1968: At the beginning, the beautiful sister-in-law came to borrow food! Chapter 184

Just as Li Yunfeng was pondering, Old Man Donkey’s grandfather was also thinking about Li Yunfeng’s previous idea.

That was to build terraced fields here and then cover them with greenhouses.

The greenhouse matter had already been verified by Li Yunfeng’s family.

At minus thirty degrees Celsius, expanding the hot spring pool would allow the temperature inside the greenhouse to rise enough for growing vegetables.

“Is the old captain home?”

The old man was deep in thought about what Li Yunfeng had said when he heard Li Yunfeng’s shout.

The old man quickly went and opened the door, greeting Li Yunfeng with a wide smile.

“Haha, Old Man!”

“I’ve come to discuss something with you this time.”

Li Yunfeng looked into the house. Donkey was leaning against the fireplace like a lord.

His two wives and sister-in-law were sitting inside, mending clothes.

“Old Man, I came this time thinking about how to help our Group Five get rich.”

“I’ve thought about it for half a month.”

“Combining our local environment and population.”

“Finally, I’ve come up with five plans!”

Li Yunfeng sat down next to Donkey and said to the old man with a smile.

“Oh ho?”

“Brother Yunfeng, you’re amazing!”

“You can actually come up with so many ways to get rich?”

“Honestly, it really has to be you city folks!”

“Having an education really makes a difference!”

Upon hearing Li Yunfeng say he had thought of five ways to get rich, Donkey said enviously.

For them, getting rich usually meant going into the mountains to hunt.

Trying to get rich by farming was basically impossible.

“Old Man, this is what I’m thinking.”

“Here, the country allows us to reclaim land, right?”

“Our Group Five, Brother Donkey said, has over fifty households and more than three hundred people.”

“I figure we can reclaim twenty mu of land each year.”

“We’ll cut down all those big trees behind us.”

“Then we’ll directly cultivate mushrooms manually. Although mushrooms don’t sell for much money,”

“It’s better than risking danger by picking mushrooms in the mountains.”

“The key is that it’s also very simple.”

“Besides that, we’ll dig a reservoir.”

“Raise ducks. Ducks can be sold, or we can sell salted duck eggs.”

“We can also raise some fish in the reservoir, along with the greenhouses and such.”

“Finally, we’ll apply to the commune for collective chicken farming.”

“Along with raising pigs and planting some traditional Chinese medicinal herbs.”

“Perhaps in the first few years, we won’t earn much money.”

“But later, we will definitely earn a lot.”

“I estimate that each household can earn at least five hundred yuan more per year than they do now.”

Li Yunfeng rattled off his plan in one breath!

In this era, not only pigs, but even chickens and other livestock were not allowed to be traded willy-nilly.

They could only be purchased by people from supply and marketing cooperatives or factory buyers.

These were very restrictive.

But if those buyers knew that Red Flag Production Team had these things,

They would come running at the scent!

It could be said that there was absolutely no need to worry about sales!

“Hiss!”

Hearing Li Yunfeng’s suggestions, the old man and Donkey all gasped,

Making another huge contribution to global warming.

“Digging a reservoir will not only provide water for our terraced fields,”

“But also allow us to raise ducks inside. Ducks can go into the paddy fields to eat insects, and duck droppings can be used as fertilizer!”

“We can also raise fish in the reservoir. Raising fish is easy to manage.”

“And Yunfeng, what you said about cultivating mushrooms and traditional Chinese medicinal herbs.”

“Is that reliable?”

The old man stroked his beard, pondering for a long time before slowly asking Li Yunfeng.

“Hey, Old Man, whether it’s reliable or not, don’t we have to try?”

“Especially those traditional Chinese medicinal herbs, just scatter the seeds.”

“We’ll just act like it’s nothing!”

“Just treat them as wild and pick them a few years later.”

“If it works, then we can cultivate them in large quantities, wouldn’t that be it?”

“And those mushrooms, that absolutely works.”

“I saw it when I was in Sijiucheng!”

“What we need to do is first build a large greenhouse.”

“Keep the temperature inside between fifteen and twenty degrees Celsius.”

“I know the rest of the procedures.”

“The key is that this isn’t tiring; old people and children can all do it.”

“As for the reservoir, if we have enough capability to dig a large reservoir,”

“Not to mention anything else, just putting a generator on it would be enough for our Group Five’s use.”

Generators, especially hydroelectric generators, were not difficult at all!

Many experienced craftsmen now knew how to make them.

Just find some experienced craftsmen at the steel factory in the city, and they could make one.

“Let’s talk about raising chickens and pigs again!”

“Here, we just need to enclose an area halfway up the mountain.”

“Then send people to watch them daily, feed them corn, and that’s it.”

“One thing at a time. Raising chickens or pigs,”

“Or cultivating mushrooms, or building greenhouses to grow vegetables,”

“These are things we can see returns on this year.”

Li Yunfeng introduced his ideas with a smile.

How to put it!

Everyone actually knew what Li Yunfeng was talking about.

But in this era, everyone was not eating well. When people can’t eat enough,

They won’t think about other things; they’ll only think about how to get enough to eat as soon as possible.

Not to mention anything else, with Li Yunfeng’s plan, in less than five years,

Group Five would have “ten-thousand-yuan households”!

By then, everyone’s lives would be much better.

“Alright, then let’s do it first!”

“Anyway, there isn’t much cost!”

“Currently, Group Five’s account still has one thousand two hundred yuan.”

“And we still owe Donkey money.”

“For these two years, we’ll set our minds to it and work hard!”

“Just as you said, by then, we’ll be rich.”

The old man lit his large tobacco pipe, thought carefully for a long time,

Then slapped his thigh, directly deciding the matter.

After all, this was very beneficial to them.

Private individuals were not allowed to do this, but if the collective did it, the commune would allow it.

In fact, many production teams around here had even built brick factories.

“Alright, then after spring, we’ll work hard.”

“If this works out, every household will be able to get rich.”

“Old Man, then let’s quickly hold a meeting and simply assign the work first.”

“What the elderly do, what the children do, what the strong laborers do!”

“This way, work points will be calculated from beginning to end, and everyone will be able to get a lot of money at the end of the year!”