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Chapter 882 Falling out (7000 words)
"Hmm, delicious!" There were not many dishes on the table, but they were all served in earthenware bowls.

There are salty braised pork, steamed chicken with rice flour, steamed pork intestines with rice flour, steamed spare ribs with rice flour, meat with sand, longan meat, sweet glutinous rice, stewed cured pork feet with round white radish, stewed cured spare ribs with dried cowpea, and another dish is fried fatty meat with pickled green peppers.

The green pepper is dried, added with salt and placed in a jar.

Of course, there is also the indispensable home-cooked roast rabbit, which uses chopped peppers from local farmers.

There are only a few vegetarian dishes, one is cold-mixed vermicelli and bean sprouts, one is stir-fried local frost-bitten spinach, and the other is stir-fried choy sum.

In fact, many dishes cooked by local people in the southwest are not spicy. Among the several steamed rice dishes, only one is spicy pork intestines, and the rest are spiced and sweet.

"People's living standards are really good now." Liu Hai whispered when he saw that the owner of this farmer's house actually had a first-generation Panda mobile phone.

"Our company distributes these mobile phones to the farmers. If there are any problems with the rabbits or the orchards, they can contact the technicians. We distribute two mobile phones to each rural cooperative." Xiaoyun answered in a low voice beside him.

"It's very expensive to install a wired telephone in the countryside now. It's better to buy a mobile phone."

"The price of a mobile phone is only half of the price of a landline phone."

"A landline phone costs about 2000 yuan, and now the cheap Panda generation mobile phone is less than yuan."

"The main limitation on the development of mobile phones now is the construction of base stations."

Liu Hai nodded. In July 1993, the number of mobile phone users in our country exceeded 7 million, mainly in several major cities in the country and on the island opposite. Of course, most of them use the first generation Panda phones. Now the ex-factory price of the first generation Panda phones is around 5000 yuan, and the price has been reduced again during the Spring Festival.

"Can you ask the manufacturers of base station equipment to produce more equipment? There is a huge demand for this equipment in the country now. This will be very helpful for us to understand the situation of rural cooperatives." Xiaoyun asked again.

"This is not something I can worry about. I'm only responsible for the technology." Liu Hai knew, of course, that production cannot be increased rashly, and that mobile signal towers in each location are planned. Just like this area, there is a signal tower on the top of the opposite mountain that can cover a large area of ​​the entire hillside here.

In addition, this place is undergoing immigration and relocation, and there are many engineering projects to be done. After all, people are bound to get hurt during the engineering projects, and this is unavoidable. If we have a mobile phone, we can communicate faster.

"This radish tastes great, and the temperature difference between day and night is big on this mountain." Xiaoyun ate a piece of round white radish.

Liu Hai nodded. The dried radishes here in his previous life were delicious. This round, white, spring radish has been through frost, but it is not damaged. It is very sweet after being cooked, and this radish has no tendons.

Dried beans are also very comfortable to eat, unlike some of the dried beans I bought online in my previous life, which look dry but have strings after soaking. This all depends on the time when the farmers picked the beans.

After picking the young beans, they should be cooked immediately and then dried.

The color of dried beans will be beautiful if they are exposed to the sun for several consecutive days, but they will be a little dark if it is cloudy.

Liu Hai, Xiaoyun and her junior sister Wang Hongmei sat at one table, and the children sat at another side.

The family has two daughters. The older one is probably in junior high school, and the younger one is still young.

Two little girls were busy serving dishes and such.

The standard cost of this meal is 20 per person, which is not a low price at this time.

When leaving, Xiaoyun gave each child in the family a red envelope.

The family also wanted to give New Year's money to the children of Liu Hai and his group, but was rejected.

Ninety percent of farmers are actually very simple and honest.

In the afternoon, we went around the neighborhood again. Liu Hai was mainly observing the construction of the new immigrant village, while Xiaoyun was mainly checking whether the various project announcements were in place, because some projects of Wanjiafu Company were funded in advance.

