Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon

Captain Niu finally learned to drive a cotton harvester.

Sitting in the cockpit of the cotton harvester, with the endless cotton fields in front of him, Captain Niu felt quite proud.

The cockpit of the cotton harvester is relatively high, and the view in front of you is much better than sitting in a tank!

Although the tank is not small in size, the space inside is still very cramped. When driving the tank, you can often leave the cockpit and climb outside for some air, but most of the time you can only stay inside the tank and look through the narrow observation opening. , to understand the situation outside.

In contrast, the cockpit of a cotton harvester is large enough and is surrounded by glass, giving people the feeling of being in an open area.

Put the gear on, and the cotton harvester moves forward slowly. Although the speed is much slower than that of a tank, it feels leisurely and contented. Monitor Niu can even cross his legs and hum a tune from his hometown.

This cotton harvester is only the first generation product of Fukang Agricultural Machinery. It is not perfect in terms of performance. The failure rate is higher than other mature agricultural machinery products. That’s why Li Weidong sent technicians over. First, it may break down at any time. We can repair it at any time and provide feedback on common faults.

At the same time, the noise of this machine is relatively loud when it is running, and the mechanical vibration is relatively strong during operation, which is more violent than using a tractor.

If an ordinary person drives this thing for a day, even if his hands and feet are not numb, his mind will be buzzed by the noise.

But these are not problems for tank soldiers.

No matter how noisy a cotton harvester is, how much bigger a tank can it be? The tank started moving, and people inside were talking. Even the shouts could not be heard clearly. The conversation was only possible through the radio device.

No matter how severe the vibration of the cotton machine is, can it still be compared to the firing of a tank? When a tank fires, the huge recoil can throw people several meters away if there is no protection.

The noise and vibration of the cotton harvester are nothing compared to the daily training of tank soldiers. Let the tank crew drive the cotton harvester, and it's like a vacation.

At this time, Squad Leader Niu really enjoyed this state.

In previous years, when harvesting cotton, we had to carry snakeskin sacks and endure the bright sun, doing constant physical labor. It was really sweat dripping from the soil, and at the end of the day, our entire arms were numb.

Now I sit in the cotton harvester and fiddle with the gear lever a few times to complete the harvest. I am not exposed to the wind and sun, I can watch the scenery, and even make a large teapot in the cab of the tea room.

What a pleasure!

"Comrades, it's time to eat!" A voice came from behind. It was people from the farm riding agricultural tricycles, coming to deliver food to them.

"Comrade, let's make do with it at noon and have a meal. When we go back in the evening, we will ask the canteen to prepare delicious food for you." The person who delivered the meal said.

La Tiaozi means noodles. This food is really good at fighting hunger and is the first choice for locals for lunch.

Although Squad Leader Niu had been running the cotton harvester all morning, he didn't feel hungry. After all, he was just sitting there and didn't consume much energy.

"Comrade, if it's not enough, please bring more!" The aunt who delivered the meal handed a portion of noodles to Squad Leader Niu.

This aunt is very healthy and her hands don’t shake, so there are a lot of vegetables in this noodle dish.

Monitor Niu took advantage of the situation and looked back, only to realize that the originally endless cotton fields had turned into endless open space. The buildings on the farm had disappeared from sight, and not even the smoke could be seen.

Monitor Niu was startled and thought to himself: "Have you harvested so much in just one morning? It feels like our ten cotton harvesters have harvested hundreds of acres of land!"

So Squad Leader Niu asked: "Auntie, how long have you been away delivering food?"

"Is the dough lumpy? The road is a bit long and it took a little time. Sorry!" The aunt who delivered the meal continued with a guilty look on her face: "I have water here. It will be better if I add some water and mix it."

"Auntie, it's not a matter of face. I just want to know how long it took you to come here, so that we can calculate how many acres of cotton we harvested this morning." Squad Leader Niu smiled and then asked; " I guess it must be hundreds of acres, right?"

"Hundreds of acres? How can there be so little!" The aunt who delivered the food pointed around and said, "Let me see, you must have harvested four to five hundred acres of cotton this morning!"

"Four to five hundred acres!" Monitor Niu was shocked, obviously shocked by this number.

Then Squad Leader Niu looked back at his cotton harvester and murmured to himself, "This thing is so powerful!"

At ten o'clock in the evening, Squad Leader Niu finished his day's work and was ready to go back to rest.

A truck came, and a group of new soldiers came down from it to take over the work of the cattle squad leader, while the cattle squad leader returned to the farm by car.

The man and the machine are resting, change a group of drivers, turn on the searchlights, and continue working at night.

Although there will be dew at night, the quality of the harvested cotton may be slightly worse, but what is important at this time is the yield. If the harvest is completed one day early, these cotton harvesters can rush to the next farm to continue the harvesting task.

