Go back to the past and be a schoolboy

Chapter 200 Don't worry about scarcity but worry about unevenness (revised)
"Oh, these days are getting more and more hopeless."

The laboratory is not too far from the factory, so Cheng Nuo and Jiang Jiangzuo chose to go on foot, firstly for exercise, secondly, to see how the people live at a close distance, so as not to be unconscious later aloof.

Passing by the village head, I happened to see a few villagers chatting there.

With a relaxed and curious attitude, Cheng Nuo quietly came behind them and listened quietly.

An old mountain man smoked leaf cigarettes and said: "In the past, we still had some sayings in those days. We usually gathered some pigweed and got some leftovers, and we could raise a pig all year round. Even if it was not good at the end of the year." You can also sell a good price for cooking pig dishes, pull some cloth for mothers-in-law, and buy some firecrackers for dolls.

But now, uh..."

"What are you afraid to say? Everyone is not blind and deaf. Let alone raising pigs, you don't even have the money to buy piglets. How can people live like this?" Talking about this, everyone was full of stomachache. Complaints, especially the young ones, can't even sit still.

"Isn't that right, Dundun had dry food, but now Dundun has become thin porridge, the age is not good, bandits are everywhere, taxes are heavy, big houses are turned into small houses, and tile-roofed houses are turned into thatched houses. Dig a hole in the ground and just bury it." The villager, who was dressed a little better, also complained.

Hearing everyone chattering aside, Cheng Nuo knew that there were probably all kinds of complaints down there, and he felt that the burden on him was even heavier.

With a wave of his hand, Cheng Nuo left the crowd and walked towards the factory.

Faced with this situation, Jiang Jiangzuo also had a displeased expression on his face: "Everyone's life is so sad, yes, natural disasters, man-made disasters, wars and horses, selling houses to live in cellars, and ordinary people eating rough food, it's no wonder everyone is happy."

Cheng Nuo added from the side: "Don't forget, there is also the important reason of rural bankruptcy."

Jiang Jiangzuo caught up and asked in confusion: "Is it because I am ignorant that this village can go bankrupt?"

Cheng Nuo sighed and nodded: "Small workshops of chambers of commerce and industry can go bankrupt, and of course migrant workers can also go bankrupt. If we divide the entire population of China into five categories: special line, horizontal line, poverty line, hunger line, and death line, then by virtue of You and I have inspected the countryside in recent years, which category do you think the vast majority of rural areas are in?"

"Let me think about it." Jiang Jiangzuo slowed down and fell into thinking: "Needless to say the special line, the so-called landlords, gentry and rich peasants should be classified into this category. The death line is too exaggerated, so it must be excluded... Thinking about it Go, or the poverty line is more appropriate."

"Wrong, at least two-thirds are hovering around the hunger line. If there is a natural or man-made disaster, it is not impossible to suddenly reach the death line. Have you forgotten the flood in Zhili last year? Could it be that those who died in front of us are still there?" Less?" Cheng Nuo said in a low voice with emotion.

Jiang Jiangzuo asked: "Can't the huge land support our compatriots? Well, the Qing Dynasty has been handed over by us. How come the lives of the hardworking people are not as good as before!"

Cheng Nuo sneered and said, "Did the fall of the Qing Dynasty bring any benefits to the peasants? Capitalist aggression, the burden of transcending legal principles and human feelings, and the intense exploitation of landlords in feudal land relations have not been resolved. When contradictions accumulate At a certain stage, there will inevitably be..."

Jiang Jiangzuo asked curiously, "What happened?"

Seeing that no one was paying attention to them, Cheng Nuo whispered, "Revolution!"

"Revolution!?" Jiang Jiangzuo was shocked: "Aren't we in the middle of a revolution right now?"

"Of course it's the fate of reforming the old socialism!" Cheng Nuo said with a firm smile, "We are now accumulating strength for the revolution. We just need to wait until the time is right, and you will understand what I said recently."

The words have come to this point, I am afraid that the secret will be leaked.

No matter how much Jiang Jiangzuo pestered him later, Cheng Nuo refused to explain. In the end, he really couldn't resist, so he said helplessly:
"There is a bearded man surnamed Ma in Germany who has published a few books. I will show them to you later, so you can learn them briefly."

"What's in it?"

"Of course, what we are talking about is the future direction of our workers and peasants. As for how to go, it all depends on personal creation."

In fact, the reason why Cheng Nuo wanted to speed up the work at hand was because after he came to the grassroots level, he saw too many scenes of peasants being oppressed and exploited. His originally calm heart became anxious and passionate at some point.

He might not be able to solve other problems, but Cheng Nuo still wanted to improve the farmers' plight as much as he could with industrial means.

