"...The last point is that disassembly is troublesome." Li Long said, "It takes at least three people to disassemble this harvester. It is better if it is at home. If it is a long distance, the tractor must be hung with the harvester and placed on the It’s troublesome to have no one to help load the harvester in the truck compartment.”
With Li Long’s strength, it is a bit difficult to hang the harvester on the tractor alone.
Fortunately, he thought of a way and made a big wooden block and put it in the bucket of the tractor. When using it, he took off the harvester and placed it on the wooden block. The tractor head came over and got stuck on both sides of the harvester. in the middle of the support arm, and then go down and adjust the position and install the screws.
With wooden piers supporting it, there is no need for two people to lift and fix it. But only with his strength could he lift the harvester from the truck frame by himself and move it to the wooden pier.
As he said, if the harvester is always hung in front of the tractor, the harvester will allocate part of the power. The tractor engine will not have enough power for driving, and it will drive slowly.
The current tractors are not as advanced as those of later models, and are a little more primitive, so we can't ask for too much.
Li Long has harvested thousands of acres of land with a harvester. Now across the country, he has the most say in the performance of this harvester.
Director Du and the others built the harvester based on Li Long's idea. Although they also conducted small-scale experiments, they were only a few acres of land at most, and the experimental data was very thin.
He carefully recorded the seven or eight questions Li Long said. In fact, in Li Long's opinion, the problems were not big, and the first prototype machine was made of really solid materials, so it harvested thousands of acres of land and cut so much forage that it didn't even need major repairs.
After Director Du finished recording, he closed the notebook and said to Li Long seriously:
"Comrade Xiao Li, what you said is very important to us. We will redesign based on these contents and strive to correct these problems in the improved model.
By the way, Comrade Xiao Li , let me also tell you good news. In the autumn, I and the factory My colleague took another harvester to participate in the agricultural machinery exhibition organized by the Autonomous Region Agriculture Department.
Our harvester won the second place in the small auxiliary agricultural machinery!”
"Really? So powerful?" Li Long smiled.
"Of course it is true. I think if these problems are improved, our harvester might be able to take first place in the future."
"Okay, then you work hard to improve. I hope that when I come to buy next time, those harvesters will be improved and the materials used will not be reduced." Li Long said, "Director Du, I want to discuss this with you. My idea."
"You said."
"I want to win the harvester agency in Beiting Prefecture." Li Long stated his conditions calmly.
"Agency rights?" Director Du didn't know much about the concept of agency.
"That is to say, after your new model of harvester comes out, if someone in Beiting Prefecture wants to buy a harvester, they can only sell it through me. You sell it to me at the wholesale price, and I Sell them at retail price.”
"That won't work!" Factory Director Du waved his hand hurriedly, "Beiting Prefecture is the one that grows the most wheat in our northern Xinjiang area. If you cover the entire Beiting Prefecture, then our factory can only do it piecemeal."
"Even if it cannot be given to Beiting Prefecture, at least Ma County, the neighboring county, and the prefecture These three places in the government, plus Shicheng, are mine." Li Long immediately took a step back, "Now I've left you with the remaining seven counties and a place as big as Ita'a. You should be willing to do so, right?"
Li Long suddenly regressed so much that Director Du felt embarrassed to refuse again.
Just why does Li Long want the agency rights in these places?
To be honest, Director Du can refuse because Li Long has no real ability to negotiate with him at the moment.
But Factory Director Du is a real person. He is engaged in production, not a profiteer. He feels that this harvester was designed by Li Long. The concept comes from someone else, so after all, someone else has a share. They don't want anything, but they want an agency right now, which is actually nothing.
After all, where should I sell it? There was no loss in the factory?
But he was still very curious about Li Long's thoughts and wanted to find out, so he simply asked.
"Because I plan to build a tractor-harvester team next year." Li Long was also blunt. He had dealt with Factory Director Du several times and felt that this person was quite good.
If the agency rights are secured this time, many agricultural auxiliary machinery will be designed and produced here.
