Zhu Dagui returned to Xingkaihu Village No. 2 on the tenth day of August. In addition to his wife and ten fellow villagers, he was accompanied by a class of soldiers from the Northern Navy and two officers. On the first carriage in the team,
There are two white soul-calling flags inserted, with the word "Dian" written in big letters on them.
That night in Xiaobai Mountain, eight people died in Xingkai Lake No. 2 Village and fifteen were seriously injured. The injured are now recuperating at the temporary medical station in Ningguta, and most of them will not be able to return until September.
"Alas!" Zhu Dagui couldn't help but sigh when he saw the sign on the roadside saying "Five kilometers away from Xingkaihu Village No. 2". He was getting closer and closer to home, and when he thought about the scene of loud crying, he could not help but sigh.
, Zhu Dagui could not help but curse the court in the south again.
He turned to look at the carriage behind him. The two "Hezhe people" Qibukadai and the seriously injured Zhunise were also withered and listless.
The wheat fields on both sides of the road were flashing golden, and it was as far as the eye could see. Zhu Dagui estimated the harvest of his fifty acres of land this year, and his mood improved slightly.
Yes, the harvest season in Beihai Town has arrived again.
From the Xila River and Fuljiaha River in the south, to the vast plains on the north and south sides of Xingkai Lake, and then to the middle reaches of Heilongjiang thousands of miles away; from the south of Kuye Island to Pingyuan City in Ezo, all the way to
From the west to the distant shores of Lake Baikal, as long as there are villages cultivated in Beihai Town, the eighth lunar month will become a festival for all villagers.
Chai Rugui, Gao Liugeng and Li Qingwen sat on the edge of the field like fools, watching the huge red monster patrolling back and forth in the field, quickly harvesting rows of wheat, leaving only one or two inches of wheat left in the field.
The shock and horror in my heart cannot be expressed in words.
"This, is this the end?" Gao Liugeng had the status of a supervisor. He attended a private school for several years when he was a child. He was the most knowledgeable among the three brothers. He recalled the words of sages in the books he had read, but he could not find them.
Here are some words to explain such a scene.
It took a while for Chai Rugui and Li Qingwen, who had fallen into a state of languor and dementia, to wake up and murmured: "What a bastard! You can actually harvest crops like this."
The villagers passing by smiled slightly when they saw the three of them looking like this. They had seen this kind of scene many times in the past two years. Every time there was a new one assigned to them during the wheat harvest season, they almost always had this look on their faces and shouted in fright.
There were also many people shouting.
Li Qingwen stared intently at the big red monster that kept harvesting and spitting out wheat grains, and said to Chai Rugui: "Brother, let's say this machine has done all the work of cutting wheat, what else are we doing? That's it.
Look? Isn’t this just waiting for God to drop pancakes!”
An old farmer who was drinking water not far away laughed and said: "Young man, I dare not say that. Although we have machines here to help farm the land, it saves a lot of trouble, but weeding, fertilizing and watering still require talented people."
.Besides, drying wheat is also a laborious work, and it requires people to take care of it."
Seeing that Li Qingwen and others were listening intently, the old farmer came over and squatted next to the three of them and said: "We are close to the big lake and there is a lot of rain. The child's face will change today. It has just been exposed to the sun.
When the weather comes up, you have to collect it and put it into storage quickly. When the weather gets better, you have to dry it out quickly. It’s going to be very frustrating.”
Chai Rugui said: "Uncle Liu, how was our harvest in previous years? Is it good?"
The old farmer said: "What's wrong? It's good! If nothing else, our village alone produced more than 300 kilograms of grain per mu of land last year! The civil affairs clerk said that the land in our village has only been cultivated for two years.
The land is not fertile enough. If we give it a few years, we can produce up to 500 kilograms per acre!"
After hearing this, Chai Rugui turned to look at Li Wenqing and Gao Liugeng, with expressions of disbelief on their faces.
