Chapter 263: Second Lieutenant at Digital Hospital
April 1960, Tanggukou, Tianjin.
Lin Sanqi stood on the beach, looking at the expanding port and felt a little strange. The national economy was about to collapse, so how could there be money for infrastructure?
At this time, several militiamen came over and saw Lin Sanqi with a sly look on his face and shouted:
"Hey, what are you doing? Why are you staring at our port?"
At that time, the military and civilian ports were combined, just like the military and civilian airports of later generations. Lin Sanqi's staring at the port and watching the excitement made the militiamen look like a spy following him.
Lin Sanqi didn't get angry. This was someone else's job, so he had to cooperate. He wasn't the big brother from Tangshan next door who could start a fight with just a "look at anything" sound.
"It's a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding. I'm a purchaser for the Capital Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. This is my work ID. I'm here at the port to receive a batch of supplies. I've never seen the sea before, so I wanted to take a look."
The leading militiaman carefully checked Lin Sanqi's work ID, then looked at the jeep behind him, and his attitude immediately became friendly.
"It's Comrade Lin. Hello, hello. You want to see the sea? What's there to see in Tanggukou? You should go to Beidaihe. The water and beach there are great, perfect for a trip."
Lin Sanqi sprinkled a circle of cigarettes on everyone present, then said with a smile:
"We're all working on the revolution, so how could we have time to travel? Oh, and why is Tianjin Port still expanding at this hour? I don't think our country has that much import and export trade, right?"
Now that we have lost all the foreign exchange, where will we get the money to import?
(Lin Sanqi later found out through research that the Maple Leaf Nation had given my country over $300 million worth of wheat on credit. Unfortunately, much of the grain was taken away by our hungry little brothers, such as Albany, before it even reached the port.)
Among men, smoking makes everyone a brother:
"Hey, you comrades in the capital don't know this. The main reason is that our country's food supply has been tight in recent years. We need to increase food imports, but the current port berths are insufficient and cannot operate at night, so expansion is needed."
"Oh, I see..."
In fact, in the past three years, in addition to constant natural disasters, our country has also been constantly sucked blood by polar bears, causing extreme food shortages.
But a living person cannot be killed by holding in urine, so the country is trying every means to import food from Southeast Asia or other friendly countries to alleviate the famine.
However, due to the lack of foreign exchange, we were unable to purchase directly with US dollars or British pounds, so we could only purchase through barter, exchanging our domestic minerals and other resources for food. However, the lack of ports and small docks became a constraint.
It was under the conditions of extreme shortage of material supply that Tianjin Port started its second port expansion project.
People in later generations simply cannot understand how the country and people of this period persevered. The degree of difficulty was beyond everyone's imagination.
Lin Sanqi is just an ordinary citizen. Although he has the golden finger of time travel, he can only do his best.
After bidding farewell to the militia, Lin Sanqi drove a small jeep to the warehouse area at the dock. There were already several large Liberation trucks parked at the entrance of the warehouse, and Dean Liu was circling anxiously.
This warehouse belongs to the military system and was specially approved for Lin Sanqi to use. The key to the warehouse is kept by Lin Sanqi alone.
Lin Sanqi had no choice but to take this warehouse. After all, there was so much grain, and more grain might need to be transported from 2013. It was not a good idea to always have it in the capital area.
So in order to avoid trouble, Lin Sanqi asked for a warehouse in the port. There were a lot of ships coming and going here, and a large amount of supplies filled the port, which made it convenient for him to take advantage of the situation and give the other party a reasonable excuse.
When Dean Liu Shengli saw Lin Sanqi walking towards him, he felt relieved.
"Comrade Xiaolin, you've kept me waiting."
When Lin Sanqi saw the boss coming, he quickly got out of the car and ran over to shake hands:
"Dean Liu, I actually came a long time ago, but since you guys weren't here yet, I went to the beach for a walk."
When Liu Shengli heard this explanation, the slight dissatisfaction of waiting in his heart disappeared, the smile on his face became more sincere, and he waved to his subordinates.
The men brought over a box.
"Comrade Xiaolin, here, this box contains a complete set of second lieutenant uniforms. This is your work ID. I'm giving it to you now. From now on, you will be the deputy director of the procurement department of our digital hospital. We are family, so we can't talk behind each other's backs."
Lin Sanqi was overjoyed when he heard this and took the red book with both hands.
With this certificate, Lin Sanqi can almost walk around the country as he pleases. After all, the local public security department has no right to control him.
Since they had fulfilled their promise, Lin Sanqi was not stingy:
"President Liu, don't worry. From now on, the affairs of the Digital Hospital will be my responsibility, Lin Sanqi. I will devote myself to it until my death."
