Chapter 894: The boss

(Today my waist hurts so much, I can't sit or stand for a long time, I'm sideways when I get up, I can barely manage one chapter)

Last year's big brooms were eight thousand, this year it's thirty thousand, nearly four times the amount, the pressure is great.

The purchasing price of the prefecture cooperative is still five yuan. Li Long estimates that this price can only rise in two years when prices soar. After all, ten years later, big brooms on the market seem to be ten to fifteen yuan each. It can't rise anymore now.

He vaguely remembers that the prefecture cooperative claims that big brooms are eight yuan, which is the price of transporting them to the interior.

After all, bamboo brooms transported from the interior and sold on the market are also five yuan—seems like a cost of three yuan?

No matter what, the Jiji grass and poles in the Fourth Team are not enough now. The Jiji grass on the Qingshuihe side is there, but if they want to cut it there, the Fourth Team is better off going north. Continuing north from the big sea in the north, they don't even need to enter the sand nest, there are sporadic or large patches of Jiji grass on the saline-alkali land.

As long as they can find a place, they can cut it.

The village where Liang Wenyu is, is not relying on anything, neither Jiji grass nor poles. The older generation knows how to tie them, but without materials, it's not easy to handle.

Each village needs different methods. When leaving the supply and marketing cooperative, Li Long had already thought about it.

Anyway, he had already taken the work. This matter, definitely had to be done.

He went to Qingshuihe Village first. After driving the jeep into the village, he went straight to Meng Hai's house.

Meng Hai wasn't at home, his wife was, saying Meng Hai was tidying up wheat tails on the threshing floor.

Li Long then drove the jeep to the threshing floor immediately.

"Comrade Li Long, you came?" Meng Hai had already put the wheat tails into sacks and was putting them on the tractor. Seeing Li Long, he was unusually happy.

Li Long stepped forward to help Meng Hai lift the sacks onto the tractor while explaining the big broom matter.

"Three point five is definitely no problem," Meng Hai smiled, "This price is already very good. Tying a big broom is a matter of an hour or so, and you can tie several a day. One can exchange for seven or eight kilograms of flour, so they are definitely willing..."

"The task this year is heavy," Li Long valued Meng Hai very much, so he decided to entrust him with a heavy responsibility:

"Can you tie ten thousand brooms in Qingshuihe by the end of August?"

"Ten thousand?" Meng Hai was startled, "How could there be so many?"

"Regardless of this, can you tie them out?" Li Long asked.

"This pole is almost enough. We went into the mountains to cut over ten thousand a while ago. Some cracked after drying, but overall ten thousand is about right," Meng Hai loaded the sack, took out a cigarette from his pocket, and just wanted to take one out, but looking around, he stuffed it back in.

This is the threshing floor, most people's wheat straw hasn't been pulled away yet.

"Then is the Jiji grass enough?" Li Long asked: "If enough, are the people enough?"

"The north side of the South Mountain still has a lot of Jiji grass, even more than enough. But people, might not be enough," Meng Hai thought for a while and said.

"Then can you mobilize people in nearby villages to join?" Li Long said, "Old Meng, I'm telling you, you know my situation. This matter, I'm thinking of handing it over to you in Qingshuihe. One big broom, you help me collect it, I'll give you a profit of five cents, how about it?"

"What? Five cents?" Meng Hai hurriedly waved his hand, "Comrade Li Long, I'm telling you, this matter actually we have already accepted your favor. Don't say five cents, even if you don't give a cent, if I take it, I take it..."

"No, no, no, even brothers settle accounts clearly," Li Long said, "I have collected big brooms in your side twice, you know the situation, I only have one requirement, the quality must be qualified.

I'll also tell you clearly, this batch of big brooms is to be sent out of the Autonomous Region and sent to the interior, representing the face of our Autonomous Region.

The quality must be good, so you just supervise and check, I only want the final result.

As long as the big brooms you finally hand over are all qualified, then five cents per broom, this matter can be done long-term. I only come to collect, how about it?"

Meng Hai was shocked by this news.

He rubbed his face, thinking.

One pole is eight cents, this was agreed upon beforehand with those who cut poles, and finally these poles will be sold to people in the team. He cut less than three thousand, although the poles haven't gone out yet, they are basically stable, someone has already come to his house to say, as long as the big broom work comes, they want the poles.

