Qiao Xuejun was standing in the seed dormancy library, picking out the seeds that she had already listed.
The other three were waiting outside the seed bank, only she and Zhao Xian came in.
Zhao Xian's seed bank is very large, and the seeds are separated according to family and genera. It looks like a library, with rows of bookshelves, each of which is divided into several layers. Each layer has many grids, and each grid contains different books.
The only difference is that the bookshelves here are seed cold storage, and the grids are dormant grids.
As soon as you step in, the first thing you see is rice seeds. Two bookshelves are filled with them. There are about four or five hundred copies at a glance.
Each portion weighs about 40 to 50 kilograms.
There are even more corn, pumpkins and other things in the back.
Further down the list, there are strawberries, blueberries, etc., and each subdivision has at least fifty varieties.
Qiao Xuejun couldn't help but glow with joy, and couldn't help but exclaim, "There are so many bioresources here! Zhao Xian, how did you collect so many?"
Seeing how happy she was, Zhao Xian smiled and said, "Seeds are also an important strategic resource."
Qiao Xuejun walked in the seed bank and didn't want to go out for a moment.
In fact, it's not that much. For example, in China, there are more than 20,000 rice germplasm resources alone. Zhao Xian only has 400 to 500, which can be said to be barren in comparison.
But in the current situation, four or five hundred copies are extremely wealthy.
After sighing, Qiao Xuejun began to select seeds.
What is most in short supply now is fat. More fat can resist the invasion of winter.
In principle, the blue oil in the sea monster's body can also be considered fat and can be used as a food supplement.
But it's not cost-effective.
One hundred liters of blue oil is enough to feed 100 people for a month, but if used for farming, it can feed 2,000 people for three months. The difference is huge, so blue oil was not considered in the menu at the beginning, unless there was really no food.
Among oil crops, growing rapeseed is the most cost-effective, especially the variety she is growing now, which is almost the peak yield of oil crops.
At present, the experimental field has planted 2 mu of rapeseed, which can yield 800 kilograms in one season. The current base is not enough to feed the people. Especially after more than 1,000 people from the city are taken back, the number will exceed 5,000, and it will not last for a few days.
You need to select several types of rapeseed seeds and try domestication and hybridization. The ideal situation is to produce a higher yielding variety.
In addition to vegetable oils, there are also animal oils.
The system will also give you a batch of ice-footed horses.
The milk of Yakut horses, also known as ice-foot horses, has a much higher fat content than ordinary cow's milk, and the same is true for horse meat. This is a characteristic of animals in high-altitude cold regions, and the fat content of milk and meat is higher than that of animals in other regions.
To feed 50 horses, you need a large piece of pasture.
According to the minimum standard, three horses eat grass on one acre of land, and 50 horses need at least 16 acres of land. They will need to reproduce in the later stage, so the more pasture the better.
This is equivalent to consuming grass and obtaining fat, and the horse is a fat converter.
Currently there are only 3 acres of rye fields, which is far from enough.
The first thing to get is forage grass seeds, cattail grass, and Arctic early grass, which are undoubtedly the first choice, cold-resistant, do not need to be put into a greenhouse, and have strong adaptability. This saves resources.
It can be spread all over the mountains and fields and sown everywhere without any special care, thus saving manpower.
Although both of them like light, they also have a certain degree of shade tolerance. They cannot bloom in low light, but they do not need to bloom for feeding horses. Later, you can also try to domesticate them and breed varieties that are more adaptable to weak light.
There are several kinds of seeds of these two kinds of forage grasses, and the precautions and characteristics are clearly written. Qiao Xuejun picked high-yield, cold-resistant, and low-light-resistant varieties of cattail grass and Arctic morning glory, a total of six varieties.
Zhao Xian was watching from the side and asked, "Grass? Do you need that much?"
At this moment, she put the seeds into the sealed bag one spoonful at a time, being careful not to let the seeds spill on the ground: "It's not much, these can be used for hybridization. I also plan to take some comfrey seeds." Comfrey is also a forage grass, which is resistant to weak light and has high yield.
After that, you also need to take some fruit and vegetable seeds.
When Qiao Xuejun left the base, she specifically brought several special sealed bags from Wang Juanfeng. These were originally vacuum bags specially used for compressing clothes, but now she uses them as seed bags.
The bag was quite big. Qiao Xuejun estimated that he put 2 kilograms of seeds in each bag, and 10 kilograms of seeds in the cold-resistant ones. 15 mu of land would require about 20 kilograms of seeds.
Qiao Xuejun was about to put all the packed seeds into the vacuum bag, and Zhao Xian took it: "I'll take it."
Twenty or thirty kilograms is not a big weight for Zhao Xian.
Qiao Xuejun handed the things to him with confidence and went to the next place to continue searching.
System: "Host, you haven't expanded the planting area of the shelter for a long time."
Qiao Xuejun: “…”
Indeed, she now has 10,000 kilograms of grain reserves, which can be exchanged for a lot of system functions. If she can use the system's functions to increase the planting area and increase the light, she can save a lot of trouble.
She hadn't used it for a while because she had two concerns. One was her distrust of the system. It was more reassuring to grow food with her own hands than using the system.
This system appeared suddenly, who knows if it will disappear suddenly.
But now it seems that the system is relatively stable and can make good use of system resources to a certain extent.
The second is her distrust of the environment.
The 15-acre shelter is already unusually large, and is located in a frequently patrolled area. If it grows inexplicably, it will be very difficult to explain. She is afraid that others will discover her unusualness and bring disaster.
But now the biggest villain in this area, Zhao Xian, will not hurt her and will even protect her.
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