Chapter seven hundred and fortieth agricultural expert Salin Chikin
Yang Mingzhitou: "So the growth of the potatoes sown in February was inhibited by the cold. We continued to sow the tubers on the newly reclaimed land in March. In this way, when there is a good harvest in May, we can also plant all the potatoes grown in March."
reward?"
Salinch Gold Head: "Of course, but these potatoes that are only as big as a thumb can also be eaten. Especially in Siberia, where it is colder and the potatoes cannot grow as big, so the locals only eat potatoes of this size.
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Yang Mingzhi knew something about this. In that dimension, that is, after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, travel to Russia gradually became normalized due to good relations with the new Russian Federation. More Chinese tourists went to places such as Irkutsk
Oblast, especially Listvyanka on Lake Baikal for summer vacation.
A local dish is potatoes. They are no bigger than a table tennis ball. Compared with the huge Dutch potatoes, they are really funny and cute.
What if potatoes could grow as big as footballs?! Unfortunately, this is too unrealistic. Deep in Belarus at such a high latitude, potatoes can only grow as big as a fist at most. Think of my wife’s star fruit’s clenched pink fist, and then take a look.
The big bunch of potatoes in front of me is really out of proportion.
As Salinchkin said, there is nothing wrong with eating this type of potato.
Thinking of this, Yang Mingzhi had to mention something important. He stood up and faced everyone and said: "Comrades, there is one thing you must know. The old potatoes produced last year in our current grain warehouse have been
There are not many left! I saw that the canteen is still serving food, and it is raining now. Under such weather conditions, I am really worried that the remaining ones will get damp and cause buds.”
"You don't have to worry about this!" Lyudbalev said: "I have already led Comrade Salinchkin to the warehouses in our village, including the warehouses near Montenegro. The rainproof measures there are very good, especially
Those caves dug on the slopes are simply good places to store food!”
"I hope so! I hope so." Yang Mingzhi couldn't help but pat his chest.
He looked as if a stone had fallen from his heart. Lyudbalev asked again: "What's wrong, deputy division commander? Are you worried that our food is threatened because of the rain?"
"Of course! Of course! After all, it's raining today, maybe it will still be there for a few more days! If our last remaining potatoes sprout and produce so many harmful substances and then the soldiers forcefully eat them, it will only increase the pressure on the hospital.
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"Don't worry about this. It's impossible for soldiers to eat potatoes with green buds."
"But what about ordinary residents? Their staple food is this! At present, our flour reserves are used for the army, and other people can only feed potatoes. At present, the villagers have completed their daily work and received exchange coupons to exchange for potatoes. If we give them changes
Green, this not only hurts people's feelings, but also their bodies, as well as their future life and fighting in Novgomel!" When he said this, Yang Mingzhi was obviously excited and felt that he had lost his composure.
Then he said in a calm tone: "I'm sorry, the food issue is really important. According to wartime regulations, flour is almost completely supplied to the army and related personnel, and ordinary people can only eat preserved potatoes. Now soldiers have bread for three meals.
Potatoes have become vegetables. Ordinary people can eat them the same, and the last potatoes in stock are all for the villagers. If we finally give them some green ones, we can only plant them all in the ground."
Salinchkin squinted his eyes, and the Chinese man's words reminded him. "Comrade Berekov, regarding the exchange coupons you presided over, this is actually not in compliance with the regulations. But regulations are also set by people. As long as you are concerned about life and
I don't think it's a problem if the battle is beneficial. This exchange coupon has really changed the laborious work point statistics work.
I know that the exchange coupon you set up can also be exchanged for bread, but you also know very well that today, not just in Novgomel, but in the entire Soviet Union, flour is indeed used by the military and supplied to cities. In the countryside, people only
I can eat these potatoes. What’s worse, I may not be full of potatoes.”
Salinchkin is not the kind of robot that only executes Stalin's orders. He also has some ideas and opinions of his own.
Now the German army is still fighting with the Soviet army on the Vyazma front, and the siege of Leningrad is still continuing. Only on the southern front, the Soviet army counterattacked near Kharkov, and a force landed on the 6th from the Kerch Peninsula.
In this way, the Soviet Union also lost the most fertile Ukraine, losing most of its sugar- and wheat-producing areas, and nearly half of its population.
To make matters worse, only men between the ages of twenty and twenty-eight were originally recruited to join the army. Now that the war has reached this stage, among the remaining population, men between the ages of sixteen and sixty are all on the conscription plan.
When men were fully recruited, young women took the place of men. Various state-owned factories moved eastward on a large scale. As workers also went to serve as soldiers, women and children took the place of male workers. This was carried out at the beginning of the founding of the Soviet Union.
The women's liberation movement initially achieved results in this war. Operating machines is not purely physical work, and women can completely replace men. Even many children have become military workers.
In terms of agricultural production, the men in the collective farms went to fight with guns, and the women and men took up hoes. The best land was occupied by the German army, and the remaining people in the east could only grow potatoes and a small amount of wheat.
Salinchkin knew very well what was happening in the Soviet Union. Under the evocative national war, every family made huge sacrifices. Those women and children farmed the fields, and even though potatoes were extremely productive, the vast majority of the harvest was supplied to the army.
The remaining collective farm members were given only the most basic rations.
Farming is a manual job, and only a few areas of the Soviet Union have achieved mechanization. The situation is even worse now! For example, the famous Stalinets tractors are no longer equipped with heavy plows to efficiently cultivate land, but are used to pull heavy artillery.
The work of clearing land and digging potatoes is just like what Novgomel residents will do during the future harvest season - relying on human power to dig out the soil and dig out the potatoes.
These are all external matters. Yang Mingzhi knew that the Soviet people sacrificed more than 20 million people for this war!
More than 20 million people, this is just a cold data. Behind this data, there are more than 20 million tragedies!
Salinchkin didn't care about the rain hitting his feathers. Standing in the field, he felt more down-to-earth. "I have been working in the Ministry of Internal Affairs for a long time. I have gained a lot of power and more responsibilities. Let's do heavy physical work."
Working villagers continue to eat potatoes from six months ago and risk poisoning and diarrhea. This should not be done. Therefore, how can we not support using exchange coupons for bread?!"
Yang Mingzhi quickly asked: "What Comrade Commissioner just said is that he fully supports exchanging coupons for bread?"
"That's when it's hot! Since there's no need to eat the sprouts or green potatoes anymore, I think it's better to cut them up and bury them in the ground. As for the problem of not having enough to eat at one time, there is of course only one solution, that
Just let the villagers eat bread! All villagers who participate in heavy physical labor should indeed eat bread! Only by eating bread can they have the strength to continue to cultivate wasteland!"
"But the problems that come with it are also very acute!" Yang Mingzhi woke up: "The flour dropped by the superiors this time is for more than 30,000 people to eat, and now it is almost 40,000 people! We find refugees being merged every day
Lead us here."
"I know what you mean, Comrade Berekov. Looking through the information, I learned that you ordered large-scale fishing last year, which really alleviated the food shortage problem. Fishing can now continue, and there is another
." Sailing, Salinchkin pointed to the forest near the farmland. "This rain is really timely! When the rain passes and the sky clears, mushrooms will grow beside every tree. Last year, you even engaged in cave cultivation of mushrooms.
The idea is good but unrealistic. Do we still need to cultivate mushrooms? We will have a bumper harvest of mushrooms in a few days!"
"There is such a good thing?!" Yang Mingzhi was stunned for a while, and then he suddenly realized it and became excited and happy. "Comrade Salinchkin, I never expected that you are still a real agriculturist! With you here
, I no longer have to worry about the army, but the food problem of the entire Novgomel!"