A month has passed in the blink of an eye, and the harvest in the green field is coming to an end.
The farmers who had been busy in the fields could finally take a breath, wipe the sweat from their faces, and take a bath in the river. Everyone's face was filled with joy.
This was an undoubtedly good harvest. The grains were piled up in the barn, and the extra carrots could only be temporarily stored in the wine cellar by Ilea.
The ones who gained the most from this were Li Yu and his lizard people.
You must know that just a year ago, those lizardmen were still barbarians living in the swamp, drinking blood from their hair, and the surrounding villages were a nightmare, and they didn't even know how to use a hoe.
Until they were inspired by Saturday (anyway, the lizard people always insisted on saying so), they bravely walked out of the swamp and left the home they depended on for survival.
After meeting the prophet Merlin, he finally realized that Sosokos and Saturday were one and the same, completely converted to the religion of Shuangxiu, and found a new home in this land.
In just one year, they completely changed their appearance and became the first pioneers in Greenfield to use new farm tools and compost.
Li Yu transformed them into something similar to the people's communes, with the characteristics of one person and two people.
Although in Li Yu's realm, this kind of socialist grassroots unit eventually became an obstacle to the development of productive forces due to the various shortcomings it exposed, and eventually died out.
However, its advantages cannot be completely negated.
At least in the early stages, this kind of organizational unit has natural advantages in infrastructure construction and farmland reclamation, and it is also a manifestation of concentrating efforts to do big things.
Moreover, the lizard people themselves are similar to the group structure of primitive society. Everyone gathers together to form a large group, using collective strength to resist the risks brought by the harsh environment, while sharing the means of production.
This organizational structure is the natural prototype of the people's commune. If they are forcibly separated and private ownership is vigorously promoted, it will make them uncomfortable.
So Li Yu just let nature take its course. Anyway, as time goes by and productivity increases, their next generation and the next generation will gradually leave the group.
This is the general law of social development, and you must accept it whether you are willing or not.
Of course, these are things that will happen a long time ago. Those lizardmen who came out of the swamp are still strong and control the voice of the group, so there will be no separation for the time being.
And they did not disappoint Li Yu's expectations this time. As a pilot project for agricultural reform, the farms and farmlands in Shuangxiujiao's territory all ushered in an unprecedented bumper harvest!
The yield of the same piece of land has doubled than before, and the seed-to-harvest ratio has been increased to 1:8. This is the magic brought by deep plowing and manure!
Not to mention that the efficiency of sowing and harvesting has also been improved. The more land a person can cultivate, the more food he can harvest, freeing up more people to do other work.
Li Yu also breathed a sigh of relief when he got the preliminary statistical results, despite his usual calmness.
But after all, he was not a student majoring in agriculture, and no one helped him in the early stage. All the methods he could learn to increase grain production were found online and in books.
However, theory alone is not enough. Putting theory into practice is the real challenge.
During this process, Li Yu also made many detours. Instead of being complacent and blindly confident just because he came from a higher-tech civilization, he also consulted many local farmers for advice.
Study the details with them, then come back and read the books to verify again and again, and finally have the current results.
This bumper harvest is very important to Li Yu, and getting enough food is the next best thing. After all, he has money now during the two-day holiday, and the harvest in the Western Region this year is generally pretty good. At worst, he can just go out and buy it.
The real significance is that it proves that the new farm tools and new farming methods that Shuangxiujiao has been vigorously promoting are effective, completely dispelling the doubts in the minds of other believers.
At this point, Li Yu's agricultural reform could be considered a real success.
However, he was not dazzled by the victory like others, and later went to inspect the progress of selection and breeding.
When he first came to Greenfield, he had entrusted Fausto to find four children for him and teach them Arabic numerals, simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and statistics.
Except for Hera, who is now assisting Li Yu in managing the weekend education, for the remaining three children, Li Yu assigned them tasks according to the original plan and asked them to go to the wild and select the best seeds in the fields.
Collect those seeds, plant them in the ground, and then select the better offspring among them and cultivate them...
This is the kind of work that is hard to see results in a while, but the significance lies beyond upgrading farm tools and composting.
Because almost all the foods that you can name on the earth come from this way. They originate from some accidental mutation. Their seeds were discovered and cultivated, and then mutated again, and mutated again... and so on, and they became what they are today.
What it looks like now.
Until they become bigger and bigger, more delicious, more suitable for survival, and more resistant to disasters...especially the latter, they can even save a civilization at a critical moment.
This is also the reason why Li Yu started working on this matter as soon as he came here.
Because he could not directly carry the finished seeds for plane travel, he could only start from scratch. In this case, it was of course better to do it sooner rather than later.
After he has almost used all the external means that can increase production, he will have to rely on the evolution of the crop itself if he wants to increase production.
Nowadays, Shuangxue Education's breeding team has increased to eleven people. Although there are currently no scientific research results that can be put into immediate application, Li Yu still rewarded each of them with five Divine Kingdom Points.
And among this series of big things, there is one small thing that doesn’t seem so inconspicuous.
Niu Xiangui, the first follower of Shuangxiu Teaching, a full-stack engineer with the Christian name of Columbus, completed his three-month training and passed the final Mainland Common Language exam.
After getting the certificate, although it was only T4 and he had to continue taking the exam if he wanted to leave Green Field, it also meant that he could start a new chapter in his life.
Of course, this also means that Niu Xiangui will have to worry about food and shelter in the future.
Fortunately, Niu Xiangui is no stranger to this kind of thing.
He walked out of the time traveler's apartment with his certificate in his arms and looked at the sun outside. He felt like he was back when he had just graduated from college.
At that time, he was still very young, a little handsome, but not much. He was still a little nervous after leaving campus. But now, he has already been involved in society, and his whole person is calm and calm due to the accumulation of time.
And the most important thing is that Niu Xiangui is now a half-orc!!!
Lu Weijia is quite jealous of him because of this matter. She is almost like Xianglin's wife. She nags her every day about everything. Why can't I get a hunk? She looks as sad as she can.
This chapter has been completed!