Don't disturb my farming Chapter 58 Labor creates a better tomorrow
Lan Guo was lucky enough to be the first ordinary tribe member to attend the tribal work meeting. When he walked into the activity room and sat among a group of warriors, he was too nervous to notice that Cao Gen, Hong Ye, Qing Yan, Qiu, Yu and others were silently casting sympathetic glances at him...
The so-called work meeting is a report by Xiao Yun to his two superiors - Huoyan and Caogen - and the warriors who have the right to speak in the tribe, summarizing the recent progress of the tribe's work, the reserves and consumption of tribal resources, and the focus of work in the future. During the meeting, it is necessary to ensure that the atmosphere is harmonious, equal, serious and lively, so that everyone has a clearer understanding of the increase in tribal resources. It is also necessary to encourage everyone to speak actively, brainstorm, and work together, so that everyone can gradually cultivate the awareness of "being the masters of the tribe, and labor creates a better day."
As for the most direct and effective purpose of holding a meeting, that is, negotiation is the fastest way to solve problems... it is still relatively limited at present, because Xiao Yun is the only one who raises questions and proposes solutions, and everyone else can only shout 666.
Well... I guess readers with a keen sense of smell have already seen Xiao Yun's sinister intention of holding work meetings every once in a while - in fact, this guy is secretly and actively throwing sand into the "decision-making level" at a stage when the power consciousness in the tribe has not yet sprouted and there is no sign of resource monopoly: using the snow wolf warriors' right to speak to dilute the tribe leader's natural right to distribute tribal resources; using Qingyan and Qiu, two foreign warriors, to dilute the natural alliance of the snow wolf warriors based on the same tribe and origin; and pulling in the goblin old monk, the gray dwarf Baru, and other tribesmen who have been found to be capable of taking on a role from ordinary people, to disperse the warriors' right to speak...
If a team wants to develop and grow, it must establish a system that can be accepted by most people in the group. No matter how simple the system is, you need to lay out the framework over a long period of time, carefully and cautiously to establish it. When you decide to lead a team and you think you have the talent of an organizer and leader, you must have this kind of awareness and establish the prototype of the system from the beginning of the team. You must be clear about the screening model and replacement standards for the core decision-making layer within the team and be able to convince the public. You cannot expect unreliable things such as personal relationships, interpersonal relationships, kinship, brotherhood, etc. to become the core of your team.
This is not something difficult to understand. The disintegration of countless unsuccessful rebellious groups of peasants and small and medium-sized landlords in ancient China has repeatedly proved that a team without a reliable team core and a clear program will be like a balloon if it expands too much. It has no cohesion at all, let alone the ability to withstand pressure.
The development program of the tribe is very clear, that is, to farm, to live a good life, to use labor to create a better tomorrow; and the construction of the core decision-making layer of the tribe is what Xiao Yun is doing now...
"Last winter, it took 130 days from snowfall to melting. This year, 60 days have passed. In about two months, we will start the new year's work. Before the arrival of spring, which is more suitable for work, I hope we can make sufficient preparations to meet the challenges of the new year."
After making an opening statement to state the theme of the meeting, Xiao Yun then summarized the tribe's existing resources and reiterated the important point that "the wheat can only be eaten until next summer. If the harvest next year is poor, there will be no wheat flour to eat."
Wheat is definitely better than meat as a staple food. This heavy topic made all the soldiers present at the meeting perk up and they dared not be distracted anymore.
It is a consensus among everyone that good farming requires fertilizer and water conservancy. By linking the growth of the tribe's own fertilizer with the construction task, even the dumber warriors like Ashan and Mumu can understand the importance of the construction task. After singing the foreplay to set the mood, Lan Guo was brought out, and everyone looked at Lan Guo with a very friendly look - they thought A Yun was going to arrest coolies from among them, and it was great to have Lan Guo to take the blame.
Lan Guo's face flushed red, and she looked away embarrassedly, not noticing the relief in everyone's eyes...
When you do things under the banner of tribal interests, you must have a legitimate reason. As a team leader, it is ridiculous to make decisions without communicating with the core decision-makers around you for the sake of face, laziness, or thinking that others are in sync with you. The core members closest to you don't understand you and don't support you. Do you still expect your decrees to be issued by Zhongnan? Cough cough cough cough, your decisions will be meaningful? The emperor is not so local~
After raising Lan Guo to a position where this guy absolutely could not escape, Xiao Yun proposed the reorganization of the work team - Lan Guo's existing team members would exchange several people with the work teams of Dahe and Qingcao, and then select a few soldiers to assist in the formation of a new construction engineering team - the size of this team would be expanded to about 20 people, and except for the two busy farming seasons of spring ploughing and autumn harvest, they would be responsible for the construction work required for the development of the tribe at other times. If the tribe adds new members in the future, priority should be given to replenishing fresh blood for the engineering team.
