Volume 3 Summer Rain Chapter 0329: All the old houses in Shanghai are captured
But the subsequent development of the situation made Gong Xue stand there in shock, at a loss as to what to do.
Chen Meng and Hu Xiaoyang left so easily, without even remembering to pay for their meal.
"I'm done eating, Comrade Chen, how are you?"
When he was almost done eating, Nan Yi put down his chopsticks, took out a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped his mouth.
"I'm almost done too. I have to go to work in the afternoon, so I won't chat with you any longer. Let's make an appointment for dinner another day." Chen Dan said, raising his hand to call the waiter over to settle the bill.
The People's Restaurant is said to be a state-owned restaurant, but it has long been commercialized and no longer operates in the same way as a state-owned canteen.
Nan Yi did not rush to pay the bill. He just watched Chen Dan pay the bill quietly. He said goodbye to Chen Dan and watched her walk out of the restaurant before he came to Gong Xue's side.
"You are precious, you are inlaid with gold and jade, and others are just scum? You are lucky today. You picked a good shield. You have good eyesight. Otherwise, I can't save yourself, and you will be dragged into the water."
Nan Yi sneered a few words and said no more, then walked out of the restaurant.
He was also depressed. If Chen Dan hadn't been there, today's matter would definitely not have ended well. The situation would have forced him to put on a show of pretending to be cool and then getting slapped in the face.
But does Nan Yi like to sing this kind of play?
Needless to say, as long as Chen Meng still has some brains, he should go and find out Nan Yi's background. After that, if he is very interested in Gong Xue, he will either come and say hello or not say hello at all. However, he should be more cautious towards Gong Xue.
After leaving Nanyi West Road, Nanyi turned several turns and finally entered an alley.
At this time, Shanghai seemed to stand out from the crowd, a solid giant with an economic output that far surpassed all other provinces in the country.
According to Nan Yi, Shanghai ranks first in at least ten national economic rankings:
1. The total industrial output value accounts for one eighth of the national total, ranking first among all provinces and cities in the country;
Second, the total export value accounts for a quarter of the country's total, of which the city's products account for 60%, and the amount of foreign exchange earned ranks first in the country;
3. Its fiscal revenue accounts for one sixth of the country’s total revenue, and taxes and profits paid to the state account for one third of central fiscal expenditure, ranking first in the country in terms of the amount paid;
4. The total labor productivity of industry was 30,013 yuan in 1979, more than 1.5 times higher than the national average of all provinces and cities, ranking first in the country;
5. The average profit of industrial fixed assets per 100 yuan in 1979 was 63.73 yuan, four times the national average, ranking first in the country.
6. The industrial capital turnover rate is 69.5 days, ranking first among all the major cities in China;
7. The annual per capita GDP calculated on a per capita basis was US$1,590 in 1979, ranking first in the country in terms of production level;
8. The effective utilization rate of energy was 33% in 1979, higher than the national average of 28%, ranking first in the country;
9. The amount of commodity transfers: the daily industrial products transferred by Shanghai's commercial departments to various places accounted for 45% of the national transfers, ranking first in the country;
10. Transfer of technical personnel. Since liberation, more than 300 factories have been relocated from Shanghai to the inland areas, and through various other channels, 1 million technical personnel and skilled workers have been transferred, ranking first in the country.
Shanghai also ranks last in the country in the following five areas:
First, the urban area has an average population of 41,000 people per square kilometer, which is the highest urban population density in the country;
Second, the building density is as high as 56%. Calculated on an average basis, each person has only 1.57 square meters of roads and 0.47 square meters of green space, which is about the size of a newspaper.
The density of buildings, the crowded factories, the narrow roads and the lack of green space are the highest among all the major cities in my country.
3. In Shanghai, the average living area per person is 4.3 square meters. Including shanties, simple houses and attics, there are more than 918,000 households with less than 4 square meters of housing, including more than 69,000 households in need, married households, extremely poor households and households transferred from other places to Shanghai without housing.
They account for about 50% of the city's households, and the proportion of households lacking housing is the highest among major cities in the country;
Fourth, the average number of fatalities per 10,000 vehicles in Shanghai is 42.5 per year, the highest number of vehicle accidents among major cities in China;
5. Due to serious pollution from the three wastes, the cancer incidence rate in Shanghai is the highest among cities in the country.
Ten national firsts and five last ones coexist in Shanghai. The ten firsts have little to do with Nan Yi, and this is not what he should be concerned about. Instead, the five last ones are closely related to him.
