Chapter 1033: New Year's Day, tractors are off the assembly line.
Because of Bai Qi's incident, Xiaodie no longer worries about no one reading her books. Although the book she wrote is still not read by many people, it has played a huge role in promoting the development of the Han tribe, and even aroused Xiaodie's reverse attention to printing technology, hoping to borrow printing technology to feed back to the cloth printing and dyeing industry.
However, the advancement of technology is not so easy, and she didn't think of anything for a while.
On the other hand, as the New Year is approaching, Luo Chong's attention is increasingly focused on the newly developed experimental fields in Liuyang County.
At present, the 60,000 mu of experimental fields that Luo Chong requested to develop have basically achieved the clearance requirements. This huge area of 12 kilometers long and 10 kilometers wide has been completely cleared by the people hired by She Xin. Except for the weeds in the field, other bushes and trees should be pulled out and cut down. The trees were cut down and taken back for firewood and building materials. The pulled out bushes were directly piled up, and the weeds in the field were burned clean. When the time comes, the grass ash will be evenly spread on the field, which can be used as fertilizer.
In addition, at the eastern end of the experimental field near Liuyang County, buildings such as grain drying fields, garages, repair yards, staff dormitories, and temporary storage warehouses have also begun the preparation stage of construction. The land has been leveled and the foundation has been done. It will be ready for construction as soon as the spring warms up. As for the staff dormitories and garages that are currently in urgent need, they have been solved with rammed earth and wooden garage sheds.
The garage is naturally used to park agricultural machinery such as tractors and harvesters, while the staff dormitory is for the agricultural machinery drivers, the staff of Sinong Temple, and the engineers of the repair shop. They all have to live here to facilitate the cultivation of the test field.
It is now the middle of the thirteenth month. There is only about half a month left before the delivery time of twenty tractors and their corresponding agricultural tools required by Luo Chong before the New Year's Day. It is only a dozen days. The mechanized farming test field has made all the preparations, except for the drivers and agricultural machinery.
Luo Chong is very anxious, and Lin Fei of Xingang County is also anxious. Seeing that the delivery time is coming, only ten tractors that can be put into use have been put off the production line, and half of the task has not been completed. How can he not be anxious?
The ten tractors that have been put off the production line have been handed over to the driving training class for the trainees to use for training, but Lin Fei's plan was not like this. He was going to produce all the necessary parts and then assemble them together. But the leader did not allow him to do so and insisted that he assemble a few first for the trainees to practice.
Lin Fei knew that what Luo Chong said made sense. The training vehicles for practice cannot be less, otherwise when they have built enough tractors, there will be no one to drive them. However, this still disrupted his rhythm. He had no choice but to work overtime to rush the work.
"Everyone, work harder. We must complete the production tasks assigned by the leader before the New Year. This batch of tractors is related to whether our compatriots in the north can have food next year.
"Now the Shen Ce Guards are leading our compatriots in the north to fight against those fierce cannibal barbarians, winning battle after battle. Can you bear to see them lose the battle because of lack of food? Now this task falls on our shoulders. Although we don't have to go to the north to fight the enemy desperately, we can't hold back our brothers on the front line. You know, among those brothers on the front line, there are still our families.
"There are only ten days left now. I know that everyone is working very hard, but I hope that everyone will hold on for these ten days. As long as we complete the task of 20 tractors, everyone will receive two months' salary as a year-end bonus. The holiday is coming soon, and everyone will have a good year with this bonus. During the New Year's Day, I will give you half a month's vacation so that you can go home and have a good rest.
"Also, I have a good news to tell you. The leader is very satisfied with our progress. In order to show his concern for everyone, he has specially sent two hundred fat pigs, two carloads of cabbage, and ten thousand kilograms of taro vermicelli by train today. He plans to let the canteen make pork, cabbage and vermicelli stew for us to improve our meals. In addition, as long as we complete the task on time, in addition to the two months' salary as a year-end bonus, the leader will also give us other New Year's goods. You must not let the leader down! "
Ding, ding, dang, dang, in the factory workshop where all kinds of noisy sounds gathered, Lin Fei walked and shouted with a tin horn, doing ideological work for the workers.
