Organic Farm Author: Farmer is flying

Chapter 119: Rural Museum

Liu Meiting's feedback shows that there are now about 1,300 customers who will enter the ordering system at the same time every day, excluding those who enter in the early stage of open ordering, but do not place orders, may have the desire to order, and there are about 260 customers who fail to order every day.

Tagawa said to his parents: "You see, the current order failure rate is about 20%, which is a reasonable number. Only when this number rises above 30% can we consider increasing shipments. Until then, it is better to feed the chickens with surplus vegetables than to blindly expand the supply or sell the surplus vegetables to others at a low price. Of course, we feed the chickens the worst quality, and the external saying is that the quality of the vegetables does not meet the requirements of the product. ”

Tagawa asked his father, "How many extra vegetables do you have every day?"

Tian's father said: "Actually, it's not much, sometimes there are two or three hundred servings, sometimes they are booked, and there have been cases where the orders are insufficient." ”

"Actually, the excess amount of production is not much, isn't it? Even in order not to fail customer orders, we have to control the expected output. Let's maintain this for a while, Sister Ting is still recruiting new members, and soon our shipments will really be in short supply. ”

Tian's father and Tian's mother have nothing to say.

persuaded his parents, Tian Chuan called Li Tao and asked about the way to set up a gas station. Li Tao was a little curious and asked, "It's not like your style to get this thing." Besides, a gas station, millions to thousands of profits a year, you will also look at it?"

Tian Chuan said: "I don't want to find a way for my sister to make money, both of them are teachers, and each of them only earns more than 10,000 yuan a year, which is too little, and it is difficult to maintain a car." ”

"That's a solution," Mr. Li said, "as long as there is no trouble in the area, it's quite worry-free." Since it's for your sister, I'll leave it to me. You just have to find the right place and I'll take care of the rest. The investment in a gas station is not much, two million is enough. ”

Since Li Tao agreed to help him with the formalities of the gas station, Tian Chuan was relieved. I called Xu Fatzi in Qinglong Town again: "Fat brother, where did you make your fortune? Didn't I just go to the United States, and I came back with some gadgets, and I have a share of yours." How about I go for you a drink in the evening?"

Xu Fatzi happily agreed. Tian Chuan hurriedly sorted out the things he brought back, found a wallet of LV bought in Los Angeles, took two bottles of foreign wine and a cigarette, and drove to find Xu Fatzi.

The next day, Tian Chuan signed an agreement with Qinglong Town to occupy five acres of land on the side of the highway in the south of the town to build a gas station.

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Nearly a month has passed since Tagawa was sick last time, and the vegetables grown by many families in the village for picking have matured one after another. With the unremitting efforts of Wang Dayong, the village head, and Tian Long, the village party secretary, the first batch of tourist picking groups from Tianjin City arrived in the village ten days ago. The picking group picked vegetables, learned about crops, experienced agricultural labor, and purchased local products from the village, and was generally satisfied with the trip. The price of picking vegetables is a little higher than the market price, which is generally acceptable to tour groups, after all, the fun of picking by yourself is not usually experienced. Growers can also accept that they can only sell to wholesalers for less than half of the retail price, and although the direct picking of customers causes a certain amount of waste, there is still a significant increase in income relative to the wholesale price.

In addition to vegetable planting, restaurants and local product sales have achieved good sales results.

The original brigade headquarters is located, the building of the rural museum has been basically completed, this is a relatively tall antique building, there is no popular glazed tile and other rich palace elements, there is no various legendary beast sculptures, only relatively simple gray walls and green tiles, but the house building is relatively tall, in order to meet the needs of the museum's exhibition.

At present, there are three pavilions that have been opened: the Traditional Farm Tools Hall, the Family Life Hall and the Four Seasons Labor Hall, and an adobe house building model is under construction.

In the Traditional Farming Implements Museum, a large number of traditional farming tools are on display. These agricultural tools include various harnesses for livestock labor, transportation vehicles, various plows, axes, stone grinders and other animal tools used in field ploughing, as well as a variety of hand tools such as hoes, pickaxes, forks, shovels, knives, etc. When organizing the museum, Tagawa proposed that the most important thing to focus on was the collection and exhibition of these tools, which Tagawa was most worried about disappearing. There were some tools that could no longer be found, so Tagawa had to ask some veteran craftsmen to remake them from memory. A common feature of these tools is that they are mostly made of wood, rattan, stone, rope, etc., and metal will appear in some extremely necessary and critical parts. For example, the most common plough in the countryside is all wooden, only the plow head deep into the soil is cast iron, and the bottom of the fierce friction with the soil is also made of relatively hard and wear-resistant jujube wood, rather than metal, which can be seen how precious metal is in the past when productivity was relatively low. The characteristics and usage of various agricultural tools are explained in detail in the museum, and many of them are accompanied by drawings, paintings, and most of them are photographs. These photographs were simulated by the villagers, and there were very few real old photographs, and in the former countryside, photography was an extremely luxurious act, and no one would use the precious negatives in ordinary daily labor.