The three of them were about to chat with the old farmer again, when the old farmer suddenly stood up, built a shed with his hands, squinted and frowned and looked into the distance. Chai Rugui and the other three also stood up and looked back, only to see the road in the distance.
Above, a convoy of horse-drawn carriages with white flags at the head was approaching the entrance of the village.
Li Wenqing asked hurriedly: "Uncle Liu, what's going on?"
The old farmer's face became more solemn, and even showed a hint of sadness. Before he had time to explain, he ran down the field bank with long strides, passed through the harvested wheat fields, and hurried in the direction of the carriage team.
Chai Rugui and the others sensed something was wrong, so they got up and followed them. Although they were undercover agents, waiting for an opportunity to sneak into Beihai Town or Fuldan City to cause trouble, but since they were assigned to this village, they still had to do something.
It just looks good.
When the three of them were still a hundred or two hundred meters away from the convoy, many villagers had already ran over. Some even cried at the top of their lungs in the middle of the road, kneeling on the ground and screaming to death. A circle of people had already stood around to comfort and persuade them.
people.
"What's going on?" Chai Rugui asked a villager in a low voice when he saw the two soul-calling flags stuck on the first carriage.
The villager wiped away his tears and said bitterly: "It's not the good deeds of those officers and soldiers!"
When Gao Liugeng heard this, he had a real expression in his eyes. He thought the other party was talking about the Beihai soldiers, and he thought that rebelling against traitors is a traitor, and it would be strange not to bully the people. But what the villager said next made him feel as if his oil and salt shop had been turned upside down.
Generally, it has a mixed flavor.
"It's just that they can't defeat Beihai Town, but they even killed the people in front of us! Bah! What a stupid court!"
"We were given no chance of survival in my hometown in Henan. They hid so far away and still didn't let us go!"
"If you ask me, Prince Zhao should lead his troops into Beijing and knock that dog emperor off his throne!"
The villagers surrounding the road were talking a lot, and they were all scolding the imperial court in the south. At this time, a tall man in his thirties walked through the crowd and walked into the circle. He sighed first and said to the woman kneeling on the ground crying:
"Zhuzi's house was attacked by officers and soldiers at night. Not only Xie's family was killed in our village, but many people in other villages also died. To put it bluntly, I, Zhu Dagui, did not take good care of him. I apologize to Xie!"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After saying that, Zhu Dagui knelt down on the ground and kowtowed to the woman to apologize. Zhu Dagui and his wife wanted to pick up her man, but she thought of the miserable scene that night
, covered her mouth and started crying.
When the woman sitting on the ground saw Zhu Dagui like this, she quickly stopped wailing and sobbed: "Village chief, I know, it's not strange, they are all idiotic officers and soldiers... The men in my family are not lucky because they are
Damn it!"
A group of people were crying. Chai Rugui and the others saw a Beihai soldier wearing a dark green hat walking over. The hat was different from all the hats he had seen before. The top of the hat was wide and turned up.
There is a metal badge pinned to the hat wall, and a crescent-shaped black hat brim protrudes from the top of the forehead. Combined with the two-part dark green military uniform on the opponent's body, it makes people feel indescribably majestic.
The Beihai soldier first stood at attention and saluted the woman on the ground, then bent down and whispered a few words of comfort. The woman stopped crying and was helped up by Zhu Dagui's wife.
Zhu Dagui then stood up and said to everyone: "Okay, let's all disperse. If you have anything to do, we can talk about it back to the village."
Only then did he notice Chai Rugui and three people standing outside the crowd. He walked up and asked, "Are you three newly assigned? What are your names?"
Gao Liugeng knew that the village chief of Beihai Town was almost the same as Li Zheng in the countryside of the Qing Dynasty. He had great or small power, so he bowed and said: "My name is Gao Liu, this is my eldest brother Chai Dazhuang, and my younger brother Li
arts."
