The place where Li Long went was Lao Ma.
Since the last time I started to think about large-scale breeding, although I knew that this matter would not be possible in a short period of time, I would always think about seeing the surroundings of the old horse when I returned to the fourth team. Cannot expand.
The Laoma is relatively high in terrain, located between the three residential sites of the Fourth Squad, and is four or five hundred meters away from the three residential sites.
This place was originally close to the old team headquarters, but later the old team headquarters was demolished, leaving only a row of three houses for preschool classes, and the team paid for someone to be a teacher to take care of students.
In fact, the old building like Lao Ma was built with great materials and the foundation was laid deep. After all, the overall geology of the four teams is saline-alkali beach, and Lao Ma is surrounded by alkali beaches with low-tall reeds.
But Lao Ma has been building for so many years, and the houses and cattle sheds in the houses are basically not alkaline, which means that the foundation is laid deep, and the soil used under the foundation is all non-salt-alkali soil.
I really put my heart into it at that time.
Li Long's jeep drove outside the old horse and stopped. After getting off the car, he did not get into the horse, but circled around the horse and prepared to take a look.
The Laoma itself covers a very large area. In addition to the several greenhouses connected together, there is a large field in the middle. Some of them were opened as vegetable fields by Uncle Luo, and there is also a part of them. Empty.
In the past, the livestock in the Horseman were driven out to let go, and it was also a space for the carriage. However, because the sheds are relatively spacious, the red deer and roe deer locked inside can be used to move around, so Uncle Luo will not release these animals in normal times.
There is a piece of land behind Lao Ma, with a flat land of twenty or thirty meters to the east, and further east is a gentle slope downward, and seventy or eighty meters away is a flat land that has been reclaimed into arable land.
There is a large alkaline beach to the west of the Laomaha, with a relatively flat terrain. If you want to cover it, you can only use this alkaline beach.
The same alkaline beach is the north, but the north is relatively narrow - the arable land in the east slowly expands westward as it goes north, causing the Laoma to become narrower and narrower in the north.
After the matter of setting up a big broom is over, please contact the captain to contract the alkaline beach in the west.
Anyway, the team can make decisions within 50 acres of land. With Li Long's current influence in the team, he has divided this alkaline beach with a land of 49 acres. I think the team will not be unwilling to...
Cutting the ground out, digging the foundation, or lying the shed is not a small project. Li Long vaguely remembered that the elder brother said that the entire team of Gai Laoma took half a year to go out, and the project volume was very large.
Of course there were no tractors at that time, and there were not as many people in the team now.
Now there are tractors and bulldozers, and Li Long plans to use bricks and no clays at that time. Although digging clays can increase income for some labor in the team, to be honest, he thinks that the current team is in the team Some people may not look down on labor such as dirt blocks.
Don't do it if you give it less, and it will affect the market conditions if you give it too much.
Let’s talk about this at that time. If you want to buy bricks, buy bricks. If you don’t buy them, find someone you are willing to do. - Team 4 doesn’t look down on them, Team 3s and Team 2s still look down on them?
The expansion greenhouse ring is actually mainly built with a circle of walls. The open circle is easy to use, just use half-waisted walls to separate them out. If the project is large, it is necessary to build a warm circle for animals to use in winter.
There is more circles now, and it will be easy to use later. At this stage, no one wants such a saline-alkali beach for free, so Li Long is naturally very happy to contract the team.
It was only twenty or thirty years later that the price of cotton suddenly rose. At that time, the technology of growing cotton was relatively mature, and it was not possible to grow grain from saline-alkali wasteland, but it was possible to maintain capital in the first year of growing cotton. It was only when the saline-alkali wasteland became valuable.
Later, in just a few years, a large area of saline-alkali beaches of the Fourth Team were reclaimed, and the official and unrecorded ones had been combined with tens of thousands of acres of land.
Unfortunately, the upper part restricted the planting of cotton. First, half of the cotton floor was empty and not planted, saying that it was a rotation.
As a result, it was only a year since the saline and alkali returned, and the ground was broken.
In the future, it is said that 60% of the grain is planted with 40% of the cash crops. The wheat planted in those lands with alkaline rebate will not be good even if there is drip irrigation.
