Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

The matter just passed. Li Long still felt a little guilty towards Director Qian, after all, he helped him so much, but in the end, the matter didn't work out.

But Director Qian had seen a lot of storms, so he smiled and comforted Li Long, saying that this was normal. If things were so easy, they wouldn't have waited until now.

After having lunch at Qian's house, Li Long said goodbye and left. He walked around Beiting City for a few rounds, bought some small things, and then left.

When he left, he went to the "Happiness" purchasing station and found that the door was locked. He didn't know how long it had been since it was opened. The sign of the "Happiness" purchasing station had been taken down, and it looked a bit empty.

I don’t know how the boss is doing now.

Li Long returned to Ma County and went to his own purchasing station.

There are still a dozen people queuing in the yard of the purchasing station. During the slack season, many people go out to make some extra money. Now that the reform and opening up have taken place, people's minds are becoming more and more open, and some people are more creative and are looking for side jobs to make money. Some learn from others, while others figure it out slowly on their own. Anyway, resources are still very abundant these days, and as long as you are willing to use your hands and brain, you can always find a way to make money.

Most of the people here sell mushrooms, as well as Fritillaria, Codonopsis, and Licorice. To be honest, Codonopsis is not very good at this time of year, but since they are selling it, there is no reason not to buy it. I just hope to give them a lower price.

There were also some who brought fresh snow lotus, which was quite strange. Li Long looked at two and said to one of them:

"Don't dig up the roots of the snow lotus. If you do, how will it grow next year? Won't it become less and less?"

The man carrying a bundle of snow lotus had a red face.

Yes, a bundle. There are about twenty snow lotus flowers in this bundle. They are quite big and heavy, and look beautiful.

Although snow lotus sounds precious, it is really worthless in northern Xinjiang. At this time, the purchasing station sells it for two or three yuan. Fifteen years later, you can still buy fresh snow lotus for five yuan on the streets of ZS County.

The price cannot go up. From now on, the state will control this second-level wild protected plant, so it is naturally not allowed to be picked. Although there are travelers who steal and pick them and take videos every year, very few are caught.

After all, in a no-man's land, some people's moral bottom line is so low that I don't know how low it is.

Gu Boyuan and Sun Jiaqiang cooperated very well. Most people who came here knew the rules and no one made trouble. After all, the police would come from time to time to maintain order.

Li Long didn't stay here for long. He took a look, checked and then went back to the yard.

On Monday, Li Xiangqian asked Zhou Yuan to come to Li Long and ask him to go to the county meeting. This time the representative was confirmed. Li Long not only became a representative, but also took the initiative to submit written materials to apply to join the organization.

After becoming a representative, he did not do nothing. He directly donated desks and benches worth 10,000 yuan to the county education bureau, which was a huge amount of money in those days.

Ma Xiaoyan was informed of the matter and she came to interview. This time, Li Long was included in the Beiting Daily - it was a bit of a stretch to get him included in the Autonomous Region Daily.

Li Long also privately donated desks and benches worth 1,000 yuan to each of the primary and secondary schools in his township. The Education Bureau needed to consider the overall situation, so those desks and benches were basically distributed to schools in remote areas.

Although the infrastructure of the schools in this township, especially the middle schools, is relatively backward, it is still better than those in remote mountainous areas.

Thirty years later, schools in remote areas are much better than those near county towns. This is due to the government's investment, as well as social charities and individual donations, which are all aimed at remote areas.

On the contrary, those that are closer to the county town are in an awkward location. They are not in the county, so leaders cannot pay attention to them and they are not eligible for face-saving projects; nor are they in remote mountainous areas, so they cannot receive social attention because of their poverty.

This was the first time that Li Long was a representative in his two lives, and he had a strong sense of mission. Donating to the education department was his first step, and his second step was to investigate the public sentiment and come up with a proposal, but Li Xiangqian asked him to calm down.

