Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Professor Luo’s name is Luo Mingliang. He graduated from the College of Agricultural Mechanization. He specializes in agronomy and is also professionally engaged in agricultural planting research.

Later, I went to northern Xinjiang and worked at the grassroots level for ten years, under the euphemism of reform.

Therefore, Professor Luo is quite committed to soil research in northern Xinjiang.

So when he doesn't have classes, Professor Luo is busy in his own small experimental field, and he also spends a lot of time in the experimental field with his students.

This is normal for people who study agriculture.

"I heard from Professor Wu that you have a piece of saline-alkali land that you want to transform? How big is that piece of land?"

"About 20 acres. Originally it was 30 acres, but I turned 5 acres into sheds and pens, and then removed some corners, so the remaining ploughed land was about 20 acres."

Li Long answered seriously:

"Before I came, the land had been flooded and drainage ditches had been dug on the side to remove the alkali, but the salinization of the saline-alkali land there is quite serious, so it is difficult to remove the alkali through watering.

I came here to ask for advice because I wanted to see if there are any economic crops that are more resistant to salt and alkali, and I also wanted to see if soil testing and fertilization can be implemented on small plots of land. "

Li Long explained it in more detail. Professor Luo thought for a moment and said:
"Based on the current planting environment in northern Xinjiang, cotton is the most salt-resistant economic crop. However, there is a big problem in the cotton planting process. Its seeds can germinate in a saline-alkali environment, but after the spring rain, the soil above the saline-alkali land will become salinized and form a lid, pressing down the seedlings.

If you want cotton to grow, you have to open the seedlings. It is easy to damage the seedlings in the process of opening the seedlings. If the buds on the top of the seedlings break, the seedlings will be ruined. "

Li Long nodded. He knew this. The price of cotton was not high at the moment, and picking cotton was troublesome. Although it could grow in saline-alkali land, the economic effect was still unclear.

So he has no intention of growing cotton in the short term.

Professor Luo continued:
"Beet is another salt-resistant crop in northern Xinjiang. Many people grow it, after all, we have several sugar factories. We not only use the sugar ourselves, but also export it to the Soviet Union in the west. Therefore, the area of ​​beet cultivation has been quite large in recent years."

Li Long was also thinking about this. The large beet planting area leads to a shortage of beet seeds. This is a good track.

Why the track?

Li Long asked himself this question in his mind, and then continued to listen to Professor Luo.

"If that's the case, then we can grow some beets there later." Li Long thought and said, "Then we can get beet seeds next year, which should be good too."

"Yes, that's the truth. The more people grow beets, the more scarce the beet seeds are. No wonder Professor Wu said that your thinking is much broader than that of ordinary farmers. Ordinary farmers can't think in this way." Professor Luo praised.

"Comrade Xiao Li, do you have accommodation there? One that can accommodate five or six people for a long time, maybe at least one or two months?" Professor Luo suddenly asked, "The conditions don't need to be too good, but at least there are separate rooms..."

"Yes." Li Long said, "Next to my saline-alkali land is the old horse farm. I bought it to raise wild boars and red deer. The original offices there are now habitable."

Of course, if people need to live here, Uncle Luo will have to move the dried beet pulp out of the house. But it's fine to put it outside after drying, and it won't be a problem to build a shed to store it.

"That's great." Professor Luo said with a smile, "Your suggestion can be turned into a research topic.

I plan to bring a few students to your place in the early spring of next year to study the issue of soil testing and fertilization from the very beginning.

If you can help me find a good place to live, I believe we can help you solve the salinity problem on your land within a period of time!"

Hey, this is really great!

"You don't have to thank me. We are mutually beneficial. If we do a good job on our research, the school will provide funding. If we succeed in the end and have valuable experimental data, we can also publish a paper. So don't worry, we will do our best to study it."

The matter was settled so simply between the two of them.

Of course, whether the matter can be finally accomplished depends on what happens after Professor Luo applies to the college. After all, as a professor of the college, he cannot go wherever he wants without reporting.

But since he said so, there is a high probability that it will succeed.

Professor Luo and Li Long discussed that they should move the fields as soon as the snow melts in the spring next year, because it would take at least half a month before planting the crops.

Li Long vaguely remembered that soil testing and fertilization required digging at a depth of about 50 centimeters at several points in the same field to collect soil. Of course, the soil had to be collected in layers, and the type of fertilizer to be applied also had to be determined based on the crops being planted.

