Chapter 266 The development plan of the whole clan [6000 words]

It has always been easy to grow fruits but difficult to sell them.

Even in the sales networks of later generations, one can often see news about fruit farmers being unable to sell their fruits, and hundreds of tons of fruit rotting in the fields.

Although fruits are scarce in this era, they should not have trouble selling in the next few years. However, hundreds of households in the Deng family in Naye grow watermelons, and the scale of planting is not small. They have to sign a purchase contract with the supply and marketing cooperative in advance to have peace of mind, otherwise they will not be able to find a buyer when the watermelons are ripe, which would be fatal.

Therefore, after seeing that all the tribesmen were planting watermelons, Deng Shirong took the time to go to Shuangwang Supply and Marketing Cooperative and found Guan Yongying's uncle Guan Dewu.

After greeting each other, Deng Shirong got straight to the point: "Dear relative, I came here today mainly to talk to you about the watermelon purchase."

In fact, for things like this, the purchase price should have been negotiated with the supply and marketing cooperative and a contract signed before planting, but the tribesmen just followed the trend and didn't think so far ahead.

Guan Dewu smiled and said, "Uncle Jiu, this is no problem. The price is the same as last year. We can sign the contract at any time."

Deng Shirong said, "Dear, this year it's not just my family that's planting watermelons. There should be hundreds of families in our Bangjie Brigade planting watermelons as well. If nothing unexpected happens, this year's watermelon harvest is estimated to be over 10,000 tons. Why don't you ask your leader to see if your supply and marketing cooperative needs to buy so much?"

Guan Dewu was surprised when he heard this. If it was just a few hundred tons of watermelon, he could make the decision casually, but tens of thousands of tons of watermelon was really not a small number, so he had to ask his leader for permission.

So, Guan Dewu nodded and said, "This number is a bit large. Uncle Jiu, please wait for me for a while. I will go and ask the leader for instructions."

Deng Shirong hummed and said, "Okay, I'll trouble my relatives then!"

Guan Dewu smiled and said, "Uncle Jiu, you're welcome. Our supply and marketing cooperative is obliged to purchase agricultural and sideline products from farmers. Although the quantity this time is a bit large, the shelf life of fruits like watermelon is relatively long, so I think it will be no problem to purchase all of them."

After saying that, Guan Dewu went to ask his leader for instructions.

A few minutes later, Guan Dewu returned to Deng Shirong with a beaming face and said with a smile, "Uncle Jiu, our leader said that no matter how many watermelons there are, our supply and marketing cooperative will buy them all. We can sign a contract for unlimited purchases, and the purchase price will remain the same as last year."

Deng Shirong was not surprised by this. After all, the supply and marketing cooperatives were huge companies spread all over the country, and their sales channels had no rivals in this era. Let alone 10,000 tons of watermelons, even millions or even tens of millions of tons of watermelons were nothing to the entire supply and marketing cooperative system.

But then again, it was only okay for a few years. By the late 1980s, the national fruit production had increased, and the supply and marketing cooperatives began to decline. By then, it was probably no longer possible to sell fruit directly to the supply and marketing cooperatives as we do now.

Of course, by that time, there will be more and more individual fruit business owners. If the supply and marketing cooperatives do not purchase the fruits, other merchants will naturally come to purchase them. If the purchase price given by the merchants is too low, they can go out and find sales channels themselves.

In short, as long as you have a flexible mind, you will have no trouble selling your things no matter what era it is.

Deng Shirong smiled and replied, "That's good. I feel relieved with this."

Then the two parties signed the contract. With this contract in hand, the tribesmen will have no worries about selling the watermelons they grow this year.

…

Capital city.

Deng Yunheng was having dinner with five of his roommates at a state-owned restaurant near Peking University.

Deng Yunheng's five roommates all came from different places. Among them, the roommate from Beijing was called Tang Mingjie. The elders in his family were all officials. Although he claimed that he was just a small official, once a "small official" in Beijing was transferred to other places, he would be a big official.

