A manual flatbed cart can carry a little over a thousand catties of goods. Mule and horse-drawn carts are larger, so they can carry double the weight. Compared to mule and horse-drawn carts, tractors can carry yet another double.
Xibao was good at arithmetic; one trip with a tractor was equivalent to seven or eight trips with a manual flatbed cart.
Most importantly, it saved people from tiring labor.
Xibao was too young to think of this, but Father Lu had. The turmoil outside hadn't ceased, and if the Lu Family wanted to establish a solid foothold, they needed to make sure that everyone in the Wanglou Brigade became beneficiaries.
The words Xibao spoke were taught by Father Lu, and it was also Father Lu who persuaded him to request a tractor within the framework of national rewards.
In fact, Huaibei City always had quotas for agricultural machinery, but they were very limited and never made it to the Wanglou Brigade.
