Chapter 1066

Jia Tianlong was the same old way. He first went to Li Long's big courtyard, worshipped that big piece of jade earnestly and devoutly, and only then talked about business with Li Long.

"Hey, Li Long, you tell me, when there were no hundred-yuan banknotes, I felt that it was so inconvenient to use ten-yuan 'Great Unity' notes, but after changing to large banknotes, I felt that this hundred-yuan note didn't have any weight. People, why are they so contradictory?"

"That's you being pretentious," Li Long unceremoniously revealed his little thoughts. "Think about when you didn't have much money on you, at that time a 'Great Unity' note was something you wanted but couldn't get. Why didn't you say that at that time?"

"Yes. Think about it, it was only five or six years ago." For Li Long revealing his little thoughts, Jia Tianlong didn't have the slightest displeasure, but instead sighed with emotion. "It was just catching up with good times; otherwise, I would still be eating potato eggs every day now.

Actually, every time I go back and see those playmates in the village who are all planting land on the mountain ridge, eating potatoes, I feel that I am really quite lucky."

"Then you didn't pull them?" Li Long was a bit curious about Jia Tianlong's past and asked.

He himself became rich, maybe he couldn't compare to Jia Tianlong now, but he felt he wasn't much worse.

What Li Long was relatively proud of was that he became rich, and by using the opportunities at hand, he also led the people in the village to become rich together, so they wouldn't be like before, still having to hang accounts at the end of the year. The life in the fourth team where he was was better than other villages. Just this point, even if there were quite a few people in the team who privately said he was bad here and there.

But on the surface, every family in the village had to give him a thumbs up.

Having made up for the regrets of his previous life and made some achievements in this life, Li Long was still quite proud.

So he was curious about how people like Jia Tianlong did after becoming rich.

After all, it was written in the central idea of our country: let a part of the people become rich first, and then let the rich lead the poor.

He, Li Long, did it. What about others?

"Pull? Pulled, but couldn't pull. You know the saying 'mud can't support the wall,' right? I tell you, I've heard it, and I've seen it."

Jia Tianlong heard Li Long's words, and a bitter smile appeared on his face: "Our mountain land over there is quite suitable for planting Astragalus.

I became rich by collecting medicinal herbs, so I thought about pulling the people in the village, so I bought Astragalus seeds and seedlings for them, gave them chemical fertilizer for free, and invited technicians to teach them how to plant. How about it, is that enough?"

"Not bad, not bad, it is indeed acceptable," Li Long nodded. This was relatively consistent with the Jia Tianlong in his impression; he wasn't a two-faced person.

"Then do you know how they repaid me?" When Jia Tianlong continued to speak, there was a feeling of gnashing his teeth.

"What do you mean? Backstabbed you?" Li Long's heart of gossip rose.

"What is backstabbing?" Jia Tianlong asked.

"It means you treat him as a brother, and he stabs you in the back," Li Long explained popularly. Anyway, telling him this was a skill of some game, this guy probably wouldn't understand either.

At any rate, although he didn't play games much, he had seen explanations on the internet.

"Well, that's it, it was backstabbed," Jia Tianlong sighed. "When the Astragalus could be dug, I went to collect it from them. At that time, I just happened to have an order. The quality of the Astragalus that year was quite good, and I thought about just taking this batch of Astragalus to complete the order.

As a result, the Astragalus sent to me by the villagers were all substandard products. You know substandard products, right? They were all broken, cracked, misshapen, root forks, and the like. Do you know what I thought when I saw that most of the Astragalus brought over were like this?"

"A heart of enthusiasm fed to the dog?" Li Long added at the right time.

"Li Long, do you know that sometimes you are quite annoying? You just happened to say what I was thinking," Jia Tianlong shook his head. "That's what it means."

"Then what was the situation?" Li Long didn't pay attention to his sigh and asked.

"What else could the situation be? They dug the Astragalus, and then listened to others' words, sold the good finished Astragalus to my competitor, and then left the rest for me. The reason was just one point: my competitor spread rumors that I had no money to collect goods and wanted to lower the price to collect, so they believed it."

