In this remote corner of the solar system, on this small, cold planet, Zhao Changxing's life seems to have been fixed on a fixed track, year after year, day after day.
The construction of Humanity Base No. 1 is progressing steadily, and the children are slowly growing up. Zhao Changxing witnessed with his own eyes that the babies had the ability to turn over for the first time - this honor was won by Sun Caiyun, and he also witnessed the babies' first ability to stand up.
For the first time, he had the ability to sit stably. This honor was won by the eldest brother of all babies, Zhao Ye.
As for the first one who could crawl on the ground, it was their second sister, Qian Yue. At this time, the other babies were just lying there with their bellies on the ground, kicking and slapping their hands and feet.
When Qian Yue hummed an unknown sound, crawled towards Zhao Changxing from a few meters away, and laughed after Zhao Changxing picked her up, Zhao Changxing was greatly relieved.
At this time, they can no longer stay in the nursery, but are moved to another room. Babies who have just crawled are when their curiosity is strongest, and they want to grab everything.
If you hold it in your mouth and explore it, and if you don't have enough control over your body, it can easily lead to danger. Therefore, the hygiene standards in this room are extremely high, and there is not a single hard or angular thing.
There are ten mobile robot aunties waiting for them here around the clock. Whether they are hungry, have a bowel movement, pee, or are sleepy, they can always come forward to deal with it. Normally, they are allowed to play freely here, or interact with each other.
Play during the day, or play with toys.
They are growing up here slowly, receiving early childhood education courses developed by earth experts and implemented through robot aunties. Sometimes Zhao Changxing will come in and play with them after disinfection. At this time, Zhao Changxing is the happiest and most relaxed.
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Slowly, they learned to walk and talk. When Qian Yue, representing all the children, called Zhao Changxing "Dad" for the first time, Zhao Changxing hugged her excitedly and kissed her more than a dozen times.
She giggled.
At this time, considerable progress has been made in the construction of Humanity Base No. 1. One-third of the laying of the main frame has been completed, and it is almost halfway. And Zhao Changxing has decided that when the halfway point is reached, a new one will be built here.
After that, the five rooms of the first phase of the building were demolished and all the building materials were integrated into the official Humanity Base No. 1.
This will result in no food production for about three months, but Zhao Changxing is not worried. In the past two years or so, he has accumulated enough food to fully eat.
After Feng Yu, who was the slowest to speak, was able to call him daddy, Zhao Changxing officially started the construction process of a new soilless cultivation workshop.
The soilless cultivation workshop is an important part of Humanity Base No. 1. In the future, a large part of people's food will be obtained from here. No matter how important it is, it cannot be overemphasized.
The new soilless cultivation workshop is located in the northeast corner of Humanity Base No. 1, occupying nearly one-fifth of the total available area of the entire base, about 2,300 square meters. This is compared to the two workshops in the first phase of the project with a total area of 200 square meters.
The pitiful soilless cultivation workshop with an area of square meters is undoubtedly a huge leap forward.
Even if converted into the commonly used cultivated land area unit on earth, mu, there are nearly four acres of land.
Among the 2,300 square meters, Zhao Changxing plans to divide it into ten areas. Each area has an independent environment and can grow ten types of crops with similar environmental requirements.
Among these areas, the planting area of rice is as high as 300 square meters. After adopting the double-layer planting method, the area doubles to 600 square meters. They mature once every three months and can be planted four seasons a year. A total of almost three tons of rice can be harvested.
The wheat planting area is 200 square meters. Using the same double-layer planting method, the area doubled to 400 square meters. The genetically modified wheat varieties have a growth cycle of about three months and four seasons a year. It is estimated that the total annual output can reach
About 1.5 tons.
Of course, Zhao Changxing does not yet have 400 square meters of wheat seeds to plant, but it does not matter. At this moment, he has used those limited seeds to plant in the current soilless cultivation workshop. After the new workshop is built,
Seeds are completely sufficient.
You know, in order to save enough seeds, he was not even willing to make a bowl of noodles or a steamed bun to eat, and kept all the wheat harvested before as seeds.
The remaining extremely important crop is soybeans. Its planting area will also be increased to 600 square meters. After double-layer planting method is doubled, it will be 1,200 square meters, with an annual output of up to 2.5 tons.
Then there is corn. Corn is also very important, but its importance is not reflected in its use as food, but as animal feed. With corn, the subsequent cattle, sheep and other breeding can be improved.
It's on the agenda.