Some farmers are worried that they won’t be able to sell the crops they grow, so when Wanjiafu Company is developing, they invest in it. Of course, if the company develops well in the future, the farmers can buy back the shares.

These farmers did not know Liu Hai’s true identity, they only knew that he was a big boss from Kyoto.

At night, Liu Hai and his group stayed in the town, where Wanjiafu Company had its office.

Liu Hai visited the office, which had a parking lot and a warehouse, and most of the staff were recruited from nearby.

Wanjiafu Company has offices in all the cooperating towns and villages, which are also logistics points.

These logistics points also take into account express delivery, of course, the volume of express delivery is not very large at present.

There is also a cold storage at this office location.

In addition, computers are already used for work here, and there are surveillance cameras everywhere.

"Monitoring is essential. If something happens, we can find out who is responsible." Xiaoyun said.

Liu Hai nodded. Having surveillance is good for everyone and can also extinguish some people's mentality of taking chances. The waters in the agricultural products industry are very complicated.

"This office is also responsible for communicating with some technical departments in the town, such as the agricultural technology department, to inquire about when to apply fertilizer, when to prune fruit trees, and when to bag the fruit."

"The time difference between different places here may be half a month due to the different altitudes. In some places, the fruit trees at the foot of the mountain bloom half a month before the fruit trees on the mountain bloom."

The workload at this office is relatively light during this period, but it becomes very heavy when the fruits are about to come out.

Now we mainly deal in agricultural and sideline products. We purchase bacon and sausages, package them here, and put traceability information on them.

There are also some fresh agricultural and sideline products, such as rabbits, pigs, chickens, cattle, sheep and so on.

The cooperative also raises the animals in batches according to the plan.

Fresh agricultural and sideline products are inspected by local inspection and quarantine departments before being transported to local specialized slaughterhouses. The supermarkets are filled with fresh products that have been slaughtered the night before. If they cannot be sold on the same day, they will all be disposed of at a low price.

"Good!" Liu Haijue's Wanjiafu Supermarket has a natural advantage in engaging in e-commerce in the future, and its development will be much better than that of JD.com.

It took JD.com many years and cost a lot to build its own logistics system.

When they are busy, these offices will hire temporary workers.

The computers here are all Panda generation 1 computers.

The first generation of Panda computers began to be available in China, especially in some government offices.

The railway network communications department also made a lot of money.

The next day, there was a market in the town. This town was also newly built, originally located in the river valley at the foot of the mountain.

They are all buildings, and they are all cast-in-place buildings.

Motorcycles and vans are the mainstream here, and there are also cars, but in small numbers.

The rows of motorcycles in the town are motorcycle taxis.

The motorcycle taxi drivers in these places are very skilled. Liu Hai saw a motorcycle with six people including the driver, three adults and three children.

No one cares about this town, and there are several motorcycle shops in the town, and their business is pretty good.

As for how many people are in the Five Star van, that is hard to say. Anyway, Liu Hai sees that there are at least more than 10 people in each van.

There are also those low stools in the van.

There were various things on the roof of the van.

The sound of mahjong in the teahouse rang out again. In some taverns, several people sat together and ordered braised beef, peanuts, and a cup of medicinal wine per person. The color of the wine was very beautiful.

Liu Hai knew some of the tricks involved. Usually, they would stir-fry some sugar color to pretend to be wolfberry or soaked dates to get the color.

They are all huge glass bottles, containing all kinds of things, some with medicinal herbs, some with bones, and some with snakes.

There are also local doctors who treat injuries and sprains.

"This tabby cat is so beautiful!" The junior sister saw an old lady selling tabby cats.

"This is called the Jianzhou cat. It is said to be a tribute in the past. Look, its four paws are white and it has a round head." Liu Hai saw that the six kittens in this litter looked basically the same.

"Grandpa!" Xingxing and the others couldn't walk when they saw the kitten.

The person in charge from Wanjiafu accompanied me and asked about the price.