This is over two thousand yuan.

Now Li Long handed the big broom work to him, so he definitely wouldn't have time to tie big brooms anymore, but just this money for checking and gathering is five thousand yuan, the money for a tractor!

Is it calculated that he can also become a ten-thousand-yuan household by the end of the year?

Getting off track. He knew this work wasn't easy to do.

Ten thousand big brooms, each one has to be checked, can he handle it?

However, if he said he wouldn't do it, Meng Hai definitely wouldn't let go of this opportunity.

Why did Li Long find him and not team leader He Yuqing? For one, the relationship with him is closer, and for another, He Yuqing as team leader has more other work.

If he lets go of the opportunity in front of him, then he might as well die hitting a wheat straw.

And this will be every year in the future!

One by one five thousand yuan... such a good thing...

Getting off track again.

"Then Comrade Li Long, what should be paid attention to, you still tell me." Meng Hai said this, indicating that he took the work.

"One is quality," Li Long reiterated the standard of big brooms, "The second is safety. If these big brooms are piled together, they are easy to catch fire. I suggest you send a trip to my purchasing station with a tractor every two or three thousand."

The backyard of the purchasing station is large enough, thirty thousand big brooms can definitely fit, Li Long won't store too many either, enough for five thousand and he will send them to the supply and marketing cooperative.

"You send a batch over every time, I will settle the account for you on the spot, and then you go to distribute it to them. So in this process, you must keep the account clear, don't mix it up, this is also the key point. If mixed up, it's easy to cause disputes, after all, everyone is not very rich now, some people will fight for a few yuan."

Meng Hai nodded heavily, he had deep feelings about this.

"I've said everything I need to say. If you have nothing else, you can start doing it now. If you feel there aren't enough people, mobilize people in other villages to join, ten thousand is the base, the more the better."

Qingshuihe Village has an advantage that the Fourth Team doesn't have, which is that it is closer to the mountains, and poles are easy to cut. The pole resources on the Fourth Team side are slightly less, and Jiji isn't unlimited, it is estimated that tying five or six thousand is about right.

If they want to continue tying, they have to find Jiji grass elsewhere.

However, thinking of the people in the team riding electric tricycles in later generations, running around in various townships to cut bitter beans and Jiji grass, Li Long believes that as long as this matter is released, more people will be willing to run to the edge of the north sand nest...

Edge of the sand nest?

Li Long suddenly thought, the company of the military reclamation corps where his big brother was before, they also have resources? Although there are fewer poplar trees that can make poles, there are many red willows and tamarisk in the north sand nest, which are also very sturdy and durable for poles.

The key is that there is a lot of Jiji grass, there are large patches of Jiji grass on the edge of the sand dunes north of that company.

And the company where Han Da Chun is is similar.

If they can also be asked to tie big brooms, then this matter is basically no problem.

Thinking this way, Li Long feels the pressure on his shoulders is reduced a lot.

Next, he went to Liang Donglou's house.

Liang Wenyu is cleaning the tractor in the courtyard. He earned money cutting wheat this year and wants to pay back the debt to Li Long. At the moment, Liang Wenyu has entered the village committee and become a role model for young people in the village.

Don't say young people, his family is the first one to buy a tractor in the village. This year, with the harvester, money came in, making others envious to death.

Some people said sourly that the Liang family married a good in-law, but who could have thought of this at the beginning?

Li Jianguo and many people in this village know each other. At the beginning, when he and Liang Yuemei weren't married, how many people in this village were willing to marry their daughter to him?

In the few years when Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei were married, Liang Donglou's family situation was better, and they would help the Li family from time to time. There were not a few people in the village who talked about it, even Liang's second son-in-law had gossip.

Of course, it's not mentioned now—the Li family has risen, not only risen, but also didn't forget to bring the in-laws. Now the Liang family is undoubtedly the first family in the village.

The jeep drove into the courtyard, many people in the village saw it, some children even chased into the courtyard.

Liang Donglou was sitting under the grape trellis reading a book, Chen Xiuzhu was picking tomatoes in the vegetable garden, preparing to make sauce and save seeds. "Little Long came?" Liang Donglou saw Li Long get off the car, he took off the crystal old-fashioned glasses on the bridge of his nose and put them aside, saying with a smile: "Is the family busy?"

