“That’s easy. I’ll go find Secretary Wang right now and ask him if the farm is interested in renting cattle and horse harnesses.”
If we need it, that's perfect. If the other work teams don't need it, I'll discuss it with Secretary Wang later, and our educated youth team will use it."
The workers are all formal employees, and they usually only receive basic wages. During the winter harvesting and transportation period, they will receive corresponding subsidies and bonuses after completing the planned production quota.
The educated youth teams were different; they consisted of educated youth who had come to the mountains. They weren't considered formal employees; their work was basically outsourced and contracted out, so the more they did, the more they earned.
This year's production tasks are so heavy, and there are so many educated youth teams, so the forest farm has assigned a large logging area to the educated youth teams.
Originally, Sheng Xiping planned to build two roads in the logging area designated by the educated youth team, one as a tractor road and the other as an ice ditch.
At that time, both sides will work together to cut down trees. One side will use tractors to haul the timber out, while the other side will be carried by hand, just like last year.
By working hard on both fronts, we can always accomplish more than last year.
Carrying logs by hand is time-consuming, laborious, and dangerous; it's nowhere near as convenient as using oxen or horses.
So when Sheng Xiping heard that Liu Yujiang intended to rent out oxen and horses for sleds, he immediately decided that this year their educated youth team would be divided into two groups: one group with tractors and the other with oxen and horses.
This way, the materials can be collected at the lumber yard at the foot of the mountain and directly stored in the lumber yard, which is much more convenient.
"Big brother, second brother, come on, I'll take you two to the farm headquarters, we'll go find Secretary Wang and Farm Director Zheng."
Sheng Xiping could no longer sit still. He hurriedly got up and led Liu Yujiang and his brother outside.
When they arrived at the farm headquarters and found Wang Jiachuan, Sheng Xiping explained the purpose of the Liu brothers' visit to Wang Jiachuan, who was delighted.
"Look, we've been discussing this for so long, and we've already forgotten about hiring oxen and horses to harness the animals."
Secretary Liu, that's settled then. We'll rent as many livestock as you have at your alkali field.
"Okay, let's not just use livestock and sleds, let's use people too. Your brigade can then provide the necessary manpower. Is that alright?"
The Qianchuan Forest Farm has never raised large livestock before, so they don't know how to feed these things.
When renting cattle or horses to work, you have to feed them carefully so they don't get sick from overworking, otherwise you'll have to pay compensation.
Wang Jiachuan thought about it and realized that with such a heavy production task this year, there was already a shortage of manpower. If more people were to be assigned to drive sleds and feed livestock, the work elsewhere might not be able to keep up.
Alright, let's not worry about the wages of those ten or twenty people, let's just hire them all together, it'll save us a lot of trouble.
Just as Sheng Xiping said, a work team can be divided into two groups, one using machinery and the other using animal power to collect materials. By combining their efforts, the work will definitely be faster.
The Liu brothers originally only thought of renting out the livestock to earn some money for fodder, so they wouldn't have to feed the livestock dry all winter.
Unexpectedly, the forest farm hired people as well. This way, they can earn a lot of money over the winter, including both people and livestock. It's a good thing!
"Oh, thank you very much, Secretary Wang. I'll arrange for the best and most physically fit young man from our brigade to come here for you. I guarantee it won't delay the forestry production."
In winter, everyone stays at home idle. With such a good job available, the people in the production team would probably fight tooth and nail for it.
The two sides quickly reached an agreement, and Wang Jiachuan hurriedly called his men over. The two sides drafted a contract and agreed on the relevant details.
Then Liu Yujiang, representing Dajianchang, and Wang Jiachuan, representing Qianchuanlinchang, both signed and pressed their fingerprints on the contract, and the cooperation between the two parties was thus finalized.
"Uncle Wang, Uncle Zheng, let's go to my house. My mom is cooking at home. Let's have a drink tonight."
After the contract was signed, each party kept a copy. Sheng Xiping then invited Wang Jiachuan and Zheng Xianyong to visit the Sheng family.
Wang Jiachuan glanced at Zheng Xianyong and laughed, "Old Zheng, let's go to Xiping's house for dinner tonight."
Their family lives well; they eat meat every day. Let's see what delicious food Old Lady Sheng has prepared tonight.
We all get along well, and we often have dinner and drinks together after work without any problems.
Furthermore, Wang Jiachuan admired Sheng Xiping and the Liu brothers quite a bit, so it was a good opportunity for them to chat together.
And so, Sheng Xiping invited Wang Jiachuan and Zheng Xianyong to his home.
When Zhang Shuzhen and Zhou Qinglan, who had just returned from get off work, saw this, they quickly weighed out two more dishes.
Fortunately, Sheng Xiping and his group had hunted a lot of game in the mountains a few days ago, such as wild boar and roe deer. The weather is cold now, so the game can be stored for a while, and cooked game can be kept for several days.
After some thought, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law decided to prepare six dishes and a soup.
Sheng Liancheng also rummaged through the cabinet and took out several bottles of good wine. Everyone sat down on the kang (a heated brick bed) and ate, drank, and chatted.
They chatted about everything under the sun, from all corners of the world to the east and west, and any topic could spark a lively discussion.
"Hey? Xiping, you guys are going up the mountain to work the day after tomorrow, right? Do you have anything planned for tomorrow? How about we brothers go up the mountain together?"
Liu Yuhe sat next to Sheng Xiping. While everyone else was talking loudly, Liu Yuhe whispered to Sheng Xiping.
"Okay, I was just thinking about it today. Before I even go up the mountain, I should take the dog up and have a fight while the first snow falls."
Otherwise, when I go up the mountain to work in the winter, those dogs will just stay home and do nothing.
After snowfall, animal tracks are very clear, making it easier to track prey than in spring and autumn.
Since it's winter and there's not much farm work to be done, many hunters, regardless of the quality of their grips, are happy to go into the mountains to try their luck.
If Sheng Xiping hadn't been an educated youth sent to the countryside, he could have brought back a lot of things that winter by taking his dog up the mountain.
Unfortunately, he was a sent-down youth in the forest farm, and his status was not free; he had to go up the mountain to work.
So when Sheng Xiping saw the snow outside this morning, he thought that he should take the dog into the mountains for a run tomorrow, and whatever it catches, he could save it for the family to eat.
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