Chapter 32 Spring Sowing

While the hydropower station construction site ahead is in full swing, a group of people are also working hard on the agricultural development land on the east bank of the Tiandu River. The main force of these people are more than a dozen people under the Ministry of Agriculture, because of the current labor shortage.

, even the old couple Yuan Ruoxiu and Zhu Ping rolled up their trousers and went to the fields. In addition, there were some women who stayed at Base No. 1. Before the time travel, their agricultural knowledge was probably limited to being able to recognize supermarkets.

The fruits and vegetables sold here are so good that many people have never even seen rice growing in the fields with their own eyes, but now they must work with people from the Ministry of Agriculture to prepare the cultivated rice two or three days before the Grain Rain.

Rice seedlings are sown into the field.

Zhao Xiaoruo took off her shoes and carefully put her feet into the turbid mud. The cold touch made her subconsciously retract her feet, and at the same time she felt a strange sense of excitement. Zhao Xiaoruo was born in a medical family, and since childhood, she has

The family education she received was about being clean and spotless. Not to mention entering a muddy pond like this, she had to wash her hands at least ten times a day even if she had nothing to do. After graduating from the nursing major of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, her

Her living habits have been evolving from "hygienic" to "hygienic". Before today, she couldn't even imagine that one day she would stand barefoot in a rice field planting rice.

While Zhao Xiaoruo was still in a daze, a hand stretched out from beside her and gently pulled her arm, and she involuntarily stepped into the paddy field.

"Ah! You girl..." Zhao Xiaoruo knew that this was his good sister Wu Qiao, so he just scolded her. Wu Qiao grew up with her and went to school together. They entered the same university and studied the same major. After graduation, they entered

They worked as nurses in the same hospital, and eventually even signed up to participate in the time-travel operation together behind their backs. The relationship was as strong as that of biological sisters. However, Wu Qiao and her had different personalities. They were more cheerful and would not hide anything.

heart.

Wu Qiao smiled and said: "Okay, miss, no one is here to help you today, you should just do it by yourself!"

Zhao Xiaoruo said angrily: "I have my own hands and feet, I don't need help from others!"

The two little girls are young, beautiful, and single. Since they joined the time-travel operation, the nurse duo has been enthusiastically sought after by single young men. Some good people have even set up a fan group on the forum, which has attracted a lot of attention.

They were praised as entertainment stars. During the period after time travel, the two of them also received care from all aspects - there were definitely people rushing to do the physical work, there was absolutely no need to queue up for meals, and the assigned work was absolutely

It is both relaxing and safe. Wu Qiao said more than once that he came to the right place to travel this time. Every day is sunshine, beach, and waves. He drinks coconut juice and sits in the shade and dozes off. This kind of life is comparable to working as a nurse in a tertiary hospital.

Being as tired as a dog every day is much better.

But if Zhao Xiao wants to think more than the simple-minded Wu Qiao, a group organization like Chuan Chuan Group actually has no fundamental difference in organizational structure from the hospital where he worked before. Departments are divided according to functions, and there are leaders and leaders.

They are divided into leaders. Moreover, members who dare to participate in time travel often have professional skills and can play an indispensable role in certain key projects. If members do not work hard to make progress in this group, it will highlight their

Sooner or later, due to their own role, they will be marginalized and gradually become mediocre.

People like her and Wu Qiao have certain professional skills but are not at the top level within the group. In fact, their positions in the corresponding departments are quite embarrassing. For example, the current medical team must be dominated by two foreign doctors, and they are

Those who study nursing can only do some "rough work" such as physical examination or wound dressing. If things go on like this, their role and status in the group will become lower and lower, and as they move through many careers

As it gradually spreads, perhaps one day it will begin to be slowly forgotten.

Of course, girls like them may have another way out, which is to find a capable partner among the time-travelling people and marry them. In the future, they can at least enjoy the treatment of a rich wife under the service of the maid and old lady, but that result is not guaranteed.

This is not what Zhao Xiaoruo wants. According to her plan, she will become a representative or leader of at least one medical discipline in the future, such as maternal and child health care, or clinical nursing. In a few years, the executive committee will open a medical school or something like that.

In an institution like this, even if I can't compete with those two foreign devils, I will at least be a deputy dean or something like that, and at the very least I will be a department head!

Zhao Xiaoruo has not taken the initiative to tell anyone about these long-term career plans, not even Wu Qiao. She knows that Wu Qiao's mind is not on his career, and it may not be useful to tell her these things. As long as she can make a difference in the future, then she will

When the time comes, it is not difficult to give your good sister a hand and appoint her as your deputy.

However, before realizing his personal career goals, Zhao Xiaoruo still has many practical difficulties to overcome, such as the current spring plowing. In fact, the spring plowing has ended a few days ago. Under the arrangement of the executive committee, hundreds of laborers

They all went into battle and carried out emergency plowing on nearly 500 acres of wasteland that had been reclaimed within three days. Then all these laborers were transferred to the construction site of the hydropower station in the upper reaches of Tiandu River. After spring plowing, spring planting was relatively easy.

