Master of Thermodynamics

After returning from the construction site in London again, Boum has been in a state of shock, so much so that he walked a little bit too much. Even when he got on his beloved bus, he was obviously less excited than he was yesterday.

Obviously, witnessing hundreds of meters of poured concrete, or thin mud, turned into a hard stone wall that could not be broken by a hammer, which brought an extremely violent impact on this young man's Three Views.

After all, for people who don't understand chemical reactions, this kind of thing is no different from the legendary "magic", and it is completely beyond ordinary people's cognition.

A turtle who has never seen magic before, can he not be shocked when he sees magic for the first time?

"Mr. Charlotte, where are we going to visit today?" Boom asked suddenly after sitting idly on the bus seat for a long time.

"Mr. Boum, I will mainly visit the farm today, the'English' farm in the morning, and the'France' farm in the afternoon." Charlotte gave the answer with a smile.

"Farm? What to see at the farm?" Boom asked with some confusion.

"The Department of Agriculture under the Government Affairs Department reclaimed 1,500 hectares of land on Odin Island last winter. The English Farm and the French Farm are there. There is more land available on Theron Island, about 1,200 hectares were reclaimed over there. Two other farms have been established, the German farm and the Spanish farm. Large-scale spring farming is being organized on the farm these days. There are many things worth seeing..." Charlotte replied.

Boom doesn't know much about agriculture-related matters, and he disapproves it very much, and is quite disdainful in his heart.

Isn't it just a group of farmers doing farm work? What can be interesting?

But Gerich was taken aback, turned his head to stare at Charlotte, and said in a tone of "Are you kidding me":

"Mr. Charlotte, how can it be possible to cultivate land in winter? The cold will freeze the originally soft soil so hard that it is impossible for farmers to dig the soil..."

"In addition, from the end of the harvest month to the Warbler Moon, when the weather is getting warmer, there is only half a year's slack time for farming. Excluding the three months when the weather is the coldest and the ground is frozen, farmers only have three months to cultivate. land."

"As far as I know, it takes a farmer to spend more than half a month in the farmland to reclaim 1 mu of land. In just 3 months, a farmer can only reclaim 6 mu of land at most."

"2700 hectares of land is equivalent to 40,000 mu. Based on this calculation, almost 7,000 farmers are needed. Are there so many farmers in Haichao?"

Gerich privately estimated that the total population of the Tide Islands would not exceed 10,000, and it was absolutely impossible to gather 7,000 farmers. Therefore, he deeply doubted Charlotte's words.

Charlotte just smiled and said:

"Mr. Gerich, it is of course impossible for Haichao to have so many farmers, even if there are enough manpower, there are so many factories in the territory, and manpower is needed everywhere, it is impossible for the lord to let so many people go to cultivate the land..."

He glanced at Gerich and said faintly:

"In fact, the Department of Agriculture completed the reclamation of 2,700 hectares of land with less than 30 people, and it took less than half a month..."

Gairich's eyes widened suddenly, he opened his mouth, and wanted to question "how is this possible?" But when he thought of his incredible experience in the past two days, he closed his mouth firmly and said what he wanted to say. Swallowed back.

In any aristocratic territory, it is impossible for 30 people to reclaim 2,700 hectares of land in just half a month.

But in Hai Chao Ling, he has a vague feeling, as if... there is nothing they can't do...

I have to say that after being slapped a few times in the face, he finally has a little memory, knowing that common sense cannot be used to measure this magical territory.

Sure enough, the next moment, Gerich heard Charlotte's words.

"Mr. Gayrich, I wonder if you have ever heard of'agricultural mechanization'?"

Gerich shook his head blankly like a stupid bird.

English Farm.

The endless wilderness is full of neat ravines, which seem to be full of a strange beauty. Each ravine is extremely straight and stretches into the distance, and the bottom of the ravine is quite deep.

Two large magic tractors were pulling two huge sledges with a width of nearly 5 meters, and they slid through the soil without any haste, leaving dozens of deep scratches.

Two faint strands of black smoke emerged from the exhaust pipe on the top of the tractor, accompanied by the gentle sea breeze, spreading around, smearing two eye-catching ink marks in the air.

This is the agricultural tractor manufactured by Haichaoling. They are larger than ordinary engineering tractors on construction sites. Their length reaches 7 meters, and the height is close to 3 meters. The diameter of the two pairs of Nima rubber solid tires has reached 2 Meters, about the average height of an adult, this is definitely a big guy.

Corresponding to the size is the power. It uses a new car engine with a power of up to 600 kilowatts. Equipped with this engine, the tractor has terrifying power and can be towed effortlessly. The huge sledge after leaving.

Renault, a boring guy, gave this farm tractor a very loud name: Hummer!

That's right, it is the "Hummer" farm tractor!

After the sledge drove over the ground, a large amount of soil was turned up and shattered, and the hard soil that had clumped into blocks instantly turned into soft soil.

Behind each sledge, there were several farmers who wandered in the fields with their baskets on their backs, bending over from time to time to pick up dead tree roots, branches and the like, and put them in the baskets behind them.

