Chapter 240 Pilot Village
Chapter 240 Pilot Village
As soon as Xu Risheng and He Yi entered the office and sat down, Mayor Tao entered the director's office under the guidance of the young policeman.
Mayor Tao walked into the office and looked around, and knew who He Yi was at a glance.
He politely stepped forward and shook hands with He Yi. "Hello, Captain He. I am Tao Chungui, the mayor of Daxin Town. They are Director Zhang in charge of agriculture and Director Yang in charge of finance."
He Yi didn't say anything, but stood up and shook hands with several leaders.
Mayor Tao and Xu Risheng knew each other. They nodded to each other, greeted each other briefly, and then sat down with their people.
"Captain He, I'm really sorry for being so negligent before.
But we have our reasons for not distributing the seeds yet.”
He Yi looked at the three people who were dressed simply and did not embarrass them in a condescending manner.
"Mayor Tao, have you encountered any difficulties?"
Mayor Tao sighed and said helplessly:
“Our town is really difficult.
There are a total of 103 villages in Daxin Town, and 70% of them have difficulty in harvesting anything because of poor soil.
Our town is the only one in the entire city that fails to meet production targets every year.
The output is low. Although the annual task targets have been reduced, the resource allocation and financial allocation have also been reduced relatively.
Every year we apply based on the size of 103 villages, but every year the city cuts one-third of the number.
The reason is that our input is not proportional to our income.
If you receive less, you give less.
This year, they cut our quota in half.
If half of the seeds can survive 100%, 103 villages will be enough.
The key is that our soil quality is poor and the survival rate is low.
One third of the seedlings die when they emerge, and another third die during the growth process, resulting in a further one third reduction in yield. What will be left in the end? "
"Even so, we can't keep delaying it, as the spring ploughing season is almost over."
"Captain He, we are also worried.
The key is that if we just distribute the seeds directly, we won’t be able to produce food, and the villagers won’t be able to survive the winter.”
"Then do you have any better ideas now?"
Mayor Tao nodded and said, "It can be considered a solution that is not a solution."
"What method?" He Yi asked with interest.
“We sent all the seeds to several villages with fertile land and asked them to sow them and grow seedlings.
When it is time to divide the seedlings and plant them, all of them will be divided out and sent to the remaining 70% of villages with barren land for direct planting.
This greatly reduces the mortality rate during the seedling cultivation stage. Although there is some loss in the process, it is at least one-third less than the loss in the early stage.
If nothing else, the people should be able to get through this winter."
He Yi nodded and had a new understanding of Mayor Tao.
Regardless of whether the method is good or not, this is a good official who cares about the people.
"Mayor Tao, you are only treating the symptoms and not the root cause.
The problem of increasing production and income has not been fundamentally solved.”
Mayor Tao sighed, "Captain He, I have tried everything I can think of, and I really have no other options."
“Have you ever thought about changing the quality of the soil?”
Mayor Tao looked up at He Yi with a confused look on his face, "Captain He, you don't want me to dig up the soil from other villages and give it to a few poor villages, do you?"
He Yi shook his head. "Even if you empty out the 30% of villages with fertile soil, it still cannot fill the 70% of villages with barren soil."
"Then do you have any better ideas?" Mayor Tao looked at He Yi with hope.
"Replenish whatever is missing from the soil."
Mayor Tao was instantly deflated.
"Captain He, ask the head of Changqing Village if they have dumped enough manure into the farmland.
it's useless……"
He Yi shook his head, "No, no, no, I'm not talking about adding manure."
Mayor Tao became more excited again, "What should I add?"
“Analyze the trace elements in the soil and supplement what is lacking.
My wife's apprentice happens to be able to analyze the soil, so I asked him to analyze what elements are missing and then supplement them. "
When Mayor Tao heard He Yi say that someone would divide the soil, his blood began to boil.
Does this mean that if the soil quality can be changed, the food and clothing conditions of the 70 percent of villages with barren land can be improved?
But after thinking about it, he hung his head like a deflated ball.
"Mayor Tao, are you having trouble?"
Mayor Tao nodded. "It's quite difficult."
Before He Yi could continue to ask, Mayor Tao continued: "It should cost a lot of money to add the missing elements, right?
There are more than 70 villages, and if the government doesn’t allocate funds, I’m afraid that even if we sell our town government, we won’t have enough money to improve so much land.”
He Yi nodded and suggested: "Village head, you can use a few villages as pilots. If you achieve results, you can apply to your superiors for universal improvement next year."
Mayor Tao thought about it and patted his thigh, "This is a good idea..."
Several people discussed the land improvement issue in the office for almost an hour.
The village chief also saw hope from their conversation and said anxiously:
"Mayor, can we make our village the first pilot village?
You also know the situation in our Changqing Village.
It’s not that our villagers aren’t hardworking enough, it’s that the land really doesn’t produce any food.”
