The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 212 Passionate Northerners
Northerner, generous and enthusiastic.

October 12th was the ninth day since Jiang Cheng left Changcheng. He spent seven days on the road, including the last three days processing fish and buying a lot of things.

Jiang Cheng is now staying at the ice factory in Shenyang. Two days ago, he went to the foreign trade port warehouse in Dalian and loaded several tons of canned food on the truck.

In fact, there are canning factories in several cities here. Jiang Cheng wants to get some canned food from a private company. Canned food is a great gift these days.

Jiang Cheng did not go to the canning factory in Dalian. After all, Dalian is surrounded by the sea. Although the canning factory there mainly sells canned fruits, it also has other products. There are canned marine fish and other canned foods. Therefore, there is no shortage of fish in the canning factory in Dalian.

There may be no freshwater fish, but at least there are marine fish. As for marine fish, even people who live by the sea will say that marine fish tastes better than freshwater fish when they are tired of eating marine fish.

The taste of the fish itself, and the fact that most marine fish do not have as many bones as freshwater fish, makes it easier to eat. Jiang Cheng wanted to buy canned food and exchange it for something, so he chose to find the canning factory in Shenyang when he came back.

The canning factory in Shenyang was originally an ice factory built by Japanese businessmen, but that was before liberation.

In 1953, it became a state-owned ice factory. In late 1958, in order to pay off debts and export, the ice factory converted part of its factory into a canning factory.

Therefore, the SY City canning factory, ice factory and cold food manufacturing are all in one place, and the scale is very large. After all, it was expanded several times in the middle, and the factory has several thousand people.

When he came to Shenyang, Jiang Cheng saw how generous the northerners were. When the cannery saw that Jiang Cheng was a driver from the Southern Supply and Marketing Cooperative, they were so enthusiastic.

Even though he came here and said that he wanted to buy some canned food on his own behalf, a section chief said that it was no problem. But he said that he had little power and had to talk to the leader above him.

Then Jiang Cheng took out two bottles of wine from the space to express his gratitude and treated them to a meal at a nearby restaurant.

It was just that Jiang Cheng underestimated the northerners' drinking capacity, and the section chief called six or seven people at once. For them, two bottles of wine were just to moisten their throats.

There was no other way. Jiang Cheng took out four bottles of wine that were given to him by his employer while making a long-distance trip at the transport station.

People drink and eat well, almost everyone tells Jiang Cheng that they want canned food, and there is no problem. Friends from the south are also brothers, and if there is something wrong between brothers, just say a word.

They told Jiang Cheng that he could buy a truckload of canned food, let alone dozens or hundreds of them. As long as Jiang Cheng had the money, they could get him a truckload. Jiang Cheng said that he could also exchange it for fresh fish.

Damn it, Jiang Cheng couldn't let it go. Braised pork cans, braised beef cans, spiced meat cans, luncheon meat cans, and canned fruits such as pears in syrup. Naturally, he wanted to get a box of each.

But after dinner on the first day, they asked Jiang Cheng to wait for a day. But Jiang Cheng waited for a day, but there was no movement, not even a single person came to say hello.

Jiang Cheng had no choice but to go to their house. At first, Jiang Cheng thought they had deceived him, but after going to their house, he found out that they had helped him get canned food and were discovered by their leader.

However, they told Jiang Cheng not to worry, they would find a way to get the cannery leaders' agreement.

Jiang Cheng felt bad and tried to ask if he could invite the cannery's boss to dinner. He wanted to see if it would work, after all, there are "defective products" in every industry.

After Jiang Cheng said this, the people here took the lead again. Then he invited the leader and Jiang Cheng treated him to another meal. This time, all the wine he had put in the space was drunk. Fortunately, this time the leader was happy and said there was no problem.

Besides, the leader said that if Jiang Cheng came to Shenyang in the future, even if he wanted tigers, they would be able to get them for him, not to mention asking for ten boxes of canned food.

The city next to Shenyang is Tieling, and it is only in recent years that tigers have become less common. If there were more tigers, it would be no problem to get a Siberian tiger and sort it out for Jiang Cheng to make various canned tiger foods.

