It's another year's autumn harvest, and the countryside in eastern Liaoning is also getting busy. There was also a drought in eastern Liaoning this year. This is the first large-scale natural disaster encountered by the Far East since it came to this era.

Although the disaster situation in Liaodong cannot be compared with the severe drought in several provinces in the northern part of the Central Plains, it is still relatively serious, and there are basically few rains in the summer in Liaodong, and the land in many areas is also dry and cracked.

Fortunately, Liaodong is vast and sparsely populated, and the agricultural population of the Far East Company is relatively small, and the cultivated land cultivated by the company in Liaodong is all along the banks of several major rivers in Liaodong. The Agriculture and Forestry Department of the Ethnic Affairs Committee of the company mobilized a large number of steam pumps to pump water from various rivers, and basically ensured the irrigation of cultivated land through a perfect farmland irrigation system, so that the disaster situation in eastern Liaoning was controlled.

Moreover, the crops mainly planted by the Far Eastern Company in Liaodong are mainly corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes with strong drought resistance, so the average yield per mu of crops in Liaodong this year has only dropped by less than 20%.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has formulated targeted plans in modern society, mainly to deal with the harsh weather and natural disasters such as the "Xiaoice River Period" and the "Chongzhen Drought". Not only are high-quality varieties from alpine regions selected, but also varieties with relatively strong drought resistance.

In recent years, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has invested a lot of resources in various parts of eastern Liaoning, mobilized a large number of peasant households, and vigorously carried out agricultural infrastructure construction. A large number of drought-stricken irrigation systems and flood-stricken drainage systems have been built in various localities. Facts have proved that all the inputs of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry have paid off, and in the face of such a severe drought, the crop losses in Liaodong can be said to be minimal.

Li Laogen and the North Korean woman in his family drove an ox cart full of corn cobs. Happily walked home. On these days of the autumn harvest, the farmers in Liaodong feel like they are having a holiday.

This year's summer rainfall is pitiful, the parched land, and the loess all indicate that this year is a year of great drought, and Li Laogen and the North Korean women at home. I was so worried that my hair turned gray.

In the past, every time there was such a disaster year, the life of the farmers was difficult, and there was almost no way to survive. Just like Li Laogen fled all the way from his hometown Shaanxi to Henan, he was the only one left in his family, if he hadn't caught up with the Far East to collect the displaced people in Shandong, even he wouldn't have survived that winter.

Although there was enough grain in their granary to eat for more than a year, Li Laogen knew very well that the ghost weather in these years would come to a famine. It may not improve for several years, just like the drought in northern Shaanxi for many years.

The vast countryside of Liaodong was filled with a pessimistic mood, and everyone spontaneously gathered together to pray for rain in temples in various places, begging God to rain down and help the peasant households in Liaodong. But no matter what you do, God just doesn't make it beautiful. There were only a few light rains throughout the summer.

While the peasants in Liaodong were lamenting with sad faces, countless steam engines set up on the shores of various places roared almost simultaneously. Plumes of thick black smoke continued to rise in various parts of Liaodong, and the turbulent river water was pumped onto the riverbank by pumps.

The river flows down the cement pipes to the farmland, and the cracked land is instantly rejuvenated, and large swaths of farmland are irrigated, even if some are far from the riverbank. They were also sent to the fields by horse-drawn wagons with large wooden water tanks, and a large number of employees and officers and soldiers of the Far East were dispatched to help farmers in various places carry water for disaster relief.

Looking at the crops that were originally dry, they have resumed their previous upward trend. The farmers in Liaodong were suddenly stupid. As if they had seen a ghost, they watched the raging water gushing out of the cement pipes.

Back then, they didn't know how many sins they suffered in order to bury these dead pipes. Although they don't say it, they will inevitably complain in their hearts, in their opinion, it is useless to spend so much effort and bury so many pipes, and it is purely a practice of working the people and wasting money.

It wasn't until today that they knew that these tubes could be used in such a wonderful way. They couldn't figure out how the water could get out of the pipe.

But no matter what, the crops are saved, and there is no longer any need to worry about it every day and stay awake at night. The crops in the fields are the lifeblood of the farmers' families, and the owner saves their crops as if he had saved their lives.

Li Laogen's fields are closer to the river, and the irrigation situation is better, so the yield per mu of this year's autumn harvest has only dropped by about 10% compared with last year. Li Laogen and his family were like a dream, no one thought that such a famine year would lose so little.

They looked at their granaries, which were full of them, and their hearts were a lot more relieved. During this time, the brigade often organized farmers to watch movies, mostly showing the drought in several northern provinces of the Ming Dynasty, and the Far East launched a general mobilization and sent a large number of ships to the Ming Dynasty to provide disaster relief.

They were also frightened when they looked at the scenes of thousands of miles of red land and starvation all over the Ming Dynasty. In the year when Li Laogen fled the famine, the neighboring provinces were basically not affected, but this time, the northern part of the Ming Dynasty basically suffered a rare drought.

The company has been in the rural areas of eastern Liaoning these days, mobilizing farmers to sell grain in advance, and the company will purchase surplus grain from farmers at a price higher than the market to support the company to help the victims of the Ming Dynasty. Farmers can also pay loans and grain taxes in advance by paying grain taxes and loans, and the company can give farmers certain preferential treatments, reducing or exempting part of the grain taxes and loans in disguise.

These days, peasant households from all over Liaodong have successively driven horse-drawn carriages to the markets in various places, which is the place where the Far Eastern Company collects grain. Each family's ox cart was filled with surplus grain from the peasant households, and most of the peasant households chose to pay the grain tax and loans in advance, but they also sold more or less some grain.

Although they didn't know much, they all realized something, and the owner had never had such an urgent need for grain, so the farmers in Liaodong were actively paying taxes and selling grain. Since they came to Liaodong, they all know what the owner has done to them.

Now the owner needs a food emergency, and everyone has to respond positively. And the benefits of paying taxes in advance are obvious, as you can save some food. Many peasant households have paid their grain taxes and loans three or four years in advance.

But everyone will also sell some surplus grain to the owner in their hearts. After all, when the owner needs help, everyone still takes advantage of the owner, and they are embarrassed. (To be continued......)

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