Ignoring the 'exercises' on the steppe, let's just say that it is on the dividing line between the Mongolian steppe and the Loess Plateau in Shanxi.

An overall 'team' of young people is working hard.

This is a 'noble' team, because all the men and women in it are from Sungkyun Public School, and there are not only nobles from the clan here, but also children of the royal family.

For example, Chen Qingzhi is now wielding a hoe. She is the fifth princess of the Son of Heaven in the current dynasty, seventeen years old this year, and was officially named Princess Changning five years ago, because this aunt and grandmother are notoriously naughty in the Chen Han royal family, and the emperor gave her the title of Changning, with obvious intentions.

"Bell!" Changning's hoe struck a stone under the soil, and because Changning used too much force when she swung the hoe, her hands were numb with a violent counteraction. Letting the hoe slash crookedly into the soil, Changning, a seventeen-year-old girl, suddenly raised her hand to cover her eyes and cried.

This year's 'summer camp' is so bad, it's even worse than going to the boy camp. I actually came to the place outside Yulinkou where birds don't lay eggs to plant trees.

She was so tired every day that she didn't have the strength to wash. And these days, Changning found that even if he covered it tightly, his skin was tanned.

Woo woo, too aggrieved, too sad.

Changning, a playful little princess, now has no heart to play anymore, she wants to return to her mother's apse now, with big icebergs on all sides, blowing a cool breeze, and eating ice cream comfortably.

Instead of drinking wind and eating sand in this sand called Mu Usu.

It's a pity, this 'team' has rules, although the people who lead the team know that Changning has a noble status, they don't dare to have the slightest preferential treatment, otherwise the emperor will beat their board.

The leader not far away raised his head and looked at Changning, who was crying and whining, but he didn't see any injuries, so he didn't need to step forward. Girls, you can't endure hardship, and you won't cry after crying for a while.

The place where their 'team' came was Yulin in the northern part of Shaanxi, which is an important site for the desertification control project, and the wind and sand are eating away at the trees here little by little, but there are still natural juniper forests and thousand-year-old Pinus tabuliformis trees - they are witnesses to the disappearance of the lush forests in the eastern section of the border between Shaanxi and Inner Mongolia, and they are also the last holders of the desert's southern invasion.

In the early Qing Dynasty, this land was still a forest and grassland, but it was only a hundred years old, and the destruction has not been eliminated.

Therefore, in the first phase of the sand control project, this is the key area. Now that the desert drought-tolerant plants and trees planted during the first phase of the project have grown, and the results have indeed been seen, the development of the second phase of the project is not only to consolidate the effect of the first phase, but to move forward on the basis of the results of the first phase.

The desertified Shenmu-Yulin-Wushen Banner will restore the thousands of square kilometers of sandy land between the desertified Shenmu and Yulin and Wushen Banner little by little to restore the green mountains and clear waters of a hundred years ago.

However, the 'ultimate goal' is by no means something that can be achieved by the first, second or third phases of the desertification control project.

Today, the large-scale westward migration of the Mongols is itself a kind of protection for the Mongolian steppe. Although the Han immigrants who moved in will never be cut off, the prevention of wind and sand will always hang on the heads of each of them.

No matter where the land is, it must not be over-exploited and indiscriminately developed.

After the 'noble team' came to Yulin, in addition to planting trees and grass, they also had a 'amateur' task, that is, to serve as a teacher in the primary school and night school.

These children at the age of seventeen or eighteen have enough knowledge and literacy to serve as teachers in primary schools and night schools, just like the high school students in later generations teach primary schools, and there are no problems and problems in knowledge, because the knowledge taught in these places is the most basic and basic.

In addition, they also have to follow the real scientific and technological task force to arrange and organize farmers to learn the skills of raising chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep, the skills of planting pasture grass and alfalfa, and how to produce maximum benefits. There are also basic methods and methods of soil and water protection, the hazards of soil erosion, and so on.

This is not for these people to protect the water and soil, but for them not to destroy the water and soil.

Regardless of whether the attitude of the people is positive or not, the rest of the work team spends the rest of its time working every day, except for teaching, imparting agricultural knowledge, and helping the masses solve unexpected problems.

Changning has not worked before, and when she arrived at the children's camp, the prince and princess treated everyone equally, and the preferential treatment would not be special in such an eye-catching place, but where did she have such experience in heavy labor.

