Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

After Director Wei hung up the phone, he thought for a while and walked out of the office.

He stood at the door and shouted to the other end of the corridor:
"Is Section Chief Zhao here? Come over here."

A fat, white, middle-aged man immediately came out of the materials section chief's office. After going out, he first said "here" to Director Wei, and then trotted to the office here.

After Director Wei sat back in his seat, he pointed at the sofa and motioned for Section Chief Zhao to sit down.

Section Chief Zhao sat down, his back straight, looking like he was listening carefully to the instructions.

"Section Chief Zhao, there is something I want to know with you." Director Wei said, tapping the table lightly.

"Director, please say." Section Chief Zhao responded immediately.

"I remember that our company seems to have business dealings with the boss of the Happiness Purchasing Station, a man named Jiang Chunlin?"

Director Wei was not actually very familiar with Jiang Chunlin's name. He left these specific businesses to the various departments and did not interfere much. As the head of the Municipal Supply and Marketing Cooperative, he would not easily interfere with the operations of the various departments unless it was necessary.

"Yes, yes, yes. That Jiang Chunlin does have business dealings with us. He purchases a batch of supplies from us every quarter." Section Chief Zhao's name is Zhao Tianxing. In the supply and marketing cooperative, he deals directly with Jiang Chunlin.

Zhao Tianxing felt a little sweat on his forehead at this moment. Did Jiang Chunlin do anything wrong?
He had a good relationship with Jiang Chunlin. This man was quite good at dealing with people. Before he had business dealings with the supply and marketing cooperative, Jiang Chunlin had invited Zhao Tianxing to dinner several times. During festivals, Jiang Chunlin would also give Zhao Tianxing some gifts. Although they were nothing more than ordinary things like cigarettes and alcohol, what Zhao Tianxing valued was that Jiang Chunlin could always maintain this "friendship".

If someone remembers you during festivals, it means that person values ​​friendship. Of course, Zhao Tianxing is not a fool. When Jiang Chunlin started to have business dealings with the supply and marketing cooperative through his connections, he understood why Boss Jiang did that.

Of course, Zhao Tianxing had a clear conscience, because all his business dealings with the other party were fair and impartial. At most, he chose Jiang Chunlin, who was more pleasing to his eyes, among several competitors, and the other party had never defaulted on the payment that the supply and marketing cooperative should have received. This kind of thing was very normal in the supply and marketing system, so Zhao Tianxing did not feel guilty when facing Director Wei's questioning.

He was just a little nervous, mainly because he was worried that the gift Jiang Chunlin had given him would be exposed. Although the total value of those gifts was only a few hundred yuan, if something happened to Jiang Chunlin, would he be exposed? There are many people who are tripped up by trivial matters these days.

"So what materials does he mainly purchase? Where does he sell these things?" Director Wei asked Zhao Tianxing humbly.

"We purchased local specialties, as well as some goods we brought back from southern Xinjiang and eastern Xinjiang," Zhao Tianxing explained. "Raisins, peanuts, dates, dried cantaloupe, melon seeds, etc. From what I understand, he bought these things, a small portion of which was distributed to the towns and villages below, but of course most of them were sold to his own mouth."

"Boss Jiang is pretty good. He can even get the car body to go to the mouth." Director Wei said casually.

He already understood how Jiang Chunlin made money. These days, dried fruits from northern Xinjiang are in great demand in Taiwan. Think about it, some Adasi can make a lot of money by carrying a bag of raisins to Guangzhou. The raisins Jiang Chunlin got from the supply and marketing cooperative were measured in tons. How much money would he make if he sold them to Taiwan?

Not to mention now, even in 10, 20, or 30 years, the specialties of northern Xinjiang and seasonal fruits will still be sold at high prices when they are imported.

In the mid-1990s, at the entrance to Wucheng Railway Station, oversized Hami melons were sold for one yuan each. It took two days and three nights to get to Chang'an by train, and after getting off the train, they were cut into pieces and sold for one yuan each. Such an oversized Hami melon could be cut into 20 or 30 pieces - how many times the profit?

