Chapter 860: First time seeing such a person buying a tractor!

Li Jianguo didn't expect that even the team leader Xu Chengjun rode a bicycle to the courtyard to find him.

The front courtyard has been cleaned up. Actually, the courtyard itself didn't pile up many things. Li Jianguo went to clean it up, more to plan how to place those auxiliary farm tools. After all, if it is the whole set, the tractor will carry seeders, five-furrow plows, cutting machines, plowing machines, leveling machines, etc.

Adding them up will occupy a very large space. And for the convenience of use, it cannot be pulled into the courtyard and ignored.

He thought that after buying the tractor back, he would have to build a large shed on the east side of this courtyard and then separate it to put these farm machines in.

After all, if the tractor and other farm machines are left in the open and exposed to wind and rain, a thick layer of rust will soon grow on them.

The farm machines purchased by Wang Cai Mi from the team are like this. Of course, it may also be because those farm machines have been two or three years old, and the rust on them cannot be removed, but instead formed a kind of protective shell.

The newly purchased tractor is naturally different. The small four-wheeler is fine. After all, that thing is small in size, and it is easy to put it anywhere, build a shed or cover it with a canvas, etc., to block wind and rain.

But the Dongfanghong 75 crawler tractor is different. It is large in size, and auxiliary farm machines, especially seeders, five-furrow plows, etc., occupy a lot of space, so you need to build a large shed to put them down.

When Xu Chengjun came over, Li Jianguo had just returned from the front courtyard. Several groups of people had already come to the front courtyard to ask him about buying a tractor. Li Jianguo explained that the news was true, and it would be pulled back in two days anyway, so there was no need to hide it from people.

What surprised Li Jianguo was that these people who came, including Tao Jian She and Xie Yun Dong, didn't just come to inquire about the news, but more to occupy a position first. They thought that when the wheat was harvested, they wanted to use the Li family's tractor to plow their own land first.

"Old Brother Li, does your family want to buy a large tractor?" Xu Chengjun, who pushed his bicycle into the courtyard, asked with a loud voice, "When are you buying it?"

"It's this week." Li Jianguo said, "When Without Xiao Long has time, we will go buy it."

"Hey, Without Xiao Long is really capable of earning money." Xu Chengjun propped up his bicycle, walked to Li Jianguo, took out a box of Snow Lotus cigarettes from his pocket, pulled one out and handed it to him, took out a white iron lighter, lit it for Li Jianguo, lit one for himself, took a beautiful puff, and then said:

"I heard your family is planning to buy the whole set for the large tractor?"

"Yes." Li Jianguo took a puff of the cigarette, pointed to the front courtyard and said, "Without Xiao Long's saline-alkali land improvement near the old horse number was quite successful before. Now Professor Luo and the others have gone to other places to continue their research. Without Xiao Long said that when the time comes, he will ask Professor Luo for advice, synthesize opinions, and then experiment with reclaiming more saline-alkali land in the team.

You say that with Wang Cai Mi's large tractor, if you want to reclaim wasteland, you don't know when it will be your turn.

Without Xiao Long's meaning is to simply buy a set, which is convenient for our own use, and can also earn some diesel money when plowing and sowing during the busy farming season."

"Hey," Xu Chengjun laughed when he heard this, "If your family's large tractor is bought back, it won't just be earning some diesel money. With so much land in our team, you can earn back the cost in a year or two."

"It won't be that fast. We are not Wang Cai Mi, who only knows how to drive but not repair." Li Jianguo said modestly, "The first year must be experimental. If everyone supports us, we will definitely plow and sow seriously.

But the technology is there after all, I think the villagers will definitely still be willing to find Wang Cai Mi. He has been plowing and sowing for the team for so many years, this little face is still there."

"Fart! Wang Cai Mi just takes advantage of the fact that the whole team only has one large tractor!" Xu Chengjun didn't think so at all, took a fierce puff of the cigarette and said, "Just watch, when your large tractor is bought back, everyone in the team will definitely find you.

New tractors are not easy to break, and they are definitely reassuring to use. He takes that tractor out to plow, and it breaks in the field for three or four days out of ten, which makes people worried.

