Linjiayuan Village, Lupu Town, Cangnan, Ganzhou, Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces,
A small village on the east coast.
Previously unknown,
Now it has become the largest smuggled goods market in the vicinity.
Why do people in Weizhou get rich? On the one hand, they have business acumen, and on the other hand, they are brave and dare to do it.
They drove fishing boats to the high seas, traded silver dollars with overseas smugglers, and shipped back large quantities of Japanese goods from Hong Kong Island.
The distance from Jiangcheng to Weizhou is about 800 kilometers, and the high-speed train only takes 3 hours. However, in this era, the green train takes a day and a night.
After getting off the train, I have to continue on my way.
I took a bus to the county, took a passing truck to the town, and inquired all the way until I finally arrived outside the village.
The market is not in the village, but on a farm machinery dirt road outside the village. There are flatbed trucks and tractors parked on both sides of the dirt road, with various goods placed on the trucks, just like a rural market.
Walking past the stall, Lin Yi carefully looked at the smuggled goods, thinking about what to buy.
There are a lot of fabric sellers, including indeed Liang, polyester serge, and polyester knitted fabrics, mainly from Hong Kong, Japan, and even Taiwan. The quality is good and there are many designs and colors. The price is cheap and you don’t need a fabric ticket. You will definitely be robbed when you get it back.
The biggest problem is that it is large and difficult to transport.
TV sets are mostly Japanese brands. Nowadays, black and white TVs are the mainstream, and there are also color TVs. Lin Yi asked, and the price can only be described as expensive.
Recorders, dual-card, single-card, single-speaker, dual-speaker, four-speaker, and sell various tapes.
There are also many stalls selling watches, including electronic watches, quartz watches, Japanese mechanical watches, and even Swiss watches.
In addition, there are cigarettes, bicycles, nylon umbrellas, nylon mosquito nets, electric fans, cameras, and video recorders, which can be described as a dazzling array of items.
Lin Yi walked around, asking about prices from time to time. While understanding the market, he was thinking about what to buy and sell when he returned home.
Excluding the round-trip fare, his capital was only five hundred.
He had to choose products that were low-priced, high-profit, and compact and easy to carry. In the end, Lin Yi decided to take a digital watch back.
"Boss, how do you sell this kind of electronic watch?"
"Twelve pieces."
"12 is too expensive, be cheaper."
"The quality of mine is good, but there are cheaper ones. This one costs eight yuan a piece." The boss said as he picked up an electronic watch that looked like a cartoon toy watch.
"I want something good like this."
"How much do you want?"
"50 yuan."
"Then 11 pieces for one piece."
"Ten yuan, it's cheaper if you buy this much at one time."
After bargaining, I finally sold a reasonably good quality electronic watch for 50 yuan for 10 yuan a piece.
When he left, he only had more than 50 yuan left with him.
Nowadays, speculation is strictly under investigation. Lin Yi did not dare to go back with a pocket of watches. He thought of a way. It was already autumn, and he still had a coat outside his autumn clothes. He borrowed needle and thread from the landlady at the hotel and tore open the lining of his clothes.
, and sew the watch piece by piece on it.
After putting it on, he looked in the mirror and nodded with satisfaction.
...
"Catch him~!"
There was a commotion in the carriage.
A middle-aged man was carrying some goods in his bag, which he probably bought at the private goods market. He was found by the police. The middle-aged man wanted to run, but he was held down by the police as soon as he took a few steps. Finally, he held his arms and took him away.
This scene happened right in front of Lin Yi. He tried to keep calm on his face, but his heart was beating hard.
The policeman continued to check, and when he checked Lin Yi, Lin Yi opened the torn canvas bag, which contained a few clothes and a bag of snacks. The policeman waved him to pull it up and checked the next person's luggage.
Get on the bus and check,
Check on the road,
I have to check it after I get off the car.
There were still a few kilometers away from the train station. While the train was still moving, someone opened the window and threw bags of things out. Lin Yi curiously looked outside and saw that there were many people waiting beside the train track. He took the packages and left.
good guy,
During the Anti-Japanese War, the railway guerrillas used all the tricks.