"We plan to unify the prices of wheat harvesters nearby who are willing to use harvesters.
If I don't act as an agent, I'm worried that some people will buy back harvesters and lower the price in order to make money. The price given for an acre of land is too low. A vicious cycle is formed, in which no one can make money and it is easy to get rich. Conflict.
As an agent, when it comes to first-hand sales, I will discuss it with these people. I won’t care about those who are far away. I will mark out the area for those who are close. There is no need to fight. Everyone has money. Make money.”
Director Du actually thinks this makes sense.
Li Long knows that if any market becomes disordered, there is a high probability that vicious competition will form, and then the market will collapse.
Twenty years later, the village began to buy high-power wheeled tractors. In one year, they bought three or four tractors, all with flip-up plows.
At that time, the team had 7,000 to 8,000 acres of land, which was supposed to be enough. However, everyone wanted to earn more, so they started scrambling to plow the land after the autumn harvest. There were some rules at first. I just told the landlord's house and went to plow.
We are all fellow villagers anyway, and whoever plows is not a plow, so it doesn’t matter.
But in order to grab the land, a hook seller plowed down the corn stalks that had not been confiscated. He had not even greeted the owner of the plow before.
As a result, the owner immediately pinched me. Not only did they not pay the mechanized farming fee, they also asked them to pay for the corn stalks. Because the family raised sheep, the corn stalks could be used to feed the sheep in winter.
Then those who bought tractors later simply left their hometowns to compete with big tractors in other villages.
It was not a good thing, it became a joke and spread among many people.
Li Long just wanted to avoid this kind of thing happening.
Two pieces of land per acre are not expensive compared to the cost of mechanical farming. And because there is a harvester, Li Long knows that there will be more wheat than corn this year.
Because the harvester can save the most tiring part of harvesting wheat, there is no need to cut the wheat, bind the wheat, load the wheat to the wheat field and beat the field. These tasks are trivial, just laugh and talk. That's it.
If there are more wheat fields, the harvester business will naturally be better.
Li Long thought about unifying the price from the beginning, so that he would not directly kill himself like selling fish before.
Director Du thought for a while and then agreed.
To be honest, there is no advertising and promotion agency these days. Even if he wants to sell these harvesters, he must have a certain reputation.
The only one who came to their factory to ask about the harvester was from the same county as Li Long.
He knew that 80% of these people were attracted because of the relatively good effect of Li Long's harvester.
Since Li Long is willing to help with sales, why not agree to it? The places Li Long wanted were within the scope of Shicheng Tractor Factory, and it would be difficult to sell his own agricultural machinery there.
To be honest, the sales scope of Kuitun Agricultural Machinery Factory is in the Seventh Agricultural Division and KT City, and at most it radiates to Anjihai, Dushanzi, and Wusu.
If we can break the scope and sell to the east, it will be too late for Director Du to be happy.
"Director Du, don't worry, you will definitely be worthy of this. When the time comes, I have several agricultural auxiliary machines that I can try. As long as they can produce, they will definitely be affected by the same impact as the harvester." Welcome.”
Li Long said:
"At that time, you can just focus on production. It is very likely that supply will exceed demand."
"Okay, then I will lend you a good word." Du Chang Chang smiled and said:
"This agency price..."
"The cost of the old harvester is two hundred, right?" Li Long asked.
Factory Director Du nodded and said:
"Yes, if the modification is carried out according to your requirements, the cost may increase to two hundred five to two hundred and sixty yuan."
"How about my agency price, three hundred and five hundred? Your sales should be more than five hundred, right?" Li Long gave a good number.
"It should be higher." Director Du shook his head and said, "We also point to this product and give more bonuses to the workers. Now that prices have been rising, everyone's wages have to support a large family. , it would be really difficult if we don’t get some bonuses.”
“Okay, how about three hundred and eighty?” Li Long said.
"Okay, three hundred and eighty is three hundred and eighty, but the minimum price is five units, how about it? You are an agent after all, so you have to be better than retail, right?"
