Wu De returned to the executive committee meeting room: "It will take twenty days to arrive! Wu Nanhai must have opinions."
"There's nothing we can do about it. The road from Nanbao to Bairen is not that close according to ancient standards. Nanbao itself is hilly and the road is not easy to walk." Ma Qianzhu looked at the map for a long time. "We might as well build the road to Nanbao next year." The simple roads have been implemented in advance. For a temporary emergency requisition, we can ask the villages to send them. If we want to use the resources there in the long term, we must have roads. "
Nanbao area is a place where Lingao mineral resources are relatively concentrated, including lignite, limonite, peat, kaolin, limestone, etc., as well as many agricultural and forestry resources and tungsten mines in Li District. It has great practical value for the industry and agriculture of the crossing group. However, due to long-term transportation inconvenience and the fact that there is a Ming army garrison city near Nanbao, the connection between the crossing group and Nanbao is very weak. So far, only the exploration team, the bandit suppression detachment and the trade caravan heading to Li District have arrived. Pass there. Building roads will not only make great use of local resources, but also further strengthen connections with Lingaoli District. Currently, due to the inconvenience of roads, a trade team is only sent to Nanadong every two or three months. It is difficult to make full use of the materials in Li Dong, and the penetration control of Li Dong is not enough.
"I support building roads." Wu De said: "Otherwise, if this kind of levy becomes normalized, it will be a great harsh government. I also have frequent contact with local elders, and I feel that the people are most afraid of endless labor. I can understand this, in rural areas The most important thing is strong men. Without strong laborers at home, the sky is falling. With roads, it is much more convenient to travel back and forth. Vehicles can also be used to transport materials, which improves transportation efficiency."
According to modern standards, the distance to Nanbao is not far. From Bairen City, go up the Wenlan River, take Highway 3o6, pass through Lingao County, and go south into the hilly area. Soon you will be where the modern Nanbao Town is. The whole journey is less than 31 kilometers. It's only a 20 to 30 minute journey by car, but in this time and space, it's enough to go for two or three days. On the dirt road in the wilderness, each village has to deliver coal, which is carried by shoulders and hands. You can imagine the amount of labor consumed.
He rang the bell on the table. A young boy of fifteen or sixteen appeared at the door of the office. He was wearing a black homespun student uniform with a stand-up collar and a wooden access plate on his chest.
"Did you call me? Chief." The boy had a respectful attitude and spoke not very fluent Mandarin.
"Please invite the People's Commissar of Transportation and the manager of the General Construction Company to come to my office." Ma Qianzhu said majestically.
"It will be done soon, sir!" The boy nodded seriously, turned around and walked out.
The etiquette education in this office is pretty good. Ma Qianzhu admired the etiquette between superiors and subordinates in the leader's office in Soviet movies - serious, formal, and Soviet-style meticulous.
The boy's name is Hou Wenyong, and he is an orphan taken in by the Guangzhou Station with his sister. Because the two siblings have a good cultural background, the elder sister entered the Ministry of Health and is now receiving nursing studies; Hou Wenyong quickly passed the B diploma examination at the national school, and it happened that the general office needed to add a number of administrative exercises to various departments. After passing the political review of the General Administration of Political Security, Hou Wenyong was admitted to the military and political school. He studied in the school three days a week and worked in the Planning Commission for three days.
Shan Daoqian, the People's Commissar of Transportation, is racking his brains to design a railway operation blockage plan at the Bopu track dispatching center. The tracks in the entire Bopu area are quite densely laid, and Shan's original simple signal dispatching efficiency is too low.
When he was suddenly called to the Planning Commission office, he was a little surprised. There hasn’t been much going on in the transportation department lately, mainly maintenance and upgrades of existing roads.
When Ma Qianzhu saw both of them coming, he proposed to them the idea of building a simple highway from Bairen to Nanbao.
"I'm so anxious." Mei Wan felt abrupt, "The rainy season has just begun. If it rains continuously, it will be very difficult to build the road. It will be the same in the dry season."
"The purpose of building the road is to transport mineral resources from the Nanbao area," Ma Qianxu said. “Right now, Nanbao is empty of the resources we urgently need, and we can’t transport them out!”
"If the executive committee agrees, our Ministry of Transportation has no objection." Although Shan Daoqian's major is railways, he can make do with highways. He looked at the map and asked:
"The goods transported are mainly minerals?"
"right."
"Approximately how much traffic passes through each day and night?"
"I don't know." Ma Qianzhu said that Nanbao's mineral resources have great potential, but it is not yet clear how much mining capacity it can achieve.
"For bulk cargo transportation, according to our current conditions, the most suitable means of transportation is oxen carts." Shan Daoqian calculated, "I have to find Li Chiqi to order a new heavy-duty truck. The number of oxen is not enough. .”
"As for the cattle issue, you should contact the Foreign Trade Commission - they are now responsible for managing Changhua Fort and ask them to purchase another batch from the Li people - Changhua Fort itself still has some cattle on hand."
"good."
