Chapter 352: Digging Coal
In the blink of an eye, April came, and a lot of the remaining funds of the sales department were spent, and sales points were established in 12 districts of Beidou to sell honeycomb coal and cement.
And in the recruitment of clothing franchisees, it has also been quite effective. Fang Dajun also opened up the relationship, and the people's government suggested that students wear school uniforms, and it doesn't matter if they don't wear them. It's enough to have this sentence, and the school uniform market is also on fire, although there are more students on credit, but this money can be regarded as earned.
There is also Wang Ying in the expansion of the market, and the original sales in the urban area are not bad, which makes the garment factory on the right track, workers work overtime, there are things to do, with the improvement of proficiency, the salary is relatively considerable.
Needless to say, the cement plant has to increase the production of sufficient power for nearly half a year just for the needs of the building, and the honeycomb coal market has risen instead of falling, because the collective system has been canceled, resulting in the price of coal has begun to rise, and it has risen quite significantly.
According to the normal situation, the sales price of coal should now reach two-fifths of that of cement to be normal, the retail price of cement is now 40, and the price of raw coal should also be 15 to 20 yuan. The raw coal in the county has reached about 17 yuan, and before Jiaoshan, Fang Dajun only drove 6 yuan a ton, but if it is transported to the county, it will cost about 3 yuan per ton, and the price is still low.
Since April, he has adjusted the coal in Jiaoshan to 9 yuan per ton, which is about 10 yuan per ton, including his contribution to safety.
And this year's policy has also changed, coal to be taxed, the tentative price, a ton of five cents, bayberry is not vegetarian, in the corner of the mountain to Beidou halfway set up a checkpoint, coal is not transported out of the tax will not be taxed. But to pass this road. See a ton to collect five cents.
It's not cash. Instead, they went to the district office to buy coal tickets, and only after paying the tickets could they be released, and the taxes were borne by Kakudoyama himself.
Many of the former production captains have changed careers to become small coal bosses, but they are all a little sneaky and dare not look at people openly. The villagers who used to dig coal to earn labor also changed careers to become coal workers.
The place contracted by Fang Dajun is also ready to start mining coal in large quantities. But it is only in preparation, because the business has not yet been discussed, he is not mainly selling coal to the people, but wants to sell to unit enterprises, such as railway stations, tile factories, steel plants, boiler rooms of various units, and enterprises that need to use coal to generate electricity.
Of course, there is another reason, the price of coal has risen, resulting in an increase of one yuan per ton of cement and two yuan per ton of honeycomb coal, since you can consume coal on your own hands. And why bother to buy from someone else.
And the small coal cave in front of Jiaoshan is not worried about no business. For example, if the villagers want to use coal now, they need to spend money to buy it, not only Jiaoshan, but also the villagers outside, and this part of the civil use alone is enough to feed the small coal cave.
At present, the cement plant needs to use more than 200 tons of refined coal every month, and the honeycomb coal plant needs to use 600 tons of raw coal, which is already 800 tons.
Don't underestimate this money, earning 5,000 a month, you can be regarded as a pretty good township coal boss now. However, this premise is because the two factories are fixed sales points, and it is OK to dig them out and pull them over, the road is short, and the sales are stable.
has already said hello, and after two months, he will not need the previous coal, which can be regarded as giving the previous small coal hole a little preparation time and letting him find his own way.
The coal mine he wants to build is not simply to dig coal, and it is estimated that it may be accompanied by the construction of a refined coal plant, which will require a large amount of water to wash the coal. There may also be a coking coal plant, which will require burning raw coal, and he is a layman in this regard, but he only understands some information, and it depends on the business of the unit enterprise that has been discussed. For example, after negotiating with the steel mill, there will definitely be requirements for the coal needed, and he can complete the quality according to the requirements.
This year, his goal is to consolidate the previous business, and then make money from coal, the reputation of the coal boss in the future is not good, he does not plan to do this for the rest of his life, now he just wants to earn no capital from coal, and when he sees that the policy is wrong, he will stop. And the left and right are only a slightly larger coal mine, and it is enough to have such one, because his energy is limited, and there are too many projects he can do.
