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Chapter 235 The walking tractor is more popular than Santengzi

Liu Xiu was naturally the one to do what he thought of, so he started writing a report to the superiors that night, saying that he could store wheat and rice, which are easy to store, as war preparation food, and then eat sweet potatoes, which are not easy to store but have high yields. Potatoes and other grains.

After all, wheat and rice are much easier to store than sweet potatoes. You only need to dry them in the sun and seal them to keep them dry. They can be stored for no less than three years!

And if it is stored in a vacuum freezer, it can easily last for more than ten years. Of course, after a long time, the taste will not be as good as that of fresh rice, but compared to not starving to death, the taste is still acceptable.

In addition to Liu Xiuhe's proposal to build a war-prepared granary, he also began to think about how to quickly increase food production. If you want to quickly increase food, it is natural to open up more wasteland and increase the planting area.

You know, there are only 970,000 square kilometers of cultivated land today! A few decades later, the cultivated land area would reach 1.35 million square kilometers!

Of course, in a few decades, seeds and industrial fertilizers will become more powerful, which is why food yields are so high, but it is also true that the area of ​​cultivated land has increased.

Otherwise, the food grown each year is only enough to eat the next year, and it would be impossible to store food on a large scale! Moreover, these potatoes and sweet potatoes can only be used as supplementary foods, not as staple foods. People who eat potatoes and sweet potatoes for a long time will not be able to stand it.

However, there are only so many manpower nowadays, so naturally this wasteland is not waiting for you to open it if you want.

So Liu Xiu naturally thought of the two-wheeled walking tractor he saw in the countryside in the 1990s before he time traveled.

Of course, in addition to being simple to operate, easy to maintain, and capable of multiple uses, the most important thing about the walking tractor is that it is small. Yes, although this walking tractor has a diesel engine, it only has a few horsepower, so two strong men It can be lifted, so even if you encounter that kind of terraced field, this walking tractor can still come in handy.

Of course, the reason why Liu Xiu admires the small walking tractor is that it can be used for multiple purposes. In addition to being used as a cultivator, it can also be used as a rice transplanter and a harvester as long as the corresponding accessories are replaced. In addition, it can be used as a transport vehicle by adding a cargo bed and replacing it with banana tires.

This thing is a powerful tool for cultivating land and clearing up wasteland!
After all, although the cattle eat grass and produce strength, the cattle cannot endure the hardships like a walking tractor. As long as it has oil, it can plow from morning to night, but the cattle cannot, and they have to rest after working for half a day. Otherwise, you have to give up your options.

This is something that large agricultural machinery cannot do, and although it is small, the workload of a walking tractor can be equivalent to the workload of more than ten or twenty people.

During the slack time, he would pull bricks and build houses for others, but when the farming season was busy, he would switch to an iron plow and turn it into a farm machine for plowing the land.

Before Liu Xiu traveled through time, he was also a child in the countryside, so he had seen some people unload the iron plow for plowing the land after the busy farming season, and then put it into a cargo box and turn it into a four-wheel transport vehicle.

With the current technology and productivity of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill, it is naturally easy to produce this kind of walking tractor.

This is the incomparable gap between man and machine. The development of industry brings convenience to agricultural production. This is the meaning of industrial development!

It won't be like those large special-purpose farming machines that can only be eaten at home during off-farm times. You must know that if this machine is left unstarted for a long time, it will rust and break.

Since Liu Xiu had seen walking tractors before traveling through time, and even saw people dismantling and repairing them, you must know that the structure of this walking tractor is very ingenious and simple, so ordinary agricultural machinery operators born in rural areas can easily obtain accessories. Replacement and simple repairs.

Otherwise, this walking tractor would not have been so popular and popular in rural areas in the 1980s and 1990s. Of course, the walking tractors Liu Xiu saw when he was a child were already very mature in design, so Liu Xiu did not change them much. I copied everything into drawings exactly as I remembered them.

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In the production workshop of Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill, Liu Xiu naturally saw Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong who were instructing novice fitters to perform machining. Yes, Liu Xiu followed the principle that more chickens will lead to more eggs, and there was no Liu Haizhong and Yi Zhonghai spent all their working time processing high-precision parts, and spent half their day teaching novice fitters. However, the manufacturing of the first walking tractor naturally required two senior fitters, so Liu Xiu stepped forward and said to them:

"Master Liu, Master Yi, can you do me a favor?"

However, in response to Liu Xiu's very polite tone, Yi Zhonghai immediately said humbly:

"Director, why are you so polite? Just give me your instructions!"

Liu Haizhong on the side also echoed:

"Yes! Director, why are you so polite to us?"

When Liu Xiu saw these two people saying this, he immediately invited them to the factory director's office without hesitation, and then took out the drawings of the walking tractor and handed them to them.

Then he said to them:

"Master Yi, Master Liu, you two, let's see how difficult it is to make this!"

As an eighth-level fitter, Yi Zhonghai just took a brief look and said:

"Director, this looks like a two-wheeled horizontal-bar diesel vehicle! The design is very clever and simple! So there is no difficulty in the manufacturing process!"

At this time Liu Haizhong also said:

"But factory director, looking at these plows and carriages here, are they used for plowing the land and pulling goods?"

When Liu Xiu heard Liu Haizhong's question and Yi Zhonghai's questioning look, Liu Xiu had no intention of hiding it and immediately said:
"Yes, this thing is actually used to help farmers cultivate the land, transplant rice, and harvest. However, considering that it would be a waste if it can only be used during busy farming times, so I designed a two-wheeled truck body. During the off-season, you can use the bed of the truck to haul agricultural products and grains and other goods!”

After Yi Zhonghai heard Liu Xiu's description, he who had also farmed when he was a child immediately clapped his hands and said:
"Director, your design is really wonderful! One machine has multiple uses, so you don't have to worry about agricultural machinery products being left at home and gathering dust!"

"Then, director, when do you want this thing?"

After Liu Xiu heard Liu Haizhong's words, he said with an apologetic look:

"I plan to finish it before the Chinese New Year this year, and then hand in the samples, so that after the above is confirmed, production can begin next year, so that I can catch up with the spring plowing in the surrounding countryside! So I have to work hard. Of course, you two masters, don’t worry, you will be paid for overtime!”

After Liu Haizhong and Yi Zhonghai heard Liu Xiu's words, they immediately promised to make samples before the Chinese New Year.

(End of this chapter)