A great writer in my country once said, 'There is no road in the world, but when there are more people walking, it becomes a road'

The words of celebrities are always very reasonable, and now on the Hetao Plain in the direction of Helan Mountain in Ningxia, the originally empty wilderness for many years has also been populated at this time.

At this moment, a Willis MB jeep drove up from a dirty two-lane road, and in this car sat a man in his fifties with black-rimmed glasses, a middle-aged man who looked like an official in his forties.

They were Li Daxia, then chairman of Ningxia Province and director of the Department of Agriculture, and Xi Hanqian, secretary general of Chahar.

In this part of Ningxia, the weather in November is still a little hot, and the air in the car is a little stuffy, which makes people have no hope of talking.

Sitting in the rickety car, Xi Hanqian looked at the golden wheat and the occasional combine harvester on the side of the road, with a look of approval on his face, and he was silent for a long time before he slowly spoke: "Brother Zhong Nian, I have really worked hard for you in the past six months,"

Li Daxia smiled lightly, and the wrinkles on his face became deeper: "I, Li, am the vice chairman of Ningxia Province, and it is naturally Li's bounden duty to benefit the people, let alone hard work." As long as the migrants, who had no food or clothing, can settle down here, everything else is nothing. ”

"The fact that you have been able to open up 5 million acres of fertile land in just half a year is a remarkable thing in itself, and when you harvest this grain next month, it will be more than 1.2 million tons of grain. Aside from the food needs of the 300,000 people who migrated to Ningxia, it can still supply the needs of our Chahar army of 700,000 for several months, which is a great progress. ”

Xi Hanqian's tone was full of excitement, as the chief governor of the four provinces of Chahar, the food problem has always been his biggest concern. For the sake of food, Chairman Su did not know how many times he talked to him alone, nor how many times he woke him up from his sleep in the middle of the night.

For a long time, the food and military needs of Chahar's huge number of immigrants weighed on Xi Hanqian's heart like a mountain. For the sake of the food supply for the army and the immigrants from the four Chahar provinces, Xi Hanqian has been heartbroken in the past two years. Now that the first phase of the 'Hetao Large-scale Development' project can be completed, it will be a great burden on the Chahar government, and it is no wonder that as soon as Li Daxia made a report, he immediately rushed all the way from Chahar to inspect it.

To put it bluntly, the 'Hetao Large-scale Development' is a large-scale farm model, dividing the Hetao Plain into farms with large xiǎoxiǎo, and then contracting them to the people who have emigrated to cultivate, and after the harvest, the government will purchase them at the market price.

The jeep soon came to a large farm, which covered an area of more than 3,000 acres, and it was also the largest farm they had visited today.

After getting out of the car, Xi Hanqian came to the field and stretched out his hand to pick up a heavy ear of wheat, feeling the fragrance of the ear of wheat, he couldn't help but feel in a good mood, raised his head and said to Li Daxia with a smile: "Brother Zhong Nian, the completion of this first phase of the project is very good, what do you think of the upcoming second phase of the project?" Or rather, do you have any requirements? ”

"Oh!" Li Daxia's eyes turned slyly and asked, "Secretary-General, can you promise me what I said?" ”

"Not necessarily, it depends!" Xi Hanqian wouldn't fall into this trap, he shook his head, "This depends on the situation, if you want to use the money, I can allocate some to you, but the amount will not be too much." ”

"I don't want your money, we still have some money in Ningxia this year, I want something else." Li Daxia's expression at this time became more and more like a cunning old fox.

"Oh, let's talk about it." Xi Hanqian said casually, but he was more vigilant in his heart, every time this old guy showed such an expression, it was time to beat his own mind.

Sure enough, as soon as Li Daxia opened his mouth, Xi Hanqian was startled: "My requirements are not high, I want college students, I want a university voice from agricultural university, I am not greedy, just give me five hundred." ”

"What, five hundred?" Xi Hanqian was prepared in his heart, and he couldn't help but be startled by Li Daxia's lion mouth, five hundred college students? Still not demanding?

