Four, five, eight harvest

The snowflakes were as dense as cotton wool, and the northern land, which had been sunny for a few days, was covered with ice and snow again. 【 I want: super fast update 】

White seemed to be the only color in the world, and although Li Mo's special train had been specially modified, and an additional boiler was installed in the rear of the train for heating, the unsealed carriages still felt cold, so the guards deliberately lit a large brazier in each carriage.

The royal guards sat in the cold places on both sides of the carriage, while the middle was reserved for the officials who came to hitchhike into Beijing when they stopped along the way, and everyone sat together, some reading the newspaper and chatting quietly, while others hurried to work.

Liao Wentao sat quietly in his seat, looking at the data and records fed back from all over the place, and seemed not interested in the beautiful snow scene outside the window.

I am afraid that the inconspicuous in this government belongs to him, who is in his thirties, medium build, and ordinary and simple appearance Minister of Agriculture, when Li Mo selected people with higher academic qualifications from overseas Chinese brothers to continue to study in the United States and Britain, he was also selected, but unlike his classmates, who chose mechanical, political and other disciplines, he majored in law in France at the same time, and also chose an extremely cold major in agriculture and forestry.

This is not his small means, in fact, it has a great relationship with him.

His grandfather, one of the first Chinese to go to the United States to pan for gold, spent nearly 40 years under the whip and gunpoint, creating a small name in San Francisco, and after his grandfather's death, he left nothing but a beautiful farm for his father.

In the Chinese tradition, land is an extremely important property, even the grandfather who traveled to the United States was not exempt, his ideal was to give his son a large piece of land, so he invested his life savings into it.

But before he died, he didn't expect that a Chinese exclusion bill made the Chinese inferior to pigs and dogs, and his father still did not keep the estate, and was forcibly bought by a white American at a very low price.

His father couldn't stand the stimulation and never returned, so he grew up with his mother since he was a child, relying on helping his fellow villagers sew and mend things, and his mother supported him with both hands to finish middle school and finally enter the University of San Francisco.

He was so happy that day that he ran home to tell his mother, but what he didn't expect was that on that day, his mother fell ill due to overwork and never got up again.

And the last words left by my mother when she was dying were, "Earn money, sell a large estate, fill the land with grain and fruit trees, and fulfill the wishes of my grandfather and father." ”

He agreed to his mother with tears in his eyes, and started his studies alone, until he met his friend Feng Qi, and later worshipped Li Enfu as a teacher under his recommendation, and finally completed his studies in the second year after Li Enfu went to Honolulu, and followed him to help take care of the Honolulu Government Council at that time.

Because of his outstanding ability, he and hundreds of selected scholars were sent to Europe to continue their studies, and for the first time in France, he was exposed to professional agricultural and forestry knowledge.

But he never expected that it was precisely because he studied agriculture and forestry that after returning to Honolulu, he was arranged to a special Ministry of Agriculture, and at that time, there were only a few people in the Ministry of Agriculture, and most of the land was still in Liaodong and Australia, so to put it bluntly, it was a logistics soldier who specialized in providing food security for the emperor. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

Many people were reluctant to take over this position at the time, but he did it for a few years, and finally because during his tenure, he ensured food security in the army and territory, and also created a record for the first time in the Chinese to use guano to increase the production of fertile fields, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was promoted to Minister of Agriculture and Forestry in one fell swoop.

When he was nominated and finally became the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, many people thought that it was Li Enfu's partiality, and even he himself was a little apprehensive, until the emperor met him alone, and he realized that the reason why he was chosen was not because he was a student of the prime minister, but because of his own article on the conservation of farmland in the Central Plains.

Like Europe, the Central Plains, which has been cultivated for thousands of years, has long since lost nutrients, and even the land has begun to appear salinity and desertification, which is a manifestation of large-scale nutrient loss, and the frequent flooding of the Yellow River has increased the burden on the land.

So he put forward the idea of strengthening the conservation of water and soil in the Central Plains, but he didn't expect this idea to coincide with the emperor, and finally became a high-ranking government official that everyone envied.

