Chapter 114 Good Will Be Better

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Zhang Guangzong went to the county alone and brought back a technician named Yan Dongsheng, who looked about 24 or 25 years old. He arranged for him to live with Sun Liwei and Sun Xiuwei at the male educated youth camp.

"You are all young people, so you should communicate more often. If you have any difficulties or needs, please report them to the team. We have only one goal. On a smaller scale, it is to build Liushu Village well. If Liushu Village is well, we will all benefit. On a larger scale, it is to build the country well.

We live in a remote and impoverished area, and the conditions are a bit difficult. Please bear with us. Let's work together to create better conditions. I, Lao Zhang, and all the members of Liushutun are deeply grateful to you for coming here to help Liushutun develop.

Zhang Guangzong spoke his mind.

He felt he had to change his views and ideas about the educated youth. Previously, he had passively accepted them and considered them a burden. Now, he wanted to view them as resources and unleash their initiative.

Now that they are here, they must bring their full value to the table! Not only their own personal value, but also the value of their background and network of contacts, all of which should be used to help the development of Liushutun.

The three young men had no idea of ​​Zhang Guangzong's little plan, and were deeply moved by his sincere words.

Sun Liwei said, "Captain, your words make me feel my trip was worthwhile. We are responding to the call to 'take root in the countryside and make revolution.' I won't leave until Liushu Village is well developed!"

Zhang Guangzong laughed and said, "If the development is good, don't leave!"

After arranging accommodation, Zhang Guangzong asked Yan Dongsheng to rest first and then go to night school to teach everyone in the evening.

From then on, Liushutun Night School had a stable teacher.

Xie Yun was shocked when he heard the name Yan Dongsheng.

Oh my God, Liushutun is so lucky!

Although Yan Dongsheng has nothing to do with the plot, he does appear in the book. He improved wheat varieties, significantly increasing wheat yields. Although his status cannot be compared with that of the father of hybrid rice, he is still a well-known agronomist.

But that was all later. After the movement ended, Yan Dongsheng returned to school to study for a master's degree and officially began research on improving wheat varieties, and soon achieved results.

In an interview, he said, "I worked in the Agricultural Bureau of a certain county for a few years, but didn't achieve any results." Now it seems that "a certain county" is Qushui County.

Such a talented person has come to Liushutun! It’s exciting to think about it.

Xie Yun decided to take some time to talk to the team leader and find a way to get Yan Dongsheng to produce research results as soon as possible!

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Yan Dongsheng took root in Liushu Village. During the day, he traveled through the mountains with a few other members to pursue his beekeeping career. At night, he taught agronomy classes at night school, teaching everyone how to farm in detail. He explained everything from seed selection and sowing to thinning, fertilizing, pest and disease control, and how to determine which nutrients crops were lacking.

Students: “…”

You, an intellectual, really know how to farm! You seem to know more about it than these generations of farmers.

Someone directly asked: "Teacher Yan, have you ever farmed?"

“I have.”

"Doesn't it look like it?"

Yan Dongsheng smiled and said, "I went to an agricultural university before. We had a special experimental field, and every student knew how to farm."

Only then did everyone realize that Technician Yan was a true professional.

Yan Dongsheng was admitted to the Agricultural University in 1963. Unfortunately, before he could officially graduate, the movement began. He did not stay in school to participate in the movement, but took the initiative to drop out and go home.

He originally thought that the movement would be over soon, and he would be able to return to school to complete his studies, be assigned a job, and make great achievements on the agricultural front, dedicating his life to the cause of ensuring that the people of his country have enough food.

As a result, the movement never ended and people like him were basically forgotten by the school.

There was no other way. He didn't want to waste time at home, so he had to use his own connections and find a way to find himself a job. He came from the city to the Qushui County Agricultural Bureau, which was a suitable job for his major.

Coming to Liushutun was his first independent assignment since joining the company, and he had to do a good job of beekeeping and boost Liushutun's grain production to make his trip worthwhile. Otherwise, he would just go back to the office and be idle.

Only then did Zhang Guangzong realize that the technician he had casually brought back was not the kind of technician he thought, who had received short-term training and knew a little more than ordinary people, but a real technical expert.

Xie Yun also approached him around this time and urged him to support Yan Dongsheng's work. "Knowledge is power. This is not an empty statement. Knowledge can also increase production and allow us to harvest more grain. I believe Comrade Yan Dongsheng will definitely be able to do great things! Give him whatever he wants."

Zhang Guangzong swallowed and decided to first see what Yan Dongsheng wanted before deciding whether to give it to him. The key was whether he could afford it.

However, as long as what he asked for was not excessive, he should be able to give it to him. Although he was just a small captain, he actually had the resources in his hands!

Afterwards, Zhang Guangzong had a talk with Yan Dongsheng and learned about his inner ambitions and ideals. Captain Zhang was not stingy and allocated several experimental fields for him and assigned several people to him, allowing him to conduct experiments freely.

"Tell me what you need. If we don't have it here, I'll ask our sister companies for help and get it for you. If you can come up with something, all of us in Liushutun will be proud!"

Yan Dongsheng was deeply moved and worked even harder and more seriously.

When Xie Yun saw this situation, he immediately wrote another detailed article, describing how the poor and lower-middle peasants in Liushutun pursued progress, how the educated youth and technical talents from the city cared about the countryside and worked day and night to help the countryside develop and increase farmers' income, and how everyone was united and worked hard to achieve agricultural modernization.

Words alone were not vivid enough, so Xie Yun also drew a few pictures and sent them to the newspaper.

One is about beekeeping, "Technicians take root in the countryside to keep bees, and life in the new society is as sweet as honey"; one is about large-scale agricultural production, "The new society has brought a bumper harvest of grain, and workers and farmers can all have enough to eat"; and the other two are about night school classes, "The new society has given poor and lower-middle peasants the opportunity to learn culture" and "Educated youth are in the countryside, integrating with the poor and lower-middle peasants."

This article and these paintings took up a full page in the provincial newspaper and were subsequently reprinted by many other newspapers.

Liushutun officially entered the public eye.

The benefits that followed made the leadership team of Liushutun Brigade smile from ear to ear.

Once you gain fame and reputation, people all over the country will learn from you, and then various policies will be tilted in your favor.

Now that the model has been established, the government will only find ways to make it more firmly established.

The good will get better.

The Rencheng Tractor Factory sent a tractor directly to Liushutun without even going through the commune!

The brigade originally wanted to borrow people from the commune's timber factory to make beehives, and asked Lao Xu to come back and stay for a few days to make them. However, as soon as this request was made, the timber factory simply waved its hands and took over the task of making the beehives, as if it were supporting the farmers.

A few workers at the lumber mill worked together and within a few days, they had produced a large batch of beehives. And they didn't charge any money!

Yan Dongsheng and several members of the cooperative trapped a group of wild bees. The bee breeding farm in Yangqing County donated a batch of bees. Even a bee breeding farm in the south donated a batch of bees. They also sent people to exchange experiences, mainly to give lectures.

Zhang Guangzong's face was almost cramping from laughing.