In addition, Tang Mingjie is the only one in the dormitory who can compete with Deng Yunheng in financial resources, which shows that his family background is definitely not as simple as he said.

My roommate from Heilongjiang is called Zheng Shifeng. He comes from an ordinary rural family. He is tall and strong, over 1.88 meters tall, and is the most powerful person in the dormitory.

My roommate from Hubei is called Chu Zhenyu. He comes from an ordinary rural family. He has thick eyebrows and big eyes, and looks quite manly. He is the most handsome guy in the dormitory.

My roommate from Zhejiang is called He Yong. He comes from a well-off family and his financial resources are second only to Deng Yunheng and Tang Mingjie. He is a very shrewd person.

My roommate from Henan is called Cui Wenguang. He comes from a working-class family and is a little introverted. When we chat in the dormitory, he just listens quietly. Unless someone asks him a question, he rarely responds.

After nearly two years of getting along, the six of them still have a very good relationship and basically get together for dinner once a month.

While eating, they chatted about all sorts of things, and somehow the topic ended up being about fruit.

Tang Mingjie looked at Deng Yunheng and said, "When it comes to fruits, the south is the king. Yunheng, your family is from Guangxi. There should be a lot of fruits in your hometown, right?"

Deng Yunheng smiled and said, "There are indeed many fruits in my hometown. Fruits are produced in all seasons. There is even a ballad circulating in our county that sings about the fruit production in the four seasons of the lunar calendar. The ballad goes like this: Bobai County is a treasure land, suitable for growing all kinds of fruits. There are bayberries in March, plums in April, peaches and lychees in May, pineapples with yellow skin in June, longans and sand pears in July, bananas in August, oranges and persimmons in September, grapefruits in October, and carambolas in business all year round.

In addition, there are sugar cane, loquat, mango, papaya, tomato, myrtle, black olive, yellow olive, taro, lemon, orange, pineapple, grape, monk fruit, etc. In short, there are fruits to eat all year round. Now should be the season for eating bayberry. "

Several roommates looked at each other in bewilderment. There were a lot of fruits in there, and they had never even heard of eating them.

Tang Mingjie drooled and said, "This is so delicious! I love eating fruits, especially the most famous lychees and longans from your south. I was salivating over them. Unfortunately, these two fruits were not available in the capital before. Until last year, someone was so resourceful that he managed to ship your longans to the capital for sale. That was my first time eating longans, and they tasted amazing."

He Yong said: "I have eaten longan before, it tastes really good and very sweet."

Zheng Shifeng sighed and said, "I have never even seen what lychees and longans look like, let alone eaten them."

"Looking back at Chang'an, I see piles of embroidery, and on the top of the mountain, thousands of doors open one after another. A horseman in red dust makes the concubine smile, but no one knows it is the lychees coming."

Chu Zhenyu recited a poem and then said, "I have heard of this lychee for a long time, but unfortunately I have never tasted it. It's such a pity!"

Deng Yunheng spread his hands and said, "My family has planted a thousand lychee trees, and they are the best lychee variety, Guiwei. Unfortunately, when we go back after the holiday, the lychee season will be almost over. In addition, lychees are not as durable as apples, so I can't bring them to you to eat."

Tang Mingjie was surprised and asked, "Yunheng, your family has planted thousands of lychee trees?"

Deng Yunheng blinked and said, "Brother Jie, isn't it just a thousand lychee trees? What's so strange about that?"

Tang Mingjie put his arm around Deng Yunheng's shoulders and asked, "Yunheng, are you going home this summer vacation?"

Deng Yunheng nodded and said, "I didn't go back during the Spring Festival last year, so I will definitely go back during the summer vacation."

Tang Mingjie chuckled and said, "Can I come to your house as a guest?"

If it were any other classmate, Tang Mingjie would definitely not have said this, but Deng Yunheng had a cheerful personality, was generous and magnanimous, and had a lot of money. It was obvious that he came from a good family. In addition, the two of them had a good relationship, so he did not hesitate to express his thoughts.