Take a train and carry two cantaloupes, and the money for the train ticket will be returned.

40 years later, the dried apricots that used to sell for 5 yuan per kilogram in northern Xinjiang were renamed small red apricots, and the larger ones were airlifted to coastal cities and sold for 48 or 68 yuan per kilogram. Later, the locals could no longer eat the fresh and high-quality dried apricots, and the bosses from the outside took over the apricot orchards.

So even though the economic development in Beiting is relatively backward, it is very profitable to transport the specialty products to the country.

Jiang Chunlin's fortune should be mainly due to this. Although Director Wei is not involved in this, he has worked in the supply and marketing system for a long time and is very familiar with this aspect.

If it was under normal circumstances, Director Wei would not care about this matter, but Jiang Chunlin was blind and offended Li Long, so Director Wei would definitely intervene. Who made you offend someone you shouldn't have offended?
He thought for a moment and said to Zhao Tianxing:

"In the future, we should not sell Xinjiang specialties like these to outsiders. We are also in short supply of things like raisins and dates. From now on, these materials will be allocated directly according to the system.

State-owned stores, including small stores in towns and villages, are short of these supplies, so we can't rely on outsiders first. We purchase these things from Dongjiang to ensure the supply of non-staple food in Beiting City first, not to make a profit from the price difference.

Lao Zhao, we are a state-owned supply and marketing cooperative, which is different from those private enterprises. We can't just think about making money first, but we have to consider the needs of the people. State-owned units serve the people first, otherwise what is the difference between us and those private enterprises and individual businesses? "

The big hat was pressed down, and Zhao Tianxing's face immediately broke out in sweat. Yes, for a period of time, there were gradually various messages and trends in the supply and marketing system, and everyone was competing to make money. But what is the actual role of the supply and marketing system? The old employees are very clear.

The two words "supply and marketing" have already explained this point. Supply means purchasing things that are not available locally from other places and supplying them to the people. Marketing means selling, collecting local specialties that are inconvenient for the people to sell and selling them to other places.

So the essence of the supply and marketing cooperatives is to serve the people. But now, many people are only thinking about how to make money, how to make more money and get more bonuses. Some people have already forgotten their responsibilities, and even some young people who have entered the supply and marketing system now don’t know the responsibilities and obligations of the supply and marketing system at all.

After Director Wei's reminder, Zhao Tianxing felt guilty. Yes, those raisins and dates were purchased from other places for the purpose of supplying the people of Beiting City.

The supply and marketing system has that privilege. The things it purchases are all special or first-class, and the price is also fair, or wholesale price. It is sold to Jiang Chunlin at the market price. With this high and low, they make a lot of money in the middle. But from the perspective of the responsibilities of the supply and marketing system, things cannot be done this way. This batch of raisins should flow from the supply and marketing system to various state-owned stores in the city, and finally be bought by the people.

But now if ordinary people want to buy raisins, the state-owned stores have a limited supply, so they can only go to private stores or middlemen.

If you think about it this way, isn't it dereliction of duty on my part?

Zhao Tianxing nodded immediately and promised loudly:

"Don't worry, Director. I will immediately cancel the cooperation with Jiang Chunlin's trading company. The materials in the warehouse will be sent to various units in the city in strict accordance with the procedures."

Zhao Tianxing's statement was partly out of guilt for not upholding his duties, and partly to make up for his mistakes. To be honest, in this position, he was not living a life of luxury, but at least he lived a comfortable life.

Director Wei has not made any major moves since he took office. Everyone knows that he is a veteran in the supply and marketing system, and at this age, he probably just wants to live a peaceful life.

But if anyone thinks Director Wei is a toothless tiger, they are wrong. Just based on what Director Wei said just now, if he only put it in the general meeting of the supply and marketing system, or said a few words to a certain leader in private, Zhao Tianxing would definitely lose his position as the section chief.

Some things are said to be unspoken rules, and there is no way for them to survive in the sun.

