Chapter 166 One tael of tangerine peel and one tael of gold
After Lin Sanqi came out of the post and telecommunications office, she did not return to her grandparents or the small foreign building.
After all, he is a time traveler and has never met the Lin family. It is impossible to say that there is a sense of blood kinship once they meet, so he is too lazy to deal with it. He just fulfills the responsibility of this body and leaves enough money for the old man. ticket.
In the afternoon, he went to the Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University again, borrowed 10,000 yuan from the hospital's purchasing department, and left Huadu.
A citrus mountain in Xinhui County.
Lin Sanqi followed the local village chief and climbed the mountain with difficulty, while listening to the district chief bragging:
"The most amazing thing about our Xinhui tangerine peels is that they have long skin but no flesh, and the skin is sweet but the flesh is not sweet. Only citrus trees that are more than 6 years old and produce citrus with thin skin and good fruit shape are picked for production. Chenpi.
Every year, starting from autumn, we start picking. According to different picking times, tangerine peels are divided into different types, each with its own flavor. Pick green tangerines in September, reddish tangerines in October, red tangerines in November, and big red tangerines in December.
Around the Double Ninth Festival, when the tea tangerine is still green, the green peel is picked. The green peel has the best effect on liver and gallbladder diseases, stagnation of liver qi, and abdominal qi blockage.
However, Qingpi is relatively strong and can easily break Qi if used too much. Therefore, people with Qi deficiency should not use Qingpi frequently or for a long time.
At the beginning of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, the tea tangerines turn yellow-green. When picked at this time, they are called reddish-skinned or er-huang-skin. The er-yellow-skin has better functions of drying moisture and improving stomach function.
Around the winter solstice, the outer skin of the citrus is dyed yellow-red or bright red after being exposed to the sun. This is the season when the bright red skin is ripe. What really plays the role of warming and regulating qi is the red skin. After being exposed to the sun, the dryness of the red skin is reduced. ”
Lin Sanqi was so tired that she was out of breath, but she had to continue to pretend to smile and say a few words of praise:
"Wow, Uncle District, it turns out that our tangerine peel is so particular. In the past, I always thought it was just dried orange peels. You can get as much as you want."
Lin Sanqi's "ignorance" even scratched the itch of the district village chief. As an old man, he always likes to be a teacher.
"Comrade Li, you young people may not understand. This peel needs to be dried in the sun repeatedly for 3 years before it can be called tangerine peel. If it is less than 3 years old, it can only be called peel, but it cannot be sold to others.
Then it has to wait until 8 years before it can be stored in a jar. It also needs to be protected from insects and moths during storage, which is really not easy.
A piece of tangerine peel, from being dried every year to being preserved all year round, consumes a lot of manpower and material resources in every step. If it is not stored properly, it will weather and break. The tangerine peel that can be properly preserved is the gold washed out by the waves. ”
Lin Sanqi thought to herself, why tangerine peel is so expensive a few decades later, it is all the result of capital speculation.
At the 5th China Xinhui Tangerine Peel Cultural Festival in 2019, Xinhui Tangerine Peel, which had been aged for 57 years and weighed 166.9g, was sold for 500,000 yuan, which is equivalent to 1 catty = 1.5 million yuan!
Later, it fetched a sky-high price of 2 million yuan per pound.
It’s just orange peel. How amazing can it be? How effective is revalidation? Will eating it make me immortal or immune to all poisons?
However, such speculation by capital is equivalent to an advertisement, letting everyone know how the value of tangerine peel can be maintained and increased. Then everyone will buy and speculate together, and the price will rise.
This is how the game of passing flowers on drums begins.
Later, a woman from Jiangmen got married, and her father gave the tangerine peel that had been stored for 20 years as her daughter’s dowry, pushing this trend of speculation to a climax.
Then everyone followed suit. When a Cantonese girl gets married, in addition to being covered in gold bracelets, several boxes of cash, and real estate certificates, she also needs bottles of tangerine peel and pieces of isinglass.
This is how people from all over the country have face.
Anyone who doesn't will not be able to hold his head high in the village in the future, and will be laughed at and laughed at behind the back by his in-laws and relatives.
Anyway, Lin Sanqi despises this kind of rural custom of comparison. The consequence is that men cannot afford a wife and women cannot afford a husband. Why bother with dignity for the sake of face?
And now that he had the chance, he was ready to personally make a fortune, and the boy who slayed the dragon finally turned into an evil dragon.
But back in 1959, although Xinhui tangerine peel was famous, it was by no means so famous that it was famous throughout the country and was speculated in the whole province. Therefore, when the district village chief mentioned that one tael of tangerine peel and one tael of gold, Lin Sanqi would have beaten him to death. Don't believe it.
To put it this way, it is nothing more than raising the price.
"Uncle Ou, you also know that I am purchasing on behalf of our Huadu Food Company. The state has guided prices, and I cannot raise the price casually. Otherwise, the company will think that I have received a kickback and will not be able to deliver the goods."
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Of course, it was impossible for Lin Sanqi to expose his identity, and it was not difficult for him to get a fake letter of introduction, so he directly faked the name of Huadu City Food Company.
Even the name is fake, he calls himself Liming...
Coupled with his fluent Huadu accent, no one would suspect that he was a fake.
The district village chief sighed, pointed to the orange trees all over the mountains and fields and said:
"Comrade Li, you may not know, but I really want to cut down all these tea branches and tangerine trees and plant them all in food, but my superiors don't allow it. What time is it now? Food is the most life-saving thing. .”
Lin Sanqi felt sad after hearing this. These days, there are regulations on what to plant and how much to plant. It cannot be less or more. This is called "planning".
