Chapter 256: Without knowing the bright future, how can others invest?
XZ municipal office headquarters.
A jeep slowly drove to the gate of the base and was immediately stopped by the guards. However, when they found out it belonged to the Blue Water Farm, they let it pass.
Su Wenchen knew that this matter had obviously been instructed in advance.
soon.
Su Wenchen was led to the office of the director of the regional revolutionary committee.
The door was half open, and the secretary who brought Su Wenchen over stood at the door and knocked.
"Boom! Boom!"
"Director, Director Su from Blue Water Farm is here!"
Su Wenchen walked to the door and looked inside through the half-open door. The other person had slightly gray hair on his temples and was about forty or fifty years old. He was writing something on a document with a pen.
Hearing the secretary's words, he first looked up at the door, then immediately put down the pen in his hand, stood up and walked over from his seat.
He said this enthusiastically as he walked.
"Director Su, what are you doing at the door? Come in, come in!"
After saying that, he waved towards the door.
The secretary standing at the door immediately understood and closed the office door.
Su Wenchen heard the other party's warm greeting and walked into the room with a smile.
"Director Liu, I'm sorry for disturbing your work with my sudden visit!"
Although he knew that the other party was waiting for him, Su Wenchen still said a few polite words.
Liu Guangde walked directly towards the cabinet on the side of the office and spoke directly.
"Director Su, what are you talking about? I told you that you came at the perfect time. I just asked our provincial leader for a pack of Suzhou Biluochun some time ago."
"People in our area just drink it like cows, they can't taste it at all."
"Can you please help me taste it and see if it's authentic? I always feel like my old boss is trying to trick me with a bag of loose tea!"
When Su Wenchen heard this, his eyebrows raised slightly, obviously hearing the other party's hidden meaning.
This is a subtle way of emphasizing to myself!
Although he has support from above, he also has help from the province.
So Su Wenchen just smiled.
"Oh, Director Liu, I'm really taking advantage of you. You know, you need a special ticket to buy Suzhou Biluochun, and I've never tasted it before."
Hearing Su Wenchen say this, the other party immediately laughed.
"Haha, Director Su, if we're talking about benefiting from something, it's our region that's benefiting from your farm!"
"You don't know, when we received the news from above that your farm was coming, we were looking forward to it for a long time!"
"Your farm has been working so hard for our salinization treatment. This cup of hot tea is nothing to you."
"If your farm has any needs, please tell us. If we can do it, we will definitely help you solve it as soon as possible."
As he was speaking, a cup of freshly brewed tea with curling hot steam was brought to Su Wenchen.
"Director Su, please!"
Seeing this, Su Wenchen also picked up the tea and took a sip. After a moment, he put the teacup down and made a direct and meaningful comment.
"Beautiful in shape, rich in fragrance, and sweet in taste, this is truly a fine tea!"
"The only downside is that it's a little hot. What a shame!"
Hearing Su Wenchen say this, Liu Guangde sat back in front of Su Wenchen and said.
"Director Su, if that's the case, I won't play dumb with you anymore."
"It's our region that's anxious this time, but you have to be considerate of us!"
"We are an important coal production base in East China. If there is a problem here, at least half of the factories in East China will have to shut down and stop production."
"So no matter what, our region must first ensure stable production in the mining area, right?"
When Su Wenchen heard this, he rubbed the edge of the teacup with his fingertips twice.
"So, the district is going to dump those three big burdens on our farm?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the atmosphere in the office suddenly became tense.
After a moment's silence, the other party suddenly laughed.
"Director Su, look at what you said. How can this be a burden? I just thought that your farm needs enough space for development!"
"These three communes are all on the south side of the Dasha River, and they can be connected together, which would cover at least hundreds of thousands of acres."
"This way your farm will have enough space to develop!"
Su Wenchen rolled his eyes when he heard this and said it directly.
"Director Liu, this land does have hundreds of thousands of acres, but two-thirds of it is saline-alkali land that has not been properly managed."
"The remaining one-third is only managed simply, and the yield per mu is nowhere near the yield of other people's better land."
"If you're like this, then we can't talk anymore!"
"We can only go to the neighboring northern Anhui or eastern Henan to have a look."
For Su Wenchen, if enough food can be provided in the early stage, then these hundreds of thousands of acres will indeed be very attractive to Su Wenchen.
But if you give him 300,000 kilograms of millet and ask him to take over directly, he will definitely not do it!
After all, a good cook cannot cook without rice. This amount of food will probably be almost consumed after the New Year.
After all, the three communes together probably have about 10,000 to 20,000 people, so this amount of food is just enough to fill the gaps.
So because of the poverty here, Su Wenchen is willing to invest his energy to drive the development here.
But it is impossible to let people control it directly.
