binnovel Chapter 179 Contract
Chapter 179 Contract
Wen Qing said: "I have business licenses for the winery and feed factory. You can sell the unplanned grain to me. We do the same with other grain bureaus."
Section Chief Wang said: "I can't make the decision on this matter, why don't you ask our director?"
Wen Qing found the director's office. The director of the county grain bureau was named Wu, looked less than 50 years old, and had a square face. Wen Qing explained her purpose.
Director Wu asked, "Comrade Wen, you said you were from the winery and feed factory?"
Wen Qing nodded and replied, "We have a great demand for grain. If your grain bureau doesn't sell last year's grain quickly, it will become stale and new grain will soon be available, making it even harder to sell last year's grain."
Director Wu said: "That's true. We have completed our task of handing over food this year, but there are some problems in supplying food to residents."
Wen Qing became interested and asked, "What's the problem?"
Director Wu said: "In the past, the people had no choice but to eat sorghum and corn. Now that life has improved, the people don't want to eat sorghum anymore. They want to eat fine grains. This is very difficult for us."
Wen Qing's mind moved, "This is easy, I can exchange rice and wheat with you."
Director Wu became interested, "How do we change it?"
Wen Qing calculated in her mind, "I can exchange 1 kg of rice or wheat for 4 kg of sorghum or corn."
In the market, sorghum costs only 1 cents per pound, while flour costs 5 to 4 cents per pound, so no one loses out by making the trade.
Director Wu immediately agreed: "Okay, we still have 5 catties of sorghum and 4 catties of corn. You can exchange them for 3 catties of fine grains."
Wen Qing shook her head, saying that she was only willing to exchange 2.5 kilograms of fine grain, saying, "All of this is new grain."
Sorghum and corn are used a lot when making wine, so she gave all the sorghum and corn in the space to Changxia Grain Company. Making wine does not require so much rice and wheat, so she temporarily put them in the space.
Director Wu hesitated for a moment and then agreed to the change.
Wen Qing went to the granary to inspect the goods. Although they were old grains from last year, most of the grains were in good condition. Only a small amount of grain was damp. Director Wu immediately asked people to carry the grains out to dry in the sun.
Wen Qing proposed to sign a two-year grain exchange contract with the county grain bureau. Director Wu nodded in agreement and asked Wen Qing to transport the fine grain as soon as possible to realize the grain exchange.
Wen Qing stayed in Linfen for three days. In the first two days, she planted crops in the fields in the space and set aside 200 acres of land to plant new varieties of sorghum and corn. On the third day, she drove a pickup truck to deliver 2.5 kilograms of grain to the Grain Bureau.
Director Wu was still a little uneasy after signing the agreement. Although the price for exchanging coarse grains for fine grains was this, fine grains were more popular. The price of fine grains on the black market was much higher. Sometimes rice could be sold for more than 5 cents. He was very worried that Wen Qing would not be able to deliver the grain on time, and he was not relieved until he received the grain.
Director Wu checked the grain sent by Wen Qing and found it was indeed high-quality new grain. He happily helped her load the grain onto the pickup truck. Wen Qing walked outside the county town and put the grain into the space.
As the pickup truck was relatively small, it took three trips to transport all the items away.
Wen Qing left Director Wu's phone number, and the two parties signed a contract. After this year's grain harvest, Changxia Grain Company can continue to exchange fine grains for coarse grains from Linfen Grain Bureau. The specific time will be determined by telephone contact between the two companies.
Now that the grain market has been gradually liberalized, some people, seeing that the purchase price at the grain stations is not high, would rather go to the market to sell their grain themselves, resulting in a decline in the efficiency of the grain stations.
As the boss of the grain station, Director Wu still considers his employees and wants to collect more grain and sell more grain. According to Wen Qing's contract, he can collect more grain outside the plan, which will increase the supply of fine grain while making more money for himself.
Wen Qing did not drive after that. She bought a train ticket and took the train back to Pingjing. She put the grain in the warehouse at the train station and asked Zou Jie to send someone to take it away and deliver it to Changxia Winery later.
Wen Qing handed the contract she signed with Linfen Grain Bureau and Shanxi Grain Bureau to Li Zhonghua, and asked him to contact the two grain companies to ensure smooth subsequent delivery.
This time she bought 890 tons of grain. The purchase price of sorghum and corn was 0.3 yuan per kilogram. They sold them to Changxia Liquor Industry at 0.4 yuan per kilogram. They could make a lot of money, and Li Zhonghua was very happy.
The next day, a grain delivery convoy from the Shanxi Provincial Grain Bureau arrived at Erxia Village. This time, a total of 100 tons of grain were delivered. She bought 800 tons. The agreed delivery period was within one year, and except for winter, about 100 tons would be delivered every month.
Zou Jie warmly received the drivers of the convoy and took them to eat mutton hotpot. The hot mutton soup made them feel all their tiredness from the journey was swept away. After eating and drinking to their heart's content, everyone rested in Pingjing for two days before driving back.
Wen Qing reminded Zou Jie and Li Zhonghua that 800 tons of grain accounted for a quarter of their winery's grain needs, and there must be no problems in the subsequent implementation. Li Zhonghua said that he would personally contact the Shanxi Provincial Grain Bureau to ensure that everything was foolproof.
The grain exchange contract of Linfen Grain Bureau was relatively small and was under the charge of Zou Jie, but he wanted to take this opportunity to open up the situation in Linfen and purchase more grain.
Shen Lin found a new wheat seed at the Pingjing Agricultural Science Institute. Its growing period is 15 to 20 days shorter than existing varieties, and its yield per mu can reach 750 kilograms. However, it has not yet been widely promoted in the market.
Wen Qing asked her to hand over the relevant information and seeds, and she found a piece of land in the space for trial planting.
The three people recruited by the grain company are all middle-aged people in their 40s. They have connections and abilities. As long as their salaries are in place, they can support this stall. Wen Qing is very relieved.
She concentrated her time on planting crops on all the newly reclaimed fields in the space. She thought about her trip to Jin Province, where she bought food and farm machinery, upgraded her skills, and expanded her space. It was really worth it.
Looking up at her own territory, at the fields that stretched to the horizon and the lush green crops, she thanked God devoutly for giving her such fertile land, giving her the fighting spirit to struggle in this world, and allowing her to live with confidence.
That night, she slept soundly in the small courtyard of Erxia Village, without any dreams or thoughts, and slept till dawn.
Wen Qing woke up and looked at her watch. It was just past 5 o'clock. She went out to breathe in the cool air, stretched, and ran along the path outside the village. The sound of her footsteps rang on the path.
Wen Qing ran for an hour and returned to the courtyard when the sky was full of rosy clouds. She boiled a large pot of water and soaked it in a wooden barrel. When the water was almost cold, she got up and put on her clothes.
The trip took twelve days, and now she planned to visit the feed factory site.
She walked into the forest. It was now April, the middle of spring. The peach, cherry and apricot blossoms in the mountain orchard had already withered, leaving small fruits on the branches; the apple and pear blossoms were in full bloom, pink apple blossoms and snow-white pear blossoms competing to bloom in the mountains.