I am farming in the real world

Chapter 32: Cheap Grain Hurts Farmers, Expensive Rice Hurts the People

Wencheng County is located in the southwestern mountainous area of ​​Wenzhou City, and it is not well-known throughout the country.

The name sounds familiar, but in fact, this place has nothing to do with the famous Princess Wencheng in history, but it is the hometown of Liu Ji (Liu Bowen), a founding hero of the Ming Dynasty.

Due to the mountainous environment, Wencheng has a forest coverage rate of over 72%, and the air quality is better than the national level one standard.

The water quality of the Feiyun River passing through this place is also surprisingly high, ranking first among the eight major water systems in ZJ Province, and it is the water source for millions of people in the main urban area of ​​Wenzhou.

Good mountains, good water, and good air have also created the reputation of this place as a land of longevity.

Take Chen Jue's grandfather as an example, he is still alive and well this year at the age of 103. In addition to his excellent genes, most of it depends on the natural environment in the mountains of Wencheng.

"I haven't been here for a long time."

"After the road was built, it is much more convenient to drive into the mountains."

Chen Jue leaned on the truck window, looking at the natural scenery along the way with a pleasing look.

The not-too-high hills and mountains are full of lush greenery.

The emerald green river water isolated on one side of the road is like a jade carving with lush greenery.

Coming to such a natural and beautiful place, even the air temperature is several degrees lower than in a city full of heat island effects.

There is no need to turn on the air conditioner in the car, and you can feel the moist, comfortable and fresh air blowing along the way by rolling down the car window.

In the past, when his parents were alive, Chen Jue often came to Wencheng to play with his grandfather and several uncles.

It's just that he has been depressed and lying in the old house in Chen Village to avoid the world for the past two years, and he has almost forgotten that there is such a beautiful natural scenery in this world to appreciate.

"It's also nice to come here to escape the summer heat and spend your old age."

Chen Jue sighed in his heart.

… …

The truck passed through the newly built mountain road paved with asphalt, and finally detoured to a place called Pingtou Village.

After getting off the car, Chen Jue saw his grandfather Li Jisheng, who was sitting and watching the morning news on TV with several old people, at the small shop next to the small bridge at the entrance of the village.

Li Jisheng had a head of silver hair and was holding a cane in his hand. When he saw his grandson Chen Jue, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, his face immediately lit up with a smile: "Xiao Jue! Why are you here?"

"Grandpa, I'm here to see you."

Chen Jue carried two large bags of gifts in his hand, pulled a wooden stool and sat down next to him to chat enthusiastically with his grandfather. By the way, he let the other party taste the MC bayberry that was not available locally.

"This bayberry is big!"

"Delicious, delicious, even more delicious than the bayberry in high-rise buildings."

Li Jisheng was also very happy to see his grandson coming to the door to show his filial piety.

He was born as a She ethnic landlord in his early years, and he was a cultured person who had studied before the founding of the country. Later, he abandoned his pen and joined the army to fight against the Japanese devils, and he also wandered on the 38th parallel once.

After retiring from the army, he returned to the county to become a people's teacher, and he did so until he retired and returned to Pingtou Village to retire.

He has lived to such an old age and has a retirement salary every month. It stands to reason that he has seen and eaten everything, but after tasting the taste of MC bayberry, Li Jisheng couldn't help but praise it repeatedly.

"Grandpa, if you like to eat it, eat more, I brought a lot."

Chen Jue was very happy to see that his grandfather looked very good.

As the saying goes, having an old man in the family is like having a treasure.

After the successive deaths of his parents and elders, Chen Jue's only remaining direct blood relative in this world was his grandfather. Holding the old man's hand, he felt a special warmth and kindness in his heart.

… …

After sitting and chatting with his grandfather for a while, he sighed and lamented about his deceased parents.

Chen Jue then took Tie Yi and helped the staggering Li Jisheng back to a row of landed houses on the hillside of Pingtou Village.

