Chapter 244 The Joy of Harvest

"Wow! So many big sweet potatoes!"

Wenwen followed Wang Jin out of the car and saw the harvest. She opened her mouth in surprise and ran to the field in joy, holding the sweet potatoes and shouting.

"Be careful not to fall." Seeing the harvest, Wang Jin was also full of joy. After arranging a few soldiers to look after Wenwen, he walked around and observed.

"Lord City Lord!" After receiving the notice, Du Yuyan and Zhang Zhouming came together to explain the situation in the planting area to Wang Jin.

"Lord City Lord, after our statistics, the sweet potato yield in the planting area is as expected, and the yield per mu can reach about 2,000 kilograms. The entire planting area of ​​5,800 mu of land can provide us with 12,000 tons of sweet potatoes."

Zhang Zhouming took a notebook and reported the sweet potato yield that Wang Jin was concerned about, which was not much different from the original estimate.

"But Lord City Lord, although we have a good harvest of sweet potatoes, because the population of the base has more than doubled, we still cannot be self-sufficient in food and need to continue to buy from the underground base."

Du Yuyan continued, Wang Jin's face darkened and his original joy disappeared, but this is a happy trouble, after all, the increase in population has greater benefits.

In the past two months, the population of Wang Jin's Lishan base has increased again.

Thanks to the unremitting efforts of the mutants, the population of the base exceeded the 200,000 mark more than half a month ago.

So far, the exact population of the entire base has reached 220,000.

It was originally estimated that the food produced in the planting area could easily meet the consumption of 100,000 survivors. Now with the population explosion, the food is still slightly insufficient, and more food needs to be obtained from other channels.

For the development of the Zerg, this is also unavoidable, but with so many human resources, Wang Jin is not afraid of lack of food.

As long as he finds suitable fertile land and reclaims more planting areas, Wang Jin does not have to worry about the problem of food.

"Well done, Zhang Zhouming. Do you remember the original agreement? You have taken good care of the planting area. I will now officially appoint you to the position. You are the highest person in charge of this planting area. This second-level crystal core is also awarded to you. I hope you can work harder after becoming a mutant!"

Wang Jin patted Zhang Zhouming on the shoulder, took out a sparkling second-level crystal core from his arms, and handed it to Zhang Zhouming.

"Ah! Ah!" Zhang Zhouming opened his mouth in surprise when he heard Wang Jin's words and saw the sparkling crystal core, looking at all this in disbelief.

"What are you doing? Thank the city lord quickly."

Seeing Zhang Zhouming was stunned at this time, Du Yuyan secretly stepped on him and finally woke him up. He hurriedly took the crystal core, and his hands trembled with excitement.

This is a second-level crystal core that can make ordinary people become mutants. As long as he takes it, he will go to a higher level in the future, completely separate from ordinary survivors, and become a superior person.

"Thank you, Lord City Lord, for your reward. Zhou Ming will serve you wholeheartedly in the future, even if it means death."

Zhang Zhouming half-knelt on the ground, ignoring the mud on his pants, and swore allegiance to Wang Jin with a respectful and excited face.

"Keep working hard! You can also come with Du Yuyan to attend the high-level meetings in the future!"

Wang Jin nodded. Letting him attend the high-level meetings was a recognition of Zhang Zhouming, and he would be included in the high-level of the base.

"Thank you, Lord City Lord, I will definitely work hard."

Zhang Zhouming was trembling with excitement. Becoming a member of the high-level of the Lishan Base was the dream of more than 200,000 survivors in the base.

I didn't expect that he, an ordinary survivor, could realize his dream after several months of hard work and become a high-level of the Lishan Base, below a few people and above 200,000 people. Zhang Zhouming even doubted whether he was dreaming now.

However, Wang Jin's words were still ringing in his ears, and the light emitted by the secondary crystal core in his hand reminded him that this was not a dream. He was the second outsider to become a high-level of the base after Murong Jun, the elder who was with Wang Jin before.

