Chapter 295: Establishing the Ministry of Agriculture

The past ten days.

Gao De has been busy and fulfilling.

During the day, he was busy catalyzing cold-resistant barley in the pollen field to obtain cold-resistant barley seeds, and at the same time, he had to take Fu Luo La to the volcanic land to guide the planting of Jin Hui Wheat.

—Although the Enduring Zhenbing Tribe has a long history of planting Jin Hui Wheat, to be honest, they are still far from penetrating the "mysteries" of Jin Hui Wheat.

With a little guidance from Fu Luo La, the yield of Jin Hui Wheat can be increased by at least 10%.

This is still limited by the limited conditions of the Enduring Zhenbing Tribe; otherwise, it could be increased more.

In addition, the primitive farming method has led to the fact that after so many years of Jin Hui Wheat planting history in the Enduring Zhenbing Tribe, they have never carried out superior selection and cultivation of Jin Hui Wheat seeds.

And these are things that must be started from now on.

To be honest, even with Fu Luo La's "skills" and Gao De's "Art of Nature," the difficulty of the entire food production work is still very great.

Just the preparatory work in the early stage, including the cultivation of original seeds of cold-resistant barley as the father and the superior cultivation of Jin Hui Wheat as the mother, are all big jobs.

If there is no supernatural power assistance, it would take at least two years to cultivate enough original seeds from only one cold-resistant barley seed.

But after the first ten days, Gao De suddenly relaxed a lot.

Because Su Nai's cultivation of the *Green Wood Longevity Scripture* reached the First Circle on this day, driven by her own powerful foundation and the sacred object Enduring Zhenbing Wutong.

And after advancing to the First Circle, she also successfully obtained the ability of "Art of Nature."

But Su Nai is different from Gao De. Her mana foundation is that of the Fourth Circle, so casting the Art of Nature is not as stingy as Gao De, who can only catalyze one cold-resistant barley a day with great effort.

She only needed to make a slight move to easily catalyze two hundred mature cold-resistant barleys, and she still had energy left.

Su Nai's joining immediately pressed the fast-forward button for the accumulation work of cold-resistant barley original seeds.

Of course, the catalysis of the "Art of Nature" is only a temporary strategy.

The real accumulation of original seeds still depends on traditional planting methods.

Therefore, every day, Elder Grant is planting the cold-resistant barley seeds obtained the day before according to Fu Luo La's standards.

In this way, four months later, this pollen field will welcome the first wave of naturally grown mature cold-resistant barley, and it will be continuous.

As for the night, it is to study the *Green Wood Longevity Scripture* and build spell models.

Although because Yujia Te Xila is still in the sapling stage and has no rank, it cannot provide gains to Gao De for the time being.

But the abundant magic power from the Fourth-rank spiritual land with a concentration greater than 4500 still let him experience the feeling of flying.

Ten days of cultivation, the progress is more significant than the five months of hard cultivation after he advanced to a First Circle mage.

As for the spells, Gao De maintains a consistent high efficiency.

Among the eight First Circle spells not mastered from the Snowfield Guardian, with complete spell potion materials, he quickly formulated the corresponding spell potions and successfully built the spell models for two of the spells.

One is naturally 【Ice-Sealed Blade】.

This is the first damage-type First Circle spell Gao De has mastered, and it is also a rare spell.

The second successfully built spell model is: 【Wolf Speed】.

【Wolf Speed】 (Transmutation, 1st Circle):

Use the spell to gain wolf speed, and your speed becomes 60 km/h during the spell duration (one hour).

It is also a rare spell, and the reason for its rarity is also very obvious: numerical spell.

Also a First Circle spell, the 【Longstrider】 that increases movement speed increases the movement speed by 15 km/h.

Even adding the person's own movement speed, it is considered 10 km/h, and it can only barely reach 25 km/h, not even half of 【Wolf Speed】.

Of course, as said in the spell general knowledge class, there may be differences in the strength of spells, but there is absolutely no reason that a strong spell of the same type can completely replace a weak spell.

First of all, 【Longstrider】 can be cast on other creatures, which is considered an auxiliary spell.

And the spell target of 【Wolf Speed】 can only be oneself.

Another point is that the effect of 【Longstrider】 is to increase the fixed movement speed, while the spell effect of 【Wolf Speed】 is to increase the movement speed to a fixed value.

In most cases, 【Wolf Speed】 definitely has a higher value.

But if the caster's own movement speed is greater than or equal to 50 km/h, then 【Longstrider】 can bring higher gains instead.

