Chapter 458: Racial Talent
Director Zhang of the Ministry of Agriculture chose a good location, which is a small hill in the middle of the grassland, with a large river and lake nearby, and the geographical location is relatively good.
And it is located near the Tropic of Capricorn, it is the early autumn season, the climate is dry, the temperature difference between day and night is very large, and there is a faint fog in the morning, which is more conducive to planting crops.
"Boss Lin," Director Zhang also knows what the South African side thinks, but everyone knows it, it would be a fool not to make a fortune without such a good opportunity, "Where do you think we start first?"
Lin Feng had already flipped through the map several times, and felt that the place was still too small. But since you chose this place, you can only use it.
"The surrounding grassland is 120 square kilometers, with a total of 183,000 acres, and I think this should be enough for 1,000 of us as the first planting base. ”
"Almost," said Director Zhang, "we give priority to the whole family to sign up, and this time the 1,000 people are just family representatives, and then their families will come in batches." Counting the scale of a total of 5,000 people, each talent is 37 acres of land, easy. ”
"Then demarcate the area first, and the wasteland clearing machinery will arrive immediately, one for every 10 households, and strive to reclaim the land within 5 days. Lin Feng said, "In addition, the materials for temporary houses and breeding houses have also been prepared, and the engineering team has also come to follow them, striving to build all the houses within 10 days, and arrange the well drilling equipment after this." Before the chair is this, let everyone work hard and live in a tent. ”
"That's no problem, everyone is here to make money, not to enjoy. ”
Early the next morning, under the leadership of dozens of staff members, individuals began to divide the territory, and the giant transport plane sent a large number of tractors, and the reclamation work began with a bang.
The African savannah, previously only seen on television, is a major filming location for the animal world, as is the Amazon basin.
But there are almost no animals in this small grassland, not even moles, so there are basically no inhabitants. Perhaps, in the eyes of the African brothers, this barren and barren place, without even animals, is not suitable for them to live and live at all.
Therefore, as soon as the local government announced that this place would be reclaimed as farmland and subsidies would be issued, some local tribes moved away directly, and Lin Feng wanted to hire local residents, but he couldn't even find anyone.
It's okay if you can't find it, I've often heard before that hiring African brothers to work is purely to add to their own blockage, these guys are used to being lazy, they won't work for you at all, and ten people are not worth an old Chinese farmer.
If it weren't for local policy, no Chinese farmer would have wanted to hire them.
At the end of the day, 500 large tractors have reclaimed a large area of land, and the land on the grassland is very fertile, and there are many roots of weeds.
Therefore, after the land was reclaimed, the hard-working people began to manually clean up the grass roots, 37 acres of land, 157 meters square, said not big, said small is not small, and it will take two or three days to clean up by manpower.
Fortunately, after two suns, the soil became loose and the clean-up became easier.
Five days later, except for some areas in the marginal areas that have not yet been cleared, the first places in the middle of the wasteland, including houses, breeding houses and wells, have all been built, and the first family members have arrived. They began to divide large plots of land into smaller pieces and tidy up drainage ditches.
Director Zhang asked people to start distributing rape seeds and fertilizers, and installed pumping machines for each household, and on the sixth day, the first batch of rape seeds were sown.
The growth period of rape is about 40 days, like this kind of fertile land, the yield per mu can reach more than 5,000 catties, enough for 500 starry silkworms to eat a day, 37 acres of land is divided into 37 parts, and one acre is planted every day, so as to ensure the continuous supply of fresh rape.
All the upfront investment is provided by the state, farmers extract 10 yuan of profit for every 1 gram of silk, and finally Lin Feng buys 120 yuan of 1 gram from the state, and then sells it to the mall to make a profit.
This is a three-party benefit, Lin Feng calculated, each household can earn about 150,000 gross profits per month, and the whole family works here for nearly two million a year.
Raising starry sky silkworms here is undoubtedly relatively lonely, the only entertainment is to watch TV, wind and rain every day to plant an acre of oil and wheat vegetables, in winter to find a way to keep warm.
But Lin Feng believes that this small problem is not difficult for the hard-working Chinese people at all.
By the 10th day, all the farmers had started planting oilseed lettuce, and the first ones had already sprouted. From a distance, it looks like a pale green carpet.
Officials from the South African Ministry of Agriculture came slowly at this time, bringing Mr. President's condolences to see if everyone had set up their tents.
As a result, when he saw that the entire grassland had turned into fertile land, he didn't know how to describe his feelings when he stood there.
10 days, it's only been 10 days, this group of crazy Chinese people not only reclaimed all the grasslands, but also built houses, and what is even more terrifying is that their crops have sprouted!
What kind of people are these people, it's definitely open!
They expect to wait until next spring at the earliest, to see the grassland change, but when they think about it, it's like waking up and the world is turned upside down!
Moreover, the loss is huge!
Originally, in order to show the friendship between China and South Africa, the largest preferential policy was given to the first batch of people who came to open up the wasteland, who would have thought that this preferential treatment would be equivalent to half of the tax revenue of Bloemfontein!
The Chinese people are so shrewd that the officials of the South African Ministry of Agriculture shook their heads frequently, not knowing how to report to His Excellency the President.
When His Excellency the President learned about this, although he had a little headache, he did not say much. After all, it is just a small grassland, and the land of South Africa is wide, and as long as this land plays a good leading role, the whole country will follow suit, and then South Africa will transform from a big hunting country to a veritable agricultural country, and the benefits of this can not be said.
In the evening, the golden sunset hangs in the sky, pulling out long shadows. Lin Feng walked around the world casually, looking at the farmers who were still busy working in the fields, and felt as if he had returned to the time when he was a child.
At that time, there was no industry in China, and there were brilliant colorful clouds in the sky almost every day, and rainbows could be seen many times a year.
And now, with a large number of factories being replaced by super batteries, the oil and coal industries are out, and the sky of China is returning to clarity little by little.
I hope that the sky and the earth will be able to return to the way they were when they were children as soon as possible.
"Boss Lin," Director Zhang chased after him from behind, holding a report in his hand, "I have something to talk to you about first." ”
"What's the matter?"
"It's still a matter of water," Director Zhang handed him the form, "This is the groundwater exploration report here, the situation is much worse than expected, if we insist on using groundwater to irrigate crops, the groundwater level will drop by 6 meters within half a year."
"I've consulted with my superiors and discussed with South Africa that we can build a 750-kilometre underground waterway from here to bring water from the Indian Ocean.
"That means investing in a seawater separation and purification plant, so I need your help with that. ”
Of course, Lin Feng is no problem, this is another opportunity to make a fortune.