The Legend of the Great Wilderness

Chapter 221 Catastrophic Yield
Everyone was stunned, and carefully pulled the soil away to have a look. Suddenly, they were dumbfounded. A light yellow tuber as thick as a bucket was exposed. The little worker went down with a hoe and dug the tuber. Although the milky white flesh inside was stained with a lot of black soil, it was quickly washed away by the milky white juice that oozed out.

"This... this thing is green vine cassava? Has it mutated? Shouldn't it be as thick as an arm?"

Guyi leaned over in amazement and took a look. He dipped his finger in the milk-colored juice and tasted it. The taste is a bit like coconut milk or soy milk, not at all as harsh as Wanshang who brought the green vine cassava said. , on the contrary, it tastes sweet, and probably contains a lot of sugar, like the sweet potato he had eaten in the original world.

"Dig! Dig! Be careful not to hurt the roots! Don't start digging from the edge of the field, start digging from the middle and look out, and see how big this thing is!"

Guyi waved his hands excitedly, and jumped into the field himself, because his own strength was too great, and Guyi, who had never used a hoe, was afraid that he might not be able to control the strength and hurt the cassava tubers, so he simply used his palm like a soil dial without tools. Like a rat, he picked up the dirt as quickly as a rat.

The growth rate of ivy cassava is astonishing. It takes a month to grow to this scale. If the output is high enough, I am afraid that the cassava planted in the first season is less than [-] square kilometers, which is enough to feed [Qingshiling] All the population is gone.

The crop workers were also excited, there were so many strange things outside, and they had never seen this kind of crop with a terrifying growth rate.

As a group of people started digging, the exposed ivy and cassava tubers stunned the friends. The original ivy and cassava species brought by Wanshang had ten to fifteen taproots and spread out in a spider web There are a large number of fibrous roots and aerial roots. The thickest tap root can grow to the thickness of an adult's wrist, and the length can grow to more than ten meters or even twenty meters.

However, the ivy cassava that Guyi and the others dug up, apart from the vertical roots that go down, the roots of more than a dozen main roots that radiate horizontally have been crowded together, growing into a very ugly deformed tumor It formed a large lump of giant nodules with a diameter of one or two meters!

In addition to this large tumor with a diameter of one or two meters, the radially growing main root is as thick as a bucket, and the length has even passed under the field ridge and drilled into other fields, and even the very end is as thick as an adult's thigh!
And the fibrous roots spreading out from between these dozens of main roots are equally astonishingly thick, and the number of them is already like a mess, intertwined with each other layer by layer, weaving a huge piece, covering an area of ​​six to seven hundred. A square "flying saucer"-like object!

"What the hell!"

Guyi's eyes were a little straight, he finally knew, because the soil in the Maotian field would crack and bulge up, Nima felt that there was not enough space underground, this thing was so long that it pushed up the surface layer of soil!

At the same time, Guyi probably guessed the reason for the mutation of Ivy Cassava. This guy is simply a camel with no growth limit!
The following tubers are its organs for storing nutrients. When the environment is good, it will desperately absorb nutrients and water and store them in the roots. When the environment is bad, it can survive for a long time just relying on its own reserves without external factors up!
The living environment of Ivy cassava in [Nanyue Yu] may be relatively harsh. Due to the barren land, the growth is only as thick as an arm, and the taste is bitter, probably due to the lack of water and the high salinity of the soil.

After coming to [Qingshiling], the fertile black soil that can drip oil provides it with a perfect growth environment, coupled with the inexperienced Guyi and the others, they are desperately topdressing and watering for fear that the plant will not survive, resulting in Ivy cassava is desperately storing nutrients and water, and as a result, it grows into this terrible deformity!

"Dig! Dig! Dig out all! Weigh the yield per mu!"

It took Gu Yi a long time to come back to his senses. The big tumor on the main root alone must weigh several tons, right?How does this count as yield per mu?

Because I didn’t expect the ivy and cassava to grow into such a virtue, there were not enough people here, and a dozen people were not enough to get this big guy out of the one-acre field with a radius of 30 meters. The workers rushed to greet it. Dozens of people came over to do it together.

Even planing and digging, the more they dug, the more they were surprised. Because the fibrous roots were all tangled together, they had to dismember them with a sickle and move them up piece by piece. Drop one layer and another layer!
They finally dug the ground for three meters, and found that there were thick fibrous roots of arms and aerial roots of egg thickness at a depth of three or four meters underground. They almost dug an acre of field into a big pit before digging all the cassava. come out.

In order to calculate the yield per mu, the ones that have spread to other surrounding fields can only be temporarily abandoned. Anyway, there are also spreads in other fields. Everyone crushed the large pieces of soil to ensure that they can no longer be found. Standing on the edge of the field, looking up at the cassava piled up into a big mountain, I was in a daze.

