During the day, Gu Weiliang and his friends bought things from Xu Nanxing, and after agreeing to supply him with goods every week, they bought many other goods on the black market before returning to the house they rented in the town.
Song Tingyi, who was traveling with us, didn't say a word the whole way. After returning to the rental house, he asked, "Brother Weiliang, why did you tell the other party our address?
"The 'Laopi' gang in town was arrested by the police, but we also have rivals in the county. If a stranger finds out about us, it wouldn't be safe if other rivals find out later!"
Gu Weiliang pondered for a moment and then said, "Your concerns are reasonable. However, I suddenly have a new idea! Go ask a few purchasing managers we know if they can get us a purchasing agent's certificate. We don't need a staffing or salary, just a purchasing agent's certificate from a large state-owned factory. With this document, we won't have to worry about anything when we go to collect things!"
Gu Weiliang had just come up with this idea; he hadn't previously considered getting a job as a purchasing agent. Purchasing positions at large factories were indeed difficult to secure. Not only did one need to be a regular employee, but one also had to have a strong background within the company to secure such a lucrative position. Many people were eager for this position, and with limited vacancies, it was impossible for educated youth like them to easily secure one.
Even if they have connections and backgrounds, they dare not easily do things that will cut off other people's financial resources and steal their jobs, lest they become targets and then get stabbed in the back, which would be more trouble than good.
But now he has changed his mind. As long as he doesn't want a job position or salary, he will not be restricted by the number of positions. He only needs a public certificate to deal with the inspection team.
Song Tingyi suddenly understood what he said and said excitedly, "Indeed! As long as we get the certification documents of this factory's purchasing agent, we can purchase things openly! This way, we won't have to worry about being investigated!"
"Yes! We don't necessarily need to go to the countryside and collect things door to door in every village! Besides, the villagers themselves will secretly go to the town to exchange eggs for food coupons and other things. The number of chickens raised in the countryside is limited. We spend a lot of energy to collect them, but we can only collect a few eggs or a few things from each household. It's time-consuming and labor-intensive, not cost-effective.
Why not just find a few 'suppliers' or develop a few 'purchasers' like we did today, and have them pick up the goods and then sell them to us here? Wouldn't that be much easier? As long as we get the factory certification documents, everything will be easy from now on!"
Song Tingyi nodded. "That's right. It's not easy to collect things in the countryside now. Many people are following our example and going to the countryside to collect things. The rural women themselves will secretly take eggs and go to the town or county to exchange them for things. We go too late now and can't collect anything."
Oh, if only the villagers could raise a few more chickens or ducks! Now each household can only raise no more than three chickens, and they may not all be hens. Isn't it hard to harvest eggs now? I heard that some farmers used to grow their own hemp and cotton and weave them on old-fashioned looms, but now they're not allowed to do that. They're also not allowed to grow peanuts and sugar beets. We don't even know what to harvest if we want more!
Gu Weiliang frowned upon hearing this and fell into deep thought. The policy of "cutting off the capitalist tail" was now being vigorously implemented throughout the country, with no place immune.
This policy has caused great hardship to farmers who work on the land. They can only cultivate two mu of land in their private plots, are not allowed to grow vegetables in their own yards, can only raise no more than three chickens and ducks at home, and can only keep two trees in the yard. Any extra ones will be confiscated. The production team's diversified operations are also restricted.
Over the past decade, the national economy has suffered a severe setback, and farmers have been increasingly hard-pressed. With no other sources of income, they can only rely on hard labor to earn work points and food. While city dwellers might have had jobs, jobs are now so scarce that even families with many children can barely make ends meet.
A large number of young people who could not find jobs in the city were arranged to go to the countryside as educated youth to share food with farmers.
If you want to go to university now, you still have to rely on recommendations, and the few places are given to people with connections.
Ordinary people have no hope for the future.
If this continues, people's lives will only get worse.
Thinking of this, Gu Weiliang smiled self-deprecatingly. Why should he think so much? He was just the son of a "bad element". What qualifications did he have to consider the future development of the country?
He should just make some money so his parents can live better in the cowshed!
So he said to Song Tingyi, "Don't think too much. This is not something you and I can interfere with. We just need to do our best. Now let's go to the county and find Director Wang of the cement factory we dealt with last time and ask him if he can issue us a certificate."
The two of them acted immediately, and the sooner the certification documents were obtained, the better!
There are only a few large factories in the county, and this cement factory is one of them.
The cement factory has good profits and good employee benefits, so they have dealt with the cement factory leaders several times.
This time, Gu Weiliang wanted to get a purchasing certificate for a state-owned factory, and the first place he thought of was the cement factory.
The two men took a bottle of white wine, 4 packs of cigarettes, 2 bottles of canned fruit and a can of malted milk, and gave each other 100 yuan. They finally persuaded Director Wang to agree and get the matter done.
Only after receiving several freshly issued purchase certificates did they both breathe a sigh of relief.
With this certificate, they can go directly to other factories to purchase things. As long as the goods are not in short supply and require waiting in line, they can basically buy them with money.
Going to the countryside to collect things, or having goods brought to your door, is no problem now. You can just say you're buying supplies for the factory as a benefit for the factory employees and get away with it.
After the other people knew about this, they all agreed with Gu Weiliang's decision.
Although they initially participated simply for fun, they became more and more devoted to it after earning their first bit of money through their own efforts. However, after doing it for a long time, they were also afraid of any accidents that would bring trouble to their families.
Now that they have the certification documents of the state-owned factory in their hands, they no longer have this worry!
Zhang Luyao was also very happy. She still kept in mind what Xu Nanxing had said to her before. Recently, they had been doing business privately, and she had been worried that something might happen to Gu Weiliang again. Now that they had this document in hand, everything was moving in the right direction. She felt relieved and happy for Weiliang!
At this time, Gu Weiliang's receiving and selling channels were opened up, and they also had a "public" identity. Their small group had begun to take shape!
Even if Xu Nanxing knew about this, he couldn't help but sigh, he is worthy of being the male lead!
No matter what he does, there will always be someone to help him!
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