If there are too many people to ask for help, it is useless. Everyone discussed it and decided that Lu Qiang and Mai Guangtian would go to Honghe Valley City as representatives to invite Secretary Tang to the Qingdao Formation to guide the work, and requested it as soon as possible.

As for whether Secretary Tang is free or not, that is another matter. At least he must be put on his posture right.

Mai Guangtian is the deputy leader of the road construction team. He also has the team leader and the deputy commander-in-chief of the Honghe Valley Industrial Corporation. He can leave as long as he simply hand over the matters at hand, it has nothing to do with the overall situation.

Lu Qiang is not the case. He is the main person in charge of the logistics and logistics system. This time, the work can take at least four or five days and at most one week. If the relevant matters are not explained clearly, it will be messed up.

Therefore, it is scheduled to set off on April 6th, which is the day after tomorrow.

Now it is the busy time of the first wool shearing season. After the business trip was decided, Lu Qiang took his assistant to the temporary shearing stations outside the town to determine the most important order of who will shear the wool shearing first and who will come back. This is a big deal and may be popular.

When you leave Qingdao Town, you will see a low hilly area. The water and grass are abundant along the way, and the streams are crisscrossing. You can see large flocks of sheep, like the white clouds in the sky.

These are all flocks of sheep in the surrounding private ranches, with thousands of fewer and tens of thousands of more. They are temporarily suspended from a certain distance to prevent the flock from being mixed together. It looks clearly different from a distance.

Private ranchers outside the town are waiting for notifications and line up to enter the Qingdao Town Wool Purchase Station to shear the wool, but cannot rush forward. This is a conventional process.

The cowboys live in mobile caravans on weekdays and can go to the bars in the town for fun and have a drink and party.

There are hundreds of private ranches around Qingdao Town. During the shearing season, she will drive her flocks to Qingdao Town, including Linyi Town and Townsville Town. The surrounding areas have more than one million sheep, so order is very important.

Generally speaking

According to the shearing ability of wool purchase stations in various places, more than ten private ranches were formed as a group, and they arrived in Qingdao Town within a designated weekly time, and took turns to shearing the wool according to the order.

For example, in the first week of April, which private ranches can be used to shear wool? Other private ranches cannot arrive in advance or postpone their arrival. They must arrive within the designated time.

The entire wool shearing season lasts for more than two months, and I have a rest for a few months, and the next wool shearing season begins again.

Sorting each ranch is an important logistics task.

This sorting work is under the responsibility of Lu Qiang, so he must arrange it before leaving.

"Master Lu, our ranch is too far from the town. The flock of sheep drove all the way over for more than 20 days. Can you tell me if you can arrange for us to go in first? I am afraid that the flock of sheep will lose weight after a long time!"

"Don't your flock lose weight, but others won't lose it?"

"Master Lu, please take care of me!"

While speaking, a heavy red envelope was stuffed into his pocket. Lu Qiang touched it quietly with his hands, and immediately could calculate that it was no less than ten pounds, and his face immediately changed from seriousness to kindness;

"Hey, it's not easy for everyone to make a living outside. I'll try to make arrangements for you in advance. Let's do this. This evening, Ma Siye's flock was cut. You told me a little late. It's the turn of Brother Hu's flock to enter the field. It's noon tomorrow. I'll be there for you to enter the field at noon tomorrow. What do you think?"

"Okay, I didn't say anything, thank you for your care."

After riding a horse outside the town for a long time, it was already dark. Lu Qiang came back happily with a few heavy red envelopes in his arms. He must not deal with such rich things. He has always done it himself.

He had a large independent mansion in the town, not far from Malimin's house.

Lu Qiang rode his two assistants back to the mansion. When his subordinates saw him from afar, they immediately opened the door. A group of three riders entered the yard without stopping. They stopped at the door of the two-story mansion and turned over and dismounted.

The concubines and servants in the room had already come out when they heard the sound of horse hooves. They saw Lu Qiang put the reins on the horse and gave them to the groom, and ordered, "I ran for a while in the afternoon, and the horse was sweating a lot. Take it down and quickly remove the saddle and feed some essence, salt, and beat a few eggs to mix it in to enhance nutrition. Don't forget to put a blanket on the horse to prevent it from freezing at night."

"Don't worry, Master, these are all familiar things for young people."

"Go and feed it quickly, the horse will stop eating the food when it gets dark."

"As for orders, sir."

Lu Qiang walked into the house with a horse whip in his hand, and two young and beautiful Malay concubines bowed to greet him with three servants; "Welcome the master to the house."

"Um!"