Finally, the old lady asked for two dollars per kitten, but she would accept one dollar. She said that she was trying to find a way out for the kittens as she couldn’t afford to raise too many at home.

These six kittens are well raised. It can be seen that the owner has not treated the kittens badly. Of course, they are not as fat as those cats that were fed with cat food in 2020.

Six kittens and a basket with a lid were given 20 yuan together, and then another 20 yuan was given to the old lady to wish her a happy new year. The old lady was 72 years old this year.

The old lady wiped her tears with excitement. The price of Jianzhou cats is relatively high in the international market now.

Because Liu Hai drew a pet cat in Toy Story that grew up with its little owner, and it was the Jane Zhou cat with white gloves.

It's just that this is a remote countryside, and there are quite a few cats of this kind in our country.

There are also people selling puppies and chicks, and some sell old hens and chicks together.

There were also many vendors selling vegetables and various mountain products. Liu Hai didn't know much about these Chinese herbal medicines, so he didn't buy any of them rashly.

There are also industrial products from outside, various toys, and various snacks and treats.

There are also various household appliances, televisions, washing machines, refrigerators, and rice cookers.

The busiest stall was selling VCD discs. A 14-inch color TV was placed on the stall, connected to two external speakers. It attracted quite a few people to watch. The show was playing Taken: Part 1.

There were all kinds of exquisite VCD discs on display, but Liu Hai knew they were pirated as soon as he saw them.

In China, people tend to turn a blind eye to the piracy of VCD discs.

It definitely won’t work with foreign companies. If they find out, they will sue them until they go bankrupt.

"Haha!" Xiaoyun also realized that these discs were pirated, but he also laughed.

Of course, there are also various restaurants in this town, serving wontons, noodles, rice, stir-fried dishes, braised dishes, stews, steamed dishes, as well as barbecue and teppanyaki.

The stew is a big casserole on a honeycomb coal stove, with snow peas, pig's trotters, crispy winter melon and pork, braised tofu, duck meat and kelp, and stewed konjac.

"Yes, it's cooked enough." Liu Hai and his family went into a small restaurant. The konjac was obviously made by the farmer himself. The color was particularly darker, and because it was stewed for a long time, it was chewy when eaten, unlike the ones sold in the market that would become rotten if touched.

"Don't they say that people here like spicy food? Why aren't these stews spicy?" The junior sister looked at the stews with some confusion.

“Sichuan cuisine has a variety of flavors. They don’t pursue any fixed format. As long as it tastes good, that’s enough!” Liu Hai watched a lot of short videos in his previous life.

"The Jianghu cuisine in the area south of Shudu is spicy." Liu Hai picked up a piece of braised pork belly, which was very soft and slightly spicy, with more of a five-spice taste.

The restaurant owner was extremely happy; he didn't expect to have such a big business before noon.

After Liu Hai finished eating, he came to the door. There was a counter on one side of the door and several casseroles on the other side.

The aroma of the casserole wafted out, attracting people on the street.

"Boss, how is your business?" The boss handed Liu Hai a Chuncheng cigarette. Liu Hai shook his head to refuse, and then asked.

“Business is bad now!”

"It's mainly because transportation is so convenient now, with motorcycles and vans."

"When we were in the old farm, transportation was not convenient and we had to walk a long way home, so we had to eat lunch at noon."

"Nowadays, many people do the math and think that the money for food and transportation is almost enough, so it's better to go home early."

"Plus, during the New Year holidays, everyone is eating and drinking well at home!"

This situation is similar to that in Liu Hai's hometown in his previous life. The restaurant business in the town where he lived in his previous life was getting less and less.

Liu Hai's father is a good example. He used to walk for more than an hour to go to the market. After getting his things done at the market, he had to eat something before walking back.

It became more convenient later. It only took 20 minutes by car to get there. Sometimes, after finishing my business, I could even take the same van back home.

If we really wait until the afternoon, there might not be any vans. The restaurants in the town probably didn’t expect that it was not their opponents but these motorcycles and vans that defeated them.