The mayor nodded. Even if the village chief didn't say so, he would still designate Changqing Village as a pilot village.
The annual grain output of Changqing Village and Xiaoba Village is the lowest in the town, and they are also the two villages with the highest death toll each year.
The government is already busy taking care of itself, how can it take care of them?
Now that there is an opportunity to improve it, priority will certainly be given to the poorest villages.
"Don't worry, the first thing I consider is your village and Xiaoba Village.
We will go down for a field investigation tomorrow."
After saying that, he turned around and asked He Yi with a flattering look.
"Captain He, I wonder if your wife's apprentice has time to help the village check the soil tomorrow?"
He Yi nodded, "I was going to show it to them anyway, so just come over when the time comes."
At noon, everyone went to the only state-owned restaurant in town to have a meal.
He Yi did not ask Xu Risheng and Mayor Tao to pay, he paid for the dinner himself.
If they were asked to pay for the meal, it would definitely be paid from the public account, which he felt was unnecessary.
I also don't want to be caught by someone with ulterior motives and make a big fuss about it.
After dinner, He Yi went to the supply and marketing cooperative and bought two thin quilts, some big steamed buns, a basket of eggs, and some miscellaneous food.
They eat steamed buns for every meal, so it is impossible for them not to buy them. Will there always be endless steamed buns, right?
You have to buy some to cover up, otherwise it won’t be justifiable.
After He Yi finished his purchase, Mayor Tao arranged a car to take them back to Changqing Village.
As soon as the car entered the village, it attracted the attention of all the villagers.
No one with four wheels has ever entered their village.
Occasionally, you would see a postman on two wheels coming to the village to deliver letters.
The car dropped He Yi and the village chief off at the village chief's house and then left.
The villagers stood on the edge of the embankment, chattering among themselves.
As soon as He Yi stepped into the village chief's yard, the village chief was pulled out of the yard by the villagers.
"Village chief, what's going on? Is there a special car to take you back?
Did the seed thing bear fruit? "
The village chief glanced at He Yi who was carrying something into the wing room, then turned around and said excitedly:
“It’s settled, thanks to the help of Captain He.
The government did not give up on us, but sent the seeds to villages with fertile land for seedling cultivation to increase the survival rate of the seedlings.
When it’s time to plant rice, we can divide the land among them for cultivation.”
"really?"
"How could that be false? I was in the town police station chief's office and heard Mayor Tao say it with my own ears.
Moreover, Mayor Tao promised me personally.
Our village will be designated as a designated experimental village for soil improvement.”
"Wow, wow, wow..., that's great..., I don't have to go hungry anymore..."
When the villagers heard the news brought back by the village chief, they covered their faces and cried with joy, with both laughter and tears on their faces.
He Yi heard the cheers of crying and laughing outside the yard and just smiled faintly.
Zuo Zixuan did not ask He Yi what the result was today.
When I heard the discussions outside the yard, I knew the problem was solved.
"Wait, village chief, who is Captain He you are talking about?"
"It's the big brother who's staying at my house."
"Ah? The tall and handsome one?"
The village chief nodded, "Yes, that's him."
"Oh my god, I didn't expect he was actually an official..."
"Not only is he an official, his relatives are also high-ranking officials."
"Then why did he end up in our village like a poor man?"
The village chief hesitated for a moment and said, "He has his reasons, so don't ask him anymore.
Everyone should have a good sleep tonight, and we will be ready tomorrow to welcome the mayor and his team to come to our place for a field inspection."
After the village chief finished speaking, he ran back to his yard.
He knew the reason why He Yi ended up here, and he had to keep it secret for him.
What He Yi and his gang are doing is not something that ordinary people like them can get involved in.
In the evening, He Yi used the ingredients he bought to borrow the village chief's kitchen to cook a few dishes.
The aroma of cooking wafting from the kitchen made the village chief and his family so greedy that they almost cried.
The villagers living next to the village chief's house were also very jealous.
In fact, He Yi is not very good at cooking. He cooked two dishes just to have something delicious to eat and to cover up his tracks.
After the dishes were cooked, he did not send them to the village chief and others.
They had a small hotpot meal in the private room, but no one touched the dishes cooked by He Yi because they were really not tasty.
After eating and cleaning up, Xu Qingfeng and Song Yingyan brought the dishes cooked by He Yi and a few steamed buns to the village chief's house.
The village chief looked at the scrambled egg and a vegetarian dish on his own lame eight-immortals table, which had hardly been touched.
I was so moved that I almost cried, and thought that He Yi and his friends must have been reluctant to eat it and left it for themselves.
I became even more certain that He Yi and his friends were good people.
In the eyes of Xu Qingfeng and his friends, the food that tasted extremely bad was the best food in the world in the mouths of the village chief's family.
In their entire lives, they had never dared to be so extravagant as to use so many eggs to fry a dish.
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