1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 553 Township Finance and County Management (1)

When it comes to what the most important work has been in each county in Texas in the past two years, the answer may be somewhat unexpected.

It is not the commercial demonstration zone that Yang Mo developed - that is the darling of DZ City. Although it has indeed directly or indirectly benefited the economy and industries of various counties, it is not their own project after all.

It is not the GAP medicinal material planting base that the drilling company and Dahua Company have been pushing to expand - although that thing has indeed quickly increased the income of many people, it is after all just a purely commercial project.

Since even the GAP medicinal material planting project is not the most important task in the counties, the rest, such as the factory projects attracted by Dahua Company and various village collective projects incubated by themselves, are even more impossible.

In the past two years, there are only two tasks that the counties in Texas attach the most importance to: the rice bag project and the vegetable basket project!
This is easy to understand. Compared with those colorful banknotes, grains, vegetables, meat, eggs and milk are the strategic materials for people's livelihood that are truly related to national security. They are also the key projects repeatedly emphasized in Document No. 1. This means that if you do not do a solid job in this area, you will still be criticized even if you do well in other areas.

Fortunately, Qi and Lu are traditional grain-producing provinces. With the rapid promotion of greenhouse technology in the past two years, the output of fertilizers and pesticides has increased repeatedly. In addition, there is a sucker who seems to have plenty of money on the farm. Therefore, the counties in Dezhou have done very well in this regard. The output of grain has increased steadily, and the output of vegetables, meat, eggs and milk has increased exponentially.

This seems to be a very good thing, as it can feed people well and is a meritorious deed no matter in which historical era.

But the problem is that as long as there are creatures like humans in this world, there will always be all kinds of unexpected things.

Therefore, with the unremitting efforts in the past two years, the production of staple foods such as wheat, corn, and upland rice has been thriving. However, various vegetables, whose output has increased several times with the support of greenhouse technology, have encountered some unexpected but reasonable small problems.

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Dahua Industrial Park, vegetable sorting and distribution center.

This is in direct correspondence with the commodity trading area, directly backed by the storage area. The distribution center that used to be extremely busy is still as noisy today;
But today the noise came more from the dozen or so trucks parked in a row and the large crowd that blocked the office.

"Call out your leaders who are actually in charge!"

"Isn't this bullying? Why are you unwilling to harvest the vegetables that we ordinary people have worked so hard to grow?!"

A man who was nearly forty years old shouted angrily, and then banged hard on the wooden sign in his arms. The big words "DZ City Designated Vegetable Purchasing Point" on the sign looked even more scarlet amid the roar of nearly a hundred people.

Lu Yingying, who always had a laughing expression on her face, no longer had the silly smile that everyone was familiar with. She first signaled the dozen or so security personnel who came outside after hearing the news to calm down, then she put her hands on her hips and looked at the man in front of her with a sneer on her face: "Liu Laogen, I'll say it again... I won't accept it!"

"No matter how much you make trouble, the result will be the same. I am the leader in charge here and I have the final say. Even if you make a fuss, there is no room for negotiation!"

The veins on Liu Laogen's neck bulged high, as if he would jump up and hurt someone in the next second: "Is there no one left in your Dahua Company? Whatever you say is the truth? I just want to ask you one question... Why don't you accept it? "

Lu Yingying was not afraid of the man's murderous eyes at all. She stared at him coldly for a long time, then she looked around at the nearly 100 villagers:
"Why?"

"Just because you are so smart and don't follow the guidance we issued, you are planting and expanding the crops indiscriminately!"

Tugou was a Qilu Bangzi singer. His powerful roar drowned out the discontent of the crowd: "Liu Laogen, I want to ask you, what was the guidance that was conveyed to your Shahe Village at the beginning of the year? "

"You are mainly asked to plant beans and tomatoes from March to May, and then add seven or eight other vegetables. Even the guide yield of each vegetable is clearly marked for you, and there is a 3% margin for fluctuation!"

"But you guys treated the planting guidelines we worked so hard to come up with as shit. You agreed to them in person, but then you turned around and used more than half of your greenhouse to plant cucumbers and broccoli!"

Lu Yingying sneered, "I understand. Cucumbers and broccoli have high yields and high prices. The market was good last fall and winter. You and several other villages that grow these vegetables made a lot of money. So you want to make more money this year. So you agreed on the surface, but then you took half of the greenhouse to grow these vegetables, right?"

"Everyone who came here today, whether it's Shahe Village, Yingkou Village, or Lihe Village, is in a similar situation...right?"

Lv Yingying usually visited the grassroots level in rural areas, so she quickly pointed out the names of the villages where the familiar faces were located. "But do you know that although Dahua's vegetable sorting and distribution center is connected to the business of major canning factories, foreign trade companies, Momo Baishou, provincial supply and marketing companies, and some urban trade centers; but at the same time, we also need to connect with the planting business of more than 800 villages in Dezhou and Lanling!"

