In modern society, information cannot be blocked. News that Xinghe Collection is selling high-end ingredients in a high-end group has spread. Many netizens in the collection group are discussing this matter, but for most people, fifty A pound of millet is still too expensive, and not many people are willing to buy it.
However, considering that if Japanese rice is really imported from Japan, the price will not be less than 100 yuan per pound, and good rice will cost several hundred yuan.
If the quality is good, this Xiaomi is not too expensive.
Soon some good people on the Internet sent out invitations to buy goods. You must try it. You can't let these profiteers, who look down on others, sell all the good things to high-end customers.
But soon there was a sold-out notice on the Xinghe agricultural products page, and the next batch would not arrive until a week later.
Soon, a week passed. Chen Xiaowang happened to have just received his salary yesterday, which was 5,000 yuan. He gritted his teeth and spent 500 yuan to buy one. When he got home, he couldn't wait to cook a small pot of millet porridge with a small electric pot according to the instructions.
As the temperature of the water rises, the sweet smell comes out little by little. When it boils, the whole room is filled with the refreshing and sweet smell of food.
He rented a studio apartment, which attracted dozens of families on both sides of a corridor. His girlfriend Xiaolan came home from get off work and was attracted by the smell as soon as she got out of the elevator.
Following the smell, I actually walked all the way to my door.
"What are you cooking that smells so good?" Xiaolan asked while changing her shoes.
"Hey, I got it today. It's super delicious millet. It'll be ready in a minute."
The two of them didn't cook, so they ate a small pot of rice porridge with pickles.
Xiaolan also posted the pictures online to share with everyone. Although it is expensive, it is indeed delicious. She has never eaten such sweet and delicious millet in her whole life.
Three days later, Xinghe Agricultural Products issued an announcement that the price of millet would increase to 100 yuan after the Spring Festival, which resulted in another round of criticism.
Everyone has given up hope on this profiteer company.
But then, the spokesperson of Xinghe Agricultural Products, I am a horse Xiao Xiao, published a new announcement. After the Spring Festival, mothers who have just given birth can apply for postpartum lactation-stimulating millet at a 30% discount with their ID cards, baby’s birth certificate, and photos of mother and child (female), which is 20 kilograms per person per month. Continuous applications are valid within one year.
Two hundred and forty pounds of millet a year is enough to feed the baby until weaning.
Ma Xiaoxiao explained that Xinghe Agricultural Products is willing to assume more social responsibilities. We use the best agricultural products so that mothers can have the best milk to breastfeed the next generation of the motherland.
Support breastfeeding and support children’s food safety.
The reputation of Xinghe agricultural products is guaranteed, and the seed grain series of grains are safe without any added chemical ingredients. Pure green ancient cultivation, no chemical fertilizers and pesticides, no mechanical processing, and the entire process is manually operated.
The reason why the word rice is written like this is because every grain of rice that we eat has to go through eighty-eight processes from selecting the seeds to finally making it into a meal. The seed grain series requires many processes, and eighty-eight processes are required to produce the best product.
As soon as the news came out, public opinion on the Internet exploded.
They finally found some conscience.
These profiteers are finally doing something good.
At 30 yuan per pound, although it is still the most expensive millet in China, as a postpartum millet, many ordinary families can still afford it.
Many mothers grabbed some at 50 yuan a pound first, waiting for the special price after the Spring Festival.
Zunhua, Xinghe Academy.
Yao Guang pushed his eyes and closed the handout.
"Everyone, we have finished the introductory course on botany today. Please review it carefully and take the final exam in three days. get out of class is over now."
The people sitting below were all old scholars, old boys and girls in their thirties and forties, as well as some fifteen or sixteen-year-old boys. These teenagers came out of the crash course, and some were preparing to join the teaching force and teach in the newly established normal school.
Because Yang Fan gave a huge reward, ah, it's not called a scholarship now. These scumbags who failed in the imperial examinations regained their courage and began to learn new knowledge with the same energy as they used to risk their lives to take the imperial examinations.
For example, Mr. Chen, at the age of fifty-eight, has passed the exams in seven or eight courses and received more than thirty taels of various scholarships and financial aid.
Even the money for his granddaughter’s dowry was saved.
After they truly entered these new fields, they realized that their time over the years had been wasted. What they have learned now is the most important thing in the world.
In the past, what was learned in the imperial examinations was useless except for literacy.
Yaoguang has two classes in the morning and four classes in the afternoon every day. Mathematics, physics, chemistry, geography and meteorology, biology and botany, and economics are taught respectively.
These more than sixty people, young and old, were her first students.
