Chapter 37 [Planting Thorn Grass]
In less than twenty minutes all the personnel gathered in the study, and then the servants would make a new pot of tea and bring it in. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 After everyone drank tea and smoked cigarettes, Lefu got up from the sofa with a smile, and then came to the window to cover a large pile of things with a black cloth, and when he threw off the black cloth, it was all ten kilograms of seeds, and then he smiled and said to a few unknown people.
"These are the seeds of thorn grass, don't look at these seeds are small, they can take root and sprout in 24 hours when planted in the ground. It can grow to 30 centimeters within 10 days, which can meet the needs of cattle and sheep grazing, and has strong drought and disease resistance and rich nutrition. ”
"Everyone is a high-level tribal and has been exposed to the test reports of these thorn grasses, so there is no other meaning to call you here today. It is the Ministry of Agriculture that arranges for people to plant the seeds of these thorn grasses in the land that has been transformed into alpine pastures, and after ten days, all the cattle and sheep can be brought back for grazing. Hahahaha! ”
After saying that, he patted the seeds and then turned around and sat back on the sofa, looking at a few people with a smug face, Agriculture Minister Hanks is also the father of Mark, the number one candidate for alternate Minister of Agriculture, smiled and asked Lefou. "This is really great news, with these thorn grasses, the quality of our bison tribe will definitely improve. You can sell it for a higher price and increase your income, but the chieftain is so expensive that these thorn grasses have any requirements in terms of planting. ”
Lefu shook his head with a smile and said, "Don't look at the thorn grass test report so exaggerated, in fact, the thorn grass is very strong. The ability to resist natural disasters is hundreds of times that of alfalfa, so it does not need to be cared for so carefully, and when planting, the seeds are just buried in the ground under five centimeters, and if they are watered, they will take root and sprout within 12 hours. ”
"If there is no water to irrigate it, the thorn grass will germinate in 24 hours, and then grow to 30 centimeters in 10 days. You can harvest the first thorn grass to dry and store, and then the thorn grass will split the roots for the second time, and after harvesting it back and forth three times, these thorn grasses will grow like a green carpet to all the pasture land space. ”
"It's really a green carpet and it grows so fast that it can grow from a harvested root to a height of 1 meter in a month. At that time, it was really a beautiful picture of cattle and sheep under the grass. ”
The Minister of Agriculture, Hanks, was also shocked by the beautiful picture depicted by Lefou, and it took a while to react and excitedly say to several people. "It's really great, I didn't expect the thorn grass to have so many advantages, and it is not afraid of harvesting, the faster it grows when it is harvested in the month, and the faster it divides the taproot."
"It's not an exaggeration to say that hay can be harvested three times in a month, and the stored hay can be completely satisfied, and the forage that cattle and sheep need in winter, how much value these thorn grasses will produce is really immeasurable."
Lefu knows the various habits of thorn grass best, and at the same time, he is proud of the secret path in his heart. "The greatness of the thorn grass will be discovered slowly, and it will definitely scare you when the time comes! It's going to be fun then, hahaha. ”
After laughing inwardly for a while, Lefu returned to the state of the chieftain in a serious manner, took a puff on his cigar and continued. "In the past, large machines could not be used due to poor traffic conditions, but in these alpine pastures, the productivity of the machines is very efficient. Now Longteng Company has laid a five-meter-wide stone road for us, so that large machinery can enter the alpine pasture through the alpine forest to harvest and place pasture. ”
"It saves a lot of labor and the time to complete the work is greatly reduced, so these large forage harvesters, balers, and vehicles that transport dry forage have to be re-added. In order to best protect the reserve, these large machines must be purchased with the best and most top-of-the-line equipment, and the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Commerce have jointly taken action to purchase these large machinery and equipment. Then the Ministry of Home Affairs trained some tribal people to drive these large machines to run the work. ”
In the past, because of those forest paths, it was difficult for people to walk, let alone transport any large equipment to the alpine pastures for harvesting operations. The forage grass can be harvested manually, which is too inefficient and too costly. Now that these large machinery and equipment can be used, it is completely possible to reduce costs and increase work efficiency exponentially.
This is also why Lefu spends such a high price on the renovation project, because the work efficiency of people cannot be compared with large machinery, and the one-time investment for many years is what Lefu wants.
After chatting about the matter, Prime Minister Eric suddenly said to Lefou, "Chief, the external environment in the past two years has been very bad, and the economic development has slowed down, so it is becoming more and more difficult to work outside. The lives of ordinary people in our tribe will also be in a difficult situation, and more than 2,000 young people have returned to the tribal reserves. ”
"Doing nothing all day, what emergencies will definitely arise after a long time? So I want to ask you. I remember that when Longteng Company built the stone road, it was very slow, and there were so many idle strong laborers in our tribe? Is it possible to arrange these people to build a stone road? Thirty dollars a day for each person can be regarded as something to do, so as not to let these over-energetic young people idle around and fight what you think. ”
There is a lot of strength in numbers, not to mention that these tribal people are their own people, and now the external environment is so bad that it is difficult to find a job. In particular, the status of Indians in American society is not much higher than that of those, and they are bullied by others everywhere, so the unemployment rate is very high.
No matter what country they live in, they can't live without money, and as the backbone of these people, they should find a way out for these young people. At the very least, it is good to be able to maintain a minimum quality of life, so in favor of Prime Minister Eric's proposal, Lefu raised his hands in favor. But thirty dollars a day for a healthy adult, and the harsh working conditions of road construction, are too harsh?
So Lefu frowned and said, "Our tribe is not short of that money, and we can't use large-scale engineering equipment to repair stone roads." Isn't it too much to have to do such drudgery as labor, and I don't think it's too much to raise the wage to fifty dollars a day for a lunch. ”
"8 o'clock in the morning and 5 o'clock in the evening are working hours, and I can ask those idle young people to come over to me to repair roads, so that I can earn money and exercise. Third, it can restrain the strong character of these young people, and this proposal is very good, and I am in favor of it. ”
The chief is the chief, although it is impossible to say nothing like the ancient emperor, but the status of Lefu, the chief, is no matter how wild the buffalo tribe, no one dares to question it. The fate of many people is in the hands of Lefou, and the words spoken by Lefu are holy decrees that ordinary people must obey.
What's more, there is still a salary, and it is idle to be idle, so it is better to earn some money to supplement the family, so after the good news came out, the unemployed ordinary people, all healthy men, rushed to sign up. Originally, it was planned to recruit more than 2,000 young laborers, but I didn't expect that more than 3,000 would be adult men all of a sudden.
The staff, from the old and the young, from the 65-year-old to the fifteen or sixteen-year-old children, all came to participate, one sheep was also driven, and two sheep were also herded. Even if it was a disguised welfare, these people were all hired to build stone roads, and each person was fifty dollars a day for a meal at noon.