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Chapter 286 Let Them Take It
"At this time in the past, I was the one who brought grain to the grain station. I didn't expect you to start collecting grain now!" Li Qiyun stood on the street and looked at the folks who brought grain to sell, feeling very complicated, "You want to collect grain Just take it well, don't make it difficult for others!"

"The ones I know are all from the folks in the village, so why not!" Li Lei still remembered the scene when he and Li Qiyun went to pay the public rations when he just returned from the special zone in [-].

There is only one purchase point set up at the entrance of the grain station, and the farmers of the whole town are lining up in a long line under the sun. The purchaser checks the quality and weighs it leisurely. There are cigarettes in the left and right ears, one in the left hand, and a special tool for inspecting wheat in the right.

When it was his turn, he quickly bowed his head and walked over. Instead of unloading the food first, he took out the specially bought good cigarettes and handed them over. The buyer took a look at what kind of cigarettes they were, and nodded if they were good. Put it in the drawer, and occasionally take a sip of it, and then start to check the quality of the wheat. If the smoke is not good, it will collapse immediately. The next quality inspection results can be imagined. The peasants who traveled more than ten miles to pay the public grain with the rack truck probably had to make the trip in vain.

The quality inspection is the most frightening thing. The quality inspector lifts the iron fork in his hand, inserts it into the snakeskin bag on the ground, then pulls it out, pours the wheat grains into the palm of his hand to see the color, and then puts it in his mouth to bite , Looking at the dryness and humidity of the wheat grains, the farmer who delivered the grain at this time did not even dare to breathe, as if the iron fork was not a snakeskin bag, but his heart.

I don’t know how long I waited, but the verdict of fate finally came down, “Grade [-], pass the scale!” In fact, it is clearly grade [-] wheat from the quality, but the farmers who handed over the grain did not dare to question it, otherwise they would say, “It’s only grade [-], If you are not convinced and pull it back", you will be caught blind, and you have to run again. If someone remembers your face, maybe the same wheat is sent, and you will become a third-level next time.

At noon, when the weather is hottest, the purchasers have to go back to rest, and they don’t care how many people are waiting outside. The farmers who haven’t paid their grain can only dry in the sun, and the few shaded places must have been covered. People occupy it, so they can only use straw hats to fan the wind to drive away the heat. Every year, the food delivery is indispensable because of this heatstroke.

Even if the food is paid smoothly, there is often no way to get the money right away, only a stack of IOUs in exchange, just like Du Lao and Tong Lao said, these IOUs cannot be used to buy oil and salt, and pay for children. Tuition fees, so after a period of time, they can only ask relatives and friends to borrow money, and then wait for the IOU to be exchanged before returning it. If the money is not exchanged for them by the end of the year, then this year will be difficult.

Li Leishen knew about these problems, so he had already made arrangements, "I have already made arrangements. Every village will send people to collect them. They don't have to go out of the village. They can sell the grain by waiting at home. Twenty-eight cents a catty, the same price as the grain station, and the payment is cash, and you won’t be in arrears for a minute, and you will pay after the grain is weighed!”

This saves the biggest trouble. Now we still set up points in the villages because the purchase points in each village are temporary. After the wheat is harvested and dried, it will be harvested for two or three days, and most people will sell it. Just go to the next village, but there will still be some people who need to sell grain temporarily, so we set up a fixed purchase point in each township, and they can bring wheat over if they want to sell it.

The grain price of [-] cents was also negotiated with the County Grain Bureau, which was the same as the official purchase price. Otherwise, the farmers must have sent the grain to Li Lei, and their purchase task would not have been completed!

Now the price of flour in Heyang County is 75 cents a catty, and the yield rate of wheat is generally around 76%-80%, and the highest can reach 75%. According to this standard, 28 catties of wheat can produce 33 catties of flour, [-] The wheat collected for [-] yuan can be sold for [-] yuan by selling flour alone, which is an extra [-] yuan. In addition, the income from selling wheat bran will be even higher. Even after deducting labor, equipment and other expenses, the profit is still quite high. Considerable.

A small flour mill with an investment of 6 yuan in later generations can produce and process 5-8 tons of flour every day, and the profit per day is between 400-800 yuan. As long as we can buy wheat and sell flour, we can basically pay back the cost in two months. The rest is pure profit, but the difficulty lies in the fact that what is collected can be sold.

