In 1959, what's wrong with me pedaling a tricycle?

After a good night's sleep, Wang Xingguo ate breakfast the next day and then went back to his room to work on things in the space.

The second crop of corn is now ripe, and Wang Xingguo has started harvesting it and drying the corn cobs.

As for corn stalks, they are good fuel for cooking pig feed, so he spread them out to dry and then piled them up.

Within this space, a single thought can accomplish many things that are impossible in reality, making farming and raising animals extremely easy.

After he finished harvesting the corn, he turned over the soil again, preparing to dry it for a few days before planting more corn.

Actually, the corn yield in the space is not very high, which is due to the current varieties and the lack of fertilizer.

If you raise a lot of pigs, the pig manure, chicken manure, and various straws can be mixed and fermented to make compost, which could probably increase crop yields significantly.

The crop yields of that era were incomparable to those of later generations, since high yields were achieved through the use of superior seeds and chemical fertilizers.

These days, the yield of corn per mu (a Chinese unit of area, approximately 0.165 acres) is only about 200 jin (a Chinese unit of weight, approximately 100 catties). This is the most realistic figure. Those figures inflated by exaggeration are one of the root causes of food shortages and hunger among farmers.

However, with this corn, not only can we supplement the family's food shortage, but we can also have a certain reserve of concentrated feed for feeding chickens and pigs.

He continued to expand the planting area. His entire space was about 20 mu. He planted 2 mu of wheat, mainly because there were not enough seeds. He planted 5 mu of corn, 0.5 mu of soybeans, 0.5 mu of peanuts, 0.2 mu of sunflowers, 0.5 mu of potatoes, 1 mu of sweet potatoes, and only 0.2 mu of vegetables and fruits.

In reality, it didn't even reach half the land area, so there weren't that many seeds. This scale was only achieved after the second crop was planted.

There are now enough seeds to plant; we definitely need to plant more wheat and corn, as these two crops will become very valuable next year.

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The same goes for meat. After there is no pork supply in the second half of next year, as long as there is meat, whether it is chicken, duck, goose, beef, mutton, pork, or various kinds of fish, it can be sold at sky-high prices.

Don't think it's exploiting ordinary people. Ordinary people can't afford meat. Only with the meat coupons issued each month can they buy meat to take home and eat.

Those privately traded, exorbitantly priced meats are unaffordable for ordinary people. Even those with money would use them to make up for food shortages by buying expensive grains, rather than spending exorbitant prices on meat.

Starting this year, ordinary people in rural areas around Beijing will only eat 5 to 7 jin (2.5 to 3.5 catties) of meat per year, concentrated during the Spring Festival and when the production team distributes meat.

1960年全年吃肉平均量是2到3斤，1961年则是2.8到3.6斤。

This is the situation in Beijing. Some areas in other provinces are richer than Beijing, while others are even poorer.

Of course, this data only includes beef, mutton, and pork, and does not include poultry, aquatic products, and other meats.

So people living by the sea still eat fish, they just don't have pork to supplement their diet with oil.

When we arrived at Uncle Niu's place, the tricycle was already parked in the yard.

It's about 70% new. The back seat has a folding canvas canopy. You just need to get a piece of canvas and modify it yourself to cover the front as well, so it won't be exposed to the sun and rain.

The price is also reasonable, only 140 yuan, which is not expensive for a 70% new item.

It's a bit unlucky, though. Currently, tricycles can no longer be registered under an individual's name. This means that if you want to join a cooperative, you have to hand over your tricycle to the cooperative.

By selling his tricycle, he was essentially selling his job to Wang Xingguo, earning a monthly salary of 32.5 yuan.

The person selling the car was planning to buy a factory job after selling it.

Upon learning of this, Wang Xingguo was not upset; he was prepared to seek help from the director of the subdistrict office to resolve the matter.

Taking a fixed salary is fine, and handing over a certain amount of income each day is also fine, but don't assign yourself any specific work tasks, so that he has enough freedom to do his own things.

The cooperative's cadres cannot grant this right, but since the cooperative is managed by the subdistrict office, the subdistrict office director can resolve this issue.

The director of Jiaodaokou Subdistrict Office is surnamed Zhao. He should be around 45 or 46 years old this year. Wang Xingguo is very familiar with him, after all, he has helped him get fish and eggs several times.

So he told the car seller to wait outside while he carried two bottles of wine, a carton of cigarettes, a bag of brown sugar weighing one pound, and two carp weighing over one pound each, and went into the neighborhood office courtyard.

When Director Zhao saw Wang Xingguo carrying these things, his face darkened, and he said, "You brat, what do you want me to do this time?"

Wang Xingguo said with a grin, "Director Zhao, what could I possibly want? I just wanted to visit you, an elder."

Director Zhao laughed and cursed, "Get lost, don't give me that crap. Do you think I don't know you? You're a coward who won't act until he sees the benefit. Spit it out, I need to hear what's going on, otherwise I'm afraid I can't handle this."

Since they were all old acquaintances, Wang Xingguo didn't waste any words and immediately got straight to the point, explaining his purpose and the matter he needed Director Zhao's help with.

Director Zhao rolled his eyes at Wang Xingguo and said, "Are you stupid? If you want this kind of job, why don't you just come to me directly? Why bother going to someone else to buy a used car?"

Wang Xingguo explained with a frustrated look, "When I first inquired, they said I could join the cooperative with my own car, so they wouldn't have to worry about my get off work hours. Who would have thought that after agreeing to buy a car, the cooperative suddenly wants to be restructured into a state-owned enterprise? I'm in a dilemma, and I don't know what to do. I can only come here to beg you to lend a hand and help my nephew out..."

Director Zhao was so angry that he poked Wang Xingguo's forehead several times with his finger, but Wang Xingguo neither dodged nor got angry.

For Director Zhao to treat me this way shows he truly considers me a junior, which isn't a bad thing.

Director Zhao sighed and said, "Ugh, you little rascal, you're really infuriating! Alright, put your things aside and go register. I'll talk to them, and from now on you'll hand over fifty yuan a month. I won't give you a fixed job, but I'll put you on a regular work assignment at the street office. You can do whatever you want with it. But I have to warn you, you absolutely mustn't get caught by the police station, or I'll lose all face."

Wang Xingguo grinned and said, "No way, you're so young, how can you talk about being old? Hehe, thank you, Director. I will definitely work hard to support my family. If you need anything, just tell me, and I will definitely take care of it for you."

"Go away, get out of here! You infuriating thing, I can't even be bothered to talk to you anymore."

"Okay, I'm off now. Goodbye, Director. Thanks!"

Wang Xingguo knew very well that giving gifts wouldn't achieve the same effect, partly because he was quite familiar with Director Zhao!

Another aspect is that he himself is highly capable!

That's right, Wang Xingguo knew he could procure some ingredients, which was what others considered a skill.

We're all just ordinary people. Even though the director of the neighborhood office is in charge of a whole area, he still needs some nutritional supplements!

Should we give this to our superiors? Or to our in-laws? Do our elderly relatives or children need some nourishing supplements?

Even the landlords didn't have any surplus grain, and the director's family was also very short of it!