Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

"I plan to buy two more tractors. Daqiang also wants to buy a tractor. Then I will buy a few harvesters from Kuitun. I can go to various villages to harvest wheat in the summer and earn back the money for the tractors in just one wheat season!"

"So many tractors? Who will drive them?" Li Jianguo was shocked. "My dad can't drive them, can he? I can hang a harvester on my tractor."

Li Jianguo knew that harvesting wheat could make money, so since Li Long had said so, he naturally wanted to get involved.

He also mentioned something. Someone from the Han family in the Corps came two days ago. Han Dachun came to catch up with Li Jianguo during the slack season, and also to inquire about whether there was any lucrative work.

Last year they came here to cut reeds and made some money. This year Li Jianguo didn't invite him. Although he wanted to make money, he didn't say anything.

As winter was coming, he wanted to come and ask around. While talking, Li Jianguo talked about growing melons, buying a tractor, and Li Long harvesting wheat with a harvester.

This made Han Dachun's eyes light up. There were a lot of wheat planted on a large scale in their Corps, so they could let Li Long and his men go there to harvest it.

Anyway, the distance is not far, just a few dozen kilometers.

There is also a company in the Corps over there that grows melons, but their harvest is not as much as Li Jianguo's, so they hand it over.

This also surprised Li Jianguo. He didn't expect that there would be people playing melon-catching in the Corps company.

After all, there are two systems, and sometimes it is really unclear.

Li Long thought that going to the Corps to harvest wheat was a good option. Although the workers in the Corps did not receive their salary until the end of the year, they could still be paid on the spot if they went there to work.

This expands the scope.

"There are still people who can drive tractors. Anyway, threshing wheat will be faster with a tractor. I plan to find Xie Yundong, Jia Weidong, and Liang Dacheng and let them drive the tractor.

They can't afford to buy a tractor at the moment, so I negotiated with them that they could either work for me and drive the tractor to harvest wheat and earn wages, or rent the tractor with a harvester, which would earn them at least 1,000 to 2,000 yuan per wheat season."

What business is the best?

Naturally, monopoly business is the easiest to do. Li Long also had something else he was eager to do. He originally planned to go to Kuitun to find Director Du after the wheat season was over, but he had to go to the mountains to harvest grass, and then one thing after another delayed him.

Director Du didn't call, but when Wei Tianxing went to find him, he failed to buy the harvester, which shows that Director Du still kept his promise.

He planned to have further talks with Director Du, and it would be best if he could get the harvester agency rights in Beiting Prefecture. If that wasn't possible, then the two nearby counties plus Shicheng would also be fine.

At present, the sphere of influence that Li Long can radiate is at most this large, so don't think too much about it.

After all, it was thanks to a report by Secretary Jiang that the harvester suddenly became known to the world, and Wei Tianxing was definitely not the only one who could think of making money from it.

Even if he cannot occupy most of the market, at least he must gain control of the rights to harvest the wheat fields in nearby areas next year.

With three or five tractors, it is no problem to harvest tens of thousands of acres of wheat in one wheat season.

In fact, Li Jianguo was right to listen to Han Dachun. The Corps planted more cash crops than the local areas at this time. After all, the local areas were anxious to solve the problem of food and clothing, while the Corps was already solving the problem of prosperity and development.

Of course, there are historical reasons for the Corps’ subsequent stagnation, which we will not go into.

Li Jianguo heard what Li Long said, and it was indeed a solution. But he thought about it and said:

"If we do this, we have to go to other villages. Is that easy?"

"Who doesn't have a few relatives or friends in other places? Go find them yourself. If there are none, go and talk to them yourself. Why would you wait for others to help you if you want to make money?" Li Long smiled.

"When I have time, I will go back and talk to them. If they want to do it and make money, I will support them. Otherwise, I will find someone else. There are many people in the team who want to make money."

"That's right." Li Jianguo fully agreed with this. He suddenly thought of Liang Yuemei's younger brother Liang Wenyu, and said with a light cough:
"If that's the case, Juan's uncle would be fine too."

"Yes, yes, yes, how could I forget about him?" Li Long really forgot about Liang Wenyu.