Xiao Yun briefly mentioned that the tribe might add new members (annex other tribes) in the future to test everyone, and the result was gratifying. Everyone accepted it without questioning, including A Yue (Qingcao's partner), who was the most conservative among the warriors. She didn't even ask what to do if they couldn't afford to support them. First, everyone was confident in the income from farming, and second, with A Yun always talking about labor and work, everyone was worried that the current number of people couldn't withstand this guy's exploitation...
So don’t underestimate the cute and stupid snow wolves. They can also make progress. Before, the tribe of more than 30 people worried about not having enough food. Now that there are more than 150 people in the tribe, everyone is worried about not having enough people to work...
The result of the discussion was that Ashan, Ayue and Hongye joined the engineering team to assist Lan Guo, and Yu took over from Hongye to lead the soldiers.
In fact, Yujin Engineering Team is better than Hongye. With Lan Guo, Xiao Yun is confident that he can train Lan Guo well and firmly control this first established "tribal enterprise"; but before, Caogen surrendered and voluntarily gave up the tribe leader's right to allocate resources to raise earthworms, Xiao Yun also has to return the favor and let her people take control of the tribal force.
In his later years, Chairman Mao once said that there is no party-emperor ideology in the party, and there are no factions in the party. When Xiao Yun was working, he led a small group of several people, and there were always factions in the group. How could there be no relatives and friends in a group of more than a hundred people? Whoever thinks so is kidding... Xiao Yun himself conceded that the old goblin monk was just making up the numbers!
After the meeting, everyone dispersed. Lan Guo was about to get up to send the old goblin back home when Xiao Yun put his hand on his arm with a smile and said, "Let Dashui and Qingcao lead the people in your team today. We will redeploy the team when everyone is here in the evening. You can follow me during the day and learn the basic knowledge so that you won't be at a loss in the future."
Lan Guo was excited and nervous: "Okay."
Hongye and others, who had walked a few steps late, immediately ran away quickly after hearing what was said.
The movable roof of the vegetable greenhouse is opened during the day when it is not snowing. After all, crops need light to grow, and the fluorescent lamp technology tree cannot be turned on in the tribe.
The roof was opened and cold wind blew in. Even though the walls of the vegetable greenhouse were relatively thick and tall, and there was hot smoke flowing through the wall interlayer to increase the temperature, the temperature inside the greenhouse dropped to around ten degrees.
The growth of sweet potatoes is definitely affected at this temperature. The vines do not grow vigorously, and the branches are few and sparse.
There is no way around this. It is true that sweet potatoes are not picky about the soil and are drought-resistant, but they are afraid of cold and lack of sunlight... and these two things are unavoidable in greenhouses without plastic sheets in winter.
Xiao Yun adopted the method of high ridges and double rows of dense planting. The ridge height is about 20 to 25 cm, the ridge width is 60 to 80 cm, and the ridge spacing is 15 to 20 cm. Before sowing, the soil on the ridge surface is carefully plowed several times to completely crush and loosen the soil. The plowing depth is about 30 cm to ensure that the land where the sweet potatoes take root is free of lumps, deep and loose.
Xiao Yun was also very cautious when applying fertilizer. The sweet potato field in the greenhouse was long and narrow, and he planted only five mu of land. When applying the base fertilizer, he calculated the amount and applied about 2,000 kg (with water) of soil fertilizer and about 30 kg of fermented scale fertilizer (no potassium sulfate, no urea, just make do with it) of a mixture of bone meal, bird droppings, fish bones, fish scales and internal organs. The method of fertilization was to mix them in advance, spread 60% on the soil surface when plowing, and apply 40% in the furrows after ridge formation (dig furrows between the rows close to the roots of the crops and apply the fertilizer in the furrows).
Sweet potatoes can be cut into pieces for cultivation, or they can be planted in the fields after they sprout. Xiao Yun adopts the latter method: first cut the sprouted sweet potatoes into pieces according to the position of the sprout surface, with the sprout side facing up and the cut part facing down. Place them in a shallow container filled with water. The contact area between the cut surface of the potato piece and the water is about one-third of the lower part of the potato body (otherwise it will be soaked and rotten). Place it at room temperature (20-25 degrees) and provide as much light as possible. Palm-sized sprouts will sprout in about a week.
