Chapter 44: Hybrid Rice? The Shock Brought by the Rice God!

"Oh my god, I was held captive for twenty minutes?"

The video of the tragic character was divided into two parts by the production team.

As the previous video finished playing, Chen Yu realized that this video was actually twenty minutes long.

I was too lazy to click on the author’s avatar to find Chen Yu at the bottom, so I just slid to the next video.

As for whether you can get the follow-up explanation of the tragic character, it all depends on luck.

[How great is hybrid rice? Let’s get to know Yuan Lao, the rice god. ]

【Yuan Longping, Mr. Yuan, I believe everyone is familiar with him. If he were in ancient times, he would be a person who could have founded a sect and established a temple! 】

"Rice God?"

"Enough to establish a sect and a temple?"

The first sentence in the video shocked many emperors.

"Rice God? Rice... this rice... could it be referring to rice?"

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes lit up: "Could it be that this Yuan Lao in the future generations is very good at growing rice, so that the people of the state do not have to starve, so he is revered as the Rice God by the people in the future generations?"

When it comes to things related to food, Lao Zhu becomes instantly excited.

There is no other reason, it’s just because Lao Zhu himself suffered from hunger and fear when he was a child.

I understand too well the hard days of having no food to eat next time.

Especially since he saw his parents and elder brother starve to death when he was a child, after Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he particularly hoped that every citizen in the world could have enough food and would never rebel.

So when he guessed that what was said on the skylight was probably about food, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately asked Crown Prince Zhu Biao to bring two rattan chairs.

The father and son stared at the sky, afraid of missing a word.

……

[In 1994, the Americans once declared that no country could feed the Chinese.]

[He even said contemptuously, who will support China in the future? 】

[Because at that time China had nearly 12 billion people, in the eyes of Western countries, it was simply a fantasy for China to feed more than 10% of the world's total population with less than 20% of the world's arable land! ]

【But the following year, Yuan Lao slapped the Western countries in the face with his results. 】

【With just “one rice plant”, we can tell the world “I feed my people”! 】

……

I saw the sentence 'China has nearly 12 billion people'.

Wow!
moment!

People in all planes of time and space, from kings and ministers to ordinary people, were all excited!
"Wow, I read that right, 12 billion people!"

Zhang Fei's eyes widened in disbelief, "People in later generations are too fertile, aren't they? The key is, can they feed so many children?"

Zhang Fei's reaction was similar to that of those Western countries in later generations. It is hard to imagine how China in later generations would feed 12 billion people.

Even Liu Bei, who was always mature and prudent and never showed his emotions, had a look of fear on his face.

"Think of the powerful Han Dynasty. Its population at its peak was only 6000 million. How can we feed 12 billion people?"

Liu Bei swallowed his saliva. He found it unbelievable when he thought of that terrible number.

You should know that during the Han Dynasty, the rice yield per acre was only about 60 kilograms.

An ordinary citizen consumes at least 100 kilograms of rice a year. How much fertile land should be opened up to feed 12 billion people?
Zhuge Liang was also surprised, but after the surprise, he smiled with relief: "With a population of 12 billion, I believe that the future generations will surely be peaceful and prosperous."

Guan Yu asked curiously, "Why does the military advisor say that?"

Zhuge Liang smiled and explained: "If it weren't for the peace and prosperity, how could ordinary people afford to raise so many children?"

"My military advisor is right." Liu Bei nodded in agreement. "Think about it, it was under the rule of our two ancestors, Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing, that the Han Dynasty created its first prosperous era. The population of the Han Dynasty recovered rapidly at that time and was able to support a population of 12 billion. The future generations of China will undoubtedly be prosperous!"

"But what I care about most is the deeds of the Rice God."

"This rice god actually has a way to feed 12 billion people. It's really a great power that can reach the sky, comparable to the magic of immortals."

Liu Bei was amazed. What was said on the screen undoubtedly shattered the worldview of Liu Bei and others.

However, because of the appearance of the sky curtain, Xu Xia consciously attributed many things that he could not understand to immortal magic, so it was not impossible to accept.

at the same time.

Almost every dynasty was surprised by this.

