Chapter 1006: Chief, you are cheating me!
"Chief? Chief? Isn't 20,000 mu too much? Can that tractor really cultivate so much?" She Xin asked uncertainly, after all, he had never seen that tractor.
"It's a bit much. A tractor can cultivate 240 mu of land every hour. If you want to cultivate 20,000 mu of land, you have to plow it day and night for 70 days to turn over 20,000 mu of land." Luo Chong explained with a frown.
When everyone heard that the car in front could cultivate 240 mu of land every hour, they almost jumped up with joy. What kind of efficiency is this? How many cows are needed for the same area, and how long will it take to cultivate it? This tractor is too amazing.
But before they could cheer, they were poured a bucket of cold water on their heads by the second half of Luo Chong's words.
Even with such efficiency, it would take 70 days to cultivate 20,000 mu of land. That's 70 days, more than two months. If it were in the south, the spring rice might have already entered the grain filling period, and the cultivated land would have to be cultivated for two months. What a hammer.
"Oh, this..." She Xin sighed and said, "Then we still can't plant. I think we should find a way to prepare food from warehouses in various places. Fortunately, we have saved a lot in the past few years. Otherwise, if this amount of food is taken out, it may affect the counties here." "
No hurry, the official fields still need to be planted. I calculated again that one car takes seventy days. If there are ten cars, it only takes seven days. If there are twenty cars, the time can be compressed to three and a half days. In this way, from plowing to sowing, we only need seven days to complete everything. It is still feasible.
"Even if there are only ten cars, we can plant 10,000 acres of corn within seven days. Five cars means 5,000 acres. The institute now has an experimental model tractor. It is not a problem to build four more within three months.
"The land still needs to be planted. It is better to have 5,000 acres than none." Luo Chong stood up and waved his hand.
After saying this, everyone's confidence was raised again. Yes, it would be good to have 5,000 acres. If 5,000 acres can be planted for three seasons, it can also meet the food rations of 15,000 people, and can save a lot of reserve food for the tribe.
"Yes, yes, it's good to have 5,000 acres. This can relieve a lot of pressure for everyone. In addition, the promotion of civilian rice transplanters will start next year, and maybe it can increase production a lot. Chief, please give us the task. How do you need our cooperation?" She Xin was excited again after hearing this.
"Well, there are indeed a lot of things to do now."
Luo Chong walked around the room for a few times, making plans in various aspects in his mind quickly. Everyone in the room also focused on him, but knowing that the chief was thinking about something, they did not dare to disturb him. After a while, Luo Chong began to give orders.
"Guards!"
"Chief, what do you want?" A guard came in from outside the door and clasped his fists waiting for instructions.
"Select 60 candidates for the Jinwu Guard from the orphanages in various places, form a driving training class, and send them to the Xingang County Research Institute before December. I want them to master tractor driving skills before the spring, and be able to use tractors for farming operations proficiently." Luo Chong immediately issued the first order.
"This, Chief, may not have so many reserves of the right age." The guard hesitated and said.
Luo Chong glanced at him, "Then how old are they?"
"To reply to the chief, among the orphan reserve talents in the orphanage now, the oldest is fifteen years old. When they turn sixteen in the spring of next year, they can be released into society. However, there are not so many fifteen-year-olds for the time being. There may be more than thirty people. If you count the fourteen-year-olds, it should be enough." The guard immediately replied in a low voice.
When the Salesian House was established to adopt orphans from the tribe, Luo Chong had always let the Jinwu Guards manage it. These children were orphans who had just joined the Han tribe. For example, in their previous tribes, their mothers died in childbirth and their fathers died from injuries while hunting. There were too many such cases, and these children were not yet adults and could not set up their own families, so they could only be placed in the Salesian House for centralized training.
Just like Luo Chong, when he first came to this world, he was only ten years old and didn't know who his parents were. Including Shouya's father, the former leader of the Han tribe, who also died in hunting. For those tribes that still need hunting to survive, death is a very common phenomenon.
Luo Chong's original intention of establishing the Salesian House was to accommodate these orphans without parents, and to concentrate on training talents. When they become adults, they will be selected into the Jinwu Guards first and serve as their own guards. The children who are eliminated will enter the society and set up their own families and become ordinary people. Therefore, there has always been a talent reserve in the Salesian House controlled by the Jinwu Guards, but few local officials know about it because they have no right to manage it.