"Of course you can, Brother Jie, if you don't mind the long journey, I can't wait for you to come to my house as a guest!"

Deng Yunheng nodded without hesitation, then looked at his other roommates and said, "And Brother Feng, Brother Yu, Brother Yong, Brother Guang, the same goes for you. If you don't mind that my home is far away, I also welcome you to visit my home during the summer vacation."

Zheng Shifeng was moved when he heard this and asked, "Yunheng, is this convenient?"

Deng Yunheng laughed and said, "What's so inconvenient about this? You don't have to worry about food and accommodation. We will definitely arrange everything for you."

Chu Zhenyu was also moved when he heard this and asked, "Yunheng, is it really okay for so many of us to go?"

Deng Yunheng smiled and said, "Of course, no problem. My dad is very hospitable. If he knew I was bringing my classmates back, he would be so happy. Besides, he is also a good cook. He knows a little bit about all kinds of cuisines. I guarantee you will be satisfied after eating.

The most important thing is, if we go back during the summer vacation, we can eat as many fruits as you want, such as lychees, jackfruits, kumquats, kiwanos, carambolas, longans, etc. I guarantee that your trip will be worthwhile.”

Hearing this, even Cui Wenguang, who usually keeps quiet, couldn't help but say, "Yunheng, you are totally tempting us!"

Tang Mingjie said excitedly: "Then it's settled. When summer vacation comes, we will go to Yunheng's house together."

Zheng Shifeng smiled and nodded, "Okay, then let's go together. It's a good opportunity to see what kind of place with outstanding people and beautiful scenery gave birth to such an outstanding person like Yun Heng."

Chu Zhenyu, He Yong, and Cui Wenguang all nodded in agreement.

Everyone was looking forward to the trip to Guangxi during the summer vacation.

…

Naye Village.

Deng Shirong sat under his own wooden shed, burning cigarettes and thinking about clan matters.

Everyone has a sense of responsibility, and this sense of responsibility changes as one's identity changes.

For example, if you are a parent, you have the responsibility to educate your children well and hope that they can succeed. If you are a teacher, your responsibility is to educate your students well and hope that they can become the pillars of the country. Once you take the position of the top leader of a county, you must look at the whole county and seek development for the people of the county.

Deng Shirong is now the head of the Naye Deng clan and is respected and loved by all clan members. Naturally, he has to put some effort into leading the development of the clan.

Previously, grants and scholarships were set up in the tribe only to encourage the tribe members to study hard. This was to cultivate talents for the tribe, and it would take ten or twenty years before it would have an effect. It is of no help at all for the current poverty alleviation and prosperity.

This year, the whole family has planted watermelons. If all goes well, they can make a lot of money, but this is only a short-term gain. In a few years, when the fruit production in various places increases, it will be unlikely to make money like now.

Therefore, Deng Shirong had to come up with a long-term money-making plan to truly lead his people out of poverty and into prosperity.

In fact, there was no need to think too much, a ready-made plan appeared in Deng Shirong's mind.

When he was looking for a way out for his second nephew, he thought of a plan with a higher upper limit on making money, which was to run transportation.

Transport is divided into passenger transport and freight transport. At that time, Deng Shirong believed that the competition in passenger transport was too fierce and not suitable for his second nephew, so he gave up this more profitable option and finally let his second nephew choose freight transport which was relatively less risky.

Now, Deng Shirong feels that this passenger transport is a business tailor-made for their Deng family.

If passenger transport is run by an individual, the competition is indeed too fierce, because those who dare to engage in this industry in this era are relatively unruly people. Basically, they are the kind of powerful people who can call hundreds of people by just shouting from a high place. The honest people simply cannot survive in this industry.

However, no matter how powerful an individual is, can he be more powerful than a group of more than 3,000 people?

