Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 151 Improved Mass Production
However, for Ren Zhong, these are not a problem.

Now the Dawn Research Institute has a complete set of production plants, and the machine tools and steel production capacity are sufficient to produce these things in a short period of time.

It is simply a matter of adjusting production plans.

After the Nong 100 electric rotary tiller came out, Ren Zhong turned his attention to another aspect: high-quality and high-yield grain.

In the original historical time and space, in 41, Nanniwan reclaimed 1.1 acres of land and harvested 14 jin of grain. This per-acre yield was simply unbearable for Ren Zhong. By the end of 1944, the grain planting area in Nanniwan had reached more than 26 acres, and the amount of grain harvested was 37000 shi (120 jin per shi), and the per-acre yield was still at the level of more than ten jin.

This shows that the chosen planting method has huge flaws and the grain yield is too low.

Ren Zhong focused his attention on the types of food and found that the most suitable crops to be grown here were wheat, corn, and potatoes. Ren Zhong set his sights on these three crops and prepared to use the 5 acres of land at the Dawn Research Institute as a base for breeding high-quality seeds. After all, he did not have the ability to bring so many seeds from the main world to provide seeds for these newly reclaimed lands.

However, if you breed and distribute your 5 acres of land, even if the seed yield per acre is only 500 kilograms, this can provide high-quality seeds for 500 to 10 acres of land. If to acres of land become high-yield arable land with a yield of more than kilograms per acre, this will be enough to provide food for more than people.

The food problem in the border area was easily solved, and there was no need to send out a large army.

Ren Zhong compiled all of this into a detailed report and submitted it to Jiang Chongjing.

"Boss Ren, today we are here mainly to visit the tilling machine you invented!" Jiang Chongjing reacted quickly. After receiving Ren Zhong's report, he brought a large group of people to the Dawn Research Institute the next day.

Ren Zhong saw some people who looked very familiar to him. But no one introduced them, so he pretended not to know them, asked someone to take out the Nong 100, load it onto a truck and brought it to a piece of wasteland next to the Nangou River Power Station.

"Li Jianyong, come and demonstrate how to use it to Minister Jiang," Ren Zhong commanded.

Li Jianyong is one of the main researchers involved in this project. He was still studying at the United Nations University a few months ago. After being persuaded by their professor, he grew very fast. The design of the Nong 100 rotary tillage machine was successfully copied by him based on the picture.

"Okay, Boss Ren." Li Jianyong didn't hesitate. After connecting the power, he operated the Nong 100 on site. On the wasteland full of withered yellow weeds, he saw the machine turning to completely break up the grass roots and then turning them into the soil. He held the rotary tiller with his hands and walked forward like a pedestrian, and loosened soil naturally appeared behind him.

"Dear leaders, we don't actually have any preliminary treatment of wasteland here. If we burn the wasteland designated for reclamation in advance and burn the dead grass into ash, the effect will be better when we turn it over again. The ash of the dead grass can be turned into fertilizer for topdressing the land." Ren Zhong pointed to the rotary tiller and introduced some of his ideas.

"In addition, we also need to do everything we can to complete the collection and biogasification of farmyard manure to form high-quality organic fertilizer for topdressing during farming, which can greatly increase grain production. In addition, we need to use high-quality seeds. According to our experience in the Taihang base, we choose good seeds and carefully care for land with farmyard manure. The yield of corn we planted exceeds 700 kilograms per mu!"

"It turns out that the yield of 700 kilograms per mu is also the work of Boss Ren! It's amazing. When I first saw the report, I wondered why Lao Peng was so capable and could increase grain production to an incredible level. It turns out that Boss Ren provided support behind the scenes." said a member of the observation team.

"Boss Ren, we saw your new tiller today, and we think your suggestion is very good. How about this? You take the lead in coming up with an overall plan for the agricultural development in the border area, including how to plant, seed selection, where to reclaim land, how many acres of land to reclaim, etc. Professional matters should be handled by professionals, and we laymen should just follow this plan. What do you think, Boss Ren?"

