"Xiao Liang~ Thank you so much this time! If it weren't for you......" Xia Zhendong raised his glass and said to Liang Sanping with emotion. And Liang Sanping was in a trance for a while.

He recognized Xia Zhendong, and remembered that when he first came to Qiongdao, he rescued him and his son on the bus. The two of them had just returned from visiting relatives in their hometown when they were confronted by robbers in their car.

"Lao Xia, it's boring to say this again. I'm just doing a favor, that's what I should do. Nothing thankful for not thanking ......"

Looking at Xia Zhendong carefully, Liang Sanping felt a little trance. At this time, Xia Zhendong was not the face he was familiar with later, and Xia Zhendong at this time was heroic and bookish. It's like when I first saw him.

Liang Sanping shook his head, he felt like he was dreaming. Because just now at the wedding of my son, who got married in his thirties, how can I suddenly go back to decades ago?!

He glanced at the calendar on the wall not far away, and it read: August 25, 1979! In other words, Liang Sanping jumped back from 2013 to 34 years ago.

At this time, the scene in front of Liang Sanping made Liang Sanping both familiar and unfamiliar. After a moment of trance, he remembered. This is after he saved Xia Zhendong, he is making a record at the police station!

"Xiao Liang~ I heard Lao Xia talk about the car, and I was really scared at the time! I was worried that something was wrong, but luckily it didn't happen. We really have to thank you! It was Zhou Jianping who spoke, and Liang Sanping also recognized it.

Later, the two also had a lot of dealings. He is the person in charge of the third experimental area of the Baoting Hot Work Institute. This time, Xia Zhendong came to Baoting for the sake of their third experimental area.

"Comrade Xiaoliang, you are probably here to seek refuge with relatives this time, right?!" Hearing Zhou Jianping say this, Liang Sanping smiled embarrassedly.

It is not surprising that Zhou Jianping can guess it, everyone is having a hard time in this era. Most of those who have a way want to take refuge with their relatives. There is really not enough to eat in the countryside.

And on the farm, at least enough to eat. In 1979, a farm worker was thirty-eight yuan a month. plus the regional subsidy of four yuan and two in Qiongzhou, that is forty-two yuan and two cents!

In this day and age, this is not a small amount of money. Moreover, the workers also have 30 catties of food stamps per month. That's amazing! Although these food stamps will not be issued to you, and only when you go on a business trip or go home to visit relatives will the farm issue you a letter of introduction and exchange the food stamps for you, but this is also a great benefit.

In rural areas, not to mention food stamps, it is a big problem whether or not the rations can be full. Therefore, many people chose to defect to their relatives in state-owned enterprises during this period.

Even if you don't have an iron job that can hold a full-time job, even if it's a hired worker, it's good. I can eat a full meal. Liang Sanping still has his parents in his hometown, and his second brother is also at home.

The whole family pointed to that little bit to eat, and this year they "cut the tail of capitalism". You can't do some small business. The shops on the street are useless as decorations.

Fortunately, the second brother was a teacher in the high school, and the family was divided into poor peasants. It's a little better. But half of the eldest child eats the poor old man, and the older Liang Sanping gets, the more he eats.

The second brother got married, and the life of the family was even more difficult. So the family discussed it, and asked Liang Sanping to come to his eldest brother, Liang Daping, who settled down in Jianghai Farm.

"Alas...... The common people didn't have enough to eat, this is the mistake made by those of us who study agriculture......" Looking at Liang Sanping embarrassed, Xia Zhendong's face showed a trace of pain.

"Lao Xia, this is not a regional problem. Where is this not the case in the country now?! It's not something that one or two people can solve for a while, but at least we can see a little hope now......"

Liang Sanping smiled, but sighed in his heart. Fortunately, I didn't say anything about the political changes, but the problem of the political affairs of the month is a big problem this year. Although the turmoil of the decade has just passed and the domestic environment has loosened a little, this does not mean that you can talk nonsense.

"Don't talk about that! Lao Xia, you are an intellectual, why do you keep saying these things that we don't understand?! Walk around...... Come with me. Hahaha......"

Zhou Jianping warmly invited Lao Xia and Liang Sanping to dinner, and Xia Zhendong also felt that it was obviously a bit inappropriate to express this kind of emotion at this time. So he smiled apologetically and went out with Zhou Jianping.

When I came out of the police station, I could see that there were low triangular tile houses everywhere. The road is not the cement road of later generations, it is all a piece of loess covered with sand. At this time, the road maintenance team will often cover the road with yellow sand.

There weren't many people on the street, and the few who occasionally walked by were dressed in patched, pulped and whitish blue overalls.

