Era: Start as a buyer

July 30, 1958, afternoon.

Luo Cheng got on the shuttle bus to town again. When he got on the bus, he gave the driver Master Zhang a cigarette with a holder, which Luo Cheng exchanged with high-end cigarette tickets.

In the car, Luo Cheng was sitting in the last row again, thinking about some issues.

The path of life is sometimes chosen by yourself, and sometimes it pushes you along for various reasons. In the future era, you can find out a lot of information about your own era. If Luo Cheng couldn't travel to the future era, he should really be glad that he wasn't in a city where he needed to escape.

But there are some things that I'm just afraid of scrutinizing. In the future, after hiring an aunt to help deal with the eels, Luo Cheng was thinking that in fact, hiring another employee would completely free him up. In this case, will you have the energy to do more things?

Luo Cheng is not too obsessed with money, but he has to consider whether selling eels and loaches can last for a long time. In his mind, the eels in his own town alone in his time were enough for him to make money all the time.

But now Luo Cheng suddenly thought of a sentence, the city gate was on fire and the fish pond was affected. So he went through all the information about Jiang Zhou during those years.

Then he discovered that his business of eels and loaches might not last long, because the information he checked was from the continent where he was located. In many periods, disasters occurred and it was a key grain distribution continent. It was also the only one where the grain output was okay, but it also followed that of all cities in the country. A place of suffering.

Even the Prime Minister once said something like, ‘I know my style is high’, but this was a sentence that cost one billion kilograms of grain.

That's where Luo Cheng looked up, and found out that there was a recorded conversation with Secretary Jiangzhou. The content of the conversation was that Jiangzhou had contributed one billion catties of food, and he also knew that Jiangzhou itself had difficulties, but compared with other places, it was still good. It is hoped that another 200 million kilograms of grain will be transferred to support other places.

Secretary Jiangzhou's reply was that Jiangzhou had actually reduced production that year, and if the disaster continued, problems would arise in Jiangzhou. As secretary, he had to prepare for the worst.

The second point is that in early spring less than half a year ago, spring famine occurred in fifteen continents. There is a severe food shortage in the five northern continents, and bark, grass, and roots are eaten wherever possible.

We even found out that in this month of Luo Cheng’s time, sweet potato leaves are no longer available in some places in Shandong. In order to support Jiangzhou, some local canteens actually boiled some sweet potato leaves and ate them.

The town where Luo Cheng is located is relatively good, because there is a reservoir and the location is better. But even so, there are only one or two hairy people in the canteen in the town at noon. After all, during the rice-planting period, working in the fields is hard.

As long as the spring of 1959 comes, tens of thousands of people will come to Jiangzhou to beg on the streets, and by 1960 there will be one million people.

At that time, grass roots and tree bark were gnawed in many places in Jiangzhou. It was impossible to let eels and loaches go just because of the unpleasant fishy smell. Even bugs and other things have to be eaten, and when a mouse appears, it will make people crazy.

Therefore, Luo Cheng's eel and loach business will only last until next year at most. Now Luo Cheng can't think of any other business that can bring him good income in the future. So he, who didn't take money seriously at first, came up with a crazy idea.

In the future, if it takes less than a year, the eel business will no longer be possible. Luo Cheng will never work on a construction site again. Now he can earn several thousand a day casually, and even after deducting the so-called suppliers, he can earn several thousand. Without deductions, every time there are big eels, you can earn tens of thousands of dollars.

Working at a construction site in one day can earn as much as a month, but you still have to work at the construction site without being able to take a break. How could Luo Cheng work on the construction site again? So if he wanted to free up time in the future, he must expand his business and earn enough money in a year that he would not have to worry about living in the future.

Then in our own time, we have to increase the production of eels and loaches again.

Luo Cheng returned to town this time and planned to collect a large amount of goods, not only in his own town, but also to arrange for people to go to other towns to collect goods. So when he returned to town this time, Luo Cheng had to find a person, or a gang, and a gang that had some courage.

