After settling the accounts and dividing the dividends, each family took hundreds of thousands and happily prepared to celebrate the New Year.
Over there, the staff meeting has already been held, and year-end bonuses have been distributed in advance.
The bonuses this year are even greater. In addition to the salary for fixed tasks, ordinary employees can also receive a year-end bonus of more than 2,000.
But everyone was so happy that they all wanted to go to the market to buy more New Year goods when they were not busy.
But at this time, everyone suddenly discovered that they had money in their hands that they couldn't spend, and there was nothing to buy.
The stall selling pork had a long queue since early in the morning.
The two big fat pigs were sold out in less than two hours. They arrived late and there was no way to get in line.
Is this nonsense? During the Chinese New Year, no one should buy more meat, make dumplings, buns, fried meatballs, fried ridges, and crispy white meat.
What to do if there is no meat?
Because most of the local people grow ginseng, food production is low.
Even if every household raises pigs, they only have one or two at most, and they keep the old pigs and kill them for their own consumption.
Before we could go out for takeout, relatives and friends would come over and share a piece of it with me.
Even if pigs are raised in the farmyard like this, the farm workers don’t raise pigs at all, so where can they get them?
In terms of the amount purchased and supplied by the state, it’s okay to eat on a daily basis, but not enough for the New Year?
This is true for pork, not to mention other types of non-staple food.
The workers at the site couldn't buy anything with money, and they were all anxious and didn't know what to do.
“General manager, everyone responded, saying that it’s the Chinese New Year and we can’t buy much.
If you look at this, can you respond to the above?"
Li Chengrong, Xiao Peng and others had no idea, so they came to see Xu Shiyan.
I hope Xu Shiyan can tell his superiors whether he can allocate a batch of pork, fish, fruits, etc. to the participants so that everyone can have a prosperous New Year.
In the past, it was okay to have less money, but now I have more money and can’t buy anything. Who wouldn’t feel uncomfortable?
"When did this happen? Seeing that the New Year is almost over, I reacted and waited for the leader to approve it. The New Year will be over." Xu Shiyan shook his head.
"What should we do? I don't know what's going on this year. The same goes for the Songjianghe market. Everything is in short supply, and prices have also risen.
If you say it should go up, then go up. It’s okay if you can buy it, but you can’t buy anything now.”
Li Chengrong and the others were all worried. What was this?
It's strange now. The more the price goes up, the crazier these people buy and grab them all.
Not only the employees attending the event were rushing to buy things, but also people from the Songjianghe Forestry Bureau and farmers from various towns and villages were rushing to buy things.
There is so much fuss during the Chinese New Year and I can’t buy anything, so how do I spend this year?
"You have to know, we make money by participating in the field, and other people make money by participating in the household, not to mention the Forestry Bureau, which is richer than us."
The ginseng market is still very good this year. The economy is on the rise, and both employees and farmers have money in their hands.
What are you talking about now that you have money? Don’t you all want to buy more?
Furthermore, it is also related to the overall environment. Nowadays, the prices of many commodities have increased, and many people are hoarding things at home. The more they hoard, the more expensive they become.
"Okay, don't worry, you two.
In this way, you go arrange the fleet and I will contact you later.
Let our financial staff, plus the logistics staff, go out and do some shopping."
At this time, we can no longer count on our superiors. There is simply no time to spare, so we should find a way on our own.
When Li Chengrong heard them, he knew that Xu Shiyan must have an idea.
So we quickly called everyone from the logistics, finance, and transportation teams to a meeting.
"I just contacted Changtu and Dandong in Liao Province. You are divided into two groups, and one group goes to Changtu.
It is common for farmers there to raise pigs, with a large number of pigs and low prices.
I made an agreement with the people in the county over there and asked them to help with the acquisition.
You go over there, slaughter it over there, freeze it, and then pull the pork back into the pail."
At the Ginseng Festival, Xu Shiyan met a lot of people, including cadres from Liao Province. Through them, he made friends with many people, so he was relatively well-informed.
The price of live pigs in Changtu is cheaper than here, and the quantity is large.
It’s Chinese New Year, and every household in the festival has divided a lot of money, so they just go and bring back a few carts of pork to share a cent, so that everyone can have a prosperous New Year.
As for the Dandong side, it is close to the sea and has more sea goods.
At this time, they are all frozen and can be transported over long distances. Bringing back a batch of frozen fish and shrimps can also enrich the dining table.
There is no other way. For people who are not close to the sea, it would be nice to have some frozen food. I dare not ask for too much.
"We also have fruits over there, including apples, pears and so on. There are several carts of them, covered with straw curtains and sacks. Just don't freeze them.
The money will be used in advance at the venue, and then the cost will be calculated later. As long as the venue does not lose money, it will be enough to give benefits to everyone."
It's the New Year, everyone has been busy and tired for a year, so it would be good to have some affordable non-staple food to make everyone happy.
When Li Chengrong and others heard this, they were very happy and immediately arranged for people to set off for Liao Province.
The venue has its own transportation team, with more than a dozen trucks setting out in great force.
Just as Xu Shiyan said, one team went to pull all kinds of frozen seafood, and the other team went to pull pork.
Frozen marine fish is simple. Xu Shiyan contacted him in advance. He paid for it and loaded it up and brought it back directly.
Pork was a little more troublesome. After Li Chengrong and others got there, they helped collect a lot.
But this thing can't just pull the pig back. The journey is quite long. What if it dies along the way?
So it had to be slaughtered locally, frozen into pork cubes, and then shipped back.
So we hired local people to slaughter the meat, and continued to collect meat there. We also rented a warehouse to store the meat.
In the twelfth lunar month of winter in the Northeast, the weather is dozens of degrees below zero, and the pork can freeze overnight and become so hard that even a dog can't chew it.
Anyway, just watch it and don't let anyone steal it.
In a few days, more than two hundred pigs were harvested, unloaded from head to toe, and loaded into several carts.
The leader of Changtu helped get the transportation quarantine certificate, hired people to load the truck, and shipped it back directly.
By the time Li Chengrong and the others returned to Donggang, the New Year was over.
As soon as the car arrived, the loudspeaker in the venue started shouting.
When the employees and their families heard that pork, frozen fish, prawns, etc. had been shipped to the market, and the prices were much cheaper than in the market, a lot of people came and cheered.
There are now more than 1,300 employees in Yishen Factory. Now that every family has money, who doesn’t want to prepare more things for the New Year?
Now, your family has 30 pounds, and mine has 50 pounds. Your family has two pig knuckles, and my family wants a pig head to add to the supply.
There were more than two hundred pigs, and these people could almost divide them in one day.
As for those frozen fish and shrimps, not to mention, some people just carry a bunch of them home, and for those with worse conditions, two families work together to carry a bunch of them.
Soon, there were not many frozen fish and shrimp left.
Some people in Donggang Town heard about it and wanted to buy some through connections.
"Okay, let's keep the rest for now and don't sell them for now." Xu Shiyan saw that there weren't many things left and stopped immediately.
These cadres in the field also have to keep some relatives and other things.
As long as there is enough for the participating workers, don’t sell the rest to takeout, just keep it.
"Lao Li, Lao Dai, um, let's go to Secretary Lin's place later and give him something to celebrate the New Year."
Lin Qiyue has finished handing over the work and recently went home to pack up and prepare to go to the city after the new year.
No matter how you say it, this is also the secretary of the venue. He must have a share of the new year's goods, and they will be delivered just in time, so everyone can chat for a while.
It’s not easy to find opportunities to chat when people go to the city after the New Year.