Chapter 7 What if it's fake news?
When he got home, Lin Tao's parents were not sleeping. Lin Guodong heard the sound of motorcycles and walked outside in his clothes. He happened to see Lin Tao put on his motorcycle and asked, "Where did you go? I came back so late? Is he still covered in dirt?"
Lin Tao walked into the room and said, "Go to Pochengzi and get some dirt. Dad, aren't you sleeping yet?"
"Speak to you about something." Lin Guodong said as he walked into the house: "Come here."
Lin Tao was a little strange. His father was not a person who liked to chat. Since he called him, he must have something to say. He just didn’t know what to say.
"I heard that you made a bet with Zhuang Cheng just to buy the harvest?" Lin Guodong sat on the sofa in the living room and asked Lin Tao with a serious expression.
"Yes." Lin Taoyuan didn't intend to hide it from his father. Since this matter was operated in the village, it would naturally spread. He originally planned that his father would not ask, and he would tell his father tomorrow.
"Why?" Lin Guodong looked a little angry. He thought that his son would find a unit to have a meal at the public and no longer have to work in the fields with his face facing the loess and back on the sky, at least he would be worry-free. Unexpectedly, his son did such a "big thing" just after he graduated from college. Now that people in the village have spread, it would be better to say that Lin Tao has courage. After all, he dared to do things that others dare not do as soon as he graduated. It is probably only Zhuang Cheng can compare.
If you can't say it, it's really bad. It's said that Lin Tao is arrogant, he doesn't know the level of things, but he's a little bit of culture and he's talking about it on paper. I don't know if he can learn something in college. Anyway, this is the result of buying, and the result of buying is because he has a wealth. Although Lin Tao is educated, is he rich?
When Lin Tao went out in the evening, when Lin Guodong went to the shop in the village to buy things, he heard someone talking about this. At first, he thought others were joking, but Zhuang Cheng was there at that time and said a few words sarcastically. Lin Guodong defended his son a few words, but he felt angry in his heart.
This is not a matter of hundreds or two thousand yuan, it is a matter of tens of thousands!
Even if my son has great skills, how can he earn so much money?
"I don't know, you have learned all the skills in four years of college, but you have learned the skills of bragging!" Lin Guodong saw that Lin Tao didn't say anything, thinking that he was really meant to act, and became more angry: "I thought you had graduated from college and could find a job to save money. After four years of college, this personality should be honed. You are so good now! You brag more than the sky. How can you smooth things out when I see it!"
Li Yumei heard her husband's voice and got up and walked out in her clothes. Seeing Lin Guodong scolding her son, she advised: "What's the matter that you can't say? Xiaotao, what do you think?"
When Lin Guodong came back in the evening, he told Li Yumei about the matter. Li Yumei also knew that this was inappropriate, but she knew her son and mother. Li Yumei felt that since Lin Tao dared to say that, there must be a reason and would not just brag.
Lin Tao was organizing the language just now, so he didn't reply as soon as Lin Guodong asked. However, he could still hear a deep concern for his father's reproach and a hint of anger.
Lin Tao knew that his parents were actually caring about him, so he was not angry and said directly: "I heard the news at school that the price of cotton will rise this year!"
"A big rise?" Although Lin Guodong guessed this possibility, Lin Tao said that the big rise was still shocked, and he couldn't help but ask, "How much did it rise?"
"Seed cotton has increased to at least six yuan per kilogram." Lin Tao's data reported was a little conservative. In fact, in later generations, the highest price of seed cotton was reached eight yuan per kilogram in this year. Even if we push it back ten years, it will be an extremely high price.
"So high?" Lin Guodong took a breath, "Is it true or false?"
You know, the price of cotton is only 3.51 kilograms now. The harvest of Lin Tao for Lao Zhuang is only 4 yuan per kilogram, so one kilogram can earn at least two yuan!
One acre of land is like the land of Lao Zhuangtou. It can almost cost 200 kilograms of seed cotton, and 4,000 kilograms of land for 20 acres, which is 8,000 yuan!
If this is the case, it would be a big profit!
If you add the ones you collect from your own home, wouldn’t you be able to collect a fat year this year?
Just a little excited, Lin Guodong calmed down. He stared at Lin Tao and asked, "Where did your news come from?"
"A professor in our school takes good care of me. I have participated in his research topics," Lin Tao continued to reply to his father with words to Zhang Hongyuan, "He is a consultant of the Provincial Department of Agriculture. He is more clear about this and has revealed this news to me indirectly."
"Why didn't you say it?" Lin Guodong was not completely convinced of the reasons given by his son. He threw tens of thousands of dollars in just one sentence from the professor. Such a thing is too ridiculous!
In fact, Lin Tao was also very concerned about the abnormal price increase of cotton this time in later generations. However, until later, all he heard was the same news as "legendary". As for the specific reasons, or the official proven news, there was nothing at all.
However, although those legendary news cannot be told to Zhang Hongyuan, it is still fine to tell to his parents.
"I've inquired," Lin Tao said carefully: "It is said that the CIS has very shortage of light industrial products this year. They were originally imported from Europe and the United States, but because of domestic financial and voter issues, there were problems with the orders in Europe and the United States, so they sought to import from our China. In addition, the cotton we have not been regulated in the past? This year, it seems that large customers with backgrounds have established relationships and are preparing to wait for the cotton to be collected and processed, and a large number of lint will be sold to major textile provinces outside the province. So the price of cotton will rise at that time, and at that time, a ton of lint will reach at least 19,000, and maybe more than 20,000!"
Seed cotton is the cotton picked directly, while lint is the cotton that takes off the seeds from the ginning factory. Such cotton can be sent to the cotton spinning factory for processing.
Usually, about three kilograms of seed cotton produce one kilogram of lint, and a ton of lint is 19,000 yuan, which means that a kilogram of lint costs 19 yuan, and a kilogram of seed cotton costs more than six yuan.
After hearing this news, Lin Guodong was moved.
After all, this explanation is more reliable. The CIS is in the west of China. Several countries joined forces after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but this title was ineffective before. The CIS countries were originally heavy industrial zones of the Soviet Union, and light industrial products were very scarce. In the past, the Soviet Union had adjusted them. Now, once the Soviet Union disintegrated, its own country's industrial system was not established, and many light industrial products needed to be imported from abroad.
So when such news came out, Lin Guodong felt that it was still a bit like the truth.
At this time, Li Yumei interrupted: "What if this is fake news?"
One sentence made Lin Guodong, Lin Tao and his son stunned.
Chapter completed!