"The canal is one and a half meters deep, oh, five feet deep. It's not something you just have to draw the water out of the ground. Now the water in the ground is full, and the crops are soaked when they are planted. You should know this. "This is in the grass shed of the engineering section of the insurance group, and the person who speaks is Wu Longfu, who is in charge of formulating the project plan. He is one of the few engineering professionals in the People's Party, and now leads the engineering department. Wu Longfu himself does not know how to grow crops, but this does not prevent him from giving orders to a group of comrades who know a little bit about growing crops.

"Do you know how tall five feet is?" It was Chai Qingguo who asked. Among the first four company commanders, Chai Qingguo ranked as the commander of the second company, and now he is the deputy commander of any regiment. Today, when the head of the Second Regiment is vacant, Chai Qingguo hopes that he will become the head of the Second Regiment. This is a big cadre who can manage 4,000 people. So in the face of a section chief who had never said a few words, and he was an international student who claimed to have never farmed, Chai Qingguo, who had a little farming experience, was very unconvinced.

"Five feet. I jumped in and just showed half of my head. "Wu Longfu is also almost 1.7 meters tall, and he is not short at this age.

"Do you know how much effort it takes to dig this deep?" Chai Qingguo was extremely unhappy with Wu Longfu's confident attitude.

"I've calculated that I need to dig at least a dozen kilometers of trenches. In other words, a thirty-mile ditch had to be dug. The ditch is one and a half meters deep and one meter wide. One person can dig ten meters in a day, and a group of 4,000 people will be done in one day. Two days at most. "The result of numerical calculations is simplicity and ruthlessness. Wu Longfu gave a standard answer.

"You fart. You dig up this muddy ground and try it. Dig ten meters a day! You wear people to death. "Chai Qingguo has finally received military training from the insurance regiment in Anqing and knows how long a meter is.

"This is an organizational arrangement, since I said that one person will dig ten meters, I will participate in it myself, and dig a ten-meter-long trench myself." Wu Longfu's answer was completely in accordance with the standard. Chen Ke once demanded that if the engineering section made a plan, then the engineering section would have to complete the workload of ordinary soldiers.

Chai Qingguo knew that he couldn't argue with Wu Longfu in numbers, and he didn't have this plan. He just asked, "What the hell is the purpose of digging such a long ditch?" ”

"You know, it's muddy ground, and these ditches are like wells, and the water in the ground seeps out and into these ditches. We can just pump the water out of the ditch and the ground will dry faster. There will also be more food. Otherwise, what can we grow in the mud? ”

Chai Qingguo was speechless, although he had farmed, he was not proficient in farm work. But then, Wu Longfu said something that Chai Qingguo couldn't understand, "When we are revolutionary, we have to talk about scientific farming." The situation of watching the harvest in the past can no longer occur. ”

Chai Qingguo didn't know what "scientific farming" was. In fact, to put it bluntly, not to mention Chai Qingguo's second-in-command, even the old farmers in this era don't know what "scientific farming" is. The selection of large seeds and seedlings, as well as a lot of farm work in the growing season, are known to the old farmers, and can even be called proficient. However, in the case of large-scale water conservancy construction, how to adopt the most efficient drainage, drought resistance, and land serving. The old peasants had no experience.

Wu Longfu also doesn't know how to farm, but he has rich experience in construction. He studied railroad construction in the United States and worked on railroads in the United States after graduation. The reason why he returned to China was simply that the American railroad engineering company did not treat the workers as human beings at all, although as a technician, the American company's counterparts looked down on a Chinese. So Wu Longfu saved up a sum of money and returned to China. Building railways was important, but working in a place full of malice and grievances made the young man extremely unhappy.

After returning to China, Wu Longfu first went to the imperial court's railway bureau, but soon found that compared with the American railroad companies, in addition to the same problems, there were other vices in China. The United States is an industrial country, the company is relatively mature, and the boss is "God", but the company only has such a God. And at home, officials who do not learn and have no skills and are arrogant are even more hateful. The bosses are just there to make money, and the foreign colleagues are just a bunch of bastards. It's also obvious that this group of bad guys is bullying you. But the condescending mentality of the Manchu bureaucracy was even more difficult to accept. Wu Longfu is also an international student, and at least he has self-confidence and self-esteem. He can understand the "bad guys", but he can't accept the arrogance of the bureaucracy that treats the people like dung. Later, he simply quit his job.

After meeting Chen Ke in Shanghai, Wu Longfu felt that Chen Ke had a great appetite for him. It's not just that common language of knowledge. More importantly, although Chen Ke has a kind of "style" of a leader, Chen Ke convinces everyone by proposing practical solutions. He never thought that he should be above others, and this attitude was very much to Wu Longfu's appetite.

