amaotonovel Chapter 286 Your Questions Already Have Answers
Chapter 286 Your Questions Already Have Answers
Xu Man looked at the high-yield "satellites" launched by various places in the newspapers and the performance indicators issued by the street office, and asked Zhou Rong if they wanted to launch a satellite as well?
Zhou Rong asked back: "How do you want to make a big claim? Are you going to say how many pieces of clothing we produce per month, or how much money we earn?"
Xu Man: "...It seems that none of them are suitable. How can the output of the few tailors in our backyard compare with that of the garment factory?
Now everyone is busy with production, and many companies don’t have weekends off. People don’t have time to go shopping, and the number of people buying clothes has decreased compared to before. It’s good enough if we don’t lose money every month, so how can we multiply the profit several times? "
Zhou Rong: "It's good that you know. Besides, we have multiplied the profits several times. If some villains use this as an excuse to accuse us of profiteering, it would be so unfair!"
Xu Man: "Yes, let's do this first and see what the organization does next."
Zhou Rong: “Yeah.”
In mid-July, a "satellite field" of rice that was said to have a yield of 7 kilograms per mu made newspaper headlines and caused a great sensation in society.
People were talking about it, thinking that the data was a bit unreal and suspecting that they had seen or heard it wrong.
The Ministry of Agriculture then announced that summer grain production had increased by 69% year-on-year, and the total output was 40 billion jin more than that of the United States. This report indirectly confirmed that the yield of jin per mu was real.
Now that the example has been set, no one wants to fall behind, everyone wants to be commended by the organization, and everyone follows suit.
Afterwards, leading cadres in charge of agriculture in various regions personally took charge of the "experimental fields" and strived to launch a large satellite when the late rice was harvested.
In one place, there was even a large "satellite field" that was 12 feet deep...
In mid-August, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee held a meeting to discuss major issues such as surpassing Britain and catching up with the United States, the Great Leap Forward in Steel Production, and the establishment of people's communes.
提出58年钢产量要在57年535万吨的基础上翻一番，达到1070万吨，作为58年实现大“跃进”的主要步骤。
And passed the resolution "The whole party and the whole people strive to produce 1070 million tons of steel."
Afterwards, the spirit of the meeting was quickly conveyed to grassroots units, and a frenzied steel-making movement was launched across the country...
Zhou Rong felt that it was time to return to Zhoujiawan, lest Zhou Chuanyi and his men drain Zhoujiawan's "family assets" for the sake of temporary face...
In order to respond to organizational policies and better implement the Leap Forward plan, people's communes were successively established in rural areas and public canteens were opened.
Hong'an Township was merged with several nearby townships and renamed Hong'an Commune, with Zhou Chuanyu as the president. New production brigades were established, each of which managed 8-10 production teams, and all villages were changed into production teams.
Zhoujiawan and several nearby villages formed the Victory Brigade.
Because of his contributions to the demonstration base project and with the care of Zhou Chuanyu, Zhou Chuanyi became the captain of the Victory Brigade.
Zhou Chuanjing also served as the team leader of the Zhoujiawan Production Team.
Yanglinpo is very close to Zhoujiawan. Lin Dahe originally wanted to take advantage of Zhou Chuanyu and the Zhoujiawan Demonstration Base, so he applied to be merged into the Victory Brigade.
Zhou Chuanyi was resentful of the people in Yanglinpo who had treated Zhou Rong badly before, so he refused to agree.
Zhou Chuanyu was also dissatisfied with Yang Linpo's past performance, especially Yang Jinlin's character, which made him have no good impression of Yang Linpo.
Even though Lin Dahe exceeded the organization's target of catching sparrows and rats' tails during the eradication of the four pests, it did not change his opinion of Yanglinpo.
Yanglinpo was finally merged into the Qianjin Brigade, and Lin Dahe was changed from village chief to production team leader.
None of the several production teams of the Qianjin Brigade stood out, either in terms of geographical environment or personal connections.
