Water Margin farming to become powerful

Kong Cheng nodded and said, "If that's the case, then come with me."

He called a soldier and boarded the boat with the cadres who had just arrived at the base of Hongze Lake.

The people rode the boat for a while, and a relatively large land appeared in front of them. They said that the land was only a reed marsh from a distance, but this reed marsh was relatively wide, and some water conservancy facilities had been built. From a distance, you can see that the color of the soil in the reed marsh is different, obviously it has been turned over by people, and the surrounding roads have been cleared to facilitate people's transportation. You can also see that there are many people on the land. work.

Not long after, Zhu Biao, Fang Liang and the others got off the boat and stood on the vast field. They couldn't see it from a distance, but they nodded repeatedly when they looked closer.

"The area of ​​this field is really not small."

"That's natural." The soldier next to Kong Cheng spoke with a southern accent. He was obviously a newly recruited soldier in the base area. He had only seen such a flat and vast land after the guards entered these villages. He was full of pride at this time. Said: "The farmland in our village is much larger than other villages, and we planted it all ourselves!"

Both Zhu Biao and Fang Liang are from the north, whether in Hebei or Shandong, they have seen the kind of vast flat land that stretches as far as the eye can see, which is much larger than the small area of ​​reeds on the edge of Hongze Lake.

But at this time, seeing the appearance of the peasant and soldier who was really proud of the development of his hometown, several cadres seemed to be able to feel the happiness in his heart from the soldier's demeanor, so they all nodded and laughed in approval.

Seeing the boat docked at the pier beside the field, several men and women who were working in the field raised their heads. When they saw that it was Kong Cheng, they all bowed to him and greeted him with a smile.

Those people were old and young, and there were a few women with big feet, who were obviously the original farmers by the lake.

Zhu Biao laughed and said, "The supervisory committee here has only been established for a few months and the relationship with the farmers is so good?"

Kong Cheng nodded and said, "This is also a coincidence of our timing."

He explained: "It was March when we came, and Hongze Lake had just suffered a flood."

"The households in these lakes can only grow a little food to survive, and they were all submerged in a flood. When we arrived, the local people's food reserves had been almost consumed, and famine was about to start."

"Fortunately, our protection army arrived in time. As soon as we found this situation, we held a meeting and decided to do our best to help the disaster. We shared food rations with the local people, and even set up melon and vegetable substitutes. After working for a month, finally After the famine was survived, no one died of hunger in the Hongze Lake base area this year, and the reputation among the people was immediately established."

Hearing this, Kong Chengzhu and He Fangliang admired him a lot. He decided to use the small amount of military rations for disaster relief before he had established a foothold in the local area. Such a decision required great courage.

The leaders of the Supervisory Committee here are indeed courageous for being willing to pay so much to relieve the victims and receive such good results.

Zhu Biao asked again: "What is a melon and vegetable substitute?"

Kong Cheng said: "Melon and vegetable replacement, that is to say, if the food on the ground is washed away, you can eat melons and vegetables..."

Seeing that Zhu Biao didn't understand, he thought for a long time, scratched his head, and said with difficulty: "I don't know, anyway, those college students from Dengzhou know what to plant on the ground to make the common people Eat enough, I don’t know the specifics, but the front is the reclamation land of our protection army, I will ask Zhang Siwu to tell you.”

Fang Liang and Zhu Biao were born in the banking system of the Supervisory Committee and the army, and they are not too experts in farming. The state has widely publicized it, so the two of them naturally don't know about it, and it feels quite strange to hear it.

Kong Cheng quickly asked his little soldiers to call the chief officer.

Not long after, a young man in his early twenties rushed over.

Seeing the man's tall appearance, Zhu Biao and Fang Liang knew that he must be from the Agricultural College of the Supervisory Committee.

Sure enough, that Zhang Siwu opened his mouth with a pure Jiaolai accent. Among the first batch of recruits in the Agricultural College of the Supervisory Committee, Dongsanfu has the largest number of farmers, and many of them have this accent.

As soon as Zhang Siwu came, he asked, "I wish the Battalion Commander really brought the seeds of the five carts?"

Zhu Biao nodded.

"Oh, I'm really grateful for this time!" The chief officer couldn't hide the joy on his face. He came all the way from Shandong, so he naturally knew how troublesome it would be to transport five truckloads of seeds to this base area, so he was very happy. Grateful, happy to say:
"This time, our Supervisory Committee will definitely have a bumper harvest in the second half of the year."

Kong Cheng said with a smile: "Don't laugh, you fellow. I wish the battalion commander asked you about melons and vegetables, so you can introduce him to him."

Zhang Siwu nodded, he was a college student, and he was easy to speak, so he introduced it neatly:

"When we left Dengzhou, we had already imagined that the new base area might not have good planting conditions, and even the Hongze Lake area would probably suffer disaster."

"Even if we repair the water conservancy facilities in the fastest time, we will have to wait until the next season if we want to promote the improved seeds we brought on a large scale. Before widespread cultivation, in order to alleviate the famine of the local people, we need to find a The method of famine relief, so we went to the Agricultural College to sum up this melon and vegetable replacement plan.”

Zhang Siwu pointed to the sun in the sky and said: "To understand the principle of this method, you must first understand one thing - all things grow by the sun."

"It was taught in the first lesson of the Agricultural College that the food, melons, fruits, and vegetables on the ground can grow and be nutritious for people to eat, in fact, it is because these crops store the yang energy from the sun in the sky."

"Why does winter wheat nourish people? Think about it, winter wheat on the ground is planted in late autumn and harvested in the next spring. It takes three or four months of yang energy to grow to such a large size. Has it worked?"

"But once there is a disaster, it will go bad, just like the winter wheat planted on Hongze Lake. When it was time for grouting, a spring training was all washed away, and the yang energy that had been stored for several months was all rotted into the soil. It’s not about famine.”

"At this time, the common people have nothing to eat anyway. If they want to eat more food, the only way is to wash away the wheat until the next season's staple food crops are planted, and rob the land of the yang energy. Come some."

Zhu Biao vaguely felt that he understood: "So during this period of time, we need to plant something else on the ground?"

Zhang Siwu nodded and said, "That's exactly the reason."

(End of this chapter)