Go back to the past and be a schoolboy

Chapter 49 Promotion and Cooperation

Agricultural extension has existed since ancient times, but it took until the 80s for it to truly become a systematic course. Professor Xu from Beijing Agricultural University compiled the book "Agricultural Extension", so Cheng Nuo agreed to Cai Yuanpei after a short thought. conditions of.

No matter how good Peking University is, it is still his passer-by. In the future, when the time is ripe, it is necessary to establish a comprehensive university of its own.

Participate more in teaching activities now, so that your eyes will not be smeared in the future.

Time passed and another week passed, and things happened as they expected. The Beiyang government announced the severance of diplomatic relations with Germany, and issued a notice to stop paying German money and take back the German Concession.Peking University took the opportunity to obtain an additional amount of teaching funding. Although it was not much, it greatly eased the pressure of discipline reform.

Cheng Nuo took advantage of this time to invite Guo Shouchun to write a popular version of the method of wheat selection and breeding.

Cheng Nuo didn't understand the specific details of scientific research, but because of time travel, he was the son of a farmer in his previous life, and he even went on wheat vacation when he was a child to harvest wheat, so he has a certain degree of control over the overall situation of wheat in the country.

Spreading out a prepared map, Cheng Nuo took a high-level view: "From a biological point of view, our breeding goal must adapt to the local ecological environment, so as to make full use of the local favorable ecological conditions to achieve high yields, and at the same time overcome unfavorable ecological conditions to ensure Stable production, make full use of natural advantages, maximize strengths and avoid weaknesses, and meet the needs of local economic development and cultivation.”

Guo Shouchun agreed with this point of view and concluded: "In other words, high yield, stable yield, and high quality are the main goals of our breeding."

Cheng Nuo nodded, took out a pen and pointed to the northwest: "Stripe rust is often a serious damage to wheat areas in northwest my country and the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River. It is the main factor affecting yield. Resistance to stripe rust must be listed as the main breeding goal."

Then pointing to other areas: "Wheat areas in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and South China have more rainfall in the later stages of wheat growth, and the prevalence of scab is high and the loss is large. Therefore, resistance to scab is the goal of those areas."

Every time Cheng Nuo talked about a place, he made a mark there, and when he finished talking, it was densely marked on the map.

Guo Shouchun looked at the map, then at Cheng Nuo, everyone was dumbfounded, and finally put the notebook under his arm, and couldn't help applauding: "Old Cheng, do you study agriculture or am I?" Studying agronomy, knowing so much, I think you are better than me, why don't you engage in selection and breeding."

After talking for a long time, Cheng Nuo felt that his voice was hoarse. He took a sip of herbal tea and felt better before replying: "It's different. I'm just a theorist, and you are the doers. Didn't Liu Bang say that the decision-making is inferior to Zhang Liang in the play? Internal affairs are not as good as Xiao He, and war is not as good as Han Xin. In other words, I am not as good as you in farming, and you are my best."

Guo Shouchun was very happy to be praised, but after thinking about it carefully, it seemed that it was not the case.

"No, old Cheng, are you comparing yourself to Emperor Gaozu of Han?"

The pressure I put on myself was too great, and it was always tense, and the string would break sooner or later, Cheng Nuo joked: "It doesn't matter if I am Liu Bang, as long as you are my victory."

Everyone likes nice words, and Guo Shouchun is the same. He grinned and said, "Okay, I'll take it as if you really praised me, and it won't work if you don't show something real."

As he spoke, he spread out his notes and took out the selection and breeding methods he had compiled in advance, and Cheng Nuo further popularized them.

In the end, it was selected into three methods, namely field ear selection method, field block selection method and field field selection method.

Among them, the ear selection method is recommended, that is, when the wheat is mature, select the best wheat field, set the standard, and keep all qualified wheat ears for replanting next year.

Here, Cheng Nuo also specially instructed that the choice of wheat field must be in a place with uniform land. For example, no matter how large the ears of wheat are next to the manure, it is not universal.

After tidying up, Guo Shouchun suddenly asked: "Old Cheng, you said that European countries are fighting so fiercely. Will there be such a fierce war on the land where we stand one day?"

