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Chapter 236 Don’t panic when you have food in hand
I don’t know whether Liu Haizhong and Yi Zhonghai have high awareness, or whether the overtime wages mentioned by Liu Xiu played a role. In just three days, these two, an eighth-level fitter and a seventh-level fitter, just made it. Liu Xiu's drawings of a walking tractor became a real thing.

With the addition of engine oil, diesel, and cooling water, Liu Xiu began to turn the hand crank to start. Yes, Liu Xiu did not use an electric start like Sanbengzi and the car.

Everything on the walking tractor has no trace of electricity at all. It is all a mechanical structure. As Liu Xiu shook it a few times, there was a loud sound and black smoke from the nozzle. The single-cylinder diesel engine of this walking tractor The generator was started by Liu Xiu.

After Liu Xiu drove this walking tractor around the yard of the steel rolling mill for a few times, he didn't feel anything was wrong with it. Fortunately, it was made by a seventh- or eighth-level fitter, so the quality is still very guaranteed.

After a few turns, Liu Xiu put the two-wheel cargo bucket of the hand-held tractor and the three accessories for plowing, transplanting and harvesting on the bucket, and then drove the hand-held tractor into Yuping City. , and then reported to the top.

There was no way to prevent so many people from starving to death in a few years, so Liu Xiu could only rack his brains. Since Liu Xiu, as a time traveler, knew what would happen in the future, the sooner he could prepare, the better.

Following the sound of the walking tractor, Liu Xiu drove the walking tractor directly to the top. Because of Liu Xiu's current position, it was naturally easy to see the top.

And Liu Xiu also used the hand tractor in front of the above. Because this hand tractor has four functions, it can cultivate the land, transplant rice, harvest, and finally transport, and it is easy to make. , the cost is low, and it has naturally been fully recognized by the above.

In fact, even if Liu Xiu had not been there, the walking tractor would have been built by the overseas students who returned home in 1957. But why was it that the walking tractor was built in 1957, but the things built in the 1950s were not developed until the 1980s? It was only popularized in the 1990s, and there is a reason for this.

The most critical point is that the expanded application of walking tractors has not been popularized. You must know that the original walking tractors only had the simplest role of plowing the land, and the remaining functions of transplanting and harvesting were not available, let alone adding a The cargo bed becomes a tractor-trailer for transportation.

It was not until later, with the popularity of these accessories, that the value of walking tractors was recognized. Otherwise, the value of walking tractors that can only cultivate the land would not be worth waiting for!
After Liu Xiu saw his walking tractor recognized by the superiors, he took out the plan for establishing a crop-level grain storage from his arms.

Liu Xiu's focus in this plan was naturally to express the reduction in grain production caused by the welding disaster and floods. Of course, in order to attract the attention of the superiors, Liu Xiu had no choice but to leave a message saying that there would be a major disaster within a hundred years.

For this reason, Liu Xiu had no choice but to use Ding Wu Qihuang as a reference.

The Dingwu Famine was a rare severe drought and famine that occurred between the first and fourth years of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty and affected the entire Qing Dynasty. Because 1877 was the year of Ding Chou and 1878 was the year of Wu Yin, it was called "Ding Wu Qi Huang" in history.

This disaster spread throughout the Qing Dynasty, causing more than 10 million people to starve to death, and more than 20 million victims fled to other places.

After nearly two years of severe drought, the disaster situation in most areas of Peryfang in the Qing Dynasty reached an unprecedented level in the Ding Chou year, especially in Shanxi. The drought is unprecedented. In order to "catch Gou Ting's last breath," the victims of the disaster either ground pebbles into flour and kneaded them into flour for food, or dug Guanyin white mud to satisfy their hunger. As a result, their intestines were blocked, the mud swelled, their abdomens were ruptured and their intestines were destroyed, and they all died together.

As the drought progressed, food was exhausted and cannibalism occurred. In the winter of the third year of the severe drought, cannibalism was seen everywhere in Shanqian, the hardest-hit area. There are many people who eat and sell their own kind...the ruthless drought demon has turned the disaster area into a hell on earth. After three consecutive years of severe drought, the people's ability to withstand natural disasters has reached its limit. The various human tragedies caused by the drought have not been reduced as the drought has eased, but have become more and more serious. In Shanxi. More and more villages and families were destroyed by natural disasters. Most of the hungry people who were lucky enough to survive were dying. "They had neither meat to eat nor the power to cut people off." Some victims who were still alive died after falling to the ground. Hungry dogs eat leftovers.

Of course, Ding Wuqihuang’s three-year welding was very similar to the big welding a few years later, so Liu Xiucai thought of that welding disaster as an example, and there are many small welding disasters that have occurred in the past ten years or so. Yes, but it doesn't have much impact.

Moreover, Liu Xiu also mentioned in the proposal letter that grain could be exchanged for walking tractors. It would be enough for a village to exchange one or two walking tractors.

After all, with the efficiency of a walking tractor, two walking tractors can be worth thirty or forty strong laborers.

The higher-ups read and re-read the grain storage proposal submitted by Liu Xiu, and then held a special meeting for this purpose. Perhaps it was the last sentence in Liu Xiu's proposal that people will be fearless if they don't have enough to eat. Xiu's grain storage plan was quickly approved.

Of course, according to Liu Xiu's suggestion, the scale of the grain storage should be enough to last for two to three years. This is something that can't be helped. After all, rice, wheat and other things can only be stored for such a long time. If stored Any longer time will greatly increase the cost of storage.

This strategic plan, which was related to the lives of tens of millions of people and the quality of life of hundreds of millions of people, was passed. Liu Xiu was quietly relieved about this.

With the passage of the grain storage plan, the production of Liu Xiu's walking tractor was naturally put on the plan. Of course, the scale of production is now limited!

It was unrealistic to immediately expand the production capacity of hand tractors to hundreds or thousands of units a day, so Liu Xiu decisively cut down the production of Sanbengzi, and all its production lines and workers were converted to the production of hand tractors, because There is some overlap between the three-bouncer and the walking tractor.

After all, the walking tractor can not only do what the three-bengzi can do, but also do more. The three-bengzi cannot plow the land! Of course, the Sanbengzi also has some advantages, that is, it is faster and less noisy. However, for rural people, if they can have a walking tractor that can both cultivate the land and transport, what more is the Sanbengzi.

Naturally, the Hongxing Steel Rolling Plant and the Hongxing Automobile Factory had no objections to Liu Xiu's plan. Of course, Liu Xiu did not cut down the car production line, because there was still a lot of demand for official cars at this time.

After all, how could we let those office workers drive slow walking tractors?

So Liu Xiu's new year of 1955 passed while he was busy producing walking tractors.

Of course, during the New Year's Eve dinner, Liu Xiu still had a New Year's Eve dinner with his father Liu Qin. Of course, his father Liu Qin was still obsessed with his detonation engine as always.

(End of this chapter)