If the country had not subsidies for cotton, growing cotton on its own would basically be able to guarantee capital in daily life. I am afraid everyone would want to give up the job. No matter what the original intention of policy formulation is, it is time for the people to come to the people. Look, it is just a restriction to prevent you from getting rich.
Li Long just thought about it so much. At present, he didn't think about contracting those saline-alkali beaches. No matter how he had to wait until the second round of contracting in the 1990s.
The farming technology is not developed at present, and those saline-alkali beaches need to be transformed in time and labor-intensive and have not yet gained it. It is better to wait first.
He was watching and planning, and Uncle Luo from the old horse has already come out.
Although Uncle Luo is in his fifties, he has eaten well and sleeps well in the past two years, and his hearing is much better than his old friends.
When Li Long came over in a jeep, he was in the yard. He heard the noise. He thought Li Long was going to drive in, but after waiting for a while, he walked out.
Seeing Li Long looking at the saline and alkaline beach to the west in a daze, Uncle Luo came over and asked: "Xiaolong, what are you watching? This piece looks like nothing, it doesn't look like it, it doesn't look like it. The alkaline beach on the east side can also grow more sunshade."
"Uncle Luo, you said I want to wrap this piece, build it into a shed, connect it with our old horse, how about raising more cattle and sheep?"
"Okay!" Uncle Luo said When I heard this, I became excited, "Actually, I thought that if you see the sky, you can pull a truck of sugar slags over. That sugar slags don't cost much, so it's better to pull more. We can actually raise a car in our horse circle. More than one hundred sheep, and there are still a few in the empty circle. As long as there is enough feed, it is no problem to raise more cattle and sheep." "Then, Uncle Luo, can you take care of it?" Li Long thought to himself. The problem is easy to solve. First, the sugar factory has not thought about using sugar slag at the moment, and second, Song Ming must also want to make more extra money.
"What's the matter? I'm just herding sheep! Let me tell you, the five-guarantee households in the team still envy me. At worst, I'll pull them over and let our brothers live here. Fortunately, I have a companion."
"They are free now, and they are willing to drink and pass on their sons to work?"
"What's there to be unwilling to do? Old Yang, do you remember? It was the last time you said that Zhou Bin, who ran away, ran for a month and came back - he came to ask you when he came back, but later I found out that it turned out to be. He was afraid that you would report him...this old boy!"
Li Long smiled. "He wants to come too?" "I think so. Our group of food is so good. We eat meat every day and have money to spend. He wants to come, but I just didn't let it go." Lao Luo Uncle said, "As long as you think, then he will come as soon as I open my mouth. He also said he doesn't want money, just be able to eat meat every day. He used to live a good life, but now he wants to."
It seems that Uncle Luo is not willing to raise a few wild boars and deer just like this, and he is also thinking about growing and developing.
It may also be that these pigs and deer are easy to raise now, so it is of course good to expand them.
However, although the current market conditions have a great demand for meat, the price is very low.
The price of mutton was always lower than pork at this time, and it was not until about 2009 that it suddenly rose, overwhelmed the pork, and then never fell down.
On the contrary, the price of pork has been fluctuating over the years.
The price of beef has been at a high level until a large amount of beef was imported later, and the price fell. However, cattle farmers in northern Xinjiang suffered heavy losses, and the state urgently dispatched subsidies to recover some losses.
It's gone far.
Since Uncle Luo wants to raise him and someone helps him, Li Long thinks this matter can be done.
After October, herdsmen began to switch places, and a large number of herbivorous cattle and sheep would flow into the market. As long as Li Long stocks up more sugar slag feed and stores more grass, there will be no cattle and sheep raising in winter. What's the problem.
The things that cows eat are easy to find, and they can eat wheatgrass. Sheep can choose some foods and like to eat pasture such as alfalfa.
Of course, sugar slag is a good thing for both.
"Then buy some wheat straw to store it first during this period. If you get cattle to raise it, the wheat straw will be enough to feed it." Li Long thought for a while, took out the 200 yuan and handed it to Uncle Luo. "I can't use it, but I can't use it, so how can I use it? I can buy one pile for about ten yuan. Even if I raise ten cows, I can't use five piles of hay." Uncle Luo only collected one Bai, he doesn't have to worry about telling Li Long about harvesting wheat straw.
