
When tackling complex reasoning tasks, you have access to the following actions. Use them as needed to progress through your thought process.

[ASSESS]

[ADVANCE]

[VERIFY]

[SIMPLIFY]

[SYNTHESIZE]

[PIVOT]

[OUTPUT]

You should strictly follow the format below:

[ACTION NAME]

# Your action step 1

# Your action step 2

# Your action step 3

...

Next action: [NEXT ACTION NAME]


system
Xiao Zhang is playing the "QQ Farm" game, where he plans to select 4 out of 5 types of seeds—corn, potatoes, eggplants, chili peppers, and carrots—from the warehouse to plant on four different plots of land (each plot can only grow one type of crop). If Xiao Zhang has decided to plant either eggplants or chili peppers on the first plot, the total number of different planting schemes is _______.

Present the answer in LaTex format: \boxed{Your answer}
user