Gu Yunyang explained it to Hao Jianshe, who took notes and said a few more words before Gu Yunyang took his leave.

Now that the commune's affairs are all finished, it's time for me to go back.

There are still many things to do every day.

When Gu Yunyang passed by the police station, he noticed that the station was also very busy. Since he wasn't a professional police officer himself, he decided not to go in and bother his colleagues.

Back at the Red Flag Brigade, Gu Yunyang found Gu Hanping and told him about the meeting to be held in the suburbs of the commune in five days.

Gu Hanping remarked, "In the past, it only opened before the Lunar New Year every year, but this year..."

Gu Yunyang laughed and said, "Wasn't the supply and marketing cooperative robbed? Many daily necessities are out of stock, so the commune is planning to hold a meeting to ease the tensions."

“But what these villagers brought out was different from what the supply and marketing cooperative sold.”

“It’s alright, we’ve already produced three batches of maltose. By that day, we’ll have accumulated hundreds, even thousands of kilograms of maltose. I was originally thinking of going to the city to find a supplier and a buyer. Now that the market is open, we can give it a try.”

Once the sugar workshop was established, a steady stream of products naturally followed.

These past few days, we've been producing over 100 kilograms of maltose every day.

Gu Yunyang provided the molds, as well as packaging paper, etc.

Gu Yunyang made the mold himself. The machine tool factory inside was unlocked, and he could produce it by setting up the program.

Of course, he can also make them by hand.

As for the wrapping paper, it was just oiled paper that we bought, which the women in the village then cut and made by hand.

Gu Hanping nodded and agreed.

But then he added, "However, our brigade is also short of daily necessities. We still need to buy things like salt and soy sauce."

Gu Yunyang thought for a moment and said, "Perfect, we always need to find buyers for maltose."

Let's take some samples to the city tomorrow. Captain, you should take a count of how much our brigade needs, and we can just go to the city and buy everything we need together.

Gu Hanping thought about it and agreed that this was a good idea.

So I quickly went to gather more information.

Hongqi Brigade has so many households, with more than fifty households in Dongshan Village alone.

Some households have three or four people, while others have more than a dozen.

There are several hundred people in one village.

The entire brigade totaled more than two thousand people.

That's quite a lot.

It's not easy to collect them all at once.

Fortunately, the team leaders collected the statistics and then put them together.

Gu Yunyang looked at the various daily necessities written on several sheets of paper. The handwriting was crooked and scattered.

The neighbor needs a pound of soy sauce, the neighbor needs a pound of salt, and so on, in a scattered and disorganized manner.

Gu Hanping still had a headache and didn't know what to do.

Gu Yunyang laughed and said, "It's alright, I'll do a quick count tonight and come up with a complete list of needs. We can buy according to the list first, and then distribute the supplies to each village in the brigade based on their quantities. They can then distribute them themselves."

Fortunately, the money for helping with the purchases has already been collected.

These days, everything has a uniform price and there are tickets, so there's no way to cheat.

Gu Yunyang had previously thought that if things didn't work out, he would take some of the supplies he had previously obtained from the Baishi Commune Supply and Marketing Cooperative and sell them to the people of the Hongqi Brigade.

There will always be more, never less.

With so much stuff, there will be quite a few people going tomorrow.

Gu Yunyang didn't want to do anything underhanded, so he gave up on the idea.

I took the order back to my home halfway up the mountain. There was still construction going on across the street, but the progress was acceptable.

The construction of the biogas digester behind him is also underway. In ten days, he will make the final adjustments himself.

"Everything is proceeding as planned. Now let's process these orders. It might be difficult for others, but it's much easier for me."