Reborn in 1977

Chapter 256 Trial Run

"What receipt?"

Zhang Wenliang widened his eyes, looking at him, "A registered mail receipt, you didn't send it as regular mail, did you?"

Chen Fan stared blankly at him, "I bought two four-cent stamps, stuck them on, and dropped the letter into the mailbox."

Zhang Wenliang was speechless, "Sending regular mail might get it lost. Registered mail is recorded, so it usually doesn't get lost. This is so important, you definitely should have sent it registered. Regular mail is eight cents, registered mail is only twenty cents, you couldn't bear to spend twenty cents?"

(Registered mail in '73, twenty-cent stamp)

Chen Fan's eyes were vacant, "I forgot."

He really forgot. Who sends letters in later generations? Usually, when mailing things, it's basically express delivery. Occasionally dealing with the post office is for EMS.

Registered mail? He knew about it, but he never had the concept of sending registered mail.

The post office still has this service. Besides registered mail, regular mail, confidential mail (for confidential units), and parcels are still retained, but the volume of business is really worrying.

He went to the post office today to mail the letter, still immersed in the novelty of mailing letters. How could he remember that important letters must be sent by registered mail?

Seeing his appearance, Zhang Wenliang was also helpless, "Fortunately, you kept a draft. You sent the copy that Little Jiang transcribed for you. If it really gets lost, you can still copy another one."

Chen Fan came back to his senses, his face falling, "Xiao Captain didn't tell you that Little Jiang transcribed it for me, did he?"

Zhang Wenliang immediately coughed twice, looking up at the sky, "The weather is gloomy, it might rain later. Well, I have to go to the fields to take a look."

As he spoke, he walked out. After taking two steps, he turned around again, "Let me tell you, you'd better have Little E transcribe another copy for you. If it gets lost, you can immediately resend it, right?"

Seeing Chen Fan's dark face, he grinned and chuckled, "No other meaning, Little Jiang also has to work, right? The disciple serves the master, that's all, ah, I'm leaving."

After saying that, he quickly slipped away.

Chen Fan curled his lips, looked at his back, and then looked at the brigade headquarters office, muttering, "Humph, how old are you, looking so serious, still so gossipy."

Then he walked inside with his hands behind his back, shaking his head.

He had only taken two steps when he heard the sound of a bicycle bell behind him. He turned around and saw Secretary Yang straddling the horizontal bar of his bicycle over the threshold. Seeing Chen Fan, he immediately raised his head and said loudly, "Perfect timing, I need to talk to you."

Chen Fan watched him park his bicycle against the corner of the wall and asked, "Did you go to the commune for a meeting?"

Secretary Yang locked his bicycle and strode over, nodding, "Yes, they talked about a few things. Let's go to the office, I'll tell them together."

Chen Fan followed him into the brigade headquarters office, where only Zhang Changjiang was present.

Secretary Yang glanced around, "Where are Lao Ye and Lao Xiao?"

Zhang Changjiang raised his head, "Lao Ye went to monitor the progress of the breeding farm construction, and a friend just came to see Lao Xiao, so he took him home."

Secretary Yang nodded, walked to his position and sat down, gesturing to Chen Fan, "Never mind them, you sit down."

Seeing that they were about to roll cigarettes again, Chen Fan took out cigarettes and handed one to each of them, then sat down on the long bench next to him.

Secretary Yang tapped his cigarette vertically on the table a few times, pulled out a match, broke off the match head, inserted the remaining small wooden stick into the cigarette butt, and then put it in his mouth, biting the small wooden stick to light it.

Exhaling a puff of smoke, he looked at the two of them and said, "There were only two things at the commune today. One was to report on the spring plowing situation, which is basically the same, so I won't say much. In addition, I also privately reported the breeding farm to Secretary Qian. Now the commune's attitude is spiritual support, but no material support."

Zhang Changjiang shook his head and chuckled, "I guessed it a long time ago."

Secretary Yang smiled, "That's normal. The commune has limited resources, and it's not good to favor any one team. Now I have no other requirements, just hope that the other teams don't mess with us, and start their own breeding farms when they see us doing breeding."

Zhang Changjiang flicked the ash from his cigarette and shook his head, laughing, "Follow suit and start a breeding farm? What do they have to do it with? Do they have a veterinarian, or can they buy rabbit seedlings?"

As he spoke, he pointed to Chen Fan sitting aside, "Our rabbit seedlings were caught by Little Chen one litter at a time. Although they are not as good as specialized meat rabbit seedlings, nor as good as Angora rabbit seedlings, what you can hold in your hand is the best thing.

If other teams want to follow suit, where will they buy rabbit seedlings? Not to mention rabbit seedlings, chickens, ducks, geese, horses, cattle, and sheep, everything is in short supply everywhere. Otherwise, why would the commune's breeding farm even have to go to the teams to buy pig seedlings? Isn't it because the higher-ups don't have enough pig seedlings to distribute, so they can only use this clumsy method to ensure the supply of live pigs.

And veterinarians…"

He took a puff of smoke, exhaled a puff of smoke, and said with a smile, "Countless family wealth, but not if it has fur. Without a veterinarian, let them try to run a breeding farm, they'll lose everything."

