His predecessor failed

After tasting the delicious watermelons, the team members began to harvest in a hurry. The big green-skinned watermelons with big round bellies in the field were very attractive. Even the elderly and children rushed to help put straw to prevent earthquakes. Men, women, young and old were all smiling and full of energy.

This is the first batch of watermelons to be put on the market. Most of them have been booked long ago, and the team leader is quite satisfied with the price. This is not a small income. It has to be Zhuzhu. Fortunately, he supported Zhuzhu's suggestion and planted this batch. Look, look, everyone will get a lot by the end of the year. These days are visibly getting better day by day!

Everyone worked together and soon finished picking all the watermelons and loaded them onto the truck. Looking at the tractor going farther and farther away, everyone's face was filled with satisfied smiles.

The team leader patted Zhuzhu on the shoulder and praised: "Thanks to your suggestion this time, our team can have such a good harvest." Zhuzhu smiled embarrassedly and said that this was the result of everyone's joint efforts. She could not grow it alone, but she provided the good seeds cultivated by their predecessors. She was standing on the shoulders of her predecessors for the benefit of the people.

At this time, there was a cheer from afar. It turned out that the children were playing in the watermelon field. They were chasing and playing, enjoying the joy of the harvest. The sun shone on the earth, illuminating everyone's happy face.

It has to be said that the children of the Red Star Brigade are the happiest children in the entire Qingfeng County. The conditions of the brigade have improved, and the conditions of the team members' families have also improved. Now not only does every child have free books to read, but the brigade also purchases school bags, school uniforms, sports shoes, books and learning supplies for them. In particular, the brigade leader has made it clear that no child will be allowed to drop out of school. If any family dares to favor boys over girls or prevent their children from going to school, they will be disqualified from the year-end dividend.

Now, no one dared to step forward. Anyway, going to school is free, so just go and study. It would be good to recognize a few more words. If you are really not good at studying, then recognize a few more words so that you can enter the factory in the brigade when the time comes.

Before harvesting the watermelons, Su Zhiqing suggested building a beverage factory. There must be nothing wrong with what Su Zhiqing suggested. You know, before the watermelon matter was finished, the team leader began to prepare for the beverage factory in a hurry.

As the team leader said, if we build it early while the weather is still hot, we can make a lot of money this year. Just thinking about those days will be wonderful.

Su Zhuzhu was just making a suggestion. She knew very well that the beverage market in the future would be incredibly huge. As long as beverage factories were ahead of the curve, they would never have to worry about making money.

Therefore, the beverage factory was built very quickly. There was no other choice but to start the literacy campaign for men, women, young and old in the Red Star Brigade very early. Anyone who could work was basically literate now, and was still accumulating knowledge. They all initially met the requirements for entering the factory. Moreover, the educated youth could also receive factory training together with the literacy campaign. Now basically all the young labor force in the village has entered the factory as workers.

The old masters were also assigned suitable positions by the team leader. After all, all the young people went to work in factories, and someone still had to do the work in the fields in the team. So the team leader arranged the old masters to positions in agricultural production management, and then classified the fields that needed to be cultivated in the team, and contracted them out to the neighboring brigade for cultivation.

The old boss is in charge of supervising and inspecting the quality of farming, which makes the old guys very happy. Although they work in the fields, they are now more or less managers and do not have to do it themselves. They still get wages and work points. They are all awesome and support the work of the team. They all follow the team leader and do whatever he tells them to do. They firmly implement the decisions of the team. There are also those who refuse to admit defeat and force themselves to go to literacy classes every day. Although they are old, they are very motivated.

For a time, the learning spirit of the Red Star Brigade was high and the atmosphere was quite good!

The establishment of the beverage factory was discussed by the team leader and the educated youth. Su Zhuzhu also participated, mainly to make some suggestions to avoid taking detours. In the end, everyone decided not only to make beverages, but also to make canned food.

There is strength in numbers, so the factory was built at a rapid pace. A batch of ready-made watermelon juice was produced and recommended to the supply and marketing cooperatives and major partners. As expected, it received unanimous praise, and many people asked the Red Star Beverage Factory to reserve stock for them. There was no need for salesmen to promote the products, as everyone was scrambling to get them. Not just in the summer, some people with a long-term vision even placed orders for the New Year. The market during the New Year is so huge, and they were afraid that production would not be able to keep up and there would be no stock.

When the team leader saw this, he was so shocked that he immediately organized large-scale production as if money was rolling in to the team. The most important raw materials were collected from the surrounding areas, except for the unsold watermelons in the fields. He even sent personnel to various places in the city to survey all the fruit-producing areas and collected all the usable ones.

This wave of production has definitely inspired the surrounding teams to start growing fruits. They started by planting the produce of the current year, and then also planted fruit trees on the hillsides and other corners.

H Province has a tradition of growing oranges, so the main raw materials for beverages and canned foods in the second half of the year are oranges, as well as local black-skinned pears and the like. The output in the past few years is barely enough to cope with the situation.

The team leader is worried. He has to expand the fruit planting area next year. He has to look for Zhuzhu again. In addition to watermelon, he has to get some other seeds. It takes several years for fruit trees to bear fruit, so he has to plant a batch that can be harvested that year.

Sure enough, the educated youth had a broader mindset. Not only did the team leader get new strawberry seeds and tomato seeds, but Su Zhuzhu also suggested that sugarcane could be harvested the same year and could also be made into juice. There were also so many wild kiwis and hawthorns on the mountain that they could all be picked. If they did it this year, there would definitely be enough time to expand the planting next year.

What Su Zhuzhu didn't say was that she bought a batch of watermelons in her personal name, paid a high freight fee to send them to He Qiaojin's unit by train, and gave them to the officers and soldiers under He Qiaojin to taste. These piles of big watermelons were so popular that the army leaders heard about Su Zhuzhu's proposal to build a beverage factory in the Red Star Brigade. It happened that the army leaders knew a farm expert and contacted a batch of grape vines.

Su Zhuzhu was extremely surprised. Although it cost money to buy it, the Red Star Brigade was not short of money now. What they lacked was resources.

Because the price and transportation had not yet been negotiated, Su Zhuzhu had not made any announcement. She planned to wait for He Qiaojin to return to the army after his vacation and then let He Qiaojin go to discuss the matter in person. Once everything was settled, she would tell the team leader and then transport the seedlings back for planting as soon as possible.

After everything was ready, the beverage factory officially started operation. The villagers worked enthusiastically and produced beverages and canned fruits with existing flavors. These products were quickly welcomed by the surrounding areas and orders continued to flow in.