Great Power Technology.

Chapter 349

Xu Lei led Ye Zhou and a group of three on the rural road leading to the experimental field. The solar street lights on the road lit up one by one as they passed by, and then gradually turned off. Ye Zhou looked at this scene with some novelty, and said Chen Hao said:

"Is this considered excess technology?"

Chen Hao was stunned for a moment, and replied:
"Not so much. Now this kind of sensor switch is very cheap, and the failure rate is also low. I read a report before, saying that this kind of sensor street light is still very practical in rural areas. After adding solar panels, It can even run completely off the grid, which is very convenient in terms of ease of installation and later maintenance.”

"Also, I remember that Hailan's batch of street lights started to be rolled out after sulfur-silicon batteries, and the overall benefit ratio should be better."

Chen Hao mentioned sulfur-silicon batteries to the point, and Ye Zhou immediately understood what he meant.

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Ye Zhou nodded thoughtfully, then continued to ask:

"Infrastructure like this, is it now a unified appropriation or fundraising?"

Xu Lei at the side heard his words, and replied before Chen Hao:
"There are both appropriations and fundraising. Generally, relatively large infrastructure is allocated by the unified finance, such as road repairs, street lights, water and electricity communications, etc. This village also updated the aging circuit this year, using the appropriation."

"However, smaller things are fundraising, and the most typical one is large agricultural machinery."

"Nowadays in rural areas, as long as there are a lot of fields, large-scale agricultural machinery is basically used. We used to learn in textbooks that the cultivated land in our country is scattered and not suitable for large-scale agricultural machinery cultivation. Now it seems that this judgment is gradually being recognized. break in."

"For example, in this village now, there are two harvesters and 12 agricultural drones for spraying pesticides, of which 4 are privately owned, and the remaining 8 are all purchased through fundraising."

"I don't know why, it seems that in the past two years, in the countryside, the means of production have started to be publicized again."

Following the direction of her finger, Ye Zhou saw a harvester parked in the open space on the side of the road, and said with a sigh:
"So this is also one of the technical dividends. After the cost of machinery is reduced, even in scattered farmland, it becomes more cost-effective to use machinery than to employ people. The changes in the current rural areas are really quite big."

Hearing this, Wu Ping, who had been silently following by the side, suddenly interjected:

"Yeah, the most difficult time in rural China has passed."

Ye Zhou was taken aback for a moment. He could clearly hear a kind of sadness from Wu Ping's tone. This kind of emotion was the first time that Wu Ping had appeared with him in the nearly two years that he had been with him.

"Brother Wu, are you also from the countryside?"

Wu Ping nodded, answered "yes" briefly, and did not speak any more.

Today, after seeing the rice fields with Ye Zhou, eating the common meals in the countryside, and seeing the countryside at night, he did have some urges to confide in his heart, but the long-term professional training made him restrain himself. this impulse.

Ye Zhou also saw this. He reached out and took out a pack of cigarettes from Chen Hao's pocket, and handed one to Wu Ping. The latter accepted it hesitantly. After a few seconds of silence, he finally spoke:
"Ye Gong, in fact, you have also lived in the countryside, and you have experienced the life in the countryside, but you should... have not experienced the most difficult time in the rural areas of China."

"I was born in 85. In my memory, the 90s and the beginning of the 21st century should be the most difficult time I have ever experienced."

"Looking at it from the current perspective, at that time, the Huaxia countryside, whether it was the land or the ecological environment, had almost reached its limit for the explosive growth of the population."

"Hunger is a very common thing, and overloaded physical labor is also very common. In 95, I was just 10 years old, but I have already started to participate in all the heavy physical labor at home."

"Transplanting rice seedlings, cutting pig grass, cooking pig food, plowing the land, and fertilizing. Every item requires the whole family to fight. If there is any missing link in the process, it means that the grain production will be reduced or even lost."

"That kind of pressure is terrible. As a farmer, you absolutely dare not make mistakes, because as long as you make a little mistake, the next year will be extremely difficult."

"However, even if you really work hard to farm the land, the final harvest is just to ensure that you don't starve to death."

"During that time, using 'difficulty' to describe it was already somewhat inaccurate. More accurate, it should be said to be 'horrible'."

"We lack everything. Drinking water, irrigation water, firewood, meat, clothes, fertilizers, electricity, manpower, and money. The children who are like us, except for labor, actually think about what they do every day. I read it later in the book. The rural children here do the same things, such as digging out bird nests, catching fish, etc. However, the only difference is that we do these things not because of the so-called innocence, but because we are full.”

"I have a very good friend - I can be regarded as a brother since I was a child. At that time, we often acted together."