"It's impossible for everyone to do this, right? I think, at least in our village, even if there really were such things, most people would still come to ask me specifically," Li Long analyzed very rationally.

"That's not it. Less than one-third of the people kept the Astragalus for me."

"Sigh, I understand. If it were our village, at least three-quarters of the people would wait for my news," Li Long was quite proud. In his previous life, watching those short videos and gossip news, he wondered why the rural areas in the interior were like this?

Later, he slowly understood. There were many people in the interior, and clan forces habitually entrenched themselves in it, so some old customs and bad habits had always been there.

Northern Xinjiang was vast and had abundant resources, and the population was small. As long as people put in hard work, eating their fill was no problem. As for becoming rich, that required luck and intelligence, as well as opportunities.

So relatively speaking, people's moral bottom line would be higher.

So even in the fourth small team, every time Li Long did things, occasionally there would be some individuals making trouble, holding back, or thinking about snatching his business, but in general, it was still quite good.

Even after another thirty or forty years, the neighborly relationship in the fourth small team was also very good. It was very normal for one family to have something and many families to help.

Of course, it also had a certain relationship with the village cadres doing things. At this time, Xu Chengjun's positive guidance role was quite strong, and his prestige was placed there, which could suppress some people.

And decades later, even if Xu Chengjun wasn't the village director anymore, those who succeeded him and those who stepped down, when encountering some things that were a bit wrong on the surface, would still scold people.

So in general, the moral level was online.

"Then how did you handle it in the end?" Li Long saw that Jia Tianlong still had the desire to speak, so he continued to ask.

"What else could I do? I continued to support those who believed in me. As for those who didn't believe in me, they were mud, and I had no idea of supporting them. What made me most angry was that among those mud, quite a few were my relatives!"

Li Long laughed. Yes, sometimes, those who backstabbed themselves were the ones they trusted the most.

"Alright, alright, it's all past events. Now I don't care at all about those people eating potatoes. If they beg at my door, I don't care."

Li Long thought of the matter of a certain 'clothing brother' and asked: "Then those people don't harm your family? For example, ancestral graves and the like?"

"They dare!" Jia Tianlong sneered. "I donate money to the village to build roads every year. I don't know how much the village takes, but if someone does something unfavorable to our family, the village cadres can go to their homes and tear down their houses!"

Li Long smiled. Thinking about it, it was also normal. Jia Tianlong could make his business so big in just a few years; his means couldn't be not ruthless, it just depended on whether he wanted to deal with those people or not.

"By the way, the jade fat doll you gave me, I brought it back and placed it for worship. Quite a few people in our village ran to our home to worship, and it was annoying, but I couldn't drive people away. The old people in our village also said that this jade is too much like emerald."

"Well, the high-quality jasper of our Mahe River does indeed have a history of being considered emerald."

Li Long thought for a moment and said: "At the beginning, that person surnamed Wang set up a puppet regime. When he visited Japan, he brought a jasper screen. It is said that it was recognized as emerald at that time, and even Japan thought so, and even made a frame for the screen to protect it.

Later, after the victory of the war, this screen was asked back, and after testing, it was found to be jasper, which is Maxian jasper."

"There is such a thing? Then where is the screen now?" Jia Tianlong didn't expect that he just said it casually, and Li Long pulled out a piece of history.

"Taipei Palace Museum," Li Long said. "Old Chiang took it away."

"That's a pity," Jia Tianlong shook his head.

"What's a pity? There is quite a lot of Mahe jasper now. The piece in your hand is very high-quality. Now there are private jade carving workshops in our county, and I also have jade here. If you want it, then get a few more pieces. This thing isn't expensive; one kilogram of Fritillaria can be exchanged for a large piece of good jade."

"Well, when I have time, let's handle the business first." Jia Tianlong heard that it wasn't expensive, so he wasn't so anxious.

"This time you only brought one truck, it's a bit less," Li Long said. "I tell you, this time in my warehouse, there are more than three tons of Fritillaria alone, hundreds of kilograms of deer antlers, several tons of licorice, and other things like Astragalus. One truck can't hold it."

"How did you get so much? I remember there weren't so many things last year," Jia Tianlong asked with some surprise. "How did so much more come out all of a sudden?"