Right now everyone is paying attention to development. He is trying hard to figure out his own business, and then use the tasks he gets from the supply and marketing cooperative to lead his fellow villagers to get rich. Don't think too much, or you may end up losing the watermelon and picking up sesame seeds.

Li Long understood immediately.

One of the main reasons why I can become this representative is that I have done a good job in promoting ethnic unity and set a benchmark; the second reason is that I am a leader in rural prosperity, and I cannot lose these two things.

Then he understood and stayed at home peacefully. The time was not right and there was nothing he could do at the moment.

Then Gu Boyuan found him a job - the harvesters were sold out, but people came to place orders, and the wheat season was coming soon, so Gu Boyuan asked him to hurry up and bring back some more harvesters.

To pull the harvester, you have to go to Kuitun, which is more than 200 kilometers round trip, so you must prepare in advance.

Li Long went to the transportation company to find a car. After negotiating, they agreed to set off early the next morning and then returned to the yard.

"I'm going to Kuitun to visit my second brother's family." Li Long said to Gu Xiaoxia in the evening, "Bring some things to them. My second brother's family depends on his salary, so I guess they're having a hard time."

"That's what I should do." Gu Xiaoxia nodded, "Bring some money with you. It's hot in the summer, and some of the things you bring with you are hard to store for a long time. Bring some money with you to my second brother and his friends, so they can buy whatever they need."

Her family was relatively well-off, and Gu Xiaoxia was not a stingy person. She didn't have many relatives on her side of the family, but she felt the warmth of her relatives from Li Long's side.

Whether it was these from the Li family or those from Liang Yuemei's family, Gu Xiaoxia thought they were all good.

If Li Long knew what she was thinking, he would definitely say, you are awesome, you are surrounded by good people.

Gu Xiaoxia didn’t think too much about it. She was living a good life herself, so she couldn’t just watch her relatives living in misery, right?
After all, I have donated 10,000 yuan to the Education Bureau, so I don’t care about this little bit of money.

Li Long thought it would be better to bring some things with him. He would drive a jeep this time, and when the truck pulled the harvester back, he would drive the jeep to discuss the next production plan with Director Du, and then go to his second brother's house.

As for the things to buy, rice and flour are all ready. This is what Li An's country needs most and is also the biggest expense. Li Long pulled two bags of rice and two bags of flour, enough for his second brother's family to eat for two or three months.

Rice and flour alone would definitely not be enough, so Li Long also prepared a lot of dried meat for Li Anguo's family.

There is always a large amount of dried meat in Li Long's storage room all year round. Most of it is brought back from the mountains, and some is dried from sheep slaughtered at home.

He hasn’t bought a refrigerator yet, so the meat he gets back is mostly air-dried.

It is easy to preserve and tastes unique.

After breakfast the next day, Sister Yang took over Mingming and Haohao early. As soon as Li Long and the other trucks arrived, they drove the jeep out and headed west.

It was hot, but fortunately there was wind. From Ma County, all the way to the 143rd Regiment in the west of Shicheng, there were many trees on both sides of the road, but as we went further west, there were fewer trees, and as we slowly reached the no-man's land, there were only shrubs.

After not coming here for a while, Li Long could clearly feel that there were more cars on the road, and fewer gazelles in the Gobi Desert on both sides. He passed Wulanwusu and Shawan and only saw a group of gazelles when he was about to reach Anjihai, far away in the Gobi Desert in the north. The gazelles were very alert when the car passed by and ran away at the first sign of movement.

When the jeep and truck entered Kuitun one after another, it was still early and not yet time for lunch, so they went directly to the agricultural machinery factory.

Director Du was working with the workers in the workshop when a horn sounded at the door. The guard saw the appearance of the car and knew that someone was there to buy a harvester. There was a jeep in the lead, so he immediately ran to inform Director Du.

"Brother Li, you're finally here." Director Du's hands were covered in oil. He smiled and said as he came over, "I won't shake hands with you. Let's go to the office."

Then he asked the guard to take the driver to rest.

Leading Li Long to the conference room and having someone pour some water, Director Du said, "Sit down first. I'll come over after I wash my hands."

