The plateau on the high loess slope is broad and majestic.

The ravines here are desolate and rough.

In winter, the gullies on the high loess slopes are silent. Only countless large and small ice hanging on the cliffs are spectacular.

In the shady ravines, the snow is very deep in some places.

Sometimes the sheepherders of the production team are driving the sheep, and if they accidentally fall into this kind of snow, it will be difficult to pull them out.

When spring comes, the ice and snow melt. What starts as a trickle eventually turns into a surging torrent.

Roaring, galloping, rushing towards the Wuding River wantonly.

Just like the stubborn man in the north of the Great Wall, even the nine oxen could not hold him back. These were covered with a large number of rocks and rolling yellow soup of dead branches and leaves.

In a bowl of water, there is half a bowl of yellow sand.

Flash floods take away not only the most fertile surface soil on the Loess Plateau.

Moreover, such precious water was lost in vain, so the flood also took away the farmers' extreme desire for a good harvest.

Luoxuan planned to build an earth dam in the "V" shaped ravine.

In order to intercept these precious floods, which carry a large amount of fertile soil, in the ravines.

In order to store it and use it as a water source for irrigating farmland in the future.

at the same time,

As the sediment inside the "V"-shaped earth dam accumulates more and more, eventually this micro-earth dam will gradually form a "Gan"-shaped siltation ground.

This creates more new farmland.

This kind of cultivated land is formed by the accumulation of yellow sand on the plateau, so it will be more fertile and have a greater water content.

According to Luo Xuan's estimate: the yield per mu of grain in this kind of silted land will be 5 to 7 times higher than the yield per mu of sloping land on the plateau, which relies on the sky for food!

It is more than twice the grain output per acre of the so-called "Sichuan land" along the river.

It's not like I suddenly thought of it, slapped my head, and took it for granted.

It is because this method of controlling water and soil erosion on the Loess Plateau has been widely used in later generations.

And after 2 to 30 years of practical proof, the real data was summarized.

Accountant Li, production captain Dou Jiande, militia captain, and women's team leader accompanied Luo Xuan and stood on the high plateau.

Everyone looked at the busy members at the bottom of the gully.

Looking at this lively scene, everyone felt confident and full of hope for the future.

But on the other hand,

The imminent food shortage suddenly made everyone feel heavy.

Dou Jiande asked, "Comrade Luo Xuan, if we add up all the ravines in our production team, let alone 100, there are at least 6 or 70 ravines."

"You distribute one and a half kilograms of grain to the members every day and take care of two meals."

Dou Jiande was very anxious, "This method is really good. It not only solves the daily food ration problem of the members.

At the same time, it also saved valuable cash in the collective accounts. However, about 260 men and women worked on the construction site every day.

Oh my god!

It requires nearly 800 kilograms of food every day, which is probably unsustainable."

Accountant Li smiled slightly and said, "We consume 24,000 kilograms of grain in a month. We really can't bear it."

Accountant Li showed his fingers to Dou Jiande, "The County Grain Bureau, Water Conservancy Office and Educated Youth Office. They jointly allocated the grain to our production team. A total of 8 tons, which is 16,000 kilograms."

This batch of grain can last for 20 days at most, and this project will take two months to complete. What should we do with the remaining grain gap?"

Now all production is in the warehouse, which is basically coarse grains. There are still more than 63,000 kilograms in total. No matter how much we save, we can't bear it."

The food in the warehouse is not only used to supply the members on the water conservancy construction site.

its greater effect,

It also needs to be used to deal with the issue of grain distribution at the end of the year for all members of the entire Shilipu production team.

What's more, there are more than 70 sheep, 9 cattle, 22 pigs, 7 mules, horses, and donkeys in the production team's breeding room.

It is also a big expense for people to chew the horse's food every day.

Moreover, according to the collective accounts, the more than 60,000 kilograms of grain are mainly potatoes and sweet potatoes.

Millet, millet, sorghum, wheat and corn are supplemented.

What's more, the Shilipu production team will soon open a restaurant.

This kind of roadside restaurant mainly serves passing truck drivers.

These guys work hard, but their income is very high.

Therefore, restaurants mainly sell refined staple foods, with only a little bit of coarse grains mixed in.

This kind of collective side business.

The superior authorities will not allocate precious food to the hotel.

That means: Your production team is going to open a restaurant to make some living money.

The commune and the county ignored it and neither opposed nor supported it.

If any production team wants to open a restaurant, whoever has spare food can open it.

Anyone who doesn't have enough food to do this kind of thing will just farm and watch others make money.

Therefore, hundreds of people on the construction site require a large amount of food to support them.

And the roadside restaurant that is about to open is also a bottomless pit that needs to be filled with countless amounts of food.

The food gap is too big!!

How to do how to do?

The women's team leader looked at Luo Xuan and asked cautiously, "How about we learn from the Guanzhuang production team?"

Dou Jiande nodded, "Yes, I have long felt that the Guanzhuang production team's approach is the correct one."

Luo Xuan turned around and looked at Dou Jiande.

It seems that this Dou Jiande, for the members of the Guanzhuang production team, is under the leadership of the educated youth Xu Daliang.

The infrastructure construction method of building a large number of irrigation canals in the riverside areas is particularly appreciated.

Xu Daliang built a simple small dam by the Wuding River.

Then use this dam to intercept part of the river water, and then divert it into the cultivated land downstream and into the dense irrigation canals.

The method of building water conservancy projects adopted by Xu Daliang was less difficult and yielded quick results.

However, the difference between them and the Shilipu production team is that the members of the Guanzhuang production team are all voluntary workers.

They were doing collective work and eating their own food.

Therefore, if this method is adopted, the collective food demand for the Guanzhuang production team will be less.

There is not much financial pressure.

Luo Xuan slowly asked Dou Jiande, "Captain Dou, do you think the method adopted by the Guanzhuang Production Team can last?"

Dou Jiande smoked his cigarette and said, "Why can't it last long? Their members are entitled to work points when they go to work. Which member's family can't rely on work points to make a living?"

"Shit!"

Luo Xuan said a rare curse word, "If there are 100 kilograms of grain in the production team, all members will have 100 work points.

So 1 work point corresponds to 1 catty of grain, right?"

Everyone nodded, "That's right."

"Okay, let me ask you."

Luo Xuan seemed to be deliberately targeting Dou Jiande, staring at him and asking, "What if we keep a closer eye on the members and let them work more; at the same time, we also give him more work points."

"Then in the end, all the members in the production team earned a total of 1,000 work points."

Luo Xuan stared at Dou Jiande, "But at the same time, has the total amount of grain in our production team increased?"

Everyone shook their heads, "Work points are work points, and food is food. Even if the work points increase, the food will not automatically increase in the warehouse."

Speaking of which,

The people present finally understood: let the members work more overtime and work more.

Those are just members of the production team, and their personal work points have increased.

However, the original total amount of grain produced by the production team remains unchanged.

In other words: if 1 work point originally corresponded to 1 catty of grain.

Then the members of the commune work more, but in the end they can only use 10 work points to exchange for 1 catty of grain.
To be continued...