The plan of the year lies in the spring. On the third day of the first month of March, in Lujia Village, Dongqian Lake District, Qingyuan Mansion (Ningbo), Lu Shuntian left his house and went to the village office. The village office and the village primary school are with the village kindergarten, and the children who go to kindergarten have not yet reached the time to be delivered, and the children who go to the elementary school are led by their parents or come here in groups by themselves.

After seeing Lu Shuntian, the parents greeted one after another, "Hello village chief." ”

Lu Shuntian, who is in his twenties, also responded to everyone and reminded: "The coal has been shipped in the past two days. Remember to buy coal. ”

When he arrived at the village office, Lu Shuntian took the paper to the school and asked the teacher to help write a notice, the content of which was that the coal was coming in the past two days, and if you wanted to buy it, you should quickly prepare money, and if you are ready to hang the account, you will go to the village accountant to check how much you can hang.

After the teacher finished writing, he said with a smile: "Village Chief Lu explained things so clearly, how good it would be to write the notice by himself." ”

Lu Shuntian sighed, "Alas, I learned to read and write when I was a soldier." Now there are more and more literate people in the village, and I can't get my words out to meet people. ”

After speaking, Lu Shuntian thanked the teacher, took the paste and the notice to the bulletin board, and pasted it. After dealing with this matter, Lu Shuntian went straight to the earthworm house. The low earthworm house is in the middle of the field, and you can see it from afar.

Earthworms are very good at burrowing in the ground, and the earthworm house has to use hard materials to prevent these little things from escaping in droves. The ash residue left over from burning coal is mixed with clay and gravel and so on, and the ground is made in a place where the terrain is high, and earthworms cannot get into such land. The same can be done for walls. The earthworm bed is not high, and the house does not need to be high. The ceiling above must be guaranteed not to be blown away by the wind and rain, and it must be carefully taken care of in places like Qingyuan Mansion.

Halfway through, I saw several peasants arguing at the door of the house. Lu Shuntian was nervous in his heart, and his steps involuntarily sped up a lot. Crops and flowers depend on dung. Manure here refers to fertilizer. Mr. Zhao turned the entire agricultural fertilizer system upside down. The peasants are extremely pragmatic, because most of the accumulation of experience depends on practice, and they are extremely conservative and stubborn. Because of this, having seen the power of vermicompost, the most conservative and stubborn farmers have become the most die-hard advocates of this new fertilizer.

Seeing Lu Shuntian coming from afar, the earthworm house guard guarding the fertilizer base immediately greeted him, and said eagerly: "Village chief, these people said that the soil we used for rice germination is too thin. ”

Everyone is from the same village, and Lu Shuntian recognized these people from a distance as the elders of the village. It was also the loser who was defeated by Lu Shuntian in one fell swoop when the village chief election began to be popularized two years ago. As for their request, it sounded unreasonable to Lu Shuntian.

Now rice is planted once a year, and the planting time is about March of the Song calendar. In the past, each family used the rice seeds they had kept to sprout by themselves. Zhao Taiwei tried to make Lu Shuntian and his group of retired soldiers the village head, so that these people would take the lead in selecting the rice seeds provided by the agricultural school. The new method is to foam the rice seeds with refined cold water, put them in a glass roof greenhouse, burn coal for heating, and wait for germination.

After the rice sprouts, the sprouts are sown in a greenhouse, which is similar to an earthworm room, except that straw mats are used on the roof. During the day, the straw mat is lifted to allow the rice seedlings to fully bask in the sun, and at night, the straw mat is changed to a skeleton made of bamboo on the roof to ensure that the temperature in the greenhouse is not excessively low.

The rice seedlings cultivated in this way are not only large in size, but also heavy in hand. During this period, farmers should pay close attention to tidying up the farmland, and when the seedlings grow to a certain height, they can be transplanted into the field by manual transplanting.

Qingyuanfu (Ningbo) has completed land reform, and land reform is not a simple equal division of land. Zhao Taiwei even built water conservancy, so that the entire Dongqian Lake area was covered by irrigation and drainage systems. Once the transplanting is completed, the fields are stocked with rice fish, which is basically a mixture of carp and grass carp. They feed on grass and small insects in the fields, and farmers regularly supplement their fields with protein feed made from earthworms and plant feed from mowing grass.

These agricultural technologies and agricultural management techniques are popularized by the prefectural and county agricultural bureaus, and the heads of each village first lead the advanced households to put them into practice. Lu Shuntian, the head of Lujia Village, will take the lead himself.

Now hearing that the older generation in the village actually began to criticize the thickness of the earthworm soil, Lu Shuntian remembered the course when he received 'management training' in the county. Then Lu Shuntian took a few steps forward according to what he had said in the course and what he had practiced in the county, and said to those seniors: "How thick earthworm soil to use is all taught by the school teachers. They are all gentlemen from Lin'an, do you think you can do better than these gentlemen? ”

Sure enough, as mentioned in the class, these old people were suppressed by the name of Mr. Lin'anlai. They were speechless for a moment. Seeing their arrogance suppressed, Lu Shuntian was refreshed for a while.

