Reborn in 1977

Chapter 433: The Tea Cools When People Leave

Before long, Team Leader Zhang and Team Leader Ye entered the office.

The myna fluttered its wings and landed on the windowsill, opening its beak and shouting, "Meeting time! Meeting time!"

Chen Fan made a "cheep cheep" sound, and the myna immediately flew to him and landed on the table.

He fed it a small handful of grain. After it finished eating, the myna flew out again.

Ye Shubao sat down in his seat and smiled at Chen Fan, "Your bird is quite something. It even knows to call people to meetings."

Team Leader Zhang looked at the myna flying in the sky outside and asked, "Aren't you afraid it will fly away and not come back?"

Chen Fan smiled and said, "It's okay. It knows how to get home. Even if it really gets lost, the Eurasian hobby can catch it back."

Hearing this, everyone was speechless. So you're playing a game of one thing subduing another at home?

Team Leader Zhang turned to look at Secretary Yang and asked, "What are those public security leaders doing here?"

Secretary Yang puffed on his cigarette. "What else could they be doing but conducting research? Zhu Gong'an is just showing them the way."

Ye Shubao clicked his tongue, rolling cigarette tobacco in a piece of paper in his hand, and looked at him with a smile. "Conducting research with a meal?"

Secretary Yang laughed. "Research requires meals, too. To be honest, they kept asking about the production team during the meal, some about Lao Xiao's business, some about our cooked food stores outside, and also about the transportation team's situation. They said they wanted to understand the public security situation. It seemed like that was the case."

Xiao Liewen also said, "They were talking about these things at first, but later they went off-topic, either asking about side businesses or about Xiao Chen. It was no different from our usual chats."

Secretary Yang said, "They're all people, what else can you expect?"

He shook his head with a smile and tapped the table. "Everyone's here, let's start the meeting."

But he first took a puff of his cigarette before straightening his face, clearing his throat. "This year is a year of great harvest for our Lujiawan Production Team. We had a great agricultural harvest, and our side businesses are also booming. At the end of the year, we even caught up with the resumption of the college entrance examination. All 23 children in the team scored high marks. No one in the whole commune has higher estimated scores than them."

The face that was just serious was now smiling so much that he couldn't open his eyes.

Everyone else also had bright smiles, chuckling non-stop.

Chen Fan sat aside, playing with a cigarette in his hand, silently guessing in his heart, could it be that today is another commendation meeting about yours truly?

It's just that there are a few less people. If we held a full production team meeting, the scene would be about the same.

After laughing for a while, Secretary Yang straightened his face again. "There are many good things, but we can't be complacent or careless. We must continue to work hard and do our job well.

Especially now that winter is here, there are still some big things, small things, and things that are neither big nor small that need to be handled properly. We absolutely cannot be impressive all year round, only to fall apart at the end of the year."

Hearing this, everyone became serious, staring at him intently.

Secretary Yang glanced at everyone. "Report what you have on hand, and we'll put it all together to see how to coordinate and arrange it."

Team Leader Zhang next to him nodded and said seriously, "The number one priority here is dike reinforcement, river dredging, and ditch repair. These water conservancy projects cannot be taken lightly."

After he finished speaking, Ye Shubao quickly said, "What I have here is how to expand the scale of the breeding farm."

He looked at the crowd. "Currently, there are a total of 15 Luwan Cooked Food Stores, 10 in the district committee, 3 in the county seat, and 2 in Shuanghe County. These 15 stores consume a large number of poultry and livestock every day. Although there are now four production teams, namely Ganjiacun, Shengli, Hongxing, and Bailang Lake, that can supply them, if we open new stores or have other channels, I'm afraid the supply will become a problem."

Secretary Yang nodded slowly. "What are your thoughts?"

Ye Shubao lit a self-made cigarette, exhaled a puff of smoke, and said with a bitter face, "What else can I do? That is, encourage commune members' families to engage in more breeding, and further expand the scale of the breeding farm directly managed by the production team headquarters.

