Wang Zhong has always been a resolute character, and he never procrastinates on what he decides.

Ten days later, the work of ploughing and topdressing, planting and transplanting seedlings was basically completed, and the work of preparing for the construction of an oil mill and a grain depot also officially began.

Time is precious, there is no room for delay, Wang Chong is a person who has led a large group of tens of thousands of people, when he was not visible in the past, he was kind and easy to speak, but once he got serious, he was like the general who led the troops to fight, as soon as he opened his mouth, he carried a majesty that could not be resisted and subconsciously obeyed.

Niu Daring and Zhao Youtian led people into the mountains to cut wood, and after repeated surveys and comparisons, Wang Chong and Ma Renli set the location of the oil mill at a location of about 500 meters west of the village.

Wang Zhong plans to use hydraulic drive to reduce part of the manpower input, so the choice of this location has to be considered repeatedly.

Wang Chong deliberately chose an excellent location to connect to the irrigation system of Maixiang Village, and use water power to create power and drive some equipment.

However, after the wood is cut back, it cannot be used immediately, and it has to be put for a period of time, and the wood is dried before being treated.

Wang Chong first led people to renovate the warehouse left by the Ma family, and dug a cellar under the grain depot.

Time is in the tension and busyness day by day, Wang Chong did not let the villagers work in vain, how much each person works every day, are counted in the form of points, only wait for the residue workshop to be officially built, you can squeeze oil, after there is a profit, and then according to these points, give the villagers material subsidies.

Although they were just painting flatbread like the black-hearted so-called 'entrepreneurs' in later generations, the villagers in Maixiang Village, the flatbread painted by Wang Chong, ate very happily and still believed in Wang Chong.

There is no shortage of craftsmen in the village, there are three monkeys and others in the masonry, there are a few old sticks in the carpenter, and the craftsmanship of the blacksmith is also good.

Midsummer is the hottest time of the year, but the villagers don't seem to know what is hot and tired, digging foundations, opening canals, building brick walls, building stoves, and playing iron hoops.

If you speed up the flow of time, you can see the same building videos that people see in the real world in short video apps on their phones.

An oil mill in the form of a courtyard with an area of hundreds of square meters, several warehouses on the east and west sides, firewood rooms, and front and back yards, and a large pond has risen from the ground.

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the Mid-Autumn Festival.

"Boss, today's Mid-Autumn Festival, should we make some mooncakes to eat?" Jiang Hongguo stood in front of the eucalyptus board and rolled noodles, and Wang Chongli teased his two sons on the kang.

"Steam a pot of steamed buns! Didn't you buy mutton yesterday, just steam a big bun with mutton filling, our son loves to eat. Wang Chong's voice came from the back room.

"Buns!"

"Buns!"

"Eat steamed buns!"

As soon as Wang Chong's words fell, two immature voices also sounded closely.

"Let my mother make mutton buns for you!"

Ziping and Zi'an were just one year old and could walk, and now they are able to stand on their own, and the two brothers were playing on the kang in a daze, and when they heard the buns, they sat up on the kang table and went to Wang Zhong to ask for buns.

"In a few days, the sweet potatoes in the field should be harvested!" Jiang Hongguo took a big knife and skillfully cut the rolled noodles into thin strips.

"It's time to harvest, we have planted a lot of sweet potatoes this year, and the harvest should be a lot!" Wang Zhong sighed and said: "It's a pity that sweet potatoes can be stored for half a year at most, otherwise, they can be expanded and expanded." ”

"It's not enough to save for half a year!" Jiang Hongguo said: "Besides, didn't you say that it's not good to eat too many sweet potatoes!" ”

"When the sweet potatoes are almost harvested, the corn and soybeans in the field are almost ripe." Wang Chong said: "I've been busy lately! ”

"When the time comes, let's bring Ziping and Zi'an over, so that they can feel the joy of harvest."

Jiang Hongguo smiled and said, "You're not afraid that they will make trouble for us!" ”

"What a mess!" Wang Chong picked up Ziping, stretched his son's armpit, and held him in front of him: "Daping, your mother said that you caused chaos!" ”

"Daddy! Embrace! Zi'an, who was next to him, saw that his brother was picked up by his father, and even crawled over, grabbed Wang Chong's clothes and stood up.

"Good! Daddy Hug! ”

"By the way, the oil mill has been built for several days, have you discussed when you can officially start construction?" Jiang Hongguo's voice came from outside again.

"This is not in a hurry, the autumn harvest and autumn sowing are the most important things, and the start of work will not be too late after the autumn sowing is completed!"

