Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon

After entering the agricultural machinery promotion list of the Ministry of Agriculture, it became a matter of course to obtain agricultural machinery subsidies at all levels.

The state's agricultural subsidies are still very powerful. The ex-factory price of the crawler self-propelled rotary cultivator is 29,000 yuan, and the state directly subsidizes it 5,000 yuan, which is equivalent to a 20% discount.

In addition to national subsidies, there are also subsidies at the provincial, municipal, and county levels. And sometimes local subsidies are more powerful than national subsidies.

Although the crawler rotary cultivator can also be used in dry land, it is mainly targeted at paddy fields, and its customers are also concentrated in the rice planting areas in the south.

So Huyue Anping began to visit the agricultural departments of various southern provinces to seek more local agricultural subsidies.

After walking around the southern provinces, Yue Ping'an came to report the status of the negotiations to Li Weidong.

"I said Mr. Yue, you can just decide this kind of thing yourself." Li Weidong looked like he was too lazy to meddle in other people's business.

"I really can't decide on this matter. You have to decide." Yue Ping'an continued: "The Shonan Agricultural Department is willing to give us a farm machinery subsidy of 9,000 yuan, but they have a condition. They want us to set up a factory locally."

"Building a factory? Using subsidies to attract investment is a good plan." Li Weidong smiled and then asked: "What do you think of setting up a factory?"

"If we want to continue to produce other rice agricultural machinery in the future, it will definitely be beneficial to set up a factory directly in the south. Not only can we be close to the market, but it will also help control costs." Yue Ping An answered.

Li Weidong thought for a moment and said, "It seems that the money we spent on selling crawler rotary cultivators has to be invested again! But we have to have a good talk about the conditions for setting up a factory. Preferential policies in terms of land, taxation, talents, etc. We have enough."

"Don't worry about this. I will negotiate with the local government to get the best conditions." Yue Ping'an paused and then said, "In addition, we have to sponsor a batch of crawler rotary tillers at the Hybrid Rice Research Institute. "

"Give it to them! As long as they are willing to ask for it, I would like to give a few more!" Li Weidong continued; "There are many people who go to the Hybrid Rice Research Center to study every year, not only from our country, but also from foreigners. If it is hybrid rice The research center is willing to use our agricultural machinery, which is more effective than advertising on TV!”

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Liu Yuan contracted more than 500 acres of paddy fields to grow hybrid rice, and he was a major local grower.

Of course, five hundred acres of paddy fields cannot be planted solely by manpower, but must use agricultural machinery. Therefore, Liu Yuan is also a frequent visitor to the agricultural machinery station. In addition to purchasing agricultural machinery, he also comes to seek technical guidance.

On this day, Liu Yuan came to the agricultural machinery station again.

The technician at the agricultural machinery station was already familiar with Liu Yuan. After the two met, Liu Yuan handed the technician a cigarette and started chatting with the technician.

"Gong Zhang, I have been using the mechanized tillage boat at home for almost two years. It was fine at first, but recently it has not only become slower during work, but has also become unstable. When I used it yesterday, it almost The boat capsized. What should I do?" Liu Yuan asked.

Zhang Gong spat out his eyes, and then said, "This is a normal phenomenon. The more the mechanized farming boat is used, the less efficient it becomes, and the more unsafe it is, the more it is used. The main reason is that the quality is not up to par!"

When tractor-trailers first came out a few years ago, the quality was uneven. The quality of some large factories was okay, but the quality of small factories was really bad. At that time, the quality was still 50-50.

In recent years, the quality of mechanized farming boats has become worse and worse. Nowadays, only 20% of the good quality ones are, and almost 80% of the poor quality ones are. It is estimated that what you bought is of poor quality. "

"Why is this happening?" Liu Yuan asked.

"There is a saying that bad money drives out good money. Have you heard of it?" Zhang Gong blew out a smoke ring again, and then continued: "The structure of this mechanized farming boat is relatively simple and easy to make, so companies are rushing to start it. .

There are more products in the world, and the pressure of competition is greater. At this time, companies will cut prices in order to seize the market. In order to reduce prices, they can only reduce costs, and this will lead to cutting corners.

The end result is that cheap products that cut corners occupy the market, while high-quality products cannot be sold, and they can only make cheap products by lowering costs.

