The cooperative had been established for several years, and this was the first time they had settled on expanding into something new, so everyone present was quite excited. They agreed to visit the Second Team the next day to look at the land. If it was suitable, they would lease it.
"Why don't the people in the Second Team reclaim such good land themselves?" Jia Weidong could not quite understand it. "If it were in our team, any land without salinity that grew Sophora alopecuroides would have been reclaimed long ago."
"Old Jia, you haven't been keeping up again, have you? You've been out of touch with the masses too long!" After drinking, Xie Yundong made a rare joke at someone else's expense. "You don't think every production team is like ours, with almost every household owning a small four-wheel tractor, do you?
"Go out and have a look. Apart from our team, plenty of families in other production teams are still using donkey carts. In the Second Team, at most a third of the households have small four-wheel tractors.
"Some of them can't even take on the team's reserve farmland. If Haijun hadn't gone over this time, those six or seven hundred mu of cultivated reserve farmland might not have been leased out until spring."
"How does that make me a troublemaker?" Xu Haijun was very dissatisfied. "I went there to contribute to the growth of our cooperative! Let me tell you, I wasn't just showing off!
"I really think our cooperative's model is being held back by staying within our team. If we expand, having tens of thousands of mu eventually would be perfectly normal."
"You really do think highly of us. Tens of thousands of mu? Try five thousand, with each of us handling a chunk, and