Using the power of an ethnic group to run passenger transport, which colleague would dare to suppress it with tough measures?

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this plan was feasible. Deng Shirong decided to wait until the watermelons were harvested this year. While selling the watermelons, he would take the opportunity to hold a clan meeting to discuss this matter with the clan members to see if they were willing to do it. If they were willing, then he would do it. If not, then forget it.

Thinking of this, Deng Shirong felt it necessary to make some arrangements in advance, such as arranging a group of clansmen to learn how to drive. This kind of thing must be arranged as early as possible, because driving is easy to learn, but learning how to repair a car will take a long time.

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Of course, there is no need to learn professional-level car repair techniques. It is enough as long as you can solve some simple problems.

As for which tribesmen to arrange to learn how to drive, Deng Shirong thought for a moment and then turned his attention to the neighboring Hengmenkou Village.

In the entire Bangjie Brigade, if you want to say which village is the richest, it is definitely controversial. No village can surpass other villages. But if you want to say which village is the poorest, there is no dispute at all. It must be Hengmenkou Village.

How poor is Hengmenkou Village? I think you can get a rough idea by giving an example.

After Bangjie Village (brigade) was electrified, in the first few years, Deng Shirong's family consumed more electricity than the entire Hengmenkou Village combined. This shows how frugal Hengmenkou Village is.

You can imagine how poor this village is if they can save to such an extent.

Deng Shirong’s grandfather was a brother of the ancestor of Hengmenkou, so their blood relationship is actually quite close. Now that such a good thing has happened, it is only right to take proper care of his great-uncle’s descendants.

Therefore, thinking of this, Deng Shirong put down the chimney, and walked towards Hengmenkou Village with his hands behind his back.

…

Hengmenkou Village is a relatively small village in Bangjie Brigade, with only 26 households and more than 100 people.

Because there are relatively few people in the village, the architecture of Hengmenkou Village is somewhat different from that of other villages. All the houses in their village are connected, forming a "non" shape, with a road in the middle and rows of houses on both sides.

The family living in the first row is headed by a name called Deng Changwen. When he was young, he was a famous strongman in the village. He often carried more than 200 kilograms of things to sell in other communes. He didn't even have to stop to rest on the way. He was a very awesome person.

Unfortunately, one time when he was carrying things to sell in the next commune, he was overworked and fell asleep as soon as he put down the things. He didn't even have time to wipe the sweat off and just fell asleep. The consequences were very serious. When he woke up, he was vomiting blood.

Since then, Deng Changwen's health has deteriorated.

If we had the conditions to go to a big hospital for treatment at that time, perhaps nothing would have happened. But our family was extremely poor in that era and there was no way we could afford to go to a big hospital for treatment. We just got some medicine from the barefoot doctor in the village and endured it like that.

The result was naturally that the condition became more and more serious. After holding on for more than ten years, he finally passed away.

The family's financial situation was already poor, and the breadwinner had been ill for more than ten years, making the situation even worse.

It was not until the children grew up and the land was distributed to each household in the village that the family's food and clothing problems were solved.

However, the problem of food and clothing was solved, but the marriage problems of her children became a headache for Changwen's wife.

Deng Changwen had a total of six children, four sons and two daughters. The four sons were named Deng Silong, Deng Sihu, Deng Sibao, and Deng Silang, each name more fierce than the other.

Among them, the eldest son Deng Silong is 28 years old this year and is still a bachelor, ranking first on the list of bachelors in the village.

Even in later times, parents will urge their children to get married from time to time after they turn 28. In this era, if a child is not married by the age of 28, his parents will be extremely anxious.

However, there is no point in being anxious. There are only two rooms in the house. Mrs. Changwen and her two daughters live in one, and the four sons live in another. There is no extra room at all. If the eldest son gets married, where will the other three sons live?

I don’t even have a place to live, so it’s just a dream to think about getting married.

