Chapter 63: Rushing to transport garlic sprouts
Chen Lin rode a bicycle and hurriedly drove towards the transportation company, along the way, the more Chen Lin pondered, the more aggrieved he felt.
The car that I contacted was transferred away by someone else in a blink of an eye, and the person who transferred the vehicle was Li Weidong!
About Li Weidong, Chen Lin is a long-known name, at the age of 16, he was assigned to a building at the age of 17, and he scored a perfect score in the dispatcher exam, these experiences are legendary among the young workers of the transportation company.
And what made Chen Lin most angry was that Li Weidong became a planning dispatcher as soon as he entered the dispatching department.
Under normal circumstances, if you want to be a planning dispatcher, you need to start as an on-site dispatcher, and only after you are familiar with various businesses and have accumulated certain work experience can you become a planning dispatcher.
For example, Chen Lin is an on-site dispatcher, and he is in the stage of accumulating experience.
However, Li Weidong, a newcomer, jumped into the planning and scheduling department and stepped directly on the heads of the on-site dispatchers.
The so-called wood show in the forest and the wind will destroy it, Li Weidong's behavior in the past year is indeed too eye-catching, and it is normal to attract the eyes of others, especially young workers, there are many people who are jealous of Li Weidong.
Now that Li Weidong has transferred the car that Chen Lin wanted, it is like lighting a fuse, and the accumulated new and old hatreds will explode together.
Chen Lin parked his bicycle and walked towards the dispatch department angrily, and at this moment, a voice stopped Chen Lin.
"Chen Lin, when you are not at the scene during work hours, what are you doing when you go back?"
Chen Lin looked back and called the person who stopped him was named Tao Yong, who was also the on-site dispatcher of the freight department.
"You still say that I, aren't you coming back too!" Chen Lin said.
"I'm coming back because I have business!" Tao Yong sighed lightly, and then said: "I'm also unlucky, I have already contacted the car to pull the goods, but after waiting for a long time, the car has not come, and I called the dispatch department to find out that the car was sent to another place." ”
Chen Lin looked at Tao Leyong, who was sympathetic to the same disease, and said: "Me too, I waited for an hour in the Nanshan parking lot before I realized that the five cars I wanted were sent to Zengling County. ”
"The car you want has also been transferred to Zengling County?" asked Tao Yong in surprise.
"Your car was also transferred by Li Weidong?" Chen Lin asked another question.
Neither of them answered, but from the other party's expressions, they already knew the answer.
In an instant, Chen Lin seemed to have found a bosom friend: "This Li Weidong not only transferred my car, but also transferred your car, let's settle accounts with him!"
At this moment, another voice sounded: "Oops, both of you are here!"
The person who came was named Wu Dongqiang, who was also an on-site dispatcher.
"Wu Dongqiang, the car you want, shouldn't you also be sent to Zengling County?" asked Chen Lin.
"How do you know?" Wu Dongqiang looked surprised.
Chen Lin and Tao Yong glanced at each other, and Bosom Friend No. 3 was launched!
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"Please come in!" Luo Bing then shouted, then raised his head and looked at the door, only to see Chen Lin, Tao Yong and Wu Dongqiang walking in.
Luo Bing was slightly stunned, and said in his heart that the three on-site dispatchers were not staying at the scene during the working hours, and what were they doing when they came back.
"Why are you here?" asked Luo Bing.
"Captain, I can't do this job!" Chen Lin said first.
"Yes, captain, I really can't do it anymore!" Tao Yong said from the side.
Luo Bing looked dazed, pointed to the sofa next to him, and said, "What's going on, sit down and talk slowly." ”
After the three of them sat down, it was Chen Lin who took the lead in speaking: "Captain, our dispatch department, some plans and scheduling, are just fooling around, the five cars I have already set up will be sent to Zengling County." I waited there for an hour with my client's eyes wide open, and I didn't even see a wheel. ”
"It's for the transfer of vehicles!" Luo Bing nodded.
The on-site dispatch made an appointment with the car, but was sent to another place by the planned dispatch, although it is not common, but it always happens occasionally, and it is not a new thing.
Generally, when encountering this situation, they all listen to the plan and scheduling, after all, the plan and dispatch are the brains of the entire freight system.
The vehicle was temporarily transferred, and the on-site dispatch felt angry and complained.
Luo Bing's main means of dealing with similar things is to talk to the mud, listen to the on-site dispatch complain a few words, and then persuade two sentences, and the matter will be considered over.
Luo Bing was just about to open his mouth and thin the mud, Tao Yong also spoke: "Captain, the eight cars I want have also been sent to Zengling County." ”
"Captain, my seven cars are also sent to Zengling County. Wu Dongqiang hurriedly said.
"Five plus eight, plus seven, that's twenty cars, does Zengling County have any transportation tasks?
The transport company had a total of more than 200 trucks, and 20 vehicles were used at once, but they occupied nearly one-tenth of the capacity.
