Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Li Long pulled the melon seed flattener back to the county. He did not unload the machine after entering the yard. The next morning, after breakfast, he drove the jeep to Team 4.

The jeep first drove to the eldest brother's yard, but the eldest brother was not there.

"Your elder brother has gone to open up wasteland for the captain's family." Liang Yuemei was packing up a wooden shovel and a wooden fork - the wheat was about to be harvested and the wooden fork was used to pick up bundles before threshing the wheat and to pick up wheat straw after threshing; the wooden shovel was used for winnowing.

"Reclaiming wasteland for the captain's family?" Li Long was stunned for a moment and asked, "The captain's family is also going to be reclaimed?"

"Yes, it's east of the Yangzi Canal, next to the East Big Ditch. The team leader came here yesterday. Not only did he want to reclaim the wasteland, he also asked you, my eldest brother, to see if he could plow a canal. That is, to extend the team's canal to the wasteland in the east so that it will be easier to irrigate the land."

Yangziqu is the name of a piece of land east of the fourth team. There is a model farm canal there. The canal was built very flat at the beginning and used as a model. The general name of the cultivated land is Yangziqu.

Hey, this Xu Chengjun has already started now.

Xu Chengjun's family later became a wealthy family in the team, but he was certainly not a village bully. He did not do things that would anger the heavens and the people, such as occupying other people's land or embezzling other people's subsidies.

As the production team leader, he had many opportunities to make his family and family rich.

To give the simplest example, the state gave the team a drip irrigation demonstration project. When the project was won, he was the only one who knew about it when the township notified him.

At this time, he told his family and decided to build a drip irrigation tape factory in advance.

The total cultivated land of the four teams was more than 12,000 mu at its peak, and the basic farmland demonstration area reported to the township was 7,000 mu. The cost of transforming these 7,000 mu was more than 10 million yuan, nearly 20 million yuan.

Among them, the purchase of various types of drip irrigation tapes alone costs several million. Moreover, drip irrigation tapes cannot be used all the time, and new ones must be used every year - of course, old ones can be exchanged for new ones, but it is not a one-to-one exchange.

Drip irrigation tape is not a high-tech thing. It can be produced with a machine and plastic raw materials.

This project itself is carried out within the team, and the production team leader has a certain say in purchasing matters - the construction party is unlikely to go far away. In the first year, as long as the price is lowered and the profit is not too much, the construction party will definitely purchase drip irrigation tape from the local area.

Starting from the second year, the team members had to buy drip irrigation tapes every year when they farmed the land.

Think about it, if someone in the team builds a factory, then most of the purchases must be made from the team, right?

The cost of drip irrigation tape for this acre of land is between 80 and 100 yuan, and the entire village spends nearly one million yuan on procurement.

This drip irrigation tape factory not only supplies one village, but in the beginning, it supplied a brigade to half a township!
At the beginning, not many people had this awareness. By the time other drip irrigation tape factories were built, the Xu family had already eaten their first bite of fat meat.

This is just one of them.

Another thing is, in the beginning, when the state subsidized some projects, when the production team leader went to the township for a meeting, the township would notify him. Then after he came back, the team leader only needed to delay the notification on the loudspeaker for a few days to let his family know first. Because of that delay, some projects would not be available to others.

For example, subsidies for high-quality cattle and sheep, subsidies for medicinal herb planting, etc.

The autonomous region later printed a "clear manual" for various subsidies, which clearly stated the subsidies that are available all year round. However, once such a manual is distributed to the village party secretary level, whether it will continue to be distributed depends on how the village committee operates. Some will be distributed, while others will be "forgotten".

Of course, returning to the original place, there is still the need to reclaim the land.

In 2000, the price of cotton suddenly skyrocketed one year, and the cost of contracted land increased the following year. The team started a craze for reclaiming wasteland because cotton can grow in saline-alkali land.

To be specific, someone wanted to contract and reclaim a piece of land, but he didn't have the money at the moment, so he went to ask the team leader whether he could reclaim the land first. The team leader said he would study it - and then there was no further news.

Within two days, the tractor started moving and his relatives started to reclaim the land. You went to ask them, and they said that someone else had already paid the money and signed a contract with the team. What can you do?

So Captain Xu's family was very rich later on. Where did the money come from? Isn't it all from this?

Of course, they were basically just taking advantage of the policies. Although the people in the team were envious and jealous, most of them didn't say anything.

After all, the situation is there. They did not take up more low-income security quotas, and they still received the same subsidies, and they also received many benefits from the township to the team.

Sometimes subsidies are given to people of high moral character or in need - for example, if the state wants to build high-voltage power towers or bury underground culverts, which pass through farmland, subsidies are given to farmers.

