After leaving Jiang Zhiyu, Li Long reflected on how capable this female cadre was.
What Ma Xiaoyan got from Li Long was the major things he had done for ethnic unity, such as the current road construction and his earlier work bringing water to the Winter Camp.
Those things readily made the papers, especially now, when efforts to promote ethnic unity were in full swing, making them particularly likely to attract attention from higher up.
Jiang Zhiyu's strength lay in her ability to seize on the important points in what Li Long did and set everything else aside.
She could pick out the main thread from the faintest clues, which showed just how capable she was.
Although Li Long had never heard in his previous life of her eventually reaching any particular rank, he believed she probably would not stay in the Township forever.
With instincts that sharp, she ought to go to the County Seat or the Prefecture, at the very least.
Li Long actually had two things he had been waiting to do. One was to contract land on a large scale and, once cooperatives came along, become a landed gentleman who could live off the annual dividends.
The second was to buy a Wheeled High-Horsepower Tractor, a Spraying Machine, a Kangmaiyin, and even a Cotton Picker early on. Once drip irrigation became widespread, he would hire people to operate them and be a farsighted boss.
That would be enough.
But the time was not right yet, and there was a long way to go. After all, an imported High-Horsepower Tractor currently cost tens of thousands of US dollars. He could afford one, but there was no need.
And with neither cotton yields nor prices having risen yet, there really was not much value in contracting land on