Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

In the office, Director Qian looked at Li Xiangqian, who was drinking tea with big gulps and sweat on his forehead, and said with a smile:

"Xiang Qian, do you have no confidence in me, or in yourself, or in the quality of the big broom that Li Long made? Since we have done it, we must have thought about it. In fact, there is no need to worry."

Compared with Li Xiangqian's excitement, Director Qian was much calmer. Of course, he took office earlier than Li Xiangqian, and the relationships in the units were almost sorted out. In addition, the words of the autonomous region leaders had long been circulated in the association and reached the county associations through unofficial channels.

Therefore, most of the task of 50,000 large brooms was handed over to Ma County, and Li Xiangqian was instructed to hand it over directly to Li Long. Director Qian was not under much pressure.

Of course, there is definitely pressure. If Li Long fails to do a good job this time and the quality of the brooms submitted by Ma County is not as good as those from other counties and cities, then I'm sorry, the number of tasks will definitely be greatly reduced next year.

The truth is so cruel.

But Director Qian did not pass the pressure on to Li Xiangqian. This kind of thing needs to be understood by one himself.

Li Xiangqian understood it, but did not pass it on to Li Long.

Li Long accidentally pulled in the Corps company because the workload was too heavy, which resulted in the quality of the first batch of brooms being directly improved to a higher level, which immediately reduced the pressure on Li Xiangqian.

No wonder he was excited.

Of course, the information fed back to Li Long at this time made him understand that he almost failed to do the job well before.

Fortunately, it can be remedied.

Now Director Qian saw Li Xiangqian rushing over excitedly to report the situation of the big broom, he wanted to laugh a little, but after thinking about it, he held it back. To be honest, he agreed that Li Xiangqian and his team took it so seriously.

Although relationships are important these days, the quality of things is equally important. If you don't have the hard power, you have to be able to get ahead if they want to push you up, right?

"Director, go and take a look. You will surely understand once you see it. These big brooms are really high-end!" Li Xiangqian drank the tea, and his originally excited mood calmed down.

But he still insisted on asking Director Qian to go and take a look at the broom and put it directly into the warehouse.

"Okay, let's go take a look." Director Qian smiled, "After you're done, come to my house for dinner. You haven't been here for a while."

After Director Qian stood up, he asked someone to call several deputy directors and the head of the purchasing department to check the broom.

Of the 50,000 yuan broom cleaning task, 30,000 yuan was given to Ma County. This was decided by Director Qian, and the rest was distributed sporadically to several other counties and cities, and Beiting City received none at all.

Director Wei was in the Beiting City Cooperative, and he had no objection. There was no one outstanding in the commune anyway, so it was just right. He was also worried that after assigning tasks, the experienced people working under him would pass on the work and then hand in tasks that would not pass the test, and he would be criticized then.

He has seniority and it would be embarrassing for him to ask the state for approval.

Some of the deputy directors disagreed with Director Qian's direct assignment of 30,000 yuan to Ma County. But this was not a task that needed to be brought to the meeting, so Director Qian had already made the decision, and they had no other choice.

Now we have to see how the Ma County Supply and Marketing Society, which was “appointed” by Director Qian, performs.

The atmosphere was similar to that of a county commune, with just a few leaders chatting and laughing, and nothing could be seen on the surface. Of course, everyone understood this situation.

The result was similar. When the chubby Li Xiangqian climbed onto the truck, untied the ropes, and handed the big brooms to the leaders, the deputy directors and section chiefs were speechless.

It wasn't as much as the praise in the county society, but basically people gave up the idea of ​​watching the fun: if all the brooms sent by Ma County were like this, what would happen if they were all 50,000?

At least the provincial agency will be praised for delivering the goods to the autonomous region. Although I don’t know the quality of the tasks in other provinces and regions, at least the quality of these three trucks can be given a thumbs up.

Director Qian also felt proud, and smiled as he asked the purchasing section chief to have the three trucks of goods unloaded and put into the warehouse. The leaders left with a smile. They were all middle-level leaders, and unlike the county commune, they still had to be harmonious on the surface, no matter how dissatisfied they were in their hearts.

The next day, when Li Long went to the supply and marketing cooperative to ask for a truck, he was quite confident.