Lu Qiang responded, handed the horse whip to the servant, took off the wide-brimmed cowboy hat from his head and threw it on the table, and sat down with some fatigue.

At this time, the servant lady brought a towel and clean water to wash his face, served him with brewed hot tea, and felt warm and comfortable after a cup of wine. She took off her hard cowboy boots on her feet and changed into slippers, and she could smell the rich aroma of meat from the kitchen.

"Uncle Wu, what should I eat tonight?" Lu Qiang sat on the chair holding hot tea in his hand. One of the two Malay concubines helped him beat his legs and the other to beat his back. He really enjoyed it.

Wu Bo was an immigrant who had moved to Qingdao Town for a short time. His family of four worked in Lu Qiang's mansion. He was a fellow villager in northern Zhejiang, so he was deeply trusted.

Uncle Wu works as a housekeeper in the mansion, his wife works as a servant in the kitchen, his eldest son Wu Zhuer grazed cattle and sheep in the pasture, and his younger son Wu Gouer worked with the master and ran errands and fucked.

They belong to free people and have higher status than Malay women bought from their residences.

"If you say that, today I will eat carrot stewed mutton, potato roast chicken, vinegar and cabbage and vegetable soup at the mansion. Some new Shaoxing Huadiao wine from department stores in the town. I bought ten jars and put them in the cellar. Do you see if you warm up a pot?"

"Oh... there is the authentic Shaoxing Huadiao wine, it's rare..." Lu Qiang suddenly felt energetic. The long-lost taste in his memory made him salivate under his tongue. He slapped his thigh and sat up and said, "How is ten jars enough? If those guys from remote places know, no matter how many Huadiao wine comes, I don't know when this good thing will come next time. I'll buy another 50 jars tomorrow and drink it slowly in the cellar."

"I understand, sir."

"Anyway, the wine and food are ready-made. I'll open a jar later. Uncle Wu, please accompany me to have a good meal."

"That's good, the old man will be disrespectful."

In Australia, lamb is not valuable, and many vegetables are more expensive than lamb. Therefore, people's recipes mainly include meat and vegetables as supplements.

The Australian Meislave sheep produces wool for 6 to 7 years. After this period, the wool production will drop sharply, so old sheep must be eliminated. The scale of elimination of this item alone reaches more than millions of people per year.

Based on the average of 100 to 140 kilograms of an adult sheep, the amount of meat can be produced as many as hundreds of thousands of tons.

On the other hand, millions of sheep with poor wool quality are eliminated every year, most of which are entering the meat food market.

Ordinary wool is thicker than hair, hard texture and not easy to weave, and has poor warmth. However, Australian merino wool is only 1/10 of that of hair, and there is no end to the advantages.

Australian Merino wool is the most delicate and softest, the wool is of uniform and stable quality, and the amount of oil is also very high. The quality is generally 60-80 pieces. It has the characteristics of high strength, good elasticity, soft touch, white color and soft luster. It has good velvet shrinkage. It is an excellent raw material for worsted and high-end coarse wool fabrics, so it is more expensive than ordinary wool.

Australian Merino sheep are the best fine wool sheep in the world, but there are also advantages and disadvantages.

For the sake of survival of the fittest, the Red River Valley ranch will eliminate astonishing number of sheep cubs every year, most of which are sheep with low wool quality.

Divided by fiber thickness

There are also four levels of Australian wool. The best merino wool can reach more than 80 pieces, most of which are in the range of 26 to 70 pieces. The thinner the fiber, the higher the value.

Wool can be spun with high cost and expensive, soft and elastic feel, and is suitable for making excellent fine textile fabrics, such as high-end cardigans and wool quilts.

Low-end wool is more used in coarse products, such as wool wool, wool socks, wool scarves, wool gloves, etc., and its value is relatively much lower.

As the largest Red River Valley ranch in the world, while pursuing the expansion of sheep population, it also constantly eliminates some lower-quality sheep. The lower the fiber count, the lower the value, and is often among the eliminated ones. Most of the sheep that flows into the market belong to this category.

In addition to being purchased by private ranches and used to expand the sheep, a large part of the elimination of sheep have flowed into the meat food market. These lambs are used for roasting whole lamb and steaming lamb.

After peeling off the internal organs of thirty or forty kilograms, only more than half of the meat was left. Five or six men roasted lambs were eaten just right. The meat was burnt, crispy and tender, fat but not greasy.

Night covers the earth

Qingdao Town, which had been noisy for a day, was quiet, and occasionally the neighing of horses could be heard. It was time for dinner in Lu Qiang's mansion. A dozen people were divided into two tables, the chef, servant and the groom were having a meal in the kitchen.

