Chapter 854

Liang Yuemei was watching the washing machine with Lu's eldest sister-in-law. Li Long and Li Jianguo helped Li Qing Xia pick up the net. While picking up the net, Li Jianguo asked:

"You've finished collecting this fritillaria, what are you going to do next?"

"Just like this now." Li Long smiled, "You can't be busy every day. It's right to be busy for a while and rest for a while. In a while, it will be wheat harvesting, right? At that time, the family should be busy, and my side will be just the opposite, free."

"Are you harvesting this year?" Li Jianguo asked, "Your tractor can also carry a harvester."

"Not harvesting, let others harvest." Li Long shook his head. Essentially, he is the type who is content with small wealth. It was only by chance that he could step by step follow the steps of a small peddler to the present, but it doesn't mean he really intends to do business and become big and strong.

Actually, speaking of it, he was also pushed by the tide of the era. Because he was reborn and knew the development and progress context of the era, he dared to do the work of a "middleman." And the smoothness and sophistication honed by life for decades before rebirth were almost a dimensionality reduction strike, achieving his current career.

It's not that he is very powerful, but those accumulated experience and knowledge gave Li Long his current development.

After picking up the net and tying it, take each one down, hold the head in one hand and the tail in the other, twist it a few times, then gather it up, and put it into a fertilizer bag. It's easy to use when setting the net.

"Little Long, then do you want to put your household registration in the county later? The team leader came to ask me once, asking what your plan is."

"Definitely not. If I wanted to move the household registration, I would have moved it long ago. I will definitely always be the team's household registration in the future. I also plan to look at the sugar beet harvest in the team this autumn. If it's good, I'll open up several hundred mu of land in the team and contract it for decades, just becoming a landlord."

"What is the future of farming?" Li Qing Xia was a bit puzzled, "You are doing a purchasing station, isn't the money earned all year round more than farming? How tiring is farming?"

Li Long thought to himself, if I tell you that in a few decades, people with land don't need to farm, and once the cooperative is set up, they just wait to collect money, do you believe it?

Li Qing Xia definitely wouldn't believe it, and Li Long didn't explain it to him. This thing is hard to explain.

After all, there isn't a single person planting cotton in the Fourth Team right now. If I say that thirty years later, ninety percent of the land in the team will be planted with cotton, who would believe it?

So he changed his train of thought and said to Li Qing Xia:

"Old Dad, who do you think is the best at earning money in the team besides me?"

"Then who else could it be, Wang Cai Mi!"

There are quite a few people in the team who can earn money. Tao Daqiang, Xie Yun Dong, Liang Dacheng, and others who followed Li Long have all earned a lot of money.

But if we talk about who earns the most money, it must be Wang Cai Mi.

At present, there is a bit more land in the team, more than two thousand mu. It seems that Wang Cai Mi's main work every day is not plowing the land, but on the way to plowing the land—or repairing the tractor.

Anyway, that Dongfanghong 75 tractor sold to him by the team at a discounted price is repaired small every three to five days and repaired big every ten days or half a month. It feels like Wang Cai Mi's clothes and pants have never been clean and are always covered in oil stains.

But he earns money. More than eighty percent of the two thousand mu of land in the whole team is completed by his tractor through the procedures of plowing, cutting, harrowing, and leveling.

The remaining twenty percent is completed by another tractor in the team—at the beginning of this year, Xu Lingshan, the eldest brother of Xu Chengjun's family, who is three generations away, bought a Dongfanghong 804 tractor eliminated by others from the Corps.

Xu Lingshan is considered an alternative in the Xu family and wasn't named according to the military character. This is what his old dad did, a bit like Li Long not being named according to the country character. This is also a person who can toss, but he tosses himself. In terms of saving money, he is on par with Wang Cai Mi. He can work, is thrifty, otherwise he couldn't afford this tractor.

From the numbers, Dongfanghong 804 is stronger and more advanced than Dongfanghong 75. But in reality, this is also a terminally ill agricultural machine. It has actually completed its historical mission and contributed more than ninety percent of its strength to the development of the Corps.

Selling it to the locality now is considered making the last contribution.

If Wang Cai Mi is considered half a knife in repairing tractors, then Xu Lingshan is a layer of oil. He understands a little, just a little. So that Dongfanghong 804 can only compete for less than twenty percent of the land tasks of the Fourth Team.

