All the feasts in the world come to an end. As the moon rises, the first gathering of educated youths comes to a successful conclusion. Before leaving, many educated youths lament that they have changed so much after not seeing each other for just a few months. They don’t know what the next gathering will be like.
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Many people don't expect that things will have changed by the time they get together next time.
Yang Jianhua is one of the organizers of this gathering, so he should arrange the arrangements for everyone. Although the security in Forty-Nine City is very good, it is so late, and educated youths who go home alone, especially female educated youths, need to pay special attention to their safety.
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If something happens to someone because they attend a party, that's not good news for the organizers.
After seeing off the last group of people, Yang Jianhua walked back to the hall with a smile, waved and said.
"Chunming, let's go out for a walk!"
Li Jie smiled and nodded. While everyone was saying goodbye, he had already found someone to 'start a business' with him, but now there is no such thing as self-employment.
Setting up a stall privately is taking the capitalist line and is illegal. You will not be forgiven for speculating.
It would have to wait until 1980 to truly open up self-employment and allow private individuals to do small businesses. Opening up self-employment is actually closely related to solving the employment problem of educated youth.
The word self-employed was originally a derogatory term. In the early 1980s, it was basically synonymous with unemployed young people and reform-through-labor prisoners. It was not a serious person, because serious people all eat the country's food, and the iron rice bowl is what serious people pursue.
Now in 1977, the large-scale movement of educated youth back to the city has not yet broken out, and the policy of going to the mountains and rural areas is still being implemented.
Next year, that is, in 1978, the tenth year of the large-scale movement to the mountains and countryside, the movement of educated youth back to the cities in Yunnan Province that shocked the country will break out.
The trigger for the outbreak of this movement was the "Forty Articles on Work for Educated Youth". This resolution affirmed the "great achievements" made in the work of going to the mountains and the countryside since the WG, and emphasized that the work of going to the mountains and the countryside must still be continued, and we should work together with the workers and peasants.
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The most critical one is that from now on, the educated youth on farms (corps) will all be treated as state-owned enterprise employees and will no longer be included in the scope of the national educated youth policy. (As mentioned earlier, there are two types of people who go to the mountains and countryside, one is to jump in the queue and live with farmers.
They work together and have the opportunity to be transferred back to the city. One is the production and construction corps/farm in the border area. This kind of educated youth is gathered together and managed in a semi-military manner. They are paid, but very little, and they cannot recruit workers back to the city.)
To put it simply, the educated youth in these border areas are no longer ‘educated youth’, but have become employees, completely cutting off the desire of educated youth to return to the city. The number of educated youth stranded in the border areas is as high as 2 million.
They dedicated all their most beautiful and precious youth to the frontier of the motherland, but in the end they even lost the right to return to the city.
By chance, the educated youth in Xiyoubanna of Yunnan Province took the lead in breaking out. From the end of 1978 to the beginning of 1979, they spent several months fighting for their personal rights by writing joint letters to petition, joining forces, petitioning, going on strike, sleeping on the trains, and going on a hunger strike.
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In the end, they succeeded and won the right to return to the city.
This incident was a big deal at the time, not only causing widespread discussion across the country, but also being reported by many foreign media.
As soon as the news spread, educated youths from all over the country took action, and the wave of educated youths returning to the city began.
With nearly 10 million educated youth returning to the city on a large scale, urban employment pressure has surged, and it is impossible to provide so many jobs for a while.
Therefore, self-employed people also emerged as the times require, and many unemployed educated youths have joined the trend of self-employed people. (Educated youth are only one of the causes of the birth of self-employed people, not all)
The moon and stars were sparse, and there was little nightlife in the capital in the late 1970s. Apart from the patrolling work teams, there were basically no pedestrians on the road. It was normal for restaurants to close at eight or nine o'clock, and there were no bars, dance halls, or KTVs in later generations.
On the long street, Yang Jianhua and Li Jie were walking slowly while pushing their bicycles.
"Chunming, what were you planning to talk about before?"
Li Jie paused slightly and explained the plan of "Big Bowl of Tea".
"It's like this, it's like this, it's like this."
Yang Jianhua frowned slightly and subconsciously rejected the plan. Isn't this just speculation? Besides, who would spend this money to buy tea? At a price of two cents, the quality of the tea must not be very good. Rich people would not like it.
People who have money will not spend this money in vain.
However, when the two people's eyes met, Yang Jianhua saw the confidence in Li Jie's eyes, and then changed the affirmative sentence in his mouth into a question.
"Are you sure this thing can be sold for money?"
Li Jie smiled mysteriously and did not answer his question directly.
"I think you can give it a try. This thing doesn't cost much anyway. What if it succeeds? To take a step back, didn't you tell me before that the college entrance examination was about to resume? If it doesn't work by then, you can still take the exam."
A bowl of tea costs two cents. If you want to relieve the heat in summer, you might as well spend three cents to buy a popsicle. For people with limited income, this price is indeed not cheap enough.
If Li Jie told Yang Jianhua now that Big Bowl of Tea would definitely succeed and make money, the other party would not believe it.
No one could have guessed that the turnover of Yin Shengxi's stall on his first day was 60.8 cents. The business was much more prosperous than imagined, and the profits were much higher than imagined.
Yang Jianhua pondered for a moment and said: "Okay, I will discuss it with my old man later. You can wait for my news. It could be two or three days at the earliest, or a week at the earliest."
In the blink of an eye, a week passed. Li Jie received a letter from Yang Jianhua, asking him to meet and saying that there was news. After receiving the letter, Li Jie immediately put down the work at hand and hurried to Xidan.
The weather outside was getting hot, so the two decided to meet on the second floor of Xidan Food Mall. The best cold drink shop in Sijiu City was here. Many young people with spare money liked to go there.
Because there are many girls there!
No matter in any era, wherever there are many girls, there will definitely be no shortage of young men with strong hormones. Every day, there will be a group of people in the cold drink shop to 'take pictures of the mother-in-law', which is also known as chatting up in later generations.
Xidan cold drink shop.
"Chunming, here!"
Yang Jianhua stood up and raised his hand to Li Jie. Next to him sat a girl of similar age with twin tails.
"Sorry, I'm late." Li Jie walked over with a smile, pulled up a stool and sat down.
Yang Jianhua waved his hand and said nonchalantly: "It's not too late. We are here early. Let me introduce to you. This is Zuo Xiaobai, who is from the same hospital as ours. She heard about the big bowl of tea and had to make a fuss.
Come and take a look."
Zuo Xiaobai looked at Li Jie curiously and nodded slightly: "Hello, I am Zuo Xiaobai!"