Wu De returned to the executive committee meeting room: "It will take twenty days to arrive! Wu Nanhai must have opinions."
"There is nothing we can do if we have any objections. The road from Nanbao to Bairen is not that close according to ancient standards. Nanbao itself is hilly and the road is not easy to walk." Ma Qianzhu looked at the map for a long time, "Let's just build the road to Nanbao next year.
The simple roads have been implemented in advance. For a temporary emergency requisition, we can ask the villages to send them, but if we want to utilize the resources there in the long term, we must have roads."
Nanbao area is a place where Lingao mineral resources are relatively concentrated, including lignite, limonite, peat, kaolin, limestone, etc., as well as many agricultural and forestry resources and tungsten mines in Li District. It has great practical value for the industry and agriculture of Chuanchuan Group.
However, due to long-term transportation inconvenience and the fact that there is a Ming army garrison city near Nanbao, the connection between the crossing group and Nanbao is very weak. So far, only the exploration team, the bandit suppression detachment and the trade caravan heading to Li District have arrived.
Passing there, building a road will not only make great use of local resources, but also further strengthen the connection with Lingaoli District. Currently, due to the inconvenience of the road, a trade team is only sent to Nanantong every two or three months.
.It is difficult to make full use of the materials in Li Dong, and the penetration control of Li Dong is not enough.
"I am in favor of building roads." Wu De said: "Otherwise, if this kind of taxation is normalized, it will be a great harsh government. I also have frequent contact with local elders, and I feel that the people are most afraid of endless labor. I can understand this, in rural areas
The most important thing is strong men. Without strong laborers at home, the sky is falling. With roads, it is much more convenient to go back and forth, and vehicles can also be used to transport materials, which improves transportation efficiency."
According to modern standards, the distance to Nanbao is not far. Starting from Bairencheng, go up the Wenlan River, take Highway S306, pass through Lingao County, and go south into the hilly area. Not long after, you will find the modern Nanbao Town.
The whole journey is less than 31 kilometers. It is only a 20-30 minute journey by car, but in this time and space, it is enough to walk for two or three days. On the dirt road in the wilderness, each village has to deliver coal, which is pushed by shoulder and hand.
The labor consumed can be imagined.
He knocked on the bell on the table. A young boy of fifteen or sixteen appeared at the door of the office. He was wearing a black homespun student uniform with a stand-up collar and a wooden access plate on his chest.
"Did you call me? Chief." The boy had a respectful attitude and spoke not very fluent Mandarin.
"Please invite the People's Commissar of Transportation and the manager of the General Construction Company to come to my office." Ma Qianzhu said majestically.
"It will be done soon, chief!" The boy nodded solemnly, turned around and walked out.
The etiquette education in this office was pretty good. Ma Qianzhu admired the etiquette relationship between superiors and subordinates in the leader's office in Soviet movies - serious, formal, and Soviet-style meticulous.
The boy's name is Hou Wenyong, and he is an orphan who was taken in by the Guangzhou Station with his sister. Because the two siblings have a good cultural background, the sister has entered the Ministry of Health and is now receiving nursing studies; Hou Wenyong quickly passed the B diploma in the national school.
It happened that the General Office needed to add a group of reliable administrative trainees to various departments. Hou Wenyong was admitted to the Military and Political School after passing the political review of the General Administration of Political Security. He studied in the school three days a week and worked in the Planning Commission for three days.
sky.
Shan Daoqian, the People's Commissar of Transportation, is racking his brains to design a railway operation blockage plan at the track dispatching center in Bopu. The track laying in the entire Bopu area is quite dense, and the original simple signal dispatching efficiency is too low.
He was suddenly called to the Planning Commission office, and he was a little surprised. The transportation department has not been doing much recently, mainly maintaining and upgrading existing roads.
When Ma Qianzhu saw both of them coming, he proposed to them the idea of building a simple highway from Bairen to Nanbao.
"I'm so anxious." Mei Wan felt abrupt, "The rainy season has just begun. If it rains continuously, it will be very difficult to build the road. It will be the same in the dry season."
"The purpose of building the road is to transport the mineral resources in the Nanbao area," Ma Qianxu said. "Now Nanbao has empty resources that we urgently need, and we can't transport them out!"
"If the executive committee agrees, our Ministry of Transportation will have no objection." Although Shan Daoqian's major is railways, he can make do with highways. He looked at the map and asked:
"The goods shipped out are mainly minerals?"
"right."
"Approximately how much traffic passes through each day and night?"
"I don't know." Ma Qianxu said that Nanbao's mineral resources have great potential for development, but it is not yet clear how much mining capacity it can achieve.
"For bulk cargo transportation, according to our current conditions, the most reliable means of transportation is ox-carts." Shan Daoqian calculated, "I have to find Li Chiqi to order a new heavy-duty truck. The number of oxen is not enough.
."
"As for the cattle issue, you should contact the Foreign Trade Commission - they are now responsible for managing Changhua Fort and ask them to purchase another batch from the Li people - Changhua Fort itself still has some cattle on hand..."
"good."
