My Apprenticeship to Uncle Jiu: I Was a Warlord in the Republic of China

Chapter 347: Hybrid Rice Concept Emerges

Even the improved sweet potatoes have seen their yields increase by another 10 percent, and their starch content has also increased by 20 percent.

It was precisely with these as trump cards that he dared to expand the farms and raise large numbers of broiler chickens and pigs.

Unfortunately, due to the obvious characteristics of the blood mushroom, the lean meat rate of these chickens and pigs is surprisingly high, which seriously affects the people's ability to extract oil from pork.

Jiang Li naturally knew the importance of edible oil, so he had to give another order to the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, which was to improve soybean varieties to increase their yield and oil yield.

He also knew that the rice yield at that time, even in the best paddy fields, was only a pitiful 300 to 400 kilograms.

He summed up the sporadic agricultural knowledge he had learned on the Internet in his previous life, and proposed and promoted the concepts of rice seedling cultivation and meticulous management, which, combined with chemical fertilizers, brought the average rice yield to about 500 kilograms.

He also asked the Academy of Agricultural Sciences to try to cultivate hybrid rice to further increase rice production, but since he knew little about it, there was not much progress.

But even though grain production has increased so much, Jiang Li still remains skeptical about the claim that people's meat consumption has increased fivefold.

So he directly took the report from the cabinet minister and found the data on meat consumption. As a result, he almost couldn't hold back when he saw it.

It turns out that the data clearly shows that two years ago, the average amount of meat consumed by the people was two kilograms, but today, two years later, the average amount of meat consumed per person has reached ten kilograms.

Seeing this, Jiang Li laughed out loud, and then said sarcastically: "Good fellow, I think you have figured out the meaning of this word game!"

Then he picked up the document and continued to read the following content.

Apart from food, the number of cement roads that are passable by cars in the three provinces directly reaches 17,000 kilometers, and other gravel roads are countless.

In addition, there are 30 large hospitals, 800 small clinics of various types, and a Han University established with many insightful teachers invited from all over the country.

As for the canning factories, breweries, weaving mills and other factories, there are too many of them to list them all.

It was during these two years that Jiang Li rolled out mushroom cultivation technology on a full scale. Now, almost every village has one or more mushroom farmers. The huge output has provided an additional safeguard for people’s food safety.

In terms of military industry, it is worth mentioning that the talents recruited by Jiang Li from Guangdong to research engines have also made considerable progress.

Currently, Jiang Li is able to produce automobile engines on its own, but the problem is that the engines they produce are 10% less efficient than those of other countries, while their fuel consumption is 20% higher.

But Jiang Li didn't care about all this. Half a year ago, he had ordered the automobile factory to produce cars at its full capacity.

Because he had previously equipped most of the imported cars to Sun Yousheng's Cavalry Division, the number of trucks in other departments was seriously insufficient.

So he had to order the production of sufficient numbers of cars to supply other departments.

When talking about the Cavalry Division, we have to talk about the achievements of the Foreign Trade Bureau in the past two years.

They have purchased a lot of tanks and planes in the past two years. Currently, the cavalry division is equipped with 120 light tanks, 10 medium tanks, and 800 vehicles.

The Air Force also has 28 fighter jets of various types, 16 bombers, and more than 60 reconnaissance aircraft, early warning aircraft, and refueling aircraft.

If Han Yong's merchant ships are also counted, then Jiang Li also has a complete range of military forces: navy, army and air force.

It is certainly impossible to support the consumption of so many gas-guzzling vehicles by simply purchasing gasoline.

This requires producing fuel by ourselves, and the oil that Jiang Li discovered in Guangxi before is the solution.

Currently, oil is being exploited in Guangxi. Jiang Li even named it Oilfield No. 0, and forty-six oil wells have been drilled and forty-six sets of oil extraction equipment have been purchased.

However, due to the low quality of the oil here, the difficulty in extraction, and the low technical level, only 80 tons of crude oil can be extracted every day.

After refining, only eight tons of gasoline and twelve tons of diesel can be obtained, which is a very small number.

However, this also greatly alleviated the embarrassment of Jiangli's reliance on imports for fuel. As for the remaining residues, apart from refining asphalt for road construction, they could also be used to refine some paraffin and sell for some money.

As for natural gas, it is not of much use because of the current level of technology, natural gas can only be used for lighting after simple processing.

After reading about oil extraction and refining, Jiang Li continued to look at the report in his hand, but the next report almost made him pop his eyes out.

It turned out that he was looking at the guerrilla data report, because he had sent out a large number of guerrillas in the past two years, and the probability of them successfully gaining a foothold was ridiculously high.

So much so that there are now more than 3,000 guerrillas around him. Not counting the civilians they have recruited, the number of soldiers alone has reached an astonishing 320,000.

When he saw this number, he was immediately shocked. "What kind of guerrilla army has 320,000 soldiers?"

"And what the hell is the Liu Huaqiang group? Aren't they guerrillas? Why does the report say they have 8,000 soldiers and control an area of ​​50,000 people?"

"How much manpower, material resources and financial resources have I invested in the past two years?"

Seeing Jiang Li like this, everyone else looked somewhat innocent, but the people at the guerrilla command headquarters were all at a loss.

It turned out that they had felt before that the guerrillas were growing very fast and consuming a huge amount of supplies, but due to their busy schedule, they had never organized the data in a unified manner.

It was not until today's conference that they sorted out all the data a few days ago, but when they took a look at the data for the last time, they were stunned.

That's 320,000 guerrillas. I don't know how much of it is fake. If this is investigated, I don't know how many heads will be lost!

Seeing their panic-stricken looks, Jiang Li immediately ordered them all to be arrested and interrogated. He wanted to see how many corrupt officials there were among them.

He then personally issued orders, ordering guerrillas in various places to carefully identify the old and weak in the team and report an accurate number.

They also specifically requested that the number must be elite, and not the old, weak, sick or disabled. Otherwise, they would be severely punished.

However, when the interrogation results came out, Jiang Li was dumbfounded. It turned out that after Tushan Yaya used her charm and repeatedly interrogated these people, she still couldn't find a few corrupt officials.

At most, there were some people who accepted bribes from the guerrillas and gave them an extra gun, or more bullets, meat, etc. when they set out.