After Director Du washed his hands and came over, Li Long asked with a smile:

"How's it going lately? Are the harvesters selling well?"

"It's pretty good." Director Du said with a smile, "We sell at least a few hundred units every month. Now we are working in three shifts, and orders like this are scheduled for several months later."

"Then I have to cut in line." Li Long said with a smile, "We don't have many this time, we need ten."

"It will definitely be okay if you come." Director Du smiled. "By the way, do you have any new ideas?"

"You know what, there really is one." Li Long nodded. "I've been thinking about this for a while. This small four-wheel tractor would be a bit of a loss if it was only used for transportation. It would only be used for a month with the harvester, so I was thinking about whether it could have other uses." "Have you figured it out?"

"I figured it out. A cultivator." Li Long said, "It's the one with a weeding machine at the back. It can dig ditches and weed. Nowadays, small four-wheeled vehicles have a rack at the back. You can just hang it on the rack... It's more convenient to use than a harvester."

As he spoke, he began to gesture.

Director Du understood as he listened.

This thing is actually not complicated and it is really useful.

Nowadays, the technological power for farming is not so advanced. Although herbicides have been developed, to be honest, the effect is not very good.

The main reason is that there are too many types of weeds, especially those like reeds, which have strong vitality and are very difficult to eradicate.

Therefore, in the process of planting crops, it is necessary to weed over and over again.

The existence of cultivators has solved this problem very well - or rather, it has been very useful in specific environments such as northern Xinjiang where the land is large.

After all, now a family has dozens of acres of land and has to weed manually. Once you weed your own land, the place where you first weeded will be overgrown with grass again.

It’s different when using a tractor. It only takes half a day to go through dozens of acres of land with a cultivator.

Although it is impossible for a human to be as careful as a machine, and the weeds entangled with the crops cannot be removed, it is still possible to get 60% to 70% of the work done. Then, humans can check for omissions and fill in the gaps.

So when Li Long said this, Director Du understood. This can be done, but it will definitely not sell as well as the harvester.

Has anyone in the factory thought of this solution?
There must be similar ones, but because everyone is eager to make a "hot-selling agricultural machinery" similar to a harvester, this point has been ignored.

Now that Li Long has brought it up and explained it very fully, Director Du feels that it can be done.

Maybe it's not as popular as the harvester, but you can't rely on the harvester for your whole life - now some manufacturers have begun to imitate the harvester, and the profits from the harvester won't last long.

You must always have new products to show off, otherwise you will always be eliminated.

Director Du still has this sense of crisis.

So he agreed as soon as Li Long said it.

"I won't tell you about the agency this time." Director Du said with a smile, "Let's do what you proposed before. I'll give you a commission for every unit sold. How about that? This is how we'll do our cooperation in the future."

He felt that Li Long must have a lot of things in his mind, but he just didn't bring them out. Now this harvester has been sold for more than two years and is still popular. It can be said that it has supported their factory and made their factory's efficiency flourish. This is inseparable from Li Long.

After the reform and opening up, state-owned enterprises are also being revitalized, and his autonomy as a factory director is being expanded. Director Du thinks that Li Long's ideas are very good and may produce a hit in the future. If he does not come up with something attractive enough, he is afraid that he will not be able to keep him.

If he just finds another factory to make a good product, wouldn't we suffer a huge loss?

"That's great." Director Du's decision was unexpected but reasonable to Li Long. It has been two years, and the harvester business is still going strong. If he still cannot recognize his own value, then future cooperation will fade.

But the design of the medicine jar cannot be released yet. After all, cotton is only planted in the Corps and has not yet been expanded to the entire northern Xinjiang.

The crop that most needs insect prevention is cotton, and the effect of the medicine tank can only be reflected when the cotton planting area expands to a large enough size.

Right now, not yet.

Li Long drew a blueprint of the cultivator for Director Du. Director Du was an expert and understood it at a glance. This thing was not complicated to produce. It could even be said to be much simpler than a harvester. It did not require high technical content and was easy to imitate.

