After New Year’s Day comes the Spring Festival.

The hottest topic among the staff of the Fourth Hospital during this period has become what kind of New Year's goods the hospital will distribute, and Chen Xia has become the most handsome guy in the Fourth Hospital.

As soon as Chen Xia arrived at work, the doctors and nurses who saw him on the road would greet him like this: "Chief Chen, what are you giving us for the New Year?"

So the General Affairs Department started the New Year's goods questionnaire again. Anyway, the employees were asked to fill out the form themselves and choose the New Year's goods they wanted most.

Pork still tops the list.

The people of Yuezhou really love pork, especially the thick, fatty cuts. There's nothing better than enjoying a few delicious meals of braised pork during Chinese New Year.

Chen Xia had made arrangements for this early on. Some farmers in Qingfeng Village and its surrounding areas raised a lot of pigs this year.

Especially in Qingfeng Village, Chen Xia's original promise to everyone was that he would buy as many pigs as they raised, and the price was 20% higher than the market purchase price. This led many families to raise only a dozen pigs at most this year. People with this courage will get rich sooner or later.

We still need meat coupons to buy pork, but that won’t last long.

Zhijiang Province, or the Yangtze River Delta, has always been at the forefront of reform and opening up. Many rural areas in the north only began to contract to households after 1982, but Zhijiang Province had already started in 1980.

In addition, while the northern and central-western regions were still using food coupons, meat coupons, and cloth coupons until the mid-to-late 1980s, Zhijiang Province began to gradually open up its retail market after 1982.

It is okay to not have grain coupons, meat coupons, or cloth coupons, as long as the price is a little higher. This behavior is no longer regarded as "speculation and profiteering."

This was the reason Chen Xia had the guts to offer to underwrite the entire sale. The hospital would need pork for New Year's gifts, and he'd need it for his wedding banquet. If all else failed, he could secretly sell it to larger cities, like the nearby steel mill.

Chen Xia buys meat, the more the better.

Among the New Year’s goods, seafood is the second most popular.

Last year, we distributed hairtail and pomfret, which made the staff of the Fourth Hospital have a wonderful New Year's celebration and made other units so jealous that their eyes almost popped out.

Everyone knows that there is a lot of seafood in the Zhoushan Islands, but other units cannot solve the transportation problem.

To bring goods from the Zhoushan Islands, they must first be sent to Yongbo City by ship, and then to Yuezhou by truck. Although it is only two or three hundred kilometers away, it requires both a ship and a truck, as well as loading and unloading.

From getting off the boat to Yuezhou, even with the most stringent supervision, the process takes at least two days. In two days, even in winter, seafood will easily spoil.

Zhijiang Province is located in the south and is on the coast. The temperature in winter is relatively high, which is not conducive to the preservation and transportation of seafood.

There are no refrigerated transport trucks these days. The only ones who have the transportation conditions are large supply and marketing cooperatives. They are too busy making money for the New Year, so who would care if a weak unit in the health system wants to borrow them?

The third one is roasted nuts. Chen Xia prepared Chinese torreya and walnuts.

The production area of ​​Torreya grandis is very small, that is, in the southern mountainous area of ​​Yuezhou, or in a few towns in the neighboring county. Chen Xia purchased it openly in Qingtan Commune some time ago and almost got all the excess production that year.

He couldn't finish eating so many ginkgo nuts, so he had the idea of ​​selling them during the New Year's shopping season and taking the opportunity to make some money.

For the above three items, as long as he reports the expenses according to the market price, he will not be afraid of others checking.

These days, all the purchasing agents in the units operate like this. Otherwise, how could the employees in the purchasing and supply and marketing departments of most state-owned enterprises be so rich in the 1980s and 1990s, even if the unit's performance was poor?

The fat sheep that were delivered to him for slaughter also included several other hospitals in the health system. They had already tasted the sweetness of the Dragon Boat Festival benefits. Anyway, letting Section Chief Chen purchase on their behalf was the safest way.

Even the poorest Yuezhou First Hospital spent a lot of money and asked the Fourth Hospital to purchase New Year's goods on its behalf.

So Chen Xia spent the better part of a month between New Year's Day and Spring Festival traveling. He'd already made a large order of pomfret, hairtail, squid, and yellow croaker from the Zhoushan Islands last year, having already placed orders.

In order to hold the wedding banquet, Director Wang and Manager Ma of Yangdao Commune were entrusted to help order Chinese lobsters, groupers, king crabs, etc. from Zhoushan Ocean Fishing Fleet.

He also specifically asked them to help purchase large yellow croakers, the bigger the better. No matter how much they offered, he would buy them at a price 50% higher than the market price.

This greatly aroused the enthusiasm of the Yangdao Commune. They were also smart. They caught almost all the yellow croakers from several Zhoushan fishing fleets at that time at a price 20% higher than the purchase price, and then earned 30% of the middleman's price difference.

Everyone is happy.

When Chen Xia arrived at Yangdao Commune, he looked at the ice storage filled with seafood without much excitement. But when he saw 50 tons of large yellow croaker, each weighing over 5 jin (100 grams), he practically burst into laughter.

Nowadays, a large yellow croaker is only worth a few eggs, but in later generations, a large yellow croaker will be worth at least tens of thousands of dollars.

Is there any "financial product" that can increase and preserve value better than this? This is about to be released.

The 1980s was the last era for wild yellow croaker.

In 1982, the time when Chen Xia is now living, the annual catch of yellow croaker reached 100,000 tons. Ten years later, in 1993, the catch of yellow croaker was only 27 tons.

In 10 years, the carbon dioxide emissions dropped from tons to 27 tons, and then to almost extinction in 2020. Readers can feel this shocking and frightening data for themselves.

Unfortunately, this destructive and barbaric fishing is still going on even in 2020. Look at those "destroying nets" on the fishing boats. The meshes are so small that even the minnows can't escape. Once the nets are cast, all the fish, big and small, are caught.

The short-sightedness and selfishness of the fishermen are obvious.

Chen Xia could not prevent this tragedy. In fact, the fishermen themselves knew it very well, but they still did it. They only cared about the immediate interests and did not care whether there would be a flood after their death.

What could Chen Xia do? He would, of course, take advantage of this last moment to buy up a large quantity of yellow croaker, and then wait for a few decades to make a few hundred million in tears.

Director Wang of Yangdao Commune was also very happy because the purchase price of seafood had increased this year. For example, yellow croaker cost 30 cents per pound, but Chen Xia gave him 45 cents per pound.

After deducting the cost, the 30% difference makes them earn hundreds of yuan, not to mention the profits from other seafood. It is enough for their entire commune to have a prosperous year.