But this is a cheap product. Although it looks similar in appearance, it is just an illusion after all. After using it for a period of time, when the warranty period expires, quality problems will definitely occur. "

"Yes, my mechanized farming boat is out of warranty, and now I have to spend money to repair it." Liu Yuan said quickly.

Zhang Gongze put out the cigarette in his hand and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to see something good."

Zhang Gong took Liu Yuan to the backyard, pointed to a brand new crawler self-propelled rotary tiller, and said, "Have you seen this thing? The crawler rotary tiller is a new product that has just been launched. Its performance is comparable to that of a mechanized tiller. too much.

This tracked agricultural machine must have plenty of power, and look at the rotary plow at the back, it's not much better than the two rotary plow wheels on the mechanized farming boat! And it’s easy for this thing to cross the ridge.

The two tracks below will not cause any damage to the muddy feet in the paddy field. Unlike a tractor, after driving over the two muddy feet, it will be impossible to plant rice next year! "

Liu Yuan looked at the crawler rotary tiller up and down, and then asked: "I have never seen this kind of agricultural machinery before. Is this thing reliable?"

"If it's unreliable, I can introduce it to you!" Zhang Gong curled his lips and continued: "Two days ago, I went to the Hybrid Rice Research Center to study, and I saw that they were using this crawler rotary tiller.

Does the Hybrid Rice Research Center know? Mr. Yuan is right there, and the hybrid rice you planted was developed there! Moreover, this agricultural machinery has entered the promotion catalog of the Ministry of Agriculture. Even if you don’t believe me, you have to believe the country, right? "

"The price of this new type of agricultural machinery must not be cheap, right?" Liu Yuan asked.

"This one costs 29,000!" Zhang Gong said.

"So expensive!" Liu Yuan shook his head, feeling that he couldn't bear the price.

Zhang Gongze continued, "Twenty-nine thousand is not cheap, but the state provides agricultural machinery subsidies. For this crawler rotary cultivator, the subsidies at all levels combined can almost subsidize 14,000."

"The subsidy is 14,000? Does that mean the price is 15,000?" Liu Yuan was immediately moved. After all, the discount of close to half price was still very tempting.

Liu Yuan then asked, "How many acres of land can this crawler rotary tiller cultivate in one day?"

"In normal use, it's about 60 acres! If you plow more carefully, you can cultivate 40 to 50 acres in a day." Zhang Gong replied.

Liu Yuan immediately began to calculate: "Plowing 60 acres of land in one day, my 500 acres of land can be plowed in eight days, and then I can plow other people's land. The plowing time for a rice season is about twenty days, that is, He said I had twelve days before I could go work elsewhere.

Twelve multiplied by sixty, it is 720, minus a fraction, that is, 700 acres of land can be cultivated. If one mu of land is paid for 30 yuan, that is 21,000 yuan! This machine only sold for 15,000 yuan, which is equivalent to making 6,000 yuan for me!

And since we can grow two crops of rice a year, with this rotary tiller, I can earn 42,000 yuan a year, which is more than what I earn from farming! What's more, this thing can be used not only in paddy fields, but also in dry fields! "

Thinking of this, Liu Yuan immediately said: "Mr. Zhang, keep this machine for me, and I'll go get the money right away!"

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The Hybrid Rice Research Center never lacks people who come to visit and study.

In addition to the people who come to visit and study every day, many training courses are held here every year, and agricultural technicians from all over the world come here.

There are also training courses for foreign agricultural technicians, firstly to promote hybrid rice to the world, and secondly to help poor countries get rid of hunger. Therefore, agricultural technicians from countries such as Africa, Southeast Asia, and South Asia will also come to study.

In a test field, a visiting group from Jiangsu and Zhejiang was listening to the explanations of technical personnel.

Leader Zhao of the visiting group was already attracted by a crawler-type rotary cultivator in operation.

Captain Zhao is the deputy director of the Department of Agriculture of a certain place, focusing on grain production. The province where he is located is also a major rice-growing province, so Captain Zhao pays special attention to the cultivation of hybrid rice.

"This thing can plow sixty acres of paddy fields in one day?" Captain Zhao asked with a surprised look on his face.

"The crawler-type rice rotary cultivator has been included in the agricultural machinery promotion list of the Ministry of Agriculture. I think the Ministry of Agriculture will definitely not lie to people." Another person next to him said.

