Chapter Two Plan

  Xia Zhendong, who was initially somewhat impatient, was taken aback at first, but soon put down his chopsticks and quickly pulled out his notebook, signaling to Liang Sanping to stop for a moment.

  "Xiao Liang! You said, go on!" However, Xia Zhendong opened his notebook on the table, twisted open the pen cap and asked Liang Sanping: "This method of heat fog, I seem to have seen it in the data. But I don't remember clearly. What's this about triazole?"

  When Liang Sanping mentioned the heat fog machine and triazole, Xia Zhendong immediately realized that Liang Sanping was not talking nonsense. These two items cannot be said without a certain understanding of rubber and white spot disease. This is extremely professional terminology, even Xia Zhendong only vaguely remembered seeing it in some reports.

  "At present, the mainstream treatment for rubber white spot disease in the world is Trichlorfon. However, although the drug is effective, it also has great toxicity. Therefore, after experimentation, we did not promote this type of medication."

  "The rest of the intravenous drugs, Tobuzine, colloidal sulfur and so on, are either too expensive or have unstable efficacy. So this matter has been a big headache for us..."

  When Xia Zhendong said this, Liang Sanping also helplessly sighed. This is an unavoidable thing, in fact, before the three ketones, foreign countries have done a lot of research on rubber white spot disease.

  Some solutions were also proposed, but many of them were shelved due to cost or efficacy and toxicity issues. Although domestic research has never been abandoned, the impact of those years resulted in a lack of research environment and funding.

  It is a pity that even with the continuous efforts of Xia Zhendong and others, no feasible solution has been found yet.

  "I was in Yunnan Province building railways in '78. At that time, the Vietnamese were starting to expel our overseas Chinese from Vietnam. I heard about the Hot Fog Machine from an old overseas Chinese."

  At this point, Liang Sanping paused and said: "I met him at that time. I'm a good listener of stories. I heard that he used to be in charge of agriculture on the other side, so I went to find him to learn from him."

  "Doesn't Yunnan Province also have rubber?! I don't know how he brought it up, but he started talking about rubber. He said that Malaysia has already begun testing fog machines. Some of the experimental personnel are overseas Chinese, and according to them, the test results are very good. They've even published papers on it..."

  Xia Zhendong heard this, and suddenly raised his hand to stop Liang Sanping from continuing. He himself was frowning, thinking about something. After a while, he finally looked up and said in a deep voice: "The 1978 Malaysian Regional Plant Protection Conference Proceedings" page 72-80! This heat fog method experiment is mentioned here!

  After finishing the sentence, Xia Zhendong became even more excited! He hastily wrote down some things on his notebook and then gestured to Liang Sanping to continue speaking.

  Zhou Jianping on the side was stunned, he had not expected that at this dinner party he would become an outsider from the very beginning. The conversation between these two people, he couldn't even understand. Even as the district director of a hot work unit.

  "I chatted with this old overseas Chinese and he mentioned 'Triazuron'. Paused for a moment, Liang Sanping lowered his head to think before saying: "He said that Malaysia had also used Triazuron before. But because the medicine was not properly mixed and no hot fog machine was used, the effect was extremely limited. If a hot fog machine was used and several formulas were mixed..."

  "It's definitely better than sulfur powder or thirteen Marilyn!" Xia Zhendong grabbed his pen and stood up excitedly, slapping Liang Sanping on the shoulder and saying: "Little Liang! I didn't expect you to be hiding your talents in secret!"

  In fact, whether it was the hot fog machine or triazolam, Xia Zhendong had understood them before. However, due to the blockade of experimental information from abroad, Xia Zhendong and others only had a superficial understanding of these drugs and machines.

  And the hot fog machine and triazolone were also experimented with. So they were all ignored. But later, the two houses finally combined the two to make an experiment after getting accurate technical intelligence.

  In fact, even without Liang Sanping's reminder, by next year, that is, in 1980, this plan would have been put forward and experimented with.

  To be precise, Liang Sanping simply brought this time forward by one year. But this one year was enough to be crucial! Liang Sanping knew that a year's time could test and put into production.

  So the formula for future generations can make more than 85% of rubber forests avoid the problem of white thread disease outbreak. Thus ensuring production and saving the country tens of millions to hundreds of millions of foreign exchange! At this point, this plan is simply lifesaving.

  Liang Sanping smiled awkwardly and repeatedly said that he had also heard it from others. But Xia Zhendong waved his hand and said, "Being able to listen to what others say and remembering it is also a skill!"

  "Old Zhou! Now that I've finished this meal, it seems I won't be able to stay here any longer! I must hurry back to the workshop immediately, this matter is very important! I must report to the leaders of the institute as soon as possible!"

  After finishing speaking, he didn't chat much and grabbed the bowl to eat quickly. Zhou Jianping also felt the urgency of the matter, it wasn't his first day dealing with Xia Zhendong.

  He knew that Xia Zhendong was always calm. To say such things, the matter must be extremely urgent. So he quickly called a doorman to arrange for a car to come and pick him up.

  The three of them each harbored their own thoughts as this simple and humble meal came to a hasty end.

  "Xiao Liang! Don't go back yet, this matter is too important for us!" Soon after the three finished their meal, the car from Rehe arrived.

  After Xia Zhendong and Liang Sanping got on the car, Old Xia directly said to Liang Sanping: "At Jianghai Farm, I'll give you a heads up first. Let them arrange for you..."

