Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Starting from the third day, Li Long used a tractor to transport melon seeds to the county in truckloads.

Because the quantity was small, it was not cost-effective to hire a truck, and it was better not to load half a truck each time. On the fourth day, Song Ming came to deliver the sugar residue, so we simply loaded the melon seeds accumulated that day and drove them to the county town, storing them in the warehouse of the purchasing station.

Thanks to the strong sunshine these days and the high temperature outside, the soaked melon seeds can be dried in two days.

On the fourth day, Bai Xiuming did not come, but Director Du called and told Li Long that the machine he wanted was ready and asked him to come and see it when he was free.

Li Long replied that it would be a while and he was not free for the time being.

When Director Du found out that Li Long was busy, he said he would help debug the machine by making bags to beat the melon seeds. In fact, the main business he was talking about was that the cultivator had been produced. He found a small four-wheeler and tried it in the experimental field of the Agricultural Science Institute. The effect was quite good, but of course there were still areas that needed improvement.

Director Du told Li Long that this cultivator had already found a customer right after it was produced. The Agricultural Science Institute thought it was a good product and ordered five units - of course, they were modified and improved.

This is also the reason why I took the initiative to call Li Long - the corn planted by the Agricultural Science Institute is not very tall yet, so it is just right for inter-cultivation. For taller crops such as corn and oil sunflowers, it is best to do inter-cultivation before they grow taller. When they grow taller, weeding is not a big deal.

Now is the time.

Originally, Director Du thought that this cultivator would be popular, but it was not as popular as the harvester.

But for now, it should be okay - after all, there are more small four-wheel tractors now, and some small agricultural machinery can also be used.

The most important thing is that the cost of this tiller is not high and the selling price is not expensive. One is only 150 yuan. For people who can afford a tractor, this thing is really not expensive.

For Director Du, selling a tiller can bring the factory a profit of fifty to seventy percent, which is quite a lot.

The technology content of this machine is not high, and it is very easy to copy. Now we just need to seize the opportunity and occupy the market first. He said that almost everyone who comes to buy a harvester will buy one with it - because Director Du listened to Li Long's suggestion that buying a harvester with it can get a discount.

Even a discount of ten yuan is very attractive to people nowadays. Of course, the most important thing is that these two machines are very useful.

He talked a lot, and when he hung up the phone, Li Long felt the receiver was hot.

"When you can get a telephone there, quickly pull a line there." Li Xiangqian said in the office with some disdain, "How dare you use the phone every day. After all, you are a boss now, you should have some ideas."

"I've had this idea for a long time, but the county won't help me." Li Long spread his hands and said with a smile, "How about you help me solve it?"

"It's not impossible..." Li Xiangqian touched his chin and said, "You are the representative. Director Qian also said that your work this time has opened up a new way for our state cooperative to sell materials. You should be praised. I will mention this matter to County Magistrate Tan, and maybe he will approve it for you."

Li Long had just mentioned it casually, but he didn't expect it to work. He immediately smiled and bowed to Li Xiangqian:
"Thank you, thank you, Director... If you can really pull the strings, Director, you have helped me a lot this time."

"Don't be so polite." Li Xiangqian waved his hand. "What kind of cultivator were you talking about just now? What kind of machine are you helping them build? You have a lot of ideas in your mind, don't you?"

"Haha, I'm a farmer myself," Li Long smiled, "We have a large area of ​​land in northern Xinjiang, and farmers work hard to farm. If we rely entirely on manual labor, we simply can't farm so much land.

Food is worthless now. If you want to live a good life, you have to plant more crops. The way to plant more crops is to use machinery. So I thought about which manual work can be replaced by machinery, and I came up with this idea... Of course, I also need people like Director Du to help with production, otherwise my ideas alone cannot be realized."

Li Xiangqian listened and nodded. As a former member of the grain procurement team, he naturally knew the difference between growing grain by machine and by hand.

Although everyone can eat enough now, who doesn’t want to live a better life? Who doesn’t want to eat meat every day? If you want to live a good life, don’t farmers have to grow more land?

In his eyes, Li Long was a peculiar person. Many people who came from the countryside would desperately want to stay in the city if they had a chance, even if they didn't have to work and just did a small business, they would stay in the city.

To be honest, life in the city is indeed very convenient. Even if you don’t have a formal job, you can set up a stall in the free market and live a better life than most people in the countryside.

