Agriculture Maniac

Chapter 222 Sanyuan Agriculture
Taiping Town of Xiayi County is located at the junction of four provinces: Dongshan, Nanhe, Anhui, and Sujiang.

Due to inconvenient transportation, chaotic management and the fact that agriculture is the main industry in the area.

Its economic level is even more backward than that of Hezhou.

But even so, Dou Laosan's father still relied on farming, raising cattle, and building kilns to buy a yard for his eldest son and second son respectively, and borrowed money to raise enough money for the bride price so that his two sons could get married and have children.

Originally, Dou Laosan's father planned to try his best to raise money for his third son, who was born with a cleft lip, to have a minor surgery and settle his lifelong affairs.

However, in mid-July this year, it entered the hot brick kiln in the 7°C high temperature, placed the bricks, and came out again.

A gust of cool wind blew, and Dou's father's mouth became crooked and his eyes slanted, and half of his body became out of control.

He was sent to the county hospital and diagnosed with hemorrhagic stroke, also known as stroke, which can induce brain herniation, lung infection, upper respiratory tract bleeding at any time, and lead to permanent brain death and permanent paralysis.

Intracranial decompression and external ventricular drainage must be performed as soon as possible.

However, Xiayi County Hospital, including Shangcheng City Hospital and Nanhe Provincial Hospital, currently do not have the conditions to perform this type of surgery.

Because the existing CT machines can only preliminarily determine stroke. If you want to further determine the location of the disease, you need magnetic resonance imaging equipment, so the surgical team cannot diagnose the specific situation inside the brain.

If you want treatment, you must be sent to a hospital with an MRI and an advanced neurosurgery team.

For example, Beijing Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University Ruijin Hospital, Fudan Zhongshan Hospital, Shiliying Street Health Center...

After Dou Laosan asked about the approximate cost of the surgery and learned that it would cost at least 50,000 yuan, he instantly felt like the sky was falling.

But my old father is lying here, I can’t just not save him.

He went to his eldest brother to discuss how to raise the money, but was turned away by his eldest sister-in-law.

He went to discuss the matter with his second brother, and when his second sister-in-law learned of the eldest brother's attitude, she directly pushed him out of the yard.

Dou Laosan couldn't understand why his two brothers, who were raised by their father with great difficulty after their mother died early, suddenly changed after they got married.

That day, he drove the donkey cart while crying and brought his old father back from the county town overnight.

After all, you can't be hospitalized without money.

That very night, seven or eight thugs in the town took advantage of the security guards of Sanyuan Pharmacy returning to their headquarters, pried open the door, and prepared to steal.

Dou Laosan didn't think twice and rushed forward with the brick tongs, waving them around like crazy, scaring away the thugs.

The pharmacy manager heard the noise and ran out. After understanding the situation, he learned about Dou's father's illness. In order to thank Dou Laosan for his bravery, he helped him apply for an expert consultation.

Then they invited a medical expert from Sanyuan Pharmaceutical to perform acupuncture on Dou's father, which temporarily relieved the symptoms.

However, if you want to cure it completely, you still need to perform intracranial blood pressure reduction and external ventricular drainage.

Sanyuan Pharmaceutical and Sanyuan Pharmaceutical Industry are not charitable organizations, and do not belong to the same management system as Shiliying Street Health Center and Sanyuan Agricultural Factory Hospital.

The store manager relied on his own authority and after multiple applications, he finally got the concession slip for "20,000 yuan for equipment and rehabilitation fees" that off-site staff could not get at all.

In other words, Dou Laosan has to raise 20,000 yuan before Dou's father can be cured.

Twenty thousand yuan is still an astronomical figure for a poor family.

But this is great news for Dou Laosan.

In particular, the acupuncture skills of the medical master helped relieve his father's symptoms and gave him time to raise money.

Therefore, Dou Laosan is deeply grateful to Sanyuan Pharmaceutical and Sanyuan Agriculture.

Therefore, in the past six months, every time he heard people chatting about "Sanyuan Agriculture's funds being frozen", "Sanyuan Agriculture is not doing well", "Yu Sanyuan is preparing to run away", Dou Laosan would argue with them.

Unfortunately, he was born with a cleft lip, which made it difficult for him to speak clearly, so he had to fight to win every time.

"Young store manager, my father and I are leaving tonight?"