But these are not in Gao De's consideration. For him, 【Wolf Speed】 is the best to use now.

The Elder Hall should be called City Hall. This is the name Gao De gave it a few days ago.

He called Su Nai, who had been busy catalyzing cold-resistant barley these days.

Seeing the cold-resistant barley growing in the extreme cold environment of the snowfield with her own eyes, although Su Nai did not kneel piously like Elder Grant, the shock and waves in her heart were actually no less.

Just looking at the War Mother of a tribe, who has been running to the pollen field these two days, one can see a thing or two.

Su Nai wouldn't go to Jin Hui Wheat a few times a year.

"My King, is there anything?" Su Nai's voice was soft, implicitly carrying a hint of obedience that was difficult to detect.

Theoretically, she is at the same rank as Gao De, and even in the supernatural world where strength speaks, she, as the first mage of the Enduring Zhenbing Tribe, is the true first person in charge.

But as she said, if the two wills conflict, she will take Gao De's will as the standard, and she has been doing so.

"Actually, there are many things to do at the moment, and each thing is very urgent."

"For example, popularizing education, although this is a supernatural world, I believe that in any world, any era, popularizing education is absolutely the most effective means to promote the development of civilization."

"And education, it must be started as early as possible."

"But the problem is, we have no teachers, no schools, no books... More importantly, even if we have the above things, if we want everyone to attach importance to education, we must first fill their stomachs."

"If you can't even eat enough, how can you learn?"

"There is also expanding the scale of the tribe, which is also a very important thing. If you want to develop rapidly, you must have enough labor. A population of 500,000 is still too small..."

"Relying on the tribesmen to give birth themselves is too slow. We must absorb other northern tribes to increase the population, and this also requires enough food. Otherwise, we can't absorb people first and then starve them to death. Besides, even if we rely on ourselves to give birth, we must have enough food."

"So, no matter how many things there are to do, they must be carried out after solving the food problem."

"As for how to solve the food problem, the idea is already there, but the early work can rely on a few of us, but later, it will inevitably require a lot of manpower."

"With such a large amount of manpower, there should be a corresponding management department, and a corresponding system should be established in advance, otherwise it will be a mess."

"So, I need to establish a department for our City Hall in Phoenix first... To be honest, this is just the first department, and there will be more in the future."

"After all, a qualified governing institution should manage all aspects of the people below, including eating, drinking, and pulling. Now the power structure of Phoenix is still too extensive..."

"But this is also determined by the actual situation of Phoenix, and I can understand it, but in short, let's establish this department first." Su Nai blinked her beautiful blue eyes and listened carefully.

Gao De said a lot, she actually didn't understand much, but she was trying hard to remember what Gao De said, and then combined with the subsequent specific actions to understand.

Gao De continued: "The department I want to establish is called the Ministry of Agriculture. Its duty should be a functional department that comprehensively manages planting, animal husbandry, aquaculture, land reclamation, and other industries, in charge of agricultural development. Of course, the main duty at present is to be responsible for barley planting."

Su Nai was stunned, and Gao De continued:

"The Ministry of Agriculture will first set up a Minister, and then set up two Deputy Ministers."

"The Minister will be served by Lady Fu Luo La, and one of the Deputy Ministers will be set as Elder Grant first, and the other position will be seen later."

"In addition, those who have done Jin Hui Wheat planting work will all be included in the Ministry of Agriculture first."

After Su Nai left.

"Mage, what is a Minister?"

"What is the Ministry of Agriculture?"

In the version without any mistakes!

"What is Lady Fu Luo La going to do?"

".?"

Beside his ear, the little person's questions kept coming, maybe more than 100,000.

Gao De answered them patiently one by one:

"Minister, that is the boss of the Ministry of Agriculture. People in the Ministry of Agriculture must listen to the Minister."

"Lady Fu Luo La, in the absence of modern industry, there is no doubt that for a very long time, the Ministry of Agriculture will be the department with the largest number of people in Phoenix, so Lady Fu Luo La will really be a big person in the future!"

Well, another thing is, the Ministry of Agriculture will also be the department with the largest workload in Phoenix for a long time... Gao De kept this sentence in his heart and didn't dare to say it.

"The Ministry of Agriculture is the part responsible for the food of all the people in Phoenix. As the saying goes, the people take food as the sky, so the Ministry of Agriculture will be the sky of Phoenix in the future."

"What Lady Fu Luo La has to do is to exert your wisdom, cultivate excellent barley seeds, and let the people of Phoenix eat barley."

"Really~" Fu Luo La doubted.