Li Long is an outlier. He obviously has a better future and many leaders want to promote him and bring him into the system, but he insists on keeping his rural household registration and refuses to move to the city.

Now it seems that Li Long really has great ambitions and is really changing the face of rural areas step by step.

The harvester and cultivator he made can really make farmers’ work less difficult.

Li Xiangqian had also harvested wheat before and knew the hard work involved - people who had not harvested wheat would never know the hardships involved.

"You did a good job." Li Xiangqian said with emotion, "If you have any difficulties in the future, come to me. After all, you are still a member of our supply and marketing cooperative. By the way, how is your melon seeding going?"

"It will be almost done tomorrow. Twenty tons will be delivered tomorrow. The person who comes to buy the goods tomorrow should go to my purchasing station to inspect the goods and take them away."

"Okay." Li Xiangqian nodded and said nothing more.

After Li Long left, Li Xiangqian also went out and rode his bicycle to find County Magistrate Tan.

After riding in Li Long's jeep several times, he found that it was really inconvenient to ride a bicycle to do things. It was so damn hot in the summer!
The next day, Bai Xiuming arrived at the purchasing station early.

There were still many people in the yard of the purchasing station. Compared with the previous two days, there were a few more wooden benches near the south wall of the yard - the kind of long wooden benches that school students sit on, each of which could accommodate two or three people. There were trees outside the south wall, and when the sun rose, it was cool under the trees, so it was more comfortable to sit on the benches while waiting in line.

If you are thirsty, there is drink in the big barrel under the window - today it is no longer brick tea, but mung bean soup. At this moment, someone is drinking half a bowl of soup with a bowl, and others remind him not to dirty the soup in the barrel when drinking.

There was a large basin next to the barrel with water in it. After the man finished drinking, he scooped water from the basin to rinse the bowl, then put it back on the bench next to the barrel.

Bai Xiuming felt a little emotional. This is the attitude to serve customers.

Li Long was chatting in the yard with a second-hand dealer named Fan Mingcheng about some recent purchases in the countryside.

According to Fan Mingcheng, in various villages now, those idle people have quite a lot of sundries in their homes, not to mention antiques. They also collect various vegetable seeds, leathers, etc. Cynomorium songaricum is also in its peak season now. This time, Fan Mingcheng collected two sacks of Cynomorium songaricum to sell.

"It's hard to pack this thing when it's fresh, and it breaks easily when it's dry," Fan Mingcheng said helplessly. "Old Gu doesn't give me face when I come here. The rating is low, so I can't make much money."

"Don't pretend to be poor. You've sold me at least 8,000 yuan worth of goods in the past six months." Li Long exposed his words, "You can earn at least 3,000 yuan, which is enough to buy two houses in the county. In a year, you will have no problem becoming a millionaire. Am I right?"

"Hehehe." Fan Mingcheng was exposed by Li Long, but he didn't explain and just laughed.

In fact, it is more than 3,000 yuan. Some things are not known to the country people. They are cheap when they are bought, but they are more expensive when they are sold at the purchasing station. He said that Gu Boyuan gave a low rating, which is true - the appearance of the goods is not good, so the rating is naturally low.

But the goods were good. For example, there were three large pieces in the set of horse harness that were all purchased by him. He bought them for 150 yuan, and Gu Boyuan gave him 600 yuan. What a great profit!

So even though they will complain, when they receive something, they will come here to sell it as soon as possible. At least they know the goods, unlike the ones in the market, who sometimes just cheat and have a bad service attitude.

When Li Long saw Bai Xiuming coming, he said something to Fan Mingcheng and took Bai Xiuming to the backyard.

"About 21 tons. I've collected them all." Li Long said, "Manager Bai, are you going to check and take them away today, or take a look first?"

"Let's take a look first." Bai Xiuming believed that one had to see it to be real.

Li Long took Bai Xiuming to the warehouse they had visited last time. The warehouse was quite large, but the twenty tons of melon seeds only filled less than one-third of the warehouse.

Li Long pointed at the piled sacks and said:

"Manager Bai, these are all, which one do you want to choose?"

Bai Xiuming pointed at a bag at random.

Li Long went and pulled the two bags that were pressing on that bag aside, then took down the bag that Bai Xiuming was pointing at, carried it to Bai Xiuming, put it down, untied the bag and spread it out for Bai Xiuming to see.