"Well, this is Nanhe, not the Sanyuan factory area. An ambulance can't come, so you have to use a transport vehicle to take your father to Shiliying. At 8:30 tonight, there will happen to be a muck truck passing by. Prepare a few more quilts and wrap your father tightly. When you get to Heshi, you can change to the factory medical rail car and everything will be easy."

"Thank you, Manager!"

"You're welcome. We are all brothers from now on. After you complete your training, you will be assigned to work in Taiping Town. Let's make progress together for Sanyuan Agriculture!"

The store manager said as he took out a large cardboard box, one meter long and wide, from the counter. "It's almost the end of the month and there's still a set of employee benefits that nobody has claimed. You can take them as well."

“This… I haven’t started working yet.”

"Look, why am I helping you find a job? It's because you're an honest person. Unlike others, when they see something good, they take it without asking any questions and just take it away."

"I just think that you should take what you should take, and you should never take what you shouldn't take."

"Take it. There are toiletries, towels, washbasins, bed sheets and quilt covers in it. When you go back, you and your son should wash yourself well. Don't let them ask you about your status when you arrive at the Ten-mile Camp. You say you are a prospective employee, but end up being taken away by the patrol flag to be sloughed because you are sloppy."

"So scary?"

"Patrolling the mountain is no joke."

...

Zhang Yi is the manager of Sanyuan Pharmacy in Taiping Town.

After graduating from Dongshan University of Chinese Medicine last year, he passed the recruitment examination of Sanyuan Pharmaceutical and joined Sanyuan Pharmaceutical, and was subsequently assigned to this poor and chaotic place.

A monthly salary of 680 yuan is very low for a serious college student.

But here, you can enjoy the treatment of a formal worker of Sanyuan Agriculture.

include:

Monthly benefits include toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, shampoo, towels, bath towels, bedding sets, washbasins, toothpaste mugs, teacups, tea leaves, drinks, snacks, shoes, hats, clothes, socks... a lot of things that can't be used at all, and can even be sold in drugstores in exchange for thousands of extra income.

In addition to the corresponding festival specialties, such as rice dumplings and moon cakes, holiday benefits also include Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, frozen beef, frozen pork, beef rolls, ham sausage, large red sausage... According to the level of the store manager, he can get a two cubic meter gift box every time.

Year-end employee benefits: RMB 1 in cash after tax.

Year-end factory dividend, 2 cash after tax.

So Zhang Yi never understood what was going on in the minds of those who resigned.

It was not until noon today that he read a new article written by Mr. Yu on the official website and finally understood where the problem lay.

'Knowledge determines everything.'

'In the past, many people believed that IQ was the most important factor in determining one's life trajectory.'

'For this reason, many people test their children's IQ. Those with high scores are overjoyed, while those with low scores are dejected.'

'But after I came to Beijing and interacted with people and things in the past two days, I finally understood that what determines a person's fate, and even determines whether a country or a nation can rise, is not IQ, nor EQ or other quotients, but cognition.'

'What is cognition?'

'Cognition is the recognition and understanding of things. It is the key to whether a country or nation can effectively respond to external challenges and seize development opportunities.'

'It includes sensation, perception, memory, thought, imagination and language.'

'To give a simple example, most primary school students in cities cannot distinguish between leeks and wheat seedlings. This is a cognitive bias. When I learned that primary school students in cities have five yuan of pocket money every day, I raised the price of leeks to 10 yuan per catty, and then publicized this to everyone. Even primary school students know that leeks are expensive. At this time, I transported wheat seedlings to the gates of primary schools in cities and sold them at five yuan per catty. Tell me, how much can I earn? '

'It sounds funny, but the essence of financial markets is cognitive bias.'

'By the same token, in the field of technology, cognitive bias can also constitute 'technological iteration'. '

'Then the question is, how to improve cognition? '

'Just like the workers who left Sanyuan Agriculture, I think they must have had a very unhappy life in the Southern Electronics Factory or the Southern Machinery Factory. There were no monthly benefits, no holiday benefits, no year-end bonuses, and they worked 13 or 14 hours a day. The money they finally got was deducted by the agents and manufacturers...but they improved their cognition.'

'In other words, when you learn to use your brain, learn to understand, and learn to discover the truth, you will also improve your cognition.'