However, doing so will also have considerable difficulties. The first is the lack of labor. There are a total of 586 households in the entire production team. Our commune members are now almost all engaged in breeding, but the labor force is limited, and the strong labor force must still be given priority to arrange for production in the fields."

Secretary Yang interjected, "That's right. In any case, we must ensure that the central principle of 'grain as the key link' does not change. Otherwise, if everyone goes to develop side businesses, who will guarantee food security?"

No one had any objections to this issue.

Although rice is cheap, we still have to rely on it to fill our stomachs. No matter how delicious meat is, it will be gone in a few days, but rice can be stored for a long time, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. There is no comparison between the two.

People who have experienced hunger will always put food security first. This is the principle for both public and private reasons, and there is absolutely no room for discussion!

As for earning money to buy grain from outside? If someone asked the old people at that time this question, most of them would have the same attitude: "If everyone goes to earn money, who will grow grain? Who will hand in the state grain? When you are hungry, I will have grain in my hand, so what if you have money?"

Therefore, including Ye Shubao, who is in charge of the breeding farm, no one would think of taking away the labor force that grows grain to increase the scale of the breeding farm.

After a brief silence, Secretary Yang asked again, "What other problems are there with the breeding farm?"

Ye Shubao immediately said, "There are."

He turned to look at Zhang Wenliang, who immediately reacted, moved his butt forward, and turned his gaze to Chen Fan, "Xiao Chen told me before that it is actually not cost-effective to breed wild rabbits. Wild rabbits eat a lot, grow slowly, and have a high loss rate. If possible, it is best to buy a batch of meat rabbit seedlings from outside."

Chen Fan was sitting sideways on the chair, listening in. Seeing everyone looking at him, he immediately said, "That's right. We didn't have the conditions before, so we could only rely on our own efforts and use existing resources to do breeding.

But after this half-year of development, the production team also has money in its account, so we need to consider how to realize product value-added.

For example, raising chickens. In fact, the breeding efficiency of our local chickens here is not high. Compared with some famous meat chickens across the country, they eat more feed but produce much less meat, and even the eggs they lay are small.

If we switch to well-known meat chickens such as Sanhuang chickens, Qingyuan chickens, Xinghua chickens, and black-bone chickens, not only will the feed input be less and the meat yield higher, but with the reputation of these meat chickens, the selling price can also be increased a little bit."

At first, everyone listened with great interest, but when they heard the last sentence, they couldn't help but feel a little guilty.

The current price is already high enough, isn't it? Are you afraid of earning this money without peace of mind?

However, aside from Comrade Xiao Chen's price increase suggestion, the two points of lower input and higher meat yield did indeed move them.

This is equivalent to doing nothing and getting a batch of meat for nothing.

Secretary Yang was just about to speak when he heard Chen Fan say again, "The same is true for rabbits. In fact, wild rabbits are not very suitable for breeding. At that time, I also put a lot of effort into barely domesticating those wild rabbits, but in terms of breeding varieties, wild rabbits are very uneconomical.

White rabbits are more suitable for meat rabbit breeding. White rabbits have a higher meat yield, the meat is more tender, and white rabbits are also quieter and more friendly to breeders."

Ye Shubao immediately asked, "Where can I buy white rabbits?"

Chen Fan looked at him in surprise. "You even know about Angora rabbits?"

Ye Shubao raised his head proudly. "Don't think that only you read newspapers. I also read newspapers often, okay? The newspaper reported the deeds of Fogang, Guangdong, raising Angora rabbits. More than 7,000 households in one county raise Angora rabbits. Over the past ten years, they have earned more than 2 million yuan in foreign exchange for the country. It's all been in the newspapers!"

Secretary Yang was quite interested at first, but after hearing him finish, he couldn't help but frown slightly. "2 million in ten years, that's not much."

The 15 Luwan cooked food stores in Lujiawan had a daily turnover of about 40,000 yuan. After deducting costs such as seed and seedling fees, feed, medicines, purchase costs from other production teams, employee wages, transportation fees, development funds retained by the sideline company, and management fees paid to the food company, the remaining net profit was distributed in three ways.

