A few days later, the Ombudsman Emerson arrived, and the long-awaited harvest could finally begin. In Mr. Emerson and Tintin from the Associated Press.

To be honest, Tintin is quite disgusted with the overwhelming advertisements of "Earth Gold", except for the advertising song "On the Field of Hope", most of the other advertisements are disgustingly vulgar. In addition, that propaganda is too exaggerated in Tintin's opinion, so Tintin is quite skeptical about the actual effect of "earth gold". So Tintin actually came here with suspicions. He knew that his interview was actually just part of an advertisement, and that although the Associated Press was nominally a non-profit organization, that didn't mean it wasn't immune to money. The Associated Press runs on money, and that money comes entirely from donations from its members, and the money of its members doesn't fall from the sky, most of them come either from MacDonald or from Morgan. Nowadays, "earth gold" is obviously a key project of the MacDonald department, and the Associated Press has MacDonald's money, how can it not participate in such a report.

But when Tintin saw this wheat field, he was really surprised. On the train all the way, he leaned on the window, looking at the scenery on the Great Plains, now it is the season of wheat harvest, from a distance, the Great Plains is golden, but this year's insect infestation is quite strict, so even on the train, Ding Ding can see that most of the wheat fields in the vicinity are not full enough, and sparse.

When he got off the train and walked directly into the wheat field, Tintin could see the impact of the pest more clearly. As he walked through the wheat fields, there would always be swarms of bugs flying up and landing not far away. Although Tintin has never been a farmer, as a journalist, he has traveled from south to north for many years, and he has seen a lot of wheat harvests and other things. So as long as he glances at it, he can also see that although this year's harvest will not be wiped out, compared with last year, the decline in yield per mu has almost become inevitable.

However, after some walking, when I arrived near Jim's wheat field, the situation was completely different, because Jim's wheat field could be seen from a distance, and it could be seen that it was different from other wheat fields. That heavy, full-bodied golden yellow, like a large sheet of gold shining in the sun.

When you look closer, it's even more amazing. Almost every ear of wheat is large, plump, and heavy. In the wheat fields next to it, the extra-large ears of wheat that had been painstakingly found were not conspicuous at all. Tintin had never seen such a wheat field before, and he was a little surprised.

"Well, it's beautiful." Emerson, who had come with him, asked with a grin.

"Well, it's good, it's a lot stronger than the surrounding ones." "Do your other customers' wheat fields look like this?" ”

"In my experience, the condition of this wheat field is relatively strong among our customers, but the wheat fields of other users are not much worse. Well, you see that this wheat field is very close to the river, it is easy to irrigate, and with the cultivation method, it is normal for such a good harvest to occur. "When we get there, they can start harvesting, threshing and drying, and they're ready to be weighed." ”

"But I'm afraid it won't dry out in one day. Even the harvest may not be complete. Tintin said.

"So we need to be here for days." Emerson replied.

"Mr. Emerson!" Tom saw them and ran towards them, waving his arms as he ran......

The weather has been quite good these days, all of which are sunny days, which are very suitable for harvesting and drying. After a few days, it was finally time to weigh it.

All the wheat that had been beaten down had been packed into baskets one by one, and the workers hired to help had lifted them up and weighed them one by one. Emerson stood aside and carefully registered. By evening, all the grain had been weighed, and the yield per acre was quickly calculated—a full 760 pounds. This number completely freaked everyone out, yes, really scared, you know, last year was a bumper year, and the average yield of wheat per mu was less than 250 pounds, and Jim's yield was three times that of this field, which is just, too, too much!

Tintin and Emerson checked all the numbers again, and the result was unmistakable, 760 pounds. Emerson was not wrong at all.

"Miracle, this is a miracle! Great miracle! Emerson muttered.

"Mr. Jim, can you tell us how you managed to pull off such a miracle?" As a journalist, Tintin naturally knew that it was time to work.

