Sam's Dream of Green Horizons Chapter 4

A month later, the wood for the factory building was ready. The fire prevention period in the forest area is lifted on June 15 every year. I found someone to load the wood onto the truck according to the expected time. But the news came that the fire prevention period was extended due to the drought this year. The wood was loaded onto the truck with great difficulty, and it was not easy to unload it. What should I do? I really felt the difficulty of getting started.

burn one's boats

My fourth brother came back from afar to see how his business was going. I personally accompanied him to the mountain. By then, the grass-cutting work had been finished and the weather had turned cold. I had urged my second brother: "The house and the shed should be built quickly, otherwise the fourth brother will not be satisfied when he comes back!" At my urging, my second brother led my fifth uncle and brother-in-law to start building a house. 

That day, my fourth brother and I came to the mountain. My fourth brother was very angry: "It took so long to build a house, but there is no shed, and the cattle and sheep we bought are running all over the mountain!" My fourth brother and I came to the half-built house, and I said it was not too late to hurry up. At this time, the second brother came in and said to the fourth brother: "Fourth brother, you said you would give your niece 5,000 yuan a year for college tuition. 

When will it be done?" The fourth brother replied with an unhappy look: "Didn't I say it would start from next year? How can you send your child to college if you don't have any money?" The elder brother then said: "In this case, I have to go out and do something quick!" The fourth brother replied without thinking: "Go and do something quick!" The second brother turned and left. I asked the fourth brother: "How can I let him do something quick?" The fourth brother said to me: "Third brother, this business can't be continued. 

Now he doesn't think about how to make money, but keeps asking me for money." I sympathize with the fourth brother's statement, because I knew that the fourth brother meant to solve the employment of these people and transfer some funds to my parents so that it would be more convenient for my parents to use money in the future. Because the fourth brother has always been very filial, but the fourth brother's wife is a rural person who is very slow and unreasonable. So I thought, why is this person like this now? Don't want to take any risk and look for bargains everywhere.

On the way back to his father's house, the fourth child was very depressed and didn't say much. Just after entering the house, the fourth child hadn't sat down yet, and there was a phone call from the mountain. I picked up the phone and knew it was the second brother. 

I asked what happened in the mountain. The second brother said on the phone: "Uncle Matthew asked the fourth child to raise his salary!" The fourth child was furious and said: "I don't want the initial investment, I don't want to do it anymore. I have spent so much money in these few months, and the house is not built, and there is no sign of the pens, and they want me to raise my salary again!"

Two days later, Lao Si decided not to invest anymore and returned home. Shandian was in a difficult period of development.

When Lao Si asked for my opinion before, I said that developing the breeding industry was promising and should not be risky. Now at this point, I have no choice but to clean up this mess myself.

I took the risk and bought four cows. In order to keep this mountain site that was not easy to get, my father had no choice but to buy a cow. This mountain site is truly worthy of its name. As luck would have it, nine calves were born that year, all of them were black and white. Black and white cattle are very valuable in the market.

Seeing that he couldn't make any money, my second brother really went to work as a jackpotter. My brother-in-law couldn't stand the hardship and ran away too, leaving only my fifth uncle.

I hired a distant uncle from my hometown to herd cattle. This uncle was called Jiang Laosi. When Jiang Laosi first came, he had a good work attitude and was very satisfied with the conditions at that time. 

Later, I found out that he had an affair with a woman in his hometown, and the man knew about it and wanted to kill him, so he ran away to seek refuge. After the smoke cleared, Laosi became a different person, and it was difficult to serve him. I will tell you his story later.

I have put a lot of effort into running this ranch since then. I will tell you many stories later.

A sudden turn of events

The wood for the factory building had been loaded onto the truck, but we could not go into the mountain due to the extended fire prevention period. My brother was so anxious that his entrepreneurial enthusiasm suddenly dropped and he was at a loss. 

The truck could not be parked there for a long time with heavy objects on it, because the bow of the truck could not bear it. I suggested to find the leader of the new town government we merged into, but my brother thought that he was not familiar with the leader and he could not easily help coordinate.

At this time, I thought of my classmate who was working as a street director in that town and should be familiar with the government leaders. I explained the whole story to my classmate on the phone, and he promised to help me find the leader in charge of agriculture and animal husbandry to help solve the problem.

My brother hesitantly went to the town government, which was not far from our village. The transportation here was convenient and it only took 40 minutes by train to get there.

The next day I met my eldest brother at my father's house. He was very happy to see me and was reporting something to my father. Later my father told me: "Your classmate was very capable. He explained the situation to the mayor. The town government was very supportive and took your eldest brother to the Fire Prevention Section of the Forestry Bureau. After Section Chief Zhou learned the reason, he called the two forest farms and asked them to let him go and accompany him to handle fire prevention matters."

On that day, cars loaded with wood, personnel and supplies headed for the forest. Since the fire isolation belt had been set up in advance, the forestry fire prevention personnel measured the width of the isolation belt to meet the requirements and explained the regulations on outdoor production fire. For example, fire is not allowed in weather with winds above level 3, smoking is not allowed during grazing, and firefighting equipment and wind-powered fire extinguishers are required.

Since I learned management theory in college, I know how to motivate people to work, how to improve production efficiency, how to form cohesion, etc. Because the construction of the house must be completed in a certain period of time, and the pens must also be completed in a short period of time. After these works, we need to prepare winter grass for cattle and sheep. 

I proposed to contract them to a few people, so that they will work from dawn to dusk. But my father said: "Your uncle, brother and your brother-in-law are all family members, and it is no problem for them to work on a part-time basis." My father didn't listen to my advice, and I had no choice because I was not a shareholder after all.

What should we raise? This is a controversial question. I think we should raise some sheep, because sheep reproduce quickly, require less grass in winter, and have less risk. But my eldest brother has a deep-rooted position in my father's mind, and he objected, saying, "We can't raise sheep, because they will die one after another!" So let's compromise and raise cattle. I asked my younger brother, who lives close to the grassland, to contact the grassland to find out the price of cattle.