To reciprocate the favor, Shi Niaoren wanted to do something to show his gratitude. No, not only to the chemical industry department, but also to the Industrial Energy Commission, the Agriculture Committee, the Army, Navy, Civil Affairs Committee...
Counting on the fingers, it seems that there are too many people in the departments that want to express gratitude, and it is inconvenient to treat one with favoritism. The best way seems to be to extend a sense of friendship to all the time-travelers in these places.
This is more difficult. The Ministry of Health's job is to save lives and heal the wounded. Generally speaking, people from the Ministry of Health enjoy unparalleled expert treatment in the Travel Group. Everyone is very polite wherever they go, and they always try to satisfy their requests as long as they can be met.
——There is no other reason. In this time and space, medical treatment is the scarcest resource. No one dares to say that he will always be healthy, not sick, and not injured until he becomes one of the five hundred powerful family leaders.
This was a mixture of fear and respect. Shi Niaoren disapproved of the respect caused by "I am afraid that if I ask for anything from him in the future, I will fall into his hands."
The Ministry of Health is too venerable now. From the perspective of long-term peace and stability, it should do something to gain more favor from everyone.
Shi Niaoren's eyes fell on the road outside the window. The early summer sun was shining brightly, and the street trees that had just been planted along the road were wilted. The people walking by, whether they were traveling people or indigenous workers, were all wearing straw hats and sweating profusely.
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"Well, to prevent heatstroke and cool down." Shi Niaoren immediately thought of this. Liu San said that he would prepare some traditional Chinese medicine, Zhuge Xingjun Powder, Ten Dishui, and Huoxiang Zhengqi Water. The sources of these three medicinal materials are easy and can be purchased from local pharmacies.
You can prepare it for your own cultivation, and the supplementary material is only ethanol. It is very effective against common summer diseases.
But making medicine takes time. It is a bit difficult to prepare enough medicine with just Liu San and his apprentices. Workers in pharmaceutical factories are no better than ordinary workers. Not only do they have to have a stronger sense of responsibility, but they also need to know some medicine. Expansion is not something that can be done by force.
things.
"Well, salt water!" Shi Niaoren suddenly thought, "Salt soda!"
Salt soda is a labor protection product. It is the best drink for manual workers in summer. It not only prevents heatstroke and cools down, but also helps maintain the electrolyte balance in the body and avoid dehydration.
But Shi Niaoren immediately thought that he didn’t have baking soda. Not only did he not have it, but the Ministry of Chemical Industry also didn’t have it. Baking soda is not a rare thing, but one must first have soda ash. If the soda ash plant does not operate for a day, there will be no baking soda available for a day. So he thought about it.
I had no choice but to give up on this idea.
If you can't make soda, you might as well make saline solution first. Thinking of this, Shi Niaoren decided to go to the pharmaceutical factory. He was waiting for He Ping to come and prepare to explain some administrative matters and the training class for Mongolian doctors - this was their private meeting for the first time.
The nickname was given to the first doctor training class. Through online recruitment, the Ministry of Health found four or five people who had traveled through time and space to try to escape labor and satisfy their special hobbies by studying medicine.
He Ping waited and waited, but no one came. When he was anxiously waiting for him, he saw a man with glasses walking with his legs crossed. There was a number "007" on his chest. Shi Niaoren took a closer look and saw that it was Dong.
Dugu, the director of Menshi Police Station, proposes marriage.
"Doctor, please check me out...here." Director Dugu quietly pointed at a certain part with his hand.
Shi Niaoren asked carefully, then opened his clothes and looked at his physical signs, and he had an idea.
"Chlamydia infection, it's not a big deal." Shi Niaoren said more implicitly.
"What is chlamydia, inflammation?"
"This..." Shi Niaoren thought for a while, "It's not a big problem, infection, infection." He wrote a prescription, "Take the prescription and go to the pharmacy to get the medicine from Hippo, and ask Sister Li to give you an injection.
It will take two or three days to regain the glory." Shi Niaoren comforted him and took out a small paper box from the table and gave it to him, "Please pay attention to safety when entering and exiting."
Dugu was shocked when he proposed: "Yes -!"
"It doesn't matter, it's not a serious problem." Shi Niaoren said with a smile, "It's better to have less contact with indigenous women in the future."
"I know! It's no problem!"
"It's really no problem. You should pay more attention to your health and get your injections on time." Shi Niaoren comforted him for a long time and gave him some more instructions before sending him out.
"If it weren't for erythromycin, you would be in big trouble!" Shi Niaoren muttered behind his back. He knew that many people had hooked up with indigenous women recently. Originally, the executive committee thought that Ming Dynasty was a society with feudal ethics and social customs.
