There are several reasons why crop yields are low:
1. Whether the seeds are high-yielding; 2. Whether the land is fertile or barren; 3. Whether there is enough fertilizer; 4. There should be no water shortage and no flooding.
Too little water is a problem, and too much water is also a problem.
Seeing the groundwater gushing out like it was free and flowing all over the fields, everyone in the Chinese medicine hospital felt extremely distressed.
Only those who have experienced drought know how precious water resources are.
Not to mention other places, just take the Ming Tombs as an example. Even the reservoirs were dry and farmers had difficulty getting water. As a result, the water drawn here was wasted. Everyone felt like they had lost hundreds of millions.
Vice President Ji gritted his teeth and shouted to everyone:
"Everyone, don't just stand there, hurry up and dig a ditch with your tools to divert the water away. Don't let our newly planted crops drown."
When everyone heard this, they hurriedly went to look for furniture.
At this moment, an urgent brake sound was heard, and then Dean Shen was seen running over in a hurry.
When Comrade Lao Shen saw the fountain in the middle of the farmland, he was so excited that he burst into laughter:
"Haha, what an auspicious sign! I really picked a great place with great feng shui! This spring water is so good, so wonderful! Ah, why is it all flowing away? Hurry and catch it."
Sure enough, there was such a shortage of water that everyone’s first reaction after seeing water was to keep it.
Lin Sanqi rolled his eyes:
"Dean, are you going to use a basin or a bucket to catch it?"
Dean Shen thought so too. He knew that the groundwater was drilled out by Lin Sanqi last night, and the fact was also informed to him by Lin Sanqi over the phone.
"Lao Ji, Xiao Qi, the discovery of water on our farm must be kept secret. We can't let the surrounding villages know about it. Otherwise, it will easily lead to land disputes. After all, our farm is technically still their land."
When the Chinese Medicine Hospital Farm was established, it only had the right to use the land, while the ownership still belonged to several nearby villages.
If they knew that there was a spring on the Chinese Medicine Hospital Farm, there was no doubt that the villagers would want the spring back. If you refused, they would solve the problem the rural way, which was to fight.
Deputy Ji had his own concerns: "Old Shen, I'm afraid this matter won't be concealed for much longer."
"We have to keep it a secret for as long as we can. At least we have to keep our footing. Also, we have to hide this spring so that no one else can see it. We need to find a way."
After several hours of spraying, the spring eye is no longer a tall fountain, but a stream of water gushing up like Baotu Spring.
Baotu Spring?
Lin Sanqi thought of a text he had learned in elementary school, and suddenly had an inspiration:
"Dean Shen, Vice President Ji, have you ever seen the real Baotu Spring in Jinan?"
Dean Shen and Vice Dean Ji both nodded. For old comrades who have been involved in the revolution for so many years, let alone Baotu Spring, they had even walked through the snow-capped mountains and prairie in person.
"Baotu Spring is a spring that gushes up from underground. Let's learn from it and dig a large pool around the spring. That way, people from afar will know we have built a reservoir, but they won't know what's inside the pool."
After hearing what Lin Sanqi said, Dean Shen and Vice Dean Ji immediately had a picture in their minds:
Vice President Ji slapped his thigh:
"Yes, this is a good idea. Nowadays, due to water shortages in rural production and construction, the common solution is to build reservoirs. If others can build them, we can too, right? It won't attract attention."
Dean Shen also breathed a sigh of relief:
"That's a good idea. Besides, although we can't build a brick wall, we can build a fence around the farm and plant some creepers and gypsophila to at least block the prying eyes from outside."
Lin Sanqi also nodded repeatedly:
"This must be done. Not only does the spring have to be kept secret, but our yield per mu will reach 2,000 catties, while others will only get around 100 catties. This huge yield disparity will attract malicious people. What if they steal all our produce?"
Some people might say that farmers are simple people. Why do you, Lin Sanqi, judge them by your own standards? Why do you think farmers would steal their food?
Because Lin Sanqi understands human nature better.
A farmer is almost starving to death, and his entire family, young and old, are skin and bones, but there are large and fruitful corn and wheat fields next to him. What do you think the farmer will do?
