1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 32 Spring Seeds

While the construction site of the hydropower station ahead is in full swing, a group of people are also working hard on the agricultural development land on the east bank of the Tiandu River.The main force of these people are more than a dozen people under the Ministry of Agriculture. Because of the current labor shortage, even the old couple Yuan Ruoxiu and Zhu Ping rolled up their trousers and went to the fields.In addition, there are some women who stayed at Base No. [-]. Before the crossing, the agricultural knowledge of these people was probably at the level of being able to recognize the fruits and vegetables sold in the supermarket. Many people did not even see the rice growing in the fields. Yes, but now they have to work with the Ministry of Agriculture to sow the cultivated rice seedlings into the fields two or three days before the Grain Rain comes.

Zhao Xiaoruo took off her shoes and carefully put her feet into the turbid mud pond. The cold touch made her feel a little excited when she subconsciously retracted her feet.Zhao Xiaoruo was born in a medical family. From childhood to adulthood, her family education is to pay attention to cleanliness and hygiene, and to be spotless, not to mention entering such a mud pond, even if there is nothing to do, she has to wash her hands at least ten times a day.After graduating from the School of Nursing at Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, her living habits have developed from "hygiene" to "cleanliness". Before today, she could not even imagine that she would one day stand barefoot in a rice field Planting.

While Zhao Xiaoruo was still in a daze, a hand stretched out and gently pulled on her arm, and she involuntarily stepped into the paddy field.

"Ah! You girl..." Zhao Xiaoruo knew that this was his good sister Wu Qiao, but she just groaned.Wu Qiao and her grew up and studied together, entered the same university and studied the same major, and after graduation they entered the same hospital as a nurse. Finally, they even signed up to participate in the crossing operation behind their backs. The relationship is as strong as a sister. generally.It's just that Wu Qiao has a different personality from her, her mood is more cheerful, and she won't hide anything in her heart.

Wu Qiao said with a smile: "Okay, Miss, no one is here to help you today, you should just do it yourself!"

Zhao Xiaoruo said angrily, "This lady has hands and feet, so I don't need help!"

The two little girls are young and beautiful, and they are single. The nurse duo they formed has been enthusiastically sought after by the majority of single young men since they joined the crossing operation. Some good people even set up a fan group on the forum. There is a posture to hold the two of them as entertainment stars.During the period after crossing the border, the two of them were also cared for in all aspects - there were definitely people rushing to do the physical work, there was absolutely no need to queue up for meals, and the arranged work was definitely both easy and safe.Wu Qiao has said more than once that this time travel is the right one. Every day is sunshine, beach, and waves. Sitting under the shade of a tree drinking coconut juice and dozing off, this kind of life is comparable to being a nurse in a tertiary hospital and being as tired as a dog every day. Much stronger.

But Zhao Xiaoruo thinks more than Wu Qiao, who is pure-hearted. In fact, a group organization like the Crossover Group is not fundamentally different from the hospital where he used to work in terms of organizational structure. divided by the leadership.Moreover, the members who dare to participate in the time-travel often have expertise in professional skills and can play an indispensable role in some key projects.If members do not work hard and show their roles in this group, they will sooner or later be marginalized and gradually become mediocre.

People like her and Wu Qiao have certain professional skills, but they do not belong to the top level in the group. In fact, their positions in the corresponding departments are rather awkward.For example, the current medical team must be dominated by two foreign doctors, and those who study nursing can only do some "rough work" such as physical examination or wound dressing.If things go on like this, their role and status in the group will also become lower and lower.

Of course, there may be another way out for girls like them, that is, to find someone who is capable of marrying among the transmigrators, and in the future, they can at least enjoy the treatment of a rich wife under the service of the old maid, but the result can be mixed. Not what Zhao Xiaoruo wanted.According to her plan, she will become a representative or leader of at least one medical discipline in the future, such as maternal and child health care, or clinical nursing. In a few years, the executive committee will open a medical school or other institution, and she will be considered a contender. But those two foreign devils, at least have to get a vice president or something, and the last time they have to start with the head of the department!

Zhao Xiaoruo did not take the initiative to tell anyone about these long-term career plans, not even Wu Qiao.She knew that Wu Qiao's mind was not on her career, so it might not be useful to tell her these words.As long as he can stand out in the future, then it will not be difficult for him to help his good sister and appoint her as a deputy.

