Chapter 1314: Learning from Nanyang and Achieving Perfection (Second update, please subscribe)
When the motorcade was still about two to three hundred meters away from the residential area, the motorcade stopped. Then the passengers in the car got out, and then the group of people walked along the streets full of ice and snow.
“Look at the grocery store in front of you.”
Khrushchev pointed his finger there and said:
“A few years ago, there were still many people queuing up there. To buy pork, people don’t need to queue up anymore, well, most people can eat meat casually.”
When mentioning "eating meat", Khrushchev looked at Li Yian beside him and said:
"This is thanks to your help. When I visited Nanyang, I signed the "Animal Husbandry Cooperation Agreement" with you. ", you have introduced Nanyang Large White pigs from Nanyang. Your Large White pigs have a shorter production period, require less feed, and have modern large-scale pig farms, which is of great help to us."
This is the biggest difference between Khrushchev and others. He does not hide the help he has received, and will tell the other party in very candid words and thank them for their help. This is more often a kind of self-confidence.
Instead of giving all the credit to themselves like some people do, they will even carefully cover up the help of others to reflect their own greatness.
Listening to Khrushchev’s frank and confident answer, Li Yian smiled and said:
"In fact, Nanyang's modern breeding industry benefited from the introduction of excellent breeds from the United Kingdom and the United States. Without the original introduction, there would not have been the development of Nanyang's livestock industry. That's why I say, win-win cooperation! ”
At this time, Li Yian always looked a little proud. The breeding pig breeding company purchased from the UK has now become Nanyang’s own company. The feed-to-meat ratio of the Yorkshire Large White pigs it breeds is only 2.58:1, which means that every 2.58 kilograms of feed can produce 1 kilogram of meat.
The feed-to-meat ratio of Soviet white pigs is 3.5, that is, 3.5 kilograms of feed produces 1 kilogram of meat. In other words, the Soviet Union almost achieved a 30% increase in production by introducing high-quality pig breeds provided by Nanyang companies and using the same feed. For the Soviet Union, this is definitely a good thing - using the same feed, you can eat more meat!
And the cooperation between the two countries is not only about breeding pigs, but also breeding cattle. Although Nanyang is located in the tropics, relying on the "Prince Eric" breeding cattle purchased in the United States, that It is called "the best breeding cattle of the 20th century" by breeding experts and has become one of the main sources of high-quality breeding cattle in Nanyang.
While making great contributions to improving the quality and output of beef cattle in Nanyang, their descendants are also exported in large quantities. High-quality breeding cattle are not only sold back to the United States, but also to many countries including the Soviet Union. client.
"Win-win cooperation..."
Khrushchev said:
"You are right, we need to cooperate in order to make this world a better place."
< br>The two of them were talking like this while walking towards the residential area. Soon the famous Khrushchev Building appeared in front of Li Yi'an.
Although I have always heard of the name of Khrushchev Tower, this is the first time Li Yian has seen it, and it is somewhat different from what he imagined.
In the Khrushchev Building residential area, you can see the bizarrely huge open space between the buildings.
Li Yian asked curiously:
“Why are these buildings so far apart from each other?”
After all, this is an unreasonable waste of urban space, and at the same time It will force the roads and all supporting projects - water pipes, gas pipes, heating pipes, sewers, etc. to be extended accordingly. This will naturally lead to a significant increase in construction costs and violate the Khrushchev Building's "more, faster, better and more economical" approach to reduce construction costs. original intention of cost.
In other words, this is not in line with Khrushchev’s character!
"Well... the vast and bright blue city... this is for others!"
The smile on Khrushchev's face subsided and said:
"Li, We have experienced wars, and the Germans have fought in Moscow. Even now, the Soviet Union is facing the threat of war. Therefore, the real reason why we adopt such a construction plan is more severe and cruel.
In order to deal with it. During the war, we set the standards for the distance between newly built multi-story buildings.