She was a little girl who waved a hoe, and in a day or two, blood blisters were ground on her hands, and it still hurt if the blood blisters were broken. Changning then got a few days of rest, did some logistics work, and waited for the blood on his hands to go down, and then he returned to work.

But Changning was reluctant to swing the hoe in her heart, she reacted to the team leader and rejected it as 'unreasonable'. Changning, who came to work with a breath of anger, thought that he was wielding the labor tool too hard, and as a result, he suddenly fell on the stone. The wounds on Changning's hands that had healed were all cracked, and a little blood flowed out, and Changning suddenly became sad after seeing it, and cried loudly.

The team leader didn't come, but the 'friends' on the side knew about 'friendship', and they came to comfort Changning. There were also shouting hygienists to bandage them, but in fact, a healed wound on Changning's palm reopened.

After crying a few times, Changning put down the hand covering his eyes, and despite the dissuasion of the people around him, he continued to swing the hoe with sobs. And the friends around her were also called to work by the team leader, and soon, the sobbing was gone, and the grievances in Changning's chest turned into a kind of grief and indignation, and the grief and indignation turned into a huge force. The seventeen-year-old girl swung her hoe desperately and dug and gouged in the ground.

Until the arm that raised the hoe high was grabbed by someone, Changning turned his head to see that it was the life teacher of the team, Mama Wu. Mama Wu is an old woman in her fifties, a native of Lushan, who also had children and daughters in her early years, but both children died in the war. So she is now lonely, at the beginning of the establishment of Sungkyun Public School, people came in to be life teachers, and this treatment is twenty years old.

Of course, Mama Wu could see that Changning was angry, and sighed, "Princess, take a rest." "This rule was set by your father himself, and all those who have violated it over the years will all suffer, and no one dares to make an exception.

Mama Wu's warm words and kind expression calmed Changning's grief and indignation to a certain extent, but a member of the task force saw Mama Wu comforting Changning, and also snorted, "Your Royal Highness Princess, don't be tough, take a good rest." It's not efficient for you to work like this. ”

When he heard that the members of the group were not concerned about the grief and indignation in their hearts, but about their own work efficiency, Changning suddenly wanted to clamp his neck with both hands, like pinching the neck of a chick, and strangled this stupid man who couldn't speak like a chick in the struggle to shake.

But this kind of thing is to think about it, Chen Han's royal family, whether it is a prince or a princess, does not have the right to kill people casually.

Changning really wanted to scold this person, "If you can't speak, don't speak, if there is no one, then you should be dumb, right?" ”

But everyone is working, and in such an atmosphere, Changning feels that it is too stupid to lose his temper like this. So she could only endure it, and then the anger in her heart became even stronger.

Mama Wu also glanced at the person, although the team members couldn't speak, they knew how to read their faces, and they knew that they were making people unhappy. Well, it's better to leave by yourself. Then Mama Wu comforted her with some words, maybe she vented a circle just now, and her emotions were relieved, and Changning was not angry to dig up God.

"Call it a day! Tomorrow is dry. The team leader raised his throat and shouted.

Changning looked up, and it seemed that he didn't have much time left, so he couldn't help but reply: "Captain, don't you just finish today." ”

"The problem is that we can't finish it today. After the trees are planted in this place, there is still the aftermath, why do you have to do this until tomorrow afternoon. "Changning's eyes are still inaccurate, of course the team leader knows what the little girl's subconscious meaning is." When it's time to relax, let's not push ourselves too hard, there is still plenty of time, and it is not a problem to complete the task. Let's get a good rest when we go back, and we'll be busy tomorrow. ”

Changning looked up at the sky, why wasn't there a little cloud?

This piece of land in Yulin is not short of water. On the way back, she thought about the introduction of Yulin meteorology in her mind, not only Yulin and Shenmu, but also the entire Mu Us Desert, which were all killed by herself.

There is no shortage of rain in this place, unlike a real desert area. The annual rainfall here can even reach 250-440 mm, concentrated from June to August every year, and the rainfall during this period can account for 60-75% of the annual precipitation, especially in July. The interannual variability of precipitation is large, and the rainy years are 2-4 times that of the less rainy years, and droughts and waterlogs often occur, and the droughts are more than the waterlogging.

It may be difficult to grow on this land, but as a forest meadow, as a pasture, it is completely fine.

When a group of Changning and their group had just arrived in Yulin, they encountered a moderate rain. So, the climate here is really not bad. But alas, the previous dynasties did not pay attention to the problem of protecting vegetation.

