"Okay, An Tong, this is how to make farmyard manure. It takes more than half a month in total. There is still one month before spring plowing. It should be enough for every household to make some farmyard manure, improve land fertility, and increase grain production.
!" Wang Ping said after giving the method he had figured out to Ouyang Antong.
"It's so simple to make fertilizer~" An Tong stared with disbelief.
"Yes, in fact, ordinary people have been retting farmyard manure for a long time. The only problem is that they only use livestock manure, and the amount is very small. They can only grow vegetables, and there is no farmyard manure available in the fields. Now I combine plants and crops
After adding the straw, the amount of farmyard manure they retted will be greatly increased, and it is mature farmyard manure, which will not harm crops and will definitely be useful~"
An Tong immediately affirmed: "Okay, tomorrow we will convene a meeting with everyone to promote this method!"
At this time, Wang Ping hesitated and continued to ask: "When I came here, I passed a village with a population of more than 100 people, but it only had more than 100 acres of land. I observed that around this 100 acres of land
There is still a lot of wasteland, and as long as the trees are not destroyed, there will definitely be no problem in reclaiming another hundred acres of wasteland!"
"I believe this is not an isolated case in Yanchang County. I just don't understand. Since there is not enough food to eat, why not open up more land and increase the land production by increasing the land cultivation area!"
The smile on Ouyang Antong's face suddenly solidified.
After opening his notebook with records of visits, he replied: "This is indeed not an isolated case. This situation exists in the entire Yanchang County!"
"If I guessed correctly, you should be talking about Zhonggu Village. I went there a few days ago. There are 106 people in the village and 125 acres of cultivated land!"
"The reason why they don't increase cultivated land is simply that they don't have enough labor to cultivate the extra land!"
"I did some statistics and found that there are 106 people in the village, of which there are only 32 strong laborers, and the rest are all old, weak, women and children."
"What's more important is that the village is so poor that there is not even a single plowing cow in the village. All plowing and farming rely on manpower."
"A strong laborer, working with a woman, can cultivate up to three acres of land a year. If it's more, there's nothing we can do!"
"You think they don't want to reclaim wasteland, but there is really no way!"
"Without the labor to increase the cultivated land, the food that can be harvested in the autumn harvest is very limited, and it is not even enough to eat, let alone buy livestock. So, they can only cultivate a few acres of land from generation to generation, and then starve!"
Relying entirely on manpower to cultivate the land, Wang Ping stared with disbelief. He finally understood why in the base area in southwestern Shanxi, people could easily cultivate two acres of cultivated land per capita. But here, even one acre of cultivated land per capita was not guaranteed.
Can be farmed.
Seeing Wang Ping frowning and not speaking, Ouyang Antong subconsciously asked: "Wang Ping, do you have a solution?"
Wang Ping did not answer, but frowned and asked: "An Tong, how much money does our family have now?"
Ouyang Antong didn't know why her husband suddenly talked about how much money the family had, but he still answered readily: "I really don't know the specific amount, I have to calculate it!"
"In the past two years, both of us have received allowances, and we also have several subsidies. We almost never use them and save them all. There must be one or two hundred yuan."
"After you arrived in Yan'an, the Ministry of Economic Affairs paid you several bonuses one after another. I remember it totaled 1,350 yuan!"
"And after you came back from the Suide Military Region, Vice Minister Li of the Intelligence Department sent us 500 yuan, saying that this was a reward from the Intelligence Department to you!"
"When I got married, you gave me 150 yuan, a large yellow croaker, and some gold and silver jewelry as betrothal gifts. My parents gave them all to me, and I kept them all, but they were all useless!"
"In addition to the money we spent during this period, there must be 2,100 yuan, and there is also a large yellow croaker and some gold and silver jewelry!"
Wang Ping nodded, then hesitated for almost a minute before replying: "I do have an idea."
"I took out two thousand yuan and a large yellow croaker, and established a company in the border district government in the name of my father-in-law. As long as this company is established, I will have a way to solve the problem of the people in Yanchang County not having livestock, and it can also drive the people to increase their income and production.
Get rid of poverty and become rich little by little!”
"Establish a company!" Ouyang Antong was stunned.
In his opinion, the two issues of setting up a company and solving livestock problems are completely unrelated and cannot be brought together.
And her husband's confident answer made her choose to believe it, and then she stared at Wang Ping and asked.
"How to do it!"
Wang Ping did not hide anything and answered directly: "I plan to use the money to buy fifty cattle and three thousand lambs from Shanxi!"
"Currently, cattle are priced at 50 yuan each, and adult goats are 3 yuan each. Lambs are cheaper, and you can buy them for 1 yuan. For 2,000 yuan plus a large yellow croaker, you can definitely buy these livestock!"
"The cattle are leased to the common people to cultivate one acre of land. I don't charge you any money now. Just give me twenty kilograms of grain during the autumn harvest!"
As for those lambs, as long as someone is willing to raise them, I can give each household two lambs, one male and one female. After a year, the two sheep will definitely give birth to lambs, and I can keep two lambs, one male and one female.
They are given as a year's reward. If they are willing to continue to raise them, then they can raise them. If they are not willing to continue, our company will take back all the other sheep and give them to other people to raise!"
"Because the company's scale is not yet large, we can only consider Yanchang County. When the company has enough funds next year, it will further increase the number of cattle and expand to other counties."
"When the people have money, I can sell the cattle to them!"
Ouyang Antong frowned and hesitated for a long time before asking: "If you rent cattle to the common people for farming, wouldn't the rent of twenty kilograms of grain per acre be too high?"
"If I remember correctly, one hundred kilograms of grain now costs two yuan, and one cattle costs fifty yuan. You can buy two thousand five hundred kilograms of grain. This means that one cattle only needs to cultivate one hundred and twenty yuan a year.
You can get all your capital back with just over ten acres of land, why don’t you go a little lower!”
Wang Ping shook his head and replied: "It's not expensive at all!"
"When it comes to farming methods, I think of another problem. Because there are no livestock, the people here rely on manpower to till the fields. But with cattle, they can carry out deep farming. The yield of deep farming land will definitely be higher than that of shallow farming.
Plow more!”
"This means that the common people did not pay much more, but instead liberated the labor force. Each household can plant more acres of land. It is possible to produce hundreds of kilograms of more grain a year, or even a thousand kilograms more!"
Ouyang Antong nodded and replied: "It's really not much!"
"The food production of the common people has increased, and with livestock, life will definitely get better and better. We have also made money, killing two birds with one stone, I agree!"
"It's just that I don't know if my father will agree. After all, his favorite thing is teaching!"
"Absolutely, this is a good thing that benefits the country and the people!" Wang Ping affirmed, explaining by the way.
"Besides, this company is only in my father-in-law's name. He doesn't need to do anything. Those who are willing to teach can still continue. Don't worry about the management. I have many battlefield disabilities in the New Regiment and there is no way to return.
I can ask the old subordinates of the army to come over and help with the operation, which will also increase their income. More importantly, they are worthy of my trust!"
"In that case, I agree!" Ouyang Antong no longer hesitated and answered with certainty.
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