Back at the brigade headquarters, the office was empty.
Not only were several village cadres absent, but even the little girl Tan Shiqing did not know where she had gone.
Zhou Yang originally wanted to translate the manuscript for a while. When he came back from the fertilizer factory this time, he brought back a pile of untranslated materials, estimated to be at least 200,000 words.
Now that the fertilizer plant has officially been put into operation, these materials urgently need to be translated as soon as possible.
But after sitting down, his heart couldn't calm down.
After thinking again and again, Zhou Yang finally put the manuscript away and walked to the warehouse area behind.
When he came to the back, Zhou Yang found that there were quite a few people.
In addition to the many people working at the feed mill, there are also dozens of people working at several large granaries.
Zhou Yang decided to go to the feed factory first. He wanted to see how effective the grinder made by Lin Yi was!
As soon as I came over, I heard the roar of a motor coming from inside.
Through the open door, Zhou Yang saw Lin Yi leading a few educated youths to guard the crusher, while the members were stuffing various straws pulled back from the fields into the crusher.
Whenever straw is stuffed in, the roar of the crusher will become more rapid and dull, and then the crushed straw powder will rise out of the discharge port.
Due to the roar of the motor and the dust everywhere in the factory, no one saw Zhou Yang coming.
Zhou Yang came to Lin Yi and patted his body. Only then did Lin Yi see that it was Zhou Yang coming.
Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Ji Yi pointed to the door and motioned Zhou Yang to go outside and said that it was too noisy inside.
Arriving outside the feed factory, Lin Yi said with a smile: "I just wanted to chat with you after the meeting, but I didn't expect that Teacher Qin beat me to it!"
"Well, I just came back from the pig farm!"
"Fortunately, the grinders you want have been built, including a bone meal grinder, two grass meal grinders, and a flour mill, which can also be used as a grain grinder!" Lin Yi said immediately.
"How's the effect?"
"The effect is also very good. After our experiments during this period, the grass powder grinder has the best effect and can process 3 to 5 tons of grass powder in an hour!"
Then Ji Yi continued: "The bone meal should be slower. It can process almost a ton of bone residue in one hour!"
Zhou Yang nodded and said: "Then I'm relieved. There are so many livestock, big and small, in the village. It would be really difficult to deal with them if there is not enough feed."
"Now that we have these crushers, we should be able to satisfy these animals!"
"Well, during this period we have crushed a total of seven to eight hundred tons of grass meal. If we only feed the pigs, it will be enough to sell the piglets in the pig farm!"
"It's not enough. I'll have to buy new piglets in a while!"
"Okay, there are plenty of straws in the village anyway, so just keep working!"
Zhou Yang nodded, and then told Ji Yi what he had just said to Yang Wenguang.
Lin Yi was also very excited when he heard that Zhou Yang recommended him to the city.
He himself has survived these years, but his child is still young, and he knows how cruel the winter at Dongquan Farm is.
This time I brought Xiao Leer to Babaoliang Village, partly because there was really no one to take care of the little guy, and partly because I hoped to leave the child with Zhou Yang for a while.
He had no previous thoughts of committing suicide, but was worried that Xiao Leer would not be able to survive the winter at Dongquan Farm.
Now that Zhou Yang has recommended them to the city, the conditions are better than those at Dongquan Farm, and he doesn't have to separate from Xiao Leer.
Zhou Yang chatted with Lin Yi for a while and then walked towards the granary.
Because the public grain was about to be handed over, Zhang Genwang and Wang Ping each led a group of commune members to sort out grain here.
At the entrance of the large warehouse where grain is stored, commune members wearing straw hats or turbans are all busy around several huge windmills.
The function of the windmill is to fan out the grains inside the grain to ensure that there are not too many impurities inside.
I saw the members pouring the dried wheat into the pockets of the windmill with dustpans and wooden shovels (shovels made of wood). The members operating the windmill quickly shook the swing arm, and the windmill started to move creakingly...
As the fan blades inside rotate, the grains and other impurities in the wheat are fanned out, and what is left is clean wheat.
This is not enough. After the wheat passes through the windmill, it must be manually screened.
This step is to use a bamboo sieve to pass the wheat through it uniformly. The holes of the sieve are just big enough to leak out a grain of wheat. So when the members shake the sieve, the wheat leaks out of the sieve, along with slightly larger stones and sand. and it remained in the sieve.
While everyone was busy, Zhang Genwang checked the processed wheat over and over again, and at the same time kept saying: "These are patriotic grains for the public. We must handle them well to satisfy the public officials!"
Wang Ping, the production captain, also told the commune members: "Everyone, be careful. The wheat chaff must be removed, and the sand and stones must be sifted. Otherwise, the commune people will ask us to pull them back."
The members were obviously used to this and immediately responded.
Zhou Yang did not disturb everyone's work, but came to the pile of wheat that had been processed and squatted down next to Zhang Genwang.
"Uncle Zhang, is this the processed public food?"
Zhang Genwang nodded and said: "Well, it's not bad!"
"More than that, the food provided to the members must be clean."
This is not Zhou Yang's nonsense, but the truth.
The public grains in front of me have been screened several times. Not only are the grains full, but they are also clean inside, with no grains, sand, stones, or clods of soil.
If nothing else, at least the food distributed by the production team to the members was definitely not that clean.
Zhang Genwang smiled and said: "Can it be the same? This is food given to the public. If it cannot be processed cleanly, then it will be okay!"
Hearing this, Zhou Yang was really moved deep in his heart.
I have to say that these members are really serious about handing over public food.
They may not have much culture, but they know that farming land and paying for food has never changed. Therefore, even an old farmer like Zhang Genwang does not dare to slack off at all when it comes to "paying public food"!
It is also this valuable contribution of farmers that provides primitive accumulation for the country's industrial construction and thus establishes a preliminary industrial foundation.
It can be said that without the dedication of farmers, there would not have been "two bombs and one satellite", nor would there have been subsequent economic take-off.
As he was talking, a "rumbling" sound suddenly came from the distance.
Zhou Yang and others immediately looked up and found a tractor driving into the yard of the brigade headquarters.
(Dongfanghong Tractor)
There were two people sitting on the flaming red tractor. The driver Zhou Yang did not recognize him, but the person next to the driver was his old father-in-law Li Fengnian.
Soon, the tractor stopped at the granary.
Then I saw my old father-in-law jumping off the tractor skillfully and calling on the members to unload the truck quickly!
(old tractor)
PS: In order to write this book, Lao Cang went to a village that retained the style of the collective era two days ago to collect photos and took some photos. If they match the plot, they will be released to everyone one after another.
Of course, the premise is that everyone wants to watch it. If you don’t think it’s necessary, forget it!
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