When people are starving to death, what's the point of caring about morality and honor? They will definitely steal food to save their lives.
Even if you can't steal, you can just rob directly. At worst, you will die, sooner or later. Chen Sheng and Wu Guang have the most say in this.
When people are in desperate situations, they can do anything. At this time, let alone robbing, even if there is a giant panda in front of you, you will have no problem killing it and eating its meat.
In the words of Professor Luo Xiang, this is called emergency risk avoidance, and there is no legal responsibility.
Dean Shen asked with some doubt:
"Xiao Qi, can these seeds really produce 2,000 kilograms of corn per mu? Or over 6,000 kilograms of potatoes per mu? You're not bragging, are you?"
In the 5,000-year history of this land, there has never been a region or period where the crop yield has reached such an astonishing figure. No wonder Dean Shen was a little unconvinced.
Lin Sanqi explained with a smile:
"Uncle Shen, don't you usually read books or newspapers? The newspaper said that the grain yield per mu in Liuzhou has reached 100,000 kilograms. Children can sit on rice without falling. How can our yield per mu be more than 1,000 kilograms?"
Dean Shen's face suddenly turned from red to white, from white to blue, and then from blue to black. He suddenly cursed at Lin Sanqi:
"Bullshit, bullshit, you're all from the countryside, don't you know how much the yield per mu is? You said it's 100,000 kilograms per mu, you son of a bitch? Weigh all the soil in the field and see if it's 100,000 kilograms? You're a bunch of animals."
Lin Sanqi was spitted all over by the old man and quickly wiped it off:
"Anyway, I can guarantee that I can produce 1,000 kilograms of corn, 800 kilograms of wheat, and 3,000 kilograms of potatoes per mu, and the yield will only increase, not decrease. If there is less, I will make up for the shortfall."
Vice President Ji didn’t care what Dean Shen was doing, and excitedly started to settle accounts one after another.
"If we can really produce over a thousand kilograms per mu, then our thousand mu of land will become a fortune, and the thousands of employees and their families at our Chinese medicine hospital will all be able to eat."
Lin Sanqi added: "I'm just too full. I can trade it for meat."
Hehehe~~~
Lin Sanqi and Vice President Ji chuckled at the thought of a bright future. President Shen, who hadn't recovered yet, sighed.
"We have preferential policies from the state. Farmers can keep whatever they produce for themselves and don't have to pay the public grain tax. But other places have to pay the public grain tax. The higher the yield per mu, the more you have to pay. Those who brag about it deserve to die."
Vice President Ji quickly reminded him, "Alright, alright, Old Shen, stop talking. If you keep talking, this novel will be brought to the palace again."
Lin Sanqi also quickly changed the subject:
"So we need to dig a hole. How do we do it? By hand or by machine?"
Vice President Ji said without hesitation: "I will organize the staff immediately. If we all work together and work hard for half a month, we will definitely be able to dig a big pond."
Lin Sanqi thought to himself, you let the weak scholars dig a pond, and then carry away the mud and rocks they dug out. How long will that take?
Moreover, this group of medical staff is of great use to him. After waiting for so long, the four secret medicines contributed by those old national treasures should be produced by now, right?
Dean Shen glanced at Lin Sanqi suspiciously:
"You must have some idea, kid? Can you get some mechanized tools?"
Lin Sanqi chuckled: "Don't worry, leave it to me..."
At that time, there were also excavators, bulldozers and other mechanized equipment in the country, but they were very few. There was no Lanxiang in those days, and all the machinery was in the hands of the engineering troops.
Lin Sanqi returned to modern society and bought a second-hand excavator.
After years of exposure to wind and rain, and with the construction site covered in sewage and mud, the second-hand excavator looked riddled with holes and shabby, and was no longer noticeable at all.
After learning the operation for one day, Lin Sanqi started working on the computer with full confidence.
Fortunately, the structures of excavators in the 1950s and 1960s were similar to those of excavators decades later, and would not arouse suspicion, so Lin Sanqi started working during the day.
With the spring as the center, a pond of three acres square was dug, which will not only be used for irrigation but also for raising fish.