Now plowing land is eight yuan per mu. Cutting, harrowing, and leveling are relatively cheap. Adding sowing, a set down is about ten yuan to less than twenty yuan.

That is to say, all year round, Wang Cai Mi's gross profit can be three or four ten thousand. Excluding the cost of repairing the tractor, earning two ten-thousand-yuan households a year is no problem.

So don't look at Wang Cai Mi shouting about being poor and needing money to repair the tractor every day, the people in the team still have guesses about his degree of wealth.

Li Long pointed to his eldest brother and said to Li Qing Xia:

"Old Dad, if in two years, I buy a brand-new tractor and let my eldest brother drive it, think about how much money he will earn a year?"

"How can he earn twenty or thirty thousand?" Li Qing Xia's vision is not bad, "If it's brand new and doesn't break down often, after plowing our team's land, he can also plow other teams'. Now when working, what everyone is most afraid of is the tractor breaking down in the field, not to mention wasting time, missing the sowing season, the trouble is big."

What Wang Cai Mi and Xu Lingshan are most criticized for is that the tractor breaks down often, delaying time. Of course, slow plowing speed and insufficient horsepower are also another problem. But compared to the former, this problem can almost be ignored.

Actually, at this time, our country has imported the then-most advanced John Deere 4450 high-horsepower wheeled tractor from the American Deere Company.

The power of this tractor is 164 horsepower, more than twice that of Dongfanghong 75. It is considered the prototype of the high-horsepower wheeled tractor in Li Long's mind. Sufficient horsepower, air conditioning, think about it, it's exciting to drive.

Li Long remembers that at the beginning of the next century, the high-horsepower tractors purchased by the team were like this, electronic start, air conditioning in the cab, easy to operate.

Such a machine, the import price is 48,000 US dollars, which is about 100,000 yuan according to the current RMB exchange rate—of course, 100,000 yuan really can't buy it.

Of course, if it can really be bought, it will pay for itself in about three years, and the rest is net profit. A Dongfanghong 75 tractor can be used for twenty or thirty years without any problem. This wheeled tractor can be used for fifteen years, right?

Think about how much money it can earn?

Deere Company is still very powerful. After all, even in the era of mechanized cotton picking, Deere Company's cotton picker has been much better in quality than domestic cotton pickers for a considerable period of time.

Of course, it is also really expensive.

But it is also really good to use. Think about the high-horsepower wheeled tractors purchased by the team later, those domestic ones, 1054, 1204, and 1504 and other models, their horsepower is not as large as this John Deere 4450.

But for farmers who farm, it is enough.

Plowing land, when the tractor's horsepower reaches a certain level, the significance of going up is not very large. Next, it mainly depends on whether it is easy to repair and whether the guarantee is okay.

This topic is also not easy to discuss. Li Long feels that if he gets one now, he might not have enough even if he puts in all the money he earned this year.

Actually, if it can be bought, it's fine, just afraid it can't be bought.

Wait two more years.

"That's not cheap." Li Jianguo's eyes brightened, then shook his head, "There is only so much land in our team, getting a tractor, and I won't repair it."

"Then can't you learn?" Li Qing Xia glared at him, "Others aren't born knowing it."

Li Long knows his eldest brother's concerns and said with a smile:

"My eldest brother thinks that Wang Cai Mi has a good relationship. If we get a new one, isn't that robbing others' business? But eldest brother, don't worry, this matter can definitely be done later.

There is more and more land in our team. If my sugar beet harvest is good this autumn, next year we will open a piece of saline-alkali land in the east and use chemical fertilizer to urge the land out. At that time, if we get eighty or a hundred mu, shouldn't there be a tractor? His tractor is fine for one or two thousand mu of land, but if there is more, he can't handle it.

That broken machine has been used for thirty or forty years, it should have retired long ago. Now repairing and patching, it's not a thing after all."

Li Jianguo's eyes brightened, it's really this truth.

"Alright, if you can buy it then, I can drive it. Others can repair it, we can too. At that time, I only need to take twenty percent of the money earned."

