Above the mage!

Chapter 293 Establishment of the Ministry of Agriculture

The past ten days.

Gaode lives a busy and fulfilling life.

During the day, he was busy in the pollen fields to promote the growth of cold-resistant wheat and obtain cold-resistant wheat seeds. At the same time, he had to take Flora to the volcanic land to guide the planting of golden wheat.

——Although the Zhenbing tribe has a long history of growing Golden Wheat, to be honest, they are still far from comprehending the "mystery" of Golden Wheat.

With a little guidance from Flora, the yield of Golden Wheat can be increased by at least 10%.

This is still limited by the conditions of the Zhenbing Tribe, otherwise it can be improved further.

In addition, due to the primitive farming methods, the Zhenbing tribe has not carried out any selection and cultivation of the Golden Wheat seeds throughout the years of planting the Golden Wheat.

And all of these need to be done starting from now on.

To be honest, even with Flora's "skills" and even with Gaode's comprehension of the "art of nature", the entire grain production task is still very difficult.

The preliminary preparation work alone, including the cultivation of cold-resistant wheat original seeds as the male parent and the breeding of golden wheat as the female parent, is a huge task.

Without the help of extraordinary power, it would take at least two years to cultivate a sufficient number of original seeds with only one grain of cold-resistant barley.

But after the first ten days, Gaode felt a lot more relaxed.

Because on this day, Sunafa's practice of "Aoki Changsheng Sutra" also reached the first stage with the help of his own strong foundation and the holy object Bingyu Wutong.

After advancing to the first level, she naturally gained the ability of "Nature's Art".

But Sunaifa is different from Gode, her magical power is at the fourth level, and she is not as stingy as Gode in using natural magic. She can only produce one plant of cold-resistant wheat after a whole day of hard work.

With just a little effort, she easily produced two hundred mature cold-resistant wheat plants, and still had some energy to spare.

The joining of Sunaifa has suddenly fast-forwarded the work of cultivating and accumulating native varieties of cold-resistant wheat.

Of course, the birth of "natural art" is only a temporary solution.

The real accumulation of large quantities of native species still relies on traditional planting methods.

Therefore, every day, Elder Grant planted the cold-resistant wheat seeds obtained the day before according to Flora's standards.

In this way, after four months, this pollen field will welcome the first wave of naturally grown mature cold-resistant wheat, and it will continue to grow.

As for the night, he would study the Qingmu Changsheng Sutra and construct spell models.

Although because Yugathixila is still in the sapling stage and has no level, it cannot provide any benefits to Gaode for the time being.

However, the abundant magic power from the fourth-level spiritual land with a concentration of more than 4500 still made him feel like flying.

The progress in these ten days of practice was more significant than the five months of hard training he had experienced after being promoted to a first-level wizard.

As for spells, Gaode maintained his usual high efficiency.

With the eight unmastered first-level spells obtained from the Snowfield Guardian, he quickly mixed the corresponding spell potions when all the materials for the spells and potions were complete, and he had successfully constructed the spell models of two of the spells.

One of them is naturally [Frozen Blade].

This is the first damaging first-level spell that Gaode has mastered, and it is also a rare spell.

The second successfully constructed spell model is: [Wolf Speed].

[Wolf Speed] (Transmutation, 1st level):

Use the spell to gain wolf speed. Your speed becomes 60 km/h for the duration of the spell (one hour).

It is also a rare spell, and the reason for its rarity is also obvious: it is a numerical spell.

[Long Stride] is in the same ring and also increases the movement speed by 15 km/h.

Even if we add the human's own moving speed, which is 10 kilometers per hour, it can only reach 25 kilometers per hour, which is less than half of the [Wolf Speed].

Of course, as mentioned in the general spells class, spells may have different levels of strength, but it is absolutely not the case that a stronger spell of the same type can completely replace a weaker spell.

First of all, [Long Stride] can bless other creatures, which can be regarded as an auxiliary spell.

The spell target of [Wolf Speed] can only be oneself.

In addition, the effect of [Long Stride] is to increase the fixed movement speed, while the spell effect of [Wolf Speed] is to increase the movement speed to a fixed value.

In most cases, the value of [Wolf Speed] is definitely higher.

But if the caster's movement speed is greater than or equal to 50 km/h, then [Long Stride] can bring higher benefits.

But this is not what Gaode considered. For him, the current [Wolf Speed] is the most useful.

