Dong Qing and his wife got into the vehicle together, started the tractor, and drove towards the city.
Dongqing said, "Honey, let's go to my older sister's house and ask her to go to work at the factory tomorrow to buy two tricycles to deliver to the pig farm, specifically for the pig farm's use."
Every day, I need a tricycle to buy tofu residue from farmers, and to transport pig manure and feed.
Li Yuzhu asked, "Do I need to pay in cash when buying the car?"
Dong Qing said, "Although the factory is our own, we still need to pay in cash so that the accounts won't be so messy in the future."
The tricycles at the machinery factory were all built with their own money. Dong Qing did this to avoid future financial troubles, and he wasn't short of money now.
Dongqing asked, "Did Second Sister say if anyone wants the goods?"
Li Yuzhu said, "Yes, but only one company wants the goods, and we don't have enough trucks!"
Dongqing said, "I've been too busy these past few days, so I won't be delivering tomorrow. I'm going to the provincial meat processing plant tomorrow to sign a contract and buy the piglets while I'm there. You go to the village to help the village secretary recruit workers and hurry up and build a large warehouse, otherwise where will we put the pig feed when we bring it back?"
These days, it's not profitable to buy feed for pigs locally, but it's different if you buy it from other places. Grains are cheaper there, and wheat bran and corn aren't much more expensive.
In those days, the circulation of goods was a blind spot. Apart from state-run grain stores purchasing grain, no one bought grain from individuals. The main reason was that even if they did buy grain, there was nowhere to sell it. State-run grain stores never bought grain; they only accepted the public grain that farmers handed over each year.
Therefore, farmers had nowhere to sell their surplus grain, and grain could not reach the places where it was needed. Prices in those days were not uniform; they varied from region to region. This was the reality. Dong Qing's business opportunity was to buy soybean cakes and wheat bran from other places to feed pigs, which required little investment and yielded high returns.
They drove their tractor directly to the eldest sister Dong Damei's house, left her several thousand yuan, and told her to buy two tricycles and deliver them to the pig farm in Dongcun after she went to work the next day.
Dong Qing said, "We need two dump trucks with a 2.2-meter cargo bed in front of each other."
A dump truck costs a few hundred yuan more, but it's convenient to use and saves a lot of manpower. It's also more convenient to unload tofu dregs back home.
Dong Damei said, "Let's leave this to our eldest sister!"
The next day, after breakfast, Dongqing and his wife drove their tractor to their hometown, Dongcun, and drove directly into the pig farm outside the village.
Village Party Secretary Dong Tao arrived early. Seeing Dong Qing and his wife get out of the car, he walked up to them and said, "You're here. Let's talk in the office!"
The pig farm has several bungalows, which are used as offices.
They went into a room with a broken table and no chairs; the other rooms probably didn't have a table at all.
Dongtao took a contract out of his bag and placed it on the table. He said, "I already discussed it with the village committee last night. I'll sell you this land for the pig farm for 42,000 yuan. It's 50 mu in total, a one-time purchase. Please check the contract for any problems. If there are no problems, please sign it."
Dong Qing picked up the contract, glanced at it, and, finding no problems, signed his name on it.
After the contract was signed, the village kept one copy and Dongqing kept another. From then on, the pig farm and the 50 mu of land belonged to Dongqing.
Dongqing said, "Uncle, how about I pay you a salary of one hundred yuan a month to be the manager of the pig farm?"
Dong Qing also had his own reasons for appointing Ren Dongtao as the head of the pig farm. Dongtao had a strong influence in the village, and people would ask him for help with the land needed for future expansion and construction. Moreover, he was also capable of doing his job, making him the best candidate to be the head of the pig farm.
A regular employee typically earns less than fifty yuan a month, and in poorly performing units, they might only earn thirty-odd yuan. Dongqing offered Dongtao one hundred yuan, more than double the monthly salary of a regular employee in a state-owned enterprise, so there was no reason for him to refuse.
Dongtao said, "Now that the money has been distributed to individual households, my position as village party secretary is practically a sinecure. Fine, you can hand over the pig farm to me; I promise I won't let you down."
Dong Qing said, "Let's find two accountants and cashiers. Our pig farm needs proper management, otherwise the finances will be in chaos."
Dongtao said, "Since we're talking about fund management, how will you manage the cash when we go to Sucun to haul away shoddy tofu?"
Dong Qing said, "When we go out to buy things and come back, we take the invoices to the accountant and cashier to settle accounts. Long-term cooperative merchants only issue invoices and do not pay cash. For example, if we buy 500 jin of tofu dregs from Mr. Su today for five yuan, we will issue him a five-yuan invoice. In other words, the people who buy tofu dregs only issue invoices and do not carry cash. On the 30th of each month, the accountant and cashier go to the Su Village office to settle accounts. This way, the management will not be chaotic."
Dong Qing considered this very carefully. If management is not in place, someone will try to cheat him. There will always be people who try to cheat others. The money will only be less, not more, whichever way it passes through. If they are not allowed to handle cash, they will not be able to cause trouble.
At this time, all the villagers came. They were all there to work at the pig farm. There were too many idle people in the village, and more than three hundred people came at once.
They're all from the same village, and it wouldn't be right not to hire anyone, so Dongqing didn't want to offend anyone. He said, "Uncle, I'm leaving the recruitment to you. Our factory is only hiring fifty people, thirty men and twenty women. You can decide how to hire them. Uncle Hui and I went to the provincial capital. I explained the details to my wife last night, and she can make the arrangements."
Dong Qing passed this hot potato to Dong Tao, who laughed and said, "Leave the work of offending people to Uncle. You go ahead, I'll handle this."
Dong Qing said thank you, then gave his wife some instructions before turning and walking towards Dong Hui's house.
After Dong Qing left, Su Tao said, "Those aged twenty to thirty can stay, but the others should go back. The pig farm doesn't need that many people right now."
He can only restrict the age now, and only in this way can he drive away a large portion of the people. Even if he does this, the number of people remaining will still be twice as many.
Dongtao said, "The pig farm will only recruit fifty people: thirty male workers and twenty female workers. We will recruit two accountants and cashiers first. These two people are not among the fifty people. Women who are high school graduates should go home and bring an abacus. I will give you a test. Whoever can calculate the fastest will become the accountant and cashier."
Sitting in an office, sheltered from the wind and rain, everyone longs to be an accountant and cashier at a pig farm.
The daughters and wives of high school graduates have all gone home to get their abacuses.
Dongtao found a blackboard and wrote a lot of numbers on it.
In those days, every household had an old abacus because the older generation had abacus courses in school in the 1950s and 60s. Girls who were good at abacus all had abacuses at home, so there was really no need to look for an abacus everywhere.
More than a dozen girls quickly returned to the pig farm with abacuses. Dongtao said, "I've written your test questions on the blackboard. I'll give you three questions. The person who answers all three questions the fastest will become the accountant and cashier."
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