At this time, Marseille, Zhang Yunjiang, Gao Shixun and others sat down in a marching tent on the edge of the avenue. This was the place where the travelers were resting on the spot. There was a small stove inside, and a kettle was built to boil water. Although they didn't have to work, they also needed to command and dispatch back and forth, and running around like this was quite laborious, because they were on the ground full of floating soil.

Zhang Yunjiang flipped through his tablet computer, looked at the photos before the start of construction, and said, "Just ten days ago, this place was still a jungle, but now it has become a field. If you wait a few months, this place should be a rich field."

Gao Shixun said: "It's hard to say. I asked Wang Sheng to take the soil samples back to Tianjin for testing. The equipment brought by the medical team can also be used for soil testing, but the results have not yet come out. I don't know if the degree of salinity is high. It is normal for land salinity to be near the seaside."

Marseille immediately asked: "If it is saline-alkali land, can't we grow food?"

Gao Shixun said: "That's not the case. Salt-alkali land can also grow grains, sweet sorghum or alfalfa. Although it cannot be used as food for human consumption, it can be used to make sugar, wine, livestock feed, and ethanol raw materials. It is also very profitable. Moreover, the soil quality can be improved, but it is a little troublesome. There is basically no hope in the first year. However, from what I have mastered, the salinization in the Shandong Peninsula is not too heavy, only Penglai and Dengzhou are more salinized, and other places are not bad. This is mainly because the water resources in Shandong are still abundant, which neutralizes the salt in the soil. I have also asked the villagers of Wangjiazhai Village that the yield per mu is still good. From the perspective of plants and trees growing in this area, the degree of salinization should not be heavy, so there should be no big problems. Of course, it will still depend on the results of the test in the end."

Zhang Yunjiang said again: "If we cut down trees and build fields like us, we would probably have been sprayed to death by environmental protection organizations in the old time and space."

Marseille laughed and said, "It's just that a few trees will be sprayed to death. When we start industrialization, that's what we just received. The Executive Committee has prepared several major projects in Qingdao. When these projects are successful, Qingdao will probably become China's fog capital. This is the necessary price of industrialization."

Gao Shixun shook his head and said, "I don't know much about industrialization, I know how to farm. But whether it is industrialization or not, eating is the first priority. If you can't even eat enough, you can't do anything. Therefore, in any era, farming is indispensable."

Marseille nodded and said, "Yes, our first step is to solve the people's food and clothing problem, and secondly, it is to develop industrialization. As for the environment, it is a high-level problem, so you don't need to consider it now."

While several people were talking, they saw several wheelbarrows pushing from the avenue and stopping at the construction site. The person pushing the cart stood by the roadside and shouted: "Friends, after dinner, let's put all the work in their hands first. Only after eating can you work hard."

After hearing this, the villagers and prisoners stopped their work, returned to the avenue, lined up in front of the water tank on the side of the road to wash their hands. This was the convenience provided by the travelers to the villagers. They used several discarded oil barrels, drilled a small round hole at the bottom, installed a faucet, and then built a simple stove with a few bricks on site, and lighted water below to keep the water temperature in the barrel, which could be used to drink and wash hands.

The villagers who had washed their hands came to the cart, and the people who were pushing the cart gave them lunch food. The People's Army soldiers guarding here hurried over to maintain order, so that the villagers would line up and not fight for it. Everyone had them, and sometimes they had to pull out the crowds and teach a few lessons. Instead, the German prisoners were lined up honestly and received their own lunches in turn, which seemed very disciplined.

Whether it is a villager or a prisoner, you can get two steamed buns and one bun, which is larger than that in the old time and space. The buns are made of mixed meat with vegetables. The steamed buns are salt and sesame oil, and some minced vegetables and diced fish are mixed. Because the physical work is consumed greatly, you need to supplement enough protein. In addition, each person can get a bowl of broth and a piece of meat. The villagers and prisoners of the steamed buns and buns go to another car to get a bowl of soup, and then sit on the side of the road to eat and drink.

At this moment, only the sound of "tumbo" was heard, and several bulldozers and excavators drove to the tent on the avenue. The crossovers who drove these machines got off the car and then got into the tent.

Marseille and others hurriedly stood up and greeted everyone, "Comrades, thank you for your hard work, sit, sit, rest, rest, and have a meal right away."

Zhang Yunjiang also picked up the kettle from the stove and poured water for them.

