Gao Shibian said: "Although we can't raise the yield per mu from 70 kilograms to 2 or 300 kilograms, but from 70 kilograms to 100 kilograms, or even 120 kilograms, in this era, even without chemical fertilizers, it can still be done." ”

When Li Songchen and the others heard this, their eyes not only lit up, although they couldn't turn over the yield per mu a few times, but they could increase it by four or five percent, even if it was only one or two percent, it would be a good result, so Li Songchen immediately asked: "Mr. Gao, do you have any good ideas?"

Before speaking, Gao Shi glanced at Gao Shunxiang and said, "Dad, Uncle Liu, let's talk about it with your second elder, your second elder is more experienced in this matter." ”

Gao Shunxiang said: "Isn't it just composting? You two don't understand, it's not that you haven't done it, what do you want us to say." ”

Liu Chenghe also said: "Yes, composting is not a high-tech job, but in this era, to increase production, you can only rely on composting." ”

At this time, Li Songchen and the others also understood, and Li Songchen immediately asked, "What is composting?"

Recognized by the two old men, Gao Shize's enthusiasm increased greatly, and he explained to Li Songchen: "Minister Li, compost, also known as compost and decompost, is an organic fertilizer made by using animal and plant remains and excrement containing fertilizer components, plus soil and other minerals. ”

Liu Weizheng added: "Although natural fertilizer is not as good as chemical fertilizer, but the actual use is not less, in addition to the commonly used human and animal manure, bones, sludge, there are dead branches and leaves, food and feed, tree bark, crop stalks, weeds, stems, leftovers, garbage and even coal and carbon decanter, etc., can be used as natural fertilizer, but in addition to human and animal feces, bones, In addition to sludge, other natural fertilizers are not easy to be absorbed by crops, and need to go through some treatment, which can improve fertility and reduce losses, and at the same time can also transform the quality of the land to achieve the effect of increasing yield, but it is not as efficient as chemical fertilizers, and the yield is increased so much. ”

Li Songchen also nodded again and again when he heard this, and asked again: "What technology is needed for compost decomposition?"

Gao Shi smiled and said: "There is no technology, as long as you build a covered pond, and then it is enough to collect more natural fertilizer, of course, there is still a certain amount of attention to repairing the pond, and the ratio of compost types is also a little particular, some fertilizers can not be put together for fermentation, but it is not complicated, and the other is that when compost fermentation, a large amount of biogas may be generated, so good ventilation is required." After a pause, he said: "In the old time and space, although chemical fertilizers have been widely used, compost is still used, and what we usually call green food is actually compost, and we have built a compost factory on our farm, which is dedicated to producing compost." ”

Liu Weizheng said: "However, it takes a certain amount of time for the compost to decompose, generally at least about three months, so if you want to use it after the beginning of the year, then you have to start composting now." Like human and animal feces, bones, dead branches and leaves, weeds, stems, leftovers, garbage, etc., you should collect as much as possible, the more the better, and you also need some lime powder. ”

Li Songchen said: "This is easy to do, tomorrow we will go to the countryside, now the construction of the rural project is still underway, the materials are ready-made, we immediately start to build a composting plant, immediately start composting." As for how to build the composting plant, you two can just negotiate with the engineering staff. As for natural fertilizers, I will report to the Executive Committee that a special department will be set up not only to collect agricultural materials, but also to collect them in Tianjin City and Tianjin Concession. ”

At this time, Wang Sheng said: "Now that fertilizer, irrigation, and soil quality can be solved, what about preventing pests and diseases? ”

Gao Shi nodded and said: "This is a problem, but compared with the first three conditions, the impact of pests and diseases on agriculture is much weaker, because pests and diseases do not occur every year, and although there are no pesticides now, there are also some soil methods that can control pests and diseases, such as sprinkling lime powder is the most commonly used soil method." ”

Later, Li Songchen and others asked some other agricultural questions, such as cash crops, raising poultry, livestock, and so on, and the people from Gao and Liu's families also explained to them in detail one by one. Unconsciously they have talked for an afternoon, and Li Songchen and others can be regarded as taking a class on agricultural popularization, and they feel that they have benefited a lot.

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However, although Li Songchen planned to take people from Gao and Liu's families to the countryside early the next morning to conduct on-the-spot inspections and implement the construction of a composting plant, Li Songchen received a notice from the executive committee that early tomorrow morning, the heads of various departments would stay for a meeting to discuss the next work plan. Therefore, Li Songchen couldn't get out, so he could only let Zeng Dong and Wang Sheng and the people of Gao and Liu Er's families go to the countryside.

