Chapter 1041： What you see

Lin Sen and Zhao Xiaolong's second stop came to the countryside of Linyi.

Linyi used to grow grain, but because of the increasing demand for fruits by Dahua and the fact that grain has not been sold at prices, Linyi chose to plant other cash crops.

Among them, the most people grow watermelons.

Looking around, it's all watermelons.

"Hey, there are too many watermelons here. It seems that the watermelons in Nanjing can be cheaper this year."

Zhao Xiaolong smiled.

He still likes watermelon fruit, but in Nanjing, watermelon is not cheap. Last year it cost two cents per catty (about eight yuan per catty for later generations).

For him, he only wanted to eat it before he could buy it and taste it, and he couldn't list it as a standing fruit at home.

"It's hard to say."

Lin Sen shook his head. The prices in Nanjing have been rising, but nothing is getting cheaper.

The two walked all the way and saw an old farmer looking after the watermelon. Zhao Xiaolong greeted him: "Old man, this year's harvest is good, and I want to make a fortune."

Zhao Xiaolong is very enthusiastic, but in exchange for it is indifference.

"Make a fortune, thank God if you don't lose money."

The old farmer said.

"How come, you have at least six thousand jins of output on this acre of land. You can earn at least dozens of yuan per acre. Don't you have thousands of tens of acres of land. The annual income is thousands of Pretty good."

Zhao Xiaolong gave a rough calculation, but he was a little envious.

His annual salary is only 500 yuan.

The old farmer looked at Zhao Xiaolong like an idiot, and said, "Dozens of dollars? If you want ten dollars an acre, you can take it all away."

"......"

Zhao Xiaolong was taken aback for a moment, and Lin Sen reminded helplessly: "From Linyi to Nanjing, the freight is very expensive. The price that wholesalers buy here is generally not too high."

Zhao Xiaolong was a little embarrassed when he heard this. He even ignored this common sense.

Then he asked: "How much does the wholesaler buy from you?"

"How much is a catty? It's not bad if someone comes to collect it."

The old farmer sighed.

"What do you say?"

Zhao Xiaolong continued to ask, but the old farmer no longer wanted to talk to them.

In desperation, Lin Sen and Zhao Xiaolong could only move on and continue their investigation.

In the end, they found someone who was willing to confide the truth.

According to the old farmer, this is a long story.

Linyi started planting watermelons as early as four or five years ago. At that time, all the watermelons were purchased at high prices. Those who grew watermelons first made a lot of money, and then others immediately followed suit.

If there are more people, wholesalers will naturally lower the price, anyway, there is no shortage of supply.

In the words of the old peasants, the wholesalers were very wicked, and directly reduced the price to a penny and twenty catties.

At that time, the output of watermelon was not as high as it is now, so many fruit farmers lost money.

In the second year, they united and raised prices together.

The wholesalers suffered losses that year, and then the wholesalers joined forces to lower prices, causing many farmers' melons to rot in the fields and not sell them.

Later, the melon farmers united to bully the small wholesalers who had no power and background, forcibly loaded the trucks, and forcibly sold them.

In short, both sides fight back and forth, and both have losses.

But this year, seeing the watermelon is about to be ripe soon, the wholesaler has not come to order, and the farmers are worried because last year the wholesaler threatened not to come here to buy.

They are all worried, those wholesalers are playing for real.

The whole story left Lin Sen and Zhao Xiaolong speechless. This was originally a win-win situation, only because both sides wanted to earn more, which turned into a lose-lose situation.

Of course, in general, wholesalers are worse.

They used information asymmetry and their channel advantages to keep the purchase price too low.

According to the old farmer, as long as the purchase price can reach a penny ten catties, the melon farmers can be very satisfied.

The purchase price of two cents and ten catties can be sold for two cents a catty in Nanjing, which is ten times worse.

Even if the transportation costs, manual handling costs, and storage costs are all expensive, there is still a lot of profit to be made.

For two cents and ten catties, an acre of land can only be sold for 12 yuan, and for 50 acres, it is only 600 yuan.

Excluding fertilizers, seeds, and labor costs, on average, an old farmer can only earn 200 yuan a quarter.

It is slightly better than the minimum wage job at Dahua, but it is also quite hard to grow 50 acres of watermelon.

"If those wholesalers are determined to win this game, it is really possible that they will not come here to buy collectively this year, then these melon farmers will be miserable."

Zhao Xiaolong worried.

Watermelon can only quench thirst, but cannot satisfy hunger.

Except for big cities like Nanjing, Tianjin and Shanghai, there is really no place to consume watermelons in Linyi.

If these watermelons cannot be sold, they can only rot in the ground.

The final situation is that wholesalers did not make money, melon farmers lost money, and people in big cities did not enjoy delicious and cheap watermelons.

This is really bad.

"The local government doesn't do anything. How can they help the melon farmers find some sales channels. I don't believe it anymore. All wholesalers can unite."

Lin Sen complained about Linyi's government. Logically speaking, melon farmers are also working hard to improve the city's economy. The government should give some support and help.

"Go back and take a copy of them? Maybe those wholesalers have collusion with the local government."

Zhao Xiaolong said.

"Our task is not to investigate corruption and eliminate evil. This kind of thing is not ours. If you cross the line, even if it is a good thing, some people will be unhappy.

What we have to do is to solve this problem. Moreover, what is to be solved is not a local problem, but a universal problem.

Not only to help melon farmers find a sales channel, but also to help vegetable farmers and farmers in other places find sales channels, so that they can control a way out in the game with wholesalers. "

Help melon farmers in Linyi solve the problem?

This is of course a good thing, but it is also a meaningless thing.

Helped Linyi, there are hundreds of Linyi in the world, they help one by one, the efficiency is too low.

That is what the grassroots officials should do, and they are the central officials of the court. What they need to do is to start from the root of the problem and design a system to solve similar problems in all places at once.

"Then what should I do?"

Zhao Xiaolong is a little clueless.

"Perhaps, we can build an information network to allow officials from all over the country to report local special product information to the central government, and then the imperial court will publish this information in newspapers, so that businessmen can know where the goods they need are available. There are more competitors, I think. It is difficult to unite..."

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