Objectively speaking, Jiang Chunlin's proposal did make some sense.
Jiang Chunlin currently had a sales channel outside the region, and having a channel was extremely important if they wanted to sell the goods from here elsewhere.
After all, without an existing channel, opening a new one was very difficult. The most practical approach was to haul a truckload of goods inland and sell them in small quantities. That was how you explored and developed a market.
In the eighties, there were no expressways, Speculation and Profiteering had yet to be decriminalized, and agencies like the Office for Combating Speculation and Profiteering still existed in various places. Taking a truckload of goods to another province to sell carried enormous risks.
But Li Long would never work with Jiang Chunlin. Not only was the man fickle, he had little in the way of moral boundaries. If they really partnered up, Li Long worried that Jiang Chunlin would sell him out.
He would rather find a way through Jia Tianlong and Zhao Hui.
With Sun Jiaqiang joining them, Li Long stopped going to the Purchasing Station to help every day for a while. He simply hauled the clean fritillaria they bought there back to the Big Courtyard, sorted it into sacks, and waited for Jia Tianlong to come.
The Big Courtyard mainly held hides and fritillaria, while the other goods were stored in the Purchasing Station's warehouse.
They bought a large and varied assortment of goods. Jia Tianlong mainly bought medicinal ingredients, while Zhao Hui mainly bought furs. Li Long had yet to decide where to sell some of the miscellaneous items. For one thing, the quantities were small; for another, he had not had time to go to Wu City or Beiting to inquire about sales channels.
Everything would have to wait