Chapter 126 The land division begins, this number is good!
Li Long pulled the sheep back to the village, handed it to Xu Chengjun, returned the carriage, and then went home.
The next day, the village director Xu Chengjun called together representatives of the members, or should we say villagers' representatives, to discuss the land division. At the same time, they slaughtered sheep and cooked mutton.
To divide the land, we must first determine the plot of land and then measure it. After all, there are hundreds of people in the village, and if we want to divide it fairly, we cannot simply measure it.
Fortunately, these village representatives, including Li Jianguo and others, were the founders of the production team. They are very familiar with the land currently being cultivated and have a rough idea of how much yield each piece of land has.
Therefore, when slaughtering sheep and processing mutton offal, the plots to be divided were basically selected and the yield was assessed - for example, each person was allocated two mu of food-grain land, which was based on a yield of 200 kilograms of wheat per mu.
After the strips of land with a wheat yield of 200 kilograms per mu have been divided up, the remaining people will have to get the plots assessed to have a wheat yield of 100 kilograms per mu. Each person will have to get four mu of land, otherwise it would be unfair.
After deciding on the plots to be divided and the yields to be rated, the remaining tasks were to determine the people who would draw lots, measure the land, and set the boundaries. They also had to carve a lot of wooden stakes as boundary stakes, and other odd jobs included supervising the two sides of the adjacent plots to build field ridges, etc.
The village committee and villagers' representatives were very efficient. They held a general meeting of all villagers the next day, explained the land distribution rules, answered many villagers' questions, and then started drawing lots.
Li Jianguo, as the head of the Li family, stepped forward to draw lots and drew number 1 for a field. This made Li Long's heart move, and he felt that his elder brother had good luck.
One piece of land is land that produces 200 kilograms per mu. This piece of land is less than 300 mu, which cannot meet the demand for land distribution.
In the previous life, the plot that the Li family seized was in the middle of a piece of land, and there was not much to do. Now it is in the first piece of land. He remembered that there was a alkali beach next to the piece of land, so he could do some small things.
This became a common practice in the following years. Once the food-grain fields were determined, they were basically not moved. When it came time to cultivate the land, there was a canal at the south end of the field, which could not be moved. There was another canal at the north end, which could not be moved either. Only the landowners on both sides could expand to the sides.
In the following rounds of land contracting, as long as there were no canals at both ends, everyone expanded outward without any prior agreement, until all the wasteland in the village was reclaimed. In the first decade of the next century, because all the land was to be improved into drip-irrigated water-saving fields, the land was re-measured, and the chaotic land acreage was finally sorted out.
After the drawing of lots, some people sighed, some were happy, and some couldn't wait to go and see what their own land would look like.
The next two days were spent dividing the land. All the young and old in the village were busy and watching the excitement. However, Li Long was not among them. He rented a horse carriage from the production team and went to the mountains.
Halimu was not surprised by Li Long's arrival. Li Long had told him the last time he came that the snow in the mountains was melting, and there was not much snow left near the winter den. The dung pile, which was easy to accumulate heat, had already been fully exposed.
"I want to pull a few carts and fertilize our land."
"Go ahead. If these are not enough, I'll take you to other old places." Halimu said with a smile, "For us, these things are of no use at all."
He helped Li Long load a full cart of manure - although half-meter-high baffles were added on the sides and back of the cart, Li Long also padded the inside of the cart with plastic sheeting left over from hauling fish to prevent the manure from leaking out.
Even so, a horse-drawn carriage could only carry a little over one ton of manure, and no more.
At this time, Li Long missed the small four-wheel tractor he had in his previous life before he invested his land in the cooperative.
The tractor's bed was modified to carry cotton. If it were used to carry manure, seven or eight tons would be no problem.
"Okay, I'll go back first and come back tomorrow." Li Long said, "I may have to go for several days." "It would be better if you come every day." Halimu joked, "Then I'll make you a winter nest and you can run back and forth."
Li Long thought he was joking. After drinking the milk tea, he drove the carriage back to the village.
When Li Long pulled a cart of manure into his yard, the villagers who learned the news were shocked.
Where did this kid from the Li family get such a large cart of manure?
Although chemical fertilizers are now used in farming, they cost money. Traditional habits make people think that farmyard manure is safer and more reliable, at least it doesn’t cost money.
The horse manure in the stable was very popular. Lao Luo distributed horse manure once a month, and people rushed to get it - even if they didn't have food-producing land before, they still needed manure to grow vegetables in their own yard.
The amount of manure that Li Long brings back in one truck is equivalent to the amount produced by Dingmahao in two years. Who wouldn't be surprised?
Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei both knew that Li Long had pulled manure from the mountains, so they didn't say anything. Li Long originally wanted to unload the manure into the field right now, but Li Jianguo wouldn't let him. He said he would wait until the snow melted completely, and then sprinkle the manure on the field before the Dongfanghong tractor in the team started plowing. Then, once the plow was started, the manure would be turned into the field.
Li Long had a vague feeling that his elder brother was worried that the manure would be taken away by others if it entered the field.
Of course, he was just guessing. The next day, Li Long continued to rent a horse-drawn carriage to go to the mountains to collect manure. He did this for five days, but had to stop on the sixth day because the team was going to give birth in groups today.
The team's property was rather fragmented, ranging from the team's horses and carriages to the account books in the warehouse, all of which were numbered.
The team property is not divided directly, but drawn by lot. After catching it, you can't take it away directly, but you have to pay the team and buy it according to the assessed price. If you don't have money, it's equivalent to giving up, and others can compete.
Li Jianguo showed his skills again and drew the big red horse number 76.
"Horse No. 76, the assessed value is one hundred and fifty dollars," shouted Accountant Chen Qiang.
Among the people who had drawn the horse earlier, two gave up - they had more than a hundred dollars and simply could not take it out.
Li Jianguo calmly stepped forward to register, paid the money, and then took number 76 in his hand.
Although it was already known that the Li family was rich, many people were still envious and jealous when they saw Li Jianguo so easily take out a stack of big unity banknotes and pay the money without any expression of heartache.
Who wouldn't want a carriage? Not to mention a carriage, even a donkey cart would be fine!
If you have food-producing fields, don't you need to use them to transport wheat and thresh it? If you don't have a car, you can only borrow one, or carry it manually. How tiring is that? And it wastes time.
What surprised everyone even more was that Tao Daqiang's father Tao Jianshe spent 60 yuan to buy a three-year-old donkey that was abandoned by villager Tian Yulong!
When will the Tao family, who have always been at the bottom of the team's conditions, be able to take out sixty yuan to buy a donkey?
Many villagers feel that they are becoming increasingly confused!
When Tao Jianshe was happily leading the donkey home, Tao Daqiang cast a grateful look at Li Long.
With the donkey, he could focus on working with Brother Long and doing his side job without having to worry about his father getting tired.
(End of this chapter)
