In the evening, Wan Ning took Wan Qiu, Wan Ru and Wan Xiu to find Ye Feng. After all, Ye Feng said before that he hired long-term workers to test something. Work will start tomorrow, so they should know what that thing is.
So Ye Feng took out a piece of rice. It looked no different from ordinary rice in appearance, but Wan Ning quickly saw the difference. This rice had much larger ears and grains than ordinary rice.
Wan Ning asked Ye Feng: "Master, what kind of rice is this?"
Ye Feng said: "It's called high-yield hybrid rice."
Wanxiu asked doubtfully: "High-yielding hybrid rice? Can it achieve a yield of 500 kilograms per mu?"
Ye Feng smiled and said: "This kind of rice, which is double-cropped in the morning and evening, can achieve a yield of 3,000 kilograms per mu. This is what I want to test, whether it can achieve this kind of yield here."
As soon as Ye Feng said this, the four girls fell silent, because that was simply impossible.
Even Wan Ning knows that a yield of three to four hundred kilograms per mu is already a high yield, and a yield of three thousand kilograms per mu is a joke. Not to mention those born in the three farmers’ families in late autumn.
If the person who said this was someone else, then the four of them would definitely think that person was lying, but the person who said this was the master, and they would not regard his words as a joke. However, even if it is the master's words, it is too unbelievable.
Finally, after a brief silence, Wan Ning began to say, "Master, what is going on with this so-called miscellaneous family rice?"
Ye Feng did not answer Wan Ning directly, but asked: "What kind of talent do you think is worthy of being called a great hero and worthy of being called an unparalleled national scholar?"
Wan Ning said: "People like you, Master."
The other three people also nodded and agreed with the eldest sister's statement, but Ye Feng shook his head and said: "Let me tell you a story.
"There was once a country that drove away foreign invaders and achieved independence and reunification. At that time, because the nationwide land reform had just been completed, farmers had just obtained land. The rural environment was also undergoing earth-shaking changes. Everyone became Everyone wanted to work, but even if the number of self-cultivators increased, it still failed to change the low grain output at that time.
"In that country at that time, it seemed that every household was cooking and smoke was rising, but under the stove of each household, there was only a pot of rice soup cooking. After the rice soup was cooked, the children were allowed to drink it first. After two mouthfuls of porridge with rice, the adults in the family will start to hold the pot and ladle in the big iron pot to see if they can pull out a few grains of rice. The pot, ladle and iron pot can almost scrape out sparks. , I can’t even get out a few grains of rice.
"And at that time, an ordinary agricultural school teacher made up his mind. At that time, the country was in a difficult period. There was no food to eat, and the people's life was really difficult. Especially since the country still had such a large population, the per capita cultivated land area was very small. The food security issue is very important. Because this country has just been established, the wolves, tigers and leopards that have been driven away are still looking at it unwillingly. The food issue has become their key breakthrough point.
"For a country, food must be in its own hands and cannot rely on others. A grain of grain and wine can trip up a country. That teacher loves his motherland and he does not want his country to be tripped up by food problems. So he decided to dedicate his life to the land.
"In order to solve the food problem of countless people, he began to struggle from that day on. Finally one day, when he was farming in the fields, he accidentally discovered a natural rice plant. The rice that stood out from the crowd had a special growth. Well, the ears of rice were much larger and very neat. When the man looked at the rice plant, he seemed to see a golden wave of wheat. So in the second year, he began to use artificial methods and take advantage of hybridization to start cultivating Hybrid rice. He sown a thousand plants of that variety. For this reason, he went to the fields every day, hoping that the rice would grow.
"But the story was not so smooth sailing. When it came time to check, he was disappointed with the rice. The thousand rice plants were high and low, uneven, and grew like weeds. He was so angry that he cursed: No one looks as good as me.
"At that time, he was just an ordinary agricultural school teacher, but he encountered opposition from many people. Some people with higher academic qualifications and official positions believed that his experiments not only wasted farmland, but also resulted in a loss of dozens of kilograms per mu. .Some people even laughed at him. If people were willing to eat grass, the hybrid rice you made would have a future.
"After being questioned, he not only did not extinguish his enthusiasm, but also strengthened his determination to research. He began to travel around the country to find suitable water and soil to grow hybrid rice.
"Destiny is accidental and inevitable. People who work hard will eventually find all the success factors they need. Finally, one of his students discovered a wild rice plant near a farm swamp that was very suitable for use in hybrid rice. . From that moment on, the broad road of hybrid rice finally opened to him.
“Three years later, after ten years of hard work, and after countless opposition and ridicule, he finally developed a truly high-yielding hybrid rice.
"He has two dreams, one is to enjoy the cool under the grass, and the other is to plant rice all over the country. Just as his lifelong dream is to eliminate hunger so that no one will go hungry.
"He is a true cultivator. When he was an unknown rural teacher, he already had the courage to subvert the world's authority. When he became famous all over the world, he still only focused on the fields and was indifferent to fame and fortune.
"He wrote his merits on the earth, planted half of his life in the loess, and the fruits he produced fed everyone on the land. Now he has rested in the land where he dedicated his life."
Ye Feng looked down at the rice ears in his hand, paused, and said, "This is the hybrid rice he researched, and I brought it from this world. This rice has saved countless people in this world who should have died of starvation. And I What I want to test is whether it can also save everyone in this world."
As he spoke, Ye Feng looked up at Wan Ning and the others, and continued:
"There are as many powerful people in this world as crucian carp crossing a river. With powerful power, it is easy to kill tens of millions of people, but it is difficult to save one person, and it is extremely difficult to save hundreds of millions of people.
“Real heroes are never these people with great power.
“A true hero must be admired by the world and admired by future generations. He must care about the country and the people and pity the common people.
“So only people like him are qualified to be called true heroes, and only people like him are qualified to be called true unparalleled national warriors.
"And I am not a hero, just a disseminator of heroic deeds."
