I'm really just the village head

"Is it that serious?"

Lu Hongtao's eyebrows knit together.

"Don't blindly scare us all day, kid! The opportunity is right in front of us! There weren't even many places where you could grow out-of-season vegetables in winter before, unless it was those in the south where the temperature is higher."

Xu Zhiqiang took a chopstick of chili pepper and fed it into his mouth, feeling that the spicy flavor was much lighter than in summer, and tasted better instead.

Only after swallowing did he look contemptuous.

I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that.

"Secretary Xu, I'm really not trying to scare you. Other places, whether it's a commune or a township, can't take out too much money. And in the end, this money will definitely be passed on to the farmers ......"

At this point, Liu Chunlai paused.

Xu Zhiqiang and Lv Hongtao nodded their heads in silence.

"The skeleton of the greenhouse is not a big problem, the outside of the oil paper, basically every year have to change ...... If the large-scale promotion, the initial investment, a quarter certainly can not earn back."

"Aren't your vegetables now selling for five hexagonal dollars a pound in the mountain city? If it goes up any further, it will catch up with meat plus money."

Xu Zhiqiang retorted.

Clearly, they had come prepared.

"If the market had been well supplied, or until people's desire to taste it wore off, would the price have been so high? Before the two leaders came, my father and I were discussing this matter and asked the mountain city to keep the price down ......".

The two of them looked at Liu Fewang.

Liu Fewang nodded, his face full of flesh pain.

For him, Liu Chunlai's request to keep the retail price of these vegetables within 40 cents, and the daily loss of money, was too painful.

Lv Hongtao and Xu Zhiqiang are not fools.

Liu Chunlai's approach is right.

The county, now the sales of these vegetables, not so hot, just transported to, before dawn, the queue of people to buy vegetables are snatched up.

But now, it's 9:10 a.m. to go, and they're not even sold out yet.

It's only been a few days?

There are four vegetable markets in the county, none of which are very large.

The gourd village has not increased its daily supply, and each market is a tractor.

The reason is that prices are too high.

Compared to the mountain cities, the prices of vegetables in Peng County are cheaper.

In winter, there are a lot of vegetables in the market, and these out-of-season vegetables are, at most, just seasoning for people's meals.

"Then how much greenhouse production do you think the markets in Mountain City and Rongcheng can absorb?" After a long period of silence, Lu Hongtao asked Liu Chunlai.

The meaning was obvious.

Since it can't be replicated throughout the county, let's build a greenhouse planting scale according to the market demand.

Naturally, they don't want to hurt people's money.

If a situation like the one Liu Chun said really occurred, they would be scolded to death in the end.

Other places don't want to be like Gourd Village, where the land is taken back to the brigade and the investment is also the brigade's responsibility.

"The brigade and the commune jointly established a vegetable trading company, didn't your brigade? This can be handed over to the trading company ...... "Lv Hongtao saw Liu Chunlai did not say anything and added.

"Eat, eat first, the food is cold ......"

Liu Chunlai did not make a reply.

He directly changed the subject.

The temperature was low in winter, and the food would soon be cold when it was on the table.

The two of them did not press Liu Chunlai any further.

Liu Chunlai gave an answer anyway.

It wasn't until the meal was finished that Liu Chunlai spoke up: "After the year, all the fields of our entire brigade will start the construction of the greenhouse after the grain is thrown ......".

"......"

As a matter of fact, it is better to leave it to yourself to earn money.

"Comrade Chunlai, your brigade has so many industries, the annual profit is also quite a lot, and is now also building a color TV factory and a tape recorder factory ......" Xu Zhiqiang looked at Liu Chunlai, earnestly persuaded.

In Secretary Xu's opinion, it is best for Hulu Village to continue to engage in industry.

In the past few years, there have been a lot of people who have been trying to find a way to make a living.

"Yes, Comrade Chunlai, in Gourd Village, it is true that you can develop faster, but if you distribute it to a few communes, it can solve a lot of problems."

Lu Hongtao also thought the same.

Hulu Village is now riding high.

Any more income from greenhouse planting is just icing on the cake.

But giving it to those poor communes, it's like giving them carbon in the snow.

"Who solved the problem for us before when we were so poor that we couldn't even afford to eat?" At this moment, Yan Jinsong and Ma Wenhao came in.

Ma Wenhao looked at Xu Zhiqiang and Lu Hongtao with innocent faces.

For the two leaders, he couldn't be so shameless as Yan Jinsong.

