The year 1984 was extremely important for reform and opening up.
Because the Republic of this period was in a critical period of replacement between the old and new economic systems.
On the one hand, the purely planned economy has basically completed its historical mission and is gradually withdrawing from the stage of history.
On the other hand, whether the commodity economy is conducive to the development of national strength has only just received preliminary practical verification, and it is far from forming a strong body.
So how to smoothly go through this alternating period, while continuing to promote the disintegration and giving way of the old system without major shocks, has become a major issue that the country's top leaders are considering and must face.
Especially before this, the governance and rectification work carried out in the economic field caused the overall economy to become somewhat cold.
This makes the whole country have an urgent desire to speed up the pace of reform.
After all, during this period, people had already gained a certain understanding of the splendor, prosperity and wealth of Western society through movies, TV dramas, radio, and magazines.
Then everyone is more and more eager for the modern Western life with all the home appliances, driving a car, and living in a bungalow.
In turn, they will become increasingly tired of living a life that can only be maintained at the subsistence level.
Although objectively speaking, reform and opening up has brought many beneficial changes to people's livelihood, people have become dissatisfied.
I still feel that some things in life seem to be long overdue.
Under this special social background, at the beginning of the new year, "great men" went to Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Xiamen and other places for inspections.
It undoubtedly sent a signal to people to further expand reform and opening up and pointed out a clear direction to the people of the country.
In this way, the wheel of history is destined to be irreversible. People in daily life realize that the world has changed, and the power of the people is flowing everywhere like a spring.
Soon, breakthrough events occurred frequently in various fields, and the train of change was accelerated again.
As far as Ning Weimin is concerned, he can certainly grasp the general trend more accurately than others and is also actively preparing for war.
It's just that in the new year, he was gearing up to show off his talents, but he aimed at the wrong side.
It has nothing to do with the operation of "Altar Palace" or the main clothing business of "Pierre-Carton".
It has nothing to do with his handicraft business or street factory.
In fact, in his main business with the public, he began to withdraw and engage in inaction.
You know, before the New Year, he solved the most serious cost waste problem of "Tan Palace".
Although some new problems appeared later, his effective way to solve new problems was also to do subtraction.
That is to let the deputy come forward. The less you do, the less trouble you will have.
In addition, Beishen Kitchen will have to wait until spring before it can continue the internal decoration construction.
So at least until March this year, Ning Weimin thought that he no longer had to worry about the "Tan Palace".
In this way, he slapped him in the face and left the restaurant completely to Du Yang, who was always looking for a chance to prove his abilities.
Even Zhang Shihui was temporarily transferred away by him, and returned to the tobacco shop to save Sister Tan from her worries and concentrate on the tobacco and alcohol business that suddenly flourished at the end of the year.
As expected, Du Yang was greatly encouraged by this and worked hard to keep the restaurant in order.
Ning Weimin's attitude towards sculpture art exhibitions is even more "troublesome".
He didn't use any brain at all and almost followed last year's routine.
Apart from saying good things to a few acquaintances he cares about who have submitted their works to the competition, such as guaranteeing Xiangqun at least a third prize, the rest is all decided by the Artists Association and he does not interfere in any way.
The people from the Artists Association were naturally happy to take over the leadership of the awards, and they became even more fond of Ning Weimin.
Similarly, Ning Weimin was too lazy to come up with any new ideas regarding the sculpture art exhibition and the upcoming second Spring Festival Garden Party at Zhai Palace.
He himself only acted as a pure investor this time, leaving all the power of organizing activities and allocating personnel to Qiao Wanlin.
If it hadn't been for an incident at the sculpture art exhibition.
Ye Hemin, who was also a visiting professor at the Academy of Arts and Crafts, suffered from lack of funds to go out to inspect the kiln mouth ruins.
He actually sent a porcelain work with a sculpture of a flying fairy to participate in this award.
This made the judges very embarrassed. In the end, Ning Weimin used 5,000 yuan of his own money to support Ye Hemin and solved the problem.
It can be said that in these very important external activities, Ning Weimin's presence is almost non-existent.
As for why he is willing to act as a mascot-like human prop, the reason is very simple.
For no other reason than because he had been ambushing zodiac stamps since 1980, and it was finally time to cash in the red envelopes.
He must pay close attention, adjust his condition and go all out.
People who don’t know much about stamps probably don’t know that the stamp market was the earliest speculative market that flourished in our country.
It was also the largest and most vital speculative market in the country in the 1980s and 1990s.
Since the reform and opening up, stamp trading markets have spontaneously formed in front of stamp companies in almost all cities.
Don't forget that the police, urban management, industry and commerce, culture, and taxation are inspecting everything all day long.
But its vitality is so tenacious.
