Chapter 2212: Enhancement and Production (9)

Yin Ning bowed deeply.

Her voice was noticeably more cheerful than just now.

Her expression was excited, as if she could hardly wait to try on those fashion outfits.

Zhao Chi nodded.

Yin Ning took those Imperial Guards and laborers and teleported them all back.

Zhuang Ya looked at the system and said, "Now Chaoge Town already has 150,000 farm plots — that's really quite a lot."

"Yeah."

Zhao Chi was also looking at the data.

Back when Chaoge Town was only 10 square kilometers, there were 15,000 farm plots.

Later, when it was expanded to 30 square kilometers with the Pangu Axe, the farm plots smoothly increased to 45,000.

And now Chaoge Town's area has become 130 kilometers, so theoretically it should be 195,000 plots.

But a large number of granaries have taken up quite a bit of area.

There are also quite a few slave laborers' dormitories, cart sheds for the wooden carts, kitchens, and a whole series of other buildings and facilities.

There are also some reservoirs, irrigation ditches, large wide roads, and some land has been set aside for the various buildings to be constructed in the future.

In the end, 150,000 farm plots were developed.

That's already quite a lot.

Zhuang Ya explained, "Originally we wanted to achieve timed large-scale sowing and timed large-scale harvesting, but we no longer have enough hands, so we can only sow and harvest in batches."

Zhao Chi nodded, "Mm, that's true. When we set that rule before, there were only a few thousand farm plots, so it was entirely doable, but now it's really not very realistic."

What Zhao Chi had originally envisioned was planting everything together when planting, and harvesting everything together when harvesting.

Equivalent to only doing one thing for a period of time.

This way the work content is relatively single, and the efficiency would be a bit higher.

But now it's not possible.

Now there are 60,000 serfs, 10,000 flower demons, and nearly several hundred in the planting team.

These people need to tend 150,000 farm plots, which means each person has to look after 2-3 plots.

If they were regular farm plots, it would be fine.

But most of Zhao Chi's farm plots are wheat fields, and with the territory bonus, they only need 25 days to harvest once.

If golden juice fertilizer is applied, they only need 12.5 days before harvesting.

Wheat grows fast and is harvested fast — that's certainly a good thing.

But precisely because of this, it's definitely impossible to achieve timed planting and timed harvesting.

Because there are too many farm plots, they can't all be planted at the same time — there must be a sequence.

Plant one batch today, another batch tomorrow, and yet another batch the day after.

Precisely because they grow so fast, the situation arises where the plots planted first are almost ripe, while the plots planted later have only just been sown.

The plots planted first are already ripe, while the plots planted later have only just grown tall.

The plots planted first have already been harvested and started planting the second batch, while the plots planted later have only just barely turned yellow.

The plots planted first have their second batch sprouting and growing, while the plots planted later have only just begun to ripen.

Unless we add more agricultural population, it's impossible to carry out the previous plan.

We can only go on as we are now — planting batch by batch, harvesting batch by batch.

That's fine too.

Although the work content is relatively miscellaneous.

Almost every day there's a harvest.

It's no longer like before, harvesting one large batch at a time, but harvesting a small batch every day.

The harvest has become very stable.

Zhuang Ya said, "Exactly, that's how it is. But we can still have those serfs divide the work — let one group specialize in sowing, one group specialize in loosening soil, one group specialize in harvesting. This way we can actually achieve efficient work to a certain extent."

Zhao Chi nodded, "I think that works. Go arrange it."

Zhuang Ya asked, "Alright, but should these 60,000-plus serfs still be converted into slave soldiers?"

"Not for now. There's only a little over 2 days left, no time to convert. And we don't have spare equipment for them either. Just let them farm for now."

"Okay, I'll go arrange it in a bit. Here are our new harvests from these past few days — take a look, quite a few granaries are full again."

"Haha, full is good. Grain never hurts to have plenty. Fang Li and the others have already built quite a few granaries in Yunmeng County. The large quantities of grain later can all be stored over there. In the future, Yunmeng County will be our cold storage and granary."

"Mm, I understand. Song Yun and the others are also transporting things over there."

Yunmeng County is basically undeveloped.

That side is a cold-leading territory, so the temperature is naturally not high.

Especially in winter, it's simply a natural big refrigerator.

Storage time can increase several times over.

Planning over there is already complete, and many large granary clusters are being built in batches.

In the future, Chaoge Town will be the grain production base, and Yunmeng County will be the grain storage base.

【New Batch Harvest List】

"Wheat Grains" 1.77 million tons

"Wheat Straw" 1.33 million tons

"Experience Fruits" 79.85 million pieces

"Napa Cabbage" 220,000 tons

"Rough sugarcane" — 90,000 tons

【Date】 Day 149 – Day 229

Looking at this data, it's truly astonishing.

In just over two months within the territory, so much more has been harvested.

A rough estimate.