Water Margin farming to become powerful

Zhang Siwu continued to explain the research process of melon and vegetable generation to Zhu Biao and the others:
"Our College of Agriculture has specially studied the methods of famine relief. The most important one is that after the catastrophe, in addition to transferring grain from other places to supplement it, the local farmland with conditions must resume production immediately. The fruiting crops, if you can’t grow serious food, you can grow vegetables, fast-growing potatoes, or various melons and fruits.”

Pointing to the well-organized farmland in front of him, he said: "That's why the first task when we came here to open up the base area was to let the officers and soldiers go to the fields with farm tools. If more farmland is built, dams should be built where it doesn’t work, lest the fields that will be planted in the future will be washed away by floods.”

"On the other hand, they are rushing to plant fruits and vegetables on the fields after the flood."

"Although these vegetables are not enough to fill your stomach, they can be supplemented to some extent."

"Let's distribute the military rations we brought to the people in the village. Captain Kong Cheng organized the fishermen to go down the river to fish together. Everyone tightened their belts and boiled the fish and shrimp from the vegetables and grains that had grown. Together, we stewed it into mixed porridge, and everyone ate it together for several months, and finally waited until the food price dropped, and no one died of starvation in this catastrophe base."

Both Fang Liang and Zhu Biao had gone to college. After listening to it, they finally understood the principle of melon and vegetable substitution, and then found it very novel.

Growing food depends on the plants on the ground absorbing the yang energy in the sunlight.They had never thought of this kind of truth before, but they felt that it was true when they heard it now.

Fang Liang thought a little further, and he couldn't help asking: "I heard that Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty called on the people to eat locusts to overcome the locust plague. Since floods are inevitable, but the sun in the food during the locust plague The nutrients transformed by air are eaten by the locusts, does that mean that as long as all the locusts on the ground are caught and eaten, everyone will be able to survive the locust plague later?"

Zhang Siwu was born in the Agricultural College, and he has a very clear memory of the theory of energy circulation, and said with a smile: "This brother is right on point, the story of Tang Taizong eating locusts is also a must-teach in the famine relief class of our Agricultural College. "

"Let me ask you, our farm raises pigs and ducks, is there anyone who feeds a catty of grain and produces a catty of meat?"

Fang Liang thought for a while and shook his head decisively, "How can that be?"

"Yes? Why? This is because animals are living creatures. They eat the yang energy in the five grains into their stomachs. In the process of depicting, they first consume part of it, and then another part is done, and the feces are pulled out in vain. , The remaining part is used up to support everyone’s activities on weekdays, we go to work with a full stomach, and after exhausting our strength, we feel hungry again in the stomach, this is the reason.”

"It's the same with the locust. It eats the food, pulls it while eating it, and flies while pulling it. It flies around, and the yang energy of the crops on the farmer's house is exhausted. At this time Even if all the locusts in the sky are captured, how can the locusts preserve as much nutrition as they can eat?"

"What's more, no one thought of substituting melons and vegetables before. Once you see that the food on the land is exhausted by locust plagues or floods, everyone knows that there will be famine in the local area. How can anyone stay to farm?"

"Everyone ran away, the land was abandoned, and the sunlight that could have accumulated for a few months when the grain was about to mature is now drying in vain on the muddy ground. In terms of the yang energy that should have accumulated in this land in a year, There is more waste, less food is produced, and the population is still so large, so what if there is no famine?"

Zhu Biao and Fang Liang nodded repeatedly when they heard the words: "This truth is really clear, but we never realized it in the past."

Zhang Siwu waved his hand and said, "This is not the truth I realized, it was taught to us in the owner's class."

Anyone who has stayed in the Dengzhou system naturally refers to Sun Xin who is in Sunjiazhuang when talking about the owner of the village. Especially the students of the Agricultural College admire Sun Xin even more. When talking about him, Zhang Siwu's eyes are full of Shining the light of worship.

Zhu Biao and He Fangliang also admired Sun Xin's profound knowledge when he heard the words.

After attending the Supervisory Council University, this group of college students all had the same idea. This kind of knowledge that can actually bring benefits to the people is true knowledge. The knowledge of saving people's lives is far from enough.

After some conversation, everyone had already arrived at Hu Baojun's field, and they saw energetic young men and middle-aged people busy on the land at this moment. Seeing this scene, the pillar marked He Fangliang It was another catty, and they could tell at a glance that someone with such vigor must be from the Protectorate Army. What they never expected was that the Protectorate Army fought well and was so motivated to plant the fields.

Zhu Biao couldn't help asking Kong Cheng beside him: "Do you all understand the production self-help regulations?"

Kong Chengdao: "Our guards are here to protect the Supervisory Council. If the enemy comes, we will shoot the enemy with guns. But now the Supervisory Council is facing the problem of insufficient food here. I pick up a hoe to grow food. , is also a way to protect the supervisory committee, isn’t it.”

Zhu Biao was quite impressed when he heard the words, the reason is this, but to make these soldiers honestly do the work of farming, the work that the cadres have to do is so complicated, looking at the well-organized farmland in front of him, Zhu Biao endured He kept nodding his head and said, "You have worked hard."

Kong Cheng smiled: "It's not all about protecting the country and family."

In fact, the three regiments that came to the Hongze Lake Construction Supervisory Committee were carefully selected by Sun Xin. Although they were also the main regiments, they were not sharp knives for combat. Before they were about to be transferred, they added a lot of people like Kong Cheng's men. The purpose of the soldiers of the nursing team who were born in the peasant family was to use the skills of these soldiers.

These three regiments went to the enemy's rear to establish base areas, and they didn't need to fight too many tough battles for the time being. Being able to build and produce was even more important than being able to fight at this stage.

And Zhu Biao, Fang Liang and other newly arrived cadres, after getting to know Kong Cheng and Zhang Siwu, they also quickly understood how much Sun Xin had put in to save himself in production in order to establish a new base.

Fang Liang no longer felt that it was a wrong decision for him to come here. He knew that since the owner of the villa had put so much effort into this place, it must be very important in the future.

He looked at the fertile land in front of him with complacency, and only hurriedly caught up when he found that the person in front of him had gone far away, thinking in his heart: Working here will definitely produce results! (end of this chapter)