Jiang Hongguo said with some expectation: "I really want to see how the oil extraction machine squeezes out the oil." ”

"I'll know when the time comes!"

After eating, Wang Chong went out with a firewood knife.

At the entrance of the village, Niu Daring, Zhao Youtian, Lao Ganbang, Three Monkeys, Blind Lao Yin, Ma Renli and others have almost just arrived.

"The branch secretary 'Big Worm Brother' is here!"

Seeing Wang Chong coming, all the people who were originally squatting or sitting stood up one after another and greeted Wang Chong, and after a while, the people became angry, and everyone went into the mountains in groups.

Chopping wood, autumn harvesting, ploughing, top dressing, the whole Maixiang Village is like a continuous running machine, and the villagers are all parts of the machine, working non-stop all day long.

In a blink of an eye, it was the end of September of the lunar calendar, the solar calendar was nearly November, and the autumn sowing was over, Wang Chong led seven strong men to the oil extraction workshop, seven primary societies, one person from each society, plus Wang Chong, a total of eight people, ready to officially start oil extraction.

The villagers who had nothing to do came to watch, and the oil mill was almost full of people.

"Brother! What are we supposed to do? "It's about the three monkeys, and in the second society, except for Wang Chong, he is the only one who is suitable.

"Extracting oil is divided into five steps: frying, grinding, steaming, stepping on, and bumping, since we are squeezing oil for the first time, we will first use my peanuts to experiment!" Wang Chongdao: "Let's fry the peanuts dry first and remove the moisture in the peanuts." ”

Niu Daring had already led the people to bring firewood, and after making a fire, everyone worked together to pour peanuts into a few custom-made cauldrons and fry them.

After frying, the fried peanuts are crushed with a large water-powered mill, and after crushing, they have to be steamed in a pot, and then the cake blank is made, and finally the thick wooden stake suspended in the air is used to hit the wooden wedge and squeeze the cake blank to squeeze out the grease contained in the cake blank.

The difficulty of oil extraction lies in the production of cake blanks and the preliminary processing of raw materials, and as for the final oil extraction, it is only hard work.

"It's all good!" Wang Chong was only wearing a sleeveless coarse cloth vest, and pulled up the crashing wood, and the people also followed the collision wood: "This oil extraction is about ingenuity, you can't use brute force, let's first raise the collision wood, and then use the power of the collision wood to fall, plus our thrust." ”

As he spoke, Wang Zhong had already let go of the bumping wood, and the people followed the bumping wood forward.

Just listen to "Bang! There was a violent crashing sound, and the wood hit the wooden wedge, and the cake blank was squeezed even tighter.

Wang Chong told Niu Daring and a few people about the essentials while impacting, and then stepped aside, letting Niu Daring and a few people try it themselves, and Wang Chong stood aside and pointed out.

"Slow down, don't worry, stability is the most important thing, don't be in a hurry! Otherwise, it is easy to hurt yourself! ”

Wang Chong had a straight face and stared at the side very seriously.

There are a total of three large wooden oil presses, made of three huge hardwood troughs, just to process these three oil presses, it took Wang Zhong and several carpenters more than ten days of hard work, can accommodate six people to press oil at the same time.

The wooden wedges are also carefully made of hardwood, one by one, according to uniform dimensions.

Hitting the wooden wedge is not too difficult work, Niu Daring is the best cropper, if you let them read and write, they may feel a headache, but if you let them work, one by one is not slow.

After only five or six hits, grease seeped out of the cake blank.

In a few moments, the grease flowed down the wooden trough into the bucket under the oil outlet.

"It's oily!"

"It's oily!"

"It's really oily!"

Seeing that the oil was squeezed out of the cake blank little by little, from less to more, in the sound of shouts and impacts, the speed of oil gradually accelerated, and the faces of the onlookers also showed unconcealable shock and joy, although they all believed in Wang Chong, but when they really saw the moment of oil, they still couldn't help the excitement in their hearts.

Fortunately, Wang Chong had already explained before, everyone was not allowed to make loud noise, although the villagers were excited, but they all suppressed their excitement, lowered their voices and shared the joy with the people next to them, a pair of eyes stared at the oil place, some looked at the cake blank, some stared at the oil outlet of the wooden trough, and their eyes were shining.

Niu Daring and the others are not blind, looking at the oil that was gradually squeezed by their own hands, smiles appeared on their faces, and they worked harder and harder.

"Concentrate on it, don't be distracted, be careful of hurting yourself!"

"You must be steady, you can't be in a hurry!"

