The educated youth was reborn and wanted to disappear, but he was locked into a military marriage.

Chapter 051

Several people shook hands, and it was nothing more than a strong invitation to the two of them to visit their brigade and strive to become the next pilot.

The two agreed one by one, and after talking for a while they said goodbye to everyone and went into the brigade headquarters.

In the brigade headquarters, people from our brigade were cleaning up the venue. Some of the educated youths left behind were still having a heated discussion with Gu Mancang. There were also some people from nearby brigade who were reluctant to leave.

Seeing Lu Mingzheng and his group come in, Gu Mancang immediately stood up to greet them and said apologetically: "I didn't expect so many people to come today. I didn't fulfill my friendship as a landlord. I'm sorry."

Zhao and Meng hurriedly said a few polite words and brought the topic to the saline-alkali land they had just seen.

Now, the people who had not left could no longer walk. They asked one after another. When they heard the two talking about the feasibility of breeding industry, they were even more excited. They wanted to snatch these two people back and go to their brigade to have a look.

It wasn't until the sun was setting that people from other teams reluctantly left. Gu Mancang invited the two of them to sit in the room and asked them about the venue in detail.

Hearing about the problem of cement, he couldn't help but frown. He took out his cigarette pot and filled it with tobacco. He took a few puffs and then shook his head and said, "In our mountains, we have limestone and gypsum, but less clay. Just in other communes.”

"Which commune?" Zhu Xiaomin asked.

Gu Mancang said: "The limestone is between Dongzhuang and Hougou of the Seventh Brigade of our commune, and the gypsum is in the mountains behind Nanping of Dajin Commune."

In other words, if you want to mine limestone and gypsum, you have to negotiate with these places. Fortunately, the Seventh Brigade belongs to its own commune, but Nanping belongs to Dajin Commune, so it may be more difficult.

Lu Mingzheng thought about it carefully, nodded and said, "Let's make a detailed plan for this matter. If the cement can be made, we can discuss it with them."

"How to negotiate?" Xie Chengzhi asked, "Buy their plaster? That will cost a lot."

Lu Mingzheng smiled: "They are all forestry communes. Their situation is similar to ours. What if we share our plan with them for free? Then replace the limestone with gypsum."

"There is still the Seventh Brigade." Miao Shiwen reminded.

"We are the first pilot, and the second pilot has not yet been decided." Lu Mingzheng answered.

Yes, if it is agreed, the second pilot is the Seventh Brigade. They hope that their breeding base will be built earlier.

When everyone heard this, they immediately became energetic and started talking about it.

It was only in the next few days that they each made detailed plans. Not to mention the process of digging limestone and gypsum, then finding clay, and making cement. Just what Chen Xudong said about making a calcining kiln was a big project. It had to wait. It will probably take more than a year to complete the breeding base.

They can't afford it.

After several rounds of discussions, it was finally decided to build the chicken coop and sheepfold out of mud bricks first, start a side business, add more manpower for care, and then slowly build the stone exterior wall when free time comes.

After the matter is decided, the next step is the planning of the breeding base.

Leave the place where the fence will be built later, and plan the place where the chicken coop and sheep pen will be used. The first step is to drive piles between the rocks and build a waterway to divert the water from the mountain stream.

This comes from Zhu Xiaomin’s idea.

If you want to dig a canal, you have to dig a canal out of the mountain rock, which is a huge project. But it is much easier to choose a place on the rock, drive wooden stakes, and then set up a water pipe.

Therefore, before the autumn harvest had begun, the brigade allocated three production teams, some of which were driving piles to divert water, and some of which were clearing debris on the saline-alkali land.

Seeing that the project was on track, Lu Mingzheng, Zhao and Meng took this time to go back to the county to complete other tasks. Since the educated youth production team had participated in the entire plan from the beginning, the four life groups of the male educated youth took turns. to supervise the project.

Although the female educated youth group did not supervise this task, the progress of the project needed to be recorded. Zhu Xiaomin had to go there every day to record the progress of the project.

On the first day, seventeen wooden stakes were laid at the location selected by the educated youth team.

The next day, another twenty-three roots were laid.

On the third day, we encountered a difficult cliff and only drove five wooden stakes.

On the fourth day, the wooden stakes were finally driven to the edge of the mountain stream.

On the fifth day, the water pipes bought from the county were connected section by section, gradually extending towards the mountain stream.

On the sixth day, a section of movable arc-shaped pipe connected the mountain stream and the water pipe. Ten minutes later, the water flowed out from the other end and flowed down the hillside through the newly dug aqueduct.

The moment the water came out, the whole base was filled with joy.

After these six days, the area designated for building a breeding base has been cleared, and a large amount of loess was piled up in the area. Everyone immediately carried water and mud and started making mud bricks.

This was a staged victory. Zhu Xiaomin immediately wrote the report materials, handed them to Gu Mancang and sent them to the county.

After Lu Mingzheng got the news, he rushed back with Zhao and Meng three days later. Seeing the continuous flow of mountain water, he had to admire it. He glanced at Zhu Xiaomin and nodded slightly.

Meng Zihao was not as restrained as he was. He raised his thumb and said sincerely: "Without your method, I don't know when this breeding base will be able to start."

In just six days, there were hundreds of meters apart, and there were all kinds of rocks. If it were to open a canal, I don't know how long it would take.

Zhu Xiaomin hurriedly said politely: "This is a lazy method. The wooden stakes are driven in and must be repaired and replaced regularly."

Meng Zihao shook his head: "As long as the base is successfully built, when the outer wall can be built, the wooden piles can also be changed into stone piles."

This is a solution!

Zhu Xiaomin nodded immediately, but then said: "It will take at least a month to complete these chicken coops and sheep pens. We have detailed drawings in the early stage, so you don't have to run back and forth like this."

Zhao Zheng smiled beside him: "This is our most important job at the moment. Although construction is not our major, we still want to see every step."

Meng Zihao nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes!"

After seeing the progress of the breeding base, several people still walked back from the slope. After passing the hillside, they saw a lively labor scene on the opposite side. Meng Zihao asked: "Are they planting trees over there?"

Zhu Xiaomin nodded: "Our task this year is 20,000 acres, and we are still short of a few thousand acres. We need to plant all the hillsides over there before the autumn harvest."

"What kind of trees are they? Is it convenient for us to go and take a look?" Meng Zihao asked.

"Of course." Zhu Xiaomin nodded immediately, changed the route, and led a few people there.

Lu Mingzheng followed behind and explained to the two of them: "It will freeze here in mid-November and will not thaw until the end of March next year. It will be impossible to work for five months. In addition, there are still grain fields that need to be plowed in the spring and harvested in the autumn. The task of covering 20,000 acres is relatively tight.”