Li Xiangqian came to work a little late. He had dinner with Director Qian last night, drank some wine, and came back a little late.

When Li Long saw him in the office, he felt that although his face was a little pale, he was in good spirits.

"Okay, two cars, right? Go find the transportation department and tell them I agree. Xiaolong, you still have to ensure the quality of the remaining big brooms. I tell you, I went to the state commune yesterday and the leader praised me a lot.

Of course, Director Qian also said that we should keep working hard in the future. As long as we can keep reaching this standard, you will definitely be the main person doing the work in the next few years."

"Don't worry, Director. If I make it later, it will definitely be of the same quality."

Li Long's advantage is that he brought together two villages with geographical resource advantages and a military company, so that he can concentrate his efforts to accomplish great things.

Moreover, he has been doing this for several years and has trained a group of "technical backbones".

So he believed that even if these 30,000 brooms were assigned to other people, they would definitely not be able to do it as well as he did. Even if they were assigned to only one person, it was not certain that the 30,000 brooms would be made by the deadline.

Li Long took the truck to Qingshui River and pulled back 2,000 large brooms. He did a spot check and found that these large brooms had indeed been improved, and the problems that Meng Hai had mentioned had basically been solved.

Although it has not reached the level of Wang Mingjun and his team overall, it has improved overall compared to last year.

That's it.

In the next few days, Li Long basically took the supply and marketing cooperative's truck to four places in rotation.

When I went to Wang Mingjun's company again that day, Zheng Xiangyang was there.

"The company commander went to the division headquarters." Zheng Xiangyang explained to Li Long, "The division imported a high-horsepower tractor from China. It's a wheeled tractor, different from our Dongfanghong 75. It's said to have high horsepower and air conditioning. The cab is warm in winter and cool in summer, very comfortable!"

Li Long was moved when he heard this, and immediately asked:

"Can your company get one of these big tractors in the future?"

"How is that possible? It is said that the high-horsepower wheeled tractor is imported. There is only one in the entire division, and it costs tens of thousands of yuan! The company took the agricultural machinery operators to visit and learn." Zheng Xiangyang waved his hands and explained:

"Now our company has a Dongfanghong 75-type tractor, which is already very good. For these thousands of acres of land, 75-type tractors are enough - of course, farm machinery operators will be a little tired, but if you want to live a good life, how can you not be tired?"

Zheng Xiangyang was not very interested in the big tractor. In his opinion, even if the tractor was transferred, it would at most be transferred to the regiment headquarters, not to the company.

Too expensive. Not to mention this imported high-horsepower tractor, even if it was a Dongfanghong 75, it would be great if each company had one. Although it was old, it would definitely work.

The Corps company has an agricultural machinery team that can hold meetings and repair machinery, and can often visit and learn at the regiment and division headquarters. If there are any problems that they cannot solve themselves, they can apply for assistance, which is better than the production team.

Li Long was naturally tempted. A high-powered wheeled tractor with air conditioning was probably imported from Deere, right? Even if it wasn't, it was similar. This was what he wanted!
Of course, right now the Dongfanghong 75 tractor that Team 4 bought for their eldest brother is enough for them, and it is impossible to replace it in a short time, but at least they have a target now.

He was thinking about going over there sometime to see where the future was headed.

When inspecting and accepting the brooms, Li Long was still very satisfied. The quality of these brooms was as good as before, and Li Long paid for them happily, even accepting the few brooms that had slight defects.

Li Long planned to put these big brooms together with some substandard big brooms collected by the Fourth Team and the Liang family, and finally send them to the Education Bureau, township primary and secondary schools and other institutions.

Giving these practical tools away is neither too conspicuous nor too ostentatious, and can make these units appreciate it - after all, this is what I do, and no one can say anything. Because he wanted to hear about the big tractor, after inspecting the big broom, Li Long asked the truck to pull the big broom back first, and the driver handed the inspection form to Li Xiangqian, who then told the warehouse manager to inspect it.

At lunch at the company headquarters, Zheng Xiangyang wanted to make it grand, but Li Long said that noodles were the best way to satisfy your hunger, so they had it.

