Chapter 173 Mu Jiu Never Cheats the Poor
The flourishing business of the farm has opened up an unprecedented situation within the base.
The farm’s achievements have made more resource-rich people in the base jealous.
In addition to the Su Alliance which took the lead, the Li Alliance, Wang Alliance, Liu Alliance and dozens of other alliances, large and small, appeared in the base one after another.
They pooled their resources together.
Large plots of land are fenced off around the base or slightly further away for reclaiming and cultivating land.
Although it is impossible to grow decent vegetables and fruits, there is no big problem in growing a single grain.
Fu Hengyuan and Mu Jiu both expressed their delight at this.
Reclaiming new land means recruiting people, which can effectively solve the survival problems of the lower-class refugees in a short period of time.
In this way, the base will be more stable, and everyone will have expectations and hopes in their hearts, so they will not be too hopeless.
Once the grain is grown, although it cannot be handed over to the government, it still belongs to the base. Of course, the more grain reserves there are, the better.
But soon, the teams that organized themselves to open up the new land discovered problems.
The extremely hot weather in the early stages is indeed suitable for crop growth, and the sunshine will make the branches and leaves of the mother plants grow very lush.
They are tall and lush, almost twice as tall as ordinary rice ears before the end of the world.
On the contrary, the rice grains failed to form ears, and all the nutrients went to the leaves. The grains grew small and few, and looked ugly.
But the rice grown in the wasteland outside the farm is large, plump and glossy in color, and the difference is more than just a little bit.
Their people tried to solve the problem, but the rice had already formed ears, so more than two months of time were wasted and they could only wait for the next wave of planting.
The Su Alliance alone harvested a total of 2 million kilograms of rice from 20,000 acres of land.
It is less than 1/6 of the result of the 6,000 acres of land reclaimed under the organization of the farm.
After all, the alliance employed nearly 40,000 people, and in just two months, 16 million points alone were distributed.
In addition to the excellent conditions of including food and accommodation, this investment was a huge loss, and Deputy Base Commander Su was very angry.
But this little money is nothing to people like them; what they want is real food.
But he can't blame others for this, and he still can't leak the news, otherwise how can he, the newly promoted deputy base commander, put his face aside.
The Su family was engaged in business before the end of the world. The thing businessmen fear least is falling into traps. They just need to get up from where they fell.
The best way to solve this problem is to ask the farm for advice and avoid taking detours.
After the lesson learned from the suicide of the previous warehouse manager, Deputy Base Captain Xue, naturally no one dared to have any ideas about the people on the farm.
So Deputy Base Commander Su followed Fu Hengyuan's path and quietly expressed his sincerity to Mu Jiu.
The 5 million points were immediately deposited into Mu Jiu’s personal account as a small token of appreciation.
Mu Jiu didn't beat around the bush and made a copy of the planting courseware made by Lou Nan and asked Fu Hengyuan to pass it to Deputy Base Director Su.
Then he transferred 1 million points from his own account to Lou Nan, and the deal was completed.
Deputy Base Commander Su is also a shrewd businessman and will not do business at a loss.
He copied the courseware more than ten times and resold them to other planting alliances at a price of 1 million each.
Needless to say, almost all alliances have encountered this problem, so it is easy to make back the investment of 10 million.
For this purpose, the Su Alliance doubled the area of farmland for the next planting season, to 40,000 acres.
The number of planters remains unchanged, and they are determined to make a big profit and earn back the points lost previously in one go.
But apart from the problem of planting, there is another problem in land reclamation.
According to the progress of the previous life, drought and water shortage will occur starting from the fifth month of extreme heat.
At this time, even daily living water began to become a problem, not to mention water for planting.
Continuing to plant will become a considerable burden. After all, no one will completely ignore the sunk costs they have paid.
Of course, Mu Jiu did not tell Deputy Base Commander Su this key information.
Regardless of whether the food was grown or not, the points given by the alliance to the many refugees who participated in the planting were real, and Mu Jiu had no reason to let the refugees suffer.
In fact, the water supply from the base's taps had been decreasing long before the second wave of grain was harvested.
The top leaders of those bases may not be unaware of the current situation.
But no one is willing to give up the money they paid in the past.
Even though we knew we might face water shortages, we still had to go ahead.
Soon, the wide river that supplied water to the base began to dry up bit by bit.
In order to ensure the convenience of watering the fields, the major planting alliances hired engineering teams at their own expense to drill dozens of wells within the enclosure for irrigation.
On the farm, after harvesting the second batch of rice, there was no further planting work for the next batch.
After two rounds of planting, 6,000 acres of wasteland produced a total of 25 million kilograms of rice.
Mu Jiu left 5 million kilograms as the farm's own reserve grain, and handed over the rest to the base.
