Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 465

At the beginning of March in the Gregorian calendar, 3 steel-wood composite greenhouses covered with white plastic sheets rose up on a large empty field next to the cultivated land in Xingkaihu No. 50 Village.Each of these greenhouses is [-] meters long, eight meters wide, and more than two meters high, and is used for rice seedling cultivation.

As the greenhouse was about to be completed, a "work team" consisting of more than 20 people from Beihai Town Technical School also came.

Xingkai Lake No. 70 Village currently has more than 300 households with a population of more than [-]; among them, more than a dozen households were newly assigned at the beginning of this year.Thirty old villagers were selected to grow rice, which happened to correspond to the thirty greenhouses.Each greenhouse can grow exactly [-] mu of rice through raising seedlings.

However, even though the villagers are grateful to Zhao Xin, and the village chief Zhu Dagui takes the lead, not every family is willing to grow rice.The farmers from Henan used to grow sorghum, and they have just gotten used to eating white noodles in the past two years since they came to Beihai Town. Everyone still has little confidence in the unfamiliar rice.

"Have you heard? Many families in our village will replant rice this year, including the village chief's."

"Ah! Why don't you plant good wheat?"

"Rice is also a good thing."

"It's so cold here, the rice can only be grown in the south."

"That's right! What should I do if I lose money?"

"What's so delicious about that thing? I don't talk about it when I don't know how to eat it. I just sip it and run away with my mouth full."

On the third day after the work team arrived, Zhu Dagui held a meeting in the courtyard of the village office, and gathered all the 29 households he had selected.

People came one after another.Not only those 29 households, but other households who were idle also came to join in the fun.

In the empty arena where the three brothers Chen Jishan and Chai Rugui competed, there were more than a dozen stools sparsely placed, and there was no room for these many people.So the men squatted in the sun and smoked and chatted together, or squatted under the window sill and played chess with a paper chessboard, with a few helpers standing beside them; the women were either fixing shoe soles or mending Clothes, gossip about Zhang's parents, Li's family short and so on.Seven or eight five- or six-year-old kids ran in and out of the courtyard, laughing and playing hide-and-seek among the crowd, and a group of sparrows chirped non-stop on the roof and walls.

Everyone hopes to say it early and go home early.Let alone whether you are busy at home or not, the big speakers in the village start broadcasting operas and storytelling every morning at [-] o'clock in the morning. Both adults and children love to listen to it; this is also the most popular entertainment in the winter under the rule of Beihai Town.

Right now Beihai Town is not allowed to gamble for money except during the three days of Chinese New Year.The specific measures are rewards for those who report. Gamblers will be fined for the first time, fifty Bei Hai Yuan for the second time; if they refuse to mend their ways for the third time, the cultivated land will be confiscated directly, and you can go play on Kuye Island!
"Old Uncle Shuan, when the work team entered the village yesterday, I saw that Captain Xiao was just like a farmer. He eats cars!"

"I also inquired with the village chief yesterday. He was originally a farmer. General! It's just that the land is better than ordinary people, so he was promoted to be the captain."

"Scholar! Hey, old Uncle Shuan, what do you think I will be the captain of the work team in the future?"

"Let's do it again! Let's save it! For this piece of material, let's read all five hundred characters first."

"We have already recognized three hundred, half a year at most will be enough! I will move!"

A few villagers from Hebei Province who were newly assigned to the side were stunned, their eyes stared straight.One of them touched Liu Quanfu's arm and said, "Brother Liu, are you literate?"

"Why, don't you believe me?"

"Don't dare, you can read and write, why are you still farming?"

Liu Quanfu glanced at Liu Laoshuan, who was staring at him to prevent him from stealing chess pieces, so he said with a smile: "Literacy is for better farming."

Liu Laoshuan was in a good mood when he saw that he had won the game, and said to the newcomers with a dry pipe in his mouth, "Young students, you will gradually understand that every family in our Beihai Town can read and write. Just your old uncle and me I can also recognize a hundred or ten characters."

