Chapter 136 Planting Area Construction

The Hummer took Wang Jin and the other two out of the city gate and into the vast wilderness.

Sparse weeds were scattered in the wilderness, and from time to time, you could see ragged survivors squatting on the ground, digging wild vegetables with a small shovel, or catching flying and jumping insects with a small net bag.

This is the life of ordinary survivors, running for food every day. After Wang entered the main Lishan base, although he had the Zerg in hand, he could not provide enough food for the survivors. Two meals of porridge a day were already the limit.

The food consumed by 130,000 survivors every day is amazing. Wang Jin currently has two months of food reserves consumed by the survivors. If the food provided by the subsequent Zerg is added, the base can be guaranteed to survive for three months.

And in three months, the sweet potatoes in Wang Jin's planting area will be harvested. If nothing unexpected happens, the planting area will be able to provide Wang Jin with 11,000 tons of sweet potatoes, which is enough for the base to use for more than half a year.

Therefore, Wang Jin was very concerned about this planting area. He would come to inspect the planting area every few days, listen to Zhang Zhouming's opinions, and provide more conditions for this planting area. No matter whether it was manpower or material resources, as long as the planting area needed it, Wang Jin would not refuse.

After driving a few kilometers, the Hummer could see a large green ocean from a distance. This was the sweet potato that had grown for a month.

Because the growth rate of sweet potatoes was amazing, the leaves had grown very long in a month, extending more than one meter along the main vine, and the branches were covered with green leaves, which looked very tempting.

Under the ground, the sweet potatoes had formed small tubers, slowly absorbing nutrients from the soil to grow and grow, and only waited for three months to mature.

Seeing Wang Jin's Hummer coming, the soldiers outside the planting area saluted and ran to inform Zhang Zhouming.

Compared with a month ago, the number of soldiers in the planting area has greatly increased to one thousand, and the insect swarm has increased to two thousand.

Outside the planting area, a two-meter-high wire mesh was erected to protect the planting area inside.

As the sweet potatoes grow, a large number of farmers gather, and this planting area also attracts many herbivorous and carnivorous mutant animals.

Herbivores come to steal and destroy sweet potatoes, while carnivores come to attack farmers. For this reason, Wang Jin spent a lot of effort to surround this barbed wire fence, and added soldiers and insect swarms to guard it to protect the sweet potatoes and farmers in the planting area.

Because there are hosts and insect swarms stationed and monitored, mutant beasts often come more and return less, becoming prey to the insect swarms, and do not cause any damage to the sweet potatoes.

In addition, the establishment of this barbed wire fence and the addition of soldiers to guard it are also to prevent ordinary survivors from stealing.

Many survivors saw these sweet potatoes grow up, and they wanted to steal them because they were greedy. Because the planting area was too large, Wang Jin’s original troops were not enough to take care of the entire planting area, so he sent more troops.

At first, the survivors could steal some sweet potatoes while Wang Jin was short of manpower. After Wang Jin added more manpower, this situation never happened again.

All the survivors who dared to steal were taken to prisoner camps for labor reform, and those who organized theft were beheaded, which greatly curbed this evil trend.

Now the whole base knows that the planting area cannot be touched. Anyone who dares to steal sweet potatoes will not have a good time. They will either be taken to the prisoner camp to do the hardest, most tiring and most dangerous work, or be shot to death by soldiers or bitten to death by velociraptors. Now no one dares to steal anymore.

Upon learning that Wang Jin had arrived, Zhang Zhouming, who had been busy in the planting area, quickly ran over and personally led Wang Jin to visit and explain the development of the planting area.

The entire planting area has a total of 5,800 acres of land, which is divided into 100 small areas, each of which has 58 acres of land, and an average of ten farmers work in the small area.

Each small area also has a regional supervisor, who is a staff member of the production department, who is responsible for the sweet potato planting in this area and leads the farmers to work on it.

Zhang Zhouming and Du Yuyan will conduct regular inspections. If the sweet potatoes in the area they are responsible for grow well, the regional supervisor will get more food.

If the sweet potatoes do not grow well, the regional supervisor will be punished and have his food deducted. If the sweet potatoes are seriously reduced in production or even withered, they will be dismissed from the production department. In particularly serious cases, they will be held accountable and subject to criminal law.

Under such a mechanism, each regional supervisor works with trepidation, not daring to be careless, for fear of losing this hard-earned job.

At the same time, the rewarded food also makes them full of motivation, taking care of the sweet potatoes wholeheartedly, arranging the farmers' work, making the entire planting area flourish, and the growth of sweet potatoes is getting better day by day.

Walking slowly along the path in the field, Wang Jin can see that a large ditch with a width of ten meters and a depth of three meters runs through the planting area. The source of the large ditch is in the river 5 or 6 kilometers away from the planting area, and the water flows from the river.

There are also small ditches throughout the planting area to provide water for the growth of sweet potatoes. These small ditches extend from this large ditch to ensure that the water source of the entire planting area is continuous.

The big ditch was dug by 3,000 captured soldiers over a month, solving the problem of insufficient water in the planting area.

Speaking of the captured soldiers, after digging the ditch, the soldiers began to dig fish ponds under Wang Jin's order.

So far, three fish ponds have been completed, and more are being dug. Each fish pond is ten acres in size and is filled with water from the big ditch.

At this time, the fish pond was full of fry, which were all caught by Wang Jin's farmers. Although the wild rivers were dangerous and there were mutant fish that could eat people in the rivers.

But with Wang Jin's insect swarms escorting them, and the fact that most of the fry lived on the shore and did not need to enter deep water, the fishing was relatively smooth, and enough fry were found for the fish pond.

Now it was just a matter of time for the fry to grow. According to experts in fish farming, with the growth rate of mutated fish and the amount of food that could be provided to fish, it would take about 4 to 5 months for these fry to grow up and be put on the table.

Now there are sweet potatoes and fish ponds in the planting area, but the breeding farm has not been built yet.

Mainly because there are too few animals such as chickens, ducks, and pigs, Wang Jin has now ordered the Zerg to catch them in the wild, but it will take some time to gather enough to build a breeding farm.

After walking around the planting area, Wang Jin returned to the center of the planting area at noon when he finished work. This was where the farmers rested, and where they ate and received their wages every day.

When Wang Jin walked here, a fresh fragrance of vegetables filled the air. Wang Jin narrowed his eyes and saw that the farmers' meals had changed today. In addition to a bowl of porridge for each person, there was also a small dish of fried sweet potato leaves to eat.

Wang Jin's face turned black when he saw this scene. He turned around and glared at Zhang Zhouming, pointing at the fried sweet potato leaves and said gloomily: "What's going on? Why are you picking these sweet potato leaves? Zhang Zhouming, you don't want to do this anymore, right?"