Wang Mingjun brought his men back in the afternoon when the sun was about to set - they drove a small four-wheel tractor to the division headquarters, which was in Shicheng. In fact, Li Long could have gone directly to Shicheng to see it, but he didn't have any connections with the Corps, so they wouldn't let him see it.

It is most convenient to go through Wang Mingjun.

"Xiaolong, you also like high-horsepower tractors? Let me tell you, this is what we call a high-horsepower wheeled tractor! Our No. 28 tractor is like a half-grown boy in front of it. It's far inferior!"

Wang Mingjun was quite happy to see Li Long still there. Then when Li Long asked about the high-horsepower wheeled tractor, Wang Mingjun immediately became excited and looked a little excited:
"It's a pity that there are only two in the entire division. If we could have more, even if our regiment could have one, that would be fine!"

As an old man in the company, Wang Mingjun was also familiar with the leaders of the regiment. If the regiment could allocate a machine, he might be able to open it.

But there are only two of them in the dozen or so regimental farms of the entire Corps Division, so there is no way they can be assigned to the regiment.

Wang Mingjun felt a little sorry, and so did Li Long. He asked about the brand of the high-horsepower tractor, and it turned out to be from Deere.

These days, the Corps is quite courageous to be able to import two high-horsepower wheeled tractors from abroad.

"There is air conditioning in the cab, it's very comfortable! We went up to experience it, and it was freezing in there on a hot day!" Wang Mingjun said exaggeratedly, "It has a lot of horsepower when it's started. We tried it in the field, and it plowed the land much faster than 75. It is said that it can plow 200 to 300 acres of land a day!"

Here we call the cab of a tractor the "driving building", probably because it is relatively high.

Unfortunately, Wang Mingjun was not clear about the import channels, but fortunately, knowing that Li Long was interested, Wang Mingjun said he would help inquire about it and ask first. Li Long brought such a lucrative job to the company, so it was no problem for him to help inquire about it.

At the beginning of September, Li Long delivered the last batch of brooms to the supply and marketing cooperative, and the work was finally finished.

After a rough calculation, he collected more than 33,000 large brooms, of which more than 3,000 were kept to be given to various units.

All in all, this "big order" made about 30,000 yuan. The extra 3,000 brooms cost nearly 10,000 yuan, but the nearly 20,000 brooms collected by the Fourth Squad and the Corps were charged at 3.5 yuan, without the inspection fee, so the total was 3.5 yuan.

A net profit of more than 30,000 yuan is very good.

Every payment has been made in advance when the goods are received, so what you get now is pure profit.

Qingshuihe Village produced 10,000 large brooms, and Meng Hai himself took nearly 5,000 yuan. The money was easy to make, but it was also troublesome. Especially when he raised the standard for the second time, he had to talk to each family. Some people were unwilling, after all, the standard had been set at the beginning. Only Meng Hai had enough prestige in the village, and the purchase power was in his hands. If he really raised the standard and refused to buy, others would have no choice.

So it's actually quite troublesome. If Li Long faces those people with big brooms directly, he may not be able to ease the relationship.

So even though Meng Hai made money and Li Long made less profit, Li Long felt that this method was quite good. The agent had a good relationship with the villagers, so he didn't need to show up, which saved trouble.

When he made a certain amount of money, he thought more about how to reduce trouble.

Meng Hai was also very happy. He could make a lot of money after paying off the loan he borrowed to buy a tractor and a harvester. Although the villagers had some complaints about this big job, they actually made a lot of money. After the job was done, they didn't say anything.

After all, they have provided you with an opportunity to make money. To put it bluntly, Meng Hai was anxious when he was asked, and he also replied: "Believe it or not, if you don't take this opportunity, there are plenty of people in the next village who will do it instead!"

Just this one sentence is enough.

Nowadays, everyone is thinking about making more money, so why would anyone be picky?

Liang Wenyu didn't earn much. He only made more than 3,000 large brooms. The "inspection fee" of more than 1,500 yuan was much less than Meng Hai's, but Liang Wenyu was very satisfied.

I also made some money from cutting Sphagnum splendens, which added up to almost two thousand yuan.