Chai Rugui and Li Qingwen quickly bowed and said, "I have met Village Chief Zhu."
Zhu Dagui waved his hand and said: "Why are you so polite? We are all neighbors from now on, so we can support each other. From your accent, do you think you are from Kaifeng, your hometown? How did you get together?"
Chai Ruguixin started to talk about it as soon as he came up. This person named Zhu is not easy to fool. He quickly apologized and said with a smile: "There was a disaster at home and there was really no way to survive, so I took two brothers from the same village and came out to find a living. When I arrived in Xuzhou, I heard that
Sheyang Lake is recruiting people, so here they are."
Zhu Dagui asked a few more people about their current residence. He saw that although Chai Rugui was not tall, he looked very capable, so he reached out and patted the other person on the shoulder and said: "Okay, let's do a good job first. After you have finished your work for a while, go to my house for a drink. Later.
As a mother-in-law, good days are coming!"
After he finished talking to Chai Rugui and the others, he turned to another old farmer and said, "Liu Laoshuan, how are the dozens of acres of sugar beets in the village doing while I'm away?"
Liu Laoshuan was the "Uncle Liu" mentioned by Chai Rugui and the others just now. At this time, he grinned and said: "Okay! It's almost over. People from the sugar factory have come to check it out in the past few days. They talked about a few villages.
The sugar beets in our village are grown well."
Zhu Dagui said: "Let's go and take a look."
The sugar beet field in the second village is located to the east of the village. This year, dozens of acres were planted on a trial basis. If the civil administration had not assigned tasks from top to bottom and must be planted, the people would have ignored it.
When Zhu Dagui took the curious Chai Rugui and the three of them to the east end of the village, they saw that the beet leaves in the field had changed from dark green to light green a few dozen meters away, and more leaves had turned yellow, and even
Some of them had withered and were lying on the ground. He immediately said anxiously: "Liu Laoshuan, what's going on?! Why are all the good leaves wilting? Why don't you explain it clearly to me today? This matter is not over!"
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Liu Laoshuan hurriedly said: "Dagui..."
"Stop doing this! Call me the village chief!" Zhu Dagui jumped to his feet and yelled: "When I left, the leaf stems were still in good condition, but why are they all withered?!"
Liu Laoshuan's expression changed, he raised his hand and hit Zhu Dagui on the head with his pipe pole, and said dissatisfied: "What are you yelling about? The civil affairs officer said, this is what the beets are like when they are ripe! They eat the roots from the ground, pigs
I’ve just eaten the pole!”
Zhu Dagui rubbed his head and heard this, and quickly said with a smile: "Uncle Shuan, am I wrong? When will this thing be put away?"
Liu Laoshuan angrily lit a pack of cigarettes for himself. After taking enough, he said: "The people at the sugar factory said something about the accumulation period. I didn't understand it. If you harvest it too early, it won't be sweet enough. If you harvest it too late, you'll get it."
It's almost freezing in the past few days."
Two days later, the four-wheeled carriage from the sugar factory arrived. Because there were only a few dozen acres, no large machinery was used. What came was a small sugar beet harvester, which was harvested in half a day.
These farmers from the Central Plains had never seen anything like sugar beet, and they all came to see it during harvesting. People from the sugar factory didn't care, so they picked a dozen good-quality roots, peeled them and cut them into small pieces for everyone to taste.
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Everyone looked at the cut tuber, which looked like a carrot, and tried to pinch a small piece and put it in their mouths. Then their eyes narrowed and a look of satisfaction appeared on their faces.
"It's so sweet! Dad, give me another piece."
"Hmm~~" Liu Laoshuan licked his lips and nodded: "This is much more delicious than radish, it is juicy and sweet."
Zhu Dagui also nodded and said: "Not bad! We will plant more crops next year and make a hundred acres."
