Agricultural extension has existed since ancient times, but it had to wait until the 1980s for it to truly become a systematic course. Professor Xu from Beijing Agricultural University compiled the book "Agricultural Extension", so after a brief thought, Cheng Nuo agreed to Cai Yuan's request. Pei's conditions.

No matter how good Peking University is, it is still a passer-by. In the future, when the time comes, it will inevitably build its own comprehensive university.

If you participate in more teaching activities now, you won't have a black eye in the future.

Time passed and another week passed, and things turned out just as they expected. The Beiyang government announced that it had severed diplomatic relations with Germany, and issued a notice to stop paying German money and take back the German concession. Peking University took the opportunity to obtain an additional teaching fund, although it was not much. But it has greatly eased the pressure for discipline reform.

Cheng Nuo took advantage of this time and roped in Guo Shouchun to write a popular version of wheat selection and breeding methods.

Cheng Nuo didn't understand the specific details of scientific research, but because he traveled through time and was the son of a farmer in his previous life, he even had wheat holidays when he was a child to harvest wheat, so he had a certain degree of control over the overall wheat situation across the country.

Spreading out a prepared map, Cheng Nuo said from a high position: "From a biological point of view, our breeding goals must adapt to the local ecological environment, so as to make full use of the local favorable ecological conditions to achieve high yields, while overcoming unfavorable ecological conditions to ensure Stable production, make full use of natural advantages, maximize strengths and avoid weaknesses, and meet the needs of local economic development and cultivation."

Guo Shouchun agreed with this view and concluded: "In other words, high yield, stable yield, and high quality are the main goals of our breeding."

Cheng Nuo nodded, took out his pen and pointed at the northwest: "Stripe rust often causes serious damage to the wheat areas in northwest my country and the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River. It is the main factor affecting yield. Stripe rust resistance must be listed as the main breeding goal."

Then he pointed to other regions: "In the wheat areas of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the wheat areas of South China, there is more rainfall in the later stages of wheat growth, and the prevalence of scab is high and losses are high, so resistance to scab is the goal in that area."

Every time Cheng Nuo talked about a place, he made a mark on that place. By the time he finished talking about it, the map was all densely marked.

Guo Shouchun looked at the map and then at Cheng Nuo, who was dumbfounded. Finally, he put the notebook under his arm and couldn't help but applaud: "Old Cheng, are you studying agriculture or am I? You study agriculture and you know so much. I think you are better than me, so how about you engage in selective breeding?"

After talking for a long time, Cheng Nuo felt that his voice was hoarse. He took a sip of herbal tea and felt better before replying: "It's different. I'm just a theorist, and you are the doers. In the play, Liu Bang doesn't mean that he is not as good as Zhang Liang in decision-making. I am not as good as Xiao He in domestic affairs, and I am not as good as Han Xin in war. On the other hand, I am not as good as you in farming, but you are my best."

Guo Shouchun was originally very happy to be praised, but after thinking about it carefully, it seemed that it was not the case.

"No, Lao Cheng, are you comparing yourself to the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty?"

He put too much pressure on himself and kept tightening it. Sooner or later, the string would break. Cheng Nuo joked: "It doesn't matter if I am Liu Bang or not, as long as you are my Pan Shengzhi."

Everyone likes nice words, and Guo Shouchun is the same. He grinned and said, "Okay, I'll just take it as if you sincerely praise me. It won't work if you don't come up with something real."

As he spoke, he spread out his notes and took out the breeding methods he had compiled in advance, while Cheng Nuo further simplified them.

In the end, there are three selection methods, namely field ear selection method, field block selection method and field field selection method.

Among them, the ear selection method is particularly recommended, that is, when the wheat matures, select the wheat field with the best production, set standards, and retain all the wheat ears that meet the conditions for replanting next year.

Miles Nuo also specifically reminded that wheat fields must be chosen in areas with even land. For example, no matter how big the wheat ears next to the manure are, they are not universally applicable.

After sorting it out, Guo Shouchun suddenly asked: "Lao Cheng, you said that the wars among European countries are so fierce, will one day the land we stand on will also ignite such fierce wars?"

