This Game is Too Real

Chapter 73: The harvest before the winter

  Chapter 74 The Harvest Before Winter

  "3 tons of struvite...According to the average consumption of 30 catties per mu, the actual cultivated area must be more than 100 mu, which is much larger than expected."

  On the way back, Chu Guang thought while writing on the notebook with a pen.

   "It seems that my speculation is correct. They should have applied some soilless cultivation techniques, and this part of the production capacity accounted for 15% to 30% of the total production capacity... or more."

  Brown Farm will make some manure itself and buy a little from other merchants. The actual cultivated area is probably larger than I thought.

  Before crossing, Chu Guang had heard of a pipe-type soilless cultivation technique that can maximize the use of space and water resources. As long as the fertility is sufficient, one mu of land can be used as ten acres of land.

In the pre-war era of this world, there seems to be a similar technology, and the use of space is maximized. Regardless of energy costs, a "skyscraper" that integrates automatic seeding, cultivation, ripening, harvesting, assembly line transportation, and packaging and distribution has been developed regardless of energy costs. , Can really achieve more than ten thousand catties per mu.

  Its name is CNC planting tower, which can be regarded as the ultimate body of industrial planting technology.

  Very cyberpunk.

  Brown Farm’s energy is certainly not that luxurious, but since part of the electricity can be used to exchange food, power resources should not be in short supply.

  In addition, they have planted fields for a century, and they will inherit a part of the technology and improve it to adapt to the wasteland environment.

  At this moment, Chu Guang suddenly had a whim.

   "Could it be... planted some kind of energy crop?"

  Brown Farm does not only grow green wheat. I heard that this stuff will ripen very quickly. After the harvest, there will be a chance to grow croissants, beans, fruits and vegetables or other crops.

  Perhaps the latter is the one who needs more fertility?

  At the end of the 20th century, some people have used cash crops, by-products, or artificially cultivated special crops to produce ethanol and biodiesel. With the gradual maturity of this technology, these crops are sometimes specifically classified as “energy crops” depending on their uses.

  A reasonable guess, in the pre-war world that has mastered controllable fusion technology, similar technologies may be more advanced than he imagined.

  However, in the era of major breakthroughs in nuclear fusion technology, the actual use of this energy crop should not be for the production of fossil fuel substitutes.

  But as an industrial raw material.

  "...Brown Farm itself does not have industrial capacity. Some of the economic (energy) crops it produces are used as fuel and partly sold to merchants from Boulder City, which are used as industrial raw materials to supply factories in Boulder City."

  "The product is suspected to be some kind of rubber, crude oil analogues or other hydrocarbons."

   "Also, the fertility consumption of this crop should not be small!"

  Chu Guang wrote this line on his notes.

  The gain from this transaction is greater than he thought.

  Not only the grains and tools in the wagon, and the "order" of 3 tons of struvite in the spring of next year, but also the intelligence collected indirectly through transactions.

  Especially this information, when he was still a scavenger, it was impossible to collect.

  After you go back, you can publish the setting collection on the official website for players' reference.

  While Chu Guang was analyzing the information, the players next to him were also beeping quietly.

   "1 kg of struvite can be exchanged for 10 kg of grain? I am not mistaken."

   "You are wrong, it is 12 kilograms."

   "I don't understand, is it because the green wheat is too cheap, or the stones we picked from the lake are too valuable."

  "Maybe both? Maybe not...Wait, how much do we buy the food from the warehouse?"

   "It looks like 1 kilogram of green wheat and 1 silver coin. I know what you want to say. Take 1 kilogram of struvite and move it back to the warehouse to exchange for 2 copper coins, right?"

   "Yes! Is this reasonable?"

   "Relax, although there is no farming system now, I bet that the price of green wheat from NPC will not exceed 1 kilogram and 1 copper by then. Is it reasonable to think about it?"

   "Puff, it’s like a hammer in the River Tay...a hammer! Sell us 1 silver coin and 1 kilogram!"

  "Calm down, which game is not like this? Besides, it has to be true. In reality, the price of food fluctuates. At that time, some of the players will be sold, and the ones that can't be sold can be sold to the NPC's granary."

  Speaking of this, the player whose ID is [The Escape Mole in the Canyon] sighed and said with regret.

