From Propulsion City To Multiverse

Xuzhou, Huaibei Lu Farm.

Hundreds of women, carrying a bamboo cage, pick cotton under the bright autumn sun.

The sweat on the forehead did not hide the smile on the face. The smile was full of expectation and longing for life. While picking cotton, he laughed and talked about his family's shortcoming.

Beilu Farm is a government-run farm specializing in cotton cultivation, covering an area of ​​50,000 mu. The cotton grown is middle cotton.

In fact, during the Western Han Dynasty, cotton was introduced to East Asia, but not from the Western Regions, but from Tianzhu, passing through the land of the Indochina Peninsula, or the maritime merchants in Southeast Asia, and entered Lingnan.

After the Human Revolutionary League took control of Lingnan, it discovered a lot of cotton there.

Of course, middle cotton is only one of the varieties of Tianzhu cotton. This kind of cotton has good and bad. The advantage is that it is better adaptable to the climate in Asia. The disadvantage is that its fibers are relatively short and thick.

It's just that at this time, there is no way to obtain sea island cotton (killed) in Central America and upland cotton (fine-staple cotton) in South America.

It is still possible to use middle cotton to weave coarse cloth.

Although there is silk in the Central Plains, the problem is that the production cost is too high and it is not suitable for ordinary people, especially in the northern region where the need for warmth is very high. The common people can only wear more clothes made of linen, and then rely on houses and fires to survive the winter.

This is also one of the reasons why indoor carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs in northern regions.

Without enough heat preservation facilities and scientific knowledge, in order not to freeze to death, they had to risk burning charcoal indoors.

As an area controlled by the NRG for more than two years, Xuzhou has a lot of government-run farms, occupying two million acres of land.

These government-run farms mainly grow cotton, soybeans, and Champa rice, and there are also Huaihe pastures and Gaoyou farms.

In order to regulate the water system of the canal, Gaoyou Lake, which had not yet appeared in the Gaoyou area, was reconstructed in advance, and the water area was greatly expanded.

The farms here mainly raise ducks, with a total of more than one million ducks. These ducks are divided into breeding ducks, laying ducks, and meat ducks.

It can produce 20 to 30 million duck eggs and 500,000 to 800,000 meat ducks every year, as well as duck down.

The Donghai Seafood Company produces thousands of tons of fish feed every year, and the rice bran and bean dregs produced by various farms are also supplied to the farms in large quantities.

Without such a huge industrial chain,

It is wishful thinking to raise more than one million ducks.

Gaoyou salted duck eggs, Gaoyou down jacket, Gaoyou cured duck and roast duck have become synonymous with this small county.

In the ancient times when products were scarce, it was a very luxurious thing for ordinary people to eat a salted duck egg.

Lu Chunhua, who picked cotton for a day, received this month's wages, a total of 4672 crystal coins.

In order to reduce the minting amount of crystal coins, the head office of the Human Revolutionary Union has introduced large amounts of crystal coins, which are 10 yuan and 100 yuan.

In fact, Jingcoin is a kind of credit currency, and the anti-counterfeiting effect is very good, so far it has not been imitated.

Although there was glass manufacturing technology in the Sui and Tang dynasties, there was no way to make pure and transparent glass, and as the Human Revolutionary Federation gradually increased its control over various places, if they wanted to open a kiln to refine glass in private, the Black Yiwei estimated that they would come to the door the next day. up.

After all, the raw materials for refining are under strict monitoring.

Moreover, the head office and the Ministry of Finance will file financial records for everyone. The income of many people is open and transparent. If they suddenly take out a large amount of counterfeit crystal coins, it is easy to be targeted by the black guards and the taxation department.

Many farm employees like Lu Chunhua do not pay directly, but pay slips, and then take their passbooks to the bank for reconciliation.

This is a plan uniformly adopted by all government-run factories, farms, and supply and marketing cooperatives. The purpose is to prevent people from being deducted from it.

As for the tampering with the salary slip, once it is discovered, the consequence is to go to Borneo to open up wasteland, or the death penalty.

Zheng Sen and others don't need to take care of the seven aunts and eight aunts, and many people don't need to be corrupt, because after taking the money, they can't spend it at all.

The internal operating mechanism of the Human Revolutionary Union is very precise. In the eyes of Zheng Sen and others, there is no such thing as unclear about how many people, how much food, how much demand, and how much land there are.

For example, Beilu Farm uses the original middle cotton variety without using chemical fertilizers. According to the land conditions, the yield per mu is about 40-60 kg of seed cotton.

After using chemical fertilizers, it can reach 80-120 kg.

For 50,000 mu of cotton fields using chemical fertilizers, 4 to 6 million kilograms of seed cotton should be harvested.

If this standard is not met, there must be a problem in some link.

Zheng Sen and others are assisted by quantum computing, and no matter how complicated the data is in front of them, they will be analyzed clearly.

Wanting to enrich their own pockets under their noses, I'm afraid it's not the old birthday star who eats arsenic-it's too long to live.

