Traveling through 70's wine

Chapter 148: Reclamation

Since there was no threshold for this competition, and the district sports committee publicized the matter in the newspaper, and their contacts with the public security and traffic police were also proceeding normally, Xunda decided to start registration in advance.

When the news came out, it quickly attracted the attention of a large number of young people. Everyone was curious about bicycle racing, and many people came to the store to inquire.

Zhuang Xien printed the competition rules into flyers and distributed them in factories and schools. Now more than 100 people have signed up.

Wen Qing asked: "Are there many people buying bicycles?"

Zhuang Xien replied: "Not many people buy bicycles specifically for racing, but sales are definitely higher than before."

He added: "More and more people come to repair and modify their bikes. After those who sign up for the competition try our geared bikes, many want to add a gearbox."

While chatting, Wen Qing went to the kitchen to cook, and Zhuang Xien followed her to pick vegetables. The two of them made one meat dish, one vegetable dish and a soup. Zhuang Xien praised Wen Qing's cooking skills while eating, and ate all the dishes on the table.

After dinner, Zhuang Xien and Wen Qing cleaned up the kitchen together. Wen Qing asked, "Did you cook for yourself when you lived with Lin Qingyuan?"

Zhuang Xien said: "I cook when I have time. We eat simple meals, mostly noodles."

On the weekend, Wen Qing reported to Zhuang Xien and returned to Erxia Village to work in the winery.

She checked various accounts with the accountant Tan Yuanfang and found no problems at all. Wen Qing was very happy and relieved. It seemed that Tan Yuanfang was indeed serious and responsible in his work.

She went to the new winery to check the fermentation situation in the new wine cellar, leaned over the side of the wine cellar to listen, checked the daily records, and saw that the temperature of the wine cellar was always within a reasonable range. She also visited other wine cellars that were under maintenance and found no problems either.

When Li Xinguo saw her when he returned to the yard, he said, "Sister Wen, you're here. I was just looking for you."

Li Xinguo is the warehouse director, responsible for the management of the grain warehouse and the wine warehouse. He is a man in his forties, not tall, usually with a serious expression, and works very seriously.

"what's up?"

"There's only enough food in the warehouse for next week. We're going to make wine yeast soon, so we should get some food."

In April, Wen Qing placed 20 kilograms of grain in the front yard. Two months later, it is really necessary to put in more grain.

Li Xinguo did the math for her. Now the new winery has 100 ground vats and 30 mud cellars in operation, which can hold 1000 jin and 2000 jin of grain dregs respectively at a time. Brewing is done every 50 days or so, and more than 3 jin of grain and 4 to jin of rice husks are used in a quarter.

There are 20 ground vats and 10 mud cellars in the backyard, which can hold 500 jin and 1000 jin of grain dregs respectively at a time. 8 jin are needed in a quarter. With the addition of koji, at least 15 jin are needed.

So they basically need to use more than 60 kilograms of grain in a quarter. In the future, there will be more wine cellars at the new winery, and more grain will be used.

Wen Qing nodded. The demand for grain increased after the winery expanded its production. Her space could produce 30 kilograms of grain in a quarter. The gap was quite large, so she had to reclaim some more land in the space, and secondly, find some high-yield grain varieties.

Wen Qing wrote a letter to Zheng Xiaoqiang, asking him if he had any high-yield rice, sorghum or corn seeds.

Zheng Xiaoqiang quickly wrote back to her. According to him, there is now a new variety of glutinous sorghum that can produce 900 catties per mu, and there is also a new variety of corn that can produce 1000 catties per mu.

Glutinous sorghum is more suitable for making wine than japonica sorghum. Wen Qing asked him to send some seeds and tried planting five acres of land in the space first.

She remembered that the yield per mu of super rice could exceed 1,000 kilograms, but it could not be saved for seeds, which made subsequent planting inconvenient. She decided to select seeds from the rice in the space, and the same went for wheat. With the magic weapon of space, the yield per mu would definitely increase.

In addition, she plans to register a grain company. In the future, as the winery's demand for grain increases, she needs to find a source of raw materials for winemaking. She will first sell the grain to the grain company, and then sell it back to the winery through this company.