Mrs. Changwen was a little desperate at first, until the news spread that Jiugong from Naye Village made several thousand yuan by growing watermelons last year. Only then did she regain her confidence and took her children to reclaim the mountains at home and plant watermelons this year.

If there is a good harvest of watermelons this year, the family will have money to build a house and the son will have the opportunity to get married.

Therefore, during this period of time, seeing hope, Mrs. Changwen's mood has been much better.

…

"Mrs. Changwen (the name here has nothing to do with seniority. In Shuangwang, when it is difficult to address someone based on seniority, older women are generally called Mrs. So-and-so, and younger women are called Sister So-and-so), she is sewing clothes!" When Deng Shirong came over, he saw Mrs. Changwen sitting at the door sewing clothes, so he greeted her.

Chang Wen's wife looked up and quickly stood up to greet him, "Jiu Gong, why are you here?"

Deng Shirong smiled and said, "I came to talk to you about something. Your dragon, tiger and leopard are not at home?"

"They've all gone to the orchard!"

Mrs. Changwen picked up the pipe beside her and asked, "Mr. Jiu, do you want to light a cigarette?"

Deng Shirong waved his hand and said, "It's not burning anymore. I just had a burn at home. I came here mainly to tell you to let your Longhubao learn to drive."

Mrs. Chang Wen was surprised and asked, "You want my dragon, tiger and leopard to learn how to drive?"

Deng Shirong did not keep the secret and said directly: "Yes, learn to drive. After they learn to drive, I plan to arrange for them to drive the shuttle bus."

Chang Wen's wife widened her eyes when she heard this and said excitedly, "Jiu Gong, did I hear it right? My A-Long and his family have learned to drive, so they can drive the shuttle bus?"

Being a driver among the eight major personnel is a very impressive profession in this era. Being able to drive a shuttle bus is the dream of many rural people.

If someone else said this to her, she would definitely spit in his face, but since these words came from Jiu Gong's mouth, the credibility was very high. After all, Jiu Gong was of such high status, how could he come to her specially to make such a joke? This was also the reason why Chang Wen's wife was so excited.

Deng Shirong nodded and said, "That's right. As long as you learn to drive, you can be arranged to drive the shuttle bus. Ask your dragon, tiger and leopard to see if they are interested in being drivers. If they are, come to my house this afternoon and tell me. I will arrange for them to go to the county town to learn how to drive."

Mrs. Changwen was so excited that she made the decision directly: "Jiu Gong, how could you not be interested in such a good thing? I can make the decision for them now."

"Okay, I'll include all three of them. Ask them to come to my house this afternoon and I'll talk to them about learning to drive."

"Okay, thank you Jiugong."

…

After leaving Chang Wensao's house, Deng Shirong went to Hengmenkou Village to look for several families. He looked for families that were poor and had many brothers.

Although the possibility of encountering danger when the clan forms a passenger transport team is much lower than when an individual transports passengers, as the saying goes, it is better to be safe than sorry, so he would choose a family with many brothers, so that even if something bad happens, he will only lose one of the sons, and there will be no extinction of the family line.

It has to be said that drivers in this era are really popular. Basically, as long as Deng Shirong mentions a job, the people he finds will agree immediately, and without exception, they are grateful to him.

Deng Shirong found twenty people in total. Since it was the clan that was running the passenger transport, the starting number would definitely not be just one or two buses.

According to his idea, he should start with at least ten buses. After he has figured out the business, he will continue to add more buses. Not to mention dominating the county's long-distance buses, he should at least occupy half of the market. Only in this way can he reap the most attractive first batch of passenger transport dividends in the upcoming wave of migrant workers.

afternoon.

All the twenty driver candidates selected by Deng Shirong came to his house to report for duty.

Among these twenty people, ages range from 20 to 35, including middle-aged people who are married with children and unmarried young people.

They all have one obvious characteristic, which is that they are bold and fearless.

In this special era, we cannot choose the kind of driver who is honest, timid and fearless. We must choose the kind of driver who is bold and fearless.

(End of this chapter)