Siheyuan Great Craftsmen

"Zhou, hello, leader!"

Professor Qiu Ying trembled and couldn't help but stammer to her leader.

"Well, you are indeed a pillar of the country. Well! Hello, Professor Qiu!"

Seeing Professor Qiu Ying's performance, the leader not only did not mind at all, but smiled and directly grasped his calloused hand.

"It's all thanks to the dean. I have no credit at all!"

Professor Qiu Ying said excitedly.

"Professor Qiu is too polite. Although Xiaotian has made contributions, he is still young after all. You are flattering him too much by saying this!"

The leader thought that Professor Qiu Ying was being polite, and glared at Zhou Tian without hesitation and said.

"Leader, why don't you give me any credit? You know, I was the one who advocated the construction of this agricultural research institute!"

Zhou Tian was glared at by his leader and immediately became unhappy, so he retorted.

Under normal circumstances, he would not dare to talk back to his leader like this, but in this situation, if the atmosphere continued to be so serious, he was afraid that Professor Qiu Ying would say something she shouldn't say in excitement, which would be a big trouble.

"Hmm, do you know farming?"

Unexpectedly, after hearing Zhou Tian’s rebuttal, the leader asked directly.

"This, this..."

Zhou Tian was instantly stumped by his leader's words. After all, he was good at industry and knew nothing about agriculture.

Seeing Zhou Tian stammering and looking a little embarrassed, everyone couldn't help but start laughing. It was because of his interruption that the atmosphere at the scene became lively.

The several experts who came with the leaders, after seeing the per-acre yield of hybrid rice, looked at Professor Qiu Ying with unparalleled admiration.

Next, the group came to the farm's conference room, where the leader first expressed his condolences to the farm staff, followed by exchanges and discussions among several agricultural experts.

Especially after learning that not only hybrid rice on the farm was excellent, but also other varieties such as wheat and corn had been greatly improved and optimized, several agricultural experts were eager to bring Professor Qiu Ying to the Ministry of Agriculture.

However, it was opposed by Zhou Tian, ​​Professor Qiu Ying and the leaders. The reason why Zhou Tian and Professor Qiu Ying opposed was that they all knew how these grain varieties were cultivated. If it were not for the help of the virtual space in Zhou Tian's mind, Professor Qiu Ying asked himself that it would be impossible for him to achieve this year's achievements without thirty or forty years.

Zhou Tian's reason was even simpler. He didn't want Qiu Ying to leave. After all, he was familiar with Professor Qiu Ying in the entire research institute, so he naturally didn't want to replace her with someone else. Not to mention whether it was safe or not, first of all, they would have to keep adjusting to each other's personalities, and he didn't have that much time.

It would be even simpler if the leader objected, because the institute was directly under his leadership after all. With more and more research results coming out of the institute, its status in the country was becoming more and more important. Naturally, he would not let such a great agricultural expert go to the Ministry of Agriculture.

Seeing that they could not trick Professor Qiu Ying into joining the Ministry of Agriculture, several agricultural experts had no choice but to give up.

At noon, just as Zhou Tian expected, the leader and his entourage had lunch on the farm. However, facing the table full of game, the leader showed displeasure, but after Zhou Tian's persuasion, he still ate some.

After dinner, while several experts were resting, the leader and Zhou Tian were in the office studying how to plant hybrid rice all over the country as quickly as possible.

It is true that this year's grain production has indeed decreased a lot just as Zhou Tian reported.

"Leader, this matter cannot be rushed. Not to mention that there is not enough grain seeds, even if there were enough, these few years are not a good time to spread hybrid rice all over the country!"

In fact, Zhou Tian had the same idea as his leader at the beginning. After learning that the hybrid rice research was successful, he wanted to plant hybrid rice seeds all over the country as soon as possible. However, this was simply impossible to achieve.

First, the North is different from the South. Most people in the North don’t like to eat rice. The staple food in the North is mostly flour. Even if it is forced to be implemented, the right to plant or not is in the hands of the farmers themselves.

Second, according to the current drought reports from various places, the drought situation next year is not expected to be optimistic. As a result, everyone will naturally make more cautious choices about growing grain. Moreover, given the drought situation at that time, even if hybrid rice is planted, the harvest will probably not be high. After all, hybrid rice is still rice and has certain requirements for water.

Third, there is the issue of safety. Hybrid rice has been successfully researched, but in the absence of protective measures, he thinks it is better to delay the promotion of hybrid rice for a while.

Although the country has made great progress in cleaning up enemy agents and spies, the problem is that these enemy agents and spies have not been eradicated. If hybrid rice is stolen by other countries or forces, it will not be a good development for the country.

In his previous life, Zhou Tian knew that many of my country’s high-quality seeds were controlled by Western countries and had genetic sterilization programs added, so that my country’s food was controlled from the source by some foreign forces behind the scenes.

This is also the reason why genetically modified seeds are still used despite repeated bans in our country.

Now, taking advantage of this time, Zhou Tian will not let this happen. Although in the leader's mind, it is a good thing even if these seeds are spread out, it can help people all over the world get rid of hunger as soon as possible. But he does not have such a broad mind.

"So when do you think is a good time?"

The leader thought about it and felt that what Zhou Tian said made sense, so he couldn't help but ask.

"Three years later, maybe 1962!"

Zhou Tian thought about the three years of natural disasters and gave a final time.

"That's all I can do. But Xiaotian, I'm lucky that you reminded me and we made some preparations. Otherwise, I'm afraid I would be in a lot of trouble this year!"

As the leader spoke, a bitter smile appeared on his face. Although he had made some preparations in advance thanks to Xiaotian's reminder, he did not expect that the country's grain supply this year would be only two-thirds of that in previous years.

And this is still considered bad. What is more serious is that according to experts, the drought next year may be even worse than this year. If it were not for the various high-quality seeds developed by the research institute in the past few years, I am afraid that everyone would have gone hungry starting this year.

After all, if we want to keep the entire nation fed, we cannot afford to feed everyone, but at least there will be no problem this year.

"Leader, I'm afraid it won't just be next year. According to what Professor Qiu Ying told me, this drought is expected to last for three years. We'd better consider the worst-case scenario!"

In the end, Zhou Tian couldn't help but revealed the future trend.