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After getting the salary slip, Lu Chunhua took a pencil and wrote and drew in a small notebook. She had learned simple Chinese characters and mathematics during the literacy campaign, and after working every day, she would record the situation of the day.

Although there are a lot of typos, she is very serious about recording numbers, because it is related to her income.

The work of picking cotton is calculated based on the basic quantity + additional quantity.

She carefully checked the work situation of this month, and after confirming that there was no miscalculation, she went to rest.

After fleeing from Yingchuan to Xuzhou, she spent more than a year here and initially adapted to life here. Because she was alone, she was arranged to work on a farm.

Many of the people who were placed on the farm were refugees who had lost their relatives, and many of them reorganized their families here.

Lu Chunhua, who was only twenty-five years old, was dragged to become a strong man by the previous man, and I heard that he died when the Wagang Army attacked Liluoyang City. At twenty-five years old, although she is an old girl in this era, she cannot marry a wife. People who are old will not dislike old girls.

It's just that Lu Chunhua was a little distressed, because she had been married for almost ten years before and had never given birth to a child. This was a very serious matter in ancient times.

Those who hope to carry on the family line naturally have doubts about Lu Chunhua.

But Zhang Dagou, the captain of the militia who was arranged to manage the farm, didn't care too much about it. Instead, he was like a little bee, courting Lu Chunhua all day long.

Early the next morning.

Lu Chunhua, who asked for a day off, took a bus and carriage with Zhang Dagou to the nearest city—Gaoyou.

The people in the same company, as well as many people from Beilu Farm, all went to get wages, or went to the city to purchase supplies.

Farm employees usually entrust people who go to the city to help them bring some things back, which is basically a common practice.

Along with them, there are also heavy carriages transporting cotton and cottonseed. These carriages are constantly transporting cotton and cottonseed to the processing factory near Gaoyou.

This year, Beilu Farm harvested a total of 5.37 million kilograms of seed cotton, and separated 3.27 million kilograms of cottonseed and 2.04 million kilograms of lint.

These things can extract 590,000 kilograms of cottonseed oil (detoxification and refining technology has been mastered), 2.68 million kilograms of cottonseed meal (fermented into fertilizer and returned to the field), and can produce 130,000 pieces of cotton cloth with 12 sticks (one piece is 30 meters long, 1.5 meters wide and weighs 15 kg).

And there are three such cotton farms in Xuzhou and two in Jiaodong Prefecture, all of similar scale.

On the bustling concrete road, there is a scene of heavy traffic.

There are a lot of people going to the county towns from all over the country. The Human Revolutionary Federation has further improved the management of the various places. If they move within the county towns, as long as they bring their ID cards, there will be no major problems.

Two hours later, Lu Chunhua, Zhang Dagou and others came to Gaoyou without city walls.

As soon as they came to the county, the two found that the county had changed again. Not only did many villa-style residences appear, but there were also many four or five-story reinforced concrete high-rise buildings.

Nowadays, residential areas all over the country follow the route of villas, with a maximum of three floors.

Buildings with more than three floors have special purposes and are structurally strengthened buildings.

Grain weed

The standards of these buildings are all built according to the service life of a hundred years. As for high-rise commercial buildings and the like, the Human Revolutionary Federation does not need them, because the population density in various places is not high now, so there is no need to build extremely dangerous high-rise commercial buildings.

Gaoyou has changed a lot. It would be great if we could move to the city and live in a big house! Lu Chunhua said enviously.

Zhang Dagou shook his head: Our farm will also build houses in the future, and there will be steam cars in the future, so don't envy the city.

Really?

Zhang Dagou said very firmly: When I was in the army, the preaching officer told me that in the future, cities and villages will run side by side, and there will be no difference in treatment.

That preacher isn't fooling people, is he? Lu Chunhua asked incredulously.

As a fanatical Datong believer, Zhang Dagou’s words are full of confidence:

Impossible. Many things that the preacher said before have come true. I believe that under the leadership of Governor Zheng, we will be able to realize the great unity of the world.

It would be great if the world can be truly unified. Although Lu Chunhua didn't understand the fanaticism and firmness in this man's eyes, it didn't stop her from looking forward to the future together.

The two of them walked on the street, even though the autumn wind was bleak, the bustling city still remained unabated.

Self-employed small restaurants, barbershops, snack bars, repair shops, and specialty shops surround supply and marketing cooperatives and banks.

Because many merchants know that supply and marketing cooperatives and banks have the most traffic.

The two went to the bank to get 5,000 crystal coins, and then started a big purchase.

The busiest places on the commercial street, besides supply and marketing cooperatives and banks, are the newly opened photo studios and tailor shops.

In the commercial street, a row of 18 shops are all tailor shops. Since the Human Revolutionary Federation does not allow private commercial companies to exist, self-employed people are limited to less than 10 people, so tailor shops are blooming everywhere.

Zhang Dagou pulled Lu Chunhua into a tailor shop called Wang Ji.

