Era: Start as a buyer

Chapter 166 Cooperation with other communes

At almost twelve o'clock in the night, Luo Cheng went to the store again. In his own time, it was still at twelve o'clock. So at twelve o'clock, Luo Cheng could 'see' two spaces again, and directly controlled the placement of some wooden basins and barrels.

Both sides are held up until twelve o'clock in a 'forced' way, which makes it convenient to control the items carried. But in the future era, it will be more convenient for Luo Cheng. He can play mobile games, and since he has to sell goods, it will be more convenient for him to come to the store at twelve o'clock.

But in my own time, there was no place for recreation outside at night. Even at home, there wasn't even an electric light in this part of town. People lay around doing nothing, and it didn't take long for them to fall asleep. It is difficult to go to bed until twelve o'clock. Therefore, without special circumstances, Luo Cheng did not intend to deliberately stay up until twelve o'clock to fall asleep in his own time. At most, it’s a little troublesome to carry things.

Luo Cheng woke up in his own time, a little after twelve o'clock. Put all the empty tubs and barrels in the room into the kitchen, then go back to the front room to sleep on a mat.

This time, Luo Cheng slept until after eight o'clock, and Luo Yan and his mother came to wake him up. When they came here, they each brought a basket of eels. They didn't catch them, they weighed them at the pond and brought them over directly.

Luo Cheng asked them to pick out all the eels weighing more than a pound and release them into the pond when the time comes. In the future, Liu Xiaofei wants to continue to increase the price of larger eels, and people who really know how to eat them will buy large eels when they come to the store.

Luo Cheng's father promised to catch snails and small fish and shrimps, and every time he came here, he would bring the eels that had not been dumped into the pond from the other side of the pond.

At around nine o'clock, Accountant Zhao came to Luo Cheng and asked him to go to the commune. People from communes from other places came, and they also came here for the eel and loach matter. Now Secretary Wang is entertaining people from other communes, and he also learns that Luo Cheng has arranged for others to buy eels, loaches, and turtles in other towns.

Everyone didn't expect that Luo Cheng's demand was so great, and he didn't just buy it in his own commune. However, this further confirmed what Luo Cheng said. He was purchasing on behalf of the poultry factories in the urban area. The poultry factories in the urban area supply chickens, ducks and geese to the entire city. This amount is too small, it seems like it’s really not enough.

Luo Cheng rushed to the commune, and Hei Niu was also waiting at the gate outside the commune. Anyway, this is what Luo Cheng said about the acquisition. If you really talk to any commune, there will be no one who is not interested. But the identity and household registration of Hei Niu and the others made people in the commune unable to believe it.

It can only be said that he is assisting Luo Cheng in the acquisition. Luo Cheng used to be from Longjin Town, but now his household registration has been transferred to the urban area. I am the team leader of a certain purchasing section in the urban area, and the communes here in Longjin Town have already taken action. If you don't believe it, you can go to Longjin Town and see. In the future, the settlement of transactions will be with Luo Cheng, and the goods will be sent to Longjin Town. Heiniu and the others are not responsible for the transportation of goods between towns.

As long as other towns are willing to supply eels and loaches, Heiniu and the others will also send someone to help at the Luocheng pond. If anyone from other towns comes to deliver goods, Ergouzi, arranged by them and Luo Cheng, will receive them.

After Luo Cheng entered the commune, Hei Niu also followed. There were no other brothers around him, so they all arranged to contact other township communes.

The people who came to the Longjin Town Commune mainly wanted to confirm whether what Heiniu and the others said was true. When I arrived at the commune here, I learned that there was a team dedicated to catching eels, and the people who were in charge of this were workers from the urban factory.

I have collected prey in the town before, and my accountants have gone to other people's factories to settle payments. And although Luo Cheng was purchasing on behalf of another factory this time, Luo Cheng said that he would formally sign the contract in a few days. The most important thing is, what are these eels, loaches and soft-shelled turtles to deceive you about? No one catches them when they see them.

Although there is no contract now, if your other communes don't make money, Luo Cheng will come back from the city next time with payment and exchange items, so don't be envious then. When Luo Cheng entered the commune and saw people coming from other communes, he asked for his work permit. Don't worry about whether you are a buyer at a local purchasing station or a factory buyer. At least the identity of the buyer is real, so what else is there to think about? People with formal jobs these days will not joke about it.

He directly agreed to learn this way immediately when he returned and formed an eel team. But before going back, people from other communes wanted to see the eel acquisition situation in Longjin Town. A group of people came out of the commune and went to the pond. At this point, almost every once in a while, someone from the eel team would bring eels, loach, and turtles, which would be weighed and poured into the pond.

At this rate, I can easily weigh several thousand kilograms a day. But this is only the case during the few days of rice transplanting. After the rice seedlings are planted, it’s up to catching the eels with pliers at night. Even if the entire team of eels were to catch them at night, they would only be able to catch more than 1,000 kilograms in one day at most.

But now you can get at least three months' salary of a clerk on this day, plus you can exchange it for something. The heads of other communes watched for a while and then left anxiously, because their communes were also planting rice seedlings, so they should not delay the best time to harvest them.

As for the price of eels per pound, no other communes haggle. If you want to say that the price is cheap, an egg is only about one tael, and one tael is worth five kilograms. I think this eel is too worthless. But if you want to compare it like this, a pound of cabbage still costs less than a penny in rural areas.

If you organize a small team to catch thousands of catties of eels in one day, it will be no easier than planting tens of thousands of catties of cabbage and radishes. Sweet potatoes are also a miscellaneous grain, and they cost about one penny per pound. If you exchange five pounds of sweet potatoes for five pounds of eel, if someone else has rice eel, they will definitely exchange it. But if you exchange five pounds of sweet potatoes for one egg, you may not be able to get it.

Throughout the whole day, most of the communes that Heiniu and the others contacted came to Luo Cheng's commune to see what was going on. There is no one that cannot succeed, but this also presents a new problem.

There is no problem in using ponds to collect eels and loaches, but the density is also limited. If a pond weighs several thousand pounds, it can live well without feeding, but if it weighs tens of thousands of pounds, it will require artificial feeding. And a small pond can hold tens of thousands of kilograms. If other communes really want to send eels and loaches over, it will take at least several ponds.

Seeing that other communes were so active in this deal, Luo Cheng planned to let other communes dig ponds here. Each commune digs one, and from now on the eels from that commune will pour into the pond dug by that commune.

As for feeding, Luo Cheng plans to cooperate with the commune and ask the commune to arrange some people to get something that can feed the eels. Luo Cheng would no longer randomly assign people he knew well to do this. It was still the same principle as before. Every household must have at least one person working in the brigade to engage in production. After leaving the brigade, this eel and loach will have no more work to do in the future. If you want to go back, life will be difficult.

Now Luo Cheng cannot tell everyone that there will be a spring famine in nearby provinces next year. Some of those who escaped from the north will continue to go south and appear in the city here.

At that time, let alone eels and loaches, the bran was used as food. Even if there are eels and loaches, they have to be snatched here to escape the famine. People eat all the grass roots and bark of trees. At that time, they would still pay attention to the fact that the eels were too earthy and unpalatable.

By this month next year, we may not be able to get eels and loaches. If everyone has been here in Luo Cheng for most of the year because of this, and there is no one in the production team, how can it be possible? Don’t underestimate the kindness of rural people, and don’t underestimate the evil of rural people. Especially if the cafeteria is canceled next year, it will be very easy to exclude someone.

(End of this chapter)