Siheyuan: Bringing Warehouses to 1959

The military district used several large trucks to bring the supplies and equipment that Zeng Wangcai requested, which made Xie An, who was left behind, very happy that day.

The third squad leader, Xie An, was born into a peasant family. Although he was young, children from poor families had to grow up early and he was a good farmer before joining the army.

When Zeng Wangcai was away, Deputy Platoon Leader Zheng Yilin was rather depressed. He led his men to complete the preliminary reclamation work of nearly 200 acres of land.

After returning to the base, Zeng Wangcai didn't care about Zheng Yilin, who had abnormal thinking. He and Xie An planned the reclaimed wasteland, so they could start the magical modification as soon as they received the supplies.

Zeng Wangcai doesn’t know much about farming, but he is capable of planning and using machinery.

Among the supplies brought by the military region, the largest one was a brand new tractor produced by YTO - Dongfanghong.

This big guy does not need to be modified. It will still be a star product many years later. It can be used to turn the soil, greatly freeing up manpower.

Zeng Wangcai understands that the core content of mechanized planting is to free up manpower and allow fewer people to take care of more land. During the planting process, tasks such as turning the soil, sowing, irrigation, and fertilizing are all areas that require a lot of manpower.

Tractors can be used for tasks such as tilling the soil, but Zeng Wangcai mainly modified them to solve irrigation and fertilization tasks.

After entering the space, Zeng Wangcai quickly came to the office building and used the computer to search for a high-power water faucet, which was most suitable for pumping water for irrigation.

After that he found some more gadgets and pipes.

After finding the corresponding materials, Zeng Wangcai threw the water pump into the lake while it was dark, and left a pipe outside to the shore.

The assembled terminal irrigation device is then thrown into the warehouse and mixed with the supplies.

At dawn the next day, Zeng Wangcai led his men to begin laying pipes and digging reservoirs. With the military supplies as a backup, everyone was full of enthusiasm.

After completing these, Zeng Wangcai convened a meeting of the entire platoon to arrange the next steps.

In the canteen that already had a wall, the soldiers, with muddy feet, were holding steamed bread and listening to Zeng Wangcai, whose feet were also muddy, speaking:

"Comrades, your hard work will not be in vain. When the harvest comes, everyone will be able to get out of the current situation..."

The reason why we hold this kind of meeting when time is so tight, and why we don't talk about anything else at the beginning but only talk about the future situation, is because something has happened within the team.

There was a platoon of more than 30 to nearly 40 people. They were very united and obeyed Zeng Wangcai's leadership 100%.

But this time, when Zeng Wangcai and twelve other people left for Sijiu City and came back, the situation changed. There were voices in the army expressing imbalance, and the root of the imbalance was that Zeng Wangcai and twelve other people had made contributions.

One third of the people made great achievements, while the other two thirds did nothing.

After some ideological work, Zeng Wangcai's face turned cold: "After I came back, I heard different voices in the team, saying 'If I go instead, I can also make contributions'. It's a good thing to have such enthusiasm. You should turn it into the motivation for training, and don't have other thoughts;

"Jealousy can kill people. If you have the ability, you can just enter the twelfth place in the team competition. Anyway, I don't want to hear such voices in the future. If anyone is not convinced, you can find me and I will make him leave."

Some soldiers couldn't help but look at Deputy Platoon Leader Zheng Yilin, but Zheng Yilin avoided his gaze.

During this period, Zheng Yilin was in great pain. The daily training and reclamation work had nothing to do with what he thought was progress.

He was arrogant to begin with, and after losing the competition, he couldn't accept it and became somewhat passive. But when he learned that Zeng Wangcai and the others had made contributions, all kinds of emotions burst out at once.

Under such circumstances, Zheng Yilin made a lot of inappropriate remarks.

The soldiers are young and innocent and need education. If you teach them well, they will be good.

These soldiers were satisfied to be able to eat enough and have a fulfilling life every day, but due to Zheng Yilin's inappropriate remarks, some soldiers had the idea of ​​"I could do it too".

As Zeng Wangcai said, it is okay to have such thoughts, and it is a good thing in certain situations, for example, if you use it as a driving force to move forward, but what is the point of gossiping behind people’s backs?

"That's what old women and young wives do. If you have the guts, work hard on the training ground, in the fields, and getting supplies!" Zeng Wangcai's final summary was very intense, and the words he used were very stimulating, especially the word "old woman".

"Platoon leader, that's too much." Zheng Yilin struggled for a long time, and actually stood up in the meeting and openly sang the opposite tune, "The soldiers have other ideas, we need to guide them, and the soldiers' ideas are reasonable. We are few in number, how can we cultivate nearly 200 acres of land, even with machines..."

This kid can't be kept!

When Zeng Wangcai saw Zheng Yilin stand up, this was the only thought in his mind.

To be honest, Zeng Wangcai was very satisfied with everyone in the team, except Zheng Yilin, whom he felt was a little lacking.

Zheng Yilin's strengths are obvious: he is righteous, capable, well-educated, has certain insights, etc., but his weaknesses are equally striking: he is arrogant, his thoughts easily slip, etc.

This time Zeng Wangcai wanted to give Zheng Yilin a warning. If he realized his mistake like before, then it would be fine. Not only for the sake of old man Zheng, but also for the sake of his brother Zheng Yishan, it would be over.

But Zheng Yilin actually sang a different tune in such an occasion, which was tantamount to a direct challenge to the platoon leader's authority.

It cannot be kept, otherwise the team cannot be led.

"It seems that the deputy platoon leader has some opinions on the task I assigned to him." Zeng Wangcai smiled and invited Zheng Yilin to come over. "If the team's thoughts are not unified, we can't fight the battle. You doubt that we can cultivate so much land, right?"

"That's right!" Zheng Yilin actually regretted his words as soon as he opened his mouth, but now he was in a difficult situation, so he stiffened his neck and said, "You twelve people are going to training soon, what are we going to do with the remaining twenty?"

"The machines are here, can't you see?" Zeng Wangcai's face darkened. "Just now I said that if you feel that you can't do it, you can come to me. You think you can't do it? OK, I'll show you what mechanized planting is. After that, I'll file a report and you can leave here. I don't care where you go."

"Okay, let's go!" Zheng Yilin lost his temper and said, "I'll also write a report about everything here."

There is nothing more to say. Let’s see the truth with our actions.

"Xie An!" Zeng Wangcai shouted.

"Here!" Third squad leader Xie An stepped out.

"Let's get started. Let's work on a few acres of land first. Let our deputy platoon leader see what mechanized planting is."

"Yes!" Xie An stood at attention, turned around and shouted, "Class three, assemble!"

In less than a minute, the third squad, including Xie An, a total of twelve soldiers, had gathered.

This time, it’s not about fighting, but about farming.

Immediately, the three squads of soldiers set out for the nearest land, which was not a few acres, but about thirty acres of complete land.

This piece of land is in the initial stage of reclamation and has not been turned over.

Xie An came to the field, quickly installed a plow on the tractor, and started to plow the soil.

The Dongfanghong tractor, the 6-furrow plow, and the large plot of land can be turned over in an hour with the man and the machine working non-stop.

It took just over an hour to turn over these thirty acres of land.

That’s right, Zeng Wangcai didn’t modify the tractor, but the plow.

Seeing Zheng Yilin completing the flipping of a large piece of land in more than an hour, his face turned a little pale.

He is not afraid of leaving here, he just doesn't want to lose.

"It's nothing to plow the land quickly. How do you water the land after planting the seeds? Watering is a big job for such a large area. How much can one person water in a day? When the weather is dry, you will have to water every day..."