He still wanted to listen, but Kong Xiaode was afraid of causing trouble, so he interrupted Lao Yang: "You go and prepare the ammonia first, and I will wait for the good leader to come."
Lao Yang said: "Okay, I'll go right away. I'll do it for your house first, and then I'll do it for my house when it's done." After that, he asked Heini to go with him. Kong Xiaode felt relieved.
After dinner, Yun Suji originally planned to go to the director of the village farmers' association, but after hearing someone's words, he knew that the work was not real, so he wanted to investigate among the masses first, so he said to Lao Qin: "Eat."
I'll help you fertilize after dinner."
Although Kong Xiaode said "I don't dare, I don't dare", Yun Suji picked up the guy and followed them to the fields.
The so-called ammonia, Yun Suji knew, was a soil-based chemical fertilizer that Tiandihui had launched in a few areas. The output of synthetic ammonia was very small, and it was very difficult to promote it. It was only practiced in a few areas with better conditions.
However, the application of ammonia is very inconvenient. Tiandihui promotes the use of ammonia in Lingao using a local method, using oxen or donkeys, or simply using several people to pull a small cart, carrying a container of ammonia, or a can or a barrel.
, filled with ammonia with a pungent and eye-catching smell, connected through a thin bamboo tube to a hollow iron sickle-shaped object with a long wooden crotch. During operation, the long sickle-shaped object is inserted into the earth.
, a trickle of ammonia flowed into the ground. Operated in this way, after applying ammonia to an acre of land, it would take countless back and forth steps from the beginning to the end of the field, and it would make the operator shed tears.
His face was full of pain and hatred, so the job of applying ammonia was very unpopular at first. It was not until everyone really saw the effect of ammonia that they began to accept it.
Yun Suji has been a local agricultural technician in Lingao for several years. He knows everything in the field and can use any furniture he picks up, especially the ammonia equipment. He taught Lingao ammonia fertilization step by step.
However, he was also a little confused: because it seemed that all the ground was planted with red grass - this stuff was originally used to fix nitrogen in the ground, so there was no need to apply nitrogen fertilizer to the green manure. When he went to the ground, he saw that it was winter wheat.
Kong Xiaode's family and Lao Yang's family didn't have cattle, and farmers here in Hainan didn't raise horses or donkeys. They had to get a small cart to drag ammonia buckets. Originally, one person dragged the ammonia bucket and the other person applied it. Yun Suji came, and two old men pulled the cart in front.
Much more relaxed.
Yun Suji asked while applying fertilizer: "You don't have any animals to tie up when you farm?"
"I don't want to tie up." Kong Xiao pulled the cart with a cigarette in his mouth and puffed out smoke. "My mother-in-law and I are the only two people in my family. We just farm the land to make food for the stutter. It's easy to farm here, and the wealth is light. Why tie up an animal?
.Raising a calf is more difficult than raising a baby! Besides, no matter how good the land is, what’s the use? It can’t save the family business, and the whole family will be wiped out.”
Before Yun Suji could speak, Lao Yang was already joking: "Lao Kong, you are in good health. Your wife hasn't broken up with you yet, right? Just have another one."
"We have old bones, and we are half buried in the earth. If someone is born, who will support the child?" Kong Xiaode sighed, "I don't want to, life is easier now. A few more days are just a few days."
Yun Suji thought that such negative emotions were not good, so he gave some words of advice.
"I would like to tie up a big animal, but I don't have the money. The big cow can't afford it, and the calf doesn't dare to buy it." Lao Yang bent forward and pulled the cart hard.
“Doesn’t Heaven and Earth have cattle loans?”
"I don't dare to borrow loan sharks to buy cows," Lao Yang said. "If the cow dies, I will lose my land. My family relies on this to make a living. We have had cows die in my hometown. One of them died."
Half the sky is down! Slowly save up money to buy it."
Yun Suji said: "The interest on the cattle loan is only one and a half cents per year, and it will be repaid in three years. Your family has two laborers. My wife can also help. In two years, Heini will be able to help with grass and cattle."
――There is grass all year round here, and we don’t waste too much fodder. Are you worried about not getting enough? As for cattle diseases, there is a veterinary station in the county.”
"From here to the county, it takes half a day at least. The doctor may not be there - I went to the veterinary station when I was on a business trip. There were three people there, and they were so busy that they couldn't even touch the ground every day, waiting for him to line up.
By my time, the cows have long since died." Lao Yang said, "Although my family has two laborers, we can't handle the many dispatches. No matter when there is a notice in the county, township, or village, laborers will be sent out. It takes at least half a day to go there.
, it’s too late to farm. As for female labor, Heini still has a sister. She is fifteen this year, and she can take on half of the labor, but she can’t use it now.”
"Why can't it be used?" Yun Suji already knew from the chat that there were too many forced labor at the grassroots level. But what's the deal with a fifteen-year-old girl?
"As soon as the summer was over, she went to Lingao to attend some kind of training class. I heard that she was asked to join the Youth League." Lao Yang said, "People from the village don't know what joining the Youth League means. Anyway, we will follow the orders from above.
That’s it, it’s been more than three months since I left. Last time I heard from the village chief that I wouldn’t be able to come back until before the Chinese New Year.”
