The leisurely life of the reborn daddy

Chapter 141 The Market Teaches You to Be a Man (Please Subscribe) 41001.2 million

According to Niu Guangming's suggestion, Cao Shujie ordered 20 mu of strawberry seedlings according to the number of [-] strawberry seedlings per mu.

Based on the calculation of 6 cents per seedling, the investment in this area is 9.6 yuan.

Cao Shujie first gave Niu Guangming a deposit of 2 yuan, and after signing an agreement with him, Niu Guangming was responsible for sending the seedlings Cao Shujie wanted to Caojiazhuang in batches.

Cao Shujie recruited another 16 people from the village to plant strawberry seedlings.

Taking these 16 people as an example, based on their maximum planting amount of 4 mu of land per day, it will take five days to complete the seedlings on 20 mu of land, and there will be other work such as mulching.

After Niu Guangming saw that there was a breeding area next to Cao Shujie's orchard, in which there were 50 cows moving freely, and there was a special area on the other side where there were some cow dung that had already decomposed, he was very special to Cao Shujie. admire.

This inner loop is absolutely perfect!
It took 16 people a full week to plant all the strawberry seedlings in the 20 mu of land, and to complete other links.

During this period, Cao Shujie contacted Chen Lei to expedite the installation of sprinkler irrigation and drip irrigation integrated equipment for him. Because of the strawberry planting, the ground has been repaired, which makes it easier to work.

The foundation has been laid in the early stage, and the flow can be diverted here as long as the booster pump next to it is connected to the pipe. In this way, the construction is simple and the cost is not so high. The investment in this area alone is less than 4000 yuan per mu of land .

Coupled with labor, strawberry seedling fees and other hidden costs, comprehensive calculations, the investment in planting strawberry seedlings per mu has exceeded 8000 yuan.

And this is part of it. For example, using decomposed cow dung as a base fertilizer does not require extra money. In this respect, Cao Shujie has saved at least 500 yuan per mu of land.

From mid-October to late October, the temperature gradually dropped. After planting strawberry seedlings, Cao Shujie was not idle. He was busy with his father Cao Jianguo and Cao Shuchao in the orchard on the mountain during the day.

When I got home at night, besides playing with Mengmeng, Cao Shujie calmed down again and began to read a lot of books related to farming and livestock breeding. In addition to consolidating the previous knowledge, he was also absorbing new knowledge.

The people in Caojiazhuang have seen Cao Shujie's harvest, but they don't know the hard work Cao Shujie has put in where they can't see it.

But after planting strawberry seedlings, many people in Caojiazhuang know that there is now a long-term worker Cao Shuchao in Cao Shujie's orchard.

After hearing the news by accident, some people wanted to apply to Cao Shujie like Cao Shuchao, but when Cao Jianguo saw him, he privately told his son that the work was useless, that he was lazy, and that if he really got involved, he would be asking for trouble.

Cao Shujie finally closed the recruitment temporarily on the grounds that there was no shortage of people in the orchard.

He doesn't need someone who is just pretending to be a fake, but really needs someone who understands technology to come over.

In addition, people in Caojiazhuang have invested 10,000+ in planting strawberry seedlings for Cao Shujie. They feel that this kind of "news" is commonplace. It's nothing at all, they don't feel any fuss anymore, but when chatting in private, they are all worried about investing so much, can they earn it back?
When Cao Shujie was doing well, Cao Jianhua hadn't been doing very well recently.
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In September, he went to the Qingshi Town Branch of Yiling Rural Commercial Bank to apply for an interest-free loan from Ma Changrong. In view of Cao Jianhua's comprehensive repayment ability, the bank approved him an interest-free loan of 9 yuan, which was the same as Cao Shujie's previous application. The interest will be repaid first every month, and the principal will be returned to the bank in one lump sum after three years, and the bank will refund all the interest repaid by Cao Jianhua in the past three years to Cao Jianhua.

Supporting the development of township economic construction is a general direction of rural commercial banks in the near future, and they are also very fast in approving loans.

After Cao Jianhua got the money, he hurried to buy the piglets, preparing to raise them first, and then waited for his pockets to swell before considering other infrastructure construction.

However, the price of piglets this year is relatively expensive. The price of piglets purchased by Cao Jianhua in September was 45.8 yuan per kilogram.

The average weight of the piglets purchased by Cao Jianhua is 13 kilograms, so the price of a piglet is around 600 yuan.