"If we use oxen to plow, we can farm up to six acres a day. This rotary tiller can support ten oxen!" Captain Zhao leaned down, waded through the mud with his hands, and then said; " And the effect of plowing the land is better than using oxen.”

In the dry land of the north, ordinary cattle can only plow three acres of land a day. During the busy farming season, if the cattle are given good food, the cultivated land area will be larger, barely reaching four acres.

Even the strongest cattle, eating the best concentrate, can only plow five acres of land a day. Any more and the cow will fall down from exhaustion.

The paddy fields in the south are soaked in water all year round and the soil is soft, making farming more difficult than the dry land in the north. Plowing the land is also faster.

However, when plowing paddy fields, the person behind the plow is not as comfortable as on dry land. Walking in paddy fields will feel a sense of fetters under your feet. Therefore, under normal circumstances, a day of plowing by oxen in paddy fields plows more than five acres, or at most six acres. Almost twice that of the dry lands of the north.

To put it simply, although the oxen is very tired when plowing the land in dry fields, the person behind the plow is more comfortable. When plowing the land in paddy fields, the cattle can be more relaxed, but the person behind the plow has to work harder.

When using machines to plow the land, there is no need to consider the physical strength of cattle and people. You only need to consider the power of agricultural machinery and the working efficiency of rotary plows.

If you use a rotary plow dragged by a tractor in the dry land of the north, you can cultivate 30 acres of land in one day. In the paddy fields of the south, the land is relatively soft. There is definitely no problem in plowing 60 acres of land with a crawler-type rotary plow. If you want to rush work during the busy farming period, you have to work hard. If you step on the accelerator, you can plow seventy acres of land in one day, but that requires more machinery.

This rotary tiller is ten times more efficient than an ox and is enough to make every rice farmer excited.

Leader Zhao continued: "Mechanized agriculture is inherently efficient. It's not surprising that we can plow sixty acres of land a day. The key is that I just checked. This tracked harvester doesn't hurt muddy feet! This thing is better than a tractor!"

It’s a pity that this kind of crawler rotary tiller is certainly much more expensive than a tractor! If nothing else, just the two tracks are probably more expensive than the wheels. I remember that crawler tractors are much more expensive than wheel tractors.

This kind of high-end agricultural machinery can be used by the Hybrid Rice Research Center. They are all technicians, with master's degrees, Ph.D.s, and professors. They certainly can't drive buffaloes to plow the fields like farmers! "

The man next to him lowered his voice and said: "Captain, I have inquired about it. The price of this crawler rotary cultivator is 29,000 yuan."

"It's close to 30,000 yuan. Ordinary farmers really can't afford it. But the price is not expensive. After all, it is a crawler-type rice harvester. This crawler-type rice harvester is much more expensive than this." Captain Zhao said.

However, his subordinate continued: "Twenty-nine thousand is just the selling price. This kind of crawler-type rotary tiller can also enjoy agricultural machinery subsidies. I just asked the locals to buy this kind of crawler-type rotary tiller locally. All agricultural machinery The total subsidy is almost 14,000 yuan."

"That means local farmers only need to spend 15,000 to buy a crawler-type rotary tiller?" Captain Zhao was surprised, and then sighed: "This is much cheaper than raising cattle!"

If you raise a cow, you have to feed it every day, especially if it is a plowing cow. If it doesn't eat well, it won't gain weight, and it will be too skinny to have the strength to work. Many farmers are reluctant to eat it themselves, so they want to give their cattle something good to eat. The cost for farmers to raise a cattle is not low.

In comparison, a 15,000-piece crawler rotary cultivator is obviously worth replacing.

Leader Zhao rolled his eyes and asked in a low voice: "Do you think this kind of machine can be copied by agricultural machinery companies in our province?"

The man replied in the same low voice: "It should be difficult to imitate, otherwise this kind of crawler-type rotary tiller would have been manufactured by others long ago. And this kind of product must be patented.

Maybe in addition to our national patents, there are also international patents. Even if the agricultural machinery companies in our province can imitate them, they will not dare to produce them. Otherwise, if they sue us under the patent law, they will be sure to do so! "

"It's a pity that you can't imitate it!" Captain Zhao shook his head helplessly, and then said: "The only way to introduce it is to find a way to introduce it. When we go back, we can talk to the production company and try to get a preferential price to sell this product. This product was introduced to us.”