"It would be great if the runner system could be opened up. 1 kg of struvite was transported to Brown Farm and replaced with grain, and it was transported back to 12 kg of grain. Even if it was sold to NPC, it would be more than 2 copper coins! 12 kg, less than 1 silver. Believe it or not? This game is really scary."

   Although Chu Guang didn't look up and ignored him, he still glanced at this guy and smiled in his heart.

  The truth is correct.

  But the pattern is still small.

  If you take the struvite stone and go to Brown Farm to exchange grain, and then take the wholesale grain to Boulder City to exchange guns, believe it or not you can exchange five or six guns for one hundred kilograms of bird droppings?

rest assured.

  When the spring starts next year, your great manager will do this for you. The chips you earn are the foreign exchange reserves of the base, and they will be divided into you.

What?

  Do you want to settle your reward in Boulder City’s currency?

  Why, do you still want to buy a house in Boulder and marry a wife?

  Actually, Chu Guang didn't intentionally "exploit" his little players, and compared to the farmer of Brown Farm and the old leeches of Bette Street, he was not exploited at all.

  In the blueprint planned by Chuguang, the currency issued by Vault 404 will replace the bargaining chips issued by Boulder City until the fifth generation currency at the latest, and become the hardest currency in the entire Qingquan City and the surrounding areas.

  To suffer a little bit now, but also to enjoy the good for everyone in the future.

  "My lord manager, there seems to be someone in front."

  "?"

Again?

  The small book was stuffed back into his pocket, and Chu Guang reflexively stretched his right hand to the sledgehammer behind him. However, as soon as he touched the handle of the hammer, he found that the so-called people were the same.

  I saw the brawny man who had previously met him at the door and was using a shotgun against the serf who had been brought out earlier.

  The latter held his head in both hands, and knelt on the ground shivering.

  The group stopped.

  Chu Guang looked at the brawny man, and the brawny man stared at him in a daze.

"Is there a problem?"

"No."

  Chu Guang glanced at the poor man who was pointed at by the gun and dared not move, then looked at the brawny man, and asked with a strange expression.

"This is?"

  The brawny man didn't want to explain, after all, this was his own personal business, but seeing that this group is not easy to provoke, he said cautiously.

  "...He is a slave to his master. He is old and has arthritis in his legs. He can't do any work. He broke a plate yesterday. The master asked me to take him outside and take care of him."

  After listening to the strong man, Chu Guang remembered that every winter, Brown Farm seemed to dispose of a few slaves who could not do heavy work and no one bought them, and waited for the next year to buy new ones from slave merchants.

  As for where did these slaves come from?

  Ghost knows.

  Some were auctioned off by creditors because of debts, some were because they lost their freedom by being captured by predators, and some were simply cloned products, or a forgotten shelter facility was suddenly unblocked.

  Chu Guang even heard that some scavengers sold themselves or their relatives because they could not survive.

  In this wasteland, a slave who is about to reach the end of his life cannot even reach a two-headed cow that can carry goods.

  At least the latter has more flesh.

  "Please, please let me go."

  The strong man glanced impatiently at the man who was kneeling on the ground.

   "Even if I let you go, where can you go? Let's have a good time, don't make me embarrassed."

  "Please, please..."

  The serf could not say anything else.

   "Wait a moment."

  Chu Guang stepped forward and looked at the old man kneeling on the ground.

"how old are you."

   "51……"

   is indeed a bit old.

  As far as slaves are concerned, they are already old.

   But from another perspective, it also means experience.

  Chu Guang continued to ask.

"what can you do."

   Seeing the hope of life, the old man turned around tremblingly, reaching out to hug the life-saving straw.

  The brawny man saw him, kicked him away with quick eyes and hands, and yelled.

   "Don't touch the host's distinguished guests with your dirty hands, do you want to be hanged?"

  His eyesight can tell that this group has business dealings with the owner.

  Although he got a kick, the old serf didn't care at all. He didn't even look at the strong man when he got up. He raised his wrinkled face and looked at Chu Guang.

   "I, I can farm, know numbers, can do woodwork, move things... I can do anything. "Please, sir, give me a way to survive. "

"You know how to count," the strong man sneered. "Just how many potatoes you count is also called knowing how to count? My lord, don't listen to him. By his age he can't do work anymore. This month I have come twice. None of the team’s slave traders were interested in him."

  Chu Guang took out a white chip from his pocket and flicked it into the strong man's hand with his thumb.

"is that enough?"

  The strong man smiled with joy and nodded quickly.