He only needs to give the construction party a hint, and the recipient of the subsidy will be different. In this case, the team leader would directly give the subsidy to the five-guarantee households or the elderly residents or residents in need in the team. No one can say anything about this.

Also, whenever there was a funeral in the team, he would directly shout through the loudspeaker to ask the young and strong laborers to help, and he would do it himself, even on windy and snowy days, and that's how cohesion was built up.

So Li Long actually admires Xu Chengjun very much - he is capable, can make money, and has a good reputation.

"I've got a melon seed crusher," Li Long said. "We don't have that kind of crusher at home now. I'll go to Daqiang's house and try it out."

"To press the melon seeds?" Liang Yuemei was curious, "Without pressing them with your hands?"

"No, use a tractor belt."

At that time, civilian electricity was still unstable and electric motors were not widely used, so the melon seed flattening machine designed by Director Du was driven by a small four-wheel drive - in fact, it was driven by a diesel engine.

Li Qingxia was very interested in the melon seed flattening machine that Li Long mentioned. He was originally working on vegetables in the vegetable garden, but after hearing what Li Long said, he simply came out of the vegetable garden, got in the jeep and followed Li Long to Tao Daqiang's house.

When the jeep arrived at Tao Daqiang's house, Tao Dayong was driving a small four-wheel tractor into Daqiang's yard.

Li Long's jeep followed the tractor into the yard.

When Tao Dayong got off the tractor, Li Long and Li Qingxia had just got off the jeep. When Tao Dayong saw Li Long, he felt a little embarrassed.

Tao Jianshe and Tao Daqiang were both in the yard, cracking melon seeds while their children sat nearby playing. They saw Li Long and Li Qingxia coming over and stood up to greet them.

"I borrowed Daqiang's tractor to go to our wheat field and pulled the roller to press it down." Tao Dayong explained to Li Long.

Li Long wanted to laugh. Tao Dayong was Tao Daqiang's brother, so he didn't need to report to Li Long or explain to him when he used Tao Daqiang's tractor. What did this mean? It meant that he had a high reputation in the eyes of Tao Dayong and his people.

Actually, it's useless.

Li Long smiled and asked:
"Is the field at your place ready?"

"Okay, okay." Tao Dayong responded quickly with a smile.

After marrying Ma Chunhong, Tao Dayong moved directly to the wheat field of the Ma family. Normally, he should be in the same wheat field with his father and brother, but Tao Dayong had a softer temper in the past few years and listened to Ma Chunhong more. After the family was divided, he partnered with his father-in-law.

In the past two years, Tao Dayong has recovered and regained his position as a husband, but he cannot just change threshing grounds. He just wants to be in the same threshing ground with his father and others, but he needs the consent of other people in the ground.

"Daqiang, I took a machine and used your tractor to do an experiment." Li Long didn't say much to Tao Dayong. He greeted him politely and then got down to business with Tao Daqiang.

"What machine?" Li Long asked. Tao Daqiang naturally had nothing to say. He went over to unload the bucket of the tractor, took a belt from the big wheel and kept it for backup, and then followed Li Long to move things.

"It's a machine for flattening melon seeds." Li Long explained, "Put the softened melon seeds in, turn on the machine and it will flatten them directly. The rest is to dry them in the sun."

"Is it so good?" Tao Daqiang asked in surprise, "Where is this machine made?"

"I asked someone to design and process it," Li Long said. "Let's try it first and see if it works."

He placed the machine in front of the small four-wheeler and fixed it in place. He padded the platform underneath with a few bricks, connected the pulley, and Tao Daqiang took the crank and prepared to start the machine.

The Tao family members were all very surprised, including Tao Dayong who was about to leave, but stopped and followed to help.

He was very envious that Li Long had no part in the job of flattening melon seeds, but he also knew that these jobs were given to those families who were close to the Li family.

He could only blame himself for not being ambitious enough and being so short-sighted that he went to share the things that Daqiang had brought back when Li Long and Daqiang were partners.

But it is not too late now. Because of the melon-growing business in the past two years, the relationship with the Li family has improved a lot. Tao Dayong believes that with his younger brother, if he works hard, he will definitely be able to get on board the Li family in the future.

So he worked very hard during the experiment and took the initiative to move the buckets of soaked melon seeds over. Then he did whatever Li Long asked him to do.

Seeing that the machine had been fixed, Li Long asked Tao Daqiang to start the machine. Seeing that the machine was running smoothly, he began to add soaked melon seeds into the hopper.

Li Qingxia held a bag open at the outlet, waiting to see how the melon seeds would turn out. Tao Jianshe stood beside him, looking a little nervous.

