Chapter 411 The Disagreement between Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui
"Some time ago, many local teams came to Beijing to report their good news on grain production to the leaders.

The above goal was to catch up with Saxony and surpass Militarum in a short period of time.

Among these, steel production is the most important.
Therefore, the higher-ups decided to mobilize the people of Daxia to build small blast furnaces and produce steel.
Complete the temporary increase in steel production this year."

I heard from He Yuzhu that this task of producing steel was related to the good news teams that came to Beijing some time ago.
Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong and the others recalled the exaggerated grain yields per mu published in the newspapers some time ago, and took another look at the potatoes and sweet potatoes planted in the courtyard.
Then he turned his head and looked at Li Zhonghe, Zhang Lijun and other neighbors who came from the countryside to work in the city.

"Lao Li, Lao Zhang,

Your families all used to farm in the countryside.

Tell me, are those experimental fields reported in newspapers really that amazing? One acre of land can produce tens of thousands of kilograms of grain.
if it is real,
Isn't the gap between us a bit too big?

They can produce more than 10,000 kilograms per mu of land, but why do the sweet potatoes and potatoes planted in our courtyard look sickly?

It looks like this year’s harvest will not be good.”

After hearing the questions raised by Yi Zhonghai and his group, Li Zhonghe, Zhang Lijun and others did not know how to answer.

After all, they have been farming in the countryside for 4 or 5 years.

At that time, they had never heard of any family in the countryside that could produce more than 10,000 kilograms of grain per mu. Even the good farmers in the village could not achieve that.

As for what the newspapers said, they didn't believe it.

However, they also know what is important and will not go against their superiors over things that have nothing to do with them.

So he used the things reported in the newspaper some time ago to evade Yi Zhonghai and others.

“I think it should be possible.
After all, those experimental fields are cultivated intensively.
The soil was tilled over 10 times, plowed 0.5 meters deep, and sown up to 460 kilograms. The most fertilized soil was 40 to 60 kilograms of manure per mu.

In order to ventilate and increase carbon dioxide, a blower is used 24 hours a day.

In order to increase light and enhance photosynthesis, we cover the plants with lights at night, just like during the day.

They used so many methods to achieve such a high output.

However, we didn't take care of the potatoes and sweet potatoes in our courtyard after we planted them, so it's normal that the yield is low.

Don't say you have never farmed before or you are not good at it.
We have been in the city for five or six years now, and our farming skills are quite unfamiliar. We are definitely not as good as the farmers in the cooperative."

Yi Zhonghai and Yan Bugui had certainly read about the intensive farming methods published in the newspapers.
After seeing the light requirements, tillage depth and fertilizer reported above, they felt that this matter was a bit unreliable.
Hundreds of thousands of kilograms of fertilizer would completely submerge the land.

However, since such things can be published in regular newspapers, and those who report the good news can be received by senior leaders, I think there is some scientific basis for this.
Now the higher-ups are urging everyone to actively build small blast furnaces and produce steel.
They naturally responded positively.
It doesn't matter whether they are loyal or not. The key is that if they make achievements, they can also enter Xinhua Gate like those farmers to report the good news to the leaders.
Get rewarded.

In the following days, He Yuzhu was busy with the expansion of the militia, leaving early and returning late every day, and did not pay attention to the construction of the small blast furnace in the courtyard.

Until I got home from work that day and saw Liu Haizhong, Yan Bugui and others quarreling in the yard.
He asked out of curiosity.
"Uncle, I heard a commotion in the yard from outside. What are you guys arguing about?

If you have anything to say, can't you sit down and talk it out?"

Seeing He Yuzhu pushing his bicycle into the courtyard gate, Yan Bugui, who was arguing with Liu Haizhong and the others, seemed to have found his backbone and immediately started shouting,
"Zhu Zi, please judge for us.

The neighborhood committee wanted to build a few small blast furnaces in the alley, but they couldn't find enough bricks at the moment. In order to please the guys in the neighborhood committee, Lao Liu actually proposed to dismantle the kangs in everyone's homes.

Do you think what he said is human language?

It's okay in summer now, but what if winter comes? People will freeze to death then."

As soon as Yan Bugui finished speaking, Liu Haizhong beside him also started shouting,

"I am also actively responding to the call of the leaders, and I am also doing this in order to build a small blast furnace and produce steel as soon as possible. Why do you say that it is not human?
Old Yan, look at your ideological awareness, it is totally unqualified.

If you don't believe me, ask the pillar.
Zhuzi must have agreed with my suggestion to dismantle the kangs in everyone's homes and use the bricks to build a small blast furnace.

As long as we build the small blast furnace first, we can produce the first batch of iron in Nanluoguxiang and even Jiaodaokou before our neighbors do.

By then, maybe you can be set as a role model by the leaders above you.
It’s an honor.”

As soon as he heard their argument, He Yuzhu immediately knew what had happened. Although Liu Haizhong's method was outrageous, it was a common practice at that time.

Speaking of,
In fact, most of the earthen kangs in the city of Peiping were demolished this year in order to build small blast furnaces for steelmaking.

It is not just the earthen kang in ordinary people's homes.

Even the tiles on the sidewalks on both sides of the road, the archways on the streets, and some ancient towers, temples, and ancestral halls with hundreds of years of history were demolished at this time.

When Yan Bugui and Liu Haizhong were arguing, Yi Zhonghai and other neighbors all looked at He Yuzhu.

I want to hear what he says.
After all, it is the end of the Little Ice Age, and the weather in winter is still extremely cold. Not everyone is willing to dismantle their earthen kang to build a small blast furnace.

The most typical example here is Jia Zhang.

Throughout the TV series "Love in the Courtyard", the kangs of Shazhu, Xu Damao, the deaf old lady, and Yan Bugui's family were all dismantled.
Only the Jia family kept the only earthen kang in the yard.
And it was retained until the 1980s and 1990s when Beijing had comprehensive heating.

As for He Yuzhu himself, he naturally didn't want to dismantle his own kang.
Not to mention that the heating effect of the iron coal stove is definitely not as good as the earthen kang left by our ancestors, He Yuzhu doesn't want to try it just because of the risk of gas poisoning.

But if the neighbors in the courtyard were forced by Liu Haizhong to dismantle the kang, he would definitely not be able to escape.

So I gave some advice to the neighbors in the yard.
"Second Uncle, Uncle Yan, I think what you all said makes sense.

But if we dismantle the kang at home, when winter comes, we will be frozen to our core.

Especially for those of us who have children at home,

A bad child will get sick.
But what the second uncle said is also right. We must actively respond to the call from above, build small blast furnaces to make steel, and make contributions to Daxia."

(End of this chapter)