Zhao Changxing also allocated 500 square meters of its planting area. Of course, this thing is too tall to use the double-layer planting method, so it only covers an actual 500 square meters. The annual output is about 0.7 tons. But including corn cobs, there is still more
The weight of the plant should be barely enough. Besides, the animals don't just eat this, there are other feeds as supplements.
This consumes a total area of 1,600 square meters, and the remaining 700 square meters are divided more complicatedly. Various vegetables, such as eggplants, beans, cucumbers, spinach, lettuce, cabbage, peppers, etc., as well as rape, sunflowers, peanuts, cotton, etc.
Yes, there are also fruits, such as pineapple, strawberry, etc.
Zhao Changxing even plans to plant some more trees. Of course, these trees will be dwarfed and will not grow too tall to break the ceiling.
There are apple trees, pear trees, and the most important rubber tree.
Trees have a long growth cycle and must be planted in advance.
These trees cannot be planted using soilless culture. They have to use soil, and then water and fertilize regularly. Naturally, there is no soil on the Spark spacecraft, but the so-called soil can be made of sand and various kinds of fertilizers.
It is prepared by growing humus, organic matter, etc., and the sand can be collected directly from Sedna, which is not difficult.
Outside the soilless cultivation workshop is the livestock and aquaculture area. Due to the limited area, of course Zhao Changxing cannot adopt free-range farming and can only breed in captivity.
Raising chickens, ducks and geese is, of course, a method of raising chickens, ducks and geese in which they stay in cages all their lives and never see the light of day, maximizing area savings and improving breeding efficiency. As for taste - humans have reached this point, do they have the right to pursue taste?
You should raise more chickens. Their feed-to-meat ratio is amazing, they grow very fast, and they can also lay eggs. They are really the only way to quickly improve your living standards. As for ducks and geese, you can raise less ducks and geese, and use them as food occasionally.
To adjust the taste, just eat it sparingly.
Another important species is pigs. Whether adults or children, they must eat more meat to be healthy. Vegetarianism is absolutely not feasible here.
We also need to raise a batch of cows. These animals can not only eat meat, but also produce milk. There is not much milk powder reserve in the Huzhong spacecraft, and Zhao Changxing does not want the children born in the next generation to have to grow up on rice cereal. Even so.
I don’t have the equipment at hand to make milk powder. Drinking fresh milk after sterilization is much better than rice cereal.
In addition to pigs and cows, some sheep should also be raised appropriately. As for donkeys, forget it, we don’t have that condition for the time being.
In addition to livestock, there are aquatic products. As for fish, of course the four major species of fish are the first choice because of their high output and mature breeding technology. As for all kinds of raw seafood, they can only be postponed temporarily.
By the way, we need to open up a place to cultivate some aquatic plants, such as kelp.
After all the calculations, the livestock and aquaculture area also occupies thousands of square meters. Including the soilless cultivation workshop, the total area is more than 3,000 square meters.
In such a large area, even if it is just a modular installation, the workload is unimaginably huge. Especially since Zhao Changxing needs to wear a spacesuit to perform these operations, it is really inconvenient.
But there was nothing he could do. He could only work and be busy day after day.
It took him more than half a year to build the framework of these two areas. Next, it was time to install various internal equipment. But before that, he needed to complete the life support area.
With the support of the life-sustaining area, the environment inside the soilless cultivation workshop and livestock and aquaculture workshop will be able to directly support human survival. He will be able to take off his spacesuit and directly operate and install those components.
The life support area is also an extremely important part of Humanity Base No. 1. In the future, all energy for Humanity Base No. 1 will come from here. All water sources will be purified and circulated here, as will all air. This has cost him several
month's time.
In the blink of an eye, more than a year has passed, and the planned new soilless cultivation workshop and livestock and aquaculture workshop have still not been put into operation. This situation made him smile bitterly.
Now, the children are over two years old and full of energy. Even if there are ten robot aunts taking care of them, the children's room is always a mess.
On this day, after a day's work, Zhao Changxing once again dragged his tired body back to the Fire spacecraft.
As soon as I opened the door of the children's room, a chaotic atmosphere rushed in. I saw littered toys everywhere on the ground. Several children were shouting and running, several children were sitting on the ground crying, and several children were waving.
Playing monsters and heroes with toys, the ten robot aunties were busy running around and seemed to be on the verge of crashing.
Seeing Zhao Changxing coming back, the children looked at him at the same time, and then they cheered and ran over, surrounding Zhao Changxing.
Facing the calls of "Dad" and looking at the mess in the children's room, Zhao Changxing thought to himself: "Maybe... it's time to let the children go to school."