Chapter 466 The fragrance of rice flowers flowing from field to field
At the beginning of March in the Gregorian calendar, thirty steel-wood hybrid greenhouses covered with white plastic sheets rose up on a large open field next to the cultivated land in Xingkai Lake No. 2 Village. Each of these greenhouses is fifty meters long.
Eight meters wide and more than two meters high, it is used for rice seedling cultivation.
As the greenhouse was about to be completed, a "work team" composed of more than 20 people from Beihai Town Technical School also came.
There are currently more than 70 households in Xingkaihu No. 2 Village, with a population of more than 300; a dozen of them were newly assigned at the beginning of this year. Thirty households of old villagers were selected to grow rice, which corresponded to the thirty greenhouses.
Through seedling cultivation, each greenhouse can grow exactly fifty acres of rice.
However, even though the villagers are grateful to Zhao Xin and village chief Zhu Dagui takes the lead, not every family is willing to grow rice. The farmers from Henan used to grow sorghum and have just become accustomed to eating white flour in the past two years since they came to Beihai Town. Everyone is unfamiliar with it.
There is still some lack of confidence in rice.
"Have you heard? Many families in our village will switch to rice cultivation this year, including the village chief's family."
"Ah! Why aren't we growing good wheat anymore?"
"Rice is also a good thing."
"It's so cold here, and rice can only be grown in the south."
"That's it! What should I do if I lose the seed?"
"What's so delicious about that stuff? I don't tell you when I'm not eating it, but my mouth is full after I take one bite."
On the third day after the arrival of the work team, Zhu Dagui held a meeting in the courtyard of the village office and summoned all the families of the twenty-nine households he had selected.
People came one after another. Not only the twenty-nine households, but other families who had nothing to do also came to join in the fun.
In the empty arena where the three brothers Chen Jishan and Chai Rugui competed, there were a dozen or so sparse benches, which could not accommodate the many people. So the men squatted in the sun and gathered together to smoke and chat, or squatted under the windowsill to take a
They played chess on a paper chessboard, and there were a few helpers standing next to them; the women were either picking up shoe soles or mending clothes, chatting about Zhang's family, Li's shortcomings, and other gossip.
A little kid of five or six years old ran in and out of the courtyard, laughing and playing hide-and-seek among the crowds. A group of sparrows kept chirping on the roof and wall.
Everyone hopes to go home early. Let’s not talk about whether they are busy with other things when they go home. Every day at nine o’clock in the morning, the big loudspeaker in the village starts playing dramas and storytelling. Both adults and children love to listen; this can be regarded as the whole Beihai.
This is the most popular entertainment project in winter under the rule of the town.
At present, Beihai Town prohibits gambling and money-making at other times except for the three days of the New Year. The specific measures are that whistleblowers will be rewarded, and those who gather to gamble will be fined confiscation of gambling capital for the first time, and 50 Beihai dollars for the second time; those who refuse to change after repeated admonitions for the third time will be directly punished.
The cultivated land has been confiscated. Let’s go and have fun on Kuye Island!
"Uncle Shuan, when the work team entered the village yesterday, I saw that Captain Xiao is just like a farmer. He eats cars!"
"I also asked the village chief yesterday. He was originally a general who cultivated land! It's just that his land cultivation is better than that of ordinary people, so he was promoted to captain."
"Commissioner! Hey, old Uncle Shuan, how about I become the captain of the work team in the future?"
"More general! Just save it! Just use this piece of material. Let's learn all the five hundred characters before talking about it."
"We have already recognized three hundred, and at most half a year will be enough! I will move on!"
Several newly assigned villagers from Hebei next to him were stunned for a moment, their eyes widened. One of them touched Liu Quanfu's arm and said, "Brother Liu, are you literate?"
"Why, don't you believe it?"
“Don’t dare, don’t dare, I’m already literate, why are you still farming?”
Liu Quanfu glanced at Liu Laoshuan, who was staring at him to prevent him from stealing the chess pieces, so he laughed and said: "Literate is for better farming."
When Liu Laoshuan saw that he had won the chess game, he was in a good mood. He held a dry pipe in his mouth and said to the newcomers: "Young students, you will gradually know that everyone in Beihai Town is literate. Just you and me, uncle."
