(The first 120 chapters are very slow-paced, so choose carefully!!!! If you want to jump right in, start from Chapter 121.)
After graduating from graduate school, Jiang Ye, driven by his aspirations, chose to go to the Northwest for grassroots service.
Waiting for him was a severely degraded pasture spanning five thousand mu: water was scarce, grass was sparse, livestock struggled to survive the winter, and the cooperative had little money in its accounts.
Fortunately, Jiang Ye discovered that he could see what was really wrong with the grassland.
[Water limitation: High]
[Grazing pressure: Overloaded]
[Recovery potential: Moderate]
But this ability only diagnosed problems. It never told him what to do.
So Jiang Ye tried rotational grazing, reseeding, selling sheep, finding water, balancing the books, and conducting experiments... Over two years, he gradually turned the ecology he had learned from books into practical management methods, bringing new life to a pasture that had nearly reached its breaking point.
When his service period ended, he left the Northwest as planned.
But the changes at Baishitan didn't disappear when he left. Someone took an interest in his methods, and someone else tracked him down: a nearby ten-thousand-mu pasture that had been operating for years at a loss was looking for a new manager.
Others saw degradation, water shortages, and losses.
Jiang Ye, however, saw:
[Recovery potential: High]
[Production potential: High]
[Overall operational value: Grade A]
Only then did he understand that Baishitan wasn't the end, but the first test the System had given him.
So he returned to the Northwest.
This time, there was no service period and no one to bail him out.
The real work of managing a pasture was only just beginning.