"Get up, the formalities are over, take me to continue to observe the planting area!"

Wang Jin shook his head and continued to inspect the planting area along the path in the field. Du Yuyan also helped Zhang Zhouming up, followed Wang Jin's pace, and answered all kinds of questions for Wang Jin.

Not long after Wang Jin's inspection, several more cars drove into the planting area. They were all high-level people from the base such as He Xin and Li Yue who received orders from Wang Jin. Among them was a figure who shouldn't have appeared, Jiang Shishi. I don't know why she ran over.

"Mom!" Wenwen, who was covered in mud while playing in the field, jumped up and was about to jump into He Xin's arms.

Fortunately, Li Yue beside him was quick-witted and grabbed this little radish in mid-air, otherwise He Xin's clothes would have been dirty.

"You are here." Wang Jin greeted He Xin and others, turned his head to look at the enthusiastic Jiang Shishi, frowned and said: "What are you doing here? This planting area is not in the scope of bilateral transactions, and you don't need to supervise it."

"Can't you come and take a look? Are you afraid that I will spy on you?"

Jiang Shishi raised her head, and when she saw that Wang Jin didn't look good to her, her pretty face darkened, deliberately provoking Wang Jin.

"Wang Jin!" He Xin shook her head, signaling Wang Jin not to pursue it. Jiang Shishi often played in the base in the past few months, and her relationship with the top leaders of the base became much more familiar.

"Humph!"

Wang Jin didn't want to get entangled here, and there was no secret in the planting area, so Jiang Shishi followed and took everyone to inspect the planting area.

Newcomers He Xin and others were also amazed by the harvest in the planting area. Sweet potatoes were dug out in large pieces and piled up to form a small hill. Thousands of farmers worked hard in the fields to dig more sweet potatoes, a picture of harvest joy.

"The yield of this sweet potato is really high, but it's a pity that we can't grow it in our underground base."

Jiang Shishi sighed with envy, surprised by the amazing yield of sweet potatoes. It is worthy of being one of the best foods to survive famine. This amazing yield is really not covered.

"Your underground base is not bad either. The mushroom harvest time is very short. The overall yield is not worse than sweet potatoes."

Du Yuyan on the side explained with a smile, but her face was very proud. After all, this planting area also had his credit, and he was naturally happy when others praised him.

After Wang Jin inspected the planting area, he came to the fish pond and farm near the planting area.

Among dozens of fish ponds, there are farmers releasing water in several fish ponds to catch fish. After three or four months of breeding, these mutated fish grow very fast and are already one to two feet long. It is time to catch them.

Seeing the fun, the little girl Wenwen couldn't help but run to the fish pond that had been released, and catch fish with the farmers, chasing the fat fish running around. Even if she was splashed with mud, she was happy to leave a series of crisp laughter, which made Wang Jin seem to see his childhood.

Compared with the fish pond, the breeding farm is much noisier, with livestock screaming everywhere and strange smells wafting.

But for people who have adapted to the end of the world, these smells are nothing, and even the few women in the team can turn a blind eye to them.

In the fence of the breeding farm, pigs, cattle and sheep caught from the wild grow up here, enjoying the delicious fresh grass provided by the staff, without worrying about carnivores hunting, and having food and clothes every day, life is many times better than in the wild, and weight continues to increase in a few months.

However, Wang Jin did not kill them, but kept them to breed and give birth to more cubs.

After all, the number of livestock caught in the wild is not large. If you want to increase the number of breeding, you can't kill them in large numbers.

Only after one or two generations of breeding, when there are enough cubs, will Wang Jin kill them in large numbers to provide meat for the base.

Now the farms slaughter chickens and ducks. First of all, the hatching rate is high and there are many cubs. Secondly, they grow fast and can be slaughtered in a few months. Like fish, they are the main source of meat for the base.

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