Return To 1977 Chapter 222: Fanatical market
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The harvest season has finally arrived! Because the stock of sea cucumbers in his hand is too large, Hong Yanwu is no longer the one to take the lead this time, but all five parties are working together!
On the first step, he walked to the guest house with "Xiaobaizi" as usual.
On the second route, he asked Chen Liquan and "General" to **** "Sanjizi" and "Xiapaizi" as they went to the small market to sell bulk goods.
The third way was that he went to the "old fat man" again and asked him to introduce his connections and acquaintances in Bincheng to sell goods abroad at the standard of five yuan per catty.
For the fourth route, he also used the same conditions to mobilize Han Ying, Xiang Hong and Fan Gang to find buyers through their local connections in Bincheng.
In addition, Xiang Hong is not only Han Ying's friend, she has been hooking up with "Xiabizi" since the wedding, and is now considered a quasi-family member of "Hai Bangzi". Having a dual identity naturally makes you feel more at ease.
As for the last step, Hong Yanwu also made an agreement with Manager Xie, willing to exchange four kilograms for a box at a fixed ratio to get some Maotai liquor through his channels.
In this way, Hong Yanwu mobilized all the existing connections he could use in Bincheng!
What he wants is nothing else but profit in the safest way, the word "quick"!
On the other hand, the market situation is just as described by several "sea bumpers". The feverish temperature can almost boil water.
Because there is a saying that goes well, "The people are the vast ocean." Once they discovered that it was profitable, tens of thousands of citizens quickly participated in it in a short period of time. A wide range of private funds, like endless streams and rivers, spontaneously and consciously converge into the "vast ocean" of the sea cucumber market.
At the same time, one after another exaggerated stories about the wealth brought by sea cucumbers began to appear among the public.
For example, an old man used his son’s money to marry his wife and bought ten kilograms at a price of sixty yuan per kilogram. He changed hands a day later and made a profit of sixty yuan. But he regretted it afterwards, because the price would soon go up to 70!
Some people say that there is a "sea cucumber" who owes a lot of debt. This year he managed to save fifty kilograms of sea cucumbers just to pay off the debt.
He always wanted to sell it at a high price, but he didn't expect that before the National Day, the sea cucumbers became so expensive that they became sick and were taken to the hospital for emergency treatment.
But what he didn’t expect was that after he returned home to recuperate for a month, the price of sea cucumbers had risen to sky-high prices again. Now when he takes action, he completely loses his temper. Not only was the old debt paid off, but he also got three thousand yuan in vain, and he never had to "touch the sea" again in this life.
Stories like this with strong psychological implications are being created and fermented every day, and the first people to invest are all leading by example, using their own evidence of profit to continue to lure more people into it.
As a result, people's greed was inflamed like a raging fire. Driven by the social psychology of getting rich overnight, a "herding effect" was formed, and the price of sea cucumbers also produced an effect like the uranium fission of an atomic bomb.
Don’t talk about seventy yuan, eighty yuan, ninety yuan, even sea cucumbers crossed the one hundred yuan price mark without much effort, heading towards the boundless market in the universe!
But the more this happens, the more people are involved in reselling sea cucumbers, and the prices of sea cucumbers become more and more abnormal.
To be honest, Hong Yanwu tried every possible means to stock up on three and a half tons of dry sea cucumbers in advance from the fragile market. Even he himself could not accurately estimate how much of a catalyst it played in fueling the situation.
Anyway, under the accumulation of various factors, he did rewrite the history of Bincheng, allowing Bincheng people to replace Changchun people, and became the first time after the founding of the People's Republic of China to experience what it means to be a "crazy for money" mass group.
In fact, even though Hong Yanwu and others put sea cucumbers into the market without reservation, the price of sea cucumbers showed no signs of stopping. And no matter how much goods they put out, they don't have to worry about selling them.
Because whether they are business travelers in guest houses or ordinary citizens in small markets, almost everyone is rushing to buy sea cucumbers at any cost.
The most typical portrayal is the entrance to the seven major markets in Bincheng.
This place is crowded and bustling every day. There are many times more people speculating on sea cucumbers outside the market than there are people buying other agricultural products inside. The main force here has also rapidly transformed from retired elderly people and housewives to young and strong working people.
Many people don't go to work anymore, either absenteeism or taking leave, but they just spend every day here enjoying themselves.
If you think about it, you will know that a person in Bincheng usually only earns a few tens of yuan a month, but a few kilograms of sea cucumbers can earn a year's salary after being resold several times. This is not much better than going to work!
And this is by no means a fantasy, it is not a moon in the water or a flower in the mirror, it is visible and tangible. Too many people have become role models in this regard!
No one bothers to think deeply about why the low-priced light-dried sea cucumbers that could be seen everywhere before the "National Day" have become rare and highly sought-after "silver ingots" in such a short period of time. .
No one cares about how high sea cucumbers will rise, and no one thinks about whether the current price is reasonable. Everyone only cares about one thing - where to find more sea cucumbers in stock for reselling. profit!
