Long Zaitian had read about his father's situation in Beijing through the newspaper. The provincial leader had also been praised by the central government. He believed that as long as everyone did not seek death in the future, they would have a good future. He didn't think about this matter anymore. It was already August 18th and 19th, and there were only about 10 days left until the autumn harvest. However, most of the rice in the 60-odd mu experimental field that Long Zaitian and the Young Legion had reclaimed already needed to be harvested!
It was the 20th of August. The weather was clear and cloudless. On the dam of the experimental field, the district secretary Long Tianyuan, the police officer Long Lianguo, and the captain Long Liandong had brought a few officers with them. They were standing by the ridge and looking at the large golden rice fields. They kept muttering, calling the rice fields a miracle. One had to know that the rice in the best paddy field of the production team was still in the heading stage, while the experimental field was about to mature and wait for harvest. He just didn't know if the yield was high.
"Why don't we just ask Little Tian to cut it off in the afternoon? We'll know the yield of its body by then anyway!”Long Tianyuan suggested.
Long Zaitian heard Uncle Tianyuan's suggestion in the headquarters and rejected it on the spot. Instead, they waited until the afternoon to let the volunteers choose the most mature and plump rice in the experimental field for half an hour. After that, the rest of the people swarmed up and began to harvest. Long Tianyuan mobilized the entire brigade to help harvest the 60 acres of rice and transported it to the field of the volunteers at 6 o'clock.
After two or two days of sun-drying, the seeds were removed overnight. Finally, the yield was calculated, which immediately made everyone happy. It reached more than 900 catties per mu. In this year, this yield was more than 200 catties more than the yield of fertile fields. Moreover, they could still plant a crop. In this way, the yield could be doubled! Therefore, the district leaders and the team leaders did not care about the time. They immediately went to Long Zai Tian's house to look for him.
"Little Tian, I want more than a thousand catties of your rice.”Long Lianguo said as soon as he arrived at Long Tian House.
"Little Tian, our brigade also wants 1000 catties.”Liang Yibin said.
"Xiao Tian, we need 7000 catties of rice in the Xiangyang District!”Finally, Long Tian Yuan said to Long Zai Tian.
"Wait, stop fighting. Everyone has a share of this rice seed. However, you have to listen to our volunteer army on how to plant them.”Long Zai Tian smiled and said to the few of them,"Oh right, did you guys remember anything?"”
"What else? Double crops, the yield of late rice would also increase. What else could it be?”The few of them were confused by Long Zai Tian's question.
Seeing that the few of them had thought for a long time, they could not think of a reason. Long Zai Tian could only remind him,"Where did these rice come from?"”
"From the experimental field…Oh! No, let's start from that large piece of useless saline-alkalized land…Saline-alkalized land! Yes, it was cut from the saline-alkalized land. Could it be?" Long Lianfang immediately exclaimed.
"Sigh, all these years have been in vain! If they were to plant rice, wouldn't these saline-alkalized land become 500,000 mu of fertile land? Heavens, how much food is that!" Long Lianfang said in annoyance.
"Alright, Brother Lian Fang, don't be upset. To put it bluntly, the reason why they did not plant rice in the saline-alkalized land before was that they lacked water and did not know how to neutralize the saline-alkalization of the land.”Long Zai Tian persuaded.
"Then what should we do?"
"What can we do? The problem of the soil's acid and base has been solved. When the yield of the experimental plot is out, report the actual number to the government. I believe that the country will not let such a large piece of land go to waste.”Long Zai Tian said to the few of them.
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23rd August, 1976, Government Affairs Council.
Premier Deng had just put down the documents in his hand and was about to go to the inner room to rest for a while when he heard hurried footsteps coming from outside the door. He turned around and saw his confidential secretary, Li Yang, rushing in from outside with a document in his hand.
"Prime Minister, I just received a telex from Zhang Chuanzhong, secretary of the provincial party committee of Hebei Province. Please take a look.”Li Yang held back his laughter and handed the document to Premier Deng.
"Good news!" Premier Deng asked casually when he saw the secretary's expression. He took the document and saw the bold words on it reflected in his eyes. The title was "Revolutionary young man has great ambition, planting grain fields on saline-alkalized land".
Looking at the title, Premier Deng's brows furrowed slightly. He continued to read and soon understood the beginning of the matter. In Tengchong County, a brigade called the Long Family had successfully planted rice on the abandoned saline-alkalized land. After scientific verification, they could grow double-crop rice. The yield of rice in two seasons would be more than 1,800 catties per mu!