The main reason is that he is a capable person. Without any support from others, he worked his way up from the village Youth League Committee to the village party secretary, and finally became one of the few people in the county who was directly transferred from a village cadre to a civil servant.

Awesome, right?

So I subconsciously ignored him. In fact, he was also very weak at this time and could have helped.

In fact, Li Long remembered it when he went to the Liang family to deliver the sheep, but now he still needed Li Jianguo to remind him.

Li Jianguo didn't expect that Li Long actually had the money to buy so many tractors. It seemed that he had indeed made a lot of money in the past two years.

I feel very relieved.

"Actually, there is another way to make money." Li Jianguo thought for a while and said, "Buy a big tractor to plow the land. The whole team has more than 2,000 acres of land. It costs more than 8,000 yuan to plow the land once. We need to plow the land at least twice a year, and we also need to harrow, level the land, and sow seeds..."

Li Long deeply agreed with this.

But then he shook his head.

The person working the tractor in the team right now is Wang Caimi. He should have paid off the team’s debts this year, right?

But there shouldn't be much left.

Over the next ten years, the team's land increased from more than 2,000 acres to more than 7,000 acres, but he was still the main owner of the farmland.

His old Dongfanghong 75 had been working hard all the time. Wang Caimi even bought an even older Dongfanghong 75 and put it in the yard to dismantle its parts.

After all, this second-hand thing breaks down too easily.

It is really profitable, from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands to more than 200,000 yuan a year.

It was really hard work. The tractor often broke down in the fields and we could spend a whole night repairing it, and it was often not fixed.

At first I couldn’t afford a new one, and later I couldn’t bear to buy a new one.

Of course, it's not that no one is jealous of this business. Later, someone bought a Dongfanghong 802, which was also a second-hand product. Of course, he used it for a while and repaired it, but finally stopped using it.

After all, ordinary people really can't handle this thing.

That's monopoly.

Of course Li Long can do it. Now he has taken out a loan to buy a new Dongfanghong 75. I guess all the tractor factories will sell it to him.

But it was too much trouble. The thing was a chain track, which was not in line with his driving habits. He would not let anyone else drive such a big thing even if he bought a new one.

More importantly, it's too slow.

The development of tractors in the team began when high-horsepower tractors from northern Xinjiang became popular. Those things had enough horsepower and could plow the land quickly. The flip plow did not require someone to sit behind it to raise or lower it, and could plow up to 400 acres in a day and a night.

At that time, the price of plowed land had reached twenty yuan per acre.

Li Long planned to buy one at that time. He had the information in advance. At that time, there were subsidies for agricultural machinery from the government. If he bought one, he could even contract all the nearby land in one plowing season.

Dongfanghong 75 could plow 100 mu a day at most. At that time, Wang Caimi was still using an old tractor.

There is no way to compete. If you really make one, it will be far ahead of the rest.

Li Long vaguely remembered that the price of a high-horsepower wheeled tractor at that time was more than 300,000 yuan, the government subsidized 30%, and he paid more than 200,000 yuan out of his own pocket.

Believe that you should be able to earn it by then, right?

If you really get one, and two people take turns driving it, you can basically make back the money in a year.

The main focus is on information asymmetry.

Li Long thought about it and suddenly laughed.

The fourth team seemed to have always trusted second-hand goods when it came to large machinery. The tractor that Wang Caimi bought was second-hand, and the Dongfanghong 802 that another person bought was also second-hand; someone else also bought a second-hand tractor with a -inch tire.

When it came time to plant cotton, someone in the team took out a loan and bought their first cotton picker, which was also second-hand.

It feels like I can never keep up with the situation and I am always following behind others.

Fortunately, the governance environment in the team is relatively good, and the humanistic environment is also good. There is no village cadres controlling village politics, nor is there any embezzlement of various subsidies.

Li Long lived in the village at the beginning. It was not until he joined a cooperative that he had time to travel. Only then did he realize that not all villages were like this.

It turns out that cooperatives in some villages cannot be established without a background. It turns out that some people’s land was entered into a cooperative but they only received dividends in the first year and there was no news after that. It turns out that some people’s subsidies were gone without a trace. It turns out that some people knew that some village cadres had embezzled and misappropriated village funds, but they had no place to report.