After all, not all crops are suitable for growing under pH neutralization conditions.

Professor Luo was still very concerned about Li Long's idea of ​​soil testing and fertilization, and he pulled Li Long aside to chat for a while, mainly discussing with Li Long the issue of scientific farming.

Yes, in Professor Luo’s opinion, the fact that Li Long was able to put forward this point of view already qualified him to discuss agricultural issues with him.

Li Long also mentioned in advance some mature agricultural knowledge of later generations, such as drip irrigation for water saving, mechanized planting, film cotton, etc.

Professor Luo felt that this person seemed to have profound research in agriculture.

It shouldn’t be!

After all, Li Long is only in his twenties or thirties. How can he come up with so many directions worth researching?

And it sounds like it can be achieved in the next few years.

In the 1980s, science fiction and qigong became popular. Professor Luo was also thinking privately, could this Li Long have come back from the future? Or has he obtained brainwave information from some alien technology?
People today cannot understand how crazy the Chinese were about science fiction, qigong, and special abilities from the 1980s to the late 1990s.

Many great scientists and big names have done research in this area. As to whether there were any results, that is another matter. At least in terms of research and promotion, it was really popular at that time.

Li Long didn't know what Professor Luo was thinking. He chatted for a while, and when he saw that it was getting late, he said goodbye and left.

Professor Luo was still a little reluctant, but he also knew that it was impossible for Li Long to stay and have a long talk with him, so he decided to wait until next year.

After all, he himself has some research on hand that needs to be completed before the end of the year. Only when the work on hand is finished can he prepare the equipment and take his students to carry out new research topics next year.

The days were already short by the end of October. Li Long chatted for two hours at the Agricultural College, and when he came out the sun was already setting.

Originally he was supposed to drive west, out of the city and back home, but Li Long somehow made a detour to the Bayi Guesthouse, from where he could turn to the road out of the city.

When they arrived at the road north of WLMQ South Station, Li Long saw through a departing bus the place where Yusup’s stall used to be, and there were still some stalls there.

The jeep moved forward slowly, and he immediately spotted Yusup, who was selling raisins at a stall in the corner.

I really met this guy!
Li Long drove the jeep around his stall and stopped. Yusup was startled and grabbed the four corners of the blanket where the raisins were piled and ran away.

"Yusup, Adasi, don't panic, it's me!"

Li Long hurriedly got out of the car and shouted.

When the jeep stopped, not only Yusup, but also several other vendors nearby showed signs of packing up their stalls and running away.

Obviously, stalls were not allowed in this area. Seeing that it was Li Long who showed up, Yusup showed a surprised expression on his face, and his eyes were really complicated.

He never thought that Li Long could drive the car and recognize him.

The vendors nearby were also a little surprised. It seemed that this taciturn Yusup knew an important person. But with such a relationship, why would he set up a stall here?
Li Long came over, shook hands with Yusup, and sat down with him to chat.

"Didn't you go to the south to sell raisins? Why are you back again?"

"Well, it's hard to say. I made some money when I went there, and then I listened to others and brought a batch of goods here to sell, thinking I could make more money. But halfway through...someone stopped me and robbed me..."

Yusup sighed with a complicated look in his eyes.

"Then you won't go south again?" Li Long asked, "There are definitely more opportunities there than here."

"That's right." Yusup was aroused by Li Long and said, "Grapes and red dates, they like them very much. If we sell them there, we can earn twice as much as here.

That's right, it's not easy to ship over there. There are a lot of good things over there, and I was just too greedy. If I bought a sack and shipped it back directly by train, there would be no problem... Alas, human hearts are like the deep pit in our hometown, with no bottom."

"So what are you going to do next?" Li Long asked again, "Sell jade or sell raisins?"

When Yusup saw Li Longwen, he looked around, took out a piece of cloth from the cloth pocket behind him, and then untied the cloth layer by layer, revealing a piece of jade inside that looked like sheep's tail oil.

Li Long was happy, thinking that this guy did have some hidden treasures.

"You have this wonderful thing, why don't you sell it to the jade factory? It looks so beautiful and so heavy, it should be able to sell for several hundred or even a thousand dollars, right?"