He directly upgraded the original ordinary tractor production task to the lofty level of life and death of the soldiers on the front line to put pressure on everyone, and then repeatedly mentioned the generous year-end bonus to stimulate everyone's nerves, and finally mentioned the improvement of the food quality in the canteen in front of them, which made everyone suddenly have endless energy.
The leader and the director have said this, even if they are exhausted, they must do it. Isn't it just that there are ten tractors left to be built? Everyone just works hard.
So, the entire mechanical system The factory worked in three shifts from morning till night, and the production never stopped. Finally, on the night before the New Year's Day, the last tractor was assembled. At this point, the order for 20 tractors was completed, and 20 tractors rolled off the production line on time and in quantity.
In fact, to be honest, they exceeded the task, because Luo Chong calculated that if they wanted to plant 20,000 acres of land within a week, they would need at least 20 tractors. However, they had already produced a verification machine, which was the prototype used for finalization. Now, in addition to the prototype, they have produced 20 mass-produced models, so with the addition of one That's 21 vehicles, so it's considered that the task has been exceeded.
Tomorrow is the New Year's Day, which is also the New Year's Day for the Han tribe. It will be a month after the New Year's Day before the spring ploughing and sowing. However, considering the vast area of mechanized farming and the scarcity of agricultural machinery, Luo Chong decided to let the agricultural machinery team enter the site in advance.
But of course it can't be now. Even if those drivers are orphans without parents, they still have to celebrate the New Year. What's more, they have gone through three months of intensive training. They should be given a holiday anyway.
So in the end, Luo Chong decided to let the agricultural machinery team take a week off, and wait until the eighth day of the fourteenth month to drive the fleet for patrol. Hang four counties, and use those tractors to transport the rice transplanters produced to the counties that need to grow rice. At the same time, it is also to show the people how powerful the tribe is now. The Han tribe now has machinery and vehicles that can automatically plow the land without cattle and horses.
As for why it is four counties, this is also very simple. Muye County in the northern three counties does not grow rice, but mainly grows dryland crops and raises livestock, so naturally it does not need rice transplanters. Xingang County does not grow land either. On the contrary, Weishan County in the east is close to the lake and is the main rice production area. But there is a train directly to Xingang County, so it is more convenient to transport rice transplanters by train.
Therefore, the route that Luo Chong set for them was to go directly south from Xingang County, go through Fumaguan County to Hanyang County, cross the Rushui River to Ruyang County, and then continue eastward to Nanzhang County, and finally to Liuyang County, to reach their destination, the mechanized farming experimental field. As for the rice transplanters needed by Liuyang County and Dongxin County downstream, they were transported by water from Weishan County, which would be faster. Besides, if there were too many rice transplanters, the twenty tractors would not be able to carry so many.
So, the young men in the driving class had a relaxing holiday. They were temporarily still part of the military establishment of the Jinwu Guard, so all the supplies and benefits for the festival were all issued according to the standards of the Jinwu Guard. Now they were considered to have entered society and started working on their own. From today onwards, they would start to receive salaries so that they could start a family and start a business. These young men were also taken to Hanyang County by Luo Chong's guards and spent the New Year with everyone in the barracks of the imperial army, otherwise they would have nowhere to go.
On the day of the New Year's Day, just like last year, many county governors who were close to Hanyang County and officials from central agencies came to pay New Year's greetings to Luo Chong, and also sent him many gifts. Luo Chong also gave many year-end bonuses to officials at all levels of the Han tribe.
However, unlike last year, the gifts presented by various places this year did not have any refreshing high-tech. After all, no matter how fast the technology exploded, it was impossible to produce so many results in one year. The foundation of the Han tribe was weak after all. When it came to top R&D talents, there were actually no more than a thousand of them, all of which were recruited in two research institutes. Last year, the tasks of the two research institutes were very heavy, and even the tasks assigned by Luo Chong were difficult, so how could they have the leisure to do anything else.
During the New Year's Day, the people were really lively for a while, and there was a wave of taking photos to commemorate the occasion in various places. Luo Chong's own family was no exception, but the only difference was that he had a camera and a darkroom for developing photos at home, so he didn't have to make an appointment and queue up like the people.
