Chapter 167: Food Crisis

If you want to use bills, you have to use them, including the current non-regular workers, but this is also simple, except for the coal workers, all the rest of the cement plant owners are counted as five cents a day, and there are additional rewards, and there is no punishment yet.

The main thing is that everyone cherishes their current job, even if it is only a temporary helper, and they don't want to lose their work in advance.

In this way, the meal ticket can be issued, and he counted it together with Jin Chi and Li Yulan in the afternoon of the same day, and the workers of the coal plant will be sent directly to the end of next month, and the workers and helpers of the cement plant will be sent for three days, so that the factory can control the cost of food, and the canteen can also control the amount of food, which is convenient for procurement arrangements.

At this time, Fang Dajun also figured out one thing, that is, about "food stamps", it turned out that not everyone's household registration book could be exchanged for food stamps, and he took it for granted at first.

The cement factory will face the problem of no food available, originally this matter is very simple, it is equivalent to the problem of common sense, Wang Hongwen thought he understood, he also thought he figured it out, but now when he buys a large amount of rice, he finds out that he is cheating!

He used to think that although it was a period of planned economy, the purchase of grain was restricted, but the common people could not afford to buy food, and the local villagers in Jiaoshan did not have food stamps at all, and they did not use food stamps for consumption in the town, and they could even eat without food stamps in the city.

As a result, it is not so simple, because the rural household registration can not be exchanged for food stamps, which is simply a big pit!

But he can buy rice with money, in fact, the rice purchased here was exchanged for food stamps by the owner of the store through other channels, which he knew before, and at that time he just thought that all users could exchange their mouths.

During this time, the rice consumed by the cement factory was purchased by Zhang Luo from five communes, including pork and vegetables, and of course there were also non-agricultural hukou in the commune, such as cadres, veterinarians, and people's teachers, whose hukou were not in the countryside, so they could be used to exchange for food stamps.

In addition, there are other ways to get some grain inside the grain station, but this amount is limited after all, each adult is limited to 40 catties per month, and half an adult child is 20 catties.

Grain stamps are divided into several levels, one is the following counties, townships, two is city stamps, and the third is national food stamps, which can be regarded as "luxury".

After crossing the districts, you have to use the national food stamps! For example, if you go to another province, you can only buy vegetables if you have money, but you can't buy staple foods, that is, rice, steamed buns, etc.

Of course, the peak period of food stamp control has passed, after the Third Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in 78, the food stamps began to loosen, and the amount of food supplied began to increase, but the situation is different in various places, at present, the college students in Yanjing, the monthly supply of grain is 40 catties, and the adults of Beidou can have 40 catties, which is also because Beidou's "non-agricultural household registration" is too small. In addition, there are also "student tickets" can be exchanged, this is not limited to household registration, the food supply for junior high school students is 20 catties per month, the city catties refer to one catty, and the back will be in kilograms, that is, 500 grams for a catty.

Of the 20 city food stamps, two-thirds were coarse grains (i.e., cornmeal), and the remaining one-third were fine grains (i.e., rice, white flour), which caused some children in the outside city to scream with hunger earlier, and they could not buy food without money or tickets.

Of course, it is now the end of 1982, and it will soon be 83, and the situation is already much better, and the food stamps will gradually kneel down in the 80s, and begin to depreciate, and in the early 90s, they will be completely abolished, and in the previous life, when he was in elementary school, the food stamps had been abolished, and he did not understand the problem of food stamps at all. In this life, the former owner was too young, and he didn't need food stamps in the countryside, so he finally figured out the doorway now.

From the five communes, a total of more than 50 non-agricultural household registrations were found, and together with the junior high school student tickets, a total of about 6,000 catties of grain could be exchanged, of which only 2,000 catties were rice. In addition, there are about 2,000 catties of rice ** in the Beidou Grain Station, which is because the requisition has just been paid, and this batch of grain has not been sold, that is, the cement factory can only produce 4,000 catties of rice and about 6,000 catties of corn at most through five communes. A total of 10,000 catties of grain, but before, when more than 300 workers started work, they were open to eat, and each person could kill one catty, and after more than 20 days, thousands of catties of grain were hanged.

At present, there are about 4,000 catties of surplus grain, including corn, rice and wheat, but fortunately, there are few workers now, and about 100 catties of grain are consumed a day, so this batch of grain can last for about 40 days.

Wang Hongwen did not remind him of this problem at that time, because in addition to political axes, government agencies, schools, etc., which can supply grain, including factories and enterprises, cement factories are legally operated and have complete procedures, so regular workers in cement factories can be qualified to exchange for food stamps.

But first, we have to wait for the cement plant to be completed, and then let the county assess the number of regular workers, and then there will be a collective household registration in the factory, so that the workers' household registration can be attached to the factory, so that the cement factory can rely on the quota of workers to exchange for food supply, and it can be summed up in those two words: pit dad!

However, in this way, there is no problem with the grain in the cement plant, and one person cannot eat 40 catties, so as to meet the needs of the workers in the coal plant.

With the loosening of the collective system and the implementation of the contract responsibility system for joint production in the rural areas, when there is more grain, the food stamps will be kneeling.

After thinking about it for a long time, Fang Dajun finally decided to stick to it, survive the eighty-two years, and wait for this year, when Beidou can contract the land, then there will be no food crisis at all, although food is not allowed to be bought and sold privately, and can only be purchased at the grain station, or attached to the unit storefront.

However, he can use "borrowing", and the factory directly asks various communes to borrow grain, which can be regarded as a policy at the top and a countermeasure at the bottom.