Gently pull out the seedlings, place them in a shallow container, immerse the base of the seedlings in water, and provide sunlight as much as possible every day. After about three to five days, when roots grow at the base of the seedlings, they can be transplanted into the soil for cultivation.
The sweet potato seedlings are placed in the planting holes on the ridges, watered thoroughly, and the bottom stems and roots are covered with soil, leaving 3 to 4 leaves exposed on the ground. Then, water them appropriately every day, maintain sunlight and ventilation in the greenhouse, and keep the room temperature at 10 to 26 degrees. After about fifteen to twenty days (in summer when the temperature and sunlight are suitable, it only takes five to ten days), when the seedlings grow axillary buds from the leaf axils, it means that the soil culture has survived.
If too few seedlings survive, you can plant more seedlings at this time to avoid wasting land.
At this time, the seedlings have been planted for 60 to 70 days, the axillary buds and main buds have grown, and the number of leaves has increased significantly. It is time to apply fertilizer for vine growth. Since there is no urea anyway, Xiao Yun uses bone meal fertilizer and plant ash as a substitute. He digs a small hole of about 10 cm near the root of the potato seedlings, applies a small amount of bone meal fertilizer and plant ash, and then waters and covers the soil immediately after applying. It is only five mu of land, so five kilograms of bone meal and half a pound of plant ash mixed with water are enough.
While applying fertilizer patiently, Xiao Yun turned around and asked Lan Guo, who was squatting in the aisle in the middle of the greenhouse: "How is it, have you figured it out?"
Lan Guo raised her head stiffly and looked at him, her eyes full of pain and confusion... On the ground in front of him were ten two-digit addition and subtraction .
"Think about it more carefully, you can do it!" Xiao Yun encouraged.
Lan Guo... Lan Guo is really good! Xiao Yun taught him Arabic numerals once and he remembered them. He didn't need to count on his fingers to do addition and subtraction within ten, so Xiao Yun skipped a grade and taught him to do addition and subtraction of double-digit numbers!
Xiao Yun had long wanted to eliminate illiteracy in the tribe, but he had no time and was worried about his people's acceptance - the common language in this world was not an alphabetic language, but had written language. When he was in the Tauren tribe, Xiao Yun had seen a pottery pot with writing on it. The Tauren sage Saladin recognized the words on it and had read them to Xiao Yun.
Through this experience, Xiao Yun came to two conclusions: First, he definitely couldn't learn the characters of this world. Although the characters of this world are also pictographic characters that have some similarities with Chinese, they are completely different. Each character is as complicated as a painting! The sage of the Minotaur only knows a few characters!
Second, since it is pictographic writing, then it is reasonable for him to copy Chinese. No matter how difficult Chinese is to learn, can it be more difficult than those local writings that are as complex as pictures?
So Xiao Yun felt out the tribe members' background - very good, including the grassroots, the Snow Wolf people were illiterate and could not read. Everyone counted on their fingers for addition and subtraction within ten, and to calculate the number of sheep in their tribe, the whole tribe had to go out and count, plucking a hair from every ten sheep to count, and in the end they could only get an approximate result, with an error within a hundred, an error of a hundred!
Xiao Yun, who was suffering from toothache, decided to catch a lucky tribesman to give him one-on-one lessons, and then let this lucky tribesman teach other people in his spare time... If he had to face all the tribesmen alone, he would be so sick that he would die.
After applying the fertilizer, he came back to check the homework. It was all good. Lan Guo had solved most of the double-digit addition and subtraction problems. The draft he made on the mud ground next to him was also very good and did not deviate from the original. Xiao Yun loved Lan Guo more and more - she was very talented and had a good brain!
So Xiao Yun sat down enthusiastically and began to teach Lan Guo the basics of multiplication and division for first-grade students...
It was almost time to go to the earthworm shed for inspection. Xiao Yun and Cao Gen were in the front checking the earthworm manure on the breeding bed, while Lan Guo was staggering behind with a pale face, reciting the multiplication table...
That night, Lan Guo returned home like a wandering soul, carrying the topic written by Xiao Yun on the cloth scroll...
