Siheyuan, my new life

At that time, Lin Yu had just ended the supply to the city on the grounds of tight stocks of grain and meat. In fact, as the amount of grain and meat purchased by the city increased each time, Lin Yu had already sensed something was wrong. After investigation by Zhou Hong and Zhou Huang, they found that most of the grain and meat purchased by the city from him were not used to supply small steel mills in various streets in the city. Some of them were even sold at a higher price through the Pigeon Market. Of course, the city was not doing this for profit, but just to balance the skyrocketing grain prices in the Pigeon Market.

You should know that the higher-ups have a tacit attitude towards the existence of the Pigeon Market. After all, there are still quite a number of people in Beijing who do not have urban household registration, and therefore cannot buy affordable grain from various grain stations. They can only spend high prices to buy premium grain in the Pigeon Market. In the past, the highest price of corn flour in the Pigeon Market was only about 1.5 cents, but recently with the tight food supply, the price of corn flour has reached 24 or 25 cents per pound. In order to balance the price, the city has allocated part of the grain to the Pigeon Market.

Although we know that the city is doing this only to reduce the burden on residents, there are currently at least more than 500,000 to 600,000 rural people living in Beijing. Even if each person is fed one pound of corn flour per day, a quantity of 300 to 400 tons is needed, which is a huge food gap.

Although Lin Yu had no shortage of food and meat, he did not want the city to sell the supplies purchased from him at a low price in the pigeon market.

In fact, for those people in the city who do not have urban household registration, the government has historically adopted the method of mobilizing them to return to the village to participate in labor, sending many rural household registrations in the city back to their hometowns, which not only alleviated the tense food supply situation in the city, but also provided a large amount of labor for the rural areas.

Lin Yu didn't want to see those without urban household registration continue to stay in the city because of his existence, so he had already notified the city in May to stop providing food supplies by the end of June. So the city bought 10,000 tons of corn and 5,000 tons of wheat, as well as 1,000 tons of beef and 5,000 tons of pork directly from Lin Yu for the last time.

If Lin Yu had not refused, the city would have even prepared to purchase 50,000 tons of grain and 10,000 tons of pork and beef at one time.

Lin Yu knew very well that sooner or later the city would have to clear out those agricultural household registrations stranded in the city. Now, due to the extremely tight job situation, many young people of working age with urban household registration in the city still have no jobs and can only earn a little hard-earned money by doing odd jobs, not to mention those rural people without urban household registration. In particular, a considerable number of them have already been allocated their own food-ration land in the countryside, but have sublet the land and are still stranded in the city. Not only do they live a life of unearned income by relying on the food they get for free, but they also add a lot of burden to the already tight labor market in the city.

Strictly speaking, what is the big difference between these people who take advantage of loopholes in national policies and the small landlords before liberation?

The people's commune system that will be implemented in rural areas this year is also intended to solve this problem to a certain extent. The state will certainly not allow such people to become the new generation of small landlords and exploiting class, so they will be cleaned up and controlled.

Since Lin Yu already knew the subsequent policies in advance, how could he continue to supply food to the city at a low price and let these vampires profit from it?

When Li Huaide found Lin Yu, the supply of food and meat to the city had just been stopped. Lin Yu certainly would not hide too much from Li Huaide. He frankly explained to him the interests involved. Of course, he also promised that if Li Huaide was really in trouble, he would find a way to provide some help through other channels.

After learning the inside story, how could Li Huaide let Lin Yu cause trouble for him? He would never let the relationship between the two of them be affected by a temporary gain or loss. He deeply understood Lin Yu's influence. When Lin Yu held his wedding, he witnessed those powerful leaders, especially that gentleman, who actually attended the wedding in person and served as the witness. This made Li Huaide attach more importance to his relationship with Lin Yu.

After receiving Li Huaide's reply, Deputy Minister Gao was not surprised. The father-in-law and son-in-law had had a secret conversation in private before. He was also very optimistic about Lin Yu's future, so he supported his son-in-law to maintain a good relationship with each other.

Vice Minister Gao told Li Huaide on the phone that he had already secured a certain quota of grain and meat supply for the Red Star Steel Mill in advance, but he still reminded him that since Chang Changzheng had caused the mistake himself, he should let Chang Changzheng find a way to solve it himself. In fact, when Vice Minister Gao had talked to Chang Changzheng before, he had already hinted to the other party in his words to voluntarily give up the position of director of the Red Star Steel Mill. Unfortunately, Chang Changzheng himself was very confident and insisted on serving as the director for another year.

There is some controversy in the ministry regarding the candidate for the next director of the Red Star Steel Mill. Currently, the deputy director Liu Changhe, who is in charge of production, and the deputy director Xue Yongheng, who is in charge of technology, both have considerable supporters. As for Li Huaide, his qualifications are too shallow, and being able to serve as the deputy director in charge of logistics and supply is already an exceptional promotion. Therefore, there is no hope for him to compete for the position of director of the Red Star Steel Mill. Both Deputy Minister Gao and Li Huaide himself are very clear about this.

After finishing the call with his father-in-law, Li Huaide lit a cigarette, his face revealing an undisguised sarcasm. Just now, Liu Changhe acted as if he was thinking about him in front of him, and his real purpose was self-evident. Li Huaide would not take the initiative to take sides now. He should let Liu Changhe and Xue Yongheng compete. He should just do his job well. Anyway, what he needed now was to gain experience. Under normal circumstances, there was no hope of becoming a factory director within three or four years. He was not that Lin Yu, who was able to be promoted repeatedly in a short period of time, which was a considerable contribution. He heard from his father-in-law privately that if Lin Yu had not repeatedly refused, the relevant departments and the Ministry of Public Security would have intended to let Lin Yu serve as deputy minister.

Li Huaide is quite self-aware. Although he is very envious of Lin Yu in his heart, he does not have the slightest jealousy. After all, Lin Yu can have everything he has today entirely through his own hard work, and this is an indisputable fact.