Walking into the restaurant, Ye Han, who was tired and hungry, asked loudly: "Yuan Yu, what are you eating today?"
"Same as in the morning." Yuan Yu walked into the restaurant with a plate, and a stainless steel basin filled with sweet potatoes and potatoes was placed on the table.
"Eating this thing again?" Duan Zhiyang wailed, "Where's the food?"
"Here it is!" Yuan Yu tore open a vacuum packaging bag and squeezed the tomato sauce in the bag onto Duan Zhiyang's plate.
"I want to eat green vegetables!" Duan Zhiyang continued to wail, his plaintive voice like a dog abandoned by its owner.
"Do you want food or are you going to die?" Yuan Yu bared his teeth and took out a few more bags and threw them on the table, "You can choose what you want to eat."
Tomato sauce, black pepper sauce, spicy sauce... Each package contains a different kind of sauce, which made Ye Han gnash his teeth: "Old Gao, I've been turning into a sweet potato all day long!"
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Gao Kai picked up a potato and said, "What? If you don't eat it, I'll eat it all."
Ye Han took a potato and threw it to Duan Zhiyang: "Here, eat a potato to improve your food."
Duan Zhiyang grinned and took the potatoes helplessly: "There are still a few sweet potato leaves in the morning... Captain Gao, are we going to plant sweet potatoes in the next batch?"
Gao Kai squeezed a little black pepper sauce on his plate, dipped a little on the skinned potatoes, took a hearty bite, and chewed: "This thing has the highest yield, what can you grow if you don't grow it?"
"It's okay to order more potatoes!" Duan Zhiyang was helpless to the extreme.
"The yield is too low, so we won't plant it after this harvest." Gao Kai.
"Okay, the agricultural base has completely turned into a sweet potato base." Ye Han chewed the steamed potatoes in his mouth without any taste, with a constipated expression on his face.
Gao Kai rolled his eyelids: "What's the matter? Do you still need me to give you political lessons? You can't overcome such difficulties?"
"Forget it, that's just me." Ye Han sighed. The more he ate, the more acidic his stomach became. "When will you finish eating?"
"Hold on for a while longer." Gao Kai.
Several people at the table sighed at the same time, even Gao Kai himself was no exception.
What is the ultimate goal of building a lunar base? It is self-sufficiency and the establishment of a complete industrial system, especially a heavy industry system.
The industrial system is not that easy to establish. Even if the Moon Palace Base is backed by the entire country, it is only relatively easy and the starting point is higher.
Without the premise of full control, it would be impossible for the country to build the Lunar Palace base at the lowest cost. If it were a peaceful period before the insect disaster broke out, the cost of launching the spacecraft alone would bankrupt the country's finances several times.
Now, the Moon Palace Base is on the right track. As long as the base is given enough time, it can gradually expand and expand.
However, what mankind lacks most is time. No matter the Moon Palace Base or the International Base, they are racking their brains to figure out how to speed up the construction progress.
Without considering the cost, both China and the United States have the ability to send a large number of people to the moon. However, sending people to the moon is easy, but eating and drinking is a big trouble. Without enough supplies, how can we feed the hungry spaceflight community?
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No one expected that the grain output in agricultural areas would become a decisive factor restricting the speed of base construction.
In order to increase food production, Yuegong Base abandoned its previous plan and planted sweet potatoes in a large area, minimizing the planting area of ​​vegetables. The supply of vegetables in Yuegong Base became extremely tight, and it was not uncommon to only get a few vegetable leaves for each meal.
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Originally, we could grow some vegetables in the soilless cultivation cabin, but there was only one vegetable garden, and no matter how much we planted, it wouldn't be enough for the entire base, so in the end we just planted sweet potatoes.
Nowadays, things are getting worse and worse. You can't even eat vegetable leaves. You can eat a few sweet potato leaves even if you add vegetables. Monotonous food cannot provide balanced nutrition. The astronauts have to rely on vitamin tablets to maintain the nutritional needs of the body.
Sweet potatoes are worthy of their reputation as high yields. After a large number of sweet potatoes were planted in agricultural areas, the grain output doubled!
The sweet potato harvest meant that the self-sufficiency capacity of the temporary base doubled. The ground immediately re-formulated the launch plan and dispatched personnel to the moon as quickly as possible. However, in just over a month, the number of astronauts in the temporary base increased to more than 200.
People, sufficient manpower can make the base construction speed go up several levels.
The equipment sent to the moon are the most advanced scientific and technological achievements, with a high degree of automation. It is easy for one or two people to manage several production lines.
The Moon Palace Base currently has no shortage of equipment, but it is extremely short of personnel to control the equipment. The increase in manpower is of extremely important significance to the base, the country, and all mankind.
Everyone understands the truth and understands the difficulties above, but as time goes by, a few complaints are inevitable.
Everyone ate slowly in silence. Yuan Yu hesitated again and again, and finally couldn't help but said: "How about we find a way to get some beans. Let's get some bean sprouts to eat?"
"That's right!" Duan Zhiyang suddenly became energetic, "We are not short of seeds, right? It's okay to grow your own food, right?"
"What do you want to plant?" Gao Kai ate the last piece of potato and picked up his share of sweet potatoes. "Where does the light come from in the living cabin?"
"We can grow things that don't require sunlight!" Duan Zhiyang was excited, "Bean sprouts, leeks, and garlic sprouts are all fine!"
"Mushrooms, there are mushrooms!" Yuan Yu's eyes sparkled, "We can grow mushrooms, and fungi don't need light!"
Gao Kai was stunned: "Thank you for being able to figure it out!"
There are a lot of culture media in agricultural areas, and there may be technical problems when used directly to grow mushrooms, but the ground should be able to solve the technical problems of growing mushrooms on culture media... It seems, it seems, roughly, it can indeed be done!
Hard work, self-reliance, wait and no dependence... Gao Kai's mind is full of slogans for difficult times.
It's not that he doesn't want to solve the vegetable problem, but he can't think of a solution at all. If he can grow some vegetables in the living cabin, even if he can't solve the vegetable supply problem, it can slightly improve the supply problem.
The caves that have been dug have their own uses. Facilities such as canteens and dormitories are not on the plan at all. Until now, all astronauts who have arrived on the moon still live in living cabins.
The space in the living cabin is limited, but you can always squeeze out a little space in every corner. If you can grow some vegetables... just thinking about it makes everyone salivate.
Gao Kai took a bite of the sweet potato and said, "I'll go to the agricultural area to get seeds soon!"
Everyone smiled heartily in unison, and Duan Zhiyang quickly came up with an idea: "They are all experts over there. Team Gao, don't forget to ask what is suitable to plant."
"Do you still need to tell me?"
"Where's the container? What to do with the container?" Yuan Yu asked, "We don't have any extra things."
"It's simple. I'll go find the smelting team to order a batch. It doesn't take much material to match each living cabin. That's it!" Gao Kai.