, the Executive Committee handed it over to the Ministry of Agriculture and non-labor personnel who stayed at Base No. 1 to solve the problem. This was also a last resort due to the situation. Some people may be somewhat dissatisfied, but this arrangement is to solve the problem.

Food is a fundamental issue for survival. At least on the surface, no one will stand up to oppose the arrangements of the executive committee. Even the famous feminist Risa obediently kept her mouth shut this time and did not express any objection to this.

The people participating in the spring planting were divided into several groups, and each group had to contract a certain area of ​​land. Today, the duo of Zhao Xiaoruo and Wu Qiao were assigned a rice field with an area of ​​​​five acres. However, before starting farming, all

People still have to stand in the field and watch the demonstration operations of technicians from the Ministry of Agriculture, which can be regarded as one of the temporary measures.

Considering that the professional quality of those participating in the spring planting was generally appalling, the Executive Committee took precautions and ordered several human-powered rice transplanters before the crossing in accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Agriculture. Rice transplanting with the help of tools has existed since ancient times, and Su Shi in the Song Dynasty also made a

The song "Yangma Song" describes the scene of farmers in Hubei using tools such as rice horses and rice harvesters to transplant rice. These primitive agricultural tools were still used in rural areas until the 1950s after liberation, and later they were specially developed and developed more scientifically.

A more efficient modern rice transplanter.

The manual step-back hand-operated rice transplanter purchased by the Ministry of Agriculture is light in weight, small in size, highly adaptable and easy to maintain. The user controls the direction with one hand and rotates the handle with the other hand to drag the rice transplanter back in a straight line at a constant speed in the rice field.

, the rice seedlings can be stably inserted into the field at a certain distance. According to the Ministry of Agriculture’s preliminary trial, even a novice can use this rice transplanter to plant 60 to 70 trees per minute, with a single rice transplanter.

It is not a big problem to complete one acre of land in two hours. If you are experienced, the speed can be increased by at least one-third.

After the operation demonstration, the people from the Ministry of Agriculture particularly emphasized "prudentness" and requested that the rice transplanting be as successful as possible, because the Ministry of Agriculture has really put a lot of effort into cultivating these seedlings.

Since the time for the crossing operation was set early, in order to plant a wave of spring rice after the crossing, the Ministry of Agriculture specially adopted the dry rice seedling raising technology with shorter rice seedling age. However, even so, there is still about thirty days of rice seedling raising.

period, so when the Ministry of Agriculture shipped the last batch of agricultural supplies in England, these seedlings were moved to the ship together with the soil and seedlings. In the following days, the temperature, humidity and sufficient sunshine time of the environment must be maintained. The Ministry of Agriculture

Both the company and the executive committee have spent a lot of manpower and material resources. If the seedlings are damaged due to improper operation during the final transplanting process, it will indeed be very heartbreaking.

Because of this, the Ministry of Agriculture was unable to carry out large-scale seedling cultivation before crossing. The resulting seedlings were only enough to plant about 200 acres of land. The remaining cultivated land will be planted with corn, soybeans, potatoes and other miscellaneous grain crops as food.

Supplement. However, the Ministry of Agriculture is still relatively optimistic about grain output. These excellent varieties brought from later generations are not comparable to the almost wild mountain rice grown by the Li people. As long as there are no large-scale natural disasters, the Ministry of Agriculture believes that

By the time the rice is harvested this season, no matter how bad it is, the total output will reach more than 50 tons. Together with other miscellaneous grain crops and existing grain reserves, the Ministry of Agriculture does not expect there to be an obvious grain gap within a year. And as

As the labor force controlled by the Chuanzhong gradually increases, the cultivated land area and grain planting area will also increase accordingly. As long as the local population does not expand explosively, there will definitely be enough food to eat.

It is said that everyone is treated equally in difficult times, but the Ministry of Agriculture still takes some care when arranging work for the young nurse sisters - the two share a single-operated rice transplanter, which actually allows them to take turns to rest. Never

Of course, the two sisters who had been in the rice fields would not complete the task so smoothly. In fact, less than two minutes after starting to operate independently, Zhao Xiaoruo slipped and fell into the mud. Wu Qiao was not spared either.

During the transplanting process, he also turned into a loach spirit. The difference was that Zhao Xiaoruo secretly wiped away his tears with his hands, while Wu Qiao sat in the mud and laughed, as if he had found a treasure. A whole morning passed, and the two of them

Everyone took turns to work in the fields, and they completed the rice transplanting work on less than two acres of land. It was not until someone brought food at noon that the two monkeys stopped. You looked at me, I looked at you, and suddenly they laughed loudly together.

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