Chapter 71 Purchase Price
After seeing almost everything, Su Mo went home, put on her canvas bag, rode her bicycle and headed for the commune. Ma Xiaojuan thought there were too many people and didn't go to join in the fun.
When she arrived at the commune, Su Mo parked her bicycle at the gate of the supply and marketing cooperative, asked Lu Xiaolan to help look after it, and then walked to the purchase station.
At this time, the purchase station was checking the public grain used by the Lujia Village Brigade to pay agricultural taxes.
Su Mo sneaked in and soon found Geng Changqing, who was talking to a man who looked like an official.
Su Mo hurried over and waited until the man who looked like an official left before she went over, "Uncle Geng."
Geng Changqing was a little helpless. This girl really came. It's as busy and chaotic as a war here, and I don't know what this girl thinks is beautiful here.
Su Mo saw that Geng Changqing looked a little haggard and his lips were dry and peeling, so she reached into the canvas bag and pretended to take out a white pear from it.
"Here, Uncle Geng, eat a pear to moisten it."
Geng Changqing saw that the pear looked very fresh, so he took it and took a bite. The flesh was crisp, sweet and juicy, and he couldn't help but take another bite.
"This pear is good, where did you buy it?"
"Hehe...I bought it from a big sister I know." Su Mo chuckled.
Geng Changqing guessed that it might be the black market, tapped her forehead, and said, "Be careful when you go to those places."
This girl, after not seeing her for a few years, has become much braver. But if you are not brave enough, you will not dare to walk on the mountain road in the dark in the middle of the night.
It is really difficult for her!
Su Mo smiled and nodded, "Uncle Geng likes to eat it. I will buy some for you next time I buy it."
Geng Changqing finished the pear in a few bites and nodded.
This pear is indeed delicious. He has never had a good appetite, but after eating it, he actually had the urge to eat more.
"Let's go, you follow me." Geng Changqing said.
Su Mo saw that he had a piece of paper rolled up in his hand. She seemed to have noticed that there was a price or something, so she asked: "Uncle Geng, what are you holding in your hand?"
"This year's purchase price list of agricultural and sideline products."
"Can I see it?"
Geng Changqing handed her the price list, "Look, it's not a secret, everyone knows it."
Su Mo took it and looked at it while following Geng Changqing. The prices on it are all calculated in units of 100 kilograms.
Wheat, 26 yuan per 100 kilograms; rice, 19 yuan per 100 kilograms; soybeans, 32.52 yuan per 100 kilograms; mung beans, 40 yuan per 100 kilograms; peanuts, 56 yuan per 100 kilograms; corn, 10 yuan per 100 kilograms; sweet potatoes, 5 yuan per 100 kilograms.
There are three grades of pigs, and the purchase price of each grade is different. 160 kilograms and above are grade one, 140 kilograms and above are grade two, and 120 kilograms are grade three. The purchase price of grade one pigs is 0.52 yuan per kilogram, the purchase price of grade two pigs is 0.5 yuan per kilogram, and the purchase price of grade three pigs is 0.47 yuan per kilogram.
In principle, the purchasing station will not accept pigs below 120 kilograms, and they must be rushed back to be raised again.
Goats, 80 yuan per 100 kilograms; chicken, 132.4 yuan per 100 kilograms; eggs, 129.6 yuan per 100 kilograms.
These prices are all posted prices. The purchase price of grain and task pigs will be 20% lower than this price.
What surprised Su Mo was that the purchase price of Coptis chinensis was as high as 1,600 yuan per 100 kilograms.
From an economic perspective, growing Coptis chinensis is much better than growing grain, but it takes 3 to 4 years for Coptis chinensis to be harvested, which was estimated to be unrealistic in the era when grain was the main goal.
"Uncle Geng, does our commune have a team that grows Coptis chinensis?" Su Mo asked.
"No, the harvest cycle of Coptis chinensis is too long. But there are wild Coptis chinensis on the mountain. The members can dig it up and process it, and then sell it to the purchasing station." Geng Changqing said.
"Now the country does not have enough food, and farmers are not encouraged to use arable land to grow these crops. These specific crops are generally only planted by the Corps farms."
Su Mo understood that scarcity makes things valuable, and scarcity naturally means high prices.
After wild ginseng, she has another crop that can be accelerated with high economic benefits. When she returns, she will go up the mountain to find wild Coptis chinensis and dig it up to accelerate growth.
Every time a brigade comes to deliver public grain, Geng Changqing goes to each purchasing point in turn. One is to check the quality of grain and agricultural and sideline products of each brigade, and the other is to be able to deal with problems at any time.
At each purchasing point, he arranged two commune cadres to help there and serve as a bridge for communication between members and grain purchasing station employees.
Ordinary people these days are instinctively a little scared of people who eat at the government's table. Sometimes the quality inspectors at the purchasing stations are deliberately picky, and they dare not refute them, so they can only suffer in silence. With these commune cadres around, the people at the purchasing stations will be more restrained.
Geng Changqing went to the grain crops first.
The situation at the grain crops was monitored by the team leader Lu Baoguo. The harvest was good this year, and Lu Baoguo was grinning from ear to ear.
Seeing Geng Changqing coming over, Lu Baoguo hurried to greet him: "Secretary Geng, we have exceeded our target this year. Even the quality inspectors praised the public grain we handed in."
It is not easy to get praise from the quality inspectors at the grain station.
Geng Changqing also picked up a shovel for spot-checking food and checked a few bags. It was indeed good.
"Both the output and quality are good. Thank you for the hard work of your brigade leadership team."
"No, no, it's all thanks to the good leadership of the country and the secretary."
This year, the secretary has secured a lot of fertilizer quotas for their commune. It's not just their brigade that has increased production, but the entire commune.
Geng Changqing waved his hand and continued to look forward to see the others.
Lu Baoguo only then saw Su Mo following Geng Changqing, and was surprised: "Su Zhiqing, you are here too."
"Yes, brigade leader, our brigade has a good harvest, and I came to see it too." Su Mo smiled.
Liu Guangying, who was helping the weigher, was shocked when she heard the name Su Zhiqing, and immediately looked up.
The woman following Geng Changqing was so beautiful that it was no exaggeration to say that she was a peerless beauty. Apart from other things, her niece lost in terms of appearance. What
's more, she was Secretary Geng's niece.
When she first heard about it, she was also quite shocked. No wonder the secretary scolded her like that. If she knew that she was the secretary's niece, she would not have dared to have any thoughts.
After hearing the news, she went to tell her brother and sister-in-law that day, hoping that her eldest niece would not cause any trouble.
Besides Geng Changqing, the other person who was running around the entire purchasing station was the brigade accountant Lu Xingjun.
He was really busy today. He had just finished reconciling the accounts with the accountant of the purchasing station and collecting the money when he was urged to hurry over.
But he was happy to be busy because the money could be settled in person without delay. In this way, when the work points were settled, everyone could get the money in time.
This year, the harvest of agriculture and sideline businesses was good. He conservatively estimated that the net value of their brigade's work points this year was more than ten cents.