There were large pots of dishes on the table in the main hall, with a small variety and large enough. Large pots of carrot stewed lamb high, and the staple food was bread. Lu Qiang ranked first, with the old butler Wu on the left, and two beautiful concubines on the right, eating and drinking while chatting.

The Malay concubines didn't understand Chinese. They just kept their heads down to eat when they saw their mouths on the table. They would only say "Yes, master", "welcome to the master" and "go to see the master". The rest could only stare at them.

Uncle Wu put down his chopsticks and said, "Master, I'm sending news from the ranch to prepare to shear the wool in the last week of April. You should take this to heart."

"A small matter, please let Wu Zhuer have more snacks on the ranch matters. I think this young man is still very down-to-earth. When he can stand alone, I feel at ease to hand over the matter to him." Lu Qiang held a large piece of sheep's spine in his hand and chewed it smelling. The juice dripped on the table and didn't care. His mouth was filled with mutton and said vaguely.

"Thank you for your kindness."

"Uncle Wu, there is no outsider to say this. We are all from the villagers. If we don't join in this Australia, which is thousands of miles away, will we show jokes to outsiders?"

Lu Qiang said as he picked up the wine bowl and touched Uncle Wu, raised his head and took a big sip, and shouted happily, "It's great!"

This place in Australia

Anyone who makes a fuss will usually write letters to return to his hometown to summon people from his hometown to help take care of the business and pastures. The word "home" is the best emotional bond and is almost irreplaceable.

People in northern Guangdong look for fellow villagers in northern Guangdong, people in Chaoshan look for fellow villagers in Chaoshan, people in Fujian look for fellow villagers in Fujian, people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang look for fellow villagers in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, thus forming small circles.

Ordinary people do not have the abundant financial resources as much as the Count. At most, they only attract dozens of fellow villagers. This situation is very common in private ranches near Qingdao Town. Unfortunately, they are not as good as people everywhere.

"What the master said is that Australia is good, but people from all over the world are too mixed, and sometimes they can't even understand what they say." Uncle Wu sighed, picked up the wine bowl and took a sip of the wine.

Lu Qiang threw the bones in his hand to the ground, and the shepherd immediately came up and took them away, and leaned to the side and started gnawing with relish.

He took the towel handed by his concubine and wiped his hands, and said with a smile, "Hongbao has already put a policy on this matter, and the "Chinese Zhengyin" education will be fully promoted in the school. I heard that it is based on the accent of the Beiping Imperial City. Children have to learn Peking dialect when they go to school, and they don't count them anywhere else."

"Oh, what should we do if the local dialects passed down by our ancestors?"

"I still say it at home, but in the future, when I go to the government to do business, I will teach "Chinese Zhengyin" in the school. I can't even get things done if I don't understand it! After all, this place in Australia is different from the Qing Dynasty. It's too troublesome to communicate with local accents and accents. It's better to say "Chinese Zhengyin". If you want to speak local words, you can say them at home, and no one will stop you."

"well……"

Uncle Wu sighed. He couldn't even interfere with such a big deal, and even the master and the big people in the town could not interfere with him.

The family has been in Australia for half a year. I know that on this acre of three-point land, no one dares to violate the words of the Earl.

While drinking and chatting, the jar of Huadiao wine quickly went down most of the time.

Lu Qiang's face was slightly red, and after a few bowls of wine, his body became hot, so he unbuttoned the collar of his shirt and said with a refreshing reminder;

"I guess it will take a week to go to Honghe Valley this time, and I will buy some lambs and come back. You have to pay more attention to the pasture, and make a batch of chickens that cannot be laid on eggs, and also the potatoes that have just been collected from the fields will be sold in the town as soon as possible. This thing cannot be kept for a long time, and it will be useless if it sprouts."

"I know, Master. The ranch wrote that two bulls had fought and one of them had a discount on the horns. It seemed that they were not very good. They were always in a state of depression these days. They had to hurry to the town and kill and sell meat, otherwise they would lose a lot if they died in the ranch."

"You can do this. When I left, I told the person in charge of the logistics team that a cow is worth a lot of money."

"I'll go back tomorrow."

The two chatted about the pasture for a while. After drinking and eating, Lu Qiang patted his stomach, burped, and hugged a beautiful concubine with one hand and went upstairs to rest.

Wu Bo looked at the back of the master who went upstairs enviously, sat at the table and drank by himself. He looked at the table with meat and bones full of happiness and felt a lot of happiness.

This place in Australia is so good!
To be continued...