Return To 1977 Chapter 564: Red envelope

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After New Year’s Eve, the first day of the Year of the Monkey finally arrives.

Perhaps people all over the country are the same. They have just entered the first spring of the 1980s, and they have a strong feeling. That was the era of material and spiritual scarcity, and the era of cultural confinement was quietly ending.

Take Beijing as an example.

On the day of the Spring Festival, major shopping malls in Beijing were crowded with people.

This is because the Beijing business system organized a batch of electroplated tables, chairs, simple sofas, sinks, and enamel basins from other places and put them into the festival market. This triggered panic buying among Beijing residents.

In addition, quick-frozen dumplings stuffed with pork and cabbage, trial-produced by the Beijing Branch of the National Grain, Oil and Food Import and Export Corporation, have also begun to be sold in major vegetable markets in Beijing. It was also well received by the public.

Although these two things are just ordinary business operations, they do not require tickets to purchase these goods. The actual significance is very important. It almost became a symbol with a special symbol of the times - the ticket began to fade out of circulation.

On this day, Shigeru Yoshida's "A Century of Turbulence" and Toffler's "The Third Wave" appeared in bookstores in the capital. my country's first magazine facing the information industry, "Computer World", appeared in the post office. The American movie "Blue Bridge" was also announced as an "internal reference material".

All this also makes those cultural young people wearing glasses ecstatic.

And in major movie theaters in Beijing, a film that reflects how people during the "movement" persisted in life and kept their faith - "Wake Up from a Nightmare in the Morning" is being played.

I don’t know if it’s a coincidence or a sign of fate, but it’s just like the name of this movie. From this day on, Hong Yanwu's bad mood began to calm down, and he gradually came out of the haze that had trapped him for a long time.

On February 19, Hong Yanwu returned to "Tianxingju" after being away for several months.

Manager Sha and Master Si expressed their welcome and relief to him on behalf of all employees, and gave him a clean new work uniform.

The young people also swarmed up to greet him and introduced the new people to him.

Hong Yanwu repaid everyone's kindness with two sticks of "Peony" cigarettes, two kilograms of good tea, and two kilograms of high-end candies. Of course, it was inevitable that Manager Sha received a separate gift in his drawer.

Manager Sha has no regrets about this. In his view, this is not called separation from the masses, but the need to maintain social order. Otherwise, if he, a great manager, were the same as those ordinary employees, wouldn't the world be in chaos?

In short, until the beginning of March, Hong Yanwu lived an ordinary life, going to and from get off work, eating and sleeping, and not even going to the cinema very much.

In addition to helping his parents and relatives at home and doing some housework, the only place he really frequented was the post office. Because as time turned a new page, the meeting gift given to him in the 1980s also came.

Yes! That was the Geng-Shen Monkey Stamp issued by the "Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications" on February 15, 1980. It became a myth in the history of stamps that became almost universally known. The full-page stamp appreciated nearly 200,000 times in value!

This set of monkey stamps is also called "Golden Monkey Stamps" and is the first zodiac stamp issued by our country. The background of the monkey ticket is red, and the pattern is a golden monkey painted by the famous painter Huang Yongyu.

The first thing that makes it valuable is that it uses a mixed overprinting method of photocopying and engraving.

This printing method, which will soon be lost, makes the engraved lines of this stamp natural and delicate, and the monkey's hair is clearly defined. Touch it gently with your hands, and it still has texture, and the ink is dark and shiny. Not only is it extremely exquisite, it cannot be copied in the future.

Secondly, the circulation of this set of stamps is not large. The original number was 8 million, but it was later changed to 5 million, but it may actually be less.

If the face value is 8 cents, it only costs RMB 400,000 to buy it all out. As the saying goes, things are more valuable when they are rare.

Hong Yanwu's movie box office revenue in March was RMB 3,000, and with more than RMB 100,000 in cash on hand, he could naturally make a huge fortune.

Even his intervention resulted in fewer stamps in circulation, which is likely to further push up the price of this stamp in the future.

I just have concerns. He is also afraid that rushing to buy tickets immediately will produce a butterfly effect and cause historical changes. If it causes the country to print this set of stamps, then he will shoot himself in the foot.

Besides, he was making a sedan chair, so he didn’t want to bother himself. He just wanted to reap the benefits and wait for others to raise the price. But if the banker doesn't have enough chips in his hands, the market will not be good.

So, his ideal time to take action is actually in the middle of the year. At that time, the sales of stamps were spread across the country, and a considerable part of them had already flowed into the hands of the public, so that the benefits could be maximized.

As for whether there will be an accident and not enough monkey tickets can be purchased?

Unless another reborn person appears, he will never worry about this problem.

Because history has already given a clear answer. Due to the lack of necessary publicity, this stamp would have been ignored by most professional stamp collectors when it was issued. It would be at least 1981 until everyone realized this problem and it became difficult to get a vote.

In addition, by observing the market on the spot, he unexpectedly discovered a more interesting situation. Many people are afraid that too exquisite stamps will attract the attention of stamp collectors, causing letters to not be delivered as scheduled. Therefore, ordinary consumers are not willing to choose Gengshen Monkey Stamps when sending letters.

In other words, according to historical trends, this set of stamps is destined to be unsalable.

Actually, I really don’t blame Destiny for hiding in a glass cabinet and making faces at people.

Because people who go in and out of the post office today have no idea that the huge wealth they may not be able to earn in their lifetime is lying in a glass cabinet and being ignored.

As long as they are willing to spend one month's salary to buy it, the rest of their lives will be settled. That’s a big golden ticket!

It's a pity that no one knows. Most people probably have things like official position, professional title, academic qualifications, salary, benefits, and labor insurance running through their minds. But he missed the windfall that was right in front of him and at his fingertips.

Occasionally, one or two lucky guys will appear and buy one or two monkey tickets or a four-party couplet sporadically. But whether they can ultimately maintain this favor from God is still unknown.

Of course, in Hong Yanwu's eyes, this scene was an out-and-out good thing.

This is purely the benefit of rebirth, a big red envelope sent by God. No one will come to fight for it, he can just sit back and enjoy the gains.

And five thousand full-page tickets was his initial goal. According to his estimation, it should be possible.

But it doesn’t matter even if we fail to achieve it, this is just an appetizer for the feast of “reform”.