Because Black Tiger Island was located in the tropics, there was no distinction between seasons. Crops could be planted all year round, allowing the pirates here to eat the vegetables they needed all year round. Although this place was considered tropical, the tropical climate was not really hot. The climate here had always been very pleasant. The surrounding sea breeze brought a lot of water vapor, and at the same time, blew away the excessive heat of Black Tiger Island, making this tropical island like spring all year round. It did not feel that hot. Various crops that originally belonged to the temperate zone could also be grown on this island. The growth was very good, and the output was very high. Not only could it satisfy the needs of the pirates here, but the surplus could also be used to feed livestock and exchange for resources with the surrounding fishermen.
With so many crops planted here, Ang Lee had reason to believe that there were farming experts here. Moreover, they were very strong. Otherwise, it would be impossible to manage the fields here so well and look so pleasing to the eye.
The density of crops in each field was very scientific and reasonable. It did not waste land resources, nor did it affect the growth of crops because of the dense planting. All the crops grew very well, which was very rare. It not only reflected the superb planting skills of the pirates here, but also their love for planting crops. Not all pirates were evil. Some became pirates by chance, and some were born in a pirate's nest. There was no other choice but to become a pirate.
Piracy was a very dangerous job, and you could lose your life at any time. At the same time, pirates were also a very dangerous group. They could kill merchants at any time. Every year, many merchants were murdered by pirates. The merchants who made a living at sea feared and hated pirates the most. They could not wait for all pirates to die.
The tomatoes in the tomato field grew very well. Further ahead was the planting area of water spinach. The water spinach here also grew very well. This was a kind of hot vegetable in the tropics. The better the temperature, the more vigorous this crop would grow. Of course, it could not be too high. If it was more than 40 degrees, it would die from the heat. Black Tiger Island's temperature was at most 30 degrees, which was more suitable for the growth of water spinach.
This kind of seemingly ordinary vegetable had a lot of nutrients. It was a kind of tenacious vegetable. It was very convenient to plant, so people who liked to eat it might as well plant it in their vegetable garden at home. There were also many ways to make water spinach. It could be made into meat dishes, stir-fried, or salad. It was also a good choice. Water spinach was rich in cellulose, which was very beneficial to the human body.
Water spinach also had the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, cooling heat and dissipating heat. This was not simply because of its cold nature. Modern medicine also showed that the juice of water spinach had an inhibitory effect on staphylococcus aureus, streptococcus, and so on. Eating it often was helpful for the recovery of sores. It was suitable to be eaten in summer, suitable for people with heat diseases and constipation. In addition, it was rich in chlorophyll. Eating it often could prevent the occurrence of dental caries and also make the skin glossy. The chlorophyll in water spinach was known as the green fairy. Eating water spinach could also remove bad breath because of its rich content of crude cellulose. This edible fiber was made up of cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, glue, pectin, and so on. It had the effect of promoting intestinal peristalsis, clearing the bowels, and detoxifying, thus regulating the endocrine balance in the body, allowing the toxins in the body to be discharged as soon as possible, and thus making the face look more rosy and glossy.
This kind of vegetable could also reduce blood pressure. Washing water spinach and frying it with eggs had the effect of lowering blood pressure and blood sugar. It contained a lot of insulin. People with diabetes could eat water spinach in moderate amounts. It contained a lot of vitamins, minerals, and so on. Patients who ate it would have the effect of lowering blood sugar. Water spinach could be used to assist the treatment of diabetes, but it should be noted that if it was eaten often, although it could be used to treat a variety of diseases, water spinach was cold and weak, and people with weak spleen and stomach should not eat too much.