The excavated soil was transported to the edge of the farm by large trucks, and an earthen wall was built starting from the foot of the mountain.
Lin Sanqi drove the excavator again and dug a 3-meter-deep and 5-meter-wide ditch on the edge of the farm, like a moat around the city, to prevent villagers from entering and leaving the farm at will.
Dean Shen also selected 20 young and middle-aged people from the employees' families to serve as temporary security guards, whose duty is to protect the safety of the farm.
While Lin Sanqi was busy, the Chinese Medicine Hospital was less busy because the flu epidemic was over, so they began to develop the four medicines that Lin Sanqi needed: "Qingxin Zhengfeng Pills", "Babao Pills", "Duanxueliu" and "Aoaojiao".
In the pharmacy
Lin Sanqi, looking very ashamed, left the construction site and looked at the pills in front of him. He asked in surprise:
"Master, is this your Qingxin Zhengfeng Pill?"
Xiao Longyou raised his chin high and said, "My family's Qingfeng Pills are handed down from ancestors. Remember, our Qingfeng Pills are much more authentic than the Le family's Angong Niuhuang Pills."
Lin Sanqi nodded repeatedly and asked doubtfully:
"Master, why did the Le family name it Angong Wan? If you don't know, you might think it's a pregnancy-maintaining medicine."
"You really should learn this. 'An Gong' means to calm the 'palace of the heart.' The heart governs the mind, and symptoms such as high fever, coma, irritability and incoherent speech are considered to indicate an uneasy heart."
Therefore, when warm and hot evil invades the body, the pericardium is the recipient of the evil on behalf of the heart, which is called heat entering the pericardium. Angong Pills mainly use bezoar to clear the heart and detoxify, and penetrate the pericardium. They combine various herbs into a pill to clear the heat evil that has invaded the pericardium, thereby clearing the heat evil.
The heart and spirit can settle in peace, so it should have been named Anxin Niuhuang Wan, but our family's pill is called Qingxin Zhengfeng Wan, so we took the word "heart" from it, so they can only call it Angong Niuhuang Wan.
Lin Sanqi and Pan Ye looked at the pill in front of them, which was the same size and color as "Marshmallows", and were full of curiosity.
Lin Sanqi picked up the pill, smelled it, and asked curiously:
"Master, the Le family's Angong Niuhuang Pills have become a state secret recipe, not known to outsiders. Which part do you think needs to be kept secret? After all, the ingredients used in Angong Niuhuang Pills are public knowledge, so how can we keep it secret?"
Old Master Xiao asked in return: "Oh, then tell me, what medicinal ingredients are used in their Angong Niuhuang Pills?"
Lin Sanqi had looked through the materials and could actually recite this:
"Let me calculate. It should be composed of 11 medicinal ingredients: bezoar, musk, buffalo horn, coptis root, scutellaria, gardenia, cinnabar, pearl, realgar, turmeric, and borneol."
"etc!"
Old Master Xiao frowned. "That's not right. Tong Ren Tang uses buffalo horns? They don't use rhino horns anymore?"
Lin Sanqi stuck out his tongue, knowing that he had let the cat out of the bag. Since the animal protection law had not yet been issued, it was completely possible to use rhino horns.
"No, I remembered it wrong. By the way, Master, I don't understand one thing. Since the ingredients of the formula are already known to outsiders, why do they still claim that it is a confidential formula?"
Xiao Longyou sighed, thinking that Lin Sanqi was hopeless, but since he was his own disciple, he could only explain patiently:
"Whether it's Angong Niuhuang Pills or my family's Qingxin Zhengfeng Pills, they come from the same school and are both traditional raw powder pills. That is, all the medicinal materials are ground into fine powder, and then the powder is mixed with refined honey to make pills directly, without going through the extraction process.
On the surface, it doesn't look complicated. It just involves five steps: powdering, mixing, pilling, coating, and wax sealing. That's probably what you're thinking, right?
Lin Sanqi nodded repeatedly, thinking to himself, to put it bluntly, isn't it just mixing all the herbs together and kneading them into balls? How simple is that?
But since the old man asked this, he must have his intention, so Lin Sanqi quickly took out a pen and paper, knowing that the sex scene was about to begin and he had to record it quickly.