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Not far away, there is another group of people next to the experimental field. The appearance or skin color of these people are somewhat different from the Chinese. They are agricultural experts from abroad for training.

Two Vietnamese agricultural experts were also staring at the crawler-type rotary cultivator.

"Before I came to China, I heard that China's agricultural level was similar to ours. I didn't expect that the Chinese not only have rice transplanters and harvesters, but also crawler-type rotary cultivators for arable land!"

"Yes, China is much more advanced than us. I used to think that our agricultural level is higher than other countries in Southeast Asia. Looking at the entire East Asia region, it is second only to Japan. I didn't expect that China's agricultural mechanization also has this kind of level."

"We underestimated China too much. The yield of their hybrid rice is several times that of ours, and they now have advanced agricultural machinery that can be used!"

The Vietnamese expert sighed and continued: "I have carefully observed that this kind of agricultural machinery is very efficient. If it can be introduced to Vietnam, it will definitely greatly improve our agricultural production level."

"The question is, can we afford it? This thing costs 30,000 yuan per unit!" asked another Vietnamese agricultural expert.

"Even if we can't afford it, we can still imitate it!" said the first Vietnamese agricultural expert.

"Counterfeit? Do we have the technology?"

When it comes to technology, the two Vietnamese agricultural experts fell into silence at the same time.

More than ten years later, people in Vietnam are almost touting Vietnam as the second South Korea. However, in terms of industrial level, Vietnam is not even ranked among ASEAN, let alone compared with South Korea.

After all, South Korea has several relatively complete industrial chains, but Vietnam, even the fastest-growing textile industry, has not established an industrial chain. The mechanical field is too far away for Vietnam.

The Vietnamese can’t afford crawler-type rotary tillers, and they don’t know how to build them, so they have to work hard.

After a while, one of them said, "No matter what, I think we should find a way to buy a few units, even for research."

"But we don't have that much funding. All our funding combined is not enough for 30,000 yuan. If China's Hybrid Rice Research Center hadn't provided food and accommodation this time, we wouldn't even be able to afford food, and we wouldn't even be able to return to China by then. There’s no travel expenses!” another person said.

"We can ask for a few samples first! Tell the Chinese that we will have a large order of tens of thousands of units in the future, but now we need a few samples. Take them back to Vietnam to try them out. The Chinese will definitely order thousands of units for the big order. Send us the sample!”

"What a great idea! This way we can get advanced farm machinery without spending a penny. That's what we'll do!"

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"Chairman, great news! The Vietnamese want to order our crawler-type rotary tillers!"

On the phone, Yue Ping An's voice was full of surprise.

"How many units do the Vietnamese want to order?" Li Weidong asked.

"It is said that there will be orders for 30,000 to 50,000 units." Yue Ping An said.

"So few?" Li Weidong blurted out subconsciously.

"Less? Thirty to fifty thousand units, that's a lot! In total, it's a big order of more than ten million!" Yue Ping'an said.

"Mr. Yue, you have never done business with Vietnamese, and you don't know what their virtues are. There is an idiom called Yelang is arrogant. You must have heard of it, and it refers to the Vietnamese. So you can't believe what the Vietnamese say, and you have to fight. A fold." Li Weidong replied.

"What's the discount?" Yue Ping'an asked.

"This time, I think it's just 0.1% off!" Li Weidong replied.

"A 0.1% discount on 30,000 units means 300 units? If that's the case, then it's not cost-effective to send 30 units as samples!" Yue Ping'an said.

"What? The Vietnamese still want thirty samples?" Li Weidong curled his lips and continued; "Then ignore them, they must be cheating on the samples! Let's tell the Vietnamese that it is okay to send samples, but you have to pay first. "

"Chairman, what if the Vietnamese really want the product sincerely? If we do this, we will lose a big business!" Yue Ping'an said.

"Mr. Yue, our crawler-type rotary cultivators receive a farm machinery subsidy of RMB 14,000 per unit. There is no need to worry about selling them in China."

Li Weidong paused for a moment, then continued: "Even if the Vietnamese really place an order for 30,000 units, we don't have that much production capacity. Since our production capacity can't keep up and the order is risky, why bother to make this trip?" water!"