In June 1909, the sun was blazing, and all the vacant land that could be found in Wangqiao Village, about 10 kilometers east of Luoyang, was occupied by dried wheat, and even the county-level road passing through Wangqiao was paved with grain. The transportation department and the village committee have rectified many times, but the results are very small, this situation will occur every wheat harvest season, and the villagers have a good reason, the world is the largest, the grain is the largest, do not dry the wheat grains, waiting for mold? These days are the most critical throughout the year!

The people of Henan, who had just experienced the famine, could best understand the pain of not having food, so the higher-level departments had no choice but to turn a blind eye and get through the past few days.

In the evening, he hoarded the wheat and put it in a snakeskin bag, and then pushed the cart back to his home. Scoop up the water from the water tank and pour it through, the whole body is comfortable and transparent, the fatigue of the day seems to disappear in the blink of an eye, and before dinner, I went to the river outside the village to take a bath, and when I got home, I saw Aunt Wang next door waiting in her yard with dumplings.

The people in the village are simple, and there are joint defense members, so they don't lock the gate when they go out a short distance. Man Ho took Aunt Wang's dumplings, replaced them with his own bowl, and then handed Aunt Wang's bowl over.

"Auntie, I can't eat that much." Man Ho smiled innocently, in the famine year, Man Hoard's family died, he was only fifteen years old at that time, and he survived with the help of the villagers. The hard-working Manho is very popular with the villagers, and the days gradually get better after the famine, but the villagers still often send food to Manho, and the rural women are usually very good at cooking, and Manho can enjoy the taste of home.

"What are you talking about, aren't you also helping your aunt's family harvest wheat? Now the days are getting better and better, and there is no shortage of white flour at home, but it is no better than before, half of a village can starve to death! Saying that, Aunt Wang cried again, the ladies are not good at all, and the painful memories can easily arouse the secretion of tear glands.

Send Aunt Wang away. Hoarding dumplings while calculating. After the change of dynasty, he was allocated two acres of land, and the people of the village committee took care of themselves and gave them all good land. These were all the properties of the landlord's family at the beginning, and after the ******, the landlords fled and starved to death, and the land in the village became cheaper than the tenants at the beginning.

After the unification of the country. Land reform soon spread to the north, and the government vigorously encouraged landlords to invest in light industry and services, and provided loans and technical support to promote rent and interest reductions. The combination of tough policies, enforcement and softness has enabled this national policy to continue, and although it has stumbled, it has always moved forward.

The system inherited for thousands of years is as hard as ice, the attachment to the land is deeply rooted in the bone marrow of the Chinese people, and the landlords with assets invest in light industry and service industries to obtain profits. Most of it was used to buy land, rather than to invest in expanded reproduction. In order to solve this problem, the government introduced strict regulations on land sales and sales, which curbed this regression.

It's just that in most parts of the north, the progress of land reform is very slow, which makes Lü Liang feel anxiously slow. However, in Henan, a traditionally large agricultural province, this national policy has been carried out very smoothly. In the post-****** era, the land pattern in the countryside has changed dramatically, and there are not only many terra nullius. Rural labor was also scarce due to famine, which made it possible to centralize and mechanize agriculture. In many areas, large landowners or agricultural companies are employing a large number of agricultural machinery for farming, with remarkable results. In just two years, Henan has changed from a grain import place to a grain export place, becoming the first granary in the north.

My own two acres of land because of the good soil quality. I used the best wheat seeds from the seed company, and purchased those new products through fertilizer subsidies and pesticide subsidies, and the results were surprisingly good when used in the wheat fields. Coupled with their own intensive cultivation, a total of 1,300 catties of wheat were harvested, which was unimaginable before.

Fertilizer was a novelty that was rejected by the villagers at first. They agree with traditional farmyard fertilizer, and of course, traditional compost is still important for the improvement of geology. However, thousands of years of cultivation in the Central Plains have made the land quite barren, and even farm manure does not play much role. Many areas have become saline-alkali land, and no crops can grow, so the government has organized large-scale saline-alkali land improvement, draining salt, washing salt, reducing soil salinity, and planting saline-tolerant plants to fertilize the soil. The improved soil still can't grow crops, but saline-tolerant trees such as jujube, white elm, and white willow can survive.

Returning to the fertilizer from the saline-alkali land, Wangqiao Village was the first to experiment with fertilizer on his own land, and he thought that there was nothing wrong with the government's decision, and he could live a good life, but was it not the government's grace? Every time he went home, he would put incense on the incense table in the center of the room and bow respectfully to the portrait of the president.