Of course Cheng Nuo knew that there would be a war, and it would be World War II, which was even more tragic than World War I. He was silent for a moment: "Maybe."

"Then we've done so much, won't it be useless by then?"

At this time, Cheng Nuo said firmly: "It's definitely not useless. If we launch it a year earlier, many people can live for another year. When the real war comes, we will have more vitality, so why not be afraid."

Guo Shouchun, who was comforted, felt relieved, and soon finished sorting out the manuscript, and published it in the supplement of the next issue of "People", which is a general magazine for the public. Combining words and pictures, he sent it to the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, that is, Beiyang Government agricultural agencies.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce issued the provincial industry department to the county encouragement office for further publicity, and those who have excellent seeds and have been verified will be rewarded.

In fact, Cheng Nuo didn't want to find the Beiyang government at first, but when he found out that Zhang Guogan was the head of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, he changed his mind instantly, because he was a thoroughly patriotic scholar.

At that time, Qirui did not hesitate to sell domestic iron ore mining rights privately in order to borrow money from Japan, but he just refused to sign. Whether it was threats of force or bribes of 200 million yuan, Zhang Guogan insisted on his bottom line.

So when he learned that the famous Professor Tom was doing a major event that benefited the country and the people, he took the initiative to come to ask for cooperation, so the selection and breeding became half forced and half propaganda.

But Cheng Nuo knew that the Beiyang government was pissed, and he was also arranging for Guo Shouchun to buy his own test field.

With the publicity of the article, while the popularity of the "National" newspaper was expanded, the method of breeding in it also attracted the attention of many people, including the Shanghai Flour Union.

During the Westernization Movement, China began to introduce western technology and equipment to develop modern industry and commerce, among which the flour industry was a part of it.After decades of development, Suzhou has become the national flour production center, and flour production is also one of the three pillars of Suzhou's light industry.

When World War I broke out, there was a huge demand for flour in the international market, and the flour industry in Suzhou achieved unprecedented development.

However, due to the rapid expansion of production capacity, the raw materials of flour are scarce, and the development is hindered.

At this time, the Shanghai stock market was under the jurisdiction of Suzhou Province, so the Shanghai Flour Association has been trying to solve this problem, and wanted to learn the method of the British Flour Association to invite scholars to improve and tide over the difficulties.

As the president, Li Tianfu hasn't had a good night's sleep for a long time, smoking cigarettes one after another, with a hoarse voice: "Mr. Not much more."

Director Zhang Changgui sighed: "Mr. Li, stop smoking, these foreign things are harmful."

"Cough cough~" Li Tianfu coughed violently, and after recovering, he took a sip of tea: "I also know that it can kill people, but ocean noodles can kill people. I see that Germany is showing signs of decline, and the war will end in a short time. How will we deal with it then? The culling by the foreigners, and the shipping of their noodles are cheaper than ours!"

Zhang Changgui patted him on the back, a little helpless: "So we are not looking for our own Bifen agricultural professor from our country, but we haven't found it yet."

This Bifen is the first professor of agricultural botany at the University of Cambridge. His main research object is wheat. The wheat variety Joss was bred, which helped improve the quality of British wheat production and wiped out the decline of the British flour union.

"Time waits for no one!" Li Tianfu stood up and wanted to pat the table, but just happened to scatter the documents, and a picture of wheat ears inside attracted him.

Picking it up, it was Cheng Nuo's "National" newspaper, and what caught his eye was a picture of the selection and breeding.

Li Tianfu took a quick glance, then became excited and clenched his fists: "We have hope. The method of breeding selection and breeding inside is exactly what we need. It seems that our Professor Bifen has found it."

"We will leave for Beiping in the afternoon and seek their cooperation!"

"Don't think about it again, it's too hasty." Zhang Changgui hesitated.

Li Tianfu folded the newspaper and carefully put it in his briefcase:

"Advance leads to life, retreat leads to death, I have made up my mind!"

　Thanks to book friend Shengyin and book friend 20200106162205630 for the reward of 100 starting coins.

　　
　
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