In particular, land rent is the most important form of exploiting farmers. In rural areas, there are roughly three forms: property rent, money rent, and labor rent.Property rent is the most common, divided into board rent method, flower rent method, and handicap method.

The board rent method, that is, the tenant farmers lease the land from the landlord, and agree to pay the amount of rice grain per mu. The rent is generally one-half or one-third of the annual harvest. It is more common in the fertile southern Jiangsu area.

In the flower rent method, the rent amount is not fixed, and the landlord and the tenant farmer agree in advance to distribute according to the harvest of autumn crops or spring crops.

In the handicap method, when the crops are about to mature, a farmer asks the landlord to go to the countryside to estimate the harvest quality, and then agrees on the sub-rent ratio.

The board rent method and the flower rent method are particularly unfavorable to the tenant farmers. When the harvest fails, the tenant farmers can only flee from famine.

The amount of money rent was agreed upon by the landlord and the tenant, and the rent could not be increased or decreased regardless of whether the harvest was good or bad.Generally, this kind of land rent is more commonly used on public or government-owned land or in areas with more developed commercial capital.If the price of rice falls sharply and the landlord refuses to reduce the rent, then the peasant will have no choice but to flee.

Lizu is mostly popular in areas with poor land in northern China.The landlord supplies not only the land, but also all necessary capital, and the tenant farmers contribute surplus labor to the landlord's work, just like slaves.

In addition, there are even harsher usury loans, agricultural tool loans, seed loans, etc. In the end, the loan basically sells all of the net worth, and cannot repay the loan. In the end, you have to sell your son or daughter, such as in "The White-haired Girl" The story, or take the road of fleeing famine, such as "Crossing the Guandong".

Of course, there are all kinds of exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes that are more serious. Needless to say, Sichuan collects taxes. Some areas will receive them in 2050. Even the relatively affluent Jiangsu has more than 30 types of land taxes, 26 of which are additional taxes, and farmers are miserable. Word.

Considering all the above situations, Cheng Nuo first used the improvement of labor productivity in industrial development, and chemical fertilizers were one of them.

What he is currently using is the catalytic ammonia synthesis technology pioneered by Haber-Bosch, which is considered to be one of the greatest contributions to mankind in the 20th century. This technology has given birth to three Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.

Moreover, from the creation of this technology to the 21st century, the world population has increased by 16 times from 4.5 billion, while food production has increased by 7.7 times.

If he wants to feed one-fifth of the world's population with 7% of the world's arable land, Cheng Nuo must successfully make ammonia synthesis technology bigger and stronger.

"Carbon monoxide, carbon monoxide..."

There is no shortage of coal in Sichuan right now. Under various considerations, Cheng Nuo chose to use steam to react with scorching coke to produce hydrogen.

Seeing the machine successfully mass-produce hydrogen, he was not happy.

The reason is that there is a lot of carbon monoxide in the generated gas.

This thing not only affects the purity of hydrogen, resulting in the failure of synthetic ammonia, but also because it is toxic and harmful, it greatly endangers the health of chemical plant workers.

How to solve this problem became Cheng Nuo's biggest headache at the moment.

In particular, he kept recalling the previous complaints of the villagers in his mind, and he was eager to change the lives of the villagers.

However, scientific exploration has never been based on human will. On the contrary, because of too many and complicated thoughts, he has no inspiration at all.

"Lifu, do you have any wine?"

Agitated, Cheng Nuo suddenly said this.

"No... yes yes." Jiang Jiangzuo doesn't drink, so he instinctively wanted to answer no at the first sentence, but seeing Cheng Nuo under pressure, he couldn't bear to refuse: "I remember there is some rice wine in the kitchen, you Do you want to drink?"

"The rice wine is good, bring it to me quickly, I want to get drunk today to relieve my worries." Cheng Nuo smiled and patted Jiang Jiangzuo on the shoulder.

Jiang Jiangzuo nodded, turned and left, and came over with a bottle of rice wine not long after: "It's full, I'll drink it with you today."

Cheng Nuo said happily, "Okay, he's really a good buddy of mine."

It's a pity that in the middle of the night, Jiang Jiangzuo couldn't see the layout of the kitchen clearly, and he was worried that Cheng Nuo was in a hurry, so he went there quickly and came back in a hurry.

He didn't get any decent drinking utensils, so he saw a porcelain bowl on the table and an iron scoop in the water tank, so he took them over.

Cheng Nuo didn't give up, picked up the rice wine bottle, wiped the mouth of the bottle briefly, bit off the cork in one bite, and poured the wine directly: "Drink it once, and continue tomorrow."

"Okay, do it."

Just like that, Jiang Jiangzuo was the first to pick up the iron ladle, drank it to his heart's content, and said with a grin: "Zhiyuan, do it first as a respect."