The technician of the sugar factory laughed after hearing this, and then told everyone about the town of Khabarovsk in the north of Xingkai Lake. The villagers heard that thousands of acres of sugar beets have been planted in Khabarovsk this year, and next year it will reach 5,000 acres.
I couldn't help but click my tongue.
While the harvest was in progress, the technicians from the sugar factory taught the villagers step by step how to silage the beet stems and leaves and how to preserve them. The so-called "silage" means placing the beet stems and leaves in the silage, and using the action of microorganisms to make the beet stems and leaves
Fermentation. Pigs and cows like to eat fermented feed. It has more nutrients than fresh stems and leaves. It can also increase appetite and prevent livestock diarrhea.
The most critical thing for silage stems and leaves is to choose a cellar. Generally, you should choose a place with high and dry terrain, low groundwater level, deep soil layer, and good drainage. It should also be close to the livestock shed for easy access to feed.
Chai Rugui and the others had no family to hold them back, and they wanted to leave a good impression on the villagers, so they took the initiative. In a few days, the second village dug out seven or eight cellars, all of which were two meters square. On average, each cellar could
Three acres of beet stems and leaves stored.
After the sugar beet harvest was completed, the sugar factory's carriage carried a cart full of roots and returned to the factory on the south bank of Xingkai Lake. Sugar production is a light industry, and there is no need to be involved with heavy industry, and because of the relationship between Xingkai Lake, Bo
The sugar beets produced in Lizhen can be transported directly via the Ussuri River.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The sugar factory in Beihai Town currently uses semi-manual and semi-mechanical methods to allow more housewives to get out of the house and participate in labor. The sugar beets collected from each village must first be put in
A rectangular beet cellar made of cement, with a drainage outlet and a screen for removing soil and rocks at the bottom.
The female workers first rinse the beets with a large amount of water. However, mechanized harvested beets generally have to be washed twice because they contain too many impurities. The flowing washing wastewater is directly discharged into the external reservoir. After settling, it can be recycled again.
times used.
The washed beets are sent directly to the storage hopper of the shredder through a belt conveyor. The shredded beets are heated using water as a solvent to extract sugar.
First, each batch of shredded vegetables must be weighed, and then sent to the inlet hopper of the percolator. Under the push of the double helix, the shredded vegetables generally advance slowly along the double helix. The exuded water with a pH value of 5.5 to 6.5 flows from
The rear end of the percolator enters, and flows in reverse direction with the vegetable shreds depending on the position difference. The steam jackets on the bottom and sides are passed through the steam jackets from the evaporator to heat the vegetable water mixture to the required temperature. The water temperature is very critical in this step.
, the most suitable temperature for fresh beets is 70~75℃.
The next step is to purify the exuded juice to remove impurities and neutralize the pH. For convenience, Beihai Town currently uses the lime method and will consider using the carbonic acid method in the future.
The clarified exudate juice is then boiled, and finally white sugar can be obtained. As for the remaining sugar beet waste meal, it will not be wasted. It still contains a certain amount of sugar. After recycling, it can be sent to the livestock farm as feed, along with silage stems and leaves.
Mixed feeding.
The eyes turned back to Xingkai Lake No. 2 Village. After a busy day, Chai Rugui and the other two people went home and had a hasty dinner, then went back to their houses to rest. The courtyard where they lived was composed of three wooden houses, with one room per person.
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Chai Rugui and Li Wenqing fell asleep quickly, but Gao Liugeng, who was lying on the bed, was still tossing and turning. His mind was in a mess at the moment, thinking of the scene of eating beets during the day and the orders of the court officials.
It has been more than half a month since I came to Xingkaihu Village No. 2. Everything in front of me is so peaceful, wealthy and peaceful. It is completely different from what the court officials described. If it was true or false, it should have been exposed long ago.
How can a person who can make people live such a life be a rebel? That should only be done by a saint!
But when he thought that he was going to attack the "saint", Gao Liugeng's heart became heavier and heavier, and he didn't know where to go.