After New Year's Eve, the first day of the Year of the Monkey finally arrives.
Probably 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 is, the era of material and spiritual scarcity, and the era of cultural confinement is 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 commercial system in the capital organized a batch of electroplated tables, chairs, simple sofas, sinks, and enamel basins from other places and put them into the festival market, triggering panic buying among the citizens of the capital.
In addition, the 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. They have also been well received by citizens.
Although these two things are just ordinary business operations, because these goods do not require tickets, the actual significance is very important. They have almost become a symbol with a special symbol of the times - tickets have since faded out.
circulation field.
As for this day, "A Century of Turbulence" by Shigeru Yoshida and "The Third Wave" by Toffler 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" to be unfrozen.
All this also makes those cultural young people wearing glasses ecstatic.
In major movie theaters in the capital, a film that reflects how people during the "movement" persisted in life and kept their faith - "It's Morning When You Wake Up from a Nightmare" - was being played.
I don’t know whether it was a coincidence or a sign of fate, but it was 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 fine 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 opinion, 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?
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In short, until the beginning of March, Hong Yanwu's life was ordinary, going to and from get off work, eating and sleeping, and not even going to the cinema very often.
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 is the Gengshen Monkey Stamp issued by the "Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications" on February 15, 1980. It has become a myth in the history of stamps that is almost universally known. The full-page stamp has 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 my country. The background of the monkey stamps is red, and the pattern is a golden monkey painted by the famous painter Huang Yongyu.
Its valuable feature is that it uses a mixed overprinting method of photocopying plate and engraving plate.
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 hand, and the texture is still there. The ink is dark and shiny. Not only is it extremely exquisite, but it will also be indelible in the future.
Copy again.
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 in fact it may be less.
If the face value is 8 cents, it only costs 400,000 yuan 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 he had more than RMB 100,000 in cash, so he could naturally make a huge profit.
Even his intervention resulted in fewer stamps in circulation, which is likely to further push up the price of this stamp in the future.
But he still has concerns. He is also afraid that if he rushes to buy tickets immediately, it will produce a butterfly effect and cause changes in history. If the country prints this set of stamps, then he will shoot himself in the foot.
In addition, he was making a sedan chair, so he didn't want to worry about it himself. He just wanted to reap the profits and wait for others to raise the price. But if someone is the banker, if he doesn't have enough chips in his hands, the market will not be good.
Therefore, his most ideal time to take action is actually in the middle of the year. At that time, the sales of stamps are spread across the country, and a considerable part of them have already flowed into the hands of the public, so as to ensure the maximum benefit.
As for whether there will be any accidents and not enough monkey tickets will be purchased?
Unless another reborn person appears, he will never worry about this problem.
One reason is that 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. When everyone realizes this problem, it will be difficult to get a stamp, at least for
It’s 1981.
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, resulting in letters not being delivered as scheduled. Therefore, ordinary consumers are not willing to choose Gengshen when sending letters.
Monkey ticket.
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 trying his best to make 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 huge golden ticket!
It's a pity that no one knows. Most people's minds are probably still thinking about official positions, professional titles, academic qualifications, wages, benefits, and labor insurance. However, they miss the windfall that is right in front of them and at their fingertips.
Occasionally, there will be one or two lucky guys who buy one or two monkey tickets or a four-party couplet. But whether they can finally 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 fight for it, he can just sit back and enjoy the benefits.
Five thousand full-page tickets was the target he initially set. According to his estimation, it should be possible to achieve it.
But it doesn’t matter even if we fail to achieve it, this is just an appetizer for the feast of “reform”.
The second group is open, group number: 60864002118:50, one more chapter added