The base area is too large, and it is in the most critical period of development. Any accident may cause the previous efforts of the garrison to be wasted!
Therefore, several people from the regiment headquarters were not idle. They took radio stations and guards to patrol the base area and supervise!
No matter where an accident occurs, we guarantee to arrive at the scene as soon as possible and deal with it as soon as possible to minimize the negative impact and losses caused by the accident!
Several people meet once every ten days to report on the progress of the things they are responsible for, discuss the problems discovered during the inspection, and then solve the problems!
Today is the time for the report and discussion once every ten days. At dawn, the conference room was surrounded by dozens of guards. No one was allowed to get close. It was heavily guarded!
In the conference room, five people, Li Hao, Wang Hong, Hong Linfeng, Luo Yun, and the head of the base area Peng Chang, gathered around the table with different expressions!
Some people have serious faces, some have dignified faces, and some have worried faces, which means that the problems they bring back are both good and bad!
"Captain, let me speak first!" Political Commissar Wang Hong spoke first!
"It's still an old problem, and this time we are facing a more severe situation than before: the food in the base is being consumed faster than I thought, and much faster, completely beyond our ability to bear!"
"Especially under our organization, after the first batch of people who stepped forward to reclaim wasteland received food from us, the people in the entire base area went crazy. Regardless of young and old, old, weak, women and children, they all went to battle and worked hard to reclaim wasteland!"
"In less than ten days, nearly 40,000 acres of fertile land have been added to the base area. This is originally a good thing, but when I think about the nearly two million kilograms of grain we have paid for it, I can't be happy, and even a little bit
I don’t want people to continue to cultivate wasteland!”
"According to statistics, there are at least 500,000 acres of wasteland and mountainous land available for reclamation in the base area!"
"All grains are distributed to the people based on the standard of fifty kilograms of grain per acre of land. We need to prepare at least 25 million kilograms of grain, but our current grain storage is not even a fraction!"
"Also, when we calculated the food shortage in the base area, we only counted 40% of the total population in the base area, which is 100,000 people!"
"If all the two million kilograms of grain we have spent are in their hands, each person can get at least twenty kilograms. If they save some money and ensure that no one will starve to death, they will definitely be able to eat for a month and a half!"
"But the problem now is: not all of the two million kilograms of grain has reached them!"
"Everyone of the more than 200,000 people in the three counties is working on reclaiming wasteland. We can't tell who is short of food and who is not, so we can only give it to everyone!"
"So less than 50% of the two million kilograms of grain fell into the hands of the people who had run out of food!"
"And even if we know that some villagers still have food at home, since they have reclaimed land according to our regulations, we have no reason not to give it to them, otherwise the people's hearts and trust we have just won will be hit!"
"So no matter who it is, as long as the wasteland is reclaimed into fertile land, we will provide food!"
"There are still nearly 20 days until the autumn harvest. According to the current land reclamation rate, the villagers can still cultivate at least 100,000 acres of land, which means we still need to prepare at least 5 million kilograms of grain."
"After spring plowing is over, if we continue to cultivate the remaining wasteland and mountainous land, we will need more food!"
"Including the grain needed to build canals, build dams, and dig wells, 20 million kilograms may not be enough!"
Li Hao's brows immediately twisted into a big "Sichuan" sign!
This question was something he hadn't thought of!
If all the more than three million kilograms of grain on hand go to those who need it, it will definitely last for more than two months!
But this is not the case. People who really need food only receive less than 50% of it, or even less!
This means that the food gap in the base area is at least twice what was previously calculated!
The time that the food in hand can last must be shortened by at least double!
More than 20 million kilograms of grain is too much.
Even if the battle that he had already formed in his mind started smoothly and was a complete success in the end, Li Hao had no confidence that he could get so much food, and even five million kilograms may not be guaranteed!
Moreover, the remaining food in the base area can no longer sustain the operation for more than a month, and it cannot even sustain the autumn harvest!
Since the food that can be solved externally is limited, and there is no time, there is only one way left: intercept the flow, reduce food consumption, and use the limited food where it should be used as much as possible!
"Can you reduce the work-for-relief standard? Even if the amount of food provided by reclaiming a piece of wasteland is reduced by ten kilograms, you can still save a lot!"
"I think it's okay!" Peng Chang suddenly said!
Li Hao's eyes lit up, as if he had found a savior, and he immediately asked: "Comrade Peng Chang is a local cadre, and he must know the situation of the villagers better than us!"
"Comrade Peng Chang, tell me how much food we should give to the villagers for cultivating one acre of land!"
Peng Chang didn't hesitate and settled the score for Li Hao!
"Leader, political commissar, according to the policy of the base area, these lands will be distributed to the villagers for free after they are reclaimed. Even if they don't give a pound of grain, the people will support us in reclaiming wasteland! After all, an extra acre of land at home will increase the autumn harvest.
Harvest more than a hundred kilograms of grain!"
"Because the people in the base area have no food, in order to ensure that the villagers do not starve to death, the regiment headquarters decided to provide food for everyone through work-for-relief!"
"So I think that as long as the standards set by the regiment headquarters can ensure that everyone does not go hungry, the villagers will be very satisfied and rush to open up wasteland, especially those whose families have run out of food!"
"The most typical family in the base area is a family of five or six. If the whole family is involved, they can cultivate an acre of land in four days!"
"Because there are young and old in the family, everyone needs different food rations. As long as the whole family has the physical strength to cultivate wasteland, twenty kilograms of food is enough for a family of five for four days. If you save a little, maybe fifteen kilograms
That’s enough, the extra food can be saved!”
"So I think twenty kilograms of grain for one acre of land is enough!"
"Save the food and eat it after the spring plowing is over, when everyone is building canals and dams!"
"After all, that was when the folks were really in poverty, and food was more precious to them!"
The amount of food was cut by more than half at once. This result was completely beyond Li Hao's expectations!
He was frightened!
But he reacted quickly!
Seeing Peng Chao's confident face, it didn't look like he was joking, so he immediately made a decision: "Comrade Peng Chang is closer to and understands the villagers than us, so he has more say than us!"
"Since he said that twenty kilograms of grain per acre is enough, then that's what we will do!"
"We have given less food and can basically only guarantee rations. There will definitely be many villagers who will not go to cultivate wasteland because there is no shortage of food at home. In this way, more food will be distributed to the villagers who really need it.
In hand!"
Wang Hong said nothing, frowning and calculating how long the remaining food on hand could last under the new method.
Disappointingly, no matter how much we save, the base area still has a shortfall of two million kilograms before the autumn harvest!
And he only has 1.3 million kilograms left in his hands, and he still has to ensure the needs of the army.!
This means that the base area will go bankrupt if it cannot even sustain the autumn harvest!
"The food is not enough!" Wang Hong replied solemnly!
"Excluding those used by the troops, the gap before the autumn harvest is still one million catties, and the gap after the autumn harvest is six million catties!"