Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

At this time, the volume of the phone's external speaker was quite loud, and Li Long's hearing was relatively good, so he could hear clearly what the guard said and what the other party said in return.

"...He said he wanted to cooperate with us? Technical cooperation or did he want us to help him make something?"

"Technical cooperation." The guard's understanding was quite good, and he clearly conveyed Li Long's idea. "He has something to do, and he probably wants to work with our factory to do it together." After the guard finished speaking, he turned his head and looked at Li Long:

"Is it okay what I said?"

"No problem, no problem." Li Long smiled. "That's what I mean. I think the market for my product is pretty good. It's convenient and should be used by many people. I'll provide the technology and your factory will manufacture the machinery and equipment, and we'll split the profits."

The guard relayed Li Long's subsequent words to the other party.

"He has skills? Which school did he graduate from?" the person on the other end asked immediately.

"Farmer, I taught myself." Li Long answered immediately without waiting for the guard to relay his words.

"He said he was a farmer and had never been to a specialized school. He learned and researched on his own."

"What experience does he have? For example, experience working in a repair shop or a farm machinery factory."

"No, but I am a farmer and have been working in the countryside, so I am very familiar with farmers' needs." Li Long knew that this was his shortcoming. Even in the 20s of the 21st century, recruitment work would still give priority to those with experience, not to mention this era.

"You really have nothing but empty words? Forget it." The technical department guy directly denied it. "Tell him that we have a lot of R&D tasks and are very tight. We don't have time to listen to him talk about his ideals, designs and ideas here. Let him try his luck in the township repair shop or agricultural machinery factory over there."

When Li Long heard this, he felt a little disappointed.

People don't even want to see me.

Although he was mentally prepared, he still felt a little disappointed when he was rejected so directly.

It’s not that there were no setbacks in the series of things he encountered after his rebirth. When he first met Li Xiangqian selling sheep to him, there were difficulties at that time, but at least the other party gave him a chance to try.

Now the other party doesn’t even give me a chance.

In the technical department of the tractor factory, technician Xiao Wei put down the phone, took off the pencil clipped to his ear and continued to study the drawings.

He was right. The tractor factory's R&D task was indeed very heavy. At that time, the two major areas of Northwest Xinjiang and Northeast China were the key areas for the implementation of agricultural mechanization in China. They were large strips of land, which were particularly suitable for mechanization. In order to increase grain production and promote the process of agricultural modernization, the tasks of various agricultural machinery factories were very heavy.

For quite a long time in the future, the tractor factory in Shicheng had no worries about orders, and they were also gradually promoting new agricultural machinery. But later, they gradually fell behind, and the idea of ​​living off the old capital was still there.

"Where is the call coming from?" Xiao Wei's master, Mr. He, an old technician who worked in the auto repair shop that was previously the tractor factory, turned around and asked.

"A farmer said at the factory gate that he wanted to negotiate cooperation with us. He said that he would provide the technology and we would produce... A person who has never attended a professional school and has no similar work experience said he wanted to negotiate cooperation with us. Isn't that just nonsense?" Xiao Wei told this to his master as a joke.

"You can't say that." He Gong listened and said seriously, "The wisdom of the working people can't be underestimated! When we were doing auto repair, there were some faults that we didn't know how to fix, but a word from the front-line masters might bring us inspiration... Did he say what he wanted to cooperate with us on?"

"No," Xiao Wei was a little dissatisfied with his master's words, but at this time, his master's authority was still very important, so he hurriedly said:

"Or should I call the door and ask?"

"Let's ask. Although our tractor factory has expanded, its foundation is not as good as those factories mentioned, and its development direction is a bit single. If there are more suitable ideas, we can adopt them."

Xiao Wei hurriedly called the security guard, but the line was busy, so when he called again after a while, the security guard said the man had already left.

"If he comes again, please invite him in to have a chat." He reminded Xiao Wei, "The things we design need to be used by farmers on the front line. Their feedback is the most authentic. Don't underestimate anyone."