"The pavement requirements for this kind of highway are not high," Mei Wan said, "but the Nanbao area is a hilly area, and the road may be very undulating. Heavy-duty trucks may not be able to pass it."
Ma Qianzhu said, "The Nanbao area is hilly but not a mountainous area. It is not necessary to cut through the mountains and dig rocks to dig such a huge tunnel. At most, we can take a detour and make the road surface as smooth as possible."
"I asked someone to check what route was used for the construction of the S306 highway from Lingao County to Nanbao Town in the 20th century." Mei Wan flipped through his work manual, "I will organize people to conduct exploration when I get back." He
Another thing came to mind:
"There is an inspection department in Nanbao that specializes in checking people entering and leaving Li District..."
"It doesn't matter, the inspections there are very sensible." Ma Qianzhu said it didn't matter, "After reaching a peace agreement with the county, this inspection also has a benefit. He has never been verbose about our caravans traveling to and from Li District. Road construction
It shouldn’t be too verbose.”
"There is also the Guard City discovered in mission 221629050705."
"The location of Weisuo City is relatively remote and can be avoided by highways. However, it does not need to be far away - it will be treated the same as the county seat." As the chief of general staff, Ma Qianyi has long known the situation in the city and is very concerned about this.
He sneered at the so-called combat effectiveness of the military fortress, "They will only hide in the city. I think the road construction task this time will be left to the army. If the Ming army in the garrison is ignorant, they might as well attack the garrison."
The city needs to undergo some rectification.”
The matter of the Bairencheng-Nanbao simple highway was decided in this way. The Agricultural Committee headed by Wu Nanhai did not know that the development of his farmland had triggered many subsequent incidents like a butterfly effect. At this time, the Agricultural Committee concentrated its efforts on beauty.
In the construction of farmland water conservancy in Taiyang, we are strengthening the post-management of the first batch of rice sown in spring in February and striving to release a satellite in the experimental field to build momentum for the subsequent Tiandihui agricultural technology promotion.
Judging from the accumulated temperature in modern Lingao, rice can be sown in January of the Gregorian calendar. However, out of caution, Wu Nanhai still followed the habits of local farmers and postponed the sowing period to February of the Gregorian calendar. Facts have proved that his
There is some reason to worry, as January saw extreme minimum temperatures of 3 to 5 degrees Celsius.
During the nursery period of rice, the temperature must be at least above 10 degrees Celsius. Although there is no accumulated temperature data for Lingao throughout the year, Wu Nanhai judged that in 1629, Lingao could only plant the second crop. The first crop had to be postponed to May because of insufficient accumulated temperature.
It can only be harvested in June, and the second cropping period is shorter, so it can be harvested in about October. This is the same information he got from the farmers and workers. Obviously, there is a reason not to plant three crops of rice in this time and space.
The first batch of rice sown area in February is 500 acres, of which 200 acres are high-yield experimental fields that have been transformed through farmland water conservancy last year and have sufficient base fertilizer. The other 300 acres are the so-called "Wangtian Fields". Wu Nanhai is here
In addition to hybrid rice seeds, some short-legged and lodging-resistant rice seeds were sown experimentally in these three hundred acres of Wangtian fields to see what kind of results these rice seeds can achieve without the support of modern agricultural materials.
After sowing, there are no herbicides, chemical fertilizers or pesticides, and they rely entirely on traditional farming methods. Wu Nanhai and Fa Shilu stay in the rice fields every day, constantly exchanging farming experiences with Wang Tian and his farm workers. They think of various indigenous methods.
Deal with various problems faced.
Farming in the absence of modern agricultural inputs was initially very painful for the members of the Agriculture Committee who were used to modern agriculture. None of them had really foreseen the petrochemical agriculture that was so widely criticized by environmentally friendly petty bourgeoisie who loved the environment.
How great it is.
Originally, only 50 kilograms of chemical fertilizer per acre were needed to ensure high yields. Now one acre of land requires half a ton of base fertilizer, and several times of top dressing. Planting 200 acres of high-yield fields almost consumes Wu Nanhai's money that he has been operating for more than half a year.
The accumulation of fertilizers has resulted in a serious shortage of fertilizers for the other three hundred acres.
Then came weeds, rice rust, rice blast, insect pests... Various problems during the rice growth period appeared in front of them one by one. These problems are easy to solve in modern times, but here they have become arduous labor. In
Before the Ministry of Chemical Industry produced calcium chlorate, weeding was done manually by Wang Tian and his agricultural workers. As for pesticides, I searched for a variety of local pesticide formulas in the big library and set up a handmade workshop to prepare the medicine. If one method didn't work, I would use another.
To put it another way... I finally got over each difficulty one by one.
Now that the grain filling period of rice is coming to an end, on Wan Lihui's suggestion, the paddy fields began to drain water and dry the fields. Drying the fields can reduce the lodging of rice, reduce the occurrence of insect pests, harden the ground, and facilitate harvesting. It is very beneficial to increase the yield. But master it
There is a certain skill involved in timing - judging the right time is also the most important task of the farming backbone. Wan Lihui's family has been growing rice for generations and has great experience in this.