The Elders' Hall should be called the City Hall, which was the name Gaode just changed it a few days ago.

He called over Sunaifa, who had been busy promoting the growth of cold-resistant wheat these days.

After seeing with his own eyes the hardy wheat growing in the extremely cold environment of the snowfield, although Sunaifa did not kneel down as excitedly and devoutly as Elder Grant, he was actually just as shocked and upset.

Just from the fact that the war mother of the clan has been running to the pollen field whenever she has time these past few days, you can tell something.

Sunaifa only goes to Jinhuimai a few times a year.

"My king, is there something wrong?" Sunaifa's voice was soft, with a hint of imperceptible obedience.

Theoretically, she is at the same level as Gaode. Even in the extraordinary world where strength speaks, as the first magician of the Zhenbing tribe, she is the one who truly has the final say.

But as she said, if the two wills conflict, she will follow Gaode's will, and she did so.

"There are still many things to do, and everything is urgent."

"For example, universal education. Although this is a supernatural world, I believe that in any world and at any time, universal education is definitely the most effective means to promote the development of civilization."

"And education is something that should be started as early as possible."

"But the problem is that we have no teachers, no schools, no books, and more importantly, even if we have those things, if we want people to pay attention to education, we have to fill their stomachs first."

"How can I study if I don't have enough food to eat?"

"It is also very important to expand the scale of the tribe. If we want to develop rapidly, we must have enough labor. A population of 500,000 is still too few."

"It's too slow to rely on our own reproduction. We must absorb other northern tribes to increase the population, and this also requires sufficient food. Otherwise, we can't absorb people first and then starve them to death. Besides, even if we rely on our own reproduction, we still need enough food."

“So, no matter how many things we have to do, we have to solve the food problem before we can start.”

"As for how to solve the food problem, we already have an idea, but the early work can be done by just a few of us, but later on, a large number of people will definitely be needed."

"With such a large number of people, there should be a corresponding management department, and a corresponding system should be established in advance, otherwise it will be a mess."

"So, I need to set up a department for our city hall in Phoenix. To be honest, this is just the first department, and there will be more in the future."

"After all, a qualified ruling body should be in charge of every aspect of the people under it, including eating, drinking, defecating and urinating. The current power structure in Phoenix is ​​still too extensive."

"But this is also decided based on the actual situation in Phoenix. I can understand that, but in short, let's set up this department first." Sunaifa blinked her beautiful blue eyes and listened carefully.

Gao De mumbled a lot of things, but she didn't understand much. However, she tried hard to remember what Gao De said, and then understand it in combination with the subsequent specific actions.

Gao De continued, "The department I want to set up is called the Ministry of Agriculture. It should be responsible for the comprehensive management of planting, animal husbandry, aquaculture, agricultural reclamation and other industries, and be in charge of agricultural development. Of course, its most important responsibility at present is to be responsible for barley planting."

Sunaifa was stunned for a moment, and Gaode continued:

"The Ministry of Agriculture should first have a minister, and then two deputy ministers."

"Lady Flora will be the minister, and one of the deputy ministers will be Elder Grant. We will decide on the other position when the time comes."

"Also, all those who have worked in the cultivation of Golden Wheat should be incorporated into the Ministry of Agriculture first."

After Sunaifa left.

"Mage, what is a minister?"

“What is the Ministry of Agriculture?”

"What is Lady Flora going to do?"

".?"

The little man's questions kept ringing in my ears, perhaps more than a hundred thousand.

Gao De patiently answered them one by one:

"The minister is the boss of the Ministry of Agriculture, and everyone in the Ministry of Agriculture must listen to the minister."

"Lady Flora, in the absence of modern industry, there is no doubt that the Ministry of Agriculture will be the department with the largest number of people in Phoenix for a very long time. Then Lady Flora will really be a lady!"

Well, the other thing is that the Ministry of Agriculture will be the department with the heaviest workload in Phoenix for a long time. Gao De kept this in mind but didn't dare say it out loud.

"The Ministry of Agriculture is responsible for the food of all the people of Phoenix. As the saying goes, food is the first necessity of the people, so the Ministry of Agriculture will be the first necessity of Phoenix from now on."

"Lady Flora, what you need to do is to use your wisdom to cultivate excellent barley seeds so that the people of Phoenix can eat barley."