I also know a hundred or ten characters."
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On the other side, several old residents gathered around a Hezhe man in his forties who was sitting on a bench. This man was talking about tigers.
"Amba in the forest are not afraid of fire, and they especially like to eat dogs." The "Amba" in his mouth is the Hezhe people's name for tigers. At this time, everyone was listening attentively, even the new residents
The ears also stood up.
"That day, it was surprisingly quiet at night. The forest was so quiet that it was scary. There was no wind at all, and even the leaves were not moving. From a distance, it sounded like someone was snoring in the forest. Everyone had been busy all day and had all gone to sleep.
I was sitting next to the fire and keeping vigil all night. The two dogs next to me suddenly started whining, as if they were frightened by something.
After about a meal, I heard the sound of stones rolling down on the left. It seemed like someone had come down from the shore and went to the river. The two dogs also got into the shack for some reason.
, no matter how I screamed, I couldn’t scream. Then, the stones in the forest were stepped on and rattled. As soon as I said I wanted to touch the bow and arrow, I saw a long black shadow on the edge of the river beach. I was so scared that I felt cold all over!
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At this time, a villager nearby asked hurriedly: "What happened next?"
"Later I realized that Amba planned to eat my two dogs."
"Don't interrupt! Tell me quickly, what happened next?"
Nahezhe continued: "I didn't even dare to move. Amba wanted to go to the stream, but he didn't want to get his paws wet, so he stretched out his tiger paws to test on the rocks, but he still missed the mark. Let me tell you.
, if you encounter an amba in the forest, as long as the person is downwind, you must not move. As long as the amba cannot smell you, it will be fine.
I really wanted to run at that moment, but when I thought there was someone in the shack behind me, I screamed with all my strength. Now everyone woke up and Amba was scared. The guy followed
He let out a loud roar as if snoring, jumped into the water, and quickly climbed up to the other side and went into the woods."
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At this time, Zhu Dagui saw that all the twenty-nine households were basically here, so he stood up from the bench, coughed twice, and said to everyone: "Be quiet! Quanfu, stop playing chess! Everyone listen first."
Let me say a few words! This time the superiors sent a work team down, everyone knows what it is for, right?"
At this time, an old lady holding the soles of her shoes said, "Dagui, just hurry up and say it. We'll be waiting to hear the show later."
Zhu Dagui glared at the old lady and continued: "I must say, this rice is a good thing. The banner men in the capital like to eat rice the most, and they transport it to the capital one by one every year. The people above can handle this job
They are placed in our village because they look down on us. This year, including my family, there are only thirty households in total, so we can’t let it get in the way of doing errands! King Zhao specially asked someone to tell me that when the autumn harvest harvests food, he will
I will come to our village again to try the new rice!"
After that, Zhu Dagui pointed to the man next to him and said: "This is Captain Xiao who was sent to our village from above to teach us how to grow rice. Let him say a few words to you guys."
Following his introduction, a man who was nearly forty years old stood up next to him. He had a slight beard on his chin, a cotton hat on his head, a gray cotton-padded jacket, a pair of cloth shoes with thousand-layer soles, and cloth belts on the trousers.
After pricking it, it looks very clean and neat, no different from an ordinary crop handle.
"My surname is Xiao, my name is Xiao Zhanwu, and like everyone else, I am from Henan. This time, I was sent to bring students to our second village to teach everyone how to grow rice..."
Next, Xiao Zhanwu told everyone what the greenhouses outside the village were used for and why they were used. He didn't talk nonsense and finished it in a while.
When Zhu Dagui saw that there was no reaction from the crowd, he scolded: "Everyone is making a fool of himself! Captain Xiao is here to help us. Hey, hey, hey!"
There was sparse applause for a while and then fell silent.
At this time, I heard someone say from below: "Village chief, we have been planting wheat for several years and it has always been good. Why do we need to change to rice this year?"
Zhu Dagui glared and said: "Cui Laowu, how dare you not listen to what the superiors say? You have only had enough food for two years, and you have forgotten your roots?"
