What Zhao Haitang mentioned now seems promising to grow cash crops, but in fact it is completely impossible to achieve, that is, it is just bragging.

To truly develop rural economy, we still need to develop industry.

But industry also needs water sources, so it is necessary to develop water sources in the ditch so that water can be drawn from the ditch to the plain.

Even, the factory was built directly into the ditch.

Create a road to the ditch.

This is the only means and direction to develop Zhaojiazhuang's economy.

Just bragging, they are all paper tigers.

Zhao Peng was amused when he heard Zhao Haitang say these words in the playroom.

What he can understand is that the villagers have never seen the world of big things, but if you mention farming, they are the real good way.

Expert among experts.

Sure enough, someone started asking questions as he listened.

"Haitang, I just heard you say you want to plant some cash crops, so I have a few questions to ask you."

Zhao Peng looked out through the playroom window and found that the person who was asking about it was an old man who he didn't know yet.

Anyway, I'm not from Team 4.

Zhao Peng basically knows the old and young people of the fourth team, even if he can't call his name, he is at least familiar.

"Uncle Haishan, if you have any questions, you can ask me." Zhao Haitang frowned. This person was named Liu Haishan, and he was from Team 3.

He is also an uncle of Liu Xiaojun.

He didn't know if this person suddenly asked Liu Xiaojun or was just trying to ask a question, but he didn't have a clear idea in his heart, but he just held on the surface.

"The first question is, if we plant cash crops and don't plant wheat, what should we use to pay for public grain?"

The question raised by Liu Haishan is also the most basic issue that the villagers are very concerned about.

Most farmers in this era were still in the mindset that farmers had to farm, and they didn’t have the idea of ​​selling cash crops to their money and then paying them directly with money to pay for public grain.

But in fact, the government has already allowed this model of paying public food.

In fact, even twenty years later, that is, after 2020, there are still many farmers who are reluctant to give up their land. They know that farming is a loss, but they still plant food year after year. This is the habit accumulated over the years and will never be changed at all.

In 1998, this kind of thinking became even more stubborn.

"This..." Zhao Haitang was just talking nonsense, and learned some fashionable words in newspapers and TV at will. Now he learned and sold it on the spot. He had never thought about such things at all, but thousands of eyes were staring at him, so he had to bite the bullet and said:

"We can sell cash crops and then use the money we exchange for to pay for public grain. Of course, we can also plant wheat in part and cash crops in part without delay."

After saying that, he was sweating.

When Zhao Peng heard Zhao Haitang say this, he nodded. This person is indeed a bit of thinking that he can be a production team leader.

At least this idea, answer pattern, has no problem.

Sure enough, Liu Haishan did not continue to worry about this topic, but then raised the second difficulty: "If you plant economic crops, you need to water it. Haitang, there are no big ponds around our village, where does the water from this watering ground come from?"

"This...we can use a water tank to pull water from the well."

Jijing is a special name here.

In 1998, there was no running water in Zhaojiazhuang.

Each team has a centralized water pump, which uses a water pump to pump the groundwater. The villagers use buckets to pull the water home and then fill the knife into the tank with small buckets.

About 200 kilograms of water are 40 cents.

If it is worth one ton, it is 2 yuan per ton.

The price was no longer cheap in 1998, but fortunately, people here do not have to take a bath every day like in the south, so they do not use much water.

200 kilograms can be used for about 1 week, for Zhao Peng's family.

If water is used to water the land, if the water needs to be watered at least 50 cm thoroughly, half a ton of water will be required for one square meter, and 333 tons of water will be required for one acre of land. Then watering one acre of land will be close to 700 yuan at a time.

For normal economic crops, from sowing to harvesting or picking, it is definitely not as simple as watering once, and they often have to be watered once every once in a while.

If you water three times throughout the cycle and just water one, it will cost 2,000 yuan per acre of land.

This does not count seeds, cultivated land, sowing, fertilizers, artificial, pesticides, harvesting and picking, processing, sales, etc.

After all, cash crops become less economical.

People in Qingcheng planted flue-cured tobacco because flue-cured tobacco was relatively cold-resistant and drought-resistant, and did not require too much water. The sales price was not bad, so it was widely planted.

Which farmer in the village is not sure about this basic accounting matter?

So when Zhao Haitang said watering, everyone burst into laughter and thought to himself that you are still a captain and speak without any brains.

Watering yourself into the ground is not enough.

When Zhao Haitang saw everyone laughing, he naturally knew that he had not said it well just now, so he barely calmed down. He continued: "Of course, we have to choose drought-resistant economic crops. There is not enough water here, which is impossible to avoid, but we cannot do anything without changing, so we can never wait for a good life."

It’s no shame that he is the captain, and this is quite like that.

It is a barely enough to bring back some hope of survival on the verge of death.

Next he said something else, and everyone was happy, not objecting to him, nor much support.

Basically, he stepped down in a lukewarm situation.

He replaced him and Zhao Chunnian came to power.

He still looked like he was when he was reading the article before. He bowed to everyone when he went on stage, looked up at the entire village committee compound, and smiled slightly.

Then he started to tell the story.

"Dear fellow villagers, to be honest, I have never wanted to run for the village committee director before. Why? Because I am worried that I am not capable enough to serve everyone well, I will build our beautiful Longdong village into a better place.

Yes, I have been reading for many years, but I have said that I am a scholar. So if I have any talent, it must be an exaggeration or bragging. Whether you believe it or not, I don’t believe it myself..."

The villagers felt it was novel when they heard such a frank campaign declaration for the first time.

The simplicity of rural people is a neutral word. They often only recognize simple truths, so when it is good, it is good, and when it is bad, it is really bad.

