The staff who followed Bai Zhanyuan for the inspection stayed in Liujia Village for a whole day and saw with their own eyes the bumper harvest of the corn fields in Liujia Village. After a day of picking and weighing, the average corn yield in Liujia Village reached 750 kilograms per mu, which was higher than that of Liujia Village. It has doubled since last year.
That afternoon, the young man with glasses returned to the newspaper office with the collected materials. The next day's newspaper headlines published the story of a bumper corn harvest in Liujiacun.
I originally thought that this incident would cause public revelry, but everyone who saw the news was skeptical of the content of the report. After all, the news was too incredible.
Even a professor from the Agricultural College rushed to the newspaper office after seeing the news, and directly scolded the newspaper editor for publishing fake news.
Regarding this situation, the editor of the newspaper did not panic at all. He directly told the professor the address of Liujiacun and told the professor that the corn harvest in Liujiacun was complete. If he didn't believe it, he could go to the field to verify it in person.
Hearing what the newspaper editor said, the professor rushed towards Liujiacun with his school without stopping at all. When they arrived at Liujiacun, the professor was dumbfounded. They actually saw a brand new corn variety, and it was being planted in the entire village. .
After the professor talked to Mr. Wu, he excitedly took his students to the cornfield. After picking and weighing them, they found that the yield of these cornfields was actually the same as what was said in the newspaper, except that there was no In addition to reaching the highest yield per mu, it is actually a little higher than the average yield per mu published in newspapers.
This really surprised them. After all, the emergence of this new type of corn can save them from too many detours.
After confirming the high yield of corn, the professor found Liu Guangqi's family after inquiring and took away some corn from Liu Guangqi's family. Upon returning to school, the professor immediately compared the new corn to previous corn.
In the past, corn was short and small, with shriveled and thin grains. However, the new corn brought back by Liu Guangqi is not only thick and long, but also has plump and thick grains.
The most important thing is that one corn stalk can hold four to five cobs, while the original corn stalk can only have three cobs at most.
From this point, we can see that the reason why Liujia Village has a bumper corn harvest is definitely not only the use of chemical fertilizers and changes in farming methods, but the most important thing is the change in varieties. If the same farming method is replaced with the previous corn, the harvest will be five times at most. More than a hundred kilograms.
After coming to this conclusion, the professor immediately reported the discovery to the college. After verification, the college reported the report to the relevant higher-level departments, including a report from the Agricultural College and a high-yield certificate from the district government.
The higher-level government immediately replaced the corn harvested in Liujiacun this year. The key point is that except for dozens of kilograms of grain seeds, the remaining two thousand kilograms of corn in Liu Guangqi's family have been replaced. Of course, the government does not let the people in Liujia Village eat fast, and basically provides subsidies.
These things all happened after Liu Guangqi returned to the city. In order to improve the situation in Liujia Village, Liu Guangqi did everything he could. He organized cooperation groups to improve efficiency, built breeding farms to increase collective property, improved roads and canals to facilitate transportation, introduced Fertilizers change farming practices and more. The rest of the things are beyond the control of Liu Guangqi as a student.
Time has come to mid-October in the blink of an eye. Due to heavy rains in the south, food production in southern production areas has been significantly reduced. In addition, a large number of rural laborers have entered the city to become workers. The food pressure of urban residents has become increasingly serious. In order to solve these problems.
On the other hand, in order to ban grain speculation and ensure the smooth progress of people's lives and national construction, on October 16, 1953, the Central Committee issued the "Resolution on Implementing Planned Procurement and Planned Supply of Grain", which decided to implement planned grain procurement and supply nationwide. , Carry out planned grain purchase (referred to as unified purchase) and planned supply (referred to as unified marketing) in a step-by-step manner.
On October 19, the Government Affairs Council issued an order to implement unified sales and purchases. In compliance with this order, bj, the city first carried out a planned supply of flour based on the actual situation of short supply in bj. On October 27, a joint meeting of municipal government committee members was held, and the "resolution of bj, the city to implement the planned supply of flour" was adopted. After approval by the Central Government, planned flour supply (quantitative distribution) was implemented from November 1, 1953, and flour was supplied with a "flour purchase certificate".
On November 13, 1953, the Municipal Grain Bureau was established. It opened on the 21st and issued "flour purchase certificates" to each household.