Just like the supply and marketing system, the materials purchased from various places are sold through some private trading companies. This kind of thing exists everywhere, but it cannot be brought to the light of day. Once it is revealed, it must be dealt with - if it really has to be dealt with, Zhao Tianxing knows best who will be blamed.

He was in charge of this matter personally, and he also got the tacit approval of the previous director. But the new official does not care about the old accounts. If Director Wei wants to investigate this matter, then Zhao Tianxing will most likely be punished and dismissed. Now Director Wei called him to the office to give him a lecture, and Zhao Tianxing understood what was going on.

Let bygones be bygones. From now on, do as I say.

After Zhao Tianxing returned to the office, he immediately gave instructions to his clerks.

There was a young man who was a little confused and wanted to ask why. It was obviously a very profitable job, so why did he stop doing it? Zhao Tianxing naturally understood that these people under him should have been won over by Jiang Chunlin.

As the section chief, he naturally didn't want to explain so much, and reprimanded with a gloomy face:

"Just do what you are told to do. Why are you talking so much nonsense? Are you the section chief or am I the section chief?"

He was not Director Wei, and he did not have the mood to explain to his subordinates. He was almost in danger, so why was he still being polite?

Several people in charge left immediately. Zhao Tianxing knew that one of them would definitely report to Jiang Chunlin. Fortunately, although he occasionally accepted some gifts from Jiang Chunlin, it did not involve any money transactions, so he was open-minded.

In the afternoon, Jiang Chunlin knew about the operation of the supply and marketing cooperative. He was very familiar with paying the staff of the supply and marketing cooperative, and now he had received his reward.

He stayed in his small second floor with a gloomy face, thinking it over, and slowly savoring the taste.

Director Wei came from Ma County. When he first took office, Jiang Chunlin asked someone to invite him to dinner. Jiang Chunlin did not expect to have such a deep relationship with the other party. He just wanted to get to know him and build a relationship.

After all, in his opinion, it was Zhao Tianxing and his men who were doing the work. Now he met Director Wei, mainly to show his face, hoping that Director Wei would know that he existed at a critical moment and would not ruin his business.

Later, Jiang Chunlin learned that Director Wei was the type of person who took things as they came, who wanted to live a peaceful life until retirement and who didn't have any big aspirations, so he stopped putting effort into him.

Jiang Chunlin has seen many people like this in the system. They just want to live in peace and are too timid to accept anything. If you don't touch their bottom line, they won't ruin your business.

Therefore, Jiang Chunlin and Director Wei were just nodding acquaintances, and he did not get to know them in depth. Now that he has sorted out this relationship, he realized that he had overlooked this person.

In fact, if Director Wei had not directly blocked the source of his goods, he would not have thought that he had done anything wrong. While greeting his friends in the industrial and commercial sector, Jiang Chunlin had already asked someone to check Li Long's relationship.

In his opinion, Li Long relied on Li Xiangqian, the director of the supply and marketing cooperative in Ma County. Li Xiangqian's own business was in Ma County, and even in the supply and marketing system in Ma County. It cannot be said that he was ignorant. The main reason was that Jiang Chunlin was born in Beiting City, and naturally had a sense of superiority over the people in the counties and cities below. Even if you were a state cadre in these counties and cities, Jiang Chunlin might not look down on you.

As for Li Long's advanced individual, he looked down on him even more. In his opinion, it was just an empty title and useless.

His eyes were looking upwards, at the middle and senior leaders of Beiting City and the system personnel of Wucheng. He had goods in his hands, and the bosses he mentioned were all polite to him, which made Jiang Chunlin's sense of superiority more obvious.

So in his opinion, how important is a temporary worker in a supply and marketing cooperative in a small place? If the relationship is great, is it still necessary to be a temporary worker? It goes without saying how important formal employment is to ordinary people these days. And if the relationship is great, turning a temporary worker into a formal employee is just a matter of words. After all, there is still a large shortage of talents in northern Xinjiang at this time. And the measurement range of the word talent is sometimes really determined by a single word.