At this time, Chen Lin continued: "Captain, we have asked, and the person who sent the car is the same plan, which is the new Li Weidong. ”
"Li Weidong, what is he doing when he sends twenty cars to Zengling County at once?" Thinking of this, Luo Bing picked up a folder from the table, which contained a summary of freight orders in the last two weeks.
Luo Bing checked it carefully, Zengling County was all scattered lists, and there were no freight orders that needed to use twenty vehicles.
"What the hell is going on?" Luo Bing stood up, and he decided to go to Corey to find out for himself.
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Li Weidong looked at the calendar, and the number "29" was drawn by him several times, which looked very conspicuous at first glance.
"Today is the 29th, I have transferred twenty cars, if you count it, it will definitely be insufficient, if there are empty cars in a while, you have to transfer a few more cars to Zengling County. Li Weidong said secretly in his heart.
The reason why Li Weidong wanted to transfer the vehicle to Zengling County was because he remembered a major event that happened in Zengling County in his previous life.
Although the land in Zengling County is not fertile, there are many rivers and farmland can be irrigated more effectively, so Zengling County has always been a large agricultural county.
Counties with agriculture as their backbone often mean poverty, and the same is true of Zengling County, which ranks last in the entire Qinghe region in terms of economy.
There is no industry in Zengling County, there are no minerals buried underground, and the geographical location is not a traffic artery, so if you want to develop, you can only rely on farming.
However, simply planting wheat can at most fill the farmers' stomachs, and it is impossible to get rid of poverty and become well-off, so the Zengling agricultural department began to encourage farmers to plant some cash crops that can be sold for money, such as garlic.
Garlic is an indispensable condiment in people's daily life, and it can also be used in medicine, in terms of economic benefits, growing garlic is definitely much better than growing wheat.
Zengling County sent agricultural technicians to promote garlic cultivation to farmers, so a small number of farmers began to turn the bell garlic.
Growing garlic can be sold in two stubbles, one is the garlic when it matures in summer, and the other is the garlic flower stalks cut in April and May every year, which is the garlic sprouts we eat.
When the garlic sprouts are ripe, cut off the garlic sprouts, and the nutrients absorbed by the garlic from the soil will be supplied to the garlic head, which can make the garlic grow larger.
Garlic sprouts are a seasonal vegetable, and the price was not cheap at that time, before the eighties, the amount of garlic cultivation in China has not been high, so the yield of garlic sprouts is not high. The so-called scarcity is expensive.
In eighty-four years, after the garlic sprouts in Zengling County were harvested, they were sold to big cities like Beijing or Hucheng, and the price per catty could reach five cents, which was almost half a catty of pork, which was definitely a luxury among vegetables.
This year, the farmers who planted garlic also made money, and some farmers relied on buying garlic sprouts, building new houses and marrying daughters-in-law.
Seeing that garlic sprouts were so profitable, other farmers also switched to garlic, and the amount of garlic planted in Zengling County instantly increased by hundreds of times.
The yield of garlic sprouts has gone up, and the price has naturally come down, and it is definitely impossible to sell it for five cents a catty, but for farmers, even if it is sold for a dime a catty, it is much more cost-effective than growing grain.
Garlic sprouts that cost a dime and a pound can definitely be sold, and if they are shipped to big cities at this price, they will be robbed like crazy.
But the key problem is that there are not enough vehicles to transport it.
When the garlic sprouts were harvested last year, the planting area was still relatively small, so Zengling County temporarily found some light trucks and borrowed a few vehicles from some enterprises to transport the garlic sprouts to Shanghai.
By 85 years, the area of garlic had increased by a hundredfold, and the production of garlic sprouts had also increased by a factor of 100, and transportation had become a big problem.
Garlic sprouts have a characteristic of this vegetable, which can be taken to refrigerate, and have little impact on the taste after thawing.
However, if you don't refrigerate, the garlic sprouts will rot quickly. Moreover, the large-scale ripening time of garlic sprouts is originally in May, the weather will get hotter and hotter, and the rate of garlic sprouts will rot faster and faster.
In the 80s, there was no vegetable refrigeration industry in China at all, and it was good to have one or two refrigerated warehouses in a county. In a poor county like Zengling County, there is no refrigerated warehouse to store garlic sprouts. The only way to do this is to transport the garlic sprouts to the city as soon as possible and put them on the market for sale.
In May, when the garlic sprouts in Zengling County were harvested, there were no vehicles to transport them, and the farmers could only watch the garlic sprouts rot in the ground, and there was nothing they could do, so the agricultural department, which encouraged farmers to plant garlic, became the target of farmers' venting.
On May 29th, the tenth day of the lunar calendar, many garlic growers took garlic sprouts to the market, hoping to sell a part of them and stop the loss in time. However, when the farmers arrived at the market, they found that the whole market was selling garlic sprouts.
