Allure of a Country Maiden-Chapter 1285 - 1282_1

Shangguan Xuanyi and Xiao’er deliberated for three consecutive days, before finalizing the reconstruction plan for the fertile lands in the northwest.

Aside from the barrenness, the northwest also severely lacked water, a necessity for crops. Therefore, the fertile lands they planned were all near water sources.

However, once the canal from the south to the west is dug in about ten to eighteen years, everything will be much easier!

Shangguan Xuanyi planned to fully transform the barren northwest within ten years.

The waiting time is long, but it’s worth it!

Looking at the layout in her hand, Xiao’er couldn’t help but look forward to seeing large golden waves of wheat in the northwest in ten years.

Yesterday, Xiao’er had tried to get a few bags of soil from the space. She found that no matter how much soil was taken from the space, it would automatically regenerate the next day!

She didn’t know whether the regenerative power would keep up if a large amount of soil were taken from the space.

But it doesn’t matter even if it can’t regenerate at the same pace!

If she could only take away a few bags of soil every day, she would take away a little every day, wait for it to return to its original state, and then continue!

Xiao’er found Zhao Yong: "Zhao Yong, I need your help to buy a few pieces of wasteland that have already been reclaimed. Buy them at the price of fertile land! This allows the families to sell their wastelands and use the silver to buy fertile lands again."

"Okay!" Buying wasteland at the price of fertile land? Zhao Yong was moved by the ever-growing kindness of the Princess!

"By the way, do it quickly! I need this land!" Xiao’er eagerly wanted to experiment and determine how much spatial soil was needed to transform each acre of wasteland into fertile land.

The land shouldn’t be transformed too dramatically! It would be enough to transform it into a piece of land of medium production.

"Yes! Your subordinate will arrange it immediately!" Upon hearing Xiao’er’s urgency, Zhao Yong promptly went out to arrange it.

During the next period, Shangguan Xuanyi and Xiao’er hid in the space to dig soil and soon filled sixty bags of mud.

The flat ground in the space gave away to a large pit!

"We’ll dig up so much for now! I don’t know when the space will be able to fill this pit!" Seeing that so much mud had already been dug up, Shangguan Xuanyi said.

"Okay!" Xiao’er nodded.

Zhao Yong soon bought the wasteland, a total of ten acres.

Ten acres of wasteland were enough for experiments.

At night, Shangguan Xuanyi secretly put the spatial soil into a warehouse. The next day, he arranged for people to transport the soil to the wastelands.

In order to avoid wasting spatial soil, Xiao’er decided to experiment with different proportions of spatial soil on ten acres of wasteland.

The first acre of land would have one bag of spatial soil, two bags for the second acre, and so on, with ten bags of spatial soil on the tenth acre.

There were some crops on these wastelands, but in order to get the experimental results as soon as possible, Shangguan Xuanyi had people shovel off the crops on it.

This act undoubtedly caused a public outcry about waste.

"What are they doing? How could they destroy such good crops?"

"Exactly, even though the crops don’t look high-yielding, they would at least have some yield! It is such a waste to destroy them like this, harvest is just over a month away, they would be punished by the gods!"

"Exactly, the gods hate those who waste crops the most!"

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The original owners of the wasteland looked at their destroyed crops, their hearts aching! They had planted these crops painstakingly. It’s a shame that such good crops were wasted just because they said so!

However, since the land had been bought at such a high price, apart from the pain, the original owner of the wasteland couldn’t say anything else.

After Xiao’er had the half-grown crops removed, she had people evenly spread the spatial soil over each acre of wasteland. Then the land was plowed again to better mix the spatial soil with the original soil.

The people watched their actions and discussed curiously, "What are they doing? What’s the point of sprinkling some soil?"

"That soil looks very fertile! They are not trying to turn these wastelands into fertile lands, are they?" An old farmer instantly noticed the difference in the spatial soil.

"Quite possible, but does this method work? I’ve never heard about it before! Wastelands always take years to recuperate."

"Let’s wait and see! Who can be certain, I’ve never heard about rice and wheat yielding 1,000 pounds per acre either, but the Imperial Court made it happen!"

"You’re right, even mushrooms grew. Anything seems possible in this world!"

"If adding some fertile soil can turn wastelands into fertile lands, we’ll reclaim more lands when we get home!"

"Yes, reclaim more lands, so next year we can raise more chickens and ducks and pigs, that would increase our income by several silver coins a year!"

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Despite all the discussions amongst the bystanders, Xiao’er didn’t pay attention to them. After the plowing was done, she did not plant crops again, but had people plant some fast-growing vegetables instead.

Various types of vegetables were planted.

It took two days in total, and then the wasteland was completely transformed.

After everything was done, Shangguan Xuanyi arranged for bodyguards to keep watch near the wasteland, not allowing anyone to approach.

Xiao’er then visited daily to check the growth of the vegetables on the wasteland.

Without a doubt, the wastelands that had more spatial soil added had crops growing better!

The vegetables in the wasteland where ten bags of spatial soil were added sprouted the next day, and even grew two cotyledons!

This is too fast! Definitely not acceptable!

Xiao’er looked over them one by one.

She discovered that the vegetables’ seeds on the wasteland where eight bags of spatial soil were added also sprouted. Although only a little white showed, it was still much faster compared to regular fertile ground!

The next day, Xiao’er returned to inspect and found that the seeds on the six-bag wasteland had also sprouted!

Too fast!

On the third, fourth, and fifth days, Xiao’er personally observed and recorded the conditions of the seeds’ growth.

She then realized that adding two bags of spatial soil for each acre of wasteland was just right! freēwēbnovel.com

However, just observing the germination of the vegetables was not enough! Xiao’er also needed to observe the growth condition of the vegetables.

The vegetables that received ten bags of spatial soil grew to maturity in seven days! They were ready for harvest!

This speed was akin to the fast-growing vegetables in the modern world cultivated with growth hormone.

However, the vegetables grown from the spatial soil were beneficial to health, especially delicious and sweet, while the modern vegetables cultivated with growth hormones were quite the opposite.

In the end, Xiao’er decided to add two bags of spatial soil per acre.

This was the most normal!

After determining the amount of spatial soil to be added to each acre, Shangguan Xuanyi began arranging to transport the spatial soil to the northwest and other places, helping the impoverished families with only wasteland or lower quality farmland to transform their lands into fertile land!

There was just enough time to sow another season of rice or wheat.

Then, Xiao’er slowly began to notice changes in the space.