"I'm doing this for the future development of the farm!" Lin Guoqing said aggrievedly.
"Then you have to look at the actual situation! How much does it cost to buy a car? Adding your year-end bonus from the past two months, that's only an extra 2,500. I don't even know if it's enough to expand the farm!"
Two days ago, Liu Ni came to Chen Chunhua with her notebook, which contained a report she had copied. There were so many words in it that Chen Chunhua felt dizzy looking at it. Liu Ni read it to her and said that they could use it as a reference.
She lives in the suburbs of Beijing and is a female boss who runs her own chicken farm. From September 1981 to September 1982, she sold a total of 25,000 kilograms of fresh eggs to the state, and her annual net income reached 12,000 yuan!
That was in September last year. She didn't hide the huge profits. Someone from the Ministry of Agriculture went to interview her, and she honestly told them all her experiences, which were also published in books and magazines.
Three years ago, she built an enclosed, fully stepped, three-story caged egg-laying chicken house. It is 10 meters long, 7 meters wide, and 2.7 meters high. The roof uses a gable bracket, the corners are brick structures, and the walls are mainly made of adobe, and the inside and outside are plastered.
If you calculate the red bricks, a chicken coop like this may cost less than 1,000 yuan.
She opened eight ventilation windows, each measuring just one square meter, under the eaves on the south side of the chicken coop, and added a draft shield. Two circular ventilators were installed on the roof, and a 600mm diameter axial flow fan was mounted on the north wall of the chicken coop, 6cm above the ground.
Oh, regarding this so-called axial flow exhaust fan, Chen Chunhua didn’t know where to buy it or how much it would cost.
The chicken coop features two rows of fully stepped cages arranged in an east-west orientation. Each row of six large cages holds 54 chickens, totaling 864 birds, an average of 12.3 birds per square meter. The cages are constructed in a herringbone configuration, and watering, feeding, egg sorting, and manure removal are all performed manually.
In 1982, they built a closed, high-bed, fully stepped caged laying hen house. It was 15 meters long, 7 meters wide, and 3 meters high. It used double rows of high-bed cages, each row with three tiers, for 156 cages, each holding four laying hens, for a total of 1,248 chickens.
It is said that the latest mechanized stepped cage tools are already available abroad, but it is too expensive to buy them back home.
The chicken coops used by the boss in Beijing are old ones, all made of iron wire. If they want to build one, they have to buy back even old copper and scrap iron.
The feed she used was also bought from outside, which contained protein, calcium, phosphorus and vitamins, unlike Chen Chunhua and the others.
Rice bran, husks, vegetable leaves, eggshells, leftover corn, and sweet potatoes, which her family doesn't like to eat now... The children would mix in the insects they occasionally caught. Anyway, they would eat whatever was available, and if there was nothing left to eat, they would let the insects go and find insects for themselves.
The report doesn't mention the average number of chickens raised per square meter, the survival rate during the rearing period, the egg breakage rate, the average egg production rate, the average profit per chicken... Nothing, none of that.
Chen Chunhua originally thought that she was very capable. She kept a clear account every day. If the chicks were bought, how much was the expenditure and how much electricity bill the farm had to pay every month.
How much money was received every day, and at the end of the month, minus the expenses of the month, that was how much was earned. Then how much was given to Lin Yulan and how much was given to Liu Ni... A semi-illiterate man who had never been to school, earning seven or eight thousand a year in that era, if there was no one in the village secretly making a fortune outside, his family would definitely be the richest.
After listening to this report, she felt that her work was indeed a bit rough.
But if you want to improve it, the money you spend will not be a small amount.
Chen Chunhua has been regretting the past few days whether she should have ordered so much steel bars for her new house. 700 per ton! So how many stepped chicken coop racks can she make?
The chicken breed there was not the three-yellow chicken they raised, but the white Leghorn chicken, which could be called the ancestor of the white-feathered chicken. Although later everyone felt that the nutritional value and meat quality of the white-feathered chicken were not as high as the three-yellow chicken.
However, in this era when meat, eggs and money are in short supply, White Leghorn chickens have a short lifespan, eat less, and lay more eggs, with an annual output of 220 to 250 eggs. The eggs are heavy and large, so the economic income from raising White Leghorn chickens is definitely much higher than that from raising Three Yellow Chickens.
Then you have to spend money to buy the chicks, money again, all money! For a moment, Chen Chunhua even thought of the box deep under the bed, and the result was that she gave herself a slap in the face. Compared with that set of antiques, this money is nothing.
But Lin Guoqing came again and said he wanted to buy a car?
Can private individuals buy cars now? Even if they can, how much does it cost? What's the difference between buying a car and driving it away?
Buy you a big head ghost! After building the house, whether the remaining money is enough for her to rebuild the chicken coop is a problem. Even if it is for future development, that is a matter for the future. Don’t think about eating a lot of food all day long!
After being scolded again, Lin Guoqing was filled with grievances and was a little depressed during dinner. That is until Liang Shengdi suddenly mentioned whether they should go to Xiaxishan for a stroll on the first day of the new year.
"Xia Xi Mountain? There's a nunnery at the foot of the mountain and a Buddhist temple on the top. What's there to see there?" Lin Guoqing asked puzzledly.
"It was deserted for many years before, but it has become lively again in recent years!" Liang Shengdi talked about the excitement she heard at the river market today while eating.
"It's said that last year a family in the county was the first to arrive on the first morning of the Lunar New Year. They burned a stick of incense, and this year their business is booming! I heard that it's the owner of the flat knitting machine factory in our village. Do you know him?"
Liang Shengdi looked at Lin Guoqing and Shen Chunhua, her eyes full of curiosity. She knew more about things on the river, but her son and daughter-in-law knew more about things on the shore.
"A flat knitting machine factory? The one that makes sweater pieces?" Chen Chunhua thought for a moment. "I heard someone talking about it the last time I went to the savings bank to deposit money. Now, no factory in the village, big or small, can match their business."
The owner of the flat knitting machine factory was the first person in their village to earn ten thousand yuan after the reform and opening up. Two years ago, he was said to be the richest man in the village. The flat knitting machines in the factory were called money-printing machines by outsiders.
"His business hasn't only been good this year, has it?" Why is it all counted as the first incense?
"That's what people say," Liang Shengdi insisted. "So Xia Xishan says that when the winter solstice begins, many people go there every day to burn incense and worship Buddha. At the foot of the mountain, there are a bunch of small vendors carrying baskets or pushing carts selling snacks!
It's Chinese New Year, what's the point of staying at home all day? It would be great to go hiking, worship Buddha, and see if there's anything delicious to eat!
Lin Guoqing: "...Mom, if you want to go buy food, you can just tell me."
He said, when did this fucking person who was so perfunctory when praying to his ancestors start thinking about burning incense to pray for wealth?
Liang Shengdi: "Oh, then just take it as my thought."
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