After a long advertisement, the main content finally appeared.
The dazzling product page looked very much like an online shopping interface.
Jiang Ye casually scanned through, and all the products were in this style:
[Complete Pig Farming Shed Set]
[Bird Egg Incubator]
[Duck Fattening Cage]
[Goose Feed]
All sorts of random things were available.
There were also some free tutorials, all zero-yuan e-books, such as "The Complete Guide to Pig Farming," "The Complete Guide to Raising Bullfrogs," and so on.
Jiang Ye browsed and found a book titled "The Complete Guide to Chicken Farming," downloading it to his base panel.
As soon as it finished downloading, it entered the initial book interface.
It was quite similar to the interface of online novels, with a book title, cover, and reader reviews.
This "Complete Guide to Chicken Farming" only had a rating of 6 points, which was quite low.
Jiang Ye flipped through the reader comments, paying special attention to the negative reviews.
"What the heck, I took off my pants, and you show me this?"
"Holy cow, it's really about raising chickens?"
"It's a miracle, this book is really about raising that kind of animal, I thought it was something else."
"Move along, move along, it's not that kind of chicken."
Jiang Ye showed a shocked expression, realizing why it got a low score!
What were netizens thinking!
He returned to the previous interface and found another book, "The Complete Guide to Duck Farming."
As expected, it had a rating of 5.9 points, also quite low.
The style of the negative reviews was very similar:
"What the hell, it's really a book about raising edible ducks?"
"What a disappointment, sisters, let's leave."
"Good heavens, it even distinguishes between freshwater and saltwater ducks, I don't want to see this!"
"Brothers, we've come to the wrong place, this isn't study material!"
Jiang Ye silently covered his face, what were netizens expecting?
How could the comment section of a livestock farming textbook be so skewed?
He clicked into the book and looked at the table of contents.
It was very detailed, with several chapters covering how to formulate duck feed, disease prevention, duck egg incubation, and so on.
And each chapter had product links at the end, allowing direct purchase.
For example, at the end of the chapter on duck feed, there were purchase links for various brands of duck feed, which was very convenient.
Jiang Ye nodded with satisfaction. This set of livestock assistants could basically ensure he went from a farming novice to a large-scale farmer.
He returned to the initial interface of the base panel and checked the conditions for upgrading to a level 10 base.
[Upgrade requires meeting two conditions simultaneously:]
[1: 4 million yuan]
[2: Obtain one livestock product and place it in the trading warehouse]
Jiang Ye nodded slightly. The upgrade conditions this time were not overly harsh, only increasing by 400,000 yuan from the previous level. As for one livestock product, it wasn't too difficult.
He decided to start with the most common.
Chickens!
Returning to the previous interface, he opened "The Complete Guide to Chicken Farming" and began to read it carefully.
He read for a full four hours.
He thoroughly understood the entire farming process.
Then he lay down on the bed, closed his eyes, and recalled what he had just learned.
When Jiang Ye was in school, he had this habit. Reviewing what he learned that day in his mind before sleeping had a very good hypnotic effect.
Indeed, when he opened his eyes again, it was the next morning.
He turned his head to look out the window. The pale sun was like a glowing white silkworm, wrapped in a thick cocoon of clouds.
He got up, fried some bear meat to eat, took two health supplements, and injected himself with a stamina enhancer.
He immediately felt energized, as if he had endless strength!
Looking at his account balance, most of his savings had been spent on the upgrade. Including yesterday's profit share, he had a total of 68,000 yuan left.
With such a small amount of money, he couldn't raise chickens on a large scale.
Raising three or five chickens as a small venture was not Jiang Ye's style.
Jiang Ye decided to finish mining the stalagmite ore first and then raise chickens once he had enough money.
He put on his gun, carried his shovel and pickaxe, and went out.
He put on his skis and glided rapidly across the snow.
He learned quickly, and his skiing movements were already very graceful.
He arrived at the edge of the mine pit and stopped steadily.