But in fact, he later knew that compared with his own article, the emperor had already begun to plan the method of soil and water conservation in the Central Plains, he first used land reform, a large number of land reclaimed, and then accelerated the migration of the Central Plains, evacuated the local population to make room, and then set up a special forestry company, and after discussing with the prime minister, specially allocated a construction corps of 100,000 people to plant trees in the local area.

The emperor is a real man of action, he usually rarely says big truths, he likes to do it first and then say it, just like he and the four imperial concubines often quietly go to the people, visit those people, and provide them with food and medicine, they never say big things, just bury their heads and concentrate on doing their own things.

In the past ten years, the construction corps has cultivated a total of 1.2 billion saplings, and has planted more than 70 percent, although in terms of scale, this amount is still not enough to fill the Central Plains and the northwest land, but if this policy continues, then it will only take 3 to 50 years for the vegetation in these places to be initially restored, and a huge green corridor will appear in the Central Plains.

At that time, the problem of soil erosion will be largely addressed, and your generation will leave a beautiful country for future generations, not a desert full of holes after a lack of resources.

Liao Wentao smiled, closed the report on some suggestions and progress on soil and water conservation that had just been fed back, and opened the agricultural report of the previous year that had just been counted and was about to be brought back to Beijing to report to the prime minister.

Judging from the whole of last year, there is no doubt that it was another bumper harvest year, and the registered cultivated land in the country has reached 10 trillion mu, which does not include the private development of peasants in recent years, and the vast and undeveloped arable land in Siberia, if you add it up, it will exceed 20 trillion mu.

Although not all the land will be used to grow food, but in recent years, whether it is the emperor or the prime minister's office, the investment in agriculture seems to be less vigorous than that of industry and commerce, in fact, the share is not large, and the development of land in Nanyang is amazing, Borneo alone has increased the area of farmland and plantations to as much as 56 million mu, and a large number of people from the Central Plains have begun to migrate there.

In addition to the increasing arable land, the land that has been cultivated has been kept in a state of high yield due to its abundant nutrients and suitable environment.

Although the large-scale construction of the fertilizer plant has only been fully rolled out in the past two years, the continuous shipment of guano from Daxia Province and South America has become the basic fertilizer material at present, solving the problem of feeding some barren land in the interior, and under multiple stimuli, last year's grain output finally exceeded 800 million tons.

Based on the current total population of 460 million in China, the average national disposable grain is nearly two tons

This production has greatly exceeded daily consumption, and a large amount of surplus grain has promoted food-related industries, such as winemaking, feed processing and other industries.

In addition, the number of livestock slaughtered last year also reached 500 million, simply put, each person can eat an average of one pig and sheep per year, although this proportion is much worse than that of the United States and Europe, but it is much higher than that of the last years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Moreover, an important event occurred last year, that is, for the first time after the founding of the People's Republic of China, 50,000 tons of grain were exported to foreign countries, which not only means that agriculture can finally start earning foreign exchange for the country, but also means that China is gradually moving towards becoming a grain exporter.

No matter which dynasty it is, grain is an important national resource, and sometimes grain is even more powerful than bullets, so it seems necessary to increase the scale and quantity of the construction of national grain reserves, which can alleviate the pressure brought by a large increase in grain production to the market and achieve the goal of controlling grain price stability.

Thinking of this, Liao Wentao took out his pen, took out his notebook and began to record his thoughts on stabilizing grain prices, increasing national reserves, and building ten more national grain reserve warehouses.

"You've got a good idea, and it's going to be done quickly."

Hearing the voice, Liao Wentao hurriedly turned around and found that Li Mo was wearing a coat at some point, standing quietly behind him, smiling and looking at his notes and nodding.

At this time, he found that the colleagues around him had already stood up, and they also hurriedly got up and saluted: "Wen Tao has seen the emperor." ”

"Sit down, everybody." Li Mo waved his hand, and after letting everyone sit down, he took the initiative to sit next to Liao Wentao, grabbed his thick notebook that was almost full, and said with a smile: "Hehe, I was just about to get off the car, but I didn't expect to come to see you, but I didn't expect to see your notes, don't blame me for peeking." ”

"How can it be, Your Majesty, you are laughing." Liao Wentao smiled shyly.