Otherwise, once a Soviet city is completely destroyed by a US nuclear attack, it will form a continuous ruin, a large contiguous area. Areas of ruins will make it impossible for troops and emergency rescue equipment to pass, but distance will not create a continuous blockade that blocks traffic. ”
Khrushchev's answer made Li Yi'an stunned for a moment, and then he thought that those German engineers were also affected by the war to a certain extent when they designed the neighborhoods in Nanyang. Many streets in Nanyang are very wide, with high-rise buildings. The spacing between houses is also large, and the huge spaces between houses can theoretically prevent the spread of fire and the occurrence of "fire storms".
It’s just that under Li Yian’s intervention, Nanyang was not as extreme as the Soviet Union.
“In other words, all your housing construction will be carried out around the next war.”
Faced with Li Yian’s question, Khrushchev said:
< br>"I am a frank person, we do not want war to break out, but we must prepare for war, just like before Cuba, the Americans deployed their missiles around us, even with you, they also deployed medium-range missiles Shipped to the Middle East——"
Before Li Yi'an could speak, Khrushchev said:
"On your colony, there is no need to deny that your missiles are aimed at us, forcing us to prepare for war, just like The last crisis was essentially because the United States threatened us, so we had to fight back!”
This is the root cause of the Cuban Missile Crisis!
The responsibility definitely lies with the US side, there is no problem at all!
The reaction of the Soviet Union was just a normal reaction of a country, which was to ensure its own safety.
However, the US propaganda version only mentioned the Soviet threat to them, but not how they threatened the Soviet Union.
For this country that has suffered from post-traumatic sequelae from top to bottom during the war, it is very rare for them to show such restraint in a crisis. After all, such a traumatic stress response will cause them to make some extreme reactions for safety, such as urban planning like this.
After a moment of silence, Li Yian said:
"Compared to war, I prefer cooperation. For the benefit of all mankind, we should choose peace, and our people should Enjoy peace..."
While talking, Li Yian noticed Gagarin painted on a building, pointed to it and said:
"The earth is really too small, we should march into distant space, the moon, Mars, maybe There are even more distant deep spaces. One day, we can even immigrate to outer space. Who knows? We should compete peacefully for all mankind!"
Li Yi'an's words are sincere and true in his heart. The idea is that the resources on earth are too limited. He hopes that one day humans can truly enter space and even carry out space adventures, just like in the Age of Discovery.
Feeling his sincerity, Khrushchev said:
"Indeed, we should have a peaceful competition, and I believe we can defeat you in this competition!"
Because it was working time, there were not many people in the residential area. While chatting, they looked for residents with family members at home. Finally, they found a family, so Khrushchev happily led him He followed Li Yian in.
After entering the house, Li Yian was a little surprised to find that these houses were not the legendary 2.5-meter-high floors, but almost 3 meters high, and the rooms were not those narrow pigeon cages.
Not only the living room is more than ten square meters, but the bedroom is also 11 or 12 square meters. The small kitchen, which is not enough to turn around, has also become a "luxury version" of eight square meters, even Even the bedrooms became four.
From the structure of the house, it seems a bit familiar!
"This is..."
Looking at the completely different "Khrushchev Building" in front of him, when Li Yi'an was full of doubts, Khrushchev said with some pride:
"Li, this is what we launched four years ago. Each of the new houses not only has an area of more than 110 square meters, but also has five bedrooms..."
Looking at the proud Khrushchev, he looked at something familiar. Room, Li Yi'an suddenly understood, this is the Khrushchev Building, it is clearly a five-room apartment in Nanyang!
Good guy, after working on it for a long time, he directly plagiarized it!
At least in terms of the layout of the house, the Corn Emperor did plagiarize the Nanyang apartment, but the area was slightly smaller. Overall, it was a shrunken Nanyang apartment.
