Food is the most important thing for the people!

This sentence is true not only in the Ming Dynasty, but also in later generations. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it spent great efforts to train many agricultural technicians and made outstanding contributions to ensuring that the people had enough to eat. Ma Guilan is such a person who has been systematically trained

agricultural technicians.

Ma Guilan is the first generation of baby boomers born after the founding of the People's Republic of China. His parents are both farmers. They were afraid of hunger in the old society. Therefore, when Ma Guilan chose a school after graduating from high school, he was not asked to study any advanced majors.

, but directly chose a local agricultural technical secondary school. Yes, you read that right, it is an agricultural technical secondary school!

Different from the later generations who have bachelor's degrees everywhere and master's degrees, the technical secondary school in the 1970s is a golden school, because after three years of study, the state will arrange a job. Ma Guilan's parents are farmers and do not want their children to go to Beijing*

Studying in Shanghai, I hope she stays with me and starts working early so that making money can alleviate the situation at home. After all, she has many younger brothers and sisters at home.

In this way, Ma Guilan naturally became an agricultural technician after graduating from technical secondary school. Since she was originally a rural girl, Ma Guilan was very good at this job and soon became the technical backbone of the Municipal Agricultural Science Station.

After joining the workforce, Ma Guilan was introduced to Zhao Zhikuan, who worked at a power plant. Although Ma Guilan did not go to college, she was looking forward to college life. In addition, her parents were very satisfied with Zhao Zhikuan, a man who could provide a stable job, so the two dated for half a year.

Then he got married.

Of course, Zhao Zhikuan didn't think much of this rural girl, but the girl of his dreams was already married at the time. Zhao Zhikuan gave up on himself and decided to find someone to marry. Although Ma Guilan's family was not well-off, they were well-off, and there were many people in the family.

The earth will never be hungry, so Zhao Zhikuan nodded and agreed to the marriage.

Although Ma Guilan is also an educated senior intellectual, she is still a traditional Chinese woman in essence. After getting married, she began to have children and take care of the family. After her son Zhao Fuxiang got married, she also began to take care of her grandchildren. If Ma Guilan had not traveled to the Ming Dynasty, she would have

Like other women in China, she will live to the end of her life and breathe her last breath in front of her sons and grandsons.

But time gave Ma Guilan an opportunity to travel back to the Ming Dynasty, where she had the opportunity and conditions to transform this backward agricultural country.

Zhao Zhikuan's ancestors and grandson are all industrialists, and they believe that China can only rely on industry to change China, but they have forgotten that the basis of industry is to liberate productivity, and what is productivity? Isn't it just people themselves? If you can't eat, how can you talk about liberating productivity?

Is it enough to catch up with the United States and England in steel production?

Zhao Zhikuan doesn't understand, but Ma Guilan understands this fundamental truth. In ancient China, the population has been changing with food production. Without alien species that change the diet structure, the land of China can support a maximum of 100 million people. If there are more, it will

Social unrest occurs.

China's population explosion occurred during the Kangxi and Qianlong periods. During this period, China's population increased to 300 million. Of course, this was not the result of the emperor's benevolent governance, but the high-yielding crops of potatoes and corn began to be planted in large quantities in China. It turned out that this kind of population was not suitable for

Crops that are part of the Chinese people’s dietary habits are semi-forced to be included in the Chinese people’s dietary menu.

The origin of potatoes and corn is in the Americas. They were brought to the world by European colonists during the Age of Discovery, and naturally entered China along the sea routes. There are many records of the time of entry, basically during the Jiajing and Wanli periods.

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By the time the Zhao family traveled through the 17th year of Chongzhen, crops such as potatoes and corn had been planted in Hainan, Guangdong and Guangxi for more than 20 years. However, because the taste of potatoes and corn at this time was not suitable for Chinese people, they were mainly grown for feeding.

Livestock, only the extremely poor will eat these things.

The Baisha Village here on Haidian Island are all military households. They fully meet the criteria of extreme poverty. At the same time, because Haidian Island is full of sandy land, the yield of other crops is not good, so they plant them in the open space in front of and behind their houses.

Ma Guilan, the agricultural expert, was delighted with these original strains of corn that they called fanmai. Ma Guilan came from the Northeast, and the main food crop in the Northeast in later generations was corn. As a senior agronomist at the Municipal Agricultural Science Station, Ma Guilan was naturally interested in

How to Improve Corn Gate Clearing.

Although crops were improved in ancient China, there was no scientific guidance and it was just farmers' spontaneous behavior. Therefore, the transformation process was very slow, so slow that it took hundreds of years to calculate.

After observation, Ma Guilan found that the original height of these corn plants was about 1.4 meters. When mature, each plant would produce about one ear of fruit. Each ear was about five centimeters long and had about 150 corn kernels on it. This kind of yield was of course different from that of later generations.

The corn cobs are more than 20 centimeters long and each fruit is about 300 grains. It is incomparable to the genetically modified corn, but its yield is far higher than that of local low-yield crops such as rice and wheat.

Ma Guilan collected two types of corn for planting locally, one is called gourd seed barley by the locals, and the other is called hard barley. Ma Guilan planted half an acre of each of these corns in her small experimental field, and at the same time began to

Their growth process is strictly documented.

The growth cycle of corn is three to four months, so when Zhao Fuxiang went to Guangzhou, it was the time when the corn in the experimental field was mature.

