Return To 1977 Chapter 490: Big gap
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The controversy about "Night at the Military Port" is indeed sensational. People often compare this incident with the "Cinderella and Prince Kissing" incident in "Popular Movies".
But it would be completely impossible to summarize the summer of 1979 in Beijing with just a few turmoils in the literary and art circles.
Because these two things can only reflect one aspect of the entertainment life of the people in the capital, which is too one-sided.
Like the next two things, the Great Hall of the People was officially opened to the public and began to receive public visits. Or Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranasinghe Premadasa presented the baby elephant "Alaliya" to the children of the Republic on behalf of the children of Sri Lanka, which actually has a similar sensational effect.
If we look at all the social activities and daily lives of the people in the capital, there will be even more remarkable things.
But it would be too messy and disorderly to introduce a stick here and a hammer here. To get back to the roots, we have to focus on the most fundamental place.
That is actually one word - person.
It must be said that the summer in Beijing in 1979 was really too hot. But this high temperature is not only caused by seasonal changes, but also mainly by people.
In fact, this year, perhaps the thing that people in the capital felt the most and remembered the most was one impression: there were so many people!
Because despite this year, there are still few cars on the streets of Beijing, and there are not even many people riding bicycles. But just this year, it seemed that overnight, there were many young people in the capital.
They are the intellectual youths who returned to the city from rural areas and the Production and Construction Corps in 1979!
Writer Liang Xiaosheng called the return of educated youths to the city a "hurricane." In his novel "There's a Blizzard Tonight", he described, "In just a few weeks, the tide of returning to the city has become as unstoppable as the tide of the Qiantang River. This year, 400,000 educated young people returned to the city. In addition, they have just graduated from middle school and there is no need to go to the countryside. Young students who jump in line and wander around the city without a job are collectively called 'unemployed youth.'"
So it is precisely because of these extra people that the ecological environment of the capital has been greatly improved.
Even the emergence of many new things and changes in many old affairs caused by this can be regarded as epoch-making milestones.
First of all, if there are too many people, you have to eat and drink. Still have to find something to do.
It is obvious that the "shopping books" of the people in the capital alone cannot afford the extra 400,000 mouths. Faced with the sudden emergence of 400,000 jobless young people in the capital, no amount of government work can do anything.
As a result, the completely public-owned economy finally began to break its shackles and cracked a big gap.
On June 30, the "Beijing City Revolutionary Committee" issued the "Opinions on Strengthening Market Trade Management", pointing out that in accordance with the central government's spirit of "opening up employment opportunities" and "establishing more service outlets under collective ownership", It has not been a month since we asked the unemployed to actively organize the unemployed to develop various collective economies. There are already 52 rural markets in the suburbs of Beijing and 13 urban agricultural and sideline product markets.
People in the capital now have an extra place to buy agricultural and sideline products, which is a lot more convenient but secondary. The key is that they can buy things beyond the quota.
Thus, through the farmers' market transactions, unplanned agricultural and sideline products in the suburbs of Beijing have greatly alleviated the living needs of the suddenly growing population in the capital.
Farmers' enthusiasm for production has also greatly increased at the same time. It can be said that their lives have ushered in the most promising and best time.
Just like now, every household in Longkou Village raises a lot of chickens, and some people have even begun to imitate Zhaoqing and Anjia brothers and pour eggs into the city.
As for Hong Yanwu, he no longer has to sell eggs for Longkou Village.
Now that he has a legal place to go, the An brothers can deliver the eggs he needs every time they come, and the rest can be sold directly to the purchasing department of the "Farmers Market" in the name of "Longkou Village Production Brigade". You don’t even have to go to the market to set up a stall yourself. It’s best to earn two points for each item, and it’s clearly priced, which is very convenient.
And at Hong Yanwu's suggestion, Zhaoqing and Anjia brothers also changed their petty fighting situation and transformed into a professional "treacherous team."
The specific division of labor is still in charge of Zhaoqing's collection, while An Yangyang and An Yueliang are sent to the city to sell.
But the difference is that Zhaoqing has expanded its acquisition scale to four or five nearby villages. Moreover, Hong Yanwu also gave An Yangyang and An Yueliang two old bicycles as means of transportation. These two items allow them to make at least five or six trips to the capital every month.
What's even more amazing is that Zhaoqing also used his ingenuity to carefully modify the two bicycles.
