Agriculture Maniac

Chapter 30 A sudden turn of events
Yu Yang came out of the plastic greenhouse and took a walk around the village

In today's Yujia Village, the abandoned houses and a number of old houses listed as public rental housing have been removed. About half of the remaining farmers have completed the renovation of their kangs and started growing bean sprouts.

Among these farmers.

In order to save trouble, some people handed over the sales to their uncle, with the laborers going to the construction site and the female workers going to the greenhouse, thus achieving three sources of income.

In order to make more money, some people personally contact the vegetable vendors in the queue and sell the vegetables wholesale at a price of 5 yuan more per basket.

Some took out all their savings, borrowed private loans through connections, or bought second-hand medium-sized transport trucks "Bapingchai" (Dongfeng eight-ton flat-head diesel trucks), or rented second-hand Steyr semi-trailers from Quanpu and started transporting bean sprouts.

Some of them, relying on their experience and skills, started bearing V-belt and automobile repair businesses.

With the increase in income and spending power, and the influx of vegetable vendors from outside, even the village store was expanded to include five rooms.

Three snack shops.

One sells instant noodles and provides hot water.

One room is equipped with five landline phones to provide telephone service.

There is also a windbreak at the door, and many benches are placed for resting and eating.

Perhaps it won’t be long before the store will also sell clothes and bedding.

"Such a big change shows that I have done something."

Yu Yang walked and looked around, and soon arrived at the main road of the village.

That is the dirt road leading to the provincial highway.

It was evening, the workers were getting off work and the greenhouse was closed, and the villagers coming and going greeted each other.

"The boss..."

"Call me village chief!"

"Hello, village chief!"

"Hey~~"

As the village chief, Yu Yang's prestige in the village is at its peak.

Haven’t you seen that even the respected old branch secretary has lost everything?

Therefore, some people also seek advice from him.

"Village chief, my third aunt's son also has the surname Yu."

"Don't fool me. His father's surname is Xu. When Third Aunt got married, I was the one who carried the door curtain rod."

"He changed his last name yesterday to follow his mother. Do you think it is possible to let him move back to our village?"

"What? Remove the double person radical and you're no longer a human being? Then our village won't accept you."

"Village chief, have a smoke."

"Wow, I've made a lot of money recently, Softbox China."

"Please help me. I will definitely vote for you in the next election. My whole family will vote for you."

"It's no problem to transfer the household registration, but we definitely can't divide the land. There's not enough in our own village. Forget about houses. Old houses with kangs are now being fought over. Look at the old village chief's uncle and his cousin. They used to sleep on the same bed, but yesterday they fought over their grandfather's house and their legs were so broken that bones were exposed."

"Then my third aunt's son is here. He can't be left with nothing, right? At least he needs a place to live."

"How about this, pay 5000 yuan and I will level the ditch on our dirt road so that he can build two small bungalows on the roadside."

"Why do you want money?"

"It costs 10,000 yuan to get a job with a city hukou. He has no job and no skills. Coming to our village is just a way to take advantage of our resources."

"5000 is too much."

"Then there's nothing to talk about."

"No, Village Chief... If he comes, can he plant bean sprouts?"

"With two bungalows, what can't we do? We can sell gasoline, diesel, engine oil, and lubricants. It's a great business."

"Any more?"

"Your 5000 yuan consultation fee only covers this much. If you want to know more, you have to pay more."

"Then I'll ask my third aunt's son to come over?"

"Send 5000 yuan to Yu Laoliu before tonight."

"I'm going to find Lao Liu now."

Just after we finished chatting, someone else came over.

"Village head, the people selling steamed buns and steamed buns with meat in the township come to our village every day. Their stalls are just outside my courtyard wall. The fumes keep me awake every day. What should I do?"

"Are you stupid? Tear down your wall, clean up the yard, and rent out an area to them. That way, you can collect the money and won't be bothered by the stench." "That makes sense!"

Then he asked again: "What if they don't rent it?"

"Don't rent? If they don't rent, they will definitely set up a stall on the road in our village. I will fine them 100 yuan a day."

"The village chief still has a solution!"

Yu Yang solved a bunch of problems in just a few words. Although his mouth was dry, he still felt a little unsatisfied.

No wonder everyone wants to be the village chief, it turns out to be so cool!

……

The next day.

Shiliying brick kiln.

After a snowstorm, it's still the same here.

It’s just that the weather is quite cold and the snow has not melted yet, so everything is white.

Yu Yang chatted with his second brother while going into the cave and looking around.

The so-called tunnel kiln, as the name suggests, must have a tunnel.

And there are steel rails and flatbed rail cars.

Its working principle is roughly as follows:

When making bricks, shale, coal gangue and a small amount of coal powder are mixed into the clay.

After the bricks are dried, they are placed in an orderly manner on a rail car using the numerous caves on both sides of the kiln. They are sprinkled with some coal powder and then sealed.

then.

When the coal powder at the head of the rail car is ignited, the burning coal powder will ignite the coal powder in the bricks, and then the bricks in the first car will burn violently under the action of the blower.

When the burning reaches a certain degree, it means that the red bricks are ready. At this time, the rail car will move forward, allowing the second car that has been ignited to be aimed at the blower and continue to burn violently.

Next comes the third car, the fourth car... and so on.

The first carriage that has been burned enters a cooling period when the second carriage is burning; it continues to cool when the third carriage is burning; when the Nth carriage is burning, it arrives at the designated cave entrance, and the workers come in, unload the red bricks, and then load the brick blanks.

In this way, the rail car circles inside the brick kiln, burning at the position of the blower, and then discharges the smoke into the sky with the help of the chimney.

This model has a much higher output than traditional brick kilns. The disadvantage is that the rail bearings have a limited life and maintenance is quite troublesome, otherwise the furnace will not shut down for many years.

Of course, it is now history.

The only way to use the remaining value is to remove the refractory bricks and use them to lay the kang.

Otherwise, if it starts burning and encounters a heavy rain, it will be like a red-hot stone being doused with water, boom...

"Wait, second brother, if we don't use a brick kiln to make red bricks, will the foundation not collapse when it rains heavily?"

"Of course. If the stone is not heated, it will not burst no matter how much water you pour on it."

"Sure enough, as smart as I am, I found the key to the problem."

People built brick kilns to burn red bricks.

A brick kiln would be of little value if it couldn't make bricks.

But for our family, instead of making bricks, we can also grow vegetables.

For example, by taking advantage of the characteristics of farmland, the brick kiln can be packaged to make its output unexpectedly large and the profit unexpectedly high.

At that point, it becomes a 'high-value fixed asset'.

It can be transferred to Sanyuan Agricultural Company to increase paid-in capital, expand its own scale, and facilitate future business development.

You can also use it as collateral for a mortgage to get some emergency cash for your home.

As for what vegetables to grow...

Improved farmland requires sunlight to grow soybeans.

The brick kiln was pitch black and it was obviously impossible to grow bean sprouts.

And you can’t make a lot of money from soaking bean sprouts…

"Are you growing fungi? Oyster mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, or wood ear mushrooms?"

"It seems that these things are difficult to harvest, and if they are not eaten properly, they may be poisonous."

Yu Yang thought about it again and again and decided to go to the Shiliying market to take a look.

But no matter what, being able to make the brick kiln realize surplus value is a turnaround for the family.

(End of this chapter)