Secretary Yang listened with a smile, and when he finished speaking, he nodded, "The reasoning is correct, but it can't stop some stubborn people. They only see the thief eating meat, but not the thief getting beaten. It's not the first or second time they've blindly followed suit. If any brigade really starts a breeding farm and an epidemic breaks out, and they ask for your help, will you help or not?"

Hearing this, Zhang Changjiang lowered his head and said nothing.

Putting aside other things, their Zhang family has several in-laws in other production teams. It's normal to be related within a radius of ten miles. If something really happens, the conditions can be discussed, but they will definitely not stand idly by.

Chen Fan leaned back in his chair, looked at the two of them, his eyes slightly turning, and smiled softly, "Think of a way to prevent them from starting a breeding farm, wouldn't that be good?"

Hmm?

Secretary Yang and Zhang Changjiang both looked at him, their eyes full of confusion.

Could this kid be brewing something bad?

Seeing their expressions, Chen Fan immediately said, "I mean, we can go to their teams to buy seedlings, anything like chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, cattle, sheep, and horses. Anyway, the breeding farm will have to buy seedlings. The commune's breeding station definitely doesn't have enough seedlings. Without the commune's support, they don't have the money to go to the county's seedling farm for wholesale, so the best way is to go to the nearby production teams to buy them. As long as the price is a little higher, and we add interest, we should be able to get them to give us IOUs, right?"

Hearing this, Secretary Yang and the two of them slapped their thighs together.

Zhang Changjiang pointed at Chen Fan, turned to Secretary Yang and smiled, "It's still the brain of a cultured person, it works better than ours."

Secretary Yang nodded repeatedly, calculating and saying, "The breeding farm is about to start, and I'm also worried about the seedlings. One is that there is not enough capital, and the other is where to buy the seedlings. Little Chen's method can solve these two problems. By the way, it can also block the other production teams from starting breeding farms and stealing our business, that's good."

After saying that, he immediately took out his notebook and wrote down this matter.

Everyone within a radius of ten miles is related. I'm buying seedlings from you, and it's a high-price purchase, with the production team as a guarantee. Can you refuse to let me give you an IOU?

In this way, we have seedlings, and we don't have to invest too much capital at the beginning. When the breeding farm starts making money, we can return the seedling money. Both sides benefit, how great!

What? What if we lose money?

If we lose money, we lose money. We'll put it on the production team's account and pay it back a little each year. Wasn't that what we did during the famine more than ten years ago? Can we force people to death?!

But then again, he has confidence in Chen Fan.

There's nothing else, letting Chen Fan catch rabbits first, raise them for a period of time, and then sell them to the production team is a wonderful plan that they all discussed together.

As long as Chen Fan raises them for a period of time, he will know whether this matter can be done. If it is raised well, then there is no problem. The production team will take over all the rabbit seedlings and slowly expand the breeding scale, making the sideline business bigger and stronger.

If it doesn't raise well.

Ahem, the only one who loses is Chen Fan himself. At worst, he won't have to pay work points for the feed he bought with work points, or he'll pay a little less.

Moreover, the experience of failure is also experience. Summarize the lessons learned, and maybe you can succeed one day.

This is called "Others learn a lesson, I gain wisdom."

Of course, this is not called cheating people. After all, the production team itself has invested a lot of manpower and material resources to run the breeding farm, and has also reclaimed several barren slopes to plant forage grass. They have also made preparations to support Chen Fan. This can only be called "cooperation and win-win".

Closing the notebook, Secretary Yang took out his Peony cigarettes for socializing, pulled out one and threw it to Chen Fan, "This is a reward for you."

Chen Fan looked at the cigarette and then at Secretary Yang, quite surprised, "Oh, so generous today?"

Secretary Yang glanced at him, "Just making a suggestion is only worth one cigarette, did you want a pack?"

Chen Fan grinned and chuckled, "No, no, one is enough."

Secretary Yang took a puff of smoke and continued, "In addition to the spring plowing and breeding farm, I also received a notice at the commune meeting today."

He put the cigarette in his mouth, took his artificial leather briefcase, opened it, and pulled out two pieces of paper from it, but instead of handing them to Zhang Changjiang, he turned and handed them to Chen Fan.

At the same time, he said, "After the commune applied to the county, and with the approval of the leaders of the prefectural committee, it was decided to trial the restoration of agricultural trade markets."

Looking at the words "trial" on the document, Chen Fan smiled and said, "When the wind changes, you have to be careful. If there is another cold snap, no one dares to take responsibility. If it's a trial, it can be withdrawn if there are any changes, and it will be easier to deal with the higher-ups' inspections."

Secretary Yang pursed his lips and nodded, "That's the reasoning."

Then he raised his head and smiled, "Whether it's a trial or official, our people don't care about that. Anyway, if there's a market, they'll go to the fair. If there's no market, they'll just farm at home. We live our own lives, and we can't control other things."

After saying that, he pointed to the document in Chen Fan's hand, "You should draft a notice according to the things in the document and broadcast it later."