Volume 4: National Craftsmanship Chapter 144: Cultivating the Fields
The synthesis of these three instruments is not complicated, and the basic materials used are iron, tin, and graphite. Shen Jin quickly synthesized the three instruments and also made a set of [crop stands] for use in conjunction with them.
First of all, put the [Crop Harvester] on the ground. It is a 1-cubic-meter cube machine. It is a system with block-forming capabilities. Everything it produces is in a block shape. People with obsessive-compulsive disorder feel inexplicably comfortable ~!
If it didn't have the same space compression capability as a [box], it wouldn't be able to hold many things. Open the [Crop Harvester], which has 15 storage grids that can hold the harvested crops, and a place to place batteries, indicating that it can be powered by batteries. Now, Shen Jin's largest power supply battery is the [Energy Crystal], which can store 100,000 kWh of electricity and is very durable. Of course, that is for temporary use outside. Shen Jin uses electric wires to cover the base's infrastructure equipment.
"The operating range of the [crop harvester] is 20×20×3m, so one harvester can harvest 400 square meters of crops, which is not bad!"
Shen Jin used an electric wrench to dismantle the machine and took it into the vegetable greenhouse. The first phase of the vegetable greenhouse covers an area of 20 acres. The crops inside are in the harvest period. Every day, a batch of cucumbers, tomatoes, beans, green peppers, eggplants and other vegetables are shipped out. The harvest is quite good. Shen Jin is no longer relying on his previous capital. Canned food has also been taken off the table. Fresh vegetables, frozen meat, and reserve grain are used instead.
The meal made with this kind of ingredients is very delicious. The little niece's appetite has increased a bit. Since returning from S City, the little niece has been secluded and eating a lot. It seems that she wants to eat back the energy that Shen Jin absorbed from her body. In the end, the little niece did not ask Shen Jin for the third-level energy crystal core. Instead, at dinner time every day, the little niece brought her big box of bubble gum and asked Shen Jin to fill it with ordinary energy crystal cores, and also asked for a few first-level energy crystal cores to satisfy her hunger.
“Boss!”
"Boss, you're here!"
"Hello, Boss!"
As soon as Shen Jin entered the vegetable greenhouse, the workers inside greeted him one after another. In the eyes of ordinary people, Shen Jin's image was more friendly, mainly because when he had nothing to do, he always liked to go down and wander around. Most people were familiar with Shen Jin, and they didn't have any airs of a lord when talking to him. Most people thought that Shen Jin was a good manager who cared about people's livelihood and loved the people.
"Okay, come on, help me find a piece of land that hasn't been harvested yet, so I can try out the new machine!"
"Boss, follow me! These half an acre of cucumbers have not been picked yet!"
Shen Jin came to a green cucumber field. The cucumber vines were more than 2 meters high and very lush. Long, juicy cucumbers hung underneath. They looked very easy to use... Phew, delicious!
"Okay, that's it, go get busy!"
Shen Jin used three pieces of soil to build a soil pillar in the middle of the half-acre field, then placed the crop harvester on top and placed an energy crystal inside to supply power. "Beep, beep—"
The machine started to run, and the red light on it flashed, collecting information about the crops around it. Oh, this thing has a built-in [Crop Analyzer] that can automatically analyze the crops below, so as to determine the degree of maturity of the fruits. The red indicator light on it flashed for a moment, then turned green, "Zizizizi——"
A gap opened on the side of the machine, and a metal mechanical arm stretched out with a pair of scissors attached to it. It then accurately aimed at a juicy big cucumber on the cucumber vine next to it and cut it off!
The moment the cucumber is cut, it shrinks into a miniature cucumber model and is sucked into the [crop harvester] along the robotic arm. An extra [cucumber] is added to the storage space inside the machine. Then, the robotic arm with scissors keeps shuttling back and forth in the cucumber vines, cutting off the ripe cucumbers one by one. Its movements are quick and precise!
The unripe cucumbers were bypassed by the machine. "It seems that this machine can automatically analyze the ripe fruits, and it is very accurate!"
An hour later, all the cucumber vines in the 20×20m square area centered on the [Crop Harvester] were harvested . The green indicator light on the [Crop Harvester] turned red again, and after flashing for a while, no ripe fruits were detected, and it fell silent again.
When Shen Jin read the introduction of the machine , he knew that the machine would rescan every 24 hours and collect the ripe fruits. "This is very convenient! It would be great if there were a logistics pipeline. Then all the vegetables and fruits in the greenhouse could be transported to one place, and full automation would be achieved!"
Unfortunately, the current industrial module has not yet unlocked pipeline items, so Shen Jin can only let people wearing [Traveler Gloves] harvest the groups of fruits in the machine.
After finishing the experiment with the [Crop Harvester], Shen Jin took out the [Crop Monitoring Machine] and placed it on top of it. This is a device that automatically takes care of crops.
There are three rows of 9 grids inside. The first row has [Water Unit], the second row has [Herbicide], and the third row has [Fertilizer]. Its operating range is similar to that of [Crop Harvester]. The higher distance does not affect its use. "Come on, two people, get some herbicides and fertilizers!"
[Water Unit] Shen Jin carries a lot of it on him, after all, it is the source of life.
Soon, Shen Jin put the three items into the [Crop Monitoring Machine], and then put the batteries in. The [Crop Monitoring Machine] started to run. After the recognition machine inside it scanned for a moment, a tube extended from the center of the machine, sank to the ground, and then extended along the ground to find the newly grown weeds at the bottom, "Puff!"
