The rejuvenation of a great nation: from educated youth to national treasure scientist

Chapter 40 Three Finger Rain

Li Jieshi puffed on his pipe while looking up at the sky with his eyes narrowed.

"There are quite a few clouds in the sky!" said Li Jieshi.

Wang Haoran said, "Let's wait a little longer. When the clouds are thicker, we can fire again! Then maybe the rain will soak the surrounding areas."

So everyone continued to wait.

The waiting time is boring.

While waiting, Wang Haoran was thinking about a question: Since Licai Village has quietly implemented the household contract responsibility system, then this year's autumn grain must ensure a good harvest.

In addition, the family side business also needs to be developed, and growing mushrooms, which I had thought about before, can be put on the agenda.

Every household can grow some mushrooms, engage in breeding, and develop cash crops, so as to help the villagers get rich quickly.

Only in this way can Li Caicun become a role model.

It will be changed next year.

In fact, the situation is already undergoing subtle changes.

Of course, the current resistance is also quite great.

Wang Haoran was still thinking about another thing, which was: in fact, the collective economy is not completely useless! If the collective is managed according to the system of modern enterprise management and the enthusiasm of members is stimulated, it can actually play a role in rapid economic development.

In later generations, there were several model villages across the country that did not implement the household contract responsibility system reform, but continued to practice the collective system. The strategy they chose was to vigorously develop village-run enterprises and use collective strength to achieve common prosperity.

However, these models all have a common problem: they lack the stamina to develop, and often encounter various problems later. Moreover, their development mainly relies on blood transfusions.

After much thought, Wang Haoran still felt that it might be more appropriate to adopt the private ownership system of household contract responsibility system in the initial stage.

It will not be too late to talk about common prosperity in the future when science and technology are highly developed, productivity is highly developed, and material wealth is extremely abundant.

There are always people who say that "highly developed productivity and extremely abundant material wealth" is a false proposition and is impossible to achieve.

However, if nuclear fusion is truly achieved one day and energy can be used unlimitedly, then explosive growth in productivity will be possible.

By that time, due to the high development of artificial intelligence, the role of humans may become smaller and smaller, and a large number of people will be idle.

What should we do then? Is there any other choice besides the collective system of material distribution according to need?
Therefore, when productivity develops to the end, it will inevitably reach the goal of the ideal country mentioned by Marx.

Of course, the goal of this ideal country does not mean that there will be no obstacles, setbacks or setbacks.

Human greed is the biggest obstacle to this great goal.

Because if the greed of human nature is not restricted, it will develop into an extremely inflated evil monster, which is the monopoly tycoon.

Wang Haoran was lost in thoughts as time passed by.

In the blink of an eye, it was already past 9 o'clock in the evening.

"Haoran, what are you daydreaming about? Look at the current situation, is the cloud cover enough?"

Li Gang pushed Wang Haoran from the side.

Only then did Wang Haoran come to his senses.

He looked up at the sky. At this time, the sky above his head was completely covered by clouds.

The original moonlight was also completely blocked.

This cloud cover is definitely enough.

Wang Haoran said: "Okay! Let's start the rainmaking operation now!"

So everyone started to get busy.

The anti-aircraft guns were already ready. Now all we had to do was adjust the angle.

These militiamen had received many training sessions in operating anti-aircraft guns before.

Wang Haoran stood aside and watched them operate as smoothly as flowing water.

"Haoran, the shells have been loaded. Should we fire immediately?" Li Gang asked Wang Haoran.

Wang Haoran nodded and said, "Fire!"

Li Gang gave the order: "Fire!"

"boom!"

"Boom!" "Boom!"

Flames spurted out of the muzzle.

Anti-aircraft shells flew into the clouds in the sky.

The shells then exploded in the middle of the cloud.

The silver iodide and salt powder in the shells began to spread everywhere.

There was a flash of lightning across the sky between the clouds.

After the three shots were fired, the world became quiet again.

Li Jieshi looked up at the sky and frowned: "It seems to be useless, right?"

Wang Haoran smiled and said, "It's only been a short while. It takes time for the reaction to happen, right?"

As he was speaking, a big raindrop fell on his face.

Li Gang shouted nearby: "It's raining! It seems to be raining! Special brew! God, please rain harder!"

The raindrops gradually began to gather in number.

It was raining heavily.

Fortunately, everyone was prepared and had covered the anti-aircraft gun and the remaining shells with plastic sheeting.

But no one wore a straw raincoat or held an umbrella.

At this moment, everyone was excited.

Li Gang jumped in the rain like a child, looking up and letting the rain hit his face.

Li Jieshi gave orders to the militiamen to investigate together to see how large the rain covered.

These people ran around.

As a result, they found that the entire Licai Village was bathed in heavy rain.

Even most areas of Mafang Commune were raining.

The rain lasted for more than half an hour before it stopped.

Someone went to check the moisture level in the fields.

As a result, they found that it rained for three full fingers. Although it did not rain thoroughly, it was extremely important to alleviate the drought.

Li Jieshi was so happy that the corners of his mouth almost broke to his ears: "Haoran, thank you so much!"

“This is really a timely rain!”

"But, unfortunately, the rainfall is not enough! If it rains hard, we won't have to worry about watering the fields for half a month."

Li Gang puffed on another pack of cigarettes and said, "Brother Jieshi, this is what we call greed! If it weren't for Haoran, there wouldn't even be this little bit of rain!"

Li Jieshi grinned and said, "Hey, you're right."

"It's pretty good to be able to put down three fingers."

Wang Haoran looked up at the clouds in the sky. It had been raining for more than half an hour, and there seemed to be quite a lot of clouds in the sky at the moment.

He said, "How about we fire a few more shots, maybe it will rain more."

Li Jieshi was overjoyed when he heard this: "Yes, yes! Fire a few more shots at the sky!"

"This thief God, if he doesn't hit me, I won't work!"

As they were talking, several people came walking in a hurry from the main road of the village in the distance.

They waved their flashlights around the high ground.

Li Gang narrowed his eyes and listened carefully, then said, "It's Director Ma and others."

Li Jieshi grinned and said, "I guess it was startled by the rain tonight."

Wang Haoran asked: "Didn't we report it to the commune and the county?"

Li Jieshi said: "We did report it, but no one thought that we could really make it rain!"

(End of this chapter)