Ma County had its own Transport Company, and private owners were buying trucks to haul freight now too, never mind nearby Stone City or the more distant Beiting.
So Li Long meant that finding trucks to haul fifty tons of sugar should be easy. Work had already ended for the day, so he planned to call the County Transport Company tomorrow to see whether they would take the job.
Liu Gaolou was tired from the day's journey. When Li Long offered to buy him dinner, he repeatedly declined, saying he had eaten by the roadside in Shawan. Then he took his men to the guesthouse, saying they needed to get some rest right away.
Li Long remembered to call Gu Boyuan and tell him the goods had arrived.
It was still light where Gu Boyuan was. He told Li Long they had only just finished work and were taking stock. As long as the goods had arrived, that was fine, and they hung up.
Only then did Li Long realize that although only the Heavenly Mountain separated them, darkness fell half an hour earlier in Ma County than in Yining.
Looking at the two enormous tractors, Li Qingxia exclaimed,
"Hey, those look impressive! Big machines like these must plow fast. They'll be fine normally, but the ground's wet at Start of Spring. Won't these tractors sink into it?"
"No." Li Long shook his head. "One of these has twice the horsepower of that crawler tractor. It'll pull free easily."
He planned to drive the machines back to the Fourth Team after arranging things with the Transport Company tomorrow. They could use them for plowing and such from then on.
In fact, these machines were mainly useful for plowing and leveling fields. With all that power, one could plow four hundred