However, he still believed in Li Long, and also believed that with the increase in the area of ​​reclaimed land, mechanized farming in northern Xinjiang has been rolled out, and transitional auxiliary agricultural machinery such as cultivators are really useful.

Li Long also wanted Director Du to design a flattening machine for crushing melon seeds, after all, it was too troublesome to do it at home. If a flattening machine could be made, an electric one, then the workers would only need to soften the melon seeds, and the machine would do the rest.

He has figured out the principles: screening, transmission, and extrusion, only three processes are needed to get it done.

"This... I need to study it with our technicians." Director Du said, "If we only need one, we can't put it on the main business yet. But since you mentioned it, Xiao Li, we will do our best to make it for you. It still needs experiments after production..."

"Give us a call after you finish the production. I'll bring you a sack of melon seeds to experiment with. If you do well, I'll give you a bonus." Li Long said half-jokingly, "Actually, you can also design this kind of special machine. The technicians are idle anyway, so if someone needs it, you can design and produce it."

This is a customized design and production service, and currently state-owned enterprises are not able to afford this kind of activity.

After a few years, when there are fewer production tasks and it becomes difficult to pay wages, it will be available then.

Ten harvesters were loaded on the truck. Li Long said goodbye to Director Du and left. He gave the driver five yuan and asked him to solve the problem of lunch on the way - the driver was very happy. Now in the state-owned canteen, a bowl of mixed noodles costs less than two yuan. He was naturally happy that Li Long was so generous.

Li Long asked the driver to send the harvester back to the county purchasing station, and he drove the jeep to the local beef and mutton shop to buy meat and took it to his second brother's house.

Li An's country moved to a new courtyard, and in the early spring he wrote a letter to tell Li Jianguo. Li Long knew the address, and he found the place by following the address and asking people along the way.

Li Anguo hadn't gotten off work yet, so Chen Lirong was just getting ready to cook. She was very happy to see Li Long driving over in a jeep.

The yard was much bigger than the original one, and was similar to the southern yard of the county town that Li Long gave to Sister Yang, and it was very clean.

Li Long was unloading things from the jeep, looking at his neighbors with envy - the layout of the yards was similar, and it was cooking time, so the doors of the houses were open and it was easy to see.

A city in Shaanxi Province.

The new batch of roasted melon seeds on the market are very popular with customers. The 250-gram portion is packed in the old packaging, but it is very smooth to crack and there is almost no breakage. The price has not changed, two yuan, not too much, not too little. Many people are willing to crack these melon seeds.

So as soon as it was launched on the market, many people immediately bought it in bulk. Some stores also noticed this and started to stock it in large quantities.

However, just when many people thought that this was a new roasting process in the roasting factory and that it would be like this in the future, the next batch of melon seeds suddenly became the same as before.

Many people were immediately unhappy.

Isn't this a hanged man?

The sales department of the roasted nuts factory received many calls from shipping channels, expressing their hope to continue importing the same batch of melon seeds as last time.

The rivals of the roasted nuts factory also discovered this problem. After "inquiring" from many sources, they pinpointed the issue to the procurement of raw materials.

At that time, business intelligence information work was basically not taken seriously in domestic start-up private enterprises. Except for those confidential formulas, everything else could be found out as long as you paid a little attention.

Then, someone found out that the reason why the last batch of goods from the roasted nuts factory was so good was because of the raw materials, and the raw materials came from northern Xinjiang.

Someone immediately started to think about it.

The first person to be inquired about was Jia Tianlong.

During this period of time, Jia Tianlong was in Kouli. Not only did he have to purchase medicinal materials from Northern Xinjiang, he also had to maintain the shipping channels in Kouli.

So during the off-season for purchasing medicinal materials, he would be here most of the time, and then people would come to his door.

"You mean the melon seeds?" Jia Tianlong was a little surprised that someone came to him to ask about the channel for beating melon seeds. (End of this chapter)