The man in charge of the Rakshasa border began his miserable day by facing all sorts of maddening problems...
At present, their most important source of labor was those pigs.
Following Zhao Geng's earlier suggestion, they had mixed a large amount of grass seed into the pigs' feed. After the pigs ate it, they let them roam freely.
As the pigs ate, drank, defecated, and urinated, they semi-automatically planted the grass seeds.
The results had been quite good at first. Bit by bit, they had managed to create some grassland, but grassland alone could not stop desertification!
When Zhao Geng had first proposed mixing grass seeds into feed, the method had been intended for grassland regions.
Because the herds of cattle and sheep in those regions had grown larger and larger, excessive grazing had stripped vast stretches of grassland bare, resulting in desertification.
That was why Zhao Geng had proposed sending pigs that had eaten grass seeds into the grasslands to plant grass, thereby establishing a new ecological cycle.
But here in the desert, the special climate created by the extreme desert environment brought sandstorms from time to time, which eroded the surrounding regions over a wide area. That was the main reason those regions suffered environmental erosion and rapidly turned into desert.
Under these circumstances, this method could not prevent sand encroachment. They needed specialized sand-control plants.
With the successful example of the Saint Roland border right there, they naturally had sand-control plants.
The problem now was transporting them from the Rakshasa region. Although the Steam Train had helped improve transport efficiency, even it could not overcome the impassable terrain blocking the way!
That single stretch of road was enough to send their transport costs through the roof while drastically reducing efficiency.
Compared with the Rakshasa border, which suffered