The little girl's family was sentimental, and she was so angry just now, thinking about why it didn't rain from God, and they were so lazy, but in a blink of an eye, it was a pity here. Because she thought of the small village where she and the others were stationed. The total population is not as large as their task force, only 100 people.

There were no two acres of arable land per capita, and the whole village used to live by grazing for the Mongols and raising some sheep themselves. A few years ago, when the first phase of the desertification control project was launched, they had a team settled here, and those years can be said to be the most comfortable time for this small village.

But after a few years of good sunshine, the village's 'economy' fell into trouble again, and the people here were able to earn a little money by keeping sheep and protecting the forest. The trees and drought-tolerant plants such as sea buckthorn planted in the first phase of the sand control project also provide some nourishment for their flock.

After more than a year of decline, the village finally had a major split, with more than half of the population moving elsewhere. Or it's still in Yulin Mansion, or it's already far away.

A village of two or three hundred people is now a village of one hundred and ten. But these remaining people, relying on the work of forest guarding, as well as farming and raising sheep [the number of sheep raised per capita has increased, the per capita arable land has also increased, there are fewer people, and the per capita resources have increased], life can really go on, and it is really much better than in the former Qing Dynasty.

However, the survival of the villagers in small villages is no longer a problem, but education and medical care are still very serious problems.

Chen Ming had already thought of this, and he asked his medical elite to compile a Chen Han version of the "Barefoot Doctor's Handbook". It does not require so much profound medical knowledge, as long as there are the most basic common symptoms of diagnosis and treatment, such as diarrhea, lime squinting, poisoning - wild fruit poisoning, snake venom, or food poisoning, some of the most basic antidotes. Another is the simple treatment of common diseases in children, as well as acute diseases, which do not need to be solved by 'barefoot doctors', as long as they can temporarily alleviate the condition or prolong the life of the patient.

Then there is the prevention of diseases, that is, maintaining internal and external hygiene, as well as acupuncture and massage of traditional Chinese medicine, and some basic dietary therapy, commonly used Chinese herbal medicine, and the rescue of trauma - fractures, knife and gun wounds.

Chen Ming's requirements are not high, but this is too high for the current era.

His order has been issued for so many years, and so many famous doctors have studied this 'problem' for so many years, and it has taken so many years to come up with a manual that convinces the compilers themselves.

And the education in the small villages is not to mention.

Even the schools and teachers in Yulin County are not enough, let alone here.

Changning looked down from the hillside, only to see a piece of gray houses standing in the sunset, the houses here are not tall, I am afraid that they will be blown away by the wind, but they are still quite strong, all of them were built in the years after the first phase of the sand control project was launched.

Although the children are half-worn and not new, and many of them still have patches sewn on their clothes, at least each child is neatly dressed, not tattered, and there is no food on the face, and they are obviously well-fed.

Dogs are the animals that many people here are fed to, and children and dogs frolic outside the door. The only clean and tidy aqueduct was a culvert built by the team that year, and they saw a reservoir in a depression seven or eight hundred meters away from the village, and then used water trucks to feed the water into the diversion culvert until it was delivered to the various reservoirs in the village.

The reason why the culvert is used as a water diversion mode is to ensure that the drinking water is clean and tidy. You must know that it is windy every day, and there are patches of shelterbelts outside the village, and the leaves fall in autumn. And there are some sheep raised in the village, which is not good if they are ruined.

Just when Chen Ming's eyes were all fixed on the big thing, he didn't know that his fifth daughter was looking forward to the arrival of the eighteen-year-old.

As long as she reaches the age of eighteen, she will not have to suffer once a year, and she will not have to suffer once a year.

On the contrary, when she turns eighteen, she can go where she wants to go once a year. This 'wish' can be fulfilled until she is officially married.

So Changning is looking forward to turning eighteen years old. At that time, she will be able to go out and have a good time every year.

She wants to go to the North Pole to see the world of ice and snow; She wants to go to the South Seas to see what a rainforest is;

She was also going to Kunlun, wanting to find the Jade Void Palace of Yuan Shi Tianzun. Buddhism was destroyed by Hinduism in its place of origin, which made her reverence for the Buddha fall sharply. It's just that if Famen Temple really digs up the Buddha's true body relics, she must see it......

As for marriage, in today's era, the noble daughter of that family got married just after her birthday at the age of twenty. Do you want men to go crazy, or are you too ugly to be afraid that you won't be able to get married?