Rebirth: I am in Jin-Cha-Ji

It can be said that this was the first major crisis faced by the Soviet socialist model in Eastern Europe.

This is the beginning.

Soon, something happened in Hungary, which Wei Hongjun had emphasized.

On June 1953, 6, the Central Committee of the Hungarian Communist Party held a meeting to criticize Raksi's mistakes. Nagy, then Vice Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic, replaced Raksi as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic. Raksi was the leader of the Soviet-backed Hungarian Communist Party. Nagy was criticized several times by the Soviet Communist Party and was even expelled from the party. Some sources also claim that Nagy once worked for the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs.

However, Nagy's rise to power at this time was a counterattack against the Soviet economic model in Hungary. Nagy had always opposed the Soviet economic system. After being elected Chairman of the Hungarian Council of Ministers, Nagy announced economic reforms and proposed a series of new economic policies.

A major adjustment was made to the Hungarian economy.

When these changes occurred in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union had no energy to care about Eastern European affairs because Malenkov, Khrushchev and Beria were engaged in a series of struggles for the highest power in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

The final result was that on June 1953, 6, Malenkov and Khrushchev joined forces to detain Beria.

Three months after Stalin's death, the socialist camp was undergoing a dizzying array of changes. When Chairman Mao read Wei Hongjun and Mao Zemin's reports again, he could relate many of them directly.

The Chairman also began to deduce the situation according to the current situation and began to have expectations.

In particular, there are expectations about how to negotiate and cooperate with the Soviet Union in the future.

922 winter wheat yield per mu

At this stage, there are some problems in Eastern Europe, and it is still only a "3-cloud" style.

Because many Eastern European countries have experienced economic problems, after pouring most of their capital into heavy industry, these small countries can no longer afford to invest in light industry and agriculture.

As a result, although the economy recovered, it developed slowly, agricultural and sideline products were extremely scarce, and the quality of life did not improve much.

Therefore, many Eastern European countries want to make some changes economically.

Aside from the June 617th Incident in East Germany, which led to some economic adjustments, no serious political problems had arisen. However, this was a beginning. Once the door was opened, Eastern European countries began by breaking away from the Soviet economic model, and then gradually drifted apart politically.

Fortunately, ideologically, everyone supports socialism, so there won't be any serious problems for the time being.

Without Khrushchev's secret report, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe would have gradually found a way to coexist after a period of control and counter-control. However, once the secret report was released, Stalin's aura faded, and the entire Eastern European world was in ideological chaos. The Soviet Union completely repudiated Stalin, and the socialist system he created was naturally questioned.

Stalin was described as a finger mushroom, so who could believe that he was right when he said that he raised a finger mushroom?

This is the case in Eastern European countries.

The Eastern European Communist Parties have always had shallow roots in Eastern European society, and they can only become ruling parties if they have the support of the Soviet Union.

As a result, Comrade Stalin, whom they had admired, was completely repudiated in the Soviet Union. What then remained of the Eastern European Communist parties? How could they continue to promote the superiority of socialism? Once ideology became chaotic, control became impossible. Not only the original opposition parties, but even the general public began to question the very existence of Stalin's "evil" socialist system. How could it possibly be good?

Under these doubts, the Polish-Hungarian incidents occurred, indicating that they were leaving the socialist camp. Hungary, in particular, invited the United Nations to take over Hungary at the last minute. It can be said that the events in Hungary at that time could easily have caused the collapse of the entire socialist camp.

There are already signs of this happening, but they are not too serious.

After Malenkov and Khrushchev dealt with Beria, they became wary of events in Eastern Europe. Therefore, they immediately strengthened their ties with China. They wanted to understand China's attitude towards the centrifugal forces emerging in Eastern Europe after the death of Stalin.

Did China, after seeing the death of Comrade Stalin, also want to break away from the Soviet Union and the socialist camp?

This was something that both Malenkov and Khrushchev were very worried about.

The existence of Yugoslavia was a huge blow to the Soviet Union and the socialist camp. If China had learned from Yugoslavia, then the entire communist movement in Asia would have had nothing to do with the Soviet Union.

Therefore, Malenkov and Khrushchev were eager to know China's attitude. Unfortunately, China's attitude was unclear.

Chairman Mao was still waiting for Khrushchev to come and talk to China in person. China's attitude was unclear, and Khrushchev was indeed somewhat anxious. After dealing with Beria, Khrushchev no longer cared about Malenkov.

