Rebirth of the 80s New Farmer

Chapter 80 Bad days are still to come

The cost of 600 bricks is 4 yuan. Based on the calculation of [-] yuan for finished bricks, each brick can be sold for [-] yuan for three cents.

"So we still have 600 yuan left in one month! Then we will have a profit of more than 3000 yuan by the end of the year." Zhang Hai's voice was full of surprise.

This is still the case when the loss is large in the early stage. As their technology becomes more and more purely experienced, the loss will drop significantly and the profit will increase.

There are also those defective bricks commonly known as bastard bricks that cannot be sold for money. Although they have strange shapes and irregularities, they are guaranteed to be cheap, and the cost of selling them should not be a big problem.

A kiln worth 2 yuan worth of defective bastard bricks can also recycle [-] yuan.

This is just red bricks, they also have cement bricks and cement tiles.

"So it's almost time to repay the loan at the end of the year."

You see, this is stupid again, isn't it?

People in that era were timid and innocent, and they would feel restless when they owed a loan to the bank and could not sleep at night. They tried every means to repay the loan quickly to feel at ease. Zhang Hai also thought the same way.

At that time, the loan was like a loan to you for nothing, and the interest was completely negligible. People who were anxious to repay the loan were stupid.

"Why are you in a hurry to repay the loan?"

"Of course I have to pay back the money owed to others. If I don't pay it back, can I live a stable life? Besides, if I don't pay it back, the loan officer won't come to my house every day."

"You're stupid, aren't you? You can pay back the interest. If you pay the interest back to the loan officer, you won't spend the New Year at your house."

"But won't we have money by then? Why don't we pay it back?"

Wan Feng really wanted to slap Zhang Hai into the rice ditch by the side of the road, but considering that he might not be able to beat him as a soldier and his seniority, he didn't dare to put this idea into action.

"The commune members have worked hard for a year, shouldn't they see bonuses during the Chinese New Year? What the hell do you get for the commune members after you repay the loan? And let them not even afford a new dress for the New Year? Not even a catty of meat Buy? Not even willing to set off a firecracker?"

Zhang Hai scratched his head: "You mean we only pay back the interest on the loan, and then distribute the money to the members so that they can live happily ever after?"

"That's right. When the members have money in their hands, they will naturally be motivated. Isn't it a sweet day when you can do everything well! Your prestige will also be improved the most. After the depression, your orders will be clear. Get maximum execution."

"So there is such an operation, why didn't I think of it?"

"Besides, if you use other people's money to make money, a fool will stop doing it. The interest is only a few dollars. Do you know how much profit you can create if you keep it in your hands? The premise is that you don't allow corruption."

This is the experience I have accumulated after living for decades. Do you now know that I have been fooling around all these years?

Zhang Haimao suddenly realized: "Yes! You are right, using other people's money to make your own money, high! It is really high! It is the height of Gaojiazhuang!"

This movie is not in vain, remember the lines.

Wan Feng quickly felt that Zhang Hai's footsteps seemed to have become sonorous and powerful, and he stomped the ground loudly.

But all of this is just talk on paper now, and whether it can be realized requires hard work.

The next morning Xiao Dexiang brought two master craftsmen to the Wahou team. After visiting the site, a group of people designed tile-making molds in the newly built house on the site.

After discussion and demonstration, two tile samples were finally selected from the four tile samples painted by Wan Feng, and then a tile sample of ridge tile was finalized.

Xiao Dexiang said that there is definitely a market for these two tile samples in rural areas.

After the tile mold was finalized, the cement brick mold was also determined.

Most of the cement tile molds of later generations are plastic products, but in 1980, plastic was still a rare thing. Even Taizhou, the national plastic kingdom, had not yet formed a large scale in 1980.

Therefore, iron products or wood products can only be used instead. Wood products are easily deformed after being soaked in cement, so Wan Feng still chose iron molds.

The tile-making mold is actually a small box with a special shape on the bottom and the lid. When the time comes, pour the prepared cement into the box and vibrate for a short time, and then take the mold to a cool and dark place to dry in the shade.

The drying time is usually 24 hours in summer and about two days in winter.

After the concrete in the mold is completely solidified and separated from the mold, the production of a tile is completed.

The same is true for the production principle of cement bricks.

Considering that the sales volume in the early stage is unlikely to be too large and the cost is high, only [-] sets of each mold were ordered. A total of [-] sets of molds including cement brick molds are priced at one yuan and sixty cents each.

This is already a very favorable price.

Although the price of scrap iron is only three cents, a set of molds requires more than ten catties of pig iron, and with the messy processes such as manual sand foundry processing, the cost price of a set is estimated to exceed one yuan.

Factory processing is naturally to make money, and the extra surplus is other people's profits.

Wan Feng has nothing to worry about whether Xiao Dexiang and the others process and manufacture it privately or get it to be processed in a factory. It doesn't matter how they process it and make it.

Xiao Dexiang went back with the drawings and promised to make them in a week.

Zhang Hai also went straight to Dongdan City to buy machines without stopping.

His busy days are yet to come, buying coal and cement, applying for a business permit, and running around are enough to make him burnt out.

If there is no support from above, he can't solve these things alone, because many things are supplied by tickets.

In 1980, the price of coal was as cheap as the dirt on the roadside, ten yuan a ton, but you couldn’t buy anything without a ticket.

Tickets ran through almost the entire 80s, and in Wan Feng's memory, almost everything in the city required tickets or vouchers.

Tickets are required for food, cloth, beverages, kerosene, vegetables, meat and eggs, and there are even feces tickets and urine tickets in some places.

There are not so many coupons in the countryside, at least there are no egg coupons or sugar coupons, but food stamps and cloth stamps are necessary, and some industrial products cannot be bought without supply coupons.

Coal is one of them, but Wan Feng really can't remember whether cement should be voted or not.

As a large industrial province, there is no shortage of cement plants in Beiliao Province. When it was first liberated, there were several cement plants with high output in Beiliao Province.

Hongya County also built a portland cement factory in 225, which mainly supplies local needs. There are two kinds of products, namely No. 325 and No. [-] cement.

Yes, you read that right, it is No. 225, that is, many people who are engaged in construction now may not know that there was No. 225 cement.

No. 225 cement withdrew from the stage of history in 98 or 99. Wan Feng can't remember. Anyway, there has been no shadow of No. 225 cement in the market since those two years.

(End of this chapter)