Seeing Li Long lift the bag so easily, Bai Xiuming wondered, if the bag was so easy to lift, could the melon seeds be deflated? He reached out and tried the bag first, but found that he couldn't lift it at all!
"This bag weighs more than 80 kilograms." Li Long said with a smile, "When we processed it, we basically removed the shriveled seeds and impurities, which makes it easier for your roasted nuts factory to process it."

"Comrade Li is so strong." Bai Xiuming knew that he had misunderstood. The fact that he could lift it was his ability. With more than 80 kilograms, he might not even be able to lift it, let alone pull it!

"Haha, farmers are very strong." Li Long smiled.

Bai Xiuming didn't say much, thinking that ordinary farmers might not have the strength you have.

He reached into the sack, grabbed a handful of melon seeds, spread his hands out, and turned to look at the light from the window.

The melon seeds are very flat and regular. Although they are not exactly the same size, they are all very flat.

Bai Xiuming put down this handful, reached out and stuffed it into the sack, grabbed a handful of melon seeds from the lower middle of the sack and spread them out to look at them.

The same, all flat and smooth.

Li Long went to the wall and dragged a square iron sieve over and placed it at Bai Xiuming's feet. He picked up the sack of melon seeds and poured them all onto the sieve. He put the sack aside, then squatted down and spread out the melon seeds for Bai Xiuming to see:
"It's more realistic this way."

After Li Long did this, Bai Xiuming felt that he was really sincere.

He squatted down and took a look first. These melon seeds were really all flat, without any deformed or loose ones.

I reached out and pushed a piece of melon seeds aside, then looked at the bottom of the sieve. It was not broken and there were no impurities such as stones or grass roots.

Very clean.

Afraid that the melon seeds were not dry, Bai Xiuming reached into the pile of melon seeds, grabbed a small melon from the bottom, then picked up one and put it in his mouth and started cracking it.

It was very dry and the melon seed skin was cracked into two halves in one go. The melon seeds inside were also very dry and came out intact.

After knocking his head several times, Bai Xiuming nodded and said:
“Not bad, not bad, the quality is really good.”

He was actually quite picky, but even so, he couldn't find any faults now.

Li Long smiled. This should satisfy him, right?

I use the standards of later generations to compare with the current requirements of Bai Xiuming and others. Although it cannot be said to be a dimensionality reduction attack, it is at least several levels higher. If you still fail to meet the requirements, there is no need to do it.

"Hey, very good, very good." Bai Xiuming finally put the melon seed shells into the garbage box at the door. The warehouse was very clean, and he was very satisfied - there was no dust, which was much better than he imagined.

"Then we'll check it out when you get a truck to transport the goods." Li Long said, "When will you bring the truck over? If you don't have a truck, our county transportation company has trucks for hire. Do you want me to take you there?"

"Okay." This service attitude made Bai Xiuming feel comfortable. He was a little confused, why didn't Dong Zhichao come?
Of course, it would be better if you didn’t come, otherwise how could I have this business?

Li Long drove a jeep and took Bai Xiuming to the transportation company, hired a car, and drove to the purchasing station. Li Long asked Bai Xiuming to re-inspect the goods.

Re-inspection of the goods showed that Li Long was honest and open-minded. Doing business requires both honesty and openness.

Li Long did this because he didn't want Bai Xiuming to feel uncomfortable. After all, when the two of them left, if Li Long wanted his men to do something in the warehouse, Bai Xiuming wouldn't be able to see it even if he wanted to.

Bai Xiuming said that he didn't need it, but he didn't refuse Li Long's request. Just like when Li Long sold Fritillaria to Jia Tianlong, every sack of goods had to be inspected through an iron sieve, then re-packed, weighed and loaded onto the truck.

All the melon seeds were weighed, and the total weight was 20 tons, 760 kilograms. According to the price agreed upon by Bai Xiuming and Li Long, 3.5 yuan per kilogram, the total amount was 72,660 yuan. Bai Xiuming looked after the melon seeds bag by bag, and he also checked every bag of melon seeds that was weighed and loaded onto the truck. He was very satisfied, so he paid the money very happily.

"Comrade Li," Bai Xiuming said to Li Long with a smile after paying the money, "I will transport these melon seeds I took away to our factory as soon as possible.

