Rebirth 2009: Synthetic God

Zhou Rui spent the last few days of his business trip at the Weicheng National Marine Rice Research and Planting Base.

The elder asked him to help plant rice, so he planted it steadily for a few days.

June is the critical period for rice jointing and earing. There is a lot of work such as cultivating, topdressing, loosening soil and other chores.

The veteran has no shortage of strong laborers, but Zhou Rui's arrival undoubtedly makes him very happy.

Here, someone was neither "Master Zhou" nor "President Zhou", but just Xiao Zhou. This reminded him of the memory of following the elders and studying agriculture a few years ago.

Get more sun, shed more sweat, use your hands to guess the weight of the rice ears, and use your steps to test the flowering period of the land.

The energy of the elders in recent years has been mainly divided into two parts. One is the "super rice" that has been cultivated for decades, and the other is the "sea rice" that has emerged in the past ten years.

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There has been another important change in recent years.

Three years ago, a letter from the elders got the Ministry of Agriculture to immediately conduct an investigation, and secured national subsidies and comprehensive policy support, allowing the newly born god of agriculture to bloom quickly and fully.

At that time, Zhou Rui didn't have the connections he has now. A letter from the elder would save him a year or two at least.

So far, the number of "Farmers" nationwide has exceeded 200,000, basically covering most of the major planting areas. The "standardized agriculture" that the two people discussed at the beginning has gradually matured.

The elder once said that his super rice was grown by agriculturists, with a yield of 2,000 kilograms per mu, but ordinary people had to pay half the price. Now with the God of Agriculture’s "four-dimensional integration of medicine, fertilizer, management, and inspection", standardized planting technology has been implanted. Even ordinary farmers can achieve an output of 1,600 or even 1,700 kilograms, which undoubtedly gave the veteran a new round of work enthusiasm.

I feel like I can work for another ten years.

Sea rice is even more tenacious. There are no weeds in the saline-alkali land, and there are even very few insects. It is more suitable for the operation of "God of Agriculture".

Therefore, the elders have basically stayed in Lu Province in the past two years, and occasionally went to Qiong Province and Dong Province, all of which are coastal areas.

It was another busy day. In the afternoon, the God of Agriculture came in to topdress the fields, and no one was allowed to stand in the fields.

Zhou Rui simply climbed up the field ridge and hid in the shade of the God of Agriculture. He could avoid the sun and enjoy the cool breeze caused by the ups and downs of the drone.

He observed for a moment and found that this Saturn was actually one of the first two that he gave to the National Hybrid Rice Center. It was probably specially used to follow the elders to work everywhere.

The model is already old, so I will buy the veteran a new one later.

The green rice fields were stirred up and down one after another by drones, which seemed to make them feel particularly happy.

In addition, there is the sea in the distance, which looks picturesque.

Sea rice is not rice grown in the sea, but super saline-alkali tolerant rice that can survive in severely saline-alkali lands, tidal flats, and tidal lands.

Zhou Rui tasted the "red sea rice" that was served for breakfast at the hotel a few days ago. It was hard in texture and no more delicious than ordinary rice. If you like hard rice or japonica rice, it would be fine.

But the significance of this thing is not whether it tastes good or not, but to activate wasteland and increase the arable area.

After all, the country’s cultivated land area is 1.9 billion acres.

The country's saline-alkali land area is 1.5 billion acres.

Compared with the veteran's super rice, the strategic significance of sea rice is no different. Even if only one tenth of the saline-alkali land can be grown, it is a major breakthrough.

The elder came over with a cigarette in his mouth and his hands behind his back, pretending to be surprised: "Xiao Zhou, why are you still here?"

Zhou Rui was stunned: "Why, drive me away?"

"I just thought that you have many things to do, so don't waste them all on me."

"Then you should have said it early in the morning, instead of saying why you didn't mention it when I assigned the task in the morning after I had worked all day."

The elder said haha ​​and handed over a cigarette: "Huh? Really? Maybe I forgot, hahaha."