"Hey, that's far away. Besides, how can twenty percent work? Won't Old Dad break my legs? If I really buy it, we are fifty-fifty anyway." Li Long said very seriously, "I think if I want to buy it, better machines can't be bought at present, but Dongfanghong 75, we can buy it, less than 30,000 yuan each. If we buy it back and do it ourselves, it may pay for itself in two years. If we plow others' land, it will pay for itself in one year."

Why doesn't Wang Cai Mi buy a new tractor? Isn't it because he is a miser? Since there is one, repairing and patching can also be used, why buy a new one? 30,000 yuan, taking it out all at once, doesn't it hurt?

But Li Long can take it out without hurting. He hadn't thought about it before, but now he thinks about it, a brand-new Dongfanghong 75 crawler tractor is less than 30,000 yuan, plus a seeder, leveler, harrow, and cutter, a whole set is less than 50,000 yuan.

Even less than the price of a ton of fritillaria, what else is needed for a small four-wheel?

Think about twenty years later, when the Fourth Team's land area was the largest, reaching more than ten thousand mu, and at most the team owned more than five high-horsepower wheeled tractors, how fierce was the competition?

Now? Facing two broken tractors that had passed their retirement age and were still moving forward under heavy loads, Li Long felt that he could really fight!

Look, although Li Long doesn't admit it himself, he actually doesn't have much business acumen, he is just pushed forward step by step.

Plus he is relatively lazy, he buys things, lets others do the work, and he just waits to share the money.

Originally, he kept thinking about waiting for the high-horsepower wheeled tractor to come out before doing it. At that time, there were agricultural machinery subsidies, and it was cheap to buy.

But calculate it, although the Dongfanghong 75 tractor is slow, the price is also cheap. Twenty years later, the first high-horsepower wheeled tractor purchased by the team, plus the supporting agricultural machinery, cost more than 300,000 yuan. Even with the country's thirty percent agricultural subsidy, it still cost more than 200,000 yuan.

But now, 50,000 yuan can solve it, very cheap.

Now plowing land is eight yuan, twenty years later plowing land is twenty-eight yuan. It's about the same.

Do it!

This kind of thing can't be said to let others do it. His own eldest brother is the most suitable candidate. Of course, Tao Daqiang is also fine, but Li Long didn't consider him at the first time. Tao Daqiang's personality is a bit like Li Long's. Life has become better, with a wife and children, and his enterprising spirit seems to have decreased a lot.

Li Jianguo didn't speak. As the eldest brother, he couldn't pay, so he could only contribute. If you ask if he is tempted, it is naturally tempting. He is a farmer himself, and he didn't think about going out like Lao An and Li Anguo. Staying in the Fourth Team is quite good.

Then, if he can have better development in the team, how can he not think about doing it?

"Then buy it! If you don't have enough money, I still have some here." Li Qing Xia actually had more courage than Li Jianguo and said, "Buy it, let's plow our own land first. Eldest, don't think about the friendship with others.

Friendship is friendship, and work is work. Even if others have a good friendship with you, it's impossible to reduce two yuan per mu when plowing the land, right? The country, the county, and the team haven't forbidden it, so we can do it.

Look at how well Little Long is doing, you can't fall behind. Once this tractor is bought, look at how imposing it is!"

Fine, the old man thinks it's imposing, and there is no problem.

"I have enough money." Li Long thought for a moment and said, "Eldest brother, I think it's best to buy it now. In more than a month, it will be wheat harvesting, and after harvesting wheat, we have to plow the land.

Now that we have bought it, you can just try it at home and learn how to drive it. This thing is not as easy as a small four-wheel, the technicality is a bit strong. But to say it's strong, it's not too difficult..."

"Hey, what's difficult about that? Do you think I haven't driven it?" Li Jianguo smiled and said, "When the team was built before, who among us hadn't driven that tractor? It's easy to drive! I don't know much about repairing, but driving, that's definitely no problem."

With him saying this, Li Long felt relieved. If it breaks, repair it. At worst, ask Wang Cai Mi for advice, and if it really doesn't work, find the technicians in the factory. A new machine always has a lower probability of problems than an old machine. Even Wang Cai Mi himself learned to repair it slowly while driving.

"Then is the money convenient for you?" Li Jianguo was still a bit embarrassed.

"Convenient, very convenient." Li Long smiled, "If it's urgent, we can go buy it tomorrow."

