Xiao Xiao didn't know what their real purpose was to investigate the food pests this time, but he knew that Chen Mingluo had expressed implicitly that this incident would be of great help to her father, Acting Mayor Xiao's work.
As for Sister Hua and the twelve classmates who came with them, they didn’t know how important the significance of this time was. They just felt that it would be of great significance to be able to participate in a very meaningful social research activity during the National Day.
Sister Hua talked with a few girls in the back. Although some of them were not from their class, it would not affect everyone's enthusiasm. Everyone regarded this social survey as an outing. Although the journey of this outing was still a bit far, and it is very likely that they would have to live in other counties at night.
Among the people, Chen Mingluo knew the purpose of this visit. He did not want to reveal this matter to more people. After all, there are ears between the walls and people's hearts and belly. No one knows whether the people present will leak news and affect the rectification of the Mingyang grain system.
For today's work, Chen Mingluo made sufficient preparations and specially checked the information, sorted out various common grain pest pictures and detailed information, printed more than a dozen copies, and made one for everyone, which looked much more formal. In addition, the letter of introduction issued by the General Office of the Municipal Government and the forged investigation letter should easily remove the other party's vigilance. As for whether this trip can achieve the goal, it depends on the actual situation in the grain warehouse.
Xiao Xiao closed his eyes and pretended to sleep. The students behind him chatted softly, and some opened the information and looked at the pictures and descriptions with great interest. After all, they were all members of the insect research team and were still very interested in these issues, although the pictures were filled with some pests.
At around 4:30 in the afternoon, they finally arrived at the second warehouse of the trip, which is a place with a total storage capacity of about 80,000 tons of grain at the central, provincial and municipal levels. The granary gate was covered with dust, and the locks of adult fists were covered with rust. Only the guard and the office director were at work.
Everyone entered the gate and walked about one minute on the cement road in the middle to a two-story building with a patio and a pond at the end. Director Wang of the Grain Depot Office operated a computer in the middle room on the second floor.
When Chen Mingluo went in, he glanced at him and found that the other party was playing the classic mine-sweeping game of Microsoft.
During this period, it was a very luxurious thing to have a 486 computer and be able to play minesweeping games comfortably. Chen Mingluo felt that although the food system was crying and poor, the money was clearly still a little bit.
After handing over the letter of introduction and official business letter, Chen Mingluo and others explained their purpose.
"The stock was cleared last fall and there was no grain." Director Wang first looked carefully at the letter of introduction and official letter, and then brought tea and water to everyone. He looked very enthusiastic, and then said, "You are late."
According to him, most of the grain processed last fall was sold on the market. Director Wang said, "The grain market has been in a downturn in recent years. The grain collected at the protection price plus the warehouse storage fee has caused the entire grain warehouse to suffer losses. Another small part of the national reserve grain has been transferred to the Shaguan County National Direct Grain Depot."
There are more than a dozen warehouses in size here. According to the plan, a new large granary will be built not far behind the grain warehouse in the future. Because of this, Director Wang said that each person only takes turns to be on duty once every half a month during this period and does not need to go out in the office.
However, after reading the relevant information, Chen Mingluo naturally knew that there was a problem here, because the construction of the new granary does not affect the old granary. According to relevant national regulations, at least about 40% of the reserve grain must be retained even for demolition.
Since there was no food, there was naturally no way to investigate the food pests. Everyone sighed again, saying that this time it was in vain and that there was no harvest.
Just an hour before they visited this grain warehouse, they had just visited another grain warehouse.
When they were asking for directions, an old man living near the grain warehouse told them, "You must have been empty now, because the grain warehouse has not sold grain for at least three years. How could there be any pests in the empty warehouse?
Everyone didn't believe it at that time. After going there, they found that except for an elderly man who was guarding the door, all the office buildings near the streets were locked. The elderly man who was guarding the door said, "There were no one for several days, I don't know where I went. It's not my turn to ask about this kind of thing."
When you enter the warehouse four times, when you touch the lock on the door, yellow rust will stick to your hands, and the lock will not be fastened.
Chen Mingluo opened the door front and back to check and found that only one warehouse had stored wheat, and the rest were cleared, so clean that even mice could starve to death.
The old man in the door followed them. When he saw it, he said that it was a place rented by a business owner here, with about 20,000 kilograms of wheat. Then he drove the person away and said to Chen Mingluo and others, "The leader is not here. If you have anything, come back tomorrow. I am a guardian and I don't know anything."
Afterwards, they visited the third grain warehouse. It was already past five o'clock in the afternoon when they arrived. Looking outside the grain warehouse, the three rows of white walls and blue doors were particularly conspicuous. It was surrounded by mountains and water, and the scenery was beautiful.
However, they have the same experience here. The middle-aged woman who is cleaning said that only the general manager is in the office at present, and others have not been working very much recently.
"The people in the grain warehouse work so easily?" Xiao Xiao felt a little incredible.
"There is no food in the warehouse, just a group of mice running. How can so many people watch it? It's not an agency, so there is no need to sit on the shift all day." The middle-aged woman who cleaned the sanitation replied casually.
After they entered the office, the general manager received them and was very enthusiastic.
Regarding the investigation of agricultural pests, the general manager actually said that he knew, "The professor from Xiling University had come once before, and I was not in this grain warehouse at that time."
This place also faces the dilemma of no grain in the warehouse. Everyone learned from casual conversation that the inventory of this grain warehouse is 100,000 tons according to the national investment, but now it is empty.
"Why is there no food? Where did the rice and flour we eat come from?" a classmate asked curiously.
"Hi, there are many places in the country that produce grain, and they are all adjusted to be transferred. Is it a market-oriented operation-" The general manager is unwilling to say more about this issue, and just one sentence of marketization will turn off responsibility.
However, when it comes to investigating grain pests, he said that it is the same everywhere. If there is no grain storage, it will be useless if you go there. It is better to summarize it according to the situation in previous years. There are also some sporadic pests in some empty warehouses. If you look carefully, you can still fill out the report.
After coming out of this grain warehouse, everyone was not energetic. After Chen Mingluo successfully completed the mission of this trip, he immediately called his father to report on the situation here. Then he lay in the car and was no longer willing to move.
Chapter completed!