Seventy-year-old book: The villain Zaizai’s best mother

The commune is just an administrative division, which includes dozens of brigades. The commune organs are generally located in the largest and most important brigades.

Buildings such as a grain management office, post office, supply and marketing cooperative, and slaughterhouse will be built around the commune compound, and the brigade headquarters is not far away.

Over time, this place became the center of the commune, and the members ignored the existence of the local brigade.

But in fact, the relationship between the commune brigade and the commune cadres is very close. Because they are close to each other, any policies the commune needs to formulate and tasks to be carried out will be discussed with the local brigade as soon as possible.

Therefore, the director and deputy director of the commune often get together with the party secretary and team leader of the brigade here.

The matter of growing potatoes was also discussed collectively by them.

Initially, the planners asked them to send two members with at least a junior high school education to study in other potato growing areas and come back as technicians, but Captain Shen and Party Secretary Chen didn't think it was necessary.

It’s just potatoes, what’s so hard about it?

They are all good at growing crops. What kind of crops can’t they grow?

They used to grow potatoes when they were hungry, and they do the same now.

They really don’t know that potatoes cannot be grown year after year and need to be replanted midway.

The sweet potatoes are grown in batches, and the best sweet potatoes are selected as mother and son, and then they are bred in advance, and the mother and son are buried in the sand one by one, and then the temperature and humidity are maintained, and the sweet potatoes begin to sprout and grow seedlings, which are equal to the length of feet. When the time comes, pick up the sweet potato seedlings and put them into the ground?

For so many years, generations have been growing sweet potatoes like this, and they have never gone wrong.

Those earth eggs, oh, they are what educated people call potatoes, aren't they the same?

Captain Shen is still a little unconvinced. He is a seasoned farmer, how can he be inferior to a young female officer?

Director Zuo was somewhat convinced. After all, Director Guan had given him a message, telling him to listen to Director Xia, and also told him who Director Xia's lover was.

Gu Yunshan, a great engineer, of course they know.

They just wanted to gain glory from Gu Yunshan. Even if Director Xia didn't understand anything, they would still praise him comfortably.

What's more, Director Guan said that Officer Xia was really good, and she was much more reliable than the commune technicians when it came to silkworm raising.

Xia Mingshuang was in the catering industry in her previous life. She had her own farm and imported various fresh ingredients from all over the world. She knew some rare ingredients very well, let alone an extremely ordinary potato.

She had a chat with several grassroots cadres, and what she said was so clear that it could be included in the Tudou Science Book.

Director Zuo said to Captain Shen and Party Secretary Chen: "Director Xia is right. We won't delay. We will immediately arrange for someone to take our mother seed and exchange it with another place."

In fact, it is best to go to the alpine zone to change the mother species, but it is also possible to go to the mountainous areas of the province [-] miles away.

The land in the mountainous areas there is barren, and the temperature is several degrees lower than in the plains, so potatoes began to be grown many years ago.

Their mother seeds are changed to the northwest every few years, so they can ensure local yields. The potatoes are not only bigger, but also taste better.

The deputy director of the commune went to arrange a tractor, and directly asked Captain Shen to arrange for commune members to load all the mother potato seeds into the truck, and also put wheat bran and the like on them to prevent the potatoes from being damaged.

Captain Shen also kept an eye on it and wanted to compare it, so he left the mother seed pieces that the team had cut into pieces and mixed with plant ash and medicine, and let people secretly plant them on the edge of the field. I compared the seeds to see if the size was really as exaggerated as Director Xia said.

Xia Mingshuang saw that they were very cooperative, so he was not worried.

Lunch is still a very rich dish in the countryside.

Braised fish, stewed bacon with cabbage, stewed chicken with mushroom vermicelli, scrambled eggs with leeks, wild vegetable soup, filling a big table.

Xia Mingshuang was very embarrassed, "Director Zuo, Party Secretary Chen, and Captain Shen, you are all too polite. I am just an ordinary officer who came down to understand the farming situation of the commune brigade. You really don't need to be so kind."

Party Secretary Chen smiled and said: "Then why don't you treat me well? It doesn't matter. The fish comes from our own river, and the chickens are roosters that can't lay eggs raised last year. It didn't cost a penny."

Xia Mingshuang still followed the practice in Dahe Commune and left one yuan per pound of food stamps.

Director Zuo knew that Xia Ming and his family were in good condition, so he took the money without letting the brigade refuse.

The host and guest enjoyed a meal.

Director Zuo began to approach, "Director Xia, I heard that your team now uses automatic watering machines?"

Xia Mingshuang smiled and said: "Director Zuo, that is a water wheel pump. It does not water automatically. In fact, it lifts water from low places to high places. It does not require members to go down wells and rivers to lift water. Small water canals still need to be built, and some terrains If it’s not suitable, it can’t be used, and it’s still very restrictive.”

Captain Shen: "Then our terrain is just right? We are in a mountainous area with undulating terrain, and we need to lift the water."

Xia Mingshuang: "We don't have the conditions to install one on each hill, right?"

The hills are rolling, and the land is also rolling.

After hearing what she said, everyone thought it was right, but they were not willing to lose their glory, so they decided to install as many as possible, at least to cover the few flat areas, right?

Xia Mingshuang also gave them some advice, "In mountainous areas where crops cannot be grown, some mountain ponds can be built to store water. As long as safety is paid attention to, it will be no problem for irrigation."

Of course, this also requires manpower, material resources, and time.

She doesn't know anything about civil engineering, she just wants to spread her thoughts, and she has to adapt to local conditions.

Solar energy is possible!

Xia Mingshuang promised to contact them with solar cookers and water heaters.

The local mountainous areas are different from the southern mountainous areas.

There are many trees in the mountainous areas in the south, and commune members cut them for firewood. The hills here either have no trees or some short shrubs, and most of them have to be cultivated to grow crops, so there is still a shortage of firewood.

But with good lighting on the mountain, it is still possible to install a solar cooker.

Several households have one stove, which can save a lot of firewood when the sun is good.

Xia Mingshuang also gave them the idea of ​​wind power generation and irrigation. If this was not enough, the machinery factory would have to set up project development tests.

She promised that once the wind power project is successful, Pingxi Commune will be included in the first batch of test subjects.

Director Zuo and others were so happy that they kept inviting Xia Mingshuang to stay for a few days.

In the afternoon, they took a bullock cart to wander around the fields. Xia Mingshuang also learned about the local soil quality and suggested that they also plant some taro, yams and the like.

These can then be used for supply and marketing social tasks, and the tasks will be used as public food.

Growing taro and yam can also be exported to Japan and South Korea to earn foreign exchange. The export value of taro and yam is higher than that of potatoes.

When Gu Yunshan drove to pick up Xia Mingshuang in the evening, Director Zuo insisted on letting them have dinner together.

Party Secretary Chen: "Gu Gong, you're here. We've put the food on the table. Let's eat together before we leave."