Scholars in the courtyard

After a while, after several people finished eating, they returned to the arranged residence to rest.

Wang Huzi and Yang Xiaotao went to Ma Sanxing to discuss tomorrow's work arrangements.

As the owner of the farm, Ma Sanxing naturally arranged the farm work properly and explained the arrangements. Wang Huzi nodded after listening.

Yang Xiaotao had nothing to say. After all, he had been a farmer for many years and was much better than them in the art of farming.

"Director, last time I left the saline-alkali land that Director Gao asked you to repair, what's going on here?"

Yang Xiaotao thought of business, and Wang Huzi also looked over.

Ma Sanxing nodded when he heard the words, "We have prepared what Director Gao told us early in the morning, but there are too many saline-alkali lands there, so we chose a place close to it, which is also convenient for irrigation and transportation."

Although Ma Sanxing didn't understand why such a piece of land was needed, Director Gao was right.

"Very good."

Yang Xiaotao smiled, then pointed to the two bags of corn he brought and told the story.

Ma Sanxing opened his mouth wide. If Wang Huzi hadn't been there to press him, he would have spit out a question.

But now, with a chief and a teacher here, it doesn't look like a joke.

After Yang Xiaotao and Wang Huzi returned to the house to rest, Ma Sanxing picked up the corn and looked at it carefully near the kerosene lamp.

"Blood Jade?"

“Corn watered with blood?”

"This name sounds so nice!"

The next day, it was dawn.

Yang Xiaotao got up and packed up. After getting ready, he went out and walked outside the farm.

Behind him, Mazi saw him coming.

"Mazi, take me to see them."

Yang Xiaotao said seriously before Mazi could say anything.

Mazi didn't say much when he saw this, he just nodded and led the way.

Soon the two came to the hillside on the west side of the farm.

The graves are surrounded by green grass, and the names on the wooden plaques erected in front of the graves are somewhat vague.

"I can't wait any longer. Let's get them a stone."

Mazi was talking to the side, but Yang Xiaotao didn't reply.

He took out the cigarettes from his pocket, put three cigarettes in his mouth, lit them one by one, then picked up the soil on the ground and inserted them one by one.

Squatting on the ground, Yang Xiaotao looked at the name on the wooden sign, his eyes a little blurry.

Finally, he took out two seeds from his pocket and planted them in front of the graves of Lao Ma and Xiao Gao.

"gone!"

From beginning to end, Yang Xiaotao didn't speak, but Mazi felt that Yang Xiaotao said a lot in his heart.

Back at the farm, everyone was already busy working.

Breakfast was prepared on the farm. Each person took a steamed bun with pickles to chew on, and then each person received a kettle. The eldest lady who was cooking was still busy.

We eat lunch on the field, no one comes back to cook.

So basically they are brought there.

Yang Xiaotao took the wowotou and gnawed on it. This kind of coarse grain was harsh on his throat, but it was the only breakfast.

Under a awning on the side, ten tractors are adding water and coal under the operation of a few young people. These tractor drivers are all selected elites and are the envy of the farm people.

To put it bluntly, a single guy who drives a tractor is definitely a hot commodity among the girls around here.

Yang Xiaotao took the wowotou and took a look. Although the exterior of the tractor was wiped clean and even the mud on the tires was wiped off, Yang Xiaotao frowned after hearing the noise.

The sound of the steam engine on the tractor was obviously wrong, and it was very different from the sound of the steel rolling mill leaving the factory.

Yang Xiaotao knows that this is due to the lack of effective cleaning of the steam engine. After all, the water contains a lot of calcium ions. If it is not cleaned for a long time, scale will form inside.

At that time, tractors would come with a maintenance manual when they left the factory, but now it seems that it was probably thrown into the toilet.

"Teacher Yang, Chief Wang is looking for you."

Yang Xiaotao was about to step forward and ask them to repair the tractor when Xiao Wu ran over. Yang Xiaotao could only ignore the matter, and then the two came to the house.

