Reborn as a New Farmer of the 1980s

Reborn during the early days of China’s reform and opening, the narrator finds himself in the 1980s countryside. In this setting, the past is still a cold reference, yet it is also a fresh start....

Chapter 570: Market Concept

Wan Feng had no choice but to ride Xiao Jun’s four-wheeled vehicle home.

“How many bricks did this truck pull?”

"One thousand! I plan to make two trips today, and three tomorrow. If I get up early and stay up late, I think I can make four trips."

Is this guy planning to fight to the death?

"There's no need to be so impatient. The work won't be finished in one day. Take your time."

"Take your time? Then when can I pay you back the money I owe you?"

"I'm not in a hurry, why are you in a hurry?"

"No, it's better to change it as soon as possible since we owe the money to others."

What a simple person! Wan Feng planned to tell Xiao Jun the story of the deadbeat debtor in later generations, but after thinking it over, he chose not to tell it.

What if I tell him the story of a deadbeat debtor and he is inspired by me to become a deadbeat debtor and default on my father's debts?

I'd better not say it, but it's a good thing for this guy to have some pressure. Isn't it said that people can only burst out with amazing energy when they are under pressure?

Look at how much energy this kid can unleash.

Wan Feng is waiting to see.

The tractor returned to Jiangwei, and when they turned the sharp corner of Xiaonan Mountain, they saw several Jiefang trucks with trailers parked in front of the machinery factory.

When Wan Feng saw the Jiefang with a trailer, his heart brightened. Xiao Liang is here again?

So they sold the three tractors?

When he arrived at the gate of the machinery factory, Wan Feng discovered that there were not only two Jiefang trucks parked outside the factory, but also two parked in the yard.

These guys arrived just in time. The second batch of five tractors were only assembled yesterday.

Xiao Liang took away three of the first batch of five tractors, and the remaining two were sold to Xiao Jun and Zheng Laosan.

Wan Feng jumped off the tractor and entered the yard of the machinery factory.

Zhang Hai, Xiao Liang, Xiao Dexiang and others stood together and watched the workers push the tractor onto the car.

Seeing Wan Feng coming back, Xiao Liang shook hands with Wan Feng.

"Brother Xiao, here we are! You came so quickly."

"If it's out of stock, you have to come."

"So the three tractors were sold?"

"Of course they're sold. Who would come if they weren't? Those three tractors were sold a long time ago. As soon as they were pulled back, countless people gathered around to look at them. If it weren't for the document restrictions preventing individuals from buying them, they would have been sold in less than three days."

"Were they all bought collectively?"

Xiao Liang nodded. "They've all been bought by collective units. We've also received some orders. I think there'll be enough for you to keep busy during the spring plowing season next year."

For factories, orders are good things, the more the better.

"This time, in addition to bringing tractors, we also want to see your farm tools. The leader said we should bring back a few as samples, so we can't bring a trailer specifically."

"We've made a few farm tools recently. We can go check them out now."

Wan Feng took Xiao Liang to the area in the compound where farm tools were stored.

There aren't too many farm tools, only about six or seven types.

"This is a Lianghua plow. It can plow up to 25 centimeters deep, but that's only for soft soil. If the soil is harder, you can remove a plow blade. This is a roller, but I don't think it'll sell very well. After all, rural residents can just make a wooden roller. This is a notched harrow, used for leveling the soil after plowing. This is a soybean and corn planter... We've tested all of these things, and their quality is absolutely flawless."

"That's quite fitting. I never knew there were so many talented people in your small place."

What kind of talent is this? Wan Feng has seen and repaired these things before. Now he is just restoring some things from decades ago.

Because the hydraulic problem has not been solved, these machines are still mechanical and cannot be considered advanced at all. They can only be said to have solved the problem of whether or not there is a problem.

If the hydraulic system can be solved, these machines will have greater room for improvement.

Xiao Liang called for a Liberation truck and loaded all the farm tools onto the truck one by one.

By noon, all five tractors newly produced by the machinery factory were loaded onto trucks.

Xiao Liang went to pay the bill with a bag of money. Five tractors and five trailers, totaling 19,000 yuan, plus several sets of farm tools, totaled 22,000 yuan.

After paying the bill, Xiao Liang packed up the invoices and receipts and left with the convoy without even having lunch.

What he meant was that he would try to get back to Shenyang in the evening, and before leaving he told the machinery factory to speed up production, after all, they still had orders for twenty or thirty tractors.

Maybe they will come again in two days.

Zhang Hai was very excited. As long as the tractor market was opened up, all problems would be solved. This thing made money every time it was sold. But selling shoes, even if you sold dozens of pairs, you wouldn't make much money.

"I also brought back an order for ten one-ton dump trucks, which sold for the same price as the tractors."

"Well, this is a double blessing."

With these orders for thirty or forty vehicles, we can make a profit of more than thirty or forty thousand yuan, and no difficulties will be considered difficult.

"It seems we need to split into two groups to handle this. Fortunately, we have more people, otherwise we would be at a loss now." Wan Feng suggested.

"When we were paying salaries, I felt there were too many people. Now I realize that having more people does have its advantages." Zhang Hai also teased.

After the Gushan Machinery Factory went bankrupt, almost all the employees were transferred here. There were about a hundred people there, and their monthly salary was more than 2,000 yuan. Now is the time for them to realize their potential.

"I will immediately arrange for Xiao Dexiang to arrange the production tasks."

The machinery factory started working at full capacity, and Zhang Hai was busy and exhausted.

The greenhouses, orchards and fish ponds are all his responsibility, so it is only natural that he should be busy.

While other people were busy, Wan Feng was also busy. Of course, he had to be busy too.

But he was busy eating and sweating profusely.

After dinner, I'm busy taking a walk. Isn't it said that if you walk a hundred steps after a meal, you can live to ninety-nine?

When I walked from home to the rubber shoe factory, I was surprised to find that there were several times more people gathered at the door of the factory than usual, probably about thirty or forty people.

Are there so many shoe dealers coming to sell shoes?

When I got there and asked, I found out that these people were not shoe dealers but people from surrounding villages who came to buy shoes. Most of them were young people.

The Pegasus sneakers produced by the Wahou Rubber Shoe Factory have become a popular fashion. No matter whether you are married or not, you would feel embarrassed to go out without a pair of Pegasus rubber shoes on your feet.

However, there are not many people selling shoes in the market. Sometimes they are sold out or they cannot find the right size of shoes. After these people know that the rubber shoes are produced in Wahou, Yongshi Commune, they come here to buy them.

At least all styles and numbers are available.

So this place is like a market.

Wan Feng suddenly felt that a market could be opened here in Wahou.

More than a decade later, markets were everywhere, and almost every brigade...at that time they were no longer called brigades but villages, and almost every village had a market.

However, Wan Feng thinks that a market can be opened in Wahou now. They have clothing factories, rubber shoe factories, fish ponds and greenhouses, and chicken farms in the future. These commodities themselves need to be traded, and it is more convenient to trade them at home than outside.

With gradual development, perhaps it will become a large market like Yiwu and Xiliu in the future.

Who says Wahou can’t become a nationally famous market?