But the most excited one must be Lao Zhu.

He was so excited that he jumped up from his chair.

"We guessed correctly, it is indeed related to food!
"Biao'er, quickly find someone to record down every word on the sky curtain... No..."

Halfway through his words, Old Zhu suddenly felt something was wrong, and immediately took his eldest son's hand and said, "I don't trust others to remember it, Biao'er, you remember it!"

"Yes! Father!" Zhu Biao nodded solemnly.

In fact, as early as when the first video appeared, Lao Zhu had instructed his subordinates to record every word of the content on the skylight.

But food is related to the national economy and people's livelihood, and is the foundation of the country. Lao Zhu feels that it can never be too cautious.

……

【Yuan Lao, whose real name is Yuan Longping, is the pioneer of hybrid rice research and development in my country. He is also the first scientist in the world to successfully utilize the hybrid advantage of rice and is known as the "Father of Hybrid Rice". 】

【Mr. Yuan was born in 1930. In that turbulent era, hunger accompanied his wandering childhood.】

[In 1953, Yuan graduated from the Department of Agronomy of Southwest Agricultural College (now Southwest University) and followed the national unified assignment to teach at Anjiang Agricultural School in Huaihua, Hunan Province. In the same year, he was assigned to teach at Anjiang Agricultural School in the remote and backward foothills of Xuefeng Mountain in western Hunan.]

【Due to the impact of natural disasters, China suffered a severe famine and food shortages across the country. 】

[When 30-year-old Yuan Longping saw the Chinese people looking for tree bark to fill their stomachs, he felt sad and vowed to make sure the Chinese people had enough to eat.]

[This oath in his heart accompanied him throughout his life. ]

[It was in this context that Yuan began to experiment with hybrid rice research.]

[He knew that in order to solve the food problem, he had to cultivate high-yield grain seeds, and rice was the best of the best. In this way, he and rice formed a fate. ]

[In July 1960, Yuan Lao accidentally discovered a rice plant with special characteristics in the experimental field of the Agricultural School.]

[He used this rice plant for trial planting and found that its offspring had different properties. Since rice is self-pollinating, there will be no separation of traits, so he deduced that it was a natural hybrid rice. He then artificially removed the male flowers of the hermaphroditic rice and pollinated them with pollen from another variety in an attempt to produce a hybrid variety.]

[In the spring of 1961, Yuan planted the seeds of this mutant in the experimental field for his entrepreneurial venture, and the results proved that the plant that "stands out from the crowd" discovered in 1960 was a "natural hybrid rice."]

[In 1964, Yuan Lao encountered the second magical rice in his life, Dongting Zaoxian. ]

【After testing, it was confirmed that this is a precious "natural male sterile plant."】

[This discovery is considered the beginning of Yuan Longping's "China's first research on rice male sterility"]

[In the following two years, he examined hundreds of thousands of rice ears and found six rice plants suitable for hybridization among four varieties.]

[His discovery directly overturned the Western assertion. While the Western academic community was arguing about this, Yuan had already embarked on the right track of research.]

[However, from 1964 to 1969, he conducted more than hybridization experiments, all without success.]

[Mockery from the West followed, but he still didn’t give up.]

[In 1970, Yuan Longping selected and bred the wild male sterile rice "Yebai", and after hybridization, the research achieved a major breakthrough.]

[However, during the autumn harvest, the rice yield did not increase, but the rice straw was 70% more than usual.]

[People outside ridiculed that it was a pity that humans don’t eat grass. If humans did eat grass, this research would have great prospects.]

【Mr. Yuan ignored the outside world's doubts and devoted himself to research.】

[In 1973, the "Nanyou No. 1" cultivated by Yuan Longping was successfully planted in Hunan, Guangxi and other places, with an average yield of more than 500 kilograms per mu.]

[In 1974, Yuan Lao cultivated "Nanyou No. 2", and good news came one after another. The yield per mu exceeded 600 kilograms, which is twice that of ordinary rice.]

……

"Okay! Okay!"

Seeing that Mr. Yuan had successfully doubled the per-acre rice output value, Mr. Zhu was overjoyed and exclaimed twice!

(End of this chapter)