Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 371

In actual operation, the chicks and feed provided by Tiandihui can be credited first through bookkeeping, and then offset when they are purchased uniformly.

Ye Yuming said: "In this way, without expanding the scale of the farm itself, the number of chickens and ducks in stock and the supply of poultry eggs can be greatly increased, which is of great benefit to the food supply-it is equivalent to mobilizing the whole county to raise chickens for us."

"It's 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 poultry eggs has always been a headache for him.The chickens, ducks and turkeys brought from another time and space adapted to the life here very early and began to lay eggs normally.However, in a completely free-range environment without special feed from another time and space, since the eggs produced by Wu Nanhai Farm are truly green eggs, the yield is pitiful—and many fertile eggs have to be kept for expansion. The needs of the population.Therefore, there are very few poultry eggs that can really supply the time-traveling group.

In another time and space, people who are chasing high-priced local eggs, "pure natural" and "green food" have begun to care about when there are enough eggs to eat.From time to time, some people wonder whether the use of free-range breeding in farms to raise chickens and ducks is too petty bourgeois and disregards the supply of the people?

"People are really difficult to serve." Wu Nanhai had to worry about the daily ration of poultry eggs.Now there are several households with children who ask for at least one egg a day. Such a request is reasonable, and Xiao Zishan, who is in charge of housekeeping, is naturally inconvenient to refuse.But Wu Nanhai's production of edible eggs is only two to three hundred per day.The cafeteria food for 500 traversers is not enough.

"The reason for establishing this Tiandihui," Ye Yuming continued to elaborate on his idea, "is to use it as an unofficial intermediary organization. In addition to being responsible for distributing seedlings and recycling products, it can also provide agricultural technology training for local farmers In this way, a group of farmers who are very dependent on our seeds and technology are gradually cultivated. Through them, our agricultural influence is gradually spreading to the whole county."

"This Tiandi Association is mainly aimed at small landowners." Wu Nanhai said, "What about big landowners? These people have more land and manpower. Since we don't carry out land reform, we can't ignore them."

"For landlords, there is another option with greater benefits, which is to cooperate in the establishment of crop processing plants and food processing plants. After so many eggs and poultry are purchased, the work of establishing processing plants is very urgent. The Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Light Industry come by themselves, and the development is too slow. If some powerful landowners are brought in and provide manpower and material resources, the development will be much faster."

Everyone nodded and said yes, thinking that this plan is feasible.The time-traveling group can't do everything by itself, and the promotion of new agricultural production technologies is also extremely beneficial to the agricultural society.

Wu Nanhai said: "The overall feeling is good, and it can be further refined. Then we will gradually promote it."

So the Council of Agriculture established the "Leading Group for the Preparatory Organization of the Mutual Aid Group of the Council of Agriculture", with Wu Nanhai as the team leader and Ye Yuming as the secretary-general.

On the second day, under the unified leadership of the executive committee, a vigorous campaign of "creating a thousand acres of high-yield fields" began.This plan intends to expand the high-yield and stable-yield fields directly controlled by the farm to a scale of [-] mu of paddy fields and [-] mu of dry fields.

To ensure high and stable farmland yields, the core is water conservancy projects.Because Yanquezhi was a student of hydrology and water conservancy, he assumed the responsibility of the commander-in-chief of this large-scale farmland water conservancy construction.He took a few of his students and first arrived at the construction site with measuring instruments, and began to measure.

Wu Nanhai and Fa Shilu took people to the construction site and set up a temporary work shed as the headquarters.The headquarters is located on a mound half a kilometer away from the river.There is a small forest here, and it is cooler to work under the trees.Wu Nanhai also brought Chuqing along to take care of her daily life.Now the girl is boiling water and making tea on the stove.

After a while, the real Ming Jun kiln porcelain teacup 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." Yan Quezhi set up all the surveying and mapping equipment, remembering the bottled black tea he used to drink back then.

"If the master is not used to drinking, there are kvass and kombucha in the farm, and I will go back to get them right away." Chu Qing was very attentive.

"Forget it, it's still warm." Yanquezhi shook his head.

Chuqing said: "There is spring water here, and the bottle will be cold after soaking in the water."

"Don't be so troublesome—" Yan Quezhi was a little at a loss, he had never enjoyed being served meticulously 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, you are simply a landlord..."

Wu Nanhai quickly interrupted his emotion - sooner or later he will become a public enemy of men:

"Tell me about the plan."

"To be honest." Yanquezhi said, "It's really not the time to start water conservancy projects."

Wu Nanhai was puzzled: "Why?"