When you walk into the alley, you are greeted by a sense of human touch. At this time, the people in the alley are still very simple and honest, with no conflicts of interest between each other, and naturally not much intrigue.
The children were playing at the entrance of the alley, the old men were sitting against the wall, arguing about the boundary between Chu and Han on a square stool, and an old lady was sitting on a bamboo chair, puffing on her cigarette. Her neatly combed silver hair and her deep eyes told of her extraordinary story.
In addition to the peaceful human touch, what Nan Yi felt more was the word "cramped".
The alley was originally quite wide, but the corners were filled with coal cakes, coal slag, and other sundries. In addition, every household had a gate array outside their door, leaving only a narrow gap in the alley that was barely wide enough for a person to pass through.
You have to be careful when crossing this road, or you might bump into debris or children playing.
Nan Yi's eyes were very busy. Not only did he have to observe what was sunbathing above his head and be careful not to get into other people's crotches, he also had to be careful to avoid people coming from the opposite direction and dodge glass beads rolling under his feet. From time to time, he had to peek into other people's houses through the open windows.
Passing by a low house, the height of which was only about three meters, there was a loft built there. The first floor was 1.9 meters high, and the second floor was only about 1.1 meters high.
In the attic, there was a bed made of a long bench and a door panel. An old lady wearing reading glasses was hunched over and doing needlework there, using the light that barely came into the room.
There was another old man curled up in the quilt next to her, with a slightly shriveled and dried up foot sticking out from under the quilt. He must be either paralyzed or have some other disease.
There was a fat tabby cat coiled at the old lady's feet. When a mouse ran across the wooden floor, the cat's eyes lit up and it hunched over, staring at the mouse, ready to hit it with one strike.
The sewers in the alley are filled with a not-too-strong stench, and such an environment is prone to breeding rats. This is a paradise for rats.
Downstairs, next to a bunk bed, there is a dining table that is 60 cm wide and nearly 1.9 meters long. It is made of solid wood and looks very sturdy. The table top is polished to a shiny finish, and there are wisps of white cotton stuck in the wooden splinters at the corners of the table.
This is not only a dining table, but also a bed that needs to be folded in the morning and made up in the evening.
Nan Yi looked at the other furnishings in the house again and came to a conclusion in his mind. There were eight people living in this house, two elderly people, two couples, and two children.
The children should be a boy and a girl. Nan Yi has already seen the award certificates posted on the wall. One is a boy's name and the other is a girl's name. They are about eight or nine years old. They should be cousins.
Nan Yi had his own guess as to how the two couples managed their sexual life in such a cramped house. This family must like hanging out outside and are used to taking turns to do so.
"I want to have a home, a place that doesn't need to be fancy. When I'm tired, I'll think of it. I want to have a home, a place that doesn't need to be big. When I'm frightened, I won't be afraid. Who doesn't want a home..."
Nan Yi continued walking forward, humming a song while an idea formed in his mind.
Nan Yi spent several hours in the afternoon wandering in the alleys until the lights of thousands of houses were lit and the aroma of various foods wafted through the air. He still kept wandering until everyone had finished dinner, the nightclub cars entered the alleys, and the hostesses of each house came out carrying toilets. Only then did he leave.
The next day, he still wandered around the alleys, bringing a camera with him and carrying a yellow leather backpack full of film.
On the third day, Nan Yi went to Tianping Road in Xuhui and several streets nearby. Most of the old villas in Shanghai city are concentrated in this area, and the quality of the houses is relatively good.
Clement Apartments and Fuxing Middle Road, Shangfang Garden and Xinkang Garden on Huaihai Middle Road, the famous garden-style houses on Fenyang Road, and especially the elegant charm of the former French Concession along Wuyuan Road still remain today.
In addition, Nan Yi also visited Xinhua Road Street in Changning, Jing'an Temple Street in Jingjing, Zhapu Road Street in Hongkou, Wuchuan North Road Street, Huaihai Middle Road Street in Luwan, and along Sinan Road.
Nan Yi only looked at it for two days, and he didn't have time to learn more deeply. However, this quick look has made his ideas more complete.
For Shanghai people in the 1980s, most of them had a common "Shanghai dream", which was to live in a one-bedroom apartment in a new workshop, or even better if it was a two-bedroom apartment.
