quite suitable.

In contrast.

This [lower element crystal (wood)] is not only more effective in accelerating plant growth.

More importantly, this thing is much cheaper than [Life Crystal (Fragment)].

As long as Mr. Mo finds a big tree and breaks it down at will, he can easily obtain at least ten pieces of [Lower Element Crystal (Wood)].

After many experiments.

Mo Jun finally discovered that the "Growth Spirit Liquid" mixed with 10% [Life Crystal] and 90% [Lower Element Crystal] had the best effect on watering ordinary crops.

As for watering the seeds of the elixir, because of its special nature, Mr. Mo finally controlled the ratio of [Life Crystals] and [Lower Element Crystals] at 5:5 after several attempts.

While Mo Jun was concentrating on planting new crops, his life became peaceful again.

In the blink of an eye.

Another half month has gone by in a blink of an eye...