"That's no problem. By the way, Director Du , I see there are some at the door of the workshop, are they similar to mine?"
"Yes. What do you want?"
"Give it to me cheaper. I'll take them away this time. I'll come back to get new ones in the spring. You can't dismantle these and use them as scraps, right?"
"Okay, two hundred and four, you. If you want, Wutai will take them all away. "You have to sign an agency letter for me, otherwise I will be in trouble if someone else takes it away." Li Long thought carefully, but he still had to be careful with this thing. Some. If you agree verbally, you don’t have a voice recorder or a smartphone at this time. You still have to implement it.
"Okay, I'll write it to you and then stamp it for you, okay?"
Director Du is naturally happy to see a sum of money today. It's almost the end of the year. The efficiency of the factory is not very good, and he is not good at management. He has no idea how to provide benefits to the workers. Now that Li Long has sent money, he is naturally happy.
This is a win-win thing, both parties are happy.
Li Long went to the finance department to pay the money and got the agency contract. Then with the help of the workers, he loaded the five harvesters onto the tractor, waved goodbye to Director Du and the workers, and then drove the tractor. Left the factory.
When Li Long walked out of the factory, he could still hear the workers cheering in the factory. It was probably Director Du who told them that benefits would be paid out at the end of the year.
You have money.
Li Long doesn't plan to use these five units himself, he plans to put them in the big yard. I believe that during the wheat season next year, many people will come to him to inquire about the manufacturer of the harvester.
Not everyone can see the Autonomous Region Daily, and by next year, those who see the Autonomous Region Daily may not be able to remember the origin of the harvester.
Like Wei Tianxing, even if he goes to Kuitun Agricultural Machinery Factory next year, Director Du will not be able to sell him a harvester.
So Li Long calculated that he could make a fortune with the harvester.
It costs two hundred yuan a day to harvest by yourself and work hard.
You can sell one for about one or two hundred yuan.
Of course he is willing to be the latter.
Driving a tractor to the house rented by Li Anguo, Li Long just got off the tractor and heard the voices of Xue Ping and Xue Qin:
"Dad, Mom! My uncle is here, my brother-in-law is here!"
Okay, no need to say hello, the automatic pager is here.
Li Anguo came out of the room, Chen Lirong showed a little face in an apron, and then went in.
Then he smelled the aroma of rice.
Entering the house with the shaker in hand, Li Long saw that Chen Lirong was cooking, and the rice had been steamed and placed in a basin. Such a small kitchen can only accommodate one stove, so rice must be steamed first and then vegetables stir-fried.
The smell of rice was very strong. Li Long followed Li Anguo to the back room and talked about today's situation.
"Then you are going back today?" Li Anguo asked, "How about staying for two days?"
"No. Xiaoxia is pregnant, and I don't dare to stay far away. "
"Oh, that's that, then I won't keep you. "Bring two bottles of wine to Dad when you leave," Li Anguo said, "I won't bring anything for you and brother..."
"No, I have everything at home." Li Long waved. "Just live your life."
"Well, we will go back during the Chinese New Year." Li Anguo added, "Actually, there will be a holiday as soon as December is over, but there is no need for us to stay there for a long time. There is a duty fee for going on duty here. I plan to I’ll come back in the next two or three days.”
The two brothers chatted for a while, the vegetables were cooked, and the adults and children ate together at the coffee table.
Li Anguo said that he originally planned to have a drink with Li Long, but now that Li Long is leaving, he can only wait until later.
Li Long ate two bowls of rice and not much food. The two children eat meat very quickly. Both Li Anguo and Chen Lirong said that Li Long refused to tell them, saying that when the children were growing, they would grow faster if they ate more meat.
After eating, Li Long drank rice soup and sat for a while. He felt that the food in his stomach had calmed down, so he said goodbye to his brother, sister-in-law and children, and went out with the handle.
When I got to the tractor, I rocked the tractor, put on my coat and hat, turned around in a circle, and drove away.
