In the early morning, the white mirage shrouded the Yilan Plain like a large gray net.

The sun soon rose from behind the horizon, and the fog drifting in the fields immediately lightened a lot, and a large area of renovated fields, rivers, and villages on the east bank of Lanyang Creek gradually revealed.

Yilan is a quasi-modern agricultural base identified by the crossing team.

The Yilan Plain is a small plain with an area of about 320 square kilometers and a population of less than 110,000.

Under the unified organization of the Yilan County Party Committee and the county government, they extensively mobilized the masses to form a stable rural political power, and steadily promoted the construction of "new countryside" in various villages with the momentum of mercury.

The focus of the construction of the new countryside is to integrate villages and villages, and second, to build collective farms.

"Merging villages and villages" is to redistribute the people of each natural village in Yilan to each new village after breaking up into small families.

The natural village of Yilan is that after the immigrants entered the Yiyang Plain, the members of the same township and clan lived in the land one by one, and the population of most of the villages was about 300 people, and the layout was very unreasonable.

The planning and layout of the new village formulated by the Yilan County Party Committee and the county government have long been carefully researched and planned, and people have been sent to conduct on-the-spot investigations. Its number of people is basically controlled at about 2,000, and there are government power organs such as village offices and joint defense teams. In addition to the residential areas such as peasant apartments and rural townhouses, each village is also equipped with public facilities such as kindergartens, primary schools, health clinics, supply and marketing cooperatives, agricultural technology stations, and radio and film studios.

The construction of the new village is a big project, and a considerable number of new houses need to be built. The Yilan County Government has long built cement factories, brick and tile factories, lime factories, and sand and gravel factories in the mountainous areas of southern Suao, providing a steady stream of building materials needed for the construction of new rural areas.

The construction of new villages not only rationally planned the distribution of townships and towns, but also broke the feudal clan relationship and completely smashed the clan power system in the villages. Under the suppression of strong force, the big surnames and big families in Yilan villages were all broken up and distributed to various districts and towns across villages. Those unscrupulous elements who did not know the current affairs and resisted the construction of the new countryside were severely cracked down, and more than 1,000 people were escorted to the Suao mining area to go underground for mining.

While the "integration of villages and villages" is steadily advancing, the construction of collective farms is also advancing simultaneously.

The construction of collective farms is first of all the land nationalized and transformed, and then the rectification is carried out in accordance with the demonstration project of high-standard farmland construction, and collective farms are built.

The nationalization of land was carried out quickly, and the group farm was successfully established, but the intensive land consolidation encountered serious difficulties.

Yilan is an alluvial plain, and the terrain looks flat, but in fact it still has a slope. In high-standard farmland, the slope of each paddy field can not exceed 1%.

If the land is not flat enough, the water level will be different at different locations, so more ridges can only be reserved to ensure that each small field is suitable for rice growth. If they are all made into large fields, the amount of leveling work is astronomical.

Yan Yuechen is the leader of the agricultural group and the chief designer of Yilan's intensive land consolidation. He is a Ph.D. in genetics and breeding, specializing in rice. When he was a Ph.D. student, he once led a junior brother to do a high-standard farmland project in the hilly area of eastern Sichuan, and he was very interested in intensive land consolidation.

According to the results of the topographic and geomorphological survey, Yan Yuechen calculated through computer simulation that if it is implemented according to the pre-planned plan, the workload required will be huge, and a lot of manpower, material resources and time will need to be exhausted.

Seeing the calculation results obtained by Yue Chen, Mao Pi, who had always been steady, almost jumped up, "Grass, you need to take out so much manpower and material resources, and it will take a whole year to carry out land consolidation!" ”

Wu Linyun sighed, "It may not be possible to see results in a year. ”

"It's not going to work, the team needs to see results as soon as possible!" Mao Bi shook his head again and again, "The Executive Committee cannot tolerate it, we have spent a lot of time and financial resources, but the results will not be seen until two or three years later." ”

Yilan's implementation of high-standard farmland construction is aimed at applying modern agricultural production technology to practical work as soon as possible and producing large quantities of grain as quickly and efficiently as possible to support Taiwan's industrialization construction.

In March, the army will go south and take all of Taiwan. Mao Pi worked in Yilan County until April at most, and he felt that the work of "new rural construction" should be completed by April.

Yan Yuechen knew Mao Pi's thoughts, and he said confidently, "I still have a No. 2 plan here." ”

According to the results of the investigation, Yan Yuechen came up with an alternative. The alternative is mainly to promote high-standard farmland in batches according to local conditions.

His assistant Nan Hai was a little unhappy about Dr. Yan's adaptation, "Doctor, we are engaged in a modern agricultural model project, not to mention the time-consuming and laborious process of advancing it in batches, but I am afraid that it will decline again and exhaust when the time comes, and when we are dispatched to other places, this agricultural model will be scrapped into a half-pulled project." ”

Nanhai is a native of Zhejiang, living in the city and not a citizen, and there is no distinction between rural and leek. Before the South China Sea crossed, he couldn't find a suitable job for a long time, so he taught himself agricultural knowledge and wanted to return to the countryside to struggle.

Yue Chen knew that the South China Sea was half a bottle of vinegar, and he didn't know much about intensive land management. He patiently explained, "It is very, very difficult to level a piece of land with a gentle slope into a whole large paddy field. For an area like Yilan, where there is a lot of rain, it is not economical to completely clean it up. Because the plot is large and flat, the drainage and irrigation facilities are of a very high standard. In small plots, the drainage and irrigation facilities are small and dense, which is easier to design and less expensive. ”

"If you have enough time, enough manpower and material resources, and want to go all out, it doesn't mean that you can't." Yan Yuechen smiled, "I'm afraid that the project is only half done, and if it comes to it a few times in the summer, it will be in vain." Ordinary people will not see the benefits, so they will passively resist. ”

"Typhoon~~, this can't be guarded against." Nanhai immediately frowned. He is a native of Zhejiang and knows the power of typhoons.

