Salted fish amnesia small time pension harvest gold finger

Chapter 174: Those Years in the Great Northern Wilderness ()

Vegetables are easy to grow, you can just scatter some rapeseed and it will grow, but raising poultry... where do you get the manpower? It's better to hunt game and collect pheasant and duck eggs.

They can only say: "Time is tight and the task is heavy."

It doesn't matter if our soldiers suffer a little bit. They are devoting themselves to the motherland and should not care too much about personal gains and losses.

Think about the comrades in the Korean battlefield. They eat snow and fried noodles and still fight the enemy! Their conditions are already very good, just temporarily without meat and vegetables. Once they hold on for a while, everything will be fine.

He felt that there wouldn't be such serious consequences in the short term.

Now the problem comes back to the starting point, mechanization, and improving productivity, which is what Song Jinhan proposed, using tractors to open up wasteland.

As members of the leadership team of the Sharp Knife Battalion, Geng Bao and Zhang Zhigang could not refuse openly, otherwise it would seem like they were teaming up to exclude the newcomers. However, the pace of land reclamation must not be stopped.

Geng Bao had made a promise at the mobilization meeting at the division headquarters. The slogan of one thousand acres had been shouted out, so it must be completed.

Therefore, land reclamation must be put first.

He and Zhang Zhigang had a heated argument, but in the end, the division of labor and competition plan was passed by a democratic vote of 2 to 1.

The team was divided into three parts, the first company belonged to Geng Bao, the second company belonged to Zhang Zhigang, and the third company naturally followed Song Jinhan.

In fact, the matter is still the same, but it is just expressed in a more pleasant way.

Although they seemed to be doing their own things, in fact, the two of them joined forces to ignore Song Jinhan. They even gave all the technical personnel to him under the pretext of taking care of Song Jinhan.

"A reclamation competition?"

Yun Tinglan chuckled. She didn't believe that Song Jinhan was excluded by them. Instead, it seemed like he was quietly pushing this matter forward from behind, as he felt that those two people were restricting his hands and feet.

In fact, it was true. He just wanted to get rid of them.

"The Great Northern Wilderness is flooded nine out of ten years. Their way of clearing the land is fast, but it poses great risks. There are no drainage ditches, so once heavy rains come, the crops will be flooded, and all their efforts will be in vain."

He doesn't like to do useless work.

But the two men did not believe him. They stubbornly thought that since nothing happened last year, this year they should focus on reclamation. They blindly pursued quantity and did not take the drainage channels he mentioned seriously at all.

Yun Tinglan sighed. What can I say? Everyone has a lucky mentality.

She looked at the design drawings of those ditches and realized that the workload was indeed enormous and it was impossible to complete it in a short period of time. If the ditches were to be taken into consideration as well, the total number of land reclaimed by the Sharp Knife Battalion would probably be at the bottom.

Last year's smooth sailing made Geng Bao and Zhang Zhigang a little arrogant. They didn't realize the difference between their hometown and the Great Northern Wilderness, and they were still relying on old experiences to make things happen.

Yes, they were all experienced farmers before they joined the army, but the Great Northern Wilderness is different from their hometown.

We should not only see that the land here is fertile, but also see that the terrain is low-lying and floods are frequent.

They had heard of floods here, but had never experienced them themselves, so they didn't take it seriously. They only remembered that they had a bumper harvest last year without digging ditches, and ignored the fact that the fields were on the hillside, which made them more determined not to build drainage channels.

But the problem is that according to the plans for this fall and next spring, the wasteland to be reclaimed is all in low-lying areas. If they are as blindly optimistic as they are and only pursue the number of reclaimed land, it is almost foreseeable that all their hard work next year will be wasted.

But what can I do? He won’t listen to my advice!

With this cut, the responsibility will be on both of them, but Song Jinhan has been spared.

Thinking of the slogan "One Thousand Acres" they shouted, Yun Tinglan felt her scalp tingling. This plow was entirely pulled by manpower. Even though she was strong now, her shoulders would still hurt after a day.

She was eager to get the tractor online, so she asked Song Jinhan: "Would you like me to help repair the tractor?"

Actually, it wasn't necessary, but Song Jinhan felt sorry for her red and swollen shoulders, so she nodded. The technicians could always relax a little.

This is an era that emphasizes the overall situation and selfless dedication. As the first generation of pioneers, they had no external forces to rely on and had to rely entirely on manual labor to open up the land, using shovels and pickaxes to carry the land on their shoulders.

No one should try to be special.

Helping to repair tractors is considered the easiest job.

But if people say it is a scrapped tractor, then it is a scrapped tractor without any water. After Yun Tinglan checked it herself, she also asked Ling Xi to help scan it.

The result is the same!

Really only the frame is there to look at, the engine inside needs repairing, various parts are either broken or missing, and the rust is considered good.

Even though they got three tractors, they couldn't be integrated into a complete one. The different models couldn't be forced to merge. Yun Tinglan and Song Jinhan looked at each other in silence.

It is much more difficult than expected. How to repair it without spare parts?

In the end, the two decided to divide the work and cooperate. Song Jinhan led the people from the third company to dig the drainage ditch, and Yun Tinglan led several technicians to repair the tractor.

After a frantic dismantling, the usable and unusable parts were separated. A tractor prototype was barely put together, and then the collected spare parts were used to repair a tractor to calm everyone's anxiety.

It cannot be blamed on the bad mood of the soldiers of the third company. People from the first and second companies love to come and watch the fun when they have nothing to do, especially Geng Liang, who is a chatterbox and always says "lie down" and "waste of time".

There were also daily achievement reports on the honor column. The first and second companies had already reclaimed dozens of acres, and the red flag of excellence was hung in their two companies in turn. Only the third company's amount of reclaimed land was still in single digits. Naturally, this made the soldiers, who were used to "striving for excellence and not falling behind", feel very uncomfortable.

Many people are in a negative mood and slack off at work, thinking that they are doing useless work, so it is normal to complain occasionally.

Song Jinhan and Yun Tinglan could do nothing about these things. Before there were any actual results, no matter how much they said, it would all be empty talk to the soldiers.

It would be better to race against time to repair the tractor.

"Boom! Dadada~"

The moment the engine started, all the soldiers of the third company who were paying attention to the movement here cheered.

The young women who were assigned to the group dropped their hoes and ran over to watch.

"The basket, is it really fixed?"

Theoretically it has been repaired, but we still need to see how well it fits and whether it can run smoothly. After all, it is a scrapped engine, not an original one, so it is normal to have problems.

Everyone was obviously more excited than her. Without Yun Tinglan saying anything, they took the initiative to help evacuate people and make way for her.

"It's moving! It's moving!"

"We're going to have a tractor, too."

"Is it really fixed?" Geng Liang and the others were stunned and gathered around curiously.

The soldiers of the third company cheered triumphantly, and Qiu Yan raised her chin, "Of course, our baskets are really good."

"Such a big iron thing must be very powerful to turn the soil. We won't have to dig it manually in the future."

"Of course not. I heard from people on other farms that they can cultivate dozens of acres a day!"

“Now look at what’s happening one after another—” Before he could even finish his sentence, the engine went out again.

"Tsk tsk tsk, what kind of tractor is this? It just farted a few times and it broke down again?" Geng Liang laughed unabashedly and said sarcastically.

Others from the first and second companies also joined in the booing.

Someone said sarcastically: "A tractor is a tractor, it is towed and pulled by people!"

"Hurry, hang up the rope!"

Qiu Yan put her hands on her hips and said, "What are you saying? Can't you see we are worried? Who are you?"