This time, when it came to business, he and Yangmeicai actually tacitly agreed, as if the previous unpleasantness had never happened, and he also asked the dumb man to come forward and stuff a red envelope for Yangmeicai, and the other party actually accepted it happily, not much money, but it was also a huge amount of money, a full five hundred yuan.
After receiving the money, Yang Meicai's attitude was completely different, in fact, he wanted to get his hands on the cement factory before, one was for political achievements, and the other was for some benefits.
Now the cement plant can't be moved, but the benefits can be obtained, and it can be regarded as barely acceptable.
The next thing is the green light all the way, and the procedures for Fang Dajun's coal mining are about to be implemented, and they are all formal procedures.
In mid-April, because of the good weather this year, it is now possible to plant seedlings, although he is asking the family not to plant the land, but his parents only let some relatively distant land to relatives to plant, most of the land is still planted by himself, and the family still has two pigs.
It's good to say that my father gave up his brick-making work, and only regarded it as a proportional commission, which is also because the order for fire bricks is too large, and a lot of villagers are recruited, and there are a lot of monthly commissions, which is my father's words, in fact, it is only seventy or eighty yuan.
Today he also helped to plant seedlings, it is a very simple way, with a line, horizontally pulled in the field, and then estimate the distance, the seedlings can be inserted into the field, if the insertion is not real, just use the foot to pound a few times, sweep the field mud to the position of the seedlings, and then the effect of inserting out, is a line of rows, the spacing is about the same.
But Fang Dajun is a traverser after all, and many of the seedlings he planted were floating on the water that afternoon, because they were not planted, the mud loosened, and the seedlings floated, and they were not born to be planting materials.
In the end, he went to pull the seedlings, the seedlings need to be cultivated, the method is also simple, choose a good field, plough the field mud to be fine and soft, and then build a long line, but the water surface can not exceed the surface position, but there must be water around.
Then you need to sprinkle manure and water, and finally sprinkle the rice seeds evenly on it, and then the method is similar to that of the greenhouse. Set up a small tent on it. Cover with film. Always keep water around, but the seeds should not be soaked in water.
Then it grows slowly, and after it grows strong and survives, you can remove the film, and then let it grow for a period of time, and then you can transplant it, and this seedling pulling is also a technical job.
If you don't get it right, you will tear off the roots. Then the seedlings will be scrapped. He has seen the "throwing seedlings" cultivated in the dry fields in later generations, that is, the seeds are planted in a mold, a groove the size of a coin, sprinkled with a few grains of millet, and when they are alive, they can be pulled out of the mold with the roots and soil with a gentle pull.
This mold is one version at a time, take one plate in your hand, stand on the ridge, and pull out the seedlings. Toss gently, because the roots of the seedlings carry mud. The bottom is heavy and the top is light, and when it falls, it is directly inserted into the field. Although the seedlings look crooked, but it is normal for a long period of time, of course, the seedlings still need to be filled, such as the edge of the farmland, it needs to be plugged by hand, and there are too dense places to pull out, too scarce places to make up the seedlings.
However, a lot of labor was saved, and the final harvest yield was not much less than that of rice planting.
After realizing the hard work of rice planting now, Fang Dajun really gave birth to the idea of "throwing seedlings", and then took action, and communicated with Xu Rong, who thought that Xu Rong also attracted attention, saying that he would arrange an experiment immediately, and the Agricultural Bureau would ask for a few experimental fields, which was too easy.
He also told what he knew about throwing rice in his memory, after all, he was a layman, and then he didn't care, and joked that if there was a result, don't forget, help him sell some coal, that is, pull some units of coal orders.
After planting rice, at the end of the month, he went to plant corn again, I thought it was a simple job, who knows that it is also very miscellaneous, the planting of corn is relatively backward, now it is not a point of planting, but the same as rice, you need to cultivate seedlings, the method is almost the same, but in the land.
