#440 - Chapter 440 Yuan Mu's Recommendation
The rice harvesting process is joyful.
The core members wished this time could last forever.
Bundles of heavy rice stalks were harvested and passed into the hands of the threshing team, and everyone could feel the weight as they handled them.
That was the weight of life.
Since the apocalypse, the core members had not really experienced hunger.
The base built by Qin Jin had given them unparalleled security and abundant food supplies from the very beginning.
Although Qin Jin stipulated that the main base's daily meals should be two dishes under normal circumstances, it was still a luxury that survivors outside could not imagine.
In times like these,
never mind what to eat.
Just being able to eat enough could make a once-untouchable big shot from peacetime bow down and scrape.
Even without eating enough, just a little basic food ration to survive could make a once-arrogant superstar wag their tail and beg for mercy.
Hunger is so terrible.
Only those who have truly experienced it will cherish it even more.
Although the core members did not experience it often, they had seen too much of the misery outside, and they could put themselves in others' shoes and think about what would happen if it were them.
No need to ask.
It would definitely be a misery beyond description.
The joyful harvest time was limited.
The main base's ground greenhouses only covered less than 15 acres, and with a group of people fully engaged in harvesting, it took no more than two hours to complete the manual harvest.
Afterwards, Qin Jin led everyone to the underground planting area on the first basement level.
Here, almost 10 acres of rice were also planted.
The top of the first basement level was equipped with many plant lights and a complete set of temperature and humidity control systems, providing the rice with optimal growing conditions almost around the clock.
If rice had thoughts, its former kind would probably be jealous to the point of exploding into popcorn if they saw how they were being treated.
Humans are so terrible!
They could actually completely avoid using pesticides for planting crops, preferring to catch insects and remove weeds by hand every day!
Not a single blade of grass could survive for more than two days in the Green Source Base's vegetable garden!
Every bit of fertility in the fertile soil was provided to the crops needed by humans.
Simply terrifying!
It is estimated that no one has ever thought that for the sake of the growth of mere rice, someone would stay in the fields all day long to take care of and watch over it.
Qin Jin did not continue to personally participate in the grain harvest on the first basement level.
He stood by the field on the first basement level, watching the core members bend down and work carefully, his heart full of a sense of accomplishment.
All the rice planted at the main base at the beginning of the year had matured and been harvested, while the newly planted rice at the branch base would still need some time.
For the moment of harvest, he basically did not use anyone other than the core members.
Mainly to avoid suspicion.
Except for a few dozen Level 4 personnel, the branch base was still mainly composed of Level 3 personnel.
That is to say, they still had a hunger crisis.
The work meals Qin Jin arranged for them had always been maintained at a level where they wouldn't starve to death.
Which was roughly 30% full.
The extra weekly "subsidies" distributed only allowed them to rise from the starving-to-death stage to the generally hungry stage.
Which was roughly 40-50% full.
To reach the 70-80% full, non-hungry state, one had to reach the level of a Level 4 personnel!
Level 4 personnel received fixed food subsidies, plus work meals, and labor subsidies, and eating all three together could get rid of hunger!
So why were Level 4 personnel envied by so many people? On the one hand, it was because they could have food to eat and not starve to death even if they didn't have work to do, and once they worked normally, they could get rid of hunger!
Even such a small advantage could make countless survivors ecstatic.
Those who are interested can experiment and see how it feels to skip two meals and not eat.
And after the apocalypse, nearly 98% of the survivors carried this feeling of hunger at all times. (Excluding some powerful forces and cannibals)
The importance of food will no longer be described.
The harvest on the first basement level was faster than above, and the experienced personnel were like wolves and tigers, carefully and completely removing all the ears of rice.
After Qin Jin finished, he returned to his small home to take a shower and change clothes, and then returned to his office to carry out his daily work.
It was rare to be able to take the time to participate in the harvest ceremony today, and the next step was to wait for the specific harvest numbers.
Yuan Mu did not make him wait long, and came to his office in the afternoon to personally report the specific situation of the base's first batch of grain!
"President Qin, the statistics are out!"
"This time, our main base has a total of 25 acres of rice fields, and a total of 29,754 catties of rice have been harvested! Close to 15 tons!"
"Next, we will start drying the rice, which will lose about 25% of its weight after dehydration, and then it is recommended to put it in storage!"
"If it needs to be taken out for consumption one day, it will lose another 5% or so of its weight after hulling, which means that we can finally obtain about 10.5 tons of edible high-quality rice from this planting!"
Yuan Mu said the specific numbers of the harvest in one breath, and also popularized the relevant links of self-loss of rice to Qin Jin again.
He slightly straightened his breath, and then continued:
"Our planting situation this time is very good! Under normal circumstances, the yield per mu of this variety of rice is roughly 900-1200 catties, and our yield this time is stepping on the upper limit area!"
Qin Jin nodded as he listened.
He naturally knew this information long ago.
10.5 tons!
This number is the final amount of rice produced by the main base itself this time!
Almost standing on the upper limit of the previous estimate.
In other words, their painstaking planting did produce results.
Next, he continued to talk with Yuan Mu about the issue of food, and it took almost half an hour before he took the initiative to end the discussion about the harvest.
"Thank you for your hard work, Captain Yuan. The trip to Hainan Province still requires you to arrange the candidates. Team Leader Li and the others can prepare and set off immediately tomorrow."
Turning the topic, Qin Jin once again mentioned the plan he had said before.
The airship had been found and returned, and had been undergoing overall maintenance and more powerful modifications during this period!
Before, it was only repaired very sloppily in order to drive it back.
Now it was different, and the temporary repair marks on the surface of the airship were completely gone.
Under the almost non-stop two-shift maintenance and modification by the base personnel, the new airship is expected to be completed today!
"You're welcome, President Qin. I have already selected the personnel for this trip. An Xiao Ran and Wu Qinu from our department will follow Team Leader Li to set off. One is my student, and the other is a person who was recruited at the beginning of the year. They both have a good understanding of super crops and related materials."
"This Wu Qinu is also a talent. Although he only graduated with a bachelor's degree before, he has been self-studying a lot of knowledge. In terms of achievements in botany, he is not inferior to my students at all! I even want to personally accept him as a disciple!"
Yuan Mu had naturally prepared what the leader needed long ago, and reported the candidates he had prepared without thinking.
And also said a piece of information that Qin Jin didn't expect.
Oh?
Qin Jin couldn't help but be a little curious. It was the first time he had seen Yuan Mu praise a person so much.
He knew An Xiao Ran.
This was a core member girl from the main base. She used to study with Yuan Mu in peacetime. She was his direct student and a classmate of that dead ghost Xiao Zhou who directly mutated on the night of the mutation.
As for the other person named Wu Qinu, he didn't have a deep impression. (Special custom character for Wuqi_nox)
So there are such talents in the base?
You must know that Yuan Mu is one of the famous experts in this field.
It is definitely not easy to get his evaluation!
(End of this chapter)
[Thank you very much Wuqi_nox for insisting on supporting 3 power generation every day for several months, from the book being unattended to now a few people are attending, he is one of the most touching iron fans to me, specially customized for him, and other friends in the book friend group are queuing, according to the plot development I will write them all in]
