Era: Start as a buyer

Chapter 161 Cooperating with Black Bull

Entering the black market, Luo Cheng saw a sturdy black cow and a man squatting and smoking. Every time Luo Cheng saw the black cow, he really didn't know what he had eaten to grow his tendons. It's normal for people to have muscles these days, but not many are strong.

Luo Cheng was also able to affect the body of his own time after working at the construction site for several months due to future time and space. But Luo Cheng has uniform muscles, while Hei Niu feels more developed.

The rules here are still that you can buy things at will, but you must register and check when selling things. Luo Cheng didn't talk to Hei Niu and the others immediately, but just said hello and walked around here first to see if the establishment of the commune and the emergence of collective canteens had any impact on the black market.

After walking around twice, I found that the impact on the black market was not too great, and there were actually quite a few people selling wild animals. There are almost no food sellers, but there are many more people selling mountain products and wild animals.

Moreover, in the past, most of the wild products were brought here in exchange for food. Now we don’t need food because we can’t cook and we need money. If you have money, you can at least buy a lot of daily necessities at the supply and marketing cooperative. Not everything requires a corresponding ticket to buy something.

Tobacco leaves, soy sauce, salt, and many things made of wood are actually free of charge. Besides, if you really want tickets, you can buy some tickets on the black market by selling the money. There are also people selling bills on the black market.

Now only things that need to be cooked, such as grain, have basically disappeared from the market, and other things are still the same as before.

In the market, there are many things Luo Cheng wants to buy. At least Luo Cheng is not short of money now, but the messy mountain goods seem to be good whether they are taken to the city as a favor or sold in the future era.

In the future era, everything now focuses on wild and breeding or planting. The more Luo Cheng understands the future era, the more business opportunities he will be able to see in his own era. Although there will be disasters in the next few years, the city in Luo Cheng is the least affected place in the country.

No matter how many victims fled here, they were actually very hungry. It would be no problem to let them eat grass roots, tree bark, or even catch some insects and mice. But asking them to catch prey in the mountains is just a joke. The animals are not too hungry to run, and they don't have tools to catch prey with bare hands. Luo Cheng has never seen anyone catch pheasants and rabbits with bare hands.

But Luo Cheng believed that there were some gods who could throw stones with bare hands and hit pheasants and other things at close range, but how could such people be so powerful with guns? Anyway, when disaster strikes, Luo Cheng feels that at least he can still find something when hunting in the mountains.

Luo Cheng bought a pheasant here and spent a dollar. I plan to take it back to give everyone extra meals. If I get a pheasant like this, no matter how much I eat it, no one will say anything.

After buying the chicken, Luo Cheng found the black cow. It was still very early in the day.

"Hei Niu, drink some. Roast duck brought from the city."

"The third child of the Luo family, you are so well-developed."

"Yes, I am a buyer in the city. I have a job. The harvest is guaranteed despite droughts and floods."

"Then you came here today and invited me to drink and roast duck. You don't look like someone who would come here to simply invite me to drink."

"Don't you dare eat my food?"

"Are you kidding? If you dare to ask me, I'll eat it. If you ask me for something later, if you can't do it, I'll eat your roast duck for nothing. Mouse, you can eat it too."

Looking at the roast duck wrapped in oil wrapped in paper, Hei Niu couldn't help but swallow his saliva. After being told by Luo Cheng, he didn't care about anything. He just grabbed a piece of roast duck and stuffed it into his mouth. He even called his brothers around him to eat together. When Hei Niu spoke, the people around him laughed and quickly grabbed a piece with their hands and stuffed it directly into their mouths.

It's not hard bones. This roast duck is chewed up and swallowed directly with the meat and bones.

"I have a small business that I would like to discuss cooperation with you. I wonder if you are interested, Heiniu."

"I'm interested in any business that doesn't violate any laws or regulations."

Hearing Hei Niu's reply, Luo Cheng also smiled. It seems that engaging in black market is actually illegal. It's just that the black market has indeed facilitated the needs of many people, and the higher-ups have always turned a blind eye to this, but you can earn some hard-earned money. If you use the black market to hoard items and raise prices, then it is definitely the right time to enter.

The higher-ups really want to investigate the black market. No matter how secretive you are, there will be no way for the higher-ups to find out about a place that even ordinary people can know about. In fact, many leaders don't have enough food at home, so they arrange for people to go to the black market to buy or exchange some.

