Chapter 31 Seeds and Vegetables
On the twenty-eighth day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, it was the turn of the Shili Camp gathering again.
The snow in the street was crushed by people's trampling on horses and wheels, and it finally melted. Then, blown by the north wind, it froze into streaks of ice, making it quite slippery to walk on.
Yu Yang was wrapped in a military cotton coat and a locomotive hat. He put his hands on his sleeves and carefully followed his second brother, looking left and right.
There were a lot of people going to the market today, and there were a lot of vegetable stalls.
But I don’t know who took the lead. The shouts of the vegetable vendors were very different from the past.
"The West Expressway has overturned again. These are fresh potatoes sent to the capital to eat chickens!"
"My celery was specially ordered by Quanjude Roast Duck. If it doesn't overturn at high speed, can I sell it at a cheaper price?"
"What's wrong with the cabbage? If the car hadn't rolled over at high speed, how could you have eaten three kilograms of cabbage for a dime?!"
Walking inside, Yu Yang found that it wasn't just the vegetable seller shouting.
"Insoles, anti-odor insoles supplied by RT-Mart in Beijing... Smell it, it smells good. Fortunately, the car overturned at high speed, otherwise we wouldn't have seen this good thing."
"Cashmere sweater, Ordos delivery truck overturned..."
"Brother, I'm not afraid to tell you that these velvet leather shoes are new models sent to Broadway in the capital by Wenzhou Leather Factory. If the car hadn't overturned..."
Yu Yang listened to the shouting and walked halfway to the market when he felt like his mind was filled with thoughts of high-speed overturning.
"If you do this, if the leaders of highways, transportation, and road administration hear it, I don't know if they can still sleep."
Of course, rumors stop with the wise.
The reason why this phenomenon occurred may be that the leaders deliberately used these fake overturns to cover up the "real overturns of bean sprouts."
Yu Yang thought about it and felt that it was really possible.
Then I followed my second brother through the crowd and came to the seed station in the street.
In the past, seed stations, agricultural machinery stations, forestry stations, livestock stations, water conservancy stations, power supply stations, etc. were all public institutions.
Later, many places underwent reforms and seed stations became privately owned. The technicians at the stations resigned and became small bosses.
In another time and space, Yu Yang was brewing bean sprouts and just asked the other party for advice before making the appearance.
Including the seeds used to grow bean sprouts at home, they are also purchased from here.
As for the vegetable seller who exchanged "ten pounds of soybeans for a bean sprout" and accumulated many soybeans...
In fact, most of those soybeans cannot be used as seeds.
This involves issues such as varieties, emergence rates, pests and diseases, hybrids, and annual yields.
More complicated.
…
Enter the seed station.
The former agricultural technician, now the shop owner, stood up and greeted:
"Boss Yu, why are you here when you are free?"
"Come and see the seeds."
"What's wrong, the soybean seeds I gave you are not good?"
"It's okay. There are no problems with the planting so far."
"That's good. The township has told me a long time ago that your bean sprout industry is in the start-up stage. We must control the supply of seeds, because if there is a problem, it will not be good for you, for me, for the township, and for Shiliying. People are important, so I personally go to the provincial capital to select soybean seeds and then transport them back.”
"Careful!"
Yu Yang knew that what the other party said was true, so he took out a box of Huaxia cigarettes from the document bag and placed it on the counter.
Take a look at the pesticides on the shelves and the various seeds hanging on the wall.
"We are all on our own, so I won't see anyone outside. Let me tell you clearly."
"You tell me."
"That broken brick kiln was thrown back by the bank again."
"I watched the news, and they really did whatever they wanted. I was so scared that I took the money back overnight..."
"You are really unfounded. Forget it, let's talk about business. I plan to renovate the brick kiln and plant something."
"You are in our hometown, you really asked the right person."
"Nonsense, if you have any suggestions, feel free to tell me. We are not outsiders, how can I still treat you badly?"
"There is no light in the brick kiln. If it is no longer fired in the future, it may become more and more humid. We deal in vegetables. If we want to maximize our profits, I suggest growing mushrooms, preferably mushrooms that can be harvested one crop after another. "
"Is there relevant technology?"
"There are several chicken farms in Han Gai, and you buy the chicken manure; there are two lumber mills in our township, and you buy the sawdust and sawdust;
Then I will bring pesticides and fertilizers to help you conduct experiments. Once the ratio is correct, we will package it into tubes, and then build a batch of shelves in the brick kiln and place them in layers.
As long as the temperature and humidity are controlled well, the yield should not be low.
