Early autumn in September, this is the best season of the year in Saibei Province!
There is neither the scorching heat of summer nor the biting cold wind of late autumn and winter.
In September in Saibei, the sunshine is warm and tranquil, the autumn wind is gentle and gentle, and the blue sky and white clouds are elegant and melodious.
Of course, the most desirable thing about autumn is its abundant fruits. The so-called fruity September is like this, as is the chrysanthemum color in September.
After entering September, two extremely important things happened in the village.
The first thing is that the children have started school!
No matter when the mythical beast returns to its cage, it is something to be happy about.
In previous years, when children started school, their parents were the happiest, but this year it was different. When they learned that school was about to start, the children in the village were very excited.
Because they are finally getting rid of the torture of those instructors!
Although they just simply run around every day, stand in military posture, and practice formation, it is indeed a lot of torture for these lively and active children, and they are all looking forward to the start of school.
On September 1st, ten days after receiving military training, the children in the village finally got rid of the torture of the "instructors" and happily went to school carrying their schoolbags.
On the first day of school, Wang Ping'an and others personally conducted a detailed investigation of the conditions of the children entering school.
Then the grades and classes were reassigned based on their age and reading status.
After the adjustment, Babaoliang Primary School instantly felt like a shotgun was replaced with a cannon.
First of all, the number of students in the school has increased from 200 to 920, which is almost as big as the Central School in the next town.
With more students, there will naturally be more classes. After adjustments, the school suddenly had 6 grades and 15 classes.
There are 12 classes in 5 grades of primary school, with 60 students in each class.
The junior high school has only one grade one, divided into three classes, with sixty-six or seven students in each class.
Secondly, there are more teachers in the school. After examination and selection, the village once again selected 34 teachers.
Although educated youth still account for the majority, 15 family members stood out and successfully became official teachers at Babaoliang Primary School.
At the same time, Zhou Yang also called the leaders of the county and city governments, hoping that they could allocate some normal students and professionals in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and health to the village.
In this regard, both Li Changqing from the county and Wang Yongqing from the city agreed happily.
But at the same time, they also said that these people will not be able to arrive until at least the autumn harvest.
Fortunately, Zhou Yang also knew that this kind of thing could not be completed in a day or two, and he was not in a hurry, as long as these people were in place before the college entrance examination results came out.
In addition to the opening of the school, another major event in the village is the beginning of the autumn harvest!
On September 10th, the summer oats harvest in Babaoliang Village officially begins!
Following the order from Wang Ping, the village party secretary, all factories in Babaoliang Lianhe Village were shut down that day, and all young laborers went to the fields with sickles to harvest more than 3,000 acres of summer oats.
The harvested oats are taken to the threshing floor in the village to be dried on the same day. The dried oats are almost immediately threshed and distributed to the members of the village as quickly as possible.
The yield of summer oatmeal is low, and the taste of the produced oatmeal is not very good. However, this crop has a short growth cycle and can mature in as fast as 90 days. It is a real life-saving food for ordinary people.
The people in Babaoliang Village are not short of food, but most of the commune members in other villages have no surplus food at home. These summer oats are the earliest new food they can eat!
On September 16, 3,680 acres of summer oats were threshed!
On the day of threshing, according to the results of the village committee's discussion, a batch of summer oats was first distributed to the village members' educated youth at a rate of two hundred kilograms per person.
On that day, there was an endless stream of vehicles from various production teams coming to Babaoliang Village to transport grain, and the grain distribution continued until late at night. Finally, the food of more than 3,700 people was distributed.
Then, all the remaining oats are dried and put into storage.
After harvesting the summer oats, the wheat is almost ripe.
According to the situation in previous years, in order to make the grains more plump, the village usually lets the wheat grow in the ground for another ten or eight days.
But not this year. Under Zhou Yang's instructions, the wheat ears were harvested as soon as they turned yellow.
It took less than three days to harvest all 3,500 acres of wheat, and only one week including drying.
Next came millet and millet. Since the total was only two thousand acres, it took another two or three days.
When October is about to enter, there are only three crops left in the fields of Babaoliang Lianhe Village: corn, sugar beets and potatoes.
But this does not mean that the task will be much easier. In fact, these three crops are the most planted in Babaoliang Village this year. The corn alone is more than 10,000 acres, and the three crops combined are 19,000 acres. More than a thousand acres.
