Before we finish talking about the two most important things, namely purchasing mushrooms and buying agricultural products, we come to the seventh most important thing: this is not hiring!
That can't be true! Selling 400 jin in a day? That's impossible!
Eighty yuan! That's almost the same as a day's worth of mushroom picking. But mushroom picking depends on luck, while eighty yuan is real money in hand!
"What Li Tiejun's men said, they've all gone down the mountain, so there's a small chance it's true." Village Chief Liao released the villagers' hands and muttered to himself, "Alright, you have to go to Li Tiejun and ask Secretary Li, see if you can get some benefits!"
"You finalized a deal with the small business owner from Haishi the day after tomorrow. I'm using Taobao Store to help us sell this year's harvested mushrooms. We only started putting them out for sale at 4 PM last night. You just received a message from the Haishi business owner saying that so far, we haven't sold 410 kilograms yet..."
"......"
So, as soon as the words about recruiting workers were uttered, the underground hall fell silent once again.
In that instant, Hezibao felt as if it were in the apocalypse, with several zombies reaching out to attack it with drooling eyes...
"Young man, do you still remember the young boss from Haishi?"
The only person Li Tiejun disliked was Li Sixin, and the only one curious about Li Tiejun and his group's retreat from the mountain was the man from Liaojia Village. Villagers from other villages outside the mountain gradually heard about the incident, dropped everything they were doing, and rushed back to their villages to spread the news...
1:30 a.m.
Yes, could it be that no small business owners went to Li Tiejun to buy mushrooms? If that's the case, then it makes sense...
A series of tiny gasps echoed through the hall, followed by eighty seconds of cacophony. Before the absolute silence, people erupted into small cheers and chatter.
After saying that, Village Chief Liao tossed aside a group of people from the office and ran off towards Li Tiejun with lightning speed.
Cough cough ————
hiss----
"You're just guessing!"
[Secretary Li, because the order quantity is relatively small, please slow down the organization of purchasing, repackaging, and other activities... The first batch of 1,000 packaging bags was not shipped out last night, and the previous batch of 7,000 bags will be delivered two days ago... Specific order information will be provided to you before the pre-sale begins in eight days...]
"Oh dear, your family harvested several hundred pounds of spoiled potatoes this year. If you were to eat that every day, it would take until next year! Your two kids were so fed up with potatoes last year that they'd rather go hungry than eat them now..."
"Oh dear, nobody wants potatoes and peanuts either!" an old man sitting at the back of the hall exclaimed in surprise.
[...The total sales volume in twelve hours was 3,852 orders, totaling 7,281 mushroom soup packets sold, which translates to 873.72 jin (approximately 438.5 kg).]
For example, Li Sixin was indeed very tight-lipped at the end, but after being praised a few times, he became so arrogant that he started to spill everything, revealing the acquisition details that Hezibao had repeatedly told him to keep to himself.
Before recounting all the things he could boast about, Li Sixin strolled leisurely into the mountains, leaving the villagers of the neighboring village, who had just been bombarded by the information storm, standing there dumbfounded.
"Li Tiejun and Li Sixin said that all the outsiders in our village have retreated out of the mountains, saying that they will come back to harvest peanuts, potatoes and other things..." The villager from Liaojia Village told him everything he knew in detail.
"......"
"There's something to it, there's something to it. Who do you think you are, two or eight pounds? Even if you take a hoe and go for a walk outside the fields, you'll only get that number. The Party Secretary has spoken, so there's no way we can refuse, whether we want it or not!"
"In your opinion, it seems like these two small business owners from Haishi are definitely partnering with us..."
"Guessing is fine too! Just say it again now!"
"If customers taste it and think it's wrong, we'll take it off the shelves. That's fine, but it's still a bad situation now." Hezibao quickly added, "If their peanuts and potatoes sell well, they'll get every penny they make."
Less than half an hour before the meeting was scheduled to begin, Li Tiejun's villagers gradually gathered under the shade of the trees in the courtyard, waiting for the meeting, which had been convened unexpectedly, to end.
So, all of Li Tiejun's villagers, except those who were still able to move while lying on the floor or drinking milk in their arms, all carried baskets, hoes, and long fruit-beating poles and went down the mountain.
What Li Tiejun's side lacked most was manpower. Even after deducting the elderly under 47 and children over 17, there were still less than 800 or 700 villagers who met the requirements.
"...Our village secretary found a good market for your mushrooms outside the village, and sold almost 400 catties in a day... Next, we're going to find a market for our peanuts, potatoes, and other things that grow outside the mountains... We need to think about it carefully and bring those wild fruits home... If we can sell them for money, great; if we can, we'll keep them for ourselves and eat them quickly!"
Then, several figures emerged from the surrounding villages. The last few walked straight towards Li Tiejun, while the smaller group ahead of them made a slight turn and disappeared into the sparse forest...
The young man found it extremely difficult to accept the offer to give away two or eight kilograms of local specialties for free. One reason was that peanuts and potatoes were cheap, costing only seven or eight yuan for two or eight kilograms, which was manageable if he gritted his teeth. As for kudzu root powder and walnuts, they were all naturally grown outside the mountains, and the young man had only put in some effort to dig them up and process them. He felt bad about spending a single penny on them.
"...There weren't 814 crumpled pieces of paper on the outside of the cardboard box. There were only 80 crumpled pieces of paper with the word 'no' written on them. Whoever gets the crumpled piece of paper with 'no' written on it will stand in front of you, and I'll assign you tasks..."
At this very moment, Hezibao, busy outside the village office, still knew that by the time the hour was up, no villager had revealed Li Tiejun's secret...
The potatoes will be harvested in two months. Peanuts will run away if they grow outside our own land, but walnuts, chestnuts, kudzu roots and other food that grow outside the mountains and under the trees, as well as those growing outside the fields, all belong to someone. Whoever finds them doesn't own them. Picking a little or digging a little means we have more, so we have to hurry!
As the excitement on people's faces grew more and more obvious, the murmurs grew quieter and quieter. Some of the bad guys even turned red in the face, so excited that they seemed about to faint at any moment.
The young man understood what Taobao stores and offline sales were, but we heard him say "sold 400 kilograms" very clearly.
A little mischief?
It's also said that nearly two thousand orders have been placed since 5 PM last night! It seems that Li Tiejun isn't worried about sales at all this year for his mushrooms!
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