The quality inspection department over there will complete the inspection, and then these melon seeds will be processed, packaged, and sold. I think it won’t be long before I come to you again to purchase goods.”

"Welcome, welcome." Li Long said with a smile, "Since Manager Bai said so, I welcome you. We don't have anything good to offer you right now. When you come over next time, when the fruits and vegetables are ripe, I'll let you taste our local specialties."

"Hehe, then I can't wait any longer." Bai Xiuming responded and prepared to leave.

It was not yet lunchtime, and Li Long did not invite Bai Xiuming to eat. Instead, he packed some local specialties such as raisins into his car, telling him to take them back for his family.

Bai Xiuming was very happy. Although these things could be bought at Wucheng Railway Station, the gift was a token of thoughtfulness. He left Ma County happily, thinking that he would come back again in a few days.

The day after Bai Xiuming left, Li Long drove his jeep to the state supply and marketing cooperative. He reported the transaction with Bai Xiuming to Director Qian, who was quite satisfied.

"Director, I want to transport all the remaining melon seeds in our warehouse and bring them back for processing now."

"Aren't you worried that the people there will stop buying after they leave?" Director Qian asked Li Long.

"I think he will definitely come back." Li Long was very confident this time. "After the first batch was sold, although Dong Zhichao didn't come back, Bai Xiuming came, which shows that these flat-mouthed melon seeds are very popular.

I believe that even if Bai Xiuming doesn't come, there will definitely be others coming later. At least at the moment, only our family can do this kind of flat-mouthed melon seeds."

Director Qian admired Li Long's confidence. He thought Li Long's analysis was quite correct. The remaining 20 tons of large melon seeds in the warehouse were difficult to handle. The market for roasted nuts in northern Xinjiang was so small that it was impossible to sell them at a loss. He could make a profit by selling them to Li Long. So he had no objection to Li Long taking away the remaining melon seeds.

After all, Li Long was still an employee of the supply and marketing cooperative, and the fact that he could sell sunflower seeds to his mouth could be considered a contribution to the supply and marketing cooperative. Why not do it?

After Li Long took away the remaining less than 20 tons of melon seeds, the state supply and marketing cooperative was also very happy. A warehouse was vacated, and the melon seeds that were originally thought to remain on the books and might have been at a loss were sold. At least in the semi-annual or annual report, this data can be written more beautifully.

Li Long struck while the iron was hot and brought these melon seeds directly to the fourth team, distributing them to the families with whom he had a good relationship.

There is less than half a month left before the wheat harvest, and this may be their last chance to make money before the harvest.

Tao Daqiang and his friends happily took the melon seeds back home and started to process them by soaking them in water. Li Long drove a jeep to the Kuitun Agricultural Machinery Factory.

"We have improved this machine three times in the past two days." As soon as Li Long came over, Director Du introduced it to him enthusiastically, "The improvement mainly focuses on how to flatten the melon seeds when they enter the machine to avoid overlapping and squeezing each other, which will cause the seeds to break or be uneven when they come out.

Then there is the core material that flattens the melon seeds. This material cannot be too hard, otherwise the melon seeds will break, nor can it be too soft, otherwise the fallen melon seeds will not have enough force to flatten them, and the design will fail..."

Listening to Director Du's introduction of the machine's features and data, Li Long was quite impressed by him. Although Director Du was a manager, he was more of a technician.

It is obvious that his preference for technology is greater than his responsibility for management. Even though this melon seed flattening machine is not a profitable project for the agricultural machinery factory, Director Du still designed, manufactured and debugged it very seriously and responsibly.

Now that the product is out, Director Du himself is very happy. This is the joy of success, and he is happy to share this joy with Li Long.

"Take it back and try it. It will definitely work."

"Okay, I'll take it back then." Li Long smiled and said, "I'll call you if there's any problem. By the way, our purchasing station will be connected to the phone soon, so you don't have to transfer the call to me at all levels."

"Okay, okay, that's good." Director Du was also very happy. He felt that although Li Long was a farmer and layman and his theoretical level was greater than his practical ability, in the words of later generations, he was a master of talking.

But those ideas that came to him suddenly were very inspiring to him.

So Director Du felt that sometimes when he had an idea, he could talk to Li Long and gain a lot. (End of this chapter)