Infrastructure Craze (BL) (Full English Translation)

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Chapter 156: Disparity with the Crimson Great City

Zhuang Yu didn't rush to start classes for these students; instead, he let them relax and soak in the hot springs.

Moreover, Zhuang Yu now had to spend some time on their glass greenhouse, which was their guarantee for surviving the cold winter.

Previous cultivation methods were relatively extensive, but now they needed to be more refined, such as mixed planting of tall and short plants, and increasing planting density, to maximize yield in limited space.

Their glasshouses seemed quite a few, but providing enough food for the entire Crimson Great City was still a concern.

Moreover, as their previously stored food was depleted, the tension regarding food would become increasingly evident.

So Zhuang Yu began to increase the construction of new greenhouses, but progress was very slow due to heavy snowfall.

Furthermore, establishing new greenhouses required burning more charcoal to maintain the temperature inside, so simply building more greenhouses wouldn't solve the current problem. When charcoal consumption reached its peak, the surplus greenhouses would also be unable to supply.

Therefore, Zhuang Yu focused on how to increase the yield of individual glasshouse crops, thus reducing carbon expenditure and improving efficiency.

For example, now, each greenhouse had been built with shelves layer upon layer, each layer planted with crops.

This was Zhuang Yu's transformation of the glasshouse based on memory, maximizing vertical space utilization and making the most of limited space.

Zhuang Yu looked at the various crops that had grown. As long as all the greenhouses were transformed like this, their food production could double. The only trouble was watering.

Although pipes were installed on his shelves, water still needed to be lifted into each greenhouse for irrigation every day.

Although the pipes inside the greenhouse could be used, those outside couldn't bring water; halfway, they froze into ice in the pipes, so all the water had to be carried in.

Fortunately, now in the dead of winter, their Crimson Great City tribes couldn't do anything else, so there was still enough manpower to carry water.

With the success of the first greenhouse experiment, Zhuang Yu instructed people to quickly transform the other greenhouses, ensuring that they could provide new food in a cycle before their food reserves were depleted.

Zhuang Yu's goal was not just to barely feed everyone, but to ensure that everyone could eat their fill happily.

So what if it's winter? Manpower triumphs over nature.

A group of children wearing small padded jackets looked up at these shelves. "So beautiful, all the plants are grown by us."

They knew very well that when these plants matured, they became the food they usually ate.

So looking at the lush vegetable shelves, they were extremely happy.

"We can still eat green vegetables in the dead of winter."

"Stir-fried with oil, especially delicious."

"Add some meat scraps, tastes even better."

Although their meat consumption had greatly decreased, they still raised quite a few cattle and sheep, so eating some meat scraps was still possible.

The foreign students who had been here for a few days also found it surprising that people from the Crimson Great City still ate three meals a day, and their portions weren't much smaller.