He is no match for me at all.

Khrushchev was now considering how to win over China, the "celestial kingdom" within the socialist camp. As long as China remained stable and supported the Soviet Union, then Eastern Europe's problems would be easily resolved.

So while Khrushchev was considering how to deal with Malenkov, he was also trying to figure out China's attitude.

I see China's ambiguous attitude.

Khrushchev discussed with China the idea of ​​holding an exhibition of Soviet economic and cultural achievements in Beijing. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China gave a very positive signal to the Soviet Union, welcoming such an exhibition in China.

The two sides set the date as October 1953, 10.

For this exhibition, the Soviet Union brought out its entire wealth, wanting China, a "country bumpkin," to see the Soviet Union's industrial might. Truckloads of Soviet goods were brought to China, and the exhibition was set up there. There were dozens of types of agricultural machinery, not to mention other items.

Motorcycles, harvesters, seed drills and the like were all brought to China.

Khrushchev stated that he would lead the Soviet delegation and personally attend the opening ceremony of the exhibition supervision committee. Chairman Mao understood that Khrushchev was coming to win China's support, so he extended a warm welcome.

The Soviet Union's exhibition was of great importance and the Beijing government was requested to provide full cooperation.

But Wei Hongjun doesn't have the energy to take care of these things. Wei Hongjun has a lot of things to deal with now.

Wei Hongjun's current focus is on two areas: dwarf wheat yields per mu and the oil crisis in Northeast China. Good news keeps coming from the Northeast: the Liaohe Oilfield is now fully operational.

Wei Hongjun mobilized three divisions of oil engineering troops, plus oil technicians, oil workers, students drawn from various places, and some family members, the number of people participating in the construction of the Liaohe Oilfield was about 100,000.

This is a real battle.

Wei Hongjun's request was that the Liaohe Oilfield be initially constructed by 1954, capable of stably producing 150 million to 200 cubic tons of crude oil for the country, and that a refinery with a refining capacity of 300 cubic tons be built.

Now the refineries in the Liaohe Oilfield have begun installing equipment under the guidance of Soviet experts.

Although the Liaohe Oilfield's output is not enough to completely solve China's oil problem, the Liaohe Oilfield's development is aimed not only at increasing China's oil production but also at cultivating a team with experience in oilfield construction.

This is what Wei Hongjun values ​​most.

—Only a team with experience in oil field construction will be able to build more oil fields for China in the future.

The construction of the Liaohe Oilfield encountered numerous challenges, many of which were unprecedented. However, the Liaohe Oilfield team successfully addressed these challenges, overcoming thousands of technical challenges.

There is a lot of good news coming out of the Liaohe Oilfield right now. Progress is very fast.

Of course, the good news from Northeast China isn't limited to the Liaohe Oilfield. Similar news has recently arrived from other locations. Drilling teams exploring the Songliao Plain have also been discovering industrial oil and gas. Several drilling teams have already struck industrial oil and gas.

This indicates that there are also oil fields on the Songliao Plain.

Thus, the oil campaign led by Wei Hongjun in the second half of 1951 had achieved successful results after two years of exploration. A total of three oil fields were discovered: Liaohe Oilfield, Songliao Oilfield, and Karamay Oilfield.

Many people are still unclear about this.

How big is the oil field in Songliao?

After the discovery of oil in the Daqing Oilfield, the output exceeded 600 million tons in the third year, and increased by about 350 cubic tons every year thereafter. Sixteen years later, the crude oil output of the Daqing Oilfield exceeded 5000 million tons.

After that, the output continued to exceed 5000 million tons for more than 2000 years. And more than years later, with the use of new technologies, the output of Daqing Oilfield is still around million tons.

You can imagine how big the Daqing Oilfield is.

It can be said that the Daqing Oilfield is an important event that cannot be avoided in the history of China's petroleum.

But Wei Hongjun currently had limited personnel. The majority of his forces were busy developing the Karamay and Liaohe oilfields. He wanted to use these two fields to train his team. So, even though he knew the Daqing oilfield was a prime candidate and that developing it would immediately solve China's oil problems, he still chose not to do so.

Because there's no rush.

As long as the Karamay and Liaohe oilfields are successfully built, Wei Hongjun can transfer a mature team to build the Tianqing oilfield. The technical force required by the Daqing oilfield is very strong.