"Tu chu chu ~~" After a while, the tractor rang, Li Xinfu drove the tractor and pulled wheat and a group of people over, and Li Lei went up to meet him, "Brother Xinfu, didn't the village arrange for someone to harvest wheat? Why did you come here? "

"I saw that there are many people over there and there are few people over there, and it's only a few steps to get here, so I might as well sell it earlier!" Li Xinfu jumped off the tractor and helped his relatives in the car unload the wheat. I earned a lot of money by helping people do the work in the past year, and I have not relied on the harvest from the field for a long time. The reason why I continue to farm now is just a long-term inertia.

"Seventh Uncle, you come first!" Li Xinfu and the others lined up automatically according to their seniority and age, and let the oldest and most senior Seventh Uncle, Li Qifa, sell food first.

"Hey, Master Cheng, why are you still collecting grain?" Li Qifa came to him, and when he saw that he was Cheng Bing, a former purchaser at the grain station, he subconsciously wondered if he had made a mistake.

"Haha, can it be that other than me? Collecting grain is not as simple as you think! You can't do it without any technical experience!" Cheng Bing laughed, and then explained, "I retired at the beginning of the year, Hui Nong They invited me to work again, knowing that I am familiar with the situation here, so they arranged for me to continue collecting grain here!"

"Oh, that's it!" Li Qifa still had some hesitation on his face. Before that, he suffered a lot from Cheng Bing, but now the food has been transported over, and Li Qiyun and Li Lei are watching in front of him. I was too embarrassed to pull it back, so I habitually touched my pocket to pass the cigarette.

"No, no, no, the company has a rule that you can't take a puff of cigarettes when collecting grain, even if it's your own cigarettes." Cheng Bing waved his hands repeatedly, and the boss was watching from behind. Didn't you give me eye drops? ?He quickly helped Li Qifa carry the snakeskin bag over, then took out an iron pipe with a sharp pointed end and a funnel at the end and inserted it into the snakeskin bag, and the wheat grains inside flowed into the funnel.

Seeing this scene, Li Qifa held his breath subconsciously, and watched Cheng Bing put the wheat grains in his palm to see the color, then put them into his mouth to taste the humidity, and then reported the test result with a smile, "Level [-] , scale it!"

"Level one? I have paid public food for so many years and have never been rated first!" Li Qifa was stunned by this unexpected result.

"The grains are full, the imperfect grains are less than [-]%, the impurities are less than [-]%, and the water content is up to the standard. What else can this be if it is not the first-grade wheat? Three cents a catty, let me see how many catties you sent over! Cheng Bing hurriedly weighed and reported the number, and the financial staff next to him verified the number, then counted the money and handed it to Li Qifa, and asked him to sign the receipt and press his fingerprint.

"I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it. After selling grain for so many years, I finally sold first-class grain!" Li Qifa shook his head with the money. He is also a well-known grain grower in the village. Every year, his family's wheat is second-class. The best in Wancun, but no matter how hard he planted it, it would be grade [-] grain at most when he arrived at the grain station. Can make him not emotional.

Moreover, the first-grade wheat is two cents more expensive than the second-grade wheat. He sold 40 catties of grain, and he got an extra [-] yuan, which is enough to pay his grandson's tuition for a year, and the rest can buy him some homework and books. up.

"Master Cheng, why are you so talkative now?" Li Qifa took the money and left, but he still couldn't help but came back and asked. If this doubt is not answered, he probably won't be able to sleep well tonight.

"Have the rules changed? It doesn't matter to me whether the food harvested was good or bad, more or less. I still get that little salary every month! Now, the company has requirements. If you do a good job, you will be rewarded. If you do well, you will be rewarded. It’s not good to deduct bonuses, even if I want to get more money, I have to greet you! Then you can send more wheat to me, right?” Cheng Bing said truthfully.

"This rule is well changed! It should have been changed a long time ago! Just wait, I'll go back and bring over two thousand catties of grain to sell to you!" Li Qifa didn't want to save more grain now, so he planned to sell it now.

"Okay, thank you for supporting my work. You can rest at the side for a while, and let Xinfu use a tractor to pull you back when he's done working, and then send you over. I guess he also wants to buy more!" Cheng Bing stretched out his hand and pointed to the side. "There is tea and bowls next to it, and they are all free, so you can drink them yourself!"