Looking at the colorful cotton cloth, rough gray linen cloth, and smooth silk cloth on the counter, Lu Chunhua couldn't take her eyes away.

Two guests, what do you need? We can customize pillows, quilts, and clothes in our store. A half-aged woman asked with a smile.

Zhang Dagou quickly said: How to customize?

With material or without material? the woman asked.

No materials.

The woman introduced the price: Cotton cloth, a set of clothes for adults, 370 yuan including materials; linen...

Zhang Dagou discussed with Lu Chunhua and ordered two sets of thick cotton clothes and a quilt filled with kapok.

The reason for direct customization is mainly because it takes a lot of time to do it by myself, and now it is autumn, and tailor shops do not earn much, and a set of clothes only earns 20 to 30 yuan.

With the help of a pedal-operated sewing machine, two sets of clothes were quickly processed.

However, Zhang Dagou and the others did not wait in the store, but went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy things.

The supply and marketing cooperatives have more products, and there are even radios, sewing machines and bicycles, but the prices are a bit high.

Zhang Dagou was not willing to buy either, he bought some rock sugar, pepper, wine and a dozen canned meat.

Lu Chunhua bought a box of salted duck eggs (six pieces), a bag of wheat flour, and a large bottle of cheap whale oil.

In fact, farm work includes food and lodging, and there are not many cases where they need to cook their own small stoves. Usually, it is during holidays and leave, or when treating guests to dinner.

Of course, they can also go to the canteen to eat, but they need to pay for the canteen when they go to eat during non-working hours, which is equivalent to eating out.

The two of them carried large and small bags in their hands, and went to the photo studio to take group photos and headshots.

In fact, the new generation of ID cards now require a mugshot, which can effectively reduce the possibility of impersonation.

At this time, the territory of the Human Revolutionary Union is an era of very rapid changes. With the improvement of basic materials and technologies, many things are no longer technically difficult.

Such as various electrical appliances and machinery.

In Liuqiu Keelung, Guangnan Hongji, and Lingnan Yulin, tram tracks have been laid at this time, because there are power stations around these cities.

In Jiangnan and North China, special air passenger air routes have been opened, and two Kunpeng-class airships have been invested to transform them into passenger airships.

As for the application of steam carriers in various places, it is becoming more and more widespread.

Many spies of hostile forces lurking in the territory of the Human Revolutionary Union have even given up on themselves, because they have seen too much, and their hearts will be uncontrollably shaken.

I would rather be a dog of peace than a person in troubled times.

For many people who have suffered from war, their hearts will be confused and shaken.

After all, most of the people who would come to be spies were not from wealthy families. Once they substituted themselves into the Human Revolutionary League, the only people who would not be shaken in their hearts were those who had been trained as dead soldiers since childhood.

Therefore, many spies were instigated, allowing the black guards to send them over to influence the enemy's interior through these people.

For example, inside Li Tang at this time, there is also Goguryeo.

Many people don't want to follow Li Tang to escape to the Western Regions. This is an inevitable choice of human nature.

As time went by, after the Human Revolutionary Federation initially stabilized North China, it began to increase penetration, preparing to take Guanzhong and Bashu next year, and completely end the war in the Central Plains.

Ordinary people like Zhang Dagou, in fact, were not greatly affected by their time.

This is mainly due to the huge material supply capacity and food reserves of the Human Revolutionary Union.

As of October of the fourth year of the new calendar, the annual output of various materials of the Human Revolutionary Union has reached a new high.

160,000 tons of pig iron, 53,000 tons of crude steel, 16,000 tons of special steel, 8,360 tons of electrolytic aluminum, 13,000 tons of copper, 3,250 tons of tin, 527 tons of lead, 33 tons of manganese...

2.64 million tons of coal, 860,000 tons of cement, 63,000 tons of glass...

These are the hard power of industry, the power that makes the enemy tremble, and it is also the guarantee that the people can live comfortably.

Industry and resources are the foundation for a strong future.

Another large-scale industrial product produced this year is chemical fertilizer, which is closely related to agriculture.

Through the exploration of the Luzon Islands and the South China Sea Islands, the struvite mineral resources discovered so far have reached a reserve of about 3.5 to 4 million tons.

Coupled with the use of steam ships and steam excavators, the scale of struvite mining has been greatly expanded, reaching an annual output of 120,000 tons.

Then there are artificially synthesized nitrogen fertilizers, potassium fertilizers, and phosphorus fertilizers, which have also broken through the scale of kilotons.

The input of these chemical fertilizers has a very obvious effect on increasing agricultural production. In many farmlands with sufficient chemical fertilizers, the yield per mu has nearly doubled.

After taking over North China, those refugees did not overwhelm the Human Revolutionary Union. Instead, they quickly improved the infrastructure in the north through the way of work-for-relief.

And this situation, of course, did not hide Li Tang, Goguryeo, and Turen.

Under this unstoppable general trend, there were some abnormalities near Dai County on the northern border, which attracted the attention of the black guards.

Soon the investigation report of this situation appeared in the hands of Bai Yulou and others.