Chapter 337 I’m leaving now!
Chapter 337 I’m leaving now!
”Gabu, you are from Chaou. Logically, you should want to see Chaou develop better than I do. You also know how important logistics is to the development of Chaou.”
”I hope you can go back and think about it carefully. Even if you don’t consider us, you should consider the people of Chaou County. Don’t force us to really use administrative means to intervene…”
Hearing Bai Yingfeng’s slightly threatening words, Gabu Jiansen was not at all intimidated and directly retorted: “We consider everyone, who will consider us?”
”We do business, not charity. Even if I want to do charity, my strength does not allow it… Secretary Bai, if you want to fine us, then fine us. At worst, we will all quit. Anyway, whoever wants to do this loss-making thing can do it!”
Seeing Gabu Jiansen who was not eating, Bai Yingfeng was so angry that he almost wanted to curse on the spot.
If this guy is losing money, then few people in Chaou can make money!
”Why don’t you think about it? If you can take advantage of the cost reduction of electric trucks to make appropriate concessions and help the development of Chaou, then the economy will pick up in the future, the logistics scale will be larger, and the money earned will be much more than now!”
Bai Yingfeng suppressed his anger and was still making the last effort.
Unfortunately, these people are too short-sighted and will not let go of the meat in their mouths…
The result of the symposium was naturally unhappy.
”Secretary Bai!” Just when Bai Yingfeng was frowning, the leader of the County Agricultural Bureau came to him in a panic, “The villagers of Zara Village are blocking the door again, and we must give them an explanation today.”
”…”
Bai Yingfeng had a headache after hearing this.
About this matter, we have to start from five years ago.
At that time, it was popular to develop agricultural and animal husbandry characteristic industries according to local conditions.
Chaou invited experts to conduct field investigations. After confirming that the geographical environment here is suitable for kiwifruit and tea planting, he organized villagers from various villages to start planting kiwifruit and tea on a large scale.
Tea is okay, the price is stable and it is easy to preserve, but there is a problem with kiwifruit.
Kiwifruit needs to wait until the third year to start bearing fruit. The first fruit last year did usher in a bumper harvest.
However, as more and more places have been planted with kiwifruit in recent years, although the consumer market is indeed getting bigger and bigger, the unit price is much lower than three years ago.
Domestic kiwifruit has severely hit the price of the originally expensive “imported kiwifruit”.
The price plunge and high transportation costs resulted in fruit farmers not making any money last year, although they had a bumper harvest. Many even lost money.
Not to mention fruit farmers, those merchants who came to buy also suffered heavy losses.
Because the skin of kiwi fruit is very thin, it is easy to be damaged and rotten after a slight collision. The loss rate from the tree to the wholesale market is normally 14%, but the long transportation route and cycle to the outside world almost doubled this loss rate.
Anyway, if the situation is the same as last year, the fruit farmers’ years of hard work and investment are almost equivalent to going down the drain, and there is no hope at all.
As the original advocate, the County Agricultural Bureau naturally became the target of the fruit farmers’ venting.
However, the leaders at that time had long been transferred, and only the new Bai Yingfeng could clean up this mess.
Bai Yingfeng believed that this investment of tens of millions and thousands of acres of orchards must not be really cut down by the frustrated fruit farmers, otherwise there would be no hope at all.
Although their place is remote and poor, the natural conditions are absolutely impeccable. The fruits grown are all fine products. If they really give up like this, it would be a waste of natural resources.
So at the end of last year, Bai Yingfeng persuaded the villagers to make various guarantees, and even promised in black and white that the government would buy back the fruit at a guaranteed cost, and finally persuaded them to stick with it for another year.
And his confidence at that time was the battery swap station invested and built by Datang Heavy Industry next to their county gas station.
Logistics costs will drop significantly in the future! This is his judgment.
However, reality taught him a lesson again.
In the face of greed and monopoly, the decline in logistics costs and the decline in logistics expenses are two completely different things. In addition to the logistics problem, those buyers who lost money last year are also a big problem.
Next month, kiwis can almost start to fall from the trees, butNo fruit merchants were willing to come and buy.
According to this situation, they might really have to guarantee the price and let the government buy.
But this year the government can provide a guarantee, what will happen in the future? It is impossible to keep losing money, right? The key is that the guarantee price can only allow fruit farmers to break even, and there is still no room for profit. At that time, this promise may have a certain soothing effect, but when it comes to selling, it is obviously not enough to satisfy the fruit farmers.
Anyway, a bunch of problems are on Bai Yingfeng’s shoulders. Even when he sleeps at night, he dreams of the densely packed kiwis on the trees…
Just when Bai Yingfeng was about to go out to calm the “public anger”, his cell phone suddenly rang.
When he saw the caller, it turned out to be Chaba Yusheng, the county magistrate of the neighboring Mangkang County.
In fact, it can’t be said to be next door…
Although Chaou and Mangkang are only 155 kilometers apart in a straight line, and they are indeed in the jurisdiction of Linxian County, there are several snow-capped mountains and the Nujiang River in between, and there is no way to get there. You have to go through Basu and Zuogong and walk more than 600 kilometers to get to Mangkang.
So the two counties rarely communicate with each other. Bai Yingfeng has only met Chaba Yusheng a few times when he went to the city and the province for meetings.
Bai Yingfeng answered the phone with doubts and curiosity.
”You specifically invited us to talk? What company?”
”Kang… Dr. Kang Chi’s company? Good! When will they come?”
”The day after tomorrow? Do you know what project it is?”
”Helicopter tourism? The investment scale is at least several hundred million? Good! I know, I’ll leave now!”
After hanging up the phone, Bai Yingfeng immediately called the driver excitedly to prepare the car.
By the way, he also emphasized that he should be picked up from the back door…
It takes almost a whole day to get from here to Mangkang without traffic jams. If there are traffic jams and road collapses, there is no way to predict them.
So the sooner you leave, the safer it is.
After notifying the driver, he called the county magistrate who was going to the countryside, and the leader of the Investment Promotion Bureau who was on a business trip in Cangdu City.
In fact, such matters, including the kiwifruit matter, should be under the jurisdiction of the county magistrate.
But these are major matters related to the development of Chaou. As the top leader, he can personally come forward, which is of course the most convincing.
Chaba Yusheng called him directly instead of the county magistrate, which was actually a hint that they should increase their attention and reception standards.
After all, it was Dr. Kang’s investment project, and it was at least a few hundred million in scale.
Not to mention how much, even if they can only get one tenth or even one percent of it, it is enough for him to come all the way here…
However, the leader of the County Agricultural Bureau was a little anxious when he saw this, and asked hurriedly: “What about the villagers of Zara Village?”
”You just heard it, I have more urgent things to do here, you go out and appease the villagers for a few days, just say I’m on a business trip to Mangkang, and wait for me to come back if there is anything!”
After saying that, Bai Yingfeng left the office directly and sneaked out the back door.
Now the fruits are almost ripe, no matter how anxious and impulsive the fruit farmers are, they will definitely not cut down the fruit trees at this juncture…
(End of this chapter)