For people with difficulty in defecation, eating more water spinach was a good choice. Water spinach contained a lot of cellulose, which had a very good effect on defecation. Because of the high fiber content, water spinach could also clear the bowel, prevent cancer, accelerate defecation, and have a positive effect on preventing constipation and reducing intestinal cancer. Eating water spinach could speed up the body's detoxification. Its juice had the effect of sterilization and anti-inflammatory. The lignin contained in it could increase the activity of macrophages to devour bacteria, which had the effect of sterilization and anti-inflammatory. Eating water spinach could also prevent intestinal flora from being out of balance. It had the effect of inhibiting Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus. It could be eaten often in summer to prevent dysentery.
If you want to strengthen your body, eating more water spinach was the right choice. Water spinach was rich in vitamins and carotenes. Its vitamin content was higher than that of cabbage. These substances had a strong antioxidant effect. After eating it, it could help strengthen the body and prevent and fight diseases.
Of course, no vegetable could be eaten without limit. Many people thought that water spinach was a food that could cause some chronic diseases if eaten for a long time. In fact, water spinach was a cold food. It was a taboo for some people who had a weak body because after eating water spinach, they would have diarrhea, deficiency of the spleen and stomach, and people with low blood pressure should not eat water spinach.
In addition, water spinach was rich in vitamins and milk was rich in calcium. Originally, both were good for the human body, but if eaten together, water spinach would reduce the human body's ability to absorb calcium in milk, so they could not be eaten together.
The most important point was that water spinach should not be eaten raw. It was best to eat it cooked. Water spinach contained oxalic acid. Before eating water spinach, it was best to blanch the water spinach with hot water to destroy the oxalic acid. This was to prevent the oxalic acid from combining with calcium in the body and interfering with the human body's absorption of calcium. If the human body lacked calcium, it would not be a joke.
Many vegetables needed to be pulled out directly after ripening, but this was not the case for water spinach. Water spinach had many branches. When picking it, one only needed to pick the delicate branches. The rest of the branches could continue to grow, so it would continue to provide vegetables for people to enjoy. This was undoubtedly very friendly. It was precisely because of this feature of water spinach that the pirates did not plant the water spinach according to the stubble. Almost one mu of water spinach could be harvested. This kind of vegetable could continue to grow, so it did not make much sense to plant it according to the stubble.
In addition, water spinach's demand for water was very high. If the soil was short of water, the water spinach would not grow well. It had to be watered with enough water. Even later, people tried to plant water spinach on the water. Of course, there were certain conditions to plant water spinach on the water. If the water spinach was too clean, it could not be planted. After all, water spinach also needed nutrition. Water spinach only needed nutritious water. Only water that was full of nutrients could grow water spinach. In addition, if water spinach was directly thrown into the water, it would definitely be submerged. Therefore, it also needed equipment that could float on the water. This was a complete set of technology and equipment. Naturally, the ancient people could not play with it. It was already good enough to be able to water it more.
Of course, the people of the later generations who planted water spinach in the water also had a lot of worries. Some people actually planted water spinach in an extremely polluted river. The stench of the river water was unbearable. The water spinach planted under such conditions was absolutely poisonous. The farmers who planted it did not dare to eat it themselves. They sold it to people they did not know. This was simply cheating the customers. It was very immoral. Such behavior was extremely shameful and must be strictly stopped. However, such things always happened. Even in the fields next to the extremely polluted river, there were a lot of vegetables. How did these vegetables be watered? Needless to say, they used the extremely polluted river water. Could these vegetables really be eaten? It was estimated that although the poison could not kill people, it was definitely a very serious destruction to the human body. Eating these vegetables once or twice was not a big problem, but if it was eaten for a long time, it would cause too much harm to the human body. It was simply a crime. And this kind of behavior was really very common in the later generations. Many people did not hesitate to poison others for their own economic benefits.
Li An turned around and glanced at the luffa field. He felt that the empty space below was a bit wasteful. Because it was a climbing plant, the plants were sparsely planted, and the top was full of luffa vines. However, there were not many luffas planted in the field below the luffa vines, so there was a large amount of empty space. In fact, this kind of climbing plant could be interplanted with other plants. For example, under the luffa vines, it was more suitable to plant crops that were not very eye-catching, such as ginger. In this way, one mu of land could plant twice the amount of crops and achieve a doubling of the yield. This kind of interplanting method was very common in ancient times. However, in ancient times, this kind of interplanting situation almost never appeared as the ancients did not have such super powerful skills.