Just like now, they don’t catch a cold for an old man like Zhao Haitang, but seeing Zhao Chunnian’s very real people, they have a good impression of them.

Everyone looked at Zhao Chunnian with a smile, wanting to hear what he would say in the future.

"...But, people like me also have dreams. So what is my dream? It's very simple. I just want to make our village richer."

Zhao Chunnian's eyes were full of sincerity.

"Our village is actually very well located, flat terrain, and close to the town. Logically speaking, our living conditions are better than other villages. However, we are the poorest in the surrounding villages. Up to now, there are still many people who cannot eat enough and dare not go to the hospital for treatment when they are sick. They can only hold on and make a small disease a serious disease.

Villagers, are the people in our village worse than those in other villages? Why can other villages contract vegetable greenhouses and then the whole village get rich together? Although our village also has vegetable greenhouses, the money flows into personal pockets. Why can other villages build small factories with resources by ditches? And our village factories are contracted to people outside.

This is not someone's reason, and our village lacks direction. We have never thought about long-term development, we just want to have some calculations, but how can this last? If this continues, will the people in the surrounding villages already live in big houses, drive cars, and live a good life? The blind dates in our village are still worried about having enough food?

Even if we can accept it, our children have worked hard for half a lifetime just to let their children live a happy life. But if we leave a poor and backward village to them, they will be much lower than others, so how can they win others?

I wonder if you have any feelings. Now the girls in our village want to marry outside, but the girls outside don’t want to marry into our village. Then if we continue, will the young men in our village become difficult even if they even get married?”

The villagers' faces became serious.

Everyone knows more or less about what Zhao Chunnian said, and can feel it.

But what's the use of knowing these things?

The limitations make everyone think about their immediate interests, and they will not think about the whole village becoming rich. Everyone knows that life is not good, but they don’t know how to live a good life, so they can only hold on while not willing to change.

Now, Zhao Chunnian teared this matter apart on such occasions, making everyone have to think about it and experience the embarrassing problems currently in Zhaojiazhuang.

No destruction or establishment.

The crowd was talking, and Zhao Zhengyi's face became darker on the rostrum.

Even Liu Xiaojun smiled bitterly.

The village director is mainly responsible for the economic development of the village, so Zhao Chunnian said these words in fact just slapping Zhao Zhengyi in the face.

However, Liu Xiaojun is the top leader of the village after all, and Zhao Zhengyi's face was beaten so loud that he naturally was not much better.

He couldn't blame Zhao Chunnian, but he was thinking in his heart that he hadn't said it so frankly before he could get up. As expected, he still had no experience.

Without scheming, many of the work in the future are difficult to do. It seems that he still needs to teach.

"...So, fellow villagers, if we want to become truly rich, we must change our current thinking patterns and behavior style. We cannot speak loudly or brag, but as a result, we delay a lot of time and spend a lot of money, but in the end nothing will fall.

Life is down-to-earth and comes through bit by bit.

Since our village does not have enough water sources, if we develop economic industries, the most urgent thing is to solve the water sources. Haitang said something just now. If there is a shortage of water, we will use water. But the premise is that we must reduce the cost per ton of water.

If we still follow the current water price of 2 yuan per ton, then we will never be able to water it. So, in response to this situation, I have three strategies. First, we can completely hollow out the vacant land on the east side of the village and dig out a reservoir of hundreds of acres. If it rains, we can directly store water instead of watching all the rain flow into the ditch.

We need to rectify the wells of each team, and my plan is to drill two new wells on the original basis for each village and increase the head of the well water pump. We also use the manual water pump model to let the idle staff in the village step on the water manually and pay the wages according to the amount of water trampling.

I am going to transport the water from the bottom of the ditch to the plain. Everyone knows that although we lack water on the ground, there is water at the bottom of the ditch. The groundwater in our Qingcheng City is about 40 meters deep, and all the rainwater slips to the bottom of the ditch, forming a stream, which is constantly around the year.

As long as we use certain tools and equipment, we can pump the water source from the bottom of the ditch and put it in the reservoir on weekdays. If we need irrigation, we can irrigate it uniformly.

In addition, I have another idea about the cultivation of cash crops, which is that we all plant together. Of course, this is not going back to the past when eating big pots, but a small-scale combination of several families. Due to historical problems, many of our lands are very small squares, which are not wide enough and have a long length, making it very inconvenient to plant.

And everyone should know that in the same area, the more types of products you plant, the lower the yield will be. If a certain fixed economic crop can be planted on a large scale, the yield will be very large. So this is the direction I want to do in the future..."

"Spring Nian kid, it's quite touching to hear you say, but you didn't expect that there is something you do. Where do you get the money if you do so much? Whether it's digging or digging a well, it doesn't require a lot of money. The village doesn't have so much money. It's not like we ordinary people to pay the money again."

The person who asked about the question was an old man in his eighties, Wang Fuxing from Team 6. What he said basically represents the opinions of Team 6. The captain of Team 6 was his youngest son.

Zhao Chunnian had known that such a problem would arise, and Xiaoxiao said: "We have already been concerned about the issue of funds. At that time, everyone will use very little money and get a lot of benefits. Of course, this benefit is not completely free. As for how to allocate it, we will organize everyone to make sure together in the future and will never be a one-man show."

After hearing what he said, Wang Fuxing couldn't say anything else.

He couldn't break the casserole and asked to the end, because Zhao Chunnian is not the village director now, and he will definitely not release all his chips.

"I just don't know what you mean by calculating. In the spring, you won't be able to stop moving after everyone elects you."

Suddenly, someone in the crowd started to speak sarcastically.
Chapter completed!