Chapter 1013: Self-reliance is the right way: others are external forces

Li Xiangqian reported the suggestion, and also contacted the pastoral team through the supply and marketing cooperative, telling them the idea.

The response from the pastoral team was also ambiguous. Li Xiangqian didn't say much. This kind of thing was just a suggestion.

The snow disaster had already come. I gave you an idea and found someone to cover you. As for whether you agree or are willing to do it, that's your business.

The supply and marketing cooperative was a big unit at this time, which was very important, and wouldn't put a hot face on a cold butt.

Relatively speaking, the notice posted on the purchasing station side immediately received a response.

Currently, it was freezing cold, and the only things the second-hand dealers could collect were skins. Some other materials remaining in summer and autumn were considered "sweeping the grass and hitting the rabbit," able to sweep up some was some.

But skins were not something you could have just because you wanted them. You had to have prey in your own one-third of an acre of land to hit it, and then skin it and sell it.

And it was not easy to make money now. Some part-time hunters, after hitting gazelles or red deer, would skin them and go to the county to sell them themselves. Isn't it just walking more than ten kilometers? Second-hand dealers collected from their hands, giving thirty or forty yuan for a skin, and they took it to the purchasing station to sell, and a skin could sell for fifty or sixty yuan.

The price difference of nearly twenty yuan in the middle, why let others earn it?

So second-hand dealers were also relatively hard-working in collecting skins.

Now Li Long gave them a new way to make money, so they were naturally happy.

Compared to those large sheep-raising households or herdsmen with large pastures, the small breeding households had a worse risk of resisting the snow disaster.

Some pastures were inherited, and some were divided in later generations. Those with fewer pastures raised fewer cattle and sheep, and the grass they could harvest in autumn was also less. In winter, there was less grass, and cattle and sheep were easily frozen to death if they were not full.

In addition, according to incomplete statistics, in just one and a half months of winter, more than a dozen herdsmen's winter nests had been crushed, or the cattle and sheep pens had been crushed by snow.

Cattle and sheep needed to spend the night in warm pens in winter. The warm pens were crushed, and the cattle and sheep could only spend the winter in the open. Winter happened to be the season for ewes to give birth to lambs. Without warm pens, the lambs would likely be frozen to death as soon as they were born.

So these second-hand dealers going to the homes of small breeding households to collect cattle and sheep was actually quite popular.

After all, if cattle and sheep were alive and slaughtered, they could be sold for money. If they were frozen to death, there was really only the price of a skin.

"Boss Gu, look, how are the three sheep I brought over? The fat is not bad, bigger than the last one, do you accept?"

"Let me see... the sheep is complete, hmm, the skinning is also good, not dirty, you washed it, right? Look at this meat quality, it doesn't look like an old sheep, okay, market price, two yuan per kilogram, come, weigh it."

Gu Bo Yuan had spent two days learning how to look at the quality of cattle and sheep meat, and his comments were quite decent. Mainly because Li Long had already set the price and also explained that he could float up and down by a few cents. After all, the meat quality couldn't be exactly the same.

So Gu Bo Yuan relied entirely on his own eyesight to set the price.

Most of them were slaughtered on the same day and hauled to the purchasing station on the same day, or slaughtered on the same day, and the road was relatively far, so they were hauled to the purchasing station the next day.

The meat was very fresh, so the price given was mostly the average price. Occasionally, there was meat with relatively good quality, and the price could be raised.

The three sheep added up to less than sixty kilograms, one hundred and seventeen yuan and sixty cents. This dealer was very happy. Calculating that three sheep earned more than eleven yuan, it was worth it.

"Come, come, come, it's my turn!" The next one came over with a bag, "I only collected one sheep, but this one is not small, more than twenty kilograms!"

"So big? Then why were the herdsmen willing to slaughter it?"

"Sigh, no way, the sheep pen collapsed, and the leg of this sheep was crushed, it couldn't live, so it had to be slaughtered."

"Come, weigh it." Gu Bo Yuan looked at the sheep in the bag and was also quite surprised. This was the largest sheep collected recently.

Don't think that the size of sheep in herdsmen's homes at this time would be very large. It was normal for ordinary sheep to be slaughtered at ten or more kilograms, and twenty or thirty kilograms were a minority.

After all, there was no concentrated feed at this time, and cattle and sheep mainly ate grass. Like Li Long feeding sugar residue, this was already an excellent fattening method.

Not to mention this time, even twenty years later, many ordinary non-fattening sheep slaughtered were only ten or twenty kilograms. Forty-kilogram sheep were ultimately a minority.

