There were mountains of sweet potatoes piled up in the sugar workshop, some of which had even fermented. A smell like alcohol hit your face, and the smell was really not very good.
Yi Niang's face was flushed, Liang Chuan paid the public rations, and the two of them went to the warehouse to look at the sweet potatoes.
People who have lived through the difficult time of being afraid of starvation have special feelings towards food!
Sweet potatoes are produced in such large quantities that a clear space is needed to store them!
Such a large quantity of sweet potatoes would make them cry with excitement if they were given to the homeless during a disaster year.
Liang Chuan really couldn't figure out why the mountain people didn't eat sweet potatoes, and why they refused to popularize such a good cash crop.
It is said that the yield of sweet potatoes with good taste can reach more than 3,000 kilograms per acre. No rice can achieve this yield these days, unless new hybrid rice appears. Moreover, the cultivation of rice requires high land, and the price of an acre of paddy fields is not low. The good paddy fields on the south bank cost more than ten guan per acre, and the cheap ones cost several guan. Who can afford it.
The largest amount of dry land on the north coast is dry land. No one grows rice in the paddy fields. Most people grow sugar cane. This thing is expensive. The income of one acre of sugar cane is comparable to that of two acres of paddy fields. The key is that the supply exceeds demand. No matter how much sugar cane the Liang family has Collect it, make it into sugar and transport it to Qingyuan. The price will more than increase a hundred times!
However, sugar cane cannot be grown on any land, except for those on the hillside. The water source in this kind of land is difficult to control. Even if there is a water tanker, it will consume a lot of manpower, which is not worth the gain!
In Fengshan, all the slopes on the mountain are densely planted with sweet potatoes. Most of the school fields are also planted with sweet potatoes. They are high-yielding and easy to care for, and they soon replaced rice and wheat! The staple food for children in Tsinghua Academy now is sweet potatoes. Although they are afraid of eating them, but the children can have full stomachs, how can they think that sweet potatoes are not delicious?
No matter how cruel the capitalists are, they will not feed sweet potatoes to people every day, and it is not enough for school children to eat sweet potatoes every day.
In fact, the food for the children in Tsinghua Academy is the best. Every day, they have fresh fish from Nanxi River to make soup, and they also eat meat. Meat ranges from chicken, duck, and pig, depending on what kind of meat is available in the market today.
Yi Niang looked at these huge amounts of sweet potatoes and said, "Originally, I planned to raise a few New Year pigs this year. I didn't feed them anything else and just let them eat sweet potatoes. This will just consume all the sweet potatoes!"
Liang Chuan said: "Fortunately, you don't raise pigs. These sweet potatoes are of great use. I'll show you tomorrow. Maybe there will be another way to get rich!"
When Yi Niang heard about the way to get rich, she was a little dissatisfied and said: "In the past, we were all poor. As long as there was a way to make money by catching fish, everyone would grab it. Now, you know, these people have made some money in their pockets and are doing things." But you are not as diligent as before, and you are picky and picky, whether you are good or bad, have you noticed any changes in the children in the school?"
School? Liang Chuan only noticed that his husband had been replaced by Wen Boyan, and he really didn't notice the other changes!
"The conditions in the school are much better now than before, but sweet potatoes are still the staple food. Among other things, I feel very hungry after eating this food. There is so much of it that I can eat it by cooking it in a pot. But now some parents look at us This school gives their children this little thing to eat, but they are still angry and come here to make trouble with me. Do you think they are angry or not?"
"Well, it's normal for them to feel sorry for their children and fear that they won't have enough to eat!"
"Where is it? In the past, children like Ma Dan and the others were so happy when they had just a few mouthfuls of food, thanking God with their mouths full. When we people in Fengshan saw that they were eating the same food as those beggar children, we felt uncomfortable. , some deliberately stew meat for their children, that family kills chickens, and then brings them to the school to eat, insisting on climbing higher and lower, and the whole school atmosphere is ruined!"
Liang Chuan's brows jumped. He had never expected that Fengshan's economy had developed so fast in the past few years. It only took two or three years for people like Grandma to change from targets of targeted poverty alleviation to striving for a well-off society. In two or three years, they became nothing more than themselves. I can’t even remember my origins. It’s easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it’s hard to go from luxury to frugality!
"Tomorrow you will tell Mr. Wen that there is one more rule in the school. From now on, no one is allowed to bring food from home to the school. You can bring it if you want. Prepare one for everyone else, otherwise you will drop out of school!"
Yi Niang continued: "Don't scare them with dropping out of school. How can they study now? As soon as the children grow up, they immediately rush to the adult management team, and the adult management team has now become a gang of children! In the school, now How many of our children are from Fengshan? People from outside the country eagerly look at the school and want to come and study. They are looking forward to a meal of sweet potatoes so that they can kneel at the door of the school and beg us to accept their children. The children in Fengshan will be beaten to death. I won’t eat sweet potatoes either!”
Liang Chuan became even more angry when he heard this. How did he get used to this!
"I read a book to them and they still don't read it? What do they want to do?"