"Master, I understand." Xiao Wei said respectfully.

At this time, Li Long had already left the tractor factory and went to Laojie.

Since this tractor factory doesn't need its own creativity, it's better to find other ways.

There are also agricultural machinery repair shops in the county. If that doesn't work, I can go to the repair shop in the village to make a few samples first. It seems that it is not easy to make a small fortune by relying on my "foresight" in agricultural machinery in the future.

Li Long took a bus back to Ma County. Seeing that it was time for lunch, he went to Sister Yang's place. After lunch, he went to the county agricultural machinery repair factory.

The scale of the county agricultural machinery repair factory is much smaller than that of the Shicheng Tractor Factory. Li Long just explained his purpose and the guard let him in.

There is a row of bungalows here. The yard is clean of snow and several farm machinery are parked on the side. In the workshop at the back there are sounds of machinery being operated, sledgehammers being swung up and smashed down, etc.

Li Long went to the office and found the door of the technology department was locked. He asked an older sister in the office, and she pointed to the workroom at the back and said that the person was there.

Li Long left the bungalow and came to the operating workshop at the back. This is actually a large shed, which is closed on all sides, but the door of the workshop is open. Although the workers are working hard inside and there is a stove for heating, Li Long can feel that the temperature is not high. The workers also rely on continuous labor to keep their bodies warm.

This is not a good phenomenon.

As soon as Li Long entered the workshop, someone came over and asked him:
"Comrade, who are you looking for?"

"Is the technician here? I need to talk about something."

"Zhao Jishu, Zhao Jishu, someone's looking for you!" the young man, who was obviously an apprentice, shouted loudly.

A man in his thirties came out from among the workers. He was wearing greasy gloves and there was a patch of grease on his face. Li Long noticed that he was dismantling the cover of a diesel engine with several other people.

"Hello, I'm the technician here, and you are..." Zhao Jishu looked at Li Long and asked.

"I am a farmer in our county. I have designed a more convenient agricultural tool and would like to cooperate with our factory."

Li Long felt that it was a bit out of place for him to talk about this here, but since he was here, he still needed to talk about it.

"What kind of farm implements are these?" Upon hearing about farm implements, the technician was quite interested and asked, "What are they used for?"

After he asked, he didn't wait for Li Long to answer, and turned to the few people who were still busy over there and said:
"Stop for a moment, I have something to do here."

"That is to say, a personal handheld on-demand device." Li Long said with a stiff upper lip. He now realized that if he didn't say anything and just talked about cooperation in vain, the other party would shut him out just like the people from the tractor factory.

"This is quite interesting." Zhao Jishu thought for a while and said:

"It should be useful if we do some work, but it cannot be applied on a large scale. The current planting in our county is mainly large-scale agricultural mechanization, and the seed drill covers almost all the major crops. Your thing can only be used on small plots of land, such as vegetable plots and private plots, and the prospects are not great."

Li Long's idea was denied with just one sentence, which made Li Long a little unconvinced.

Without waiting for him to argue or refute, Mr. Zhao continued:

"You may think that we are relatively idle in winter, but in fact, this is our busiest time. All those farm machines that were barely usable in summer and autumn are now idle and sent to us for repair. You see, diesel engines, which have high technical content, and chain tracks, plowshares, seed drill parts, etc., which have low technical content and can be repaired in blacksmith shops, are also sent to us for repair. We simply don't have the time, energy, or manpower to do this. So... I think you can go to the repair shop or blacksmith shop in your town to have a look."

The same suggestion, but in a different tone, was not optimistic about the handheld on-demand player that Li Long was talking about. The other person was very polite, and Li Long did not say anything like "wait and see". He said goodbye and left, feeling a little depressed again.

Is it really true that I can only make a few for my own use and then watch imitations slowly spread in the market?

Li Long was a little unwilling. Although his own creativity also came from another world, he really didn't want it to turn out like this.

