Most of these educated youth were city dwellers from the county, and they all had some connections behind them.
Chen Gang wanted to build a good relationship with them so that after the production team leader had accumulated five years of experience, he could rely on them to get promoted to the county level.
Even if they can't be promoted to the county level, they can be promoted to the town level. A town can manage a dozen or twenty villages, which is quite a lot of authority.
Faced with the temptation of promotion versus the temptation of wealth, Chen Gang's heart ultimately leaned towards the former, suppressing the latter.
He pulled the village chief, Wu Fengshou, outside into the yard and told him about Xu Zhenting's antics.
“The educated youth are right. Our village should respond to the county’s call and family farming is feasible.”
"However, using one's own interests for personal gain is absolutely unacceptable."
"As mentioned above, the nature of the bourgeoisie is to be profit-driven and unscrupulous, and they are dripping with blood and filth from head to toe!"
"It is exploitative, exploiting the proletariat and extracting surplus value, and it must be absolutely resisted."
Wu Fengshou's ears were filled with a bunch of clichéd speeches from the county's annual meetings. After listening to them for so many years, he didn't really care.
Now, listening to Chen Gang babbling on and on, he just feels annoyed.
In his view, on the surface, this idea was being conveyed from the county level down.
However, there is still a unified list to coordinate the procurement of various materials.
This is the contradiction.
"In short, as the village head of Laoshu Village and as the leader of the Laoshu Village collective production team, we must correct this unhealthy trend!"
“Otherwise, if Xu Zhenting reports this to the county, you, as the village chief, will be the first person in the village to be brought down for speculation and profiteering.”
Wu Fengshou still wanted to get away with it and turn a blind eye.
As a result, those educated youth who were not only unhelpful but also caused all sorts of trouble insisted on bringing the matter to the forefront.
How annoying.
However, he was indeed afraid; he couldn't let this label be pinned on him, or he would be truly finished.
"You decide for yourself. I can only keep the educated youth in check for two days."
After saying these words, Chen Gang turned around and glanced around the Lin family's courtyard one last time before walking away with his hands behind his back, looking old and dignified.
"I'd barely tasted a few sweet dates when the big stick came crashing down on me, really..."
Wu Fengshou muttered to himself as he squatted down in front of the Lin family's house, trying to clear the turmoil in his mind.
"What's going on?" Lin Mo was about to take his two childhood friends to continue gathering pine cones.
As soon as I stepped outside, I saw the village chief squatting outside the door, looking like a bunch of idiots.
Wu Fengshou looked at him, pondered for a long time, and the only idea he came up with was to temporarily lay low.
Since the college entrance examination has been reinstated, the educated youth will eventually return to the city.
At worst, we can restart this side business after they've all left.
"Lin Mo, come here." The village chief beckoned to him alone, telling him to squat down as well.
After Lin Mo squatted down next to him, the village chief briefly explained the situation to him:
"Forget it, let's wait until they leave before we do this off-the-beaten-path thing. Otherwise, they'll threaten to report us every day. It's really annoying."
What this means is, stop messing with the pine cones and stop making the aspic; put everything on hold.
I'll do it later.
That won't do. Lin Mo is in a hurry to earn money to marry Xiao Xiao. Although he has enough for the dowry, his house is so dilapidated.
When a young couple gets married, shouldn't they have a new house?
Building a new house requires money. After it's built, the little house has nothing, and you still have to buy a lot of things.
If we don't actively stir up a money-making trend now...
That means we'll have to wait seven or eight years before the spring breeze of reform and opening up blows into the village!
Let us waste our time waiting.
No, absolutely not.
Lin Mo's eyes darted around in their sockets, and his brain seemed to spin around in his head.
Yes.
"Village chief, we have an idea. We were told to hunt rabbits, two per family or something. But we think two is too few."
"Give us five days, and we'll hunt a thousand rabbits within those five days, with each household raising five!"
"Your order says you're buying rabbit fur and rabbit meat jelly too? Let's get the villagers involved and make some money from this!"
"In addition, the most common pine tree in Lingzi is actually called Scots pine. Although Scots pine kernels are common and don't fetch a high price, there are so many of these trees in Lingzi that there is a large quantity of them."
"Let's draw a route map, mark where the pine forests are, and encourage the villagers to go there to pick the pine nuts. We'll collect the nuts and sell them to the county!"
"Besides the pine, there are many other medicinal herbs, such as Atractylodes lancea, peony, Adenophora stricta, Perilla frutescens, Bupleurum chinense, Veratrum nigrum, Polyporus umbellatus, Plantago asiatica, Platycodon grandiflorus, Gentiana scabra, Agrimonia pilosa, and Trollius chinensis. There are plenty of them that can be picked."
"It's just that I didn't see any medicinal herbs on your list, but medicinal herbs are precious, so the county will definitely buy them. If all else fails, you can ask the county hospital if they will buy them; those barefoot doctors definitely need them."
"We refuse to believe that the county can tie up all six or seven hundred people in our village and send them to be shot!"
Upon hearing this, Wu Fengshou's eyes blinked and lit up.
Good lad, you know the mountain village so well? You even know exactly what can be turned into money there.
"Pine?" To his shame, Wu Fengshou had lived in the village for half his life.
If Lin Mo hadn't told him, he wouldn't have known that such things existed in the ridge, and that there were quite a few of them.
"Wait a moment."
Wu Fengshou pulled out a crumpled and worn-out coordination form from his coat pocket.
He avoided Lin Mo and rolled his eyes around once.
But he didn't see the words "camphor tree" written on it.
On the unified pricing list, the cheapest pine nuts were priced at 1.5 yuan per jin (500g), and it was labeled "Northeast Pine Nuts".
He folded the bill in half, hid the price, and only showed Lin Mo the name:
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