"When we visited Nanyang, we discussed the issue of housing. I said that as long as they are Soviets, they will have a house that belongs to them, but you said that not only should they have a house, but they should also have a home, because only with a home, they Only when they have children can they have children. If they only have a house with one bedroom and one living room, they are just a house to protect them from the wind and rain. Therefore, you have to give everyone a home..."
When talking about the harvest in Nanyang, A smile appeared on Khrushchev's face, as if he was saying - As smart as I am, I can always discover many useful things.
“Because we have a family, we have big families in Nanyang. Each family has five to six children, or even seven or eight children. Yes, it is the same in the Soviet Union.”
A female accountant living in Moscow once wrote to a newspaper, mentioning: "I live in a 12-square-meter room with three children. Although I strongly hope to have a fourth child, I also Can’t allow myself to do this”.
This is also the fundamental reason why Khrushchev wants to build houses for everyone, but the Khrushchev House has become the focus of jokes due to its poor quality: the ceiling of this building is only 2.45-2.7 meters high, with extremely small kitchens and bathrooms, and most of them are one- or two-bedroom apartments. Three-bedroom apartments are less common, and four-bedroom apartments are almost non-existent.
But it is not inferior at all - more than 20 years later, there was a great earthquake in Armenia. The Brezhnev Tower, which had just been built just two years ago, completely collapsed, but the Khrushchev Tower stood tenaciously during the earthquake.
In fact, all the jokes about Khrushchev Tower revolve around its small size. Actually, in the beginning, for the Soviets who moved out of shantytowns and crowded dormitories. This house is not small at all. After all, this is a home, a place where you can talk behind closed doors!
"Our Soviet Union will also give all Soviet citizens a home. As long as he is a Soviet citizen, he can get a home to raise children!"
Khrushchev pointed The bright living room said proudly:
“So, our engineers designed this new house, which is larger and more suitable for living. Now many people not only live in the new home, but also, I also bought a TV..."
This is the biggest difference between Khrushchev and many people. When he finds a problem, he will find ways to solve it. Just like when faced with the housing shortage in the Soviet Union, he resolutely stopped the construction of expensive steel. The construction of modern buildings also required engineers to start developing prefabricated houses that were cheaper and could be built faster.
At the beginning, his request was opposed by engineers, because these houses had no aesthetics and did not even need engineers - everything was assembled using the same drawing. Why do we need engineers here?
But in just a few years, a total of nearly 300 million square meters of Khrushchev Towers were built. During his years in power, the total housing area for Soviet urban residents doubled. Within seven years, housing The total amount built is more than in the past 40 years.
The Khrushchev Building alleviated the tense housing problem faced by the Soviet Union at that time. Although the sparrow was small and fully equipped, it carried the family dreams of many Soviet urban residents. Although later, the Soviet Union was plagued by the problem of too small housing area that affected the fertility rate.
But he really didn’t understand it before all this happened. However, a trip to Southeast Asia made Khrushchev aware of this problem - although citizens had moved out of work sheds, basements, and dilapidated houses, the rooms were small, the walls had extremely poor sound insulation, and there was basically no privacy at all. In such a cramped and embarrassing environment, how can the couple continue to make babies? After the construction is completed, where will there be space to raise the baby?
Therefore, after obtaining the scriptures in Nanyang, Khrushchev immediately realized his mistake and corrected it!
So the high-end version of Khrushchev House appeared in the Soviet Union. The wrongs of the past were corrected and the Soviets moved into better houses.
Pointing to the TV set in the living room, Khrushchev said proudly:
"Just like you Nanyang people, they also have their own TV sets, and the children will also sit on them In front of the TV, watching cartoons, when thirsty, he would take out a drink from the refrigerator..."
While Khrushchev was proudly introducing all this, Li Yian set his sights on The owner of this family, a middle-aged and elderly woman with a standard war figure who was over fifty years old, then turned her attention to the photos on the wall. Looking at the woman and her children in the photos, Li Yian thought for a moment. , asked:
"Madam, are your children married?"
(End of this chapter)