This is a retirement home newly built by several uncles after their retirement. There is also an old Li family house with a wood and tile structure next to it.

Although Li Jisheng was a teacher himself, he retired too early, and his education of his children was not outstanding.

Except for Chen Jue's mother who was admitted to high school, the remaining uncles and aunts all graduated from elementary school and junior high school.

In addition, the economy had not yet developed in the era they experienced, and Wencheng was a poor mountainous area. After adulthood, each family relied on growing vegetables and raising rabbits for a living.

Chen Jue remembered that when he came from Ruixian when he was a child, he often ran to the rabbit house next to the old house of the Li family to catch rabbits. Every time before he went back, he would roll around and insist on taking the biggest gray rabbit back.

It was not until he grew up and became sensible that he realized that the gray rabbit was a breeding rabbit, which was used to give birth to cubs.

"Xiao Jue, why are you here?"

While reminiscing, Chen Jue's eldest uncle, Li Mian, came back from the vegetable field opened up in the back mountain with a vegetable farmer's outfit and a bamboo basket on his back.

"Uncle, I have something to discuss with you!"

Chen Jue immediately went over when he saw this.

First, let Tie Yi put down the gifts he was carrying, and then Chen Jue pulled Li Mian and told him the purpose of his trip to contract the vegetable field.

"Contract the vegetable field?"

"Are you going to do a vegetable selling business?"

Li Mian was taken aback.

In recent years, he has always heard his children mention that Chen Jue, this nephew, has not been doing well, and there have even been rumors that he failed to run a factory, went bankrupt and was burdened with huge debts.

But helplessly, his mother's family is not wealthy. The uncles are all retired vegetable farmers, and they don't have much money in their hands. It is already very difficult to live their own lives, so they can only watch their nephew become depressed.

I never expected that after not seeing him for a while, Chen Jue would make a comeback!

He is hiring people and buying trucks. It looks like he has made a lot of money and has become promising.

"Uncle, I want you to help me lead the way and contract all the vegetables grown in the nearby villages to me."

"I will offer 10 cents higher than the market price at the place of origin."

Chen Jue said bluntly.

The so-called place of origin price is the first-hand price of vegetables after they are picked from the ground.

Compared with the wholesale price in the vegetable basket, there is less loss, oil road costs, and labor costs in the store during the transportation process.

Taking Shanghai Green as an example, the usual wholesale price is mostly around 1.5 yuan, but the place of origin price is only a few cents per catty.

The two prices look very different.

However, no matter how the external wholesale market fluctuates, the place of origin price will not be affected most of the time, and even if there are fluctuations, it will be controlled within a few cents of increase or decrease.

The old saying "Cheap grain hurts farmers, expensive rice hurts the people" still exists today, but with the relevant departments regulating it behind the scenes, it can ensure the stable income of vegetable farmers to a certain extent.

"Collect at 10 cents higher than the place of origin price?"

"So high, how do you make money?"

Li Mian was also a little surprised when he heard this.

Seeing that his uncle was interested, Chen Jue began to move out a set of so-called 'connecting upstream and downstream' theories on the Internet and began to fool him.

What is bypassing middlemen and supplying directly to large supermarkets and retail markets.

He even took out examples of already successful Internet vegetable selling companies such as Dingdong Maicai to illustrate, making Li Mian stunned.

Of course, these verbal promises are just for listening.

The most important thing is that Chen Jue directly took out several bundles of red tickets from his bag and placed them on the table: "Uncle, don't worry! I'm not contracting the vegetable fields on a whim. I plan to contract them for a long time. I can leave some security deposit for the vegetable farmers in the village first."

With this so-called cash guarantee, the subsequent development began to become exceptionally smooth.

Seeing that Chen Jue had taken out cash, Li Mian was not ambiguous. He took out his phone and called the remaining uncles who grew vegetables over.

Several people gathered under the eaves of the old house of the Li family, eating MC bayberry while listening to Chen Jue fooling them.

