Rebirth to 90s: Start from Scratch

Several people entered the private room and took their seats. Chen Desheng ran to the waiter to serve food.

Chen Defu opened his mouth and said, "Boss Zhang, this time our village has discussed a general result. Generally speaking, everyone is very willing to rent the land to Boss Zhang."

"However, the farmers depend on the one-acre three-quarter field for food and living, so not all the paddy fields are rented to Boss Zhang, only part of it."

After listening to Zhang Qianxiu, he also understood: "This is ok, then how much land can you rent to me?"

Chen Defu said: "Five thousand acres, I visited several villages next door, and they add up to more than 10,000 acres."

"I know that Boss Zhang is going to use machinery for planting. We will replace the fields that I have left for planting outside. The land you rent will be integrated into one for you."

"The general situation is that several of our villages are distributed around your contracted land, and the fields we grow are all outside, and all the places in the middle are contracted to you."

After Zhang Qianxiu heard this, he thought it was okay. The only question is, if the land is contracted by himself, will he encounter some people deliberately vandalizing and stealing.

This is not aimed at people in a certain place. In this era, materials are scarce, and there are acts of stealing everywhere in the country. People in the fields have stolen fruits and vegetables.

At that time, Zhang Qianxiu rented a large piece of land, and the people in the village were close to each other. It was easy to cut a crop at night.

However, even if this problem exists, Zhang Qianxiu will rent it. This kind of problem is the same everywhere. If it really happens then, just think of a way to solve it. He asked: "Mr. Chen, then this rent Question, what do you want?"

Chen Defu said: "One mu of land, two hundred catties of rice per year, or forty yuan, if the tax is paid, boss Zhang will settle it by himself."

Later, in the countryside, if someone goes out to work, the land at home is free for others to grow. Of course, this is also a prerequisite. You can only grow things, not dig at will, and if the host wants to grow it yourself next year , You have to go back, so this kind of land cannot be used to grow crops for several years, nor can it be used as a fish pond. Basically, it can only grow rice, and many people are not willing to grow it.

If you want to rent a large-scale planting, you still have to rent. The cheap two, three hundred and one acres, and the more than seven and eight hundred and one thousand one acres. The land around some cities is even more expensive per acre. For thousands of years, some vegetable farmers rented a few acres of land to grow vegetables and sell them. Therefore, it depends on what kind of land and where it is.

But now, land is what farmers can survive, and even if agricultural taxes are now required, it is impossible to grow it for you in vain.

Zhang Qianxiu thought about it.

If the yield per mu is one thousand catties, the agricultural tax and other miscellaneous taxes will be deducted two hundred catties, and the rent from farmers will be two hundred catties. Seeds, fertilizers, insecticides, etc., will cost about 80 to 100 yuan per acre. This is just An approximate number, the specifics are unclear, after all, Zhang Qianxiu doesn't know the specific costs of farming.

Calculating this way, one hundred yuan is equivalent to about five hundred catties, plus two hundred catties of tax and 200 catties of farmers’ rent, and one hundred catties of rice can be earned.

The investment in machinery has not been accounted for. Even if the yield per mu is one thousand catties, it may barely be enough to protect the cost. Even if 10,000 mu is planted well, it is estimated that you can earn about 200 tons of rice.

One ton of four hundred can make eighty thousand.

This calculation seems to be the same. Later, the agricultural tax was exempted, and there were some subsidies. If 10,000 mu is planted on a large scale, it is still very good.

However, this is all Zhang Qianxiu's own thinking. It is better to let Yuan Pengchi take care of this account.

Zhang Qianxiu turned his head and asked Yuan Pengchi: "Professor Yuan, if large-scale mechanized planting, what will the output be like?"

Yuan Pengchi said: "It's not easy to say, it depends on the specific situation, including how the water for their local land comes from, whether to charge or not, how flat the ground is, and whether the land can be integrated has a lot to do with it."

Chen Defu explained: "There is no problem with integrating the land, but we have to measure it, and if Boss Zhang doesn't use it in the future, we have to restore it to us."

The integration is actually very simple, that is, the fields are connected into one piece. All the fields that originally have ridges around are dug out. A piece of land originally 10 acres is directly integrated into a piece of 100 acres, and the roads between the fields have to be piled up again.

The restoration naturally means that Zhang Qianxiu will no longer need it in the future. Every piece of land will be restored to how big it was before. This project seems simple, but it will cost some money to integrate and restore it.

Zhang Qianxiu thought for a while and said, "This is not a big problem, what about water?"

Chen Defu took out a piece of paper and a few photos and said, "This is a rough map we drew, and it is not very standard. Boss Zhang and Professor Yuan, I will tell you about our local situation."

"There are five villages around us. After the integration, the place you rented, Mr. Zhang, is probably a D-shaped place. There are two villages on the top and bottom of the vertical. The arc behind, the most prominent place is our village. We have a village before and after."

