So everyone also smiled at the children in the conference room, although the pronunciation was not accurate, but the children's answers showed that their mastery of Chinese had made great progress.

"Yes, it's very sweet, which means that sugar cane has a high sugar content!"

Lao Wang responded with some excitement, and then changed the conversation and said loudly:

"I know you're afraid of me to speak, a speech is farm work, but no way, farming time can not be delayed, the current bottleneck problem must still be in the arrangement of labor, although sugarcane and sugar beet add up to forty acres of harvesting area, much more than in the past, but we now have semi-mechanized sugarcane harvesters, and tractors turn over the ground, so the harvest of farm work is not too tiring now, right?

Of course, there is a tiring job, and the harvest of forty acres adds up to a lot, among which the more tedious and tiring is the storage and seedling processing, etc., which not only takes time, but also is particularly tiring, so please be mentally prepared......"

Lao Wang paused when he said this, and when he saw that everyone was listening to the lecture with expressionless faces, he picked up the water cup and took a sip of water, and continued:

"In addition, I plan to keep half of the forty acres of sugarcane and sugar beet as seedlings, and half to Mr. Zhao's chemical team to try to produce sugar, although it is not much, although it is estimated that it will not sell much silver, but the significance of this action is very significant, right? In this way, you can come up with some of our self-made trade goods after going to sea this time, and white sugar is our long-term strategic trade goods in the future, so I hope that after you go to sea, you will first explore the market with these white sugar, in this case, my long-term agricultural development plan has also done some scientific basis. ”

At this time, many young people in the conference room began to nod silently, and after listening to Lao Wang's explanation, everyone seemed to have less resistance to farm work.

So Lao Wang continued:

"Of course, the scale of sugarcane planting will definitely be expanded in the future, and I would like to emphasize here that at least there is a preliminary preparation work that requires everyone's full effort.

In particular, the nursery work of sugarcane cannot be stopped once it has begun, otherwise the losses will be too great. ”

At this time, someone in the venue finally answered the question:

"Uncle Wang, how long will this work last?"

"I'm so afraid it will delay our ...... to the sea"

"In fact, what you should be worried about now is not when to go to sea, but whether the sugar factory can be put into operation in time before the sugarcane harvest!"

Someone in the crowd reminded the young men.

"The nursery period takes about a week."

Lao Wang quickly responded to the questions in the crowd, and then further explained:

"Yes, it's not a lot of work, because there are still sugarcane roots in the field that can be used for three to five years...... Therefore, I hope to open up another 3 to 400 acres from April to expand the planting area of sugarcane and sugar beets. ”

Hearing this, everyone's faces were really a little bad, so Lao Wang immediately changed his serious tone and said:

"Ladies and gentlemen, we have been through two years, the water and soil climate here I have felt very clearly, the light and heat conditions on the island are very good, there is no frost period, and our water conservancy facilities can keep up, so the growth period of sugarcane beet is relatively short, if the climate is normal, from planting to harvesting, that is, about eight or nine months.

Therefore, if we grit our teeth and work hard, this time from mid to late March to early April, and then seize the time to plant next, we can harvest another crop by the end of this year......

However, at this time, there was already a lot of discussion in the conference room:

"Do you have to be in such a hurry?"

"Two seasons a year?"

"I feel like I'm going to die of exhaustion!"

"However, having another harvest at the end of the year is really good for our sugar trade."

"Why?"

"Because the out-of-season can fill the market demand!"

"Hmm...... It is roughly equivalent to three crops in two years, so compared to the annual sugarcane harvest in this era, we do have a trade advantage. ”

"I just hope that in the future, we will not go down to the fields to grow sugarcane ourselves."

"Hey, hey! Uncle Wang also said that the planting will be expanded soon, and you will talk about it again......"

"Uncle Wang! How much is the planting area expanded!? ”

Someone in the crowd suddenly asked in a loud voice.

"Huh? How many acres are expanded? Oh, I plan to expand the sugarcane to 300 acres, so I'm going to open up the wasteland again! As for the amount of sugar cane and sugar beets, let's wait until the harvest is settled...... Ay! Don't be sad, everyone! Harbour with machinery in the wasteland...... At most, a little more burning, a little more field management......"

However, before Lao Wang finished speaking, the conference room was lively again:

"Going to open up the wasteland again? When will we have the labor to help? ”

"If the industrial equipment in the cave is put down, I'm worried that it will rust!"

"Don't be alarmist, where will it rust, Anna told me that he has done maintenance measures......"

"Hey! This honest man, people just say this casually, you take it seriously, isn't it that a group of science and engineering men complain that they can't do their jobs, they are anxious! ”

Looking at the somewhat noisy venue, Lao Wang didn't know whether to continue for a while, obviously everyone had a lot of resentment about going to the field to do farm work.

At this time, Sun Lao came out to help and said:

"Everyone, it's a good thing anyway! After a year of hard work and cultivation, we finally have the conditions to expand the area, sugarcane and sugar beet is our first official start of large-scale planting of cash crops, soon our sugar production will have raw material guarantee, so that there may be a bulk of trade commodities before the end of the year, right! ”

"What Elder Sun said is very true, everyone! I know you're in a hurry to go to sea to trade, but trade requires commodities, right? You can't always sell our supermarket leftovers, can you? So, everyone, it's better not to cut this project......"

Lao Wang grabbed Sun Lao's words, quickly added a sentence, and sat back in his seat without speaking.

Immediately after Mr. Zhao's speech, he also emphasized that there is no need to repeat how important the sugar factory and glass factory are to the upcoming foreign trade, right? Therefore, the construction of the two factories cannot be delayed.

Seeing that everyone gradually quieted down, Mr. Zhao then explained to everyone that in fact, the amount of labor involved in the construction of these two factories was not as large as you imagined, and the plant of the sugar factory had been almost built at the end of last year, and the equipment installation of the sugar factory was relatively simple, which itself did not take much time and labor, so this project could neither be cut nor necessary.

Then Mr. Zhao changed the topic and talked about the construction of the glass factory:

"Although the plant facilities are only a few walls so far, and even the ground has not been leveled, after the completion of these infrastructures, there are a lot of things such as equipment installation, commissioning, trial production, etc., which is obviously a more time-consuming and laborious work, but everyone knows the great significance of the glass factory project, so this project can't be cut down because of the trouble, right?!"

At this time, Gu Jin nodded and said:

"According to our overseas trade plan, it is indeed better to start this project sooner rather than later, and our overall goal is to establish a trade route within this year, right? Obviously, glassware and glass mirrors are the main high-value-added trade items that we can get our hands on right now, so they are important anyway. ”

"So, you can't cut any project in the glass factory, otherwise, I would like to ask you, in addition, what other bulk trade goods can we take? Isn't it? ”

In the face of Mr. Zhao's rhetorical question, everyone was a little silent, but whether it was Master Wang or Mr. Zhao, what they said made sense, and it seemed that these work projects could not be delayed any longer.