Everyone was a seller, there were no buyers, and the farmers realized that the garlic sprouts could not be sold, and everyone felt that the county had deceived them.
Zengling has always been a fierce people, and it belongs to the kind of area where family planning cadres are often beaten.
So thousands of angry garlic farmers went directly to the county seat, to find the "official" to settle accounts.
Those peasants who face the loess with their backs to the sky are not highly educated, and they have little knowledge, and they feel that as long as they are from the county, they are "officials", and if they come from the city or province, even if they are just low-level clerks, they are also "big officials".
Thousands of garlic farmers surrounded the county office to ask for an explanation, which was no longer as simple as ordinary people petitioning, which naturally alarmed the superiors.
After this incident, the Qinghe Transportation Company has another political task, that is, to mobilize vehicles to transport garlic sprouts to Zengling County in May every year.
The original intention of the county was good, they wanted to help the peasants get rid of poverty and become rich, but it was self-defeating because of poor consideration.
Those garlic farmers are also very sympathetic. If the peasants cannot sell what they grow and all the things they grow rot in the ground, then the hard work of the year will be in vain, and they will not even have food for the next year.
When Zengling County found that the garlic sprouts could not be transported, they also placed a freight order with the transportation company, but when the order was delivered to the transportation company, it was already the 28th.
However, due to the fact that they were all waiting for trucks at that time, they generally had to wait for ten days and half a month to load and transport goods, and Zengling County temporarily placed a transportation order, which must have been too late, and the cars were sent out in advance, and there was no capacity to transport garlic sprouts at all.
Li Weidong was cooking in the canteen, and when he heard about the bumper harvest of garlic sprouts in Zengling County, he immediately remembered this incident. So he went back and rummaged through the calendar and remembered when it had happened.
Garlic is not worth much, many garlic farmers in the coming year's livelihood, all rely on this stubble of garlic sprouts, even if it is only sold for a dime a catty, selling seven or eight hundred catties can earn seventy or eighty yuan, for farmers, the extra income of seventy or eighty yuan has been able to get them out of poverty.
It is not easy for farmers to farm the land, and after a year of hard work, they are counting on this stubble of garlic sprouts, so Li Weidong decided to give priority to dispatching vehicles to Zengling County to rush to transport garlic sprouts.
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Luo Bing came to the dispatch room and saw Li Weidong talking on the phone there, probably talking about business.
Luo Bing didn't bother Li Weidong, but walked up to another dispatcher and asked, "Is there a freight order from Zengling County in the last two days?"
"Yes, I came yesterday. The dispatcher replied.
"Did you just ask for a car yesterday, how many cars, and what to transport?" Luo Bing asked again.
"It seems to be 100 cars, I don't know exactly what to transport, Xiao Li is responsible for this matter. The dispatcher explained.
Luo Bing looked at Li Weidong, who was still talking on the phone at this time.
Behind Luo Bing, Chen Lin came up and said in a low voice: "Captain, you have heard it, this Li Weidong is too disagreeable, many of our orders now have been backlogged and have not been shipped out for more than a week, but this Zengling County came to the list yesterday, and Li Weidong arranged it today, maybe he will take advantage of it!"
Luo Bing's brows furrowed slightly, which was also what he was most worried about.
In order to get the freight out early, many companies will bribe the dispatcher to let the dispatcher arrange the vehicle in advance, so if the dispatcher wants to get oil and water, he can definitely get a lot.
The dispatcher collects the benefits of the cargo owner and arranges the vehicle for the cargo owner in advance, which is a bribe. The freight department has clear regulations that dispatchers are never allowed to collect benefits from cargo owners, and once discovered, they will be disciplined if they get out of the freight department.
Of course, when the dispatcher arranges the vehicle, the owner of the goods will send a box of cigarettes, or early in the morning, the owner of the goods will ask the dispatcher to eat a fritter and drink a bowl of soy milk, which is not considered a benefit.
A box of cigarettes and a breakfast can be worth a few dollars, and no corrupt official made a fortune by rubbing two mouthfuls of soy milk.
This kind of eating, drinking, petty fighting, and friendship does not violate the principle, and the freight department will turn a blind eye.
Li Weidong is a person that Zhao Guodong is optimistic about, so Luo Bing also takes good care of Li Weidong, but Li Weidong's biggest shortcoming is that he is young, when the topic of "taking benefits" is mentioned, Luo Bing is really worried, Li Weidong, a young comrade, can't keep the bottom line!
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At this time, in Zengling County, angry garlic farmers have already surrounded the county office.
Seeing that there are more and more garlic farmers, the people inside are in a hurry.
At this time, the leaders of Zengling County had already dialed the Qinghe Prefectural Committee for the third time:
"We really can't bear it now, just now, those garlic farmers who petitioned rushed into our yard!
I beg the leaders of the prefectural committee to save us quickly!
As long as there is a car that can transport the garlic sprouts, we will be saved!"