"Sweet potatoes? We can't grow that thing here!"

An old cropper man who was a little old and missing two front teeth came over with a hoe, and after listening to Lin Quan's question, he shook his head, indicating that sweet potatoes were not suitable for cultivation here. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Isn't the sweet potato seed alive? This thing is very adaptable!"

Lin Quan was a little strange, the old farmer smiled, and said: "This is the river meander, and the cultivated land next to it looks very flat and wide, but this is actually saline-alkali land, and many things cannot be planted, and the sweet potato you said is also included in it, and when the soil salt content exceeds 0.2%, it is not suitable to plant sweet potatoes." ”

Lin Quan was taken aback! This peasant uncle is so powerful!

What surprised him was not the fact that sweet potatoes could not be grown, but that this guy who looked like a bad old man still had so much knowledge, and he even remembered the requirements of sweet potatoes for soil salinity, who was this person?

"Old man, may I ask your honorable name!"

Lin Quan's attitude became respectful, he took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket, took out one and handed it to the other party, the old farmer saw that this box of cigarettes was a good local cigarette, his eyes lit up, and he took it unceremoniously, Lin Quan hurriedly lit a fire for him.

"My name is Ackerman, and that guy knows me!"

Ackerman stretched out his hand and pointed, Lin Quan looked back, and found that he was referring to Steiger, and his heart suddenly became curious, it seems that these two guys knew each other before!

Got the insider?

"Sir, do you mean Steiger? He's from the Ministry of Agriculture, but he works at Agadez, how do you know him!?"

Instinctively, Lin Quan felt that there was some secret between the two of them, because he saw that Steiger seemed to be a little resistant and repulsive to this Ackerman, and he was reluctant to come over, but Ackerman didn't seem to care, it seemed that Steiger's did something sorry for Ackerman, and Lin Quan made up in his heart.

"Well, it's this stinky boy! This kid wasn't in the north when he was young!"

When he was young, Lin Quan glanced at Steiger, although he had known Steiger's for a long time, he really hadn't asked Steiger's age, it looked like he should be around thirty years old, right?

So when did Ackerman say when he was young?

"Seems to have a story in there?"

Lin Quan doesn't think it's a big deal to see the excitement, and he is not dissatisfied with Steiger, but he has some opinions on the attitude of the Nigerien government.

"Story!?hehe, I don't have any story to tell between him and me!"

Lin Quan just showed a disappointed expression, and Ackerman continued: "But I actually have a lot of friendship with his master!"

With a reminiscent expression on his face, he put down the hoe he was carrying on his shoulders, put his hands on the hoe, and said slowly: "This has to start from more than 20 years ago, when we all worked in the Ministry of Agriculture, his master and I were colleagues and friends, and we did a lot of things together......

"Later, after the country because of the war, the government was shattered, and a few of our old guys retreated, Steiger this kid came up during that time, and we still contributed to this matter, but this guy did a lot of things after he went up and disagreed with our opinions, his master died of illness because of this, and I also left Niamey, hiding here as a farmer who keeps to himself, which can be regarded as a seclusion!"

The old man spoke calmly and told the story again.

It turns out that this is the case, and there doesn't seem to be any too grandiose plot, is the conflict between him and Steiger because of disagreement? So where did they disagree in the first place?

"Actually, it's nothing, the main thing is that we think that large-scale farms are no longer possible, and the work in the north should be mainly to prevent overgrazing, protect existing plants, try to avoid continued soil erosion, and then increase the use of groundwater, arrange planned farmland along the banks of the river, reduce the population of the north, reduce the pressure on the environment, these are the right things!"

Lin Quan nodded, if these measures can be implemented, the environment in the north may be greatly improved, but after Ackerman's words came out, Lin Quan felt that this was just talk on paper, and it was impossible to implement it at all, because there was no environment and conditions for implementation at all.

Sure enough, as soon as the old man finished speaking, Steiger retorted: "How can this kind of thing be decided by a little person like me? The people above have decided the work policy, how to work has already been arranged, I can only do it according to their requirements, what can I do to change something?"

Steiger blushed, apparently holding back for a long time before he said this.

Lin Quan frowned, rolled his eyes, and said to the old man: "Mr. Ackermann, it seems that what Steiger said is right! In fact, if you have any ideas about this matter, you should directly reflect your opinion to the government!"

Seeing Lin Quan's words to defend himself, Steiger glanced at him gratefully.

"Isn't he just a government employee? Didn't I react the same way as him? We, who have no status, go to see those officials, where will they be willing to see us? Even if they see us, will they care about what we say?"

Belch...... It seems to be true...... Lin Quan is out of line, and the conflict between the two seems to be going to continue.

However, Ackerman is the kind of person who has the ability at first glance, since this dry land is saline-alkali land, he can still grow so many crops here, and he can also plant them all alive, this kind of ability Lin Quan thinks that if he changes to himself, it is estimated that it will be difficult to complete, even if he holds the two major artifacts of the system and the ancient jade in his hand.

It's a waste of talent to let this old man farm here, no, you have to think of a way to get him out to do things.

Lin Quan's eyes rolled, and suddenly he thought of something.

"Mr. Ackerman, you have lived here for such a long time, you must know the dust weather in Niamey, we are recently preparing to plant a sand-proof forest in the north to protect the capital Niamey from the impact of winter sandstorms, I don't know if you have any good locations to provide us!"

In fact, Lin Quan wanted to ask him to go out of the mountain to help plant trees, Lin Quan couldn't put too much energy into the south, his farm was in the north, he would have to go back to the north sooner or later, this time he actually came out to make extra money, earned money, and things had to be done, and in the case that he couldn't stay here for a long time, find a reliable person to check it, this matter would be much simpler, and Ackerman entered Lin Quan's eyes in this way.

"There is actually an outlet in the direction you came before, and that location should be the best, but there is a small basin in that place, which was originally a reservoir we dug, but then the quicksand flow under the reservoir ran away, so it dried up, and it should be feasible for you to plant trees in that location!"

Lin Quan nodded, sure enough, there was still no other good place, and he was not disappointed in his heart, in fact, it can be seen from the satellite earth that the terrain in this area is indeed no good place.

"Mr. Ackerman, that's right, we would like to ask you to come out and help us with this work, I believe that with your experience and ability, such a thing can definitely be done!"

Ackerman refused without thinking about it, "No, no, how can it work? I'm such a big old bone, I can't do it!"