"What's going on? Is the news true?”Premier Deng asked quickly. He knew that his secretary was in contact with the leaders of the province, so he must know the truth of this matter.
"The leader is like this. The young special forces that were awarded and specially approved by the central military and government last time are the main characters of this happy occasion. Their base is on the saline-alkalized land of the Long Family unit. They were the children of the Long Family Brigade in Xiangyang District, Tengchong County, Baoshan City, and the children nearby. Under the leadership of the genius Long Zaitian of the Long Family, they had established a children's organization at the beginning of this year--the Young Army and the volunteers. It was this group of ignorant children who had reclaimed an experimental field with an area of about 60 acres on the saline-alkalized land. With the help of Long Zaitian, Shi Tiansheng, and everyone else, they had successfully planted rice. As the first batch of early rice, the yield per mu had reached nearly 500 kilograms. It was almost one-third higher than the production company.”Li Yang told the Prime Minister what he knew.
"Yes, it's indeed a joyous occasion. Do the other leaders know? By the way, how big was Li Yang's land?”Premier Deng said.
"The prime minister's saline-alkalized land is about 900,000 mu. It can now be turned into fertile land for planting.”Li Yang replied.
"Close to 900,000 mu, so much? It was almost comparable to the cultivated land of a county.”Premier Deng couldn't help but say happily.
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Looking at the piles of food on the field, the volunteers all smiled. Long Jianshe said to Long Zaitian,""Uncle Xiaotian, this time, our volunteer army has finally achieved self-sufficient. Hmm, let's reclaim another 1,000 mu of wasteland next year. Now, he had to quickly build a few granaries to store food.”
After Long Zai Tian heard this, he said to the leaders of the volunteer army,""Don't worry, just do it. As long as you don't neglect your usual military training and martial arts training, it'll be fine.”
Different from the hand-guided tractor last time, when the output of the saline-alkalized land experimental field of the Long Family Brigade came out, Yan Yucheng and Long Tianguo, who had just returned from Beijing, immediately brought Shi Tiansheng and the specific experimental data and output to the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences. They asked the experts in the academy to conduct a scientific evaluation of the data of the experimental field. In the end, the experts came to a unanimous conclusion and said to the three of them,"After our tests, according to the data provided by your experimental field, it is feasible to grow rice on that saline-alkalized land. That wasteland has also become fertile land. The pioneers deserve a lot of credit! Moreover, the seedling raising method and planting method were beneficial to increasing the yield of rice and could be widely used in rice production.”
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At the expanded meeting of the Tengchong County Party Committee, after Yan Yucheng finished reading the documents of the provincial party committee, he waved his hand and said,"The central government has already sent out a support proposal. I believe that soon, people from all over the country will arrive. Therefore, our preparation work is very urgent and heavy, so we won't discuss it. Now, I announce the personnel appointments voted by the Standing Committee of the County Party Committee: 1. Appoint Changlong Heavenly State as the leader of the Wasteland Reclaimers and take full responsibility; 2. Appoint the head of the organization department of the county party committee as the deputy head to assist Comrade Long Tianguo; Third, Long Tianyuan and Long Lianfang were appointed as members of the Wasteland Reclaimers Corps to assist the regiment commander in his work. Fourth, he appointed Long Zaihua, the commander of the Youth Special Combat Battalion of the 29th Division of the Nanjing Military Region, as the chief of staff of the regiment. He would lead the entire battalion to be responsible for the reception and safety of the Wasteland Reclaimers, with the assistance of the county armed forces. The above is the appointment. I hope that all comrades will actively cooperate in this tough battle. The whole county and the whole province will be the backing. Whoever feels that they are dragging down this matter will be severely punished. After the meeting, the county's Heavenly State and Minister Zhang Tianquan went to Xiangyang District to announce the appointment. At the same time, they asked the Long Family Brigade to prepare for the reception work. The city military division's engineering battalion and the city and county engineering office would arrive at the Long Family Brigade tomorrow to assist in the construction of temporary housing.
It turned out that yesterday's People's Daily had published the news of the successful planting of 500 kilograms of grain per mu in the saline-alkalized land, and issued an initiative to call on the young people of the country to go to Longjiashan in Tengchong County to reclaim the wasteland. Therefore, the municipal party committee had reported to the provincial party committee for approval, and the county party committee had convened the Standing Committee overnight to make arrangements. That was why there was such an emergency appointment.
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