In fact, the common people are really quite numb and ignorant. They have not noticed at all that the prices of dishes in Beijing restaurants have been rising along with the increase in the price of non-staple food, and have quietly increased 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 or two. Roast chicken, which used to cost only one yuan, has become three or four yuan.
It's 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 prices of vegetables back then were divided into different grades, and what price was sold according to the grade. This often caused problems. Stores often raised prices by themselves, raising the price of vegetables that were originally third grade and should cost 7 cents a pound to first grade.
, sold for a dime 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 discovered the problem, they were helpless.
The only way to deal with it in a non-staple food store is: "Comrade, hurry up and get to the vegetable store. The prices in the newspaper are crazy, but in fact the prices are changing at any time. They have gone up again, and there is nothing we can do about it. Are you doing this for your sake?"
A few cents of your own money will make the country suffer heavy losses?"
This makes the picky person seem stingy and unreasonable.
This is the current general ecology of society. Inadvertently, "serving the people" has begun to change to "serving money".
Even the "Tianxingju" where Hong Yanwu works has recently raised the price of fried liver by four cents per bowl. Because if not, what will happen to the rising costs? Besides, with less profits, Manager Sha has no basis to pay
Are we giving out bonuses? Then we have to let customers suffer some losses.
But even so, these are just superficial drizzle. If people think differently, they should be understandable. But what is completely unacceptable is that it is further caused by price activity. The corruption of the business system is accelerating and shady transactions are becoming more and more serious.
Serious problem.
The practice of pairing beer with cold dishes is probably considered the earliest "tying" behavior in the minds of the people. In fact, this is completely wrong. Large-scale tying behavior has long been active in the internal cycle of the business system.
For example, taking cigarettes as an example, Class A cigarettes such as "Peony", "Friendship" and "Fireworks" cannot be found in normal channels at all. "Daqianmen", "Phoenix", "Dachongjiu", "Jingcheng", "Xiangshan"
These Class B cigarettes are not easy to buy. However, Class C and D cigarettes below "Beihai" are somewhat unsalable.
In order to solve this problem, tobacco companies distribute cigarettes to the downstream, and naturally they have to "tie-in sales", and good cigarettes and bad cigarettes are wholesaled together. If you want good cigarettes, you can't do without bad cigarettes. Everyone understands that this is not an expressly stipulated "rule".
When the store gets these cigarettes, the good cigarettes will naturally become "internal benefits", and the bad cigarettes will not matter. If they can sell it, they will sell it. If they can't sell it, they will throw it away, and let it become a real "bad cigarette".
Anyway, the loss is not yours, no one feels bad about it.
In addition, in addition to real and real "tying", there are also some fraudulent and nominal "tying", which is even more excessive.
For example, take the leather shoes that Hong Yanwu sold to people in Shandong. How do people in Shandong digest these high-priced shoes that have been marked up?
Shandong people have two methods. The first is to sign false contracts with other units in order to sell out.
They bought a pair of leather shoes for more than 30 yuan from Hong Yanwu, but only priced them at 20 yuan in the contract. At the same time, they "tied" a batch of "goods" that only existed on paper to make a profit. And another
In the end, a company may report losses or sell "goods" that never existed to other places.
The second is that the Shandong people's own units leave this batch of shoes for internal distribution, and then they have to deal with it in the purchase process. They only need to record this batch of shoes as "tying" goods when purchasing, and then they can pass the accounting
review.
Of course, these "tricks" will inevitably lead to more techniques and forms as commodity prices become increasingly loose.
And because there are more interests behind it, just like being given a shot of catalyst, or like the magical spell of "open sesame", all the doors of convenience that were originally half-covered are quickly opened.
The hole is open. No one can stop this trend and cannot 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 mysteries involved. And once he understands it, he will be more daring 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 public consumption dominates, these are the main needs.
For example, in his first transaction 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 this thing, so he suddenly had the courage to quote someone twenty yuan a piece. Unexpectedly, he got two thousand yuan smoothly. He actually realized a profit of 300%.
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The second business was another six boxes of Maotai. Of course, the wine got better with age, so he did not touch his inventory, but bought it from the store for 6.6 yuan a bottle in foreign exchange coupons. Later, he paid 30 yuan a bottle.
It was passed on to the opponent. The profit was also more than three times.
Although these two transactions seemed sweet, Hong Yanwu was soon 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 at the price of thirty yuan a piece. He was looking around for him to buy more cigarettes.
The subordinate who facilitated the Maotai business also came to him to inform him that the people who bought Maotai felt that they had taken advantage of it and had lost money after drinking too much. In their hometown, Maotai cost only seventy or eighty yuan.
That's not all. Facts also proved that Hong Yanwu was not the only smart person 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 it was still the same.
Someone is willing to buy it.
This kind of situation made him truly understand what the loosening of the price system means. This is how everyone shows their magic and peels off the skin layer by layer. This is how prices are increased. When things are really in the hands of ordinary people, it is surprising that they can be so cheap!
Yes, this is a good thing for Hong Yanwu, he made it.
In May, because he spent all his money and energy in the first half of the month on collecting seals and calligraphy paintings, although he made a lot of money that month, his book wealth did not show any increase.
After a month, he only had 20,000 foreign exchange coupons and 100,000 RMB in cash, and his inventory of electrical appliances was almost exhausted. It looked like he had lost 60,000 to 70,000 yuan.
But in June, his cash suddenly swelled.
Because he dared to ask for more money, he worked much easier than last month and earned 110,000 yuan. By the end of the month, he had already controlled a full 100,000 yuan in foreign exchange coupons and 130,000 yuan.
And since 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, Jingcheng, Langfang, Jinmen, Shijiazhuang, and Bin
In the five cities of the city, unified actions began.
The goal is to catch all the full-page monkey tickets that can be bought at the post office!
Similarly, it was also from this time that society became chaotic. One word began to gradually become a hot word in society, and that was "price".
For a long time to come, in various surveys, price was almost always ranked first or second in concern, and was often on par with corruption.
After that, major price inspections were also carried out frequently, and the Price Bureau soon became a very famous bureau. 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 once spent so much effort to eliminate the market and eliminate prices, which is indeed a big detour. Now that we are restoring the market and recognizing prices, the price we have to pay must be quite heavy.