After discussing and agreeing, they felt that Chen Jue's price was high and they earned more than selling to those vegetable vendors who came to run goods, so they fully agreed to Chen Jue's proposal.

Of course, it is very simple to contract the vegetable fields planted by several uncles. You can get it done with a word based on kinship, but it is a bit difficult to spread it to the nearby villages.

Fortunately, the eldest uncle Li Mian knew the cadres of the Pingtou Village Economic Cooperative, and Li Jisheng had some prestige in the vicinity. After a few phone calls, this matter was spread in the vegetable farmer groups in the township.

When the morning farming time was almost over, a large group of vegetable farmers received the news and came to the old house of the Li family either by riding motorcycles or driving tricycles.

Finally, under the leadership of a cadre from the Economic Cooperative named Li Fumin, the vegetable farmers present signed a simple 'Shanghai Green Package Sales Cooperation Agreement' with Chen Jue by pressing their fingerprints.

In the future, the Shanghai Green grown by the villagers, no matter how much the yield is, as long as the quality is not too bad, will be sold exclusively by Chen Jue's family.

As for why there is only Shanghai Green, and not other vegetables and agricultural products.

It is also because some people in the nearby villages have already started the business of vegetable vendors. It's just that the destinations for their goods are not the vegetable baskets in Wenzhou, but Cangnan and other places closer to Wencheng.

If Chen Jue completely blocked the road to collecting vegetables, then these local vegetable vendors would have to drink the northwest wind.

So after discussing it, it was finally decided to only let Chen Jue sell Shanghai Green exclusively.

But don't underestimate the energy of a single product!

Taking the sale of single products on Taobao as an example, whether it is women's clothing, electronic products, or daily necessities, all e-commerce sellers who sell a single product and become the leader have annual sales of hundreds of millions or billions of yuan.

Although Shanghai Green looks inconspicuous, but when it really starts to run in volume, it is estimated that only God knows where its upper limit is.

… …

After finalizing the Shanghai Green package sales agreement for several villages, Chen Jue took 60,000 yuan in cash to ask for a good omen and deposited it into the Economic Cooperative of Pingtou Village as a security deposit.

In the future, as long as he breaches the contract, the security deposit will be automatically deducted and distributed to the villagers who signed the agreement.

Of course, his move to exchange real money for the trust of the villagers is not without other gains.

Besides obtaining the Shanghai Qing tea origin certificate, even the village head and Party Secretary of Pingtou Village rushed over to build connections with him, exchanging WeChat contacts.

After all, Chen Jue was there to help the villagers increase their income, so these village officials certainly had to come forward and understand the situation.

At noon, he shared a simple table of Wencheng dishes with his maternal grandfather and uncles at the Li family's old house, including stir-fried sweet potato noodles, braised pig trotters, and poached eggs, much to the delight of the guests.

It wasn't until after 1 PM that Manager Zhang from Wanqiang Logistics Park, who had originally scheduled to meet in the morning, called to urge him, that Chen Jue reluctantly said goodbye to his maternal grandfather's family.

Before leaving, his maternal grandfather, Li Jisheng, seeing Chen Jue alone and toiling for money outside, felt sorry for this grandson. So, he went upstairs to the second floor of the old house and brought down several yellowed old books to give to Chen Jue.

"Xiaojue, you must pay more attention to safety when you're out there, and take care of your health."

"Read these books more when you have free time."

"Only by reading more can people become smarter!" Li Jisheng held Chen Jue's hand and earnestly exhorted him.

"I understand, Grandpa! I'll read them when I get back."

Chen Jue nodded, accepted the books, and then got into the truck with Tie Yi. Staring at the title printed on the old books, his mouth immediately formed an 'O' shape: "If I understand and thoroughly study these books, I'll be absolutely invincible!"

Second update ~ Coding is a bit difficult, it seems that there will be no third update tonight.