Majiabao is a place name that has existed since Fucheng was not established as a city. Every year on the 15th day of the lunar month, people within a few dozen miles would drive their carriages here to go to the market. Over time, it became a market, and so on.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, as the private economy was completely eliminated, this kind of spontaneous market was also affected and was banned by the government and ceased to exist. However, by 1982, people gradually gathered here again and began to open privately.
transactions gradually formed a free farmers' market.
In Fucheng, all kinds of items needed by the people these days are purchased and sold by the state under the planned economy, and then sold in state-owned department stores. People need to show tickets when buying, but even if they have tickets, they often cannot buy what they want.
Items, such as cloth such as "Chenliang", cannot be bought by ordinary people when they arrive late.
Majiapu is the first free agricultural trade in Fucheng after the reform and opening up. Its appearance means that the private economy has begun to show momentum. The vitality of this free trade far exceeds the rigid national planned economy. For Fucheng,
It is said that it has epoch-making significance.
As soon as the free market was established, it showed its strong vitality. In just a few months, a large number of "scarce" items appeared, such as "bell-bottom pants", "Chenliang" Teng Lijun's tapes, and single-card radios, etc.
In the market, there are even people selling food stamps, both local and national.
A group of southerners are buying these things. A pair of "bell-bottom pants" costs ten yuan, a meter of "Chenliang" costs five yuan, and a single-card radio costs one hundred and ten yuan...!
This group of southerners can be regarded as the first batch of "rebels" in the country. As a reborn person, Liu Lang understands the current situation of the country.
This year is 1982, and reform and opening up has been going on for four years. Although the north is still a stagnant water, in the south, the spring breeze of reform has been absent, especially in the GD and Chaoshan areas. Although it has not reached the level of everyone
At the level of doing business, there are also a large number of self-employed individuals.
Liu Lang had done in-depth research on the development of the country in this era in his previous life. Around the 1980s, there were more than 3,000 individual merchants in Wenzhou in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions alone. Some professional production workshops appeared one after another in some market towns with active transactions.
Some
The larger ones were given the title of "king" locally, such as the electrical appliance king, the screw king, the miner's lamp king, the coil king, etc. The assets of these people all exceeded 100,000 yuan at the time, and the quality of the products they produced was roughly the same.
It can compete with state-owned factories.
You must know that items such as electrical appliances, screws and miner's lamps are the means of production used in industry, and their technological content is much higher than that of trousers, hats, and cloth. The means of production used in industry are so prosperous, not to mention the means of life that everyone must use.
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Where do these items in the South come from?
Even twenty or thirty years later, many scholars kept this issue secret, but in fact everyone knew clearly that smuggling, the completion of gray primitive accumulation due to smuggling, was an important driving factor for the emergence of the rural economy in the southeastern coastal areas.
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Liu Lang still remembered that a scholar who had experienced the scene more than 20 years later wrote a book saying: At that time, there were dozens of Hong Kong and Taiwan smuggling ships anchored and cruising in the waters of Dongsha Island every day, heading for the exchange mainland for smuggling.
There were hundreds of ships. Electronic watches and nylon fabrics poured into the mainland like a rising tide, while gold and silver dollars flowed out like an ebbing tide. Thousands of people were crazy, and several well-known private goods stores were formed in coastal cities and rural areas.
Distributor market………….
Because smuggling has brought coastal cities to a path of rapid development, which sounds unbearable. Later, some private sector workers became famous entrepreneurs, and they were even more reluctant to mention this experience, because it seemed to have become the first generation of private sector companies for them.
Business owners can never get rid of their original sin.
But in Liu Lang's view, it is not a big sin. Since the country is undergoing reform and opening up, it is imperative to open the market. The so-called "smuggling" is actually a kind of openness, just because the country's laws are not as good as the market.
It developed so rapidly and failed to keep up with the pace of reform. This is the responsibility of the country and should not be left to that party.
It will be borne by some entrepreneurs, and even after more than ten or even twenty years, some of the country's laws and regulations are still very imperfect. This is the root cause of many contradictions. In the face of the free market, the policies formulated by the country
The speed can never keep up. This is a problem all over the world, not just here.
It can be said that in the cities along the southern coast, the so-called "bell-bottom pants" and "Qingliang", Teng Lijun's tapes and single-card recorders, not to mention that everyone has a copy, have long been no longer a rarity, but the closed ones in the north
These things are still very scarce in the city, so many southerners see this business opportunity, buy these items locally and then bring them to the north to buy them.
The profit is almost two or three times higher, and the cost is just the train ticket and food expenses along the way. A person can earn at least hundreds of dollars on a trip from the south to the north carrying various commodities, and much more
It can even reach more than a thousand or even thousands of yuan. In a year, just reselling small commodities can make a household worth ten thousand yuan, which is equivalent to the income of several years of workers in this era.
The arrival of many southerners broke the unchanging planned market in this small town of Fucheng. In just one or two months, "Chenliang" pants became a popular commodity. You can occasionally hear Deng Lijun's pants while walking on the street.
The song is so sweet that it will knock your teeth. "Sweet honey, you smile so sweetly, like flowers blooming in the spring breeze, blooming in the spring breeze, where are you? Where have I seen you? Your smile is so familiar, I can't remember it for a moment."
,Ah...! In a dream..."
The "Mild Sound" rose in Fucheng, and young people like Liu Lang's parents were fascinated by it, but it aroused dissatisfaction among many middle-aged and elderly people.
"What the hell is this?"
Liu Lang's grandfather was at Liu Lang's house, shouting loudly at the single-card radio that was placed on the kang and singing Teng Lijun's songs.
This radio was bought by Liu Lang's father for 115 yuan. This amount of money is equivalent to nearly half a year's salary income of Liu Donglai. Although he has now married and started his own family, all the expenses come from his own family, but so
Liu Lang's grandfather was still very dissatisfied with his "prodigal" behavior.
"Dad, listen to this song, it sounds so good! How can you say it's bullshit?"
Liu Lang's father said with a smile.
"You guys! You are all prodigal. You can sell this thing for more than a hundred yuan. Can this thing be eaten or penetrated?"
Liu Lang's grandfather was very angry. In his mind, food and clothing were the most important thing. Spending so much money on just listening to a bad song was simply not worth it.
"Dad, times have changed now. Newspapers are talking about reform and development. Even if this is reform and opening up, we will naturally respond!"
Liu Donglai supported himself with reform and opening up.
"That's not how reform works. It's just speculation. Ten years ago, someone would have put a hat on someone's head and paraded it through the streets."
Of course Liu Lang's grandfather was not convinced.
"You can't even swim on our heads when you parade down the street. These things are all brought by southerners and have nothing to do with us."
Liu Donglai didn't care at all.
"Humph, these guys from the south have gathered together in Majiapu, and they are scheming every day. At first glance, they look like a bunch of second-rate people who are not doing their jobs properly. Sooner or later, something will happen to them... Grandson, when you grow up, don't behave like them!
The most important thing is to find a legitimate job. Being a small businessman or hawker is never the right path."
Liu Lang's grandfather looked at Liu Lang sitting on the kang and said.
"Dad, Liu Lang won't do it. He will go to university when he grows up. Once he goes to university, he will be the country's talent. The country will directly allocate it. Who will be self-employed?"
Liu Lang's father echoed.
Liu Lang just smiled at his father and grandfather and said nothing.