Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

"...The last point is that it is troublesome to disassemble." Li Long said, "It takes at least three people to disassemble this harvester. If it is at home, it is not so difficult. If it is a long journey, the tractor must be hung with the harvester and placed in the truck bed. It will be troublesome if there is no one to help install it when you arrive."

With Li Long's strength, it was a bit difficult for him to hang the harvester on the tractor by himself.

Fortunately, he thought of a solution. He got a big wooden block and put it in the tractor's bed. When using the harvester, he would take it down and put it on the wooden block. Then he would drive the tractor head over and put it between the support arms on both sides of the harvester. Then he would go down to adjust the position and tighten the screws.

With the wooden block as support, there was no need for two people to lift and fix it. But only someone with his strength could move the harvester off the truck bed and onto the wooden block.

Just as he said, if the harvester is always hung in front of the tractor, the harvester will allocate part of the power, and the tractor engine will have insufficient power for driving, so it will drive slowly.

The current tractors are not as advanced as later models, they are a bit primitive, so we can't expect too much.

Li Long drove a harvester to harvest thousands of acres of land. Now, even in the whole country, he has the most say in the performance of this harvester.

Director Du and his team manufactured the harvester based on Li Long's idea. Although they also conducted small-scale experiments, they only covered a few acres of land at most, and the experimental data was very thin.

He carefully wrote down the seven or eight problems Li Long mentioned. In fact, in Li Long's opinion, the problems were not serious, and the first machine was a prototype, and the materials used were really solid, so it didn't need major repairs after harvesting thousands of acres of land and cutting so much grass.

After Director Du finished recording, he closed the notebook and said to Li Long seriously:
"Comrade Xiao Li, what you said is very important to us. We will redesign it based on these contents and try to correct these problems in the improved model.

By the way, Comrade Xiao Li, I also have good news to tell you. In the fall, my colleagues and I from the factory took another harvester to participate in the agricultural machinery exhibition organized by the Autonomous Region’s Agriculture Department.

Our harvester won the second place in the small auxiliary agricultural machinery category!"

"Really? Is it so powerful?" Li Long laughed.

"Of course it's true. I think if we improve these problems, our harvester may be able to take first place in the future."

"Okay, then you work hard to improve it. I hope that when I come to buy it next time, those harvesters will be improved and the materials used will not be reduced." Li Long said, "Next, Director Du, I want to discuss my ideas with you."

"You said."

"I want to get the harvester agency rights in Beiting State." Li Long stated his conditions calmly.

"Agency rights?" Director Du didn't quite understand the concept of agency.

"That is to say, when your new model of harvester comes out, if anyone in Beiting Province wants to buy a harvester, they can only sell it through me. You sell it to me at the wholesale price, and I sell it to them at the retail price."

"That won't work!" Factory Director Du waved his hands hastily. "Beiting Prefecture is the only place in Northern Xinjiang where most wheat is grown. If you cover the entire Beiting Prefecture, then our factory will have to grow it piecemeal."

"Even if I can't give Beiting Prefecture, at least Ma County, the next county, the prefecture capital, and Shicheng belong to me." Li Long immediately took a step back. "This leaves you with the remaining seven counties, and a place as big as Ita'a. You should be willing, right?"

Li Long had made such a big step back that Director Du felt embarrassed to refuse him again.

But why does Li Long want the agency rights of these places?
To be honest, Director Du could have refused because Li Long had no real capital to negotiate with him at the moment.

But Director Du is a down-to-earth person. He is a manufacturer, not a profiteer. He thinks that this harvester was designed by Li Long, and the concept came from him, so he has a share in it. He didn't ask for anything, but he just wanted the agency rights, which is actually nothing.

After all, it doesn't matter where you sell it. The factory won't suffer any loss.
But he was still very curious about Li Long's thoughts and wanted to find out, so he just asked directly.

"Because I plan to set up a tractor harvester team next year." Li Long was also outspoken. He had dealt with Director Du several times and thought that this person was a good person.

