When Lin Heng finished breakfast and came to the field, his father and others had already pulled out the seedlings and started planting them.
"I forgot about it because I was sleeping."
Lin Heng rolled up his pants and walked into the field and said with a smile.
"What's the big deal? There are so many people here today that even if you didn't come, we would have finished it in the morning." Lu Honghai said with a smile.
Lin Xutao joked, "As long as you pour two more glasses of wine for your third father, your uncle, your aunt, your uncle-in-law and others at noon, it will be fine."
"That's no problem. We'll have plenty of food and wine for lunch, including beef and mutton." Lin Heng smiled and waved his hand.
Then everyone started to plant rice while chatting. This was a job that had to be done every year and everyone was very skilled at it, so there was nothing much to say.
However, it can be seen that everyone has already regarded Lin Heng as the center of their conversation, and they are very happy talking and laughing. Each of these relatives was originally a very poor family in the village. With the help and leadership of Lin Heng in recent years, they are now considered to have some assets in the village.
Especially now that they have planted fruit trees, they can sell fruit in two years, and their living conditions will get better and better. Farmers have never lacked hard work, and most of this country was built by farmers. It's just that in many cases they are only hardworking, so they always walk at the bottom of society.
"Come on, who will go with me to the river dam to catch crabs? Let's get some crabs to eat."
When the seedlings were almost planted, Father Lin shouted with a smile, "Every year when transplanting rice, there is always a crab catching session."
There are still many river crabs in this small river that has not been subjected to electrocution or poisoning, and they cannot be caught completely by humans.
Lin Heng said, "I'll go with you. Unfortunately, the snails are laying eggs and we can't eat them now."
There are many small snails inside the spawning snails, which taste like small stones and are completely inedible.
"If we didn't catch it in March, we can only wait until July or August." said Lin's father.
The two of them went to the dam while talking, and when it was time for lunch, there was a large plate of fried crabs on the table. This was thanks to Lin Heng and his father.
In addition to these, there were more than a dozen dishes. Everyone was very happy eating. While drinking, they also talked about the skills of taking care of the orchard and planting astragalus. As pioneers in the village, they have mastered a lot of techniques.
After dinner, I helped my eldest brother's family plant rice in the afternoon. In the next few days, I went back to each family to help plant rice. This is the most important work in early summer and it is related to the problem of food for the whole next year.
Lin Heng's family had tried it before, so this year every family had to ask Lin Heng to buy fertilizers for them. The difference in grain yield between using industrial fertilizers and not using them was too great, so the little bit of fertilizer spent was totally worth it, and many people in the village also chose to buy fertilizers.
In addition, each family piled up the ridges of the fields to store more water for raising rice fish. Lin Heng had bred enough carp fry this year, so each family could get several thousand.
His father-in-law Chen Changxia also called him, and they gritted their teeth and contracted a bend of Liulin Lake in their village. The three families also built three and a half acres of fish ponds to raise fish, and they had already bred a lot of grass carp and carp fry and put them into the ponds.
Lin Heng thought about it and told them that he owned a feed production factory. After learning this, Chen Changxia on the phone was stunned for a long time without saying anything. They didn't expect that Lin Heng's business had grown so big.
Later, Lin Heng told them that he was willing to help them and send them some feed. He would not charge them for the time being and could just pay him after the fish were sold. With the feed, both grass carp and carp could be shipped in two years, which was basically a sure win.
They said they wanted to discuss it and would call them back in two days. Lin Heng didn't care. He said that mainly because of Xiulan, so he was willing to help them.
After waiting for another two days, Li Shiwei brought him the news that his father-in-law Chen Changxia and others agreed to let him deliver the feed.
After Lin Heng found out, he went to the town on the agreed day to wait for his call, and then told them that the feed would be delivered to them in early June.
Xiulan was also very moved when she knew about this. She used all her tenderness to reward him and gave him everything she could.
After his family had squeezed the rapeseed oil, new work came. Lin Heng first hired someone to plant his ten acres of astragalus, and then he instructed the people in the village who planted astragalus on how to plant it.
It was the end of May when this matter was completed. The parents started to plant grapes, apples, and vegetables in the orchard, while Lin Heng stored water in the disinfected pond and then sprinkled manure water to cultivate the water in preparation for stocking the shrimp fry later.
There are a total of 16 ponds in the family, all of which are one acre in size. This year, Lin Heng chose to use two of them to raise fish. One of the fish ponds is stocked with rice carp weighing two or three taels that were raised last year. If these fish are fed with feed, they will grow to about four or five kilograms by the end of the year.
There is also a pond used to raise all the carp and grass carp fry hatched in a few years. Because the breeding density of fry can be very high, Lin Heng estimates that more than 10,000 fry can be raised in the end.
