Chapter 89 It turns out that I didn’t pay enough attention to it
"Monk, we are talking about serious business. Go out and stop making trouble!" Chen Xiao had a headache.
Monk Wei is unhappy. So what if you look down on my abilities?
"Sir! I promise you..."
Before he could say anything, Chen Xiao interrupted him, "Okay, okay, you can either call me teacher like the other workers, or just call me principal like before?
At least you can call me brother, but don’t call me sir!
Now I am a helpless wounded soldier, do intellectuals know this?
Okay, go out, I'll call you if there's anything else!"
Chen Xiao found some excuse to change the subject and was about to push him away. The brigade commander and Tian Xiaoyu also had the same idea. No one wanted him to get involved and ruin their own business.
Comrade Wei Dayong went out in a daze, bewildered as he was. He felt that the three people inside were strange.
Especially the little girl I met last time, how come she became the principal’s wife or the teacher’s wife when we met again this time?
I couldn't figure it out, so I just stopped thinking about it and quickly arranged to bring with me the more than one hundred scouts who had just been selected a few days ago.
The three people in Chen Xiao's room were left in awkward silence. Chen Xiao pondered for a while and said to Tian Xiaoyu, "How about we notify my father-in-law and mother-in-law?"
He changed his mind pretty quickly, but Tian Xiaoyu didn't notice it. What she wanted now was not to let her parents come over, and if they wanted to come over, they had to wait until after they got married.
"How about? Let's wait until later!
It’s inconvenient to come here now, there are wars everywhere!”
The brigade commander agreed with this view: "Indeed, from Jiangnan to Northwest Shanxi, the whole route is almost entirely occupied by the enemy, and there are also bandits.
This is indeed dangerous for the old couple!
How about this, you guys... write a letter home and have someone deliver it.
Tell your family that you are married and living well in the base, so that they can rest assured. That's all!"
Makes sense!
Tian Xiaoyu and Chen Xiao looked at each other and immediately nodded in agreement.
"Well, you guys think about what to write in the letter, and then we can send it to Shanghai by telegram, so we don't have to run thousands of kilometers to deliver the letter."
The brigade commander speaks in a domineering manner. It is so extravagant that he sends letters home by telegram.
"What does the letter home say?"
Chen Xiao pondered for a while:
"Why don't we praise me as their son-in-law? Otherwise, how can they feel at ease?
For example, I killed more than a thousand Japanese soldiers in Taiyuan by myself, and only suffered minor injuries.
Then, the potato seeds brought back from our institute, this is the most important, you must write it down!
Take potatoes for example. If we harvest them for three more seasons, we can harvest about 100 million kilograms of potatoes.
That is to say, by the end of next year, we will be able to harvest 100 million kilograms of potatoes, and use half of them as food and the other half as seeds. By the first half of the year after next, we will be able to harvest 2 billion kilograms of grain.
Then ask…”
Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by the brigade commander: "What did you just say?
Harvest 100 million kilograms ?"
He knew that potatoes had a high yield, but he never thought that with only 40 kilograms of potato seeds in the first half of the year, he could harvest 100 million kilograms by the end of next year?
What is the concept?
If a person eats one kilogram of food a day, he will eat 365 kilograms a year.
Then these 100 million kilograms of grain can feed 280,000 people a year!
The brigade commander only knew that potatoes had a high yield, but had never calculated the number, so this number completely shocked him.
He also believed that neither the headquarters nor Yan'an had paid attention to this number. They only knew about high production.
Especially as Chen Xiao said later, they could harvest 2 billion kilograms in the first quarter of the year after next!
This is the reason why half of the 100 million jin by the end of next year will be eaten as food and the other half will be kept as seeds.
"That is to say, if none of these 40 kilograms of potato seeds are wasted or eaten, by the first season of the following year, we can produce 4 billion kilograms of food?"
How much is 4 billion jin of grain?
If one person eats one kilogram of food a day, 4 billion kilograms of food can feed 10 million people a year. Is this the power of the 40 kilograms of potatoes that Chen Xiao brought back a few months ago?
Chen Xiao nodded and asked in surprise, "Didn't we dig potatoes together? Haven't you calculated how many kilograms we harvested?"
So he counted on his fingers and discussed with the brigade commander one by one:
"The first batch of seeds I brought back weighed only 40 kilograms, but I harvested 1,600 kilograms of potatoes.
A 40-fold harvest. We planted these 1,600 kilograms two months ago. I believe that in less than a month, we will be able to harvest 64,000 kilograms.
As long as it is new soil, land that has never been used to grow potatoes, and it is the first time to grow potatoes, even without fertilizer, there will be this much yield.
The second time I plant, I’ll need fertilizers, but I’ve already submitted the fertilizer production materials, so they haven’t been produced yet?
Then we will plant another season in early spring next year. If there is no damage, we can harvest 2.56 million kilograms from 64,000 kilograms of seeds.
If we plant these 2.56 million kilograms of potatoes in the second half of next year and apply the produced fertilizers, we will be able to harvest 102.4 million kilograms of potatoes by the end of next year.
If none of these 102.4 million kilograms of potatoes are eaten and all are planted as seeds, 4 billion kilograms can be harvested in the first half of next year.
Of course, these are just data. The specific harvest depends on personal planting operations.
Moreover, this potato can only maintain such a high yield for five years.
After five years, the seeds will degenerate, and the yield will degenerate. By then, it would be good if the yield could be one-third of what it is now!"
Of course, these are just data. To grow so many potatoes, a lot of arable land must be occupied.
These occupied arable lands were previously used to grow grain. Without grain, we must eat potatoes.
It would be impossible to leave so many seeds.
Moreover, due to the relationship between fertilizer and soil fertility, it is impossible to achieve a fixed harvest of forty times.
So it is unrealistic to expect 100 million jin or 4 billion jin.
However, this seed has been enhanced by the system to increase its yield, but the validity period is only five years, and the yield will degenerate after five years.
The brigade commander and his fellow military officers had never really calculated this account. They didn't expect that after hearing Chen Xiao's calculation today...
He originally thought that he had given enough attention to the potato and never considered that he had not paid enough attention to it.
He wanted to send a telegram to the headquarters and to Yan'an to convey the data so as to draw attention.
He found that neither himself nor the headquarters paid enough attention to this matter.
Chen Xiao shouted at his back as he walked to send the telegram:
"We need fertilizer, and we must pay attention to fertilizer!
That is also a good thing that can double the current food production!"
Then, pointing to the table beside his bed, he said, "Xiaoyu, this is how you write a letter home!"
"Ah...oh..." Tian Xiaoyu was truly frightened by what Chen Xiao had just done, and was stunned.
Suddenly I realized: "If you write like this, my father will think you are uneducated and have learned to lie!"
But Chen Xiao still decided to write it this way.
“Once my father-in-law thinks I’m a liar, he will definitely come all the way from Jiangnan to here. When he arrives and finds out that you and I are already married, he will have no way to regret it.
But it just happened to let him see the potato harvest in a month."
In fact, he was thinking of one thing: as a future CPPCC member of the Democratic League, Tian Moxuan must have certain connections.
And they are all educated people, just as the system said, they are key figures.
If we bring a group of educated people like this into our own schools, can we teach more literate workers?
Or a warrior?
My school is in urgent need of teachers.