If the agency rights are obtained this time, a lot of agricultural auxiliary machinery will be designed and produced here in the future.

“We plan to unify the price for wheat harvesters in the vicinity.

If I don't act as an agent, I'm worried that some people will buy the harvesters and bargain down the price in order to make money. The price per acre of land will be too low, forming a vicious cycle. In this way, no one will make money and conflicts will easily arise.

As for the agent, when I sell the property, I will discuss with these people. I won’t care about the properties far away, but I will divide the areas for the properties nearby. There is no need to compete for them, and everyone can make money.”

Director Du actually thought this made sense.

Li Long knew that if any market became disorderly, it would most likely lead to vicious competition and then the market would collapse.

Twenty years later, the village began to buy high-horsepower wheeled tractors. Three or four tractors were bought within a year, all equipped with reversible plows.

At that time, the whole team had 7,000 to 8,000 mu of land, which was enough for everyone to share, but everyone wanted to earn more, so they started scrambling to plow the land after the autumn harvest. At first, there were some rules, and everyone just told the landlord and went to plow.

We are all fellow villagers anyway, so it doesn’t matter who plows the field, so it doesn’t matter.

But a hook seller, in order to grab the land, plowed up the land that had not yet been harvested after the corn stalks were cut down, without even informing the owner before plowing.

As a result, they were directly controlled by the owner. Not only did they not pay for the mechanized farming, but they were also asked to compensate for the corn stalks. This was because the family raised sheep and the corn stalks could be used to feed the sheep in the winter.

Later, those who bought tractors simply moved away and went to compete with the big tractors in other villages.

It wasn't a good thing, it became a joke and was spread by many people.

Li Long wanted to avoid this kind of thing from happening.

One acre of two plots of land is not expensive compared to the cost of machine farming. And because of the harvester, Li Long knows that more wheat will be planted than corn this year.

Because the harvester can save the most tiring step of harvesting wheat, namely, cutting wheat. Without cutting wheat, tasks such as bundling wheat, loading wheat to the threshing floor and threshing are all piece of cake and can be accomplished while chatting and laughing.

With more people growing wheat, the harvester business will naturally be good.

Li Long wanted to unify the prices from the very beginning so that he wouldn't end up killing himself like he did before when selling fish.

Director Du thought about it and agreed.

To be honest, there were no advertising agencies in those days, so even if he wanted to sell these harvesters, he had to have a certain degree of popularity.

The only person who came to their factory to ask about the harvester was from the same county as Li Long.

He knew that this was probably because Li Long's harvester was quite effective, which attracted people here.

Since Li Long is willing to help sell, why not agree to it? The places Li Long wants are within the Shicheng Tractor Factory, and it is difficult to sell the agricultural machinery here.

To be honest, the sales range of Kuitun Agricultural Machinery Factory is limited to the 7th Agricultural Division and KT City, and at most radiates to Anjihai, Dushanzi and Wusu.

If we can expand our sales range and expand to the east, Director Du will be so happy.

"Don't worry, Director Du. You will definitely not lose out on this. When the time is right, I have several agricultural auxiliary machines that you can try. As long as they can be produced, they will definitely be as popular as the harvester."

Li Long said:

"When the time comes, you just need to focus on production. There is a high probability that the supply will fall short of the demand."

"Okay, then I'll lend you my blessing." Director Du said with a smile:

"This agency price..."

"The cost of the old harvester is two hundred, right?" Li Long asked.

Director Du nodded and said:

"Yes, if it is modified according to your requirements, the cost may increase to two hundred and fifty to two hundred and sixty dollars."

"Then how about my agency price of three hundred and fifty? You should sell it for more than five hundred, right?" Li Long gave a good number.

"Higher." Factory Director Du shook his head and said, "We are counting on this product to give the workers more bonuses. Prices are rising now, and everyone's salary has to support a large family. If we don't give some bonuses, it will be really difficult."

"Okay, then three hundred and eighty, how about that?" Li Long said.