One day and one night later, Lin Yi returned to Jiangcheng. After passing the train security checkpoint, he felt completely relaxed and took a deep breath.
Finally got home safely.
The next step is to make money.
...
In early 1980, the state promulgated the "Several Provisions on the Registration and Management of Individual Industrial and Commercial Households in Urban Areas".
People's hearts are full of spring,
The young seedlings that were pressed under the stone slabs broke through the stone slabs and emerged quietly.
Some people started small businesses, mostly focusing on agricultural products and craftsmen. Industrial products were still not liberalized, and a strict planned economy was implemented.
Lin Yi was riding his bicycle home and saw an old woman selling eggs, a man selling vegetables, a middle-aged man selling fish, as well as people shaving hair, repairing shoes, and repairing bicycles on the roadside.
The bicycle nimbly passed through the narrow alley, crossed a stone bridge, turned a corner and came to the entrance of a small courtyard. Next to it was a small river with clear and slow water. This city has many lakes and rivers, so it was named Jiangcheng.
Two young men squatted in front of Lin Yi's house.
One is wearing a blue factory uniform and the other is wearing a green military uniform. The main colors of clothes in this era are blue, green, black, white and gray. Occasionally there are one or two women in red on the street, which will attract people to take a second look.
Seeing Lin Yi coming back, the two of them quickly stood up.
"Brother Yi."
"Brother Yi, you are back."
These two are Lin Yi's best friends in the world. The one in military uniform is named Li Xiangqian, and the one in blue factory uniform is named Jiang Wu.
Lin Yi got off the car,
Li Xiangqian caught the handlebar naturally.
Jiang Wu took off the things hanging on the car and said happily: "Oh, this fish is big enough, and there are two bottles of Xiao Huanghelou."
Lin Yi took out the key and opened the door and entered the hospital directly. Li Xiangqian followed behind with the car. Jiang Wu consciously went to the kitchen to pack the fish for cooking.
The meal will be ready in an hour.
A pot of fish stew.
A bag of spiced peanuts,
Two bottles of Xiaohuanghelou.
This meal costs about four or five yuan.
In this era, it is considered a luxury. After all, a formal worker's monthly salary is only more than thirty yuan, while a cadre's salary is only forty or fifty.
It was getting dark, the lights in the courtyard were turned on, the four-corner dining table was placed under the persimmon tree, and the three brothers started eating and drinking.
"Brother Yi, Xiaowu called me and said that you have something to do with us. Someone has messed with you? I brought that guy."
As Li Xiangqian spoke, he lifted the corner of his green military uniform, revealing the Mitsubishi thorn handle.
Li Xiangqian just came down from the southwest battlefield at the beginning of the year. He has experienced real battles and has killed people and seen blood. However, he is a rural soldier. After retirement, he has no job assignment and can only return to the countryside of Jiangcheng Suburban County to work in farming.
"I brought it too." Jiang Wu also took out a knife.
Lin Yi sighed,
People in this era are really good at nature.
Years of disasters and struggles have developed a stronger character.
But I was also moved in my heart. There are two brothers who are willing to fight for themselves, and they are worth cherishing in a lifetime.
"Put this guy away, no one messes with me, and I don't stab anyone. I called you here to ask you, do you want to make money?"
Jiang Wu and Li Xiangqian were both stunned.
"Of course I want to make money. We are so poor now that we can't afford to smoke." Jiang Wu sighed.
"You can't afford to smoke? I can't even eat enough cornbread." Li Xiangqian said.
Jiang Wu, like Lin Yi, is an educated youth who returned to his hometown. Now he is the only one left in Lin Yi's family. One person has enough to eat and the whole family is not hungry. There are six members of Jiang Wu's family. After returning to the city, his father asked someone to find connections and finally let him enter.
I worked as a temporary worker in a zipper factory. I worked early and late for a month, and my salary was only 19.8 yuan.
