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Chapter 254: Achieving Agricultural Mechanization Ahead of Time

In the afternoon, Jiang Xingye sent a few people out to wait for the rest of the thresher parts that were being made.

Jiang Baohua organized production.

The elderly and children stayed in the village to thresh the rice with threshers, while the women began to harvest corn. The wheat had been harvested, and the strong laborers rushed to collect the little remaining rice.

The neighboring brigades, Xinlian Brigade and Liaozhong Brigade, symbolically asked for a harvester due to the opposition of their team members. However, they returned it after using it for less than two days, and the harvesting work had to rely entirely on manpower.

The two harvesters were taken over by Shangjiang Brigade, and Shangjiang Brigade now had three harvesters. Jiang Baohua was very brave and wrote IOUs to the commune for the two harvesters, and would pay them back at the end of the year.

Seeing that the Shangjiang Brigade had finished all the work in a hurry, the people from the Xinlian Brigade and the Liaozhong Brigade thought they were fools.

"There's always so much work, and so many work points. They finished it so quickly. Will the commune still give them work points at the end of the year?"

"I heard that the production team has also built a thresher factory, and they want to sell threshers later."

A highly respected old man from the Xinlian Brigade tapped his pipe and said, "What's so special about this? Our ancestors have been farming like this for generations, yet they're trying to come up with something new. In the end, every household will have no work points and will go hungry. Just look at how Jiang Baohua, the brigade leader, will perform."

Jiang Baohua walked with a breeze every day. The position of secretary was still vacant, and he had to serve as the secretary and manage production at the same time. The accountant of the production team now had to recalculate the work points, so he was busy every day.

The production team also selected ten young and middle-aged people with a certain level of knowledge to form a production plant and began to assemble threshers.

Xu Qinghuan and Jiang Xingye came up with the design of a corn thresher. Jiang Xingye spent several nights perfecting the design and then disassembling it to make a parts diagram. Recently, he has been busy working on the corn thresher in the county town.

Tang Quantong led a group of cadres to the countryside. They did not contact Jiang Baohua in advance and came directly. The threshing ground was noisy, mixed with the sound of machines roaring.

"Let's go and take a look!" Tang Quanyi waved his arm, and the cadres behind him hurriedly followed. Each of them was as excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood.

"Has the thresher been made?" someone speculated.

There were three threshers placed side by side in the threshing yard, one was threshing wheat and two were threshing rice. At a glance, all the people working were old people and children.

Half-grown children drag bundles of rice or wheat ears to the thresher, and children aged seven or eight break up the grass heads and feed the thresher.

There was an old lady standing by each thresher, holding a sheep fork in her hand, forking the grass clippings aside, and several old men tied the grass clippings into bundles.

There were also a few people guarding the exit of the valley. Bags of grain were dragged out, ropes were tied to the bags, and they were dragged to the side and stacked neatly.

Wow, the old, weak and sick are all joining the battle!

All the cadres were stunned.

Threshing rice and wheat is the top priority in any brigade. In addition to leading the oxen and pulling the stone roller to roll the rice, older people will be assigned to do the work; the rest of the work, such as spreading the rice or wheat, turning the field after rolling halfway, shaking the grains, tying the threshed rice and wheat straw into straw heads, and winnowing, are all jobs that only strong laborers can do.

This tradition that has been passed down for thousands of years has now been broken by the Shangjiang Brigade.

The work from start to finish was contracted by the elderly and children.

Finally, the only task that required strong labor was probably to transport the millet and wheat to the warehouse and stack them neatly, but this didn't take much time.

The reason why rushing to harvest is hard is not only because the work is heavy, but also because of the pressure of time.

The Shangjiang Brigade's progress was already much faster than other brigades thanks to its three harvesters, and now with the addition of three threshers, a significant amount of labor has been freed up. "The Shangjiang Brigade's pace is incredible! Did they thresh all the harvested grain today?"

"Probably not. However, at this rate, this year's autumn harvest can be completed in half the time."

"Machines are really great things. Has the Shangjiang Brigade achieved agricultural mechanization ahead of schedule?"

The commune can report this as an achievement, and it is also their political achievement. Seeing this scene, even the coldest blood will boil.

Tang Quantong was already so excited that he could not control himself, especially when he saw a strange yet familiar face. He was stunned for a moment and hurried forward, "Jiang... Jiang... Old Leader!"

He snapped a salute.

Mr. Jiang waved his hand and said, "What old leader? I'm just an old man now."

Tang Quantong's eyes filled with tears. "Old leader, are you feeling better?"

Jiang Chengfa and several other old men and women were responsible for tying rice straw and wheat straw into bundles. After working for a long time, he felt a little tired, so he stood aside.

"Much better. I'm finally not a cripple anymore." Jiang Chengfa leaned on his goat fork and raised his chin towards the thresher. "This thing is easy to use. It's fast and threshes the grain more cleanly than using an ox to pull a stone roller."

Before they bundle the hay, they will shake it vigorously with a sheep fork. If there are any grains of wheat or corn on it, they will shake them off. There are some grains of wheat or corn on it, but the amount is very small.

There were only a few grains of rice and wheat straw, and they checked, and most of them were empty shells.

"It's a great thing!" Tang Quan said, "It saves a lot of manpower. This is all thanks to Comrade Jiang Xingye."

Mr. Jiang smiled proudly, "It's not just his achievement, it's mainly Xu Zhiqing's."

Tang Quantong complimented, "Xu Zhiqing is also Comrade Jiang's fiancée. After all, we are family. She is your granddaughter-in-law."

Speaking of Xu Qinghuan, the old man's face was full of smiles. "Family is family, and the credit should be divided."

Comrade Tang Quan said, "I'm afraid the production team will give credit to Xu Zhiqing for this achievement. She said last time that she wanted to keep the thresher technology for the production team and didn't want the commune to get a share!"

Dong Gensheng heard this and said, "Deputy Director Tang, isn't our production brigade part of the commune? Xu Zhiqing wasn't really doing this for himself, and the city kid didn't ask for a place in the city for his great achievements. What's wrong? You're so reluctant to give him even a little fame and benefits?"

"That's right, what can our production brigade give us? He's an educated youth who came here, he wasn't born and raised here, and he's wholeheartedly working for the local area. Our commune can't be stingy."

Xu Ruiyang from the Youth League Office has been dealing with the educated youth and local members over the years, but this is the first time he has seen a member defend an educated youth like this.

He laughed and said, "The harvesters and threshers are good, but other brigades are unwilling to use them."

The members didn't know how to answer. They had heard that other teams were unwilling to use it, and they knew the reason. They said they were afraid that all the work points would be used up by the machine, and there would be no work points for them to earn in the future.

They also asked Jiang Baohua this question, and the team leader yelled at them, telling them to finish the work quickly because there was more work to do.

Moreover, I am afraid of sudden changes in weather.

When people heard that the weather was going to be bad, no one cared about the things behind them. Moreover, the production team was going to set up a thresher manufacturing plant, and when they heard that they were going to set up a furniture factory, everyone's attention was also caught by these two things.

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