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Chapter 362: Planting Rice in the Desert

In the palace where the royal city held meetings, Jiang Lili was sorting out various crop seed samples. She was not surprised to see Sang Ya coming to find her.

Sonia has become addicted to milk tea these days. She comes to ask for food almost every one or two days. Every time Jiang Lili sees Sonia's gray-green eyes light up when she sees milk tea, she feels like she has raised a Persian cat that loves to drink milk tea.

Although Sang Ya was somewhat reluctant to approach strange men, she had become familiar with Jiang Lili and Wen Qiao over the past few days. Jiang Lili pushed the full cup of mango sago on the desk and said, "Order mango sago. It's fresh and iced."

Sonya's eyebrows jumped when she saw the milk tea. Fruits are hard to come by in the desert, and ice is even harder to come by in the desert. Fruits plus smoothies are a sure win!

She took out a thumbnail-sized golden green cat's eye from the small cowhide bag at her waist and placed it on Jiang Lili's desk. Then she picked up the cup of milk tea and took a big sip, feeling excited and satisfied.

The golden-green cat's-eye gem shone in the candlelight, like the sun shining into the forest.

Jiang Lili's eyes flashed with smile, but she still refused: "Didn't I say that it would be deducted from your salary? It's so polite to give you gems as a gift!"

The price of chrysoberyl cat's eye is four figures, which is enough to buy milk tea for at least one or two months.

As if she felt that she was disturbing Jiang Lili, Sonia would always give Jiang Lili gems. In addition, she led the desert alien soldiers to work hard on infrastructure construction. Jiang Lili felt that having such employees who paid for their work was like pie in the sky.

Sonia waved her hands. These days, she had seen the powerful team behind Jiang Lili and all kinds of advanced new gadgets. She felt that it would be better to give the things to Jiang Lili rather than keeping them in her own hands. Anyway, her purpose in following Jiang Lili was revenge.

"Take it. I think it will be more valuable in your hands."

Sang Ya watched Jiang Lili classify the seed samples and explained the purpose of her visit: "The rice you mentioned, after removing the husk and cooking, does it come out as white grains of food?"

Sonya remembered the meal called "boxed lunch" they had eaten recently, and asked in surprise: "Is it the meal in the boxed lunch we have eaten these days?"

"Yes." Jiang Lili patiently explained to her, "After the rice is harvested and dried, it will be processed into rice. After adding the right amount of water and cooking it, we can get the rice we eat."

Sanya knew that Jiang Lili had great magical powers, so she asked tentatively: "Goddess, do you have any way to grow rice in the Hena Desert?"

She knew that her idea was ridiculous, but the other party was a goddess, so what if?

The Henan Desert is dry and hot, and the main food crops are barley and wheat. The land is barren and the yield is low, not to mention growing rice.

Many people in the Henan Desert are unfamiliar with the crop of rice, but Sanya has traveled far and wide and has heard of rice being grown in abundance in the Shuanghe River Basin further north.

The Shuanghe Basin is a plain formed by the alluvial deposits of two rivers, and the soil fertility is much better than here.

But the Two Rivers Basin is far away from the Henan Desert. Just getting to the Two Rivers Basin from the desert would take half your life, not to mention that the Two Rivers Basin is divided by two powerful empires.

Jiang Lili raised her eyebrows when she heard Sanya's request. "Didn't Su Rui say that your main crop is wheat? Do you think rice is delicious and want to grow rice in the desert?"

"I can survive by eating anything. Rice is delicious, but it's too difficult to grow rice in the desert. I'm not picky."

Sanya shook her head and explained why she asked this question: "There are many large and small forces in the Hena Desert, but the most powerful one is the Luyi tribe. They firmly control the few rare oases in the desert."

"Before I set out to sea, I heard a piece of news that the leader of the Luyi tribe was recruiting talents from all over the desert who could grow rice in the desert."

"I once asked Su Rui if he could do it. He shook his head and said that he had analyzed the environment of the Luyi Tribe oasis and found that the soil in the Luyi Tribe oasis contained a lot of salt, making it extremely difficult to grow rice."

There is a lot of salt in the soil? It is probably due to serious salinization. After listening to Su Ya's words, Jiang Lili became curious about this leader who had a special liking for rice.

"Oh?" Jiang Lili cast her eyes on a bag of rice beside the desk. They had already planned to go to the desert to dig for oil, and Jiang Lili had also reported it to the organization in advance.

This bag of rice is the scientific research result sent by the organization. It is rice processed from sea rice.

Seawater rice is a rice variety that was cultivated by agricultural scientist Professor Chen and his team over nearly 40 years of hard work, and Professor Yuan also made great contributions.

Seawater rice can grow in harsh environments such as saline-alkali land and tidal flats that are considered wasteland. Its yield per single plant can reach 300 kilograms. It has been planted on a large scale in modern times. In addition, seawater rice can also repair soil ecology and improve these wastelands into arable land.

This kind of sea rice is like a savior for the desert.

Jiang Lili asked Sanya: "Does the chief have any generous rewards for those who can grow rice?"

Sonya's eyes glowed with heat when she heard this: "The leader of the Rui tribe said that as long as we can grow rice in the desert, he will agree to any conditions within his ability."

"If you want to mine oil in the desert, it will be much easier if you have the help and support of the Ruyi tribe."

Jiang Lili understood. "Growing rice in the desert? We can give it a try. But I'm not sure whether it's reliable to cooperate with the Luyi tribe to extract oil."

It would be better to see if we can use this opportunity to take down the Rui tribe.

She said to Sonya, "Thank you for telling me the news."

Sonya smiled as she held Milk Tea in her arms: "Helping you is helping myself."

"I don't know whether the Rui tribe is reliable, but..."

Sonya put down the milk tea, and a small flame flickered in her heterochromatic eyes: "You may not need to cooperate with the Luyi tribe. You can rule them and make them obey you absolutely."

She placed her right hand on her heart and nodded to Jiang Lili: "Sonya and the Legion will always be the sword in your hand."

Jiang Lili was looked at by Sanya with encouraging eyes. She actually thought the same thing as herself.

"Then let's try it!"

*

Jiang Lili led people to build infrastructure in Mi Kingdom. Two months passed in a flash, and the academic committee was not far from the palace examination.

At this time, Emperor Qingning was still thinking about what topics to give to the candidates in the palace examination, but he was so disturbed by the news coming back from the northwest border that he lost his appetite and called all his trusted ministers over.

In the imperial study, civil officials and military officers were discussing at once, and the air was filled with anxiety.

These trusted ministers are only creating anxiety at this moment and have not found any way to solve the problem.

The generals were all nervous about the sudden rise of the Bol Grassland.