Lin Dahe knew that Zhou Chuanyu and Zhou Chuanyi rejected him probably because they were unhappy about the way Yang Kaiyun's family had treated Zhou Rong badly, so he took this opportunity to teach them a lesson.
Because of Yang Kaiyun's family's private affairs, the entire Yanglinpo was implicated, and he himself had no chance to make a breakthrough. Lin Dahe got angry just thinking about it.
In order to vent his anger, whenever Lin Dahe found an opportunity, he would make things difficult for Yang Kaiyun's family, assigning them all the dirty and tiring work, and if they didn't do a good job, he would deduct their work points...
The leap forward was not just in industry and agriculture. Infrastructure in various places was also advancing, with major repairs of roads and railways, large-scale pig farms with 10,000 heads, and large-scale chicken mountains.
When Zhou Rong drove his RV back to Zhoujiawan, he saw a lot of infrastructure projects along the way.
Hong'an Commune is also building a road, which seems to be leading to Zhoujiawan.
Zhou Rong got out of the RV in the woods outside the village entrance and saw Zhou Chuanjing standing on the ridge of a late rice experimental field in a daze. He went over to greet him: "Uncle Chuanjing, what are you doing?"
When Zhou Chuanjing saw Zhou Rong, he pulled her aside and asked, "How did you achieve those rice fields that produce 10,000 catties per mu?
Teacher Zhang and Teacher Dong thought of many ways, but they only managed to increase our early rice yield per mu to about 800 kilograms. This yield is one of the best in Hong'an Commune.
The yield per mu of many production teams is around 400 catties, but for some reason the yield of Yanglinpo next door did not even reach 300 catties per mu.
We have tried so hard but cannot even reach a yield of 1000 catties per mu. How come others can achieve a yield of catties per mu?
The newspaper said that the village adopted the intensive planting method, which required deep plowing of the land, deep planting of rice seedlings, and more fertilizer application. Blowers were used to ventilate the fields during the day and lights were required at night.
We tried it and it didn't work at all. For example, when we used a blower to ventilate the field, we almost blew the seedlings away.
There was no electricity in the village, and we didn't know what the light was about, so we tried flashlights and kerosene lamps for more than a week, but felt no change.
I don’t know if it’s because the time is short or the method is wrong.
We went to ask Teacher Zhang for advice, and she said that she didn't know who came up with these methods to harm people, and asked us not to learn them.
Teacher Zhang said that according to her research, close planting is not conducive to the growth of seedlings. There is not enough space for them to absorb sunlight, air and nutrients, and they are also easily attacked by pests and diseases. This is why we have to transplant and plant seedlings when the time comes.
It is also said that deep plowing and deep transplanting will not increase yields. If the rice is planted too deep, the tillering nodes will be in a soil layer with a lower temperature, and absorption will be inhibited, which is not conducive to rapid growth and development of tillers, or may even prevent them from growing. On the contrary, shallow transplanting of rice is beneficial for quick plant survival and better tillering.
Applying too much fertilizer is even more undesirable, Teacher Zhang said. In the case of drought, if too much fertilizer is applied, the seedlings may not grow tall.
If there is enough rain, the plant will grow too fast and tiller too much, resulting in a decrease in effective tillers, small stem tillers, soft stems and leaves, and drooping leaves. When it is time to harvest, the yield will be seriously affected.
I think what Teacher Zhang said makes sense and is similar to our previous farming experience, but what I don’t understand is how can people produce 10,000 kilograms per mu using this method?
There is another point that I have never understood. Look, one acre of land is so small. Let's assume that their method is effective. We fill the field with rice stalks, and each stalk is full of rice ears. If they are not infested by insects and each grain is full, I calculated that the maximum yield is 2000 catties. How can we achieve a yield of catties?"
Zhou Rong smiled and said, "Uncle, your question already has the answer."
Zhou Chuanjing: “???!!!…”