Yao Guang held the handout under her arm and prepared to go back to catch up on her beauty sleep, take a nap, and apply facial mask. After the students had dispersed, she saw a sixteen or seventeen year old boy standing at the door waiting for her.
"Sir, I am your student, my name is Tian Zili"
Yao Guang nodded, she had the impression that he was a taciturn young man. Sitting in the back row, he doesn't like to talk.
"Is there anything you need"
"After graduating from the second crash course, my husband asked us to choose a subject as a direction for further study. I remember that my husband said that different plants can be grafted in order to achieve better growth. I am very interested in the conditions and yield, as well as resistance to pests and diseases. I want to learn this knowledge from my husband.”
Yao Guang was a little surprised. Most of her students were old scholars and young students who had been severely beaten by society. They all had a strong utilitarian mentality.
After all, the family depends on them to support themselves. Firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and tea are all very real issues. They all like to learn knowledge that can lead to high salaries, knowledge that will have great development prospects in Yang Fan's system. For example, many senior scholars in their forties actually study mathematics, physics, and chemistry. I plan to study steel smelting after dividing my subjects.
Because everyone knows that the steel industry is the core of Yang Fan's industry. The open-hearth furnace that was under construction was said to be using pig iron to make steel. Every day, letters were sent to the master in the capital to report on the progress and problems encountered.
The most neglected aspect is agriculture, because no one wants to farm with their backs turned to the sky and their faces to the loess.
I met one today.
“Can you tell me why you chose agriculture.”
Tian Zili's green face was a little depressed, and he lowered his head and said: "Our family is from Xuanfu. We fled famine and came to Zunhua. Except for my sister and me, the whole family died of illness and starvation on the road. Along the way, I saw too many There are many human tragedies. Some people eat tree bark, cannot digest it, cannot poop, cannot eat, and bloat to death."
Yao Guang nodded, she knew the miserable situation of refugees in this era.
"Some people eat dirt, even dead people." Tian Zili sighed and said: "I didn't understand why there was so much land but couldn't feed the people on the land. Later, we were taken in by the master and sent to the hospital. After listening to my husband’s class in the school, I realized that the output of grain is not static and can be increased. As long as there is a suitable climate, rain, fertilizers, improved seeds, and intensive farming, the yield per mu can be increased."
Yao Guang looked at him and said: "Your ideas are different from those of several other young people. They all excitedly believe that the output and wealth of the world are constant, because the nobles and scholars do not produce but occupy Too much output has caused real producers to go bankrupt due to lack of food and clothing.”
"I don't think so. Since ancient times, there has been chaos and rule. There have been times of political clarity and times of chaos. Generally speaking, I think prosperous times are short and troubled times are long. They can't solve the problem by overthrowing those fatuous and corrupt powerful people. Because after they become the new powerful people, it will not take a few generations for them to become like the people they wanted to overthrow. I think that to solve the problem of food and clothing for the people, we have to rely on the knowledge you taught in the classroom. Only true It is more valuable to actually increase production rather than engage in zero-sum games.”
Yaoguang thought for a moment and said, "You are right. Since the beginning of agriculture, food production has been increasing."
"If you want to study agriculture, I can teach you, but you have to think carefully. If you take this path, you will spend your whole life in the fields. In the summer, mosquitoes are raging, and others are enjoying the cool. You have to be in the fields." Do comparative experiments in the winter. The winter wind is biting, and others are warming themselves by the fire at home, while you have to manage the overwintering wheat in the snow. When other students finish their errands, they can go home, where their wives and children can warm up on the kang and enjoy family happiness. . You have to leave your family and career behind and travel throughout the mountains and rivers of the Ming Dynasty to find wild food plants for hybrid experiments. Maybe you will die of illness on the road, maybe you will meet bandits and horse bandits, maybe you will be eaten by wild beasts. Don’t you regret your choice?”
Tian Zili shook his head and said: "I don't regret my choice. I have a dream so that all the farmers in the world can have enough to eat. No matter it is a good harvest year or a famine year, they will not sell their sons and daughters." , you won’t go bankrupt and go into exile, and you won’t have to eat bark and soil.”
Yao Guang said: "The students in this room are all on the same starting line today. Ten years from now, they may be generals, engineers in steel plants, or bosses of trading companies, and you will be a general in this life." A farmer researcher spends his life in poverty and hard work. Are you willing?"
Tian Zili nodded seriously and said: "I am willing, as long as all the children in the world can have enough to eat, they will no longer be orphans. The misfortune that happened to me will never happen to them again. I will All the time of my life I’m willing to give.”
Yao Guang patted his thin shoulder and said, "Okay, as you wish."