"It's not about forgetting your roots. I just want to ask, why don't you go to the first village or the third village and insist on trying the planting in our second village?"
As soon as he said this, he immediately received a response from most of the old villagers, while the newcomers leaned against the wall without speaking.
"It's just that when I was fleeing from famine, I ate rice from Hubei, and it was not delicious at all."
Zhu Dagui scolded: "You know nothing! After eating two meals of brown rice, you think all the rice in the world is the same? Look at what you do!"
Xiao Zhanwu hurriedly said: "Our place is different from Hubei. For example, your second village belongs to the Sanjiang Plain, with flat terrain. It is the third largest black soil belt in the world, and the soil is fertile. If you grow rice here, it will definitely taste better than in Hubei."
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Everyone listened to what he said, this and that, as if it were a sacred book, and his aura was just like that of a primary school teacher. So the voices of questioning couldn't help but weaken, and they all listened to his explanation attentively.
Xiao Zhanwu explained to the villagers in the second village that it does not mean that all rice can be grown if the soil is fertile. For example, hillside land is not suitable and the cost of transformation is too high. And if the water conservancy facilities and transportation conditions of plain fields cannot keep up, they must be planted first.
Two years of wheat or sugar beet.
Chen Qingsong discovered this person last year when he went to inspect farmland water conservancy. Not only was he a good farmer, but he also loved to use his brain. He always had to figure out the farming methods taught by the civil affairs department.
After the initial conversation, Chen Qingsong felt that this person was a promising talent, so he sent him to a technical school to take literacy classes after the autumn harvest. He also personally taught him professional knowledge such as rice seedling cultivation, field management, and how to build farmland and water conservancy.
It can be considered as a gift from everyone.
After a winter of study, Xiao Zhanwu felt that he had benefited a lot. He didn't expect that there was so much knowledge about farming. After the autumn harvest last year, Chen Qingsong asked him to come to the technical school again, and combined his experience in the fields to teach a group of 14th Five-Year Plan
The lecture given by the half-year-old boy was very effective.
So starting from this year, when Chen Qingsong decided to launch a rice planting plan in several villages under Beihai Town, he appointed Xiao Zhanwu's general and asked him to bring his students down to teach rice cultivation techniques. The salary offered to him was five yuan per month.
Ten Bei Hai Yuan is equivalent to the level of a senior teacher.
As for Xiao Zhanwu's own fifty acres of land, it has been temporarily taken over by the civil administration of Beihai Town. The takeover fee is 40% of the harvest. He does not have to worry about it from sowing to harvesting. He can just wait for the grain to be distributed.
After a mobilization meeting was held, the whole village unified their thinking and understanding, so under his leadership, thirty households of villagers began preparations from the next day.
The first thing Xiao Zhanwu had to do was to transform the land of the thirty households into rice fields. He first called in the team responsible for digging wells from the agricultural machinery team. After some measurements, he determined the water wells at the highest points of each family's plot.
The location. Because the Second Village is close to Xingkai Lake, the groundwater resources are very rich. If you go down seven or eight meters, the water will come out.
This shocked the whole village. The dry land where wheat was grown was transformed into irrigated land, and it suddenly became a top-notch fertile land.
Since ancient times, the most expensive item in land transactions is irrigated land. In the Qing Dynasty, an acre of irrigated land in the north cost more than thirty taels of silver, while an acre of land without a well cost only ten taels of silver. Do the math, fifty acres.
It's all turned into watered land, what a huge industry it is.
Although the land policy of Beihai Town is that no buying and selling is allowed, and the land is owned by the state, farmers can’t stand the idea that they don’t think so. What if it changes one day?
For this reason, those farmers who were unwilling to grow rice immediately regretted it and pestered Xiao Zhanwu every day to join the rice-growing plan. But Xiao Zhanwu had no choice. He had built a total of thirty greenhouses. If he wanted to add more
To cultivate land, you need to add greenhouses.
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After the well is dug, a sunbathing pool should be surrounded. The size of the pool should be appropriately increased or decreased according to the area of the paddy field. If it is too small, it will not be conducive to mechanized operations. The larger the pool, the more convenient it is for transplanting rice, raking the ground, and draining water, and the land utilization rate is also high.