From the perspective of later generations, a one-bedroom apartment consists of nothing more than a kitchen, a bathroom, a bedroom, and a small balcony.
The bedroom is relatively large, so if there are fewer people, you can create a living room and dining room layout; if there are more people, then one bedroom will still have to accommodate a lot of people.
Compared to the alley, the new workshop has greater privacy and is free from harassment from rats.
Nowadays, Shanghainese people attach great importance to the word "privacy". They don't like to visit other people's homes, nor do they like to entertain guests at home. Even in the alleys with strong human touch, neighbors like to talk outside the house.
People from other places may have the wrong perception that Shanghainese people are more indifferent, because the Shanghainese people they know will never invite them to their homes.
Human indifference?
Not hospitable?
Too troublesome?
Neither, that's because most Shanghainese people don't have room for a round table at home.
When I was walking in the alleys of Nanyi, I saw something a little embarrassing.
It was dinner time and the family was having dinner there, but one of the older girls happened to have a stomachache. So, the others in the family continued to eat while the older girl sat on the toilet less than one and a half meters away from the dining table.
When you hear neighbors chatting in the alley, most of them will talk about the "new workshop". When these three words are mentioned, everyone's eyes are full of longing.
The situation in the old villas is not as peaceful as that among the neighbors in the alleys.
It can be said that 99% of the old villas in Shanghai are occupied by more than one family. Examples like Ke Jianzhen's where a family lives in one house are extremely rare.
Although the houses look more beautiful, the living conditions are actually more cramped than in the alleys, and there are many quarrels between neighbors.
The content of the quarrel is nothing more than who used a little more tap water, whose own oil, salt, sauce and vinegar were used by others, and complaints that other families "screamed" too loudly last night and disturbed their own children, etc., which are all trivial matters.
No matter whether they are residents of the alleys or the old houses, they all have one thing in common - they try their best to move out as soon as possible and move into new workshops.
Nan Yi squatted outside the gate of Fang Mansion, looking at a document in his hand.
The data shows that the first batch of new workshops reported and approved for construction in Shanghai include 13 workshops: Lanhua, Changbai, Quyang, Pengpu, Hutai, Taishan, Changfeng, Hongqiao, Xianxia, Tianlin, Wanping, Shanggang, and WF.
The second batch of 13 cities submitted for approval in 1982 included Gongnong, Minxing, Yunguang, Pengpu, Guannong, Xianxia, Changqiao, Dezhou, Shangnan, Xueye, LY, Meiyuan, and Jingxi.
The third batch of 22 cities that have been reported but not yet approved include Shiguang, Guohe, Guoding Road, Fengzhen, Liangcheng, Pengpu, Ganquan, Zhenbei, Xianxia, Kangjian, Meilong, etc.
The funding for the construction of the new workshop came from two sources: one was a grant from the Shanghai City, and the other was the factory’s own fundraising.
The factories are not so bad. The enterprises in Shanghai are all doing well and are fully capable of building buildings. As long as they get approval from higher-ups, such new workshops will be publicly owned by the enterprises.
It is more difficult to allocate funds for construction from the city. Shanghai is not very poor nowadays. 87% of fiscal revenue and taxes are handed over to the government, and only a small amount is left. Money is needed everywhere, so where would so much money come from for large-scale construction?
Shanghai has no money, so this is a good opportunity for Nan Yi.
When his grandmother Fang Mengyin returns to Shanghai next year, she can propose a house-for-house plan. There are more than a dozen or even dozens of title deeds hanging on an old villa. No matter how many there are, one title deed can be exchanged for a one-bedroom apartment.
With this change, Fang Mengyin would instantly become the scapegoat, the Bodhisattva Guanyin who saves people from suffering.
The substance, face and reputation are all intact and can be held in your hands.
Nan Yi rubbed his temples and thought: "This plan is very feasible and will probably be implemented smoothly. By then, most of the old houses will fall into my hands...
This won't do. It's a crime to possess a treasure. Killing one person will enrich thousands of families...
If this plan is really to be implemented, Australian capital, Hong Kong capital, Taiwan capital, Li capital, and foreign capital must all be involved. The sources of funds must be broad, the channels must be complex, and the investors must be influential. Damn, if I do this, wouldn't I become a comprador?
How can we control the degree inside? "
It was a very good plan, but Nan Yi was having trouble following it. He wanted to grasp the degree of it and control the number of old houses he could get. This was extremely difficult.
"This plan needs to be carefully considered!"