From time to time, a few chickens, ducks, or sows run on the street. This is also a characteristic of Qiong Province, where the farm pigs are all free-range. So you can often see a very fat sow running around the street with herds of piglets.

Chickens, ducks, and pigs can be seen everywhere on the street, and everyone walks on the street as if nothing happened. And Zhou Jianping took Liang Sanping and Xia Zhendong into the jeep of the hot work center and went straight to the hot work center.

It's not far from the county, but it's only about ten minutes to a small restaurant in the hot office. In those days, there was no good decoration in the hotel.

Unless it is some foreign-related hotels, most of them are simply and casually painted on the white walls to be considered decoration. Not to mention the furniture, just a few wooden stools, a very simple square table, is a restaurant.

Everyone greeted each other for a while, and then started eating directly. This year, the things on the dinner table are very ordinary.

Even if it is to entertain officials like Xia Zhendong and others, it is only a small number of pitiful, and I don't know if there are two taels or minced pork belly. The rest is all greens, and the better ones are a plate of scrambled eggs and a small plate of peanuts.

Then two local wild vegetables, the location is also in the third district of the Pojeong Hot Works. Entertaining Xia Zhendong here, Zhou Jianping is still very embarrassed. I feel sluggish, but now he can't care about so much in this world.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors, Zhou Jianping sighed at Xia Zhendong and said: "Director Xia~ The incidence of albinism in our country is too high. Just this year, rubber production has been reduced by more than 20% due to albinism. ”

"We've tried a lot of methods, but in the end it's sulfur. But it doesn't work well! The General Directorate was very dissatisfied with our production cuts, and wrote many times about this matter. We have no choice but to be cheeky to beg your ......."

Rubber albinism?! Liang Sanping was happy when he heard this, as an old farmer. In particular, the cadres at the grassroots level are all too familiar with rubber albinism.

Albinism, which is a plant pathopathy. In a low temperature and humid environment, a large area of rubber tree leaves, shoots, shoots and inflorescences are attacked. This directly leads to the reduction of rubber production, and the strict zhòng will even lead to the death of rubber trees.

Therefore, this plant disease is extremely fatal for agricultural reclamation, which is mainly engaged in rubber production. However, at present, there are no very good prevention and control methods in China.

They are constantly spraying rubber trees with sulfur to try to defend against this germ. But firstly, this is extremely costly for sulphur, and secondly, the effect will vary with the climate change of the year.

For example, if the temperature is too low this year, and the humidity is too high, the leaves are not clean, and this disease is very easy to take advantage of. By the time you find out, the disease has spread widely.

The rubber is spaced so widely, and the trunk is high. You can't inspect every rubber tree. But once it is missed, then because of the density of planting, the entire rubber forest, and even the next rubber forest will be infected.

Sulfur powder...... Liang Sanping sighed helplessly in his heart, where can I use this thing?! When it rained, the sulfur powder was almost all gone. You're going to have to make up for it, which costs more and doesn't work very well. It can only be said that talking is better than nothing.

You must know that later Liang Sanping and they all used special e-liquid agents and machine qì to spray. Not only is it inexpensive, but it is also long-lasting. A hundred times stronger than sulfur powder.

"Old Zhou, it's not the first time we've dealt with each other. Truth be told, this problem right now isn't just our problem here. In fact, other rubber producing regions in the world are facing this problem. ”

When it came to business, Xia Zhendong put down his chopsticks and said to Zhou Jianping: "When I came this time, the first thing I wanted to do was to see the situation in Baoting on the spot. Secondly, it is also necessary to make a report and submit it to the General Directorate. ”

"It's not just our East Guangdong General Administration, in fact, the State General Administration is also extremely troubled by this matter. That's why the above will put so much pressure on us, and I hope that our research institute can make a breakthrough in this regard......"

Zhou Jianping smiled helplessly, he didn't know that this matter couldn't be solved at all. Even if it can be solved, it will not be done in a short time.

If it could be solved, the General Administration would not have left this issue undealt with until now.

For example, in 1976, China's rubber output was only 78,800 tons. In that year, China, as the third largest rubber consumer, consumed as much as 217,500 tons of rubber that year.

I can't make ends meet, and I can't make ends meet! What's even more troublesome is that the international rubber price that year suddenly rose from $1,000 per ton to $1,200 per ton!

That is, to meet the industrial needs of the country, then more than 100 million dollars will be needed to buy 138,700 tons of rubber!

At the same time, in 1976 the country's foreign exchange reserves were only $1.255 billion. More than 100 million US dollars, which is directly one-tenth of the country's foreign exchange reserves.

