Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

A year's plan starts with spring, a day's plan starts with the morning, a lifetime's plan starts with diligence...

Pulling a roller weighing several hundred kilograms on soft wheat ears is not an easy job. Even if the roller is rotating, it is not very labor-saving. The key is that the roller is pulled in a circle to crush the wheat ears. If you pull the roller with your head covered, you will feel dizzy after pulling it for a while...

After all the wheat ears are flattened and the wheat grains are squeezed out, it is time for the various forks to come into play! The forks move differentially and shake, shaking off the wheat grains stuck to the wheat ears, and then the wheat ears are picked up and moved into the threshing basket on the side, leaving only the wheat grains with the wheat bowl on the ground.

To deal with these grains of wheat, a wooden shovel is needed! The wooden shovel trembles and lifts up, letting the wind blow the light wheat bowl away, and the grains of wheat fall to the ground. This work is generally called winnowing.

Well, I still remember Comrade Lao Yang in an article. People said that he was really a good wooden shovel, which meant that his winnowing technique was amazing!
In short, when there is no large machinery, wheat harvesting is definitely a job that consumes people's physical strength, endurance, and energy! Why consume energy? Because you have to compete with God for food! The wheat grains are threshed and need to be dried. At this time, the most feared thing is a sudden change in the weather! The weather in June is like a child's face, it changes at any time! Once it rains suddenly, this year's harvest will really be ruined!

In this era, food shortages are a matter of life and death! Therefore, the idiom "every grain goes to the warehouse" carries too many expectations with just four words!
It has to be said that Chinese farmers are the most hardworking group of people! They work hard facing the loess and sweating profusely, just to grow food from the soil to meet the needs of their family!

Of course, they also have to pay taxes and rent, which is the real mountain that has been weighing on farmers for thousands of years.

The Beishan base also has to collect taxes. Well, 30% of the people's harvest will be collected as taxes for the first half of this year, and the rest belongs to the people. Landlords? Landlords also have to pay taxes, and while paying taxes, they cannot increase the rent for the underground tenants. You know, in the early days of the War of Resistance, the land rent in some places could reach more than 70% of the fixed rent, which was enough to crush people.

What is a fixed rent? It means that a certain amount of output must be paid no matter what the harvest is like, not a single bit less, otherwise Huang Shiren will arrange for Mu Renzhi to collect the rent...

There are still landlords in the base area now, but our policy has been relaxed. We will not beat up the landlords and divide up their land without reason. However, we do advocate the policy of reducing rent and interest so that the people can get by.

For example, in Liangjia Village of Beishan Base, the Beishan Detachment’s military reclamation land initially rented 100 mu of irrigated land from Granny Sun, and Granny Sun was required to receive % of the harvest. However, as the production increased, Granny Sun took the initiative to reduce the rent to %, which meant that she kept the portion for herself and the rest went to the Eighth Route Army.

In addition to the land that was rented out, a large part of the Beishan Detachment's military farmland was reclaimed by the soldiers themselves! For example, the construction of dams would create new areas suitable for farming, and dry land could be turned into irrigated land. As time went on, the detachment reclaimed more and more land, which increased the detachment's food income...

The weather was good, and it took eight days for the tension in the entire base to ease, because as far as the eye could see, apart from the sweet potato and potato fields, there were no more harvested wheat fields in the wilderness. The threshing ground also became empty, with only sparrows jumping around in the ground, looking for scattered wheat grains to fill their stomachs.

At this time, the troops that had been on high alert relaxed their alert slightly, allowing the soldiers to breathe a sigh of relief. That's right, in the base, the militia maintained order and the people harvested crops, which required an external stable environment! The Beishan Detachment was the backbone of maintaining this stable environment. As long as the comrades of the detachment were there, the people could farm with peace of mind...

The wheat harvest is over, and the next thing is summer planting! So, the people who just stored the dried wheat grains in the warehouse appeared in the fields again. Planting corn is much simpler than harvesting wheat. Dig a hole, put corn kernels in it, and cover it with soil... Well, that's it, just pay attention to the spacing between plants and rows!
After that, plots of land with conditions will quickly open the gates to release water, allowing the water in the canals to thoroughly moisten the earth. As for plots of land without conditions, they will look up to the sky and hope for rain!
So, the people who were hoping that it would not rain a few days ago are now looking forward to rain soon, and heavy rain...

Perhaps the people's expectations were met, as on June 6, heavy rain fell, cooling the earth and moistening the seeds in the soil. As a result, new corn seedlings broke through the soil, bringing hope for the second half of the year to the people.

In fact, unless it is a special year, corn in the northern region often grows during the rainy season, so it is relatively easy to grow corn. However, the weather in the past two years has been special, with droughts and locust plagues, which have caused great losses to the production in the base.

It is worth mentioning that the Beishan Detachment’s source of income is no longer limited to collecting agricultural taxes and exchanging materials produced by the arsenal from other bases.

That's right, Ping'an County was liberated and the First Battalion was stationed in Ping'an County. This made transportation convenient and business prosperous, and the conditions for collecting taxes from these merchants were also in place.

Well, these are economic issues, and it is difficult for a group of soldiers to control such things. But there is no need to worry, the comrades in the local government are in charge, and there will be no trouble.

Li Yuexuan didn't have to worry about these things. Even the corn hybrid breeding that he had experimented with was taken over by people arranged by Zhu Xingyu.

Because when the crops were harvested, his experimental production also had a harvest, or results.

After a busy month and 7 attempts, the latest product of the arsenal, the 60mm mortar, was released! Li Yuexuan has information about this mortar here, and you can find it by just looking it up in your mind. Well, he imitated the 63-type 60mm mortar, not the 31st year of the Republic of China type.

Well, the Type 63 was designed with reference to the Type 31, and Li Yuexuan could also say that it was a copy of the Type 31. Of course, none of this is important. What is important is that we need to find a place to conduct the final test firing, and then measure the parameters, etc., and finally hand it over to the artillery for training and use. (End of this chapter)