Everyone: Are mechanics weak? I wake up and rectify the natural disaster

The mid-term reason also comes from the previous crop.

The arrival of this group of Wumeng people vaguely shows that the empire will have to deal with other races normally sooner or later.

Under such circumstances, it is not appropriate to continue to follow the past methods and adhere to the survival logic of omnic civilization.

Food, compared to energy, minerals, alloys, and fuels, does seem a bit inferior.

It is also something dug out of the soil. It cannot go through a series of processes like minerals and become an invincible star battleship, or it can support ammunition and fuel for battleship operations.

But in the final analysis, it is the most basic and important one among these basic resources.

If it hadn't been for such a long period of time, the only person the empire needed to feed was Su Wen himself.

It was only not long ago that Lily Bai was added.

It’s not like Su Wen, who has been neglecting agriculture in the past.

The current situation with Wu Mengren was a little wake-up call for him.

and...

During this period of time, although the development of all aspects of the empire was very tense, resources were desperately needed everywhere.

But leaving aside the military field and technological research and development, the industrial production capacity in the civilian field is somewhat surplus.

After all, Guanghui has worked on so many projects before, and the profits after completion are all huge.

In addition, during the expansion process, one high-value planet after another was developed.

There are many galaxies in the second and third rings,

It has passed the deficit stage of only eating resources in the early stages of development, and has begun to make profits and start exporting resources and products.

In this case, freeing up a living planet for farming is not a big deal.

It will not affect the development of other fields or hold back.

Simply put, it's 'available'.

...Well, this 'free time' is the main reason why Su Wen is now free to farm.

Otherwise, would he come to inspect this remote planet after he was full?

Apart from its status as an 'agricultural production pilot', this place is basically a 'planet in exile'!

There were less than 100,000 people imprisoned above, and the whole continent looked like a wasteland, worse than Tu'ao.

"This is too familiar..."

Su Wen looked down at the sparse buildings on the ground, scattered here and there, as well as the large tracts of greenhouses and farmland scattered among the buildings, and marveled.

He finally knew why he always had this sense of déjà vu.

This is the Tu'ao of the empire!

The combination of Tu'ao and North America, Lao Angsa.

Slightly arid savanna, but not short of rivers, and the terrain is broad and flat.

In the vast plains, farmland can be paved as much as you want, and managed as you want.

Just a dozen or so Wumeng sailors can manage 100,000 acres of cultivated land.

The greenhouse would be slightly smaller.

But greenhouses are basically all hydroponics, which is less fertile than soil. In the final analysis, after agricultural production is long-term and durable, chemical fertilizers are the fundamental determinant of crop yields.

No matter how strong the soil is, sooner or later it will be unable to recover, and it cannot be done without the help of chemical fertilizers.

and...

To put it bluntly, the upper limit of naturally accumulated soil fertility is not high.

You can see the end at a glance.

No matter how fertile the black soil in the Great Northern Wilderness was, the food in the Northeast was still not plentiful in those days.

No matter how advanced mechanized farming is, there will still be famine in China in the 1950s and 1960s.

It was the 43rd Plan from the 1970s to the 1970s, which introduced 13 large-scale fertilizer production lines.

This laid the domestic technical foundation in this area.

After several years of digestion and expansion,

Finally, in the 1970s, the problem of eating was initially solved.

We did not completely achieve enough food and clothing for the whole country, but we did achieve the elimination of famine.

The second step is Yuan Lao's hybrid rice - the latter is based on the former.

The value of chemical fertilizers to agriculture is higher than anything else.

Su Wen naturally would not ignore this.

However, agricultural production in the interstellar era is quite different from before.

The organic combination of fertilizer, or to put it more bluntly, 'nutrients' and 'planting substrate' can be done better.

There are two lines here.

The open farmland that Su Wen saw was the traditional route of 'natural planting'.

At most, pest and disease control is stronger, soil fertility is better regulated, and the climate and environment are artificially shaped...

——Needless to say the former, the latter is also easy to do.

At the level of interstellar civilization, it is very simple and inexpensive to control the weather in local areas.

As for pests and diseases...

If you can't get rid of these little Karami, you also look down on the interstellar civilization that can rub antimatter with your hands.

The more affordable option is 'large-scale eradication bait', and the more expensive option is direct 'gene annihilation'.

