The elders give it, and the young dare not resign.

After Cheng Nuo took the shepherd's cabbage soup, he originally wanted to pay for it, but the old man resolutely refused to accept it, leaving only two baked cakes and waving his hand to let them leave.

The donkey cart continued to walk forward, and when he turned around and saw that the old man was still waving there, Guo Shouchun was full of emotion: "Old Cheng, the road we have to take is very arduous, and the burden on our body is very heavy. If it is well done, the soup will be sweet, and if it is not done well, the soup will be bitter. ”

"Then do you think he will be sweet or bitter in the future."

"I think it must be sweet."

The two laughed at the same time, and after a while, they fell silent together.

Guo Shouchun reclined on the car: "This road is not easy to walk at all, the West has thrown us away a lot, the development of nearly a hundred years, calm down and think about the gap, far away makes people disheartened, and they can be woken up in a dream at night." ”

If the 17th and 18th centuries were the enlightenment stage of Western agricultural modernization, then the 19th century was the beginning of agricultural modernization, and the 20th century was the period of rapid development and completion of agricultural modernization.

A series of developments have obvious time nodes, starting from the successful artificial insemination technology of the Italian Spallanzani in 1780, which opened the way for modern animal reproduction technology.

In 1840, the German chemist Liebig published the book "Applications of Organic Chemistry in Agriculture and Physiology", which led to the rise of modern experimental agriculture. In 1859, the British biologist Charles Darwin published "The Origin of Species" and in 1866, the Austrian Mendel published "The Experiment of Plant Hybridization", which gave birth to the theory of biological evolution and biological genetics.

In 1879, the French microbiologist Pasteur published the book "The Study of Fermentation", and on this basis, he developed the anthrax vaccine in 1881, and then other animal vaccines came out one after another, creating a precedent for microbial research.

So far, the cornerstone of the development of agricultural science and technology in the West has been laid.

"They crossed the river by feeling the stones, and we crossed the river by touching them." Cheng Nuo lay down with him and said with relief: "Didn't the German Fritz use high pressure and high temperature to synthesize ammonia from hydrogen and nitrogen to establish the world's first synthetic ammonia plant, we know that this direction is feasible, we can avoid many detours, and avoid a lot of scientific trial and error costs." ”

Guo Shouchun nodded: "Your words woke me up, when I was still studying in the United States, their local Shure laid the theoretical foundation for hybrid corn very early, and the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station has worked hard for so many years, although the results are there, but there is still a way to go before it is fully promoted." ”

"We have a disadvantage, but we also have a late-mover advantage." Cheng Nuo looked at the clouds in the sky and said: "But our people are still not enough, in a few days I am busy with the compilation of textbooks, and I am ready to translate the book "Mendelian Genetic Mechanism" published by Morgan the year before last. ”

"Sometimes I want to give birth to three heads and six arms." Guo Shouchun picked up a blade of grass, put it in his mouth and bit it: "Last time I went to Peking University to listen to a few classes, I found that their textbooks generally lag behind Western countries, and there is a lag, and when they graduate, they will find that the technology they have mastered has been eliminated by foreigners, so when you look for me, I am also translating some textbooks." ”

"So the two of us coincide."

In fact, in addition to teaching materials, Cheng Nuo is also studying the history of organic synthetic pesticides, especially the second-generation pesticides DDT, 666 and diquat, especially DDT, which can not only target most insects, but also play a preventive role in malaria, plague and other infectious diseases, and has a wide range of applications, and is the best insecticide in this era.

If there is an opportunity, it is better to take it out before the large-scale agricultural extension.

Guo Shouchun's bleak smile, still a little pessimistic: "The United States began to have trailer manure spreaders, corn planters, ploughing and sowing machines in the middle of the last century, and when I checked the information in the school, I accidentally found that in 1879, there were 100,000 combine harvesters in the country, feeding, threshing, dusting, and weighing functions in one, and we still rely on hoes and sickles, and now it has been almost 40 years, and it is estimated that gasoline tractors are popular." Agriculture is not only a matter of seeds, you look at the appearance of the uncle just now, he is really powerless. ”

His subordinates can be chaotic, but the backbone of the main heart cannot be shaken.

Cheng Nuo looked optimistic: "Don't look at us with only two hands, as long as we have time to conjure them up for him, do you forget Lao Shi and Lao Wu, our lineup has a lot of potential." ”

Afraid that this guy would continue to be pessimistic, Cheng Nuo added another shot in the arm: "The greed of the Beiyang government can also be exploited. Some time ago, did you read the article on the reform of the village system in Jin Province by Zhonghua Daily? ”

Guo Shouchun frowned and thought about it, and said with some uncertainty: "Yan Laoxi's 'protecting the territory and the people'? Isn't that used to levy troops and taxes to monitor the people, how can it have anything to do with our agriculture? ”

"There is a relationship, and there is a big relationship." Cheng Nuo painted the tiger according to the cat, and also took a blade of grass: "Everything has two sides, he said, 'everyone does not lose their talents', in fact, he also established a village-based grassroots administrative reform, and found him with the experimental results, which can be spread to the entire Jin Province in a short period of time." ”

In modern history, Japan has had a great influence on our country, and the reform of the village system is an important aspect of this.

When Yuan Datou was still alive, the Beiyang government under his control was governed by the idea of local autonomy ruled by the officials and gentry in the late Qing Dynasty, and from 1913 onwards, a series of rural management regulations such as the "Decree on the Organization of the Unified and Existing Local Administrative Offices of the Counties" began to unify the local administration of the county.

Later, based on the Japanese model village, the governor of Dingxian County, Sun Faxu and Mi's father and son founded the "Model Autonomous Village" in Zhaicheng Village, Zhili, in the form of "government and business cooperation", which opened the curtain of rural autonomy in the Republic of China, and we still use the villager autonomy system in later generations.

Yan Laoxi did not have the talent to create a system of his own, but continued to follow Japan's example and build an administrative network on the basis of autonomy, and Cheng Nuo took a fancy to this aspect.

Guo Shouchun was still a little dazed when he heard it: "How can a big high-ranking official listen to our arrangement, Lao Cheng thinks about those warlords too well." ”

Cheng Nuo smiled: "It is precisely because he is a warlord that he will not get along with money." Work hard, Lao Guo is their future 'fortune boy', and he is a guest. ”

Guo Shouchun immediately spit out the blades of grass in his mouth: "Come on, I'm not rare, big fish and meat are not as fresh as this shepherd's cabbage soup." ”

After speaking, he immediately poured himself a bowl of shepherd's cabbage soup and drank it all.

"What does it taste like?"

I closed my eyes and tasted it: "It's delicious, it's sweet!" ”