Jiang Ye began to skillfully repair the aircraft runway.
He had repaired a part of it yesterday, and today he just needed to continue along.
With the shovel in hand, he worked hard to clear the snow.
Half an hour, one hour, one and a half hours...
The repair was complete!
In the middle of the thick snow, a wide aircraft runway appeared.
With the runway completed, it was time to start mining.
Jiang Ye slid down into the stalagmite mine pit to begin excavating.
Almost all the stalagmites were covered in snow, so he had to clear the snow first before smashing the stalagmite pillars.
This was not an easy job, and Jiang Ye's back ached.
The snow was gradually cleared, and the stalagmites were smashed one by one and thrown onto the ground.
Jiang Ye kept counting as he worked:
"5, 6, 7, 8..."
"22, 23, 24, 26... Wait, 25."
It was too cold, and his brain wasn't working well.
The morning passed quickly, and all the stalagmites in the cave were cleared.
They were piled up into a tall stack by the mine pit.
Jiang Ye climbed out of the mine, put on his skis, and zipped back to the base.
He bought two barrels of aviation fuel and filled up the rotorcraft, bringing the fuel level to 98%.
He boarded the aircraft and accelerated!
The propellers whirred, blowing the minus thirty degrees Celsius cold wind onto Jiang Ye, making him sneeze.
The rotorcraft taxied on the runway and took off with a roar!
Jiang Ye maintained a low-altitude flight, only about five stories above the ground.
This altitude was not very fuel-consuming, nor was it too cold. Most importantly, he could clearly see the ground below.
The rotorcraft was much faster than skis. In the blink of an eye, it reached the edge of the mine pit.
He circled once, aimed at the runway, and slowly descended.
His landing technique was still not proficient, and the landing was too abrupt, causing the aircraft to bounce.
Many commercial airliners are damaged by such "dolphin jumps." There are long records of related air disasters both domestically and internationally.
Fortunately, the "Kong Zhong San Beng Zi" (a colloquial term for a bumpy aircraft) was quite sturdy. It bounced a couple of times and landed safely in the latter half of the runway without any damage.
Jiang Ye jumped out of the pilot's seat, ran to the edge of the mine pit, and carried the piled-up stalagmites onto the aircraft.
The space behind the pilot's seat was quite large, and he managed to fit ten stalagmites in one go.
That was about enough. Jiang Ye maneuvered the rotorcraft backward, returned to one end of the runway, and then accelerated for takeoff.
From noon to two o'clock in the afternoon.
Except for eating and going to the restroom, Jiang Ye was constantly flying the rotorcraft back and forth, transporting the stalagmites.
A total of one hundred and six stalagmites of varying lengths were transported back to the base and placed in the trading warehouse for sale.
Finally, his personal assets increased to 1.57 million yuan!
The stalagmite mine was empty, but Jiang Ye now had sufficient funds.
The next step was to raise chickens.
Chickens were good things.
When Jiang Ye was a child, he passed by the temple in his hometown. The young monks there, when secretly eating stewed chicken, would say: "Little chicken, little chicken, don't blame us, you are a dish for the world."
Since arriving on this planet, he hadn't eaten chicken yet.
The thought of harmless chickens being cruelly slaughtered and made into crispy fried chicken, chicken rolls, spicy chicken, big plate chicken, stir-fried chicken, braised chicken, mother hen soup, white cut chicken, beggar's chicken, crispy chicken... made Jiang Ye's mouth water.
He opened "The Complete Guide to Chicken Farming" on the base panel.
Jiang Ye began to work according to the tutorial.
The first step was to build a heated chicken coop.
In the depths of winter, if chickens were allowed to roam freely, they would quickly turn into dried chickens and cold-chain chickens. Therefore, the chicken coop must be insulated.
Jiang Ye ordered from the link after the tutorial and first bought an iron frame chicken coop.
The price was 10,000 yuan, which was acceptable.
The entire iron frame chicken coop could accommodate 50 chickens.