After all, he knew very well that although the market share of this kind of handheld on-demand device was not very large, it was not small. For a large factory like the Shicheng Tractor Factory, the profit might not be large, but for an agricultural machinery factory, it should be quite large.

And it has great potential, and it is something that can continue to be sold for several years, more than ten years, or even twenty or thirty years.

Seeing that no one was cooperating with something that had hope, prospects, market potential and profits, Li Long was really unwilling to accept it.

There is no other way, I will make a few for my own home when I get home. This opportunity is probably going to be missed.

In the evening, Gu Xiaoxia came back and saw Li Long was unhappy at the dinner table, so she asked him what was wrong.

Li Long told the story again, and Gu Xiaoxia frowned slightly and wanted to say:
"Is it... wrong timing?"

"Wrong timing?"

"Yes, think about it. Last year, the household contract responsibility system was implemented. This year, the land is contracted, which means that large plots of land will be handed over to us farmers for cultivation. Large plots of land are tens of acres, dozens of acres, or even hundreds of acres. If we really want to plant them, how long will it take?

Nowadays, every village has a seed drill, and everyone is used to using a seed drill. In the eyes of agricultural machinery technicians, what you said is a historical step backward.”

"The retreat of history?" Li Long smacked the words, is that right?
"Yes, think about it, for example, if you want to grow melons, you can't grow melons with our current seed drill, right?" said Gu Xiaoxia.

"Yes, that's why I got this handheld on-demand device." Li Long nodded.

"Then your thinking is different from that of those agricultural machinery technicians. You think about how to solve the problem and how to do it in a convenient way, while they also think about how to solve the problem and how to do it in a more advanced way. They must be thinking about how to design a machine that can be driven by a tractor to sow and harvest melons over a large area, right?"

"Yeah...that's the truth." Li Long realized that what Gu Xiaoxia said was right. The agricultural machinery technicians must have thought so.

This is definitely a historical regression - it must be like this in the hands of agricultural machinery technology researchers.

Later, there began to be seed drills and row seed drills specifically for cotton. They were developed by agricultural machinery technicians and could be driven by tractors.

While everyone else was thinking about how to mechanize, I was doing the opposite, thinking about how to sow seeds manually. Naturally, I was not welcomed.

Okay, I was thinking the wrong way.

But this does not mean that the things I designed are not good, but that they cannot become mainstream. It is still okay as a supplement to agricultural mechanization. After all, agricultural mechanization requires a process and cannot be achieved overnight. In this process, there are some places that cannot be mechanized, and this one I made can play a transitional role.

Li Long suddenly realized and said to Gu Xiaoxia with a smile:

"Xiaoxia, you are amazing. Now that you put it like that, I understand that my time in the Education Bureau has not been in vain. My horizons have been broadened and I look at things from a different perspective. Not bad! Well said!"

This was the first time that Li Long praised Gu Xiaoxia like this. She was very happy, a little proud, and a little shy. She lowered her head to pick up some food and said:
"Actually, I just speak my mind. It's hard to say whether it's right or not."

"Yes, yes, that's the truth. I understand. Come on, let's eat and talk. I have another question to discuss with you..."

In the past, when Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia ate together and talked, they mostly talked about things in the village, or just listened to Gu Xiaoxia's work troubles and shared some joys, or Li Long's experiences hunting, fishing or going to Wucheng. There were not many exchanges like now, or even none at all.

Li Long knew that communication was essential for men and women to start a family, but previous communication was mostly superficial. Only when they analyzed and discussed problems together like they did now and had a certain depth could it be considered effective communication.

If the communication is always superficial, it will inevitably have a certain negative impact on the feelings of both parties, because the lack of mutual integration will easily lead to estrangement.

This kind of communication now really increases the understanding between both parties and makes life more tacit.

The next morning, Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia smiled at each other. Although they did nothing all night, they felt that they understood each other more deeply, as if they were in touch with each other's souls.