After Zhou Rui took it, he lit it with the elder's lighter and took a sip.

The elder said in surprise: "Have you learned to smoke?"

Zhou Rui: "That's right, but I smoke very little."

"how many?"

"Three cigarettes a year, I won't smoke what most people give me."

"Ahem, cough, cough, are you burning incense or smoking?"

"Singing incense is another matter. My rocket is called 'Jingtian No. 1'. Speaking of which, I fire more rockets than I smoke."

The old man and the young man just chatted and puffed away together.

As if he remembered something, a cheerful smile appeared on the elder's face.

"Last month, some young people from the Ministry of Agriculture came and told me that our self-sufficiency rate in food rations reached 123% and our self-sufficiency rate in grains reached 107%. What do you think of this?"

"Not only staple foods, but also vegetables, fruits, and cash crops have increased production to varying degrees. You, the God of Agriculture, are so awesome!"

Zhou Rui exhaled a breath of smoke with a smile: "It's not all the credit of the 'Farmer God', although it is indeed very impressive."

Infrastructure is getting better, food consumption capacity is increasing, technological levels such as drip irrigation, agricultural machinery, and chemical fertilizers are improving, and even the new generation of farmers are more educated, and they all play a role.

The god of agriculture only makes farming easier, more scientific, and more economically valuable.

At this time, the elder suddenly lowered his voice and whispered: "I heard people say that although you, the god of agriculture, sell well, you don't make any money?"

Zhou Rui nodded and said truthfully: "It's a loss."

"That's not appropriate. You should at least earn some money and don't feel embarrassed. If your company goes bankrupt, you won't have such good equipment in the future."

Zhou Rui laughed: "Don't worry! I make a lot of money elsewhere! The little I lost in Nong Shen, I'll just spend it~"

"Besides, the road to technology has been opened. Even if I fail or even die, the country will continue to support this route."

This is called "trace". If a person lives a lifetime and leaves a bright enough trace, countless people will follow and continue to move forward.

Just like the elders, hybrid rice is the trace of the elders' lives.

And Zhou Rui's situation is more complicated.

There are wheel tracks behind him.

Nong Shen worked quickly and finished the topdressing in a short while. The sun in the distance gradually set and turned into a big orange.

Zhou Rui still told the truth: "I will return to Jiaodong City in a while and take the plane back to Shanghai tomorrow morning."

Originally, he planned to leave today. I don't know if the elders knew in advance.

The elder nodded: "It's time to go back. If I tie you up in this kind of land, someone will blame me~"

"Who dares?"

"Your girlfriend! Hahaha~ Have you made any progress with those two girls last time?"

"Uh~ Neither of them"

The elder was talking about Lin Xiaoxiao and Guan Ge.

When they parted, Zhou Rui said: "You can come to Shanghai to find me when you are free. I will take you to the rehabilitation department of Zhongshan Hospital. There are my new technologies there, which will make you more energetic in farming."

"Are you a doctor now?"

"That's not it. I just have an acquaintance. Go and tell me my name. It's useful."

Not only the elders, but also the older senior Mi Sanlao, have not seen each other for a year. They can be called to Shanghai to strengthen their muscles and bones.

That night, Zhou Rui returned to Jiaodong and finally went to the lithium-sulfur battery laboratory and stayed there until the early morning.

When he left, he left a lot of research guidance, including key points from quantum reading, an important catalyst required for industrial production (from catalytic insights), and a design of the first generation of small and medium-sized lithium-sulfur commercial batteries for drones and smart devices.

Before leaving, Fan Zusong volunteered to tell Zhou's fortune to see if tomorrow's journey would be smooth.

Zhou Rui didn't care and let the old man fiddle with it for a while. As a result, he was probably too tired and didn't hold it firmly, so the hexagram plate fell to the ground. The hexagram plate, which had already cracked before, broke into two pieces.

Fan Zusong insisted that this was a bad omen, and Zhou Rui said that if you don't go back to rest, you may have to go to the hospital.

Then the next morning, he boarded the plane back to Shanghai.

Landed safely.