Chapter 14: Just give it to the people and bring your own supplies
"Why? We can't use chemical fertilizers to grow rice?" Li Yunlong was a little surprised.
Li Yunlong is from Dabie Mountains. Although most of the crops in Dabie Mountains are millet and wheat, there are still some paddy fields where rice .
So he has some knowledge about growing rice.
"How can I tell you this? We all need salt when we eat. If we don't, we won't have any strength, right?
But when we eat salt, we don’t just grab a handful and put it in our mouths. Instead, we put a little bit in cooking, or dissolve the salt in water and drink it when we’re dehydrated after sweating.
But I have never heard of anyone dying from lack of salt by swallowing a handful of salt.
The same goes for fertilizers. These chemical fertilizers are like salt. The dosage must be appropriate. Too much is not good, and too little is not good either.
But this is true for crops.
But for the frogs, eels, loaches, other small fish, and various beneficial insects living in farmland, such as dragonfly larvae, there are also various small organisms that can inhibit the growth of pests.
For these small creatures, chemical fertilizers are a disaster. Every time chemical fertilizers are spread on farmland, it feels to those small animals like sprinkling a handful of salt into a person's mouth. Therefore, if chemical fertilizers are applied to rice fields, those small animals will die one after another.
Without frogs, loaches, eels, and various small animals that can inhibit the growth of pests in rice fields, although there is sufficient fertilizer, the benefits to rice are not as great as the harm.
Unless, someone has already developed a targeted pesticide.
If the problem of pest control is not solved, applying chemical fertilizers to rice fields in the south will do more harm than good, and the gains will not outweigh the losses, and may even lead to poor harvests. "
What Chen Xiao said was the knowledge he had read on a certain website before he traveled through time. Chemical fertilizers would kill various small animals that eat pests in the rice fields, causing a break in the ecological chain.
Therefore, the rice fields in the south have to be sprayed with pesticides several times . Even after the flowers have bloomed and fallen, they still have to kill insects to prevent and control rice leafhoppers. Once they are infected with rice leafhoppers, the entire rice field will fall down, and one rice field can be infected with two.
This is the consequence of not having frogs, eels, loaches and all kinds of beneficial small animals.
This is also a sequelae of using chemical fertilizers, so chemical fertilizers must be used in conjunction with pesticides.
Rice fields without special safe pesticides are not suitable for applying chemical fertilizers. In this day and age, it is actually quite difficult to find a special pesticide that is safe, has little residue, and is harmless to the human body.
After telling Li Yunlong the reason, Li Yunlong scratched his head helplessly and said, "You intellectuals are troublesome. Okay, I will report what you said."
"Um!"
Seeing Chen Xiao nod, Li Yunlong was about to go out. He had a lot of things to do and there was no wine to drink. However, before he walked out of the door, Chen Xiao stopped him again.
"When will the people you mentioned be in place? A reinforced platoon."
Li Yunlong turned back in surprise: "Xiucai, why are you more anxious than me?"
He thought to himself, could this scholar be a government official fanatic?
It would be easy to deal with if he was just a bureaucrat fan, but I'm afraid that intellectuals have bad tempers and nothing you say will work.
But thinking about it, it is more difficult to deal with those who are obsessed with officials. The officials given by Chiang Kai-shek in the south are higher-ranking officials. Thinking of this, he felt a little headache.
"No, I suddenly wanted to open a school, and now I'm short of students." Chen Xiao chuckled and said, feeling a little embarrassed. He knew his own character. It was okay to teach the dozen people in the guard class to grow potatoes a few days ago, but if you open a school yourself, what will you teach?
But there was no way. Just now, when Li Yunlong asked him to help train a few veteran backbones, the system issued a task, which was to ask him to set up a school.
“Ding! Trigger the side quest: Open a school.
Task requirements: Open a school, enroll at least 30 students, serve as the principal, and tell Li Yunlong that he will bear the students' daily expenses.
mission rewards:
100 Yuan
Teaching Eyes (can see the other party's name, age, place of origin, strengths and weaknesses, the right and wrong of the other party's learning, convenient for teaching students in accordance with their aptitude)
Note: A good teacher does not just teach students to memorize textbooks in a stereotyped way, because everyone is different.
Mission failed: no penalty. "
Chen Xiao was very excited about the reward for the task. Is the Teaching Eye only used to teach students?
Your vision is too narrow. If you could clearly know the other party's situation, wouldn't it be more powerful than the detection eye in the game!
However, you have to be responsible for your own daily expenses. What are the daily expenses of students?
Do you have that much money?
Why do you have to be responsible for the students ' daily expenses? Aren't you happy about eating out at the Eighth Route Army's expense?
What is the system thinking?
Chen Xiao was puzzled and simply gave up trying to figure it out, but he still had to complete the task.
"Okay, maybe I'll leave tomorrow. I'll have someone report here tonight. If Lao Ding comes, it will be difficult for me to handle it.
"Next time I, Old Li, lead the troops, the veterans and backbones will depend on you, the scholar, hehe!" Li Yunlong said with a smug smile.
He thought that when he took over tomorrow, he would have to explain to Lao Ding in advance that this school was not part of the New 1st Regiment, and this was the basis for his comeback.
"Okay! But just bring the people, no supplies needed. I can take care of the students' supplies myself."
Although Chen Xiao didn't understand why the system insisted on not having supplies, since the mission required it, he had to follow the mission requirements.
But think about it, how many days can the 100 yuan rewarded by the system feed more than 40 people?
What happens after eating?
Thinking of this, Chen Xiao roughly understood why the system made such a request.
There are thirty or forty students now. In the future, the system may assign tasks and recruit more students. Whether it is students' eating, drinking, defecating, or urinating, as well as things they need for class and study, they have to take care of it themselves.
With that said, maybe what the system wants is not just for me to teach students, but also for me to keep learning and finding ways to solve the difficulties I face.
Maybe the system means that you can continue to grow as well.
But no matter what, people will always come up with a solution. Isn't it just students' living expenses ? Isn't it just money?
Not difficult!
At worst, we can ask the Japanese for it!
This is what Chen Xiao thought for now, but he always felt something was wrong and he didn’t know what was wrong.
"What? You don't want supplies? My dear scholar, you must be kidding me !
You don't want supplies. What will these people eat and drink when they come?
Besides, I sent these people here not just to teach them to read, I want you to help me train them.
Let them learn to shoot accurately and fight with bayonets in battle. If possible, it would also be good to teach them how to fire cannons.
Anyway, you should teach them all the tricks that can be used to fight the Japanese. How can you teach them these without supplies?
Guns and ammunition should always be prepared!"
Li Yunlong was stunned when he heard this and asked quickly.
But no matter what he said, Chen Xiao had only one thing to say: either send people over, and don't send supplies; if you want to send supplies, don't send people over.
The reason is... no reason!
