Heavy Industry Empire

Chapter 150 Four

Liu Laowu silently smoked a bag of cigarettes, and said with a smile: "These young people have studied hard after serving in the army, and can write their own names. They are considered cultural people, but when it comes to wanting to have enough food in the countryside The method advocated by Chief Duan is the most practical, and our village has personally practiced it.”

"What's the result of your experiment?" Liu Tianling asked.

"Even the poorest tenants in the nearby countryside have a few acres of mountain land. Let's count it as a family of five. There is no good land, only five acres of mountain land. It is completely feasible to eat, and the five acres of mountain land are barren. , but it’s not that nothing grows. It’s perfectly fine to grow peanuts and sweet potatoes, especially sweet potatoes. The worst case is two thousand catties of sweet potatoes per mu, and several hundred catties of sweet potato seedlings. There is no problem, some of the sweet potatoes are sold, and the other part is floured to make steamed buns, not to mention peanuts, which can be sold or squeezed for oil.”

Li Yinbiao asked: "Isn't this kind of food very monotonous?" Li Yinbiao has practiced martial arts for many years, although his family has land, but the long-term workers in the family are all farming the land, and he has nothing to do at all.

Liu Lao Wu knocked on his cigarette bag, "No, there are corners in the mountains. The crops in these places are obviously small, but they can be used, such as green beans, plum beans, and pumpkins. Melons, or open a small vegetable field in front of and behind the house. It is perfectly fine to grow some common vegetables. As long as you plant, there will always be harvest. In a sheep or cattle shed, no less than four breeding sheep or one cow are raised. The cattle and sheep eat crop stalks in winter and green grass in spring, autumn and summer. This not only provides more income, but also accumulates fertilizer for farming.”

Ye Feng said with deep emotion: "The set of agricultural development ideas researched by Head Liu and Chief Duan is very good. If we could have known earlier that there would be no famine and so many people starved to death,"

Liu Tianling shook his head: "The most important thing in your place is that the law and order is not good. The cattle and sheep that were raised with great difficulty are stolen away, and bandits make trouble every now and then. Who can raise cattle and sheep? You can only leave them in the village. If there is so much grass in the front and back of the village not to be used, life is getting tighter day by day."

Liu Lao Wu laughed and said: "This agricultural theory looks very simple, but it is not easy to implement. The security in the countryside is not so easy to manage. If the security is not good, no one will raise cattle and sheep. If no one raises cattle and sheep, there will be no dung. Fertilize the crops, and the crops will not grow well without the dung soil.”

Everyone chatted a lot, all about how to eat in the countryside, farmers, etc. After a while, Liu Laowu's daughter-in-law cooked the meal, stewed two pheasants, two rabbits, and nothing else. Liu Tianling called over all the wounded and retired veterans in the village. The food was simple, and everyone had a meal and chatted together.

After dinner, Liu Tianling returned to the mining field just now, called an automatic mining vehicle, and then drove to Pingyi County. After walking for more than 40 miles, he found a very low-grade mine in a place called Wulonghu. Gold deposits, this is all thanks to the mining vehicle. This guy makes a beeping sound whenever he encounters a deposit. The gold element content is very low. If ordinary mining methods are used, after a series of processes, the gold mined is not enough for the cost of manual smelting , but a mine car can mine more than 50 catties of ore powder a day, and after smelting, it will become ten catties of gold. Ten catties of gold are not ten catties of cabbage, so it is quite cost-effective.

"Send four mine carts, collect enough [-] tons and send them back for smelting. It seems that we still need to build more mine carts. Life without money is hard," Liu Tianling thought to himself.

Next, Liu Tianling wandered around several barren mountains with a mining vehicle, but no more gold ore or silver was found, but it was a small gain. He discovered tungsten ore, and tungsten and steel can be used to make harder alloys. material, and tungsten is also the material for making ordinary light bulbs. In short, this day is a long and fruitful day.

Back at the base, after Liu Tianling ate something, he went to the secret base alone, entered the huge main base, and sat on a comfortable sofa chair to rest for a while. Liu Tianling opened the interface of the tank factory and selected a mining vehicle. Although it consumes a lot of steel and other metals, it is very cost-effective. As long as there are mining vehicles, all kinds of metals will come back continuously. Liu Tianling did not go back to the living room of the barracks that night. He was directly in the base and came together in the morning. At that time, it was discovered that the four mining vehicles of the chariot factory had already been built, and it would take eight hours for the other four to be ready.

No need to wait, just send them out, find a few veterans from the guard battalion, and order them to stay in the mine cart. The mine cart is easy to drive and can navigate automatically, which is quite convenient.

The four mine carts went straight to Pingyi. This time they were mining gold mines. Only with money can we have everything. Without money, nothing will work.