New tractors are different. It is estimated that they won't have problems for a year or two. Who doesn't want to catch a good time for sowing and plowing?

In the past two years, people in our team have told me a lot, saying that when they find him to plow and sow, Wang Cai Mi is arrogant, everyone has to beg him, and he still ignores them.

My cousin Xu Lingshan on the other side is the same, that 802 is also a broken tractor, and his technology is not as good as Wang Cai Mi's.

Let me tell you, as long as you buy this new tractor back, there will definitely be many people in the team looking for you to plow in the autumn. It will be the same next spring. Just watch, you will definitely earn back the cost in one year next year.

I'll occupy a position first, after the wheat fields are harvested this year, arrange me at the front when plowing, Old Brother Li, how about that?"

"That's definitely no problem." Li Jianguo laughed, took a puff of the cigarette and said, "As long as you don't dislike my poor tractor driving skills."

"What's there to dislike? When plowing, don't I still have to sit behind the five-furrow plow? I believe you definitely won't be like Wang Cai Mi, not letting deep plowing."

"Definitely not, can it work without deep plowing?"

"That's right."

At this time, when the tractor plows, the person sitting behind the five-furrow plow can control the depth of plowing. When Wang Cai Mi plows for others, he will tell everyone not to adjust it too deep, because if it is adjusted deep, the tractor will be relatively laborious, and if the tractor is laborious, it will consume oil.

With Wang Cai Mi's degree of saving money, how can he be willing to let the tractor consume oil? Every liter of diesel is money.

Although a liter of diesel is less than one yuan now, in his view, it accumulates into a lot. Even if two liters of oil are saved for each piece of land, it is not a small amount for a team.

This situation does not exist with Li Jianguo. Since he is plowing for others, it is better to deep plow the wheat stubble land, otherwise, the wheat roots will not be pressed into the ground and will not rot, which will affect the growth of crops in the coming year.

When his family was plowing, Wang Cai Mi once told him that the Li family had a lot of land, and Wang Cai Mi paid special attention to this.

After Xu Chengjun got the definite answer, he pushed his bicycle out of the courtyard and rode back home. Ma Hongmei, who was picking vegetables in the vegetable garden, hurriedly came out to ask:

"How is it? Is the news true?"

"It's true."

"Then we..."

"Open, let's open after they open!"

"How much do we open?"

"Let's open 40 or 50 acres first, it's not easy to plant if it's too much, and it's not necessary if it's too little." Xu Chengjun had already made up his mind.

Let him toss about side businesses like Li Long, as a team leader, he still can't toss about it. But since he is in the village, he is definitely not afraid of farming.

He went to the Li family to inquire about the news, not only for the ranking of plowing, but also heard that the Li family wanted to reclaim wasteland. Connecting this with the experts and professors from the August 1st Agricultural College studying saline-alkali land, Xu Chengjun understood that the Li family was going to develop greatly in agriculture.

Xu Chengjun admires Li Long's vision and grasp of policies. His family made money by following others to plant watermelons, so it must be right to reclaim saline-alkali land next.

There is no public grain for the first three years of reclaiming wasteland, and he, as a team leader, must have some advantages in water fees, etc.

It might not work to plant grain after improvement, but there should be no problem planting economic crops.

Mainly because this is his own land, and it is easy to talk about everything after there is more land.

On the third day after returning from Wucheng, after breakfast, Li Long drove the jeep to the Fourth Team, and then took Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming to the Shicheng Tractor Factory.

Lu Yingming had been in the Li family courtyard for the past two days when he was free, so when Li Long drove the jeep over in the morning, what he saw was Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming planning in his big courtyard.

Then let's go together. Anyway, the eldest brother has to drive the tractor when he comes back, so it's just right to let Lu Yingming follow.

The Shicheng Tractor Factory is very lively here. Many farmers are taking advantage of the slack farming season to buy small four-wheeled tractors. 12-horsepower and 15-horsepower small four-wheeled tractors are very popular, although the money earned by most farmers in the past two years is not enough to afford a small four-wheeler. But the countryside is so big, there are always some who stand out and become ten-thousand-yuan households by planting or breeding.

The role of tractors is getting bigger and bigger. After all, they are faster than horse-drawn carriages, can pull more, and don't need such careful care. Just add water and oil.

