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Chapter 1729 That’s a tiger, not a cat!

Could it be that the poachers gave...

He didn't dare to think about it any more.

Director Su of the forest farm came over, took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it and took a puff, "You helped us get this railway!"

"We are planning to rebuild the Nahe Station, so we just mentioned this condition and they agreed." Sun Jianping smiled, "The forest farm has achieved good results in recent years, and even got a red panda!"

"Haha, please don't make fun of me. This is what my brother-in-law brought me when he came to my house... It's thanks to your furniture factory in the past few years, otherwise our forest farm wouldn't even be able to pay wages!"

Director Su pointed at the vast mountains and spoke eloquently, "Our forest farm is now mainly providing wood for your furniture factory. At the same time, we carry out afforestation activities to ensure that we can continue to make a living from the forest. However, the brother forest farms in the north and south are not doing so well. They are clamoring for transformation, but they don't know what to do. They can only follow the old path and search and cut down the big trees in the mountains. Now there are only small trees as thick as thighs left on the mountain. If we cut them down, they are worthless. If we don't cut them down, what will we eat and drink? What do you think we will do in the future?"

"This one……"

Sun Jianping didn't know what to say.

"I think it's a good idea. If we can fix these two money-making ways, the forest farm can make money." Director Su put out his cigarette, made sure there were no sparks left, and then threw it on the ground. "Your mountain products are doing well. A few days ago, I went to your second uncle's glass greenhouse and sat for a while. I talked to him about artificial cultivation of mushrooms and fungus. If we can fix these two things, the money from selling mountain products alone will be enough to pay the salaries of the forest farm employees in the future."

This matter...

It seems that my second uncle never told me.

"Isn't the mountain product market in your county very popular? We can just sell them directly from there and save ourselves the trouble of buying things. Isn't that great?"

"This is a really good idea. Our mountain product trading center sells 30,000 to 40,000 kilograms of goods every day, and merchants from all over the world come to buy goods. I think this will definitely work!"

"I thought so too. When the tree is finished, we won't have to think about cutting it down." Director Su patted the century-old red pines behind him. "What great trees! If we cut them down, my descendants will point at me and scold me in the future!"

"Yes!"

Sun Jianping looked at this only remaining red pine forest. In order to build the railway, they had to choose to pass through the middle of the forest. As a result, more than 2,000 red pine trees suffered unexpected damage and had to be cut down to make room for the railway.

A railway bridge will also be built across the Gulu River to ensure smooth passage of trains.

As for other red pine forests, they are protected by the forest farm and no felling is allowed except for picking pine cones every year!
"Uncle, are there still tigers in our forest?"

"Tiger?" Director Su frowned. "Isn't the only one left in your family? Where are the other tigers?"

"But a few days ago, a tiger rushed to the back mountain of our village and fought with our tiger. It was a female tiger."

"Oh……"

Director Su slapped his thigh and said, "I remember now. Most of them came from the Lesser Khingan Mountains. They said they were decentralizing forest rights, and the government funding was getting less and less. Sometimes they couldn't pay their salaries for several months, so the forest farm distributed all the land to the workers. Don't you think that's bullshit? These workers got angry and cut down all the thicker trees. Without the forest, how can tigers, black bears and the like not run away?"

"Hey, when did the tiger come? Tell your people not to go up the mountain recently. What if they get hurt?"

Only then did Director Su realize the seriousness of the problem. Sun Jianping smiled and shook his head, "Uncle, the tiger was defeated by ours, and it won't dare to come over for a while."

"Where can you go?"

"I guess it's still wandering around in our forest. Among so many forest farms around here, ours is the best preserved." "That's true!" Director Su was a little proud.

"I'll go back and use a loud speaker to tell the workers to be more careful when they go into the mountains to collect products, so that they won't be robbed by tigers again!"

"Oh, by the way, that thing about growing fungus and mushrooms that you mentioned..."

"That depends on whether your uncle can spare some time. Isn't he very busy right now?"

"Okay, I'll go talk to him."

In the distance, a road roller emitting black smoke slowly drove over. Director Su smiled and said, "You have done a good thing for our forest farm. With the railway, it will be much more convenient to transport things from the mountains!"

"As long as we don't carry wood, it's fine!"

Several days passed, and there was still no trace of the tigress. Gradually, the people in the forest farm and the villages forgot about the incident and continued to go up the mountain to pick mushrooms, fungus, and look for monkey heads, trying to make some extra money before the October freeze.

As mountain products are brought down from the mountains one after another, the mountain product trading market in Nahe has become more and more popular. Every day, the streets of Nahe are crowded with people. The farmers' shouting, the neighing of tractors and horses, the clatter of weighing goods, and the laughter of the common people have merged into huge waves of sound, lingering over the small county town, showing its liveliness and bustle.

The supply and demand information newspaper also increased from one issue a day with one thousand copies per issue to two issues a day with five thousand copies per issue!

Sun Jianping applied to Secretary Fang and installed two telephones on the open space outside the county compound for merchants to contact each other. Two large signs were hung on the wall with the telephone numbers of various departments and some merchants that had been installed at high prices to facilitate communication.

Of course, this is also charged. There are two phones, one for making calls and one for receiving calls, and it costs five cents per minute for both making and receiving calls.

The old man who is the gatekeeper of the county compound now has a side job - answering the phone!

As soon as the small "telephone booth" was put out, it immediately attracted the interest of countless people. The merchants were naturally happy. Isn't business all about speed?
They are also frequent visitors to the small telephone booths. Often a call can take more than ten minutes or half an hour, making the people in the queue behind them sweat anxiously and constantly urging them to hurry up and stop dawdling!

This also led to many disputes, and people even resorted to physical exercise from time to time.

The old farmer had no need, nor was he willing to spend five cents to make a phone call. He could only stare at the old customers in suits and ties holding the microphone and saying hello, hello, hello, which looked very cool.

These two phones have brought considerable income to the county. From five in the morning to six in the evening every day, these two phones are hardly ever idle!
At the end of the day, I can earn fifty or sixty yuan from the two phones!

The doorman's small iron box is always filled with all kinds of coins and banknotes, and it has to be cleaned several times a day!
Our county magistrate is good at making money!
"I'm wondering where the tiger went. It must have been poached!" Sun Jianping mentioned this to Secretary Fang who came to "learn". Secretary Fang frowned and said, "I've told you several times to send your tiger to the zoo as soon as possible. What if it hurts someone?"

"Our tiger is so well behaved!"

"Come on, that's a tiger, not a cat!" Secretary Fang glared and looked through the income of the two derivative "departments" of public telephones and "Supply and Demand Information". He lowered his head and took a closer look and was slightly shocked.

"Your Supply and Demand Information made a net profit of over 113,000 last month?"

"Yup!"

Secretary Fang looked incredulous!
Can you earn so much with just a few pages of paper?

(End of this chapter)