"The family is not very clear, it should be soon. Mainly because I have a big job here, I want to see if Wenyu and you have time to do it."

"What job?" Hearing there was a big job, Liang Wenyu, who greeted Li Long after seeing him, suddenly became energetic.

"Tying big brooms," Li Long said, "I told you before, now the task is down, you see if you are busy recently, if not, can you do it."

"Doing it is naturally possible, it's just this Jiji grass and poles..." Liang Wenyu rubbed his hands.

Difficulties are definitely there, but Li Long had already thought about it for him:

"Poles go to the mountains to cut, Jiji grass go to the sand nest behind to cut. Anyway, you have a tractor, this work is not difficult," Li Long said, "Poles can be put aside, pull a cart of Jiji grass back, and you can tie hundreds of brooms," Li Long said, "Then cut poles, if you can't handle it, divide people. Of course, if you can't get it, go to Qingshuihe side, someone has already cut poles, it's no problem to give you one or two thousand, but one pole is eight cents."

"Then how much is a big broom?" Liang Wenyu asked.

"I plan to let you help me check," Li Long said, "Tying by you alone definitely won't work, you have to mobilize people in the village, one big broom is three point five. You organize, lead the check, I'll give you five cents of inspection fee per broom, how about it?"

How about it? Naturally, it works!

Liang Donglou, who had been silent, said:

"Little Long, how many big brooms do you want on our side?"

The question hit the key point.

If it's few, it's not worth such a big toss.

"At least five thousand, right? Even if five thousand can't be done, three thousand is fine, the more the better." Li Long said.

"Five thousand?" If it's five thousand, as long as it's handed over, falling into Liang Wenyu's hands, it's at least two thousand five hundred yuan!

In one month's time, this work is much easier than cutting wheat.

Of course, it also tests personal organizational and coordination ability.

"Come, Little Long, eat a tomato," Chen Xiuzhu came out of the vegetable garden with a basket of tomatoes, and handed a ripe one to Li Long, "The taste is very good."

Li Long took it with a smile, wiped it, broke it in half, handed half to Liang Donglou, Liang Donglou waved his hand, "I won't eat, you eat. This work, can be done!"

The tomato is sour and sweet, with rich juice.

Since it can be done, Li Long told Liang Wenyu about the precautions, basically repeating the frames in Meng Hai's place, just saying it more carefully.

After all, Meng Hai has done it for two years, and Liang Wenyu's side is just starting.

Just as Li Long finished speaking, there was a human voice at the door. Li Long turned his head to look, it was Liang Wenyu's second brother-in-law Du Haihua, and second sister Liang Xingmei, and the children.

The two brought the children into the courtyard, and the children immediately surrounded the jeep and didn't move.

Du Haihua and Liang Xingmei came over. After Li Long greeted them, he didn't speak anymore.

The main thing was said, he could actually leave.

Du Haihua and the others came over, he could guess, maybe it was just because he came, they heard it and hurried over, pulling relationships or seeing if there

When Du Haihua and his wife came over, he could guess that it was likely because he had come, and after they heard the news, they had rushed over to build a connection or see if there were any opportunities.

In this day and age, the market has already been enlivened, and everyone wants to live a better life; this is beyond reproach.

It just so happens that Liang Wenyu is handling this task and also needs his own people to help; of course, there is no need for Li Long to speak on this.

So when Du Haihua asked what Li Long was currently busy with, he told him about the matter of binding large brooms, including the situation of handing over the tasks in the village here to Liang Wenyu.

Du Haihua's eyes lit up instantly.

Li Long did not stay here long. After greeting Liang Donglou and the others, he left in a hurry; there were still many things to do.

The Fourth Team side was easy to handle. When Li Long returned to the Li family home, his eldest brother was repairing the tractor. The wheat had basically been harvested, and the public grain that needed to be handed in had all been handed in; what remained were just some finishing tasks.

Li Jianguo is currently working on the tractor mainly to prepare for the next step of plowing the land—many families have already come to greet him, hoping that their own wheat fields can be plowed by the new East Is Red 75 tractor that Li Jianguo is driving.