Wei Hongjun didn't want to force the process, but he couldn't just sit there and do nothing.

Although the Daqing Oilfield could not be developed, exploration work could not stop. Therefore, Wei Hongjun mobilized several drilling teams to continue exploration in the Tianqing Oilfield area to learn more about the Daqing Oilfield.

When the Daqing Oilfield project is launched, we will know clearly how it should be constructed.

The oil battle has come to an end.

While Wei Hongjun was planning the oil campaign, he also kept an eye on agriculture. "Is the data out yet?"

"Yes, yes."

The main cadres of the Rural Work Department are all here.

The 1953 winter wheat harvest had concluded, and final record-keeping was underway. This wasn't just a test plot, but a truly large-scale planting. Fortunately, Wei Hongjun had approved a sufficient amount of experimental plots for the research institute, leaving behind a sufficient supply of seeds, resulting in a large planting area. While planting was limited to state-owned farms, it certainly revealed more problems than in a test plot. Therefore, Wei Hongjun and his colleagues anxiously awaited the final data.

In the silence, Deputy Minister of Rural Work Zhao Dezun and Secretary-General Zhang Linchi ran in.

Both of them were sweating profusely while running.

In fact, after receiving the data, they could have called Wei Hongjun and his team directly. However, they were too excited and wanted to report the news to Wei Hongjun and his team in person. So they first took a car from the scene and then ran all the way here.

It's July now and the temperature in Beijing is already very high.

The two men were drenched in sweat, as if they had just stepped out of the water. Wei Hongjun and Deng Zhihui immediately poured them some water and asked them to take a sip. Zhao Dezun gulped down a large glass and said excitedly, "Good news, great news! We've gathered data on the status of 17 mu of winter wheat plantations on six state-owned farms."

“What is the yield per mu?”

“平均230斤，最高的地方亩产306斤,最低的地方亩产也有178斤。亩产低于200斤的,主要是绥远那边。其他山西、河北、河南亩产都超过200斤。如果只算山西、河北、河南的平均亩产，能有250斤左右。”

"it is good."

"250 pounds, that's great."

The cadres of the Rural Work Department burst into cheers the moment they heard these data.

Although in the eyes of later generations, a yield of 230 jin per mu was a complete failure. After all, decades later, a yield of 1000 to jin per mu of winter wheat was common. In many cases, if the crops were carefully tended, yields of over jin per mu were common.

But for China today, a winter wheat yield of 230 kilograms per mu is not a small number.

In China, even on the best farmland with ample water resources, wheat yields per mu are only around 150 kilograms. Where water resources are scarce and land resources are average, wheat yields per mu are even less than 100 kilograms. Currently, in many places, wheat yields of to kilograms per mu are common.

Now the yield of winter wheat per mu has reached 230 kilograms, which is simply a great revolution.

Wei Hongjun couldn't contain his excitement. He was excited not only about the increase in seedling yield, but also because the current model of improving seedlings would be a good virtuous cycle.

There are quite a few agricultural universities in China.

Especially after Wei Hongjun and Gao Gang established North China Agricultural University and Northeast Agricultural University respectively, the local central bureaus under them did not want to be outdone and concentrated their efforts to establish their own agricultural universities.

In addition, the most powerful North China Agricultural University was later divided into three parts.

This has led to the establishment of agricultural universities and research institutes across the country. If seed improvement in North China proves successful, agricultural research institutes across the country will flock to it. China is a land of extreme weather, with climates varying from region to region. Therefore, seed research must also be local.

The routes in North China have already been prepared. One is a short pole route, and the other is a hybrid route.

With a clear path, a lot of effort will be saved. As long as all seed research institutes across the country follow these two paths, there will be great progress in grain seeds nationwide in a few years.

"What's wrong? Are you stupid?"

Deng Zhihui saw that Wei Hongjun was silent, so he took pictures.

Wei Hongjun finally came to his senses.

He nodded and said, "I'm a little overjoyed. 230 kilograms. Based on the current winter ginger planting area in North China, this can provide the country with at least billion kilograms of grain each year. With such a huge increase in grain production, how could I not be happy?"

Ten billion jin.

That's enough to feed a small province in China for a year. "Yes, 10 billion jin."

Deng Zhihui also sighed.