"Really~" Flora doubted.

Gode ​​knew that what she cared about was the sentence "Lady Flora is truly an adult."

"real."

"Really!" Flora was happy.

Godard glanced at the jubilant Flora and felt a little guilty. What he said was true, but he did not say the other side.

However, Flora doesn't need to sleep and won't get tired. Isn't she born with the body of an ox or a horse? This means that nothing can stop her.

Gao De secretly convinced himself in his heart.

Under God's will, the Ministry of Agriculture was quickly established, although it currently had very few staff: Minister Flora, Deputy Minister Grant, and more than twenty people who had worked on volcanic land were incorporated into the Ministry of Agriculture as apprentices.

But if nothing unexpected happens, there will soon be a major expansion.

And the work on barley breeding continues.

The task of breeding native varieties of cold-resistant wheat has been handed over to Sunaifa and more than 20 apprentices.

Grant followed Goder and Flora in the breeding of Golden Wheat. It should be called learning instead of following.

His main job was to record in detail everything Flora said, including how deep to turn the soil, the sowing interval, the significance of the various states of the golden wheat, how to fertilize correctly, how much fertilizer to apply, how to select good seeds, etc.

According to Gaode's requirements, all of these must be recorded, compiled into a manual and made into standards. Future planting work will need to follow the standards in the manual. The Ministry of Agriculture will also be responsible for promotion, guidance and supervision.

The prerequisite for guidance is that you must first understand it yourself.

Flora spoke and Grant recorded.

At the same time, Goder was also explaining, and Flora also had to remember.

"Although I am the one who proposes the method now and Lady Flora is responsible for completing it, Lady Flora is now the Minister of Agriculture. In the future, I will only be responsible for making requirements for many tasks, and Lady Flora will have to make the decision on how to complete them. Therefore, Lady Flora also needs to understand these principles." Gao De persuaded.

"Oh~" Flora was confused and nodded her head subconsciously.

Gao De continued: "The selection of hybrid barley parents, that is, the selection of male and female parents, is actually very particular."

"For the same hybrid combination of cold-tolerant wheat and golden wheat, the traits of the next generation of hybrid wheat bred with cold-tolerant wheat as the male parent and as the female parent will be very different."

"In the hybrid breeding process, the female parent should usually have excellent agronomic traits and strong reproductive ability. The former helps to improve the overall performance of the new variety, while the latter ensures the quantity and quality of hybrid seeds."

"The male parent focuses on excellent traits that complement the female parent, such as disease and pest resistance, cold tolerance, and drought tolerance."

“Therefore, Jinhui wheat, which has a long planting history and has been proven over time, is obviously more suitable as the mother plant.

“While the yield is not high, the cold-resistant wheat with unprecedented cold resistance is the best choice for the male parent.”

"The problem now is that the yield of the mother wheat is still too low."

Gaode made a simple calculation and found that due to the relatively simple agricultural tools, planting methods and seed quality in this world, the per-acre barley yield in this world is about 60 kilograms.

To sow one acre of barley, about 10 kilograms of seeds are needed.

It can be understood as a planting-to-harvest ratio of 1:5.

And Jinhuimai is also in this range.

There is no doubt that this planting-to-yield ratio is too low.

In Gaode's previous life, the global average barley yield was about 230 kilograms per acre, four times that of this world.

In some areas with high agricultural technology and management levels, the average barley yield can easily reach 500 kilograms per mu, or even higher.

"The first task of the Ministry of Agriculture is to increase the per-acre yield of Jinhui wheat to about 120 kilograms as soon as possible." Gaode gave Flora a "KPI".

Modern precision agricultural technology and mechanized operations cannot be achieved for the time being, but Gao De’s requirements are not high. He will be satisfied if he can increase the barley yield per mu to about 120 kilograms.

Doubling the output may sound exaggerated, but it is actually not difficult.

Because the most important factor affecting yield is the selection of excellent varieties.

Although this world cannot come up with modern breeding technology, it does have extraordinary powers. It is hard to say which one is stronger!
At least in Goder's opinion, Flora's abilities and potential are greater.

Because modern breeding technology uses science and continuous experimental summaries to improve methods and cultivate high-quality seeds.

But Flora communicates directly with plants, using her extraordinary powers to see through their essence and needs.

This process is simple and more accurate, but what is lacking is the implementation of this process.

(End of this chapter)