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Chapter 333 Tit for tat!

Seeing Zhang Shenfei was constantly nagging, the old man who was playing chess with Old Wang Tou also said with displeasure: "My young comrade, don't you understand the principle of a true gentleman who watches chess without saying a word???"

Ah, this...

Zhang Shenfei had not expected that his momentary rudeness would cause the two old men to unite against the same enemy. He looked at the dark-faced man behind the old man who was covering his mouth and laughing secretly, and touched his nose awkwardly:
"Well, I was wrong. Don't be angry. Please continue... I will definitely not say anything more."

Old Wang was about to lose, and he finally had a chance to escape, so how could he give the old man on the other side a chance to kill him? ?
He immediately messed up the chessboard and shouted, "I don't want to play anymore, I don't want to play anymore. I'm an old man, I'm not in the right state of mind after being messed up by you."

"You are getting an advantage and you are still acting like a spoiled child!!!" Zhang Shenfei was dissatisfied and wanted to say something, but Old Wang glared at him and he held it back.

He just stared at Old Wang with resentment, conveying his inner dissatisfaction with his thoughts.

What? I clearly let you escape the fate of being defeated, but you are still taking advantage of me! !
In front of outsiders, you don't even give me some face...

Old Wang seemed to know that what he was doing was not authentic. He did not look at Zhang Shenfei and began to change the subject: "Old Jin, what are you doing in Sijiu City this time? How many days will you stay?"

"We are just here to hold a meeting at the Agricultural College to discuss some food issues... This kind of meeting is just about finding problems with answers in mind, which is meaningless. But fortunately, we will be going back to Anjiang in a few days." Having said that, Teacher Jin glanced at Zhang Shenfei and paused.

Zhang Shenfei suddenly understood. What time is it now? How can you say that? Isn't this what?
Teacher Jin is an old friend of Old Wangtou, but not of me!!! In front of a young man like me who knows nothing about him, he can’t tell the truth unless he has a brain cramp!!!
However, since he was able to attend the meeting at the Agricultural College, it seems that Professor Jin must be an expert in the field of agriculture.

"Such a meeting, huh..." Old Wang also snorted.

After thinking it over for a while, Mr. Jin seemed to have found a new topic: "Well, Old Wang, you have no idea how interesting this is. No one at the meeting dared to talk about the essence beyond the surface. Instead, many people put forward messy opinions, which were all useless... In fact, I really don't want to make this trip. It's just a waste of time..."

The young man behind him who had been silent all this time suddenly interrupted him and said, "Teacher, no matter what others do, we just need to follow our own path, follow the procedures, and don't be disturbed."

Teacher Jin nodded and introduced the young man to Old Wang with great satisfaction: "Old Wang, although my student Xiao Yuan is only in his twenties, he has devoted all his energy to the research of agricultural products.

In addition to teaching at school, he usually spends his time in the rice field, trying to cultivate better rice. He even expressed his ambition to solve the food problem that has not been solved in our country for thousands of years.

Wow, he sounded quite arrogant. Both Old Wang and Zhang Shenfei looked over.

Xiao Yuan blushed, but his tone was serious and stubborn: "Teacher, I am nothing now, why are you saying this??? But...but I won't give up, I am ready to devote my life to the rice industry of our country."

Old Wang looked at him and smiled: "You are a good student, you are thin-skinned, unlike my friend Zhang Shenfei, who is a double-skinned person."

After saying that, he turned his head and looked at Zhang Shenfei, as if waiting for him to argue with him. Who would have thought that he would see Zhang Shenfei standing there in a daze.

"Zhang Shenfei? Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing???"

"Ah?" Zhang Shenfei recovered and ignored Old Wang who was waving his hands in front of him. Instead, he looked at the man behind Teacher Jin and asked, "What is Comrade Yuan's full name?"

"Yuan Longping."

Yuan Longping? ? ! Hiss! ! ! !
Zhang Shenfei's pupils suddenly shrank. It was him. It was actually him!!!
No wonder I just heard that they are going back to ANjiang, Nanhu Province soon! Isn’t that where Mr. Yuan first taught?
However, judging from what Mr. Jin said, it seems that Mr. Yuan has not yet started the research on hybrid rice? ? ? Or, he has not yet grasped the key points? ?
You have to try it out to find out...