The king shouted loudly, his expression becoming more serious, and his tone becoming more and more severe.

Seeing that the oil coming out of the cake blank was getting less and less, Wang Chong stopped everyone one after another, and Niu Daring and the others were already tired and sweaty, and the clothes on their bodies were soaked with sweat.

"Ma Renli!" The king shouted.

"Here!" Ma Renli immediately burst out with a smile.

"Let's count the oil yield immediately."

"Okay!"

Ma Renli hurriedly led people to put the oil on the scale, watching the barrels of peanut oil being poured into the vats, the eyes of the villagers were straight, and the peanut residue left after squeezing the oil was also collected one by one and agreed to be superior.

Everyone worked together, and in less than a while, all the data was counted.

"How much?" Wang Chong asked a little impatiently.

"Five hundred catties of peanuts, 88 catties of oil, 321 catties of residual oil residue, the oil yield is about 17% to 18%, and the loss is about 17%." Ma Renli said.

Wang Chong bowed slightly, and his face was full of smiles: "It's normal to have loss, besides, it's not lost that the loss is not lost, there is still water in the peanuts, and there are some residues in our cake blanks and oil troughs, and in the barrels filled with oil." ”

"This is the first time we have squeezed oil, and we have an oil yield of 17%, which is beyond my expectations." Wang Zhong said happily: "And although these oil residues are a little rough, they have high nutritional value, not only can they be used as rations, but also used to feed livestock, which is a rare good thing." ”

"Brother Big Worm, eighty-eight catties of oil, how much can this be sold for?" The three monkeys asked Wang Zhong eagerly.

"If we sell oil, we will either sell it to the supply and marketing cooperatives, or the canteen of which unit will come to us to purchase, and it will definitely be a little lower than the price sold by the supply and marketing cooperatives, but it will not be much lower."

"Big Bug!" He walked over with a smile on his face and gave a thumbs up: "God!" ”

"Ahem, ahem! Folks, let me say a few words! Wang Chong coughed a few times and said loudly.

Wang Chong's voice was as soon as he spoke, and the noisy crowd instantly quieted down.

"Starting tomorrow, we will elect one more person from each group to enter the oil extraction workshop, I suggest, this time don't just choose male comrades, let's also choose a few women comrades to come out, after all, the work on the stove has always been managed by our women comrades, and their mastery of the heat is much more refined than our rough old men."

"Brother Big Worm, how is the treatment of our women comrades!" Xiao Zhuan asked impatiently.

"Comrade Xiao Zhuan, didn't you read the notice posted on the bulletin board a few days ago?" Wang Chongdao.

"Look!" Small turns.

"Since you have read it, then why don't you know that the notice is clearly written, after the official operation of the oil extraction workshop, it is the same as during the preparation period, and the work is divided according to the position, and the employment is used in exchange for treatment."

"What if the big guy wants to work in the oil mill?" This was asked by Zhao Youtian.

"I've discussed this with a few presidents!" Wang Zhong said: "We can come in turns." ”

"Turns?" I couldn't eat enough and asked curiously, "Why did you come in your turn?" ”

"For example, Brother Daring's club, let's divide it according to households, this time it's Brother Daring who came over, wait until next time, you can change it to two stunned, and then next time, it will be replaced by not having enough to eat, let's limit it to five days each time, five days later, change a group of people, don't we want to add manpower, every time there are two people in each community, this is two families, a society is only a few families, basically they can get it in turn, so that everyone can earn their work."

"That's a good idea!" Yang Deng'er nodded thoughtfully.

Wang Zhong said again: "There is another thing, I suggest, in the past few days, we should go to our relatives, and those who should go to the door will go to the door, and publicize the matter of our oil mill to him as soon as possible, so that the villagers of ten miles and eight villages will know that there is an oil mill in our Maixiang Village, and the name of our oil mill will be out!" ”

"That's right! Beat the name of our oil mill out, and let the villagers of ten miles and eight villages come to our oil mill to squeeze oil! The villagers responded one after another.

Under the initiative of the villagers, the name of the Maixiang Village Oil Extraction Workshop gradually spread throughout the Maixiangling District, and many people who were related to Maixiang Village brought peanuts and soybeans to try to extract oil in Maixiang Village.

Rural oil pressing, basically is the amount of a year's own food, the charge of the oil mill in Maixiang Village is not high, the oil yield is not low, after the villagers near the village came, they also spontaneously helped to publicize it, only one winter, the signboard of the oil mill in Maixiang Village was erected in the entire Maixiangling area, and the reputation was very good.