"For the sake of one bite, we really do whatever we can. When the fish in the small river ditch are finished, we wait until the reservoir flood discharges to catch them in the big river; After a paddy field is harvested, we will rewater it several times, because there will be a lot of loaches in it, which can be sold for money."

"Not only these, we also go to the nearby steel factory to steal scrap steel, go to the construction site to knock steel bars, and go to the reservoir to fry fish."

"My brother is stupid. He was always caught when he went to fry fish. Every time I ran halfway, I had to go back to save him. Because of these shitty things, I actually fought a lot when I was a child."

"He is weak and can't fight well, so every time I charge forward, and then when he gets home, he goes home to steal safflower oil and give it to me—he will inevitably be beaten by his father again."

"One time, the two of us really had no food in our stomachs, and we were so hungry that we heard that there was water in a cave in the mountain and there were fish in the pond, so we lit a torch and wanted to go in and catch fish."

"In the end, the hole was too deep. The water was found and the fish were caught. When I wanted to get out, I couldn't get out."

"We were stuck in the hole for a whole day, and it was the family who tied the rope to find us and rescued the two of us. But you know what the most outrageous thing is? Just after we found out that we were lost, in our The last thing we did before we ran out of torches was to put the fish back in the water."

"At that time, we didn't even think about whether we could get out alive, but thought that if we came back again, the fish in this pond would be enough to eat for a long time."

"Later when we came out of the cave, each of us carried seven or eight fish in our hands, as if we had won a battle. Instead, we didn't think about it at all, and we almost died."

"My brother almost died later. When he was 16 years old, he electrocuted a fish in the river and electrocuted himself half paralyzed."

"It was in 02, and I had already joined the army. He was dismissed because of his poor health, and he had no talent for reading, so he could only stay at home and work as a farmer."

"My mother called me and told me that something happened to him. I asked what happened. My mother said that the electric fish had electrocuted herself."

"With just one sentence, he is considered a final conclusion."

"At that time, I felt that it was a pity that a good person would have passed his whole life in such a muddle."

"This is the situation of farmers in that era. They were born, worked, and then died for various reasons, as if they had never been in this world."

"However, I really didn't expect at that time that his life could turn around."

"Two years, really two years—three years at the most."

"When entering 00, the urban economy began to explode, industrialization was fully rolled out, and the rural population began to flow into the city, and the contradiction between people and land in the countryside suddenly weakened."

"In 2004, the Sannong policy was implemented."

"Since that year, the living standard in the countryside has taken off, and it has improved year by year."

"Hey, he must not be able to plant, but he sat in a wheelchair and ate all the policy support behind him."

"New rural cooperative medical care, targeted poverty alleviation, rural revitalization, technology to the countryside, e-commerce entrepreneurship"

"After eating this way, plus their brains are quite flexible, their family has been so poor that they can't afford to eat meat once a year. Now, they sell local cured meat by themselves, and they have built a two-story building."

"He really survived those two years. It was very hard. He lay in bed for two full years, but he finally got through."

Having said that, Wu Ping took a deep puff of the cigarette, then wiped out the cigarette butt with his hands, and put the cigarette butt back into his pocket.

After exhaling the smoke, Wu Ping continued:
"I went to see him when I came home from vacation last year. He looked good and he was in good health. I bought an electric wheelchair. I went to the pig farmer's house early in the morning to buy dozens of catties of pork and put it on my lap to transport home. , and then chopped, marinated, and dried by myself, and then turned around and went to the computer to put it on the shelf for delivery.”

"Really, that scene had a great impact on me at the time-if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, it was really hard to imagine that things with such huge contrasts would come together."

"A disabled person, with bacon all over the wall. Under the bacon is a vacuum packaging machine, and opposite is a computer with a fill light for live broadcasting."

"Ye Gong, you said the dividend of technology, but I actually feel that this is the dividend of technology that I see."

"What you just said, excess technology, I can probably understand what it means, but I have a point of view, I don't know if it's right."

"That is, the revitalization of our countryside is actually achieved by the back-feeding of huge resources again and again."

"This kind of resource investment will inevitably lead to waste. For example, as you said just now, this kind of solar street light may not be necessary."

"But, I think, this is actually a symbol."

"It symbolizes that most of the fundamental problems have been solved, and we have begun to pursue a higher level."

Wu Ping paused again. He glanced at Xu Lei first, then turned his head to Ye Zhou, lowered his voice so that only the two of them could hear, and then said:
"Ye Gong, I know very little about what you are doing, but I know that this pursuit depends on you; I also know what you are worried about."

"But, you just do it, as for the outside, we are here."

"If someone wants to take these things away from us, even with our teeth, we will bite him to death."

"I won't let my brother lie back on the bed again."

(End of this chapter)