Yang Mingzhi nodded: "So the potatoes sown in February are inhibited due to the cold, and we have sown roots on the newly cultivated land in March, so that when the harvest is harvested in May, we can also harvest in March?" ”

Salinchkin nodded: "Of course, however, these thumb-sized potatoes are also edible." www.biquge.info Especially in Siberia, where the cold is even colder, potatoes don't grow much, and the locals eat them this size. ”

Yang Mingzhi knew a little about this matter, in that plane, that is, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, because of the good relationship with the new Russian Federation, travel to Russia gradually became normalized. Chinese tourists visit many regions, such as the Irkutsk region, and especially Listvyanka on the shores of Lake Baikal.

One of the local dishes is the small potatoes, which are not as big as a ping-pong ball, and they are really funny and cute compared to the huge Dutch potatoes.

If potatoes could grow to football, then most of the best ones?! It's a pity that this is too impractical, deep in this high latitude of Belarus, potatoes will grow to the size of a fist at most. Think about his wife's clenched pink fist, and then look at the big bunch of small potatoes in front of him, it is really disproportionate.

As Salinchkin says, there is nothing wrong with eating this potato.

Thinking of this, Yang Mingzhi had to mention important matters. Standing up, he faced everyone and said, "Comrades, one thing you must know is that there is not much left of the old potatoes produced last year in our current grain warehouse!" I saw that the cafeteria was still serving, and it was raining, so I was really worried that the rest would get damp and sprout. ”

"You don't have to worry about this!" Lyudbalev said: "I have already led Comrade Salinchkin to the warehouses in our village, including those near Montenegro. The rain protection is very good, especially the caves dug up on the dirt slopes, which are a great place to store food! ”

"I hope so! I hope so. Yang Mingzhi couldn't help patting his chest.

He looked like a stone in his heart had fallen to the ground, and Lyudbalev asked again: "What's the matter, deputy division commander, could it be that you have been worrying all the time, because of this rain, our food is threatened?" ”

"Of course! Of course! After all, it's raining today, so it's going to be a few days away! If the last of our remaining potatoes sprouted and produced so many harmful substances and then the soldiers forcibly ate them, it would only add pressure to the hospital! ”

"Don't worry, it's impossible for a soldier to eat potatoes that sprout and turn green."

"But what about ordinary residents? This is their staple food! At the moment our flour reserves are for the army, others can only be fed with potatoes. At present, the villagers have completed their daily work and received exchange vouchers to exchange potatoes, if they are given green ones, it will not only hurt people's feelings, but also their bodies, as well as Novgomel's future life and battles! When he said this, Yang Mingzhi was obviously excited and felt out of shape.

This calmed down: "I'm sorry, but the issue of food is so important. According to wartime regulations, flour was almost exclusively supplied to the army and related personnel, and ordinary people could only use preserved potatoes. Now the soldiers eat bread for all three meals, and potatoes have become vegetables. Ordinary people eat the same, and the last potatoes in the stock are all for the villagers. If we end up giving them something green, we can only plant it all in the ground. ”

Salinchkin squinted, and the words of this Chinese reminded him. "Comrade Berekov, regarding the exchange voucher you presided over, this is actually not quite in accordance with the regulations. But the rules are also set by people, as long as it is beneficial to life and fighting, I think it is fine, and this voucher really changes the laborious work of counting work.

I know that this voucher you have set up can also be exchanged for bread, but you are also very aware that today it is not only our Novgomel, but in the whole of the Soviet Union, flour is indeed a military and supply city. In the countryside, people can only eat these potatoes. Worse, the potatoes may not be enough. ”

Salinchkin is not the kind of robot who can only carry out Stalin's orders, he also has some ideas and opinions of his own.

Now the German army is still in a tug-of-war with the Soviet army on the Vyazma line, the siege of Leningrad is still continuing, only on the southern front, the Soviet army counterattacked near Kharkov, and a force landed from the Kerch Peninsula. Even so, the Soviet Union lost the most fertile Ukraine, losing most of its sugar- and wheat-producing regions, as well as nearly half of its population.

To make matters worse, men between the ages of 20 and 28 were originally drafted into the army. The war came to this field, and the rest of the population, men from sixteen to sixty years old, were on the conscription program.

When men are fully recruited, young women take the place of men. There was a massive eastward migration of the state-owned factories, and as the workers also went to join the army, women and children took the place of male workers. The women's liberation movement, which had been carried out since the founding of the Soviet Union, had achieved initial results in this war. Operating a machine is not a purely manual job, and a woman can completely replace a man. Even many children have become military workers.

In agricultural production, the men of the collective farms went to war with guns, and the women and men took up hoes. The best land was occupied by the Germans, and the rest of the eastern people could only grow potatoes and a small amount of wheat.

Salinchkin was well aware of what was happening in the Soviet Union, where every family made great sacrifices under the singing and weeping war of the whole people. The women and children cultivated the land, and even though the potatoes were very productive, the vast majority of the harvest was supplied to the army, and only the most basic rations were given to the remaining collective farm workers.

And farming is manual work, mechanization was achieved in only a very few areas of the USSR, and now the situation is even worse! For example, the famous Stalinnets tractor, which no longer hung a heavy plough to efficiently reclaim the land, but went to pull heavy artillery. The work of clearing the land and digging the potatoes is just like what the residents of Novgomel will do in the coming harvest season - digging up the soil and digging the potatoes out by manpower.

These are all things outside, Yang Mingzhi knows that the Soviet people sacrificed more than 20 million people for this war!

More than 20 million people, and that's just a cold statistic. Behind this data are more than 20 million tragedies!

Salinchkin didn't care about the rain hitting his feathers, standing in the field he felt more grounded. "I have been working in the Ministry of Internal Affairs for a long time, I have been given a lot of power and more responsibilities. It should not be for villagers who are engaged in heavy physical work to continue to nibble on potatoes from half a year ago, risking poisoning and diarrhea. So, exchanging vouchers for bread, how can we not support it?! ”

Yang Mingzhi hurriedly asked: "What Comrade Commissioner said just now is that he fully supports the exchange of coupons for bread?" ”

"That's when it's hot! Since there is no need to eat the sprouted or green potatoes anymore, I think it is better to cut them up and bury them in the ground. As for the problem of not having enough to eat at one time, there is of course only one solution, and that is to let the villagers eat bread! Villagers who participate in heavy physical labor should indeed eat bread! Only by eating bread can we have the strength to continue cultivating the land! ”

"But the questions that come with it are also very acute!" Yang Mingzhi kicked up and said: "The flour airdropped by the superiors this time supplies more than 30,000 people to eat, and now it is almost 40,000 people!" Every day, refugees are found and brought to us. ”

"I know what you mean, Comrade Berekov. Looking through the information, I learned that you ordered large-scale fishing last year, which really alleviated the problem of food shortages. Fishing can also continue now, and there is one more point. As he spoke, Salinchkin pointed to the forest near the farmland. This rain is really timely! When the rain passes, mushrooms will grow next to every tree, and last year you also engaged in cave farming, the idea is good but not realistic. Do mushrooms still need to be farmed? In a few days we will have a great mushroom harvest! ”

"And such a good thing?!" Yang Mingzhi was stunned for a while, and then suddenly realized, and he was excited and happy. "Comrade Salinchkin, I never expected that you would still be a real agriculturist! With you, I will no longer have to worry about the troops, but the food problem of the whole of Novgomel! ”