The sapper shovel cuts through the ground and makes various sounds after colliding with hard objects. The soil dug up www.biquge.info the pen "Fun" Pavilion was sifted through a basket by the black man next to him. The big boulders have long been removed, and the small gravel has been picked out. The resulting soil is mixed with vermicompost and backfilled into a large rectangular pit dug in the excavation.

There were not just two new plots of land, but hundreds of acres of land in the city of Pretoria were turned into vegetable gardens. Needless to say, the cabbage of Yilonglong has begun to grow. Tomatoes, eggplants, cabbage, cucumbers, loofahs, some of these vegetables have already sprouted, and some are starting to be put on the shelves.

Lieutenant Zhong Liang wore a scarf around his neck and led a group of black brothers to push the cart. The cart was loaded with a large amount of vermicompost. He thought that vermicompost should be stinky. Unexpectedly, those things mixed with human feces and various fallen plant branches and leaves, grasses and soil, after being digested by earthworms, turned into granular vermicompost dung, not only did not have the slightest smell, but when it smelled under the nose, there was actually a fresh smell of plants that could not be described.

Then Lieutenant Zhong Liang's genes as the inheritor of the agricultural country couldn't help but become active, and he had an impulse to 'it would be nice to be a farmer in this vast land'.

When he led a group of blacks to carry the latest batch of vermicompost and improve the soil in the sweltering heat of the March summer in South Africa. The lieutenant ran to take a shower, then returned to his lodgings to continue taking notes.

“…… Productive forces are the driving force for social development, and the day before yesterday the party committee held a meeting, and everyone again linked the recent events with the basic theory. When the head of the East African administrative region told us that the problem of staying in Pretoria for a long time was not the food that arrived at certain intervals. As long as there is a strong escort force, food can always be brought in. The problem lies in the supplementation of these vitamins with vegetables. Vegetables are not easy to store, and domestic battles rely on canning. There is probably no hope of providing enough canned food in this part of Africa, so we need to grow our own. So the troops escorted agricultural experts ......"

“…… Airplanes can do reconnaissance, we all know that. For more than a month, the plane has taken on the task of dropping vegetable seeds to us, which is really much beyond our expectations......"

Describing his latest feelings, Lieutenant Zhong Liang suddenly had a doubt in his heart. Is he really facing war now? When he first arrived in Africa, he thought it was a terrible wilderness. Everything is too far away from the civilization represented by China, food, shelter, and behavior, African natives are not the same as Chinese. The group of Portuguese in Mozambique that Lieutenant Zhong Liang had come into contact with was probably more similar to the Chinese, and when the Gem Wine Group dealt with the Portuguese, Zhong Liang felt that those talents were the closest group.

Now leading the black brothers to work, although there are many dissatisfaction with these black brothers, but the black brothers driven by the military organization just don't understand agriculture, and they are actually not too bad at doing farm work. This work of reclamation requires only the accumulation of labor, and the discipline of the army as an organization ensures that the Black Brotherhood provides the amount of labor as required. As long as Zhong Liang, as a manager, does not have unrealistic illusions about the labor of the black brothers, the overall effect is not bad.

Recalling the experience of storing Chinese cabbage and cabbage with his parents and neighbors in winter, Zhong Liang couldn't help but smile a little. I didn't expect that these actions of life could be applied in war. The Boers outside the city had great field skills, and they were all good at riding horses and coming and going like the wind. He can make full use of the terrain when he dismounts to fight, and although it is not as systematic as the infantry combat technology of the Liberation Army, he can be regarded as an opponent. So the Zulu army chose to hold on, first attracting the Boer forces to the vicinity of Pretoria, and then fighting the Boers when winter came.

Thinking of the decisive battle, Lieutenant Zhong Liang suddenly remembered the teacher's words when he was undergoing speech training, "You don't care about the expressions of the audience below, you feel that the cabbage below is all cabbage, and you are speaking to a group of cabbage." ”

At this time, Zhong Liang didn't want to give a speech to anyone, he just felt that in winter, was the cabbage in the vegetable garden harvested more, or the harvest on the battlefield was more? It's a tiring question to think about.

After his record was over, Zhong Liang went to dinner. After a busy day during the day, he should have eaten a lot at night, but when he thought of vegetables, Zhong Liang found that he had lost interest in the same food. It's just rice, tapioca porridge, and vitamin-supplemented raisins and dried fruits. Including canned meat from Madagascar. None of these things are for the sake of taste, and in the corner of knowledge learned from the military academy, the role of these things is to supplement nutrition and eliminate hunger. Not only does it have nothing to do with food, but it is also useless to relieve tension.

It seems that Zhong Liang is not the only one who has this thought, and all the people who eat don't look interested. The Black Brothers are quick to be noisy, and now they are all very disciplined and silent. After eating his own things, Lieutenant Zhong Liang washed the dishes and went to the party meeting.