"Then include the fourteen-year-olds. When I was fourteen, I could do anything." After a pause, Luo Chong immediately made a decision.
"Yes! I'll do it right away." The guards clasped their fists and left.
The driver's problem was solved. Luo Chong turned around and looked at She Xin and other officials of Liuyang County, and ordered again.
"From today on, Liuyang County will be responsible for preparing the official fields. You must select water-friendly land in the area west of Liuyang County, north of Nanzhang County, and east of Ruyang County, and plan out 60,000 acres of official fields, and plan out reasonable irrigation canals and related water conservancy construction plans. You must also make landmarks in the area, such as flags, ropes, and lines, and then post notices to prevent people from casually stepping into this area, and declare it an official field for mechanized farming experiments.
"She Xin will be the general person in charge of this matter. I will only give you more than two months. You must complete this work before the end of the thirteenth month. If you don't plan it well by then, I will hold you accountable."
"Yes! But, chief, didn't you just say five thousand acres? How come it has become 60,000 mu again? ! "She Xin first bowed his hands in response, and then asked in confusion.
"Five thousand mu is the most conservative plan, but we have to prepare for 20,000 mu, and we don't have so much fertilizer, and the fields can't be planted continuously, so we can only relieve the fertility by leaving the fields fallow. These 60,000 mu are prepared for three seasons of corn, and only 20,000 mu will be planted at a time. Is there any problem?" Luo Chong explained.
"No problem, I guarantee to complete the task."
She Xin was just puzzled, not that it could not be completed. In the Han tribe, which mainly engaged in farming, there was not much to do in the government office in winter, and there were plenty of clerks to use, so after listening to Luo Chong's explanation, he immediately agreed.
Seeing that they had no problem, Luo Chong nodded, then turned around and went out. When She Xin saw him, he hurriedly chased him out and asked behind him.
"Chief, where are you going now?"
"Go to the research institute, finish the tractor finalization, and then give them production tasks. "Luo Chong said this, and left with his guards without looking back.
However, he did not leave Liuyang County immediately, but went to the home of Yang Dashan, the inventor of the rice transplanter, with his guards.
When he met Yang Dashan for the second time, Luo Chong said directly, "I am going to the research institute in Xingang County now. Do you want to go with me to see the tractors and rotary tillers? You can come back in two days to prepare. The one-month leave I approved for you will still count."
"Really? Can I see the tractor right now?" Yang Dashan was not upset because Luo Chong called someone at the last minute. On the contrary, he was very excited to see the tractor right away.
"Of course, tell your family to wear something thicker and follow me immediately. By the way, can you ride a horse?" Luo Chong nodded and asked again.
"No, I can't." Yang Dashan scratched his head. It was true that he was a carpenter, but he really had never ridden a horse.
"Then arrange a carriage for him, with a shed, and take the rice transplanter with you. You can go later. This time, you go there to see where you will work in the future, and second, list the various materials of the improved rice transplanter so that the institute can prepare them for you, such as chains and gear iron sheets, etc. After all these are explained, you can come back to arrange your family."
Luo Chong immediately asked the guards behind him to prepare the carriage, and then explained to Yang Dashan the mission of this trip.
Yang Dashan seemed very excited. He immediately went back to the house and told his family about this matter. Then he put on a thick cotton-padded jacket and coat, carried his rice transplanter and followed Luo Chong out.
The group of people quickly left the city and headed straight for Sitong County, and then turned from Sitong County to Xingang County. It took two days to arrive.
Seeing the leader who came to the institute again after half a month, Lin Fei seemed very happy and ran to Luo Chong to ask for credit.
"Leader, we have perfected the tractor. We will test it again. If there is no problem, we can finalize it. The loader has also made great progress. We have assembled the bare machine of the first loader and are waiting for the leader to come and test it. How about it? Is this two good news?" Lin Fei said happily.
"Really? I also have two good news to tell you, and at the same time, I have a difficult task for you. Which one do you want to hear first?" Luo Chong asked back teasingly after hearing what he said.
"Ah? The leader also has good news?" Lin Fei was stunned when he heard the words, and then said.
