The old man was indeed a food coupon seller, but he was indeed cheated when he went to Beijing this time.
The food stamps were cancelled, but farmers encountered the new thing of making white slips. The market was corrected, but the economy was manipulated by new powers. The inflation that occurred last year was essentially corruption. A large number of officials began to speculate in real estate, stocks, and futures, forming a large number of currency speculators that were more destructive than material speculators.
After the Two Sessions last year, the market economy target had just been established, so that the economic situation continued the excitement of the previous year. By the end of last year, the market grain prices rose sharply, from south to north, and quickly heated up. The price of high-quality rice increased by about one pound, the price of ordinary rice also increased by about 50 cents, and the prices of other grains also rose accordingly.
In fact, there was a bumper harvest last year and the total grain output hit a record high. However, the large number of white strips during the grain purchase year before last made the income of grain farmers unable to be realized after a year of hard work, resulting in a decrease in the enthusiasm of grain farmers to grow and sell grain.
Local governments gave farmers a blank note, and many rural areas became dissatisfied with dissatisfaction. The important reason for the blank note was that there were many fundraising and levies. At that time, the people's cause became a very popular saying. Government departments and cadres often used it as a reason to collect money from farmers and send workers. Farmers complained that they could not do everything they could to the people and could not collect enough money from the people.
Looking at the problem from the perspective of farmers, the way to withdraw food coupons from history is not glorious, because the replacement of food coupons was once a white note that was more harsh to farmers. As a result, the white note owed money and the money was devalued.
The reason for giving farmers a white slip was that last year the whole society's fixed asset investment exceeded 700 billion yuan mark, and a large amount of policy-based agricultural and sideline products purchase funds were transferred or borrowed. When the peak season for purchasing agricultural and sideline products, the funds could not be recovered in time. This is an important background of the white slip phenomenon.
Behind the white strip phenomenon is the inflation pattern of the entire macroeconomic.
Five days after the cancellation of the food coupon, the country raised the bank interest rate, which showed that the central government was strongly vigilant about the danger of inflation. High-end imported home appliances rose by more than 1,000 yuan overnight, and the prices of domestic washing machines and other home appliances also rose by 20% to 30%.
Last June, senior executives' estimates of the economic situation were getting worse and worse. The words used in their speech on June 2 were in the bud, and on the 15th it was changed to contradictions and problems, and on the 19th it further emphasized the highlights of contradictions and problems. Boss Zhu was appointed as the governor of the central bank, and the bank began to take back the loans issued.
By the end of July, the loan funds were recovered for 30 billion yuan, and a total of 40 billion yuan of savings were added. Banks used this as a reserve and could issue hundreds of billion yuan to purchase summer grain. Some people bought treasury bonds again, and the Ministry of Finance no longer borrowed money from banks to pay wages, and the stock market stopped falling and stabilized.
It was in this situation that the old man came out to purchase grain coupons, because the grain coupons were invalid at this time, but there were still many stock coupons, especially in many areas where information was not well-informed, people still carefully store grain coupons as hard currency and refused to waste any of them. As a result, they have become waste paper now.
The purchase price is naturally very low. You can just take a small thing and you can get the food coupons that you can't exchange for for hundreds of dollars in the past. Some people even don't care how much their food coupons are worth. This kind of thing can't be used now, and it's quite annoying to stay at home to watch. As long as someone is willing to ask for it, they will naturally take action quickly.
"Then you all know that food coupons cannot be used, so why do you still have to buy so many food coupons?" Ziqi asked in confusion.
The old man sighed and said, "I can't cash out the white slips I have collected for a year at home. I really have no money. Later, I met a Beijinger who said that although the food stamps are no longer available now, they have collection value. As long as they have all kinds and good quality, they can be sold at a high price. After hearing this, I was a little moved, so I thought about how to do this. I spent a year shopping around the streets and alleys around. This month I went to Beijing to find that person. As a result, I found a park that didn't have that place at all. Only then did I realize I was deceived!"
The old man was a little unwilling to give up, so he wandered around Beijing for a while and went to some antique markets to ask others. As a result, the food coupons had just been abolished. Everyone had too many food coupons in their hands. Who would collect this thing? After suffering a few days of blow, the old man had the intention to seek death. Today, he was in a daze and knocked down Fan Wubing's car.
"Hey, so that's what happened." Fan Wubing shook his head, thinking to himself that the old man was also very pitiful.
