bonanza

Chapter 165 Usage of Saline-alkali Land
Seeing a car suddenly coming and waiting for dinner, everyone who had nothing to do at the moment gathered around.

Seeing Uncle getting off the car, everyone greeted him one after another. It could be seen that Uncle had a high prestige among them.

"Uncle, are you going to sleep like this at night?"

"It's neither hot nor cold, which is fine."

Yang Dongsheng looked around, but there was not even a tarp for a canopy.

He remembered that a few days ago, there had been a few light rains.

It is said that the nephew follows the uncle, and my uncle is so different from his uncle, "Uncle, where are your things?"

"It's there!" The uncle pointed towards the distance.

There was an old bicycle, bedrolls, washbasins, towels, etc.

"Xinyu, take uncle's things to the car! Ding Wu, please ride your bicycle back."

"Dongsheng, what are you doing?"

Yang Dongsheng pulled his uncle's arm, "Uncle, if I don't know about this, I can do whatever you want, but now I know, if you still sleep here, tomorrow I, Yang Dongsheng, will lose all face. You Stop arguing with me, some of my newly built houses, although they haven’t been painted yet, at least have a tile to cover their heads, so they won’t be afraid of wind and rain, let your fellow countrymen live there.”

After talking and talking for a while, I finally took my uncle back.

Then I arranged accommodation for a dozen people in the same village as my uncle, gave them two barrels of oil, and shelf-stable food such as air-dried chicken and duck, and lent them an aluminum alloy cauldron.

They do hard work and need a lot of water every day, but they only bring a large iron pot for cooking. Even if they wash the pot and then boil the water, it will go bad after half a day.

With this aluminum alloy pot, you can boil water at night, wipe your body, and wash your feet.

Yang Dongsheng invited his uncle and his fellow villagers to cut wheat for him, and the wages were the same as others, no more and no less.

Walking on the ridge, looking at the surrounding wheat fields, my uncle asked, "Dong Sheng, you really don't plan to use pesticides or chemical fertilizers for farming?"

"No! The current output is not bad. As long as I can maintain this output in the future, I can guarantee that I will not lose money!"

"I'm afraid it will be difficult to maintain this output in the future!" The uncle shook his head upon hearing this.

"why?"

"If you don't weed, the seeds of the weeds will fall on the ground, the grass roots will take root, and they will germinate in the next year. There will be more and more weeds in the ground. Weeds compete with crops for fertility, sunlight, and water. Production will come down."

Yang Dongsheng suddenly realized that this is really the case. He had indeed ignored this point before, "Then how should we solve it?"

"Then we can only hire someone to pull the weeds!"

The next field was almost here, so the uncle threw the cigarette butt on the ground and extinguished it.

"Hire people to pull weeds? Then the labor cost will go up again."

Nowadays, the concept of organic food has not been widely accepted, and the wheat Yang Dongsheng grows can only be sold as ordinary wheat.

If the cost goes up, Yang Dongsheng will not only not be able to make money, but may have to lose money. He has spent energy and time, and he will lose money. Yang Dongsheng might as well leave the land deserted.

The uncle went down to the field and walked around, dividing the harvested plots among the villagers.

After doing this, the uncle stood next to Yang Dongsheng again, "Dongsheng, haven't you used chemical fertilizers and pesticides on this land?"

"It's useless, what's the difference?" Yang Dongsheng asked curiously.

"There are much fewer weeds in this field than in the previous ones."

Yang Dongsheng looked at it, but didn't find much less, "That's not too much? Weeds are almost crawling all over the ground!"

"The yield per mu of this land is at least [-] to [-]% higher than that of the previous lands." The uncle said confidently.

"is it?"

Yang Dongsheng still didn't believe it. He called up the [-]D map and looked at it. The composition of these fields was the same.

The few lands just now have not been spoiled, how could the output be different?
But the uncle looked confident.

When harvesting, Yang Dongsheng deliberately had the wheat in this field piled up separately, threshed first, and then weighed and counted on the spot.

After a rough estimate, it is about 400 catties per mu, which is indeed much higher than the previous few plots.

"Why did this happen?" Yang Dongsheng still couldn't figure it out until dinner time, thinking while flipping through the book.

"That's how farming is!" Uncle didn't find it strange. "Some land with good fertility has a higher yield per mu; some land with poor fertility has a lower yield per mu."

Yang Dongsheng smiled, but he couldn't explain to his uncle that the normal situation is indeed high and low, but the fertility of these fields is obviously the same.

"Come and try it, today's steamed buns are steamed with fresh flour." Zhou Ying came in with a basket of fresh steamed buns, "Zhou Li, go ask Richu to eat!"

Yang Dongsheng took it over and took a bite, "Well, it does feel stronger."

Yang Dongsheng continued to flip through the book, and suddenly came across an introduction about saline-alkali land, in which there was a paragraph to the effect that saline-alkali land had fewer pests and diseases.

Yang Dongsheng suddenly remembered that the land uncle mentioned today was the saline-alkali land contracted from another village.

"Uncle, is the saline-alkali land less weed?"

"Saline-alkali land is not just weeds, but nothing can grow."

"That's right!" Yang Dongsheng patted the table, "The land we harvested today used to be saline-alkali land, so there are fewer weeds."

Due to the high salinity content, it is difficult for plants to grow, and weeds are no exception.

Even if the weed seeds from other places fall on this land, under the high salinity environment, they will be pickled into salty beans, so it is strange that they can germinate.

"Saline-alkali land? The land today doesn't look like saline-alkali land!" The uncle shook his head, "Besides, even saline-alkali land is useless. Do you want to turn good land into saline-alkali land for weeding?"

The uncle laughed, and Yang Dongsheng also laughed.

For ordinary people, this is indeed the case, but for Yang Dongsheng, is it not easy to build a saline-alkali land?

Yang Dongsheng adjusted potassium chloride, sodium chloride, sodium carbonate, calcium chloride and other substances in the harvested fields to the highest point, and anyone who dared to taste Yang Dongsheng's land at this time would definitely kill him.

I am afraid that the person who wrote the agricultural book could not have imagined that one day, someone would use salinity in this way.

"At the beginning of the day, the second year of junior high school is over at a glance. This summer school will start to make up lessons, right?"

"Ok!"

"From now on, until the end of the college entrance examination, there will be no easy days. If you want to eat, just tell your sister-in-law."

"Ok!"

Harvesting continued, looking at the mountain of grain, although it was not worth much, Yang Dongsheng felt a sense of accomplishment.

After drying, I sent two trucks to the orphanage to ensure that 50 tons is not much more.

The rest of the food, except for keeping a part for himself, sold the rest to several mines of his own and Yang Jiayun's factory.

(End of this chapter)