Just like many physical stores, who would have thought that they would be defeated by computers and mobile phones.

However, there are many people in the town during the New Year. After one o'clock, there is a mahjong table in almost every store, and there are many special teahouses.

Seeing others playing mahjong, Xiaoyun and his friends also felt itchy, so they returned to Wanjiafu’s office in the town in the afternoon and played mahjong at several tables until the evening.

I asked the restaurant owner to deliver the meal in advance!
On the third day, Liu Hai arrived at the construction site of the Three Gorges Dam. Construction had already begun here, with countless construction machinery, countless workers, and countless supplies.

This is also the place where a dam was built in history. Liu Hai just took a quick look and did not inspect it closely.

The main reason is that there are many vehicles and various construction machinery on the construction site, and no one can guarantee whether there will be any accidents.

Liu Hai pays more attention to logistics, such as the workers' accommodation and the food in the workers' canteen.

"During the Chinese New Year, we not only received triple wages, but also received subsidies."

"Make sure we have at least two meat dishes every day. Today at noon we'll have braised pork and spicy chicken!" The general manager of the engineering department took Liu Hai to visit the kitchen.

The color of the braised pork was a little dark, probably because too much soy sauce was added, but it was no big deal for someone who was working.

People who do this kind of physical work need to eat a lot of oil, a lot of salt, and animal oil. If you eat vegetable oil and soybean oil, you will easily get hungry!
Spicy chicken is made by boiling and chopping the chicken into pieces, then adding red oil to give it a spicy flavor.

There are also two vegetarian dishes, one is tofu and the other is stir-fried lotus root.

In some places where work cannot be stopped, meals are taken in turns, and some are delivered to the construction site.

Of course there is definitely more than one cafeteria.

Liu Hai and his family had lunch here at noon.

Of course, the taste is definitely not as good as that in restaurants, and they use a lot of oil and salt.

Of course, Liu Hai and his group ate mostly vegetarian food.

In the afternoon, Liu Hai left the construction site and went to take a look at the nearby resettlement site.

This time we visited a sheep farm, but the sheep here are all kept in pens, and they grow pasture grass and crop straw, corn stalks, soybean stalks, and there is special equipment to roll these straws into silk, which is a special silk rolling machine.

These are the local yellow goats and black goats here.

The sheep here are mainly supplied to the big cities here, and the prices of cattle and sheep have been a little low in the past two years, mainly due to the high output of grasslands in the north.

However, people in the south prefer to eat goat meat rather than sheep meat from the grassland.

People here like to scald the skin before eating mutton, so Liu Hai and others had a mutton hotpot at noon.

Two flavors of shabu-shabu hotpot, one with clear soup and one with spicy.

Scalding lamb skin is now also available in Kyoto Wanjiafu Supermarket. After the lamb skin is burned, it becomes very soft and glutinous when stewed.

On the fourth day, Liu Hai found a place to fish, but maybe it was because it was winter, he didn't catch any fish.

On the fifth day, Liu Hai went down the river to the Baiji dolphin protection area. There was no reclamation of farmland around the lake here anymore. Instead, the lake was being continuously drained and silted.

The silt cleared out is used to reinforce the surrounding embankments, making them wider and the lakes deeper so that they can hold more water.

However, there is always one thing here, that is schistosomiasis, so Liu Hai and others don’t dare to eat river food here.

On the sixth day, the group returned to Kyoto and officially started work.

Although many things are different in history, for example, the personal income tax implementation regulations that were only implemented in 1994 had already been implemented for decades.

But some things are still in the trajectory of history, such as an air crash in Fat Goose's home.

On March 3, Fat Goose International Airlines Flight 22 crashed in Siberia, killing all 593 people on board.

It was because the captain allowed his children to operate the aircraft illegally and turn off the automatic aileron control system, causing the aircraft to tilt and the autopilot to fail.

So some things are destined and cannot be escaped even if you want to.

Fortunately, this kind of situation is unlikely to happen in China, and the security checks on domestic aviation flights are now very strict.

