Throne of Vientiane Civilization

Winter turns to spring, the ice and snow melt, and the people of the Zhou Dynasty usher in the spring plowing period of the new year.

Although as early as winter, Zhao Geng, as the Minister of Agriculture, had already taken some members to the "New World" and has not returned yet.

Judging from the work arrangements behind their king's back, I'm afraid it's fixed there semi-permanently.

However, members of the Ministry of Agriculture are now familiar with all aspects of the work, and have already completed the work of plowing and composting before spring plowing begins.

Now that the spring plowing season has arrived, they did not affect the specific implementation of the spring plowing work because of Zhao Geng's absence.

In the farmland outside Black Moon Village, they set up plows and controlled the cattle to start the new year's farming in an orderly manner.

At the same time, in the plain area of ​​the New World, members of the Ministry of Agriculture, headed by Zhao Geng, have been busy since the first day here, and they have hardly had any leisure time.

The key to distinguishing the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, to put it bluntly, lies in the climate. In Heiyue Village, the weather is cold after winter, farming cannot be carried out, and crops are basically impossible to grow.

So at this time, the members of the farming team take a short vacation. After a short rest, their main job is to cultivate more land or do some composting work to prepare for the spring plowing.

But it's different here in the New World. Not to mention the more humid and hot rainforest area, let's talk about the plain area where Zhao Geng and the others are now. The climate this winter is the same as the spring over there.

Therefore, in Zhao Geng's view, seasonal factors are no longer important in this environment.

Of course, the preliminary preparation work still had to be done first, and the work of reclamation and composting wasted a lot of time.

After almost half the winter, they have made all the preparations in the 'Area No. 1' designated by their king.

In addition, Zhao Geng also designated two ‘experimental fields’ in this area.

One area is used to grow various tropical fruits and vegetables transplanted from the rainforest area, while the other area is used to grow various crops they brought from Black Moon Village.

Under this premise, the two 'experimental fields' were divided into smaller fields, and the crops grown in each small field were different.

Needless to say, the reason why Zhao Geng did this was to reduce losses.

Although their area 1 is fully able to start farming, after all, no crops have been seriously grown here before.

If they plant all the fields in an entire area with great fanfare as soon as they come up, if the planting is successful, it will be okay, but what if they are planted? What if this thing doesn't work out? Wouldn't the loss be huge? !

For this reason, these two ‘experimental fields’ for testing are still necessary.

At this moment, Zhao Geng was immersed in the two 'experimental fields', confirming the growth status of each crop one by one.

Basically, two to four plants of each type of crop are planted in the field, so in one round, the field area required is not large. Calculating the time, it will take some time to plant.

On this day, Zhao Gengzheng held a large notebook under his arm and observed these crops. After observing each crop, he opened the notebook and recorded it with charcoal pen.

Although Zhao Geng is very confident in his memory, in the words of their king, 'a good memory is not as good as a bad writing'.

As the number of crops in their Great Zhou Dynasty continued to grow, Zhao Geng's feelings about their king's words became more and more profound.

"Well, as of now, there are no problems with growth."

Zhao Geng was very familiar with the different conditions at each stage of the crops they originally planted in Black Moon Village, so it would naturally be faster to observe and record them.

When it comes to the crops transplanted from the tropical rainforest, Zhao Geng's work efficiency will undoubtedly drop suddenly.

These crops were all new to him. Although their king arranged for a group of lizardmen farmers to join the farming team to cooperate with him in his work, it still cost a lot of money for him to work around this area. Time, now he spends most of his time here.

At the same time, inside the temple, Zhou Xu was in a pretty good mood that day. He was happily pounding things with a pestle and mortar while humming an unknown ditty.

There was a big pot set up next to it and the mutton was being cooked there. The cook on the side checked the doneness of the mutton with chopsticks and said...

"Your Majesty, the mutton is cooked."

"Well, you cut it into five pounds first, half of the lamb with skin and half of the lamb chops."

"okay."

The chef responded with a sharp knife, and in the blink of an eye, a large plate full of mutton was cut.

"Your Majesty, it's cut as you wish."

"Just in time, I'm almost healed here."

While talking, Zhou Xu poured the mashed things in the pestle and mortar into a bowl beside him, with a happy expression on his face, but the lizard man attendant on the side looked at those things with a kind of expression. Incredibly weird.

"Is the hot oil ready?"

"OK OK."

"Don't move, I'll do it."

As Zhou Xu spoke, he held the handle of the pot and lifted it up.

"This oil is worth three splashes."

As he spoke, Zhou Xu made quick movements, and along with the sound of "Zizzizi——", a fragrance that was extremely unfamiliar to everyone present except Zhou Xu spread in the hall.

At the same time, Zhou Xu, who had not tasted this bite for a long time, began to secrete saliva crazily at this moment.

After pouring oil into the bowl, he couldn't wait to grab a piece of bone-in mutton chop on the plate, stir it into the bowl, and then put it into his mouth. After one bite, Zhou Xu burst into tears. orbit.

"Damn! Are the peppers in this tropical rainforest so spicy?!"

After all, Zhou Xuke had no intention of spitting out the dipped mutton in his mouth at this moment. On the contrary, he was eating more happily.

"Cool!"

He really felt so good after eating for a long time.

The mutton from the sheep raised on their grassland is soft and delicious. For people who are accustomed to eating mutton, it will taste delicious even if it is boiled in plain water.

But I can’t stop eating it!

Until he came to this tropical rain forest.

The local lizard people said that eating that thing would be extremely painful, and there would be a burning pain all over the mouth and even the throat. In their opinion, it was not edible at all.

But Zhou Xu recognized it at a glance, it was chili pepper! These lizard people are really ignorant!

When Zhou Xu ordered them to pick it back and dry it in the sun to make seasoning, the lizard people thought that their king was crazy, which was why the lizard people's servants looked at him so strangely just now.

In fact, the good things hidden in this tropical rain forest are far more than just chili peppers.

In addition, during this time he also discovered seasonings such as onion, ginger, garlic and pepper, as well as many herbs such as mint and parsley.

The role of these spices is not just to make food more delicious, but also has many benefits to the human body, and some even have medicinal value.

Zhou Xu couldn't help but sigh...

"This tropical rainforest is really a treasure place!"