Yi Niang said: "Do you know how high the salary of our adult management team is? Now in Fengshan, whenever a boy is born in the family, firecrackers are set off, and when a daughter is born, we have to work harder!"
"Why? Just to get into the management team!"
"You just know how much money you can make throughout the year by making bamboo weaving with Li Erhua after you give birth to a daughter. You join the Adult Management Team to take care of food and housing, and you get the monthly money. You say you won't set off firecrackers? Now we are the phoenixes in the school. Shan’s children are the girls from He Baozheng’s family, Brother Li’s Shiliu, and Brother Fan’s children. Who among the others is willing to stay in the school? Who wouldn’t be willing to stay in school if they can’t make a name for themselves in school, and if they can make money!”
What!
When Liang Chuan heard about this, he was so angry that the Three Corpse Gods exploded. He cursed and crushed several sweet potatoes under his feet.
I think about how much effort it took to build Tsinghua University so that these people could change their own destiny, let others get out of this mountain, and obtain academic honors in the future. Now these people are so short-sighted, picking up petty gains. Lost the sesame and lost the watermelon!
Shame! Liang Chuan was so ashamed that he had worked so hard for such a group of people!
Is it really that good to be in the Adult Management Team? What's the difference between being a soldier? As the saying goes, a good man can't be a soldier but a good man can't make nails. The adult management brigade is facing a peaceful situation right now. What's the point of going to the battlefield to bleed and shed tears if something unexpected happens?
Have they forgotten those villagers who died when the mountain people rebelled?
Stupid and ignorant!
Why are they so short-sighted!
"It seems that my assumption was too naive!"
Liang Chuan's eyes flashed with anger. It had nothing to do with him what would happen to this group of people in the future. To be honest, the villagers were absolutely satisfied with the life they were living today. How could they dare to dream of becoming officials?
Life only lasts a few decades, and the system will still be the same in a hundred years. The Adult Management Team may be disbanded. Where will they go then? If you don’t change your destiny from now on, will you come back and grow sweet potatoes?
Yi Niang looked at the angry Liang Chuan and didn't know what he was thinking, but it must be about the school.
Liang Chuan's importance to the school can be seen from the pair of words at the door.
The thin land is planted with pines and cypresses, and the poor family is studying.
The people of Fengshan have too short a vision, and no one can do anything about it. Why can't you hold a knife to someone's neck and force them to study?
Yi Niang also advised: "Everyone has his own ambitions. Our Fengshan children may not be good at studying. Look at Ma Dan, the husband attaches great importance to him and even changed his name to his mother Dongmei, saying Why does the fragrance of plum blossoms come from the bitter cold? I hope he will do something in the future. As for those children in Fengshan, asking them to write their names is like a dog's paw. Maybe it would be better for them to go to the adult management brigade. !”
Liang Chuan said bitterly: "Do you know how much a book costs? Do you know how many generations of effort have to be sacrificed between digging food in the fields and picking up a pen?"
"As long as there is a scholar or a person with a good reputation, they will know how much benefit this thing can bring them. If one person takes the lead, the people behind will follow one after another. The eyes of these people really make me hate it!"
"It's useless for you to hate. Are we still watching? You can bear this loss. Brother Fan and the others also said that if there had been crops like sweet potatoes in northern Shaanxi, they wouldn't have had to travel all the way to the south to avoid disasters! "
The two walked out of the sugar house, and Liang Chuan could finally show a smile. Although the incident in the school made him unhappy, he could finally satisfy Nihu's request and give the mountain people a way, although he was not sure whether the road would work. .
Outside the house, Shiliu was holding a book and memorizing an article. Xiao Zhixing didn't understand anything and was following him around. Xiaocheng, a kid who didn't study, was playing with the bow and arrow in his hand. Liang Chuan saw it and kicked him!
Xiaocheng's skills are no worse than Liang Chuan's. He spent his childhood either in Nanxi or in the mountains and forests behind Hulu Mountain. He developed excellent water skills, and his escape skills are even better.
"Dad, what are you doing!"
Liang Chuan was furious when he saw this scene. His own son didn't even study, so how could someone else's son be willing to study?
In fact, Liang Chuan is the worst role model in Fengshan!
Whenever someone advises them to study, these children will say, our brother Liang has never read a book himself, but he has made a difference!
Liang Chuan said angrily: "From tomorrow on, you stay in the school and study hard, and you will get a good reputation in the future. If you use these swords and guns again, see if I don't break your legs!"
Liang Chuan turned to look at Yi Niang and said with a dissatisfied look on his face: "You just don't care about your son. What do you want to do in the future? Go hunting in the mountains?"
Yi Niang was also unconvinced and said: "You don't care about your son, just like a wild one, and you let me take care of it? Such a big family requires me to worry about everything. I have three heads and six arms, but I can't do it!"
Yi Niang didn't want to take care of it, but she really couldn't. Xiaocheng was very obedient under her nose, but when her heart was out of sight for a moment, this kid was like a runaway horse, and it was all up to him to do what he wanted to do. I want him to study obediently, which is difficult!