Old Master Xiao was very satisfied with Lin Sanqi's poor writing skills despite having a good memory. He was a good student who would learn even when he didn't understand.
“However, there is a hidden secret in the five steps I just mentioned.
For example, how finely should herbs be ground? How should they be ground? How should they be gradually mixed without losing any of their ingredients? How should the honey be aged and how much honey should be added? How should the honey be mixed and gradually infused?
What measures should be taken in different seasons? How do you make honey pills melt in your mouth without leaving any residue? How do you hammer gold into a thin, brittle, and delicate coating?
How are sealed wax pills made? What's the thickness of the wax seal? How can the wax shell not only be airtight but also aesthetically pleasing and easy to engrave? These are the secrets that ensure the pills' efficacy."
Lin Sanqi put down his notebook, his head spinning.
"Master, so many questions? So complicated? Oh my god, it's really hard for ordinary people to learn it."
“It’s hard to learn, but it’s even harder to do.”
Old Master Xiao took out a white plate from the side, and a strong smell immediately spread around.
"Look, this is musk (natural wild). Musk is taken from the musk sac at the navel of the forest musk deer, the black musk deer or the wild musk deer. Therefore, the musk kernels are mixed with a lot of fluff. You see, it is densely packed with hairs.
Because musk kernels are soft and oily, these hairs must be manually picked out to avoid affecting the pills and taste. Look again, this dish of musk is clean and pure musk, suitable for medicinal use. Compare it."
Lin Sanqi compared them and asked in surprise:
"Wow, the hair is so fine and small. How long will it take to pick it out?"
Song Xingjian, the Chinese medicine practitioner standing nearby, smiled and continued:
"I did this job when I was an apprentice. After picking the wool seven or eight times, I was very satisfied and handed it to the master for inspection. The master said it was too early and the work was too careless. I felt quite wronged at the time.
Later, the master took the tools from my hands and continued to pick the hairs from the musk over and over again, demonstrating to me. "Doctor Kobayashi, don't underestimate this dish of musk. It takes three days and three nights to pick the hairs."
"Wow~~~This is very labor-intensive."
Lin Sanqi thought, no wonder all the major Chinese medicine factories gave up on handmade production after a few decades. One reason was that natural raw materials were unusable or too rare, and another was probably that the labor and efficiency were simply too high to bear.
"Then Master, if we release this Qingfeng Zhengxin Pill, we must keep it a secret formula. It can't be easily reverse-engineered by outsiders. Do we have any means to prevent others from imitating us?"
Angong Niuhuang Wan is not a "trade name" but a "generic name". There are hundreds of pharmaceutical companies across the country that produce Angong Niuhuang Wan and sell it on the market.
But among hundreds of pharmaceutical companies, only Tong Ren Tang is the most famous, which shows that Tong Ren Tang Pharmaceutical must have its own unique features to stand out.
Mr. Xiao is almost 80 years old, and his energy is not as good as before. So he pointed at Song Xingjian next to him and said:
"Xiao Song is an honest man who keeps his mouth shut. I gave him the production process of Qingxin Zhengfeng Pills and the proportions of the main and secondary drugs in the formula. Let him teach you."
Song Xingjian is over 50 years old this year. He has been a pharmacist since he was a child and has worked in a pharmacy for nearly 40 years. He can be called a half-grandmaster.
"Master Song, thank you for your help."
"Hey, Doctor Xiaolin, you're too polite. Don't worry, our pharmacy has its own rules. I'll keep the production process that the old men gave me to myself and won't spread it around."
Lin Sanqi nodded, knowing that the older generation of intellectuals had a sense of dignity, abided by the rules of the trade, kept their promises, and could be trusted.
"Master Song, what's so special about my master's Qingxin Zhengfeng Pills? If I were to outsource the production to someone else, how would I keep it a secret?"
Master Song nodded and took out a few tools to start practicing:
"Qingxin Zhengfeng Pills, the manufacturing process is indeed different from other Angong Pills. For example, the 'Water Flying Method', 'Circling for 100 Days', and 'Beating 100 Hammers' are three rarely used pharmaceutical techniques. Doctor Kobayashi, please let me explain.