As early as last winter, the original overgrown wasteland was reclaimed into a good field in front of us. At this time, the two Hummer tractors were turning over the ground for the last time to prepare for the next step of "seeding".

The three Charlottes stood on the roadside path, looking from a distance at the Hummer tractor that was moving away, especially Boum and Gayrich. Since they came to the "English" farm, their jaws have not been closed. .

All this in front of him, without any accident, shattered the three views of the two again.

Charlotte took a few steps forward, approached the edge of the farmland, pointed at the tractor in the distance, and said loudly:

"Mr. Boum, Mr. Gayrich, as the two of you can see, this is what the Lord Lord calls ‘agricultural mechanization’, that is, using the power of magic machinery to replace all physical labor."

"Take land reclamation as an example. If the soil is frozen and hard, if you use a camel beast that is more powerful than a cattle, you can only cultivate 1 acre of wasteland in an hour, but with a Hummer tractor, it can be completed in less than 3 minutes. The same job."

"After the camel beast has worked for a period of time, it still needs to eat and rest. It can only work for up to 8 hours a day, but the Hummer tractor can work non-stop, with up to 16 hours a day."

"Compared between the two, the working efficiency of the Hummer tractor is more than 40 times that of the camel beast. In the reclamation last winter, the Agriculture Department used 5 Hummer tractors and reclaimed 2,700 hectares of wasteland in half a month."

After a pause, he made a more sensational comparison.

"Compared with mere human reclamation, a Hummer tractor can be worth 5,000 farmers!"

After hearing the number of "5,000", Boom and Gailich's eyes widened again, and their eyes looked a little wrong when looking at the tractor, as if they were looking at some kind of extremely precious treasure. .

At this moment, the two deeply understood what is meant by "agricultural mechanization."

It is "a top five thousand"!

Boom watched the tractor turn into a small black spot, and suddenly exhaled a long breath.

The boy wanted to ask Charlotte a question-is the Hummer tractor sold?

But when he thought that he didn't even have the qualifications to approach the tractor, he immediately understood that most of the questions he asked were for nothing.

Although the teenager is willing to throw 2,000 kinnals, or even 3,000 to buy a Hummer tractor, they just refuse to sell them. What can be done?

How frustrated...

MMP, this young master has money but can't buy anything, is there any reason for this...

Gerich suddenly thought of a question:

"Why do you have to cultivate wasteland in winter? Why not do it in the wind-tracing moon when the temperature is not too low? At that time, the autumn harvest is over, the soil has not yet frozen, and it is easier to cultivate wasteland."

Charlotte did not answer the question, but instead talked about another topic:

"Mr. Gerich, I think you should know that an important reason for the low food production is that weeds grow too fast and grab a lot of nutrients. As long as weeds can be removed, food production can be greatly increased."

"However, to clean up weeds, it is not enough to just pull out the roots on the ground. As long as the roots are still there, weeds will grow out again soon, and then weeds will have to be pulled again. This is the most important and hardest task for farmers. jobs."

Gerich nodded with deep conviction:

"Mr. Charlotte, you are so right. I once managed a farm and I have a very deep experience. As long as there is no weeding for a week, the weeds in the farmland will be everywhere..."

The weeds they talked about were the biggest culprit for the hard-pressed people of other worlds to eat food, not one of them.

According to the alien tradition of "everything is hot and so big", alien potatoes are bigger than a fist and can completely kill people, and wheat is especially taller than humans, easily exceeding 2 meters in height.

It stands to reason that with such awesome crops, the people of the alien world should not worry about food and clothing. However, the "other world weeds" said a "no" extremely firmly.

Most weeds are plants with a long lifespan. They are perennial weeds, and it is not a problem to live for more than ten years. This is enough to kill weeds on the earth.

After flowering and fruiting every year, the surface part of the weeds will wither and die, but the underground part will still survive. In the next spring season, they will rush out of the ground, begin to thrive, and soon spread. Earth.

And their growth is generally very fierce, and it is difficult for crops such as potatoes and wheat to dry them. If the farmer does not take care of them carefully, it will not take a few months for the crops to be completely submerged by weeds.

Because of this, despite the extra size bonus, the output of crops from other worlds is not much higher than that of the same kind on earth.

In addition, there is another point. Compared with the people of the earth, the people of other worlds are very special.

The food production is not much higher, but the consumption is much higher. The turtles don’t want to be hungry...

Charlotte leaned over to pick up a piece of mud, knead it a few times in the palm of his hand, and let the soft mud leak from his fingers, leaving only a dry root of grass. He clamped the stem of the grass with **** and showed it to Gairich looks at:

"Mr. Gallic, what do you think this is?"

Without waiting for the other party to answer, he directly said the answer:

"This is a grass root that has been withered in the severe cold of winter. Before it is exposed to the ground, it is hidden in the ground at least half a meter deep."

"My lord believes that the reason why weeds are difficult to remove is because their roots go deep into the ground. If the roots are not removed, even if the roots are removed, they will still grow quickly."

