Jiang Huashu told Fifth Grandpa about the national grain distribution plan. After a brief thought, Fifth Grandpa did not agree with this.

Jiang Huashu saw through all the policies and human sentiments of the era. He sought various benefits for the village, led everyone to make money, and solved the problem of hunger, tying the interests of everyone in the village together. If anyone betrayed, no one in the village would be able to escape.

Jiang Huashu, a time traveler, knew every major event of the era in detail, akin to a bird's-eye view. Fifth Grandfather, after all, was a native, with a limited understanding of national policy. So, his disapproval of Jiang Huashu's departure was understandable; who would want their child to be put in danger?

The core issue was actually the concern for Jiang Huashu's safety. It was all for his own safety and to solve the hunger problem for the people across the country. So in the end, Jiang Huashu took a step back and agreed to this matter only if Fifth Grandpa went with him.

After eating and cleaning up, the two of them took a walk to digest the food and then left the space to sleep.

The next day, Jiang Huashu used the space to reach Professor Dong's Western-style building, then went out to sit with the gang boss. Now, the couple had become increasingly adept at using the space, finding it even more convenient than in modern times. While modern transportation options included airplanes and cars, they weren't as convenient as the space! It was a must-have for time travel and home travel.

This time, when negotiating a deal with the gangster, Jiang Huashu didn't use the usual method of inviting others with his own words. Instead, he went straight to the point, laying out his terms directly. The item, the purchase price, and the selling price—with these three tempting conditions, who wouldn't be confused?

The gangster boss calculated that with such a large amount of grain, according to the price set by Fourth Brother (Jiang Huashu's black market name), the profit would be considerable.

Jiang Huashu's script called for a joint release in three provinces. The black market sales channels in this province were already controlled by the mafia bosses, and all were standardized according to Jiang Huashu's plan. So, shipments from this province were no problem; the problem lay with the other two provinces. You have to understand that in terms of the strength of the mafia itself, he was just a junior. And when it came to the real bosses behind the scenes, he was nothing. In the past few years of natural disasters, whoever had food was the biggest winner, and the more clever mafia bosses, unable to get food, resorted to guns. Why would they stockpile guns when they were starving? Of course, they were robbing them! As the saying goes, if the neighbor stockpiles food, I stockpile guns. And if the neighbor is my granary, fighting over food is perfectly natural.

It was during this chaotic time that food prices soared, reaching a high of two yuan and twenty cents on the black market. If he had not met Jiang Huashu, who had been "supporting" the gang boss behind the scenes, allowing him to take advantage of this opportunity to rise to power, he would not have been able to become a boss, let alone make it in the city, and would have been killed by the former boss long ago.

Sensing the gang leader's hesitation, Boss Jiang skillfully educated his henchman, providing him with a multi-layered analysis of the situation and market, then laying out a grand vision, and finally providing him with a detailed operational framework. As the first honest and sincere gang leader of the Jiang Enterprise in the early 1960s, after this brainwashing, his previous anxieties were swept away, and he firmly expressed his determination for the future. Under Boss Jiang's leadership, the working-class spirit was determined to expand their territory, take over the entire black market in these three provinces, and regulate and manage it to their ideal state.

Boss Jiang smiled with satisfaction. He liked such sensible and obedient employees.