"Therefore, we must first make a model so that the whole of Yilan can see the development prospects of modern agriculture." Yan Yuechen smiled, "With the glittering money, the people of Yilan will naturally take the initiative and actively follow up." ”

As soon as Yue Chen's No. 2 plan was submitted, it was immediately approved by the Executive Committee.

At the beginning of January, with the construction of the grade highway, a large number of mechanical and material resources were continuously transported to the Yilan Plain. The intensive consolidation of land in Yilan County officially kicked off.

Dozens of tractors, excavators, bulldozers, and rollers rumbled into the fields, and tens of thousands of farmers were organized to work with tools, vehicles, cattle and horses.

Yilan is like a fan-shaped, which is an alluvial plain produced by the alluvial action of Lanyang Creek. Yilan is also a place with particularly abundant rainfall, and typhoons often come and disturb it. Yan Yuechen's land management plan first combines the construction of ditches, roads, and forests.

Drainage ditches are the most dense network, one every 100 m or so, and they are distributed from top to bottom along the slope direction; Irrigation ditches are built on the basis of drainage ditches, one every 200 m or so, adjacent to or alternate with drainage ditches; Equipped with production machine tillage road, the spacing along the slope is 200~300m, and the spacing in the transverse slope direction is 500~1000m, adjacent to the drainage ditch; The vertical and horizontal spacing of the forest belt is 500~1000m, and it is adjacent to the main drainage ditch and machine farming road.

The high-standard paddy field planning unit is selected in the area where the field is relatively concentrated and contiguous and the irrigation water source is guaranteed. The area with special flat land is 1000×667 square meters as a planning unit, and the chong and ridge fields with a terrain slope of less than 10 degrees are planned, and the area is more than 200×667 square meters.

The so-called planning unit, in engineering, means that a set of drawings (general plan, cross-section, cross-section, etc.) should be produced here. Within a planning unit, it is often divided into dozens or hundreds of plots.

After a month of hard work, the lower reaches of Lanyang Creek have been renovated into a straight river, and a large amount of land between the east bank of Lanyang Creek and Yilan City has been completely renovated. The overall adjustment is a square field with horizontal distribution, regular shape, large area and convenient for mechanical farming, which has become the standard demonstration field of Daming Agricultural Science Institute.

On 30 January, more than 400 students of the second phase of the Yilan Rural Construction Training Course listened attentively to the lecture of Yan Yuechen, director of the Institute of Agricultural Sciences, in a large classroom of the Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the western suburbs of Yilan.

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The construction of the new countryside in Daming is mainly to achieve the effects of fields into squares, forests into networks, canals and roads, roads and roads, drought irrigation, waterlogging and drainage, and water staining through the comprehensive improvement of fields, water, roads, waterlogging and drainage, greatly increasing the effective cultivated land area, improving the quality of cultivated land, and greatly improving the production conditions of the Yilan Plain. ”

"In places with relatively flat terrain, high-standard Dafang fields should be built first, and the main branch canals and dounong canals should be hardened; In the field, set up a ramp for agricultural machinery to go down to the field, and use a stone to reinforce the ramp to connect the machine farming road. The machine plow road is compacted with coal gangue and connected to the country road. ”

"Where there is a slight slope, try to draw a horizontal plane together according to the terrain, and make hardened forts at the drop to maintain water and soil."

The students sat upright and listened attentively to Dr. Yan's lecture. They are all children of peasant families in various new villages in Yilan, and they have studied in the village school for a few days. After the Ming Dynasty entered Yilan strongly, they and their families judged the situation and expressed their resolute support for the revival of China. The working group developed them into members of the Chinese Rejuvenation Vanguard and selected them to study in the rural construction training class.

In the training class, these students not only have to learn the primary school curriculum of Daming Guozi, but also learn a large number of modern agricultural production techniques.

The outside of the Institute of Agricultural Sciences was originally a ridge that was originally horizontal and vertical, and curved and winding. Now all of them have become a boxy 1,000 acres of standard fields. The small rivers and earthen ditches dotted around have also been straightened and widened, turning into a network of rivers and channels that crisscross and separate irrigation and drainage.

On the edge of the ridge of a demonstration field, more than 100 students of the first training course gathered. Nan Hai, deputy director of the Institute of Agricultural Sciences, led them to conduct an on-site demonstration of rice seedling throwing technology.

The excellent rice varieties brought by the agricultural group to adapt to the local water and soil in Taiwan have been cultivated into seedlings. The seedlings were pulled up together with the rice trays and transported directly.

"There is no trick in throwing the planting technique, and the key points are mastered. First, the field should be leveled with less water; Second, the seedlings should be thrown high, preferably more than 3 meters, the higher and farther, the better; The third is to ensure that the basic seedlings are 60-80 trays per mu, and the density is transferred to supplement the ......"

Nanhai took the seedling floppy disk, took down a large handful of seedlings, and threw them hard, a green arc spread out in the air, and the seedlings were steadily planted into the soil, splashing one after another.

The trainees grabbed the floppy disk at the edge of the field and began to throw seedlings, and the South China Sea demonstrated the essentials while correcting them one by one, and in less than half an hour, the 3 acres of demonstration fields were added with light new green.