Marseille was talking when Liu An and a few people walked into the tent with two big pots and said, "Long, your meal is here."

Gao Shize hurriedly greeted: "Okay, okay, put the pot on the stove."

Liu An immediately asked someone to put a big pot on the stove. It turned out that the pot was filled with a hodgepodge of fish, meat and Qinglai, and it was full of the aroma of strong ginger. The other pot was steamed buns and buns. This was a lunch specially made for time travelers. The time travelers sat down around the big pot, holding steamed buns or buns in one hand and chopsticks in the other, and then ate in the hot pot.

Marseille said to Liu An: "Old Liu, you sit down and eat together."

Liu An waved his hand and said, "I have eaten it. Please, please, I'll go outside to check it out, don't grab it."

Because land reclamation is a group labor, after research and decision by the village committee, lunch and dinner are collectively supplied, which not only saves time, but also reduces losses. Of course, lunch and dinner are not free, but now they are only paid by the village committee. After the land reclamation is successful, they are all distributed in the taxes of each household. Of course, the villagers are not dissatisfied with the help of time travelers. They can eat and drink for free. Fortunately, after the land reclamation is successful, each household will have more farmland, and time travelers do not have so many heavy taxes. As long as there is no disaster next year, they will still be able to get it.

The person responsible for making lunch and dinner for the villagers is a restaurant run by Liu An and Wang Gui, and they deliver all the prepared food to the work site every day at noon, while the dinner is back to the village to eat.

During this period, Liu An and Wang Gui were very happy because since the time travelers came, the business of the two restaurants has improved a lot. After the time travelers took over Wangjiazhai, they ordered a meal in their restaurant for a few days, which allowed the two to make a good fortune. Each of them made four or five taels of silver, which was more than the income in the past year. Moreover, Liu An also distributed ten acres of land. Although Wang Gui was timid and afraid of trouble and did not dare to ask for land, he had to be able to get a piece of land after the land was opened. Wang Gui also thought the result was very good.

Before the land reclamation, Marseille talked to them. The two of them were responsible for lunch and dinner in the whole village and could not participate in the land reclamation work. However, this time, only the cost and no money were made. After the land reclamation, the two of them divided the land like other villagers, and both of them agreed. First, they each took their own responsibilities and performed their own duties; second, because the amount of meals served was large, although they only counted costs and profits, there were still some savings.

In fact, it is not easy to serve the meals of the whole village. After all, it has to be served for hundreds of people and it has to be delivered to the work site. Therefore, both families are all moving and have to get up before dawn. They are busy until dark and can hardly stop for a moment. However, thinking about the wonderful life after the successful land reclamation, it is because when delivering food, it is almost different every day. The wilderness and jungle gradually turn into fields, and both families are full of energy.

Liu An came out of the tent. At this time, all the villagers and prisoners had already received their lunch. Wang Gui was calling his wife and packed his things. Because some villagers who received lunch first had finished eating, they put the bowl of broth on the side of the road, and they had to take it back. The German prisoners consciously sent the bowl back.

At this time, many villagers who had finished their meal surrounded these engineering machines and looked around them. Although they had worked with these machines for more than ten days, the villagers were still full of curiosity about these machines. Of course, no one has regarded these machines as monsters anymore. Many people reached out to touch them, and they were also talking about it, except "how did this thing move", "what does it eat", "can it do other things besides digging the ground", "Can it farm?" and so on.

In fact, it is not only the villagers, but even the German prisoners working here are curious about these engineering machines. The German prisoners are no better than the villagers. People from this era, from the first industrial power, have never bulldozers or excavators as monsters from the beginning, but know that this is a kind of machine, but strangely, there is no fire gate, boiler, and chimney, which comes from where the power comes from.

But several knowledgeable German soldiers knew that this thing should be called a tractor, which is driven by an internal combustion engine, not a steam engine.

Since the steam engine was discovered, people have been studying it, applying steam engines to agricultural production and replacing human and animal power for farming. In the mid-19th century, Britain, France, the United States and other countries realized that tractors powered by steam were known. However, the volume and weight of the steam engine were large, so it was extremely inconvenient to use, and it often required several people to operate it. Until the end of the 19th century, the United States first built the world's first agricultural tractor powered by internal combustion engines. Then, Britain, France, Germany and other countries manufactured tractors powered by internal combustion engines almost at the same time, which opened the era of agricultural mechanization and intensive production.
Chapter completed!