Chapter 200: Thinking about contracting a forest
Gao Mingcheng had the idea of planting sugar oranges, so he went into the mountains to check the terrain.
This is a hilly area with low hills near the village, which is very suitable for growing orange trees. There are also no major problems with the soil, light, etc.
In the mountains, there are a dozen or so stinking orange trees. These are wild, tall, and covered with sharp thorns. The fruits they bear are large and numerous, but they taste very sour.
Basically no one will eat stinky oranges, but they will be used.
Some people will cut a stinky orange in half when killing a chicken, and then use the flesh side to scrub the plucked chicken, saying that this can remove the fishy smell and make the chicken skin cleaner.
Some people will cut stinky oranges in half and use the juice on their faces as a skin care product in the autumn and winter. Stinky oranges contain a lot of vitamins, so this may have some effect. However, if there are small wounds on the face, the sour juice will irritate and cause pain.
Every autumn and winter, Gao Mingcheng could hear the screams of the children in the village. Because most of them were naughty, they inevitably had wounds on their bodies and faces. When they were smeared with stinky orange juice, they would scream in pain.
People with better conditions would buy facial cream to apply on their faces. Facial cream is much gentler and more moisturizing for the skin. It smells nice when applied on the face and does not have a hint of orange scent.
Gao Mingcheng walked on the mountain, looking left and right at the vegetation in the mountain.
He had often gone up the mountain in the past, but he had never observed these hills carefully. He usually climbed over several hills in a row and then went deep into the mountains.
But if you want to grow sugar oranges, you can't go to the deep mountains. You have to grow them in the low mountains near the village, and you have to cut down all the trees in the mountains, because orange trees need sufficient light.
If you just plant a few trees, you can carve out a small plot of land at the foot of the mountain, but if you plant more, that won't work.
Although there is no limit on land reclamation, there is actually a certain amount. If you occupy too much, other families in the village will have objections.
So, do you want to contract a piece of forest to plant crops?
Gao Mingcheng frowned and began to think about the feasibility of this.
After listening to Xiao Jinfeng's words, he began to think about planting sugar oranges. This was because he himself loved eating sugar oranges, and if sugar oranges were grown, they would definitely be easy to sell.
If you want to contract a piece of forest, should you contract the forest near Niuweiling near your home or other forests?
For this, Gao Mingcheng instinctively chose a place near his home, but there was only a small hill with a gentle terrain on the Niuweiling side, while the rest of the place was relatively steep and densely wooded. After contracting the land, it would take a lot of effort to cut down trees and level the land.
Gao Mingcheng stood on a high slope, looking at the gentler terrain below the mountain, and began to ponder.
In the past life, no one contracted the Niuweiling area because the location was not very good. However, Huanglinwan in the next village was contracted to grow Masson pine, which can be used to produce oil. When the Masson pine grows to a certain size, a V-shaped wound can be cut on the bark, and then a plastic bag or plastic box is hung at the bottom of the V to collect the pine resin.
When the pine resin has been harvested almost completely, the tree can be cut down and sold for timber, and then new Masson pine trees can be planted, and the cycle repeated.
In addition to cutting pine resin in the contracted forest, the contractor would also negotiate with people from other villages to ask them to rent the pine trees in their mountains to him and pay him a certain amount of money per year.
Some people rent out their pine trees, but some are unwilling to do so because they are worried that the trees will die after being harvested for oil.
In fact, there are cases of pine trees dying. This is because when tapping for oil, the bark is cut too deep and too densely, causing the pine trees to die.
In addition to contracting mountain forests to plant Masson pine, there are also people who contract mountain forests to plant peaches and oil tea trees. But speaking of it, the mountain in their Gaojia Village has never been contracted by anyone. The reason is that the mountain here is slightly taller and steeper than the mountains in other villages.
Another thing is that by the year 2000, most of the young people in the village had gone out to work, and very few people stayed in the village. The old people who stayed did not have the energy or the courage to contract the forest, so the land was left empty and the trees were allowed to grow wildly.
After recalling these situations, Gao Mingcheng went down the mountain and came to Xing'an Mountains. The brigade and the village committee were here. He planned to find someone to ask about the contracting situation first.
When we got here, we saw Gao Shouwang working on the factory site. The garment factory had already laid the foundation and built a half-meter-high wall.
The garment factory is not big. It is expected to be built with a factory building covering an area of about 200 square meters. It is a bungalow with a large opening. It is divided into three parts: one is the factory building, one is the warehouse for storing fabrics and ready-made clothes, and one is the office, which is used to receive guests.
Since they had met, Gao Mingcheng and Gao Shouwang naturally chatted for a while. Gao Shouwang said, "In more than a month, the factory building will be built. By then, I will go to the county to buy ten sewing machines."
"Mingcheng, you said last time that you would take Duomei to Yangcheng to purchase goods and bring back samples. When do you plan to go?" Gao Shouwang asked.
Gao Mingcheng had planned this when he arranged many aesthetic tailors and opened a clothing store in the future.
It's chaotic outside right now and it's inconvenient to go out. He personally doesn't want to travel far, but there are many beauties that need to be seen!
With his help, many people who had dropped out of school for many years have learned common characters and can read the four great classics independently. If they come across characters they don't know, they can look them up in the dictionary themselves. Generally speaking, they have made progress in the cultural field.
But aesthetics and vision still need to be further developed.
When he heard Gao Shouwang's question at this moment, his heart suddenly skipped a beat.
There were too many things planned, but he didn't have much money in his pocket! With the help of Gao Guobing, he got a piece of land in the county and hired a construction team to build a three-story house. The money for building the house would cost most of his savings!
And now he wants to contract the mountains and forests to plant tangerines!
Do I still have money? Suddenly, Gao Mingcheng felt guilty.
The cost of transportation, living expenses and clothes for a trip to Guangzhou is not a small amount!
Gao Mingcheng felt guilty for only a few seconds, then said calmly, "Go by the end of the month at the latest. We can bring back samples, but you have to find the right fabrics."
Gao Shouwang smiled and said, "Don't worry, I have already established a good relationship with the county textile factory! The director of the textile factory is a retired soldier. When he was in the army, he happened to be in the same unit as my eldest son. I wrote a letter to my eldest son before, telling him about the family situation. I don't know what he did, but later he told me to go find the director of the textile factory, and that director would give me many discounts."
When talking about his eldest son, Gao Shouwang straightened his back with pride.
Gao Mingcheng smiled. In his previous life, Gao Shouwang's two sons were doing very well, and the eldest son was the best. This was related to his personal ability and also to the fact that he married a good wife.
His wife's status was too high, which resulted in Gao Shouwang's eldest son marrying into his father-in-law's family and living with him ever since. This also led to Gao Shouwang and his wife leaving Gaojia Village and following their son to settle elsewhere.
(End of this chapter)
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