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On the other side, several old residents gathered around a Hezhen man in his 40s who was sitting on a bench, and this man was talking about tigers.

"Amba in the forest is not afraid of fire, and he especially likes to eat dogs." The "Amba" in his mouth is the Hezhe people's name for tigers.At this time, everyone listened attentively, and even the ears of the new residents perked up.

"That day, the night was surprisingly quiet. The forest was so quiet that it was frightening. There was no wind at all, and even the leaves didn't move. From a distance, it sounded like someone snoring in the forest. After a busy day, everyone fell asleep. I sat next to the fire to watch the night, and the two dogs beside me suddenly barked, as if they were frightened by something.

After about a meal, I heard the sound of rolling stones on the left, as if someone had come down from the bank and went to the river.For some reason, the two dogs got into the shed with a whoosh and couldn't bark.Immediately afterwards, the stones in the woods creaked as they were stepped on.As soon as I said I wanted to touch the bow and arrow, I saw a long and big black shadow on the edge of the river beach, which scared me so much that my whole body was cold! "

At this time, a villager beside him hurriedly asked, "What happened next?"

"It was only later that I realized that Amba was going to eat my two dogs."

"Don't interrupt! Tell me, what happened after that?"

The Hezhe man continued: "I dare not even move. Amba thought about the stream, but he didn't want to get his paws wet, so he stretched out his tiger paws to try on the rocks, but they still missed. Let me tell you Well, if you meet Amba in the woods, as long as you are downwind, you must not move. Amba will be fine if he can't smell you.

At that time, I really wanted to run, but when I thought that there were people in the shack behind me, I yelled with all my strength, and everyone woke up now, and Amba was also scared away.The fellow let out a loud growl like a snoring, jumped into the water, and quickly climbed up the opposite bank and disappeared into the woods. "

"It's amazing!" The surrounding villagers exclaimed, as if they had experienced it themselves.

At this time Zhu Dagui saw that the 29 households were almost all here, so he got up from the bench, coughed twice, and said to everyone: "Be quiet! Quanfu, stop playing chess! Listen to me first. Two sentences! This time the higher-ups sent a task force down, everyone knows what it is for, right?"

At this time, an old lady holding the soles of her shoes said: "Dagui, let's talk quickly, we are still waiting to hear the show."

Zhu Dagui glared at the old lady, and continued: "Let me tell you, this rice is a good thing. The bannermen in the capital like to eat rice the most, and they ship it to the capital every year. The higher-ups can handle this job. Putting it in our village is to look down on us. This year, including my family, there are only [-] households in total. You can’t mess up the errands! Zhao Wang’s old man specially asked me to tell me that when the autumn harvest is laid, his old man I will come to our village to taste the newly produced rice!"

After finishing speaking, Zhu Dagui pointed to the man beside him and said, "This is Captain Xiao who was sent to our village by the superiors to teach us how to grow rice. Let him tell you a few words."

Following his introduction, a man who was nearly 40 years old stood up beside him, with a slight beard on his chin, a cotton cap on his head, a gray cotton jacket, cloth shoes with double layer soles, and trousers tied with cloth belts Yes, it looks very clean and neat, no different from the usual crop handles.

"My surname is Xiao, and my name is Xiao Zhanwu. Like everyone else, I am from Henan. This time, the superiors sent me 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 he finished talking in a while.

Zhu Dagui saw that there was no reaction from the crowd, so he scolded: "Everyone is stupid! Captain Xiao is here to help us. Chirp, chirp!"

Sparse applause sounded for a while and then fell silent.

At this moment, someone said: "Village Chief, we have been planting wheat for several years, and it has been growing well. Why do we need to change to rice this year?"

Zhu Dagui glared and said: "Cui Laowu, how dare you not listen to the words from above? It's only been two years since I've had a full meal, and you forgot about me?"

"It's not about forgetting the origin, I just want to ask, why don't you go to the first and third villages, and why do you have to try planting in our second village?"