It sounds like he's pretty good.
It was even more difficult for Li Xiangqian. After being discharged from the army, he returned to the village to work in farming to earn work points. His family had a large population, with a grandparent, a mother, a brother and a sister, a total of eight.
Pointing to that bit of work,
I really can't even eat enough.
As the eldest son of the family, Li Xiangqian is even more eager to make money and improve his family's life. He is also twenty-three years old and has reached the age of finding a partner, but everyone thinks his family is poor and burdened.
"Brother Yi, are there any ways to make money?" Li Xiangqian asked.
"The newspapers said a few days ago that the state encourages and supports the proper development of the individual economy and that different economic forms compete on the same stage. Many people outside have started to become self-employed," Lin Yidao said.
"Brother Yi, do you want to be self-employed?"
Lin Yi shook his head, "Most of the things that can be done by self-employed people are based on previous experience. It's difficult for us without capital or skills to get involved."
After speaking, he lowered his voice and said, "I plan to resell private goods, especially imported smuggled goods. That way I can make money quickly."
Xiao Wu and Li Xiangqian widened their eyes at the same time.
"Brother Yi, do you want to speculate?"
Jiangcheng just held a public arrest and sentencing meeting a few days ago. Criminals paraded through the streets with signs hanging around their necks and their arms tied behind their backs on trucks. Lin Yi and Xiao Wu also went to watch the fun, and several of them were sentenced for speculation.
, and the sentence was very severe.
Lin Yi took a sip of wine,
He put down his wine glass and dug around in his pocket, taking out two things and placing them on the table.
"This is a digital watch?!"
Jiang Wu recognized the electronic watch at a glance and shouted excitedly. He reached out and took one and played with it in his hand.
Electronic copies are a rarity in this day and age.
Li Xiangqian also took a piece and looked at it.
"Brother Yi, where did you get the electronic watch? It's a good thing." Jiang Wu said.
"Didn't I go out a few days ago? I went to Weizhou and bought a batch of electronic watches. I planned to come back and try selling them." Lin Yi said.
"How much do you think this watch can sell for?" he looked at the two people and asked.
Li Qianqian shook his head, "I don't understand these things, Brother Yi."
Jiang Wu thought for a while, "The Shanghai Express is priced at 120 yuan, the plum blossoms are about the same, and industrial coupons are required. This must be sold for 60 or 70 yuan."
"I don't want industrial coupons. Do you think 50 is easy to sell?"
Jiang Wu's face was slightly startled, and he immediately said excitedly: "You don't need a ticket for 50? It's definitely easy to sell. If I want money, I have to buy one!"
There are four big things to talk about these days.
Those with better family conditions should prepare bicycles, semiconductor radios, sewing machines and watches when getting married, which is commonly known as "three turns and one ring".
In the mid-to-late 1980s, with the advancement of reform and opening up, people's living conditions improved, and electrical products gradually emerged. The four major items became refrigerators, color TVs, washing machines, and quartz watches.
Nowadays, under the planned economy, industrial coupons are required to buy industrial products, and those who work can still save some. Ordinary workers and farmers have no chance to obtain industrial coupons. Watches are definitely a rarity in this era.
You don’t need industrial coupons, and the price is half cheaper than the watches sold in shopping malls, which will definitely make many people excited.
"Brother Yi, did you ask us to come?"
"Selling goods, you go to sell them with electronic watches, and you get 10 yuan for one piece. Are you interested?" Lin Yi said.
Jiang Wu swallowed the fish in his mouth hard.
He worked hard in the zipper factory for only 19.8 yuan a month, and he could earn a month's salary by selling two watches, and he was immediately excited.
"I am willing, Brother Yi?" Jiang Wu agreed immediately.
Li Xiangqian thought for a while, "I would like Brother Yi too."
Poverty sometimes gives people infinite power. Anyway, I am so poor that I don't care if I try hard enough.
Find wealth in danger!
Lin Yi smiled and raised his glass, "Okay, let's drink to the success of our career!"