Only then did I realize that my village was so "model". A cooperative was established by connecting more than a dozen plots of land. If you don't claim various subsidies, the village will urge you to claim them. As for the dividends of the cooperative, at the end of the year, the person in charge will calculate for you where the money was used and how much the final dividend should be.

The fourth team has a lot of land, so even if the price of the cotton they grow is not very good, since there is no contract fee, basically every farmer who invests in the company can still get a lot of money every year.

They also understand that their share will be basically the same as other people's contract fees.

But think about it, the contract fee for one acre of land finally reached nearly one thousand five hundred to one thousand eight hundred. If you can earn so much from one acre of land, then the dividends will be quite a lot.

Even if after deducting the expenses, one acre of land can bring in a dividend of one thousand, that would be enough.

Far away.

Li Long knew this situation, so he made a firm decision to stay in the village and wait for the second round of land distribution to contract more land in the team. By that time, the village's land would have increased from the current 2,000 acres to more than 7,000 acres, and there would be a lot more land to contract.

Not much land is being reclaimed nowadays, firstly because mechanization is still far away and there is not enough manpower to cultivate it, and secondly because saline-alkali land does not produce food, so there is no point in reclaiming it.

But it is so strange to grow cotton in saline-alkali land.

Li Long was waiting for that opportunity. He wanted to wait until a high-horsepower tractor came out, be the first to buy one, make some money, and then wait until a cotton picker appeared, buy one, so that he could be one step ahead of others and lead step by step.

Of course, it is not easy. After all, when cotton pickers first came out, each one cost more than two million yuan, and because of the engine, they often caught fire and caused losses during the cotton picking process.

So, take it one step at a time.

As for the crawler tractor, whoever wants to use it can use it. Although this thing can be used as a bulldozer with a bulldozer blade in front, Li Long can't use it.

At most, he thought that when he contracted the small lake, he would take time to dig it and clear the silt. After all, the small lake was different from the big lake. There were many reeds in it, so the water flow would slow down, and the silt would accumulate.

This stuff is a very good fertilizer, but people here don't use it much.

Li Jianguo knew that neither of his two brothers were good at repairing machinery, so when he saw that Li Long was not interested in the tractor that was currently plowing the fields, he did not say anything.

Gu Xiaoxia and Du Chunfang finished talking and both came out. Gu Xiaoxia wanted to help in the kitchen, so Liang Yuemei drove her out and asked her to have a good rest. Du Chunfang had a smile on her face and seemed very satisfied with the conversation with Gu Xiaoxia.

Seeing people coming out, Li Qingxia stopped chatting. It wasn't good for four men to gather together outside, so Li Long asked everyone to go back into the house.

After entering the house, Li Long looked at the time. It was twelve o'clock, so he turned on the TV.

These days, there are children's programs at 12 o'clock on Sundays, which broadcast cartoons. They are interesting for children, and many of the programs are also novel for adults.

A few men watching cartoons on TV may seem strange in later generations, but it was normal in this era.

Li Long sat next to Li Qingxia and asked casually:

"Dad, how about I rent the lake for you to catch fish?"

"Take it for yourself? What does that mean? Just catch the fish ourselves?" Li Qingxia asked puzzledly.

"That's right. After you take over the contract, you can let anyone catch fish if you want." Li Long said.

This was a bit overbearing, and both Gu Boyuan and Li Jianguo felt it was inappropriate.

Xiaohaizi has always been the "inner lake" of Team 4. Although it is adjacent to Team 3, it has nothing to do with Team 3.

Dahaizi was different. There were seven or eight villages surrounding Dahaizi to the south, west and north, and people from these villages could go to Dahaizi to catch fish. No one said anything about it until Dahaizi was finally contracted to someone to raise crabs.

Even at that time, if the villagers went to the sea to cast nets to catch fish, they could not control those who raised crabs. At most, they were not allowed to fish for crabs.

But Xiaohaizi is completely different. Li Jianguo, Gu Boyuan and others watched as Xiaohaizi gradually became what it is today.

They also continued to reinforce the dam behind.

