Chapter 124 Planting Area

If you ask the survivors of Lishan Base what they are most concerned about now, it is undoubtedly the recruitment in the city center.

In order to get a golden rice bowl and become a civil servant of Lishan Base, each survivor has tried his best, some use beauty traps, some bribe, some flatter, some cry, two make a fuss, and three hang themselves, just to become a member of the newly established department.

Now the city center is crowded with people, and the long queue of recruitment teams has already formed the city center. In addition to the large number of people, many people were eliminated in this department and switched to another department to try, which caused the roads in the city center to be blocked and impassable.

The entire recruitment activity was held for three days, and each department recruited enough people. Jia Ding, Du Yuyan and others can also breathe a sigh of relief. Three consecutive days of recruitment have exhausted them.

Among the three departments, the production department mainly recruits talents in agricultural and breeding construction planning, the commercial department recruits some professional managers and white-collar workers, and the logistics department recruits some accounting and financial personnel. The three departments have been fully recruited.

The survivors who successfully applied for the job were naturally happy, while those who failed could only be dejected. However, on the last day of recruitment, the City Lord's Mansion had new news that the base would need some farmers and breeders to help the base with planting and breeding in the future.

More people were needed this time, and the preliminary statistics showed that the number reached about one thousand people, but these people did not have much food every day, only two taels of sweet potatoes, and there was no supply of salt and cooking oil.

They were planned to be under the name of the production department, not formal staff but temporary workers, or long-term workers, and Wang Jin was the landlord.

Although the treatment was much worse than that of department staff, it was much better than digging for food in the wild, and the survivors were still eager for this job.

Planting and breeding did not require any knowledge, as long as they could farm and raise livestock, it was not difficult.

Therefore, the conditions for finding people were much looser, and basically anyone with experience in planting and breeding could pass, so although there were many people to recruit, they were all recruited in less than half a day, with a total of 1,000 people.

When the recruitment was over, there were still a large number of survivors who were unwilling to leave, hoping that the City Lord's Mansion would continue to recruit, but this was impossible.

"Brother Wang! This is where I plan to plant sweet potatoes."

At this time, outside the Lishan base, after the recruitment activity ended, Wang Jin accompanied Du Yuyan and several staff members of their production department to a large plain a few kilometers away from the base.

"Tell me the reason!" Wang Jin reached out and grabbed a handful of soil, and found that the soil here was indeed very fertile, all dark black soil.

Du Yuyan winked at Zhang Zhouming on the side. This planting area was still decided by him. At the beginning, Du Yuyan saw that he was very reasonable, and after asking several professionals, he agreed with his opinion and placed the planting site here.

Now facing Wang Jin's inquiry, Zhang Zhouming naturally had to come out to explain. He himself was only a half-baked person in planting, so how could he explain it clearly?

Zhang Zhouming looked at the young man in front of him and could not think of him as the controller of the Lishan base. However, he could not deny the fact. Now he was working for someone else, so he had to perform well.

He had fought hard for this opportunity. He was not the only one who proposed it. Some people also proposed to establish a planting area here.

But only Zhang Zhouming conducted a careful investigation, lived and ate on the plain for three days, and summarized a detailed investigation report, and finally got this opportunity.

"First of all, this plain is large enough. After measurement, this plain has about 5,800 acres of land. There are no sloping gravels on the plain, which is suitable for field planting and conducive to future planting management and irrigation.

And this plain is geologically fertile and close to the river, which can guarantee the growth needs of sweet potatoes. We also considered the issue of defense, because this is a plain, and there is no shelter around it, which can ensure that we can observe the attack of mutant beasts and corpses as early as possible, so that mutant beasts cannot launch sneak attacks and effectively protect our farmers.

Near this plain, we can dig fish ponds and build a water conservancy system, using water sources to irrigate planting while using water sources to breed fish. And, Lord City Lord, you see, outside the plain, there are weeds all around, which can lay the foundation for our breeding. Our farm can be built nearby, and in the future, the manure of livestock can be used to fertilize the fields and increase the yield of sweet potatoes."

Zhang Zhouming talked freely and said the advantages of choosing to plant here. Everyone nodded and thought that what he said made sense. This plain seems to be really suitable for planting.

"How is the yield of this land!" Wang Jin asked the most concerned question, and the others did the same, all looking at Zhang Zhouming.

Zhang Zhouming had never been so nervous before. The young man in front of him could decide his life or death with a single word. If he was not satisfied with his answer, it was possible that his head would be removed.

"Because sweet potatoes are a high-yield crop, if there is enough fertilizer, I am sure that the yield per mu can be increased to more than 4,500 kilograms, but now there is no fertilizer in the base, and sweet potatoes can only grow naturally. We plan to collect human and animal feces from the base as fertilizer, and at the same time guide the water source of the fish pond to use seamless channels for irrigation.

Combined with the fertility of the plain itself, the yield of sweet potatoes per mu is about 2,000 kilograms. This plain has 5,800 mu, which can produce a total of 11,600 tons of sweet potatoes. The sweet potato planting period is 4 months, and it can be planted twice a year, providing an average of 1,900 tons of sweet potatoes for the base every month. "

Zhang Zhouming took out all his heart and said meticulously, fearing that he would anger Wang Jin and his head would fall off. After all, this yield is not very ideal, and it is too different from the yield per mu with fertility.

"2,000 mu per mu, providing 1,900 tons of sweet potatoes for the base every month. Can't it be increased?"

Wang Jin said somewhat dissatisfiedly. In the end times, no one thinks that they have too much food. Although the monthly income of 1,900 tons of sweet potatoes can basically meet the base, considering the future population increase and his own plan to search for survivors, these foods are not enough to consume.

"Sorry, Lord City Lord, this is the best yield I can give. Without fertilizer, I really can't produce more. There is no land more suitable for growing sweet potatoes near the base, and there is no river to meet the irrigation requirements. The scattered small-scale planting has too little yield and we have to dig canals, which is not worth the loss for us. This plain is the most suitable place for us to grow sweet potatoes. In addition, there are not enough seeds, so we are temporarily unable to increase the production of sweet potatoes." Zhang Zhouming heard the dissatisfaction in Wang Jin's words, and his heart skipped a beat. Cold sweat instantly soaked the clothes behind him. He quickly explained himself, saying that it was not because he was ignorant, but because there was no fertilizer and he had no way.