"Okay, then I'll come too..."

In this way, under the light of the moon, the more they drank, the happier they were. Even if there was no more wine and hiccups in their stomachs, they still had to drink some well water, replacing wine with water.

What we want is this atmosphere, what we want is this relaxed state of mind.

"Zhiyuan, you said that in the future our country will really be as you said, we will be strong and become the second in the world?" Jiang Jiangzuo's eyes were dim with drunkenness, and half of the "wine" dripped down the corner of his mouth.

"Lifu, hiccup~ I want to correct you here, we are not strong, but revived, don't forget that we have always been the number one in the world, the second is only the process of our revival, not our result. Cheng Nuo looked at the moon and said to himself.

"Haha, that's great, revival, that's great, I don't know if I have a chance to see it." Jiang Jiangzuo grinned and said, it's okay not to smile, and give all the "wine" left in his mouth when he smiles I vomited it out, and then wowed, I vomited up all the contents in my stomach.

Cheng Nuo couldn't say it well, so he quickly supported him from behind, and kept patting his back: "Hey, you should drink less in the future, I think you really can't drink."

Jiang Jiangzuo kept pumping his stomach, struggling and said: "It's okay, whoever makes me happy, happy to drink with you, happy to watch the moon, happy to talk about the future, in short, happy, if you say that when people are happy, don't drink What to order, isn't it fun enough?"

Cheng Nuo persuaded: "It's fine if you're not happy, and you don't have to drink alcohol. Your health is still the first priority."

After vomiting in the stomach, Jiang Jiangzuo, who felt a little better, straightened up, wiped his mouth and said, "But the reality is too bitter, which makes me unhappy again."

After hesitating for a while, Jiang Jiangzuo looked at Cheng Nuo and said seriously: "Zhiyuan, you just said that we are strong, no, we have been revived, did we have to experience the sacrifices of several generations?"

Cheng Nuo nodded, "It's naturally impossible to complete what Western countries have done for hundreds of years in a few decades without sacrificing something."

Jiang Jiangzuo was thoughtful: "The largest number of people in our China is the peasants. Presumably the peasants sacrificed the most at this stage. China is an agricultural country, and the agricultural country emphasizes abstinence, resignation, contentment and refraining from conflict. The people are safe, the family is full, the people of the agricultural country live in peace and enjoy their work, and they are happy with their food and food.

There is such a lovely and respectable group. Although we are currently taking the road of agriculture, I know that if we want to revive in the future, we still have to take the road of industrialization. Zhiyuan, can you promise me one thing? "

Cheng Nuo asked, "What's the matter?"

Jiang Jiangzuo said with a serious face: "Don't forget them in the future, don't worry about inequalities instead of widows!"

After saying this, Jiang Jiangzuo fell to the ground before Cheng Nuo could agree.

No matter what Cheng Nuo asked, Jiang Jiangzuo didn't respond. When he took a closer look, it turned out that this guy had already fallen asleep.

Sighing, Cheng Nuo had no choice but to carry this guy and send him to the dormitory.

After all this was done, it was already midnight.

Back at the original place, seeing the mess, Cheng Nuo couldn't help but smile wryly:

"Easier said than done."

But looking at what he was doing now, the negative emotions in Cheng Nuo's heart completely dissipated:

"Domestic resources are limited. Relying solely on the domestic market will only lead to the old path of introversion. Wouldn't it be better to go abroad and harvest people from all over the world?"

"Later, life in Northern Europe and Western Europe is so easy. Isn't it because the technology developed early in the early years and there were many patents. Who wouldn't know this? Wait, wait until Lao Tzu's second-generation ammonia synthesis technology is developed, and I will use the first generation to apply for patents. , we also lie down and make money."

Thinking of this, Cheng Nuo couldn't help but have a toothache.

After all, although the imagination is good, the next-generation ammonia synthesis technology has not yet been developed.

Feeling a little turbulent, Cheng Nuo picked up the iron ladle and began to drink.

Before taking two sips, he spit out the water.

"Such a strong smell of rust, Lifu didn't drink it just now?"

"Wait, it smells like rust!?"

"I thought about it, I thought about how to remove carbon monoxide and purify hydrogen."

"First use iron oxide to convert carbon monoxide in hydrogen into carbon dioxide, then press the newly generated mixed gas into the bottom of the water tower to filter out harmful gases such as carbon dioxide, and then use a refining system with an activated carbon layer to further improve the purity of hydrogen. "

"Just do it!"

Standing on the moon, Cheng Nuo drank a scoop of "wine" water.

"Thousands of poverty, three hundred cups of fine wine.

There is a lot of sorrow, but there is little wine, but the wine does not come to worry.

Therefore, the sage who knows wine, enjoys wine heartily! "

(End of this chapter)