“Do you think the planting instructions we send you every quarter are just randomly written?”

"No! That's the number we finally decided after repeated calculations and evaluations by more than 200 staff members!"

At this point, Tugou's chest kept rising and falling: "Yes, the cultivation of these greenhouse vegetables belongs to the vegetable basket project, which is under the management of each county and township. We at Dahua Company can only give appropriate suggestions. We have no right to interfere in whether to plant or not, and how much to plant."

"But since you guys don't listen to our guidance and suggestions, if you have the guts, don't come and block the door!"

He stared at the leading man with an angry face: "Liu Laogen, do you know that the planned supply of bean stalks and tomatoes for the second quarter of this year in various channels of Dahua Company was determined at the end of last year? Your village has supplied 200 tons less, so we have to go to other counties, or even other provinces, to collect 200 tons more bean stalks and tomatoes of the same variety, same specifications, and same pesticide residue standards... Do you know how much money and manpower we need to spend in the middle of this? "

"Similarly, for the second quarter's cucumbers and broccoli, we have also reserved the supply according to the digestion capacity of various channels... In other words, unless other villages do not follow the guidance and grow other vegetables like you do, we simply do not have the extra market to digest the hundreds of tons of cucumbers and broccoli you have grown!"

After saying that, Lu Yingying sneered: "One village is hundreds of tons. There must be people from five or six villages here today, so that's at least two thousand tons;"

"And as far as I know, there are quite a few villages in Linyi County that did not plant vegetables according to the guidelines this year, and there are definitely more than just the few you came here today... There are so many villages, and each village has hundreds of tons of extra vegetables. Do you think our company is a god? How can we digest so many extra vegetables!?"

After being scolded so well by Tugou, Liu Laogen was no longer angry. Instead, he smiled awkwardly: "Well, I just want to make more money while the market for cucumbers and broccoli is good... Those greenhouses are not cheap, and the various water-soluble fertilizers and pesticides used are also a huge expense. If I don't plant two more crops while the market is good, I may not even be able to pay back the loan by next year."

Although greenhouse vegetable cultivation in Dezhou was first initiated in Linyi County, the drilling company took the initiative to sell a considerable amount of greenhouse infrastructure materials on credit when Wang Yinuo and Feng Yuan were competing; but for a county, and a super project like the vegetable basket, how could a single company afford all the greenhouse infrastructure materials? Therefore, by now, Linyi County has expanded to more than 12 mu of vegetable greenhouses, and more than 7% of them were built by the people in the county... The cost of greenhouse infrastructure is a very large burden for the people today, so it seems understandable that Liu Laogen and his team are a little eager for quick success.

Hearing this, Lu Yingying sneered again: "Why don't we plant two more crops while the market is good?"

"If I remember correctly, every time the staff of our vegetable sorting and distribution center conveyed planting guidance, they would gather the growers from each village for a mobilization meeting and repeatedly emphasize the importance of controlling production and quality, right?"

"Indeed, judging from the market conditions in the past one or two years, cucumbers and broccoli beans that have just been planted can be sold at a very good price."

"But you should know that the reason these vegetables can always be sold at a good price is not only because they taste good, but more importantly, we have been using comprehensive regulatory measures to continuously distribute the cucumbers and broccoli grown by everyone to canned food production, fresh vegetable exports, pickled vegetable production, instant noodle production, and even the beauty and health care industry. This is why these two vegetables, which actually have a high yield, have never had a significant oversupply in the fresh vegetable circulation markets in Dezhou and Lanling."

"Once everyone stops following the planting guidelines we issued and plants various vegetables according to the cycle, and just plants whatever makes money... do you still want to make money?"

"Oh, believe it or not, you don't even have to wait until next year, this autumn and winter you will lose everything, even your underwear!"

As mentioned earlier, agricultural planting, especially large-scale agricultural planting, has always been particularly wary of blindly following the trend. Countless agricultural products have seen their prices quickly fall to the bottom in this rush, and have never been able to get back on their feet.

Therefore, in Yang Mo's opinion, for agricultural projects like greenhouse vegetable cultivation, which have a low initial entry threshold and an exponential output, there are only two things that should be done: first, to form alliances between regions and share real-time planting information; second, to actively coordinate and cooperate to avoid serious oversupply of single products through planned planting, and then the prices will fall to rock-bottom prices under the market mechanism and never rise again.

But it is obvious that although these two solutions are not difficult to come up with, it is extremely difficult to implement them in practice.

