Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 308 The child is innocent
Hearing Zhong Cheng's unfriendly tone, the person in charge of the Agricultural Reclamation Department became embarrassed and was speechless.

On the contrary, the young man didn't have so many scruples. Zhang Xi said indignantly: "In the school here, as long as the teachers and students know that they are the children of plantation workers, they will avoid us like the plague!"

Yang Xi asked curiously, "Why?"

The boy gritted his teeth and replied loudly: "They call the plantation a labor camp farm, and the workers on the farm are all labor reform prisoners, and we are the descendants of labor reform prisoners!"

The farm manager yelled at the boy, "Xizi, what nonsense are you talking about!"

But the director's acting skills were obviously too bad, the boy didn't take it seriously, he just lowered his head and stopped talking.

The young man's words silenced the adults present, and everyone consciously or unconsciously avoided Zhong Cheng's gaze.

Even Lin Hansheng, Zheng Yilun, Yang Xi and others looked at Mu Helin not far away.

Zhong Cheng touched the bridge of his nose with his hands in embarrassment. It was his decision to "assign" tens of thousands of laid-off cadres to the northwest region to plant wood grains.

It is natural for these people to bring their family members here, and these family members can't stay in Beishan anymore.

But because of this, the whole family became "second-class citizens", which exceeded his expectations.

Looking at the wretched eyes of the farm manager, Zhong Cheng felt a wave of disgust. It was because of this kind of cleverness that he fell into today's fate.

But his family is innocent, at least the child is innocent!
This situation should not be an isolated one. There are tens of thousands of laid-off cadres with tens of thousands of families and tens of thousands of children.

The cause he planted should be resolved by him.

Lin Hansheng and the others must have known something about the situation, but considering that it was Zhong Cheng's decision, and they didn't like these people, so this situation has been delayed until today.

Zhong Cheng turned his head and said to Shi Hanxing: "Hanxing, please make a note of it, and arrange for it later."

"One, establish corresponding kindergartens, primary schools, and junior high schools on the Muhe Plantation Farm. All children on the farm must go to school, and high school students are arranged to study in surrounding provincial capitals. The company will reimburse the extra expenses."

"Second, all family members of employees who participate in farm work are included in the farm establishment, and wages and benefits are paid. The standard refers to the position hierarchy of normal front-line workers."

"Third, separate the Ministry of Agriculture and Reclamation from the biotechnology company and set up a separate Red Star Agriculture and Reclamation Company. I will personally handle this matter."

In the future, there will definitely be a large number of people planting wood grains, and it is not appropriate to hang the Ministry of Agriculture and Reclamation under the banner of a biotechnology company.

In the future, the output value of Red Star Land Reclamation Company may not be too high, but it will definitely be the company with the largest number of people in the group, so it must be planned in advance.

Zhong Cheng's decision made a group of people on the farm very happy, and many old people and women shed tears.

The wages of farm workers are deliberately set very low, and it is indeed extremely difficult for a family to count on one person's wages.

Now that everyone has an income, the standard of living has doubled several times.

The farm manager didn't expect such an effect. He suddenly realized that he was like a villain, underestimating Zhong Cheng's mind.

This kind of thing can be reported to Zhong Cheng through formal channels earlier, if this problem has been solved long ago, the family will not suffer for almost two years.

Zhong Cheng and his party entered the plantation farm through the gate, and he found that the edge of the farm was erected with five-meter-high barbed wire, which really looked like a reform-through-labor farm.

However, the director explained that this was to prevent outsiders from stealing Muhe.

One of their main responsibilities is to guard the wood grains on the farm from being stolen. Other daily tasks include fertilizing wood grains and planting branches.

It is very hard for more than [-] people to manage a [-] mu wood grain plantation, so the elderly and children have to help.

Zhong Cheng was about to lead the way into Muhe Forest, but the field manager stopped him in front, saying that it was dangerous to enter Muhe Forest at this time.

Now is the mature season of Muhe, and Muhe will automatically fall from the Muhe tree. If a 5-jin-heavy Muhe hits the head, it will kill someone.