When it comes to competing for profits, he is completely oblivious to everything.

"Comrade Jinsong ah, we are not asking for a certain way here, we are just discussing."

Xu Zhiqiang's words, although addressed to Yan Jinsong, were told to Liu Chunlai.

Let Liu Chunlai know that they are here to discuss.

They did not use their positions to force them to give up.

"Even if we want to promote it, it should first be our Happy Commune. So many years, the Happiness Commune has been the bottom of the county rankings ....... Yan Jinsong when the two big brothers, the slightest may not be more than let.

For him, there was nothing more important than lifting the commune he had worked so hard for so many years out of poverty.

Not the magistrate.

Not even the clerk.

"How about the county wiping out the debt our commune owes?"

"Show some face, will you?" Xu Zhiqiang was laughing at Yan Jinsong's shamelessness.

That's hundreds of thousands of dollars!

"Yan Jinsong, before the gourd village paid back part of your commune's debt, that part of the money, you intercepted the construction of the plant, the county has not pursued it." Lu Hongtao is also dissatisfied.

What's up with this Yan Jinsong?

There is no big picture at all.

Now the industrial park is left to them, and the county also provides a lot of support.

Especially in terms of infrastructure funding, the focus on this side of the tilt.

That's good, it's all in and no out.

It's unacceptable.

"Secretary Xu, County Commissioner Lu, we didn't say we were going to deny the debt. The money owed to the county, the commune will definitely pay it back. This is no input, the annual agricultural production, even the fertilizer did not give us much to share, production can not be brought up, the farmers' stomachs are not full ...... can not let us in order to pay off the debt, and watch people starve to death, right?"

Yan Jinsong didn't take the governor and the secretary seriously at the moment.

To steal profits from him?

No way!

Liu Fewang, who was wrapped in leaf smoke on one side, did not say anything, but just watched the fun quietly.

The secretary of the commune argued with the two big shots in the county, and he, as a branch secretary, was a little low-level and couldn't get involved.

Ma Wenhao was even more embarrassed.

On the one hand is the leader, on the other hand is the future of his own jurisdiction.

The Happy Commune has to develop, and no money will do.

But we can't follow Yan Jinsong's example and just play shamelessly, can we?

When Liu Chunlai saw that this was not a good idea, he sighed and spoke up.

"Secretary Xu, County Commissioner Lu, if we have to share our greenhouse planting plans with other communes, it's not non-negotiable. ......"

"Chunlai, that's no good! Our commune is still poor! There are six brigades in total, only your brigade is in a better situation now." Yan Jinsong became anxious.

He couldn't care less about interrupting Liu Chunlai's words.

If Liu Chunlai agreed, it would be useless for him to object.

Ma Wenhao even more wanted to export, but was unable to do so due to Secretary Xu's presence here, plus he couldn't do the shamelessness of Yan Jinsong and the others, so he could only be anxious.

"Yes, Chunlai, that's not what you said before." Liu Fuwang was also anxious.

Liu Chunlai cast a look of calmness at the two men.

When they thought about it, it seemed as if Liu Chunlai wouldn't do anything to lose, and they were so anxious that they didn't open their mouths again.

Secretary Xu and Governor Lu looked at Liu Chunlai with eyes wide open, waiting for him to make an offer.

"If you choose another commune as a greenhouse planting base, you have to be provided with technical guidance by us; you can cooperate with both sides, and they will pay for the land, labor, etc. ...... Another thing is, what each greenhouse grows is up to our trading company, and the final unification will be purchased and sold by the trading company ......."

Liu Chunlai proposed this, which is the form of a cooperative.

There is a lot of land in the Happy Commune, but because it is all mountainous land, it is not suitable for large-scale greenhouse cultivation.

But because it was all mountainous land, it was not suitable for large-scale promotion of greenhouse cultivation.

And from the beginning, he was not prepared to turn all the land of the four major teams into greenhouses.

The Happy Commune?

The same is true.

Greenhouse farming is good in the short term.

Because of the temperature, the growth cycle of vegetables, for example, is shorter and much more profitable than growing food, for example.

However, there is a very serious consequence - the shortening of the crop cycle and the fact that in order to reduce costs, after each crop is harvested, the next season is planted, without giving the land a chance to recuperate.

In this way, the fertility of the land is constantly being squeezed.

Even if chemical fertilizers are used in large quantities, eventually, the land will become crusty because of the reduced fertility. ......

And in the end, it would even become desiccated.