He first took the two bicycles to a small factory in Fangshan County for reinforcement. Not only a large beam was added, but also layers of steel frames were installed on the front and back of the two bicycles to hold the eggs.
Eight layered egg baskets were then compiled for the two vehicles according to the dimensions of the steel frame. Straw mats were placed between each steel frame and the egg basket.
To be honest, Zhaoqing has installed the two vehicles as solidly as two tanks, scientifically and soundly.
Although they took the initiative to reduce the load for safety reasons, each truck only loaded almost a thousand eggs. Based on the calculation of six to a pound, it is one hundred and sixty pounds.
Although these eggs are afraid of being bumped and broken, they are placed one by one in the basket and placed on the steel frame, even if they run uphill and downhill all the way, twists and turns for hundreds of miles. When the time comes, the eggs will be the same size as they were put in the box, and the skin will not be broken at all when taken out of the box.
So with these two vehicles, they have expanded the scale of egg reselling in a single operation several times.
If nothing else, when the An family brothers were led to the market for the first time by Hong Yanwu, they simply shocked the entire market of egg vendors.
Even the staff collecting eggs circled their car several times, shouting, "You guys are so **** awesome! You got so many eggs, and none of them are broken!"
On the spot, the two brothers earned thirty-six yuan, which was the entire monthly salary of a skilled worker. If calculated on a monthly basis, the two of them and Zhaoqing could each earn seventy or eighty yuan.
This made both An Yangyang and An Yueliang feel indescribable pride, indescribable pride, and indescribable awesomeness. They feel that they are invincible generals and omnipotent gods.
So after unloading the eggs, they felt even more energetic. On the way home in the car, the two of them were like drunken people having a drunken affair.
One shouted, "The road to Xiongguan is really like iron, now we can cross it from the beginning with one step!"
The other one is more straightforward, "Two cars and eight baskets, the salary exceeds that of Hu Yaobang!"
I don’t know why it’s all gone! That means no one will hear you, otherwise you will definitely get into trouble!
It was also during this same period that many tea stalls reappeared on the busy streets of the capital, where some young people enthusiastically sold large bowls of tea for sweaty passers-by to quench their thirst.
There is an endless stream of customers from morning to night. People who come to visit include local employees, foreign tourists, compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao, overseas Chinese and foreign guests. The few tea stalls near Qianmen alone receive nearly 10,000 customers a day.
The one who did the best, and the only one who developed and prospered later, was a middle-aged man named Yin Shengxi.
He voluntarily gave up his formal job in the subdistrict office, led a group of unemployed young people, started from scratch, and founded a collectively owned company named "Beijing Dawancha Youth Tea Club".
But the choice made by the founder of the "Dawancha Group Company" that would become famous in the future was not only incomprehensible to outsiders. Even in the eyes of his daughter, this is really a shameful thing.
Not only did she never go to Qianmen Street again, she was even most afraid of hearing people ask about her father.
Because when outsiders find out, the first thing they say is, "How could your father, a formal state cadre, be so stupid as to abandon his 'iron rice bowl' and sell a big bowl of tea? It's so embarrassing to do business, what's wrong with doing it?"
It is also this summer. Guo Peiji and Liu Guixian, who live in Cuihua Hutong, south of the Art Museum and west of Wangfujing, are worried about their two sons who have returned to the city after going to the mountains and countryside.
They are an old couple who both cook and have no connections. Apart from registering and queuing up at the subdistrict office, there was no way to solve my son's problem. It is really difficult to support five children on the salary of two people a month.
This situation makes the old couple unable to sleep. After much thought, they both felt that the best way for their son to work was to open a restaurant.
In this way, they went to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau and proposed to open a restaurant. However, in the document forwarded to the Industrial and Commercial Administration Bureau, the state proposed for the first time the restoration and development of the individual economy, but only allowed those engaged in repair, service and handicraft industries. Business licenses are issued to self-employed workers. Restaurants are all owned by state-owned collectives. If you want to open a restaurant or work as an individual, that is a new thing.
So even if Liu Guixian ran away countless times, he would have to deal with whoever went to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau every day. But still only got one reply, "You should go back first, we have to discuss your matter again. This matter is still very difficult to handle at the moment!"
This result is not surprising. After all, everything requires a process and cannot be achieved overnight.
In this year, applicants for the first independent restaurant in Beijing are destined to have only lonely harvests. They must continue to persevere and continue to work hard in order to win a turn in fate.