"The water we irrigate is water from a reservoir. It costs two cents an acre to irrigate once. It is purchased from the reservoir. If there is sufficient rainfall, irrigating twice in a season is almost the same. If it does not rain much in a year, probably Three to four times."

"But Boss Zhang has such a large area, it is estimated that it is cheap."

Zhang Qianxiu shook his head: "It won't be cheap. If you only have this reservoir, you can say as much as you want. I have to go to them to buy water."

Zhang Qianxiu is a southerner. They use water directly from the river. There are more rivers in the south than in the north. If you go to a village, you basically have a water source that never stops flowing all the year round.

The situation of my country's water resources is basically more in the east and less in the west, and more in the south and less in the north.

There may be many northerners who don't feel the difficulty in using water, and there is no shortage of water in their daily lives, especially in the later days.

But in fact, the average amount of water available in Zhongzhou Province is less than half of that in southern provinces, which is below the international standard.

Moreover, ordinary people in the north feel that there is not a lot of water shortage. It used groundwater and built a reservoir. The government has put a lot of effort to solve the problem of water use. Ordinary people can’t feel it. That’s because they didn’t do these things. Someone will solve them for you. Now, if one day ordinary people don’t have any water for daily use, some people will definitely be out of luck. Even if these people are desperately trying to find water for you from the ground, they will use it for you.

As long as it is a province in the north, official documents often mention "severe water shortage". The government must ensure daily, agricultural, and industrial water, as well as environmental ecology. However, there are not many rivers in the north, and water cannot be changed out of thin air. In the past, water shortage is almost a problem to be discussed every year in most provinces. In the end, the South-to-North Water Diversion has slightly solved some problems. However, the cost of the South-to-North Water Diversion is actually very high, especially for the eastern route, because the north is high and the water flows for a certain distance. An electric pump pumps water from a low place to a high place.

For example, in order to solve the problem of water use in Shangjing, groundwater was used later. At first, the water was produced at about 5 meters, and later it had to be dug up to 30 meters to produce water.

In order to solve the water problem in Shangjing, several large reservoirs were built in the surrounding area. In addition to the well-known Miyun Reservoir, there are also Guanting Reservoir, Baihebao Reservoir, and Haizi Reservoir. These reservoirs are all very large to ensure the water supply for Shangjing.

Zhongzhou Province has always been a major grain-producing province. In order to ensure agricultural water use, a large amount of groundwater has been extracted.

Excessive use of groundwater will cause the ground to sink. The sinking is very small, and people will definitely not feel it, but after sinking, it will bring harm, but ordinary people don't know it.

In fact, building a reservoir will not solve this problem, and it will even worsen, because the bottom of the reservoir basically has an impervious water layer, which is to prevent water from seeping into the ground, but the water on the surface will evaporate.

Even so, the advantages of building a reservoir outweigh the disadvantages, because it can centralize water supply and control water resources. If it is not built, there is no way to do it.

The amount of water evaporated in the north is usually several times the amount of precipitation. If three cubic meters of water are evaporated, only one cubic meter will return to the ground through rainfall.

Closer to home.

Yuan Pengchi said: "Water use is indeed a problem, but since there are reservoirs, the problem will not be very big. In the final analysis, it is a cost issue."

Chen Defu said: "With a yield of 10,000 mu, this water does not cost much. On average, even if one mu of land is watered several times, it will cost a few yuan a year."

Zhang Qianxiu said: "A few dollars a year is not too much, even if it is 10,000 mu, it will cost tens of thousands of dollars."

"With so many fields, it is estimated that there will be a profit of tens of thousands of yuan a year. If you calculate it like this, you will basically not make a profit."

Chen Defu smiled bitterly: "Agriculture is like this, doing the hardest and most tiring work and earning the least money."

Agriculture is in fact like this. It is indispensable to any country. However, the country has been holding down the price of staple food. It is not hoped that it will be too high. After all, it is necessary to ensure that the lowest-income people in their country will not be starved to death. If the price of food is If it is too high, the state will invest heavily in developing agriculture and reclaiming land.

Zhang Qianxiu also knows that agriculture is not particularly profitable. In terms of making money, it is better to make money from high-tech and finance, followed by manufacturing, and agriculture can only be the last.

Zhang Qianxiu did not continue to struggle with this question, and asked, "Mr. Chen, then you can tell us about the terrain and land conditions in your place!"

Chen Defu said, "Boss Zhang, the terrain here is still very flat. A Pingchuan, just right in the plain, is very suitable for large-scale planting, as you can see in this photo."

With that said, Chen Defu picked up those photos and showed them to Zhang Qianxiu and Yuan Pengchi.

This photo was taken quite comprehensively. At this glance, it was all land. Since it is winter, it is a vast white area, and there is basically no bulge in sight.

The overall terrain is so flat, even if there are some areas that are a little bulging, Zhang Qianxiu can find a way to flatten him.