Cao Jianhua is not worried about this figure. The price is similar across the country. Compared with the beginning of the year, the price of pork in September is not cheap, rising to about 9 yuan per catty.

Cao Jianhua's idea is very simple. Although the investment is larger now, the price of pork may continue to rise, and he will earn more money by then.

He gritted his teeth and bought 300 piglets at one time, and he used half of the loan he got for this one. He didn't spend the rest of the money, it was used to buy corn, bean cakes, etc. for feed. .

Seeing the 300 piglets running, growing up and gaining weight in the mountain land he contracted every day, Cao Jianhua was very happy. He imagined that in three to four months, these piglets would grow into big pigs weighing about 200 catties. The pigs have reached the standard for slaughter, and they can be sold at that time, taking advantage of the good market on the eve of the Spring Festival, and earn a lot of money.

If it wasn't for the lack of money, he even thought about buying some more piglets.

At that time, you can go home and shake yourself in front of his wife, and let her know what you are capable of!
Also set an example for his son, prove that his father is the material, and make his son Cao Ming proud.

In a few years, I will buy a house for my son and get married. What kind of loan should I pay?

Cao Jianhua thinks very well and is very motivated to work.

He couldn't handle the pig feeding alone, so he followed Cao Shujie's example and hired two people to work for him at a price of 35 yuan a day. They were dirty and tiring, and they had to endure the smell of pig manure every day, but nothing else.

However, what Cao Jianhua did not expect was that the sudden change in the market came so quickly!
When he bought piglets in September, the price was still 9 yuan per kilogram, but after entering October, the price of piglets fell off a cliff, directly reaching 45.8 yuan, but the price is still unstable. It looks like it will go down.

After Cao Jianhua heard the news by accident, he was stunned.

In just one month, the batch of piglets he bought cost more than 9 yuan per kilogram, and the average loss per head was around 110 yuan. He bought 300 piglets in just one month The overall compensation was 35000 yuan.

During this period, the money for various feeds and labor costs have to be added, and when calculated comprehensively, the loss will be even more.

Cao Jianhua panicked immediately.

And this is just the beginning. With the continuous large-scale increase in the number of live pigs in the market, the further increase in the price of pork in the early market has stagnated people's demand for pork, which has caused a sharp drop in pork prices, and a further drop in the prices of live pigs and piglets. , The magnitude of the decline is so large that the farmers are terrified.

During that time, Cao Jianhua's mood went from the ecstasy after buying piglets with a loan at the beginning, to the panic after knowing the price dropped. He felt that he had experienced ups and downs in his life in less than two months.

At this moment, the idea of ​​buying a house for his son with full money to get married and showing off his prestige in front of his wife is gone. Instead, he will face a quarrel with his wife after returning home.

His wife Gao Hong is not stupid. Since Cao Jianhua's loan was approved and the purchase of piglets began, Gao Hong was also very happy at the beginning, thinking that their family might really usher in a major change.

But who knows that the market changes so fast that people are caught off guard.

When the price of the pork wholesaled by their supermarket from the market dropped from 12 yuan per catty to 11 yuan per catty, Gao Hong didn’t feel anything, but when the wholesale price of pork continued to drop to 10 yuan per catty, Gao Hong started Realized something was wrong.

At the same time as the price of pork fell, the prices of piglets and live pigs also dropped sharply. From then on, Gao Hong couldn't laugh at all.
Over a month, I lost more than 3 yuan!
Even if they run a general supermarket, they cannot accept this result.

But this is not over yet. When the time entered late October, Cao Jianhua had been inquiring about the prices of piglets and live pigs in the market. The latest quotation he heard from others for piglets was more than 10 yuan per kilogram. Another 32 yuan fell.

Cao Jianhua almost shed tears.

But at this time, Cao Shujie, the most dishonest man in Caojiazhuang, started to grow strawberries again. He built a pigsty, but he never raised them. The market price of his cattle has been stable, not only did not fall, but also increased slightly. price increase.

Spit blood!

This morning, Cao Jianhua wore a dusty coat and rode a motorcycle to the pig farm on the southern mountain.

Unlike Cao Shujie's side, Cao Jianhua didn't have the money to build roads. When he came to the foot of the mountain, he could only put his motorcycle here and walk up a mountain road that was not too steep but not easy to walk.

