Zhang Tao spoke up first.
"Sir, the main reason we're here is to help the local farmers sell their goods via livestream. Does the county have any plans for this? Or should we approach the farmers ourselves?"
"We've already discussed this in a meeting. Our local specialty is soft pears. I wonder how many you could help us sell?"
"We don't know either. How about this, give us a total number of soft pears in the county, and we'll decide how many to sell when it's time to sell them."
The county head and the party secretary exchanged a glance, and then spoke.
"Well, the production of soft pears in our county is actually not low, about two thousand tons a year, but because the roads are too difficult to travel, no one is willing to come here to buy pears. Even if someone does come, the price is driven very low."
I heard that you guys need to sell at very low prices when you do live-streaming sales. What price are you planning to sell at? Knowing the price will help me find farmers to buy the pears.
“Yes, yes, the county head is right. We also checked the price of soft pears before we came. The wholesale price in Lanzhou is about 5 yuan per kilogram. Let’s buy them at 5 yuan per kilogram.”
"Five yuan?!" The county magistrate jumped to his feet.
Zhang Tao thought he had said something wrong and quickly added something.
"Of course, this price is for reference only. If the county magistrate feels it is inappropriate, he/she can bring it up."
"No, no, no, this is perfect, absolutely perfect! It's settled then! Five yuan a pound, sell as many as you like, I'll go and buy as many pears as possible for you! If you still don't have enough, I'll help you buy from other counties!"
"Uh, no need, no need. I estimate that we can sell about ten tons, that's about right. Then I'd like to trouble the county head to help us contact farmers, preferably a large fruit grower, so we can do a live broadcast."
"Okay! No problem. You can stay at the guesthouse in the county for now. We'll let you know once we've made arrangements. The conditions are rather basic, so we hope you won't mind."
"It's alright, it's alright. We also need a few days to promote it in advance."
The county head personally escorted the five people to the county government building and had the director of the investment office personally accompany them to the guesthouse.
After watching the five people drive away, the county magistrate jumped for joy.
"We're rich! We're rich!"
The secretary also smiled and said.
"Yes, at first I thought this live streaming platform was like those unscrupulous merchants who would try to drive down prices. But I didn't expect that they would buy soft pears that used to sell for 1.5 yuan a pound for 5 yuan. What a kind person!"
"Yes, I remember last year when those unscrupulous merchants came to buy it, the highest they were willing to pay was one yuan, and some even wanted to buy it for 80 cents a pound. It was simply shameless. This is the harvest that ordinary people have worked hard for all year."
After arriving at the guesthouse, Zhang Tao took out his laptop, connected to the guesthouse's network, and made a video call to Li Mengqi using MiXin.
Soon, Li Mengqi connected to the video call.
However, Li Mengqi wasn't the only one in the shot; Lin Chen was also there.
"President Lin, President Li!"
"Brother Zhang Tao, how's it going over there?"
Zhang Tao watched Li Mengqi adjusting her skirt with a slightly strange expression, but since both of them were his superiors, and one of them was even his boss, he dared not say anything.
“We’ve arrived here and met with the county head and secretary of Changhe County. They are very supportive of our live-streaming sales. They will arrange for us to conduct live-streaming sales at the home of a slightly larger fruit farmer. However, Mr. Li, I think I’ve set the price too high.”
"How so?"
“When we arrived in Lanzhou, I inquired and found that the wholesale price of soft pears was about 5 yuan per jin (500g). So I quoted the county head 5 yuan. But judging from the county head’s expression, I had obviously overpaid. Maybe 3 yuan would have been enough.”
At this moment, Lin Chen spoke up.
"Brother Zhang, you must remember, our purpose in this live-streaming event to help farmers is not to make money, but to help these fruit farmers sell their unsold fruit and prevent unscrupulous middlemen from driving down prices. If we ourselves were to drive down prices, what would be the point of this event?"
"Yes, the boss is right, I was mistaken."
"It's alright. Zhang Ge, it's already admirable that you guys signed up for this live stream event and went to such a difficult place. Where are you staying now?"
"The guesthouse arranged by the county is a bit old, but the facilities are quite complete, with electricity, internet and a water heater."
"Okay, then you should wait for the county's arrangements. Once the county has made arrangements, take as many photos as possible and send them over so we can promote it."
"Okay, boss."
After hanging up the video call, Zhang Tao sighed, "No wonder he's so young and can be a boss; his vision is truly different."
After resting at the guesthouse for a day, the director of the investment office came again the next day.
"Brother Zhang, we've already made contact with the fruit farmer in the county. He's the biggest fruit farmer in the area, with over 100 mu of pear trees, producing 300,000 jin of pears a year. Would you like to go and take a look?"
“Great, we can go over there and take some photos and videos for promotional purposes.”
Subsequently, the director of the investment office led Zhang Tao and four others to the fruit farmer's home.
This family lives on the outskirts of the county. They have a large courtyard, and when you open the gate, you can see large tiled houses on three sides.
"Director Ma, you've arrived."
"Come on, Lao Zhou, these are the teachers from the Panda Live e-commerce platform in Shanghai. They've come here specifically to help sell soft pears in our county."
"Oh, come in, come in! These are all distinguished guests. Old woman, quickly make some tea."
Zhang Tao waved his hand and said.
"Uncle Zhou, we won't have the tea. Could we take some photos of the soft pears and the orchard to use for promotion?"
"Okay, okay, come with me."
Uncle Zhou led the group to the large tile-roofed house on the left side of the courtyard. He opened the door and found the house full of shelves with wooden planks on them. The soft pears were neatly arranged on the planks.
Zhang Tao noticed that the large brick house had no windows and was the same temperature as outside. It should be noted that Gansu is still quite cold this month, and Zhang Tao and the others were all wearing thick down jackets.
"Uncle Zhou, why doesn't this house have any windows?"
"Oh, these soft pears, after the start of winter, should be picked and frozen. They taste better when frozen. If you put them in the windows, it will be too hot inside the house."
"Oh, I see."
Cameraman Liu Hansheng quickly filmed all of this, and also took some close-up shots of the soft pear.
Afterwards, the group went to the orchard to take some photos. Although the orchard was bare now, that was exactly what was needed to show that these were all grown by the fruit farmers themselves and to show how hard they worked.
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