   "Enough is enough."

  Mosquitoes are meat no matter how small, and this slave is not his

   Collected the chips, the strong man raised the shotgun and fired a shot into the sky, then picked up the bullet shell on the ground, bowed to Chu Guang, and happily carried the gun back to the business.

  The serf shrank on the ground and shivered. He was obviously terrified by the shot just now, and he looked as if he lost his soul.

  Chu Guang instructed a player to come forward and pull him up, bring him in front of him, and watch him command in a commanding tone.

  "I bought your life, and now you work for me."

  Finally returned to his soul.

  The serf immediately wanted to kneel down, but was stopped by Chu Guang raising his hand.

   "We are not happy to kneel here, put your right fist on your left chest to show loyalty. If you let me find any betrayal or infidelity, don't let me do it, dig it out to feed the dog."

  This kind of frightening words, Chu Guang said, that if there are traitors, and throw them in an active substance extractor, they don’t have to spend so much time and effort.

  Although Chu Guang himself is a civilized man.

   But after living here and observing for a period of time, he knows that some problems cannot be solved with civilized thinking.

  Indigenous people and players are two different creatures from their roots.

  For indigenous people, they have to use indigenous methods to manage them.

  This is good for both parties.

"Yes, my lord," the old man lowered his head respectfully, with a more relieved expression, and sensibly pressed his right fist to his chest, "to offer you loyalty... my name is Luca, no, I don't have a name, please You gave me a name."

   "Just call Luca."

  Chu Guang was too lazy to waste time and beckoned to the players.

  "Go on."

   "We have to go back before noon."

  ……

  This trip as a business traveler can be said to be full of rewards.

  300 kilograms of struvite were exchanged for 3,600 kilograms of green wheat and croissant, and 100 kilograms of bacon was exchanged for 500 kilograms of green wheat and 5 tools.

Although Chu Guang wanted to quibble, venison is different from hyena meat. The former is rarer than the latter. After all, it is not always possible to encounter deer migration, but the other party said that if this is the case, let’s use hyena meat, anyway, as long as it is not human flesh. It was the same to them as mouse meat and fish meat, and Chu Guang had to give up.

  On the other hand, Liu Zhengyue still looked at the relationship between the two parties and made a small concession, allowing him to choose 5 tools or 1 catty of tobacco leaves to take away, which was regarded as a gift.

  Chu Guang chooses tools of course, and he chooses big pipe wrenches and fire axes. Even if you don’t need it at that time, you can make steel and copper if you take it home.

  In addition, 25 kg of smoked fish has been exchanged for almost 150 kg of waste metal.

  Different from the aluminum and steel alloys that can be seen all over the street, these metals are good products containing copper and zinc.

  Originally, Liu Zhengyue didn't want to sell it, but maybe because he thought that the merchants would not come for a few months anyway, it would be useless to stay on the farm, so after consulting the owner, he nodded in agreement.

  The noon sun is shining above the head, and the shadows of the trees on the road are whispering.

  Except for a power player pulling a cart, the rest of the players are scattered around the caravan.

  Occasionally seeing mutant cockroaches approaching, they screamed and rushed up to beat them with sticks, they were more excited than the alien species.

  If a different species can think, I would be stupid now.

  Who is the prey?

The only thing Chu Guang needs to do is to stop their hoarding habit. They want to put them in their pockets when they see any weird things~www.wuxiamtl.com~ Although the mutant cockroach’s stomach can occasionally turn out some indigestible little things. Stuff, luck can even reveal chips or bullets, but that probability is really too small.

  In most cases, cockroach eggs are found.

  Old Luca shivered as he watched from the sidelines, probably because he was frightened by the actions of these people.

  He had never seen such a strange person, and he couldn't understand what they were thinking.

  However, Luca knows very well that as a servant, he does not need to think about this problem. The less he knows, the longer he will live, so he didn’t say anything along the way, as if he had a low sense of existence, it seemed that he didn’t exist.

  I want to sing in a happy mood.

   led the canopy convoy back to the outpost. Chu Guang, who had just arrived at the door, happened to see that the two brothers of the Yu family, carrying their prey, were gesticulating anxiously with the players at the south gate.

   Chu Guang's eyes lit up, and he called out from a distance.

  Hearing a familiar voice, the Yu brothers immediately turned their heads and waved with joy.

   "Brother Chu!"

  (End of this chapter)

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