Inside the barbed wire fence, more than 300 white-haired pigs were whimpering and running, and the two people he found were working hard inside, feeding the pigs.

When Cao Jianhua saw these pigs, his heart was bleeding, but he had no choice. Even if he lost money, he had to continue to raise them, continue to invest in feed, and sell them as soon as they reached the slaughter standard. There is still hope of making money.

He is now pinning his hopes on this year's Spring Festival, because the demand for pork during this special period of the Chinese New Year will stimulate the market's pork and live pig prices to increase again.

He is very calm now, and he doesn't expect to earn much money, and he will be considered a success if he can keep his capital at that time.

The ups and downs of the market completely beat Cao Jianhua. Now that he thinks back about the interview with Cao Shujie, he realized that he had said similar things to him back then.

The difficulty of raising pigs is not only in various diseases and epidemics!
It's just that he didn't understand at the time, and couldn't listen to what Cao Shujie told him. He didn't realize how cruel the market was.

When the two workers inside saw Cao Jianhua approaching, they stopped their work and raised their heads to greet him.

"Jianhua, what's going on, the price of pigs has started to rise."

Another person followed up and said: "That's right, it can't just go up and down, it doesn't make sense."

"Jianhua, I think that during the Chinese New Year, if you sell all these pigs, you will definitely make a lot of money."

He didn't say a word, whether to give some New Year's money when the time comes.

Hearing the word 'make money', Cao Jianhua's mania, which was finally calmed down, was seduced again, and he immediately yelled: "Don't be a motherfucker, hurry up and work, I will lose a lot."

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The two people who spoke just now were speechless when they saw Cao Jianhua's irritable face, and then lowered their heads and continued to work.

They can also see from their observations that the price of pork may not only have not improved, but may have worsened!

"Grandma, I don't have the skills. If we lose our temper, you can see that it's good that Shujie doesn't do it."

"Jianjun, you should say a few words less, do you still want to make money!"

"Damn it, it's hard to make money."

But they had to face the reality, and the two started to get busy again.

After Cao Jianhua walked around the farm, he also went to stir the feed. If he could do more work, he would be able to recruit one less person, and he would save a lot of money after a long time.

Another day passed in a blink of an eye, and seeing the moon climb into the sky, Cao Jianhua, Cao Jianjun, and Cao Shuai pushed the cart to scatter the feed, washed the pig manure on their hands and rain boots, and left the pig farm. go home.

The people we meet on the road can smell their pungent smell from a distance. Fortunately, Cao Jianhua is riding a motorcycle, so he is not in the mood to stop and chat with other people on the road.

All the way home, when Cao Jianhua was about to push his motorcycle into the house, he suddenly saw three familiar figures. He stopped the motorcycle and stood there waiting.

The next moment, he continued to shout to the figure coming from the north: "Brother Jianguo, Shujie, are you busy?"

That's right, it was Cao Shujie, his father Cao Jianguo, and Cao Shuchao who came from the north.

They had just finished their work and were going home for dinner.

Hearing Cao Jianhua calling for someone, Cao Jianguo greeted him with a smile: "Brother Jianhua, how are you doing?"

This is a very normal way of greeting, and Cao Jianhua also knew that Cao Jianguo had no other intentions, so he didn't get angry. He shook his head with a bitter face: "Brother Jianguo, it's really hard to do!"

"What?" Cao Jianguo stopped and looked at him.

Cao Jianhua is not afraid of being laughed at by others. After he finished talking about the pork market, he lamented: "I didn't expect that there would be such a big change in the past month or so."

"Uncle Hua, this is normal. The cycle of pork changes." Cao Shujie clearly remembered that pork was sometimes cheaper than vegetables, and sometimes it was comparable to beef.

There is no way to say this thing, unless you can control the market pricing power, but if you really do that, there is no need to worry about the current three melons.

After working for two months, Cao Jianhua knew this truth now. He asked Cao Shujie, "Shujie, do you think the price of pork will rise during the Chinese New Year this year?"

He may have the answer in his heart, but he also wants other people to give him reassurance.

Cao Shujie hesitated, and then said: "Uncle Hua, I can't tell, but every family will buy pork during the Chinese New Year, and the demand for pork is huge. According to common sense, the price will rise."

"Oh, you and I think the same." The expression on Cao Jianhua's face looked much more relaxed.

He said: "Shujie, when you're free, I'll buy you a drink, so we can have a good chat."

(End of this chapter)