The poultry and livestock raised by the members of their own production team were divided into three shares: 60% went to the farmers, 20% to the small team, and 20% to the large team.

For those raised by the brigade's own breeding farm, 70% went to the breeding farm and 30% to the brigade.

The profits from purchases from other production teams were split equally between the purchasing company and the brigade. This part was actually very small, because the added value was all earned by the sideline company, leaving little profit margin.

But in any case, adding up the income from all sources, the collective account of the brigade headquarters could now take in two to three thousand yuan a day.

Two million? That would only take two or three years, right?

And that doesn't even include the money in the accounts of the various sideline companies. That's why Secretary Yang and the others are so confident now.

But Ye Shubao's words immediately made Secretary Yang lose his confidence.

Ye Shubao said, "They are earning foreign exchange!"

Secretary Yang was silent. Now he was also a man who had seen the world, and he knew how important foreign exchange was.

Don't think that 1.7 yuan can be exchanged for 1 US dollar now. In reality, we need a lot of foreign exchange to buy advanced foreign equipment. If possible, some units are willing to pay several times the price to exchange for it.

So the gold content of this 2 million is really hard for him to estimate.

He took a puff of his cigarette in silence, and Secretary Yang's eyes turned slightly as he smiled at Chen Fan, "Xiao Chen, do you think we can raise Angora rabbits?"

Chen Fan smacked his lips and said with a smile, "Raising them is definitely possible, but I don't think it's necessary, at least not now."

Secretary Yang was slightly stunned, "What do you mean?"

Xiao Liewen also quickly asked, "That's right, since others can raise Angora rabbits for export, so can we! When we earn foreign exchange, we can add so many good things to the public!"

Chen Fan smiled and patiently explained, "Exporting rabbit hair is not a simple matter. If we want to raise Angora rabbits, we must first have people who are familiar with the quality standards of rabbit hair, or even rabbit hair processing enterprises, and all products for export must go through foreign trade companies.

The reason why Fogang can raise Angora rabbits is because their county's foreign trade company has opened up foreign trade channels and has customers in this area. Then, they vigorously develop Angora rabbit breeding within the county and train technicians to provide customers with high-quality rabbit hair.

Does our Guifeng County's foreign trade company have such channels? Or does it have technicians who are familiar with rabbit hair and rabbit hair processing?"

Secretary Yang was speechless.

The Guifeng County Foreign Trade Company is simply a decoration. Its annual export volume is less than 10,000 US dollars, and that is still relying on supplying goods to the provincial foreign trade company, which gives them a little soup. The entire Guifeng County relies on this little amount of foreign exchange to accumulate money year after year, and then save a little and buy a little... It's so pitiful that no one even wants to look at it!

At this time, Team Leader Zhang finally understood, "I understand. To give an example, it's like we opened cooked food stores. Because of Xiao Chen's relationship with the Health Department, we were able to open so many stores.

Now we don't have such a person who can help export rabbit hair, so even if we raise Angora rabbits, we won't be able to sell them!"

Chen Fan smiled and said, "Almost."

After a pause, he smiled again, "However, it doesn't mean that it won't work in the future. If someone is admitted to a foreign trade school in this college entrance examination, or if someone enters a foreign trade company in the future, then we can get on this line. Not to mention rabbit hair, it won't be difficult to sell chickens, ducks, and geese."

Hearing this, Secretary Yang bit his cigarette holder and clapped his hands suddenly, saying with a radiant face, "See, what did I say? We should really win over these prospective college students. You never know when we might need them."

As soon as these words came out, there was a burst of light laughter in the office.

No one is a fool, including those educated youths from other places. Everyone knows that they owe Lujiawan a great favor, and these favors must be repaid.

Otherwise, everyone is not related, even if they help, they can just give them some materials to copy. Why bother opening study classes, tutoring them, and helping them provide food and accommodation?

Especially after Secretary Yang treated them to two meals, he made his purpose clear.

And their willingness to come also showed an attitude that as long as there is a place where they can be used in the future, this favor will definitely be repaid!

