Chapter 1275: Going to the Autonomous Region Television Station to Place an Ad-a Video Ad, No Less!
After having lunch with Director Qian at the Prefectural Supply and Marketing Cooperative's canteen, Li Long took the order slip to the warehouse to collect twenty tons of canned food. The cooperative supplied workers and trucks to load it, then followed Li Long back to Ma County.
Before leaving the cooperative, Li Long called his Purchasing Station and told them to hire some Odd Jobs shortly to unload the trucks.
Liu Gaolou was waiting at the Purchasing Station. When he learned that Li Long had secured the canned food, he was delighted!
No wonder his second uncle said Li Long was dependable.
Twenty tons of canned food did not cost much, but once delivered to the Kazakh SSR, it amounted to strategic supplies-Liu Shanmin needed to obtain resources over there too. How could he do that without some strategic supplies on hand?
Of course, the Kazakh SSR still belonged to the Soviet Union at this point, so although the canned meat included fish and luncheon meat made from pork, people there did not mind. After all, every ethnic group there raised pigs now.
The border guards ate slices of salted meat and were used to it.
So Liu Gaolou waited until Li Long arrived at the Purchasing Station with the trucks. Looking at those three truckloads of canned food, he was beside himself with excitement.
"I knew you could do it!" Liu Gaolou said with a smile, taking Li Long's arm. "Can you guarantee future supplies?"
"Yes. They've already started shipping goods here from canneries in Inland China," Li Long said. "We can get more next time. The cooperative doesn't have much stock right now. Even though it's the off-season, honestly, they need