Chapter 5 The Problem of Water
Li Yang thought for a while and said: "Uncle Liu, people definitely want it, but at the beginning they didn't want much, so let's talk to everyone tomorrow, thirty yuan a day, six hours of work, no food at noon, only four people are needed at present."
"Okay, four people are fine, in this way, I will inform you immediately, and you can pick and choose when the time comes", Liu Gang was a soldier when he was young, that is, his homeland is difficult to leave, and he is reluctant to leave this place, these years, I have also thought about doing something for the villagers, but in this mountainous place, where does the business come from.
Li Yang's arrival gave him a little hope in his heart, he inquired, and heard that Li Yang was going to farm here, although he didn't agree with it in his heart, but as long as he was willing to spend money.
With the contract of more than 30 acres of land, Li Yang went home and told his mother about recruiting four people tomorrow.
"Where can we recruit people, the three of us can do it in a few days", Liu Yingrong felt that farming still costs money to recruit people, which is a bit of a waste of money.
"Mom, this is not an ordinary farming, and we can't afford to delay, this money is nothing, when the vegetables come out, we will definitely be able to sell it for money at that time", Li Yang cheered his mother up.
Early the next morning, the machine that contacted the plough arrived, and it was dragged up by a Chang'an car.
Fifty yuan an hour, a total of thirty-eight acres of land, can be done in half a day, because there is no need to plow too deep.
In the past few days, Li Yang's vegetables have been picked from other people's fields, and in the countryside, vegetables are not worth a few dollars, and sometimes they are thrown away in large quantities.
But Liu Yingrong didn't want to go, every time she went to get vegetables, she would leave a few yuan for a while.
The uncle was in charge of watching the machine plough the field, and Li Yang was going to mark the vegetable field.
Thirty-eight acres of land should be divided into a rectangle of three meters wide and ten meters long, called a box, and a drainage ditch should be dug in the middle of the compartment and the compartment, and a water pipe should be buried below.
Thirty-eight acres of vegetable land, this is not a small scale, in Fengshui Town, to be honest, this is definitely large-scale, after all, it is estimated that only half of the people in the town need to buy vegetables to eat, and how many other families have their own vegetables.
Therefore, in order to ensure that it is not unsalable, Li Yang decided to use a few acres of land to test it first, and also to see the effect of this bead.
In the past few days, Li Yang will pour some water soaked in beads into the herbal medicine field, every day, Liu Yingrong is very surprised, Li Yang explained that this is the use of the latest planting technology, Liu Yingrong then believed.
At about ten o'clock in the morning, Liu Gang, the village secretary, came to Li Yang with more than a dozen people, all of whom were women, all of whom were aunts in their forties and fifties.
Li Yang felt that this was not bad, at least these people were more familiar with the crops, and they didn't have to spend too much thought on their own.
In the end, it was Liu Yingrong and the uncle who picked four people out.
The others were somewhat disappointed when they saw that they were not selected.
Thirty yuan a day, if you can do it in a month, it is 900 yuan, and in the mountains, the income of 900 a month is a lot of money.
And Li Yang also promised that he would leave work early when the farm was busy.
Li Yang handed over these people to his mother, and he believed that his mother would definitely be in charge.
By three o'clock in the afternoon, all the land had been ploughed.
After Li Yang settled the account, the next big project was the leveling of the land, digging trenches, dividing blocks, and burying pipes.
The work of digging ditches and dividing pieces is left to the mothers, which is slow work.
On average, a woman has about one acre of land a day, and five people have five acres of land a day, and thirty-eight acres of land takes about eight days.
Li Yang is not in a hurry, the growth of herbs has given him a lot of confidence, and he has already experimented with it, this kind of water soaked in beads has a great effect on vegetables and fruit trees, otherwise he would not dare to make it so rash.
Since we are determined to be big, the necessary preparations must be done.
Now that the land problem has been solved, as long as all the land is divided into blocks and leveled, the seedlings can be cultivated.
However, the premise of all this is inseparable from a big problem, that is, water.
The most lacking thing in the mountains is water, and at present, it is also the biggest problem facing Li Yang.
Li Yang has already considered this problem, the lack of water in the mountains, but it does not mean that there is no water, they will not plant too much in the early stage, it is really not good, manual sprinkling can be carried out, but the water pipes and sprinklers must be buried in advance.
One acre of land requires about 60 meters of water pipes and four automatic rotating sprinklers, and 38 acres of land requires a total of about 2,000 meters of water pipes and 160 sprinklers, which is not a small number.
Li Yang finally called the person in the town who specialized in this, and the phone was given to him by Li's father.
I asked, the price of six points of pp pipe is four yuan a meter, this is general, there are six yuan, there are six yuan, sprinkler head, he has not there, you have to get the goods from the county, a little better, a set of 80 yuan, one meter high from the ground, the diameter of the sprinkler is 12 meters.
Li Yang probably calculated that he would spend 10,000 yuan on the water pipe alone, and more than 10,000 for the sprinkler head.
In the end, he decided not to buy too good, just use it for a few years.
He doesn't have too much money on hand now, and he has to spend money everywhere, and he doesn't know how long he can use it for 100,000 yuan, so he still has to save some money.
And this is at most only an experimental area, or a pilot, if you want to develop in the future, you still have to go back to the town, after all, whether it is transportation, or other aspects, it is very inconvenient.
Li Yang didn't call the other party back, he still needs to know one more thing.
"Uncle, do you know where there is a water source near us?" Li Yang found his uncle and asked.
In the past two days, the uncle has been using 30 centimeters of pine wood to mark the boundary of the land, in order to prevent problems when it is returned to the villagers in the future.
"The water source? There is no good water nearby, there is a big reservoir in Erli Mountain, but it is too far away, and the water we eat now is picked from the canal, but I heard that there is a big spring on the mountain behind, and I don't know how big the water is", the uncle put down what he was holding, stood up and said.
"There's a spring?" Li Yang's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard this.
"Well, it's been several years, and no one has cared about him", the uncle nodded and said in the affirmative.
This is simply an unexpected joy, there is a spring in the back mountain, as long as it is flowing water, Li Yang is not afraid, as long as there is five or six tons of water a day, it is temporarily enough.
At this time, the weather happened to be the end of August, the hottest time of the year, Li Yang asked his mother not to work too hard, and it was best to go to work after 5 p.m.
The weather in the mountains is the hottest from 2 to 5 p.m., cool in the morning and even cooler in the evening.
So the working hours are generally from 8 to 12 in the morning and from 5 to 7 in the afternoon.
At half past five, Li Yang came to the village party secretary's house and asked him about the Houshan Spring.
"Oh, you mean that water hole, there is not much water, it is estimated to be the size of a thumb, it has been flowing for the past few years, if you want to see it, I will take you to see it", Liu Gang heard that Li Yang was going to see the spring, and he was very happy to take him there.
Liu Gang felt that Li Yang didn't seem to be playing, spending so much money, if this matter could really be done, maybe it would be an opportunity for their village, so as long as he could help Li Yang, he would be happy to help.
(Three shifts are guaranteed every day, but four shifts and five shifts are also a common thing)