The next morning, the construction team officially started work. Xiao Yun came to teach them how to burn cement. While they were burning, he gave Lan Guo a task: "We have ten earthen kilns burning cement working at the same time. Each kiln burns 30 kilograms of coal a day. So how many kilograms of coal did we consume in total that day?"
"Qingcao helps us carry coal. She can carry 90 kilograms of coal here at a time. She can run 50 times a day. So how many kilograms of coal did Qingcao carry for us in total that day?"
"A kiln produces a certain amount of finished cement. Cement is added with a certain amount of mud and sand to make cement bricks. So how many cement bricks can be made from the cement produced by a kiln?"
There was no need to choose the weather when burning cement. The fire in the kiln was burning fiercely and snow was falling from the sky. Everyone else felt a little cold, except Lan Guo, who was sweating all over...
Hongye silently moved away from them, further and further away...
During the meal, Yu Gang, who was leading the soldiers on patrol and searching for wild beasts' nests, entered the No. 2 collective bedroom and heard Xiao Yun asking Lan Guo, "There are 90 snow wolves and 45 gray dwarves in our tribe. Assuming that the snow wolves eat two kilograms of wheat flour for one meal, and the gray dwarves eat one kilogram for one meal, they need to eat two meals a day. If Dahe and his men cook for us, how many kilograms of wheat flour will they use at least every day?"
Yu looked in horror at Lan Guo, who had silently put down the bowl and squatted on the ground to write and draw, and then looked in fear at Xiao Yun, who had a satisfied look on his face.
Niu Jiao was also in bedroom number two. He tilted his head and thought for a long time, wondering, "Ayun, we didn't eat that much, did we?"
"Hypothesis, just hypothesis. Then Niu Jiao, tell me, how many kilograms of wheat flour do you eat in one meal?" Xiao Yun smiled.
"Add water to one pound of wheat flour and knead it into dough, then ferment it with yeast and alkaline water, wrap it with stuffing, and steam it. It has to be at least two pounds." Niu Jiao proudly showed off his experience as a chef, "Two pounds of steamed cakes with soup, pickles, and dried radish is enough to make you full and spicy!"
"Not bad, not bad. Our Niu Jiao has become very smart." Xiao Yun patted Niu Jiao's thick arms with satisfaction. It turned out that interest is the best teacher. This guy's IQ has a chance to climb to 80.
The difficulty of mathematics at the elementary school level lies in getting started. Once you step over that threshold and are overwhelmed by the sea of questions, you learn very quickly. In the first week of working in the engineering team, Lan Guo had trouble with his hair every day. In the second week, his arithmetic became smoother. He could do addition and subtraction mentally even though he had to make drafts for multiplication and division within hundreds.
Xiao Yun was very satisfied, so he began to teach him equations, geometric formulas, time units and length units (the mechanical pocket watch he found on the beach was just a waste product), and the area of figures - how could an engineer not know how to read a diagram? Yes! This is definitely a professional requirement!
So, all kinds of problems that have troubled Chinese primary school students, such as birds and rabbits in the same cage, the area of triangular shadows, pond drainage, red leaves and the running speed of cow horns were thrown at Lan Guo's head...
A bunch of poor students who had no interest in studying naturally ran as far away as they could when they saw the two of them standing together, but not everyone in the tribe was uninterested in learning how to calculate these strange problems. During the first week of Lan Guo's suffering, when Xiao Yun used various things in the tribe as examples to make questions, Cao Gen, A Yue, Sal, Qiu and others would gather around to listen if they were free; when Lan Guo could do addition and subtraction within 100 in his head, Cao Gen and Qiu could actually calculate it by scratch.
Naturally... Lan Guo had a part-time job: during the day he was in charge of the engineering team and studied with Xiao Yun, and at night he reviewed and gave extra lessons to those who were interested. Sar soon stopped coming, and A Yue ran away after barely learning how to add, subtract, multiply and divide hundreds. Cao Gen and Qiu, who had easier jobs, continued to study.
"Hongye, look at them, and then look at yourself." Xiao Yun said with disdain to Hongye who refused to go for a whole day.
Hongye was busy pouring cement brick molds, and looked at Xiao Yun with squinted eyes: "Anyway, you will definitely ask everyone to learn it in the future, why should I go through the hardship again now?"
Xiao Yun: “…”
Hongye stood up, looked around and saw that there was no one around, so he moved closer and said, "The green dragon was scared away by you last time, and he hasn't come for a month... Do you think he will come again in the future?"