However, before realizing his personal career goals, Zhao Xiaoruo still has many practical difficulties to overcome, such as the current spring plowing and spring planting.In fact, the spring ploughing has ended a few days ago. Under the arrangement of the Executive Committee, hundreds of laborers came into battle and carried out emergency cultivation of nearly [-] mu of wasteland that had been reclaimed within three days. All were transferred to the construction site of the hydropower station in the upper reaches of Tiandu River.The relatively easy spring planting after spring ploughing was handed over by the Executive Committee to the Ministry of Agriculture and the non-labor workers who stayed at Base No. [-] to solve it. This was also a last resort due to the situation.Some people may be somewhat dissatisfied, but this arrangement is to solve the food problem, which is the foundation of survival. At least on the surface, no one will stand up against the arrangement of the Executive Committee, not even the famous feminist Reza this time. They all shut their mouths obediently and did not express any objection to this.

The people who participated in the spring planting were divided into several groups, and each group had to contract a certain area of ​​land.Today, the duo of Zhao Xiaoruo and Wu Qiao arrived in a paddy field with an area of ​​five mu.However, before starting farming, everyone had to stand in the field and watch the demonstration operation by the technicians of the Ministry of Agriculture, which was also one of the cramming measures.

Considering that the professional quality of the people participating in the spring planting is generally appalling, the Executive Committee took precautions and ordered several human rice transplanters long before the crossing according to the requirements of the Ministry of Agriculture.The use of tools for rice transplanting has existed since ancient times. In the Song Dynasty, Su Shi also wrote a "Yangma Song".These primitive agricultural tools were still used in rural areas until the 50s after liberation, and later, more scientific and efficient modern rice transplanters were specially developed.

The manpower step-back hand-crank rice transplanter purchased by the Ministry of Agriculture is light in weight, small in size, strong in adaptability and easy to maintain. The user grasps the direction with one hand and turns the handle with the other hand to drag the rice transplanter in a straight line at a constant speed in the paddy field. , the seedlings can be stably inserted into the field according to a certain distance.According to the preliminary trial of the Ministry of Agriculture, even a novice can use this rice transplanter to plant a speed of 60 to 70 trees per minute. It is not a big problem for a single rice transplanter to complete an acre of land in two hours. can be increased by more than one third.

After the operation demonstration, the Ministry of Agriculture emphasized "steadiness" and asked the rice transplanting to be as successful as possible, because the Ministry of Agriculture put a lot of effort into cultivating these seedlings.

Since the time for the crossing operation was set early in the morning, in order to plant a wave of spring rice after the crossing, the Ministry of Agriculture specially adopted the dry rice seedling raising technology with a shorter seedling age, but even so, there is still a seedling raising period of about 30 days. Therefore, when the Ministry of Agriculture shipped the last batch of agricultural supplies in Yingzhou, these seedlings were moved onto the ship together with the soil and seedlings, and the temperature and humidity of the environment and sufficient sunshine time must be maintained for the next few days. The Ministry of Agriculture and The executive committee has spent a lot of manpower and material resources.If the seedlings are damaged due to improper operation during the final transplanting process, it is indeed a very heartbreaking thing.

Because of this, the Ministry of Agriculture was unable to carry out large-scale seedling cultivation before crossing, and the seedlings finally cultivated were only enough to plant [-] acres of land, and the remaining arable land would be planted with corn, soybeans, potatoes and other miscellaneous grain crops as food. supplement.However, the Ministry of Agriculture is relatively optimistic about the grain output. These fine varieties brought from later generations are not comparable to the almost wild Shanlan rice grown by the Li people. As long as there are no large-scale natural disasters, the Ministry of Agriculture believes that by this season No matter how bad the rice is harvested, it can reach a total output of more than [-] tons.Combined with other grain crops and existing grain reserves, the Department of Agriculture does not expect a significant food deficit for a year.With the gradual increase of the labor force under the control of the people, the area of ​​cultivated land and food planting will also increase accordingly. If the local population does not explode explosively, there must be enough food to eat.

It is said that they are treated equally in difficult times, but when the Ministry of Agriculture arranges jobs for the little nurses and sisters, it is somewhat caring - two people share a single-operated rice transplanter, so that they can actually take turns to rest.The two sisters who had never been in a rice field would certainly not be able to complete the task so smoothly. In fact, Zhao Xiaoruo slipped and sat down in the mud pond less than 2 minutes after starting the independent operation.And Wu Qiao was not spared, and also became a loach essence during the process of transplanting rice seedlings.The difference is that Zhao Xiaoruo secretly wiped away tears with his hands, while Wu Qiao sat in the muddy pond and laughed, as if picking up a treasure.After a whole morning, the two of them took turns to work in the fields, and they completed the rice transplanting work on less than two acres of land.It wasn't until someone brought food at noon that the two mud monkeys stopped. You looked at me and I looked at you, and suddenly they laughed loudly together.

(End of this chapter)