A dozen large crane scales were quickly transported in a horse-drawn carriage, and everyone weighed them directly on the edge of the field together, and finally added up the results, all of them were a little scared by the number: 7538 Dendrobium! ! !
This Nima Guards!
Nearly 570 tons of cassava were dug out from the root system of an ivy cassava tree!

This is not scientific! ?

Guyi, who suddenly started to feel scared, clearly remembered that in his original world, the highest-yielding sweet potato per mu could only reach six tons. What is the concept of cassava yielding 570 tons per mu?It is nearly a hundred times that of high-yielding sweet potatoes!This is not counting the yield of ivy that can be harvested in three days, which is edible for both humans and animals!

Compared with the millet that yields only one dendrobium per mu, the yield of cassava is really terrible!

Guyi looked at the cassava field that had turned into a big pit, then at the cassava piled up into hills, and then at the green that spread to the end of the horizon, "Gulu" swallowed involuntarily, and twisted on his thigh After a while, this shit is the **** putting satellites, Cao Cao!

Due to the fact that the steam agricultural machinery and equipment are too primitive, the ivy and cassava they planted in the first season spread far away from the surrounding area of ​​Qingshi City. It is roughly estimated that the area is only about 500 square kilometers, which is equivalent to more than [-] million. Mu of fields, although they continued to open up land in the distance in the later period, they were not counted in the output of the first season.

But even so, if each mu of land can produce 570 tons of cassava, the total output of more than 500 million mu of land will be as high as a terrifying 85 billion tons! ! !
Of course, this has something to do with the fact that the fields near [Qingshi City] have been fertilized wildly, and the land in [Qingshi Ling] has never been planted with crops, so the fertility remains intact.

In order to determine the average yield per mu, Gu Yi beckoned with a serious face, and dug again!
Soon, the per-mu yield data of cassava fields from near to far away was transmitted to Guyi. The average yield per mu of cassava fields that have been fertilized is about [-] tons, and the yield per mu of cassava fields that have not been fertilized in farther places is average Around two hundred tons!

Based on this data, the actual total output of the 30 square kilometers of cassava fields this season should be more than [-] billion tons.

Considering the decline in the fertility of the fields without fertilizers, this yield should gradually decrease, but even if it remains at [-] tons per mu, it is still a very scary figure!
Gu Yi first thought that Le's nose was not his nose, and his eyes were not his eyes. After he was stunned for a moment, his face turned pale and he jumped up: "Fuck me! Hurry up! Hurry up! Hurry up and send someone to notify all the reclamation Legion! I can no longer plant green vines and cassava! I will dig out everything that can be planted and can be dug up! Something will happen!"

The He workers were taken aback for a moment, not understanding what Gu Yi meant, but Gu Yi almost didn't cry!
He ignored a very serious problem, that is, if cassava is used as food, one person eats three catties a day, and only these 30 billion tons of cassava can ensure the rations of 60 to [-] billion people for a whole year !

Don't forget, this is the output of a cassava field of 50 square kilometers in one month. If we planted all the land area of ​​[-] square kilometers in [Qingshi Ling] with ivy cassava, we can harvest twelve seasons a year. How many?

It is of course a good thing to have more food, but the question is, how many people does he have now?
Just the 30 billion tons of cassava harvested this season, they will have to eat it all in the year of the monkey?
How to transport the inexhaustible cassava?How to store it?Just trying to dig these cassava out of the ground, the manpower required has become a problem!
Not to mention the distance, even in the cassava field of 500 million mu near [Qingshi City], the current population of Guyi's current population does nothing all day long and spends all of it digging cassava, which may not be enough!

This thing grows fast, and it is difficult to completely remove it from the ground. As long as there are a few fibrous roots and aerial roots left in the soil, it will sprout again soon!There is no need to reseed at all!
The most frightening thing is that ivy cassava, a terrible aggressive plant, will continue to consume the fertility of the land. If it continues like this, it will eventually lead to the barrenness of the land!

It can be predicted that if this problem is not resolved as soon as possible, the entire [Qingshi collar] will become a desert where no grass can grow within ten years! ! !
Guyi almost regretted it all!
Even when he was beaten to death, he did not expect that the large-scale planting order that was originally issued in a brainstorm just to harvest a large amount of grain as soon as possible and solve the problem of self-sufficiency in food for the rapidly increasing population of [Qingshi Ling] would cause such terrible results.

He originally thought that no matter how fast the green vine cassava can grow, where can it go?
An area of ​​100 square kilometers is just a square space of 100 kilometers by [-] kilometers. How many people can eat the food grown?
(End of this chapter)