……

Almost unanimously, the next day, the Associated Press's major newspapers published a front-page report by journalist Ding Dingcai, "Field of Hope," in which Ding Ding described the great miracles brought about by "earth gold" and "DDT," and pointed out that scientific progress and the idea of putting science and technology at the service of humanity are the foundation for human miracles like Zào. And a service attitude of serving the interests of customers, thinking about what customers think, being anxious about what customers are anxious about, and treating customers as their relatives is also an important factor in creating such a miracle.

The rest of the pages were full of news about the miracle. There were interviews with farmers at the time, and there were interviews with the technicians of "Tujin" and "DDT", and the newspaper of this day almost became a special issue of "Tujin" and "DDT".

Not only newspapers, but other media are not idle. When the peasants turned on the radio in the evening and tuned into the agricultural channel, they heard something like this:

"Hello listeners, I'm Robinson, host of the Agriculture Channel, and it's a pleasure to be with you at this time. The last few days have been the busiest summer harvest season for everyone, so let me first congratulate you on your harvest and say to our farmer friends that you have worked hard.

If you want to hear what the hottest topic is these days, I think most of my farmer friends will say: 'It's soil gold and DDT, it's their miraculous harvest.' Indeed, a good harvest is always the expectation of farmers, for a good harvest, we used to look forward to fertile soil, good weather, and now, in addition to these, we are also looking forward to the opportunity to use the legendary miracle of the miracle of the fertilizer 'soil gold', and the miraculous insecticide 'DDT'.

In this program, we have the honor of inviting Mr. Scrooge MacDonald, the chief architect and supreme commander of the agricultural revolution. He will be interviewed by this station on some issues that are of interest to everyone.

Hello and welcome, Mr. MacDonald!

'Hello Roberen, I have always been your most loyal listener. (Another person's voice comes over the radio.) ）

Mr. MacDonald, I think a lot of listeners are wondering, how did you come up with the idea to develop these two amazing things?

It was a trip to Europe. At that time, I was honored to be invited by the University of Paris to visit Wèn because I discovered that bacteria may be the cause of many infectious diseases. During this period, I had a lot of conversations with chemists at the University of Paris, and I was told about one of their achievements, that is, they used saltpeter to make some chemical fertilizers, and they used guò to grow real yàn, which proved that this chemical fertilizer could greatly increase the yield of food. At that time, a chemist told me with great regret that it was a pity that the earth's saltpeter reserves were too limited, not only the cost of mining was too high, even if it was made into fertilizer, it could not be used, and it had many other uses, such as making murderous weapons, so it was not the turn to use such strategic materials to make fertilizer.

At that time, I was thinking, since nitrogen fertilizer needs mainly solid nitrogen, and the vast majority of our atmosphere is made up of nitrogen, can't we find a way to get nitrogen directly from the atmosphere? I also discussed this idea with some chemists at the University of Paris. They told me that they also had some research in this area, and they found that the reaction of nitrogen and hydrogen does produce a little ammonia, but the reaction speed is very slow, and the efficiency of ammonia production is very low. In addition, further research would require a lot of funding, so they abandoned the project. As for me, I know that this technology is extremely important to farmers, to many people in this world, and as a chemist, it is my vocation to serve the people. So I kept it in my mind, and as I got more money, the more I wanted to see if I could make it happen. I knew that I could do it alone, and even with the cooperation of the scientists at the University of Cleveland, it would be a very difficult project, so I invited a lot of German scientists to participate, and they were also very interested in the project and provided a lot of technical help for it. In the end, we got it out. ’

Mr. MacDonald, allow me to begin by paying tribute to your great spirit of service to the people. Our listeners are eager to know what the production of 'Earth Gold' will be this year and whether it will meet their needs.

I have to say sorry to my farmer friends about this. Although we are already building as many production lines as possible to expand our capacity, some of the key equipment is too difficult to manufacture and the process is very complex, and currently only McDonald Steel can barely produce in the United States, and even in Europe, the production of which is very limited. Therefore, it will take time to expand production capacity. However, by the end of this year, at the beginning of next year, we should be able to increase the yield to about ten times the current level, and by that time, more farmers will be able to buy our native gold. However, I don't have good news to tell you that compared with earth gold, the production difficulty of DDT is much lower, so we have rapidly increased our production capacity, which should be able to meet the needs of the majority of farmers......"