It is very closed. As long as everyone is restrained from prostitution and rape, there will be no issues between men and women. Now it seems that the so-called feudal ethics are just that.
At this time, Niao Ren had no intention of waiting for He Ping. He left a note on his desk, explained a few things to be done, and went to the farm.
Wu Nanhai is not in the office. According to Chu Qing, his office secretary, "The master is at the grain processing factory, processing sweet potatoes."
"By the river?" Shi Niaoren had never been to this place. He only heard that there was a mill there, which processed rice for the locals.
"Just go out from here and go south..." Chu Qing's Mandarin is a typical "Guangpu" of this time and space, and it sounds like she has been deeply influenced by Wu Nanhai - Shi Niaoren knows that it is not only her, but also the people here.
Wang Tian, the chief engineer, also has such an accent.
Since Wu Nanhai's Agricultural Committee moved to Bairencheng and opened a farm, sweet potatoes were the first crops planted.
As a crop with high and stable yields, sweet potato has the characteristics of wide adaptability, strong stress resistance, drought and barren tolerance, and few pests and diseases. In addition to being used as rations, feed, and manufacturing starch, even the leaves can also be used as high-quality green fodder.
―There is almost no wasted part. When planted in places with good water and fertilizer conditions, the yield per mu can generally reach 3,000 to 5,000 kilograms, and some can produce 7,500 kilograms per mu. Compared with hybrid rice, which can only be planted once and then fails, it is more efficient.
A meaningful "travel artifact".
However, in this time and space, sweet potatoes do not qualify as "artifacts". Sweet potatoes are not a new thing here. They were introduced to China from the Philippines during the Wanli period. They were first grown in Guangdong, and also in Qiongzhou, across the sea.
Planting. When travelers go to the countryside, they can often see sweet potatoes.
Before sowing sweet potatoes, Wu Nanhai once asked Wang Tian, who was also a good farmer, for the sake of caution, how was the sweet potato planting situation in Lingao? Wang Tian said: This thing has been planted in Lingao for seven or eight years.
Yes, the seed potatoes were first brought from Qiongshan. There are not many people to plant them. The advantage is that they are easy to plant and done. Once harvested, the potatoes are easy to eat and feed pigs. The growth period is short.
, Lingao can be harvested twice a year. It is an excellent miscellaneous grain - but it is not resistant to storage. The local climate is relatively humid, and sweet potatoes are easy to rot. The growers here do not know the various methods of storing sweet potatoes in cellars. Some people have tried slicing and drying them.
It is stored dry, but it can easily become moldy during the rainy season.
"The harvest is quite large, and it doesn't require manpower or fertilizer. At most, one acre can harvest a thousand pounds. But this thing cannot be stored. It is useless for small families to plant too much. The family has many workers and livestock.
Only grain farmers, big and small, grow more."
"Wu Dong's family! There are so many long-term workers in the various farms in Bairen and Bopu now. There are so many short-term workers, so we can grow more sweet potatoes. It's a bit of a loss to feed the long-term workers rice every meal. In fact, the rice and potato shreds are half and half.
, give half a bowl more than the amount, and give some pickles and fish, it is already a meal for busy farming. It saves food." Wang Tian enthusiastically put forward the suggestion. Then he regarded himself as the "leader" of the landlord.
The trick I learned from time to time to save money for my boss was to offer treasures to Wu Nanhai one by one.
A complex expression flashed across Wu Nanhai's face. From a good point of view, this shows that Wang Tian is "loyal to the master". From a bad point of view, Wang Tian's behavior is no different from that of a "traitor". Wu Nanhai
I have often heard people say in the past that when foreigners come to China, they are originally honest, but they are led astray by a group of "traitors" who want to please them. Although it is biased, it is not unreasonable.
"This, let's discuss it again, discuss it again." Wu Nanhai couldn't change his heart.
Wang Tian saw that Wu Nanhai's face was uncertain, and he didn't know where he said the wrong thing, so he kept silent.
Wu Nanhai thought for a moment and asked, "You said one acre can yield a thousand catties?" He didn't believe it. He knew this when he went to the countryside for an internship. Farmers can harvest two to three thousand catties per mu just by planting whatever they like.
Wang Tian said: "In the first year, we could harvest more than 2,000 catties, and then it became less and less year by year. It was only eight or nine hundred catties."
"impossible……"
Fa Shilu nodded and reminded him: "Virus infection."
"Yes, yes, I actually forgot." Wu Nanhai looked ashamed. This is very basic knowledge, but he actually forgot everything.
Sweet potatoes, including tuber crops such as potatoes, have been propagated vegetatively for a long time and will be infected with a variety of viruses during growth and storage. Viruses will continue to accumulate in potato pieces or seedlings, causing serious degeneration of species and poor quality.