"No problem!" Ren Zhong agreed readily. He really wasn't being nosy, but this matter involved the sacrifice of thousands of people, so Ren Zhong had to find time to complete it, and there was no one more suitable than him.

Ren Zhong's demonstration and the success of the independent regiment quickly made it a consensus in the border area that Ren Zhong should preside over the large-scale agricultural production plan, and Ren Zhong did not disappoint everyone.

While mass-producing the Nong 100 rotary tiller, we began to survey suitable land for reclamation along the Yanhe River.

The flat river valley areas on both sides of the Yan River have been cultivated to some extent. Naturally, Ren Zhong would not compete with the local people for profits. Instead, he designated the relatively flat slopes on both sides, which were still wastelands, as areas to be reclaimed according to the coverage of the water flow generators. He checked and measured and recorded along the way, and it took a full seven days. Ren Zhong finally included nearly 10 acres of land suitable for reclamation, from the Dawn Research Institute to the border area, into the plan.

In Ren Zhong's opinion, with these 500 acres of new land, if a high-quality grain planting base with an output of more than kilograms is formed, it will be enough for the border area to be self-sufficient, and Ren Zhong will not even have to worry about the future food supply of the Dawn Research Institute.

Even with so much food, Ren Zhong was able to plan several pig farms and use some grains and wild vegetables to raise pigs to improve life in the border areas.

Organically integrate the breeding industry and the planting industry to solve the problem of topdressing farmland before the chemical industry makes a breakthrough in the large-scale production of ammonium nitrate.

With these ideas in mind, Ren Zhong proposed to mobilize a regiment of troops to carry out land reclamation and construction in the spring, and to plan for farmland, ditches, biogas tanks, pig houses, etc.

The construction of a high-quality seed breeding base was also completed on the 500-acre land of the Dawn Research Institute. In order to ensure the long-term effectiveness of this work, Ren Zhong also formed an agricultural research team and began to arrange for them to collect some grain seeds in the current time and space, and design the high-quality seed screening experiment in the main world to form the high-quality seed research and development model of the Bright Sword world. In the future, there will be no need to rely on Ren Zhong to bring high-quality breeding seeds from the main world.

However, the effect of this work is quite slow, and Ren Zhong does not completely rely on it. At least in recent years, it is all up to him to bring seeds to expand the production of good varieties. This year, his ability to bring goods is limited, and he can only manage the 5 acres of land in front of him. When he has the capacity to bring goods in the future, Ren Zhong can at least expand the breeding base to about 2500 acres in a quarter. In this way, the seeds produced can cover at least 25 acres of land and solve the food supply problem of more than 50 people.

Of course, Ren Zhong would not include this in the plan. The initial focus would be on reclaiming and planting 10 acres of new arable land.

At the same time, during the inspection, Ren Zhong saw that many places were high hillsides, some of which were more than one kilometer away from the Yan River, making watering very inconvenient.

In order to ensure that the newly opened up farmland along the Yan River becomes irrigated land, Ren Zhong found a wind-driven rotating wooden waterwheel from the main world. After the ditch was built, water could be pumped up step by step, thus forming irrigated land with less manpower.

When Ren Zhong's plan was submitted, it was quickly approved, and the 50th Guard Regiment was sent to carry out Ren Zhong's plan. A vigorous land reclamation campaign began on both sides of the Yan River, more than kilometers below the Liming Institute. Every day, a planned hilltop was set on fire, and then terraces were built on the hillside according to the plan. Water lifting nodes were built one level after another, and irrigation canals were built according to the plan.

These tasks were very tedious, but compared with the large-scale land reclamation movement in the previous time and space, Ren Zhong's work had reduced the workload by at least an order of magnitude, allowing these tasks to make great progress in early 41, and nearly 3 acres of new terraces were opened up in advance.

In the first season of spring farming, wheat and corn can be sown in the traditional way, and when winter wheat comes, the improved seeds planted by Ren Zhong will be used.

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