Whether it is planting lotus roots or managing after planting, it is a technical task. In addition, the village is not the source of lotus roots. Only a few families planted a small amount, which made them fend for themselves. There is no question of planting and management technology at all.

However, now the village wants to develop a lotus root base and plant lotus roots on a large scale. Then, according to the local methods, it will definitely not work.

Zeng Zhi also has no experience in this regard. However, this can be solved with money and is not a problem. Zeng Zhi specially hired the leaders of the village and planned to recruit a very experienced worker to be responsible for the management of the lotus root base.

The lotus root industry is a characteristic planting industry that the village has vigorously developed, so the village is naturally very concerned. After learning about Zeng Zhi’s request, he quickly found a suitable candidate. This person is named Chen Changsheng, who is a native of the ancient city, but he has been working in Beihu Province, which produces lotus roots a few years ago, and his job is to grow lotus roots.

Of course, it is difficult for a person to complete the planting and management of these 180 acres of lotus roots, especially now it is late May, and the lotus root planting season is about to pass. All the lotus roots must be planted in more than ten days, which requires hiring another worker.

Chen Changsheng told Zeng Zhi that a worker who is familiar with lotus root planting can usually plant about 300 kilograms of lotus root every day. A mu of land requires about 600 kilograms of lotus root planting. Therefore, Zeng Zhi's 180 acres of paddy fields requires up to 360 working days. If he wants to complete the planting within 10 days, he needs to hire 36 people every day.

However, this is in this special situation, after all, it is because we have to catch up with the season.

In fact, in areas like Zhongpai Township, the lotus root planting season lasts more than two months. Planting can start in mid-to-late March, and at the latest in early June. Therefore, after getting on track, 4-5 people can complete the planting of the 180-acre lotus root base. As for daily management, such as weeding, fertilization, drainage, etc., it only takes 3 people to basically complete it.

After listening to his opinions, Zeng Zhi decided to recruit three people from the village and follow Chen Changsheng to manage the lotus root base for a long time. As for the planting period and when digging lotus roots, workers can be temporarily hired.

For the hired workers, Zeng Zhi paid 2,000 yuan a month. In rural areas, the salary is already quite good. After all, even if you go out to work, in addition to living expenses and round-trip vehicle and shipping expenses, it is only about 2,000 yuan a month. Moreover, those who go out to work rarely work for 12 months a year, and it is generally good if you have ten months.

But working at Zeng Zhi is different. Not only does it pay wages for 12 months a year, but it can also take care of his own homes, which can be said to be a killing of one kill. Therefore, when Zeng Zhi expressed his desire to recruit a few people in the village, many people were willing to work at his lotus root base.

In the end, according to the government's requirements, the three employees recruited by Zeng Zhi were selected from the poor households in the village. This can be regarded as his own efforts to the country's poverty alleviation efforts.

There are three employees, one is a man and two women. The man is named Zeng Chuitai, who is Zeng Zhi's cousin, and two women, one is Zeng Zhi's cousin's sister-in-law named Shi Xiaoshuang, and the other is Zeng Zhi's cousin, named Zeng Youxia. They are all honest and hardworking people.

However, they don’t know how to plant lotus roots now, let alone manage them. Zeng Zhi hired them in an attempt to let Chen Changsheng take them to learn.

As for the lotus root planting work this year, the labor required mainly depends on hiring temporary workers, and they are the kind of people who can grow lotus roots.

In the end, Zeng Zhi asked Chen Changsheng to find workers in Beihu Province. The lotus root planting work has basically ended now, and there are many free workers. Under the conditions of Zeng Zhi's planting of one kilogram and one dollar, including living accommodation and round-trip fare, Chen Changsheng successfully found 40 workers in Beihu Province. Zeng Zhi booked a 45-seat bus and brought these people back to the village.

The day before the Dragon Boat Festival, the planting of the lotus root base finally ended, and it only took one week.

This is mainly about the conditions for calculating the remuneration of planting weight, which stimulates the workers' enthusiasm for work. The workers who work hard a day work as long as 10 hours a day, and the lotus roots they planted are as high as 600 kilograms. This means that they have a net income of 300 yuan a day. After all, Zeng Zhi has collected all the round-trip fees for living, accommodation and round-trip fees.

Zeng Chuitai and the other three also learned how to plant lotus roots. From next year, Zeng Zhi no longer needs to hire a large number of workers like this.

However, Zeng Zhi paid a lot of money. He planted 110,000 kilograms of lotus root seeds in 180 acres of land, which is 330,000. In addition, the workers' wages, living accommodation, and transportation fares are another 150,000 yuan.

In addition, there is a rent of 600 yuan per mu of paddy field per year, which is another expense of nearly 110,000 yuan.

In other words, in order to build this 180-acre lotus root base, Zeng Zhi spent nearly 600,000 yuan in just ten days. That is, Zeng Zhi’s vegetable supermarket now has tens of thousands of dollars in profits every day. In addition, in order to thank him for supporting the government’s work, the village provided an interest-free loan of 300,000 yuan to his lotus root base, otherwise he would not be able to afford it.

However, even so, after recently investing in ten acres of town greenhouses, more than 300 acres of tea bases and 180 acres of lotus root bases, his income in the past two months has basically been filled in these pits.

In fact, Zeng Zhi is now a big debtor, because when he rented Datuowa before, he owed the government 1.5 million yuan in rent for the first five years, plus the current 300,000 yuan, and the total debt has reached 1.8 million yuan.

As the saying goes, if there are too many lice, there is no worry about debt. Zeng Zhi found that he owed so much government debt, and now he seems not as arrogant as loans before.

Therefore, although he still has about 200,000 yuan in cash in hand, he does not intend to pay back the money he owed to the government immediately. After all, the repayment period of the 1.5 million yuan rent is the end of the year, and the interest-free loan of 300,000 yuan is 3 years, so there is no need to worry.

Of course, this is mainly because Zeng Zhi has confidence. His supermarket has a net profit of more than 1.5 million yuan every month. Such a little debt is just a profit of one or two months. Even if someone forces him with debts, Zeng Zhi is not afraid. Now he is in a honeymoon period with the government, and at least in the past six months, the government will not make things difficult for him. After half a year, he has already had enough funds to pay off these debts.

With more than 200,000 yuan in cash in hand, Zeng Zhi felt that his plan to buy a car could be implemented.
Chapter completed!