Harvesting cotton is inherently a race against time, not to mention that there are one million cotton harvesters, and they cannot be idle. They have to work around the clock.

On the way back to the farm in the car, Team Leader Niu realized that he had harvested so much cotton in one day.

At the farm's warehouse entrance, piles of packed cotton are being transported into the warehouse. Inside the warehouse, cotton has also been piled into a hill.

Monitor Niu looked at the snow-white cotton and asked in shock: "Are these what we harvested today?"

"That's right, there are several cars over there that haven't been packed yet!" the man on the farm replied.

"How many kilograms were collected today?" Team Leader Niu asked subconsciously.

"I estimate that the total amount for the whole day must be close to 200 tons!" the man replied.

"Two hundred tons? Two hundred tons in one day? Then our cotton harvester can harvest twenty tons of cotton!" Squad Leader Niu took a breath of air.

When picking cotton in previous years, a strong young man like Captain Niu would pick 200 kilograms of cotton in one day if he worked hard. But now he picks 20 tons in one day, which is a thousand times more than before!

"This cotton harvester is so powerful, it can really hold up to thousands of troops!"

On the cotton field, a row of cotton harvesters was working, and not far away, a dozen second-generation Pajeros were parked there, incompatible with the surrounding environment.

The second-generation Pajero was introduced into China when it came out in the early 1990s. By the mid-1990s, domestic manufacturers were already producing this car through the complete kit assembly model.

At that time, Pajero was considered the most luxurious off-road vehicle in China, and it was more upscale than the Grand Cherokee introduced in the 1980s.

The road conditions in the northwest region are not as good as those in the eastern provinces, and off-road vehicles are still widely used. Therefore, many enterprises and institutions are equipped with off-road vehicles, but not many units can use more than a dozen Pajeros.

A group of people in suits got out of the car, headed by Uncle He.

I saw Uncle He pointing to the cotton harvesters at work and said to a gray-haired man next to him; "President Qian, that is the new cotton harvester we purchased this year. The 68,000 acres of cotton on this farm are , are harvested using cotton harvesters.

Our Production and Construction Corps has planted an additional one million acres of cotton fields this year and is expected to harvest an additional 150,000 tons of cotton. Basically all of these new cotton fields are harvested using machinery, so they can definitely be harvested on time to ensure that the cotton can be harvested in a timely manner. supply. "

The gray-haired President Qian nodded and asked, "In other words, these 150,000 tons of cotton can be stably supplied every year?"

"As long as there are no natural disasters that affect cotton production, there should be no problem with stable supply." Uncle He paused and continued;

"Of course, if necessary, we can also increase the cotton planting area. We have nothing else here. There is plenty of land, and there are large open spaces where cotton can be grown at any time!"

After Uncle He's introduction, several others, including Chairman Qian, also showed very interested expressions.

Chairman Qian is the president of the East Zhejiang Textile Association and the chairman of a leading domestic textile company. The people behind him are members of the Textile Association and the heads of various textile companies.

Uncle He had finally invited these people.

Attracting investment has always been an important local task. Uncle He's mission this time is to let companies from the East Zhejiang Textile Association come to the northwest to invest and build factories.

What Uncle He can rely on is that the Northwest can supply high-quality and cheap cotton.

Cotton is the most important raw material in the textile industry. For enterprises, the closer they are to the supply base of raw materials, the lower the production cost.

Cotton needs to be spun first and then woven into cloth. From the perspective of transportation costs, shipping well-produced fabrics will definitely save more than shipping cotton.

Under normal circumstances, one ton of seed cotton can produce about 330 kilograms to 420 kilograms of lint cotton. The cotton in the northwest is of high quality, so it can produce 400 kilograms of lint cotton.

400 kilograms of lint cotton can produce 360 ​​kilograms of ordinary cotton yarn, or 320 kilograms of carded cotton yarn.

The freight per ton of goods is fixed, that is to say, the freight for one ton of seed cotton and one ton of cotton yarn is the same. But the value of the goods was three times worse.

If these textile factories build factories in the cotton-producing areas, they can save two-thirds of transportation costs by shipping cotton yarn directly to the east.

For a bulk item like cotton, saving two-thirds of transportation costs is still a lot of money. Whether a company can make a profit after a busy year will probably depend on these two-thirds of transportation costs.

However, while companies are saving costs, they must also consider stable sources of raw materials.

If a company comes to set up a factory, but the local area cannot provide enough cotton for production, then the company will have to purchase cotton from the eastern region and sell it back to the east after production, which will result in a loss.

Manpower has always been the most important factor restricting cotton production in the northwest. There is a shortage of people in the northwest, but cotton picking requires people. Counting on the army of cotton pickers that migrate like migratory birds in September and October every year cannot fundamentally solve the problem, and it is not possible. Stablize.

Now with the cotton harvester, the problem of no one picking cotton has been solved, and the cotton planting area can also be expanded.