"I know you have something to do. The matter of building a big broom is urgent. You can't delay it. You can go there." Uncle Luo has a view of the overall situation. The matter of this old horse is apart from sugar residue. He can do other things about contracting land by himself.
Uncle Luo also has his own plans. The money given by Li Long bought wheat straw. After cutting the wheat straw into short sections with a guillotine, mixing it with sugar residue is a good feed for cattle and sheep. He took time to go to the wasteland to make grass - the grass in the alkaline beach is not good, but the reeds and thatch grown by the canals on the ground are good for cattle and sheep to eat in winter. These days, Uncle Luo made grass every day, and after the grass was beaten, he dried it on the spot. Every two days, he brought some reeds to bring a bundle of dried grass back and pulled it back to the open space in the yard and against the wall. At this time, it was already piled up. There are seventy or eighty bundles of weeds.
Although there is a lot of sugar slag, not only do you have to feed the red deer, roe deer, but also wild boars. So Uncle Luo doesn’t actually stay in the yard every day, and he arranges things for himself every day.
Uncle Luo has no family, so he arranges work for himself, works more when he is relaxed, works less when he is tired, and is happy.
Li Long now has the plan to expand the breeding scale, and he is just right in the mind of Uncle Luo. He actually thought about raising more cattle and sheep. Anyway, one or two are raised, and one or two are released. Not only him, but the five-guarantee households in the team also had the same idea.
Who doesn't envy him and the life he lives like this?
After Li Long gave the money, Uncle Luo went to make arrangements by himself.
Some of the wheat straws from the people in the team were sold, and most of them were sold to paper mills themselves, but the purchase price was very cheap. At present, the paper mill has sufficient raw materials and is a buyer's market. If you want to sell wheatgrass, you have to queue up, and the price is not high.
So some people who are not short of money will simply stop selling them. Some of them will be taken home to cause fire, and some will be placed on the wheat field and let the wind and rain. When the grass will be weathered and eroded in the coming year, it will be just right Used for wheat tart farms.
So if Uncle Luo goes to buy it, everyone will definitely be willing to sell it and will take the initiative to bring it over.
Of course, this deal has to be finished after the big broom is finished, and there is no time now.
Li Long left the old horse and returned to the big yard. There was no time today. Sister Yang was taking care of the child and preparing to cook. She pulled the wooden bed for the child to the kitchen door and cooked while watching.
No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!
After Li Long came back, he pulled the wooden beds of his two children away from the kitchen door. Although the supper is mainly light, Li Long thought that the child should smell less of the smell of oil smoke.
When Gu Xiaoxia came back from get off work, Gu Boyuan also walked in.
After entering the door, both of them were surrounded by the child, and it was not enough to look at it.
While eating, Li Long told his family about the big broom.
"Hey, I didn't expect you to have something amazing." Gu Boyuan was a little surprised and said with some emotion when he heard Li Long's words:
"If this happens, the future big broom will be fine I've done it every year."
"Well, the job of carrying a handkerchief may be gone in a few years, but this big broom must be available every year."
Li Long vaguely remembers that in later generations until a few years, some units were still distributing large bamboo brooms - cleaning the outdoors, which is a must-have. Of course, the sanitation department purchased the most brooms in later generations.
If the large broom of Jijicao is not committed to death, Li Long would not ask for the price to be expensive, and would just keep working like this. Before the price of cotton begins to rise, it will at least be a stable way for everyone to make money.
It was the icing on the cake for him, but for many people on the team, it was really a timely help.
Of course, it depends on how long the county supply and marketing cooperative can last. He thought of taking down the supply and demand relationship at least before the county and community was removed or reduced.
Just like the merchant who collected Chinese herbal medicines such as Fritillaria introduced to Chen Hongjun, the acquisition station has left, and Fritillaria still has to be collected.
After dinner, Gu Boyuan hummed a song with his hands behind his back. Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia carried the child into the bedroom, checking whether they needed to change their diapers.
"Tomorrow I will go to Qingshui River in the morning and Shicheng in the afternoon." Li Long said to Gu Xiaoxia while busy, "There are also sedge grass on the Qingshui River. Our team does not have enough grass, so we have to let it give it to you too. Make some big brooms.”
