Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1694 Mutual Jokes

After getting the confirmed investigation report, Tu Liangzhi organized a villagers' meeting. At the same time, he rarely asked Lao Chi Ri to sit next to him when conveying the agenda.

Tu Liangzhi said, "There are three main points for this meeting. The first point is that the township is going to develop a processing and sales point for agricultural and sideline products. Elbow will collect agricultural and sideline products produced by everyone at the grain station for a long time. Currently, they mainly include dried bracken, dried mountain mushrooms, cordyceps, gastrodia, bracken root powder, kudzu root powder and other relatively high-value agricultural and sideline products."

"This is a good thing for the village. These days, every family is making some money from drying bracken, right? I see that many children in many families have put on new clothes. But I have to remind you that the Torch Festival is not here yet!"

Everyone in the courtyard of the grain station burst into laughter.

"The second point is that the township is planning to develop a Moroccan soft-seeded pomegranate seedling base. In the future, the focus will be on the cultivation of Moroccan soft-seeded pomegranates in the areas along the Meigu River Valley in the township and on the gentle and low slopes on both sides of the pine forest in the back mountain."

"People from the Autonomous Prefecture Academy of Agricultural Sciences have come to see it and believe that Lianhe Township is a very suitable place to develop this industry. These are experts that I hired with my own money, including the previous water diversion projects, which were all funded by me. I didn't use a penny from the township. Of course, the township didn't spend any money either."

"The next step is to invite experts from the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences to come and bring fruit seedlings and technology. They have the ability to take seedlings from trees to expand the scale of breeding, just like the chicken farm in Houshan uses machines to hatch rock eagle chicks. This is a new technology that our village must firmly grasp."

"The orchard needs someone to take care of it. In addition to the Meigu Valley, which is a collective industry of the township, the best way is to plant it on the hills owned by each family. Anyway, I trust Elbow, so I plan to only keep my own grain and vegetable land, and let him take care of the hills."

"This requires everyone to sign up voluntarily and register to make a table. We still need to set up a group to manage this and prepare the preliminary work." Tu Liangzhi said: "First, we are just starting out, we must try our best to expand our scale so that when the experts come, they can see our ambition. Secondly, the trees are planted in our own backyards, which makes it easy to manage and learn. In the future, technicians can come to teach you. If you learn well, you can take apprentices in the future, and this business will be established."

"The third thing is the sanitation problem in the village. In the past, we would only start cleaning up when the higher-ups were coming. But once the inspection team left, the village would become slovenly again in half a month." Tu Liangzhi said, "We can't be like before this time. We went to the state and got a policy. That is, for families who agree to use their own mountain land to plant pomegranate seedlings, the state will help them build a toilet with a septic tank."

"The septic tank can be used to ferment farmyard manure, and a pig pen can be built next to it to raise pigs. Wouldn't that make life better?"

"These are preliminary ideas and plans." After Tu Liangzhi finished speaking, Wu Renzhong said, "The township convened this meeting for another reason, which is to see everyone's opinions and whether there is anything that needs to be supplemented."

Wu Renzhong's rhetoric began to improve. He asked directly if there was anything to add, which actually implied that these things were already set in stone. However, the villagers did not pay attention to this. There was no dispute about the first point of the topic. After all, being able to earn some money to supplement the family income by selling dried goods and medicinal herbs was a good thing anyway.

The only complaint is that this guy has a high quality requirement for the goods he receives, and doesn't want any defective goods. You can only take his car to the township market or Meigu Market to solve the problem yourself. But as long as it is good quality, the price he gives is really worth it, and everyone is very satisfied with this.

The second problem came up. First of all, it was the price of the saplings. Everyone looked at each other for a long time. Finally, Tuziri, who was more familiar with Shitou and Zhouzhi these days, raised his hand and said, "It's no problem to plant trees on our land, but since you're occupying our land, you don't have to pay for the saplings, right?"

Tu Liangzhi pointed his finger at Tu Ziri and said, "You are a famous rascal in the village! You run faster than anyone else when you can get something for nothing, and you are more sneaky and cunning than anyone else, and you can't stand any loss!"

The villagers all laughed, but both sides agreed and talked about it. They thought that Tu Liangzhi's characterization of Tuzi Day was fine, but they also felt that they could take the saplings or not, but they didn't want to give the money, or they simply couldn't give it.

"These are saplings from abroad. There are only two that survived. The saplings taken from the mother tree are very precious. You may not be able to buy them even if you have money, let alone money!" Tuliang was furious. "Besides, the state has already given benefits. Anyone who accepts the saplings will be given a toilet with a septic tank for free. Isn't this equivalent to returning the money for the saplings to you in disguise, and still taking the lion's share?"

"Considering the actual difficulties faced by the villagers, we have come up with a compromise," Wu Renzhong said, "that is, to use the seedling money paid by each family as a deduction for the seedlings produced in the future."

"Pomegranate trees can only bear fruit three years after transplanting and cuttings. Before they bear fruit, we will carry out technical management such as height control, seedling pressure, high pressure seedling, and cuttings. We will not charge the villagers for these management costs, but the seedlings obtained in the management process will all belong to the collective seedling farm."

"After three years, the pomegranate trees that have started to bear fruit will belong to the villagers. I believe that by then everyone will have learned the management techniques. It will be up to everyone to decide whether to do the fruit seedling business or the fruit business. Our seedling base should also be officially established. In Elbow's words, this is called a win-win situation. What do you think?"

Everyone thinks this method is good. It is equivalent to the village using its own land to plant trees. The seedlings produced in the first three years belong to the collective, and the village helps everyone to complete the management and technical transfer. After three years, when the fruit trees are big and bear fruit, the trees belong to them. It really saves time and effort.

However, such a good thing was too easy, and everyone was a little hesitant. Someone immediately asked: "Is this reliable? Don't make it like the pig raising in Jiukou Township a few years ago..."