Chapter 647 Wheat Breeding
As Lorenzo expected, although in newspapers and in the mouths of some businessmen, the subversion of the teachings of the Holy Doctrine was reasonable.
But outsiders, especially those in the Golden Plains farther away, due to the distortion of news dissemination and the "rebellious" stance of Qianhe River Valley itself, what they heard was that the people of Qianhe River Valley were crazy and they wanted to establish a new church.
In the eyes of the citizens and nobles, it was really troublesome for a small cultural depression to lead to the religious reform movement.
But back within the Qianhe River Valley, with official support, the flames of thought are spreading in the increasingly cold north wind and under the withering flowers and trees.
If the theme of October is "What is a human being", then the theme of November is "What is a world?"
The former solves the problem of outlook on life and requires people to bravely pursue happiness in this world instead of settling for the status quo.
The latter solves the problem of worldview and tells people that the world is a stage for human beings to achieve happiness and development, rather than a testing ground designed for suffering or salvation in the afterlife.
In just two months, the two ideological centers of Shelley City and Rapid City began to spread to the surrounding areas.
By the time December entered, monks waving Pravda newspapers and handing out leaflets began to appear on the streets not only in the towns around Shelly City and Grand Rapids, but also in towns in Hotam County.
Even because the reform of perpetual tenancy requires the endorsement of freedom, this part of the idea began to flow along the priests' orders to the winter villages.
The monks who were inspired by the ideological movement broke out into an unprecedented conversion fanaticism.
A large number of monks began to advocate the Holy Doctrine in the monastery, and even joined forces with their companions to criticize the abbot and even debate face to face.
Driven by the enthusiasm for reform, more monks walked out of the monastery.
Some of them went to the city and started to form associations with other monks to preach, and more were hired as teachers of Horn's literacy class, teaching adults and children to read with the help of the heads of households.
Judging from daily life, nothing seems to have changed.
But the behavior of these monks and monks is a hidden undercurrent, which is constantly changing the foundation of the people of Qianhe River Valley unseen below the surface.
The people of Qianhehe Valley who had accepted ideological transformation began to be more and more different from the "people" of the empire in the general sense.
In the opinion of most monks, at this time we should seize the opportunity to pursue the victory and continue to pursue the traditional theocentrism.
However, after raising these two issues, Horn did not continue to expand new concepts, but instead began to patch these two doctrines.
The most important thing is to introduce a variety of new words and concepts.
Therefore, the contents of "Pravda" during this period were all "What is rationality? Thinking is the reason!" "How to understand free will?"
In addition to views on nature, the core theories and definitions of the ruling sect of the Holy Doctrine, such as "exorcism", "judgement jihad", "labor and exchange", "labor and the fruits of surplus labor" and other theories and definitions have been published one after another.
Theodora Printing Press collected these articles at an extremely fast speed, hired monks to add a large number of examples and metaphors, and published a book "A Concise Encyclopedia of Salvation Teachings", which was quickly welcomed by a large number of citizens. .
The reason why he did not continue to expand new concepts in December was not because Horn was out of ideas, but because he hoped that the monks could realize the last level on their own.
The world view and outlook on life under the theory of the Holy Doctrine have been established, and the values are already ready to emerge.
In addition to ideological considerations, another factor is that some hooligans and thoughtful people have begun to make profits from this enthusiasm intentionally or unintentionally.
This allowed Horn to welcome a new group of students to the Holy Trinity Education Team in the Holy Arms Court before the New Year's Day.
No matter how turbulent the outside world is, there is peace in the Holy Armament Court.
After the Holy Advent on December 1st, Horn received the good news, that is, with the help of Catherine, the experimental field of the Holy Hoe Monastery on Qiumu Island finally produced results. In this glass-roofed greenhouse, peat dissipates heat throughout the room through the flue. Although it is already winter, the room is still as warm as spring.
In order to be able to conduct agricultural experiments all year round, the Holy Hoe Monastery spent a huge amount of money to purchase these large pieces of translucent glass.
Even the windows of Horn's Holy Cathedral Building were made from scraps from the greenhouse.
The greenhouse is divided into six fields, which are planted with wheat, rice crackers, soybeans, potato roots, and two blank experimental groups.
These four crops are basically the main food crops in the Qianhe River Valley, and the breakthrough crop this time is wheat.
Looking at the wheat in the field on the left, and then looking at the wheat in the field on the right, Horn immediately noticed a difference.
As an old farmer, he immediately asked Catherine with a smile: "Have you selected wheat seeds with more ears?"
"To be precise, I have bred wheat seeds that are more sensitive to manure." Catherine brushed the wheat ears with her silk-gloved hand, "This is just that its own potential has been stimulated."
For Catherine, breeding is a very simple matter. With her ability to control plant growth, others may need more than ten years of field observation and backcrossing to select suitable varieties.
The most outrageous thing is that the effect of Catherine's ripening plants is almost the same as that of ordinary plants growing naturally. Just spend more magic power to survive.
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Take breeding seeds that are resistant to moisture as an example.
Normally, one needs to look for wild wheat in wet areas or plant wheat directly in swamps, select plants with better adaptability through stress, and then cross them with plants with high yields.
Under today's technical conditions, this process may last for tens or even hundreds of years.
But for Catherine, she only needs to forcibly ripen the plants in a humid environment a few times. Generally, after two or three generations, the offspring of the plant will have moisture-resistant traits.
Of course, if Catherine does not intervene, the offspring will immediately degenerate, but this does not prevent the offspring from crossing with other breeds.
However, this requires Catherine, who loves cleanliness, to crawl around in the fields. Although it is not unacceptable, she still feels a little resentful in her heart.
"Through this method, we have bred wheat varieties that are more sensitive to fertilizers and resistant to rust. It is estimated that the yield can reach about 110 to 120 pounds per mu.
With sufficient fertilizer and alchemical pesticides to kill insects, it is estimated that the yield per mu can reach between 130 and 150 pounds. ”
This is nearly double the original yield per mu of eighty or ninety pounds.
Even without sufficient fertilizers and alchemical insecticides, the output increased by about 20% based on the original level.
"After selecting wheat varieties that are more sensitive to irrigation and fertilization, we encountered a problem, that is, wheat straw is generally more than one meter high. Overly plump wheat grains and harvested wheat ears will cause the straw to be too heavy. "Tear it down." Catherine continued, "Then we got inspiration from you."
"Get inspired by me?"
"Yes, we have bred wheat straw that is less than 70-80 centimeters high. Because the center of gravity is lower, no matter how big the head is, it will not pull down the straw."
Horn's face darkened suddenly, and he said in a nonchalant manner: "As expected of the old church member, I can rest assured that you will do your best. Next, let's move in the direction of fighting the epidemic."
After saying that, Horn immediately chose to escape with one blow, turned around and left the greenhouse, without giving Catherine a chance to fight back.
(End of chapter)