At this time, it is the end of August and the beginning of September, because the Jiaozhou Bay area belongs to the marine climate, the hot summer is slightly dispersed, and the autumn breeze is rising, the climate is quite pleasant, and the midsummer is not over, the green still exists, so the mountains and forests are still a business scene. It's just that from the ridge in front of the township, although the crops are nearly ripe, but before the time to open the sickle to harvest, the autumn wind blows, and what is turned up is a green and yellow wheat wave and rice waves.

Xia Bohai, Qin Zheng, and Wang Yunpeng led a team of soldiers to inspect the Wangjiazhai Village Farm, and Gao Shi, the director of the farm, had already received a notice and led some farm staff to greet them at the gate of the farm.

Wangjiazhai Village Farm was established at the end of last year, and it has been more than nine months now, and it has been on the scale, and all the employees have reached more than 200 people, including 25 people who have traversed, and Gao Shi's family has 13 people, which is not Gao Shi's own family, because 6 of them are minors. In fact, although Gao Shize's family population is large, there are no people who eat idle food, and most of them have found jobs in various departments or factories and enterprises under the crossing group, including Gao Shize's 16-year-old niece Gao Qi and 17-year-old nephew Liu Tongjiang, who are now working as teachers in Hope School. However, their family is from a peasant background, so it is normal for more people to work on the farm. The farm opened by the crossing group in Tianjin is also run by people from this family, in addition to the four old people, there are also three relatives of the same generation as Gao Shize.

There are 42 families of native naturalized people settled on the farm, and 68 full-time employees, most of whom are the survivors of KPA soldiers who died in previous battles, and 200 prisoners of war. Just over a month ago, 65 families and 187 serving prisoners came to the farm, who turned out to be the leaders and key members of the landlords' alliance who participated in the attack on Menbu Village.

The 16 landlords who joined the landlords' alliance were arrested 14 people, including some of their relatives, and the masters, housekeepers, accounts, teachers, etc., who were attached to them, although the other two landlords ran away, but still some of their family members and relatives were arrested, and after the trial, except for the 36 people who were sentenced to death, the other 217 people were sentenced to hard labor, and the place of service was in the Wangjiazhai farm. Although their other family members were not affected, the crossing group considered that these landlords, their relatives, and dependents were all influential people in the local area, so they could not let their families remain in the local area, so they all moved to the farm to settle down, and they can be regarded as the staff of the farm.

Fortunately, at the beginning of the establishment of the farm, there was a plan to accommodate prisoners, and during the initial construction of the farm, 500 prisoners of war were requisitioned to work on the farm, and now the number has been reduced to 200, just as this group of hard labor prisoners was replenished. Together with the families of these prisoners, there is still a large number.

Gao Shi also arranged for this group of personnel, the prisoners were naturally held in solitary confinement, managed by the traversers, and participated in collective labor, and the families of the prisoners could be assigned a set of housing, but compared with the formal staff housing on the farm, the housing of the prisoners' families was much smaller, with only two rooms and a small utility room, of course, if there were children, the small utility room could also be converted into a small bedroom. Anyone over the age of 18 and under the age of 60, both men and women, are required to work, but they are entitled to one day off per week.

At the same time, in order to encourage prisoners and their families to work hard, Gao Shi made a provision that family members who perform well in their work can get the opportunity to visit their relatives once a week, of course, only in the evening, so as not to delay their work, and prisoners who perform well in their work can have the opportunity to go home and reunite with their families once a month. After serving their sentences, the prisoners can choose to return to their hometowns or become regular employees of Zhengcheng Farm, and their family members can also become regular employees if they have outstanding performance.

Of course, there are so many prisoners and prisoners, and the safety measures of the farm are also very important, and now the farm regularly garrisons a platoon of the People's Army, and the militia of Wangjiazhai Village also regularly sends a squadron to assist the farm in maintaining law and order, and if there is a major accident, the militia of Wangjiazhai Village will all rush to support immediately, so the safety of the farm is basically guaranteed.

Under the leadership of Gao Shize, everyone visited the farm, now the farm has a total of more than 800 acres of land, about the size of 10 football fields, the scale is not large, but all kinds of crops are very complete, most of the land is planted with food crops, including wheat and sorghum, a small amount of rice and corn, and a part of the vegetable field, planting a variety of vegetables and beans, at this time most of the grain and vegetables have matured, the growth is very prosperous, most of the rice, The wheat has grown to the waist height of the people, and the corn and sorghum have exceeded the top of the people, and more than ten acres of land have been avoided to plant fruits, mainly apples and peaches, at this time the fruits have also been ripe, and it is very gratifying to fall on the branches.