When the army sent in vegetable experts, they also sent in political commissars. At the same time as the East African administrative region reorganized its armed forces, it was also improving the party committee system. The Liberation Party demanded that there be meetings of party members wherever there were three members, and the Zulu troops consisted of fifty Chinese, twelve of whom were members. Not only 12 party members, but all 50 Chinese attended the meeting. The black brothers and the Chinese do not understand the language, and everyone is still willing to chat and talk with the Chinese themselves, rather than trying to communicate with the black brothers difficult and ineffective.

The initial content of the meeting should generally be the study of the documents of the organization, and the comrades in the encirclement do not have this condition. So it becomes a direct discussion of the latest questions from each department and answers each other. Zhong Liang originally thought that the new political commissar was skillful in doing this. Unexpectedly, after more than a month of execution, he gradually got used to doing this.

Everyone in the army is responsible for a small part of the work, and the very fact that they are notified to each other gives everyone an idea of the operation of the entire army. For example, when a front-line combat unit encounters a logistical problem, of course, it instinctively scolds the logistic personnel. However, after the front line department and the logistics department held a meeting together, and after discussing the problem in detail, Zhong Liang found that the logistics department was not lazy, nor did it deliberately fail to work. The situation on the front line is changing rapidly, and the content that frontline troops feel they need most is also constantly changing.

It's normal to think that every new idea you have needs to be done as quickly as possible. But it's not normal to really think that this idea will come to fruition right away. After many discussions at the party committee meeting, everyone still felt that it was normal to have an idea of self-centeredness, but everyone finally admitted that such an idea was not normal in the operation of the army.

Zhong Liang was very impressed by this matter, because thinking about the problem with self-centeredness is not just for logistics, or even just for military work. Zhong Liang found that he looked at the world with such an attitude most of the time, and the reason why he didn't feel it so strongly in other places was just because he himself felt that he had contributed a lot when he was fighting on the front line, so he was qualified to speak loudly.

After getting this feeling, Zhong Liang felt that he had grown a lot, and the problems that had plagued him for a long time had been solved at the party meeting. It made him feel much better about the party meeting.

When it was Zhong Liang's turn to speak, Zhong Liang talked about the relationship between productivity and vegetable planting. He did not simply praise China's high level of vegetable planting, nor did he simply praise the high level of Chinese experts. He was speaking from an operating cost perspective. Vegetables are needed to provide more comprehensive nutrition in the encirclement to ensure more efficient combat. To this end, information is provided by radio and vegetable seeds are provided by the Air Force. So looking at the whole thing as a matter of just a few telegrams, in fact, what is behind this is the productive forces that China has.

When the political commissar heard this, his face showed joy, and he was originally only ordered to come and organize the party building. Have taken enough courses, received enough training, and have some training experience. The capabilities of the commissar are also nothing more. However, after some party committee activities here, he himself was often moved by the content of the discussion. For example, Zhong Liang's view actually refers directly to theory.

Therefore, the political commissar said with uncontrollable excitement: "Productivity refers to the power that occurs in the process of production of material materials by combining laborers with certain production experience and labor skills with the means of production they use, that is, the ability of human beings to conquer and transform the natural world in the process of production and obtain material materials suitable for their own needs." It is the relationship between man and nature in the production process. And the strength of our country is our production relations. The state compulsorily studies and educates everyone through the Compulsory Education Law. And the education itself is a huge investment. For example, our teacher Weng, who has been available in agricultural school for several years. If it was before liberation, these years of learning would be enough for a doll to become a father from birth. Mr. Weng, can you tell us about the situation? ”

Mr. Weng is an expert in vegetables, he has a tanned dark face, and he is used to wearing a straw hat on his head on weekdays. Naturally, he didn't have to bring such a big thing with him to the meeting, and after taking off his hat, his hair still couldn't recover from the flattened state. So it's a little funny to look at. Of course, no one will laugh at this agricultural technician for this. A comrade who grows vegetables dares to enter the encirclement, and this courage alone makes these soldiers feel admired.

Scratching the pieces of hair with his hand, Teacher Weng said with some embarrassment: "We had a short school time at that time. Four years of elementary school, three years of junior high school, and three years of high school. Three years of college. That's only 13 years in total. However, we still have two years of internships at our school, so it adds up to 15 years. It's not the same as the school now. ”

Talking about the recent school system, everyone immediately became interested, especially those comrades who have babies in their families. "Now elementary school is said to be going to be five years. It will take 16 years to finish. Children start school at the age of 6 and graduate at least 22 years old. At the age of 22, there are already several children in the countryside. ”

"Even when Mr. Weng was a teacher, he went to school at the age of 5 and had to be 20 when he graduated. By the way, Mr. Weng, did you stipulate the age of marriage when you got married? ”

"Not to mention the usual age, just the 16 years of school life, in the former countryside, it should also be the age of becoming a biological baby."

