Chapter 111 Great Harvest
The chicken farm rents forest land from four villages. After deducting the cost of labor, feed, repairs, facilities, etc. from the 24,000 yuan, the net profit is 15,000 yuan. A 20% profit is 4,500 yuan, which is more than 1,100 yuan if spread out to each village.
Don’t you see that there are still 90 acres of mountain land waiting to be developed?
So she paid 1,125 yuan as wages and asked the villagers to exchange it for work points they earned by reclaiming fields, planting fruit seedlings, and watering the crops.
The village cadres were unwilling to do so, as the original agreement stipulated that the profits would be split into two parts to benefit the villagers. However, An Zhixia said that the mountain was still under development, and he only used a small part of it to operate the chicken farm, and the orchard had not yet been built, so the profits could not be transferred out.
Moreover, after the fruit trees grow and bear fruit, the profits will double, which is a win-win situation.
Now that she can pay out 20% of the profits as wages, it is the best way she can think of to kill two birds with one stone. What can the village cadres say? Of course, they have nothing to say, and can only arrange for their own family members first.
It takes several years for fruit seedlings to grow and bear fruit, and An Zhixia may not be able to wait that long. However, she still strictly controls every detail, from the selection of fruit seedling varieties and quality to the density of fruit seedlings and planting management methods. An Zhixia wrote down all the detailed information so that future takeovers can continue to operate.
Just as the chicken farm's profits stabilized, there was good news from the brick kiln.
An Zhixia was delighted as she looked at the neatly arranged, beautiful, simple and elegant blue bricks. Her white fingers felt the smoothness of the bricks, and she could hear Master Hua's slightly excited introduction.
The brick kiln is small, but that is only compared to the official kiln with dozens of doors in a row, so it does not take a month to fire as Master Hua said. It only takes half a month from firing to drinking water. Their brick kiln can produce 30,000 blue bricks at a time. Wuqi Commune is located in the south of Xiahua. Most houses are built with two or four walls (thickness), so it is equivalent to the amount of three main rooms of a farmer's house, and it can also take a kitchen!
There are thirty-six villages in Wuqi Commune, and each village has thirty to fifty households, which means there are about fifteen hundred households, which is a huge consumption!
Master Hua can take care of ten brick kilns by himself. During this month's training, Master Li has also put what he learned on paper into practice and can take care of three or five kilns. Master Hua also has two apprentices, and when they become masters, they can each take care of two or three kilns.
Brick kilns have to be built again, and not only that, they have to be built bigger, with a production capacity of 100,000, and we need ten of them! So recruiting workers in large quantities is imperative!
For the links that require technical skills, we recruit regular workers, and the links that only require physical effort are assigned as odd jobs. Or, they can take on the responsibility of turning the excavated land into green plants, contract for aquaculture, etc. As long as women can get more than seven work points and men can get more than nine work points, they can do odd jobs!
There are many ways to distribute wages. You can exchange them for bricks at a low price to build a house at home, or you can pay by the piece and settle the wages on a monthly basis.
The brick factory provides three meals a day, but the prerequisite is that you have to work a full day, otherwise the meal expenses will be deducted from your labor income.
As soon as this news was released, the brick factory was surrounded by young and middle-aged people!
However, the village cadres of each village have submitted a list of people who have met the requirements in the past year, all of whom are the main laborers in their families. In order to prevent water from being mixed in the list, the applicants have to learn how to stir, mix mud, and beat pulp on the spot, so that the reviewers can see whether they are quick, serious, and careful in their work, and also see if they have good endurance and agile minds.
The brick factory is a practical industry, and it does not allow slick people to come in and make a living. The rows of people stirring, mixing mud, and beating the paste are working seriously with serious faces, sweat dripping down, but no one complains or stops, and the bulging muscles on their arms show their capital.
As a result, more than 2,400 people out of the 3,000 applicants were qualified and qualified to work as part-time workers in the brick factory. In order to mobilize everyone's enthusiasm, An Zhixia did not take the trouble to have people select regular workers, but planned to gradually confirm them in the next year.
In order to earn a place as a regular worker, everyone had to work with all their enthusiasm and seriousness. Just when ten large brick kilns were built and a batch of millions of bricks were sent in for firing, a new round of busy farming season began.
One tenth of the labor force was left to prepare the next batch of bricks, while the rest worked hard to harvest the early rice, plant the late rice, and harvest the first crop of watermelons in the wheat fields!
Everyone was thinking about living in a brick house, and the fire in their hearts was always burning, and they didn't feel tired during the busy farming season this year. However, when paying public grain, Hetang Village became famous again after the chicken farm made a lot of profit!
The land quality of Wuqi Commune is average, the people's farming methods are outdated, and the yield per mu is not high. They can only work hard to cultivate more to make up for the lack of food. The maximum yield per mu of rice is only 400 kilograms, wheat is 300 kilograms, and corn is 150 kilograms!
But this year is different. Hetang Village has set aside 500 acres of rice fields to raise fish. Although the fish are still being raised to be harvested with the late rice in autumn, the early rice has already been harvested, and its maximum output is 40% more than that of other ordinary rice fields!
What does this mean? The rice yield per mu has increased from 400 kilograms to 520 kilograms!
Everyone was shocked and couldn't believe it. They thought Hetang Village must have made a big loss, but they didn't want to lose face and exaggerated. Other people were so happy that they raised 10% more fish in their rice fields, but here they lied and said 40%?! They didn't see it. Rice farming for fish requires digging trenches, and the spacing between rows is larger than that of ordinary rice, so less rice must be planted. How could the yield increase so much?
The villagers of Hetang Village smiled but said nothing. The output is right here, how could they lie?
Watermelons are interplanted with wheat in Hetang Village. In the southern part of Xiahua, the watermelon has a short ripening period and can be picked now. More importantly, the wheat is not affected. In other words, the watermelons are picked for free!
The time to pay public grain is a big event for rural people. Everyone carries a load on their shoulders or pulls a cart, and a long line of people go to the county grain station in the dark to pay grain. This is also a memory deeply engraved in the bones of Xia Hua people. As a time traveler, An Zhixia has to follow and gain some experience even if she has to face the scorching sun.
In this era, the grain yield per mu was low, but the land cultivated by rural people had to provide food for people in the city. In addition, before the grain was harvested, people from higher authorities would come down to estimate the yield and there were mandatory targets, so a lot of public grain had to be paid. This was one of the main reasons why rural people could not have enough food to eat.
An Zhiqiu rode a tricycle with a flashlight tied to the handlebars and several baskets of watermelons on his hat. An Zhixia sat on one side wearing a straw hat and a shawl, holding a large cattail leaf fan and several pots of rock sugar green bean soup ready to cool off.
Following the villagers, although there was no money to pay the public grain and no substantial benefits, but thinking that after paying the public grain, the remaining food would be divided among the villagers, the joy on everyone's face was still strong, just like the scorching summer sun above their heads.
Fang Hongye followed the light with a few juicy cucumbers in her pocket and gave one to An Zhixia.
(End of this chapter)
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