However, when transplanting, the roots of the corn must be shoveled out together with the soil, otherwise it is not easy to plant to survive, before planting, the land needs to be dug with a hoe, and then according to the spacing, dig a pit, plant the corn into, to June and July, sweet potatoes are planted next to the roots of the corn. After the corn is harvested, the sweet potato will also usher in a vigorous growth cycle.
He knew how to plant corn, but after he brought it up, it was estimated that he couldn't solve it, so he didn't mention it, and the villagers were used to it. After the corn is planted, it will also go through the "upper shaking", that is, use a hoe to loosen the soil around the corn root and apply fertilizer, which is a technical work, because the corn root is accidentally dug off, and even the pit can not be filled, because the growth cycle has passed.
Labor Day, this year's May Day, he is indeed working. Although he was busy working most of the time, not only that, but he also went to support Li Yulan's family, similar to the situation of the elders here, the Li family was so busy, they actually left some land to grow food.
His son-in-law also went to help a little, he ate a lot of wine and meat, and he didn't like to be lazy when he worked.
The construction of the building was officially launched, the allocated area is still under discussion, and it has not been finalized, and the army of Yi Fang estimates that it may take several months, and the efficiency is really low enough, and the government has also taken over the construction project, he has no rights in the process, so he simply does not go, but a few people in charge like to listen to his opinions, and the communication connection is not developed, so he often asks him to go by message.
When everyone learned that he was farming during this time, I don't know how much I sighed, isn't this overkill, but if I know his level of farming, I don't think so.
The renovation project of the reservoir is almost over, the fish pond needs to be exposed to the sun, and it will take some time for the official use, and I am afraid that I will not be able to catch up with the fish this year.
The total cost is not much for the time being, and the funds behind it are mainly used for the 1,000 acres of mountain forests around the reservoir, and he wants to transform the fruit forest, which is a bit troublesome, and it is also a long-term project, so he came slowly.
The 3,000 ducks he wanted have been raised, and he is consuming food every day, and he has also raised nearly 20 part-time villagers, who work halfway in the cement factory, and the dumb man is the person in charge, and now the summer has not officially arrived, and he doesn't have much time to go to see it, and when the summer comes, he is going fishing or something.
"Brother Dajun, when will you take me to the train?" Xiao Yuqin said with some pity.
"Within this year, I'll go when I'm free." Fang Dajun didn't say it casually, it was not bad to take the Li family out for a while, but not now.
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Spring goes to autumn, and it's August. The weather is still hot. The corn harvest has already been harvested. Every household is busy drying corn and then decorating the jar. The harvest of corn, rapeseed and wheat before it, everyone was relieved that the grain production was more than last year.
In the past, the villagers were working, basically a time system, and after mixing the time, it was a work, and people were different. The work is not the same, but now it is their own land, and there are many villagers who work before dawn and go home after dark.
Corn and rice should be exposed to the sun for about ten days, and the water should be thoroughly dried so that they will not become moldy and insects when stored.
Although there is more food, it is because the livestock are raised more. As a result, there are teams fighting pigweed all over the world, and this year's planting and breeding are considered a double harvest.
And the price of meat. Instead of decreasing, it has risen, although it has only increased by five cents, but it has made everyone happy.
The price of rice has also risen slightly, by one or two cents per catty, which is basically reasonable, and in terms of wages, the cadres have also raised it a little.
In late August, the rice harvest season finally ushered in, which is the most important thing, rice is the main food ration of the local area, and it is also the main food for the public grain.
I don't know how many people are waiting for the results, Fang Dajun's foot-operated threshing machine invented last year has played an important role, basically every family, relying on this thing alone, without the help of outsiders, within two days, can finish all the rice, if you work overtime, you can get it done in one day.
The speed is about three acres of rice per day, don't be slow, because in previous years it was even slower. When the rice is harvested at home, the next step is to expose it to the sun, and in mid-September, it can go to the granary.
Each household will weigh or estimate, for example, a basket can hold forty catties, then just count the basket, you can roughly know.