After he had raised the water supply here, he went to take care of things in the city and left the management of the orchard and the care of the cattle and sheep to his parents. He only went to check on the situation every few days.
The same was true at the pig farm. At the beginning, he had to go there every two days. After he taught Li Shilei and Zhang Feng, he went there once every three or four days.
Thanks to the regular disinfection and manure shoveling plan he developed, the piglets have had no problems and are growing healthily eating their feed.
His main job is to sell his own feed. He first looked for subsidies from various government departments. Now that the trend of market economy is unstoppable, the government also has support plans for these small private factories and workshops.
Thanks to his efforts, the feed produced by his factory has appeared in seed and pesticide stations in various towns and villages. These are places where farmers will inevitably come, and through learning more about them, gradually people will be willing to buy the feed essence produced by his factory.
The main reason why it was so smooth was that it was the first factory in Taibai City to engage in feed production. Before that, all the feed in Taibai City was brought in from other cities. As a local enterprise, it naturally received support and was considered the first to try it out.
In this era, the credibility of government agencies is very strong. Everyone trusts them, and with the government's endorsement, farmers are indeed willing to give it a try.
Of course, Lin Heng also made concessions in terms of profits. He certainly wouldn't be able to make much money when he first started to seize the market, even though this was a blank market that was not occupied by anyone.
Through the channels of the pesticide and seed station, Lin Heng's feed basically spread to all the towns and villages in Taibai City. Then Lin Heng and Lin Hai went to the homes of those breeders to recommend the feed, and the effect was much better. With a little discount, they were willing to try it.
Lin Heng was busy with this matter throughout the entire month of June and did not take care of much of the family affairs. He only went there personally to check on the shrimp fry during the two days when they were put into the pond. His father had learned the rest in the past two years, so he did not have to worry about anything.
On the morning of July 1st, Lin Heng pulled Lin Hai and Wang Zhou into the office for a small meeting.
Caiyun was also in the conference room. She did not go back home this summer vacation, but was taking cram school here. Her English level was not very good, so Lin Heng enrolled her in a cram school.
Lin Heng looked at the two and smiled, "After a month of hard work, our feed sales have finally spread throughout Taibai City. This is easier than I thought. We can also start recruiting more people. Although we only have one production line at present, the production capacity is actually very low and can be improved a lot."
He had to admit that doing business in this bonus era was easy. He was confused when he first started and didn't know what to do, but when he really studied it, he found that it was actually much simpler than he had imagined.
"Brother Lin, you are amazing. I really admire you. I hardly played any role." Lin Hai looked at Lin Heng admiringly. He had been promoting for half a year this year but could not achieve as much as what Lin Heng achieved in one month. He was completely impressed by Lin Heng.
"Yeah, I didn't expect our business to grow so big all of a sudden. It seems like it succeeded all of a sudden." Wang Zhou also said that he had been doing nothing in the factory.
"You can't say that. Everyone's efforts have paid off." Lin Heng smiled and shook his head.
"Brother Lin, how many people are you planning to recruit this time?" Lin Hai asked curiously.
"I want to recruit ten more production workers, two professionals to study feed ratios, a few sales staff, and a chef for the factory canteen. Later we will need accountants and technicians, etc." Lin Heng said after thinking for a while.
A normal feed factory must at least have production, technology, sales, procurement, finance, human resources, administration, and quality inspection. Of course, he cannot recruit all of them now, and he has to do a lot of work by himself. But if he wants to truly build a big company, he must have all of these and slowly cultivate qualified talents.
He plans to gradually recruit some young people for training, and fully develop them within one or two years. Even if he opens other companies in the future, these talents will be of use.
Feed production is a promising industry with a big market. Livestock feed and pet feed are the same. As long as it is done well, there is no need to worry about making money, so he wants to get off to a good start.
"Workers are easy, sales staff are okay too, but feed ratio researchers are not easy, and we need to find educated people." Lin Hai commented that this is not an easy task.
"So let's take it slow and recruit a few people to try it out first. These are necessary personnel." Lin Heng said. He knew that if he wanted to expand the scale, he could not be stingy with investment in talents.
As for the issue of money, it is no longer a problem now. With the establishment of sales channels, each seed station can make a profit of four to five thousand yuan a month, and it will increase more in the future.
And this does not include orders from breeders and animal husbandry stations. Lin Heng estimates that the factory's annual net profit can reach about 50,000, and will increase in the future.
"Then when are we going?" Lin Hai asked again.
Lin Heng thought for a moment and said, "I'll go after the meeting. I'll collect more resumes this time so I can carefully select them later."
