Chapter 159 The United States, Taiwan and the Yangtze
In actual operation, the chickens and feed provided by Tiandihui can be credited first through accounting methods, and then offset when the unified purchase is made.
Ye Yuming said: "This can greatly increase the number of chickens and ducks and the supply of eggs without expanding the scale of the farm itself, which is of great benefit to the food supply - it is equivalent to mobilizing the whole county to raise chickens for us."
"This is a good idea. If it succeeds, it can solve the problem of eating eggs once and for all." Wu Nanhai became very interested. The supply of eggs has always been a troublesome thing for him. Chickens, ducks and turkeys brought from another time and space.
The chickens adapted to the life here very early and began to lay eggs normally. However, in a completely free-range environment, there is no special feed from another time and space. Since the eggs produced by Wu Nanhai Farm are real green eggs, the output is rare.
It's pitiful - and many fertile eggs must be retained for the purpose of expanding the population. Therefore, there are very few eggs that can actually supply the traveling group.
In another time and space, people who pursue high-priced local eggs, "pure natural" and "green food" here again start to care about when they will have enough eggs to eat. From time to time, some people doubt that farms use free-range methods to raise chickens.
Is it too much of a petty bourgeois sentiment to ignore the supply of the people?
"People are really difficult to serve." Wu Nanhai had to worry a lot about the daily egg rationing. Now there are several families with children who require at least one egg every day. Such a request is reasonable. Xiao Zishan, who manages the internal affairs
Naturally, it is inconvenient to refuse. However, the number of eggs Wu Nanhai can produce for consumption every day is only two to three hundred. The food in the canteen for 500 travelers is not enough.
"The reason why the Tiandihui was established," Ye Yuming continued to elaborate on his ideas, "is to use it as a less official intermediary agency. In addition to being responsible for distributing seedlings and recycling products, it can also provide agricultural technology training to local farmers.
, this gradually cultivated a group of farmers who are very dependent on our seeds and technology. Through them, our agricultural influence is gradually spread to the entire county."
"This Tiandihui is mainly aimed at small landowners," Wu Nanhai said. "What about the big landowners? These people control more land and manpower. Since we do not carry out land reform, we cannot ignore them."
"For landowners, there is another option with greater benefits, which is to cooperate to establish crop processing plants and food processing plants. After purchasing so many eggs and poultry, the work of establishing processing plants is very urgent. Just rely on
If the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Light Industry do it themselves, development will be too slow. If some powerful landowners are brought in to provide manpower and material resources, development will be much faster."
Everyone nodded in agreement and believed that this plan was feasible. Chuan Chuan Group could not do everything by itself, and the promotion of new agricultural production technologies was also very beneficial to the Great Leap Forward of Agriculture.
Wu Nanhai said: "The overall feeling is good, but it can be further refined and gradually promoted."
So the Committee of Agriculture established the "Council of Agriculture Mutual Aid Group Preparatory Leading Group", with Wu Nanhai as the group leader and Ye Yuming as the secretary-general.
The next day, under the unified leadership of the Executive Committee, a vigorous campaign to "create a thousand acres of high-yielding fields" began. This plan planned to expand the fields directly controlled by the farm from high-yielding and stable-yielding fields to 1,000 acres of paddy fields.
, the size of the dry farmland is 500 acres.
To ensure high and stable farmland yields, the core is water conservancy projects. Because he studied hydrology and water conservancy, Yanquezhi assumed the responsibility of the general commander of this large-scale farmland water conservancy construction. He took several of his students with him first and brought measuring instruments.
Arrive at the construction site early and start measuring.
Wu Nanhai and Fa Shilu took people to the construction site and built a temporary work shed as a headquarters. The headquarters was located on a mound half a kilometer away from the river. There was a small forest here, and it was cooler to work under the trees. Wu
Nanhai also brought Chuqing here to take care of her daily life. At this moment, the girl was boiling water and making tea on the stove.
After a while, a real Jun kiln porcelain tea cup from the Ming Dynasty was placed on the folding table, and the fragrance of new tea floated in the air.
"It's a pity that there is no iced black tea." Yanquezhi set up the surveying and mapping equipment and remembered the bottled black tea that he often drank back then.
"If you are not used to it, sir, there is kvass and kombucha in the farm. I will go back to get it right away." Chu Qing was very attentive.
"Forget it, it's still warm when you bring it." Yan Quezhi shook his head.
Chu Qing said: "There is spring water here, and the bottle will get cold when soaked in the water."
"No need to go to such trouble-" Yanquezhi was a little at a loss. He had never enjoyed being taken care of by a young girl.
"I'll go get it right away." Chu Qing took a step back and ran down the hill quickly.
"Nanhai, what kind of life are you living like this? You are just like a landlord..."
Wu Nanhai quickly interrupted his emotion - if this continues, sooner or later he will become a public enemy of men:
"Tell me about the planning."
"To be honest," Yanquezhi said, "it's not the right time to start water conservancy projects now."