"If the soil in the depths of the land is turned out when the temperature is very low, the roots of the weeds can be frozen to death in the cold winter. This is why we chose to cultivate wasteland in the first snowy month."

Gairich and Boum looked at each other, and walked to the farmland in unison, looking through the soil.

The two quickly discovered that there were a lot of dry grass roots everywhere in the farmland, and one or several grass roots could be seen in almost every piece of soil. After a long winter, they were all taken away by the terrible cold.

With this level of grass root density, if they survive in the soil, how many weeds will emerge from this land when the weather gets warmer?

A grassland will definitely appear within a few days!

This fully shows that His Excellency Renault's point of view is very correct.

There was an idea in his mind, if the Maxwell family did the same, would it also increase the food production of the family farm?

At this point, his heart moved.

Gerich couldn't help but glanced at Boum, and saw the same thought in the other's eyes.

However, the beautiful reverie of the two was ruthlessly broken by Charlotte.

"Lord Lord’s investigation found that most of the weeds have root depths of less than 1 meter. As long as they can plow all the soil within 1 meter in winter and expose them to cold air, they can easily kill most of them. Weeds."

"Later, the lord ordered the manufacture of a giant sledge with an extra-long rack, and the development of a Hummer tractor that can drag the sledge..."

Hearing the words "1 meter", Gerich turned his head and looked at a ditch in front of him, a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes.

If the plowing depth is 1 meter, then the ditch should also be 1 meter. From the outside, it can be seen that this ditch is only more than half a meter deep.

Is Mr. Charlotte bragging?

After a moment of meditation, he took a decisive step forward and stepped one foot into the ditch. The boots penetrated a layer of floating mud and plunged deep into it, reaching the knees.

Sure enough, it is 1 meter deep!

Mr. Charlotte did not lie.

Seeing this scene, Bum on the side showed a shocked expression on his face and couldn't help looking at the tractor.

Oh my god, that tractor can turn out a meter of soil. How powerful is it?

He suddenly realized that his previous thoughts were really ridiculous.

Even if you understand how to remove weeds in farmland and increase food, can you implement it?

If we rely solely on manpower and want to dig out the soil at a depth of 1 meter, a farmer will not be able to finish 1 acre of land for a few months.

The same is true for animal power. To turn out the soil at a depth of 1 meter, the volume of the plow must be very large. When the land is cultivated, it is buried so deep. What kind of livestock can drag this huge plow?

Pack beast?

Forget it, save it.

I am afraid that only a super big guy like a Hummer tractor can drag...

Thinking of this, Boom showed a hint of disappointment, and immediately he looked at the tractor, the light in his eyes became more fiery.

In the minds of the teenager, the value of the Hummer tractor has reached a new level.

He felt that even if it was bought for 5,000 Kinnars, it was a very cost-effective business.

It is a pity that money alone cannot impress Your Excellency Renault...

French farmhouse.

In this farm, Boum and Gerich saw an even more magical machine.

When an agricultural tractor similar in size to a construction tractor, also known as a magic vehicle named "Mustang Tractor", pulled a square machine and drove by, the two saw rows of rows appearing on the soil. Neat pits.

Faced with the gazes of the two curious babies, Charlotte said lightly.

"Two gentlemen, this is a magic planter. The pits are filled with wheat seeds..."

This sentence immediately set off a shocking tsunami in the two people's minds.

what? planter?

Can plowing be replaced by a machine, and sowing can be replaced by a machine?

What kind of farm work can't be done by machines?

Will the farm still need to hire a farmer in the future?

Gary, who has a deep understanding of farm work, was even more dizzy.

In his previous cognition, planting seeds is really a time-consuming and laborious work. The three steps of "digging a hole", "putting wheat seeds", and "landfilling" seem simple, but repeat them for tens of thousands. Second, it is by no means an easy farming job.

Sowing seeds must be extremely meticulous, always pay attention to the row spacing, not too sparse or too dense, and digging and filling pits are also stressful. After all, spring sowing is so important.

But the planting speed should not be too slow, because the annual planting period is only a few days, and the slow planting speed will delay the season and affect the output.

In short, sowing must be fast and good.

Because of this, sowing seeds is the most difficult period of time for farmers, often after a tiring day, they can't even straighten their waists.

But now, what did he see?

Even the most skilled and strongest farmer, the speed of planting has been thrown away by this planter.

In just one minute, the planter, which is more than 8 meters wide, was dragged forward by a Mustang tractor for 50 meters. On a whole 400 square meters of land, a large area of ​​small pits formed an incomparably neat array, which was more than a ruler. What comes out is even more regular.

If you are a farmer, how much land can you plant in one minute? 3 square meters or 5 square meters?

Farmers also feel tired, they need a lot of rest to replenish their energy, but the planter can work endlessly.

In terms of efficiency, a planter is equal to at least 300 farmers.

Gerich calculated the above number easily.

At this moment, he finally had a deep understanding of "agricultural mechanization".

There is no doubt that this is a great change!

His Excellency Renault, who proposed "agricultural mechanization", is a great wise man whose wisdom is deeper than the stars!