I am one year older than Chongzhen

Chapter 78

It is of course voluntary for widowers and widows to form a family.

Zhang is unwilling to remarry, Huang Yi will definitely not force it.

She is careful and matched Lan Jinkui and Du Cuilan to form a couple.

Qi Dashan fell in love with Sun Suzhu, and the two got married under Huang Yi's auspices.

The base area was first established and the conditions were simple, so of course it was impossible to hold a decent wedding banquet.

Eat roast mutton and drink some spirits, and congratulate the sixty-odd couples who got married.

All the Han people in the base areas have had the tragic experience of being slaves. Now they not only have the status of free citizens but also have their own small families. Everyone looks forward to a bright future.

Zhang Shi, Qi Dashan, Lan Jinkui, Liu Shifu, etc. are all hardworking.

During this period of time, I have been leading two hundred and dozens of Han people to work, not only digging out the two old wells in Yuandunbao, but also digging a new well and building more than [-] nests.

The public toilet that Huang Yi requested has already been put into use. Of course, it is not a flush toilet, but a relatively primitive dry toilet.

Every single flower in a crop depends entirely on manure, and public toilets can accumulate a lot of farm manure.

He Jiye, Liu Shifu, etc. have been collecting manure, and a lot of sheep manure and horse manure have been accumulated. Cow manure is not fertilizer, but fuel, and it must be collected.

Huang Yi has solemnly handed over the corn, wheat, and rice that he accidentally brought from [-] to Mrs. Zhang.

And told her to take care of and grow the food herself.

Huang Yi is not sure whether the food bought to feed the pigeons is a genetically modified crop, so he cannot be sure whether it can germinate.

We can only hope that these are reserved for farmers' private plots.

Seeing Huang Yi attaching so much importance to it, Mrs. Zhang understood that this was the good breed that Huang Yi brought back from Francine Country, and immediately felt a heavy responsibility.

She stated that she would discuss with Liu Shifu, He Jiye and other farming experts, in order not to make a mistake in the method and cause the loss of all the seeds.

She will try to plant these seeds bit by bit until she finds the best time and method.

Corn, wheat, and rice are just common crops, and there are no special requirements.

Seeing that Mrs. Zhang is so serious, Huang Yi worried that if all the genetically modified crops did not germinate at all, it would seriously hit Mrs. Zhang's enthusiasm.

Huang Yi wanted to help, but unfortunately he didn't know how to farm, so he could only explain some common knowledge about growing corn, wheat, and rice downloaded from his mobile phone.

Of course, words related to modern agriculture must be rephrased, and all content about mechanical farming is omitted.

Seeing that Mrs. Zhang listened carefully and recorded it in detail, she had a trembling expression.

Huang Yi was even more worried that all the seeds were genetically modified products, and it was impossible to germinate, which made Mr. Zhang, who was in charge of this matter, feel guilty.

In order to prevent it from happening, Huang Yi stated in advance that these seeds came across the ocean, and they may have died for too long.

However, Mrs. Zhang doesn't think so. She knows that the seeds have strong vitality. Unless they are boiled, it is impossible for them not to germinate.

Modern agriculture cannot be explained to an ancient man!

Huang Yi could only smile wryly, and he was also praying in his heart, praying for God's blessing, at least for the corn seeds to germinate.

The corn, rice and wheat were bought to feed the pigeons while visiting the Daxinganling Scenic Area.

Heilongjiang Province is a major province of grain production. It is speculated that the farmers who sold it should not have bought it from other places.

Since it is a locally grown food, it is of course a cold-resistant variety.

The latitude of Zhangjiakou is closer to the south than that of Heilongjiang Province. If these seeds can germinate, it will bring unexpected surprises.

Because even if the yield of corn was limited in ancient times without chemical fertilizers and pesticides, it could double or even triple or quadruple the yield of wheat.

The reason why the chaos in the late Ming Dynasty was a pot of porridge was largely caused by hunger.

How important is food!

How much food is destined to feed how many people.

Therefore, Huang Yi had to do everything possible to obtain food, and he had to strive for incremental food.

The food purchased in Zhangjiakou with real money is definitely not an increase, and it will not alleviate the food crisis of the entire Han nation.

However, the wheat fields reclaimed outside Zhangjiakou are all incremental.

Because there were no such fields outside the mouth.

If a large amount of cold-resistant corn with a yield three to four times that of the wheat field is planted in the base area, it will be possible to achieve "one more than two" or even "one more than three" within three years.

It means that only a quarter of the households in the base area are farming to ensure enough food.

Three-quarters of the population do not need to farm to mine, smelt iron, burn bricks, lime, cement, and sell the output of the base areas to Guannei and Mobei.

The strongest teenagers are, of course, educated fighters.

The initial stage of great development requires group cooperation, and the management method adopted by Huang Yi is similar to that of the Construction Corps and People's Commune of later generations.

Facts have proved that public ownership is more cohesive when resources are scarce.

In just one and a half months, the big framework of the base has been formed, and a big room that can accommodate more than two hundred people to gather and listen to stories has also been built long ago.

At that time, Wang Baishan, Qi Dashan, Lan Jinkui, etc. thought that with this big house, all the people in the base area could come here to listen to the master's class.

Unexpectedly, the changes were too fast, and the Patriarch brought back hundreds of people.

It seems that a more spacious house will be built.

Huang Yi is not going to mobilize everyone to build another big house with logs and stones.

Instead let them dig as well as they can.

Basin characteristics, abundant groundwater.

In severe winter, other constructions are difficult to carry out, but it does not affect well drilling very much.

After all, the proportion of permafrost accounted for less than 5.00% of the total depth of the well.

Well drilling teams led by Huang Dashuang, Huang Daquan, He Jiye, etc. were actually working indoors.

This is not a joke, it was Huang Yi who instructed them to build a big yurt at the location where the well was dug. The difference from the yurts where the Mongolians live as houses is that the door is mostly left open.

With the yurt, the well-drilling team that take turns to work can relax by the fire while working, and the degree of hardship is much reduced.

The same thing as digging a well is to prevent it from happening. In the late Ming Dynasty, droughts frequently occurred in the north. Huang Yi could not know whether there would be a drought in the north of Zhangjiakou.

The river that runs through the basin originates from the Yanshan Mountains, and basically it will never dry up, but when it encounters a drought, its water volume will definitely drop significantly.

Build more irrigation wells and irrigate the fields not near the river. Even if there is a drought that occurs once in decades, it will not cause all the farmland to fail.

The wall of the well is built with collected stones, which belong to local materials.

Therefore, drilling a well is basically a labor cost. Now Huang Yi has a lot of labor in his hands, but there are relatively few jobs to do.

So [-] well-drilling teams were formed, each team consisted of [-] young and middle-aged men plus a woman who was in charge of cooking. First, they dug [-] irrigation wells a little far from the river.

The north of Zhangjiakou has plenty of sunshine, floods are rare, droughts are common, and the frost-free period is enough for crops to grow.

As long as water for irrigation can be ensured, a bumper harvest is basically in sight.

(End of this chapter)