It can neither be driven away nor dispersed, it has always existed for a long time.
For example, the four most well-known markets in the country have been operating for more than ten years.
Especially in the 1980s and 1990s, which lasted almost twenty years.
The four major markets located in Beijing, Shanghai, Huacheng and Chengdu have jointly set off several stamp hype booms.
Countless myths of getting rich were created just by relying on those small paper notes worth a few cents, a few cents, or a few yuan at most.
It is a market that is far more widely recognized by the people than the stock market, futures, and treasury bond markets, and the intensity of speculation and the conditions for realization are also better.
As for why the stamp market is so popular?
Isn’t it because the face value of stamps is small, the value increases quickly, it is easy to quantify, the threshold for participation is low, and it is easy to trade and carry?
It can be said that it is because of these advantages that stamps have become the only investment type that is most suitable for the general public to participate in the initial stage of our country's economy, and that can best satisfy the people's desire to increase and maintain value. There is no unique one.
There is no way, the people are poor and don’t have much spare money, so they cannot participate in products that are too high-end.
Besides, the information means in this era are underdeveloped.
Only simple things can be understood by everyone and can be traded with confidence.
Even the country has a certain degree of tacit approval and support for the hype of stamps.
Because the postal market is booming, it is beneficial to the circulation of stamps.
The official pricing of stamps also serves as a certain credit endorsement for the common people.
No matter what, this thing is issued by the state and is equivalent to currency.
In fact, it was not until 1997 that the postal market lost the favor of the public due to various reasons such as the increasing number of markets for speculation and the serious over-issuance of stamps.
But even so, the most glorious days of the postal market in the 1980s and 1990s, and the most violent rise and fall of stamps, are all deeply remembered by old postal dealers.
They also regard it as life experience and bragging rights, and they love to show off to their juniors in the same industry at the wine table.
In this way, anyone who eats stamps will be familiar with the several hype booms in the history of the stamp market and have a general understanding of them.
Especially the starting point of the first stamp craze is the easiest to remember.
Because it was a famous incident that everyone jokingly called "rat making trouble".
This incident actually refers to the hot selling of zodiac rat tickets on January 5, 1984.
The zodiac tickets started by "Monkey Ticket", so far, monkey, rooster, dog, pig, each one has experienced an astonishing increase.
This year, stamp collectors in the capital naturally came to a consensus and had a special preference for rat stamps.
This resulted in everyone queuing up from three o'clock in the morning that day.
In order to maintain order, the Philatelic Corporation, which has moved from the Donghuamen Post Office to the Heping Arch Post Office, not only took up all posts except those left behind, but also deployed the armed police force.
As a result, the sales of rat tickets were unprecedentedly hot, and they were completely sold out in the capital.
Afterwards, this phenomenon quickly spread to other stamp markets.
Later, with the issuance of stamps and souvenirs such as "Lady Pictures", "Peony Pavilion", and "The 23rd Olympic Games", people queued up even more crazily to buy them.
At this point, the first boom in the history of my country's postal market was formed.
Moreover, the "Changchun Clivia Fever", which was even more aggressively speculated, attracted the attention of senior management in the postal market and took away a lot of pressure from management and public opinion.
This time, the hype for early JT stamps and type stamps, mainly represented by zodiac stamps, also lasted for a long time.
It has been booming for about a year and a half.
The real culmination of this climax was the release of the "Plum Blossom" stamps and souvenir sheets in April 1985.
The end was marked with the release of the "infamous" "Panda" stamp and sheet on May 24, 1985.
In the history without Ning Weimin's involvement, the price of monkey tickets suddenly increased from about five yuan to thirty yuan during this period of time.
Even the rat tickets issued that year increased to one dollar.
It is conceivable that before the current craze came, Ning Weimin had already raised the base price of monkey tickets to about 60 yuan. How high would it eventually go?
Therefore, thirty years later, some young people believe that buying monkey tickets will take more than ten years to realize profits, which is obviously extremely stupid.
According to Ning Weimin's plan, I'm afraid that when the time comes, he will just need to scatter the loose votes in his hand.
Having almost finished harvesting this wave of "leeks", he got back all his investment in stamps, including capital and interest.
If he speculates again in the future, the remaining tickets in his hand will be 100% risk-free pure profits.
Don’t blame him for being cruel!
Not to mention that he was a postal dealer in his previous life, and he always dreamed of being a bookmaker who manipulated the postal market.
It's good to see what kind of person you are and how capable you are.
Even if I have been planning for him for three whole years!
He pointed at the hard days when he lived frugally, picked up garbage, and saved stamps.
He is also qualified to get a lot of votes.
Only in this way can he be worthy of himself and the opportunity to make a fortune given by God.