Chapter 564 Treasure Land
Winter turns to spring, the ice and snow melt, and the people of the Great Zhou usher in the spring plowing period of the new year.
Although as early as winter, Zhao Geng, as the Minister of Agriculture, had already taken some members to the ‘New World’ and has not returned yet.
Looking at the work arrangements behind their king, I am afraid it is fixed there semi-permanently.
But now, members of the Ministry of Agriculture are already familiar with all aspects of the work, and have already done the work of plowing and composting in advance before spring plowing begins.
Now that the spring plowing season has arrived, they did not affect the specific implementation of the spring plowing work because of Zhao Geng's absence.
In the farmland outside Black Moon Village, they set up plows and controlled the cattle to start the new year's farming in an orderly manner.
At the same time, in the plain area of the New World, members of the Ministry of Agriculture, headed by Zhao Geng, have been busy since the first day here, and they have hardly had any leisure time.
The key to distinguishing the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter lies in the climate. In Heiyue Village, after winter, the weather is cold, farming cannot be carried out, and crops cannot be grown.
So at this time, the members of the farming team take a short vacation. After a short rest, the main job is to cultivate more land or do some composting work to prepare for the following spring plowing. Be prepared.
But it's different here in the New World. Not to mention the more humid and hot rainforest area, let's talk about the plain area where Zhao Geng and the others are now. The climate this winter is the same as the spring over there.
So in Zhao Geng's view, seasonal factors are no longer important in this environment.
Of course, the preliminary preparations must be done first. The work of reclamation and composting took up a lot of their time.
After almost half the winter, they have made all the preparations in the 'Area No. 1' designated by their king.
In addition, Zhao Geng also designated two ‘experimental fields’ in this area.
One area is used to grow various tropical fruits and vegetables transplanted from the rainforest area, while the other area is used to grow various crops they brought from Black Moon Village.
Under this premise, the two 'experimental fields' were divided into smaller fields, and the crops grown in each small field were different.
Needless to say, the reason why Zhao Geng did this was to reduce losses.
Although they are fully able to start farming in Area 1, there has never been any serious planting of crops here before.
If they plant all the fields in an entire area with great fanfare as soon as they come up, if the planting is successful, it will be okay, but what if it is planted? What if this thing doesn't work out? Wouldn't the loss be huge? !
For this reason, these two ‘experimental fields’ for testing are still necessary.
At this moment, Zhao Geng was immersed in the two 'experimental fields', confirming the growth status of each crop one by one.
Each type of crop in the field is basically planted with two to four plants, so in one round, the field area required is not large. Calculating the time, it will take some time to plant.
On this day, Zhao Gengzheng held a large notebook under his arm and observed these crops. After observing each crop, he opened the notebook and recorded it with charcoal pen.
Although Zhao Geng is very confident in his memory, in the words of their king, 'a good memory is not as good as a bad writing'.
As the number of crops in their Great Zhou Dynasty continued to grow, Zhao Geng's feelings about their king's words became more and more profound.
"Well, as of now, there are no problems with growth."
Zhao Geng is very familiar with the different conditions at each stage of the crops they originally planted in Heiyue Village. Mind, if you observe and record, you will naturally become faster.
When it is the turn of the crops transplanted from the tropical rainforest, Zhao Geng's work efficiency will undoubtedly drop suddenly.
These crops are all new to him. Although their king arranged for a group of lizard people farmers to join the farming team to cooperate with him in his work, he started working around this area and still It took a lot of effort, and now he spends most of his time here.
At the same time, inside the temple, Zhou Xu was in a pretty good mood that day. He was happily pounding things with a pestle and mortar while humming an unknown ditty.
A large pot was set up next to it and the mutton was being cooked there. The cook on the side checked the doneness of the mutton with chopsticks and said... "Your Majesty, the mutton is cooked. "
"Well, you can cut it into five pounds, half with skin and half with mutton chops."
"Okay"
The chef responded with a sharp knife, and in the blink of an eye, a large plate full of mutton was cut.
"Your Majesty, I've cut it as you wish."
"Just right, I'm almost ready."
As he spoke, Zhou Xu was minding his own business. He poured the mashed things in the pestle and mortar into the bowl on the side, with a happy expression on his face, but the eyes of the lizard man attendant on the side looked at those things with an indescribable weirdness.
“Is the hot oil ready?”
"Okay, okay."
"Don't move, I'll do it."
As Zhou Xu said, he held the handle of the pot and lifted it up.
“This oil is worth three splashes.”
As he spoke, Zhou Xu made a neat operation, accompanied by the sound of 'Zizzizi——', a wave of excitement for everyone except Zhou Xu , to everyone present, a very unfamiliar fragrance spread in the hall.
At the same time, Zhou Xu, who had not tasted this bite for a long time, began to secrete saliva crazily at this moment.
After pouring oil into the bowl, he couldn’t wait to grab a piece of bone-in mutton chop on the plate, stir it into the bowl, and then put it into his mouth, and took a bite. , Zhou Xu burst into tears instantly.
"Damn! Are the peppers in this tropical rainforest so spicy?!"
After all, at this moment, Zhou Xu had no intention of dipping his mouth into the sauce. The fact that the mutton was spit out made me enjoy eating it even more.
“Cool!”
He really felt so good after eating for a long time.
The mutton from the sheep raised on their grasslands is soft and delicious. For people who are used to eating mutton, it is delicious even if it is boiled in plain water.
But I can’t stop eating!
Until he came to this tropical rain forest.
The local lizard people said that eating that thing would be extremely painful, and there would be a burning pain in the entire mouth and even the throat. In their opinion, it was not edible at all.
But Zhou Xu recognized it at a glance, it was chili pepper! These lizard people are really ignorant!
When Zhou Xu ordered them to pick it back and dry it in the sun to make seasoning, the lizard people thought that their king was crazy, that's why the lizard attendants looked at him so strangely just now.
In fact, the good things hidden in this tropical rain forest are far more than just peppers.
In addition, during this time he also discovered seasonings such as onion, ginger, garlic and pepper, as well as many herbs such as mint and parsley.
The role of these spices is not just to make food taste better, but also has many benefits for the human body, and some even have medicinal value.
Zhou Xu couldn't help but sigh...
"This tropical rainforest is really a treasure place!"
(End of this chapter)