Let alone now, wouldn't Luobogang be like this a few decades later? Including the person who didn't study medicine as an undergraduate but became a doctor of medicine and can perform surgery. Such a bizarre thing can exist, so it is normal for Jiang Chunlin to have such thoughts.

He subconsciously ignored the existence of Director Wei because Director Wei had been so low-key in the past six months, so low-key that Jiang Chunlin had forgotten about him.

He didn't expect that the person he usually ignored could block his path to wealth with just one sentence.

The materials in the supply and marketing cooperative were transported from the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains. If Jiang Chunlin wanted to get these materials himself, he had to go to several places, or send his trusted subordinates to go to these places to purchase them. It was hard to say whether the quality of the materials purchased in this way could meet the standards of the supply and marketing cooperative.

After all, when the supply and marketing system goes to various places to buy things, there is a high probability that it will not get inferior products. With the support of the supply and marketing system, Jiang Chunlin does not need to travel to the north and south of Tianshan Mountain. He can directly buy those materials from the warehouse, find a wagon to transport them to the port, and resell them for more than twice the profit.

Therefore, the income from the purchasing station was not very important to him, but he felt that it was a slap in his face, so he wanted to deal with it and establish his authority.

Unexpectedly, this would end up ruining his own business.

In two days, the goods for this quarter will be shipped out, and the partner has already paid the deposit. If the goods are not shipped, it will be a breach of contract. The merchants there are very strict about business rules. If they breach the contract, they will have to pay compensation. The compensation in the original contract is not small.

More importantly, he was not worried about this time, but was worried that the supply and marketing system would not provide him with supplies in the future.

Although Jiang Chunlin was not in the system, he had relatives in the system. He knew that the supply and marketing system could be connected throughout Xinjiang. Just like the tax, banking and firefighting systems in later generations, if you were in this system and you went to another place to travel or do business and encountered difficulties, you could directly find people in your system. Even if you didn't know the people in this system, people in the same system would help you - this kind of atmosphere existed for quite a long time.

If the entire supply and marketing system stopped providing him with supplies, wouldn't he have to run all over the Tianshan Mountains to complete the orders he had signed?
He is used to sitting on the second floor and giving orders, freely transferring things from the supply and marketing cooperative to his own customers. Now he is asked to run around in the scorching heat and severe cold. Can he bear it?
And there was not enough time. Even if he wanted to travel north and south of Tianshan, he would not have enough time and would not be able to get good things. It was May and the raisins of that year had not come down yet. The good raisins of last year in Dongjiang had been bought up long ago, so how could they be kept until now?
The same goes for the jujubes from southern Xinjiang. The good ones are sold within the same year, and the same goes for the thin-skinned walnuts.

Jiang Chunlin immediately said that he was scared.

After sorting out the clues of the matter, Jiang Chunlin immediately formulated his own rescue plan.

He first went to tell his business contacts that there was a mistake. His Xingfu purchasing station and the purchasing station in Ma County were in fair competition. There was nothing wrong. It was just a misunderstanding.

Although he had to use his connections to gain favor and was complained by his connections, at least the connections also promised to call his friends in Ma County and settle the matter.

Then Jiang Chunlin took the things and found Zhao Tianxing's house, wanting to invite Director Wei to dinner through Zhao Tianxing, or even just introduce him to someone else.

Zhao Tianxing did not collect the items this time. He just said that he would ask Director Wei for instructions and asked Jiang Chunlin to go back and wait for news. The next day, Zhao Tianxing called Jiang Chunlin back and Director Wei said that he was still missing. He was quite busy recently. If there was anything, it would be handled in a businesslike manner.

Jiang Chunlin's heart sank. It was obvious that the other party had no intention of letting it go.

But Jiang Chunlin was also very persistent. He conveyed a message to Director Wei through another relative, expressing his recklessness and apology, and said that he was willing to pay a certain price to restore the relationship with the supply and marketing cooperative, such as donating a batch of supplies to the supply and marketing cooperative, including washing machines, televisions and so on.

Director Wei spoke in an official tone through the middleman, saying that the supply and marketing cooperative did not lack these things.

This road is blocked. (End of this chapter)