"Chief, are you looking for me?"

"Xiao Yang, you came just in time. I need to go back to deal with something."

"While I am away, this breeding work will be fully supported by you. Everyone here will be at your disposal."

Wang Huzi was a little anxious and spoke quickly.

Yang Xiaotao did not refuse, "Don't worry, leader, I know what to do!"

"good!"

"Director of the racecourse, you must fully cooperate with Comrade Yang Xiaotao's work and complete the spring plowing matters as soon as possible."

"Yes, please rest assured, chief, and promise to complete the task."

After saying that, Wang Huzi said a few more words, got into the car, and left quickly.

After Yang Xiaotao saw off Wang Huzi, he summoned the principal staff of the farm and the four people he brought with him. In addition, there were the students he had brought with him last time and the backbone of the farm.

These people will be divided into ten groups and go to various farms to provide technical guidance.

"Everyone knows the importance of this mission, so I won't go into details."

"Now let me announce the work discipline. During the spring plowing period, no one is allowed to be careless and must obey the instructions. Anyone who violates the discipline will be dealt with strictly and seriously."

"The leaders of each group strictly control corn grains and are not allowed to act without permission."

Yang Xiaotao took precautions in advance. After all, with so much corn planted, any mistake would be disastrous. Moreover, this breeding is related to future arrangements, so he has to be cautious.

"Director of the racecourse, you and Comrade Hou Lijing are responsible for the registration of thoroughbreds here in the warehouse."

"This time, the records will be separated according to the parent records. The male parent will be marked in red on the bag, and the female parent will be marked in black. The baskets and dustpans used during sowing must all be marked."

"It must be of the same color to wear, and resolutely prevent the intersection of different colors."

"Everyone has listened clearly and remember the colors they represent. There can be no mistakes."

Someone below has already started recording.

"At the same time, sowing must be carried out strictly in accordance with the three-to-one arrangement. If there are special circumstances, please report to me. And each row of male parents must be marked in front of the field."

Yang Xiaotao kept emphasizing, and the racecourse manager and Mazi, who were listening carefully below, looked at each other, "This teacher Yang is more strict than Director Gao." ’

"In addition, at the end of each farming session, you must collect both species, bag them, and transport them back."

"Comrade Ma Sanxing and Comrade Hou Lijing are responsible for counting the weights. At the same time, mark them and continue to collect them the next day."

"Let's allocate personnel."

Yang Xiaotao looked at the names in the book and began to assign them randomly.

Basically, there are three technicians in the ten surrounding farms. In addition to the four people who came with them, except Hou Lijing, who is responsible for the distribution of improved seeds, the remaining three are each responsible for three farms. As for Ma Sanhang, they have already been planted once. Experience is reassuring.

Yang Xiaotao then gave special instructions to pay attention to, and gave everyone a reassurance that as long as the planting was distributed as required, there would be no problem.

Everyone left with apprehension and started the first day of work.

After a while, after Yang Xiaotao announced the start, everyone left and started busy themselves.

7:30 am.

Outside the farm, on the cultivated land.

The farm divides the cultivated land into small areas, each area has a tractor, and then allocates about ten people. Yang Xiaotao arranges a trainee in each area to guide the sowing of grain seeds.

A row of tractors were already smoking, and the farmers who had been prepared had loaded the pears and began to plow a furrow in the ground.

If there is chemical fertilizer, the first ditch should be opened on the front, the soil should be turned over, and then chemical fertilizer should be sprinkled.

Then go back and forth, using pear to cover the ditch with soil. The soil turned out on both sides just forms a ridge, so that corn can be planted on it.

But now there is no chemical fertilizer at all, so the first ditch is to plow the soil on one side. When the car turns around and comes back, the plowed soil will be combined to form a ridge.

When the ridges were piled up, someone would step on them with their bare feet to create footwells. Then someone would carry a wooden bucket and use a ladle to pour water into the ridges. There were also people behind who would use various utensils to hold corn and put three or two grains of corn into it. Put it down, and then someone buries the foot sockets firmly with bare feet and hands behind their backs.