How convenient!

Buy early and enjoy early, that's the truth.

Li Long and the others drove the jeep into the tractor factory, attracting the attention of many people.

Li Long is already used to it. After all, the 212 jeep is a symbol of first-level leaders even ten years later.

At that time, private individuals with money could afford Santana, could afford Xiali, and those who were worse off could afford Dafa minivans. But private individuals generally couldn't get a 212 jeep.

Seeing the jeep drive to the Dongfanghong 75 large tractor side, most of the people watching the small four-wheelers here breathed a sigh of relief.

"Could it be that a leader from some state-run farm came to buy a large tractor?" Someone guessed. After all, it is rare for private individuals to be able to afford a Dongfanghong 75 tractor at this time, although it is not said that there are none.

Ordinary small four-wheelers are basically enough for farming in the countryside.

After Li Long and the others got out of the car, a salesperson immediately greeted them, but was a little surprised to see the three of them. After all, none of them looked like leaders.

Professionalism is there, the salesperson asked with a smile: "Are you going to buy a Dongfanghong 75 large tractor?"

"Yes." Li Long said, "How much does a new tractor with a full set of farm equipment cost?"

"You say a full set of farm equipment, does it include five-furrow plows, seeders, cutting machines, plowing machines, and bulldozers?"

"Also add a leveling machine." Li Long said.

"Are you a state-run farm? Or from which regiment of the Corps?" The salesperson asked while calculating in his mind.

"No, we are buying privately." Li Long said, "Does the country have any agricultural machinery subsidies now?"

"What agricultural machinery subsidy? Haven't heard of it. The whole set of equipment adds up to more than 41,000 yuan." The salesperson said, "Are you buying it now? Is it full payment or loan?"

At this time, there are already agricultural loans, but it is difficult for ordinary people to handle them, and the interest rate is relatively high.

"Of course it's full payment. Is there any discount for this price?"

"Hehe, little comrade, you are really joking. Now agricultural machinery is in short supply. We pull this Dongfanghong 75 crawler tractor from the pass, and it can be sold out in less than a month. It's not bad to raise the price, how can there be a discount?"

Li Long was just tentatively asking. It would be best if he could get a discount. If not, he could afford it.

The salesperson was also the first time to meet such a young man. Looking at this young man's age, he doesn't look like a leader, but looking at the tone of voice and the degree of self-confidence, he really doesn't look like an ordinary person.

In this day and age, those who can come to buy tractors have a lot of money in their pockets, so they must be confident.

But most of those who buy agricultural machinery come from the countryside. When they arrive in the city, they naturally feel inferior. They are cautious when speaking. Basically, they follow whatever the salesperson introduces, and at most ask how to drive and how to operate which thing.

The agricultural machinery now is sturdy and durable, so as long as those who buy tractors can drive them back, they can toss them to operate—after all, driving a small four-wheeler back is just pulling things, without too many functions.

This Dongfanghong 75 tractor is different. It is technically strong. Most of those who come to buy it are from state-run farms or the corps' machine plowing teams. They have technical personnel to follow, check, operate, and the accountant pays the money, and then leave.

The process is like that, unlike this young man today who talks so much.

Li Long took out the posture of buying a car in later generations. After the salesperson led them to the place of the new tractor, he first looked at the factory date of the tractor, then looked at how much engine oil and diesel were given, and then asked clearly whether it was allowed to test drive on the spot.

The tractor is indeed new, and the factory date is less than three months. The engine oil and diesel are slightly more than the small four-wheeler tractor. After all, this thing drives slowly, and if the oil is given less, it may not be able to drive to the oil depot.

It can be tested on the spot, so Li Long let Li Jianguo go up to test the machine—the Dongfanghong 75 tractor has a cab, which is relatively more atmospheric than the small four-wheeler.

Crawler tractors are actually easier to operate than small four-wheelers, just need to be familiar with it.

Li Jianguo was slightly nervous when he went up, but after starting, he relaxed after looking at such a large venue. Anyway, there were no people in the close distance in front, back, left, and right, so just drive.

It doesn't matter if the throttle is stepped on too much. Anyway, it is about to be his own tractor. What are you afraid of wasting a little oil?