Hei Niu is one of the black market gangs near the town. Luo Cheng has not been to the black market for more than a month since his last visit. I don't know what's going on there, but Hei Niu gave Luo Cheng the feeling that he was a decent character. Someone who could engage in the black market must have courage.

I just don’t know if Hei Niu will cooperate with me. He is partnering with others to engage in the black market, not just for profit, but not in the light of the world. If you cooperate with yourself, you will not only gain visibility, but the benefits will also be high. According to common sense, anyone who is not mentally ill will cooperate with Luo Cheng. And people who are not smart can run the black market.

Cooperating with Hei Niu to collect eels and loaches is the first step. The second step is to make the name justifiable. Now all towns and villages are in the nature of communes. There were no communes before, so it was really up to you to do whatever you wanted. Therefore, there must be an official name for arranging the collection of black cattle.

So the third step is for Luo Chengde to establish a reasonable official nature. Luo Cheng himself said in the town that he was helping the poultry factory in the city to collect it. Luo Cheng felt that he could simply confirm this and go to the poultry factory to discuss cooperation.

The task given to Luo Cheng by Director Sun of the Machinery Factory was to get the chickens, ducks and meat for the reception. We also have to face poultry and livestock factories. How can the rice bran and soybean meal provided by this grain station be as good as the eels and loaches in this township. Even if rice eels are brought to urban areas, people will spend money to buy them and eat them. However, rice eels are not very valuable in urban areas.

Luo Cheng felt that he had completely brought this chain full circle. Coupled with the lack of information in this era, many things were difficult to verify. And he would only seek confirmation when he encountered something that felt unreasonable. Luo Cheng felt that as long as he did it well, he could take advantage of the rice-planting period to do something violent.

If all goes well, the key issue is how to store a large number of eels so that they will not die. Then it can be sold stably for a long time in the future.

It is no longer realistic to buy a large number of pots to store them, because the eels sold by Luo Cheng in the future era will be somewhat dead if left for a few days.

Braised, fried, stewed, stir-fried and steamed, Liu Xiaofei often eats it in different ways. No matter how delicious this food is, you will get tired of eating it every day. But if you can’t eat it, you won’t waste it. Liu Xiaofei is a woman who aspires to become a profiteer, so how can she waste this.

To eat fresh eel and loach, ordinary people usually buy it and eat it at home. But in some small restaurants, their eels and loaches may still be killed, cut, and put on plates for sale. When customers go to eat, they don't know if it was already dead or if it was still alive and the boss had killed it and cut it into pieces.

The weather was hot, and there were many people eating late-night barbecue and stir-fry dishes at night. Liu Xiaofei directly contacted a late-night snack seller and sold the eels that had just died or were found to be dying at a price of about 40% off. An eel that costs 20 yuan a pound is only 12 yuan, and when the boss knew that Liu Xiaofei specialized in selling eels and loaches, he really didn’t hesitate.

If someone comes out of nowhere and asks if they want a dead eel or loach, even if they say it is freshly dead, no matter how cheap it is, they will not dare to ask for it. Because I don’t know the circumstances under which they died, and Liu Xiaofei has a shop in the old street, so it is normal for a few eels to die occasionally, and they are just dead.

For the owner of a late-night snack shop, the newly dead or dying animals in Liu Xiaofei's shop are no different from selling live eels and loaches. It's not the kind of thing that stays in the freezer after being dead for a few days.

Now, after the eels are caught, if no measures are taken, just put a lot of them in a pot. It will not be a big problem if they can be kept for a few days. But it won't work for a long time. Luo Cheng felt that he had to build a small pond in the town and put all the eels and loaches he caught in it. You even have to find someone to feed them. As for the eels that have dug holes in the pond and are difficult to fish out, that is a matter of putting them under water to catch them in the pond.