"The pavement requirements for this kind of highway are not high," Mei Wan said, "but the Nanbao area is a hilly area, and the road may be very undulating. Heavy-duty trucks may not be able to pass it."
Ma Qianzhu said, "The Nanbao area is hilly but not a mountainous area. It is not necessary to cut through the mountains and dig rocks to dig a tunnel so vast. At most, we can take a detour and make the road surface as smooth as possible."
"I asked someone to check what route was used for the construction of the 3o6 highway from Lingao County to Nanbao Town in the 20th century." Mei Wan flipped through his work manual, "I will organize people to conduct exploration when I get back." He Another thing came to mind:
"There is an inspection department in Nanbao that specializes in checking people entering and leaving Li District..."
"It doesn't matter, the inspections there are very sensible." Ma Qianzhu said it didn't matter, "After reaching a peace agreement with the county, this inspection also has a benefit. He has never been verbose about our caravans traveling to and from Li District. Road construction It shouldn’t be too verbose.”
"There is also the Guard City that was discovered in mission 221629o5o7o5."
"The location of Weisuo City is relatively remote and can be avoided by highways. However, it does not need to be far away - it will be treated the same as the county seat." As the chief of general staff, Ma Qianyi has long known the situation in the city and is very concerned about this. He sneered at the so-called combat effectiveness of the military fortress, "They will only hide in the city. I think this road construction task will be left to the Army. If the Ming army in the garrison is ignorant, they might as well attack the garrison." The city needs to undergo some rectification."
The matter of the Bairencheng-Nanbao simple highway was decided in this way. The Agricultural Committee headed by Wu Nanhai did not know that the opening of his farmland had caused many subsequent incidents like a butterfly effect. At this time, the Committee of Agriculture is concentrating on the construction of farmland water conservancy in the United States, Taiwan and the Yangtze River, and at the same time strengthening the post-management of the first batch of rice sown in the spring in February, striving to release a satellite in the experimental field. Create momentum for the subsequent Tiandihui agricultural technology promotion.
Judging from the accumulated temperature in modern Lingao, rice can be sown in January of the Gregorian calendar. However, out of caution, Wu Nanhai still followed the habits of local farmers and postponed the sowing period to February of the Gregorian calendar. Facts have proved that his There is some reason to worry. In January, there were extreme minimum temperatures of 3 to 5 degrees Celsius.
During the rice nursery period, the temperature must be at least 1°C. Although there is no data on the accumulated temperature of Lingao throughout the year, Wu Nanhai judged that only two plants could be planted in Lingao in 1629. Due to insufficient accumulated temperature, the harvest of the first crop has to be delayed until May and June. The harvest of the second crop is shorter and can be harvested in about October. This was the same message he got from the farm workers. Obviously, there is a reason not to plant three-crop rice in Lingao in this time and space.
The area for rice sowing in the February batch was 500 acres, of which 200 acres were high-yield experimental fields that had undergone farmland irrigation improvements last year and were supplied with sufficient base fertilizer. The other three hundred acres are the so-called "Wang Tian Tian". In addition to hybrid rice seeds, Wu Nanhai also sown some short-legged and lodging-resistant rice seeds on an experimental basis in the 300 acres of Wangtian field to see what results these rice seeds could achieve without the support of modern agricultural materials.
After sowing, there are no herbicides, chemical fertilizers or pesticides, and all traditional farming methods are used. Wu Nanhai and Fa Shilu stay in the rice fields every day, constantly exchanging farming experiences with Wang Tian and his agricultural workers. Think of various ways to deal with various problems faced.
Farming in the absence of modern agricultural inputs was initially very painful for the Agricultural Committee members who were accustomed to modern agriculture. None of them had really foreseen how great petrochemical agriculture would be, which was criticized by environmentally friendly petty bourgeoisie who love the environment.
Originally, only 50 kilograms of chemical fertilizer per acre was needed to ensure high yields. Now one acre of land requires half a ton of base fertilizer, and several times of top dressing. Planting 200 acres of high-yield fields almost consumes Wu Nanhai's more than half a year of operation. The accumulation of fertilizers has resulted in a serious shortage of fertilizers for the other three hundred acres.
Then came weeds, rice rust, rice blast, insect pests... Various problems during the rice growth period appeared in front of them one by one. These problems are easy to solve in modern times, but here they have become arduous labor. Before the Ministry of Chemical Industry produced calcium chlorate, weeding was done manually by Wang Tian and agricultural workers. As for pesticides, I searched for a variety of local pesticide formulas in the big library, and also set up a handicraft workshop to prepare the pesticides. If one method didn't work, I would try another one... Finally, I overcame every difficulty.
Now that the rice filling period is coming to an end, on Wan Lihui's suggestion, the paddy fields began to drain water for drying operations. Drying the field can reduce rice lodging, reduce insect pests, harden the ground, and facilitate harvesting. Very beneficial to increase production. But there are certain skills in grasping the timing - judging the right timing is the most important task of the farming backbone. Wan Lihui's family has been growing rice for generations and has great experience in this. (!!~!