On the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month, the weather became colder and colder. In some places, the temperature dropped to minus [-] or [-] degrees when it snowed. The time for primary school students to go to and from school was shortened, and many students began to live in school.

Liu Tianling took Li Yindiao and Ye Feng led the guards to visit for three days in a row, mainly to send some Chinese New Year gifts to the soldiers who retired due to injuries. These things are not their pensions, but some temporary gifts.

On the [-]th of the twelfth lunar month, the war on the western front was also very stable. Zhu Yupu had no plans to launch a war, and Huawei would not attack them without incident. As for Qingdao, it can only be said that it is basically calm, and there are still many, many headaches , the leased lands of various countries, the foreign devil soldiers of various countries, and a few ships parked in Japan, and occasionally deliberately clashed with Guan Shijie and his fleet. Of course, officers like Guan Shijie and Li Cruise understand that this is just a matter of expediency, and they should bear with it temporarily. Once the fleet training is completed, and once the western front is calmed down, the days of these foreign devils showing off their might will be over.

It was afternoon again, and Duan Xuewen arrived with financial budgeters for education, medical care, transportation, agriculture, public security, industry, etc., followed closely by the army's staff, food procurement, equipment purchase, various maintenance factories, shipbuilding factories, clothing and so on. The financial budget clerks from the factory, flag factory, etc. have also arrived.

In the office, everyone looked at each other with big eyes and small eyes. Liu Tianling took a sip of Tieguanyin leisurely and tasted it happily.

Duan Xuewen said: "Leader, it's almost the end of the year. You called me to ask for next year's budget from various units, and asked me to budget as much as possible. I don't know what's going on."

"I don't understand, how did you invite all the people with complicated financial budgets in the army at once," Jia Cai also asked.

Liu Tianling shook his head: "Didn't you explain it clearly when you called just now? Some time ago, there were some difficulties. The finances of all units were tight, especially the investment in education and agriculture in local government affairs was far from enough. I have thought about it for a few days. The method, I have some money in my pocket, so I called everyone, the two sides discussed and negotiated, and each reported the budget of his own unit, "

When Duan Xuewen heard that he wanted to allocate funds, he immediately put down his water glass and exclaimed happily: "Okay, that's great. In terms of education, at least 30 primary schools need to be built next year, and at least [-] yuan is needed for school building construction, teacher salaries, and student meals at noon every day." Wan Dayang,"

Liu Tianling said: "Okay, I agree. From next year, the five-year compulsory education must be focused on. For children aged six to 13, they must go to school. Parents mainly focus on persuasion and education. It is really unreasonable to force their children to go to school."

"Okay, as long as the funding can catch up, the students can go to school and have food to eat, I can attract all the students," Duan Xuewen said.

"No problem, no problem with funding, it's still the policy of this year, the family is indeed difficult, three meals a day are provided during the compulsory education period, and two sets of clothes are distributed a year, but there is one thing that must be studied hard, and there is also a time when reviewing Be strict, if a rich family dares to pretend to be a poor family to get subsidies, let them spit it out ten times."

Duan Xuewen also said: "There will be more than [-] kilometers of new roads in March next year. The greening is easy to say, and there is not much money, but there are two bridges to be built, which will cost a little money, about [-] yuan."

"Okay, all the cement and steel bars will be provided by Asia Industry, and the wages of skilled workers can be raised a little bit. If there are foreign experts hired according to the highest salary, we will not treat real experts badly,"

Duan Xuewen also said: "Send farm cattle to the countryside, and popularize farm cattle. Farmers will be subsidized by 20% of the price for each cattle they buy. If they really can't afford it, they will pay in installments. This is another huge expenditure. It is estimated that at least [-] oceans,"

Liu Tianling waved his hand: "Okay, the scope is expanding a little bit. Not only cattle, donkeys, mules, and horses are all within the scope of the subsidy, but also veterinarians need to be trained. As for veterinary drugs, they will be produced by pharmaceutical factories."

Immediately after Duan Xuewen talked about medical care, he planned to build at least one public health center in each town. Each health center has at least four doctors, six nurses, and more than fifty hospital beds. It also cost 50 yuan. After all, the medical conditions at that time were too backward. There were almost no hospitals in the town, so we almost started from scratch.

Followed by public security, industry, etc., there are huge investments.

Jia Cai was a little puzzled, and asked puzzledly: "Is the head of the group joking with us today? If I'm not mistaken, the head of the group just approved nearly 500 million silver dollars for the administration, and 500 million silver dollars is a huge amount. ,"

"It's not just administration, the army can almost approve so much. Money is not a problem, the problem is how you spend the money I approved. The administration needs to see results, especially the outdated education and medical care. I want to see the rapid improvement of combat effectiveness, and I can’t throw money into the water, and I can’t even make a splash.”