, production has dropped significantly. The range of production reduction is more than 30% to 70%.
During the autumn harvest season of 1957, Hongdong County, Shanxi Province set the country's first sweet potato "high yield record" at that time: the sweet potato yield per mu of Fenming Agricultural Cooperative in Mamu Township was 5,510 kilograms.
A yield of 5,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes per mu is no longer a rarity in the 21st century - a new variety of high-yielding and virus-free sweet potatoes, if planted carefully, the yield in the first year will not be less than 10,000 kilograms. But in 1957, it was already the first in the country.
Now, the number one in the country still has some water content. Without professional technical support, the yield of sweet potatoes is not ridiculously high.
So far, there are no sweet potato varieties with high resistance to viruses in agriculture, and there are no specific drugs to prevent and control viruses. Only by using detoxification technology can we prevent and treat viral diseases and improve the yield and quality of sweet potatoes.
Modern farmers do not need to save their own seeds for seed production. Professional seed companies take care of everything. When Wu Nanhai went to the countryside for an internship, all he saw, planted, and talked about were virus-free sweet potato seedlings. What did he only need to consider?
It just depends on what kind of potato seedlings match the soil and climate. Naturally, I didn't expect that there is such a layer.
Even sweet potatoes that have been specially detoxified will become infected again and degrade after three or four years of planting. How to detoxify is a specialized high technology. Fa Shilu has considered various ways to solve this problem in this time and space.
Plan. We also brought a set of laboratory equipment specially used for detoxification.
The first batch of high-yielding virus-free sweet potatoes of the travelers were planted in December of 1628. Generally, in areas with distinct four seasons, sweet potatoes are grown in February, transplanted in April, and harvested in August. Lingao Sheng
When the temperature is above 18 degrees all year round, planting can be done all year round. In order to ensure that the seedlings do not leak out, the backbones of the Agricultural Committee such as Fa Shilu and Wu Nanhai personally sowed the seeds without any use of indigenous workers. After careful work,
Under careful care and management, the harvest was ushered in at the end of April this year. Ten acres of sweet potatoes planted experimentally achieved a yield of 4,000 kilograms per mu. Due to the lack of chemical fertilizers, this harvest was far from giving full play to the advantages of the variety.
Come. In order to harvest sweet potatoes, we had to mobilize soldiers from the army, navy and students to help.
The farm had a bumper harvest of sweet potatoes. More than 8,000 kilograms were harvested from one acre. This output not only shocked Wang Tian, but also all the employees on the farm. The news spread quickly, and many people wanted to see what Australian sweet potatoes are.
It seems that Wu Nanhai asked the army soldiers who helped harvest the potatoes to guard the perimeter and not allow any outsiders to enter the farm fields until the sweet potatoes were completely harvested.
Eighty thousand kilograms of sweet potatoes is not too much even by ancient standards. In rural areas, they are often stored in cellars and then used slowly. However, after April and May in Lingao, the weather will soon enter the rainy season, and there is a certain risk of mold and mildew in cellars.
Moreover, various industries in the Chuanchuan Group have a very urgent demand for starch, the main product of sweet potatoes. In the end, Wu Nanhai decided to transport all the remaining seeds to grain processing plants for processing into finished products, except for part of the seeds to be reserved for promotion.
There are many products that sweet potatoes can produce: vermicelli, vermicelli, maltose, glucose, dextrin, rice wine, alcohol, soy sauce... In fact, there are many products, mainly starch derivatives. Therefore, Wu Nanhai determined that sweet potato processing is mainly to produce starch.
, using the waste residue produced during starch production, and the waste materials are also used to manufacture certain by-products.
The Ministry of Light Industry is also very interested in the harvest of large quantities of sweet potatoes. Mo Xiaoan must come to report once a day and constantly put forward his own opinions on what new things should be produced. Unexpectedly, the product he is most enthusiastic about does not look "very"
Modern "glucose, dextrin, instant rice noodles and the like" are dried sweet potatoes - to be precise, Liancheng dried sweet potatoes - one of the famous eight dried sweet potatoes in Minzhou.
"This thing is easy to sell." When Shi Niaoren ran to the bamboo shed known as the food factory, he saw Mo Xiao'an explaining: "Back then, supplies were exported, and even now, sweet potato chips are also a very popular snack.
, Sweet potato is still a rare thing in this time and space, so it can be used as a high-end route..."
"I think it's a mystery -" Wu Nanhai was not optimistic about the sweet potato drying plan. "The natives of this time and space rarely eat snacks. It's just people with money and leisure who eat them."
"There is no local market in Lingao, so we can export it to Guangzhou."