The results of the experiment drove the villagers crazy, and the yield of one acre of water land more than doubled! After that, things became simpler, and the villagers used chemical fertilizers wisely under the guidance of technicians, so that grain filled every granary.

Chemical fertilizer as one of the most important applications in the chemical industry, is regarded by the government as one of the three magic weapons to solve the food problem (high-yield grain seeds, chemical fertilizers, water conservancy), huge fertilizer factories have been established in major industrial bases, in this land that has not been devastated by chemical fertilizers, the effect is amazingly good.

The most important thing is that the fields in the village have changed from dry land to irrigated land, and since the beginning of the previous year, the government has organized a large-scale construction of water conservancy projects, and Manchu has also participated in it. Two catties of rice per person per day, such a reward even the elderly and women in their sixties were attracted to it, and sufficient funds, cement, labor, and full enthusiasm made the water conservancy project complete in a year and a half.

Dotted with reservoirs, crisscrossed by irrigation canals, all but the mountainous areas have been turned into irrigated land. On the day the water conservancy project was completed, I don't know how many elderly villagers cried and collapsed next to the canal.

The hard work paid off, the water conservancy project was completed, the village was no longer afraid of drought years, and the abundant grain harvest made hunger a thing of the past.

In addition to two acres of wheat fields, there are also a total of five acres of dry land in hilly areas, where some hardy crops can be planted, and more productive corn can be planted after the wheat harvest. I can't eat it alone, plus my own two fat pigs, fifteen chickens, a cow, and a dog.

It is not enough to have food, I still have some money to spare, and I am already eighteen years old, and I have reached the age of marrying a wife. Aunt Wang next door said that if she found a woman for herself, the bride price and banquet would cost money. More than 3,000 catties of corn and more than 300 catties of wheat have been hoarded in the granary, or they will be sold this year, not only will they make money, but they will also empty the granary to make room for future harvests.

In addition, their own fields are not without inputs, although there are government subsidies, fertilizers, pesticides, etc. have to cost money. He asked the village accountant to help him calculate that he spent a total of 105 Chinese yuan on the field last year, which were all costs. With so much land, it is too tiring to work alone, and it is better to buy an agricultural machine through agricultural machinery subsidies. There are more and more people riding bicycles in the village, and if you have one, wouldn't it be easier to marry a wife?

Man Hoarding decided to sell the grain in his granary, leaving only his own rations. Those livestock are fed with coarse grains and sweet potatoes, and even sweet potatoes are life-saving in famine years, how many years have it been? Sweet potatoes are about to be fed to pigs!

The next day, Manchu discussed this matter with the village chief, and it was easier to sell grain than Manho imagined, as long as he contacted the people of the grain company in the town, they would take the initiative to drive trucks and banknotes to Wangqiao Village. And this time there is not only one person who wants to sell food, most of the residents in the village have this idea.

It was not until five days later that the grain company was taken away by the grain company, and it was said that during this time the grain company was very busy, and there were farmers selling grain everywhere. Fortunately, grain prices have not fallen because of the bumper harvest, which is what the full hoarding does not understand, the grain purchased by the grain company, part of it is used for the national strategic grain reserves, stored in warehouses, part of it is shipped to areas with relative lack of grain, such as Xinjiang, Mongolia and big cities, and part of it is used for exports, Japan, Russia, Europe and many other regions lack grain. In this era, grain was still a hard currency, the price remained high, and it was even regarded as a strategic resource, and there were not many places to buy grain.

Man Hoard only knew that after the grain was sold, he actually had more than 1,500 Chinese yuan in his hands! If you have more money, you will be active, leaving a part of it for marriage funds, farmland funds, and ordinary expenses, and there are 400 Chinese yuan at your disposal.

The house is too dilapidated, it seems that it can be rebuilt, and the hoarding has helped other households in the village to build the house, in addition to buying cement, lime bricks and tiles, stones, sand, wood, etc. can be used locally, and there is a forest by the river, which is just used to build a house. A large tiled house costs about 200 Chinese dollars, which also includes the labor cost of hiring someone to build the house.

After the new house is built, some items will be added, such as bicycles, sewing machines, radios, flashlights, etc., which will cost at least 200 Chinese dollars. In this way, the full hoard feels a little tight in his hands, the furniture can be built by himself, or the sewing machine can not be bought first?

Lying in bed at night, the mind of hoarding settled, and if you have money, don't be extravagant. Recall that there are too many people who are kind to themselves, first of all, the villagers in the village, their kindness is too great, and they can only repay it little by little in the second half of their lives. But there is also a pair of benefactors, their own life is good, and they can't forget their help to themselves! (To be continued.) )