Chapter 212: Production Guarantee
I stayed in Xiuzhi's hometown for half a month, helped them improve the methods of raising earthworms and growing fungus, and taught them how to grow mushrooms. With these three skills, their family will definitely have a better life than other villagers in the future.
Before leaving, Xu Lingjun left some money for them so that they could build a house for his brother-in-law. The father-in-law was initially unwilling to accept it, as it would not make sense for him to use his son-in-law's money to build a house for his son. Finally, he changed his mind and asked them to lend it to them temporarily and pay it back when they had money. Only then did he agree and solemnly wrote a promissory note to Xu Lingjun.
After leaving Jiangyou, the family went to Chengdu again. Li Xiuzhi had lived in Sichuan for nearly 20 years and had never been to the provincial capital. She took this opportunity to take a good look around.
After eating twice-cooked pork, mapo tofu, and qifu lung slices and other delicacies, the family got on the train again, planning to visit Beijing again.
Xu Lingjun had been away from the capital for more than ten years, and he had lost contact with most of his former acquaintances. When he came back, he could only visit his old house. It turned out that the courtyard house had become the office of a public institution.
This is nothing. The work of vacating private houses will be started soon. When Xu Lingjun was in Shanghai, Xie Chao was in charge of this work. After being in contact with him for a long time, Xu Lingjun was influenced by him and memorized the relevant policies.
When the time comes, just write an application and go through the formalities, and the house will be returned to you. When you move to Beijing in the future, you can still live here. As for moving Qingqing's household registration here, just forget it. There's no need to take advantage of it.
After all, he has lived in several worlds and served as an academician. If he still has to worry about his children's education, then he has lived in vain all these years.
After returning from the capital, Xu Lingjun gave the local specialties he bought in Xi'an, Chengdu and the capital to Guo Chenzi, Dong Kuan and others. His life returned to normal. He went to the mountains to graze with everyone, and came back to continue planting various cash crops and raising cash animals.
Unconsciously, the trend of reform has also reached the grassland.
Some time ago, the Ministry of Agriculture and Reclamation held a meeting on the management of state-owned farms in Wuhan, and determined that the farms would resume the responsibility system with "setting, guarantee, and reward" as the main contents for production teams, and implement the responsibility system of "tasks to groups, responsibilities to individuals, quota scoring, and rewards based on points" within the production teams.
The meeting also studied and promoted the "one family" pig farming contracting method of Datong Farm in Hunan Province, which involves contracting pig farming with couples, parents, and children as the main labor group. This method is actually the prototype of a family farm.
After the meeting, farms across the country began to learn the spirit of the meeting and carry out reforms on local farms.
Simply put, these plans can be seen as the farm version of the household contract responsibility system. The superiors try to stimulate the enthusiasm of herders to work and produce more products by loosening up the constraints.
After Guo Yanzi finished his meeting at the farm office, he was a little unsure, so he came to Xu Lingjun for advice, "Old Xu, you've been educated and have seen the world, can you give us some advice? What should our production team do?"
"In the past, it didn't matter whether you did a good job or a bad job, so people had no enthusiasm to work. If the contract responsibility system is implemented, then after paying enough to the state, the rest is theirs. Everyone will definitely work hard, because the better the job, the more money will go into your pocket." Xu Lingjun helped him analyze the intentions of these policies.
Guo Chenzi seemed to understand. "So, our production team should respond to the call from the higher authorities and distribute pastures and horses to every household?"
"It's not good to divide them too far! You've been herding for so many years and you know that one person can herd a large herd, whether it's horses, sheep or cattle. It would be troublesome to divide them into a family of a dozen or so. If you don't herd them, the animals will starve. If you do, it's not cost-effective for one person to only herd a small number of them. Doing so may increase production in the short term, but the effect is limited and it's hard to increase it further."
Guo Zi was confused again when he heard this, "So should we split up or not?"
Xu Lingjun could only make his words clearer. "It still has to be divided. You don't want the farm office to control everything, do you? But it can't be divided too finely. If it's distributed to each household, their lives may not be easy. Distributing it to the production team is just right."
"Our production team has plenty of pastures and livestock, and even more people who can work. If we all work together, let those who are good at herding take their horses to the pastures to graze, and the rest can stay nearby and build more mushroom sheds to grow porcini. Isn't this better than everyone doing their own thing?"
Grazing also requires collective labor. Otherwise, why did ancient nomads exist in the form of tribes? Because a single household with a few people cannot cope with the intensity of herding work and cannot withstand various risks.
Unlike the United States and Australia, where a few people raise thousands or tens of thousands of livestock, China does not have such conditions at the moment. Not to mention vehicles, vaccines, and veterinary drugs, even Guo Chenzi and his group may not be able to get the wire to enclose the pasture.
"This time when I go to the capital, I also bought some books related to grazing. I plan to try to improve the feed formula and breeding model. If it works, the cattle and horses raised by our production team will definitely get better and better!"
In his previous life, Xu Lingjun had visited ranches and resold livestock patents, so he had no lack of knowledge in this area. It was a piece of cake for him to lead a small production team to run a good business.
When he said this, Guo Zizi believed it immediately, "Then I'll listen to you. I'll call them over for a meeting."
Everyone found a flat place on the grassland and sat cross-legged, listening to Guo Zizi's story. "The general idea is what I just said. I called everyone here to ask you, do you want to choose to have everyone do their own work, or do you want to keep the production team and do it according to what Lao Xu said?"
"Need I say more? Of course I'll follow Lao Xu! I'll do whatever Lao Xu tells me to do!" Haisheng was the first to raise his hand. He went to the city to teach porcini cultivation techniques for two years, which had inspired many farmers. Logically, he should have stayed in the county.
Unfortunately, he was unlucky. In the past two years, educated youth from all over the country returned to the city, and many children of county leaders also came back. As a result, the position that he was about to get was taken by others, and he had to return to the production team to continue working as a veterinarian.
Although he didn't get a job, he did see a lot of the world, so Haisheng now understands that the prospects for herding as a single family are limited. And they have gained so many benefits from following Xu Lingjun in the past two years. If he is willing to continue to lead everyone, then their future will definitely be good.
"I also think Lao Xu's method is better." Dong Kuan followed closely.
"I believe in Lao Xu!"
"One family raising more than ten horses? Isn't this a joke?"
Everyone spoke at once, and their meanings were basically the same.
After listening to this, Guo Zizi also came to a conclusion, "Okay, let Lao Xu lead us!"
(End of this chapter)
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