Li Qifa looked in the direction of his fingers, and saw that a temporary shed had been set up over there. There were tables, chairs and benches in the shed, and each table had a stack of bowls, a large bucket of tea, and a large plate of melon seeds. What they prepared didn't cost much, but it could make the farmers who sent the food have a great impression.

"If this was the case in the past, we would still have to worry about it!" Li Qifa scooped up tea all night, and it tasted sweet in his mouth.

Li Qiyun, who was not far away, thought more, "In fact, they can do this kind of thing if the grain station handles it, but why didn't they do it like this before?"

He subconsciously looked at the purchase point of the grain station next to him. It was still the same place. The purchasers were smoking leisurely with their legs crossed. Even if the number of people paying grain was much less than in the past, they were not in a hurry. You will have to pay sooner or later. As for the total amount of food to be paid this year, they are even happier. When the country receives less food, they can work less, without reducing wages and work less. Who would not like that?

Maybe the only downside is that there are fewer cigarettes collected this year, but it doesn't matter, just now Cheng Bing came over and stuffed him with a handful of Ashima, the whole pack of cigarettes is much more stylish than the scattered cigarettes!This is also the job that all Huinong purchasers have to do. If a competitor suddenly appears, the grain station will definitely have opinions. Even if the leaders above have been persuaded by Li Lei, the purchasers below still have ideas. Bad thing, Huinong will still settle this account.

"Level [-], take it for weighing?" the purchaser at the grain station said carelessly.

"I was selling grain next to me, and they said I was level one. How did you become level two here?" Some people couldn't help it. The same wheat was downgraded to one level after walking tens of meters. Who can bear it? ah?It's a matter of dozens of dollars!
"I said the second level is the second level. If you don't want to pay it, you can take it back!" The buyer at the grain station still used the same old saying. Anyway, the grain was not collected by his family. If he didn't pay it, he would have less trouble. .

But the public grain is fixed every year. Even if the grade is lowered and the number of IOUs is reduced, the farmers who come to hand in the grain still have to pay. After cursing, I swear to God that in the future, except for the public grain stipulated by the state, any extra grain will not be sent to the grain station, and all will be sold to Huinong.

One street and two purchase points present completely different atmospheres. The people from Huinong who left with the cash all showed joy, and some of them were reluctant to leave immediately. They got into the shed to drink tea and eat melon seeds to brag with their relatives and friends. Chatting; those who left with IOUs after being made things difficult from the grain station, all of them had a stern face, and cursed when they turned the corner.

This phenomenon happened simultaneously in all towns and towns in Heyang, and the result was that the grain station could only receive the guaranteed public grain, and if there was more, there would be nothing!And Huinong's purchase point has been lined up, as long as the family has surplus food, they will send it to Huinong to sell!
Even if the purchase price is the same, it will be sold to Huinong. If a sarcasm is made difficult, and a soft-spoken one speaks kind words, as long as they are not sick, they will choose the latter, right?Moreover, the rating here is more reasonable, and they can sell for more money.

The consequence of this phenomenon is that the amount of grain purchased by the Heyang Grain Bureau this year is far lower than in the past. Although the task assigned by the state can be completed according to the current progress, the total amount of grain purchased is still lower than that of several neighboring counties; lower than in the past Don't be afraid, it's not good if it is lower than the surrounding counties. The leader of the county food bureau immediately became worried that the bottom of the city will definitely fall.

"Why don't we let Huinong stop for a few days? Let them harvest after we have harvested enough grain?" Their old problem has happened again, and they never consider whether there is something wrong with their performance when they are not doing well. Intended to use administrative means to crack down on competitors.

However, Li Lei is not a soft persimmon. The director thought for a long time but did not dare to issue this order. He could only call Huinong's person in charge of grain purchases to inquire.

After the phone call, his complexion immediately became better, "It doesn't matter, let Huinong continue to harvest. It has been agreed just now. When the time comes, we will make up for the food shortage here! I promise not to let us The Heyang Grain Bureau is at the bottom of the city!"

"I'm relieved!" The leaders of the Grain Bureau burst into smiles.

Some people even came up with the idea, "According to me, it's better to just withdraw our people and let Huinong collect the grain for us!"

(End of this chapter)