"It's not just a male baby getting married late, and a female baby is too. My sister wants to go to graduate school after she gets into college. She also said that she was going to get a doctorate. If you go up and down like this, you probably have to go up to the age of 30 and not graduate. While going to school, I got married at the same time. This life is all about going to school! ”

"It's the same in the factory. There is a saying in our factory that women are used for men and men are used for livestock. Now what is the new work organization model, I heard that a coal shoveling worker can shovel ten tons of coal a day. It scares people to death just by listening to it. ”

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Just listening to what the participants are discussing, one might think that they are not on the battlefield, but on the side of the street chatting after dinner. It is impossible to hear that they are at war. Perhaps it is precisely because they are in the midst of war that these people are reluctant to discuss the war outside, and the soldiers understand the war, so the soldiers who have experienced the war do not like the war.

After everyone talked about it, the political commissar felt that he could not let these people continue the discussion so confidently. The commissar first quieted the comrades, and then said: "The changes of the moment testify to a significant change in the previously simple model. Before I came this time, the Party Committee discussed the articles on 'incremental economy' and 'stock economy' put forward by Governor Wei Zedu. The article says that in our era of industrialization, more and more people will buy all kinds of products that are needed by the people. It's like the old radio. At that time, everyone's half-month's salary was only enough to buy a radio, but this did not stop everyone's enthusiasm for buying a radio at all. There are more and more radios, and this is called the incremental economy. Now every house has a radio, and the radio is getting more and more varied, and the price is getting lower and lower. Do you think it's strange? ”

In this way, a group of comrades also feel that there is such a problem. I used to hear my parents say that it would take half a month's or even a month's salary to buy a radio. And after they became soldiers, they could buy more than five radios with a month's salary. In terms of weight and listening clarity, today's radios are much better than those of the past. The comrades looked at the commissar in the hope that the commissar would explain the problem.

"Because the need for radios in society has reached its peak, and the manufacturers of those radios themselves have to produce them every day. There are many people who have two or three radios in one home now. And one radio per person is the limit, even if a person has two radios, is there still someone who wants to listen to the content of two radios at the same time? The commissar explained with a smile.

Everyone also thinks it makes sense, but they don't understand that this has a gross relationship with the so-called stock and incremental economy. And the commissar also pulled back the topic, explaining: "The incremental economy is the stage of increasing demand. Just like the Zulus are not quite at the point where they have one rifle per man. From no rifle to one rifle per person, it is an incremental economy. At this time, as long as the product can be produced, it can be sold. The incremental economy is different, everyone has a rifle and a radio. If you buy a new one, either the old one is completely broken, or the new one is much better than the old one. We have to change to a new rifle every once in a while, which is the stock economy. There are no new rifles, no delay in the war. But with the new rifle, the battle was fought better. Both processes are suitable for most social situations. ”

After hearing this, Zhong Liang quickly said: "Is there a solution first, and then solve it, okay?" ”

After saying this, some people nodded again and again, feeling that Zhong Liang said what was in everyone's hearts. Of course, some people looked at Zhong Liang with slightly jealous eyes, thinking that this guy had stolen the limelight and made people feel unhappy.

Of course, the political commissar didn't care about this, he nodded with satisfaction, "Let's go back to the previous topic, why the productivity level is high, is because we have solved the problem." The question of whether it is good or not is being solved. We have airplanes, we have telegraphs. A few telegrams and a few flights can bring the vegetable seeds and earthworms we need from thousands of miles to the front line. And those of us who are able to lead these black brothers to produce vermicompost and improve the soil, grow vegetables, and even hope for a good harvest. I don't mean to look down on the black brothers, but we must say that if they had only made their own efforts, it would not have been possible to do this at the front in any case. Therefore, the training of the cadre contingent is a very important task. ”

"Is cultivating cadres a leading group that has mastered advanced productive forces?" Zhong Liang felt that this meeting was very good, and he also knew that he had to study well and get good grades in order to have a chance to be appreciated by his superiors and have a chance to climb up. After this discussion, he found that the level of awareness of the issue had increased even more. At least he felt that when the war was over, at least he had some confidence to try to become a mayor in a black village or something. Before the war, there was such propaganda in the army, but few responded. No one wants to go to a black village to be the village chief, and they don't know what to do in front of a group of black brothers who don't understand the language.

"It's not just cadres. It's party members, cadres! The political commissar corrected Zhong Liang's words. The Liberation Party itself means privileges, and if you just want to be a civil servant, there is no problem if you don't join the party. If you want to be promoted within the civil service, becoming a party member is one of the necessary factors. Recently, however, there has been limited interest in joining the party, because the competition in the civil service system is so fierce that everyone feels that being a party member in a company is actually useless. Seeing that it is very likely to vigorously develop party members in this encirclement, the political commissar felt that this was quite an unexpected joy.