It's not like he has to be here, and to be honest, if their farm develops, the local area will definitely benefit the most.
If you don't want to make any effort and just want to reap the benefits, there will never be such a cheap thing.
Hearing Su Wenchen say this, Liu Guangde immediately comforted him.
"Director Su, look at you. We were having a good conversation, why are you so anxious?"
"We're still discussing this! Why bring up other people?"
Su Wenchen raised his eyebrows and took out the documents he had sent to them that morning from his briefcase.
"Director Liu, they sent us a notice, but they didn't discuss it with us in advance!"
Liu Guangde just smiled bitterly.
"Director Su, we have no other options. Ever since we received the information from Feng County about your local research."
"I've been looking forward to your farm coming here."
"But since you guys haven't come yet, there's nothing I can do!"
"Plus the documents sent from above, I couldn't find anyone at the moment, so I thought of allocating more land to you!"
Su Wenchen rolled his eyes and said, "You guys are really kind-hearted. If you are so kind, why don't you give us more food?"
He is in Fengxian County, not on the border. If you really want to find him, it is impossible not to find him.
To put it bluntly, I just want to see his reaction!
Of course, Su Wenchen didn't care about these and spoke directly.
"Director Liu, let's not talk nonsense. First of all, the three communes are definitely not affordable for our Blue Water Farm at this stage."
"Unless your region provides two years' worth of food rations for these three communes."
"But the supply I'm talking about isn't the standard for relief food. It's based on the national rations, which are a minimum of 300 kilograms of food per person per year."
"Because of this lack of supply, most people are unable to participate in manual labour such as digging canals and transporting soil."
After hearing Su Wenchen's words and hearing that only two years of food rations would be provided, Liu Guangde felt a hint of joy in his heart.
I thought that the other person is still young after all.
As a result, the next sentence made him a little upset.
After all, the relief food allocated to their area is based on the standard of 50 kilograms per person, mainly to help members get through the food shortage period as quickly as possible.
If this is based on the normal per capita ration supply, it would be six times the amount.
So he looked at Su Wenchen with a bitter expression.
"Director Su, I'm not trying to shirk responsibility. Just go to our regional grain warehouse and see how sparsely populated it is. Even a rat would starve to death if it got in."
"If the average person eats 300 kilograms, then we need at least several million kilograms of food rations every year."
"Where can I go to fix this for you?"
Then he asked Su Wenchen tentatively.
"How about you come up with a solution from your department?"
"Or maybe transfer some from your headquarters? I believe that for a young and promising person like Director Su, this shouldn't be a big deal."
Su Wenchen was not impressed by this compliment at all and just looked at the other person with a half-smile.
"Director Liu, if even your local area is unwilling to take care of it, how can other places be willing to do so?"
"If other places are short of coal and have nothing, and we hope you can provide some free support, what do you say?"
Hearing Su Wenchen's words, Liu Guangde was speechless.
What can he say? He can just tell people to get out. They want coal with empty hands. Unless they have approval from above, it has nothing to do with him.
However, at this time he also felt that Su Wenchen was difficult to deal with, and it was probably unlikely that he would take advantage of their farm.
He was also afraid that if they continued talking, the other party would lose patience and just leave, and they would end up losing more than they gained.
So after thinking for a moment, he laid his cards on the table.
"Well, Director Su, let me be honest with you. We really can't supply the rations of the three communes."
"That's almost 30,000 people in total. That means we have to spend an extra 10 million kilograms of food rations every year, which is almost the same as the supply from the mining area."
"To be honest, our area isn't a grain-producing region, and we generally rely entirely on grain allocations from the province."
"If you take over these three communes, we'll provide three million kilograms of coarse grains a year. This is already the most we can squeeze out!"
"To be honest, if we had enough food, we would have arranged for them to start governance in our region long ago."
"They wouldn't have waited until now. They could only rely on the little surplus grain that the county saved every year and gradually open up land around the county."
Su Wenchen looked at the other party's serious eyes and was silent for a moment.
He knew that he was almost at the opponent's bottom line, and even if it wasn't the bottom line yet, it was probably close.
If there really was enough surplus grain here every year, we could have organized people to dig canals and manage the water long ago.
Because it is basically impossible to say that there is a shortage of people.
As long as you are willing and report to the higher authorities, a group of educated youth can be assigned to you immediately.
But the prerequisite is that you have to feed them.
Three million jin was enough to feed three communes, but it was not enough to organize people to do work like digging canals and carrying soil.
After pondering for a moment, Su Wenchen spoke slowly.
"Director Liu, let's do this!"
"In the past two years, you have supplied 3 million catties of grain to the three communes. We will take over in batches, one per year, and gradually take over in three parts. What do you think?"
"But Director Liu, I heard that there is a tractor manufacturing factory in your area?"