The land reform in Jiangnan has been early and late, and Zhao Taiwei's slogan is 'knowledge is power'. As far as Lu Shuntian saw, Zhao Taiwei not only taught the village-level cadres specific knowledge of farming, but also taught them the knowledge of management. Those villages that implemented land reform earlier will bring out the problems they have encountered, especially those thorny and difficult problems.

For example, when running for village chief, although the villagers knew that the government favored retired soldiers, they did not dare to directly oppose the government. But they must be unconvinced in their hearts, so when the village chief is running, the village chief must not only ensure that after speaking for everyone, but also ensure that he follows the government's farming process, so that his own fields can increase by more than 20%.

At this stage, it depends on whether the village chief can fulfill the promise he made when he elected the village head. To put it more bluntly, it depends on whether the village chief can do it himself. Lu Shuntian originally didn't have confidence in himself, so he asked him to take the land in the village and build the canal, he felt that he had the court behind him, and he barely dared to do it. But farming has never been his own forte, and if he is really good at farming, why should he become a soldier?

And whether you can do it at this time or not has to be hard-headed. As a result, after using the latest agricultural technology, Lu Shuntian's rice yield per mu has increased by more than 20% compared with the past.

According to the experience summed up in the county, it is not the general public who can take the initiative to follow up at this time, but the former landlords. Under Lu Shuntian's door-to-door persuasion, it was the middle peasants who passively followed up. The former small landowners were afraid that they would be deceived, and the former poor did not know what was happening and could not understand anything new.

In the second year, Lu Shuntian had to lead the former landlords and middle peasants to adopt the latest technology, so that the average yield of these people who were willing to follow them exceeded 20% per mu.

Now in his third year, Lu Shuntian thought that it should be smooth sailing after that. After listening to the lecture, Lu Shuntian found that things were far from being as simple as he imagined. There is no such thing as an idyll. With the popularization of technology, especially water conservancy, local elders and elders have come out to seize power.

This is true in almost all land reform areas. For the past two years, clan leaders who had only said strange things or said nothing at all began to re-express their opinions. One of the most iconic of these comments is the fingering of specific details.

The senior cadre who gave the lecture looked helpless when he mentioned this, and he told the students, "It can't be said that what these people say has no reason at all." Because they also know that if they talk nonsense, they will definitely be seen through by the people. They say things that seem reasonable, and they say things that seem to make sense, and they don't say things that seem to make sense, and they don't do it for everyone's good at all. They are about having a voice. In the past, when you worked hard, as long as you did your own work, what you said would be recognized and supported by the people. At this stage, you must know that you are the head of the village, and you are the cadres sent to the village by the school society and the imperial court. You are the ones who can lead everyone to a good life. At such times, you must stand firm and never give up your right to speak. ”

Seeing the efforts of these village elders to seize power, Lu Shuntian also fought back unceremoniously.

The elders were still a little confused when they were first frustrated, they probably didn't expect this twenty-year-old Mao boy to dare to scare them. Soon, the old men were furious. They shouted, "Do you dare to be disrespectful to your elders? ”

"I'm the village chief. The affairs in this village have to be discussed with everyone before they are settled, and what you say doesn't count. Lu Shuntian slammed up again. After the fight, he said to the militia guarding the earthworm house: "This place is the source of fertilizer in our village, and no one should be allowed to enter it casually." Do you remember? ”

"Remembered." The militia immediately responded. Those who can be selected for the militia are the people who follow the village chief Lu Shuntian closely, that is, the villagers who can get the earthworm soil earlier. The agricultural level of the Great Song Dynasty developed to the peak before China's industrial society, and the level of many agricultural technologies and agricultural equipment did not have an essential breakthrough until New China. However, Zhao Taiwei's technology is ecological agriculture technology, which can be regarded as the top agricultural technology in the era when there was no synthetic ammonia. The militia did not know about the origin of Captain Zhao, nor did they know about the future. However, the fertility of earthworm soil, as well as the fertility of earthworm feed, is visible to everyone.

"Shuntian, what do you want to do? Do you still want people to beat us? The seniors felt that they had found Lu Shuntian's mistake, and began to say in a weird way.

In the training in the county, the teacher talked about how to deal with this kind of performance. The purpose of these people is to incite public opinion and create negative news about Lu Shuntian's control of the source of fertilizer. To deal with this kind of thing, the county has also proposed to deal with it. Lu Shuntian smiled at these seniors and said, "The coal has been shipped here in the past two days, and everyone is just getting together. Before planting seedlings, talk about earthworm soil distribution. At that time, several uncles and grandfathers will also participate. ”

The old man didn't expect Lu Shuntian to directly poke at their careful thoughts, and they all began to blow their beards and stare at them. At this moment, the correspondent came at a trot. gave an official letter to Lu Shuntian. Lu Shuntian opened it and saw that it said "Send militia to participate in the suppression of bandits".