Siheyuan: Stab at Louzi at the beginning

Xu Damao received the food exchanged by Luo Yongxin.

Individuals buying and selling grain are speculative.

If a company purchases unplanned grain, it is called a capable company.

If you are good at purchasing, you can do the same.

Zhou Ping said that the kiln factory had already made preparations and the process of digging the well was postponed, but Xu Damao still kept the kiln factory on full steam.

We even need to open two more branches and start firing bricks around the clock.

"These bricks are the cornerstone of development and construction. There are only three large tile-roofed houses in the village, and there are high-rise buildings in the city. The only disadvantage is that a lot of soil is needed..."

Zhou Ping also nodded with tears in his eyes. This was the blueprint Xu Damao had drawn for him.

He won't even be able to work here that long.

The first batch of red bricks has been transported to Huaishu Commune, because there is no room for them there, and trucks have begun to transport them one after another.

Speaking of which, the biggest cost is transportation.

In the past, it could only be pulled by ox carts. The transportation fleet brought by Tao Xianxian was the key to revitalizing the entire Xiping area.

Now the entire street of Huaishu Commune is lined with trucks and cars, and piles of red bricks.

These will be put into use soon.

The plan to merge villages and merge communes has been handed over to Xu Damao.

The harvest in the field is his own, and after the grain is harvested, it is redistributed before plowing.

According to the population, many people have gray hair after two days.

The harvest cannot be delayed and the land cannot be cultivated. The land can only be divided according to population. The only good news is that the land has been divided twice in the past ten years. It is not that difficult to do it and there is not much resistance.

On the contrary, they will be very cooperative.

How can we not be happy when we have less people and more land?

"Come on, when will the construction team you want come over?"

"In just the past two days, all the food you mentioned has arrived, and I will definitely not miss out here."

Xu Damao's acquisition of this batch of grain was indeed illegal, but Xu Damao didn't care much anymore. At this time, he had already called the Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He had no other intention than to exchange some grain with Yuan Qingshan.

To be more precise, change the seeds.

Everything is proceeding in an orderly manner.

The construction team that Tao Xian was looking for also came over. They had no wages and only needed to provide food. The first thing they did was to let these people use up all the red bricks on the street.

Build a school, build a bigger guest house, or even lay these bricks on the road.

Brick road.

Just laying bricks horizontally on the road is also a characteristic of the times.

How to do it specifically is left to President Lu.

But now, the fields are basically empty, and wheat threshing has begun in the wheat field.

What I fear most at this time is rain.

They say that in July, the face of a child will cry when it wants to cry, and it will rain when it wants to rain.

Every time it rains, we have to work hard to thresh the wheat fields.

There is no sign of rain these days, which is good news and bad news.

Drought, drought, and disaster.

There has been no heavy rain this year, and the harvest has already been reduced by 50%. But if it doesn't rain now, even if he gets corn and soybean seeds, he won't be able to plant them unless he digs wells.

Xu Damao led a group of people to the fields again. At this time, there was no one in the fields, only some children running around picking wheat ears.

He bent down and grabbed a piece of soil from the ground, crushed it gently in his hands, and it shattered into ashes.

The soil is hardened, lumpy, and cracked.

"Look, can we still get a harvest from growing food in this land?"

Xu Damao took the shovel from Zhang Weizhi's hand. On the sun-scorched earth, there was no moisture 20 centimeters underground, only steam.

When the wheat was still in the fields, the rhizomes could hold the soil and moisturize it, but now there is only a layer of wheat stubble left.

Xu Damao's original plan was to plow more in order to increase the yield. Normally, according to the old method, corn and soybeans are grown on wheat stubble land. There is no need to plow the land anymore, just sow seeds directly.

Now that's obviously not going to work.

"There is no entropy in this land, so it is impossible to plant. If you plant shallowly, the seeds will definitely rot when the heat comes. It needs rain now."

Leader Zhou Ping knows a lot about farming.

The so-called 'entropy' in the ground can be understood as 'seeding conditions'. If there is entropy, it is suitable for sowing, but if there is no entropy, it is not suitable.

It can also be understood as whether the land has 'nutrition'. A more scientific explanation is the microbial entropy in the land.

No microbiome can survive this steaming heat.

"Threshing in the wheat field is almost complete, and the shovels have been delivered to the hands. The production team has a shovel. Now let's notify them and let them start digging wells according to the planned location."

In this land of the Central Plains, digging wells never requires finding underground water veins.

As long as you dig deep, you can always dig out water.

Only in mountainous areas with high altitudes do you need to find underground water veins to dig wells.

Even if the Central Plains region encounters a drought year, as long as there is a well, there will be no famine. Since ancient times, famine in the Central Plains has been caused by coercion and robbery. What should I do if the food that I originally had to survive was robbed? In the end, he could only join the fleeing army.

In the previous dynasty, they were all farmers and tenant farmers, and the grain they grew was not enough to be handed over to the landlords, so it was naturally more likely to cause famine and no food.

Why do you attack the landlord first when a quarrel breaks out?

Only people are a disaster.

Digging a well is only the first step; the second step is getting water.

It is simply unrealistic to rely on manpower to irrigate the fields. It is okay to get a small piece of land. This is also the reason why droughts do not kill people because there is water in the ground, but it is difficult to obtain water. Only a small part of the fields can be maintained, and most of the fields can be maintained. Of course, it’s up to fate.

But now there are only two ways. The first is to turn on electricity and use a motor to draw water for irrigating the ground.

But this is not the Forty-Nine City. Even in Huaishu Commune, the little electricity is only enough for lighting. As for the brigade and the countryside?

There was no electricity at all.

The second way is to use a tractor to drive the water pump, which is powerful and the only consumption is diesel.

In an era when there were only a few cows in the brigade, building a tractor?

That's just a pipe dream.

Although it has been able to manufacture tractors, the problem is that it has only been a few years and the output has not increased at all.

Xu Damao made some calculations. If he wanted to water the land, one tractor per brigade was simply not enough. If he wanted to water the fields within half a month, he would have to multiply by ten.

The entire Xiping area wants to water the fields within half a month, which requires a minimum of 2 tractors.

This requires 2 drivers, logistics, transportation, diesel, water pipes...

Xu Damao could no longer continue the calculation, so he simply lay down.

Now, after five years of development and production, the existing tractors in the entire country, whether they are four-wheel, crawler or walking tractors, there are only 5 units in stock.

So Xu Damao chose the third method between motors and tractors.

That means lying flat.

No matter which aspect or angle you look at, the first two are limited by the current industry and are simply impossible to achieve.

All Xu Damao can do is dig more wells.

Those who are willing to pump more water to irrigate the fields will at least not lack groundwater.