The controversy about "Night at the Military Port" is indeed sensational, and ordinary people often compare this incident with the "Cinderella and the 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 events, such as the Great Hall of the People officially opening to the public and starting 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.
In fact, it 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.
However, it would be too messy and disorderly to introduce things like a stick and a hammer. To trace back to the origin, 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 extremely hot. But this high temperature was not only caused by seasonal changes, but also mainly caused by people.
In fact, this year, the impression that people in the capital may have felt most deeply and remembered most is one impression: so many people!
Because despite this year, there are still no cars on the streets of Beijing, and there are not even many people riding bicycles. But in this year, it seems that overnight, there are many more young people in Beijing.
They are the intellectual youths who returned to the city from rural areas and the Production and Construction Corps one after another 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 educated youths returning to the city has become as unstoppable as the tide of the Qiantang River. This year, 100,000 educated youths returned to the city.
400,000, plus young students who have just graduated from middle school and no longer need to go to the countryside to join the queue. These young people wandering in the city without jobs are collectively called 'unemployed youth'."
Therefore, 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. You also have to find things to do.
It is obvious that the "shopping budget" of the people in the capital alone cannot bear the extra 400,000 mouths. And facing the sudden emergence of 400,000 unemployed young people in the capital, no matter how much government work is done, there is nothing that can be done.
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 requires active organization
Not even a month has passed since the unemployed people developed 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.
Therefore, through transactions at farmers' markets, agricultural and sideline products not included in the plan 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 life has 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 family 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", even if they go there themselves
There is no need to set up stalls in the market. It is best to earn two cents each, and the price is clearly stated, which is very convenient.
Moreover, under 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 that Zhaoqing is responsible for collecting the goods, while An Yangyang and An Yueliang send them to the city for sale.
But the difference is that Zhaoqing has expanded the scale of acquisitions 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 bicycles allow them to run to the capital at least five times a month.
Six trips.
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 did he add a large beam, but he also installed layers of steel frames on the front and rear of the two bicycles to hold eggs.
Then eight layered egg baskets were made for the two cars according to the size of the steel frame. Straw mats were placed between each steel frame and the egg basket.
To be honest, Zhaoqing has installed these two vehicles as solidly as two tanks, scientifically and securely.
Although they took the initiative to reduce the loading capacity for safety reasons, each truck only loaded about a thousand eggs. Calculating six eggs to a pound, it would be 160 pounds.
Although these eggs are afraid of being bumped and broken, they can be placed one by one in the basket and placed on the steel frame, even if they run uphill and downhill, twists and turns for hundreds of miles. When the time comes, how many eggs can be put into the box, take out the box
It's still the same, not a single bit of skin is broken.
So with these two vehicles, they have expanded the scale of egg reselling in a single operation several times.
Not to mention anything 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 damn 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 felt that they were invincible generals and omnipotent gods.
Therefore, after unloading the eggs, they felt even more energetic. On the way home by pedaling, the two of them were like drunken people having a drunken affair.
One shouted, "The road through Xiongguan is really like iron. Now we can cross it from the beginning with one step!"
Another one is more straightforward, "Two cars and eight baskets, and the salary exceeds that of Hu Yaobang!"
I don’t know why it’s all so damn good! That means no one can hear me, otherwise I’ll 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.
From morning to night, there is an endless stream of customers. There are local workers, foreign tourists, compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao, overseas Chinese and foreign guests. The few tea stalls near the Qianmen alone receive nearly 10,000 customers a day.
The one who did the best job, and the only one who later developed and prospered, 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, it was really a shameful thing.
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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 other connections. Apart from registering and queuing up at the subdistrict office, there is no way to solve their son's problem. It is really difficult to support five children with their salary in a month.
This situation made 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 it only allowed individual labor to be engaged in repairs, services and handicrafts.
A business license is issued to the operator. Restaurants are all state-owned collectives. If you want to open a restaurant and work as an individual, that is a new thing.
So even though Liu Guixian ran countless times, going to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau every day to fight with whomever she wanted, she still only got one reply, "You go back first, we have to discuss your matter again. This matter is still very difficult to handle at the moment!"
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This result is not surprising. After all, everything requires a process and cannot be achieved overnight.
In this year, the applicants for the first independent restaurant in Beijing are destined to have a lonely harvest. They must continue to persevere and continue to work hard in order to win a turn in fate.
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