Liu Guangde, who had just been about to agree after hearing what was said before, had his raised hand suspended in mid-air for an instant, and finally touched his hair helplessly.
"We do have a local state-owned tractor manufacturer that can only produce 12-horsepower walking tractors, but the production capacity is so limited that it's not enough even for us."
Su Wenchen heard this.
I know that in order to get the other party to give in on this matter, I must use my old skills.
How can others invest if they don’t know the bright future prospects?
So Su Wenchen directly described
"Director Liu, I understand your difficulties. We don't want this extra farm machinery for nothing. We will use the rabbit meat we produce to offset it for your region."
"Based on the alkali-resistant forage grasses we have currently acquired, we can estimate their yield when grown on saline-alkali land."
"On slightly saline-alkali land, we are now able to harvest grass three to four times a year, and the yield per mu can basically maintain 2,000 to 3,000 kilograms."
"And in areas like the Huanghuai region where water and heat conditions are better, the yield should be slightly higher."
"Even in heavily saline-alkali land, we can still achieve an annual yield of 800 kilograms of forage grass."
"So based on the current forage yield, each acre of our forage can basically support more than 30 meat rabbits."
"So in the first year, we plan to reclaim 30,000 to 50,000 mu of saline-alkali land and build a large-scale breeding farm with an annual output of 100,000 meat rabbits."
"Director Liu, think about it. You only invested three million kilograms of grain, but you can produce at least four hundred thousand kilograms of meat in the first year."
"Although this cannot completely solve your predicament of lack of meat supply, it can at least help alleviate it."
"If you could provide more agricultural machinery, we could reclaim more saline-alkali land, and then our region would naturally have more meat supplies."
When Liu Guangde heard Su Wenchen's words, his eyes flashed.
"Director Su, can this forage grass survive on saline-alkali land?"
“I don’t know if we can grow it where we are!”
Obviously, compared to relying on others for supply, Liu Guangde still prefers to keep it in his own hands. They don't have much else here, but there are a lot of saline-alkali lands.
So if possible, he would definitely like to set up his own farm and engage in breeding.
Su Wenchen naturally understood what the other party meant, but since he said so, he was naturally not afraid that the other party would do it himself.
Because most of the research on forage grass has basically stopped in the past few years, the reasons are basically the same as Cao Jiwen, except that many people have not met Su Wenchen.
So they are now the first batch of projects to be restarted, and Su Wenchen doesn’t think he can find the right people here.
And even if it can be grown, breeding does not mean that you can just open your mouth and let the rabbit grow.
From basic feeding to disease prevention and control and later fattening and marketing, all of these require breeding experience.
It is basically difficult for an industrial city to launch a large-scale breeding project all at once because it cannot find enough talents in the breeding industry.
After all, this is not the future, when you can post a job and a large number of talents will automatically come to you and wait for you to choose. At this time, you can only rely on yourself to train them slowly.
So Su Wenchen said directly.
"Director Liu, do you also want to raise meat rabbits yourself?"
"I don't have any objections, but do you have enough experience in large-scale farming?"
"With this kind of large-scale farming, if you don't control it well, it's easy for a whole group of animals to die."
"If you guys want to do it on your own, there's no need to rush. The higher-ups asked us to come here to conduct a pilot program."
"If the alkali treatment system we have developed is successful, it will definitely be rolled out nationwide. After all, there are tens of millions of acres of saline-alkali land across the country, and we can't possibly treat all of it."
"When the promotion comes, our local area will definitely be the first to receive the promotion plan. Then we can use the experience we have gained in the field."
After Su Wenchen said this, Liu Guangde's newly awakened thoughts were instantly poured with a bucket of cold water.
If you think about it carefully, if they want to build their own farm, they will have to invest a lot of manpower and material resources. If it succeeds, it would be fine. But if it is really as the other party said, a serious disease will kill a lot of people, then it is no joke.
It would be better to directly support the development of Blue Water Farm.
After all, as a farm under the ministry, they must have their own experience in breeding, especially rabbit breeding.
After thinking about it, he said directly.
"Director Su, if our region supports you with ten walking tractors, you don't need to pay with rabbit meat."
"But going forward, the rabbit meat from your farm must be supplied to our local area first."
"What do you think?"
Su Wenchen agreed immediately.
"No problem! The meat rabbits produced by our farm will definitely be mainly supplied to our local area."
"After all, I heard before I came here that the workers working underground in our mining area can earn hundreds of yuan a month!"
"Many miners' families receive wages but cannot get adequate nutritional supplements. We must definitely solve these problems."
As Su Wenchen had investigated before, Xuzhou is an industrial city, its employees' wages are not low, and the demand for meat is also strong.
In addition, the distance is close, so in the short term he will definitely focus on supplying Xuzhou.
(End of this chapter)
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