Traveling through 1937, I came to fight against the Kwantung Army

Mulan City Government,

There is less than a month left until the spring ploughing season.

People take food as their heaven,

Every year during the spring ploughing season, Yin Xinjun would convene a special meeting to organize and arrange the whole process!

The topic of this week's mayor's office meeting is to do our utmost to ensure the spring ploughing work! We strive to maintain a positive growth in the city's total grain output this year!

Since the new seeds now use secondary breeding, the penetration rate has basically reached 100%, and there is no room for improvement in the seeds!

Now we can only rely on the number of farmlands and mechanized centralized construction!

Because there are many mountainous areas in the counties of Mulan Special District, the total arable land area of ​​the four counties is less than 800 million mu. In the past year, 33 mu of wasteland have been reclaimed!

However, with the start of major engineering projects, 10 mu of arable land was also requisitioned! So the total amount of arable land is just over 800 million mu! A slight increase!

Another potential is that this year there are more than 20 collective farms, each of which has thousands or even tens of thousands of acres of arable land. Half of these farms are state-owned.

After many farmers who were allocated land became workers, their income increased and they were unwilling to farm. Some hired people from other places, and some simply responded to the government’s call and rented the land to the government!

These collective farms are also a growth point for grain production this year. All the few agricultural tractors will be used in these farms.

At the meeting, Yin Xinjun made several requests.

One is a state-owned collective farm, which this year focuses on sugar beets and cotton, which are the raw materials that are in short supply in the factories of Mulan Special District.

The second one is about secondary seeds. This year, we will provide 100 million kilograms of wheat seeds and 100 million kilograms of rice seeds to Suihua and Harbin respectively to increase the grain production in these areas!

Third, we continue to advocate rice and wheat as the main crops for agricultural planting this year to complement the advantages of other places in the Northeast! In particular, soybeans and corn, which were abundant in other places last year, are not recommended for planting in Mulan Special District!

You should know that in 1946 alone, the Mulan Special Zone purchased 65 tons of soybeans and 21 tons of corn from the Northeast Liberated Area, greatly stabilizing the prices in the entire Northeast Liberated Area!

Luo Jingfeng, director of the Municipal Rural and Agricultural Bureau, is from the Shandong Liberation Area. He is a pragmatic and conscientious cadre. He began to report on the second topic.

"Leaders, comrades, regarding the animal husbandry in Mulan County, after our bureau's research, it is still very potential for growth. The key is that the government should provide guidance. Just like the collective farms, we are considering cultivating professional pig farmers this year. The preliminary plan is that if a family has more than 10 pigs, the government will subsidize each pig with 50 yuan!"

According to the current purchasing power of the Northeast currency, pork is 20 yuan per catty, which is equivalent to the government subsidizing 2.5 catties of meat for each pig!

Yin Xinjun interjected approvingly,

"Comrades, the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau has done a great job. At present, we must subsidize and vigorously develop all scarce industries, so that ordinary people can earn money and are willing to invest manpower, material resources. With the increase in investment, the supply of materials will be greatly alleviated. Then we will regulate and control so that prices fluctuate within a reasonable range!

For example, this year, we are planting sugar beets and cotton. Why? Because the market for sugar and clothing is still in short supply, so we must increase the supply of raw materials. When raw materials are cheaper, the supply of materials will naturally increase!"

Next, it was the report of Wang Shuigen, Director of the Construction Bureau.

"Next week, 3 factories including the Mulan County Paper Mill, Fangzheng County Chemical Plant Phase I, Bin County Electric Appliance Factory Phase I, and Tonghe County Tractor Factory 17, which are large-scale projects in our city, will start construction. Currently, the construction units have completed the bidding, and the planned construction period is six months!"

After these factories are built, a large part of the equipment in Yin Xinjun’s space can be cleared out again. These are all Japanese factory equipment obtained in Fengtian at that time!

The demand for paper mill products is very high, and newsprint and woodfree paper need to be imported from the Soviet Union at a high price! Yin Xinjun's goal is to reduce imports to no more than 20 billion yuan per year in three years, and replace them all with domestic products!

Needless to say, chemical plants play a very important role. As a pillar industry, almost all industries are inseparable from chemical raw materials. Yin Xinjun's chemical plant will focus on the production of plastics, ammonium nitrate, hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, synthetic ammonia, and various agricultural fertilizers!

Fertilizer is Yin Xinjun’s third means to increase grain production!

The electrical appliance factory will supply cables, light bulbs, and electronic components, and these products must be produced in a centralized and large-scale manner!

Needless to say, most of the tractors are also used for mechanized agricultural construction. Seeds, machines, and fertilizers are the three major factors that effectively guarantee production! Fertilizers play the biggest role. Yin Xinjun firmly believes that as long as this chemical plant is put into production, it will lead to a bumper grain harvest in the entire Northeast Liberated Area next year!

Jiang Hailiang, director of the Municipal Supply and Marketing Bureau, said,

“Since the beginning of this year, the supply of various materials has been stable and orderly. We have supplied clothing sets, quilt sets, and pairs of shoes to the headquarters!

As for department stores, we put 100 tons of steel, 100 tons of aluminum, and 100 tons of copper into the market every day, and the supply is almost in short supply. This has supported the development of local light industry. Can we increase the supply of resource products in the next month?

In addition, the headquarters oil exploration team, Northeast Aviation School, and Harbin Thermal Power Plant ordered a batch of steel and equipment from us. We have already issued them to various factories and organized emergency production to successfully deliver the equipment! "

All departments have completed their reports.

Su Fei said,

"The headquarters has sent us another telegram, requesting an increase in the supply of pork, canned food, steel, cement, and artillery shells. Comrades, we must tighten our belts and firmly support the headquarters' decision..."

Before she finished her words, Sai Mulan snorted in dissatisfaction.

"Why do we have to tighten our belts? Aren't the people of our special zone the people? Take pork for example. Last year, our entire county donated 4000 live pigs to the army. The pork supply in each township is very tight. The people are very dissatisfied and have complained to me about this many times!"

Su Fei's face flushed red. He glanced at Yin Xinjun but didn't know what to say.

In the conference room, the other county governors also had complicated expressions on their faces.

Yin Xinjun said hurriedly,

"What County Magistrate Tang said is true, but we still need to pay attention to what Deputy Secretary Su said. The supply of live pigs this year must continue to grow to meet the needs of the troops. In fact, we have long recognized this contradiction. Director Luo has also proposed some solutions. I think this problem will definitely be solved satisfactorily!"

It was confusing. He said a lot of things but he himself didn't know what he was talking about. His main point was to avoid the real and attack the fake!

Su Fei thought about it and changed the subject.

"This year, our counties have another important task, which is identity and household registration. Governments at all levels must attach great importance to it. Anyone who applies to settle in the special zone must be registered in a timely manner so that they can enjoy the special zone's welfare and preferential policies in a timely manner!"

Yin Xinjun finally said,

"Comrades, the first three-year work goal of our Special Zone government is to provide all kinds of urgently needed goods to the liberated areas across the country and vigorously develop the manufacturing industry in the Special Zone!

The second three-year work goal is to support the manufacturing industry in various regions across the country in terms of technology, equipment, raw materials, etc.

The ultimate goal of all our work is actually just one, to allow all the people to live a life of great material abundance!"