Return To 1977 Chapter 582: Price
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In fact, the people are really numb and ignorant. They didn't realize at all that the prices of dishes in Beijing restaurants had already risen along with the price increase of non-staple food, and had quietly doubled several times.
In the past, "sweet-scented osmanthus meat" and "twice-cooked pork" cost only a few cents, but now they have become one yuan or one yuan. Roast chicken that used to cost only one yuan now costs three or four yuan.
It has only been half a year, and the price increase has been so high. If it weren't for the fact that eating in restaurants is too far away from people's lives, I'm afraid it would have caused widespread resentment among the people.
On the other hand, price increases that are closely related to people's lives have always been common, but they are done more secretly.
For example, the price of vegetables that year was divided into different grades, and the price was determined according to the price. Problems often arise in this way. Stores often raise prices by themselves, raising the price of third-grade vegetables that should cost seven cents per catty to first-grade vegetables, selling for 10 cents per catty.
Although newspapers at that time published price adjustment notices issued by the government, some people would bring newspapers with them when buying groceries, just to see if the store had increased prices. But even if these people find a problem, they are helpless.
It only takes one sentence to deal with the grocery store. "Comrade, hurry up and catch up with the vegetable store. The prices in this newspaper are dead, but in fact the prices are changing at any time. They have risen again, and there is nothing we can do. Do you want to get a few cents for yourself? Cause the country to suffer heavy losses?"
This actually makes the picky person stingy and unreasonable.
This is the current general ecology of society. Inadvertently, "serving the people" began to change to "serving money".
Even Tianxingju, where Hong Yanwu works, recently raised the price of fried liver by four cents per bowl. Because if not, what about the rising costs? What's more, with less profits, Manager Sha has no basis to pay bonuses to everyone? Then the customer will have to suffer a little loss.
But even so, these are just superficial drizzles. If people think about it from another perspective, it should be understandable. But what is completely unacceptable is that the price activity has further caused the problems of accelerated corruption in the business system and increasingly serious shady transactions.
The practice of pairing beer with cold dishes is probably regarded as the earliest "tying" behavior in the minds of the people. In fact, this is completely wrong. Large-volume tying behavior has long been active in the internal cycle of the business system.
For example, taking cigarettes, Class A cigarettes such as "Peony", "Friendship" and "Fireworks" are not available in normal channels at all. Class B cigarettes such as "Daqianmen", "Phoenix", "Dachongjiu", "Jingcheng" and "Xiangshan" are also not easy to buy. However, Class C and Class D cigarettes below "Beihai" are somewhat unsaleable.
In order to solve this problem, tobacco companies distribute cigarettes to the downstream, and naturally they have to "tie-in", and good cigarettes and bad cigarettes are wholesaled together. If you want good things, you can't do without bad things. Everyone understands that this is not an expressly stipulated "rule".
When the store gets these cigarettes, the good cigarettes will naturally become "internal welfare", and the bad cigarettes will not matter. If they can be sold, they will be sold. If they cannot be sold, they will be thrown away, and they will be allowed to become truly "bad". "Smoke", anyway, the loss is not yours, no one feels bad about it.
In addition, in addition to real and actual "tying". There is also some fraud and nominal "tying", which is even more excessive.
For example, those leather shoes that Hong Yanwu sold to people in Shandong. How do Shandong people digest these overpriced shoes?
Shandong people have two methods. The first is to sign false contracts with other units in order to sell.
They bought a pair of leather shoes for more than 30 yuan from Hong Yanwu, priced them at only 20 yuan in the contract, and at the same time "tied" a batch of "goods" that only existed on paper to make a profit. . And another unit may end up reporting losses or selling the "goods" that never existed to other places.
The second type is that the Shandong people’s own units leave this batch of shoes for internal distribution, so they must be processed during the purchase process. They only need to record this batch of shoes as "tie-in" goods when purchasing, and they can pass the review of the accounts.
