"Alas, the days are getting more and more hopeless."

The laboratory is not far from the factory, so Cheng Nuo and Jiang Zuo chose to walk forward, firstly, to exercise, and secondly, to see how the people live up close, so as not to unconsciously be high in the future.

Passing by the village, I happened to see a few villagers chatting there.

In a relaxed and curious attitude, Cheng Nuo quietly came behind them and listened quietly.

An old mountain folk smoked a leaf cigarette and said: "In the past, we still had some sayings in those days, usually pick up some pigweed, get some leftovers, and raise a pig all year round, even if you don't make pig-killing vegetables at the end of the year, you can sell them at a good price, pull some cloth for your mother-in-law, and buy some guns for your dolls."

But now, ......"

"What else do you dare not say, everyone is not blind and deaf, let alone raising pigs now, there is no money to buy pig babies, how can people live this life." Talking about this, everyone complained, especially the young people among them, who couldn't sit still.

"Isn't it, there used to be dry food in Dundun, but now it has become gruel, the age is not good, bandits are everywhere, taxes are extremely heavy, big houses have become huts, tiled houses have become grass houses, and if this continues, everyone will dig a pit in the ground and bury it." The villagers, who were a little dressed a little exquisitely, also complained.

Listening to everyone's gossip on the side, Cheng Nuo knew that there were probably all kinds of complaints below, and he only felt that the burden on his body was heavier.

Waving his hand, Cheng Nuo left the crowd and walked in the direction of the factory.

Faced with this situation, Jiang Jiang Zuo was also unhappy: "Everyone's life is so sad, too, natural and man-made disasters, war and chaos, selling houses and living in cellars, cloth and food, everyone can be happy." ”

Cheng Nuo added on the side: "Don't forget, there is also an important reason for rural bankruptcy. ”

Jiang Jiang Zuo caught up and said puzzledly: "Is it because I am lonely and unheard, can this countryside still go bankrupt?" ”

Cheng Nuo sighed and nodded: "The small workshop of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry can go bankrupt, and of course the migrant workers can also go bankrupt, if we divide the entire population of China into five categories: special line, horizontal line, poverty line, hunger line, and death line, then with the investigation of you and me in the countryside in recent years, which category do you think the vast majority of rural areas are in?" ”

"Let me think about it." Jiang Jiang Zuo's pace slowed down slightly, and he fell into thought: "Needless to say, the so-called landlords, squires and rich peasants should be classified into this category, and the death line is too exaggerated, so it must be excluded...... After thinking about it, the poverty line is more appropriate. ”

"Wrong, at least two-thirds of them are hovering around the hunger line, if there is a natural disaster or man-made disaster, it is not impossible to suddenly come to the death line, forget that we were in Zhili last year's flood, are there still fewer people who died in front of us?" Cheng Nuo's tone was full of emotion and said in a low voice.

Jiang Jiang Zuo asked: "The huge land, can't it feed our compatriots, it's good to be dignified, the Qing Dynasty has been given to us, how can the life of the working masses be not as good as before!" ”

Cheng Nuo sneered: "The Qing Dynasty is dead, has it brought a little benefit to the peasants?" None of the capitalist aggression, the burden of transcending legal principles and human feelings, or the intense exploitation of the landlords in feudal land relations have been resolved, and when the contradictions accumulate to a certain stage, they will inevitably produce ......."

Jiang Jiang Zuo was curious: "What is produced?" ”

Seeing that no one was paying attention to them, Cheng Nuo said in a low voice: "Revolution! ”

"Revolution!?" Jiang Jiang Zuo was shocked: "Aren't we making a revolution right now? ”

"Of course, it is the fate of the old socialism!" Cheng Nuo's smile revealed firmness: "We are now accumulating strength for the revolution, just wait for the time to be ripe, and you can understand what I said recently." ”

The words have come to this point, and I am afraid that the sky will be leaked.

No matter how Jiang Jiang Zuo pestered him later, Cheng Nuo refused to explain, and in the end he couldn't resist, so he said helplessly:

"There is a bearded man surnamed Ma in Germany, and he has published a few books, I will show you when I go back, you can study it briefly."

"What's it about?"

"Of course, it is the future direction of our workers and peasants, and as for how to go, it all depends on personal creation."

In fact, the reason why Cheng Nuo wanted to speed up the work at hand was because after coming to the grassroots level, he saw too many scenes of peasants being oppressed and exploited, and his originally calm heart became anxious and enthusiastic at some point.

He may not be able to solve other problems, but in the current plight of farmers, Cheng Nuo still wants to improve as much as he can by industrial means.

In particular, land rent is the most important form of exploitation of peasants, and there are roughly three forms in the rural areas: material rent, money rent, and force rent. Rent is the most common, which is divided into three types: board rent, spend rent, and concession.