Of course Cheng Nuo knew that there would be a war, and that it would be World War II, which would be even more tragic than World War I. He was silent for a moment: "Maybe."

"Then if we do so much, won't it all be in vain?"

At this time, Cheng Nuo said firmly: "It is by no means a waste of effort. If we launch it one year earlier, many people will live an extra year. When the real war comes, we will have more effective strength, so there is nothing to fear."

Guo Shouchun felt relieved after being comforted. He quickly sorted out the manuscript and published it in the supplement of the next issue of "People", which was a general magazine for the public. He combined text with pictures and sent it to the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, namely Beiyang.

Government agricultural administration agencies.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce will then distribute it to the industrial departments of various provinces and to industry offices in each county, allowing them to further publicize it. Those with outstanding seeds and verification will be rewarded.

In fact, Cheng Nuo didn't want to go to the Beiyang government at first, but when he learned that the director-general of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce was Zhang Guogan, he instantly changed his mind because he was a thoroughly patriotic scholar.

At that time, Shi Qirui did not hesitate to sell domestic iron ore mining rights privately in order to borrow money from Japan, but he refused to sign. Whether it was intimidation by force or a bribe of 2 million yuan, Zhang Guogan insisted on his bottom line.

So when he learned that the famous Professor Tom was doing something important to benefit the country and the people, he took the initiative to ask for cooperation, so the selective breeding became half forced and half propaganda.

But Cheng Nuo knew the behavior of the Beiyang government and was also arranging for Guo Shouchun to buy his own experimental field.

With the publicity of the article, the popularity of the "National" newspaper has expanded. At the same time, the selective breeding methods in it have also attracted the attention of many people, including the Shanghai Flour Trade Union.

During the Westernization Movement, the country began to introduce Western technology and equipment to develop modern industry and commerce, of which the flour industry was one part. Later, after decades of development, Su Province has become the national flour production center, and flour production is also the third major factor in Su Province's light industry.

One of the big pillars.

By the outbreak of World War I, there was a huge demand for flour in the international market, and the flour industry in Jiangsu Province achieved unprecedented development.

However, due to the rapid expansion of production capacity, flour raw materials are scarce and development is constrained.

At this time, Shanghai City was under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province, so the Shanghai Flour Association has been trying to find a way to solve this problem, hoping to learn the methods that the British Flour Association invited scholars to improve and tide over the difficulties.

As the president, Li Tianfu has not had a full night's sleep for a long time. He smoked cigarettes one after another and said in a hoarse voice: "Mr. Zhang, have you thought of a way? Do you have any good agricultural colleges to recommend? Give us some time."

Not much left."

Director Zhang Changgui sighed: "Mr. Li, please stop smoking. These foreign gadgets are harmful to people."

"Ahem~" Li Tianfu coughed violently. After he recovered, he took a sip of tea and said, "I know it can harm people, but the ocean can kill people. I see that Germany is in decline, and the war will be over soon. How will we respond then?

The foreigners cull and transport their foreign noodles cheaper than ours!"

Zhang Changgui patted his back, feeling helpless: "So we are not looking for our country's own Professor Bifen of Agriculture, but we haven't found him yet."

This Biffin was the first professor of agricultural botany at the University of Cambridge. His main research object was wheat. The wheat variety Little Joes he developed helped improve the quality of British wheat production and wiped out the decline of the British Flour Union.

"Time waits for no one!" Li Tianfu stood up and wanted to pat the table, but happened to scatter the documents, and a picture of wheat ears inside attracted him.

When I picked it up, I saw that it was Cheng Nuo's "National" newspaper. What caught my eye was the picture of selective breeding.

Li Tianfu took a quick glance, then became excited and clenched his fists: "We have hope. The method of selective breeding is exactly what we need. It seems that our Professor Bifen has found it."

"We will leave for Peking in the afternoon to find their cooperation!"

"Don't think about it again, it's too hasty." Zhang Changgui hesitated.

Li Tianfu folded the newspapers and periodicals and carefully put them in his briefcase:

"If you advance, you will live; if you retreat, you will die. I have made up my mind!"

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