It's the same reason for staying here to eat and drink for free. Of course, he is different. In addition to favors, his relationship with Lujiawan is no different from his own people. A favor is just the icing on the cake. Whether there is one or not, he will do his best to help when Lujiawan has something to do, and Secretary Yang and the others don't treat him as an outsider.

When the laughter stopped, Secretary Yang said to Chen Fan, "Okay, then let's not raise Angora rabbits for now, just white rabbits."

After a pause, he said again, "Then when are we going outside to buy white rabbits and the broiler chickens you mentioned?"

Chen Fan looked at Ye Shubao and Zhang Wenliang, "This should be under the jurisdiction of the breeding farm. Team Leader Ye and Third Tiger Brother should handle it.

After the Spring Festival, you can arrange a few more people, and then divide them into several groups. Some will go to Shanghai to buy rabbits, and some will go to Guangdong or Anhui to buy chicks. This will be more efficient."

After he finished speaking, An Quan immediately said, "When I go back to Shanghai, I can find out the situation first, and you can go directly to buy them when you arrive."

Secretary Yang looked at him and deliberately said, "You have finally done something practical."

An Quan's face fell, "How can you say that? I also contributed a lot when the breeding farm was built."

Secretary Yang smiled, "But you are no longer a cadre of the tax bureau."

An Quan sighed, "People leave, and the tea cools down!"

The room was filled with laughter again.

Ye Shubao smiled and took a puff of his cigarette, turning his head to look at Secretary Yang, "That's all I have here, nothing else."

At this time, Chen Fan raised his hand and said with a smile, "I have another suggestion about the breeding farm."

Everyone looked at him, and Secretary Yang pointed to him, "Speak."

Chen Fan smiled and said, "Our brigade is considered rich now, right? Can we consider building another feed factory?"

Hearing this, everyone's eyes lit up.

Feed machines have not appeared in my country for a long time. In addition to a very small number of feed machines imported in the early years, my country only purchased an imported Italian machine in the early 1970s, and assigned the task to the state-owned Liyang Grain and Oil Machinery Factory and a company in Zhengzhou under the Ministry of Commerce, asking them to disassemble and survey it in order to digest and absorb it and manufacture our own pelletizing equipment.

At that time, under the conditions of lagging behind in disassembly and surveying, Liyang Grain and Oil Machinery Factory still did not give up, and took the initiative to find another imported feed machine and rushed to imitate China's first domestic feed machine: Model 45 feed pellet press.

Later, the machinery factory in Zhengzhou also rose up and manufactured another model of machine.

Now, after a few years, feed machines have gradually become popular, and the main supply units are various large farms.

If ordinary production teams want to buy them, they can also buy them by submitting a report and placing an order in advance, but they have to wait for a while.

An Quan was the first to react and slapped his thigh, saying, "This idea is good. If we can buy a feed machine, it will be of great help to improving the quality of feed. In addition to supplying our own breeding farm and farmers, we can also sell feed to the outside."

Secretary Yang's eyes lit up, and he looked at him and asked, "We can also run a feed factory?"

An Quan smiled and said, "Of course, the raw materials for feed are all agricultural products, and the objects supplied by feed are also the breeding industry, all belonging to the five major categories of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fishery. As long as it does not exceed the five major categories, the production team can run it!"

Secretary Yang immediately said without hesitation, "Okay, then we will buy a feed machine and run a feed factory!"

Ye Shubao quickly threw away his cigarette butt and smiled at him, "Lao Yang, why don't you hand over the feed factory to our breeding farm to run..."

Before he could finish speaking, Secretary Yang said, "Forget it, didn't you hear what Xiao An just said? Feed can be sold to the outside. If it is handed over to your breeding farm, how will the accounts be calculated in the future? It's better to separate them!"

Ye Shubao curled his lips and said nothing.

Account splitting was the tone set by Chen Fan at the beginning. Now that the various sideline units are cooperating with each other, they have also seen the benefits of separating the accounts, and he will naturally not sing against them.