Although the rights of the production team have been weakened, there is no problem with the number of statistics, and there is also a small news that compared with last year, the public grain handed over this year is much less. At present, the yield per mu is about 400 catties, and according to the average of about 3.5 mu of paddy fields per household, each household can harvest about 1,400 catties of millet on average.
In previous years, it was about more than 900 catties to be handed over, but this year it is only 600 catties, so that the villagers can have 800 catties left, just like that, Fang Dajun also felt that it was too high, and it was normal to hand over two or three hundred catties.
But the villagers were jubilant, because it meant that they could almost eat enough, and they could eat porridge even if they couldn't eat dry rice at every meal. In fact, as soon as hybrid rice comes out, it will yield seven or eight hundred catties per mu, which is normal.
At that time, each household can harvest about 2,000 catties of grain, and there will be a surplus every year, and when the time comes, there will be subscription grain, that is, the villagers can sell the surplus grain to the state. Around the mid-nineties, when the grain can be sold to private individuals, there is no need to sell it to the state, and the specific time, Fang Dajun is not too clear, because it didn't matter at all before the crossing.
In fact, now the villagers always feel that the food is not enough to eat, mainly because everyone's food is too fierce, now every family is a thick bowl, a bowl can hold three or two meters, strong men eat three bowls are normal, but in the future the bowl will be smaller and smaller, and the amount of rice will be less and less, because the rest of the agricultural and sideline products are abundant.
This year, there are also more agricultural and sideline industries in Jiaoshan, such as leeks, cucumbers, cat beans, etc. When the villagers get the land themselves, they will also find ways to grow a variety of rape, and there will be no shortage of edible oil.
This year, it is still the public grain, but it is completely different from last year's situation, and the wordless resentment in the hearts of the villagers has basically dissipated, and the farmers in China can be said to be the most industrious, and it is easy to be satisfied.
The rest of the grain is put into the granary, and there will be no panic in the next year, and this day is really rushing.
In a few years, when the countryside is no longer worried about having enough to eat, it will definitely pursue the quality of food. When you can eat well, you will pursue the overall quality of life, and you will pursue money, because with money, you can repair buildings, buy furniture and appliances, dress better, and go to the city to play.
The younger generation will also want to see the outside world, which causes more and more people to work.
But that was many years later, and now the jobs are too scarce, one radish and one pit, and it is too difficult to make money.
Fang Dajun released a rumor that he wanted to mine coal, which almost caused the previous coal diggers to collectively jump ship, and there were countless strong men who had not dug coal before to inquire about the news, I have to say that his reputation is quite good now, and everyone is willing to work for him.
This is the value of integrity, so he is not worried about the coal workers at all, worried about safety, safety is more important than Mount Tai, if something happens, his loss of money is small, and life is a big thing.
Therefore, before the construction starts, a large number of preventive measures will be built, such as reinforcing the main cave with stones and cement, such as building an exhaust system, so that the air in the cave can circulate at any time, so as to avoid gas explosions, in turn, will increase the cost of mining, but the money is not enough.
In addition, it is too dangerous to build houses, dig coal only during the day, and now we don't plan to start work at night. Therefore, there is no need for housing, but there is a need for canteens, rest rooms, roads, electrical circuits and other problems.
Before the coal was excavated, these preparations cost a lot of money, and he hired professional safety consultants, recruited workers, who would be trained before they could take up their posts, and who also had the right not to start work if safety guidelines were violated.
But these are just precautions, to minimize the danger, coal mining is still risky, and it is a high-risk type of work.
Fang Dajun also thought about it, regardless of the coal, but if he doesn't dig it, others will dig it, and if someone else comes, he doesn't dare to say that at least the safety part will not be as important as him, and he not only attaches importance to his own coal mine, but also still unifies the safety of the rest of the small coal holes.
He can't control the rest of the place, but when digging coal in Jiaoshan, he must pay attention to safety issues.
"Boom!" I went down with a hoe, and finally, I saw the coal.
It hasn't been mined yet, it's just a test digging, just like he used the small black stone to explore the situation, the coal here is very rich, and the quality is relatively good, and after digging it out, it's money. (To be continued......)