After they finished their chat, Lin Heng asked Wang Zhou to temporarily stop production and called everyone to the conference room for a meeting.
In the conference room, Lin Heng first talked about the factory's achievements in the first half of this year, and then looked into the future, inevitably painting some rosy pictures. People of this generation had not yet suffered a beating, so they were all very excited to hear the rosy pictures he painted.
Then he gave everyone practical things. He decided to appoint Wang Zhou as the director of the production department, and then selected three of them as supervisors and two as deputy supervisors based on their production enthusiasm. The new people recruited later would be led by them.
The substantial rewards of promotion and salary increase greatly boosted everyone's enthusiasm and made them feel a stronger sense of belonging to the factory. Lin Heng then said some encouraging words to end the meeting.
Later, he went to a recruiting place in the city and posted the job requirements. He asked the staff there to help collect resumes and said he would come back to take a look in a few days.
"Okay, now that I've finished my work here, I'll go home first. If you need to deliver something, you can ride up on your motorcycle and drive."
After finishing, Lin Heng patted Lin Hai on the shoulder and said that he bought a second-hand motorcycle for the factory and now allocated it to Lin Hai to use, making it convenient for him to travel between the village and the city.
He can’t afford a second truck now, so this is what he needs for now. Things should be much better next year, and he will buy another truck then.
"Okay brother, be careful when you go back." Lin Yue nodded.
Lin Heng nodded and drove away, leaving Lin Hai to ride back alone.
In fact, the newly recruited worker Lin Hai asked him if he wanted to recruit some relatives, but he refused. When hiring people he didn't know, he only talked about the job and salary, and could simply fire them if they were no longer needed. This was not possible with relatives.
We have now entered the hottest days of summer. The sun is shining brightly in the sky and the wind is hot even when the window is open, making people sweat.
At 12:30 noon, he returned to Hongfeng Mountain. After he parked the car, his parents came over.
"Son, have you finished your work in the city?" Father Lin looked at him and asked with a smile.
"Now that the initial work is done, I can relax for a while." Lin Heng nodded with a smile.
During this period, he only went home once every few days, and each time he went home he didn't stay for long.
But there is no other way. In the early stage of starting a business, he has to work hard bit by bit on his own. It is impossible for him to just be a hands-off boss.
"That's good. Come over and eat some watermelon. The early watermelons we planted at home are ripe. They have been frozen in the water for a long time. They are planted in sandy soil this year. They are especially sweet and sandy."
Mother Lin looked at her son, sweating profusely, and waved.
"Okay." Lin Heng nodded and walked into the house, coming to the electric fan to blow the air. He used a layer of heat-insulating cotton in the room, and it was indeed much cooler.
Father Lin poured him a cup of herbal tea made from honeysuckle and Prunella vulgaris, and said with a smile, "Son, you are amazing. Your Hengxiu brand pig feed has been sold to the pesticide station. I heard that it is now available in every town and village, and it has even been published in the newspaper."
Although Lin Heng is not in the village these days, his reputation has become famous again. This is because the village party secretary revealed to the villagers that Hengxiu brand pig feed is produced by Lin Heng.
When the villagers learned that Lin Hengdu had opened a factory in the city, they didn't know what to say.
Especially since Zhao Hu and others also came back during this period, they were speechless for a long time when they heard the news.
Originally, he wanted to compete with Lin Heng, but now he has simply given up. He no longer discusses anything related to Lin Heng, nor does he make any comparisons.
"Haha, this is all thanks to Dad for helping me raise shrimps over the years. Without this initial capital, I wouldn't be able to open this factory." Lin Heng laughed and blurted out words with high emotional intelligence.
"That's true. It's all thanks to me, your father." Father Lin laughed.
He felt that he had lived a fulfilled life. His sons had all become successful. His eldest son became a village cadre, his second son expanded his business throughout Taibai City, and his daughter attended a key high school and might be admitted to university in the future.
He is quite famous and everyone who sees him will praise him for being so great.
Lin's mother mercilessly said, "Look at what you are capable of. It's all due to your son's ability. You have done nothing."
"Of course I have." Father Lin snorted.
"Mom and Dad, you have all made great contributions. It's because of you that most people wouldn't support me." Lin Heng said with a smile.
He was telling the truth. Most parents in the countryside would never allow him to do this.
"Okay, okay, I've killed the watermelon. Let's stop bragging." Mother Lin waved her hand and said.
He quickly cut the watermelon, and Lin Heng ate the sweet and juicy watermelon, nodding his head continuously. This year's watermelon was indeed sweeter than last year's.
"Oh, son, I have some great news for you too." Father Lin said with a smile after eating a piece of melon. (End of this chapter)
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