Five or six pairs of eyes turned to look at Li Xiangdong.
Li Jin: ...
Why is everyone looking at my son? Wasn't I the one speaking?
Well, this idea was indeed Li Xiangdong's.
"Xiang Dong, you talk to everyone."
"Uncles and elders, if we want to build a large cannery, we need a stable supply of fish. Right now, there's no problem—plenty of water and plenty of fish. But what if there's a drought a year from now? What will we do then?"
"If we buy fish at high prices, there will be no profit in canned goods. If we reduce production, the supply will be unstable, and no one will want our products in the future."
"So, I was thinking, why don't our brigade build a few fish ponds and shrimp ponds? We can supply the cannery and sell to the aquatic product company."
"In addition, we will set up another pig farm, and the pork can be made into luncheon meat cans."
"Also, we should establish a Chinese herbal medicine base, where we can grow Rehmannia glutinosa, wolfberry, Salvia miltiorrhiza, Polygala tenuifolia, Bupleurum chinense, and honeysuckle. In particular, we can grow Aster tataricus in the wetlands along the river."
"The profits from traditional Chinese medicine are so considerable that you can't even imagine."
"Oh, and also, we need to establish a medicinal herb processing plant to process and prepare traditional Chinese medicine."
"Of course, the Chinese herbal medicine bases and medicinal herb processing plants still need to invite experts to come and provide guidance, and the profits will not be seen in a short time."
"It takes a year and a half to raise pigs."
"So, we'll proceed in three steps. First, we'll raise fish and shrimp to make canned goods. Second, we'll open a pig farm. Third, we'll establish a Chinese herbal medicine base and a medicinal herb processing plant."
"However, there is still one very urgent matter, which is to find a sales channel. It may not be long before our county produces a lot of maltose!"
After Li Xiangdong finished speaking, everyone in the room was stunned.
Raising fish, shrimp, and pigs, and even growing medicinal herbs?
"Of course, this is all in the agricultural sector. Later, there may be industrial and construction projects as well. In short, we must seize all the development opportunities in the next few decades."
They even thought about things decades later.
What do I do when I suddenly feel full of energy?
Having painted a grand picture of the future for everyone, the next step is to continue studying the specific plans for distributing oil and grain.
Since the government had reduced or exempted the grain tax for the entire Huichuan County, it was impossible to make only the Lijiapo Brigade pay.
Wang Zhenbo brought over the account book and abacus, explaining to everyone one by one, "This year's wheat harvest is higher than in previous years. 1,438 mu of land yielded a total of 365,063.8 jin of wheat. Our brigade harvested a total of 987,680 jin of wheat stalks. We've already pressed 480,000 jin of oil, which is all stored in the warehouse. Besides the 3,600 jin of oil we're giving to Jinniu Commune, we can bring back about 10,000 jin of oil."
Everyone gasped in disbelief.
Overall, this was a bumper harvest year, a rare occurrence in the history of Lijiapo Brigade.
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