In 1976, what was the concept of more than 100 million dollars?! This year, the salary of a second-class worker is about forty-two yuan. The basic salary is thirty-eight yuan, and the total amount of the district subsidy can reach forty-two yuan. At the same time, the exchange rate of the US dollar against the yuan is 1 to 1.8.

100 million US dollars is equivalent to 180 million yuan, which is equivalent to all the wages paid by the country's 4.28 million workers for a month without eating or drinking. In that year, rice was 0.11 yuan per catty, which is equivalent to more than 800,000 tons of grain!

However, in that year, because of the large-scale outbreak of white point disease, the important domestic rubber producing areas of Qiongdao, northern Guangdong and Yunnan Province all had a large-scale reduction in production.

Under such circumstances, the Ministry of Agriculture was severely criticized from above. In desperation, the Ministry of Agriculture had no choice but to issue a military order that the problem must be solved within five years, at least to find a way to deal with it.

In fact, it is not to blame for the pressure on the Ministry of Agriculture. Steel, coal, petroleum and natural rubber are the world's four major industrial raw materials, and natural rubber is an indispensable resource.

Without it, many of our industrial R&D and production would come to a standstill. This includes medical, construction, mechanical, chemical, ...... Wait a minute. In desperation, the state can only take out the small amount of foreign exchange to buy a large amount of natural rubber to use it in the case of reduced domestic rubber production......

At this time, Xia Zhendong's arrival was an attitude of the ministry and the General Administration of Agricultural Reclamation.

"I'm here for the main purpose of dealing with this matter. This time, I'm just in the vanguard. After a while, the comrades of our research institute will arrive at Baoting together. When the time comes, we will set up a research group here to study how to deal with this problem......"

Hearing this, Zhou Jianping's heart finally let go. Now that the institute has taken over, then you can let go of your responsibilities. At that time, as long as the research institute researches it, isn't the hot work institute the first to make profits? !

"Lao Xia, can I say a word......" I don't know when, Liang Sanping, who was listening carefully, put down the chopsticks in his hand. Said to Xia Zhendong and Zhou Jianping.

The two of them were stunned, and Zhou Jianping was a little inexplicable. Indeed, your kid saved the lives of Zhou Jianping and his kid. But it's not like you can interject anything. This kind of technical stuff can't be bragged about. One is one, two is two!

It's a pity that Zhou Jianping didn't know at this time that in later generations, he always gave a thumbs up when he talked about his old friend Liang Sanping. Liang Sanping, who didn't know in the agricultural reclamation system at that time?!

Lao Liang was directly nominated by the Qiongdao Agricultural Reclamation System as one of the top ten outstanding young people, and was also recommended to the imperial capital for training. There are several projects of more than 100 million yuan in Qiongdao Agricultural Reclamation, and he is designated to handle them. In addition, he has made several technological innovations on his own. This has greatly advanced the rubber cutting time of Nongken, increased the yield, and increased a lot of economic benefits.

Speaking of which, who is not convinced by such skills?! It's a pity that this is the afterlife. The current Zhou Jianping doesn't think how powerful the young man in front of him is.

"Oh?! What do you think?! To be honest, Liang Sanping opened his mouth, which made Xia Zhendong a little unhappy. Xia Zhendong is from an academic technical background, and the one that learns technology is one and two is two.

There is no such thing as an intermediate number. Xia Zhendong is grateful to Liang Sanping for saving his son, but this does not mean that he will give up his principles for Liang Sanping. This is a technical problem, and even technicians like myself and their comrades are not sure of it.

Moreover, the country's research on leukogenesis is not a day or two. Since the onset of the disease in the late fifties, the state has been continuously studying this disease. I can't help it! In order to develop the already small foreign exchange reserves, they have been thrown out one by one, which makes people feel distressed.

However, this is not a problem that occurs in one area of Qiongdao, but in all regions of the world where rubber is grown. This is also a hidden pain that Xia Zhendong has been suffering from since he was a student.

Liang Sanping, a child who has just come out of the village, what else can he understand?! But Xia Zhendong still suppressed his anger, he felt that it was better to give Liang Sanping a face on such an occasion.

"Lao Xia, I know that my answer now is a little abrupt. But what I want to say is something I know......" Liang Sanping pondered for a while before turning to the two of them.

"I'm from Gui Province, and I didn't study again until I finished my high school. After that, I went to Yunnan Province to build the railway, and it took me about two years to repair the railway. When I came back, I caught up with the self-defense counterattack, and I did the militia support ......"

Seeing that Xia Zhendong seemed to be a little impatient, Liang Sanping put the chopsticks directly and said his answer: "Triazolone, hot fogger!" ”