It doesn't matter if the turn is fierce. Anyway, the speed of this thing is slow, which is slightly faster than a person walking. How fierce can it be?

These are all jokes Li Long said when chatting with Li Jianguo along the way, and now they have become suggestive words to improve his confidence.

The entire large tractor venue itself does not have many Dongfanghong 75 crawler tractors. There are also Dongfanghong 28 wheeled large tractors in another venue—that is, Li Long is relatively disdainful, looking good but not useful.

So Li Jianguo can practice driving here to his heart's content.

This kind of tractor itself does not sell many units a month. Now Li Long and the others have come to buy the whole set, and the salesperson is also very happy.

After the test, they went to see those supporting farm machines. They are all new but stored in the open. After the rain, there was a little rust on the plowshares.

This is normal.

Li Jianguo went to the operation position of the plow, turned the steering wheel, but at this time it was not easy to show the plow descending—it had to be matched with the tractor to the field.

The seeder also needs to be checked.

On the contrary, the leveling, cutting, and harrowing ones are relatively stupid and thick, just look at them.

"How do you transport these things back?" The salesperson asked.

"Don't you deliver to the door?" Li Long asked back.

"No, won't." The salesperson shook his head, "These things need to be pulled back by yourself."

Fine, Li Long thought he could only find Song Ming.

Seeing that everything was satisfactory—actually there was nothing unsatisfactory at this time, Li Long went to pay. Today Li Jianguo drove the tractor and would pull the seeder back. The five-furrow plow and other things are easy to pull with a large cart, but the tractor is not easy to load on other cars because of the seed bin.

Actually, the leveling and cutting machines can also be towed behind the tractor, but in a long string, the road at this time is not very good, so Li Long felt it was better not to do this, it would be troublesome if there was a situation halfway.

After paying, Li Long let Li Jianguo go to the oil depot to refuel, and he went to the sugar factory.

Song Ming still sends sugar residue to the old horse number every week during this time. Li Long pays monthly, and the cooperation is very happy.

Li Long occasionally meets Song Ming when returning to the Fourth Team. When they meet, they chat. Sometimes the fish caught by Li Qing Xia, Li Long will also take some to Song Ming, and the relationship between the two has been maintained well.

When Li Long arrived at the back door of the sugar factory, there were water marks of sugar residue passing by on the road. He guessed that Song Ming should have just pulled it to the big pit, so he drove the jeep to the big pit where the sugar residue was poured.

Sure enough, here at the big pit, Song Ming stopped the car and got off, smiling and walking towards Li Long.

"Why did you run here? The smell here is so big, you can wait for me at the sugar factory." Song Ming shook hands with Li Long and said.

"I have something to trouble you with, are you free after work?"

"Yes." Song Ming likes to hear the "trouble" Li Long said most. As long as he said so, it means Li Long has work to do here, "I can spare time when I get off work at noon, as long as your work doesn't exceed two hours, noon is fine."

"I have to trouble you at noon and in the evening." Li Long said, "I bought a complete set of Dongfanghong 75 tractors and farm tools, and those supporting farm tools need to be pulled back. Do you think it's okay?"

"That must be okay." Song Ming laughed.

"Then calculate the freight by trip." Li Long said, "How long until you get off work?"

Song Ming looked at his watch and said: "Half an hour, I'll pull one more trip, and then I'll go—you wait for me at the factory for a while, I'll treat you to lunch after I finish pulling. You take care of my business so much, I have to treat you to a good meal anyway."

His watch was bought after Li Long "chartered the car". After all, he is not married yet, and the burden on his family is not light.

But after Li Long chartered his car to pull sugar residue, the spare money on him increased, and his life became better.

Actually, his family wanted to invite Li Long to his home as a guest to thank Li Long several times. Song Ming was embarrassed to say it. Now Li Long is busy every day, and he can't see him twice a month.

Today, it was hard to catch up with the meal time, so he brought this up.

Li Long nodded and agreed. Sometimes, owing others a little favor makes it easier to deepen the friendship between each other.

After the meal, Li Long took Song Ming and drove to the tractor factory. Although it was noon, there were still people buying small four-wheelers here—the sales staff here are also very dedicated. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 861 =====