One of the key points is that if the workers' hukou is now attached to the cement factory, although the cement factory has the qualifications to supply grain, these workers will lose their land, and they are not registered as farmers, but there is no way to allocate land, so he will ask the workers to decide whether they are willing to transfer their hukou to the cement factory, but according to his estimate, I am afraid that everyone is willing, because the dream of the villagers is not to want a "non-agricultural household registration".

So he planned to drag it out for a while, and after 1982, when the land was contracted by the joint production, it would be up to these workers to decide, after all, the cement factory was built in the countryside, not in the city, and the land and work allocated to the workers could be taken care of.

Of course, if there is no land, it means that there is no need to hand over the requisition, and the benefits are naturally great.

Shaking his head, it's really a bit difficult to choose, but it's still going according to the original plan, and getting through this year.

Now that the grain has been loosened and the price is a little higher, you can sweep out some grain without food stamps, for example, if you can buy a pound of rice or a pound of fritters with a pound of cash for three cents, but if you use a pound of food stamps, you can buy a pound of fritters for two taels. For another example, a bowl of large meat noodles costs three cents, but two cents and four taels of grain can be exchanged for this bowl of noodles, which will be four cents cheaper than using all cash.

There is a price difference, and for example, the residents of the town, who have the qualifications to exchange grain, will exchange the full amount every month, and then open shops to sell and collect cash, which can make a small profit, but once the consumption is inflated, then these stores will not dare to supply cash grain, but this situation is only a small range at most.

Fang Dajun pressed his temple, this is the only place where he is not very suitable for this era, it is too cheating, many things can be bought not only with money, and various policies are also quite cheating, but after all, it is better to get better and better.

After a few years of reform and development, he estimated that the food stamps would have to kneel, because there would be a lot of migrant workers going out of the countryside, and if they went to the coast, then they would cross provinces, and then they would need the most extravagant and most sdemand-seeking "national food stamps"; This kind of "national general grain stamps" is simply "hard currency" and "foreign exchange", only with local coarse grain stamps can not be exchanged, you need to match rice stamps, face stamps and oil stamps, you can exchange them, and you also need a certificate from the unit! If you forge fake national food stamps, you will be sentenced to five years in prison, which is a heavy sentence.

With migrant workers, food stamps will definitely not be **, otherwise these workers earn money outside, but they can't buy rice, it's impossible to eat vegetables at every meal, who can withstand it, and it is impossible to consign grain from their rural hometowns. In addition, those who recruit a large number of workers must be private private enterprises, or temporary workers in state-owned and collective enterprises, so they are not qualified to supply food stamps, and there is no way to solve the problem of grain in the factory, so in the end they have to rely on policies.

In fact, Fang Dajun really guessed correctly now, two years later, in 1984, the deep earthquake (anti-harmony) special zone, the food stamp system was abolished, because there were too many people who went to work, and if the food stamps were not canceled, everyone would not be able to buy food at all, just like construction workers, who could not eat, so they were naturally reluctant to go to the deep earthquake, but the special zone needed workers to build, and the demand for canceling food stamps was put forward under duress. But the rest of the world was not so lucky, and it was not until the early nineties.

However, as soon as the peasants are assigned to the construction site, as long as the peasants do not go out to live permanently across "different regions" from a long distance, it does not matter whether the grain stamps are cancelled or not, and it will have no impact on the peasants.

Fang Dajun now plans to engage in a classic strategy of the ancients: "Cast a high wall, accumulate grain, and slowly become the king!" ”

In fact, it is to seize the time to expand the construction of factories and accommodation and other supporting facilities while producing, because the current labor is cheap, and at the same time, it is necessary to contract land as warehouses everywhere, and will also contract barren mountains, reservoirs and so on!

At the same time, at the same time, seize the time to buy grain, taking advantage of the fact that each township now has "cash grain", that is, the grain station department through the household registration **, each town has thousands of catties of non-ticket grain, in fact, this part of the non-ticket grain is really not much, Beidou population of more than 20,000, the annual non-ticket cash grain is only a few thousand catties, and the grain also includes rice, corn and wheat. On average, each person has less than half a catty of grain, and they can eat it in one meal.

The reason why there is this part of the grain is because the local "requisition task" has been completed well, and the supply of grain for urban household registration is relatively high, so there is naturally a surplus of grain, for example, today's urban household registration plan is 10,000 catties of grain, but by the end of the year, only 8,000 catties have been purchased, so the remaining 2,000 catties of grain can be made into cash grain, as long as it does not exceed the policy plan.

Fang Dajun wants to sweep up these grains and "lend" them to the villagers of Jiaoshan, because this year, all the sweet potatoes in Jiaoshan have been made into vermicelli, and the food gap will be relatively large at that time, and at the same time, when his factory is short of food in the future, he will let Jiaoshan "return" the grain. In fact, the money and goods have long been cleared in the middle, but it is just a policy difference!

Suddenly, he chuckled, it turned out that Li Yulan reminded him to save money and buy more food. It's no wonder that his parents would be so happy when he bought hundreds of catties of grain and hoarded them at home. It was just because he didn't understand the concept of "food stamps" before.

Also, the reason why Renyi's rice and the city's rice are more expensive than Beidou is because there are no food stamps to buy them. He bought cash rice, which would naturally be slightly higher than the market price.

He had already returned to the commune at this time, and Wang Hongwen explained this information clearly just now, and laughed at him on the spot, and also asked him not to worry about food stamps, because vermicelli is also food, and private individuals can't be casual outside, and coarse grain stamps can only be used to buy sweet potatoes, vermicelli is also considered coarse grain, and can even be counted as fine grain.

Wang Hongwen really thought he knew about this, but unfortunately Fang Dajun was a modern person, and the calculation data were directly converted into "money", and he didn't pay attention to these bills at all. (To be continued.) )