However, it is rare to buy ready-made tangerine peel. This dilemma is exactly the same as that of Hu Jian’s fishermen on the seaside.
Commodities cannot circulate freely, and farmers cannot independently decide what crops to grow, which is actually a major reason for exacerbating food shortages.
Lin Sanqi looked around to make sure there was no one within 100 meters, then he said in a familiar way:
"Uncle District, actually I have another way. Our unit secretly organized a batch of rice this time. The leaders also know that it is not easy for you farmers, so they want to subsidize you with some grain." Upon hearing this, the district village chief grabbed Lin Sanqi’s wrist:
"Are you serious? Young man, you can't lie to me!"
Lingnan people are brave by nature. They are definitely not like the men in some Wu-speaking areas who are polite but not violent. They would not touch each other's fingers even if they argued for a long time on the bus.
People from Lingnan will really pick up a guy and fight you, even at the risk of their lives. For example, during the Anti-Japanese War, the Guangdong army fought the Japanese army in the Songhu battlefield.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, only a few thousand of the 920,000 Guangdong troops returned, and no one went to the government to receive military medals. White silk ribbons were hung on every household in Guangdong.
It was the heroic fighting of the Guangdong army that laid the foundation for the Anti-Japanese War. In the end, the Guangdong army was exhausted and the Sichuan army came out.
So regardless of the thinness of Dongguang people, whether they were fighting or fighting, it would be life-threatening. When Uncle Ou showed his fierce look, he was so frightened that Lin Sanqi almost sat down on the ground.
"Uncle District, I'm not lying to you, but you also have requirements for food. That is, we need to exchange the best tangerine peels and bring out all your 50-year-old and 40-year-old tangerine peels. We will benefit from each other!"
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Uncle District snorted after hearing this: "I think you are taking advantage of the situation. Do you know how precious tangerine peel is?"
Lin Sanqi asked: "This time and that time, do you know how precious Bai Huahua's rice is now?"
Uncle Ou was speechless for a moment. He held the orange tree with one hand and fell into deep thought. It was obvious that he was having a fierce struggle in his heart.
"Comrade Li, I want to discuss this matter with the people in our commune. I can't give you an answer now."
Lin Sanqi is not in a hurry. Anyway, it is best to receive tangerine peel that has been aged for decades. It does not matter if he cannot receive it. Now his "passage space" is full of cordyceps, isinglass, shark fins, and abalone, which is enough for him to make hair. One stroke.
You can't make enough money. Later, an old Yinbi said, don't make the last copper.
In a tangerine peel warehouse.
Seven or eight people were secretly having a meeting around them. These people were village chiefs from several major tangerine peel producing areas such as Tianma, Meijiang, Chakeng, and Tangjia.
An oil lamp was lit on the table, making the atmosphere even more depressing.
The district village chief told everyone what Lin Sanqi told him during the day about exchanging grain for tangerine peel:
"Whether this can happen or not, let's make an idea."
Village Chief Li of Meijiang Village asked:
"Old District, what does this Huadu Food Company mean? They purchased unplanned tangerine peels and even the best products. If this goes against the principles, if our Xinhui Supply and Marketing Cooperative finds out..."
Chief Yao of Chakeng Village is indifferent:
"What are you afraid of? To put it bluntly, these tangerine peels belong to our village collective and belong to each of our villagers. They do not belong to their supply and marketing cooperative. They can sell them as much as they say? If they say they won't let us sell them, we won't sell them?"
Village Chief Li was a little worried and said:
"The tangerine peel we have kept for decades will be exported to Hong Kong and Macao. By then we will have to exchange grains. If the supply and marketing cooperative comes to collect it, we can't get it out. Isn't that going to be bad?"
Village Chief Yao chuckled:
"They took our tangerine peels and gave us only a little bit of the money after selling them. We couldn't even recover the cost. They just asked us to donate. But who has thought about our difficulties? Look, I am so hungry that I still have a few taels of meat on my body. ?”
Village Chief Jiang of Dongjia Village, who had been silent, asked at this time:
"Old district, Comrade Li, did you say how much food should be exchanged?"
"He said that if it is 50-year-old tangerine peel, one pound of rice would be exchanged for 10 pounds; if it was 40-year-old tangerine peel, it would be exchanged for 8 pounds; if it was 30-year-old tangerine peel, it would be exchanged for 6 pounds, and so on."
As soon as these words came out, several village chiefs immediately began to calculate how much food their own stocks could be exchanged for.
In fact, compared to the deal with the fishermen, Lin Sanqi definitely gave a discount on this amount. Who said that everyone is a fellow villager.
Village Chief Yao gritted his teeth and made up his mind:
"I think it can be exchanged. Now a pound of good-quality rice costs 5 yuan on the black market in the city. A pound of 50-year-old tangerine peel is exchanged for 10 pounds of rice, which is equivalent to 50 yuan. The purchase price is 10 times the price offered by the supply and marketing cooperative. Ah.”
Village Chief Jiang also nodded in agreement:
"The key now is that even if you have money, you can't buy food. Damn it, only the provincial capital food company is so arrogant. If you miss this village, you won't have this store in the future."
The district village chief then said softly:
"Our villages must advance and retreat together on this matter. No one can tell it, let alone outsiders. Whoever wants to be a traitor will be killed by other villages together. Will you do it?"
"We in Meidong Village do it!"
"We in Dongjia Village are also following!"
"Well, we in Chakeng Village will do it too!"
"Okay, now that everyone has discussed it, prepare to organize Chen Pi immediately when we get back. I will discuss the transaction details with Comrade Li, and finally reiterate that it must be kept confidential!"
(End of chapter)