"Xiao Xu, I have made an agreement with the captains of our team. When the mallets are sold this year, I will give you a separate bonus.
Without you taking the lead in developing this ginseng fertilizer, how could our team have the current production? You deserve the most credit.
We don’t care about other places, anyway, the team must show its expression.”
During the meeting of the second brigade, Yu Shouguang publicly expressed his intention to reward Xu Shiyan in front of several captains, squad leaders, accountants and others.
You know, in the past, one foot of ginseng yielding 16 to 7 pounds was considered a high yield.
What now? A good piece of land can weigh twenty-six or seven kilograms per foot, while a poor piece of land can weigh twenty-two or three kilograms.
The Second Brigade has 4,500 feet to make goods. How much will the production increase?
And this is not a simple increase of tens of percent. You must know that the larger the ginseng is, the higher the grade of the product will be.
As the level increases, the price will also rise accordingly, and the income will definitely be much higher than the increase in output.
"Uncle Yu, it's easy to say whether there's a bonus or not.
I just went to the processing factory and took a look around, and the processing method for that big product was wrong."
Xu Shiyan really didn't take the bonus seriously.
How much reward can be given to individuals this year? At most one hundred yuan, what does he care about?
"Ah? What's wrong?"
Yu Shouguang and others were stunned when they heard this. Isn't that how all goods are made? Steam them and dry them in the sun. What else can you do?
"Uncle, those big products are different. The sticks weighing three to four ounces are too big and will break easily when steamed.
Once the stick hits the flap, you won’t be able to make good products and you won’t be able to sell them at a high price.”
The mallet is large, has enough pulp, and contains a lot of starch and other substances. Once steamed, it will easily split vertically, which is what Xu Shiyan calls a flap.
If the mallet is flapped, it will leave traces even if it is dried in the sun. It will not be inspected when inspecting the grade, and good products will not be sold at a high price.
"Oh, what should we do?" He said, everyone knew what was going on.
In the past, the yield of ginseng fields was low. Occasionally, a few large ginseng trees would come out and be steamed, which would cause this problem.
But in the past, there were only a few of them, and it was just a matter of mixing together, and no one cared.
Nowadays, the output is so high and there are so many large ones. It would be a pity if they were all steamed and chopped.
"Use a strip of cloth, a finger-width strip of cloth, to wrap the main body of the mallet tightly, then steam it in a pot.
After it's steamed and cooled down, untie the cloth strips and dry them in the sun, so it won't be easy to flap."
This trick was thought up by his eldest daughter in his previous life.
At that time, the output of mallets was high. In order to prevent the mallets from breaking the flaps, Xu Jinping found a way to wrap cloth strips around the mallets and tie them tightly. Sure enough, the mallets would not flap.
It's just a lot of trouble and a lot of effort, but there's no point in it. In order to sell more money, you have to do it this way.
"Trapped with strips of cloth? How many strips of cloth are needed, and how many people are there? Can it be busy?" asked the person next to him.
"Then what can we do? Just go door to door and look for it. Old clothes or sheets will do, as long as they don't fade.
Mobilize the whole team of men, women, old and young to work, and you have to grab this job."
Xu Shiyan spread his hands. If you want to make money, you have to devote time and energy.
I want to make more money, but I don’t want to bother myself. There are no such good things in the world.
When Yu Shouguang heard that it made sense, why should he worry about the trouble if he wanted to make money? So he immediately shouted through the loudspeaker.
Every household is called upon to donate old clothes and sheets and work in the processing factory.
Regardless of whether you are male or female, old or young, as long as you work well, you will definitely get a lot of work points.
This time, quite a few people actually came.
Everyone took their own old clothes or sheets that were torn in the middle, and followed Xu Shiyan's request to tear them into finger-wide strips of cloth.
Then use cloth strips to tie up those three-forty-two mallets as firmly as possible, and then put them in a basket and steam them.
Steam the ginseng in a pot, take it out, set it aside to cool, then untie the cloth and put it on the fork.
Not to mention, this trick is really effective, and there is really no chance of making any mistakes.
"Xiao Xu, you are really good. Fortunately, we have you in our team. You said that since you moved here, how much benefit have we all benefited from?
Good job, young man, I will take good care of you.
It’s a pity that there are no workers, peasants, and soldiers college students now, otherwise I would have to recommend you to go to the Agricultural University to study for two years, which would be an indignity.”
Yu Shouguang encouraged Xu Shiyan and sighed with emotion.
"Uncle, I really wanted to go to school, but it's a pity that I didn't get the chance, right?
Now that the college entrance examination has resumed, my little ink has already been eaten up, so I can’t pass the exam." Xu Shiyan regretted.
In fact, he really wanted to study, mainly animal husbandry and veterinary medicine.
In the future, the scale of breeding farms will become larger and larger, and disease prevention and control must be more stringent.
He is still an amateur at these things. If there is a chance, it is best to find a place to learn.
In fact, there are a lot of things to learn, not only animal husbandry and veterinary medicine, agricultural product processing, extraction of active ingredients from medicinal materials, etc. Xu Shiyan really wants to learn them all.
Although the Fusong area is rich in ginseng, it has always been exporting raw materials.
To be honest, this is really equivalent to being stuck by outsiders, and the price is completely determined by foreign purchasers.
In the past few years, there has still been a unified purchasing and marketing system, and the output is not high, so there is no sign of any improvement.
After a few years, after the ginseng contract was delivered to households, each family's ginseng business developed, and various companies started to participate in the exhibition.
The ginseng planting industry has entered a period of wild growth, and the lack of timely market regulation has caused ginseng farmers to lower prices from each other.
In the end, it will be the foreign customers who get the advantage and the ginseng farmers who lose.
In the past, Xu Shiyan didn't have much ambition. He just wanted to develop some of his own ginseng land and plant hundreds or even thousands of feet.
Just use the experience of your previous life, avoid some pitfalls, and live a happy life.
But what happened in the past few years, especially the promotion of fertilizers in the ginseng industry, gave Xu Shiyan a wake-up call.
Without corresponding measures, ginseng prices may plummet earlier than in previous lifetimes.
If only the Second Brigade, or in other words, Donggang Commune masters the technology of ginseng and fertilizer, even if it increases production, it will not have a great impact on the overall situation.
But now the entire county has started to promote it. How much will the output increase in three years?
Next, not only this county, but several neighboring counties that also produce ginseng will definitely take notice and learn to promote the use of ginseng fertilizer.
By that time, the output of ginseng had increased significantly, but the purchase volume was higher, and the purchase price did not rise but fell.
Ginseng farmers have a good harvest but not a good one? Will this happen?
Before 1986, if the country did not relax restrictions, it should not happen, but after 1986, this situation is very likely to happen.
If that's the case, Xu Shiyan's good intentions may turn out to be bad things.
Whenever Xu Shiyan thinks about this situation, he feels chills in his back.
He is just an ordinary old farmer with no education or background.
How capable is a person who is pushed by the times and passively moves forward to resist the torrent of the times?
"Xiao Xu, what are you thinking about? Why are you still motionless? Why are you so stunned?"
Yu Shouguang was surprised when he saw Xu Shiyan standing there in a daze, so he reached out and pushed Xu Shiyan's shoulder.
"Uncle, please help me keep an eye out for that if our county holds any training courses or the like.
You sign up for me, I have to study." It may not be easy to go to college, so I can only think of other ways.