The denominations of "flour purchase certificates" are divided into five types: 1 city catty, 4 city catties, 8 city catties, 10 city catties, and "collective purchase certificates" that can be purchased and filled out as needed. All residents of this city and town will be issued a unified purchase certificate for 8 pounds of flour per month by the public security police station based on their official household registration;
In addition, according to different types of work, those belonging to public and private enterprises, farms, institutions, groups, cultural and educational students... The unit where they work will issue an additional 4 jins of flour purchase certificate per person per month, totaling 12 jins;
If it belongs to industry and mining, railways, construction, loading and unloading, and public transportation, the unit will issue an additional 10 city jins of flour purchase certificate per person per month, for a total of 18 city jins;
As for patients from foreign consulates and hospitals, they must fill in a collective purchase certificate based on the actual number of needs.
On November 15, the Government Affairs Council issued the "Decision on the Planned Purchase of Oils in the Country". The state will implement planned purchases of oils and edible oils, and implement planned supply of edible oils in cities, industries and mines.
On December 1, bj, Tianjin and Tianjin began to implement planned supplies of rice and coarse grains. Other major cities followed suit and implemented planned supply. Due to the shortage of oil compared with rice, Shanghai first implemented a planned supply of cooking oil and flour, and then implemented a planned supply of rice.
Since then, New China has completely entered the era of unified sales and purchase, and various tickets have quickly entered people's lives.
Youdao is a prophet of spring water. Never underestimate the political sensitivity of old bj people. After all, they grew up under the feet of the emperor. As soon as the government set the tone, the news spread among the people.
On October 19th, Liu Guangqi was sitting in the medical clinic reading a book when he saw a group of people running past the door of the medical clinic.
"Oh my God, what are so many people doing? Isn't something big happening?"
Huzi also became nervous when he saw the hurried appearance of these people.
Liu Guangqi glanced in the direction where those people were running and knew that these people must have gone to the grain store to grab food. In the past few months, he had purchased ten tons of gold and silver from Cixi's treasure, either explicitly or covertly. Grain is stored in space.
In addition, he can grow food in his space, so he is not panic at all now.
"Man, what's going on? You're in a hurry."
A somewhat flustered Huzi stopped a passerby and asked.
"You don't know yet. There is not enough food to eat after the disaster in the south. The country will soon plan to provide food. From now on, everyone can only buy eight kilograms of white flour every month. Isn't this going to starve people to death? Brother, you too Stop being stuck here and go to the grain store to sell grain. If you don’t buy it, you won’t be able to buy it anymore.”
"It's broken, Mr. Liu, let's close the shop quickly and sell food."
Huzi's expression changed when he heard this, and he shouted loudly after returning to the medical center.
"It shouldn't be. Even if there is no shortage of food, we can't just let people eat eight kilograms of food a month. Doesn't this push people to a dead end? Is this world going back to the world of eating mixed noodles?"
Even though the well-informed Mr. Liu heard the news, his heart trembled and he murmured in a low voice. The other guys and apprentices couldn't help but get scared when they saw Mr. Liu like this. Mr. Liu has been an old bj for decades and has seen countless big scenes. He was already embarrassed, so this must be a big deal.
"Why are you panicking? We are only planning to supply white flour. Other grains are not included in the supply for the time being. Even if other grains are also planned to be supplied, it will definitely not be eight kilograms. Although our country is short of food, it is not that bad."
Liu Guangqi looked at the panicked crowd and said, although these words had a certain comforting effect, everyone still felt a little unsure.
A few people discussed it and decided to go with the crowd. After all, they had food in their hands and they didn't feel panic. So they took the bags and rushed to the nearest food store. Even an old Jianghu like Mr. Liu was no exception. It seemed that he was occupied by the Japanese. The memory of the times frightened me.
For a time, Liu Guangqi was the only person left in the entire medical center. Liu Guangqi came to the door carrying a purple clay pot that he bought from Liulichang a few days ago. The originally lively street suddenly became much more depressed, with only a few passing pedestrians walking quickly. However, even the shops on both sides of the street were closed.
It seems that this rumor is quite powerful. There must be someone behind it, otherwise the news wouldn't spread so quickly and widely. If the government doesn't respond well, there will definitely be trouble.