Li Long suddenly said that he wanted to contract this small lake and turn it into a private property, which made both of them a little dissatisfied.

Even though this is good for our family.

Li Long could understand their feelings, but he also had to let them know that times had changed, and not only Xiaohaizi, but many places would be contracted out to private individuals in the future.

"Brother, Uncle Gu, even if I don't contract this small lake, if someone outside takes notice of it later, the township will give it to someone else to contract. Right now, there are still a lot of fish every year, and the fact that we can make money from it is known not only to our team members, but also to the whole township.

If someone with ulterior motives sets his sights on Xiaohaizi and wants to contract it through the township, do you think the team will disagree? Rather than waiting for someone else to contract it, I might as well contract it first.

If you think this is not good, then after you sign the contract, just let everyone know that you are allowed to catch fish there."

Li Long's words are very realistic.

Li Jianguo and Gu Boyuan were both thinking.

"It's not just Xiaohaizi. You'll see that in the future, the reed ditch will also be contracted out to people. Some people may even dig their own fish ponds to raise fish for sale." Li Long continued, "The policy above allows everyone to get rich first. There are many ways to get rich, and there must be people who want to give it a try."

Five or six years later, a capable man in the village failed in his business and owed a lot of debts. In the end, the village had no choice but to let him contract Xiaohaizi to see if he could find a way to make money through Xiaohaizi.

At that time, the dam of the small lake had collapsed once, and there were no big fish in it, only small crucian carp. That man was really powerless to save the situation.

Finally it was a mess.

Right now, Xiao Haizi is doing fine thanks to Li Long's efforts, and he doesn't want others to take advantage of him.

Therefore, strike first to gain the upper hand.

After two years of experience, Li Jianguo and Gu Boyuan knew that what Li Long said was correct. No matter where the news came from, for them, it meant that the management style of the production team would change greatly in the future.

In other words, everything can be privatized.

"Then let's take it." Li Qingxia was extremely satisfied with the small lake. He felt that he could catch fish in the small lake every year.

Thinking about it, if one day the place was contracted out and no fish could be caught there, Li Qingxia felt that life would not be much fun anymore.

"Okay, when I'm free I'll go back and ask the team to take over the project, and then file it with the township."

"How many years do you plan to provide it for?" Li Jianguo asked.

"How about a ten-year contract first?" Li Long said, "The team will definitely not ask for much money. Dad, how much can you make from the fish you catch in there in one summer?" Li Long turned around and asked Li Qingxia.

When Li Qingxia heard Li Long ask this, his face immediately brightened up. He smiled a little reservedly and said:

"At least two or three thousand."

Well, Dad pretty much built a tractor in one summer.

Li Jianguo suddenly felt that he was a bit of a drag on his family. He worked so hard in the fields, but the money he earned was not as much as his father earned leisurely fishing in a year.

After all, it's two or three thousand for the summer, and maybe dad is understating it. If I work hard in the winter, it might be more than five thousand.

Dad did this alone.

Li Jianguo sighed and felt that TV was not interesting anymore.

But he also knew that he couldn't be like Li Long, let alone be as free as his father.

In the end, he had to pay the public grain tax for the entire family, even Li Long and Gu Boyuan.

Next year, Gu Boyuan will be the one to farm his land, so it would be much better to have a tractor.

Fortunately, Gu Xiaoxia’s household registration had been moved to the county town, so she no longer had to pay her share of the public grain tax.

The reason why Li Long thought this production team was good was that it had fewer responsibilities other than the public grain.

He heard from his father that the burden on his mouth was actually heavier than that in the Northern Frontier.

Back to the original topic, Li Long actually wanted to contract the reed lake. Otherwise, in two years, the supply and marketing cooperative's reed handling task might be controlled by others. At that time, it would not be so easy for him to make money from it.

After all, Wei Lake will really be contracted, and it will be faster than Xiaohaizi.

Of course, the contract was only for a few years, and the supply and marketing cooperatives only collected reeds for a few more years. They stopped collecting reeds around 1990. At that time, paper mills did not need reeds much, after all, wheat straw was of better quality for papermaking and the yield was also high.

But in recent years, there has been considerable profit. (End of this chapter)