There are multiple small round nozzles on the tube, which are only 1cm in diameter. The spray coverage is extremely low, and it only sprays a small amount of herbicide, which is sprinkled accurately on the weeds.
In addition to the herbicide tube operating below, there are two tubes extending from the machine. Powdered fertilizer is sprayed out from the tubes, covering the ground evenly. Another tube sprays out drops of fine water mist, using the most water-saving drip irrigation method to water the cucumber vines. The three tubes each perform their duties and take care of the cucumber field. If it encounters yellowing or bad leaves eaten by insects, the [crop monitoring machine] will extend a robotic arm to cut them off with scissors. It is very intelligent.
It can be said that with these two machines, Shen Jin can save a lot of manpower to take care of crops. They only need to open up the land and sow seeds, and then hand over all the work to the [Crop Monitoring Machine] and [Crop Harvester]. "It is worthy of being a machine unlocked by [Intermediate Industry III]. It is really advanced! The intelligent analysis module inside is probably one era ahead of the original world technology!"
In the synthesis table of these two machines, there is a [Crop Analyzer]. This is a handheld instrument with a large LCD screen on top and a black box on the bottom. As long as you put the cubed crops into the black box, you can analyze its various properties, including crop name, crop growth stage, nutrient storage, water storage, whether it can be sown, and estimated yield...
In the game, this machine is mainly used to identify various hybrid crops. "Here comes an interesting question... In the real world, can crops be hybridized through industry? Sweet potatoes growing under sugarcane... Gandhi? And crops with peanuts underneath and corn on top... Peanuts?"
These plants, which are originally from different genera, can be hybridized in the game. Although the success rate is very low, if you persist, you will synthesize some unimaginable crops. The remaining set of [Crop Racks] in Shen Jin's hand can be used as ordinary racks as well as to construct hybrid crops. The two [Crop Racks] are placed crosswise, and the seeds are planted under the two [Crop Racks]. The next step is to hand it over to the [Crop Supervision Machine]. It will automatically identify the plants that need to be hybridized, and then supervise their hybridization process. The whole process is fully automatic, and it's very fun!
Shen Jin took out the [Energy Crystals] from the two machines and said, "The power consumption is not bad. It only consumed less than 30 kWh in total. It's still affordable!"
The most important thing is that the two machines were working just now, so the power consumption was high, and most of the time they were in sleep mode, so the overall power consumption was very low. "But... once the number of such machines increases, it will still consume a lot of electricity, so we still have to add wind turbines!"
Nowadays, despite the unlocking of [solar generators], [hydroelectric generators], [thermal generators], and [semi-fluid generators] (biogas), wind turbines are still the most attractive, with large power generation, green and clean energy, low machine maintenance rate, and a [carbon rotor] with very little loss, which can be replaced once a year.
A one-time investment can be exchanged for a steady supply of electricity, so more wind turbines should be built. The most complicated and troublesome part of the entire project is choosing a height where the wind is strong and building the base. Now the people in the Extraordinary Team have the ability to block, so they can do it. Shen Jin only needs to make the machine and the rotor and then install it on it when the time comes.
"Yang Ao and his team are still expanding to the north. From the map, there are about 20 square kilometers of land suitable for farming, and then there are mountains... If we turn these 20 kilometers into fully automated farming... it's not a small project!"
The consumables are huge and the circuits are complicated, but Shen Jin decided to do it anyway, because once the transformation of these 20 square kilometers, or 30,000 acres of land is completed, in addition to sowing, he can harvest greenhouse vegetables and fruits all year round , and there is no need to grow grain for the time being.
"Fruit is still a big problem... We need mature seedlings and some varieties that can grow in greenhouses in the north, which is a bit troublesome... Fortunately, there are many cherry orchards, and you can eat big cherries in April-June!"
Q City is known as the "Hometown of Cherries in China". When the season comes, tens of thousands of acres of cherries are ripe. The fruits are plump and crystal clear, and most of them are high-quality fruits. As a native of Q City, Shen Jin achieved cherry freedom early on.
Now, in the end times, he still misses this...
"So, don't demolish the cherry orchards, grape orchards, and some other orchards. Keep them as they are and install [crop monitoring machines] so that you can eat the cherries when the season comes... Then, what price will the cherries be sold for?"
In this way, Shen Jin's plan has two layers. Except for the original orchard, the other 30,000 acres of arable land will be converted into greenhouse vegetables. A total of 50,000 [crop harvesters] and [crop monitoring machines] will be needed. "Fortunately, we can afford it!"
After a large amount of resource exchanges with the government, Shen Jin has achieved basic resource freedom. Various materials have filled up the underground warehouse. It's time to use them to build a career!
"It seems that the [Traveler's Gloves] have to be given to those who do the work!"
This is a big project. Without the ability to blockize, it would be too difficult to transform most of the 30,000 acres of arable land into vegetable greenhouses. "Take Lu Daizhen to recruit a group of talents in agriculture, circuits, and architectural planning, and start my... automated vegetable garden project!"
Outside, the Corpse Killing Team worked hard to clear out the zombies and expand the territory. Inside, Shen Jin led the team in production, and Shang Qian worked hard on monetary policy to resume work and production in an all-round way.
For a while, the entire Home No. 1 became busy.
