20世纪50年代末,大多数国人还不知道化肥是什么东西。1958年春天,我国农业部门从日本进口了20万吨氯化铵,计划率先在山东这个农业大省,通过免费派送的方式推广这一新型肥料。化肥被逐级逐批分到各个人民公社后(相当于现在的乡镇),都遭受了令人啼笑皆非的冷遇:对公社干部苦口婆心地宣传发动,用惯了农家肥的生产队(相当于现在的村)干部和群众根本当成耳旁风,大 In the late 1950s, most people did not yet know what fertilizers were. In the spring of 1958, China’s agricultural sector imported 200,000 tons of ammonium chloride from Japan. It is planned to promote this new type of fertilizer through the free delivery in the major agricultural province of Shandong. After the fertilizer was gradually and individually assigned to various people’s communes (equivalent to the present towns and villages), all of them were exposed to ironclad grudges: earnestly publicizing the mobilization of commune cadres, and using the production team used to farming peasants (equivalent to the present Village) cadres and the masses simply as earwax, large