Gao De knew that she cared about the sentence "Lady Fu Luo La will really be a big person."

"Really."

"Really!" Fu Luo La was happy.

Gao De glanced at the high-spirited Fu Luo La, a little guilty. His words were not false, but he really didn't say the opposite.

However, Fu Luo La doesn't need to sleep, and she won't be tired. Isn't this a natural cow-horse sacred body? It must not be difficult for her.

Gao De secretly persuaded himself in his heart.

Under Gao De's will, the Ministry of Agriculture was quickly established, although the number of people is still very small: Minister Fu Luo La, Deputy Minister Grant, plus more than 20 people who have worked on volcanic land, were included in the Ministry of Agriculture in the name of apprentices.

But if there are no accidents, a wave of large expansion will soon be ushered in.

And the barley cultivation work is still continuing.

The original seed cultivation work of cold-resistant barley has been handed over to Su Nai and the more than 20 apprentices.

Grant followed Gao De and Fu Luo La to carry out the superior cultivation work of Jin Hui Wheat... saying it was following, it should actually be called learning.

What he mainly did was to record everything Fu Luo La said in detail, including how deep to turn the soil, sowing interval, judgment of the meaning of each state of Jin Hui Wheat, how to fertilize correctly, how much fertilizer to apply, how to select excellent seeds, etc.

According to Gao De's requirements, these must all be recorded, compiled into manuals, and made into standards. In the future, planting work needs to be based on the standards in the manual, and the Ministry of Agriculture is also responsible for promotion, guidance, and supervision.

The premise of guidance is that you must first understand it yourself.

Fu Luo La speaks, Grant records.

At the same time, Gao De is also speaking, and Fu Luo La also needs to record.

"Although I am the one who says the method now, and Lady Fu Luo La is responsible for completing it, Lady Fu Luo La is now the Minister of Agriculture. In the future, I will only be responsible for making requirements for many jobs, and how to complete them will require Lady Fu Luo La to make her own decisions, so Lady Fu Luo La also needs to understand these principles." Gao De induced.

"Oh~" Fu Luo La was confused and nodded her small head subconsciously.

Gao De continued: "The selection of parents for hybrid barley, that is, the selection of father and mother, is also very particular."

"For the same hybrid combination of cold-resistant barley * Jin Hui Wheat, the phenotypic differences of the next generation of hybrid wheat will also be very different when cold-resistant barley is used as the father and as the mother."

"In the process of hybrid cultivation, as the mother, it should usually have excellent agronomic traits and strong reproductive ability. The former helps to improve the overall performance of the new variety, and the latter is to ensure the quantity and quality of hybrid seeds."

"And the father focuses on excellent traits complementary to the mother, such as disease and pest resistance, cold resistance, drought resistance, etc."

"Therefore, Jin Hui Wheat, which has a long planting history and has been tested, is clearly more suitable as the mother."

"And cold-resistant barley, which does not have high yield but has unprecedented cold resistance, is the best choice for the father."

"The problem now is that the yield of Jin Hui Wheat as the mother is still too low."

Gao De simply converted it. Limited by the relatively simple agricultural tools and planting methods of this world and the quality of seeds, the yield per mu of barley in this world is about 60 kg.

Sowing one mu of barley requires about 10 kg of seeds.

It can be understood as a seed-to-harvest ratio of 1:5.

And Jin Hui Wheat is also in this range.

There is no doubt that this seed-to-harvest ratio is too low.

In Gao De's previous life, the global average yield of barley could reach about 230 kg per mu, which is four times that of this world.

In some areas with high agricultural technology and management levels, the average yield of barley can easily reach 500 kg per mu, or even higher.

"The first task of the Ministry of Agriculture is to increase the yield per mu of Jin Hui Wheat to about 120 kg as soon as possible." Gao De gave Fu Luo La a "KPI."

Modern precision agriculture technology and mechanized operations cannot be done for the time being, but Gao De's requirements are not high. First, he will be satisfied if he can increase the yield per mu of barley to about 120 kg.

Doubling the yield sounds exaggerated, but it is really not difficult.

Because the most important factor affecting yield is the selection of excellent varieties.

Although this world cannot produce modern breeding technology, there is supernatural power! Which of the two is stronger? It's hard to say! At least in Gao De's view, Fu Luo La's potential is greater!

Because modern breeding technology is to cultivate excellent seeds through science and continuous experimentation and summary to improve methods.

But Fu Luo La communicates directly with plants and uses supernatural power to see through the essence and needs of plants.

This process is concise and more precise, and what is lacking is the realization of this process.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 296 =====