Next, Mu Jiu spent about a week retraining the 7,200 young planting experts who had just opened up the new land.
People were sent up the mountain to start planting date and chestnut trees.
The seedlings were cultivated by Mu Jiu and Lou Nan in the laboratory.
Originally, these two fruit trees are drought-resistant varieties and can produce sweet and juicy fruits even in drought conditions.
After special improvements, it requires less water, is easier to care for, and is more suitable for cultivation in extremely hot weather.
It’s just that it takes much longer to bear fruit than rice.
Planting trees on the mountains is like farming on the plains, with 1,200 people serving as patrol managers to manage their subordinates.
The remaining 6,000 people were each responsible for 4 trees, for a total of .
The entire hot spring mountain, which had been baldly deforested and had experienced a mudslide, was contracted.
At the same time, after nearly half a year of mountain construction, the authorities successfully moved a million people to the mountains in the north.
Of the original site of the base, only areas such as the military camp, command center, official administrative agencies, warehouses and nuclear power plants remain.
After solving the temperature problem, water resources have become the biggest problem at present.
No one had ever imagined that water could be scarce to this extent.
The official base where Mu Jiu is located is located on the border of the Changhe River, the largest and longest river in China. Logically speaking, there will be no shortage of water here, just like there is water shortage anywhere else.
But now the riverbed, which is several hundred meters wide, is visible to the bottom, and many places have even cracked.
The surrounding large lakes simply disappeared from the surface.
The originally spider-web-like southern plains have turned into a vast desert, and the north is even more desolate, with yellow earth everywhere.
After nearly four years of natural disasters and the absence of human activity, the city's high-rise buildings have gradually weathered and are about to merge with the surrounding sand.
The lush green oases are also gradually shrinking.
Fortunately, Fu Hengyuan had a trick up his sleeve.
When Mu Jiu proposed to build a small reservoir under the farm.
He then had the task of enclosing the lake where he had fished during the previous extreme cold period, to form a reservoir.
Then a large number of black sunshade balls were dropped onto the surface of the lake to cover the water.
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This can reduce the evaporation rate from the lake surface by 80-90%.
In fact, this lake has indeed become the only surface water source within a radius of hundreds of kilometers.
Together with the wells drilled in various places, they are used to maintain the daily lives of the people in the base.
But even though there is a lot of water in this lake, it cannot last for too long for a base that feeds a population of one million.
Therefore, water soon became more expensive than food in the base.
And under extremely hot conditions, the price of water will continue to rise as time goes by.
Residents in most third-level safety zones have little spare energy to wash their faces or clothes, except for buying daily drinking water, and use water for other purposes.
It was almost exactly the same as the period that Mu Jiu experienced in his previous life. The problem of water shortage was almost impossible to solve fundamentally.
But within the tall farm walls, except that they still stay at home during the day and go out at night, the workers on the farm live a happy life.
With the underground reservoir that Mu Jiu had stored in advance, the farm has no shortage of water, and even the cultivated land has no shortage of water.
Under the extreme heat, all kinds of fruits grow wildly and savagely. Watermelons grow bigger than winter melons, and oranges are sweeter than honey.
In addition, during this extremely cold period, the large blocks of old ice that Mu Jiu asked Gu Yang to store in the basement came in handy now.
Not only can it cool you down and relieve heat, it can also be used to make iced fruit tea, etc.
In short, there are thousands of ways for the refugees outside the wall to enjoy themselves at the end of the world.
After all, there was the brutal scene last time when Boss Mu dealt with the betrayer on the spot.
Now everyone is quietly enjoying the internal benefits of the farm and no longer doing things that harm others and themselves.
The farm is now like a small base placed within the base.
Even the ladies living in the first-level resettlement areas could not imagine how happy life would be on the farm.
As for the fruits and vegetables at all levels of the farm, they are still sold as usual.
Except for the first-level resettlement areas where prices have increased several times, prices in other areas remain unchanged.
Mu Jiu is not hostile to the rich, but he never cheats the poor.
What's more, during such a severe and extremely hot period, the costs have risen and they have to be recovered from the buyers.
Although everyone's life is not easy, Mu Jiu's vegetable and fruit shop is still as popular as ever.
It only takes half an hour in the morning to sell out all the shares for the day.
The worst off are the pioneering and planting teams mainly composed of the Su Alliance.
The leaders and bosses originally wanted to make a profit by expanding the area of arable land, but who knew that the cost of investment would become increasingly higher.
In order to ensure adequate daily irrigation of the fields, digging wells alone costs a lot.
But the bosses soon discovered the problem.
The field area is too large and the well water is getting less and less. Compared with the violent evaporation rate in the field under the sun, that little water is really nothing.
So the leaders and bosses began to use their smart brains to think of new ways out.
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