"Okay, 380 is 380, but the minimum order is five units, how about that? After all, you are an agent, so you should be better than a retailer, right?"

"That's no problem. By the way, Director Du, I saw some more at the entrance of the workshop. Are they similar to mine?"

"Yes. What, you want it?"

"Give it to me at a discount, and I'll take it away this time. I'll come back in the spring to get new ones. Anyway, you can't tear these down and treat them as waste, right?"

"Okay, two hundred and forty for each. If you want, I'll take all five." "You have to sign a letter of attorney for me, otherwise it will be troublesome if I sell it and someone else takes it away." Li Long thought carefully and should be more cautious about this thing. Verbal consent does not have the ability to record voice recorders, smartphones, etc., so it still needs to be implemented.

"Okay, I'll write it for you and then stamp it for you, okay?"

Director Du was naturally happy that he could see some money today. It was almost the end of the year, and the factory's performance was not very good. He was not good at management, and he had no idea how to provide benefits to the workers. Now that Li Long was sending him money, he was naturally happy.

This is a win-win situation and both parties are happy.

Li Long went to the finance department to pay the money and got the agency contract, then with the help of the workers, he loaded the five harvesters onto the tractor. He waved goodbye to Director Du and the workers, then drove the tractor away from the factory.

When Li Long walked out of the factory, he could still hear the workers cheering inside. It was probably Director Du who told them that they could get benefits at the end of the year.

Now I have money.

Li Long does not plan to use these five harvesters himself, he plans to put them in the yard. I believe that during the wheat season next year, many people will come to him to ask about the manufacturer of the harvesters.

Not everyone can read the Autonomous Region Daily, and by next year, those who do may not necessarily remember where the harvester was produced.

As for someone like Wei Tianxing, even if he went to the Kuitun Agricultural Machinery Factory next year, Director Du would not be able to sell him a harvester.

So Li Long calculated that he could make some money with the harvester.

I harvest the crops myself and earn only 200 yuan a day from hard work.

You can sell one for about one or two hundred dollars.

He would naturally like to be the latter.

Li Long drove the tractor to the house rented by Li Anguo. As soon as he got off the tractor, he heard Xue Ping and Xue Qin's voices:
"Dad, Mom! My uncle is here, my uncle is here!"

Okay, no need to say hello, the automatic pager is here.

Li Anguo came out of the house. Chen Lirong, wearing an apron, showed a little of her face and then went in.

Then he smelled the aroma of rice.

Li Long entered the house with the crank in his hand and saw Chen Lirong cooking. The rice had already been steamed and put in a basin. Such a small kitchen could only accommodate one stove, so she had to steam the rice first and then cook.

The smell of rice was strong. Li Long followed Li Anguo to the inner room and told him what happened today.

"So you're going back today?" Li Anguo asked, "How about staying for two days?"

"No, I won't stay any longer. Xiaoxia is pregnant, I dare not stay far away."

"Oh, that's right, then I won't keep you here. Bring two bottles of wine to dad when you leave," Li Anguo said, "I won't bring anything for you and big brother..."

"No, we have everything at home." Li Long waved his hand, "Just live your life well."

"Well, we'll go back during the Chinese New Year." Li Anguo added, "In fact, we'll have a holiday after December, but there's no need for us to stay there for long. There's also duty pay for being on duty here, so I plan to go back two or three days before the New Year."

The two brothers chatted for a while, and then the dishes were ready. The adults and children ate together at the coffee table.

Li Anguo said that he had originally planned to have a drink with Li Long, but now that Li Long was leaving, he could only talk about it later.

Li Long ate two bowls of rice and not much vegetables. The two children ate meat very quickly. Li Anguo and Chen Lirong said so, but Li Long stopped them from saying so, saying that children are still growing, so eating more meat will help them grow faster.

After finishing his meal, Li Long drank some rice soup and sat for a while. When he felt that the food in his stomach had settled, he said goodbye to his brother, sister-in-law and the children, then went out with the crank.

He walked up to the tractor, cranked it, put on his coat inside out, put on his hat, turned around, and drove away.