For example, cinnabar and realgar are insoluble in water, which will affect the performance of the medicine and thus affect the efficacy. We need to crush the medicine appropriately, grind it into a paste with an appropriate amount of water, and add a lot of water to stir.
Wait for a moment until the coarse powder settles, then pour out the suspension. Grind the settled coarse particles again, and repeat this process until the mixture is finely ground. Finally, combine the poured suspension, dry the precipitate, and grind it again.
This method of preparing an extremely fine powder by repeatedly grinding and separating coarse and fine powders using the different suspension properties of the powder in water is based on the 'water-flying method' described in the Song Dynasty's Shenghui Fang. This process is rarely used today because it is too complicated.
Lin Sanqi understood, and then combined with the Western medicine knowledge he had learned, he quickly understood it.
The ultimate purpose of using the raw powder of cinnabar and realgar as medicine is to increase the surface area of the drug, promote its dissolution and absorption, and improve its bioavailability.
For this reason alone, the finer the crush, the better, and the more and faster it will be absorbed.
Therefore, there is a concept of "ultrafine grinding" in modern pharmaceutical technology.
That is, particle size between 1~100nm is called nanopowder, particle size between 0.1~1um is called submicron powder, and particle size greater than 1μm is called micron powder; generally speaking, particle size below 5μm can achieve the purpose of improving therapeutic effect.
The pharmaceutical manufacturing processes of Chinese and Western medicine are different, but the methods are similar, which means that the results are also the same.
Song Xingjian continued to introduce:
“There are other medicinal ingredients, and we all need different processes to prepare them. For example, to make pearls, we have to cut the tofu, dig out the core, wrap the pearls in gauze, put them into the tofu, cover it, steam it in a steamer for the appropriate time, and then specially process it into powder;
In addition, coptis chinensis, scutellaria baicalensis, gardenia jasminoides, turmeric powder, borneol, bezoar, rhinoceros horn, and musk all have their own special preparation methods. After grinding into powder, the above powders must be ground in equal amounts in an increasing color method, mixed evenly, and sieved.
This is the special method of preparing the powder, and this is the incremental coloring method. I have recorded it all according to Mr. Xiao's instructions."
When Lin Sanqi took over the information, his mind was a little confused. He thought that there were so many details in just grinding. This ancient method of making medicine was too difficult to learn and too difficult to do.
"Next, we'll begin refining the aged honey. We'll mix honey at the appropriate temperature with the medicinal powder to form a medicinal ball, place it in a porcelain container, and seal it. This is called 'circling for a hundred days'. This allows the medicinal ball to be evenly moisturized...
After a hundred days, the pill is removed and beaten with a jujube wood hammer, known as "beating it a hundred times." It is then placed on a pill-pushing board and pressed into pills of equal size. Finally, it is coated with gold, waxed, and packaged. The Qingxin Zhengfeng Pill is then complete.
This lecture lasted for almost two hours. Lin Sanqi already had a thick stack of materials in his hand, and he was so confused after listening to it.
Xiao Youlong looked at Lin Sanqi with a half-smile: "Well, do you understand?"
Lin Sanqi scratched his head: "Maybe, maybe, I understand a little bit."
Pan Ye said firmly beside him, "Master, don't worry. I understand everything and have memorized the precautions."
Old Master Xiao smiled with relief: "It's okay, Xiaolin, you found a good wife."
Pan Ye blushed again when he heard this, but Lin Sanqi was a little smug: "That's right, your disciple has such good taste."
Master Song also said happily:
"So, Doctor Kobayashi, are you still afraid that others will imitate our pharmaceutical process? It's not difficult for outsiders to reverse-analyze which herbs are used. The difficulty lies in the production process. Qingfeng Pills have more than a hundred steps, and others can't imitate them.
Even Tong Ren Tang's Angong Niuhuang Wan (Angong Niuhuang Wan) has a very different manufacturing process than our Qingfeng Wan. Therefore, in terms of efficacy, their Angong Wan cannot compare to our Qingfeng Wan. Clinical trials will reveal which one is more effective. (End of chapter)
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