It was the first time for me to do this, and I had some bumps and bruises, but overall I managed to do it in the end. There were many shortcomings in the process, and both Li Long and his father Liang Donglou gave him guidance. After finishing this work, Liang Wenyu has really grown a lot.

Li Long didn't know if what he was doing could be considered "forcing growth". At least at this time in his previous life, Liang Wenyu had not grown to this point.

Needless to say, after the last batch of big brooms were taken away, Li Jianguo couldn't wait to drive the Dongfanghong 75 tractor to plow the fields. A lot of grass had grown in the wheat fields, and other teams had already plowed them. In previous years, the wheat fields here would have been plowed by Wang Caimi. But this year, many people wanted Li Jianguo to plow the fields, and would rather wait. Because Li Jianguo wanted to get this big broom, these things have been delayed until now.

Wang Caimi only took on a small amount of plowing work. After plowing the land, he also started to make big brooms. Anyway, as long as he could make money, he would do any job. At that time, people's hands-on ability was very strong. Almost every family in the village knew how to make big brooms.

Li Long went to Wang Mingjun's company last. The account had actually been settled, and Li Long made a special trip to bring things to thank Wang Mingjun and his team, and also to make contact and finalize the next year's affairs.

Wang Mingjun and Zheng Xiangyang were both there, and they were very happy to see Li Long coming. They were also very happy to see that Li Long bought several baskets of apples, peaches and other fruits, and brought several boxes of Baiyang Daqu and other bottled wines.

"Xiaolong, the first few times you came, we were all busy, so we only asked you to treat us to some noodles. Now that we have some free time, we must make it up to you at noon."

"Lao Wang was itching to get his hands dirty yesterday, so he went to the sand pit in the north and shot two yellow sheep. Now that you're here, let's eat some game!"

Li Long didn't hesitate. After handing the things to Lao Chen, he started chatting with Wang Mingjun and Zheng Xiangyang.

"I've inquired about the imported high-horsepower wheeled tractor you asked about. Our division specially asked someone to purchase it, and that company only wanted foreign exchange. Foreign exchange is not easy to get right now..." Wang Mingjun shook his head and said, "And it's not cheap, 50,000 US dollars. It would be fine if it was the official price, but he can't get it at the official price.

If you want to exchange it through private channels, I heard that the ratio is at least 1:7 or 1:8, which means 300,000 or 400,000 yuan. It's too damn expensive!"

Although he was mentally prepared, Li Long was still a little surprised by such a high price.

After calculating my own financial situation, I could barely afford to buy such a tractor.

For now, it’s not worth it.

I think if I had kept that box of foreign currency, it might have been enough.

But such an opportunity is hard to come by, and there is no way to tell where the thing came from. I can only say that I am not making money fast enough.

Many of the things left in the cellar are actually quite valuable, but it is not worth selling them now.

Li Long thought about it and decided to write down the information first and talk about it later. At present, the land of the fourth team is not enough. One-third of all the land has not been developed, and the high-horsepower wheeled tractor is a bit overkill.

It will only be useful when at least half of the land is reclaimed. Of course, we also have to wait until cotton planting reaches a large scale.

After all, only when cotton is planted in large areas and the price of cotton fluctuates can people's interest be aroused, and then farmers will know that it is no problem to grow cotton in saline-alkali land.

He then turned the subject to cotton growing.

"Cotton, that thing, is much more troublesome to grow than wheat." Wang Mingjun urged Li Long to eat quickly and said, "The price is also unstable. When the price is bad, it's 50 or 60 cents per kilogram, and when the price is good, it's 90 cents or 1 yuan per kilogram. Growing this thing is like gambling, and the yield is not very good. If we can get more than 100 kilograms per mu of land, it's pretty good."

Although Wang Mingjun said so, no matter how you calculate it, it is more profitable than growing crops.

Do you want to give it a try?
PS: Two things. First, I wish you all a happy holiday and good health. Second, it is the end of the month, and the second lottery will be held in the evening. This time the prizes include dried fruits and honey. The local small red apricots have not come down yet. I asked around and found that the small white apricots in southern Xinjiang weigh two kilograms, including the box, which means the gross weight is two kilograms, and the actual fruit is more than one kilogram, which costs ninety-eight yuan... Let's wait. (End of this chapter)