As soon as he said this, most of the old villagers immediately responded, while the newcomers shyly leaned against the base of the wall and did not speak.

"That's right, I ate rice from Hubei when I was fleeing famine, and it wasn't delicious at all."

Zhu Dagui scolded: "You know what a fart! After eating two meals of brown rice, you think all the rice in the world is the same? See what you can do!"

Xiao Zhanwu hurriedly said: "Our place is different from Hubei. Take your second village as an example, it belongs to the Sanjiang Plain, the terrain is flat, it is the third largest black soil belt in the world, and the soil is fertile. If rice is grown here, it will definitely taste better than that in Hubei."

Everyone listened to what he said in one set, this one and that one, it was like a scripture, and his aura was like that of a teacher in a primary school.So the questioning voice could not help but weaken, and they all listened carefully to his explanation.

Xiao Zhanwu explained to the villagers in the second village that it does not mean that rice can be planted on fertile soil, but hillside land is not suitable and the cost of reconstruction is too high.And if the water conservancy facilities and traffic conditions in the plain fields can't keep up, they have to plant wheat or sugar beets for two years first.

This person was discovered by Chen Qingsong when he went to inspect the farmland water conservancy last year. Not only is he a good farmer, but he also likes to use his brain;

After some conversation at the beginning, Chen Qingsong felt that this person was a man who could be made, so after the autumn harvest, he sent him to a technical school to take a literacy class, and taught him professional knowledge such as rice seedling cultivation, field management, and how to build farmland water conservancy. It can be regarded as a gift.

After a winter of study, Xiao Zhanwu felt that he had benefited a lot. He never thought that there is so much knowledge about farming.After the autumn harvest last year, Chen Qingsong asked him to come to the technical school again, combining his experience in the fields, to give lectures to a group of fourteen and fifteen-year-old children, and the effect was very good.

So from this year, when Chen Qingsong decided to start a rice planting plan in several villages under Beihai Town, he ordered Xiao Zhanwu's general to bring his students down to teach rice cultivation techniques.His salary is 50 Beihai yuan per month, which is regarded as the level of a senior teacher.

As for Xiao Zhanwu's own 40 mu of land, it has been temporarily taken over by the civil affairs department of Beihai Town, and the takeover fee is [-]% of the harvest. He doesn't have to worry about it from sowing to harvesting, just wait for the food to be distributed.

After a mobilization meeting, the whole village unified their thinking and understanding, so under his leadership, the villagers of [-] households began to prepare from the next day.

The first thing Xiao Zhanwu has to do is to transform the land of those [-] households into rice fields.He first called the well-drilling team of the agricultural machinery team, and after some measurements, he determined the location of the wells at the highest points of each plot.Because Ercun is close to Xingkai Lake, the underground water resources are very rich, and the water will come out when you hit it seven or eight meters down.

This time the whole village was shocked.The dry land where wheat was planted turned into irrigated land, and it immediately became a top-notch fertile field.

Since ancient times, irrigated land has been the most expensive item in field transactions. In the Qing Dynasty, an acre of irrigated land cost more than 30 taels of silver, while an acre of land without a well cost only [-] taels of silver.Let's do the math, fifty acres has become irrigated land, this must be a big industry.

Although Beihai Town's land policy is that no trading is allowed, Tiangu is state-owned.But I can't help the farmers not thinking so, what if it changes someday?
As for this point, those farmers who were unwilling to grow rice immediately regretted it to death, and pestered Xiao Zhanwu every day to ask to join the rice planting plan.But Xiao Zhanwu had no choice. There were only [-] greenhouses built. If he wanted to increase the cultivated land, he had to increase the number of greenhouses.

Besides, the tasks of the well-drilling team have long been scheduled, and there is no time to dig wells for others.So he had no choice but to comfort and say, next year, you will sign up again next year.

