Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1831 Unchanged Humanity

After this meal, Zhou Zhi, Liang Guangping and Liu Hongtao became much closer.

Zhou Zhi actually has quite a few flaws, but he has a special kind of "charm" that makes it easy for people to get close to him.

However, the price of having a good relationship is that Liang Guangping and Liu Hongtao were both drunk by Lao Chiri and Tu Liangzhi, so they cannot return to the base today.

But it doesn’t matter if they don’t reply, because these two people will still be needed when we dismantle the base station tomorrow.

After throwing the two drunken men into the reception rooms of the grain station which were used to receive guests from above, Zhou Zhi began to ask everyone about the changes in the village during this period.

And everyone should also ask him about the response to these industries he has created.

After talking with everyone, Zhou Zhi found out that the reason why the two buildings of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences were built so quickly was because the earthquake resistance requirements for buildings in Daliangshan were high, so a cast-in-place structure was adopted. First, a large frame was poured with reinforced concrete, and then the walls were sealed and window and door frames were installed.

This method is much faster than previous construction methods, and the team of workers organized by Tu Liangzhi is very cheap, allowing the construction party to recruit people freely. In addition to the main labor force of Lianhe Township who have joined the projects of tying steel wire, carrying cement, and digging earth, even the neighboring Jiukou Township has recruited a lot of people.

With sufficient manpower and timely funds, the houses were built quickly. In two months, not only were the main buildings of the two bases, which only had the ground floor foundation when Zhou Zhi left, completed, but even the seedling bases around the buildings were also opened up.

Now is the dormant period for the seedlings. The climate in Lianhe Township is very good, and only a blanket is needed to survive the winter. Therefore, the fertilizer for the seedlings should be supplemented. After two seasons of rest in autumn and winter, they can be propagated in the spring of next year.

Therefore, ever since the road construction began, various projects in Lianhe Township have never been interrupted. The villagers have basically made money, and with money, they began to have ideas. More and more people started raising chickens, pigs, and sheep in the village.

The pig farm and chicken farm that Zhouzhi asked Gillette to set up some time ago just reached the hatching period, and the two places finally made their first pot of gold.

This amount of seedlings was certainly not enough, so Lao Chi Ri went out for a while and organized a batch of "supplies" to bring back.

With roads and tractors, it is now much more convenient to travel in and out. More and more villagers come to the grain station to sell millet, grind rice, sell rapeseed, and change oil. It seems that there will be no shortage of rice bran and rapeseed cakes from the chicken farms and pig farms in the short term.

There is also wine. It was difficult to make wine with corn in the past because the corn germ was too rich in oil and protein. Although the wine made from it was strong, it had a "watery" smell.

Now with machines, this is no longer a problem. First, remove the germ of the corn, and beat the remaining starch into corn grits. Mix it with sorghum, buckwheat, etc. in proportion, and you can brew a high-proof, pure-quality liquor.

This kind of small-scale brewing equipment is available in almost every village in Jiachuan, and the related brewing technology is also very mature. Zhou Zhi asked Brother Dayong to send two masters to provide guidance, and Lao Chi Ri soon mastered the technology.

Corn germ and distiller's grains are excellent feed additives. Rock eagle chickens never had such treatment before, but now that the breeding conditions have improved and the breeding methods have become more scientific, their advantages have been brought into play, and they are either laying eggs or growing meat rapidly.

The chicken farm was built less than half a year ago, but it has already expanded to a scale of hundreds of chickens, and it only took one or two months to exceed a thousand. The pig farm has a few more Yanan black pigs. According to Zhou Zhi's suggestion, Gillie Abi wants to build the grain station pig farm into a breeding farm. The task in the next few years is to provide piglets to the surrounding villages. Now that there is a demand, it is inevitable that this pig farm will make money.

With animal husbandry, feed must keep up. When Zhouzhi invited comrades from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences to guide the work, they selected two types of forage - plateau vetch and ryegrass.

In addition to providing fodder, these two types of forage grasses also have the functions of fertilizing the soil, fixing nitrogen, and preventing soil erosion. The effects this year have been very obvious. The "soil collapse" in the rainy season that Lao Chi Ri is concerned about, that is, the phenomenon of soil erosion, has been obviously alleviated on several hillsides planted with forage grasses.

Moreover, sweet potato and ryegrass have an unexpected use. The seeds are collected by the Yi people and used to brew "Gan Gan Liquor", which tastes much better than the original Gan Gan Liquor.

Zhou Zhi then realized that rye seemed to have always been a material used to brew beer in Europe, but he had never thought about it in the context of the name before.

After harvesting so much fodder, storage is actually a problem. The traditional method is to dry it into hay and then store it.

However, comrades from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences brought a new technology - silage.

Silage is the process of mixing fresh grass with ammonia and fermentation bacteria and storing it in cellars. Fermentation technology is used to maintain a low-oxygen environment to ensure the freshness of the stored green grass. At the same time, the transformation of nutrients is achieved during the slow fermentation process, which is more conducive to the absorption of poultry and livestock.

The only limitation is that if you want to store the wine in a cellar, you must first have a cellar.

Zhou Zhi recalled the experience when his aunt converted the winery's cellar into a sauerkraut storage vat in his hometown. When he was helping the villagers renovate the bathroom, there was a reserved pigpen next to it. That thing was a ready-made frame. He put a large piece of complete plastic cloth in it, put the mixed green materials in it, turned up the excess plastic cloth and covered the silage, covered it with soil and pressed it tightly, and a simple but very practical silage warehouse was ready.

Originally Zhou Zhi and Tu Liangzhi had agreed that they would have to pay rent for using the villagers' pig pens when collecting silage, but in the end no villager was willing to accept the money.

It is said that "poverty breeds evil schemes, while wealth breeds consciences." Although Lianhe Township is poor, it still has a sense of justice for its "insiders." The villagers all think that these changes are brought about by Zhou Zhi, and if they accept money, they don't have to be a human being in Lianhe Township. This simple view of right and wrong also touched Zhou Zhi.

These things were done during the time when Zhou Zhi was away. The villagers were motivated to have the opportunity to earn an income. This not only surprised Zhou Zhi and Wu Renzhong, the two outsiders, but also surprised locals like Tu Liangzhi and Jike Azi.

Sometimes they feel ashamed of themselves, thinking that the people in their village have some problems, such as laziness, living from day to day, and spending their extra money on alcohol. None of the various poverty alleviation projects arranged by the higher authorities have been successful. The incident of eating the poverty alleviation piglets has made the township cadres always laughed at when they go out to attend meetings, and they feel inferior to others in the meeting hall.

Until Zhou Zhi came, from the first day he arrived here, Zhou Zhi instilled an idea in Tu Liangzhi. In the Song Dynasty, there was an official who submitted a memorial to the court on how to treat ethnic minorities in the vassal areas. The reasoning in the memorial was very clear and understandable.

He believed that the country should treat ethnic minorities in the vassal states equally, strictly examine the actions of local officials who oppressed ethnic minorities and provoked border troubles, and distinguish the people of the vassal states from the ethnic minority regimes in the enemy country.

His reason was simple. Although the Han people and the ethnic minorities in the vassal states seemed different in many aspects such as farming methods, lifestyle, food, clothing, housing and transportation, they all liked stability, hated war and killing, loved their families, parents and children. These natures were the same regardless of their nationality and were part of the unchanging human nature.