After getting the factory building ready, Li Long hired eight trucks to collect the shipment from Wu City's West Railway Station.
The railway station had people responsible for loading and unloading. He only needed to pay.
After the convoy returned, Liang Shuangcheng led the Odd Jobs he had called in and began unloading the equipment piece by piece.
Li Long arranged the equipment separately according to his own judgment, then covered it with tarpaulins once it was unloaded.
Sorting and assembly could wait until Sister Yang returned with the technicians. He was better off not trying to show off now.
The factory stood right beside the Subdistrict Office, so there was generally no need to worry about thieves coming by. Li Long thought he would get a dog today or tomorrow, so any noise at night would set it barking and scare people off.
Once he finished dealing with the equipment, Li Long still had to plan things for the drip irrigation tape experimental field.
Principal Yang moved quickly too. He soon bought all the agricultural supplies and asked Li Long to come over because he wanted his advice on sowing.
"There's no rush," Li Long told Principal Yang after arriving at the Agricultural Technical Extension School. "Around here, we generally sow cotton in mid-April. We'll see how the weather is this year. If there's a late spring cold snap, we'll put it off a couple of days. If not, we'll sow as usual."
Principal Yang dealt in theory and had little practical experience. Besides, in the past, the teachers had done most of the work, while he had only been responsible for guidance-the kind where he stood at the edge of a field pointing things out.
Now that he actually had to do it, and with an experimental field