Liu Laogen didn't care about the words that were almost repetitive. He was just a farmer who had not received much education. China was still in an era where goods and materials were not abundant. It was a seller's market. He had never suffered any loss in this regard, so how could he understand the ins and outs of this?
Although he didn't take it seriously, Liu Laogen wasn't stupid enough to argue with the girl in front of him. He just nodded repeatedly with a flattering face: "Manager Lu is right, Manager Lu is right, we will pay attention to it in the future, we will definitely pay attention to it in the future!"

"So, Manager Lu...can you please help us harvest these cucumbers since we are both from Linyi?"

Liu Laogen blinked his eyes and pointed at the dozen or so large trucks behind him: "Look, the cucumbers have been picked. If you don't collect them, they will just wilt and rot... We are all from Linyi, and Linyi people should help each other!"

After that, he lowered his voice again: "Don't worry, you and I know what happened today, and no one will spread it."

Classmate Tugou glanced at him and felt a sense of sadness for some reason.

As a native of Linyi, she knew too well the nature of some local people in Linyi. Although people from Shanghe River had the worst reputation in the northwest of Shandong Province, in fact, Linyi, which borders Shanghe River, did not have a very good reputation either.

Putting aside other things, just looking at the man in front of you who keeps calling you "my fellow villager from Linyi", but without even saying hello in advance, he picked more than a dozen carts of cucumbers and pulled them over to block the door. It is obvious that he is forcing you to pick them whether you want to or not... This kind of behavior that takes advantage of you, how can there be any friendship between fellow villagers?
No wonder that guy Yangshidan would rather use most of his funds to support the villages in Qihe, Yucheng, and even Lanling, except for the dozen or so related villages near Yangjia Village and those villages near Qingfeng Food, than to take care of his fellow villagers in Linyi!

Lu Yingying sighed tiredly, but shook her head indifferently: "Dahua Company has rules and regulations, and they are very strict. Once violations are found, the minor punishment is demotion, and the serious punishment is taking away for investigation...Hasn't our county just been rated as a [Vegetable Market Access Production Base for Entering Beijing]? Since we have picked them, we will transport them to the county and ask for help. After all, the people in the capital also like to eat cucumbers. There is a market as big as the capital. Are you afraid that they can't digest these mere dozen trucks of cucumbers?"

Although she said the first half of her speech lightly, anyone from Qilu would most likely not be ashamed to make further demands after hearing this - Qilu has always attached great importance to establishment, and although Lu Yingying has a lot of positions and halos, she is, after all, just an ordinary formal employee of the drilling company, and a formal employee with a worker's status, not even a clerk.

Although the treatment at Dahua Company is very good, Yang Mo's management is also famous for its strictness. If you violate the rules, you will most likely be demoted or even fired...If you cause someone to lose their job, it would be tantamount to an irreconcilable feud, and no one in Qilu can accept it.

Moreover, Tugou did show them a clear way forward later, which made them feel even more embarrassed to keep pestering him.

You know, although it is only the first stage of promoting the vegetable basket project, the country that made a complete overall plan early on not only proposed the "vegetable basket mayor/county head responsibility system", but also began to build a regional supply chain. Just like Shouguang's vegetables are mainly supplied to the imperial capital, and Linyi's vegetables are mainly supplied to Shanghai and Nanjing, as one of the first cities in Dezhou and even Qilu regions to fully promote the vegetable basket project, Linyi County has also been included in the imperial capital's vegetable supply chain, and has also been awarded a "Beijing Vegetable Market Access Production Base" sign... This is several years earlier than the original history.

Therefore, with this qualification, it is not difficult to supply a dozen more truckloads of cucumbers to the capital city outside the plan... It's just a matter of saying hello to the supply and marketing company over there, and it won't take much effort.

Unexpectedly, Liu Laogen blushed when he heard this: "That... won't work. If the county could help, I wouldn't have to shamelessly come here to ask my fellow villagers for help."

Lu Yingying knew the reason, but she was shocked. "It's just a dozen truckloads of cucumbers, and the county can't help? How is this possible?!"

After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the office without saying anything else: "It must be those little devils who are pestering us. So, let me help you call the county and ask. I want to ask Director Luo whether they care about the people of Linyi County!"

The Director Luo here refers to Luo Yong, Su Yu's uncle.

When Liu Laogen heard this, he was shocked and quickly stopped Lu Yingying holding the plaque.

"Well, Manager Lu, this really has nothing to do with the county. It's not that they don't want to help, but... there's no way for our cucumbers to get into Beijing!"

Liu Laogen's old face turned red, and his expression was indescribably awkward...

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PS: After Lingze, Xi and Liekong, it is the time for yin and yang to blend.

I was fortunate enough to learn the Nine Yang Magical Art and achieved some success.
Just when the bones and muscles were melting, my waist and body were weak, and I couldn't sit or walk properly. After a moment, I was in a state of restlessness and woke up with weakness in my fingers.

Therefore, there are few lines in the book, please forgive me.

(End of this chapter)