The main reason is that she still needs to expand the scale of production, and sooner or later she will have to buy grain from outside, and then the grain company will play a role.

Wen Qing did what she said. She returned to the front yard, closed the door, and entered the space.

She drove a tractor and started to open up wasteland. The land in the space was very large. In the past, she only opened up 350 acres of land because she did not have the time and energy to expand the planting area. Now she needs more than 60 kilograms of grain every quarter, so she needs to open up another 3 to 400 acres of land.

The land in the space was very flat, but it was covered with green grass. She turned over the land, collected the grass roots, dried them, burned them into ash and spread them on the land to fertilize the fields.

In order to turn wasteland into arable land, the soil needs to be turned over many times and the weeds in the land need to be constantly removed before crops can be grown. Wen Qing can open up 20 acres of land in a day.

During her break, she poured out several bags of rice from the granary and used a coarse sieve to select the full and large grains of rice to keep as seeds.

After a month of hard work, 400 acres of land were opened up. Now the land in the space has reached 750 acres. Wen Qing feels that the small tractors and tillage machines in the space are not enough.

Wen Qing found out that there are several manufacturers of tractors and harvesters in the country, and she would visit them when she has time.

But for now she can only make do with it. She sows seeds, grows seedlings, and plants crops on the newly reclaimed fields.

In June, summer arrived, and Wen Qing's orchard had a good harvest. This time, mainly peaches and apricots were ripe. From the 6-acre orchard, about 80 kilograms of fruit were harvested.

Last year, the orchard also harvested a small amount of fruit, and the two orchard rangers took time out to sell it themselves.

The orchard had a good harvest this year, and the five workers who were guarding the forest divided the work to harvest the fruits. However, there were too many ripe fruits at once, so Uncle Tang, who was guarding the forest, said to Wen Qing, "Xiao Wen, do you think you should find a few more people to harvest the fruits? I'm afraid the fruits will rot on the branches."

Wen Qing immediately asked Liu Quan to arrange ten people to go to the orchard to help pick the fruits.

Worried that the fruits would not be sold in time, he approached the Sifeng District Non-staple Food Company and the Xicheng District Non-staple Food Company and sold 2 kilograms of peaches and 2 kilograms of apricots to them.

Fruit vendors who heard the news bought 10 kilograms of fruit, and then sent people to a nearby market to sell 4 kilograms of fruit.

Finally, there was one piece of orchard left to be picked, so Wen Qing placed an advertisement in the city and started a weekend fruit picking event.

City dwellers are very curious about this picking activity and many of them bring their children with them.

Wen Qing asked the villagers to weave some small baskets and distributed them to the adults and children who participated in the picking activity. No matter how much fruit they picked, they would be charged two yuan for each basket.

The villagers took advantage of the picking activities to set up food stalls. The more flexible ones opened their yards and welcomed guests to their homes to order food. Now the supply is more than before, and the villagers can also eat meat and vegetables.

Even so, the fruits in the orchard have not been sold out.

Wen Qing organized the villagers to help pick fruits. They took the peaches to the winery to make peach wine, and dried the apricots into dried fruits, so there was no waste.

Wen Qing and Tan Yuanfang did the math together. There were 200 acres of orchard, with a total of 80 acres of peach and apricot trees. The fruit trees were not planted very densely, with only about 3 to 40 trees per acre.

This season, a total of 15 kilograms of peaches and 10 kilograms of apricots were harvested, and 20 kilograms were sold, earning 4 yuan at an average price of 8 cents per kilogram.

The remaining food was used to make 1 kilograms of dried apricots, which were sold to two grocery stores, earning 1 yuan.

The other 4 kilograms of peaches have all been made into fruit wine, which is now fermenting and should produce 2 kilograms of fruit wine.

The entire orchard is still profitable.

After the fruits were harvested, Wen Qing began to distribute half-year bonuses. The five workers who guarded the forest received a reward of 500 yuan each, the workers in the winery received a reward of 200 yuan each, and several cadres received a reward of 1000 yuan each.