The public grain that needs to be handed in now includes wheat, oil sunflowers, and corn. The Fourth Team originally also had a task for rice, but because the planting area became smaller, it was eventually canceled.

Li Long briefly talked about the work of binding large brooms. He intended for his eldest brother to be responsible for the matters in the team.

Of course, just like with Meng Hai and Liang Wenyu, he would give his eldest brother a "check fee" of five jiao for every large broom.

But this time, Li Jianguo firmly opposed it.

"I don't want the money." Li Jianguo's demeanor as the eldest brother was very strong this time. "Don't worry about the work; I've done the job of checking large brooms before, and there will definitely be no problem. I won't bind them myself this year either; I'll just collect them from each family and then check them."

"You can't not take this money, we're own brothers..."

"What does that count for? It doesn't count." Li Jianguo said a bit stubbornly this time, "The family isn't short of money; you keep this money yourself. I'm already earning quite a bit of money driving the tractor to harvest wheat. Alright, alright, I know you can earn money, so just manage the money well. You don't need to worry about this matter anymore; I'm going to the team headquarters now to notify everyone. Many people have been asking me about it these days."

Li Long hurriedly stopped his eldest brother and went over the points of attention once more.

Li Jianguo noted them down one by one; in fact, he understood all these things.

He ate lunch at his eldest brother's house. Regarding Li Jianguo not taking the five jiao per large broom from Li Long, no one in the family had any objections, including his sister-in-law Liang Yuemei, who was very much in favor of it.

This made it difficult for Li Long to say anything.

It was about as he had estimated; the team could handle at most five thousand large brooms, and for the rest, he would have to think of ways in other places. Li Long said he wanted to go to the company where his eldest brother Li Jianguo used to be, and Li Jianguo supported this.

"There is a lot of jiji grass over there, and the old people in the company all know how to bind large brooms. You tell Wang Mingjun about this; he will definitely be able to get it done well."

"Then should I also go to the company on Han Da Chun's side and tell them?" Li Long asked.

"I think you should go to Wang Mingjun's place first and see how many they can bind. I don't know how many people are in his company now. If they can handle it, then don't go to Han Da Chun's side for now; if they can't handle it, we'll talk then."

Li Jianguo thought for a moment and said.

He had his own considerations. The Corps companies now have quasi-military management; some company commanders and instructors are easier to talk to, while others are not. According to what Han Da Chun said, the company commander of their company is a bit overbearing. Li Jianguo was afraid that if Li Long went over to talk about this, the other party might not put their heart into binding the large brooms because Li Long is young, and if the quality wasn't good, it would be easy to cause conflict.

Li Long was very willing to listen to advice. After eating, he drove the jeep to the Shawan side.

Once Li Jianguo notified the team, the people of the Fourth Team immediately took action.

The few who were close to Li Long had long known that the large brooms would definitely need to be bound. Like Tao Daqiang and Xie Yun Dong, after finishing the wheat harvest, they didn't rest much before driving tractors everywhere to cut jiji grass—mainly cutting it in other places, not in their own team.

Following Li Long these past two years, their minds had also become flexible. They knew that the work of these large brooms would definitely increase, so the amount of jiji grass needed would definitely be greater.

Therefore, they went to the wasteland to cut jiji grass and dried it early. Once the loudspeaker notified them here, they could bind them on the spot.

As for the others who were slow to react or didn't believe that Li Long could still get this work, they could only cut it on the spot, and after cutting, they would still have to dry it for a day or two before they could bind it.

They were lagging behind.

When Li Long drove the jeep to the company, Wang Mingjun was there accepting the wheat handed in by the company's employees.

This was a major event and could not be sloppy.

He was quite familiar with Li Long's jeep. As the jeep drove into the company courtyard, Wang Mingjun smiled and welcomed him.

He thought Li Long had come to collect skins again. It just so happened that there were indeed several dozen skins in the company's warehouse. Over the past half a year, there had been quite a few herds of yellow sheep nearby. When they passed by, if they saw them, they would organize a hunt to improve their meals.

In this way, they had accumulated quite a few skins and even caught a few small yellow sheep.

When Li Long spoke about the matter of binding large brooms, and that it was at least ten thousand, Wang Mingjun's spirits were instantly lifted.

This job, they could take it! (End of chapter)