Chapter 306: Cold Wave and Spring Drought

The plan of the year lies in the spring.

In the early spring, everything comes back to life, the willow branches bloom with buds, and the weeds sprout new green.

Just when Huaxia was working hard to accumulate and digest all kinds of knowledge and skills in preparation for this year's great development, in the far north, a super strong cold air was rapidly advancing southward on a large scale like a tide.

Wherever the cold wave went, the temperature dropped dramatically, dropping below zero overnight in most parts of the north.

The cold wind is howling, the snow is flying, and the mountains and rivers are frozen.

Crops that have begun to sprout sprouts gradually wither at extremely low temperatures until they die completely.

Although this cold wave was not as ferocious as the one that occurred more than ten years ago, the time when it swept through the Central Plains brought a huge crisis to the Wei State.

Most of the grain seeds planted in the cantonment fields on the border have frozen to death, and all the military cantonments in the north are destined to have a large-scale reduction in output this year.

Although there may be a large-scale reduction in production in the military camps, as the country's border force, they must do everything possible to ensure their minimum subsistence food in order to cope with the raids of the northern nomads who may move south at any time due to natural disasters.

But the resettlement of displaced people is different, their harvest should be divided with the state, those who use official cattle, the official six and the people four, and those who use private cattle, the official and the people.

As the owners of the land, the government's share is calculated according to the income of a normal year, because it is impossible for the government to know which fields have harvested more and which have received less.

Although they are closer to the south than Juntun and less affected by the cold wave, the survival of new crops after the cold wave can be seen as at least more than 30% of the loss.

The loss of more than 30 percent, for those who use official cattle, is almost equivalent to the result of no harvest.

Because the forty percent of the grain that belongs to oneself is almost the same as the grain species and losses, and it may even be reversed.

No matter how big the cold wave is, the government's share of CD cannot be less, and if it can't hand over enough food at that time, the government will definitely use people to top the number.

If a family loses its most important labor force, it will not last next year, and it is a miracle that it can survive until winter.

It has not been raining heavily for several months since last year, and even the Yangtze River basin has been affected by this sudden cold wave, and the continuous drought has also caused the water level of the Yangtze River to be much lower than in previous years.

Coupled with the impact of this cold wave on the climate in the coming period, this year's spring drought is almost a foregone conclusion.

This is true in the south, where the air is relatively humid, and even more difficult in the vast plains north of the Yangtze River.

In the winter, only the wells dried up and the river flowed, and by now, there was no damp place in those paddy fields, and there were cracks in the arms of children as far as the eye could see.

These cracks looked up at the blue sky, like the earth opening its dense mouth, longing for the rain that would come at an unknown time.

Those seedlings who were lucky enough to escape the cold wave ended up encountering a drought that had not been seen in 30 years.

The seedlings of those crops have long since stopped growing under the extreme lack of water, hanging on the leaves that are already scarce, and there is no trace of life in sight......

Fortunately, the place where Wei Minsheng chose to settle at that time was a series of mountains in the north, and the undulating mountains blocked and dispersed the power of the cold wave.

Moreover, the location of Huaxia Villa is a concave plain, so it is not directly affected by this cold wave.

Coupled with the protection of those vegetable greenhouses, there is basically no impact on the existing daily production of Huaxia.

Because Wei Minsheng worked with Long Hao some time ago to use the shared space to change the water in the county, the sewage rich in organic matter was simply a fertilizer that could not be better, so he did not notice this problem.

The only problem that the rain has brought to Huaxia Villa for several months is that the amount of spring water flowing down the mountain is getting smaller and smaller.

Although it has not affected the draft and daily water consumption, if the newly developed paddy field relies on the spring water, there is no guarantee that the seedlings in the seedbed will be able to grow normally.

Looking at the seedlings growing in the seedbed, Tie Zhuang, who was in charge of this work, found Wang Shuangming, Minister of Industry, gloomily and reflected the situation.

Wang Shuangming also knows that the seedlings that will be planted in this newly developed paddy field of several hundred acres are said to be able to achieve a high-yield grain yield of thousands of catties per mu, but the premise of high yield is that there is no shortage of water.

If the problem of water shortage cannot be solved, no matter how high-yielding seeds are, there will be no good harvest.

This is the first large-scale trial planting of this kind of high-yield rice in China, and the success of rice planting is related to the confidence of all Chinese people and carries the hope of all Chinese people.

Therefore, solving the problem of water sources in paddy fields has risen to the political significance of whether this new high-yielding seed can be successfully planted.

After all, for people in this world, if you have food in your hands, your heart will not panic.

Although they can exchange a large amount of food from His Excellency the President for nothing, the question of where this food comes from and how much it is in stock is constantly troubling the formal members who already have the ability to think logically.

As long as the Chinese country cannot guarantee complete self-sufficiency one day, this food crisis will hang over their heads, and the shadow of decades of lack of food and clothing cannot be dispelled by one or two years of worry-free food and clothing.