(Regarding Zhang Hongcheng's ability to make phone calls during a power outage, his guesthouse didn't have a phone installed yet, so he always made calls from the Heilongjiang guesthouse, which was in an area that didn't experience power outages.)

The hazel mushrooms in Northeast China enter their official harvest season in July.

At the door of a post office of a certain unit of the Corps, several post office heads were having splitting headaches looking at the large and small packages in front of them.

Thousands of miles away in the Flower City, several newspapers were talking about the same Northeastern specialty.

Hazel mushroom.

Reporters were extremely curious about this scarce food and medicinal ingredient on the market.

Doctors from major hospitals were their interviewees.

When it comes to promoting healthy eating, doctors are very proactive and talk about it.

After all, it is rare for them in the medical field to have such an opportunity to occupy the attention of local news media.

The popularity of hazel mushrooms has increased by another three points.

However, apart from exchanging some materials with a few companies, Zhang Hongcheng still does not sell them to the public.

According to the information Tu Hongbing inquired about, some of the hazel mushrooms he exchanged with other units have already flowed into the private sector, and the price of hazel mushrooms exchanged between private sectors is shockingly high.

One or two hazel mushrooms for five eggs!

If I tell people about this price back in Northeast China, they will just spit in my face.

Where's your face?

What kind of fairy tale is this?

The reason why Zhang Hongcheng held on to so many dried hazel mushrooms and refused to sell them was not just because his guesthouse did not have the right to sell supplies in Huacheng, but more because he felt that the price of hazel mushrooms was not high enough.

He asked Fatty to get more than 20 high-quality soft articles about hazel mushrooms from the future, and sent them to the health and wellness columns of major newspapers in Huacheng under different pen names.

Then Zhang Hongcheng started another series of bold moves.

Hazel mushrooms are very common in Northeast China in July and August, but the soft article provided by Zhang Hongcheng deliberately blurred the growth period and environment of hazel mushrooms.

Anyone who reads the article will subconsciously think that the growing environment of hazel mushrooms in the Northeast is very harsh, and there is only one picking season in July.

Even in Northeast China, hazel mushrooms will disappear after September (the ones stored in warehouses and cellars are deliberately not mentioned).

In an era when information dissemination is restricted by region and distance, it is almost impossible for most people in Huacheng to find out the popularity of hazel mushrooms in Northeast China.

In the eyes of Zhang Hongcheng, a visitor from later generations, the business opportunities created by information asymmetry are hard to come by.

He is good at secretly adding fuel to the fire.

Zhang Hongcheng exchanged a small batch of hazel mushrooms with certain units, and then announced to the public that the hazel mushrooms were gone.

However, the kind-hearted Director Zhang is still responding to everyone's needs and is trying to find connections to transport the freshly picked fruits by his comrades.

Several large parcels from the Northeast proved what Director Xiao Zhang said.

But who can share this little bit of hazel mushrooms?

Several units worked together to solve Zhang Hongcheng's "some" transportation problem.

In particular, a seemingly plausible claim has emerged in the articles in the health sections of major newspapers - dried hazel mushrooms stored for half a year and then soaked and boiled into soup in winter are the most nutritious and delicious.

It sounds mysterious, but people all believe it.

Because even old Chinese medicine practitioners cannot deny this statement (because many food and medicinal materials have this characteristic).

A smart person calculated with his fingers.

It's July now. I've got some hazel mushrooms and stored them for half a year. Hey, they'll be ready for Chinese New Year!

Whether it is entertaining guests or maintaining health, it is the right time.

The Flower City is a city with a maritime atmosphere. Even in the 1970s, people's business awareness was much higher than that of other cities.

The people of Huacheng understand better than anyone else that scarcity makes things valuable.

Coupled with the custom of making soup that people have been preserving privately, hazel mushrooms, a rare item in the Flower City, have become even more valuable.

Zhang Hongcheng's second fire was secretly directed at several units in Huacheng with the best welfare benefits.

It is one thing to encourage people to live a simple and frugal life, but it is another thing to apply it to units that do not get along well with each other.

There must be harmony within the unit, but the situation between units is completely different, especially among peers!

When we are having meetings and eating together, everyone is happy, but when it comes to sharing resources, channels, competing for honors, etc., I must be irreconcilable with my brother units.

When it came to choosing between benefits and honor, their way of thinking was completely different from that of later generations.

Sometimes, "unit honors" refers not only to awards and praise from superiors, but also includes the unit's reputation in the industry.

Zhang Hongcheng likes to walk around the streets on weekdays, under the pretext of wanting to learn the local dialect by listening to the conversations of the elderly. In fact, he is collecting the information he needs.

He quickly took action - Zhang Hongcheng "accidentally" met the leader of Wuyang Bicycle Factory through a series of connections.

Wuyang Factory is a large unit, so the welfare benefits are naturally excellent.

Besides, we all sit in the office and read newspapers, so everyone knows that hazel mushrooms are in short supply in the market nowadays.

Zhang Hongcheng was apparently begging people to get him some bicycle tickets, but in reality he was giving people a chance to ask him for hazel mushrooms.

The kind-hearted Zhang Hongcheng promised the bicycle factory a batch of hazel mushrooms that were "still on the way" and suggested that this would be the most suitable thing to distribute as a Spring Festival welfare benefit.

The leaders of Wuyang Factory have studied these health articles in the newspaper in depth and strongly agree with Director Xiao Zhang's suggestion.

In fact, the Wuyang factory ordered a small amount, only about a hundred pounds, and it was purchased as a welfare purchase.

Considering the three bicycle tickets, Zhang Hongcheng offered a very reasonable price and repeatedly asked Wuyang Factory not to spread the news.

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