Apocalypse Rebirth: 3000 million won at the beginning

Chapter 185 Famine
It is already May.

Five days without rain and a small drought, ten days without rain and a severe drought, and smoke in a month without rain.

After the rainstorm, it has not rained for a month.

The entire land is in ruins, and many former farmlands are full of ravines.

In the base, due to the previous water storage in the mountain pond, the water level of the mountain pond was raised to the highest.

At this time, the continuous month of dry weather has caused the water in this mountain pond to decrease day by day.

At this time, the water in the mountain pond has been reduced by one-third.

In this base, everyone has already saved water, but in the farmland, the water source consumed is the largest, but at this stage, this is a last resort.

Li Yu is very clear about the advantages and disadvantages of drip irrigation. From the perspective of advantages: theoretically speaking, drip irrigation does save water, fertilizer, labor and labor.

However, there are many problems in actual operation.The first one is that the dripping air of the hair head is easy to block, and there are still basic requirements for the water quality used for drip irrigation, at least to ensure that it is clean and free of impurities.

Planting field crops requires two seasons a year, and the sowing forms are complicated. It is too troublesome to keep dismantling and installing drip irrigation equipment.

The crops installed with drip irrigation must not be harvested by mechanized farming, otherwise it will be troublesome to disassemble and disassemble, and it will easily block the drip irrigation holes if dragged around in the soil.

Just like field crops such as corn, wheat, peanuts, sweet potatoes, potatoes, beans, etc., all need to be plowed to turn over the soil, raked and re-planted in the whole bed, and the installation of dropper equipment is not labor-saving but labor-intensive.

All in all, it also depends on whether the crops are suitable for installing drip irrigation. Various factors must be considered.

Is it convenient to harvest from planting?Are there external conditions?Is it enough to cost?And so on a variety of aspects of comprehensive consideration.

The most important thing in these last days is to survive, so the staple food to meet the needs is nothing more than rice, corn, wheat, sweet potatoes, and potatoes.

Drip irrigation cannot be used for rice, because it needs to be planted in water, and simple drip irrigation cannot satisfy the growth of plants.

Potatoes, corn, etc. all need to be plowed to turn over the soil, raked and replanted, and the dripper equipment is installed, which is labor-intensive and time-consuming.

Moreover, similar to this kind of dry weather, although it will happen for a long time, the place where Li Yu lives is in a subtropical monsoon climate, and the annual precipitation is quite abundant.

Therefore, Li Yu did not intend to use drip irrigation equipment from the very beginning.The reason why we chose to build the base here is because there is a large mountain pond here.Can meet the use of water sources.

Now, just wait for the dry season to pass and the rainy season to come.

In the farmland, under the sun exposure, the water in the farmland evaporates very quickly, basically every 3 to 5 days, water will be released from the mountain pond.

Fortunately, now the entire mountain pond is no longer irrigating the farmland of each household, but only the few acres of land in this base.The consumption is not that exaggerated.

The hot days are still going on, and the drought is happening everywhere.

Because of the water source problem, the scene of the survivors relocating is constantly being staged.

During the relocation, some people died on the road due to exhaustion; some people died of heat stroke without effective rescue; some people died of starvation.

In the base, a match is in full swing.

In Li Yu's plan, there are two paths for the base's future development plan, one is to continuously expand the sphere of influence.The advantage is that there are more people, it is easier to do things, the strength is stronger, and you can better protect yourself.The downside is that food is the core of all issues. In this last world, if there is not enough food, no matter how many people there are, it will be a burden.

The other way is to take the route of elite soldiers, all the people are soldiers, and among the limited personnel, the overall power will be improved.The advantage is that it is easier to manage with fewer people, and the pressure on food is not so great. The disadvantage is that the overall strength is definitely not as good as that of a large group.

Li Yu is currently taking the second path to improve the overall quality of personnel.At the same time, in the early stage, more gun firepower was obtained.

But the bullets will run out sooner or later. Looking at the end of the world, natural disasters come from time to time, and it is easy for some groups to be defeated.

Years after the end of the world, rainstorms, droughts, snowstorms, cold.Keep destroying the world.A lot of industrial equipment was destroyed.

It also allowed mankind to gradually enter the era of cold weapons.

Human civilization is gradually being destroyed.

In the face of the most critical survival, food is the fundamental element to the end.

Only by maintaining a sufficient food supply can we truly survive.

Li Yu, who was reborn, knew one thing very well.

There is no supernatural power in this world, nor is there a child of the age who leads mankind to rebuild civilization.

Yes, just endless despair, endless sadness.

Human beings can only survive in this doomsday environment.

It was another evening, and Li Yu went to the field to observe the planting of rice and corn.

Before I got close, I saw my grandfather rolling up his trouser legs, going down to the field to block Tian Chou, and repairing some small gaps in the edge of the field next to him.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Grandpa straightened up, raised his head and saw Li Yu, and said, "Xiaoyu, why are you here?"

"Grandpa, the weather is so hot, so you don't come out, don't suffer from heat stroke. I'll take a look at the crops." Li Yu replied.

Grandpa wiped his sweat with the towel on his shoulders, with anxiety in his eyes: "The water on the mountain pond is getting less and less, and I don't know when this dry season will end, hey. Your second uncle said that we had to fight before Well, the water in it has become much less. This is not a good sign."

Hearing his grandfather's worried words, Li Yu was also a little worried.According to his rebirth memory, this drought lasted for two months.Now relying solely on the water in the mountain pond, it can still be used until the end of the drought.

"Grandpa, let me help you." Li Yu also rolled up his trouser legs and went down to the field to repair some small gaps on the edge of the field.Avoid water flowing out. You must know that water is precious now, and the water is used to grow crops. It is undoubtedly a waste to let the water in these gaps flow out.

As of now, many flowers and plants in the garden have dried up and died.

Except for the few big sweet-scented osmanthus trees, which are occasionally watered, the other flowers and plants can only be left to die.

In this world, whenever there is war, drought, or food crisis, there must be population migration.

Even the last days are no exception.

In a place far away from the base, there is a huge group that is migrating south.

They didn't know where they were going, but they stayed where they were, waiting to die.

The materials in the original place have been looted, and many people can only move to other places.

There are also some groups who also want to try to grow crops, but they cannot withstand the long drought.

The crops finally withered, and they were desperate, and while they still had some food, they needed to prepare it in advance.

In the end, I was forced to find food elsewhere.

(End of this chapter)