We northerners are hospitable, especially southern friends, we must satisfy you.

And the canning factory and ice factory here are a bit involved. If Jiang Cheng is not from the south and lives here, in the summer, he can take a piece of ice home every day to cool down. Speaking of ice, Jiang Cheng really thought about it. Although he can collect ice outside when it is cold, it is very likely that he will have to find something to break up the ice for storage. For example, some ice on the river surface may not be collected into the space because of the large area.

But after thinking about it, he decided to give up. He had no more wine in his space. He had a jar of Huadiao wine, but he was reluctant to give it to them.

After getting permission from his top boss, Jiang Cheng got some fish and sold them to the cannery, and then used the money from selling the fish to buy their canned food.

Overall, it was relatively smooth, just delayed for two days. But I got more than ten boxes of various types of canned goods, which is worth more than anything else.

The day after receiving the canned food, which was October 13, Jiang Cheng felt like winter was coming. If he didn't have something warm underneath his work clothes, he wouldn't be able to survive.

The temperature at night may be around zero degrees. Even if the sun comes out during the day, it will not feel very warm when it shines on your body.

Jiang Cheng felt that the speed of the temperature drop in the north was too exaggerated. When he arrived in Jinan a few days ago, he felt nothing when he wore work clothes. When he was driving, he still felt a little hot in the car. Now he has to wear the leather coat and leather pants issued by the company.

According to the seasons, it is only autumn now. The temperature in the north is no different from winter for people in the south.

Now Jiang Cheng just wanted to go back to his own south, but he had to go to Sijiucheng to eat the roast duck there and buy some commemorative medals of the Chairman to take back.

After driving for an hour the next morning, Jiang Cheng suddenly came to his senses.

Jiang Cheng felt that he had unknowingly experienced the northern drinking culture. The hospitality was real, but everything was discussed over the table. Once the atmosphere was right, you could get things done.

In later generations, netizens often joked that people like Buffett and Musk, when they came to the north to do business, had to honestly toast their leaders first.

People in the north who are good at business are definitely good at drinking.

Jiang Cheng felt that he might be mistaking his imagination. After all, it was still the early 1970s. In an era when everyone was still hungry and well fed, without food coupons, the drinking culture would not have been popular.

But while driving, thinking carefully, he still felt something was wrong. Because when the leader of the canning factory mentioned ice cubes, Jiang Cheng suddenly had an idea.

That is, in Jiang Cheng's mind, he suddenly thought that if he came here to ask for ice in the future, he would just treat him to two meals.

Jiang Cheng thought about why he had such an idea, and after thinking for a long time, he had some clues. Because when you want canned food, you don't eat, drink, or talk about things. It's really about complimenting someone at the table and toasting him with a glass of wine.

As long as the people here are drunk, they dare to brag about what they can do. You can't say you don't believe it, because if you say you don't believe it, it means you look down on him.

Moreover, when you make a request at the dinner table, the other party really dares to agree. The key is that he also agrees to things that are beyond his ability. This is why Jiang Cheng spent money to invite a higher-level leader again when the matter was not completed the next day.

Jiang Cheng was slow to realize it. While driving, he was thinking, if the leader he invited the second time still couldn't get the job done, should he ask for help from a higher level? The key point is that some people eat and drink your food, and still give you the feeling that they are trying their best to help you.

This is completely different from the way things are done in the South. In the South, if they can't help you, they won't promise you anything, and they won't even go out for a meal.

In the north, the situation is that no matter who you ask for help, he can't help you directly. But he thinks that he will go out to eat with that person and maybe solve your problem. Then, if the other party can't help you directly, he will also say "no problem" to you.

After thinking through the situation, Jiang Cheng did not deny that he might be wrong. But he could not help laughing when he thought about it, because according to his logic, if he wanted to find the top leader in Shenyang, he could start by treating a clerk in the street office to a meal.

The street clerk calls the street director, the street director calls the district head, the district head~~.

(End of this chapter)