The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 187 Waiting for Nightfall
Before arriving at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, Jiang Cheng still loaded the goods in a place where no one was around.

There are not many industrial products that can be exported from China these days. They have no technical content and are purely based on low prices.

Once the price advantage is gone, or some overseas markets become saturated, there will naturally be more products that are converted from foreign trade to domestic sales.

The key point is that China is in a weak position in current foreign trade relations, and some orders can be cancelled by default for any reason.

Mainly because the President of the United States visited China at the beginning of this year. Now many countries want to visit China, but businessmen value profits and know that China wants to develop industry. They give you some orders with slightly higher technology and then promote their obsolete equipment. Not only are the technical equipment not the latest, but they are also very expensive.

Unfortunately, the current domestic situation made Jiang Cheng unable to help. He drove the car loaded with fifty sewing machines directly to the exclusive warehouse for products converted from foreign trade to domestic sales.

Give the list to the warehouse manager here, and the car will stop here. Naturally, when the time comes, there will be employees here to unload the goods.

After parking the car, Jiang Cheng walked to the third transport team.

This time when I returned to the third transport team, I didn't see any colleagues in the lounge. But this is also normal. Jiang Cheng himself, who goes out to collect lists, may only appear here once or twice a month. There are only ten drivers in total, some are out, and some are resting, so it is normal not to meet him.

It was past eight o'clock when Jiang Cheng saw Captain Du coming back. He was back from another meeting. They could have several meetings a week, but it was almost National Day, so it was normal for them to make some plans for transportation.

During this National Day, workers have a holiday, but the supply and marketing cooperatives are busy.

"Master Jiang, you're back. Here's your salary and other supplies for last month." Captain Du said happily when he saw Jiang Cheng appear.

"Why are there still mooncakes? The Mid-Autumn Festival has already passed." Jiang Cheng asked curiously as he looked at the things Captain Du handed over.

"It's because the Mid-Autumn Festival has passed, and the extra inventory was distributed to everyone as a welfare benefit." Captain Du explained.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, mooncakes are not difficult to sell, but they can no longer be purchased without tickets. The surplus will naturally be consumed internally.

Not to mention mooncakes, this time the welfare also includes canned food, although there are only two boxes, one can of meat and one can of fruit. But the welfare of this supply and marketing cooperative is really good. This canned food can be used as welfare, it must be a product that has been transferred from foreign trade to domestic sales. Jiang Cheng saw the list of canned food last time, but he didn't go to get it.

In addition to food, there were towels and soap. In addition, the salary was packed in an envelope, which contained not only money but also various coupons.

Because of the special nature of the driver's position, and considering that the driver needs to use national food coupons when traveling to other places, there are also extra national food coupons given by the unit in the envelope.

Normally, there are national food coupons, not only for drivers traveling to other places, but also for employees of the unit on business trips. For example, when going on inspections and purchases, they must apply to the unit to exchange for national food coupons.

There are national food coupons, and many drivers also bring dry food to eat on the road. There are many reasons. The simplest reason is that the food coupons they exchanged are not enough to eat, and the other is that they want to save national food coupons.

Jiang Cheng put the envelope in his pocket. He could look at the things later. Anyway, he knew that the welfare of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative was good. You know, if you don't count the tickets, the welfare in kind is worth five or six yuan. And they are all things that can only be purchased with tickets.

You have to know that the welfare of employees of the supply and marketing cooperatives below is particularly good. As employees of the head office, how could it be bad?

Zhu Lan from the courtyard was able to become a salesperson in the supply and marketing cooperative at the beginning, because she was educated and started working early. Now the positions in the supply and marketing cooperative are too competitive, and if you are not the child of a cadre, you can forget about getting in.

That is to say, after the opening up, the supply and marketing cooperatives cannot compete with individuals. Otherwise, with the current degree of involution, they may become family-owned enterprises earlier than some state-owned enterprises.

"Master Jiang, are you planning to take a rest this time, or should we arrange a statistician for you to deliver to the supply and marketing cooperatives in the city?" Captain Du took out a cigarette, gave one to Jiang Cheng, and asked with concern.

"I'm not going to rest anymore. I plan to go out again. Let me have a look at the list." Jiang Cheng said.

"Going out again, leaving today?" Captain Du asked in surprise.

The third transport team has been established for quite a while, and it has not been a month since it officially started to receive orders from other places. However, many drivers have come back, either to apply for a break or to drive in the city for a day or two.