Of course, these "tricks" will inevitably lead to more techniques and forms as commodity prices become increasingly loose.
And because the interests behind it have become more and more, it is like being given a shot of catalyst, or like the magical spell of "open sesame", making all the convenient doors that were originally half-covered open. The hole was quickly opened. There is absolutely no way anyone can stop this trend and it is impossible to stop it.
As a person who has been involved in it and a person who thinks about these things every day, Hong Yanwu is probably the first person to figure out the mystery behind it. And once he has mastered it, he will be more willing to open his teeth.
He now feels that the best business to do is not television. The first one should be tobacco and alcohol. The reason is also very simple. In an era when consumption of public funds dominated, these were the main needs.
For the first time in June, he took away two boxes of Zhonghua cigarettes.
The buying price of foreign exchange certificates was five yuan a piece, but he knew the scarcity of these things, so he suddenly had the courage to quote them twenty yuan a piece. Unexpectedly, I got two thousand yuan smoothly. Actually achieved a profit of 300%.
The second business was another six boxes of Maotai. Of course, wine gets better as it gets older, so he didn't touch his own inventory, but bought it from the store now with the price of six yuan and six foreign exchange coupons a bottle. Later, I gave it to my opponent for thirty yuan a bottle. The profit is also more than triple.
Don't think these two deals are sweet yet, but soon Hong Yanwu was shocked by the real market situation.
Not to mention that he later learned that the person who bought "Zhonghua" sold two boxes of cigarettes to others for thirty yuan a piece. I'm looking around for him to buy more cigarettes.
The subordinate who facilitated the Maotai business also came to him to inform him that the person who bought Maotai felt that he had taken advantage of it and drank too much. I dare say that in their hometown, Moutai costs seventy or eighty yuan.
That’s not all. Facts also proved that Hong Yanwu was not the only one with a lively mind in the capital. Soon he discovered that someone had obtained Moutai from special channels and was selling it on the street. The price was as high as forty or fifty yuan, but still some people were willing to buy it.
This situation made him truly understand what a loose price system meant. This is where everyone shows off their special abilities and peels off the skin layer by layer. This is how the price increases. It’s no wonder that things are so cheap when they are in the hands of ordinary people!
Yes, this is a good thing for Hong Yanwu, he made it.
In May, because he spent the first half of the month's money and energy on collecting seals and calligraphy paintings, although he earned a lot that month, his book wealth did not show any increase.
After one month, he only had 20,000 foreign exchange coupons and 100,000 yuan in cash, and his inventory of electrical appliances was almost exhausted. It seemed like he had lost sixty or seventy thousand yuan.
But in June, his cash suddenly swelled.
Because I was more daring to ask for a price, I worked much easier than last month, but I earned 110,000. By the end of the month, he had controlled a full 100,000 yuan in foreign exchange coupons and 130,000 yuan.
Now that you have sufficient funds, of course you can receive red envelopes. So after Hong Yanwu made a call to the "general" in Bincheng, and after he mobilized some of his men, unified actions began in the five cities of Jingcheng, Langfang, Jinmen, Shijiazhuang, and Bincheng.
The goal is to catch all the full-page monkey tickets that can be bought at the post office!
Similarly, starting from this time, society became chaotic. One word has gradually become a hot word in society, and that is "price".
For a long time to come, in various surveys, price almost always ranked first or second in concern, and was often on par with corruption.
After that, price inspections were also carried out frequently. The Price Bureau soon became a very famous bureau, and the price inspection offices and supervision stations in various places were also very powerful.
Looking back today, this historical stage is not only the beginning of the entire society's breakthrough in price barriers, but also the beginning of the country's thrilling leap from a planned economy to a market economy. The purpose is of course to eventually let prices become a signal to guide resource allocation.
But we have to admit that we have indeed taken a big detour by spending so much effort to eliminate the market and prices. Now that the market is restored and prices are recognized, the price to be paid must be quite heavy.