After the well is dug, a drying pool is built around it. The size of the pool is adjusted according to the area of ​​the paddy field. If it is too small, it is not conducive to mechanized operation.The larger the pond, the more convenient it is for transplanting rice seedlings, raking the ground, and releasing water, and the land utilization rate is also high.

Afterwards, the direction of the main canal must be determined according to the terrain, not only to facilitate irrigation, but also to consider the issue of drainage.This will save a lot of trouble in field management in the future.

After the main canal is completed, the pond ridge has to be pulled along, which is the so-called "field ridge".According to the terrain, the fewer along the ridge, the better.When releasing the water, release the water at the opening of the main canal, which avoids walking and is convenient for management.

At this time, the medium-sized tractors of the agricultural machinery team also entered the field and began to level the land.It is necessary to scrape the soil from the high place to the ground, and scrape the whole land as flat as possible, and then start to dig the soil.Large-scale agricultural machinery cannot be used for paddy field preparation, mainly because the rut marks of the harrowing vehicle are not easy 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 transported 3 seeders and soil covering machines, as well as a large number of seedling trays.

Seeders and soil covering machines have no technical difficulty, do not require electricity, and are extremely easy to imitate.Seedling trays are not good. This thing is made of PVC and uses a lot. If it is made of wood or iron, the air and water permeability will not be good.

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 greenhouse cultivation, transplanting, cultivation management, and harvesting. The most important thing is to do a good job in raising seedlings.

The rice seeds provided by Minzheng this time were specially ordered by Zhao Xin.Everyone in the time travel agrees that Wuchang rice is delicious, but most people don't know that Wuchang rice is just a place name. The variety of rice is actually called "Daohuaxiang 2", and the seed is called "Wuyoudao 4".

The first thing Xiao Zhanwu led the farmers to do was to prepare the seedbed soil.Because the field had been turned over after the autumn harvest last year, and then rotated twice with a rotary tiller, the soil in the field became very loose after the snow melted and the sun was exposed.The fetched soil has to be sieved once to make it more water-absorbing and air-permeable.The sifted soil is laid flat into the seedling tray, and water has to be poured twice before sowing.

By the end of March, the formal work of raising seedlings began.So Xiao Zhanwu took the students and began to point out, so as not to waste a grain of food.

The first thing the villagers have to do is to dry the seeds for seven or eight hours from morning to afternoon, or two or three days.Doing so can enhance the water permeability and air permeability of the seeds, increase the germination rate, make the seeds germinate neatly, make the seedlings strong, and have the effect of sterilization and disease prevention.

The sun-dried seeds should be soaked in salt water to remove empty grains, grass seeds and impurities.When Ercun was building the greenhouse, several large cement ponds had been built nearby, which were used for soaking seeds.

技校的学生们便每天拿着个温度计，这边量完了那边量。这是因为浸种时间要根据水温而定，一般水温15℃时需要5-6天，水温10℃时则需要7-8天。

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, that is, find a raw egg and put it in the water. If it can reveal the size of a 1 dime Beihai coin, it will be fine.

After that, the seeds need to be disinfected. The seed soaking spirit and badan raw powder used were both bought by Zhao Xin when he bought the seeds.The sterilized seeds must be stirred with a seed coating agent before sowing to increase production.

It has almost entered the middle of April in the Gregorian calendar, and when the temperature reaches above 4°C, it can be sown.When sowing, one layer of seeds and one layer of soil are required until all the seedling trays in the entire greenhouse are sown, leaving only a narrow passage in the middle for people to pass through.

It is not over yet, the temperature, moisture, nutrients and the pH of the bed soil in the greenhouse must be paid attention to, and ventilation must be maintained at all times.One month later, rice seedlings have to be transplanted, and after that, weeding, top dressing and irrigation have to be done.
Only then did the farmers in Xingkaihu No. [-] Village realize that growing rice is much more cumbersome than growing wheat. No wonder the higher-ups sent a special task force.

I just don't know how many catties the rice can produce per mu, is it delicious?
(End of this chapter)