After all, it is easier to deliver goods to the supply and marketing cooperatives in the city, mainly because the drivers don’t have to do anything to load and unload goods, and they can rest for at least half an hour when they arrive at a place. The key is to deliver goods in the city, and you can spend time with your family after get off work. As the team leader, Du Wei hopes that everyone will not deliver goods to the supply and marketing cooperatives in the city, after all, that is not the main responsibility of their transportation team. But he also understands everyone's approach, and they often work outside for at least a week, or even ten days or half a month. When they come back, they want to lie down at home for a day, or try to spend a day or two with their families.

"Yes, I plan to rest for two days after this trip." Jiang Cheng said.

Hearing Jiang Cheng say this, Captain Du thought for a moment and told him a situation. Because of the National Day, he happened to hold a meeting to discuss the issue of employees' rest.

There is no need to mention the supply and marketing cooperatives below. They are busier during the holidays and don’t even have a break during the Chinese New Year.

At the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, drivers are all busy, and work starts five days before the National Day. No leave is allowed without special circumstances. If you don't use up all your vacation time, it will be counted as overtime.

It's already the 19th, if he applies for a day off now, he can still get it. If he doesn't take a day off now, he won't have any rest this month.

Captain Du explained the matter to Jiang Cheng. If he didn't rest now, he would have no chance to rest this month.

However, Jiang Cheng did not plan to come back too soon this time. He planned to speed up on the road and then go directly to Hong Kong to see the situation there.

So at Jiang Cheng's insistence, Captain Du asked him to choose from the list.

Jiang Cheng naturally chose the order from Guangzhou, which included a large amount of cloth and some silk.

With the list in hand, Jiang Cheng asked Captain Du to give him a permit for 500 liters of diesel, and then went to the warehouse to transfer goods.

Because sewing machines are easier to unload, and these are products that are transferred from outside to inside. Usually there is not much to unload, so naturally when I go there, the goods on the truck have already been unloaded.

In fact, there are not even fixed unloading workers here. When there is goods to be unloaded, the person in charge of the warehouse will find the loading and unloading workers to come here to unload the goods.

The loading and unloading workers are all on the transport team one. Even the transport team two, when they come back from purchasing goods outside, will go to team one to call the unloading staff.

Jiang Cheng set off as soon as he got the car. He filled up the gas at the gas station, loaded up a few more barrels of oil, and went straight to Guangzhou without even going home.

Only with a goal can we have motivation. This time, we drove to the reclamation farm in Lichuan that night. Because we arrived too late, we asked someone to lead us to Director Hou’s home to find Hou Yaozhong.

Director Hou immediately arranged for someone to take Jiang Cheng to the reception room to rest. After hearing that Jiang Cheng wanted eggs and wood, he said that it was no problem. Jiang Cheng could load the truck tomorrow morning, but Director Hou would have to notify people again in the evening.

Jiang Cheng packed up the eggs and wood and set off the next morning. He did not stop once along the way, but the road and the car were not good, so it still took him two days to reach Bao'an County.

Jiang Cheng had a temporary pass from Baoan County BF, and was worried that there would be problems if the car was parked outside for a few days without anyone there. Jiang Cheng simply took the temporary pass and parked at a place with a sentry.

The pass was very effective. Jiang Cheng's guess was correct. It was not limited to entering and exiting the troops. However, Jiang Cheng parked his car at the sentry post. The BF soldiers here would let him in, but they would also report the situation.

But no one expected that Jiang Cheng would drive the car here and slip away before anyone could report.

After escaping, Jiang Cheng walked for more than an hour according to his memory before he found the place where he went into the sea last time.

After arriving at the place, it was still early, so Jiang Cheng had to wait. According to the information he had learned from the BF department last time, few people would go to Hong Kong during the day or too early at night.

In addition to the patrols here, there are also patrols in Hong Kong, so many people operate at night.

Jiang Cheng arrived at the beach, took out the wool blanket, and then made a mosquito net. He then made some food, ate and drank his fill, and waited for night to fall.

(I'm stuck today, I'll make up for it tomorrow morning. Don't worry, going to Hong Kong is just behind the scenes. I'll still drive to many places in China, but if I want to go to other places, I'll have to go to the north or to more chaotic places. There are not many monthly tickets recently, so please support me if you have monthly tickets~)
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