In addition to grain, vegetables and fruits, the farm has also carried out breeding industry, and now has a total of 15 horses, 21 cattle, 37 pigs, 51 sheep, 13 dogs, and more than 100 poultry such as chickens and ducks, and can receive more than a dozen chickens and duck eggs every day.

In addition, in addition to the planting and breeding industry, the agricultural infrastructure of the farm has also been carried out impressively, not only avoiding the horizontal and vertical canals, but also opening a special fertilizer accumulation area to cultivate fertilizer for the planting of the farm.

Everyone took a turn around the farm, and Gao Shi also introduced to them that at the beginning of the establishment of the farm, the old field was only 350 acres, all of which were used to grow grain crops, and the growth of this part of the crops was also the best in the whole farm, and Gao Shi expected that the yield per mu would exceed more than 30% of the local average yield; and the rest of the fields were newly cultivated at the end of last year, and the harvest at the beginning of this year was expected to only reach 5 to 60 percent of the local average yield, but this was already a considerable yield。

In fact, at this time, Wangjiazhai Farm has some fame in the countryside in this area, because the crops planted on the farm are very vigorous, far exceeding the cultivation level of other villages, which naturally aroused great interest in nearby farmers, people who farm the land know that it is not easy to increase the output of grain by one percent, generally speaking, if the wind and rain are smooth in a year, no insects and no disasters, the yield per mu can be increased by almost one percent, and everyone can see that the output of grain grown by overseas Chinese is definitely more than one percent, and today's climate can only be regarded as unsatisfactory, away from the wind and rain, no insects and no disastersThere is still a certain distance, so for Chinese farmers who depend on farming for a living, this is of course a huge attraction, what kind of farming know-how do overseas Chinese have, and can serve their crops so well.

Of course, some bright-minded farmers have discovered the secret of the fertilizer accumulation area, because the fertilizer used by overseas Chinese is transported from the fertilizer accumulation area, and it is not the manure or plant ash fertilizer that farmers are used to, obviously there is some secret formula. In this era, the Chinese peasants not only had little awareness of accumulating manure and rotting ripe, but also did not have enough manpower and material resources to engage in manure accumulation and rotting because they were also family units, and the big landlords only rented land and collected rent, and did not participate in land cultivation themselves, so they had little interest in improving cultivation technology, and naturally they would not engage in large-scale manure accumulation and rotting, and only a few small landlords or rich peasants, because they would participate in cultivation and have a certain amount of financial resources, had the motivation and ability to carry out special manure accumulation and rotting. The vast majority of farmers still rely on natural manure, and at most they can burn some herbaceous ash or dig out some sludge or something.

In addition, there is an attractive place is the mechanized production of the farm, when the farm was established, the executive committee specially pulled out six construction machines to the farm, and transformed two of them into a floor plougher, one into a sprinkler, the remaining one dumper, two excavators, so the farm is now actually a semi-mechanized production, and the mechanized work efficiency is naturally very amazing, the work efficiency of a machine is often more than 100 people, but also let the farmers marvel, which is even more amazing than the planting technology of the farm.

Nearby farmers will come to the farm to see the production of the farm, the growth of crops, and the mechanical work, after returning back, they have become the talk of the village, for other farmers to talk about, and even derived a lot of legends, some legends even say that the traveler is a god, saying that they use overseas secret methods to farm, and some say that they use immortal magic to farm.

And Gao Shi also took advantage of the situation, specially organized two visits to the farm by nearby farmers, and told them the tricks of farming, including some compost rotting knowledge, most of the farmers who visited were veterans of farming, so they understood the truth as soon as they heard it, to put it bluntly, overseas Chinese have no special tricks, in the final analysis, it is still fertility to be enough. It's just clear that it's understandable, but it's impossible for them to specialize in composting and rotting like a farm, because with the strength of the family, it is impossible to compost and rot on a large scale, even if it is done a little bit during the slack period, at most it is only enough for ten days, only to the scale of the farm, there are enough manpower and material resources, and there are special people who are responsible for pushing fertilizer and rotting.

In addition, the farm does not only manage its own one-third of an acre of land, but also helps other villages to do some things when they have free time. Of course, during the year, the amount of infrastructure construction on the farm was very large, so there was not much help for other villages, mainly to give some surplus fertilizer to other villages, or to lend cattle to other villages for use, and the main thing was to help Wangjiazhai Village dig two new canals to increase the irrigation of the fields. But that's it, it has also won a lot of praise for the farm and the crossing group, and it is in Wangjiazhai Village, where the villagers are almost dead set on the crossing group.