Fortunately, during this period of time, Zeng Dong and Wang Sheng have also shown good work ability and work attitude, so Li Songchen can also rest assured that this matter will be handed over to the two of them.

After all, after the victory in the defense of Tianjin, the military threat faced by the crossing group has been greatly reduced, and the Eight-Nation Allied Forces that have retreated to Beijing basically cannot pose any threat to Tianjin.

Although the military aspect has long been decided, and the next step is to attack Shandong and establish a long-term base area, Tianjin's construction and economic development have also been put on the agenda, and this aspect is Tianjin's needs. Because Tianjin is a city dominated by circulation economy, after the crossing group captured Tianjin, due to the heavy military pressure, it adopted a policy of complete blockade in Tianjin, which caused considerable losses to Tianjin's society and economy. Now that the military threat no longer exists, it has become a top priority to lift the blockade of Tianjin and start to develop the economy, and in addition, merchants, shops, and foreign firms from various countries in the Tianjin Concession have also tried all kinds of ways to actively lobby the crossing group to reopen Tianjin. Of course, they all swore that they would only do business and would never jeopardize the rule of the traversers over Tianjin.

On the one hand, the opening of Tianjin is also the need of the group itself, after all, after more than a month, despite the great success in the military, but the living materials of the group have also consumed most of the materials, in addition to the construction of Tianjin, so that the current group urgently needs a large amount of supplies, and the merchants of various countries in Tianjin are undoubtedly the best suppliers. Therefore, it is indeed necessary to lift the blockade of Tianjin and restore Tianjin's economic development, which has become the biggest topic of discussion at the meeting.

The construction and economic development of Tianjin have also allowed various departments to see the opportunity to fight for their own rights and interests, and some time ago, officials of various departments have been active to find allies, and it is time to play a role at this time.

The meeting lasted for three days, the first two of which were free speeches, with the responsible officials of each department presenting their proposals in the presence and being questioned by other departments and the Executive Committee.

On the third day, the five permanent executive members of the Provisional Executive Committee announced the results, because the current Provisional Executive Committee implements the responsibility system of the Five Standing Committees, so the results proposed by each department are decided by the five standing committees, and once announced, there is no room for change, and other departments can only accept it whether they want it or not.

First of all, the Fifth Standing Committee made a resolution to change the name of the Tianjin Concession to Tianjin New Area, and to establish the Tianjin New Area Government, and to change the name of Gordon Hall to the Government Administration Building. However, at present, the Ministry of Administration is responsible for the implementation of the former administrative management of Tianjin New Area. The scope of jurisdiction covers the entire Tianjin area.

It has been more than a month since the crossing group occupied Tianjin, and although a provisional executive committee and an administrative department have been established, these are the names of the institutions, and the current crossing group does not have an official name, and the concession area of Tianjin obviously can no longer be called a "concession". Therefore, the concession area of Tianjin was changed to Tianjin New Area, and the crossing group was also temporarily called the Tianjin New Area Government.

Although some people suggested that it was better to use the name of the autonomous region or the liberated area, the Fifth Standing Committee of the Provisional Executive Committee considered that the names of the autonomous region and the liberated area were still too sensitive, and this was almost a blatant attempt to pull the flag to create the Qing court. Later, after the establishment of a base area in Shandong, the name "new district" was also used.

Another resolution was that the army was officially named the Tianjin New Area People's Army, or People's Army for short. Because in the old time and space, the full name of the army was the Chinese People's Liberation Army, referred to as the People's Liberation Army, but like the name of the government, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, the word "people" in the original name was taken as the name of the army.

Of course, the name of the army is not without controversy, because the name of the People's Army is the same as the name of the army of a famous Juche-minded country in the old time and space, so it is also difficult for some people to accept, thinking that even if the name of the People's Liberation Army cannot be used, it can be called the new army, which is much better than the same as the army name of a famous Juche-thinking country in the old time and space.

Originally, after the First Sino-Japanese War, in order to strengthen the strength of the army, the Qing court ordered Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, Nie Shicheng, the governor of Zhili, Wen Chudao, Yuan Shikai and others to organize and train the new army, which was uniformly called the new army. One of the most famous new armies is Yuan Shikai's Tianjin Station, which was modeled on the German military system and formulated a set of army building programs for the organization and establishment of the modern army, the system of appointment and training of officers, the training and education system, the recruitment system, and the food and salary system, which was called the Beiyang New Army, which was the prototype of the Beiyang warlords in the old time and space.

Therefore, it is easy to confuse the New Army with the Beiyang warlords, so it is better to call it the People's Army, because it was originally named after the original name; second, the famous main ideological country did not exist in this era, and no one would know about it except for the traversers.