In the saline-alkali land of the plains, the most suitable crop is cotton. After the implementation of the land contract responsibility system in 79 years, people's enthusiasm was mobilized, and the output nearly doubled, and the lint yield per mu of spring cotton reached more than 200 catties.

The land in the plain area is barren, there are few people and more land, and the per capita cultivated land is more than three acres. With less than 500 people, Xiaojin Village has 3,000 acres of cultivated land.

The bumper harvest not only brings joy, but also the difficulty of selling cotton has become a worry for farmers. Cotton is a regulated material of the state, and individuals do not have the right to traffic it over long distances.

External transfer is limited by indicators, and the production capacity of local spinning mills is limited. The consumption of the peasants' own families is enough for 100 catties of lint per year.

A year has passed, and every household has stored hundreds of catties of lint. In the past, I was worried about lack of clothes and less clothing, but now I am worried about more cotton.

In the spring of the 80s, an overseas Chinese who had been exiled abroad in the early years of their village returned from looking for relatives.

I saw my mother, who was ninety years old, alone, still alive under the careful care of the villagers. I was greatly moved and determined to serve my fellow villagers.

It just so happened that this overseas Chinese was engaged in the textile industry abroad, and after learning about the difficulties of the villagers, he invested 10 million yuan to build a textile factory in the village, with complete spinning, weaving and dyeing production lines, all the machines were imported from abroad, and there was a technical team of more than 20 people.

At that time, the country had just begun to reform and open up, and it strongly supported foreign-funded enterprises. Their village-run enterprise was greenlit all the way and was built in three months.

After more than a month of trial production, the high-quality products fully demonstrated the advanced foreign textile machines. After the official opening of the textile factory, the products are well received by people and have been in short supply.

The most popular thing is that their cotton cloth is dyed well, the color is bright and does not fade, and the dyes they use are also imported.

Sufficient funds, advanced technology and machinery, cheap raw materials, best-selling products, and funds are accumulating rapidly like a snowball.

The 300 young and middle-aged laborers in the village all work in the factory, which works in three shifts day and night, with an average salary of 100 yuan per person, and the masses also have money in their hands.

When life is rich, the first thing that everyone thinks of is building a house. In the rainy season, it rains heavily outside the house and light rain inside the house, and the rain stops outside the house and continues to rain inside the house.

While building a factory in the village, overseas Chinese built a villa for the old mother. But the old man refused to move, and gave the villa to the village to make an office.

She said: "The life in the village is hard, and the villagers want to eat my wife and son first, and everyone lives in a mud house, and I can't live in a western-style house alone." ”

10 million yuan of funds have been invested, less than 100 households in the whole village will build a villa for 50,000 yuan, and overseas Chinese will have follow-up funds of 5 million yuan to build buildings for the whole village.

Village planning, villa design, and the purchase of building materials are all hired by a professional team, and many building materials are directly imported from abroad.

The small Jin Zhuang created in this way not only meets the needs of the countryside, but also carries foreign characteristics, beautiful and practical, and can be said to be a model of the domestic countryside.

The feature film lasts for half an hour, and when watching it, everyone drinks tea and rests, and basically adjusts it.

Afterwards, the narrator led everyone to visit the factory. The textile mill is located at the southern end of the square. The tall factory building is spacious and bright, and the roar of machines is everywhere, and the speech is shouted.

Everywhere he went, the narrator pointed to the sign above the door of the workshop, just a brief introduction to what kind of workshop it was.

The main entrance of the factory faces south, and the south side of the whole factory is facing outward, and the gate is very lively, and there are several long queues in front of the store, and there are hundreds of people.

Especially in front of the cotton purchase store, there are four long queues of trucks full of cotton. According to the narrator, cotton farmers from all over the county come here to sell cotton. Except for the wind and rain, it is basically every day.

Another store with a long queue sells cotton thread, and it is dyed cotton thread. There are fine single ply yarns and thick ply yarns. Laid crutch line, one or two handfuls, one pound and one bundle.

Most of the thread buyers are women, and they all hold pre-calculated lists and exchange weaving patterns with each other.

The narrator proudly said: "The cotton thread spun in our village factory is exceptionally strong, and the weaving is continuous, and there is no need for pulp at all."

In addition, we sell dyed cotton thread, the color is bright and does not fade, and the color of the woven cloth is similar to that of new when it wears out. ”

Men may not understand her words, but women know how to do it. The "old mule" said excitedly: "I have to buy some more to take home, this does not need to be spinned, dyed or pulped, and how much trouble can be saved in weaving." ”

The narrator laughed when he heard it: "At the beginning, we didn't sell yarn to the outside world, and the women in our village all worked in the factory, and they didn't have time to spin the yarn, so they bought the weaving cloth in the factory, and they knew the benefits after using it."

When the women of the nearby villages found out, they asked their relatives and friends to help them buy it, and the retail sales of cotton thread became larger and larger. ”

Zhao Fang asked puzzledly: "I look at the cloth sold in your village, and the quality is very good, why do you still weave the cloth yourself." The women in your village all go to work, so they still have time to weave their own cloth?"

"We work in three shifts, eight hours a day, and the rest of the time is enough to farm and work.

The cloth woven by the factory in our village is really good, but the bed sheets and bedding are not as thick and flat as the coarse cloth woven by ourselves.

Besides, the cloth you weave yourself is cheap. All with the thread bought, a hook cloth fine line one and a half pounds, strands two and a half pounds.

No matter the thickness of the thread we sell, it is two yuan a catty. Coarse-woven sheets cost only 5 yuan, and fine-woven bedding costs 3 yuan.

The bed sheet cloth sold in the factory is 0.68 yuan per foot, and the 15-foot cloth is 10.2 yuan to make a bed sheet. The quilt is 0.48 yuan a foot, and the 14-foot quilt is 6.72 yuan.

Weaving it yourself and buying it with money, the price difference is doubled. Besides, the coarse cloth woven by myself is much thicker than the one bought, that is, the coarse cloth woven with a single strand of fine thread is also thicker than the serge, at least two years longer.

You see, those who come to sell cotton come back with some yarn. Now we have very few spinning threads here, and the weavers come to our factory to buy dyed threads. ”

Zhao Fang was greatly inspired, and hurriedly said: "Listen to what you said, I have to buy some back, the fourth and fifth are all older, and it is time to prepare a dowry." They don't have time to go to school, and it's not enough for me to spin the thread by myself, but with this ready-made cotton thread, it can save a lot of money. ”

Several men listened to Zhao Fang and the two of them buying cotton thread, and there were so many benefits, they all had to buy it, so let the "old mule" and Zhao Fang help them get ideas to see what color was suitable for buying.

The colors used in different patterns are very different, and how much cotton thread should be bought for each color, Zhao Fang has made it difficult to calculate.