Tao Dayong was waiting beside Li Long with a bowl of pumpkin seeds. Yang Pingping was the calmest. With so many cars in the house, the rumble of the machines was quite loud. She was afraid of scaring the child, so she took the baby to the innermost part of the yard.

When starting the machine for the first time, Li Long was worried that feeding too much material would cause the melon seeds to be unevenly pressed, so he scooped a spoonful of melon seeds from the basin brought by Tao Dayong and only poured in half.

You can hear the sound of the machine suddenly become a little louder, the sound of the small four-wheel turning becomes deeper and more powerful, and then melon seeds begin to fall out of the discharge port sparsely.

Li Qingxia reached out and took a few to look at, then threw them into the bag after carefully examining them. He then took a handful of the ones that had just fallen, and after examining them, he smiled:

"Hey, good, it's all flattened!"

Li Long did not continue to add ingredients. He also went over and grabbed a handful of pressed melon seeds from the bag to take a look.

Sure enough, this half bucket of melon seeds were all flattened and still a little hot to the touch.

It started off well, so I started experimenting with increasing the feed, from half a scoop just now to one scoop now, and then to two scoops.

After the experiment, it was found that if the material is added to the feed port continuously by two scoops at a time and the speed is not too fast, the pressed melon seeds will be flat.

If you add too much at a time, or add too much at once, more than five kilograms, then some unflattened seeds and some broken seeds will fall out of the discharge port.

"Hey, at this rate, won't it be possible to flatten two sacks in an hour?" Li Qingxia sighed as he picked up the melon seeds. "It won't be a problem to flatten ten sacks a day."

Tao Jianshe was waiting on the side with a new bag and soon changed hands.

Although his words are a bit exaggerated, they are not impossible to achieve.

If the machine works at this speed, it will be much faster than manual labor. With such a machine, if there is still work to press melon seeds in the future, the Li family will not need to hire people at all. Two machines and two people will be enough.

"This machine is customized. Daqiang, you can use it first." Li Long said, "Anyway, there are only so many melon seeds now. If you find any problems when using it, please tell me and I will ask the factory to improve it."

"Okay, okay." Tao Daqiang said with a smile, Brother Long is still nice to him.

There are few men who don't like machinery. From Tao Jianshe to Li Qingxia and then to Tao Dayong, everyone tried their hand at it and only stopped when they had crushed all the melon seeds that the Tao family had soaked.

Overall, the effect was good, and Li Long was relieved. If Bai Xiuming needed more melon seeds when the seeds were harvested in the fall, he could buy them from the team to make them.

At that time, the prices of the flattened and non-flattened melon seeds purchased were different.

He drove a jeep and took his father Li Qingxia back to his eldest brother's yard. At this time, his mother Du Chunfang also came back from the front yard. She was busy with the vegetable garden in the front yard just now, and Li Long didn't hear it when he came over.

Seeing the father and son coming back together, she smiled and asked Li Long how Mingming and Haohao were doing, and the situation at home. Now that life at home was good, she was more concerned about the growth of the younger generation. Li Juan and Li Qiang were watching from the side. Although Mingming and Haohao were close, they couldn't see them often, so they missed them a lot.

Li Long sat in the yard and chatted with his parents about family matters. Liang Yuemei went to cook, and Du Chunfang took the initiative to light the fire.

The rumbling sound of the track tractor came from far away, and Li Long could tell that it was his elder brother who had returned.

The tractor passed the door and drove to the front yard. Li Long stood up and walked to the front yard. When he entered the yard, he saw his elder brother turn off the engine and then get off the tractor. Plowing the land is dusty, especially on the saline-alkali land, where there is less vegetation and more dust.

Although the track tractor had a cab, when Li Jianguo got off, there were still many gray spots on his face, head and body.

He wiped the dust off his body and face with a towel while greeting Li Long:

"When did Xiaolong come here? Is everything okay in the county?"

"Okay. I got a machine to flatten and crack melon seeds. I just went to Daqiang's house with my dad to try it out."

"A machine for flattening melon seeds?" Li Jianguo asked curiously, "How is it? Is it easy to use?"

"It's very useful. One machine can do the work of two or three families in a day." Li Long said, "It can flatten more than ten sacks a day."

"Hey, that's not equivalent to two or three families." Li Jianguo was even more surprised. The efficiency was really not low!

Li Long smiled and said, this is the advantage of mechanization.

At present, the country is still dominated by intensive labor development, but in the northern Xinjiang area, the power of mechanization has begun to emerge. What Li Long wants is to gradually achieve his goals through mechanized development.

This is a dimensionality reduction attack.