The board rent method, that is, tenant farmers rent land from landlords and agree to pay rice and grain per mu, and the rent is generally one-half or one-third of the annual harvest, which is more common in the fertile southern areas of Jiangsu.

Under the law of spending rent, the amount of rent is uncertain, and the landlord and the tenant farmer agree in advance to distribute according to the harvest of autumn or spring crops, with 37 cents and 55 cents, and the highest is 28 cents.

When the crop is about to mature, the farmer asks the landlord to go to the countryside to estimate the harvest color, and then agree on the proportion of sub-rent.

The board rent law and the flower rent law were particularly disadvantageous to tenant farmers, who had no choice but to flee the land when the harvest failed.

The amount of money rent is agreed upon by the landlord and the tenant farmer, and the rent cannot be increased or decreased, regardless of whether the harvest is good or bad. In general, this type of land rent is more commonly used on jointly owned or government-owned land or in areas where commercial capital is more developed. If the price of rice falls sharply and the landlord refuses to reduce the rent, then the individual farmer will have no choice but to flee.

Forced rents are mostly prevalent in the barren areas of northern China. In addition to the land, the landlord supplied all the necessary capital, and the tenant farmer contributed surplus labor to the landlord's work, like a slave.

In addition, there are more harsh usury, farm tool loans, seed loans, etc., which basically sell all the value in the end, and can't afford to repay the loan, and finally either sell their children and daughters, such as the story of "The White-Haired Girl", or embark on the road of escape, such as "Breaking through the Guandong".

Of course, there are all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes that are more serious, not to mention the taxes collected in Sichuan, some areas have received 2050, that is, the relatively wealthy Jiangsu, there are more than 30 kinds of land endowments, of which 26 are additional taxes, and the farmers are miserable.

Considering the above circumstances, Cheng Nuo also uses the first to improve labor productivity in industrial development, and chemical fertilizer is one of them.

He is now using the catalytic ammonia synthesis technology pioneered by Haber-Bosch, which is considered one of the greatest contributions to mankind in the 20th century, and has won three Nobel Prizes in Chemistry for this technology.

And from the inception of this technology to the 21st century, the world's population has increased 4.5 times from 1.6 billion, while food production has increased by 7.7 times.

If we want to feed one-fifth of the world's population with 7% of the world's arable land, Cheng Nuo must successfully make the synthetic ammonia technology bigger and stronger.

"Carbon monoxide, carbon monoxide ......"

At present, there is no shortage of coal in Sichuan, and under various considerations, Cheng Nuo chose to switch to the reaction of water vapor with hot coke to produce hydrogen.

He couldn't be happier when he saw the machine successfully mass-produce hydrogen.

There is no other reason for this, but because the gas produced contains a lot of carbon monoxide.

This thing not only affects the purity of hydrogen and leads to the failure of ammonia synthesis, but also greatly endangers the health of chemical plant workers because it is toxic and harmful.

How to solve this problem has become the most headache for Cheng Nuo at present.

In particular, he kept recalling the complaints of the villagers before, and he was eager to change the lives of the villagers.

However, scientific exploration has never been subject to human will, but because of too many and too many thoughts, he has no inspiration at all.

"Lifu, do you have any wine?"

Annoyance, Cheng Nuo suddenly said this.

"I didn't ...... Yes, yes, yes. Jiang Jiang Zuo doesn't drink alcohol, so he instinctively wanted to answer no in the first sentence, but when he saw Cheng Nuo under pressure, he couldn't bear to refuse: "I remember that there is some rice wine in the kitchen, do you want to drink it?" ”

"Rice wine is good, bring it to me, I want to get drunk today to relieve a thousand sorrows." Cheng Nuo smiled and patted Jiang Jiang Zuo's shoulder.

Jiang Jiang Zuo nodded, turned around and left, and it didn't take long for him to come over with a bottle of rice wine: "A full bottle, I'll drink it with you today." ”

Cheng Nuo said happily: "Okay, it's really my good buddy." ”

It's a pity that in the middle of the night, Jiang Jiang Zuo couldn't see the layout of the kitchen clearly, and he was worried that Cheng Nuo here was in a hurry, so he went quickly and came back in a hurry.

I didn't get any decent drinking utensils, but I saw a porcelain bowl on the table and an iron scoop in the water tank, so I took it with my hand.

Cheng Nuo didn't dislike it, picked up the rice wine bottle, wiped the bottle simply, bit off the cork, and poured the wine directly: "Drink it once, and it will continue to dry tomorrow." ”

"Okay,."

In this way, Jiang Jiang Zuo took the lead in picking up the iron scoop, drank it first, and grinned: "Zhiyuan, do it first as respect." ”

"Okay, then I'll ...... too"

In this way, under the light of the moon, the more they drank, the happier they became, even if there was no wine and there was a burp in their stomachs, the two of them had to pour some well water, and then drink water instead of wine.