Or, you can hire a group of relevant technicians from outside, like those who grow bean sprouts. They are better than me. "Since there are specialties in the industry, it is not easy to recruit a group of bean sprout technicians. Where can I find mushroom growers?" "
Yu Yang found a chair and sat down, "Any other suggestions?"
"Growing leeks... Plant leeks and let the seedlings see light, which is called leeks; if they don't see the light, they are called leeks; when they bloom after seeing the light, the flower stems are called leeks; if we simply plant leeks, as long as we control them well, we can harvest at least 5 to 6 crops. ”
After the shop owner finished speaking, he continued: "The same goes for yellow garlic."
Yu Yang nodded, "I just took a stroll in the market, and there were some selling leeks and garlic. They all cost 50 or 60 cents a pound. They are profitable, but they are still not as good as bean sprouts."
"That's for sure, leek and garlic don't need to be exposed to light.
If you want to do business in this area, work hard and dig a cellar, or find a cave, a hole in the ground, or even an air-raid shelter left by previous wars, sow seeds, or plant seedlings. As long as there are no diseases, you can basically harvest something. batch.
Of course, as far as I know, there are very few people who know this and dare to do it. At least in our Pingdong County, no one does it, including only three or four in the capital. "
Yu Yang must know about leek and garlic, and he eats them frequently. "Any other suggestions?"
"My professional level is limited, otherwise I wouldn't stay in the countryside and I would have gone out to do business long ago."
"Think about it."
"Ginger?"
"It's good to make money, let's continue."
"Our brick kiln has cave dwellings, but not all of them are shielded from sunlight. How about planting some coriander (yansui, coriander)?"
"Two cents for a big bundle, you can't make much money."
"onion?"
"Get something rare, preferably out of season and no one sells it, so you can make a lot of money."
"You are making things difficult for me... Hey, lettuce!"
"Don't you need light?"
"Haven't you heard of 'bamboo shoots springing up after rain'? You can grow a bunch of them without strong light."
"That's true, I just don't know if I can make any money."
"If you can grow lettuce, you should also be able to grow lettuce. There are some differences between the two, and the taste is also different. The trouble is, we need to experiment."
Yu Yang is not afraid of experiments. When the time comes, he will build an improved farmland, arrange for his five brothers to reach the upper limit of the growth rate, and then keep tinkering.
Just when he was about to continue and squeeze all the store owner's talents, the big brother in the second brother's hand rang loudly.
The second brother answered first, "This is the Sanyuan Agriculture Office, who are you looking for?"
Uncle Liu's voice came from inside, "I'm Lao Liu, is Sanyuan here? Tell him, the director of the county carton factory is here, and he brought a lot of packaging."
"knew."
Some time ago, I went to the county to clear snow, and stopped by a biscuit factory and a carton factory to look for packaging.
In order to get orders, the director of a carton factory plans to design a large-sized packaging that is moisture-proof, fresh-keeping, and load-bearing. He has agreed to trial-produce 100 sets and deliver them door-to-door.
Unexpectedly, the other party came in person.
"Well, think about it, what else is there, make a list, if it helps me, from now on you will be the seed manager of Sanyuan Agriculture Company, you will be paid, and you can continue to run this store."
"The relationship is good. As long as you pay me wages, it doesn't matter whether I open a store or not." The store owner knows how high the wages of the gang in Yujia Village are.
Technicians earn 1,500 per month (originally 1,000, but Uncle Liu increased it to 1,500).
A female worker can harvest more than thirty bean sprouts in one day.
Male workers who carry and load trucks can earn thirty or forty dollars a day.
Everyone who does business makes money.
Yu Yang said no more, walked around the market on the street, went to the outskirts, found a tricycle parked on the roadside, and stopped a similar tricycle to lend it a hand.
Then he drove away the tricycle on the side of the road and headed straight to the small foreign-style building.
A little bit.
Driving the tricycle into the yard, I looked down and saw packaging boxes laid out on the ground.
Some are big and some are small.
The big one resembles a freezer box, and the small one looks like a suitcase.
Unfortunately, the big one cannot bear the load, and the small one holds too little. It seems that none of them are suitable for holding bean sprouts.
Yu Yang thought of this, looked at the box that looked like a suitcase, and suddenly thought of the big gift package.
In fact, brick kilns can grow a lot of things, but if I want to make more money, I can't find suitable vegetables.
If you plant a little of them all, then take out a few of each and combine them into a 'hot pot gift pack', a 'health gift pack', a 'New Year's family portrait'...
It's better to do another stunt: export to Russia!
How can it not be popular by the end of the year?
(End of this chapter)