Chapter 210 The Brigade Goes to Buy Food
The automobile factory collects wooden pallets for a piece of 4 pieces, and the steel rolling mill also requires them, a piece of 5 pieces. The price difference of one cent is only ten yuan for one hundred. To transport it, even if the gas costs a few cents per liter, a three-wheeled truck will have to make several trips.
Instead of letting his father's tractor unload the wooden pallets, Luo Cheng arranged for a logistics team to drive directly to the steel rolling mill in their tractor. There is no need to pay over there. Anyway, the automobile factory and the steel rolling mill now keep accounts with each other. They start settling accounts with each other on the 20th to 25th of every month.
What Rowan brought was a hundred wooden pallets, loaded in three tractors, and the remaining tractor was filled with eggs. Weighing several hundred kilograms, almost no one in Longjin Town is willing to eat these eggs by themselves. One egg can be exchanged for at least one kilogram of whole grains.
The money for the wooden pallets here will not be given to Luo Wen immediately, because the goods have not been unloaded and counted directly. Now there is no need to count them when they are sent to the steel rolling mill. They will be counted when they receive the goods. When the time comes, bring over the receipt. You can pay directly.
In the office, Luo Cheng and his father Luo Wen were chatting, mainly about the production of wooden pallets. Before I handed over this business to the production team, I thought that the merger of the town would take another month or two. Unexpectedly, the superiors immediately promoted this matter for the sake of stability.
Without the merger, the First Brigade would have great control over the revenue from these wooden pallets. But things are different now. The business belongs to the first brigade, but the labor force of all members of the first brigade belongs to the entire commune. In other words, in addition to necessary expenses, the remaining profits from wooden pallets will be handed over to the commune in proportion, and other talents will be at the disposal of the first brigade.
The current plan is to hand over profits in proportion to public grain, that is, 70% to 30%. Sanqikai refers to the ratio of the total price, which means selling for one hundred yuan and handing over thirty. The remaining seventy has to be paid for wood, which means that wood is relatively cheap, otherwise the brigade will not be able to make much profit.
This time I pulled a hundred pallets, which cost one hundred and forty yuan, so I had to hand over forty-two yuan. And there are a lot of people doing this work. Excluding the cost of wood, each person only pays more than one yuan. However, this is only the first batch, and there are still many people in the town who have not been recruited.
Now if the town is open to work, dozens of them can be made in a day, and delivery can be done in two days. This is mainly because there is no machine to cut the wood, otherwise it would be faster.
Anyway, if there were no restrictions, the town could make at least 1,500. The income is 2,100 yuan. Even if you hand over 30%, it's still more than 1,500 yuan.
But even so, it is to reduce the burden on the residents in the brigade. One thousand and fifty may seem like a lot, but except for some skilled carpenters, everyone else takes turns to work for a few days. In this way, the average household earns more than one yuan. But if they can buy food, it will indeed help many people breathe a sigh of relief.
If there is no merger, even if 30% is turned over, most of the 30% will be used back to people's livelihood. But now that the two towns have merged, even if the secretary handles things fairly, one side is making a living and the other is not. Even if the mayor of Ren comes from the sky in a while, he will take care of it.
Even now, Luo Wen has arranged for many relatives to hammer nails, but he cannot let them do the nail hammering job for a month. They also take turns to do it. It’s enough to earn a few dollars more than others a month. But according to the previously signed agreement, it is only two months.
The First Brigade currently supports nearly a hundred additional people. Now that they have this business, they can also serve as free labor. Without this, it would really be in vain.
Luo Wen now came to ask Luo Cheng whether he could continue this business, at least until next spring's harvest. Everyone is relieved, and many people who are begging outside will be recruited back in large numbers.
Luo Cheng thought for a while, but in fact, if the car factory does this project by itself, even if it makes thousands of cars, the profit will not be high. At first, I only signed with the team for two months. The first reason was that I was afraid that after the project was merged into the town, the superiors would interfere with it and cause some trouble. The second thing is that although the profit is low, it can recruit a lot of workers, which is beneficial to the expansion of the factory's headcount.
