378: Chapter 378 Yan Zhengping earns extra money

September 20, 2055.

After Niu Xingwang signed purchase contracts with 8 cities, all fishing aircraft had been shipped.

These Settlements are now bustling with learning activities.

Besides some selected pilots learning the operation procedures of the aircraft, most residents are learning another skill: raising rats.

Everyone's enthusiasm for learning soared to unprecedented heights after they learned that raising rats earned them crystalss.

People can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys, holding small notebooks and carefully recording every word the trainers said.

So, don't say learning is hard or tiring; that's because the motivation to learn is not strong enough.

In the face of earning crystalss, everyone is serious.

Now, those who understand electric welding have become hot commodities, surrounded by people wherever they go. No other reason, they just want to weld more cages and feed more rats.

To facilitate management and dispatch, and to ensure fairness as much as possible, the Settlement's temporary Command HQ tallied all able-bodied individuals and grouped them.

Every 12 people formed a group for self-sufficient rearing. More work, more gain; less work, less gain; no work, no gain.

They needed to buy feed from the Settlement and could earn income by selling the rats. The operation was like individual businesses, contracting cages and bearing their own profits and losses.

However, because the Settlement guaranteed sales, they didn't need to market, nor did they need to worry about the rats they raised not selling. So there was basically no risk.

The benefit of doing this was to maximize everyone's work enthusiasm while ensuring that everyone could benefit.

Because each city also had between 1 and 6 Settlements, these subordinate Settlements, upon learning that their Mayor had introduced a project from the Huatong Chamber of Commerce, all came to inspect the site.

These Mayors also welcomed everyone.

Because once their own Settlement got this matter straightened out, they would certainly have them all start raising rats. This would broaden the sales channels for feed.

Just their own city wasn't enough; they also had to find ways to persuade surrounding cities.

It is believed that very soon, the vast Yangtze River region, centered around Jingmen City and Luzhou City, will all become the main force for raising rats.

At the same time, Yan Zhengping and Zongzheng Yue also quickly learned the news.

Yan Zhengping started early, and his current rat stock was quite large. Seeing that the Hanzhong area began to promote rat breeding, his mind became active.

An adult rat could only produce one crystals, but he could sell these rats at a price of two crystalss per rat. Those Settlements had welded a large number of cages, but rats could only be caught one by one, so they certainly wouldn't be able to catch many in a short time.

This matter was only profitable in the short term; once everyone had rats, he wouldn't be able to sell them.

So, without further ado, he quickly sent someone to talk to Mayor Xu of Jingmen City.

Mayor Xu was overjoyed upon learning that Yan Zhengping could provide a large number of adult rats. He immediately signed a purchase contract for 500,000 rats. This was 1 million crystalss, which Mayor Xu certainly didn't have. Yan Zhengping wasn't afraid of him running away and directly sold them to him on credit.

Subsequently, he also signed contracts with several other Settlements.

Within a few days, he earned several million crystalss.

Of course, these crystalss would take some time to arrive, but he didn't care; waiting wouldn't be a problem.

Things were a bit awkward for Zongzheng Yue.

Although he had been working hard to breed during this period, he had started relatively recently. The various Military Regions were not yet fully stocked, so selling outside was definitely not an option; he could only watch helplessly now.

He was anxious and frustrated but helpless.

Zongzheng Yue felt that it was impossible for him to be distressed alone, so he contacted Suo Tonghua and Shen Tu Zheng Hao. He felt it was necessary to make them feel a bit sour with him.

He first contacted Suo Tonghua.

"Zong Si Yan, why are you calling me? Speak quickly, or fart quickly!" Suo Tonghua and Zongzheng Yue didn't get along, so he naturally wasn't in a good mood.

"You're truly a dog biting Lu Dongbin, not recognizing a good person's intentions. I was going to reveal some explosive news to you, but looking at your attitude, I don't feel like saying it anymore." Zongzheng Yue said sarcastically.

"You? A weasel paying respects to a chicken, can you have good intentions?" Suo Tonghua didn't believe him at all.

"Look at you, your perspective is too small, isn't it? Forget it, I still won't say it. Just wait to regret it!" Zongzheng Yue pretended to hang up the phone.

"Damn it! You're really so petty, speak!" Suo Tonghua grew anxious.

If Zongzheng Yue hung up the phone mid-sentence, he would surely be tormented.

"I'm telling you, Old Yan has been quietly making a fortune these past few days. If you act quickly now, you can still get some of the spoils," Zongzheng Yue said, feigning kindness.

Suo Tonghua and Shen Tu Zheng Hao had also started raising rats long ago. Currently, the Northeast Military Region's progress was even slower than Zongzheng Yue's, and the Northwest Military Region's progress was even slower due to the war with Ulan Country.

Zongzheng Yue was certain that they also couldn't have rats to sell, which is why he said that.

"What's he doing?" Suo Tonghua took the bait successfully.