Li Mo looked at the notes carefully, and didn't even notice that the train stopped, and it could be seen between the lines that the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry he selected was indeed doing his best for the country and the peasants in the world.

Moreover, his series of ideas on strengthening reserves, stabilizing market prices, and treating grain as an important resource to influence the means of various countries at a critical moment are very appealing to him, and you must know that in later generations, some large countries have used grain to achieve the goal of controlling small countries, so strengthening grain management is a very realistic requirement.

"It's a good idea." Li Mo pointed to the notes that Liao Wentao had just recorded, nodded and said: "Although your work in the past two years has made a bumper harvest of grain, our country is too big, God blames no one that day, so it is an urgent matter to increase grain reserves, and Latin America and Africa are all places where there is a shortage of grain, in the past, the grain markets in these places were mainly controlled by Europe and the United States, but now the smell of gunpowder in Europe is very strong, all countries are strengthening their own reserves, and grain exports are beginning to shrink, so if you can guarantee me a bumper harvest for three to four years." , then Huang Chen's Minister of Industry and Commerce will be in a hurry, because his export profits will be surpassed by you. ”

"Huh." Liao Wentao smiled, he knew that Li Mo was joking, the ratio of grain and industry and commerce is basically difficult to surpass after gradually entering industrialization, and the value of grain exports is not high, 10,000 tons is not as good as helping others build a warship, but although the harvest is not guaranteed in the three or four years of the harvest, it cannot be said that it is not possible, as long as God helps, when the fertilizer plant is spread out on a large scale and a large amount of land such as Siberia begins to be reclaimed, it is not a nonsense fabrication to increase the output to 1.5 billion tons within ten years.

Liao Wentao's notes and this report made him happy, because it meant that he could finally not worry about hunger, and once the war began, in addition to the United States and himself, the food production in Europe would drop sharply.

China has the world's largest amount of arable land, and the emergence of tractors, fertilizers, small pumping machines and other production materials will greatly reduce the labor intensity of the peasants; when Europe falls into war and the United States is dragged into the water by itself, there will be a grain market vacuum with a population of nearly one billion people, which is an extremely supportive market, and even if there is only one percent of the profits, it will bring back billions of yuan in income.

In addition to grain, Li Mo also asked about the scale of dairy cow breeding, which is one of the important things he has dreamed of for a long time to strengthen the national physique, a glass of milk per capita a day is the ideal he put forward when the founding of the country, but it is still a dream today, although there are no less than 100,000 high-quality breeding cattle imported from abroad in recent years, but the population base makes it far more difficult to realize this plan than in Japan.

However, Liao Wentao also brought him some good news, at present, the weight of dairy cows in the country has exceeded five million, which can basically meet the daily requirements of primary and secondary schools around the country, one person per day may have a cup, at least 30 million cows are needed, and fresh milk processing and storage are problems, so their Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry can only temporarily unite some businessmen, equipment purchased from Germany, respectively, in the main breeding bases have established milk powder processing plants, from the current point of view, dairy products have been removed from the shelves of high-end goods, It is gradually entering the homes of ordinary people, but fresh milk can only be temporarily supplied to those cities where the farms are closer.

After hearing this, Li Mo was not only not angry, but very happy, ten years to bring agriculture to this level, Liao Wentao contributed a lot, got up with a smile, patted him on the shoulder and said: "I'm very happy, but you yourself also have to pay more attention to rest, you have lost a lot of weight than the last time I saw you, I heard that you had a serious illness last year, right?" ”

"Thank you for your concern, I was sick in Shanxi, but now I am much better." Liao Wentao didn't expect Li Mo to care about the details of his body, and hurriedly said gratefully.

"Do it well, but you also have to pay attention to your body, if you are tired, I have nowhere to find a second Minister of Agriculture and Forestry." Li Mo patted him on the shoulder again, said hello to everyone and got off the train, he didn't know that after he left, the carriage was already bustling, and his attention turned to the Huludao shipyard in front of him again.