Chapter 31 Someone Finally Arrives from Headquarters
Brigade Commander Chen repeated the operation of Ding Wei and Zhang Dabiao, pulling out a potato vine and harvesting nine kilograms of potatoes.
Then he couldn't wait to light a fire and roast it to eat. Seeing this, Chen Xiao brought over an aluminum pot. What's the point of roasting it all the time? Just cook it!
By the way, I dug up two more seedlings, and kept the potatoes with many big buds aside as seeds. I picked the potatoes that were as big as two or three fingers, put them in the pot, added water and started a fire.
The whole process went smoothly. After finishing his work, he added a piece of firewood to the stove, and then explained to Brigade Commander Chen:
"Let me tell you, although potatoes were introduced to my country as a staple food in the early Qing Dynasty, became a vegetable in the middle Qing Dynasty, and were almost removed from the vegetable category in the late Qing Dynasty.
However, in some places, it is still eaten as a staple food and can be cooked in any way.
You can eat it as a staple food, you can stir-fry it as a dish, or you can steam it, mash it into a paste, and then make it into a pancake in the pan.
Moreover, this thing is like sweet potato, it is very rich in starch and very filling.
It won’t cause bloating or stomach acid like eating too much sweet potatoes.
When the production increases in the future, I will teach people how to make it into vermicelli, which can be stored for a long time.
Now, I pick some small ones without many buds, boil them in water, peel them, and eat them. They are very fragrant. "
Boiling is different from roasting in that one is faster. If you roast it in a kiln, you still have to consider whether the outside is burnt but the inside is cooked through. But if you boil it in water and it is transparent when you poke it with chopsticks, then it is cooked through.
Give one to Brigade Commander Chen, and distribute the rest to the student soldiers around him, half each.
Potatoes are especially delicious when you first eat them for a day or two. They taste good no matter how you eat them.
Once you eat too much, for example, for a month or a year, you will find it very unpalatable!
Therefore, Brigade Commander Chen, who was born in the rice hometown, thought it was very good, with a very fragrant taste, and a soft, sticky and powdery feeling, which gave a sense of fullness after swallowing.
So he ordered: "No more digging, no more eating!
These are seeds for next year!"
Zhang Dabiao couldn't help but remind him: "Brigade Commander, Scholar...Principal Chen said that this potato only needs to grow for 80 to 100 days, and we can plant another crop in the second half of the year."
"Can we grow two crops a year?" Brigade Commander Chen asked, looking at his relative in front of him.
Chen Xiao nodded: "If the year is good, we can plant twice, but if the spring warms up slowly, it may be affected.
It’s okay if it’s a little further south, but if it’s further north, you can only grow one season a year!
The climate in northwest Shanxi this year allows for two crops to be grown.”
There is no way around it. If it were like Siberia, our big brother in the north, one season would be enough.
If it were like Huizhou in the south, which was used as an experimental field in later generations, there would probably be no problem with three seasons a year if varieties with shorter growth cycles could be cultivated.
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So that night, Brigade Commander Chen rested at the Scouting Agricultural Science School. He was a little curious about why the word "Agricultural Science" was added in the middle of the Scouting School.
"Oh! This! I know a little bit about potato planting technology, and I also know a little bit about fertilizer research and development technology. I plan to recruit more students next time and teach them these technologies.
Whether it is potato planting or fertilizer production and use, they are scientific and technological issues that concern the vital interests of farmers, so the words "agricultural science" are added.
Let the students from our school, even if they don’t fight in the war, be able to teach the local people how to grow crops well when they return to the countryside.”
Brigade Commander Chen smiled and asked, "For example, growing mushrooms with cow dung, is that something you plan to teach the people?"
Chen Xiao nodded. In later generations, he had heard that the man in front of him was famous for his murderous military might in the anti-Japanese battlefield, but now he was sitting in front of him, chatting with him like he was chatting with his family. It felt like a dream.
He was still a little excited, and suddenly he remembered a question: "Did you get the machines of the man I asked Captain Li to bring back last time?"
Brigade Commander Chen shook his head: "The target is in Taiyuan, deep inside the Japanese forces, and it is difficult to contact for the time being.
So there is no clue yet. After all, there are too many mines in the northwest of Shanxi and the central part of Jinzhou.
Even near Taiyuan, there are countless abandoned mines, whether coal mines or copper mines. If one rashly enters the area controlled by the Japanese army without accurate intelligence, it will easily cause casualties and alert the enemy.
He has already reported to me and to the headquarters about the agreement you made with Li Yunlong and others.
It seems that you are very confident that you can get the machine back if we can’t do anything about it.”
Although the latter sentence was an inquiry, the tone was affirmative, confirming that Chen Xiao had the ability, otherwise he would not have mentioned that agreement.
Chen Xiao knew that with the wisdom of the person in front of him and the CEOs at the headquarters, they would certainly guess that he was capable of getting the machine, so he nodded.
Brigade Commander Chen asked again: "If it is just guns and ammunition for student soldiers to train, we can let the Eighth Route Army provide them, and the machines can be handed over to the headquarters for production after they are brought back.
After all, we have more people, and there is strength in numbers!"
In fact, this was a test. Every move and every word of the strong man who would be awarded the rank of general in the future was meaningful.
If military supplies are provided by others, the unit will be controlled by the unit that provides the supplies.
You have to obey whoever gives you food. This has been an unchanging fact since ancient times. Once you disobey orders, first your food will be cut off, and then your supply of guns and ammunition will be cut off, and you will be unable to jump even if you want to.
However, Chen Xiao didn’t think so much. He didn’t have the brain to think so much. He even almost forgot about Zhang Renyi.
The reason why he asked this question just now was because the system triggered the task again.
"Ding! Congratulations on triggering the side quest. Go to the target location according to the map route provided by the quest, obtain the production line that can produce Czech light machine guns and Chinese rifles and bullets, and put them into production.
Mission Reward: Phase 1 (get the machine) Czech light machine gun and Zhongzheng rifle with bullet production technology and required applied materials science (Master level)
The second stage (production) can be created through the production line tools obtained through the mission. At this stage, the latest German machine tool manufacturing process and the required applied materials science (master level)
Mineral distribution map of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia regions
Free attribute points +3"
It was when he saw this mission that he remembered a man named Zhang Renyi, so he asked Brigade Commander Chen.
Brigade Commander Chen tried to test him, but he didn't know and replied calmly: "If the production line is handed over to you, you will only use it to produce machine guns and rifles.
But if it is handed over to me, I can use the tools in it to polish out a machine tool.
With a machine tool, production line, etc., maybe it will be very simple! ”
Brigade Commander Chen didn’t know what a machine tool mother machine was, but everyone could understand that everything would be very simple with a machine tool mother machine production line.
Then he understood.
The next morning, soldiers from the new regiment came to report that people from the headquarters had arrived.