The area of the chili field was larger because there were more types of chili. Each type needed to occupy a certain area and needed to be planted according to the crop. Naturally, the amount of land needed was more.
Although these fields were only 300 mu, which was one mu per person for the pirates, most of the pirates would definitely not do this kind of farm work. Only a small number of pirates were responsible for the planting, which was the 30-40 people Strong Tiger was responsible for. These pirates were responsible for such a large area of land, so the pressure was still very high. If they planted only one type of staple food, it would not be a big deal for each person to be responsible for ten mu of land. However, there were more than a dozen types of crops here. Moreover, they were planted according to the crop. The workload was very large. These dozens of pirates' daily workload was probably very large. If there was no one in charge of coordinating and directing, there was simply no way to effectively take care of so many crops. Even if they were exhausted to death, they would not be able to take care of it. The better way was to have each person be responsible for one type of crop. If a pirate was only responsible for one type of crop, then the pressure would not be too great.
In fact, the pirates didn't only plant these herbs. There were also many fruit trees in other places. However, the fruit trees didn't need to be taken care of. They just needed to be allowed to grow naturally. For example, fruits that were unique to the tropics like jackfruit and durian were allowed to grow peacefully on the island. When they matured, the pirates would naturally send people to pick them. This small Black Tiger Island had at least a hundred jackfruit trees and about the same number of durian trees. There were also many other fruits, and the number was even greater.
Don't think that a hundred trees was a small number. These fruits were very large. A single tree occupied a large area. The area occupied by a hundred trees was not small. These were all large trees and were the tallest trees.
Some of these fruit trees were originally present on Black Tiger Island. There were also some that were dug up and planted by the pirates after they had occupied the island. There were all kinds of situations.
Because the pirates had occupied the island for a long time, even the fruit trees that were originally planted had already grown into towering trees. There were already a lot of fruits hanging on them.
Ang Lee stepped out of the field and went to the nearby fruit tree forest. He was ready to see the growth of the fruit trees on the island.
In front of him was a towering tree with at least thirty jackfruit trees. This fruit tree was obviously not artificially managed, so it was particularly tall. Most of the fruits grew on the upper part of the tree trunk and needed to be climbed up to pick them. The jackfruit trees in the orchards of later generations were artificially interfered with. They would not grow too tall to avoid trouble when picking them. Fruit farmers would try their best to make the fruit trees grow horizontally. This would not only be convenient when picking them, but also increase the fruiting rate of the fruit trees. If the fruit trees were allowed to grow, the nutrients absorbed by the roots of the fruit trees would be used to grow the body of the fruit trees, making the fruit trees grow thick and big. After measures were taken to suppress the growth of the fruit trees, the roots of the fruit trees would take out more nutrients to bear fruit. This would make it easier for the fruit trees to produce more fruits.
At this time, the fruits on the jackfruit trees were already ripe. They could be picked and tasted at any time. How could Ang Lee miss it? Although he had tasted a lot of this fruit along the way, the taste of the jackfruit in each region was different. They all had their own characteristics. It would be a waste if he did not try it.
Because the fruit trees lacked management, they were too tall. The ripe fruits were at the top, which made it a little troublesome for Ang Lee to take them down. It was naturally impossible to climb the tree. The soldiers next to him had crossbows. Ang Lee took the crossbow and aimed at the fruit branches of the jackfruit. Suddenly, a few jackfruits fell from a high place. Such a big fruit naturally could not be caught with his hands. The jackfruit was not afraid of falling. It would not spoil even if it fell, unless it was a fruit that needed to be transported far away. Then, it was best to avoid collision as much as possible to avoid causing small internal injuries and causing the fruit to rot on the way.
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