This fanatical pursuit of sea cucumbers has even spread to officialdom.
Many people say that it is useless to give any gifts when doing things now, just give sea cucumbers, sea cucumbers are money! And it’s big money, money that’s valuable! It’s gold, it’s hard currency!
Driven by this expectation of speculation, the entire Bincheng fell into an extraordinary fantasy and madness. There is even a saying among the people, "Although there are countless treasures in the sea, only sea cucumbers are family heirlooms."
November 1977 has become an event that will never be forgotten in the memory of Bincheng people.
It was boiling and frenzied!
Bincheng is crazy, and so is Sea Cucumber!
Of course, under such a huge wealth effect, after the formation of extraordinary excitement and fanaticism, a large number of various criminal cases triggered by this also appeared.
It is said that an old man spent all his money to buy ten kilograms of sea cucumbers and hid them at home to hoard them for profit. However, they were stolen one night and he died of anger immediately.
I also heard that an accountant from an organization spent tens of thousands of public funds to participate in the speculation of sea cucumbers. After several successful transactions, he made thousands of dollars. Unfortunately, he was targeted after a market transaction and was held hostage by gangsters on his way home. Knife robbery, people stabbed to death, money gone.
These are real tragedies caused by this money feast, and they are real cases that happened in the lives of people in Bincheng.
But this situation is like silver being an associated mine of copper. It happens every time there is a violent upheaval in social wealth, and there is no way to eradicate it. Even Hong Yanwu, who had anticipated this, could not completely avoid it.
For example, a snitch broke into the house of "Old Saury" one night. After the boy climbed over the wall and entered the hospital, he rummaged around in the two warehouses where "Old Saury" had stored sea cucumbers.
This kid was also unlucky, even though he used a medicinal bun to stupefy the guard dog of "Old Saury". But after the "National Day", the daughter of "Old Saury" who went to the countryside to join the team, Shao Juan, came home to visit relatives and is living at home these days.
It just so happened that this girl was still suffering from neurasthenia, slept very lightly, and was more alert than a dog. Whenever she heard any noise in the courtyard, she would get up to take a look. But just when the thief found nothing and was about to leave, and just touched the courtyard wall, his whereabouts were revealed.
Shao Juan was timid, and as soon as she saw a dark figure, her throat trembled with "ouch", but the "Old Saury" couple also woke up because of this.
Although "Old Saury" is old, he was born with a "steel fork". While letting his wife take care of his daughter, he picked up the harpoon and went after the black shadow.
The thief was not stupid. Of course he ran away in a hurry. But because he was so anxious, he squatted down when he jumped off the courtyard wall and got wet on his feet. He didn't run a mile before he was chased away by "Old Sabryfish".
One is bare-handed and has injuries on his feet, and the other is angry and holding a harpoon, so it goes without saying who will win and who will lose.
"Old Knife" just strikes out with a fork and knocks down his opponent with a swing of his arm. What followed was a series of kicks, but unexpectedly, just when he was about to ruthlessly stab the boy's thigh, he discovered that this person turned out to be a "flying crab"...
The final result of this incident was that the daughter of "Old Saury" was frightened and became ill and was admitted to the hospital. But the "Old Sabryfish" released the "Flying Crab" before the alarmed villagers from the fishing village arrived.
Hong Yanwu learned about this when "Old Saury" came to the city to ask for money for his daughter's medical treatment.
"Old Swordfish" explained to him at the time that letting "Flying Crab" go was not because he was soft-hearted at that time. But because "Flying Crab" was extremely shameless, he actually threatened himself with everyone's hoarding of sea cucumbers.
I was also afraid that this kid would be blocked by people from the fishing village and sent to the police station. Telling everything would ruin everyone's affairs, so I had to let this kid go.
Hong Yanwu deeply agrees with this and feels that the way "Old Saury" handled it is very correct.
In order to eliminate future troubles, no mistakes will be made. On the one hand, he told the "general" about the incident and asked "Ba Octopus", "Seal Dog" and "Dead Corpse" to search for the whereabouts of "Flying Crab" separately. On the other hand, the process of selling sea cucumbers has been tightened.
Unexpectedly, all his calculations and precautions against the "Flying Crab" were in vain. The boy has not been seen since, and has not even returned to the fishing village.
And not long after, there were rumors in the fishing village that the "flying crab" was eager to make money after the weather cleared, and ventured to the port to fish for sea cucumbers. As a result, he was shot by the Hong Kong police and died of his injuries in the sea.
For this, "Flying Crab"'s mother cried for a whole year.
"General" and other "sea friends" were also devastated by this. After that, they sent money and gifts to visit several times, but every time they were turned away by "Flying Crab" mother.
The old lady resented them, blaming them for leading the "Flying Crab" down this path in the first place, and even more blaming them for driving the "Flying Crab" away and letting him go his own way without paying any attention to him.
Well, sometimes things in the world are really difficult to distinguish clearly...