Agriculture Maniac

Chapter 8 Vegetable vendors and plastic greenhouses

Yu Yang never thought that the bean sprouts, which were highly anticipated, would suddenly become marketable because of the Buddhist temple.

Moreover, these Buddhist temples may develop into stable customers and become the company's core base.

But it is night time now and there is no sun. If we force the strong men to get up and work, the bean sprouts they grow will only be yellow and crooked and cannot be sold at a high price.

Fortunately, a plastic greenhouse has been built over the super-large kang in the yard, so we can’t see the situation inside clearly. We will be able to start production at full capacity tomorrow morning.

Then there is.

The bean sprouts in Uncle Liu's house are about to mature.

Second grandma and third grandpa are old and their eyesight is poor, so we can speed up the growth of the two families.

In this way, we can produce 3 centimeters of bean sprouts tonight, about 10 large baskets of bean sprouts.

Yu Yang immediately called his eldest brother and took the vegetable vendor who arrived first to pick up the goods from his sixth uncle's house.

A kang with an area of 1 cm can produce 3 and a half baskets of bean sprouts, plus large baskets and grates for stratification, with a wholesale price of 320 yuan.

Of course, you don’t need to pay for the basket next time you pick up the goods.

When the time comes, you can exchange the empty baskets for full ones, and you only need to pay for the bean sprouts.

Uncle Six counted the bills and smiled again, "Three yuan, I can't miss this meal."

Yu Yang ignored him and rushed to his second grandmother's house with the vegetable vendor to harvest the bean sprouts and load them onto trucks for delivery.

The 320 yuan naturally went into our own pocket.

Next was my third uncle’s house, and it was 320 again.

The vegetable vendor who arrived first filled 10 large baskets and was very satisfied.

Before leaving, he stuffed a pack of soft-pack Huaxia cigarettes into his pocket and said, "Brother Yu, please take care of me in the future."

Yu Yang didn't refuse and said seriously: "I'll remember you!"

The vegetable vendor was even happier. He turned on his farm tricycle and, amid the envious looks of other vegetable vendors, walked out of the village along the dirt road to the west and disappeared onto the provincial road.

The east side of the village is still crowded with all kinds of vehicles, but in order to save fuel and electricity, they have turned off their engines and lights one after another, making it difficult to see clearly.

In fact, being a vegetable vendor is not a fixed profession these days.

Most of them are farmers who take advantage of the slack season in the fields or when they return from work and are reluctant to leave their farm machinery idle, so they start some small business.

But being a vegetable vendor requires you to get up early and work late.

Some have to queue up at the wholesale farmers' market at one or two in the morning, and after their cars are loaded, they rush to the market without stopping, grabbing stalls and shouting to sell their goods.

When business is good, we close the stall at noon.

When business is bad, a day's work is wasted.

And when you go to the wholesale farmers' market and queue up to pick up goods, if you encounter a local bully, you will have to pay some venue management fees to enter the farmers' market.

People who don’t understand and are not familiar with others will only suffer more losses the more they work.

So not many people stick with it.

After working for ten days or half a month, I will quit this business.

While Yu Yang was recalling his experience of selling bean sprouts in another time and space, he took his elder brother for a stroll.

The vegetable vendors who came to pick up the goods were obviously experienced, otherwise they would not have smelled the business opportunity at the first time.

After they stopped the car, they wrapped themselves in military cotton coats or tattered blankets and covered their heads to sleep.

But I would often wake up to see where I was in the queue.

"Everyone, take a break. You can pick up the goods at 10 am tomorrow."

"10 o'clock? I'm in a hurry to get to the market, otherwise the stall I reserved in advance will be taken away by others."

"I can't do anything about it. The bean sprouts need to grow. It's not something I can control."

"It doesn't matter if it's early or late. I only care whether there are enough bean sprouts. If I queue up all night and get nothing, wouldn't it be a waste of time?"

"Enough, definitely enough!"

50 meters x 30 meters, 1500 square meters, about 2.25 acres.

Based on 0.03 acres, the output is approximately 10 baskets.

We can harvest 750 baskets of bean sprouts tomorrow morning.

Wait until 3pm and harvest another 750 baskets.

Because the sun sets early in winter, we don’t carry out the third planting.

But even so, 750 baskets x 2, a total of 1500 baskets, are enough to satisfy the vegetable vendors queuing.

"Assuming the wholesale price of each basket is 90 yuan, the total revenue is 13.5 yuan. "Why did I calculate the daily income as 20 yuan this morning?"

“Is there such a big difference between wholesale and retail?”

Yu Yang didn't feel bad about the 6.5 yuan difference.

Because the correct use of a strong man is farming.

If you set aside a part of the crop to go to the market or go around the streets with yourself, it will delay planting and reduce the yield.

Furthermore, we belong to the upstream industry, and vegetable vendors belong to the channel + terminal, which constitutes a complete "production and marketing chain".

Otherwise, it will not be possible to grow bigger and stronger.

Just like 1500 baskets of bean sprouts, if we sell them ourselves, it will take us a long time to sell them.

And tomorrow, you can get 13.5 on the spot.

Of course, in another time and space, there are countless upstream industries that have been killed by channels.

We can't just leave everything to the vegetable vendors. We also need to open storage points, supply points, and even direct sales stores.

This will prevent the vegetable vendors from coming one day for some reason and leaving our bean sprouts to rot at home.

therefore.

Yu Yang returned home, sat next to the cast iron stove in the east room, and wrote down the follow-up plan.

"The plastic greenhouse industry needs to be expanded. I will get the payment tomorrow and talk to the village chief about buying some land."

"I don't know if that old guy will give me a good face."

"Secondly, we should get out of the circle of Shiliying, Hangai Township and Buddha Temple and set up warehouses in Xiaohu Town in the east to open up new markets."

"Then, install a landline, buy a cell phone, hire two accountants, build a few houses, and set up an agricultural company."

"Finally, you can get a bank loan and repeat the process all over again, forming a cycle."

……

The next day.

Yu Yang was awakened from his sleep by a series of warning sounds.

[The current farmland has reached the upper limit, you need more farmers to cultivate the farmland.]
[The current farmer population has reached the upper limit, you need more houses to accommodate more people.]
Farmer: 5/5, each unit holds 1 piece of farmland (66.6 square meters), consumes 20 portions of food per day, and can also solve the problem by themselves.

[Farmland: 5/5 points, can speed up the growth of crops, currently planting soybeans, if there is sufficient sunlight, it is expected to mature in 30 days.]
“It turns out that we are short of people.”

Yu Yang breathed a sigh of relief, stood up and walked to the yard, taking a look at the super large kang.

No, it’s called a plastic greenhouse now.

I saw half a cylinder lying horizontally in the originally empty and vast yard.

In the middle is a hollow wall made of red bricks, inside which the flue is hidden.

On both sides are two buried fire cellars. If you can see underground, you can find half a cylinder that has been hollowed out by one meter and has chimneys inside.

At this time, the two fire cellars ignited the coal, and the oxygen sucked in from the air, after burning, mixed with sulfides, formed convection underground along the flue, then flowed into the hollow wall and was finally discharged into the air.

No blower or exhaust fan is required.

"Isn't this forced convection in thermal convection?"

“I thought it was amazing.”

Yu Yang said as he walked into the plastic greenhouse.

Only one-fifth of the open space is being used.

Other areas need more strong men.

"Brother, go and carry my fourth grandmother over here."

"Second brother, go and carry my fifth grandfather over here."

"Third brother, there are two five-guarantee households in the alley to the west..."

After a while.

Yujia Village became lively again.

"Sanyuan, tell your people to put my mother down!"