He took a few deep breaths, suppressed his excitement, and pretended to ask about the research topics of Yuan Longping and Teacher Jin. He felt that the time was right, so he said:

"I heard that our country's research on corn hybrid breeding is already quite mature.

Brother Yuan, Teacher Jin, have you ever thought about doing the same cross-fertilization with rice as with corn? ? ? "

As soon as he finished speaking, Teacher Jin said: "Corn is a unisexual flower and cross-pollinates. Therefore, when crossing, there is no need to remove the tassels, and therefore no need to trim the ears. The main methods and steps of crossing are to adjust the flowering period, select plants, isolate, collect pollen, pollinate and harvest.

But rice is different, it is monoecious and self-pollinating. If you want to have sex, you must prevent it from self-pollination.

This sounds simple, but it is actually quite difficult. There are not many people doing this research internationally, but Xiao Yuan is one of them. "

Speaking of this, Teacher Jin was slightly proud. Although it is generally believed that hybrid rice is difficult and almost impossible to succeed.

Currently, only relatively developed countries such as the United States and Australia are conducting research on this, but he is still very pleased that his disciples can devote all their hearts to this.

The road is long, and it is unknown whether you can reach the end, but as long as you dare to set out on the road, you are worthy of admiration.

"Brother Yuan, are you researching hybrid rice?" Zhang Shenfei seemed very interested and walked a few steps towards Xiao Yuan, getting very close to him. "Can you tell us about your current research direction?"

Yuan Longping was not a talkative person, but since Zhang Shenfei asked, he still gave a simple explanation:
"According to the acquired genetics of organisms by the Russian scholar Tephim Dengusovich Lisko, hybrid rice only needs to find two excellent rice varieties for grafting to obtain a better, genetically compatible new hybrid rice variety.

I am currently trying the techniques of grafting tomatoes and potatoes, watermelons and peanuts, and am also studying the grafting of Z-hybrid rice.

But unfortunately, I have neither grafted a potato with a tomato, nor a plant with a peanut underneath and a watermelon on top. I have also not grafted a hybrid rice…”

There was deep disappointment in his tone.

Zhang Shenfei's eyes went dark when he heard this. Ah, this...Telfim Dengnsovich Lisko? ?

Is this the “scientist” who completely denied the importance of genes and only emphasized that after plants are manipulated by non-genetic means, their offspring can inherit acquired traits???
The founder of the "asexual intercourse theory"? ?

His famous argument is that grafting or artificial intervention is hereditary.

For example, he believed that if the tails of ten generations of mice were cut off, the eleventh generation and subsequent generations of mice would no longer have tails...

However, the most shameless thing about this guy is not that his theory goes against science and genetics, but that he falsified experimental data and claimed that the experiment was a great success.

With this,

He gained the status of "Model Scientist of the Russian Bear" between 1934 and 1936.

In 1935, he was "elected" as a member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.

He was appointed as an academician of the "All-Union LN Academy of Agricultural Sciences" and vice chairman of the Supreme Soviet WA Committee of the Russian Bear.

After the 1940s,

This person obtained the support of the top leader of the Russian bear, S Dalin, and began to reshuffle the Russian agricultural science community, and successfully promoted his "asexual intercourse theory" to more countries. Especially after liberation, my country, which followed in the footsteps of the Russian bear, was most affected by his theory.

The Russian Bear Country had always been in the leading position in this field, but due to this person's decades of academic B-ism and suppression of scientists who opposed his theories, it successfully fell back from the forefront to the back.

But for Chinese people,

The most hateful thing about this person is that he misled Yuan Lao, who was in his twenties, and made him conduct grafted hybrid rice experiments for several years in the early 1960s.

And these few years are precisely the most difficult times for our country.

Thinking of this, Zhang Shenfei couldn't help but frown: "But as far as I know, in 1955, more than 300 Russian scientists jointly wrote a letter to the highest authorities of their country, suspecting that Li S's academic work was fraudulent... In 1956, he resigned. Can the theories of such people really be trusted?"

Ohara's red face turned even redder, and she retorted, "Those people have no evidence, and until now, Li S-Ke is still continuing his scientific experiments. Moreover, Li S-Ke is a big shot in the industry, and now almost the whole world is researching hybrid rice based on his arguments."

Zhang Shenfei pressed on: "Is what the majority of people are doing right? Just like what Teacher Jin said just now, everyone knows the reason why they are hungry, but they are all looking around and talking about other things. Do you think these majority of people are right???"