"Why don't you grab it!" Xi Hanqian, who reacted, couldn't help but feel angry in his heart, "Do you know how many college students we graduate in Chahar every year now?" Not to mention agriculture majors, it's even rarer! ”

"Hehe" Li Daxia's expression at this time carried the cunning of a Chinese peasant, "I don't want to graduate from Chahar University, I know that there are nearly 500 graduates of the Agricultural Department of Peking University this year, why don't you give me some." ”

"Two hundred at most, no more!" Xi Hanqian glared at Li Daxia angrily, "Okay, you Li Zhongnian, I just came to walk around and you were asked to leave two hundred college students, I see that your scoundrel methods are getting more and more powerful." ”

Li Daxia smiled hesitantly, and then sighed again: "Secretary General Xi, it's not that I'm a scoundrel, it's really that there is a shortage of college students everywhere now, you look at my agricultural research institute and technical guidance station here, where there is no need for people, if you rely on the assigned people alone, there is no way to complete the second phase of the project next year." ”

Xi Hanqian also understood Li Daxia's difficulties, then nodded and said: "I also know your difficulties, so there will be a group of Jewish immigrants who will migrate over after a while, they have knowledge and technology, I plan to assign some people to Ningxia, I believe it will help you, but whether you can keep them depends on your own." ”

By the end of 1937, more than 600,000 Jewish immigrants had arrived in Chahar, most of whom were knowledgeable and differentiated, and most of them were well educated.

Li Daxia was overjoyed when he heard this, patted his chest and assured Xi Hanqian that he would definitely create good opportunities and conditions for them, and that he would definitely keep the talented people in Ningxia.......

"Hehe, okay, you promise me that it's useless, you also know that Chairman Su only looks at the results and doesn't ask about the process, if you can't complete the task, you can explain it to Chairman Su yourself when the time comes." Xi Hanqian waved his hand indifferently.

"Alright, now that we're here, let's go over and visit the master here."

At the entrance of a big house next to the farm, a xiǎonv child with a big yellow dog in his arms was sitting in a bored daze in front of the mén, and when he saw a xiǎo car driving far ahead, he quickly shouted, "Grandpa, come quickly, there are guests in front." ”

"Wangwang Wang......" Seeing outsiders coming to his territory, the big yellow dog barked desperately.

"Rhubarb is good, don't call luàn." Xiǎonv child hurriedly hugged the big yellow dog and didn't let him move.

After a while, Xi Hanqian and Li Daxia got out of the car one after the other and shook hands with a middle-aged man who looked like a farmer in his fifties who had been waiting in front of Mén for a long time. According to Li Daxia, the middle-aged Chinese character name is Fang Siyi, and he has two sons under his knees, one of his two sons followed him to farm, the other became a soldier, and it is said that he was also an armored soldier under General Sun Liren.

"Okay, Uncle Fang, you are a military dependent, according to the policy, you can enjoy a tax reduction of 30%." Xi Hanqian lit a cigarette after giving Uncle Fang a cigarette, and said with a smile.

"Huh!" Uncle Fang smiled and took a puff of cigarette and said, "I don't care, it is natural to grow grain and pay taxes since ancient times." I just want to know when the technicians promised by Governor Li will be able to come. In the past, we were barely able to make do with dozens of acres of land, but now you see, my farm alone has an area of thousands of acres, and there are so many **** in it. ”

"Old Fang, don't worry, Secretary General Xi came here to solve the problem for us this time, and you must be right to find him if you have something." Li Daxia on the side did not forget to fan the flames on the side.

Xi Hanqian glared at Li Daxia, and his heart sank for a while before he said, "Uncle Fang, in fact, I think it's better for you to let your family learn this kind of thing, it's really inconvenient to call technicians all the time, what do you say?" ”

"Who's to say it's not, but there is really no one at home, the eldest son is playing in Siberia, and the xiǎo son is busy working all day long, and he doesn't have time to learn this thing." Uncle Fang was really a little helpless.

"Uncle, look at what you said, a living person can still suffocate Niào to death. Don't you have two daughters-in-law, so it's good if you let them learn? Xi Hanqian looked at the middle-aged woman who was driving two harvesters in front of her, and said with a smile.

"What kind of technology do two girls learn, just drive the machine twice, isn't it a làng fee to learn that thing?" Uncle Fang looked at the two tractors in the distance and said disappreciatively.

"Uncle Fang, what you said is not right, men are equal, what men can do, aren't NV people also capable of doing it?" Xi Hanqian said with a smile.

Looking at Uncle Fang's smile on the surface, but a hint of disapproval flashed in his eyes, Xi Hanqian sighed secretly in his heart, Xi Hanqian didn't expect that this cheerful-looking peasant still had such a serious patriarchal and nv-oriented thinking in his heart, and it seemed that the propaganda of the government was still not in place