Gu Xiaoxia went to work, while Li Long returned to the team with New Year's goods. The elder brother and sister-in-law were still very dissatisfied with Li Long for buying so many things, and thought he was wasting money. However, Li Juan and Li Qiang really loved the gifts Li Long bought. Especially after Li Qiang put on that set of clothes, he didn't want to take it off and had to wear it out to show his friends. It was Liang Yuemei who waved a slap in the face, and he reluctantly took it off.

It was only after Li Jianguo told him to wear it every day during the New Year period that Li Qiang stopped crying at home.

After putting his things away, Li Long told his plan, and then rode his bicycle to the countryside in the afternoon.

The agricultural machinery repair shop in the village is even smaller, without even a yard. In fact, it is not much different from a blacksmith shop.

There were only two people inside. The supervisor was Master Wang, also known as Wang Youde, who brought an apprentice with him. Li Long knew that the apprentice came here at his own expense to learn how to repair things, unlike Master Wang. Master Wang was considered a worker, with a salary and a job in the township. Even if the farm machinery repair shop could no longer continue, he would most likely transfer to the farm machinery service station, which was also an institution that had always existed in the township. After all, there was an farm machinery bureau in the county that needed to be connected. The apprentice could only go home.

However, in order to learn skills, it is good to be an apprentice. Even such an apprenticeship is the goal that many people compete for.

This one is luckier.

"Make something? How many? How to make it? You tell me, the wages are not cheap." Although Master Wang has a job, he is not opposed to doing some private work. Li Long gave up the cooperation with him after just chatting with him for a few words. If the technicians of the tractor factory and the county agricultural machinery repair factory still think about the dream of agricultural mechanization, Master Wang is just doing his job day by day and never thinks about what to do next. Moreover, according to the information he revealed, the agricultural machinery repair factory in the township is about to close down and no one comes here to repair things.

This is also a practical situation, because Hongqi Commune is relatively close to the county, less than five kilometers away, while other townships are 40 to 50 kilometers away or even farther.

The agricultural machinery drivers in the villages today are different from those of 20 or 30 years ago. Most of them know some simple repairs. If they can't fix the problem, Master Wang probably can't fix it either - it's not only a technical problem, but also an equipment problem.

Therefore, if there is a major problem with the agricultural machinery in the villages, it is usually sent to the county. The only thing that can be done here is some small repairs, and it has even come to the point of stealing the business from the blacksmith shops.

So when it comes to what Li Long wants to make, Master Wang only thinks about how much extra money he can make, and doesn't care about cooperation - he hasn't done farm work for many years, and he has no judgment on whether there is a market for this thing, nor does he think about judging it.

Li Long described his idea, and Master Wang calculated and said:
"The one you mentioned is easy to make. It's mainly welding. The spring is not easy to make. But I can still make three or five of them. Calculate the cost of materials and labor... Three dollars for each... Three dollars and fifty cents."

The iron on a jukebox weighs only one kilogram in total. At this time, the cost of materials is calculated at one dollar and fifty cents to two dollars. He charges one dollar and fifty cents as labor wages. Li Long thinks it's okay.

After all, this is a semi-monopoly. Other places can only find a blacksmith shop to do it, and they may not be able to make it.

"When can I get it?" Li Long asked as he took out the money.

Seeing that Li Long wanted to pay in cash, Master Wang became much more enthusiastic. He smiled and said:

"If you need it urgently, you can come and get it tomorrow. I'll give you ten dollars first."

Li Long was not afraid that he would not keep his word, as such things were relatively rare at that time. In other words, Li Long had seen very few of the strange things in the countryside that he had seen in those short videos in his hometown and village until later in life.

Those who don't support their parents, those who eat their own food, those who spray pesticides in fish ponds, and those who steal other people's cash crops such as fruits and medicinal herbs.

The most farcical one I have ever seen was when drip irrigation was implemented on the village land. The land contract fee skyrocketed, and two brothers fought over to cultivate their parents' land. However, they were held down by the team leader and several representatives of the old villagers.

This is the only time. Li Long has never heard of anything weird. In general, the moral standards of the people in the village are still good. (End of this chapter)