The excellent "McKe broker" in Linquan County, Anhui Province.

These days, Lao Yu receives an average of hundreds of calls a day, basically one call every 20 minutes.

In his words,"two batteries a day are not enough."

Who was Lao Yu? Why is he so busy? Listen to his phone call, you can probably guess one or two.

These calls included farmers contacting him for harvesters, foreign farmers having conflicts with local farmers asking him to mediate, and reporting to him on the progress of machine harvesting... In short, every summer harvest was his busiest time.

Yes, he is the famous "Maike Broker"-Laoyu of Xinzhuang Brigade, Chengguan Town, Linquan County, Anhui Province.

Although he had worked as a barefoot doctor for many years, he was far less outstanding than the guest Mai Ke agent in recent years.

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In front of him in the wheat field, six harvesters are under his telephone command, methodically busy, the reporter's interview was also interrupted several times by his telephone ring.

Over the past six or seven years, Lao Yu has accumulated a number of customers with "iron" relationships.

A few years ago, he also followed the harvester to the field back and forth, recording the number of acres, calculate his own small commission. Now that the relationship with customers is solid, you will no longer follow the machine. How much money should you pay? Because it is an old relationship, you will naturally treat each other well.

Lao Yu's work is very simple. The central task is to help the villagers of this village contact the agricultural machinery teams from other places before the summer harvest, and help the agricultural machinery teams from other places contact the farmers in this village or neighboring villages so as to come to work across districts.

In general, in more than 10 days of summer harvest, Lao Yu has 5 busy days. During this period, he needs to worry about the most things: not only to be responsible for the food and accommodation of foreign agricultural machinery workers during this period, but also to arrange their harvest schedule for the next day in advance every night, and to implement the harvest price well.

The farm machinery team usually starts at 5 a.m. and finishes at 10 p.m., during which time he has to keep an eye on it, ready to deal with problems that may be encountered at any time.

In the past, Lao Yu had to worry about these things alone. Now that seven or eight machines had been driven out, how could he "keep an eye" on them, so he called a few brothers from the same village to help follow the car. He was responsible for one or more of them, and then he called to direct and control the harvest progress of the other machines. When necessary, he would ride his motorcycle to supervise the battle personally, within a radius of 5 kilometers.

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As a broker, Lao Yu has a strong sense of trust in the villagers and agricultural machinery team. In the past six or seven years, it takes about 10 days to leave from the agricultural machinery team every year. The busiest time is 5 days. They pay Lao Yu 5 yuan per mu for each machine. Excluding the public relations fee for finding people and the labor expenses for hiring drivers, Lao Yu has an income of more than 1000 yuan in a wheat season.

Although the other " agents " had been on the rise for the past two years, Lao Yu had not increased his price, but that did not mean that he did not take risks.

In fact, the job of contacting people is not easy. If it is a farmer in the village, it is not difficult, but if it is a village outside, it is not so easy.

Sometimes, he needs to go to the neighboring village to find a prestigious contact person to help contact farmers, if the other party has a habit of smoking, alcohol, Lao Yu also has to pay his own pocket "meaning", in order to ensure that these cross-district agricultural machinery hands to work smoothly in the local area, without being harassed or bullied.

Under normal circumstances, this person found a good, this village of nearly 200 acres of wheat land is basically taken. The farm workers had breakfast the next day and went straight to the wheat field without asking anything.

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On the day of the interview, just as he was talking to reporters, an aunt from a neighboring village surnamed Jiang came to reflect the problem to Lao Yu. She said, today went to the field to harvest wheat straw, found yesterday just cut wheat scattered a lot, a full two woolen bags. Because the harvester was brought by Lao Yu, she asked Lao Yu to ask the agricultural machinery hand for 35 yuan of harvesting fee, and claimed for the loss caused by improper operation from the other party.

"If I scattered less, I wouldn't have come to you. If you don't believe me, go to the fields and take a look."

"Do you know which harvester it is?"

"I don't remember. You were the one who led him there." Lao Yu thought carefully." The machine that I gave Aunt Jiang yesterday should be Xiao Shi's."

"When they go back tonight, I'll help you ask. If they spill too much, I'll ask them to refund you." It seemed that this was not the first time Old Yu had encountered such a thing. His attitude was very gentle.