In fact, both Yu Shouguang and the leaders of the commune understand the truth.
The matter of this pickaxe cannot be hidden. Even if they don't take the initiative to find someone, it is estimated that people will be able to imitate it after a while.
The main reason is that this thing doesn't have much technical content. As long as it looks like it, a blacksmith furnace can make it.
Therefore, their idea was to seize the opportunity before others could react.
Make some money if you can, so that others don't take advantage of everything in the end.
People in other communes did have the intention of going back and imitating it themselves.
I just thought about buying ten handfuls as samples and going back to find a blacksmith furnace to make them myself.
It turns out that Donggang Commune is also ruthless. Each commune must place an order of more than 500 pieces and pay a 70% deposit in advance.
There's no way for those who want three melons and two dates to take away the good stuff.
If the Donggang Commune dares to be so tough, it naturally has their support.
Not every commune has an industrial factory that can use machine tools to make pickaxes. In the entire county, except for Donggang Industry, there is a county hardware factory.
The leaders of Donggang Commune have already gone to the county to negotiate. They only accept large orders and won't do anything less than a thousand orders.
This is what industrial mass production is like, as the quantity increases, the cost can be reduced.
So regardless of the price added by Donggang Commune, the cost is actually lower than the cost of making it by hand in a blacksmith furnace.
Both parties understand what's going on, but when doing business, you have to bargain, otherwise you won't feel comfortable.
After some discussion between the two parties, in the end the people from other communes were determined and had no choice but to order 500 pieces.
There are a total of 14 communes and four towns in the county. The towns have town offices to participate in the event. Not only the communes participate in the event, but most of the commune's subordinate brigades also participate.
In this round alone, Donggang Commune ordered thousands of pickaxes and many ground guns.
The Donggang Industrial Factory and the County Hardware Factory started working together, working overtime and seizing the time to complete the order.
Then Xu Shiyan was transferred down and was responsible for the production of picks and ground guns, especially quality supervision.
"Xiao Xu, the industrial side will add 500 pickaxes, 100 ground guns, and 300 cannons.
This is a product ordered by a state-owned factory. Once it is done, you have to go there and help install it and teach the technology."
On this day, Xu Shiyan was still working in the industry, when the commune cadres came to inform him.
The first local state-owned venue in Fusong is located in Donggang.
In 1946, it was called "Yongmao Garden". In 1954, it was changed to a local state-owned garden, and later it was changed to the first state-owned garden.
A ginseng farm has about a thousand employees, operates a ginseng field of 50,000 to 60,000 feet, has an annual income of 5 to 6 million, and turns over millions of profits.
Each site has its own primary and secondary school, staff club, health clinic, and nursery.
There are production vehicles, cars, tractors, and all kinds of agricultural machinery, and there is also a mechanized processing plant.
They say that the second team is great, but compared to the first team, it is nothing.
Not to mention the second brigade, even the commune party, in front of the first party, is not even a junior.
"Xiao Xu, you must be diligent in this job of Yishenchang. Our commune is currently negotiating with Yishenchang to jointly run middle schools and high schools."
The commune cadre patted Xu Shiyan on the shoulder and told him to complete the task with quality and quantity.
Xu Shiyan had heard about jointly running schools in his previous life.
Donggang High School uses the same site that was used by Yishen Field.
Yishenchang moved the original primary school to the east, converted the original primary school teaching building into a dormitory building, and built a four-story teaching building to the west of the dormitory building.
Then Donggang Middle School separated the junior high school and high school departments, and the senior high school was moved to the new school, while the junior high school remained at the original location.
The condition of jointly running schools is that students with a registered permanent residence can go to junior high school regardless of their scores in the primary school to junior high school examination.
Moreover, students from participating middle schools also receive discounts when studying in high school.
"Don't worry, leader, I will definitely take care of this matter."
For Xu Shiyan, no matter what he does, it is his duty. He is a member of the Second Brigade and a member of Donggang Commune. He will do whatever the leader arranges.
To put it bluntly, teaching technology is nothing more than talking, calculating work points, and taking care of the food. Isn’t it a hundred times better than using a pickaxe to dig up big soil on the mountain?
Therefore, the industry will try its best to complete the order from the first site first. After completion, the first site will send someone to check and accept it.
If the acceptance is passed, the items will be taken away directly by vehicle.
By the way, I made an agreement with Xu Shiyan to send a car to pick him up the next day and go up to the mountain to teach the ginseng watchers how to install ground guns.
The ginseng fields in this ginseng field are all near the Caozi River, quite far away from Donggang. Most of the workers work by car.
On the morning of August 12th, the company sent a car to pick up Xu Shiyan, and he followed the workers up the mountain.
The road to Caozihe Ginseng Farm is not easy to walk, it is bumpy and has sharp turns.
Fortunately, Xu Shiyan's car was in a Jeep, which was better at least. The workers who worked in the car were all in big cars, which were even more bumpy.
After a bumpy ride across the Caozi River Bridge and another thirty miles of walking, we finally arrived at the first branch.
"Uncle Han, this is a technician from the Second Brigade of Donggang Commune. Didn't the field director mention that gun before? This young man made it.
Our field director ordered a hundred ground guns and asked the young man to teach you a few, so that it will be easier to see the ginseng in the future."
When everyone got off the car and entered the venue, they saw a tall and burly man who was less than fifty years old.
The person who brought Xu Shiyan here quickly introduced him.
"Xiao Xu, this is Uncle Han who we are watching in the first episode.
Don't underestimate Uncle Han, he is a well-known gunner in our field, and he is very good at hunting.
Moreover, my ancestors ran an escort agency, and Uncle Han is very skilled at it. Otherwise, how could he watch ginseng on the mountain?"
Xu Shiyan looked at the person in front of him and almost burst into tears.
He was too familiar with the person in front of him. In his previous life, he was the person in front of him. He taught him hunting and boxing. This was his master, Han Wenzhong.
"Uncle Han, I have admired you for a long time. The younger generation, Xu Shiyan, is not smart enough to show off in front of Uncle Han."
Xu Shiyan stepped forward and bowed politely.
Unexpectedly, Xu Shiyan was happy and excited to meet Master here.
In his previous life, in 1987, Xu Shiyan moved from a big house to Donggang. He wanted to develop ginseng but his own foundation was too weak. Later, after someone introduced him, he went up the mountain to see a ginseng farm.
At that time, the first venue was also contracted, and the land for the first branch was contracted by the Han family. However, the Han family did not have enough manpower, so they hired a few outsiders.
Xu Shiyan and Han Wenzhong were at odds with each other. They were looking at ginseng in the mountains. The old man taught Xu Shiyan some boxing skills. He took Xu Shiyan to the mountains in the summer and hunted in the winter.
The old man has been practicing martial arts since he was a child and has a very good physique. Even though he was almost sixty years old at that time, he could not lose a single step while leading Xu Shiyan over the mountains and ridges.
Xu Shiyan followed Han Wenzhong to see ginseng in the mountains for three years. While farming the mountains and hunting to save money, he bought ginseng soil and ginseng seeds and put them into the fields.
As a result, I came down from the mountain three years later and caught up with the September 1st. In 1992, the ginseng market plummeted, and I lost money again.
Later, Xu Shiyan had no choice but to continue looking for places to watch ginseng and make money.