Instructor Wang Hong's eyes were already shining, and he was frightened by the data that Li Hao and Peng Chang said.

With a shocked face, he shouted: "Battalion commander, we can really collect so much public food!" ”

"You let me do the math, our independent battalion plus recruits is about 1,500 people, and each person eats two catties of grain a day, which is three thousand catties a day. It only costs 1.1 million catties a year. 3.5 million catties of public grain is not enough for us to eat for three years! ”

Li Hao shook his head and replied, "Instructor, it's not your way to count!" ”

"In addition to food, the troops also have to eat vegetables, oil, salt, wear clothes and medicines in peacetime, and pay some allowances during the New Year and festivals!"

"All of this needs money, but we don't have any income other than public food and battlefield captures!"

"Battlefield captures can only be needed for a while, not for long. Therefore, the large amount of money we need can only be obtained through the realization of public grain! ”

"In this way, if the vegetables, oil, salt, clothes, medicines, allowances, etc. that the soldiers have to eat every day are all included, four catties of food per person per day may not be enough!"

"In addition, we will also take out some food to exchange for weapons and ammunition, and pay pensions to soldiers who died on the battlefield!"

"Three and a half million catties of grain, it seems like a lot, but it won't be enough when it really counts!"

Wang Hong was stunned for a moment before he reacted: "It's true!" ”

Then his face became solemn again: "I thought that after the autumn harvest, our life would be better, and I, the instructor, would be more relaxed." Now it seems that these are all dreams, and they can't be easy at all! ”

"Even if we have grain in our hands after the autumn harvest, the funds for our independent battalion still have to be used in two pieces of the ocean, and we can save it!"

Li Hao nodded affirmatively: "In addition to saving money, we also have to find a way to open source!" ”

Wang Hong was thorough at a glance, and immediately replied: "Battalion commander, you mean that we let the captives reclaim the wasteland in the mountains!" ”

"So far, we have reclaimed 3,400 acres of wasteland: 2,800 acres of sloping land and 600 acres of flat land. If all the grain is planted, it is still no problem to harvest 300,000 or 400,000 catties of grain on more than 3,000 acres of land, and it can be regarded as a relatively large harvest. ”

Li Hao shook his head and replied: "The yield is too low!" ”

"If there are so many slopes and all the heavy wheat, you can only rely on the sky for food, which is too risky!"

"In this way, 600 acres of flat land are used to grow wheat, and the rest of the slope land is all heavy sweet potatoes."

"Sweet potatoes have a high yield and are easy to preserve, and more than 2,000 acres of land can easily harvest more than two million catties!"

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Wang Hong to speak, Li Hao shifted his gaze to Peng Chang and said in a commanding tone: "In addition to planting sweet potatoes on the land we have reclaimed ourselves, the slopes within the base area also encourage everyone to grow sweet potatoes with better yields and more drought resistance!"

Peng Chang was frightened and was stunned for a long time before he reacted.

"Battalion commander, although we haven't counted it in detail, I estimate that the kind of slope you mentioned will not be less than 10,000 mu! If all the sweet potatoes are planted, at least seven or eight million catties of grain can be used, and it is possible to do more than 10 million catties! ”

"However, although the yield of sweet potatoes is very high, they cannot be eaten, and the price is pitifully low, and they cannot be sold for money, and the common people do not like to grow it. If you force it to be promoted, I'm afraid it will cause the people to resent it! ”

"If you can't sell it, we will pay for it from the Eighth Route Army!" Li Hao made a decision unexpectedly.

Then he asked Peng Chang: "If you plant all the sloping land with wheat as usual, how much can you produce?" ”

Peng Chang thought for a moment and replied: "The slope is barren, there is no water source, and all rely on the sky for food." If the year is good, you can collect hundreds of catties, and if the year is bad, it is possible to harvest no particles! ”

"In other words, these slopes are planted with wheat as in previous years, which not only has a low yield, but also an unstable income!"

"Yes, battalion commander!" Peng Chang replied.

Li Hao continued to ask: "What if you plant sweet potatoes?" ”

Peng Chang didn't hesitate for too long this time: "The sweet potato yield is high, and it is drought tolerant, so the year has little impact on it. ”

"If the year is good, the harvest of one acre of land will be 1,000 catties casually, and if the year is bad, there will be 7 or 800 catties!"

Speaking of this, Li Hao quickly made a decision: "Then we will calculate the yield of 1,000 catties of sweet potatoes per mu for the people!" ”

"Comrade Peng Chang, you go down and publicize more, in order to encourage everyone to plant sweet potatoes on the slopes, our Eighth Route Army has decided to harvest sweet potatoes after the autumn harvest!"

"Just buy it at the price of ten catties of sweet potatoes and one catty of grain, you can ask for the ocean, or you can choose to ask for grain. In this way, the sweet potatoes harvested by them on one acre of sloping land can be exchanged for seventy or eighty catties of grain, and if they do a good job, it is possible to exchange one acre of land for one hundred and thirty or forty catties of grain! ”

Peng Chang's eyes lit up and he replied: "In this case, the people will definitely be willing to plant sweet potatoes!" ”

Li Hao followed up and added: "There is another one, in order to avoid the common people from planting sweet potatoes in their fertile fields, we must set a rule, only we harvest sweet potatoes grown in dry land, and we still have to grow wheat in fertile fields, after all, our main ration is still flour, and the price at which it is sold!" ”

Peng Chang immediately promised: "Please rest assured, battalion commander, I will arrange it after I go back!" ”

Wang Hong's face was not so good-looking, and after taking a deep breath, he asked, "Battalion commander, you have to think about this matter!" ”

"The base area is 10,000 acres of sloping land, and the prisoner camp has reclaimed more than 2,000 acres, and if you plant all sweet potatoes, you can harvest at least 12 million catties, will it be too much!"

"Also, if we harvest all the 10 million catties of sweet potatoes harvested in the base area, we will have to use up at least one million catties of public grain!"

"We calculated just now, more than three million catties of public grain seems like a lot, but it is not enough to really use it."

"If we rashly exchange a million catties of grain for sweet potatoes, won't the food in our hands be even more insufficient?"

Li Hao smiled and replied: "But we got back 10 million catties of sweet potatoes!" ”

"Although sweet potatoes are not valuable and have a bad taste, when there is no food, no one will care about how it tastes, as long as it can fill the stomach!"

Wang Hong looked thoughtful and asked, "Battalion commander, you mean that these sweet potatoes are likely to become our life-saving food!" ”

Li Hao did not deny it: "No one dares to guarantee that the year will always be so good!" ”

"If we encounter a bad year, drought for two or three consecutive years, not to mention sweet potatoes, as long as we can fill our stomachs, we will eat worse grains!"

Speaking of this, a very tragic picture slowly appeared in Li Hao's mind.

On the battlefield of resistance against Japan in history, because of the drought in the battlefield in North China for many years, the common people could not eat, and the Eighth Route Army had to mobilize the army and the people to be self-sufficient and reduce the pressure on the base areas by streamlining the administration of the army.

If you can eat sweet potatoes in one meal, you will definitely be very lucky.

If Li Hao is not mistaken, in those years, the Eighth Route Army not only suffered serious attrition, but also suffered huge losses to the common people in the base areas.

Since God has given himself the opportunity to become a member of this history, although he can't change the overall situation, he can still take precautions and prevent such a tragic situation in the area under his control.

Wang Hong obviously didn't think about this, and he didn't expect a three-year drought to begin in North China a year later.

So after Li Hao finished speaking, although Wang Hong recognized this approach, he still felt that it was too much to reserve more than 10 million catties of sweet potatoes at one time!

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