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After that, the direction of the main water channel must be determined according to the terrain, not only to facilitate irrigation, but also to consider drainage issues. This will save a lot of trouble in future field management.
After the main canal is completed, the pond ridges must be straightened, which are the so-called "field ridges". According to the terrain, the fewer ridges, the better. When draining water, release water at the opening of the main canal to avoid walking more and make management easier.
At this time, the medium-sized tractors of the agricultural machinery team also entered the field and began to level the land. The soil from the high places was scraped to the ground, and the entire land was scraped as flat as possible, and then the soil and land preparation began. The land preparation of the rice fields was as simple as
Large agricultural machinery cannot be used anymore, mainly because the ruts of the rake are difficult to smooth out, which affects the quality of rice transplanting.
The time has quietly arrived in the middle of March in the Gregorian calendar. At this time, the Civil Affairs Bureau has shipped over 30 seed drills and soil covering machines, as well as a large number of seedling trays.
Seeders and mulching machines have no technical difficulty and do not require electricity. They are extremely easy to copy. The problem with seedling cultivating trays is that they are made of PVC and require a large amount. If they are made of wood or iron, they will not be air-permeable or water-permeable.
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The outer Northeast belongs to the temperate and cold zone. If you want to grow rice, you must go through several stages such as seedling cultivation in greenhouses, transplanting, cultivation management, and harvesting. The most important thing is to cultivate the rice well.
The rice seeds provided by the Civil Affairs Bureau this time were specially ordered by Zhao Xin. Travelers all agreed that Wuchang rice was delicious, but most people didn't know that Wuchang rice was just a place name. The variety of rice was actually called "Daohuaxiang No. 2", and the seeds
It is called "Five Excellent Rice 4".
The first thing Xiao Zhanwu took the farmers to do was to prepare the seedbed soil. Because the land had been plowed after last year's autumn harvest and then rotated twice with a rotary tiller, the soil in the field became very loose after the snow melted and the sun dried.
The taken soil must be sieved once to make it more absorbent and breathable. The sifted soil is spread flatly into the seedling tray and watered twice before sowing.
At the end of March, the official work of raising rice seedlings began. So Xiao Zhanwu led the students to give step-by-step instructions to ensure not to waste a grain of rice.
The first thing the villagers have to do is to dry the seeds, for seven or eight hours from morning to afternoon, and only two or three days. This can enhance the water and air permeability of the seeds, increase the germination rate, and make the seeds germinate neatly and the seedlings
It is strong and has the function of sterilizing and preventing diseases.
The dried seeds should be soaked in salt water to remove empty grains, grass seeds and impurities. When Ercun built the greenhouse, several large cement ponds were built nearby for soaking the seeds.
The students in the technical school hold a thermometer every day and measure it here. This is because the seed soaking time depends on the water temperature. Generally, it takes 5-6 days when the water temperature is 15°C, and 7-8 days when the water temperature is 10°C.
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The concentration of salt water is required to be between 1.10 and 1.13. Xiao Zhanwu taught everyone a way to identify whether the concentration of salt water is appropriate, which is to find a raw egg and put it into the water. If it can reveal the size of a 1-cent Beihai coin, it is fine.
After that, the seeds need to be disinfected. The seed soaking spirit and badan raw powder used were bought by Zhao Xin when he bought the seeds. The disinfected seeds must be stirred with a seed coating agent before sowing to increase production.
It is almost mid-April in the Gregorian calendar, when the temperature reaches above 5℃, sowing can be carried out. When sowing, one layer of seeds and one layer of soil should be used until all the seedling trays in the greenhouse are sown, leaving only the middle one for people.
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This step is not over yet. We must pay attention to the temperature, moisture, nutrients and pH of the bed soil in the greenhouse, and maintain ventilation at all times. After a month, we have to transplant the rice seedlings, and then weeding, topdressing, irrigation...
It was only then that the farmers in Xingkaihu Village No. 2 realized that growing rice was much more complicated than growing wheat. No wonder the superiors sent a special work team.
I just don’t know how much kilograms of rice can be produced per acre, and is it delicious?