After seeing off the tractor, Xue Ping said to Chen Lirong:
"Mom, I thought my uncle was a bad guy at first. What he was wearing on his face was scary."< br>
“Me too, me too.” Xue Qin also rushed to say.
“That’s to prevent your face from freezing.” Li Anguo said while calling the child back, “Otherwise, your uncle won’t have his face frozen after driving for several hours.”
"I played outside for a long time and didn't get cold..." Xueping was puzzled.
“That’s because you are not playing in a windy place. The wind comes when the tractor is driving. The wind is so strong that it can crack your face...”
Li Long drove the tractor to the oil depot to rely on After proving that he had refueled, he filled up the oil can he brought before driving out of Kuitun and heading east.
The sun was shining on my back, and I could feel a little warmth, but it was almost always cold in front of me. Li Long drove the tractor Tutu Tutu. After more than an hour, he arrived in the no-man's land and saw the yellow sheep again.
The yellow sheep seem to be used to big guys passing back and forth on the road. As long as something comes, they will run to and stop dozens of meters on both sides of the road. When the big guys are gone, they will come back.
There were seven yellow sheep in this group, led by two rams with long horns. They stood relatively tall and turned to look at Li Long's tractor with caution and disdain.
Li Long parked the tractor on the roadside, but the yellow sheep did not move.
Li Long took out the 56 semi-automatic rifle from his gun bag and placed it on the seat. It was not turned off and the engine was still humming. Huang Yang might have thought that the monster had no intention of coming.
Li Long was not in a hurry. He slowly opened the safety, loaded the bullet, aligned the sight, and half-crouched on the seat to take aim.
At this time, the yellow sheep felt danger. The first sheep turned around and prepared to escape. Li Long aimed at the ram behind it. It seems that he must be no more than two or three years old, at the stage when he is bold, curious, stupid and inexperienced.
When the leading sheep was about to run away, it even turned around and sniffed the butt of the ewe next to it.
"Bang!" Li Long's gun rang out, and the ram fell to the ground on the spot without even jumping up. At this time, the first sheep had already rushed into the bushes in the distance and ran away in a hurry. .
Several other ewes also ran away. Although Li Long thought about taking another shot, he gave up after taking aim for a while.
When I ran too fast, I couldn't catch him at all.
Putting away his gun, Li Long went over and dragged the ram over.
This male yellow sheep is obviously younger than the one shot yesterday. The horns on the sheep's head are relatively shorter, and it doesn't look so vicissitudes of life.
The vicissitudes here refer to the corners being smoother and cleaner. The bone layer of the horns of old sheep near the roots will peel off over time, which can be seen.
After cutting its belly open, the bucket of the truck was filled with harvesters. Li Long could only take out a bag from under the seat bag and put the sheep in the bag. The sheep was quite big and its head was still exposed. Outside, he put the bag containing the sheep on the triangular tractor frame between the tractor and the body of the truck, tied it with a rope, and set off.
As he approached SW County, Li Long shot two more yellow sheep, and now there were two more bags on the tripod.
Originally he thought there would be more later, but he thought too much. Next, there are fewer Gobi deserts on both sides of the road. Some places have been reclaimed by the Corps, and occasionally there are one or two pieces of farmland covered by snow.
There are rabbit paths in the farmland, but there is no trace of the yellow sheep.
Having stopped halfway through the hunt.
Also.
While driving to Shicheng, Li Long stopped for a moment at the old street. He stopped at the entrance of the yard rented by Chen Xingbang.
Then Li Long heard the sound of the red piano:
"Mom, I seem to have heard the sound of my uncle's tractor..."
"How is that possible? How could your uncle come at this time?" Li Xia came out of the house and heard Li Long's knock. Door sounds.
“Who is it?”
“Sister, it’s me. My brother-in-law hasn’t come back yet?”
“Is it really Xiaolong?” Li Xia quickened her pace in surprise and came over. He opened the door and saw Li Long standing at the door holding a yellow sheep and smiling.
Li Xia's eyes suddenly turned red. (End of this chapter)