"What are you doing in Shicheng?" Gu Xiaoxia packed the child and asked while patting her.
"I thought about expanding the old horse's pen and raising cattle and sheep. Uncle Luo also had this idea. He wanted to pull all the five protectors in our team over to work together. .
I plan to go to Shicheng Sugar Factory and tell the driver Song Ming to see if I can bring a cart of sugar slags to the team every week. In this way, we will save more sugar slags and later It’s convenient to raise anything."
"That’s so good." Gu Xiaoxia said with a smile, "Good thing. It seems that Ma Jinbao is the only group of sheep in our team now?"
"No, There are two groups. Ma Jinbao, who specializes in herding sheep, and he doesn’t do work in the field. There are still several families who don’t raise many sheep, but there are also some. "Li Long said, "Look at it from behind, there are grass, and you can raise it on top. With such a big place in our team, there will definitely be no fewer sheep."
When the four teams had the most sheep flocks, there were more than a dozen or three thousand sheep. At that time, there were many wastelands and it was easy to herd sheep. Later, when land was opened, there were fewer places where sheep could be shed, and there were fewer sheep flocks.
Later, the state gave subsidies and there was a captive project. Someone in the team worked together to build a mobile house on the edge of the residential area to raise high-bred sheep.
It’s just that some people have bad intentions and want to obtain state subsidies, use some shameful means, and some are legitimately raising sheep, but the protection is not done well and they have brucellosis.
It's quite troublesome.
The two chatted for a while, and they saw that Haohao fell asleep quickly. After watching TV for a while, they fell asleep.
After breakfast the next day, Gu Xiaoxia went to work, while Li Long drove a jeep to Qingshui River.
The wheat harvest time on Qingshui River is slightly later than that on the plains. The corn cob on the fourth team was almost mature, the corn poles had begun to turn yellow, and the leaves began to dry up, but the corn field here looked dark green, which was very pleasing to the eye.
When Li Long was driving to Qingshuihe Village, he saw that there were people cutting sedge grass on the beaches on both sides of the road. Although there were not many, they were divided into several groups.
There are many serpentine beaches here, and the area is also large. Because the terrain is not smooth and there are many Gobi stones, large areas of wasteland here cannot be cultivated into arable land. They can only let their red willows, serpentine grass or Other crops.
Because of this, the semi-waste landform has been maintained until later generations, and it has become part of the S101 Highway Tourist Area.
The Meng Hai family that Li Long visited first - mainly because the Meng Hai family is located north of the village, and the first person Li Long drove to was their family.
Meng Hai was cutting the pole in the yard. When he saw the jeep, he immediately sat up, threw down the axe and pole in his hand and came over.
"Hello Comrade Li Long! I've been waiting for you for a long time. Come in and sit down. Come on, I'll kill you!"
Meng Hai arranged Li Long enthusiastically and arranged for him. Then he sat down in the yard, then brought a watermelon over, took a small table and placed it in front of Li Long. His wife had already taken the knife that had been washed by water and handed it to her hand. Meng Hai "killed" the watermelon with one knife. Two halves, this melon looks good, with a sandy flesh, and a sweet smell spreading. "Eat, it starts to heat up just at what time." Meng Hai cut the melon and took the largest piece in the middle for Li Long.
The enthusiasm made Li Long feel a little embarrassed.
"You guys are fine. We are in the section below, where it is much hotter than here." Li Long said while eating, "What have you been busy with recently?"
"It's okay What are you busy with? The wheat has been harvested, the corn has not started yet, and the sunflowers are not time. Look, we have all started to cook sedge grass, so we are waiting for you."
Meng Hai did not hide at all, directly I said my thoughts: "Comrade Li Long, I think it's okay to work in our team last year. How is this year? Is there any work to build a big broom?" >
"Hehe, yes, yes." Li Long said while eating melons, "Not only has it, it's more than last year, and the price has also been raised."
"Really?" Meng Hai heard this The words were almost jumping up.
Last year, there were 1,500 large brooms, and the team made some money. Although not much, it was enough to save the emergency, and life in winter was obviously much better than in previous years.
This year, many people asked early, and Meng Hai was also a little anxious.
Now, here it comes. (This chapter ends)