Wu Nanhai was puzzled: "Why?"
"There is insufficient hydrological and meteorological data," Yanquezhi said.
Although weather condition recording and simple weather forecasting have been carried out since D-Day, the conscious collection of local hydrological and meteorological data by the Traveling Group only began in the late autumn of 1628. It is less than a year ago.
There is no exact data on the temporal and spatial average annual temperature, humidity, precipitation, sunshine hours... and the flow of the Wenlan River. For water conservancy construction, these are basic data.
“Isn’t it okay to use 20th century data?”
"The error is quite large." Yanquezhi opened a thick hydrological record of Lingao from 1925 to 1949 that he brought with him. "This is the closest scientific and systematic hydrological record to this time and space - there is a gap of three hundred years.
Although three hundred years of climate change will not make a huge difference, a temperature difference of a few degrees is enough to have a huge impact on the climate."
The biggest problem is that the temperature is wrong. In Lingao in the 20th century, the extreme minimum temperature in winter was never lower than 10 degrees Celsius. However, in this time and space, Yanquezhi recorded temperatures of 3 to 5 degrees Celsius for a continuous week. However, it was lower than the temperature in the Leizhou Peninsula in the late Wanli period.
The fact that it has snowed and there is no frost in Lingao is pretty good. This little ice age in the late Ming Dynasty is really not worth it. When people from the Foreign Trade Committee went to Macau to do business, they saw some people wearing sheepskin robes in Macau.
If the temperature is too low, there will be less precipitation. According to historical records, during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Lingao experienced major droughts roughly once every ten years and minor droughts once every five years, and the rainfall in Lingao was mainly concentrated from May to May every year.
October, winter and spring are the dry seasons with almost no rain. The obvious alternation of dry and rainy seasons requires higher requirements for drought prevention and drainage.
Yanquezhi cannot predict several key data in water conservancy construction based on simple records of less than one year: annual precipitation, maximum precipitation, longest rain-free period, etc.
"Now we have to make inferences based on the Lingao hydrological records of the 20th century and the general conditions of the Little Ice Age." Yan Quezhi said, "If there is a mathematical model, we can roughly estimate the current hydrological conditions - unfortunately I don't have one."
"The bottleneck of Lingao agriculture is water conservancy. Whether it's drought or flood, it won't be a problem if the water conservancy is well maintained. There is nothing here, which is a pity." Fashilu squatted on the small soil slope, looking at the riverside.
A large area of barren land is about to be developed into new high-yield fields.
Lingao is a place with abundant sunshine and sufficient rainfall, which are very favorable conditions for growing food. However, the shortcomings are also obvious: every spring when sowing and transplanting rice seedlings, there is often no rain, and there is a serious water shortage. In summer, it is very difficult.
Floods occurred in September this year, which greatly affected grain production. The Wenlan River is close at hand, and the water volume is large enough. However, throughout ancient times, except for a few places, Lingao County did not have any water conservancy facilities. Only a few landowners used water trucks to carry out irrigation.
, dig a simple small diversion channel yourself.
"The economic power of small farmers is still too weak," Wu Nanhai said.
"It can be said that." Yanquezhi nodded, "The investment in building water conservancy projects is so large that ordinary farmers cannot do it alone. Even the largest landowner in Lingao cannot do it." Yanquezhi remembers that he has heard of people who have done water conservancy projects.
Seniors have said that even if it is just a simple water conservancy irrigation canal at the village level, hundreds of strong laborers must be recruited to the construction site during the slack period. For slightly larger projects, the entire county must mobilize manpower. In an era without construction machinery,
, it is very common for a water conservancy project to employ thousands of people.
This is obviously impossible for Lingao, which is remote and has a small population. If Chuanchuan Group had not mastered a sufficient labor force and construction machinery, it would be a pipe dream to build such a thousand acres of high-yield and stable-yield farmland.
The place where Wu Nanhai plans to build high-yield fields is on a riverside wasteland called "Meitaiyang", with a total of five or six thousand acres of land. This kind of flat and open land near the river is called "Tianyang" locally, except for the land along the river.
Outside of the sandy soil, most of the brick-red soil with rich organic matter is easy to divert water for irrigation, making it a good agricultural land. The main grain-producing areas in Lingao's history were the so-called four "Tianyang" in the north of the county: Bohou, Tiaosu, Bolianhe
Calais. At this time, these four fields have been developed to a certain extent, but there is still a lot of wasteland.
Although there is no hydrological data available for Wu Nanhai, we know from the overflow line, sand distribution and vegetation that most areas of the Meitai Ocean will not be flooded during the season when the Wenlan River water level is highest. Development here
High-yielding fields are relatively safe.
Another main reason why the Agricultural Committee is interested in Zhongmei Taiyang is that it is a deserted area with no fields and no villages. It is easy to acquire - neither Wu Nanhai nor Wu De planned to demolish it in ancient times.
Land acquisition work. This kind of thing is difficult to handle well. If it is not handled well, it will arouse public resentment.