Chapter 201 Inventory of Family Property
Gao Mingcheng found someone from the village committee and asked about the forest contracting matter.
The village party secretary's eyes lit up immediately, and he said, "Gao Mingcheng, you want to contract a forest? Great! Come on, tell me, which forest are you going to contract? What are you going to plant with it?"
This attitude was too eager, and Gao Mingcheng had a bad feeling.
In the previous life, the mountain in their Gaojia Village had never been contracted out!
Although Gaojia Village is surrounded by mountains on three sides, some mountains are not suitable for contracting. The low mountains near the village, such as the back mountain, are allocated to everyone.
The topography of Xiaoyuan Mountain is actually quite good, but it is a cemetery mountain, and all the ancestors of Gaojia Village are buried there.
The hill at the entrance of the village is too small, and in 1996 a highway will pass through there, and the entire mountain land will be expropriated.
In fact, if one contracts the land now, there will be compensation when the land is requisitioned. However, Gao Mingcheng does not intend to earn that little compensation. He wants to study the issue of growing tangerines.
After much calculation, I think the most suitable location is the small hill at the foot of Niuweiling Mountain.
"I do have such an idea, but I'm just asking now. Maybe it can be used to plant fruit trees. I haven't decided what to plant specifically yet." Gao Mingcheng didn't say it definitely, but just let it slip.
Then he said, "Village Party Secretary, if I want to contract the forest, how do I calculate the money? How do I pay? And how many years can I contract it for?"
The village party secretary's attitude was still cordial, and he immediately said, "No one in our village has ever contracted a mountain forest, but someone in the brigade has done so. The price is seven yuan per mu, the contract is for fifty years, and the contract fee is paid annually."
Gao Mingcheng pondered for a moment and quickly said, "Are you talking about the forest in Huanglin Bay?"
Close to Huanglin Bay is Huanglin Village, where the Huang and Lin surnames are the most common. Most of the people in the village are immigrants from other places. It is said that they migrated from AH during the Republic of China. Therefore, the architecture of Huanglin Village has Hui style characteristics, which is different from the houses in other villages with Gan style characteristics.
The village party secretary said, "Yes. It is that piece of forest. The contractor is six people from Huanglin Village who jointly contracted it. There are more than 300 acres in total. After signing the contract, they have to pay the first year's contract fee to the village committee."
There are more than 300 acres, and the price is 7 yuan per acre, which means it will cost more than 2,000 yuan a year.
Two thousand yuan is not a small amount of money for ordinary people, so not many people are willing to contract the forest.
Gao Mingcheng said: "Huanglin Bay is low-lying and has a large area of Masson pine. The contractors can directly harvest oil and earn income that year. Seven yuan per mu is not expensive, but there are few good forests in our village, so it is not appropriate to calculate it at seven yuan per mu."
The village party secretary pondered. He knew the situation in the village very well and knew that what Gao Mingcheng said made sense. However, he did not discuss the price directly. Instead, he said, "Tell me which piece of forest you want to contract first?"
Gao Mingcheng said, "It's the hill in front of my house, the little spot at the tail of Niuwei Ridge! It's probably less than 300 acres."
After hearing what Gao Mingcheng said, the situation of the mountain came to the mind of the village party secretary. The mountain was relatively short and full of trees, but most of them were species with little economic value. It was mainly low shrubs, with some Masson pine, wild loquat and camphor trees in between.
At the foot of the hill, there is a naturally formed depression. If the depression is tidied up, it can be turned into a water storage pond.
This hill also has a disadvantage, which is that half of it has poor lighting as it is blocked by the steep mountain behind Niuweiling.
The village party secretary said, "The place you mentioned is the best forest in Gaojia Village. If you really want to contract it, the village committee can hold a meeting to discuss whether the price can be reduced. In addition, it must be announced to the public to see if there are other people who want to contract it."
Gao Mingcheng nodded. These were all normal procedures. He said, "The village committee can hold a meeting and make an announcement first. However, I haven't thought it through yet. I'll submit the bid when the bidding starts."
Gao Mingcheng still didn't say anything definite, mainly because he suddenly found that his trouser pockets were empty!
Once the forest is contracted, you have to sign the contract and pay the money immediately.
The mountain is less than 300 mu, so if we calculate it based on 300 mu, it would cost 2,100 yuan! If the village committee gave him a more favorable price, it would still be around 2,000 yuan.
This is just the contract fee. After the contract is signed, you still have to hire people to cut down trees, level the land, dig ponds, etc., all of which cost money.
However, the cut down big trees can be sold for money, and the small shrubs can be used as firewood, so they are both useful.