"There is not enough hydrometeorological data," Yan Quezhi said.

Although weather records and simple weather forecasts have been going on since D-Day, the time-traveling group consciously collected local hydrological and meteorological data only in the late autumn of 1628.It's not even a year yet.There is no exact data on Lingao's annual average temperature, humidity, precipitation, sunshine time... and the flow of Wenlan River in this time and space.As for water conservancy construction, these are the basic materials.

"Isn't it okay to use data from the 20th century?"

"The error is quite large." Yan Quezhi opened a thick Lingao hydrological record from 1925 to 1949 that he brought with him, "This is the hydrological record of the scientific system closest to this time and space—a gap of 300 years Although the 300-year climate change will not change the sea, a temperature difference of a few degrees is enough to have a great impact on the climate."

The biggest problem is the wrong temperature.In Lingao in the 20th century, the extreme minimum temperature in winter was not lower than 10°C, but in this time and space, Yanquezhi recorded a temperature of 3-5°C for a week.However, compared with the fact that there was still snow in Leizhou Peninsula in the last year of Wanli, it is not bad that there is no frost in Lingao.The Little Ice Age in the late Ming Dynasty was really not covered.When people from the Foreign Business Committee went to Macau to do business, they saw some people in Macau wearing sheepskin robes.

If the temperature is low, the precipitation will be low.According to historical records, during the Ming and Qing dynasties, Lingao generally had a major drought once every ten years and a minor drought once every five years, and the rainfall in Lingao was mainly concentrated from May to October every year, and winter and spring were dry seasons with almost no rain.The obvious alternation of dry and rainy seasons has higher requirements for drought and waterlogging.

Yanquezhi cannot infer the key data in water conservancy construction based on the simple records of less than one year: annual precipitation, maximum precipitation, longest no-rain period and other data.

"Now we have to speculate based on the hydrological records of Lingao in the 20th century and the general situation of the Little Ice Age." Yan Quezhi said, "If there is a mathematical model, the current hydrological situation can be roughly estimated-but unfortunately I don't have one."

"The bottleneck of Lingao agriculture lies in the water conservancy. It doesn't matter if the water conservancy is well repaired, whether it is drought or flood. It's a pity that there is nothing here." Fa Shilu squatted on the small soil slope, looking at the riverside. A vast expanse of barren land that is about to be opened up as new productive fields.

Lingao is a place with abundant sunshine and sufficient precipitation.It is a very favorable condition for food cultivation.But the disadvantages are also obvious: it is often not raining when planting and transplanting in spring, and the water shortage is serious.In summer, there are nine floods every ten years.significantly affected food production.The Wenlan River is close at hand, and the water volume is large enough. However, in the entire ancient times, Lingao County did not have any water conservancy facilities except for a few places.

"The smallholder economy is still too weak." Wu Nanhai said.

"It can be said that." Yanquezhi nodded, "The investment in water conservancy projects is so large that ordinary farmers can't do it alone. Even the largest landowner in Lingao can't do it." The predecessors said that even if it is just a simple irrigation canal at the village level, hundreds of strong laborers must be conscripted to go to the construction site during the slack season.For slightly larger projects, the entire county must mobilize manpower. In the era when there was no construction machinery, it was very common for a water conservancy project to employ thousands of people.

This is obviously impossible for Lingao, which is located in a remote area and has a small population.If the Crossing Group hadn't mastered enough labor force and construction machinery, it would be a dream to build such a thousand acres of high-yield and stable-yield fields.

The place where Wu Nanhai plans to build a high-yield field is on a riverside wasteland called "Meitaiyang", which has five or six thousand acres of land.This kind of flat and open land near the big river is called "Tianyang" locally. Except for the sandy soil along the river, most of the brick red soil is rich in organic matter. It is convenient for water diversion and irrigation, so it is 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, Bolian and Calais.At this time, the four major fields have been developed to a certain extent, but there are still many wastelands.

Although Wu Nanhai has no hydrological data to check, it is also known from the overflow line, sand distribution and vegetation that most areas of the American-Taiwan Ocean will not be flooded during the season when the water level of the Wenlan River is the highest.It is safer to develop high-yielding fields here.

Another main reason why the Council of Agriculture is interested in Sino-American Taiwan Ocean is that it is a barren land, with no fields and no villages, so it is easy to buy—whether it is Wu Nanhai or Wu De, they do not intend to carry out demolition in ancient times Land acquisition work.This kind of thing is difficult to deal with, and if it goes wrong, it will arouse public resentment.

(End of this chapter)