The formulation and concept of "scientific farming" this time were explained by Chen Ke to Wu Longfu in detail, and Wu Longfu fully supported him. Chen Ke made it clear that after these lands entered the hands of the insurance group, it was impossible to hand them over again. The entire land in Fengtai County will form multiple farms. The irrigation and drainage of these farms will be a large-scale system project as a whole. Wu Longfu's railway construction experience is particularly valuable, because he has seen various terrains and landforms, and only Wu Longfu has experience in construction on these terrains and landforms.

His knowledge can be so highly evaluated, and he is able to command the whole army to work a large project as the head of the army. This kind of temptation is not something that Wu Longfu can resist at all. Although Wu Longfu's family also had land in the countryside, since he did not want to confiscate his family's land, Wu Longfu did not care about the future of the landlords in Fengtai County at all.

Having lived in the United States, Wu Longfu has at least heard of those large farms in the United States. To be able to participate in such a project, Wu Longfu can be said to be willing to do his best. He didn't want to waste any of the lessons he had learned from the United States. Although he does not have qualified colleagues, Wu Longfu firmly believes that he will definitely be able to complete the project on such an idea. U.S. railroad companies don't just build railroads, they also get land around railroads for various developments. Wu Longfu is not ignorant of the development and design of some engineering and construction projects.

No matter how Wu Longfu and Chen Ke can talk together, when looking forward to the economic construction of Fengtai County in the future, Wu Longfu and Chen Ke can almost draw a very similar blueprint in their minds. But this blueprint Chai Qingguo couldn't draw, and he couldn't even imagine it. This is not a scene that people like Chai Qingguo who have not seen that kind of large-scale agriculture can imitate. But the specific work is real, and Chai Qingguo knows how much work he has to do with the soldiers who are already complaining.

"It is only natural for a soldier to eat food." Chai Qingguo said word by word, "But after we defeated Fengtai, is this still a soldier?" ”

Wu Longfu didn't care about Chai Qingguo's excitement, he calmly explained: "You should ask Brigade Commander Chen this question. The work that Brigade Commander Chen gave me was to formulate what to do, and as far as I know, the work that Brigade Commander Chen gave you is what I said to do, and you will do it. Company Commander Chai, oh, Deputy Regiment Commander Chai, if you have any questions, after you have finished your work, you can go to Brigade Commander Chen to talk to you. What you tell me, I can only say that I have made a work plan, and I have told you the work plan. It's time for you to get to work. ”

"Your mother! Are you still using your official hat to press me? Do you deserve it too? Chai Qingguo erupted after hearing this.

Wu Longfu didn't pay attention to Chai Qingguo at all, he stood up, called the comrades of the engineering department, and went out with simple surveying and mapping tools. Chai Qingguo was left to scold in the grass shed of the engineering department.

After Chai Qingguo scolded, the commander of the first battalion next to him, Kuroshima Renjiro, couldn't help but stop him. "Deputy Commander, what now?"

"What to do? What to do!! Grandma's Lao Tzu doesn't do it. Chai Qingguo was furious.

"But if you don't do it, today's work arrangement ......"

Before Kuroshima Richiro finished speaking, Chai Qingguo immediately interrupted Kuroshima's words, "You Japanese devil, don't talk so much nonsense, this theory can't be said by you Japanese." "When the uprising of Zhao Sanduo and others was suppressed, Yuan Shikai also borrowed 10,000 foreign soldiers, and the Japanese army dispatched thousands of people. Chai Qingguo didn't have the slightest affection for the Japanese.

"Deputy Commander, we received an order to complete the work of the Engineering Section, you can stop doing it now, but is the first regiment just doing this now? If Brigade Commander Chen asks, how will we explain? "Kuroshima wasn't angry. Chen Ke specifically told the Japanese comrades about the difficulties they might encounter. For Chai Qingguo's attack, Kuroshima was mentally prepared.

"Humph!" Hearing that Kuroshima also took Chen out of the car, he didn't want to say anything against it. But Chai Qingguo didn't mean to just bow down and obey orders like this, "You go back and inform the troops, and do those jobs first." I'm going to go to Chen Ke right now and ask him what he means. If it goes on like this, something will definitely happen. ”

After speaking, Chai Qingguo turned around and was about to leave, when suddenly he remembered something, turned his head with a vicious look, and said loudly to Heidao: "Since those people from the engineering department said it, they will also dig ten meters." That's no problem, you send someone to watch them carefully for me to see if they have dug ten meters. I still don't believe that these people can stand that sin. ”

Kuroshima was a little overwhelmed by Chai Qingguo's angry performance, and he couldn't say he knew, and he couldn't say he didn't know. Chai Qingguo saw that Heidao did not respond, and asked viciously, "Did you hear that?" Send it to me. Those people must not be allowed to be lazy. Did you hear that? ”

"Yes." Kuroshima had to respond.

Chai Qingguo glared at the underworld again, and then left the grass shed angrily and went to the direction of the county seat.