Under normal circumstances, no one would suggest investigating and punishing the black market. When they do, it is usually because they are involved in some other matters and need to be investigated.

Although Luo Cheng can go to the future era, he has not encountered anything that needs to be explored, and he will not think of investigating various events. Because he hasn't faced it yet, and he doesn't even think about it.

"I work in a regular unit now, so I can't do anything illegal. I am now working as a buyer in the urban area, and I have contact with the grain stations and poultry and livestock factories in the urban area. I don't know about eels and loaches. These things are fed to chickens and ducks. , chickens and ducks grow fast and lay more eggs. So now I am looking for someone to make these in my town every day. But the poultry factory supplies poultry and eggs to the entire urban area, and I can’t collect them by myself. I think Find someone to help me."

"Collecting eels and loaches? Really or fake? How do you say I'm going to get this reward?"

This was the first time Hei Niu had heard of this. The smell of earthy food was too strong, but people who lived in villages and towns knew that small fish, shrimps, eels and loaches were indeed good food for chickens and ducks.

"Give money, or exchange chickens, ducks or even chicken and duck eggs. This is what the poultry factory collects originally. People have more chickens, ducks, and eggs. Now the towns and villages are communes, and everything is collective. Good things are given priority. I'll give it to the collection station, but the collection station won't accept eels or loaches. So I think I can get the money. If you help me, I'll share some of the benefits."

"You collect things for someone else's poultry factory, and you get some benefits in the process? You should be violating the rules."    "I don't dare to do things like buy low and sell high. How much money others pay to collect is how much I collect for them. But privately we can collect more and exchange loach and eel for chickens, ducks and eggs. If we take these chickens, ducks and eggs to the county town and sell them, let alone make no money. If you don’t have the courage to do so, just treat me as a professional today. I’m here to treat you to drinks and roast duck.”

"What are you talking about? You don't dare to say anything else. It's more risky than me to do this. Tell me about the charter and see if you can get something done. Things are not as easy as before. Now, we have to get up early to get things done, brother Luo, if you really want to give us a good way, I will take my brothers to thank you."

"Eels and loaches cost a penny a pound. You go directly to the nearby towns to help collect them. I can go and sign a contract with the commune to ensure that they are harvested by other poultry factories. After all, they are used to feed chickens and ducks, so it is impossible to pay too much. The price is the price of cabbage. People have to grow cabbage. For eels and loaches, we can just dig them up and catch them. But we don’t need to pay for the things we sell. We can ask for chicken and duck eggs instead of buying them directly. Eggs It costs five cents an egg in the market. Who can buy it at this price? But for the money we sell eels and loaches, we can get the goods at five cents an egg. The same goes for chickens and ducks. You can buy them without poultry tickets at all. I got them Eggs, chickens and ducks, don’t tell me, we can’t get any money.”

"You're not fooling me, right? If this is the case, the benefits are huge."

"Again, I'm using this fine roast duck and white wine to trick you? I'll pull you down if you don't want to do it. I think you should be brave enough to come to you. If I collect five kilograms of eels and loaches, I'll get five points. Money, exchange for an egg, and then resell it, other black market prices can be at least eight cents. My father and I have been to the black market in the county before, but we are not familiar with the people there, but the eggs, duck eggs, chickens and ducks there are comparable to this It’s easy to handle in the ravine.”

"No, I didn't say I wouldn't do it. But Brother Luo, if you say so, do you want us to get some eels and loaches ourselves? Anyway, after collecting them here this morning, we have nothing to do. I will take people to get them. Can you get some eels and loaches first?"

"No problem, it doesn't matter whoever accepts it. But the quantity required by the poultry factory is huge. Don't just catch it yourself and delay other people's needs. This matter can't be done for you. Contact the nearby towns as soon as possible, Heiniu, you Aren’t we able to get carts and donkeys, and we will be responsible for delivering some goods at that time, but most people will arrange their own carts to take them away.”

"Don't worry, it's a big quantity, Mouse. Go and call Slender Monkey and Dashan to come over. Come eat roast duck and drink wine, and ask them to come over and do the calculations together."

Hei Niu told the brothers beside him that he would think about this matter for a while, as the eels and loaches were easy to catch in the fields. If you work for a day and earn a hundred catties, you can earn one yuan from this capitalless business. If you don't need any money, just eggs and duck eggs, and go to the city to do some work, that's one yuan or several cents.