Ma Guilan hired several local farmers to thresh and weigh the corn, and found that the yield of gourd seeds was larger, about three hundred kilograms per mu, while the yield of hard barley was about two hundred kilograms. Although this kind of yield will not be worth it in future generations.

Just mention it, but in the Ming Dynasty when the yield per mu was less than 100 kilograms, this was already an astonishing yield.

These local farmers have more or less grown corn at home, but they don’t know how to plant it, so the yield per mu they planted is only more than 100 kilograms. When they saw that Ma Guilan’s yield per mu was three times theirs, they all

I was shocked by such a high output.

A farmer in his thirties asked respectfully: "Old lady, what kind of wheat seeds do you have? Why is the yield more than double that of what we grow ourselves?"

Ma Guilan grabbed a handful of gourd seeds and said: "Look, they are the same gourd seeds you plant. The high yield is mainly due to improved field care and fertilizer use! If you want to learn, I can teach you!"

When the farmers heard that there was such a good thing, they quickly knelt down and kowtowed and asked Ma Guilan to teach them the secret method.

This secret method is actually very simple, that is, dense planting and composting. However, due to the seeds and pesticides in the Ming Dynasty, it was not possible to achieve the ultra-dense planting with a spacing of only three centimeters in later generations, but a spacing of five centimeters was still no problem.

As for composting, it is more complicated. Chinese farmers are the masters of using compost. As early as the Three Kingdoms period, Chinese farmers had discovered that fermenting manure is much more useful than spreading it directly to the ground. By the Song Dynasty, this composting technology was also more common.

It's not a particularly advanced agricultural skill.

However, ancient composting technology was completely developed on its own over thousands of years. Although it is suitable for illiterate farmers to learn, it cannot be used to its full potential.

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The full effectiveness of organic fertilizers. As for what Ma Guilan has mastered, it is amazing. The composting skills she has mastered have been scientifically verified. Regardless of the acquisition of materials, the fertility efficiency far exceeds ancient technology.

Although Ma Guilan really wants to spread her agricultural technology, there is currently no agricultural land on Haidian Island. Large areas of land have been turned into construction land by Zhao Zhikuan. At the same time, the villagers in Baisha Village no longer farm and now work for Zhao Zhikuan.

You can earn more than farming.

Ma Guilan frowned and asked, "You are all farmers from there. Do you have land at home?"

The leader of the farmer said: "Old lady, we are all refugees from the New World Farm. Mr. Kong asked us to help the old lady harvest crops, so we came here!"

When Ma Guilan heard about the New World Farm, she had not heard of any farm existing on the island. After asking Ma Guilan, she found out that the New World Farm was built by her son to resettle the refugees.

When she heard that there were more than 20,000 refugees gathered together, and there were also large areas of wasteland, Ma Guilan's mind started to work. She had long wanted to build an agricultural school, but her old man Zhao Zhikuan and his son were focused on industry, so she asked for

Being ignored, probably in their eyes, it is her duty as an old lady to cook. Thinking that Ma Guilan is also angry, why does I have to listen to your man's arrangements? Since my son has such a farm, it can be considered as his own.

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Thinking of this, Ma Guilan also had the idea of ​​​​contributing to the remaining enthusiasm, and she said: "Since you want to learn, you can go back and invite Mr. Kong here. I have something to say to him!"

After these farmers went back, they told Kong Shouzhen what Ma Guilan said. Now that Zhao Fuxiang is gone, Kong Shouzhen has become the main person in charge of the operation of Nanyang Company. He is so busy that he basically hits the back of the head with his feet every day. But even when Kong Shouzhen is busy, he knows the urgency of things. Ma Guilan is

Although Mrs. Ma, Zhao Fuxiang's biological mother, doesn't take care of things very much, she can't afford to offend the giant Buddha.

Kong Shouzhen put down all official duties the next day and came to Haidian Island to meet with the old lady Ma Guilan.

When Kong Shouzhen saw Ma Guilan coming out, she quickly stood up and saluted: "Kong Shouzhen has met the old lady!"

Ma Guilan smiled slightly and said: "Mr. Kong, you and my son are good friends. If you don't see anyone outside, just call me aunt!"

Ma Guilan was a senior intellectual, and her conversation skills were far better than that bastard son's. Therefore, Kong Shouzhen had a very good impression of Ma Guilan, and quickly saluted, "In that case, my nephew Kong Shouzhen has met my aunt!"

Ma Guilan also admired Kong Shouzhen's knowledge and ethics. She said, "My dear nephew, I heard that my son has a farm that is used to house refugees?"

Of course Kong Shouzhen knew that this was the resettlement he had started, so he quickly replied: "Back to my aunt, that's it. Now the farm has resettled more than 25,600 refugees. Because Mr. Zhao went to the government for help, the government every day

Two thousand stones of food are transported every month, and the refugees do part-time work every day, which can still ensure food and clothing. All the refugees will never forget Mr. Zhao’s grace!"

Kong Shouzhen thought Ma Guilan was asking about the resettlement situation of the refugees, so he praised Zhao Fuxiang, but he didn't know that Ma Guilan was not asking about this at all.

Ma Guilan smiled and said: "There are more than 20,000 people, which is great! Nephew, I used to study agriculture, and I want to find someone to teach what I have learned in my life. Can you ask my nephew to help me find a piece of land on the farm?

, and at the same time, arrange for several hundred refugees for me, and I’m going to experiment with farming!”
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