Chapter 23 Transforming the Gobi Desert
The economic conditions of the villagers in Huangyuan are much better than those of the village house, so after confirming that the second aunt was fine, she set up a banquet to entertain Ma Yingshui and others.
"Call Brother Shui, you have to drink this glass of wine no matter what. In the past, the people in our village had resentment and blamed you for your fault. Today I realized that you are all good people and are neighbors with good people. You are willing to do it!" Yang Anping raised his glass and said.
"You're the ones who did the wrong thing first. They used to be poor and had no way to make money. The children were so hungry that they could not help! If you want to talk about this first glass of wine, you should be toasting you first and apologizing to you." Ma Yingshui was also a scene person, and he spoke in the same way.
"The two brothers grew up under the same roof and fought. You are just a little friction. When you are just a little bit of it, you will not have such a thing in the future!"
"In order to help everyone see a doctor, I stopped doing the work at the railway station. After a year, I would have to lose at least 2,000 yuan." Zhang Shucheng beat the drums on the side.
After drinking a meal, everyone started to call me brothers. Several other villages also invited Ma to shout water to go to their village as soon as possible, and their doctors were also short of them.
Ma Yingshui agreed readily. He carried the medical box to go around several villages around him, helping people see a doctor, chatting with people, and telling the difficulty of hanging the village house.
After some contact, the surrounding villages deepened their understanding of the dangling village households. Knowing that they were all good people, the grudges in their hearts gradually eased.
Although these villagers are still relatively unfamiliar with the dangling village households and do not deal much on weekdays, it has been greatly improved compared to the previous few days.
The previous prejudice slowly loosened. As time goes by, these dangling farmers will sooner or later be completely integrated with the surrounding villagers.
When a big problem was just in its infancy, it was discovered by Zhang Shucheng and Ran Jiang and worked hard to resolve it to resolve the contradictions invisibly.
When I went to the train station, the strong laborers who worked in the town came back with their first month's income. The left-behind villagers also rectified their residences, and the hanging village households could continue to do production.
Ma shouted that Shui would go to various villages to help people see a doctor during the day, so Grandpa Shui Wang took on the important task of leading everyone to transform the Gobi Desert.
"If you want to farm in this place, you have to plant trees to prevent sand first. Otherwise, as soon as the crops and seedlings come out, they will be completely destroyed in just a gust of wind and sand!" Zhang Shucheng brought them seedlings distributed by the county and guided them to plant them.
The villagers who stayed at the resettlement site, the whole family of women and young, went to work together. Even if they had to spend such a big baby, they would follow the parents to help water the newly planted seedlings.
After planting the seedlings, they have to be taken care of every day and watered them in time. The hangers will patrol at least twice a day. Once problems are found, they will be remedied immediately.
These trees are the foundation for their settlement in Yuquanying, and they are more important than anything else. If they encounter water shortage, they would rather be thirsty than water the seedlings.
After planting trees, the land must be reclaimed. The government has allocated homesteads and six acres of arable land for each family, but the arable land is still a Gobi Desert. If you want to grow grain in this place, you must make great efforts to transform it.
First, you must pick up the sand and gravel on the Gobi Desert and carefully sift through every inch of soil so that corn and wheat can take root and sprout on the Gobi Desert.
The whole family also did these tasks together, setting up iron sand nets on the Gobi Desert, shoveling the soil several times, then backfilling the sifted soil and removing the sand and gravel.
Secondly, the soil must be improved. There is no fertilizer, so you can only use farm fertilizer. Sometimes you have to travel dozens of miles away to dig the soil and transport it back to improve the soil quality.
Then there is also a dig to dig a ditch, and the rainfall here is also insufficient. Natural precipitation alone cannot meet the needs of crop growth.
At present, I can only go to the water station to buy water first, use a water truck transformed from a gasoline barrel to pull water back for irrigation, and when the ditches are repaired, I can directly release water from the water station to irrigate.
Because the hanging farmers cooperated in groups, the progress of all projects was pretty good. When it was the corn planting season, each household had a small piece of land to plant corn.
"Okay, okay, it's not in vain to work so long. Look at this seedling, it grows much more energetic than our Yongquan Village! The corn ears that bear fruit must be larger than those in Yongquan Village!"
"This place is a bit harder now, but it is indeed more nurturing than Yongquan Village! If the six acres of land are planted, half of them are planted with corn and half are planted with wheat, the whole family can eat and be full!"
Seeing that the hard work finally came to fruition, every household was very happy. Even Li Dayou didn't say strange things. He and Shui Wang worked at the railway station. After a year, the house was built.
It’s a pity. In fact, the soil of the Gobi Desert is more suitable for growing economic crops such as watermelons and grapes. In the TV series, did the wheat seedlings bring Fujian merchants to contract large areas of land to build vineyards?
But Ran Jiang also knew that for these dangling farmers, grain is the foundation. If you ask them not to grow grain and grapes and watermelons, they dare not take this risk.
Moreover, cash crops require markets. At present, the economic level of surrounding cities may not be able to digest so many grapes and watermelons.
In addition, growing grapes requires a lot of water. Before the third-level water station is built, the grapes cannot be raised by relying solely on natural rainfall and the little water bought from the water station.
"As long as this crop of corn can have a bumper harvest, there will be no need to worry about food this year. Uh, we can also take these corns back and persuade more people to come to the village to immigrate!" Ran Jiang said, looking at the corn seedlings.
"Yes, if you speak vernacularly, few people are willing to come. Let the villagers take the corn cob back and see them first. Let's go and recruit people, which will be much more convenient!" Zhang Shucheng's face also showed a smile, happy that these hangmans had hoped.
"If the power can be turned on, there will be more people willing to come! With electricity, you can drill the machine well, so we don't have to go to the water station to buy water!" The machine well is a transition method before the third-level water station was built.
Groundwater can be extracted to irrigate crops to meet the daily needs of the hangzhuang farmers. However, the water source that the machine well can provide is relatively limited, and it is impossible to supply too much of the hangzhuang farmers' needs.
This can be done when there are fewer people. After more people are raised, you must use Yangshui Station to divert the Yellow River water to irrigate large areas of land.
"The power supply station said that every village needs to reach 80 households before power is turned on. I discussed with them last time that it can be reduced to 60 households, but it is not easy to attract so many people!"
"Take it slow, so many problems have been solved, and I don't care about more problems!" Ran Jiang has adapted now.
"Okay, you are becoming more and more decent now! Well, I have good news to notify you today!"
Chapter completed!