In this way, a row of corn is planted.

Of course, compared with later generations, we still save a few steps. Weed spraying, mulching, etc. can effectively control the growth of weeds.

It's just that these processes that can increase production and save manpower are omitted for technical reasons.

The only way to deal with it is to use human power to weed.

The people on the farm farmed according to experience, but this time in order to pursue more breeding, these people required that only one kernel of corn could be placed in each footwell.

There is no way, the quality varieties are limited.

To this end, Yang Xiaotao also asked Xiaowei to check the seeds in the warehouse and try to ensure that every seed would germinate.

Seeing that the work was already underway, Yang Xiaotao checked the situation in the fields.

When it comes to agricultural production, how to work and how to arrange it, these people are better than Yang Xiaotao.

So Yang Xiaotao only needs to ensure that there will be no mistakes in the corn planted.

Naturally, this is not the only place where construction started today. Yang Xiaotao looked at the field for a while, then rode horses to another farm with Mazi and Wang Hao.

Coming outside the farm, farming also begins here.

The tractor is running, and there is a busy scene in the field.

Seeing this scene, Yang Xiaotao remembered the scene of pulling a plow in Yangjiazhuang.

At that time, there was only one donkey in the village, and most of the farming work had to be done by people, so manpower was needed to pull the plow.

Later, there were oxen, mules, and now tractors.

The power of machines makes farming precise and simple.

Increased productivity frees up more people to do more.

If the times want to progress, there will be more machines.

Thinking in his mind, Yang Xiaotao rode on his horse and focused his eyes on the busy farmers.

But it was just about raising the soil ridges. The person in charge of technical guidance was explaining to the farm management staff. Yang Xiaotao listened for a while, and after finding that there was no problem, he watched from the side.

After the farm staff started planting as required, Yang Xiaotao checked for a while and saw that there was no problem, then rode his horse and rushed to the next place.

Throughout the morning, Yang Xiaotao visited ten farms.

Some problems were also discovered, including forgetting to mark the work, starting work too quickly, too urgently, and not properly arranging the personnel.

Of course, there have been major problems. One of them was that during sowing on a farm, two bags of corn seeds were left unattended on the car. As a result, a naughty boy grabbed a handful of corn seeds and put them in another bag. .

This time, the farm technician was made to cry.

From the outside, they are all the same corn kernels. How do you tell them apart?

When Yang Xiaotao heard the news and rushed over, he saw a half-grown boy being educated by an old man with a stick. The spanking was firm on the buttocks.

The child didn't dare to cry, let alone hide, he could only live with it.

When Yang Xiaotao arrived, the technician was holding a bag with red male parent corn on it.

There was no other way, so Yang Xiaotao had to write a note to the technician and go to the farm to get another bag. As for this bag, he could only take it back and make it into tortillas.

After this incident, technicians from various farms no longer dare to be careless and keep grain bags under their noses at all times.

Those dishonest boys at home were also given stern warnings by their ears, causing many naughty children to restrain their restless little hands.

So, everyone spent the first day cautiously.

And after this day, it means that a way has been found.

In fact, it’s a lot to say, but once they find the direction, these ‘agricultural experts’ will quickly understand the secrets and get into the zone.

That night, Yang Xiaotao delivered the bag of corn to the warehouse and handed it over to Ma Sanhang.

Of course Ma Sanxing knew what was going on with the bag. What surprised him was that Yang Xiaotao could distinguish between the two types of corn?

‘As expected of Teacher Yang. ’

What he didn't know was that with Xiaowei's energy induction, distinguishing the two types of corn was a piece of cake.

The same thing happened the next day. At least Yang Xiaotao and the other three kept shuttling between the various farms, solving problems when they encountered them, and supervising and inspecting the planting situation.

After two days of hard work, the farm work was on the right track, and the farmers tightened their hearts and planned to finish the work in one go.