If we do this for a month, each person can earn thirty or forty. Setting up a black market in this valley is really just to make a living. And there are thirty or forty people a month. Apart from the lack of rations, the income is no worse than that of ordinary workers in the city.

And they didn't really plan to get eels and loaches with their own group. They were connected to many black markets nearby. They really wanted to have egg products or chickens and ducks. It's very easy to deal with. If someone else brings in a hundred pounds, they only give you money, and you actually sell the chickens, ducks and eggs, and you make a lot more.

It's just that Heiniu wanted to try it during the day today to see if Luo Cheng would accept it, even though he knew that the third child of the Luo family would not suddenly come to fool him. Moreover, the other party was wearing work clothes, which also had a work ID card. It's really developed, but it's not something that weaklings like them can compare to.

Soon several people who were engaged in this black market with Hei Niu came over. They had a big wooden bowl here, and they didn't dislike each other. Luo Cheng brought the wine gourd, poured the wine into the bowls, and several people took turns drinking.

Hei Niu told everyone about the matter again. Everyone said that words were unfounded and needed to be put down in black and white. But these days, rural people are more particular about spitting and nailing. If you try to get something written in black and white, then you will feel that you are not good enough. If you play this trick, who will not believe who?

Even for marriage, people in the township say that just a piece of paper can prove that two people are husband and wife. Without that piece of paper, everyone would be a hooligan.

Things were just as Luo Cheng expected. If Hei Niu could do this, it would basically be possible. To be precise, any brave person who is not stupid will do this.

When Luo Chengcheng took out his watch to check the time, it was getting late, it was already past seven o'clock. It was time to go back. He would have to talk to his father-in-law later. He went to discuss the matter of collecting eels and loaches from the commune in his town. Luo Cheng also remembered that there was a small pond in the town and was going to go to the commune to ask his father-in-law to find the secretary.

There are actually many wild fish in the pond, but the pond is not big and there are no big fish. There was less rain this year and the water level in the ponds was much lower. The pond used to be where people who had fields and vegetable plots nearby would fetch water for watering. There is no good planning and use.

Hei Niu and the others saw Luo Cheng taking out his watch to check the time. This was a watch. It was so damn rare. A person who can wear a watch is a great person in this era. Just by taking out this watch, Heiniu and the others were sure that Luo Cheng would not lie to them. It's really useless to lie to them, and it offends them. They know which town Luo Cheng lives in.

There is still a lot of wine in the wine gourd, and people nowadays don’t drink in a hurry. Even loose wine is very precious to everyone. After taking a sip, you have to think about it for a long time before continuing to drink.

Luo Cheng left without even asking for the wine gourd, and gave them the wine inside to drink slowly.

When Luo Cheng returned to town, it happened to be the time when the commune office staff went to work. In fact, because of the collective canteen, the commune office staff also got up earlier and the office hours were also advanced. Because the canteen has to take care of the people who work in the fields, meals have to be prepared very early in the morning.

Luo Cheng went directly to the commune to find his father-in-law. Accountant Zhao was very happy to see Luo Cheng. Last time Luo Cheng asked his son and daughter-in-law to catch eels and loaches, and each of them was given four yuan on the day he left.

"Dad, I came here to talk to you about something. Regarding the eels and loaches, the poultry factory plans to purchase them in large quantities. The amount I usually collect is not enough for everyone. It was just a trial before, but now it is a business-to-business matter. , not only in our township, but also in other towns. We have to find the secretary to make the decision, and we have to organize some people to catch a large number of eels and loaches in the past few days."

"What's going on with the large-scale acquisition? Please tell me carefully."

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Upon hearing his father-in-law's question, Luo Cheng had already guessed that he would have to repeat what he said to Hei Niu in the morning. The main reason was that Luo Cheng would no longer privately call his relatives to help him catch this in the fields, and then calculate it based on how much it cost per day. Instead, directly negotiate with the commune about the purchase form and how much it will cost per pound.

And 30% of the money purchased can be used to privately purchase eggs, chickens and ducks from poultry factories. But on the surface, it's still the same as the last cooperation with the machinery factory. Most of them only give money.

In addition, although Luo Cheng does not need his relatives to help him catch eels and loaches in private, he can be responsible for weighing and feeding them. Then I want to borrow the small pond in the north of the town. When the time comes, I will weigh the eels and loaches collected and pour them all in.

Then arrange someone to catch some small miscellaneous fish and feed them.

If the commune is not willing to make such a deal, it can just borrow the pond for Luo Cheng to use.

(End of this chapter)