Shicheng Tractor Factory has Dongfanghong 75 tractors for sale. They aren't produced by themselves, but the quality is definitely no problem.

Supporting agricultural machinery is also available, and they can all be bought together. This is the nearest tractor factory. If you want to go to Wucheng, just driving it back is a big problem. After all, this thing, the speed is not much different from a horse-drawn carriage.

The matter of 50,000 yuan was decided so easily. Li Jianguo even had a dreamlike feeling—has the younger brother who has always been taken care of by himself become so wealthy now?

Although he knew Li Long had money, he didn't expect him to be able to take out 50,000 yuan so easily.

A complete set of tractor and agricultural machinery, this thing, who in the team dares to think about it now?

He also secretly warned himself that once the tractor is bought back, he must work hard, must learn as soon as possible, and must earn money as soon as possible.

As for the account sharing, it definitely can't be fifty-fifty. He, Li Jianguo, can't afford to lose that face. Even if two-eight doesn't work, at most three-seven, he takes thirty percent, and he is already very content.

As a founding member of the team, Li Jianguo's desire to win is not low, and he also cares about face.

Since he wants to do it, he will do it with a name.

Two more women came to see the washing machine. Their voices were quite loud. Li Long looked over and saw that several women's eyes were full of envy.

Who doesn't want a machine at home that can free themselves?

Usually washing clothes isn't a big job, but during holidays, washing quilt covers and bed sheets is a big job.

Now buying a sewing machine is a large item. This is to help do work, and also to increase work for oneself.

But the washing machine is different. This is completely to help women do work, how good.

Then Li Long saw two more men coming to the courtyard entrance.

Tao Daqiang and Xu Haijun appeared at the entrance, each pushing a bicycle.

Li Long guessed that the two should have met on the road and came together.

The two crossed those women, saw Li Long, Li Jianguo, and Li Qing Xia here, so they propped up their bicycles, greeted those women, and walked over.

When the two walked over, Li Long discovered that Xu Haijun was holding a rooster in his hand, and Tao Daqiang was holding a basket of eggs.

"Why did you two come?" Li Long asked with a smile, "Why are you still bringing things?"

"Met on the road." Tao Daqiang explained, "I came to find Brother Long for some things."

"Me too, I heard you returned to the team, so I came to see." Xu Haijun said with a smile.

"Then speak, what's the matter?" Li Long asked.

Tao Daqiang wasn't embarrassed and said:

"I want to buy another harvester. My brother-in-law is in the Third Team. Someone in their team bought a tractor, but no one has bought a harvester yet. I thought about bringing him along, lending him money to buy a tractor, and then getting a harvester, earning some money this year."

"Alright." Li Long smiled and said, "When you have time, go to the county purchasing station, Gu Shu is in charge there. There are seven or eight harvesters in the purchasing station's courtyard. Tell Gu Shu, I said it, I'll give you a twenty percent discount."

"Good." Tao Daqiang responded, and the matter was settled like this.

"Mine is about the same." Xu Haijun obviously had done psychological construction. Except for Tao Daqiang, the rest were people of the Li family. Tao Daqiang wasn't an outsider either, and his relationship with Li Long was good, so this matter couldn't be hidden from others, so he said generously:

"Little Long, I want to borrow some money from you to buy a tractor and a harvester. I also want to earn some wheat harvesting money. Of course, rest assured, I definitely won't harvest in our township. My big uncle is at the Pingyuan Forest Farm, I'll go harvest wheat there."

The "big uncle" Xu Haijun said is actually what ordinary people call the eldest uncle. The Xu family is a large family, branching out to all parts of the county, and there are quite a few relatives.

"How much money do you lack? How much do you want to borrow?" Li Long asked.

"I'll borrow two thousand yuan. Rest assured, I'll give you interest. Two thousand yuan, I can pay it back after this wheat harvesting season, and I'll give you another one hundred yuan of interest, how about it?"

"Alright." Li Long nodded.

Xu Haijun was quite sensible. Anyway, he had spare money now, so borrow if he wants to borrow, and leave a favor.

He originally wanted to ask about the situation of Xu Haijun and that college student He Lijuan, but there were many people around, so he didn't open his mouth. (End of chapter)