When Xiao Yun thought of this, he got angry: "I should have known not to give him all the jewelry at once, what a heartless scumbag!"
"What are you pulling out?" Hongye didn't understand.
"It doesn't matter if he comes or not. Without him, the earth won't... the planet won't stop rotating." Xiao Yun waved his hand. "Help Lan Guo keep an eye on it. Move the cement bricks over here as soon as they are dry and stack them over there. Ask him to calculate how many bricks are needed to build another earthworm shed. After the shed is built, check the difference between the calculated amount and the actual amount. Find out where the problem is yourself."
"Haven't you figured it out?"
"This is called never leaving your pen and never leaving your mouth to do exercises. How can a top student emerge without a sea of exercises?"
Hongye: “…” Well, it’s a good thing there’s a blue fruit in front to support us.
Ten days after the engineering team was established, the second earthworm shed was built. At that time, Xiao Yun had not yet taught Lan Guo how to calculate the area of figures, so naturally this worrying problem did not arise.
When the third earthworm shed was completed, the Grassroots tribe leader was too busy to handle the work, so the two tribesmen who were originally in the Languo team and now in the Dashui team were assigned to her. Considering that earthworm breeding also requires someone who can do meticulous work, Xiao Yun also assigned an adult caracal to her breeding team.
Now, one month after the engineering team was established, there are five earthworm sheds in a row in the greenhouse area, and the sixth one is about to start construction - it has to be said that projects with dedicated people in charge move quickly!
Even Xiao Yun thought the production capacity was insufficient, and he agreed with the grassroots tribe leader to start breeding in the open air when the weather warmed up... He needed to plant so many fields and raise so many pigs! What could he do with such a small amount of production!
When the goblins who had been hiding in the house were able to walk out shivering, the temperature began to warm up. The snow that had fallen for more than a hundred days finally stopped falling and went home. The melted snow soaked the frozen surface of the soil, and the prairie that had been buried for a winter finally revealed its true appearance.
“This year we have more people than last year, and planting the same fields as last year won’t keep up with the development of our tribe.”
In the conference room, all those who were qualified to attend the work meeting were present. Compared to the time when Lan Guo joined, this time there were also Dashui and Qingcao participating.
Dashui, originally named Ah Shui, was renamed Dashui because he had the same name as the cub. He led the work team for more than four months and was responsible for various chores in the tribe. Dashui won everyone's recognition with his ability and successfully entered the decision-making level that Xiao Yun had set in mind.
Qingcao is slightly less capable than Dashui, mainly because his brain is not flexible enough, but he can do well when he focuses on one thing. His achievements in leading a team are obvious to all. He is the type who can still be useful if he practices more.
"Ayun, what do you think?" the grass-roots leader asked. In the past, it was Huo Yan who sang the same tune with Xiao Yun, but now it has been her turn without her noticing... There is no way, Huo Yan is really hopeless.
"My idea is that we should open up fields of the same size as last year, on the south bank, between the river and the artificial flood diversion channel we dug." Xiao Yun said.
"This...if the flood this year is the same as last year, we will be flooded." A Yue couldn't help but speak out.
"Don't worry too much about that. Last year we dug that artificial canal, and the water on the south bank receded, didn't it? Besides, the snow this year is not as heavy as last year, so even if there is a flood, it won't be more than last year." Xiao Yun explained, "And we have more manpower this year than last year, and the gray dwarves can help during the spring plowing period..." He turned his gaze to Baru, who nodded cooperatively, "Last year we started spring plowing and sowing a month later than the Tauren. This year we can avoid wasting this month and sow earlier, and then our extra manpower can be used for flood control and water conservancy projects."
Everyone nodded, and the Grassroots Chief dutifully said, "Ayun, tell us what to plant this year."
"My idea is that since we have enough manpower, we might as well be bolder... The fields that were used to grow alfalfa and soybeans last year will be used to grow wheat. For the 30 large fields that were used to grow vegetables last year, we will try to grow rice like the Tauren. For the newly opened fields on the south bank, 30% of the land will be used to grow soybeans, and 70% of the land will be used to grow alfalfa." Xiao Yun said with a firm face. Sweet potatoes must also be planted, but they can be planted on the drier sandy land in the northeast of the tribe.
Lan Guo, Cao Gen, Qiu and other "numerate" tribesmen calculated the cultivated area required by Xiao Yun in their hearts, and their faces suddenly changed... Damn, no matter how much manpower is needed, it turns out that Ah Yun is in trouble! !