"Let me guess, is there another victory report from the north?"
Luo Chong shook his head. Qu Bing and You Ye had not sent him any message in the past half month.
"No? Could it be that the Tang tribe agreed to merge into our Han tribe?" Lin Fei guessed again.
Luo Chong continued to shake his head. The Tang tribe was currently undergoing a comprehensive sinicization. Except for not having the title of a Han tribe, it was actually no different from the counties of the Han tribe. It was just that Luo Chong had not taken the last step, but wanted to boil the frog in warm water, so that the transition of the Tang tribe would be more natural, so as not to leave a root of trouble in the future.
"No, then, could it be that You Fu found a coal mine in the south?" Lin Fei continued to guess.
Luo Chong was stunned when he heard this. He had been thinking about tractors and official fields these two days and almost forgot about the coal mine. He nodded and said.
"Youfu did find a coal mine in the south. I heard that the coal seam is relatively shallow, only more than 20 meters deep, but the location is a bit far, so transportation is a bit troublesome. In addition, they found an additional iron mine and a new crop from an unfamiliar tribe. These are three good news, but not the two I want to tell you."
"Ah? Did they really find coal? In that case, will our Xingang County have to make a big change again? If the south wants to build a steel mill, it will definitely have to assign a lot of technicians, and if the south needs to build railway transportation, then our train production plan will have to increase the number."
Lin Fei was stunned when he heard this, then he was happy, and then he became worried again. Now, whether it is a steel mill or a research institute, the tasks are very heavy, and there are so few available talents. If too many people are transferred at once, it will definitely affect the research institute itself.
His mind was focused on this, and he directly threw away Luo Chong's other two good news.
"Don't worry, even if it is built, it won't be that fast. I will give you two years to prepare. You can train more technical talents in these two years. You can choose any students from the school." Luo Chong patted his shoulder and said.
"But I don't want to tell you these two things. I came here this time to send you a talent and to give you a new task."
After hearing what Luo Chong said, Lin Fei put down his heavy thoughts and turned his attention to Luo Chong's words again.
"Talent? That's great. I'm worried about the lack of people. The person who can be sent by the leader himself must be good. Leader, who is he?" Lin Fei asked happily, sweeping away the haze just now.
"Hey, this is Yang Dashan, a carpenter at the Liuyang County Shipyard. He invented a hand-cranked rice transplanter by himself, and I happened to discover it by accident. I plan to send him to the agricultural machinery team to work. How about it?" Luo Chong pulled Yang Dashan who was following behind him and introduced him.
"Rice transplanter? A hand-cranked one? Oh, that's amazing. This is an invention that benefits all the people in the tribe. The people in the agricultural machinery group told me a few days ago that they have curved plows and harrows for reference in ploughing and sowing, but they still have no agricultural tools that can replace manual work for rice transplanting. They are still worried. With this brother's invention, everyone will definitely welcome it." Lin Fei immediately became excited when he heard this.
"This is Lin Fei, Director Lin of the Power Research Institute, your future boss. Why don't you greet me?" Luo Chong patted Yang Dashan on the shoulder and introduced him.
"Hello, Director Lin. My home is not here. I hope you can take care of me in the future. I will actively cooperate with everyone's work." Yang Dashan immediately bowed and said when he heard this.
"No, no, I can't accept your admiration for a great man like you. When your rice transplanter becomes popular in the future, all the people in the tribe will say hello to you." Lin Fei picked up a talent for nothing and immediately convinced him happily. He was so happy to have such an inventor join their R&D team that he would certainly take good care of him.
After the two exchanged greetings for a while, Lin Fei asked Luo Chong again, "Chief, what is the difficult task you just mentioned?"
"I found a good experimental field for you to test various agricultural machinery. It is 60,000 acres." Luo Chong said with a smile.
Lin Fei was delighted when he heard this, and when the corners of his mouth were rising rapidly, he heard Luo Chong say again, "In order to cultivate these lands, I need you to build 20 tractors and corresponding agricultural machinery before the spring."
The smile on Lin Fei's mouth, which had not yet opened, quickly collapsed when he heard this, and turned into a bitter face.
"Chief, you are pitting me. This is not difficult at all. Even if each of us grows four arms, I am afraid we can't complete it."
(End of this chapter)
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