Yun Suji asked again: "If red flowers and grass are not planted here, why are they growing wheat?"
"Everyone wants to grow wheat, but we can't get used to eating rice..." Kong Xiaode stopped the car, straightened up and punched his waist, knocked off the ashes and filled the tobacco leaves again, "Rice, it's an expensive grain. But you won't feel hungry if you eat it.
.It always feels like I haven’t eaten.”
Lao Yang said: "Yes, but the village does not allow planting, saying that the wheat harvest is small. After harvesting rice, all red flowers and grass must be planted to accumulate fertilizer." He said that now every household in the village is just like planting other cereals, in the fields.
Just plant a little on the ten sides of the ground and harvest as much or as little as you want to satisfy your craving.
"Then why did you give up again?"
"According to the instructions from above, our village can grow some winter wheat, but it must not exceed 500 acres." Lao Yang said, "It's hard to say whether we can eat this wheat."
"how?"
"I heard from the village chief that this wheat is going to be used as tribute to the Senate,"
Yun Suji was not happy to hear this, but it was probably the truth. Because of the problem of flour supply, the elders had already expressed their opinions on this many times. I guess this was also arranged by the general office - no wonder there is an ammonia quota here, it turned out to be
Plant special wheat prepared by the Senate!
Yun Suji chatted with the two old men while working. He not only helped the Kong family, but also gave guidance to Lao Yang and other families. Everyone said, "It's really a good way to grow crops."
The leader worked for a while, then let the guards take turns to continue the work, and then he sat down and chatted with the people. It was just an ammonia application, and the people who were applying fertilizer sat under the old trees at the head of the field to rest, drink water, eat dry food, and squat in a circle.
Yun Suji asked questions, but only Kong Xiaode still stood respectfully and did not dare to speak casually. Lao Yang said: "Chief Yun! You are really good! You must farm a lot of land at home, right?"
Yun Suji said: "My family has no land, but we have done a lot. I am the technical guide of Quan Lingao Tiandi Association."
"No wonder you are so good at farming." Lao Yang said sincerely, "We didn't know until we arrived in Hainan that there was such farming in the world! The leaders are really like gods!"
"It's so amazing," Yun Suji said, "Farming is also a science. There are even schools in Australia that specialize in this."
“Do you still need to learn how to farm?”
"Why don't you want to learn? Do you think that the agricultural technicians of Tiandihui are all born with the knowledge of farming? Farming is complicated." Yun Suji thought that it would be good to do some popular science education, "Let's talk about this kind of red flowers and grasses.
Do you all know how to use Ganha?"
"I know, it's green manure. When plowing in the spring, just pour it in and use it as fertilizer. I've seen the rice farmers here doing this."
"Green manure is true, but why don't you just leave the land unused and let weeds grow instead of planting grass like crops? You can turn the weeds in and fertilize the land."
"This grass is probably fat."
"You're right," Yun Suji said with a smile, "This red flower grass is a treasure. Where is the treasure? Everyone knows that what you plant in the ground will grow, but if you don't fertilize it, the ground will become thin after a few crops.
, the soil fertility will be gone. But this red flower grass is different. Not only does it not consume the soil, but it can also add fertilizer to the ground. That’s why we have to plant red flower grass.”
"Chief, are you saying that this red flower grass can fertilize the ground?"
"Yes." Yun Suji said, "The ammonia water we just made has the same purpose as red flowers and grasses. They both add fertility to the land."
The people around were both surprised and convinced. One woman said: "The chief said it best, he can explain it clearly in just a few words. Unlike our village chief, who only knows how to yell and tie people up..."
Yun Suji saw that the woman talking was the young daughter-in-law who was checking at the entrance of the village when she entered the village in the morning. Just as she was about to say something, her husband scolded her: "You woman, what are you talking about? How many days do you have the right to interrupt a man?"
If I don’t slap your buttocks, will your skin become tight?”
The young daughter-in-law did not dare to say anything anymore, so Kong Xiaode hurriedly came out to smooth things over: "Liang Zhu! Don't scold her, she was just quick to speak. The chief will not be offended." As he spoke, he bent down towards Yun Suji and said, "Chief, you
Say no?"
Yun Suji smiled and said: "Yes, yes, everyone is just gossiping."
Liang Zhu felt that this not only caused trouble, but also caused trouble to the villagers. He believed that since ancient times, "officials and officials have protected each other". It is not a good thing for an official to smile - who doesn't know that they can turn against each other faster than turning over a book! This Yun
If Su Ji returned to the village hall and told her, he would be in trouble immediately. Angrily, he slapped his wife in the face and cursed: "I can't silence you! Go back and see if I don't slap your buttocks to pieces!"
Lao Yang quickly pulled him away and said, "You idiot! Why are you afraid of this woman's nonsense? Chief Yun himself said it doesn't matter, so he's so afraid of you!"
Liang Zhu said a few words and fell silent. Yun Suji saw that the atmosphere was a little awkward, so he laughed and said: "Since ancient times, people with a little power cannot afford to offend. When I was in Australia, I also
I went to the countryside. I heard farm workers trembling when they talked about a little power. They made up a jingle. (~^~)