At this time, the Tao family was still studying the melon seed flattening machine in the yard. After the Li family left, Tao Dayong was no longer so restrained. He studied the machine and said as he looked at it:

"After the melons are harvested, we will get two such machines. We will place them in someone's field, squeeze out the melon seeds, and pour them directly into the field, flatten them, and dry them in the sun. Isn't that right? Alas, it will be hard to make money from this in the future."

What Tao Dayong said makes sense.

But Tao Daqiang shook his head:

"If we get a machine, we can collect the melon seeds and flatten them, and sell them at a higher price. I heard from Brother Long that last year the supply and marketing cooperatives charged two yuan per kilogram for melon seeds that were not flattened in other places. We sold them for three yuan and fifty cents last year. Why? It's because our melon seeds are flattened.

If you want to make money, you can get a machine to collect the melon seeds and press them, and then sell them flat to make money - but this year there are so many melon seeds planted, the price will definitely be lower, and it is still unclear whether you can make money. I say you should just prepare to harvest the wheat first."

Tao Dayong made a lot of money from growing melons last year, but he used the money to buy a lot of things for his family, including a TV, a bicycle, a sewing machine, etc. He also spent a lot of money on improving his life. Now he doesn't have enough money to buy a tractor.

At this time, he became more courageous. Although he knew that his brother's family was rich, he did not borrow money from them. In fact, he also wanted to buy a small four-wheeled vehicle and a harvester, and then go to other villages to harvest wheat and make money.

His wife Ma Chunhong has told him several times to talk to his younger brother Tao Daqiang.

After all, Tao Daqiang had helped his brother-in-law Yang Yong get a tractor and a harvester. It would be unreasonable for him not to help his brother.

Tao Dayong refused to say anything. He refuted Ma Chunhong, saying that when Yang Pingping was in confinement, her mother came to help her for a month. After she was out of confinement, Yang Pingping went to live with her mother in the third team for a while. At that time, Ma Chunhong didn't even show up!
Tao Dayong also wanted his wife to help look after his brother's wife and ease the relationship between the two sides, but Ma Chunhong thought it was unlucky and refused to go.

You didn't help others when they were in trouble, so now you ask for help, can you open your mouth?
Tao Dayong was envious, but he never asked for money. This year, he took out 20 mu of land and planted sunflowers according to the Li family's instructions. So far, the growth is good. Tao Dayong's intention is to buy a small four-wheeler after the sunflowers are harvested and sold.

He actually had another idea. With a small four-wheeled vehicle, he would go to the sand pits in the north or the uninhabited areas in the west to hunt yellow sheep in winter. Even if he only hunted one a day, he could still make a lot of money. The winter skin of a yellow sheep costs at least 30 yuan for a broken skin and 50 yuan for a whole skin. He could get a gun, and when he hunted, he would eat the meat himself and sell the skin to the purchasing station - he could ask Daqiang to help him, and in one winter, he might be able to earn enough to buy a harvester.

At present, the production teams have more and more land, and there are many people growing grain in the county. Although there are also many harvesters, as far as Tao Dayong is concerned, it is still easy to find a job harvesting wheat.

After all, not every team can be like Team 4, which has three opportunities to make money a year. In terms of financial resources, they are much richer than other teams.

Tao Daqiang was not aware that his elder brother had become determined to improve himself after being stimulated. He was now thinking about using this machine to quickly finish the work of beating the melon seeds, and then taking good care of the tractor and harvester, adding butter to them, and then preparing to harvest the wheat.

Whether you can make big money in a year depends on this time.

As Li Long expected, Bai Xiuming came back ten days later to collect the remaining 19 tons of melon seeds. Knowing that there were only so many at the moment, and that he would have to wait until the next melon season if he wanted more, Bai Xiuming felt a little regretful.

"To be honest, our goods are very popular after being fried, packaged and sold!" Bai Xiuming said to Li Long, "I mean we should maintain a long-term cooperative relationship. In the fall, you must leave your goods to me."

"Okay." Li Long said with a smile, "Happy cooperation."

"It's a pleasure working with you!" Bai Xiuming smiled.

He laughed, and Dong Zhichao couldn't laugh anymore.

Li Long didn't care that there were few goods. After the salesperson at their roasted nuts factory took the credit, the upper management of the roasted nuts factory naturally didn't care much.

Ye Lanlan actually knew something, but she was insignificant and her words had no influence, so they couldn't really make any difference.

When Bai Xiuming's food company's products suddenly occupied the market, the roasted nuts factory became anxious. After market research, they realized that they had missed such a big opportunity!
Dong Zhichao was asked to go to northern Xinjiang again to find this kind of melon seeds. He was very miserable at that time.

Bow down to a young boy?
He is unwilling to accept this. (End of this chapter)