Chapter 14 Food Crisis (Part 2) (1)
Li Jun knew their feelings very well, thinking that if you don’t say that Wen Tianxiang and others were lagging behind for thousands of years, they would almost jump when they heard an old friend tell him that the yield of super hybrid rice in the experimental field exceeded 1,200 kilograms. If he was not from modern society, but from a native Song Dynasty, he would definitely be very angry at first glance. To put it in a fashionable saying, it was called "stopped".
"Li Bihu, come in." Li Jun shouted outside. A middle-aged man walked in in court clothes and was about to salute. Li Jun shook his hand and said, "Don't worry. This is Li Bihu from the Agricultural Supervisor. He likes to study agricultural technology very much. He has a good mind and a novel idea. I have taught him the knowledge about hybrid rice. Yizhong, you go to Guangzhou to take Li Bihu and his assistant, go to Hainan Island, send someone to him, open an experimental field, and cultivate new varieties of rice. This is the first hybrid rice experimental field in the Song Dynasty, called the Song Dynasty Nanjiang Farm."
Li Jun and the "father of hybrid rice" in China are close friends and are very clear about the process of research on hybrid rice in China. Professor Yuan initially proposed the theory of hybrid rice, which required rice plants with sterile stamens. In order to find this plant of great significance, Professor Yuan spent six years to investigate one flower and never found it. Finally, when he came to Hainan Island, his assistant Li Bihu finally found this plant in a ravine in Nanjiang Farm, named "Wild Defeat".
The discovery of wild-defeated is of milestone significance in the history of hybrid rice. It breaks through the bottleneck of the inability to cultivate hybrid rice varieties, which turns Professor Yuan’s theory into reality.
Li Jun is very clear about a cruel reality, that is, he is unable to conduct laboratory research at all. Fortunately, he has received Professor Yuan's words and deeds and is familiar with all aspects of hybrid rice. Knowing the results, he does not have to re-take the path Professor Yuan has taken. Just do a good job in field management and cultivate good seeds. As for these complex experiments in genetic research, it is better to let Professor Yuan worry. Otherwise, he will be too energetic and always dance tap dance.
(Note: We all know that tomatoes are delicious, who can imagine that the first person to eat tomatoes will try with the determination to die. If we modern people learn from the first person to eat tomatoes with the determination to die, it will definitely be regarded as a confusion. The reason is that people know that tomatoes can be eaten. Li Jun dared to promote hybrid rice in the Southern Song Dynasty because he knew the research results of hybrid rice, so he did not have to follow the path Professor Yuan once took.)
Li Jun also knew that due to the gap between the times and the distance between technical levels was too large, it was estimated that it would be unlikely to increase the yield per mu to modern yield. However, as long as it was not too bad, it would be promising to obtain a yield per mu much higher than the existing varieties.
Li Jun said seriously: "The hybrid rice matter is of great importance and must be carried out as soon as possible."
Chen Yizhong and Li Bihuqi said: "I obey the order."
Li Jun looked into the distance and was stunned. His thoughts had returned to the war-torn era. The Korean War he experienced personally. The logistics of the Volunteer Army was already very fragile. Carpet bombing American planes was tantamount to adding insult to snow. It was difficult to transport supplies to the front line. Volunteer Army soldiers relied on fried noodles to satisfy their hunger, and a handful of fried noodles were all over the place. That's it, the fried noodles were not redundant, and it was still quantitative. Volunteer Army soldiers only ate snow when they were hungry. The weather on the Korean Peninsula was colder than in China. In the winter, the Volunteer Army soldiers were wearing single clothes and were already in a state of hunger and cold. The snow was melted, absorbing the heat from the internal organs, and their body temperature dropped sharply. There were many people who died of cold and hunger. According to Li Jun's memory, there were no less than twenty comrades in his arms who died of cold and hunger.
This is an iron lesson, which led Li Jun to a conclusion: an excellent army not only needs excellent equipment, good training, tenacious fighting will, strict discipline, leading strategies and tactics, but also sufficient logistical support. There is no shortage of three meals a day, and only when you have enough food can you have the strength to fight.
"We must solve the problem of eating and clothing and improve the living standards of the people." Li Jun made up his mind secretly and said, "Not only can rice be obtained through hybridization, but also pigs, horses, cattle and sheep can be obtained through this method, and the growth cycle is shortened. Given the current tense situation, I decided to cultivate it in Guangzhou. This matter should not be taken lightly, and don't think that things are too small and do not pay attention to it. This matter is very important. You also know that in many poor places in my life, many people eat meat from birth to death, and they can count it with their fingers.
"The reason is that the shortcomings of court governance are certainly one of the important reasons. The lack of materials and the lack of fast-growing livestock is also an extremely important reason. If this matter is successfully cultivated, it can be established for breeding farms or promoted to the people's homes, which can solve the problem of eating meat and improve their living standards." (Note: In the past, the fact that the poor were so poor that they could not eat meat several times in their lives did exist, which is by no means an exaggeration. Marshal Chen Yi once disguised himself through the Kuomintang blockade and passed by the sedan chair. Chen Yi invited the sedan chair bearer to eat meat, and a sedan chair bearer happily told Marshal Chen Yi that this was the second time he had eaten meat in his life. Marshal Chen Yi asked him when he first ate meat. The sedan chair bearer said it was ten years ago because the rich man was happy to give him a piece of meat. The history of blood and tears of the poor!!!)
Li Jun has a good understanding of modern nutrition and is very clear about how important the nutritional structure plays in improving the quality of a nation. It is completely imagined what the future of a nation that is malnutrition due to lack of materials is like.
In history, there is a particularly strange circle of strange "the more sick you get poorer, the more poor you get sicker". The main reason is that the people do not have enough living resources and have poor nutritional structure, which leads to weak physical weakness and cannot do not want to be sick. The more sick you are, the more unable to engage in production, and you will not be able to obtain enough living resources, so you fall into this circle. Li Jun reads history and said to the point of being so hard that "as long as the nutrition problem is solved, the people's health will be solved."
Li Jun has always adhered to the argument that sufficient living resources are an important condition for improving the overall quality of a nation. Some people refuted him that he is materialism and material desires. Li Jun refuted that "Marketism and material desires are not right, but without money and material desires is even worse, because you can't even guarantee the minimum life, so why do you talk about noble ideals?"
After several days of understanding, due to the lack of materials caused by years of war, the hardships of the people's lives are far more serious than the information he obtained in historical materials. He is determined to start from now on and start solving this problem.
No one has heard of changing species in the Song Dynasty, and it can be completely denounced as "strange tricks". Wen Tianxiang and others were pragmatic politicians and knew very well that if they succeed, the huge benefits would be brought about by a social change so that they would not think about it in this way.
However, what Li Jun said, Wen Tianxiang and others thought it was too pedantic and difficult to believe. If you think about it carefully, it may be a new idea. If you succeed, it will be a great thing that will benefit thousands of people. It is worth a try anyway, and they said together: "The emperor is wise! The emperor is benevolent and virtuous! Even if the three kings and five emperors are resurrected, it is just like this."
Chapter completed!