  "This is none of your business, Old Xia! I'll do what I want to do, don't arrange things for me." Liang Sanping smiled and said: "Since I know about it, it's useful to you guys. Then I should help out."

  "As for work arrangements, really no need! I've passed it on, whatever arrangement is made will be fine. Don't make a special case out of it."

  Xia Zhendong nodded secretly in his heart, he was extremely appreciative of Liang Sanping's persistence. Those who do not boast about their achievements have always been easy to win people's praise.

  The car drove very fast, and after the Institute of Tropical Crops received the news, it immediately notified the two academies. The eastern Guangdong region has two academies in South China, which are mainly research institutes for tropical crops.

  They are: South China Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences and South China College of Tropical Crops. And they are responsible for the research of tropical crops in the whole of South China and even the whole country.

  Now their main headache is the requirements of the Ministry of Agriculture and the General Administration of Agricultural Reclamation for them. This is the problem of large-scale white spot disease in rubber trees, which has plagued the country for many years.

  The inherent properties of rubber are: high elasticity, good sealing and re-sealing performance; low air and water permeability; good physical and chemical properties; good compatibility with sterilization and pharmaceuticals.

  This makes rubber not only a commodity that can be exported for foreign exchange, but also an extremely important strategic reserve material. Every year, the country needs a large amount of rubber products and reserves to meet its own consumption needs.

  Medical devices, supplies, mining, transportation, construction, machinery, electronics... and other light and heavy industries and emerging industries are all inseparable from rubber. Especially this natural rubber! It can be said that the rubber industry is directly related to a country's economy and industrial lifeline. As one of the four major raw materials for industry, it is not an exaggeration to say so.

  By 2010, China's total consumption of natural rubber had reached as high as 2.3 million tons. Meanwhile, the cumulative sales revenue of China's rubber products industry from January to May that year alone was as high as RMB 220.504 billion!

  Against the backdrop of the financial crisis, such a huge sales volume is eye-catching.

  Due to the internal huge demand for rubber and the need for foreign exchange reserves, the Ministry of Agriculture and the General Administration of Agricultural Reclamation have been constantly pressuring the two academies, hoping that they can quickly research a method to combat rubber white root rot disease.

  But this disease, let alone domestically, even internationally, there is no good treatment method for the time being. If Liang Sanping were not a man from the future, he would not know what to do either.

  Fortunately, Liang Sanping was a grassroots man from the previous generation. Every year, he personally led the team to deal with the prevention and treatment of rubber white root disease. Even after being transferred to the field department, he did not change his habit of going down to the team and walking through the forest section.

  The prescription for treating white powdery mildew had long been deeply rooted in his mind. Even the combinations of pesticides and fertilizers for many cash crops were all etched in his memory.

  No choice, in his past life he had dealings with agriculture for a lifetime. These things that are hard to remember have already become a part of his blood, flowing together with him.

  As for Xia Zhendong's arrangement of work to Liang Sanping, in fact, Liang Sanping didn't care about it at all. This is not Liang Sanping pretending to be noble, but as a later generation, he was very clear about the direction of history.

  And for a lifetime of farming, he understood the economic crops and their enormous economic value that people today do not understand. The simplest example is Hainan Huanghua Li, which many people still don't know about today.

  In this era, logging is not considered illegal. Moreover, in the rural areas of Hainan Island, most families have furniture, beds, even beams, handles of hoes, pot lids, etc. made from Dalbergia odorifera. And Dalbergia odorifera has always been highly valued, with the saying "A thousand gold is hard to buy Dalbergia odorifera".

  As long as Liang Sanping takes advantage of this opportunity to hoard some Huang Huali, the price of these Huang Huali will easily make him rich in the near future.

  There are also the prosperous and developed Qiongdao melon dishes that have formed a brand, with an annual output of tens of millions of tons in the future. At the same time, they are directly sent to more than 50 cities and regions across the country for sale. Some specially cultivated organic vegetables and fruits are directly exported to Japan, Europe and America to earn foreign exchange for the country.

  Even national big shots who come to Qiong Island for inspection say to the vegetable representatives: The imperial capital has no vegetables, I want to find you! But now nobody has this concept at all.

  The rest of the fruits, including watermelon, banana, pineapple and so on, are also placed on the supermarket shelves in major cities across the country, making this little-known Hainan Island actually inseparable from people's lives.

  At this time, Liang Sanping has gotten rid of the confusion when he first came. Decades of life experience allowed him to quickly make plans for his own life. He didn't hope to become rich and noble, nor did he seek wealth and honor.

  Decades of life have made him indifferent to many things. He just wants to live a stable and peaceful life, and in the tide of reform, he quietly earns a small fortune for his family and friends around him.

  Life has been through wind and rain for decades, Liang Sanping understands more than anyone. One cannot be greedy, heaven gave oneself a chance to rebirth, this is both blessing and testing. Since ancient times, countless people have died because of greed.

  Those who fell were holding onto a lucky mentality thinking nothing would happen to them. But the final fact told them, whether or not something happens is not up to them to decide...

  So Liang Sanping doesn't care about the work in the state-run farm that everyone thinks is an iron rice bowl. He also has no requirements for the farm.

  A normal job that can make a living is good, his ambition and future plans are not placed on the agricultural reclamation institution. The work of agricultural reclamation, at least in Liang Sanping's current plan, belongs to transitional work. Therefore, he does not have too many requirements for working in agricultural reclamation.