Chapter 85 Multi-purpose Tractor
After a while.
Zhao Dapeng and Chen Xiaoli also walked in from outside.
"Brother Achen, the roosters in your team are really fierce. Didn't you just ask your Secretary Chen to take me to the members' homes to pick out a few roosters?"
"You didn't see it. In order to catch these chickens, several members almost failed. If it weren't for his dog to help, we really wouldn't be able to catch these chickens!"
Su Wenchen said with a smile.
"That shows that our chickens are healthy. If they look sick, no matter how delicious they are, you would still wonder if the chicken is sick, right?"
Zhao Dapeng nodded.
"That's right. If anyone dares to say it's unhealthy, I will let the chicken go and let him compete with this chicken himself."
"Haha, that's not the case. Let me introduce you to my dad. You met him earlier."
"This is our militia captain, Li Guodong. He is a heavy drinker in our team. We will ask him to have a drink with you in a while."
Li Guodong was not happy.
"Don't brag. No matter how much I drink, I can't drink as much as your father."
Su Wenchen nodded.
"Of course, otherwise why would my father be the captain and you be the captain of the militia?"
Li Guodong suddenly became anxious.
"Hey, what you said is not good. Today, Lao Su, I really have to try it with you. If I can get you drunk, maybe I can become the captain."
"Get lost, just accompany Zhao Caigou, I don't want to drink with you! Every time you drink too much, you act like a fool and insist on fighting with me!"
At this time, Jiang Li and the women's director Hu Caiyun, who was notified last, and the brigade accountant Li Xiangdong, finally came.
Su Wenchen saw this.
"Now that everyone is here, please come in and sit down."
After everyone sat down.
A large pot of steaming hot clay pot chicken was served to the table first. A chicken is not much, so half of the pot was filled with potatoes. However, the stewed potatoes were soft and absorbed the rich soup, which looked very tempting.
Next comes a bowl of pancakes filled with the aroma of chicken.
The last dish is a big pot of braised lamb's trotters.
When Zhao Dapeng saw such a rich meal, he was a little dumbfounded.
"Brother Chen, I haven't done you any favors, but you keep treating me like this. I won't dare to come here again!"
Su Wenchen waved his hand.
"Brother Dapeng, what are you talking about? A tractor is nothing to your farm machinery factory, but it is very important to our brigade."
"Especially now that we are about to harvest, if we can store the grain in the granary one day earlier, we can take less risk."
"After all, no one knows when it will rain!"
Li Guodong standing by also sighed.
"Yes, wasn't it the case in our brigade one year? Heavy rain hit when we were halfway through harvesting. We couldn't even move the wheat drying on the threshing floor into the house in time because most of it was washed away by the heavy rain."
"I still remember that we cried and cursed at the same time, and finally braved the heavy rain to collect the wheat grains that were not washed away in the threshing floor."
"Even now I don't know whether there were more tears or rain on my face at that time."
Su Wenchen thought about it and found that this was indeed the case in his memory.
But he was still young at that time, and he only vaguely remembered that Father Su was different during that period, frowning and sighing all day long.
Su Wenchen broke the atmosphere directly.
"Uncle Guodong, why are you saying this? If we buy a tractor this year, the harvesting speed will be much faster than before."
"In the past, we had to use a lot of manpower to harvest and transport the wheat back!"
"Now that we have tractors, we can save a lot of manpower on threshing and drying wheat, which can at least save us more than half of the time."
Li Guodong actually agreed with what Su Wenchen said.
Because he had seen the commune's tractor harvesting. The big truck rumbled past and all the wheat was cut down to the ground in a flash, which was dozens of times faster than manual labor.
He just asked with some concern.
"But this tractor is said to be expensive. Can our team afford it?"
As soon as these words came out.
The other members of the team were stunned and all looked at Su Wenchen.
"Yeah, Achen, it seems like our brigade doesn't have much money in its account, right? Only your chicken farm has a little surplus, can we afford it?"
Su Wenchen looked directly at Zhao Dapeng.
"Brother Dapeng, how much do small tractors from your factory usually cost?"
Zhao Dapeng thought about it.
"Before I came, our section chief said he would give you the biggest discount. If you go by this price, the oldest crawler tractor would only cost 2,000 yuan, but that type of crawler tractor is not convenient for hauling goods."
"If your team is going to buy one, it would be best to take the opportunity to buy a new medium-sized tractor, such as the more famous Jiefang or Dongfanghong tractors."
"These are all very good multifunctional tractors. They can be used to haul goods when a cargo box is attached, to till the land when a plow is attached, and to loosen and level the ground when a rotary tiller is attached."
"If I give it to you at the cheapest price, it will basically only cost around 5,000 yuan."
"Our factory also has matching reaper and sun-drying machines. As you mentioned before, after the wheat is harvested, we can directly pack and bundle it manually and transport it to the threshing ground."
"In the past two years, the Beijing Machinery Factory has introduced new technology from Big Brother and developed a new machine called a combine harvester. That is amazing. It can harvest, thresh, separate, and screen all at once."
"We can harvest the grain in front and pack it in bags in the back, and then go back and dry it directly."
Zhao Dapeng's words left everyone in the team stunned.
"Oh my God, harvesting, threshing, separating, and screening can all be done by machines. Isn't this wonderful? In the future, why would we rush to harvest? We can just let machines do it all."
"Yeah, then there's no need to rush to harvest anymore. We can just drive the carts and take the grain directly to the threshing ground to dry."
"What are you thinking? This kind of machine must be extremely expensive. Can we afford it?"
Su Wenchen wasn't too shocked when he heard this.
After all, combine harvesters were already a common product in his time, and there was no such term as "double harvesting" anymore. Few people harvested grains such as wheat and rice manually.
Manual operation will only be necessary if the land is rugged and the machine cannot enter the small piece of land.
Li Guodong looked at Su Wenchen without any surprise.
"You knew it a long time ago, kid? Do you think we can buy a combine harvester? With this thing, wouldn't it take us only two days to harvest the grain?"
Zhao Dapeng reminded.
"That thing is not cheap, it costs tens of thousands."
"Besides, our agricultural machinery factory doesn't have any in stock. We have to go to Beijing to apply for transfer. Generally, that kind of machinery is supplied to large state-owned farms."
When Su Wenchen heard this, he knew that at the current stage of the team, they could not afford such expensive things at all.
For them now, it would be better to use the money to buy a few more tractors.
According to his observation, there are a lot of wastelands that can be reclaimed around their brigade.
However, due to the long distance and various other issues such as labor intensity, the members generally have little desire to reclaim wasteland. These factors have led to their team's less than ideal progress in reclaiming wasteland.
If we have the help of a tractor, wouldn't it be easy to open up dozens or hundreds of acres more in a year, let alone other things?
Brothers, I have good news for you. We are in Sanjiang.
It's the end of the month, and everyone can give away their remaining monthly tickets.
It should be on the shelves around Tuesday or Wednesday next week.
By then, the minimum daily update will be 10,000, and the monthly tickets will also increase the update, and the ones given away before will also count.
(End of this chapter)
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