The bald eagle did not become more strict in this regard until after 911/.

Then, as expected, certain forces in Tocharian finally emerged, and the Bald Eagle would taste the bitter fruit of his own making.

Then something happened internationally. The second country exported White Swan model aircraft to certain Eastern countries at a price of 1.5 million pounds per aircraft.

However, the deal was strongly opposed by Fat Goose.

Of course it's not just Fat Goose, but also the third in command, Little Book and Little Stick, who expressed strong opposition.

On the contrary, there are still bald eagles in Europe, as if this incident never happened.

Some countries in the East announced that they were ready to put the matter on hold.

The people on the second in command immediately became anxious and threatened the third in command, saying, "If you object, I will do something cruel to Xijin."

And the second brother made a public speech, saying that since you, the eldest brother, are against this deal, you have to compensate for the loss.

Some countries in the East are planning to buy 10 aircraft, which costs 15 billion pounds. If you object, just buy them yourself. If you don't compensate us for our losses, then we can no longer be brothers.

15 billion pounds! The hearts of the people in the second son's family are bleeding.

Then many people in the second brother's family took to the streets, saying that the eldest brother was still interfering in our family affairs, which was simply outrageous. They had already interfered too much in our affairs before, and now they want to interfere with us too much.

As for some countries in the East, they remain silent now.

However, the second brother privately introduced the White Swan-related talents directly to certain Eastern countries.

The second brother and the eldest brother were almost at odds with each other. There were more and more voices against the eldest brother in the second brother's family, who believed that the eldest brother was interfering in their family affairs.

However, the boss still expressed his opposition to this business.

Liu Hai knew that this matter was not that simple, but there would be a historical turning point in the second half of the year, that is, Fei Goose's house would be in chaos, and the journey would let Fei Goose know why the flowers were so red, of course, maybe it would happen earlier.

In late March 1994, the number of mobile phone users worldwide exceeded 3 million.

The number of mobile phone users in China has exceeded 7000 million.

As for how long it took for the number of mobile phone users to exceed 6 million, Liu Hai didn’t know, but there definitely weren’t so many users in 1994.

The main reason is that the first generation of Panda mobile phones are cheap, with a factory price of only 1500 yuan, which is less than 200 pounds when converted into pounds. The exchange rate of the pound has reached 8, and the exchange rate of the US dollar is now only a few points. Before the US dollar fell, the exchange rate reached 6.

At that time in history, the price of our mobile phones in 1994 reached 2 yuan.

There are two restrictions on domestic mobile phone users: one is the construction of base stations, and the other is production capacity. If the higher authorities had not stipulated a ratio, I'm afraid all of them would have been exported.

In fact, the market share of Panda mobile phones has reached more than 85%. Although there are Puma mobile phones and Motorola mobile phones on the market, these are all private-label mobile phones. The only real ones are Nokia phones that are not Panda phones.

That is to say, the communication base stations and communication systems used by more than 85% of mobile users in the world are products of FiberHome Technologies.

The sales volume of the second-generation Pokémon reached 3 million units by the end of March, and countless first-generation Pokémon users are eagerly waiting for their babies to be reborn.

At the same time, the number of Internet users in my country has grown explosively, and is expected to exceed 1 million this year. On the one hand, the government has vigorously adopted computers for office work, and on the other hand, the price of the first generation of Panda computers has reached a very low level.

The sales of Panda 2nd generation computers in China are also very popular. Panda 2nd generation computers have two sales directions. The first is wealthy individuals or enterprises, and the other is Internet cafes. China has implemented temporary management measures for Internet cafes, stipulating that minors are not allowed to access the Internet. In addition, fire safety and other aspects of Internet cafes must be in place.

Of course, in reality there are still some management gaps in this area. For example, Internet cafe owners have a large stack of ID cards, including those of relatives and friends.

It will definitely not be as severe as in 2020. There is nothing we can do about it.

Other developing countries also benefited from this because the price of computers and mobile phones dropped, allowing these countries to start accessing the Internet.

