Chapter 19 Chapter 17: Planning for the Great Land of China

It is certainly not an easy task to turn 500,000 mu of wasteland into a farm, but when I think that the land can be planned as it pleases, it can be planned as it likes, and it is really transforming the land, turning the saline-alkali land into fertile land. Make people forget the material hardships of life. The hardships in life, to give an example, after a large number of laborers arrived, the places where they lived changed from big shacks to small shacks. When it was cold, the temperature was often below zero degrees Celsius.Go out to work in the morning, and the grass on the ground will freeze. When you come back to lie down at night, your body temperature will melt the ice, and water will come out when you press it. When you go out again the next day, there will be a human-shaped pit on the grass. , When you come back at night, you only need to pour it on the human-shaped pit, which is very trouble-free.

Due to the fact that the local area was hit by a tsunami, the strange thing is that there is no correct date at all. I only know that it was about the tenth year of the Republic of China. Before that, Americans and British, considering the latitude of this area, It is very suitable for the cultivation of cotton. There was once a small farm named Zhongnan Company, which was destroyed by the tsunami.It is said that the tsunami caused seawater to rush inland for more than 100 kilometers, so the salt content of the saline-alkali land was higher and the land became more barren. In order to prevent another tsunami, the first task is to build a seawall.The scale of this sea wall is quite spectacular. It starts from Chenjiagang in the north and ends at the mouth of the Huanghe River in the south.

The size of the seawall is: 4 meters high, 7 meters wide at the top, and 21 meters wide at the bottom. Digging everywhere, and at the same time collecting soil, a soil river will be formed. This soil river can form the main water diversion irrigation channel for the farm in the future. I don’t know who made this design plan. It is really scientific and economical. It is really a master's handwriting to have the advantages of two pile projects in one pile project.The Qitu River is exactly the opposite of the sea wall, 24 meters wide, 4.5 meters deep, and 8 meters wide at the bottom. At first, I didn’t understand why the earth-extracting river was bigger than the seawall. Later, I learned that the designer had planned that when the seawall was built on top of the mound, it would be compacted layer by layer, which would be stronger than the original soil, so more soil should be used.It can be seen that the designer is wonderful.In the beginning, everything went well, but there was a large section, when it was dug below two meters, it was full of dark gray quicksand, which is not quicksand. The soil is not like soil, and the sand is not like sand. In name, dig a hole, and after an hour or two, the hole will disappear, and the mud dug up cannot be piled up to be used as a seawall at all. Some places are deep, some places are shallow, and what's more troublesome is that before the end of the work at night, the measured depth is two meters. By the next day, the quicksand layer rushed up, and the depth was reversed to two meters. The geological situation is really unexpected.

Therefore, I had no choice but to purchase a large number of small bamboos and weave them into bamboo rafts. How deep I dug and how deep the bamboo rafts were inserted to prevent the quicksand from rushing over. In order to purchase a large amount of small bamboos, I took a trip to Zhejiang and saw the famous Fuchun River. A very pleasant trip. The thickness of the quicksand layer is about one meter, and there is thin mud underneath, with bubbles coming out, and when the bubbles burst, yellow liquid will flow out, full of the smell of sulfur.At that time, I once said to some people: Here, if you dig it down, there may be a large amount of oil. Naturally, it was ridiculed as whimsical. Recently, I have heard of oil drilling on the coast of the Yellow Sea.

This seawall project took more than half a year and was built after a severe winter. It is extremely spectacular, and it should still be there now. The soil was useless, so it was enlarged and dug to form a lot of small lakes along the river. The lake is only two meters deep. It is really the best fish pond created in heaven. I once suggested to the superior to raise fish, but it was also rejected. No one wanted to A lot of things. Then, go a step further, digging diversion canals based on the Qutu River, from large to small, divide the 500,000 mu of wasteland neatly, each 500 meters by 200 meters with an area of ​​100,000 One by one square feet, this kind of scene must be a spectacle if you overlook it from the air. The large tracts of land are neat and uniform, how spectacular.

Everything is in place, all the irrigation canals have water and gates (wooden ones). Before the official sowing, the Soviet experts came again and talked about the theory of small plants and dense planting. Weighing forty catties, the locals were too scared to speak. Perhaps it was not only the fault of the Soviet experts. When the harvest came, they planted 40 catties of corn, and the total harvest was 7 catties per mu. After hard work, there was a net loss of 33 catties per mu. Naturally, it was mainly due to the saline-alkali land. Fortunately, the irrigation canal took effect, and the water was continuously released and stored. In the second year, the alkalinity of the land was greatly reduced. After harvesting, large areas of cotton fields were opened up, the scale of the farm began to take shape, and a batch of agricultural machinery was transferred. It is said that two of the first ten Combine harvesters in mainland China were in this farm.

As soon as the harvester arrives at the wheat field, from harvesting to when the wheat is put on the truck, the ears of wheat are automatically bundled and piles are placed on the ground in one go. Standing on the harvester, although the face is covered with dust and the sun is scorching, there is something joyful about it. This farm must still be there now. Of course, the soil quality has been improved, but I don’t know if the labor camp prisoners will be paid as they should even if they stay on the farm after their sentence is over. The land of China originally had a lot to do, but what could not be done was a man-made disaster.