The harm of making white strips is indeed quite great. This is also a Chinese characteristic, but it is a phased product. In the next few years, although there were not many things to make white strips, other alternative methods have emerged. Anyway, it is a troublesome thing that can be dealt with.
As the saying goes, there are policies from above and countermeasures from below, and the central government is helpless in some local affairs.
Although these things are wrong, if they need to be dealt with, it will involve a large number of people. It is not necessary to act rashly. For example, the situation encountered by the old man and the others is just a snake shed its skin every year. It is very difficult to cash out the previous white strips.
In this case, the old man took the risk of investing in food coupons. In principle, it is true that he did not understand one thing, that is, time is the greatest help to a collectible. Only after a certain period of time can food coupons become popular collectibles in everyone's eyes.
This is like the dragon tickets of that year. At the beginning, everyone just spent money to buy dragon tickets and pasted them on envelopes. Who would have thought that this thing would rise to a sky-high price in the future? Even those who were lucky enough to use the first batch of stamps in the world would not have such an awareness, right?
Fan Wubing carefully looked through the food coupons collected by the old man and found that there were still a wide variety. Unfortunately, it was not the time when the market was rising, so he said to the old man, "Old man, this thing will be valuable in the future, but it will not be worth a lot of money now. After ten or twenty years, these things may be worth a lot of money."
The old man was a little disappointed after hearing Fan Wubing's words. He had been walking around Beijing several times recently and asked many people. Everyone said this, but if they had to wait for ten or twenty years, they would have starved to death. The family's problems could not be solved. Is there still a chance to wait for the food coupons to appreciate?
Besides, who can predict what happens twenty years later is as accurate as possible?
Seeing a pile of food coupons lying in the hospital, the old man was really desperate.
Seeing the old man's appearance, Zi Qi felt a lot of sympathy flooded, so she pulled Fan Wubing and said, "How about I help him?"
"How to help?" Fan Wubing asked curiously.
Ziqi said to Fan Wubing, "It's a fate to meet. Although these food coupons are not worth much, it's very hard for the old man to collect so many of them. I see that these things are very colorful and interesting. Why not buy them for money? The old man has also tried his best to do it."
When the old man heard Zi Qi say this, it was obviously to help him. After all, these food coupons are valuable now? So he said embarrassingly, "Girl, let it go, I will never let others be fooled anymore! You kindly sent me to the hospital, and it is not easy to spend money to treat me. How can I sell these useless things to you again? This is absolutely impossible!"
Fan Wubing was a little uncommon at this time because he knew that these food coupons would be valuable in a few years, but they are really not valuable now. How to choose depends on what opinions the old man and Zi Qi finally reached.
The old man always disagrees with Ziqi's payment. He said, "I can give you these things, but it's not OK to ask me to sell them to you! My old man has lived for most of his life, and at least he still knows it. How can he repay his grudges with grudges?"
Finally, Fan Wubing coughed and said to the old man, "Old man, these things will still be worth a little money in the future, but they are really not worth it now. If this is the case, you take it out and give it to this girl, and she will give you 10,000 yuan in exchange. In this way, we will not feel that we have taken too much advantage, and you will not suffer any losses. I would recommend that you keep the remaining food coupons for ten or twenty years before selling them, which will at least make your grandchildren rich."
"Can you really be valuable in the future? You didn't say it on purpose to comfort me, right?" the old man asked with some disbelief.
"Really, you don't think I look like a stupid person, right?" Fan Wubing said seriously.
Finally, Ziqi ran out and withdrew 10,000 yuan to the old man, then arranged the doctor to collect bones for the old man, and finally arranged the hospitalization, and then left the hospital with Fan Wubing.
Ziqi took half of the food coupon, which looked like it weighed more than ten pounds. A heavy bag was thrown into Fan Wubing's carriage, looking like she didn't care at all.
"These are all money, why do you throw them away casually?" Fan Wubing said with a smile.
Ziqi replied with a smile, "My salary is not low, what's the use of asking for these things? It's just that I want the elderly to get the money with peace of mind. If you want it, I'll give it to you."
Fan Wubing rolled his eyes and said, "I have resentment towards this, so you should keep it yourself."
Ziqi looked at Fan Wubing, not knowing why he had resentment about this, but she didn't ask too much. Instead, Fan Wubing said to her again, "These things can really add value. I just looked at it and many of the food coupons inside are very valuable. Please put them away. I guess it's okay to change a villa for you in ten years."
"Really or not?" Ziqi asked suspiciously.
Chapter completed!