This year is another extremely special year. Luo Chong's family has increased again, which is a happy event.
The eldest son Luo Cheng and the second daughter Luo Lan have grown up safely to the age of four. The third son Luo Xing and the fourth son Luo Ji are now half a year old. The population of Luo Chong's family is becoming more and more prosperous. Luo Chong, the leader of the Han tribe, is now in his twenties. He is in his prime, just like the rising Han tribe. Sooner or later, he will develop into an empire.
In fact, Luo Chong has been working hard for the founding of the country, sweeping away the cannibals in the north, capturing slaves to build the capital, and building a cross-sea bridge connecting the mainland and Qiongzhou Island. Then, there will be no foreign enemies to interfere with Luo Chong's rule over the existing territory, and the Han tribe can focus on development, increase population, and strengthen its own strength.
Now the strategic layout of the Han tribe has been basically completed. The former Chinese God Rabbit relied on the strategy of surrounding the city from the countryside to conquer the world, while the Han tribe led by Luo Chong, because of the problem of sparse population, just did the opposite, adopting the strategy of point-to-surface, first occupying the land.
Since the development of the Han tribe, almost all the traffic routes, strategic resources, and fertile grain-producing areas discovered by the Han tribe have been occupied by building cities and relocating people, just like hammering nails in these places. These nails span tens of thousands of miles from south to north, from the towering snow-capped mountains in the north to the islands overseas in the south, and now have established strongholds.
Then according to the next development, as long as the Han tribe can hold these strongholds, develop the population as soon as possible, and relocate people from these strongholds to the surrounding areas, sooner or later, the land occupied by the Han tribe can be connected with counties and villages one by one. At that time, the Han tribe will have no rivals in this world.
The framework that Luo Chong built is like a person's head, limbs, and internal organs, all of which control the vital parts of this human body. Then the rivers and railways serve as the skeleton and tendons and blood vessels to connect the vital parts of various places. Now we only need to develop steadily and fill this human body with muscles and skin, so that this person can be considered to have truly grown up.
Luo Chong, who has completed the strategic layout, is in a good mood. On the day of the New Year's Day, he paid for a banquet for officials from various places who came to pay New Year's greetings. At the banquet, everyone also heard Lin Fei, Dali, She Xin and others talk about tractors and mechanized farming test fields. They didn't know about these things before, because these people didn't participate in it. When they just knew about it, they were shocked beyond words.
They thought that this year's New Year's Day would not be like the previous two years, always able to come up with some dazzling scientific and technological achievements. They were embarrassed to mention this matter, for fear of making Luo Chong unhappy. After all the fuss, it was not that there were no scientific and technological achievements, but that the tribe's technology had achieved major results, but they were the only ones who didn't know about it.
"Chief, why haven't you issued any notice about this tractor? Why haven't you even kept it a secret from us? This is a great thing. If it can be publicized everywhere, it will surely win the loyalty and joy of the people." Yun Zhi, the governor of Ruyang County, said first.
"Yes, Chief, when can we see that tractor?" Jing Yan, the governor of Dongxin County, also asked.
"I don't mean to hide it from you. It's just that you haven't participated in this project yet. And it's impossible for tractors to be quickly promoted everywhere for the time being. But you don't have to worry. On the eighth day of the first lunar month, the convoy will set out from Xingang County, pass through Fuma Pass to Hanyang City, and then go all the way east to the mechanized farming experimental field. The county governors along the way will be able to see it when they go back.
"If you want to see how the tractor works in the field, you can also go to the mechanized farming field for a group visit after the tenth day of the first lunar month. It's just right for you to broaden your horizons and see if it's necessary to add a tractor to each county. I will also issue you the policy on the purchase and use of tractors at that time. But in general, it's similar to the current official oxen. It's purchased by the government and rented by the people. It can be used to repair roads in spare time. If it doesn't work, it can be used for transportation. We'll talk about this later. In short, it's a very practical machine." Luo Chong heard their joking complaints and inquiries, and immediately introduced this thing.
(End of this chapter)
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