Xue Ping watched the tractor leave before she said to Chen Lirong:
"Mom, I thought my uncle was a bad guy at first. The thing on his face was scary."

"Me too, me too." Xueqin also rushed to say.

"That's to prevent your face from freezing." Li Anguo said as he asked the child to go back, "Otherwise your uncle would have frozen his face after driving for several hours."

"I played outside for a long time and didn't get frozen..." Xue Ping was puzzled.

"That's because you didn't play in a windy place. There's wind when the tractor is running, and the wind is so strong that it can crack your face..."

Li Long drove the tractor to the oil depot and filled up the oil with the certificate, then filled the oil bottle he brought with him, and then drove out of Kuitun and headed east.

The sun was shining on his back, and he could feel a little warmth, but the front was almost cold. Li Long drove the tractor for more than an hour and arrived at the no-man's land, where he saw the yellow sheep again.

The gazelles seem to be accustomed to seeing big guys passing by on the road. Whenever something comes, they will run to the side of the road and stop a few dozen meters away. They will wait until the big guys leave before coming over again.

There were seven gazelles in this group, led by two long-horned rams. They stood relatively tall and turned their heads to look at Li Long's tractor with caution and disdain.

Li Long parked the tractor on the side of the road, but the gazelles did not move.

Li Long took out five or six semi-automatic rifles from his gun bag and placed them on the seat without turning off the engine. The engine was still making a "clang clang clang" sound. Huang Yang might have thought that the monster had no intention of coming over.

Li Long was not in a hurry. He slowly opened the safety, loaded the bullet into the chamber, adjusted the sight, half-knelt on the seat and took aim.

At this time, the gazelle sensed danger and turned to escape. Li Long aimed at the ram behind it. It looked like it was only two or three years old, and was at the age of being bold, curious, stupid and inexperienced.

When the lead sheep was about to run away, it even turned its head and sniffed the butt of the ewe next to it.

"Bang!" Li Long fired his gun. The ram didn't even jump up and fell to the ground on the spot. At this time, the leader sheep had already rushed into the bushes in the distance and ran away in panic.

The other ewes also ran away in all directions. Although Li Long wanted to take another shot, he gave up after aiming for a while.

He ran too fast and couldn't hit me at all.

Putting away the gun, Li Long went over and dragged the ram over.

This male gazelle is obviously younger than the one shot yesterday. The horns on its head are relatively shorter and it doesn't look as weathered.

The vicissitudes here refer to the horns being relatively smooth and clean. The bone layer near the root of the horns of old sheep will have skin peeling off over time, which can be seen.

After cutting open its belly and filling the truck bed with harvesters, Li Long could only take out a bag from under the seat and put the sheep into the bag. The sheep was quite big, with its head sticking out. He placed the bag containing the sheep on the triangular traction frame between the tractor and the truck bed, tied it with a rope, and then set off.

When they were almost reaching SW County, Li Long shot two more yellow sheep, and this time there were two more bags on the tripod.

He originally thought there would be more behind, but he thought too much. There were fewer Gobi deserts on both sides of the road. Some places had been reclaimed by the Corps, and occasionally there would be one or two farmlands covered with snow.

There are paths for rabbits to run in the farmlands, but no gazelles are to be seen.

The hunting trip was stopped halfway.

OK.

When they drove all the way to Shicheng, Li Long stopped at the old street. He parked at the gate of the yard he rented for Chen Xingbang.

Then Li Long heard Hong Qin's voice:

"Mom, I seem to hear the sound of my uncle's tractor..."

"How is that possible? How could your uncle come at this time?" Li Xia came out of the house and heard Li Long knocking on the door.

"Who?"

"Sister, it's me. My brother-in-law hasn't come back yet?"

"Is it really Xiaolong?" Li Xia quickened her pace in surprise, came over to open the door, and then saw Li Long standing at the door with a yellow sheep in his hand and a smile on his face.

Li Xia's eyes suddenly turned red. (End of this chapter)