But now that I think about it, it doesn’t matter. If you want to expand, as long as you have enough funds, you can recruit a lot of workers for any project. It is okay to leave it to the brigade to produce, but even if it is to be done by the brigade, it cannot sign an agreement for planned production, and it can only be a short-term assistance in production.
In a short-term agreement, if problems arise, cooperation can be stopped when it expires. If the planned production agreement is really signed, Luo Cheng cannot easily stop it without justifiable reasons. At that time, it may be taken advantage of by someone with intentions.
While Luo Cheng was chatting with his father, someone from the Chengdong District Police Station came, driving a square car produced by a car factory. The car body was painted with the words of a certain police station, but their station was only assigned one because of its merits in catching a thief last time.
There are so many police stations in a city, but the General Administration only bought three vehicles in total. It's really nice to get one.
According to the price of sixty-five cents per catty, I bought fifty catties. If I took fifty catties of eggs back, a policeman could buy one catty of eggs. The remaining bit is taken to the canteen to add a meal.
The staff of the poultry factory drove a three-wheeled truck and hauled 200 kilograms away. This mere two hundred kilograms cannot alleviate the demand in the city at all, and it will not even flow into the supply and marketing cooperatives.
When the logistics staff came to report, Luo Cheng went down to see that there were not many eggs, so he called Xu Haitang and asked her to announce that the canteen will boil boiled eggs at noon today, and each person can only buy one.
This matter needs to be broadcast, because some people go home for lunch and are afraid of not knowing the news. An egg is not a trivial matter. Even if there are children and elderly people at home, it can also replenish the body. If you have many children, you may have to cut an egg into several halves.
Many of the apprentices who have just come to work have no money at all and have never received a single salary. Many people who go home to eat have to borrow money from each other. Six cents each, the price of a pound of stick noodles.
The poultry factory took away the eggs in accordance with the agreement. Not only did they pay the price, they also gave them 400 kilograms of grain stamps. They were all coarse grain stamps. If they wanted fine grains, the ratio would not be this.
The eggs totaled about 300 kilograms, and the car factory charged them nearly 200 yuan. When the wooden pallets were delivered, the total cost would be about 330 yuan.
After deducting the proportion of feed and the team's arrears, you can get back more than 100 yuan. These more than 100 will also be handed over to the commune from the share of the wooden pallets. That's less than a hundred yuan. Bangzi noodles cost five cents per catty, and there were four hundred catties of coarse grain stamps, which was a matter of twenty yuan. You can still have dozens of dollars at your disposal when you go back.
The reason why I deducted more than 200 yuan here is that part of the money for buying chickens, ducks and pigs was deducted. The deduction is only once a month, and next time only the feed money will be deducted.
By the time the deductions are finished here, the chickens, ducks and pigs will all belong to the first team. Chickens and ducks are handled casually by the first brigade. There is a recycling agreement for pigs, but the brigade will also be paid.
The tractor delivering the wooden pallets had not returned yet, so Luo Cheng asked the finance department to withdraw some money to the people in the brigade. Asking them to buy grain, which was related to the matter of buying grain, Luo Wen stopped chatting with Luo Cheng and went to the grain store to buy with the people in the brigade.
It is impossible for the brigade to give all the money from the eggs sold by the chicken farmers to the villagers. Just like the car factory, part of the donation is used to offset part of the cost of adopting chickens and ducks. After the delivery is over, the chickens and ducks belong to the villagers. If the villagers are not willing to take them, the production team can organize recycling.
But now the villagers' feed, chickens and ducks are all adopted on credit by the brigade. In fact, apart from taking some care of them, they may not get the money this time, but they can get some coarse grains. What else is there to think about. The more eggs are laid, the more coarse grains will be distributed. In this way, the chickens and ducks will not steal the feed and eat it, because if the feed is eaten, the chickens and ducks will lay fewer eggs, and if it is less, it is actually not cost-effective.
Although rural people are uneducated, they can still calculate some small accounts. If you eat a pound of feed and the chickens lay two eggs, you will get a pound of grain from selling the two eggs, and you will make more money. As long as this happens once, it would be better to eat the whole grains if they steal feed again.