Another popular product is VCD. The manufacturer has been receiving orders for 500 million of them. As for blank discs, the production has already exceeded 20 billion!

This is simply a money printing machine, and the demand is far from enough to meet the supply.

In April 1994, the dispute between the second brother and the eldest brother became increasingly intense. The second brother even cut off the Fat Goose energy pipeline passing through his own land and demanded that the eldest brother pay 4 billion pounds and deliver 15 White Swans to him.

The boss is now forced into a corner with a serious fiscal deficit and almost no domestic industry.

The main reason is that Fei Xiong made the industrial supply chain too fragmented. It was originally intended to take care of other brothers, but now it is suddenly separated. Not to mention the supply of raw materials, various technologies, and production equipment are all a difficult problem.

In addition, during this period, another aircraft carrier fleet was added. An aircraft carrier plus a supporting fleet also costs money.

Anyway, the relationship between the two sides is getting worse and worse, and Fat Goose's currency is continuing to depreciate due to the deteriorating domestic economy.

Fat Goose now wants to sell the things he has, but after looking around, he sees nothing to sell.

Historically, Fat Goose made a lot of money selling the Su-27.

The current international crude oil prices are shockingly low.

The Babylonian Empire and the Persian Empire, on the contrary, were a bit gloating. These two countries still owed debts, so they did not have much foreign exchange, and what they did have was mainly in pounds, because the oil of these two countries was basically monopolized by European dealers.

The two countries were much happier when they saw the large amount of US dollars in the camel's hand, which was depreciating every day.

I cursed in my heart: You deserve it! I asked you to lend it to us but you didn't lend it to us and now it's worthless!
Camel had no choice but to join the ranks of selling US dollars. He had no choice but to watch the US dollar become less and less valuable.

In May 1994, the exchange rate of the US dollar against the RMB fell below 5.

However, this also brought some bad results, that is, Panda mobile phones and Panda computers are no longer competitive in the home of Bald Eagle.

IBM and Apple found that their computer sales were actually picking up.

I don't know whether to cry or laugh.

Another thing happened in June 1994. Niu Niu and Gallic Rooster announced that they would mothball a conventional aircraft carrier and sell an aircraft carrier, respectively, retaining two nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.

The economy of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers is beyond doubt, while conventional-powered aircraft carriers consume several thousand tons of fuel each time they refuel.

However, Nokia's good days did not last for two days, as Panda Mobile announced an overall price reduction for both the first and second generation Panda phones.

"Not bad, not bad." Liu Hai looked at a set of demonstrated photovoltaic lighting equipment.

The final photovoltaic lighting equipment uses maintenance-free lead-acid batteries.

It is mainly a manufacturer of lithium batteries and has no excess production capacity.

Laptops, mobile phones, and walkmans all require a lot of lithium batteries.

The entire lighting system is a solar photovoltaic panel, which varies in size depending on the region, followed by a maintenance-free lead-acid battery, three low-voltage LED lighting lamps, and two lithium battery rechargeable flashlights, because flashlights are more useful in remote mountainous areas.

"Great!" Sun Aiguo looked at the test data of this equipment. Even on a cloudy day, it can provide at least 5 hours of lighting time for three lamps.

"From now on, children in remote areas will no longer need kerosene lamps to do their homework!" said Sun Aiguo.

Liu Hai knew that electricity bills in rural areas were actually not cheap, mainly due to two reasons. The first was high losses. Not to mention the losses themselves, there were also some people with connections who used electricity without paying and charged the losses to everyone else. Some even stole electricity.

In 2020, Liu Hai saw a blogger who specialized in checking for electricity theft. Some people were very arrogant in stealing electricity.

Another thing is that electricity in rural areas still costs money, and people who don’t have money naturally don’t want to use electricity.

This low voltage LED lamp uses very little electricity.

"Xiao Liu, can you develop a rechargeable radio? People in remote areas also want to receive information from the outside world." Sun Aiguo came up with another idea.

(End of this chapter)