Don’t talk about pests and viruses.

Xiaoqiang can even wave his hand to cause extinction!

If placed in the classical era, this would be the ultimate dream of all ordinary people:

Never need to weed or fertilize, always have good weather.

— which adds up to an everlasting harvest.

...If it were recorded in the history books, it would be 'a time when the seas, rivers and rivers were clear, there would never be famine, and there was great rule'.

Any ruler who can bring such miracles to the people must wear the hat of a holy king at the very least.

'The merits of Yao and Shun' are greater than those of Yao and Shun' is not an exaggeration at all.

But the 'Holy Lord' himself looked at it and didn't think it was anything.

——No matter how awesome these solar farms and self-circulation farms are, they are still naturally raised.

The natural environment is the main one, supplemented by human intervention.

Not to mention how powerful and exaggerated these interventions are, they are not complete after all.

Ultimately, it is constrained by the land itself.

The 'hydroponic greenhouse' and 'ecological dome' of the interstellar era are complete.

That is another way of thinking:

Mainly human intervention, supplemented by natural environment.

The agricultural production technology on this route is basically the product of the 'constant temperature cultivation', 'soilless cultivation', and 'transgenic technology' of the pre-interstellar civilization entering the next stage.

The planting environment is completely artificial;

Various nutrient solutions are directly filled;

Artificial composition of gene sequences;

From the external environment to the crop itself, everything is controlled manually. The expression genes of the crop are artificially controlled, and the molding needs are directly given to the embryo stage.

How fast is the production cycle of genetically modified crops?

As fast as you want.

Biotechnology in the interstellar era is beyond the imagination of pre-interstellar civilizations.

If the Suzheng Empire itself is used as a reference...

The 'technological level' is a high civilization level, and the 'industrial capability' is still a medium civilization level;

The 'actual control area' is the lowest level, basically between low civilization and medium civilization.

Of course, the latter is not important.

The main thing is the level of science and technology and industrial capabilities.

When the first two are in place.

Civilizations within this category can basically start to "create intelligent life" and "gene ascension".

How awesome does biotechnology have to be?

Blue Star people can’t even think of it!

Using the concept of Blue Star, it is really just like Nuwa and God, it is as easy as creating a new intelligent race from scratch.

Even if we don't mention the high-end things like 'creating intelligent life'...

Just the 'primary gene enhancement potions' that Su Wen eliminated have created a group of space warriors for China, which is also an exaggeration.

This level of biotechnology can be used to improve agriculture...

The upper limit is really horribly high.

Three crops a year?

Three ripe in January!

...In fact, if you have to do it, it is very simple to rely on genetic modification to create a super crop that can mature multiple times in the same day.

But don’t we also have to consider cost-effectiveness?

Most civilizations, when it comes to genetically modified crops, basically tend to create types that mature in about a week.

Too fast is not good, as the utilization rate of nutrient solution is low and the cost is increased in disguise;

After a long time, it almost didn't make sense, and there was no feeling of 'rapid growth and rapid growth'.

Of course, there are faster ones.

But that's not 'food' in the conventional sense:

Fast-growing and fast-growing genetically modified super crops, no matter how short the growth cycle, are still modified from traditional conventional crops.

After a long series of genetic optimization modifications, it is finally food in the traditional sense.

It will go through a complete growth cycle of 'sowing, sprouting, development and fruiting', and what is finally harvested is the serious 'fruit'.

But if you want to, you need higher efficiency.

Then it's no longer food, it's basically some...

...some indescribable stuff.

In the sealed cultivation cabin, energy sources such as geothermal energy, wind power, and hydraulic power are used to carry out large-scale cultivation from selected primitive organic species such as algae and mosses with simple structures.

These organic crops, which are also genetically modified and can produce certain nutrients in a targeted manner, are quickly spawned like clones.

This is called a 'resource crop'.

By cultivating genetically modified algae.

In this way, an extremely large amount of 'basic organic matter' can be obtained in an extreme cycle.

Since the above-mentioned species themselves have been genetically modified, most of the grown tissues contain simple amino acids, proteins, sugars and even vegetable oils...

...highlighting a pure natural green pollution-free.

Such algae raw materials are poured directly into the synthesis workshop.

What comes out of the production line are the various 'nutritional creams' that are notorious in the interstellar world.