Liu Chunlai knew the consequences, and naturally wouldn't want their own area to end up like that.

In the future, future generations would curse him to death.

"This ......"

Neither Lu Hongtao nor Xu Zhiqiang expected Liu Chunlai to propose such a proposal.

"In addition, the county must set aside a full share of the annual fertilizer for our commune."

Liu Chunlai ignored the two men and proposed another condition.

Instead, the two big men did not argue against giving the Happy Commune an extra share of fertilizer each year.

At present, the domestic production of fertilizer was very low, coupled with the inconvenience of transportation, the entire southwest region had a large deficit of fertilizer.

The higher government has no choice but to directly distribute the fertilizer according to the regions below.

There is no money to buy things.

Some imported fertilizer, that is even more unable to reach this side.

"Chunlai, the fertilizer is no problem, if all the greenhouse planting is up to you, ...... "Lv Hongtao tested Liu Chunlai's reaction.

He wanted to discuss on this.

"The reason for this is to keep the planting from going out of control everywhere, to control the scale of planting various vegetables according to the market demand, to avoid that because of the high price of a certain vegetable, everyone goes to plant this, which leads to the occurrence of things that hurt the farmers due to the low price of grain ...... At the same time, unified management, also allows us to better develop the whole county in this area; with unified management, it is also possible to set up an institute ......".

Liu Chunlai listed out the reasons one by one.

In front of these reasons, neither Xu Zhiqiang nor Lu Hongtao could refute them.

"What if other places grow their own?" Ma Wenhao raised the question, "Captain Chunlai, as you said before, we have no control over this matter ......"

His question was met with a fierce stare from Yan Jinsong.

What the hell is this for Liu Chun to tear down the stage?

The trading company is a cooperation between the Happy Commune and the four major teams.

Liu Chunlai is helping to get money for them.

If they really do that, they will be able to grow all kinds of vegetables in other places, which will bring them profits.

Ma Wenhao looked innocent.

He didn't mean that at all.

"It's really beyond our control. And it can't be solved, what we can do is to use large-scale cultivation, excellent management, advanced technology to reduce the cost of cultivation and increase production ......"

In the future, the competition for agricultural products will be fierce.

In many places, in order to develop the economy, they have little resources, so naturally they can only do something with the land.

Vegetable farming, this became the choice for many places.

Of course, throughout the 1980s, most of the labor force was still in the countryside.

Only in areas close to big cities, all kinds of vegetables were grown, which was close to the market.

The cost of transporting them from Peng County to the mountain towns would have increased considerably.

This is why Liu Chunlai was not prepared to engage in large-scale greenhouse vegetable cultivation.

Xu Zhiqiang and Lv Hongtao did not understand the future situation, thinking that the emergence of counter-seasonal vegetables has a not low threshold, and the idea of large-scale promotion, there is no problem.

The more Liu Chunlai said, the more a few people felt that he was thinking too seriously.

"Just a little bit of vegetables, the city consumes so much every day, it would be so serious?" Xu Zhiqiang didn't want to believe it.

What Liu Chunlai showed was really too abnormal.

"The farmers around the mountain city are closer than us, even picking every morning and putting them on the market the same day; while Rongcheng is in the plain area, and has a stronger advantage than we do; it's the fruit city, and both sides of the Jialing River are plains ......."

"So it can't be done?"

Lv Hongtao's tone was full of loss.

"Engaging is possible, we must establish a brand, unified planning, and lower our costs so that we can have a way out in the future."

After Liu Chunlai said that, he didn't say anything else.

He waited for the leaders to figure it out for themselves.

Lv Hongtao and Xu Zhiqiang and others didn't consider these issues before.

For a while, they hesitated instead.

"I have to go to the mountain ......" Liu Chunlai greeted, and went to the mountain.

He had to give the whole brigade some continuous projects out, otherwise, the brigade had so many people, it was impossible to resettle.

By the New Year, it was expected that all the people would hand over their land to the brigade.

Then, even more jobs would be needed.

For people who haven't studied much, jobs are really not that easy to arrange these days.

Unless you run a bunch of labor-intensive factories.

That's the last thing Liu Chunlai wants.

"This matter, have to be more cautious, I think it's better to go back to the meeting to discuss, have to find the relevant department heads to discuss together." Xu Zhiqiang finally didn't make the board.

The cost of a greenhouse is several thousand!

It wasn't until their car went down the hill that Lv Hongtao said, "It seems like we've run away again for nothing?"