This piece of jade is oval in shape, a little bit flat, and made of seed material. It looks a bit like the pressing stone Liang Yuemei used to pickle pickles. It must weigh about four or five kilograms. You can tell it is a piece of top-quality mutton-fat jade just by looking at it, without having to touch it.

"Alas, the people I knew before are gone or retired." Yusup shook his head. "I took it to try, and the most they offered me was 400 yuan. They said there are a lot of good materials now, and they are not short of materials, so the price is like this now."

Li Long was a little confused. Is this really the case?

But think about the material I bought from Mr. Liu today. The four pieces together only cost three hundred yuan, and that's not counting the carving. The total weight of the four pieces is slightly lighter than this one.

It seems that this is indeed possible.

Mr. Liu said that the price of the materials had gone up. When he and Yusup went to sell jade materials together, the prices were indeed not higher than they are now.

It is said that the pigeon egg-sized seeds that I bought from Yusup at that time would not be accepted by the big factories.

It is truly an age of plenty.

Li Long then asked Yusup:
"Are you going to sell this material?"

"Sell it." Yusup pushed the jade material towards Li Long and said, "This is the best piece of material I have kept in the past few years, but the shape is not very good, and it is not easy to carve things. If you like it, make an offer. We are friends, Adasi, I believe you will not let me suffer a loss..."

Well, let’s go to the south. Yusup has learned how to use morality to blackmail himself.

But to be honest, this material is better than the four pieces that Liu Gong gave him. It feels particularly smooth. Li Long also likes it very much. He picked up the jade and looked at it over and over again. After reading it, he said:

"In that case, I'll double the price for you. I'll give you 600 for this jade. What do you think?"

If we really go by the current prices, six hundred is a bit high.

But Li Long thinks that the Yusup line is not bad. He can get first-hand Hetian seed material, so he will pay more money.

Yusup nodded vigorously. He had asked others before, and the current market situation was like this, the highest offer was no more than 500, and Li Long's offer of 600 was already the highest.

Li Long took off his satchel from the jeep, pulled out wads of money, counted out six hundred and handed them to Yusup.

After Yusup carefully counted the money, he took out a few small pieces of jade wrapped in newspaper from his cloth pocket and handed them to Li Long:
"These are not valuable, just consider them as extras."

By today's standards, they are indeed not worth much. The largest one is only the size of an egg, and the smallest one is about the size of a pigeon egg. There are seven of them.

Li Long did not despise them. After looking at them one by one, he wrapped them in newspaper and put them into the jeep together with the large piece of jade.

"You are really good. You can even drive a car." Yusup also knew that in this day and age, not everyone with money could drive a jeep. He sighed, "Thank you!"

Li Long and Yusup chatted for a few more words, and then they saw the hawker on the east side start to run away. It turned out that the management staff really came over. Yusup said something hurriedly to Li Long, put his bag of raisins in it, put his cloth bag on his back, and ran away.

Li Longyuan was thinking of buying all his raisins, but the guy ran away before he even opened his mouth.

Just run away, we will see each other again if there is a chance.

Before the manager arrived, Li Long got in the jeep and drove back.

When they returned to Ma County, it was already dark. Li Long drove the car directly back to the big yard.

The lights were on in the yard and in the house. When the jeep drove to the door, someone rushed out of the house and quickly ran to the front door to open it.

After the door opened, Li Long saw Han Fang standing at the door.

He smiled, drove the jeep into the yard, parked it, turned off the engine and got out.

"Uncle, have you eaten? If not, can I heat up some food for you?" Han Fang asked.

"I haven't eaten yet. Please heat it up for me." Li Long was really hungry.

Sister Yang and Gu Xiaoxia appeared at the door. Li Long greeted them and then went to wash his hands.

After a whole day of hard work, I'm quite tired.

But the gains were not small.

The next day Li Long was planning to rest, but Chen Hongjun came to see him in the morning.

"I have two friends coming over. If you have nothing to do at noon, come sit with me and I'll introduce them to you."

Li Long felt a little heavy-hearted. Chen Hongjun would be leaving next year. It seemed that this time he would introduce those who collected medicinal herbs and other things to him.

If he leaves, will I have to rely on these businessmen?

Li Long makes most of his money from Fritillaria. Can he maintain such a high income next year?
I feel very confused.

Let's go first and see later. (End of this chapter)