Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

"You really have mastered both military and agriculture. Very good. With this tillage machine, these 400 acres of irrigated land of our military reclamation will soon be deeply plowed!" Zhao Danian was in high spirits as he watched the tanks playing happily in the fields.

"Of course not! Aren't we fighting the Japanese just to make people's lives better? These machines can be manufactured in large quantities when we become rich and have an industrial base! For example, the tractor heads in northern Shaanxi can be turned into tanks by attaching outer armor during the war, and after the war, they can be equipped with a combination of plowshares to help people plow the land and improve production efficiency!" Li Yuexuan also said in agreement.

In fact, the central bank has always placed military and agriculture on the same channel, which actually makes sense.

"Haha, kid, you're really thinking far ahead!" Zhu Xingyu, who was following Zhao Danian, gave a thumbs up, then pointed to the south of the village and said, "How is the preparation of silage fodder going?"

"The silage pond has been dug long ago, and the sealing tarpaulin, mats, reed foil and the like are also ready! Moreover, the corn stalks, bean stalks and millet stalks are also mixed in proportions! At this moment, the soldiers should be chopping them up with guillotines to fill the pit!" said Li Yuexuan.

"Silage fodder is a really good thing. It can provide our large livestock with some green fodder to eat during the winter, and it can save a lot of food!" Zhu Xingyu commented sincerely.

"As for the silage issue, we did some experiment last year, but didn't expand it for fear of any mishaps. After last year's experiment, we can do more of it here at the base this year! At least the large livestock in our team must have silage to get through the winter." As Li Yuexuan spoke, he saw smoke rising from the woods in the west.

"What's going on over there? Why is there smoke?" Zhao Danian also asked.

After the captain asked, the messenger beside him immediately rode to check the situation, and then reported: "Report to the captain, political commissar, it is the people who are burning straw! This year we have taken control of some of the coal mines in Jingxing, and the people have no shortage of firewood for the winter. Some who find it troublesome just burn leaves."

"Oh my god, we've only had two years of good life, and now you're ruining the family like this? Can't you take those leaves to feed the cows and pigs in the village? You don't have cows or sheep at home, so why not give them to the village?" Zhao Danian sighed with some grief, because the detachment raised so many livestock, and he knew that these straws were treasures!
"Hehe, why don't we hold a meeting and issue an order, just as the autumn harvest begins, to prohibit people from burning straw?" After Li Yuexuan finished speaking, he really wanted to slap himself in the face.

"That's fine!" Zhao Danian agreed without even thinking about it.

"Isn't this bad? Life is already difficult for the people, and if you add more regulations, isn't this going against the will of Heaven?" Zhu Xingyu said.

"For some things, we can't just ban them, we need to have a clear reward and punishment mechanism!" Li Yuexuan thought for a while and said, "The people don't have much knowledge. If you forbid them, they won't dare to resist, but they will always have complaints in their hearts. After all, you have wasted their time, increased their planting costs and manpower, but there is no certain return!"

"So, let's issue an order to ban straw burning, and then we can give subsidies to all the plots of land according to the area of ​​the land! For example, we can give them money or food!" Li Yuexuan thought that the best subsidy would be fertilizers and pesticides, but the conditions did not exist at the moment.

If you don't allow farmers to burn straw and don't give them subsidies, and the people dare not say a word, whose credibility and prestige will be lost? But what if it's the other way around? If you don't allow burning straw, but give a subsidy of 100 kilograms of fertilizer per mu of land, plus a subsidy of 30 yuan for pesticides, or the government pays for the centralized use of drones to spray pesticides? Well, in the future, the subsidies for one mu of land are not small, and drones are also used to spray pesticides...

"It's not possible to just give money. We don't have many border tickets, and we have to go to the headquarters to get them. It's too troublesome!" Zhao Danian said.

"Giving food is not a good idea. Giving more or less will cause trouble. This matter requires investigation and statistics, and there is not enough time!" Zhu Xingyu said.

"I think this is the way to go..." Zhao Danian looked at the large animals pulling the plowshares and said, "Give the order to have the people send the straw from the fields to the threshing grounds in each village for centralized storage. We will arrange for people to receive and supervise it. Then the village heads and militia captains of each village will go to the fields to supervise in person. If they collect 2 mu of straw, we will give them the land to plow for free!"

"I think this method works! But we don't want the cotton stalks. They are almost the same as wood and are useless except for being used as firewood!" Li Yuexuan added.

After a brief discussion, the messengers and messengers rushed around and delivered the news to every village. As a result, the black smoke from burning straw was no longer seen in the fields.

Some people also raise cattle and horses at home. They can cultivate the land by themselves, but they also produce and sell straw by themselves, and feed the cattle...

No longer concerned about burning straw, Li Yuexuan has been specifically supervising the straw silage these days. There is no other way, he has an auxiliary panel that can control the filling amount and check the sealing condition very well, making him the best commander and technician.

As mentioned earlier, these silage feeds will be the winter rations for the large livestock of the detachment in the future. It is definitely worth doing to save food consumption. In addition to these actions, there is another interesting thing worth mentioning in this year's autumn harvest - going into the mountains to pick dates!

That's right, we went into the mountains, picked the dates, put them in our pockets, and sent them back to the village! No matter if they were red or sour, we would not let them go if we saw them!
The red dates are naturally grown on the wild jujube trees that the soldiers of the detachment have been grafting with grafting technology for several years! The sour dates are grown on the ungrafted jujube trees.

Red dates can replenish blood and can be eaten as part of food, saving lives when food is scarce; sour dates are a traditional Chinese medicine. In the eyes of children, sour date kernels are used as fillers for sandbags, but in the eyes of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, they are medicines that cure diseases and save lives.

So, after finishing the work in the fields, the villagers were mobilized. The adults laughed, the children made noises, and they rushed into the mountains and forests to pick all the sour and red dates from the sour jujube trees and pack them up to take back! The adults would eat a lot of red dates, but the children had a special liking for sour dates. Everyone had their own hobbies.

The detachment did not stipulate that you could not eat the jujubes secretly when picking them, but they did stipulate that you could not take them home without permission. In the end, the people who worked there would be given some money as labor fees. (End of this chapter)