Within the microcosm, the busiest time of the autumn harvest quickly passed, and the temperature dropped rapidly, reaching its most comfortable time, which is what is known as the crisp autumn air.
Now, there are plenty of kiwis, some autumn-ripening mangoes, and strawberries. Just go out into the wild and you can always find ripe wild fruits; there's simply too much to eat.
People would casually pick some fruit to make jam and dried fruit, and also brew some fruit wine.
As for the remaining fruit, there was simply too much to process, so we could only pick it and feed it to the animals, or let it rot on its own.
At the beginning of autumn, there were several days of heavy rain, which knocked down a lot of fruit. The rain shelters in the farmland were all dismantled. The plants need sunlight, and they cannot build greenhouses for the time being, so the rain shelters had to be removed.
Chen Yang is already researching glass-making methods. Sand from the seaside is a good material for making glass. If they can successfully make glass, they can make better windows and greenhouses.
With greenhouses, growing plants becomes much easier, and you can also eat out-of-season plants.
Moreover, glass has many other uses. As one of the commonly used materials in modern architecture, glass is very useful in building houses.
They still use wooden windows, and a few rooms have paper windows, but neither is as good as glass.
Besides, many other utensils can also be made of glass. If they produce high-quality glass and have the necessary skills, they can make excellent glass cups and glassware.
Wine also needs a decanter, and a glass decanter is of course the best. And a wine glass goes without saying; it's the standard accessory for drinking wine.
Chen Yang had long had the idea of making glass, but before venturing into the desert and developing the ocean, there were no suitable materials and no one who understood glass.
Most glass is now industrially produced, and some is still just hand-pulled glass. Production is still mechanized, so it's not easy to find someone who can make glass, blow glass, and shape it.
Chen Yang had been observing the residents of the Microworld Inn for a long time, and finally found a suitable one.
This customer wasn't a professional glassmaker, but it was his hobby, and he was quite knowledgeable about it. He even showed off his glass horses and glasses to Chen Yang, which were indeed very exquisite.
However, this guest didn't come to stay often, so Chen Yang added him as a friend and occasionally saw some of his works, and contacted him a few times.
Two weeks later, this person will come to the Micro-World Inn, and Chen Yang plans to make him a citizen of the world. Besides that, the other spots will be given to Li Li and a member of the Hunter Owl Team.
Within the Micro-World, the population growth rate is now quite rapid, and Linglong has also allowed one of her best friends to enter the Micro-World. Only after she repeatedly assured Chen Yang that this was just a best friend, not an ex-girlfriend, did Chen Yang agree to let her enter.
Once the base number of people in the realm reached a certain level, the rate of increase in the realm population accelerated even further. If Chen Yang hadn't changed the rules to allow invitations only every three months, the number might already be over a hundred.
Chen Yang had already come up with a plan for this.
He plans to revise the rules again after this winter ends.
The rules this time are quite strict, and I imagine some new residents will find them hard to accept.
From now on, a maximum of five new ordinary residents will be added each month. Everyone must apply in advance and then queue up.
As the realm lord, Chen Yang can add one more person on top of this, and this person is someone Chen Yang can decide for himself.
In other words, a maximum of six people per month.
Even so, the micro-world will add 72 people in a year. Chen Yang wants to develop a small town, a really small town.
He certainly didn't want to have a dozen or twenty more people every month, and then hundreds more people every year, until he couldn't even remember the names of the Jiemin.
Moreover, given the current state of development of the micro-world, it cannot accommodate too many people, so limiting the number of participants is necessary.
The reason for waiting until after winter is to give the existing inhabitants a buffer period, allowing them to bring their families in. Later inhabitants will be more accepting of these rules once they enter.
Chen Yang shared his decision with everyone, and unsurprisingly, only the newly joined residents had objections, as they also wanted their relatives to join.
However, Chen Yang left a buffer period, during which they could bring in one of their relatives, and the rest could apply in advance, so everyone just had some complaints but no major objections.
After the autumn harvest, Chen Yang handed over the task of building the camp to others, while he, along with Ou Huang, Xu Meng, and Hou Yu, headed east to the plateau.
Chen Yang and Li Su'er discovered barley at the border between Moyuan and the plateau last time, and then only explored the plateau slightly without going deeper.
This time, they plan to explore the plateau more deeply.
The reason for bringing Xu Meng and Hou Yu was that the two of them had more experience in taming horses.
The camp is now running out of horses.
Of the horses they tamed initially, one died of old age in the past six months, another died when Wang Bing was attacked by a black leopard, and yet another died recently when attacked by a leopard. It's as if the leopards have a grudge against their horses.
There are still three foals that haven't fully grown up yet. They didn't keep the horses in the time acceleration zone indefinitely. Those three foals will probably need to stay in the time acceleration zone for another two months before they can be ridden.
Several mares have given birth in the past six months, but the foals are not yet ready to be ridden.
Therefore, they are already short of horses.
The demand was highest at the Xindu camp, followed by the Xijiehe camp. Ye Wu and Hong Gui each took two horses with them when they went gold mining.
Fortunately, the autumn harvest was over, and the camp's need for horses decreased, which allowed Chen Yang and his group to ride their horses to find more.
Besides heading east to find horses, they also had another plan in progress.
Li Su'er, Li Ye, Xiao Qi, Zhang Jian, and Lin Ke take turns going into the Night Forest every day to search for elephants, bring them food, and help them drive away enemies.
They are trying to get along with the elephants; if they can tame a few, they will have super-powerful porters.
Elephants are not as good as horses for transportation, but their cargo-carrying capacity far surpasses that of horses.
It would be great to have elephants help carry goods regularly.
Among terrestrial creatures, it's hard to find a more reliable porter than an elephant.
Elephants are rare in China, but quite common in YD. In some areas of YD, elephants carrying people and goods can often be seen on the streets. The excessive use and abuse of elephants by some people in YD is also common.
The elephants that Chen Yang and his team found in the Yebo Forest were Asian elephants. Wengji told them about the habits of Asian elephants, and they are now working hard to build a good relationship with the elephant herd.
Surprisingly, it was Kim Jong-un who first established good relations with them and the elephant herd.
This fat cat has become even bolder since riding a mammoth, and it has naturally started riding an Asian elephant.
At first, the elephants would try to chase Sanpang off with their trunks or spray him with water, but later they stopped paying attention to him.
However, after riding for a few days, Sanpang got tired of it. He felt uncomfortable riding these elephants, and they always liked to take baths, spraying themselves with water and often getting him wet as well.
As mounts, these big guys are quite unqualified.
Finally, I managed to update normally today. It wasn't easy.
(End of this chapter)
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