The scene became awkward for a moment.

Old Wang played the cymbals: "Shen Fei, aren't you from the Chinese department? How come you are also studying botany?"

Zhang Shenfei also realized that the atmosphere seemed to be not very good, so he tried to ease it, and then he tried to speak: "You know me, I like to read some leisure books.

I love to tinker with things. Didn't I ask for leave to help the city build farms in various factories in the city? I took the time to learn about rice, wheat and all the knowledge related to them...

I learned about Mendel-Morgan genetics in our school library... This theory proposes that genes determine everything. I believe that Brother Yuan, who does scientific research, should have heard of his theory."

Yuan Longping seemed a little helpless about this person who was confronting him but was very polite to him. He nodded and said, "I have heard about it, but Li S said that Mendel's theory is FD, idealism, morphology, and classism..."

At this point, he paused for a moment: "Although he denied the existence of genes, he did not come up with an equivalent theory..."

He was actually quite puzzled about this.

Zhang Shenfei seemed to see his confusion and smiled: "So, Brother Yuan, do you want to make a bet with me?"

"What are we betting on?" Yuan Longping, Teacher Jin, and Old Wang all became interested.

Zhang Shenfei smiled again: "What a coincidence. When I was promoting farms in various factories in Sijiu City, I accidentally discovered several rice plants with special characteristics..."

Many people think that rice can only be grown in the south and somewhere outside the Great Wall, including Zhang Shenfei in his previous life.

It was after arriving in this world that I discovered that there were actually many areas planted with it in Sijiu City, Southern Henan Province, Beihe Province, etc.

As for the rice that Zhang Shenfei discovered by accident, the story started last month.

After Zhang Shenfei had two fierce battles with Tian Xiaozao that day, he entered the space in a daze.

As soon as I entered, my eyes widened.

Previously, only the north mountain was accessible, and the other three directions were all foggy and unclear.

But this time, the fog in the east dissipated, revealing a sparkling area that looked like the sea or a lake.

Zhang Shenfei ran over quickly, and when he got closer, he realized that it was a paddy field. However, it was quite large and far away, so he saw it wrongly.

Zhang Shenfei walked around the paddy field to measure its dimensions, and looked around curiously. Not long after walking a short distance, he saw some scattered rice growing in some places.

Although the land in the north was fertile before, there were no native crops. Whether it was vegetables, wheat, or corn, they were all planted with seeds bought by Zhang Shenfei.

There are wild fruits, small animals and so on on the mountain, but they are not the same as crops.

Zhang Shenfei squatted down curiously and observed the indigenous rice.

After this observation, he found that they were very different from the rice he had seen on the farm before.

The first is that some parts of the rice are extremely strong, while others are slender and thin, and the same is true for the root system.

What’s even more amazing is that these very different characteristics all grow on the same rice plant.

The second is that these rice plants did not grow rapidly in space, but instead grew at the same speed as in the outside world.

Zhang Shenfei knew nothing about agricultural science, but suddenly an idea came to him.
There must be a demon in the abnormal situation.

Such a unique rice must have its outstanding features, no, it is extraordinary.

"Brother Yuan, I found some rice that is completely different from other rice, but I am not well educated and don't know if they are really useful, so I would like you to take a look at them, okay???"

"Of course I can," Yuan Longping hesitated, "but what does this have to do with the bet you just mentioned?"

Did Comrade Zhang think that he would be angry and not help him look after the rice seedlings just because he had a few words with him?
But even if I'm angry, it has nothing to do with betting, right? ?
Yuan Longping is usually absorbed in research and doesn't interact much with people of his age. At this time, he couldn't help but develop a little interest in Zhang Shenfei.

Zhang Shenfei smiled mysteriously: "I'll keep you in suspense for now and tell you later.

Just agree to help me look after the rice seedlings. When are you free? Let's set a time and place, and I'll bring them to you."

Yuan Longping was originally passionate about scientific research. He usually spent his spare time in the test fields or going out to look for rice seeds. When he heard what Zhang Shenfei said, he immediately wanted to see the differences between the rice seedlings as soon as possible.

"Brother Zhang, if it's convenient for you, the sooner the better. It's best to leave now," he said.

"I have a literature appreciation class this afternoon..." Zhang Shenfei said, and after seeing the flash of disappointment on the other person's face, he smiled wickedly, "But I can skip class."

(End of this chapter)