The Feiyue Brigade is raising fish quite well, and Jiang Mengxue has also visited the breeding site.
The hygiene is also good.
Ducks and geese are raised in the team's fish pond, and their feces can help fish and shrimp grow better.
The collected animal manure can be used as nutrients, which are in short supply in the fields.
People in the countryside would not go to other people's toilets even when they need to go to the toilet.
No matter how uncomfortable I feel, I will go home and do it.
This is because the manure water is handed over to the team and work points are calculated accordingly.
At worst, you can use it in your own private plot.
There were even sewage tickets, which allowed you to go to the public toilets in the city to defecate.
It's disgusting, but it's all true.
The most indispensable thing for farming in the countryside is fertilizer.
There's nothing we can do about it.
Chemical fertilizers had not yet become widely used, and many people did not believe that using chemical fertilizers could increase crop yields.
Moreover, fertilizers are very scarce and you can’t get them just because you want them.
Chemical fertilizers were still in their infancy in China, and many people had never heard of them.
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Finally I got home and the food was already prepared in the pot.
I thought I would have lunch when I got home at noon, but I didn’t expect you to come back so late.
"Hey, are we having braised pork today?"
As soon as Jiang Mengxue opened the pot, she saw a plate of tempting red braised pork and a bowl of rice.
"Yes, I was given a piece of pork weighing seven or eight kilograms yesterday, so I ate as much as I could.
I never thought that there would be a day when we wouldn’t be able to finish all the meat at home. I never dared to think about it before.”
Jiang Mengxue paused, but didn't say anything.
She planned not to let Dahei bring meat home often in the future.
They just need to eat their fill in the mountains and then come back.
From now on, their family will have to eat simple meals like everyone else.
Even if outsiders suspect that they are eating delicious food and drinking spicy drinks at home, they cannot let others see it directly.
Their family is well-off, which is something almost everyone who knows them knows.
But considering that the situation in the next few years would not be good, they decided to keep a low profile to avoid attracting attention.
While eating, Jiang Mengxue expressed her thoughts.
Li Cuiying didn't know what was going on, but Gu Zhenjiang had reacted.
He used his grain book to buy grain all year round.
He knew someone at the grain store, so he didn't have to queue and had it much easier than others.
But in the past two months, if his friend hadn't reserved it for him, he might not have been able to buy it.
He was afraid that his family would worry, so he didn't say it directly, thinking of waiting and seeing how the situation developed.
I didn't expect that my niece-in-law could see the current food shortage problem just by going to the city.
“I asked around in the city and found out that many families can’t even afford basic food supplies and have to buy food at exorbitant prices on the black market.
Many people believe that the city’s food shortage can be solved by paying public grain after a period of time.
But we in the countryside know best that this year's harvest is not as good as in previous years, and it is probably much lower than last year.
Severe droughts have hit many areas, severely impacting harvests.
In fact, it would be fine if there was still food stored in previous years. However, since the commune canteens opened last year, many places have eaten up all the stored food, and only when there was not enough food did they start to exercise restraint.
Furthermore, this year's agricultural production plan has reduced the area allocated for grain planting, so I'm afraid... things will be tough."
These words are not exaggerated. You can find out about these things by just reading more newspapers.
What's more, Jiang Mengxue can also know things that everyone else doesn't know. She knows clearly what will happen in the next few years.
Although Gu Zhenjiang does not participate in the team's work, Gu Zhenxing will come to him to discuss anything, so he is also very clear.
"Your uncle went to a meeting at the commune some time ago, and the per-acre yield targets were getting higher and higher.
If it's to complete the task above, you have to lie, but the extra amount will be made up by the people below."
This may not be easy to understand.
To put it simply, the production teams below are required by the higher authorities to achieve an output of 1,000 kilograms per mu this year. If you fail to meet the reported output, the lightest consequence will be criticism.
If you want to impress your leader or complete a task, you can also report the output of your production team as high as possible.
But what comes with it is that no matter how much yield per mu you report, you have to pay public grain according to your output, 25% of the total amount.
If the harvest is good, 15 percent of the grain will be sold to the state, which will be the surplus.
Of course, this depends on the local food situation.
It is impossible that the surplus grain is not enough for the people to eat and has to be sold to the state.
Jiang Mengxue knew that many of the natural disasters in the past three years were caused by human factors.
At this moment, she felt uneasy and frowned as she asked, "Second uncle, what are the eldest uncle and the others thinking? We can't just lie about the production volume to complete the task. The extra food will have to come from everyone's rations."
If we really did that, and everyone knew about it, who knows what would happen. Our Gu family would become the sinners in the team."
Food is everyone's life. If Gu Zhenxing sacrifices everyone's interests just to avoid being embarrassed in front of his leader.
No matter who you are, the final result will definitely not be light.
If anyone were to starve to death again, the Gu family would become the enemy of everyone in the Feiyue Brigade.
This is not an exaggeration at all, so the decisions made by the team leader affect everyone in the team, and it all depends on how they act.
Gu Zhenjiang also realized the seriousness of the matter.
But the final result will still depend on this year's harvest.
If the above requirements are met, everyone will be happy.
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