For example, the 150,000 tons of seed cotton that Uncle He said can produce at least more than 50,000 tons of cotton yarn. The profits that 50,000 tons of cotton yarn can bring will make even a textile company jealous.

At that time, China was still in the era of booming textile industry, and the country still relied on exporting clothes, shoes, hats and socks to earn foreign exchange. Cotton, as the upstream raw material of the textile industry, was naturally in short supply.

Just listen to Uncle He continue to introduce; "Although our cotton production has increased a lot, because of its good quality and affordable price, it has basically been booked. Your member companies of the East Zhejiang Textile Association have also ordered a lot.

However, cotton picking requires a process. Even with the help of cotton harvesters, we have to wait until mid-to-late October before the entire autonomous region can complete the cotton picking work.

So when shipping, we also have a priority. In principle, whoever places the order first and pays the deposit will be given priority. Those who place the order later will have to wait.

However, there is an exception. Our local textile companies are given priority in supplying goods, and local textile companies can also get priority in getting some high-quality supplies. This can be regarded as some care for tax-paying companies. "

Uncle He made it clear that he was saying, come to us and invest in building a factory!

Chairman Qian certainly heard what Uncle He meant, and he said, "I haven't been to the northwest very often, and I don't know much about the situation here. But according to my observations along the way, the infrastructure in the west is still not as good as that in the east. If If we build a factory here, I don’t know if there will be any problem with the company’s water and electricity consumption.”

"Don't worry, we have no shortage of water or electricity here!"

Uncle He went on to explain; “Although the first and second largest deserts in the country are both here, companies will not be built in the desert!

We have many mountains here, with glaciers on the mountains, groundwater underground, and many amber rivers, so water resources are still very abundant. Our per capita water resources are more than twice that of eastern cities.

As for electricity, not only is there no shortage of it here, but it is also very cheap. We are originally a major coal-producing province, and coal is an important industry for us. Coal is cheap, and electricity prices are naturally cheaper. Therefore, if you build a factory here, the electricity cost will be much lower than in the eastern provinces.

In addition, we also have some preferential policies for companies that come to invest, such as land or tax. If the investment scale is relatively large, we can also give special preferences in infrastructure construction..."

Uncle He began to vigorously promote local preferential policies for attracting investment.

Zhang Jianshe was sitting at the table correcting official documents.

The secretary knocked on the door and came in and said, "Boss, Deputy Secretary He is here."

"Comrade He Rong, please come in." Zhang Jianshe said.

After a while, He Rong walked into the office and sat in front of Zhang Jianshe.

Zhang Jianshe put down his pen and said with a smile, "Old He, I was just going to ask you how the inspection team from the East Zhejiang Textile Association was doing, but I didn't expect you to come over."

"I came here to report this matter to you." He Rong took a deep breath, handed over a folder, and said excitedly:

"The negotiations have been completed. Thirty-three companies in the East Zhejiang Textile Association have signed investment intention contracts with us, and the investment amount exceeds one billion!"

"One billion! Okay, this is great!" Zhang Jianshe was in a good mood instantly: "Although the number of one billion will be somewhat watery, as long as half of it can be implemented, we will be satisfied. "

He Rongze smiled slightly: "Leader, when it comes to the implementation of funds, I am more confident than you! In the past two years, the domestic textile industry has developed very rapidly, and the demand for cotton has also increased significantly.

As far as I know, this cotton yarn is almost in short supply. As long as it is produced, there will be people rushing to get it. So as long as we can stably supply a large amount of high-quality cotton, we don't have to worry about these textile companies not coming to settle down here! "

Zhang Jianshe nodded: "I have also recently compiled the cotton picking situation on various farms. With the cotton harvester, the picking efficiency has indeed been greatly improved. I transferred soldiers from a tank battalion and collected hundreds of thousands of tons of cotton. Cotton. In normal times, this would be the labor of tens of thousands of people.

But this cotton harvester is quite expensive, one million. However, it can bring in investment of one billion yuan, so buying this cotton harvester is not a loss at all! "

"Not only is it not a loss, it is definitely a profit! In addition to attracting investment, selling cotton also makes money!" Uncle He said with a smile.

"Look at my brain. I'm only thinking about attracting investment. I've forgotten about selling cotton! Our cotton can be sold for a lot of money!" Zhang Jianshe patted his forehead and continued;

"If the investment from the East Zhejiang Textile Association can be implemented, we think we can continue to expand the cotton planting area next year and attract more textile companies to invest here.

If the cotton planting area is expanded, this cotton harvester will definitely continue to be purchased. This kind of large-area planting cannot be relied on by manpower alone. Machinery and equipment are also required.

When we have a meeting next Monday, we will discuss it with several other comrades and let’s order another hundred cotton harvesters from the manufacturer! "

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