"What connections do you have? Let's hear them," Chen Hongjun asked. "Are you confident? If you are, I'll call over there and have Li Long come talk to you."
"No need, no need." Qi Zhiguo hurriedly shook his head. "I wanted to hear what you thought first, Chief, and see whether this person I have in mind could be useful to Li Long."
"Go on." Since Qi Zhiguo trusted him, Chen Hongjun stopped standing on ceremony and let him explain so he could offer some advice.
"I know an older fellow who buys food ingredients. He once asked me about the dried wild mushrooms our Purchasing Station bought and wanted to buy a batch. Of the people I know, I think he's the most reliable prospect. I remember you saying that Li Long sold dried wild mushrooms too, Chief, and quite a lot of them."
"Yes, Li Long has sold dried wild mushrooms. He's gathered valuable varieties too, like morels and black tiger's paw mushrooms."
"The fellow I know isn't picky. He buys any dried mushrooms, never mind the valuable ones. He'll even buy ordinary dried grass mushrooms. His main business is food ingredients. These wild mushrooms from Northern Xinjiang can fetch a good price in Inland China."
"That could work. Li Long's Purchasing Station can definitely get dried wild mushrooms. I don't know how much stock he has, but judging by when we ran our station, collecting a few hundred kilograms of dried mushrooms in six months was no problem. So it's worth a try."
Ordinary dried mushrooms did not fetch much, but the prices of mountain delicacies like morels and black tiger's paw mushrooms had kept climbing, almost as fast as medicinal ingredients like fritillaria.
After all, living standards were steadily improving, and more and more people were