Time flies, the sun and the moon fly by, and it will soon enter the winter harvest season
The potatoes planted by the villagers in Gaojia Village after the summer harvest have finally reached the harvest season. Every household is busy harvesting potatoes. With this crop of potatoes, the life of the villagers has been relieved.
There was no rush to harvest potatoes, so the base area did not organize a mutual aid group to help. It just did not organize militia training and everyone collected potatoes at home;
Chu Xiong took a few people and went straight to Gao DaShuan's house. He had helped Gao DaShuan's house build their house before and they were familiar with each other.
The main reason why I chose Gao Da Shuan's family is because their family has four generations living under one roof, with more people eating and fewer people working. If their family can live well, other families will not be far behind.
When Chu Xiong and others arrived, their whole family went to the fields to collect potatoes, leaving only the old lady at home to look after the house. Even the dog and Xiao Hua went to the fields to help;
Chu Xiong said hello to the old man, and then went to the field. When he arrived at the field, he happened to see them digging potatoes, and the dog and Xiaohua were happily picking potatoes.
"Auntie, Brother Gao, we're harvesting the crops!"
Gao Dashuan and his family saw that this was not a comrade from the Eighth Route Army who was helping them build a house. The family happily said hello, rural people are harvesting crops and they are not so particular.
Chu Xiong and others started to help harvest the crops. Gao Da Shuan Qian gave in for a few words and stopped being polite. Now the common people in the base area and the Eighth Route Army are one family, and they don't get too familiar with each other.
"Brother, how is the harvest this year?"
Chu Xiong did some household chores while working. He really didn't know what a good harvest would be from this acre of land.
What he knew was that the best varieties were selected in later generations. Generally, the yield per mu is 3,000 to 5,000 kilograms, and the particularly high-yielding ones can reach 8,000 kilograms. Today's agricultural conditions are definitely unreachable.
"Comrade Chen, it's okay. I estimate that this acre of land will cost more than ten dan, but it's too much and I'm afraid I won't be able to hold it!"
Chu Xiong didn't use his real name last time, but used Chen Jiu's name, so Gao Dashuan still called him Comrade Chen. Chu Xiong's name was too loud in the base area.
Gao Dashuan's words reminded Chu Xiong that potatoes have a large yield, but they are not conducive to storage and are easy to sprout. Once they sprout, they cannot be eaten because they are poisonous!
The traditional storage method is cellaring, which prevents potatoes from sprouting by blocking oxygen to achieve long-term storage;
But the problem now is that there are too many potatoes in the base area. If we calculate it as ten dan per acre of land, Gaoda Shuan's family has 6 acres of land, which is 60 dan, or more than 6,000 kilograms. How big of a kiln do we have to dig?
What about the entire base area? How many pounds does it weigh!
If the storage is not good, this year's hard work will be in vain. It seems that Gao Dashuan's concern is very necessary.
It's even more impossible to sell it. Every household in the entire base area can't eat it. Who will it be sold to?
The independent camp couldn't accept so much, so he started to think about how to deal with it for future generations. He suddenly remembered a dish that future generations would like to eat - pork stewed with vermicelli!
"Yes, it can be made into vermicelli. This technique is not difficult and is suitable for large-scale production. Or it can be directly made into potato flour. It has a high starch content and can fill the stomach..."
Chu Xiong finally thought of a way and decided to do just that. A small part would be stored in a cellar and most of it would be made into vermicelli. A vermicelli factory could be established in the base area for large-scale production!
Thinking of this, Chu Xiong felt relieved and began to comfort Gao Dachuan:
"Brother, you don't have to worry about storing these potatoes. You can store some of them in the kiln and eat them in the winter, and the rest can be made into vermicelli or sold to the Eighth Route Army!"
"Comrade Chen, to make vermicelli, you have to use a stone mill, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive. It's too troublesome, the output is low, and it's not cost-effective!"
Gao Dashuan's words reminded him that the history of using potatoes to make vermicelli can be traced back to the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. However, the output was not high until the 1980s. The main reason was that there was no crusher and they relied on stone mills. Family workshops produced production with low production capacity. .
The potatoes in the base area this time amounted to more than a few million kilograms. How long would it take to grind such a large quantity with a stone grinder?
It is necessary to introduce a crusher. The technological content of crushers is not high. This kind of machine has appeared abroad for a long time. It is just that ordinary families cannot afford it, but machines that can be bought in the base area. This kind of civilian machine, the devil The seal is not strict and can be purchased through merchants in big cities. With the crusher, mass production of vermicelli is no longer a problem...
Chu Xiong no longer has the intention to work in Gaojiacun. He has harvested millions of kilograms of potatoes, so he should solve the machine problem.
"Brother Gao, you are busy, I will go find a crusher for you first!"
After Chu Xiong said goodbye to Gao Dashuan, he returned to Liuzhen and found Yang Kunpeng, the largest comprador businessman in Liuzhen, and asked him to discuss jointly opening a vermicelli factory or helping him buy a crusher in Shencheng;
Originally, Yang Kunpeng just wanted to make a profit, but he changed his mind after listening to Chu Xiong's lies. This crusher can be bought in Taiyuan City. There is no need to go to Shanghai. There are more than millions of kilograms of potatoes in Liu Town. The profit from making vermicelli is indeed very high, it is a long-term business, and the Eighth Route Army promised to pay for it, and the Eighth Route Army will buy the potato flour and vermicelli produced at the market price.
"Battle Commander Chu, I am responsible for purchasing the crusher. I choose the second option, to jointly set up a vermicelli factory with the Eighth Route Army. Do you think about this equity and profit distribution?"
Businessmen, in business, the distribution of interests must come first. This Chu Xiong also understands that only by allowing them to make money can this matter last long.
In the end, after friendly negotiations between the two parties, the equity was determined to be 60% for the independent operation and 40% for Yang Kunpeng. The investment was also in the same proportion. The independent operation would hold the controlling stake, with Gao Wancheng as the chairman and Yang Kunpeng as the general manager.
Just go ahead and finalize the cooperation plan. After the two parties jointly invested 50,000 silver dollars to establish the Liuzhen Vermicelli Factory, Liu Kunpeng mobilized his connections to Taiyuan City to purchase a crusher. As long as the machine is in place, the Vermicelli Factory can be launched.
It’s really easy to do things if you have money. In less than half a month, ten crushers produced by Goshawk Country were shipped in, and the potatoes in Liu Town were basically harvested.
At a time when ordinary people are worried about thousands or tens of thousands of pounds of potatoes at home, good news comes from Liuzhen. The newly established Liuzhen Vermicelli Factory purchases potatoes in large quantities, and the price is not low!
The common people sent the newly harvested potatoes to the town and sold them to the vermicelli factory. The vermicelli factory officially started production, which not only solved the problem of potato storage, but also solved the employment of dozens of people, and increased the independent revenue by a large amount of reserves. Food is a good thing.
Gao Dashuan's family had a bumper potato harvest this year. They harvested more than 70 dans of potatoes from 6 acres of land and piled them into a mountain. In order to prevent them from sprouting, he decided to keep 20 dans in his cellar for a year's rations. The rest were all Sell it to the noodle factory, get the money and paint the house properly, and your life will be prosperous!
Chuxiong is also happy. The problem of potato storage in the base area has been solved. In the future, people will not have to worry about increasing production or income. With vermicelli, they will be able to stew pork vermicelli freely in the future.
When the vermicelli factory produced the first batch of vermicelli, Chu Xiong couldn't wait to take back a large handful, cooked it himself, and showed off to Shitou:
"Shitou, I'll treat you to pork stewed vermicelli tonight, that's enough!"