'However, those who win at the starting line have acquired knowledge that is difficult for ordinary people to obtain by virtue of their family background. They also use this innate advantage to solidify our thinking, limit our ways of improving cognition, and force our cognition to improve slowly...'

'This leads to a situation where, when the education level reaches a certain level, such as undergraduate, the cognitive gap will become larger and larger if you go up, because the main life of these people is academic and doing exercises, and the acquisition of diverse and cross-disciplinary knowledge is getting less and less.'

'At present, the graphics card matrix algorithm has appeared. As the knowledge on the Internet becomes more and more abundant, the advantages of this algorithm will become more and more obvious. Then, those who are used to borrowing SCI and doing questions will be eliminated, and even no companies or institutions will recruit them.'

'So the future belongs to those who like to use their brains and have their own opinions.'

'And this, is cognition.'

Zhang Yi read "Write What You Want" and felt it made a lot of sense.

Their decisions are no longer limited to studying and researching.

Instead, he decided to carefully observe every patient who bought the medicine, understand the pathology, track the treatment course, record the efficacy, and actively ask superiors how to adjust the prescription and how to improve the treatment.

“Everyone knows that it is better to have no books than to believe in them blindly.”

“But it wasn’t until today that I understood its true meaning.”

“We must learn to think and judge independently, and verify the truth through practice.”

"Mr. Yu, awesome!"

……

That night.

Dou Laosan, who sold his donkey, carried his father into the dump truck with the help of the auntie who worked in the store.

A little bit.

The driver called out, started the car, and headed north to Hezhou City along the bumpy dirt road.

after an hour.

Dou Laosan, who was sitting in the carriage and guarding his father, noticed that the sky was beginning to brighten.

The next moment, tall iron towers with huge spotlights on top came into view.

Dou Laosan stood up, leaned on the side of the carriage, and looked into the distance.

Although he knew that Heshi was undergoing a massive construction, he found that half of the city had been flattened when he went deep into the hinterland. And with construction machinery everywhere, steel greenhouses and 12-story steel buildings were rising from the ground from east to west.

Soon, dense scaffolding appeared, extending northward along the Yellow River...

Busy construction sites, majestic building clusters, and an endless steel city...

“Is this Sanyuan Agriculture?”

Dou Laosan doesn't have a TV at home and he doesn't have time to listen to the radio.

The only thing he knew about the company he was about to join was the Sanyuan Pharmacy that was built overnight and people's daily gossips.

Now seeing the company’s projects, Dou Laosan suddenly feels that perhaps Shanghai is just like this.

Thinking.

The dump truck was parked at the temporary freight train station.

The driver opened the back of the car and climbed up. "Brother, the factory medical railcar will arrive in ten minutes. Let's carry your father over."

"Thank you."

ten minutes later.

A silver-white bullet train with a red cross painted on its side stopped at the station quickly and smoothly with a buzzing sound.

Dou Laosan showed the certificate issued by the store manager and he and the dump truck driver lifted his father into the truck.

Immediately afterwards, a group of 'wounded' surged up behind him.

Some had their feet pierced by nails, some had their arms broken by heavy objects, and some had their hands cut off by electric saws...

The medical rail car suddenly became busy.

A famous doctor was running back and forth, and a famous nurse was following closely with a metal tray...

"What's up with this one?"

"Doctor, I have a stroke. Hemorrhagic stroke."

"Temperature measurement, blood draw, test, apply for MRI, apply for ward, apply for neurosurgery..."

After giving the instructions, the doctor went straight to the next patient.

The assistant in the back was standing in front of the onboard computer printing out the receipt, "Employee number?"

"Quasi-regular worker, number SYZ10..."

Dou Laosan nervously called out the number he had memorized all night, and immediately received a stack of papers.

The nurse asked, "Can you read?"

"know."

"Once you arrive, push this bed yourself and take your father through Channel 11, enter Area B of the on-site hospital, enter the 1-3-45 medical shed, and park at bed 66. There's a map here."

"Ok."

Everything about Sanyuan Agriculture seems to be going very fast.

The railcar is fast, the medical staff speaks fast, the doctors diagnose fast, and the injections, bandages and medications are also fast...

It was so fast that Dou Laosan was a little dazzled.

But after arriving at the station, everything was very orderly again.

In the blink of an eye, the patients got off the bus and ran in all directions.

The medical vehicle started and returned again.

The empty Shiliying Station welcomed another batch of bullet trains.