When I returned home from the village committee, it was already evening. When I passed the old village, I saw that smoke was beginning to come out of the chimneys of most houses.
In the afterglow, the ancient village of Gaojia Village is quiet and beautiful.
On the way back home, Gao Mingcheng began to think about money.
He had not made up his mind whether to contract the forest before, but at this moment he suddenly became full of energy, because if he contracted the forest, there would be many things he could do!
There is no need to say much about planting fruit trees, and you can also raise chickens, ducks and fish!
There is a depression at the foot of the mountain, which means there must be a spring underneath. After digging a pond, it can be used to irrigate fruit trees or to raise fish and ducks. The pond will not be too big, but the fish and ducks raised will be enough for the family to eat.
Nowadays, most chickens, ducks and fish are grown naturally without being fed feed, and they taste very good. However, it will be difficult to eat food of this quality in the future!
The more he thought about it, the more excited he became, so he began to take stock of his belongings.
Almost all the money he had was used to build a house in the county. The construction of the house has already started. The construction team they hired has Gao Guobing's reputation, so no one dares to cut corners. Gao Mingcheng only needs to inspect the house after it is completed. It will be completed around October, and then it can be decorated and ventilated. It should be ready for use by the end of the year, so he can make a fortune before the New Year.
You know, the reason why the New Year atmosphere is so strong at this time is that many people may only buy a new set of clothes to wear during the New Year throughout the year, and only during the New Year can they eat big fish and meat, so everyone is looking forward to the New Year, and the New Year atmosphere is strong.
In later times, people could buy new clothes and eat delicious food every day all year round, so the anticipation for the New Year disappeared.
Last time he killed Ma Wangye and his group in the mountains and obtained some trophies, the first of which were the eight hunting rifles and a submachine gun.
He didn't know how Lord Ma got the submachine gun, but now it was his!
With this gun, those hunting rifles seemed dispensable, so Gao Mingcheng planned to sell them.
In addition to guns, he also found some money on those people, but not much. Perhaps the bulk of the money was placed somewhere in advance and not carried with them.
There's nothing else besides these... oh, and two wild boars!
At that time, Lord Ma and his entourage were killing and destroying indiscriminately in the mountains, killing twenty or thirty wild boars and damaging a lot of medicinal herbs. When he passed by, Lord Ma and his entourage had just shot and killed two wild boars. Naturally, he carried the two fresh wild boars down the mountain.
One is packaged and sold cheaply, one is kept for family consumption, some of the meat is shared with relatives and friends, and the rest is pickled with salt to make wind-blown meat.
The weather is hot now, and if your cooking skills are not good, the meat will go bad and have a bad smell before it is completely dry!
Fortunately, Gao Mingcheng has a big appetite and is willing to give the bones with meat to the black tiger and the elf, so not much meat needs to be pickled and dried.
Gao Mingcheng paced around the house and finally stopped at the place where the honey was placed.
After all the calculations, the only thing he could sell now was the honey! This was the honey he had shaken before, but he had never had the time to sell it, so he just kept it at home.
He himself was afraid of trouble and was willing to give up part of the profit and sell it all at once. But when Xuanyuemei knew about it, she was reluctant to give up that part of the profit and said that she would keep it for herself and sell it slowly. However, she had a lot of things to do and could not go to the county alone to sell honey, so she kept it for the time being.
Honey is high in sugar and has a long shelf life if it is not contaminated, so Gao Mingcheng was not in a hurry to sell it. But now he has to sell it to save money for his trip to Guangzhou.
In addition to the honey, he also had three taels of gold, which was secretly given to him by Huang Dazhi. He didn't want to touch the gold for the time being, but now he can consider selling the gold in Yangcheng for money.
"Ming Cheng, come and check the fire!" Just as he was thinking about it, many beautiful voices came from the kitchen.
When Gao Mingcheng is busy, Xuanyue can watch the fire and cook by herself, but if Gao Mingcheng has nothing to do, she likes to call Gao Mingcheng to watch the fire, so that she can relax and chat with Gao Mingcheng.
"Hey, I'm coming." Gao Mingcheng responded and came to the kitchen. At a glance, he saw Xiulian Mei peeling the loofah with a knife.
This loofah is not too big. It is the first batch grown this year. When greenhouse vegetables are not available everywhere, the first batch of fruits and vegetables are always anticipated, because after a few months, there is a sense of freshness when you eat it again.
With Gao Mingcheng's help in watching the fire, Mei Hao's cooking movements were very quick. When the loofah was almost cooked, she quickly chopped two green peppers and threw them in.
Yes, making loofah soup and adding green peppers, this is very Jiangxi!
(End of this chapter)
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