Of course, it would be different later. Most of the sheep on the market were feed-fattened sheep, and grass-fattened sheep could only be obtained in the livestock market when they were driven down the mountain in October every year. And then, there were a large number of people doing fattening sheep business who directly bought these grass-fattened cattle and sheep back, used feed to fatten them, and then slaughtered and sold them in winter.

At that time, the mutton would have a layer of thick fat even on the ribs, and because it was fed with feed, it would also have a different kind of mutton smell.

At that time, sheep would be much heavier, and twenty or thirty kilograms would be easy to reach. Forty kilograms wouldn't be strange.

But everyone still liked to eat the meat of small lambs, it was tender.

So the appearance of this twenty-plus-kilogram large sheep in this period was indeed quite rare.

The meat quality was good, not ram (breeding ram) meat, it didn't smell muttony or stinky, and Gu Bo Yuan rarely gave a high price of two yuan and one cent per kilogram.

Although there was only one sheep, this person earned seven or eight yuan from this one sheep, and the smile on his mouth couldn't be suppressed.

The next few dealers brought skins, and also sheep.

When Li Long came over in the afternoon, he even ran into a cow brought by a large flatbed cart, weighing more than two hundred kilograms, which was quite amazing.

Li Long helped weigh it and sent it to the warehouse, finding that there were more than one hundred cattle and sheep on the shelves inside. There were few cattle, not exceeding ten, and more sheep, and looking at them one by one, the mutton was relatively fresh.

"Not bad," looking at the large amount of mutton collected, Li Long was still quite happy, "It seems the dealers are still quite capable. There was no news from the pastoral team, but we have already achieved small success here."

"Not bad what, it's only been a few days and we collected so much, thousands of yuan are gone." Gu Bo Yuan expressed his worry, "These cattle and sheep meat are collected, what if they can't be sold later? Do you have any news from your friends in the pass?"

"No." Li Long shook his head, "Jia Tianlong doesn't want to think about it, he is doing medicinal materials. Zhao Hui is also, doing leather business, not related to food.

I just thought about seeing how Huang Lei is doing. After all, he collects dried mushrooms, which is also in the food industry, so he should have corresponding relationships, right?"

"You also don't be so optimistic, don't pin all your hopes on others, you also have to think of ways yourself. If it really doesn't work, we'll just collect it. Find a few factories with good benefits before the New Year and pull the cattle and sheep meat to sell, don't lose it in our own hands."

Gu Bo Yuan said the truth. There was no freezer here. If these cattle and sheep meat were kept in their own hands and couldn't be sold before the New Year, they would only rot after the New Year and spring.

"Don't worry, Uncle Gu, it can always be sold." Li Long smiled, "Huang Lei should have good news on his side. Of course, it's true that you can't just rely on him.

Last year, the sugar factory wanted sheep, and we slaughtered the cattle and sheep in the old horse number. This year we don't need to. The cattle and sheep in this warehouse are enough. In addition, I also transported some to the Kuitun Agricultural Machinery Factory. Their benefits are good this year, and they are now producing snow-clearing machines in three shifts, so they definitely need sheep, and there is also..."

Li Long thought for a moment and said:

"After New Year's Day, I will look for a few other factories in Shicheng to see if they want New Year sheep to engage in some welfare sheep, it should be about enough, right?"

"Then continue to collect?" Gu Bo Yuan heard Li Long say this, as if he could really handle hundreds of sheep, so his hanging heart was put down.

"Collect." Li Long said, "Our team might also buy some cattle and sheep by then. If there are any left, then decompose them directly in the twelfth lunar month and haul them to the market on the old street. I believe they can be sold in a day or two."

Gu Bo Yuan was completely relieved this time. Not to mention other places, just selling sheep on the old street was definitely fine. The consumption ability of Shicheng was not comparable to Maxian County, and the old street itself was a place where people from both Shicheng and Shama counties often went. Consuming dozens of sheep was definitely no problem.

Then continue to collect.

The cash flow of the purchasing station was always abundant, so whether it was collecting sheep or skins, there was no problem. Gu Bo Yuan was only worried about the final handling.

On December 20th, Zhao Hui came to the purchasing station again. This time he hauled away more than seven hundred skins collected by the purchasing station during this period, including a snow leopard skin.

Zhao Hui initially only hoped to take away the skins. Although there was only one high-grade skin like a snow leopard among so many skins, the sufficient quantity had already made up for his dissatisfaction.

"Boss Zhao, you can take some mutton over to try." Although Zhao Hui called and said that the friends he contacted didn't need mutton from Northern Xinjiang, Li Long still pushed it hard at this time, "Anyway, you have to haul a carload of things, you haul some mutton back, even if it can't be sold in the end, you can give it to relatives and friends." ===== CHAPTER 1014 =====