Then the passengers got off the train and ran in all directions...

Suddenly.

A young woman wearing a red armband came over quickly and said, "Comrade, do you need help? I am a volunteer of Dongshan Agricultural University, and here is my ID."

"Uh, thanks, I don't need any help."

"It's okay, where are you going?"

During the questioning, three or four young men and women wearing red armbands came running over.

"Comrade..."

then.

Dou's father's hospital bed went through Channel 11 with sparks and lightning, entered the factory hospital, and stopped at the designated bed.

Dou Laosan came over panting, but the volunteers had disappeared.

But then, several people in white coats came over, pushed his father and rushed to the operating room...

Two hours later.

"Dou San? Your father's operation was very successful, but he needs to stay in the observation room for three hours, and then be sent to Xintai Sanatorium for further rehabilitation, which is expected to last three months.

During this period, some fees will be waived, some fees will be paid into the employee medical insurance account, and some fees will be deducted from your salary every month, but it will not affect your daily consumption.

During this period, if you have your own leave application, you can apply for a visit at any time.

Your father is already 55 years old. After his recovery, according to the management regulations for employed employees, he will enjoy the overseas pension system, with a monthly salary of 280 yuan, free food and accommodation, and retirement at the age of 60..."

After the nurse finished speaking, she ran away in a hurry.

Followed by.

A man with a flag on his back walked up quickly, leading a woman with the word HR on her chest.

"Dou San?"

Dou Laosan felt that his brain couldn't keep up with the speed of receiving information, and said slowly: "It's me."

HR said, "Your entry formalities have been completed. All that's left is your signature and fingerprint. Once you're done, you will take a flight from Hangaixi to Xiangjiang International Airport at 6am this morning to Xiangjiang Sanyuan Technology Group for a two-week skills training...Sign here, fingerprint here, this is your boarding pass, bye."

next moment.

The man with the flag on his back took a closer look at her cleft lip. "It's 1 a.m. now. In half an hour, you can have a cosmetic surgery. But we need to cut a piece of flesh from your thigh and put it on your lip. We also need skin grafting... The surgery is expected to take 2 hours, so you can catch the plane in time... Follow me."

"Comrade, I want to see my father."

"No problem, come this way."

five minutes later.

After Dou Laosan visited his father who was under anesthesia and had not yet regained consciousness, he went into the operating room.

Half past five in the morning.

After finishing the breakfast brought by the nurse, Dou Laosan found his father's ward again.

At this time, Dou's father had already woken up.

"Son, have we been abducted by aliens?"

"maybe."

Dou Laosan didn't know how to explain, so he stuffed an orange peeled by a nurse into his father's hand and hurried to the railway station.

But he knew that the reason he could enjoy all these today was because he was a Sanyuan employee.

According to the employee regulations he had read in the morning, he had to strictly abide by the factory arrangements, which meant going to Hong Kong for training.

After half an hour.

The newly commissioned high-performance Y8 transport plane flew directly to Hong Kong, carrying Dou Laosan and 180 other "down-to-earth and capable" men selected from Sanyuan Pharmacies in various cities.

Until this moment.

Dou Laosan just saw the whole picture of Shiliying.

"It's beautiful, isn't it? Doesn't it look like a forest?" The speaker next to him, a fat black man, stretched out his hand. "Hello, my name is Chang De, the general manager of the tower construction of the Beijing-Xijiang rail line, and you will be your direct superior in the future."

"Hello, my name is Dou San."

"To put it simply, your future mission is to inspect and maintain the 50 steel towers in Taiping Town, with a total length of 50 kilometers. You will inspect and test them once a week. The relevant technology will be handed over to you in Xiangjiang."

"Yes, leader." Dou Laosan imitated the nurse and responded loudly.

"Very good. Actually...if we hijack this plane and fly to Africa, we will have a better future."

"..."

"Want to try?"

"do not want!"

"You are too timid. Let me tell you, you are not chosen for your honesty. You are chosen for your courage and temper. When you work under me, you will inevitably have to deal with local hooligans and petty thieves. As for the criminals who dare to attack the iron towers and steal the optical cables, we only have one choice. What is it?"

"beat?"

"Fight to death!"

"..."

"Not only do we fight them to death, we also want to sue them until they go bankrupt, because this involves national communications security."

(End of this chapter)