Next, Li Yuqiu got on the tractor to plow the field. Plowing was very easy as long as you pulled the tractor along. One side of the tractor's wheels were in the ditch, so it couldn't veer off course. The direction was also very easy to control. Without turning the steering wheel, the front wheels wouldn't get out of the ditch at all.

Large tractors typically use third gear when tilling fields. This gear provides a moderate amount of speed and torque output.

Li Yuqiu used the accelerator in third gear to plow the land, making it both flat and beautiful.

The tractor should not plow too slowly. If the speed is too slow, the soil will not be turned up properly, and the plowed land will not be soft or level.

Li Yuqiu plowed over 100 mu of land in just one day.

The next day, the plow was removed, and a rotary tiller was attached to plow the land.

Rotary tillers need to be operated at a slower speed. When a rotary tiller passes by, not a single clod of soil can be found in the field, and the soil becomes very smooth.

This kept Li Yuqiu busy. In those days, farmers would pay people to plow the fields with oxen. Li Yuqiu plowed the fields well and quickly. After finishing their own fields, people would ask Li Yuqiu to plow their fields for them.

Twelve yuan for one mu of land plowed by livestock was a lot of money in those days. If livestock plowed three mu of land a day, that would be thirty-six yuan, more than an ordinary worker could earn in half a month.

Li Yuzhu can plow at least 150 mu of land in two days with a rotary tiller. With more than 100 mu of land, that's an income of more than 1,000 yuan in two days, which is already quite good.

Plowing the fields with just one vehicle was too time-consuming, so Li Yuzhu went back to the porcelain factory in town and brought back the tractor. She attached a rotary tiller to the back of the vehicle, and the two sisters worked together, one plowing and the other rotary tilling, earning more than 2,000 yuan a day.

In those days, diesel fuel was cheap, and you didn't burn much diesel fuel in a day.

When I go to the countryside to plow the fields, I'll bring lunch to the field of whoever I'm plowing at noon, even if it's just a few dollars less.

This was a silent advertisement; farmers with tractors went to the factory to buy self-tumbling plows and rotary tillers, and unsurprisingly, the two products were in high demand and short supply.

Product sales cannot be limited to the local area. Recently, the sales department has been promoting these two products to other regions, and they have been well received by users.

Dong Qing finally felt a weight lifted from his shoulders. The sales of these two products far exceeded those of the tricycles; he hadn't expected the sales volume to be so good. With such high sales, why would he need to worry about funds?

High production volume necessitates expanding production, but once production is expanded, the workshops become insufficient – ​​this is an obvious problem.

There was no other good solution to this situation, so the factory had to be expanded. Dong Qing asked Chen Hong to build four workshops on the vacant land in the factory. Chen Hong said he would arrange it.

Building a traditional brick and tile structure workshop is too expensive and takes too long, which cannot meet the current urgent needs.

At Dong Qing's suggestion, all the houses were built with steel frames and corrugated iron sheets. The walls were constructed using aerated concrete blocks, which is both economical and practical. After construction, the walls were plastered with cement.

Dong Qing instructed the company manager to transfer one million yuan in cash to the tricycle factory for construction funds. The company was currently short of funds, and Gu Yurou could only use the loan money.

The four factory workshops were completed in just one month, and each workshop was equipped with overhead cranes. They were put into use after the construction team handed over the work.

As we entered mid-February of the lunar calendar, the spring plowing of the autumn fields had gradually passed, and customers from other places had already started calling to place orders.

Li Yuqiu hasn't hired a driver yet. Li Yuzhu isn't particularly busy; she's helping her sister drive. She'll hire a driver when business picks up again.

Several workshops have also been invested in, and the company's funds are clearly tight. In this regard, the company manager, Gu Yurou, handed a written report to Dong Qing, and every data point showed that the company's funds were in dire need.

Dong Qing eventually obtained a loan of 5 million yuan from the bank. These were all interest-bearing loans; interest-free loans were simply impossible to obtain.

Even so, a mortgage loan is still necessary; without collateral, a loan simply cannot be obtained.

Five million may not solve the fundamental problem, but it can at least help us get through the current difficulties. Several companies are supporting us, which can at least provide a buffer in terms of finances. After a while, our financial situation will improve.

Several companies generate daily output, so there shouldn't be any significant fluctuations in their finances before the comprehensive department store wholesale market and farmers' market open.

In the third month of the lunar calendar, Su Wei gave birth to a big, healthy son. Dong Qing and his wife went to her home and put a 1,000 yuan lock on the baby's head.

Third sister Dong Sanmei is also two months pregnant, and the baby will be born this fall.

Summer arrived quickly, and since her younger sister had recently hired a driver, Li Yuzhu no longer went out with her sister. Instead, she often went to the vegetable garden to help her father.

That night, lying in bed, Li Yuzhu said, "Dongqing, I want to go out for a few days. Can you take me to Shenzhen to see the land we bought?"

Dong Qing really didn't want to take his wife to Shenzhen to look at land. What was there to see in the middle of nowhere? It would only add to her burden.

But he couldn't refuse her, so he finally agreed, saying, "I'll take you there after I finish what I'm doing, and we'll go to the beach while I'm at it."

Li Yuzhu had only ever heard of the sea in her life, but had never been to the seaside. How she longed to go to the seaside with her husband and see the sea.

Two weeks later, Dong Qing and his wife drove to Pengcheng.

Six months after buying the land here, the city is still a long way off. Li Yuzhu felt like crying after seeing this. She asked, "Is this the land you bought?"

Dong Qing said, "Yes, the area enclosed by the wall is all our family's land."

"What's the use of you buying a piece of land here for 5.8 million? I think you're crazy. You couldn't sell it for 3 million now and nobody would want it."

Li Yuzhu is wrong. No one wants this land now, no matter how much it costs. Only a mentally unstable person would buy land here. No one with a brain would buy land here.

Dongqing was not surprised by his wife's reaction. After all, it was 1987, and urban development was not particularly fast at that time. In just six months, there had been little change.

He said, "Believe me, this place will definitely become a goldmine in the future."

Li Yuzhu said, "This place is so far from the city, how can I trust you? I really don't know if you've lost your mind. Even a blind person wouldn't invest in land here. I really don't know what you're thinking."

Dong Qing regretted bringing his wife here. She had no idea how fast a city could develop in the later stages, and she simply couldn't accept what was happening.

Dong Qing drove the car inside the walled area. The temperature difference between spring, autumn and winter is not particularly large here, but the summer temperature is very high, so it can't be said that it is spring all year round.

Shenzhen is also divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter. February, March and April are spring, May, June and July are summer, August, September and October are autumn, and October to January are winter.

However, the temperature only stays in summer and autumn all year round, and mosquitoes are still rampant in winter. Even in the twelfth lunar month, mosquitoes can bite people to death.

The weather is already getting hot in May. Today the temperature is at least 30 degrees Celsius. Standing under the sun, I can already feel the scorching heat of early summer. The temperature tomorrow will be much higher than in my hometown in the north.