The commune had purchased the patent for the harvester using three work quotas and two hundred yuan to set up a factory. Xu Qinghuan had originally assumed that the factory’s productivity would be insufficient and that demand would outstrip supply, thereby dragging down the autumn harvest.
At this moment, hearing Tang Quantong say that the harvesters were not selling and that the production brigades didn't even want them, even when offered on credit, Xu Qinghuan was truly caught off guard. She had not expected that this problem remained unresolved.
"I previously heard Educated Youth Jiang from our side stir up a concern among the commune members. He claimed that since work points are finite, if a harvester is used, the speed of harvesting increases so drastically that what used to take ten people ten days to earn a full day's work points can now be completed by ten people in just one day. At the time, the members were very worried—what would they do if there was no work left, no work points, and they couldn't earn their share of grain and money?"
Chapter 256