If they want to go in, they must wear hard hats. Even this cannot guarantee absolute safety. They usually have to wait for the wood grains on the trees to fall before going in to collect them.

This period is about a month.

Ye Wenhao said helplessly, there is no way, if Muhe does not fall down by himself, it would be dangerous to rely on people to climb up to pick it, and it is not easy to judge whether it is ripe or not.

Enclosing the wood grain plantation, in addition to preventing someone from stealing, is mainly to prevent the thief from being injured or killed.

Zhong Cheng didn't try to be brave any more, he just stood at the gate and watched.

There is one about ten meters away from him. This Muhe tree has a diameter of about [-] centimeters and a height of ten meters. The trunk is straight, with fish scale-like shells distributed on it.

The green leaves growing on the top are very large and dense, and Zhong Cheng wonders how it gets its water.

Ye Wenhao explained that despite the fact that the above-ground part of the Muhe tree is only 500 meters high, the root system under the ground is actually very developed, and the most powerful one can extend to a depth of [-] meters underground to find water sources.

Planting Muhe only needs to irrigate when the Muhe is young. After two or three months, Muhe can absorb water from the ground by itself.

At this time, Muhe has entered a crazy growth period, and it can grow to five to ten meters in a year, but it will not grow too long in the future. Now the tallest Muhe tree is less than 20 meters.

Zhong Cheng asked, does Muhe still need to fertilize?

Ye Wenhao replied that the growth of Muhe needs a lot of salts and other chemical elements, such as inorganic salts containing boron, potassium, magnesium, lithium, rubidium, bromine, iodine, strontium, cesium, etc., and even lead, zinc, chromium, manganese They also absorb other metal minerals.

However, the inorganic salt composition in a place is limited, so in order to accelerate the growth of woodgrass, it is necessary to regularly apply the missing inorganic salt fertilizer.

The formula, the quantity and timing of fertilization are the key technologies for planting wood grains.

Zhong Cheng and his team visited the residential area of ​​the farm workers, but only the storage warehouse for wood grain, and no equipment for deep processing of wood grain was found.

Ye Wenhao said that at present, all the wood grains produced by the company are sold by Huaxia Aviation Service Company.

China Airlines requested not to process the wood grains, but to collect them directly and transport them to the aviation service building in Golmud.

The reason is that the shelf life of Muhe is only two or three years if it is shelled, but if it is not shelled, it can theoretically be stored for thousands of years, which is why Muhe was found in ancient tombs.

The agreement between Red Star Company and China Airlines on the sale of Muhe was handed over by Zhong to Jiang Shaohua.

Red Star Company has no plans to sell Muhe by itself. The aviation service buildings of China Airlines all over the country are the best sales channels.

However, what Jiang Shaohua and Lu Yao signed was a consignment agreement, which was to divide the profits after deducting production, sales, transportation and other costs. Red Star Company accounted for [-]%, China Airlines [-]%, so there was no problem of losing money.

This year, Red Star Company has planted nearly 1.5 million mu of Sapura trees in Qaidam and the Qinghai Plateau, and will harvest more than 300 million tons of Sapraceae.

Based on the per capita food consumption of 264 kg per year, these wood grains can feed 1136 million people for a year.

If the planting scale is expanded next year, the Northwest region will be able to achieve food self-sufficiency next year.

After visiting the Muhe plantation, Zhong Cheng already knew the specific implementation plan of the Xihai Project.

Looking at the salt-stained land that was almost covered by trees, Yang Xi sighed and said, "It seems that we don't need to build a 'pergola' over the desert as we imagined before."

Zhong Cheng said with a smile: "Muhe is much better than the 'pergola'. It not only covers the sunlight, reduces water evaporation, but also produces output, and can also improve desertified land. It kills three birds with one stone, and the cost is much less."

Yang Xi nodded, "The plan can't keep up with the changes. As long as I can solve the desert problem in China, it will be my wish."

But then, Yang Xi raised another very troublesome question.

"It's just that the desert in the Northwest disappears, what impact will it have on China and the global climate, have you ever thought about it?"

(End of this chapter)