Dean Liu laughed and patted Lin Sanqi on the shoulder:
"Okay, okay, our country, our digital hospital needs people like you. How about food..."
Lin Sanqi held up two fingers: "100 tons of rice, 100 tons of wheat flour, all in there."
"flour and rice?"
“Definitely this year’s new food!”
"Hahaha, good boy, you're amazing! Everyone has some. Go and pack our grains. We'll have plenty of white flour, steamed buns, and rice tonight."
Dean Liu shouted to his staff, and everyone was excited:
"real?"
"Dean, you can't lie to us?"
"Oh my god, I haven't eaten steamed buns in over a year!"
Lin Sanqi was in a very happy mood when he saw the excited crowd. As soon as he opened the warehouse door and saw the bags of grain piled up in a mess, everyone rushed in.
Why is it piled up in a mess?
Because Lin Sanqi uses a leather conveyor belt to transport grain, it passed through the "channel space" from 2013 and directly delivered the grain via the conveyor belt to 1960.
It was good enough that the food could be transported here. It was obviously impossible to ask Lin Sanqi to stack them up bag by bag.
Dean Liu ran to the grain and opened a sack. White rice flowed out like water, which immediately caused another burst of exclamations.
"Good rice, it's really good rice. This is all fresh rice. Xiaolin, you are really good, haha."
"Dean, look, here is flour. Wow, it's so white. There's no cornmeal mixed in it. It's pure flour."
Hearing some employees exclaiming, Director Liu hurried over to check. For a moment, the little old man was flying around in the warehouse like a butterfly, extremely excited.
"Everyone, hurry up and load the food onto the truck! We need to be quick so that all the staff can have extra meals tonight!"
"yes!"
"Dean, don't worry!"
Looking at the bustling loading scene, Lin Sanqi quietly pulled Dean Liu to a few wooden boxes in the corner.
"President Liu, I've also obtained some scientific research materials, which I'm giving to the country for free. Please help pass them on to the higher authorities and make sure to study them carefully!"
Dean Liu saw that Lin Sanqi was speaking seriously, so he also suppressed his smile.
"Comrade Xiaolin, what kind of information is this? Is it sensitive?"
As a soldier, all he thinks about is weapons and military industry. If it is something in this area, it must be extremely sensitive and he is not qualified to open it and take a look.
But Lin Sanqi obviously won't touch military industry. Whoever touches this thing will die, and he will definitely be sent to Lop Nur by the relevant departments. Then how can he monetize the traffic?
Besides, he had no chance to handle weapons in 2013. He was just an ordinary young billionaire.
"Well, Dean Liu, have you heard about the high grain yields in developed countries? If our average yield per mu is 100 kilograms, then the average yield per mu in developed countries is definitely over 1,000 kilograms, more than ten times ours."
Dean Liu nodded, but did not express his opinion. Instead, he gestured for Lin Sanqi to continue:
"We only know that foreign countries have high grain yields because they use mechanized farming and a lot of fertilizers. But a major reason for their high yields is that their grain seeds are different from ours."
Dean Liu suddenly became interested and asked:
"Food is just rice, wheat, corn, and other crops, grown through breeding. How else could it be different?"
"No, what is used overseas is hybrid seed technology. So-called hybrid seeds are produced by natural or artificial pollination between two different strains of the same species. The purpose is to increase seed yield and quality mainly through the combination of genetic advantages."
Dean Liu thought for a while and expressed his understanding of hybrids:
"I think it's like finding a healthy, handsome, 180cm tall guy and a healthy, beautiful and generous girl, two excellent people to marry each other.
We hope that through this powerful combination, the baby born will be better and have stronger physical fitness. Is that right?"
Lin Sanqi thought to himself that this Dean Liu was indeed a high-level intellectual and it was not tiring to talk to him.
"Yes, that's understandable. I don't quite understand the details, but the grains grown in developed countries are hybrid seeds bred through a combination of powerful forces. That's why their grain yields are so high and can feed more people."
Dean Liu's expression began to change at this time, becoming more serious:
"Comrade Lin Sanqi, are you saying that this box contains everything in it, including grain hybridization technology?"
Lin Sanqi also nodded solemnly and said:
"Yes, it contains information on the hybridization of 18 grain varieties, including staple foods like rice, corn, wheat, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and more, as well as information on fruit and vegetable hybridization. If our scientists can fully grasp this technology, our grain production could increase several times."
Dean Liu was silent. What he was thinking was, can he trust Lin Sanqi?
(End of this chapter)
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