What I want is this atmosphere, what I want is this relaxed state of mind.

"Zhiyuan, you said that in the future, our country will really be like you said, we will become strong and become the second in the world?" Jiang Jiang Zuo's eyes were hazy, and half of the "wine" water was flowing down the corners of his mouth.

"Lifu, hiccup~ Here I want to correct you, we are not strong, but revived, don't forget that we have always been the first in the world before, and the second is just the process on the road to our revival, not our result." Cheng Nuo looked at the moon and said to himself.

"Haha, it's good, revival, it's good, I don't know if I have a chance to see it." Jiang Jiang Zuo grinned and said, it's okay not to laugh, the only remaining "wine" water in his mouth was spit out, and then wow, all the inventory in his stomach was spit out.

Cheng Nuoxin couldn't say it well, so he hurriedly supported him from behind and kept patting his back: "Hey, you should drink less in the future, I think you really can't drink it." ”

Jiang Jiang Zuo kept agitating his stomach and struggled: "It's okay, who makes me happy, happy to drink with you, happy to admire the moon, happy to talk about the future, in short, happy, you say that if people are happy, don't drink something, isn't it enough to enjoy it." ”

Cheng Nuo persuaded: "It's okay to be happy, you can drink alcohol, and your body still comes first." ”

After vomiting in his stomach, Jiang Jiang Zuo, who felt a little better, straightened up, wiped his mouth and said, "But the reality is too bitter, which makes me unhappy." ”

After hesitating for a moment, Jiang Jiangzuo looked at Cheng Nuo and said seriously: "Zhiyuan, you just said that we are strong, no, we have revived, do we have to go through the sacrifice of several generations." ”

Cheng Nuo nodded: "If you want to finish the road of Western countries for hundreds of years in a few decades without sacrificing something, it is naturally impossible." ”

Jiang Jiang Zuo thoughtfully: "The largest number of our Chinese are farmers, and presumably the peasant group sacrifices the most at this stage." China is a peasant country, the peasant country stresses abstinence, reluctance to do nothing, contentment and abstain from strife, the agricultural government is still quiet, in order to eliminate theft and peace of the people, the family gives people enough, and the peasant people live in peace and enjoy their work, and are willing to eat and serve beautifully.

There is such a lovely and respectable group, although we are taking the road of agriculture at the moment, but I know that if we want to revive in the future, we still have to take the road of industrialization. ”

Cheng Nuo asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Jiang Jiang Zuo said with a serious face: "Don't forget them in the future, don't suffer from widowhood and unevenness!" ”

After saying this, before Cheng Nuo could agree, Jiang Jiang Zuo directly followed and fell to the ground.

No matter how Cheng Nuo asked, Jiang Jiang Zuo didn't react, and when he looked closer, it turned out that this guy was already asleep.

Sighing, Cheng Nuo had no choice but to carry this guy and send him to the dormitory.

After all this, it was already early in the morning.

Returning to the original place and seeing the mess, Cheng Nuo couldn't help but smile bitterly:

"It's easier said than done."

But looking at what he is doing now, the negative emotions in Cheng Nuo's heart have completely dissipated:

"Domestic resources are limited, relying only on the domestic market, will only embark on the old road of involution, then go abroad and harvest the people of the world, wouldn't it be more refreshing."

"Later, it has a good time in Northern Europe and Western Europe, isn't it the early development of technology in the early years, and there are many patents, who won't do this, wait, wait for Lao Tzu's second-generation synthetic ammonia technology to come out, and take the first generation to apply for patents, and we will also lie down and make money."

Thinking of this, Cheng Nuo couldn't help but have a toothache.

After all, although the imagination is good, the next generation of synthetic ammonia technology has not yet been developed.

The mood was slightly fluctuating, and Cheng Nuo picked up the iron scoop and began to drink.

Before he could take two sips, he spit out the water.

"Such a big rust smell, Lifu didn't drink it just now?"

"Wait, the smell of rust!?"

"I figured it out, I figured out how to remove carbon monoxide and purify hydrogen."

"The carbon monoxide in hydrogen is converted into carbon dioxide with iron oxide, and then the newly formed gas mixture is pressed into the bottom of the water tower to filter out harmful gases such as carbon dioxide, and then the purity of the hydrogen is further improved by a refining system with an activated carbon layer."

"That's it!"

On the moon, Cheng Nuo drank a scoop of "wine" water.

"Thousands of poor sorrows, 300 glasses of fine wine.

Although there is too much sorrow and little wine, the wine does not come to me.

Therefore, knowing the wine saint, the wine is hearty! ”

(End of chapter)