The Family Life Pavilion exhibits scenes from the daily life of ordinary farmhouses.

Housewives are the central theme of the living pavilion. All the family's clothes, shoes and socks had to be made by the housewife with fabrics, and in earlier times, cotton picking, ginning, spinning, weaving and other work had to be done by themselves, and the labor intensity was unimaginable. And in order to save lamp oil, most people generally do not light the lamp at night, and all this work must be completed during the day.

The cookware section is more distinctive. Iron pots, kitchen knives, and spatulas tend to be the three largest pieces of iron in a family, so it is extremely serious for two families to smash each other's iron pots when they fight. All the meals at home are from this iron pot, don't worry about being too troublesome, the meals are basically vegetables or porridge below, and the staple food is on top, and it is completed at one time. Most of the time, the next dish is pickled in a large vat, and other dishes, such as cabbage and potatoes, are cooked in a large pot with salt. Stir-frying is rare, as can be seen from the fact that the oil is used to put oil in a copper coin-sized flat-bottomed oil spoon.

From the various daily necessities on display here, people can clearly feel the hardships of people's lives at that time, and many children who come to visit say that they can't imagine how to live in such conditions for many years.

The last Four Seasons Labor Hall is far beyond people's imagination. Throughout the year, when there is no farming, except for about 20 days before and after the Spring Festival, there is basically work to be done in the fields every day. Ploughing, fertilizing, weeding, ploughing to preserve moisture, watering, harvesting, and so on. There is also the post-harvest work - the field, which often lasts one to two weeks, and it is also the hardest and most intense time for people. When the farm work in the field is a little looser, there are other tasks to be done, the adobe house and courtyard walls need to be repaired every year, the accumulated manure needs to be fermented and broken, the livestock need to prepare forage, the firewood needs to be collected and prepared for a winter, and so on. In addition to laundry, cooking, and housework, housewives also have to participate in field work when they are busy farming. Especially girls before marriage, often have to take on the job of almost a man. The sheer amount of work that comes with all manual labor makes people's daily work extremely hard.

In addition to these basic jobs, some farmers also do some economic activities that can earn some extra money, such as planting a vegetable garden, running a tofu workshop, or ginning mills, oil mills, etc., all of which have to be done in the morning and evening when the farm work is relatively leisurely.

Urban people lack a clear concept of rural life, and they are unheard of for the closed rural life of the completely self-sufficient small-scale peasant era, and the rural museum has brought them a new experience, and the response to this small characteristic museum has been quite good.

On the second day of his return, Tian Chuan asked the village chief Wang Dayong and the secretary Tian Long to come to the house for a drink. During the banquet, Tagawa came up with the idea of organizing an agricultural cooperative. The idea was formed during his time in the United States, that is, he wanted to centralize the land in the village and manage it in a unified manner.

The specific business idea is as follows: the village establishes a land cooperative, signs a land subcontract with each family, gathers most of the land in the village, pays each family a fixed output twice a year according to the season, and converts the grain price into cash payment according to the agreed date. Each family cannot influence the cooperative's planting project. In this way, families can effectively avoid losses such as this year's floods, and also avoid laborious field work. Nowadays, almost all of the young and middle-aged labor force of the family are working in various enterprises, and the labor when the farm is busy is very helpless, and the annual operating income of the land is limited, which is also relatively weak. Tian Chuan's basic idea is to pay the price of 800 catties of corn per mu of land on October 31 every year, and the price of 800 catties of wheat on June 30. The agreement was to be signed at a time of more than five years, and he was going to use the land to grow healthier wheat and corn and various grains to meet the needs of the members. In terms of the current number of members, he needs about 600-800 acres of land to do this, accounting for about two-thirds of the land in the village.

Wang Dayong and Tian Long felt a little unbelievable about his idea: they still planted field crops, and they paid too much for grain every year, and each farmer managed the land by himself, and the annual output was not as much as these two 800 catties. Tagawa explained, "The grain I grow will be sold at a higher price than the market price in the future, so I won't lose money." ”

Wang Dayong said: "According to the conditions you proposed, most families in the village will agree. But you won't take all the land, and that's a bit of a problem. It's not good to leave anyone behind. In addition, there may be a small number of people who are reluctant to join, which will also be a problem. ”

Tian Long said: "Can we redistribute the land? Redistribute the land that has been left behind, and redistribute those who are unwilling to join the cooperative, so as to concentrate the parts that can join the cooperative, so as to facilitate management. ”

Tian Dad interjected next to him and said: "I'm afraid that some people don't agree to move the place, such as the family who has just built a greenhouse, he has invested so much, let him change a piece of land, the loss is too great, and he will definitely not agree." ”

Tian Chuan said: "I've only thought about this for a short time, and I haven't thought about it in detail. You guys help me think about it these days and see if there's a good way. I think this is something that is beneficial to most of the villagers, and there should always be a way. If you really can't do it, don't force it, and I don't have to. ”