Children look at the Chinese New Year, adults look at the fields!
Happy days always pass quickly, and half a month has passed in the blink of an eye!
During the entire Chinese New Year period, the lives of the people in Babaoliang United Village were enviable.
Because the village had a bumper harvest of food last year and the side business was booming, every household received a large amount of cash dividends.
As long as there are three or four people in the family, the income of the family should not be less than 1,000 yuan.
In this day and age, this is definitely a huge sum of money, especially in rural areas!
If this person has money and there is a festival, he will naturally reward his wife, children and children at home.
In addition, more than 400 large pigs were killed in the village this year, and each person received nearly 30 kilograms of meat, as well as chicken. All the guys can do is make awesome food!
Therefore, during the entire New Year period, all the production teams in Babaoliang United Village can smell the smell of cooking meat and stew everywhere, which makes people from other villages who come to visit relatives and friends envious.
Of course, the happiest people are the children.
Because you can eat openly during the Chinese New Year, you won’t get scolded by adults, and no one will stop you.
Nowadays, supplies are scarce, especially in rural areas. It is difficult to see meat. After all, meat that costs seven or eight cents per pound is not something that everyone can afford casually, not to mention that meat must be supplied by ticket.
So the children are looking forward to the New Year, because the New Year is considered auspicious and they cannot curse or hit others. Even if they see the children devouring the food, the adults will just kindly remind them with a smile to eat less to avoid hurting their stomachs.
But after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the new year is completely over, and it’s time to think about how to make a living this year.
In fact, all employees in the village resumed work and production on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year. There was no way, who made Babaoliang Village a big family and a big business now.
At present, there are 5 pig farms and 6 chicken farms in the village, as well as thousands of sheep, hundreds of cattle, mules and horses that need to be fed, and Qin Xueyi’s pig breeding base also needs feed from the village. It sounds like there are tens of thousands of mouths.
So as soon as the fifth day of the lunar month was over, the village notified all the members and educated youths to get ready to go to work.
Fortunately, everyone has become accustomed to it in the past two years. When the work whistle sounded as usual on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the village returned to its previous busyness.
However, considering everyone's simple feelings during the New Year and the holidays, from the sixth to the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, the starting time for work is more than an hour later than normal, and the finishing time is much earlier.
If someone has something to do, it's easier to ask for leave.
But starting from the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, everything returned to the state it was in a year ago.
No matter what position you are in, you should start work on time at 7:30 and finish work at 5:30 in the afternoon.
In addition to the busy members, the village cadres are also not idle.
March is coming soon, and they have to make plans for production in the village this year.
So these days, the brigade headquarters is holding meetings almost every day, discussing what to plant on the 29,000 acres of land in the village, how much to plant, what projects to build in the village next year, etc.!
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Babaoliang Village. Brigade Headquarters!
The stove in the office was burning brightly, and the tea in the large iron teapot on the stove was already boiling. It was making "gurgling" and "gurgling" sounds, and the lid of the huge steam-topped teapot "clacked".
Next to the stove, more than a dozen village cadres wearing coarse clothes sat together, some drinking tea and some smoking dry pots, looking relaxed.
In the crowd, Zhou Yang held an enamel teapot in one hand and said: "This is how we have decided on the planting situation in the village. The second and third teams will use land fertilizers, and the more than 7,000 acres will be planted with wheat and oats. The fourth team will The land near Big Five is also planted with wheat.”
"Teams 1, 4 and 5 will all plant corn, potatoes and sugar beets on the remaining 18,000 acres, but be careful not to repeat the cropping. Please carefully total up the specific fields to be planted, and then mark them down in black and white! "
As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Ping said: "Okay, we will finalize this matter in the next two days, and we will start farming according to this plan after the spring begins!"
"Well, regarding the construction of new breeding farms, I think it can be done, but we can't build too many. Just build two more pig farms and one chicken farm and that's about it!"
Then Zhou Yang said again: "This year our construction focus will be on the construction of feed mills. Two more large feed mills must be built before the autumn harvest!"
"Furthermore, we can't just engage in agricultural planting, we also have to engage in manufacturing this year!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Ping asked hurriedly: "Manufacturing industry? What can we build?"
"Small farm machinery, I have already discussed with the people on Xipo to hand over the business of manufacturing small farm machinery to our village. From now on, our village can make those gadgets ourselves!" Zhou Yang said.
"Ah, this is such a good thing, can we just make it?" Zhang Genwang said.
"The technical aspect is not a problem. The main problem is that iron materials are difficult to obtain. I will go back to Ninghai Iron Mine to see if they can provide us with some iron ore or cast iron. If the problem of iron materials can be solved, , then our hardware machinery factory can be started!"
Setting up a hardware machinery factory was Zhou Yang's decision after careful consideration. He knew very well that although agricultural planting and breeding alone could help the village escape poverty, it would be difficult to become rich.
His idea is not just to keep everyone fed and clothed. He wants to build Babaoliang Village into a rural benchmark like Huaxi Village and Nanjie Village.
Looking at the relatively well-developed villages, which one did not start in agriculture and then turned to light industry and service industry, and later developed tourism.
For example, the steel factory and small hardware factory in Huaxi Village, the flour mill, instant noodle factory, pharmaceutical factory, etc. in Nanjie Village are the core industries of these two villages.
It is difficult for a village without industry to grow bigger and stronger. Therefore, after solving the problem of food and clothing, the village must develop industry in the next stage.
For now, considering the situation in Babaoliang Village, there is not much they can do, and the hardware machinery factory is one of them.
With the popular product of hand-operated corn thresher, I think they will develop it soon.
"I heard that they made a lot of money last year by building that threshing machine. Are the people on the west slope willing to give this business to us?" Wang Ping said.
"I have discussed it with them and they have no objection!" Zhou Yang said.
Zhou Yang had indeed discussed this matter with Gu Chenghua, Qiao Weiguo and others, and everyone really had no objections.
The reason is simple!
On the one hand, the research institute looks down on this business. Small hardware factories are labor-intensive industries with average profits. There are cash cows such as color TV projects, printing factory projects, and ice cream factory projects. Zhou Yang doesn’t want to waste a lot of manpower. Wasted on this.
On the other hand, the research institute is backed by the country and the military, and there are too many capable people. For example, they will start producing airborne radars for the J-8 fighter this year, so Zhou Yang really doesn’t like this business. !
"If people are really willing to give this business to us, then it can indeed be done!" Wang Ping said.
"Yes, you can do it!"
"I have no opinion..."
Seeing that no one objected, Zhou Yang nodded and said, "Then the matter is settled. We will build the factory after the spring, and then I will ask them to send people over to teach us how to do it!"
"Furthermore, the commune has discussed it and consulted the educated youth. In two days, all the educated youth from the commune will come to our village. The number is estimated to be more than 300. Everyone must do a good job. Prepare for the reception!”
Wang Ping immediately said: "Okay, I will go to the educated youth area in a moment to see how many vacant dormitories there are. If there are not enough, I will temporarily arrange them to the school first!"
"good..."
Just as he was talking, a bicycle bell suddenly sounded outside the door!
Everyone looked out the windows and saw a familiar figure riding a bicycle into the brigade headquarters in Babaoliang Village...
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pS: The first chapter has been delivered!