In comparison, the total area of wheat, oatmeal and millet crops is less than 9,000 acres.
Seeing that there were less than 20 days left until mid-October, Zhou Yang was secretly anxious.
You know, as expected, the first snow in Saibei this year fell in mid-October.
If it were slower, the food that had been grown so hard might be buried in the snow.
Fortunately, at the end of September, the 30 tractors and supporting agricultural machinery ordered by the village through the county were finally in place.
Zhou Yang immediately transferred a dozen soldiers from the research institute who could drive tractors and trained a group of tractor drivers.
With the addition of this batch of agricultural machinery, production efficiency has indeed improved a lot.
At that moment, Zhou Yang immediately asked Wang Ping, Zhang Genwang and others to seize the time to organize the educated youth members to harvest beets and potatoes first, and corn last.
After all, the corn pole is high, and the heavy snow cannot fall so deep that it cannot be buried.
But beets and potatoes are different. They are both root crops, and their fruits grow in the soil. If you are not careful, they may freeze in the ground.
During this period, Zhou Yang couldn't bear it, and finally reminded Li Changqing in mid-September, asking him to seize the time to organize people to collect it to avoid accidents.
Although Zhou Yang didn't explain too much, Li Changqing was an alert person. He had already learned about the early use of sickles in Babaoliang Village.
Thinking of what Zhou Yang said, I immediately no longer hesitated and immediately issued an order to collect in advance to the heads of all township communes in the county.
Although many people wonder why the county asked them to start harvesting half a month in advance, orders are orders and no one dares to disobey them.
As a result, just after mid-September, the entire Yunshan County launched a vigorous harvest operation.
At first, the members of the production team below were not too happy, thinking that the county was messing around.
Harvesting half a month in advance will affect the grain output to some extent. After all, the last period of time is the key to whether the grain is full.
Therefore, many ordinary people were cursing county leaders while harvesting crops.
But soon they couldn't curse anymore. When October entered, the temperature dropped sharply.
In previous years, the beginning of October is a good time for autumn here, with frost usually occurring in mid-October and snow falling at the end of October and early November.
However, when they opened their eyes on October 3 this year, everyone was horrified to find that there was frost on the ground. The grass, vegetables, etc. that were growing well yesterday were all frozen.
Frost is the most direct sign of rapid cooling, and it also tells commune members that there is not much time left for them to harvest crops.
At this time, everyone didn't care about cursing, and they rushed to gather the crops in the fields day and night.
Going back to Babaoliang Village, while others were harvesting oats and wheat, they were already harvesting sugar beets.
If normal, it would take at least 10 days to grow 5,000 acres of sugar beets.
But with the addition of so many agricultural machines, it only took 6 days to harvest them all.
Then there are the potatoes, which are all in the soil. When harvesting, you either use a shovel or an iron claw to plow the ground, or you use a plow to plow the ground along the ridges, and then use a hoe to dig out the potatoes buried in the soil.
All in all, harvesting potatoes is an extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive task without large-scale agricultural machinery.
Even though Babao Liang Lianhe Village has tractors and more than 2,000 strong laborers, it still takes seven or eight days to harvest potatoes from 4,000 acres.
On October 13, after harvesting the potatoes, Wang Ping immediately organized the people in the village to work hard to harvest the 10,000 acres of corn.
Relatively speaking, corn is relatively easy to harvest.
The people in front used sickles to cut down the corn poles, while the educated youth members in the back broke off the corn poles and loaded them into the truck.
Finally, dedicated members will tie up the corn poles and load them into trucks, and take them to various feed factories for processing into biological feed.
However, just three days after the village started harvesting corn, it snowed in Yunshan County...
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(Iron claw: the famous three-tooth rake, used for digging the ground)
(Harvesting potatoes with a shovel: It is easy to cut the potatoes into two halves with a shovel, and the damage rate is high)
(Mechanized potato harvesting, tens of thousands of outsiders come here to work part-time to harvest potatoes in Wuchuan County, Inner Mongolia every year)
(Potato votes!)
PS: In the afternoon, the famous criminal investigation writer Feng Yu Rushu will hold a book signing in Hohhot. Lao Cang is the special guest. There is only one chapter left to come back and write!
