"President, I have a call."
Nan Yi and Ueto Masami were talking when Ueto Masami's phone rang.
"Take it."
Nan Yi said something, stood up and walked out of the pavilion, leaving space for Ueto Masami to answer the phone.
Masami Ueto has several phones, and the one that just rang was obviously not a work phone. The phones issued by the Minami family have been modified and look slightly different from ordinary ones.
Before Nan Yi walked too far, Ueto Masami had finished her phone call and called him over, "President, do you have anything else to do this afternoon?"
"It's okay. If you have something to do, you can leave now." Nan Yi replied and asked, "Do you have a date?"
"Yes, my junior schoolmate asked me to have coffee together. You also know the president. She is a junior from the tennis club of my alma mater." said Masami Ueto.
"Kamichi Sachiko?"
"Yes, she is also working in Tokyo now, and I meet her often."
"Oh, what kind of job?"
"Working as a receptionist at the Shinjuku-ku Daiichi Real Estate."
"Huh?" Nan Yi asked in surprise, "Don't you have to go to work today?"
"No need. She was spotted by a talent scout not long ago and just resigned today. She came to me to celebrate." Ueto Masami said, and suddenly smiled slyly, "President, do you know which company has spotted her?"
"How should I know... huh?"
Nan Yi's words came to an abrupt end. Ueto Masami knew very well that he never cared about anything in the Japanese entertainment industry, so why would he ask such a question?
"Fighting?" Nan Yi asked tentatively.
"Yes, President, you guessed it right, but unfortunately there is no prize."
"Fuck%￥#..." Nan Yi couldn't help but spit out a string of Chinese curses.
Fighting is an entertainment company opened by a Japanese entertainment agent with money invested by Men Saner. It is obvious that the investment motive of Men Saner is not so simple.
Sawaguchi Jingzi was picked up by Men Saner, Nan Yi was just a little unhappy. He didn't have much of a think about it. It didn't matter who picked her up. But it was different for Kamachi Sachiko. Even if Nan Yi didn't pick her up, he couldn't let Men Saner pick her up.
Entering the pavilion, Nan Yi picked up the phone and called Men Saner. The two talked for a long time.
"Nagao-kun."
"Lily-chan, you're back so early?"
As soon as Nan Yi hung up the phone, a lump of soft flesh came up to him on his back.
"No, Nagao-kun finally came to Tokyo, so of course I have to spend more time with you."
Nan Yi turned around, stroked Sayuri Hagiwara's face, and asked, "Are you feeling wronged?"
"No, I just miss you." Sayuri Hagiwara closed her eyes and rubbed her cheek up and down in Nan Yi's palm.
"In the next two years, I can spend more time with you."
"real?"
Sayuri Hagiwara opened her eyes and a look of joy appeared on her face.
"uh-huh."
"Thank you, Nagao-kun, you've worked hard." Sayuri Hagiwara said softly.
"Ha, thank me like this, you will make me even more unbridled." Nan Yi stretched out his hand and pinched Sayuri Hagiwara's face, and said with a smile: "Prepare some afternoon tea, and make more Imagawa yaki cakes. Youqiong and Wuwei will like it very much."
"Hayi, I'll get ready right away."
"Thank you for your hard work."
"It's not hard. I'm willing to do anything for Nagao-kun."
Sayuri Hagiwara smiled slightly, took a few steps back, turned around and walked towards the residence.
Nan Yi spent the rest of the day with Sayuri Hagiwara and their two sons at the foot of Mount Fuji.
The next day, Nan Yi went to Sunshine 60 Building again, but this time he went to a retail store on the 37th floor instead of Ikeda Company on the 39th floor.
Nan's company has not injected too much capital into First Retail, and has only injected less than 15 billion yen in total. This amount of money was injected when the yen exchange rate was relatively low, and it is less than 70 million US dollars in total.
This amount of money will be divided into three parts, used to develop 365 supermarkets, 996 convenience stores, and Wildcat Transport. It is conceivable how tight the funds are, and the speed of development naturally cannot be too fast.
After listening to the report of Kikuchi Takayuki, the chairman of First Retail, Nan Yi first expressed his appreciation for his work performance, and then continued: "Southern Company has failed in its diversified expansion and will soon be in trouble. By April next year at the latest, we will be able to control Southern Company and the 7-ELEVEn brand. By then, we will naturally have the capital to negotiate with Ito Yokado."
"President, Wildcat Transport has taken on 45% of the work of 7-ELEVEn convenience store distribution system with low prices and high-quality services. After more than two years of cooperation, the two parties have now run-in very well."
"Very good, then we can do both at the same time." Nan Yi nodded, "Kikuchi-kun, be patient. It won't be long before a large amount of funds will be injected into First Retail. Your chance to show your talents will come soon."
"Hayi."
Kikuchi Takayuki responded.
"But before that, you need to do one thing: sell off your own retail real estate by the middle of next year. There are two additional requirements:
First, the buyer cannot be a large and powerful company. It is best to find a buyer with limited funds, who needs to rely on loans or borrow money for most of the acquisition funds. It would be best if the borrower is Takefuji.
Second, we need to sign a three-year lease agreement with the buyer, and we will return the lease after the real estate is sold.”
"Hayi."
After leaving No. 1 Retail, Nan Yi met with Takei Yasuo, the president of Takefuji, and the two went to Kabukicho to relax. At the same time, Nan Yi also reached a new transaction agreement with him.
Baoguo Migu's land annexation has never stopped. In recent years, Baoguo Migu and Takefuji have maintained a good cooperative relationship. In order to earn high price differences, Takei Yasuo changed from passively waiting for Japanese farmers to mortgage loans to taking the initiative and using various means to obtain land and resell it to Baoguo Migu.
According to conservative estimates, Yasuo Takei earned at least 70 billion yen from Nan Yi.
Although Takei Yasuo made a lot of money, he also saved a lot of costs for Nan Yi. Nan Yi paid the money willingly and was even full of gratitude to Takei Yasuo.
How could I not be grateful? The curse was taken away by the other party, but the benefits fell into Nan Yi's hands.
Compared with farmers in other Asian countries, Japanese farmers are undoubtedly very lucky.
The state has provided great support to farmers, and the prices of agricultural products have been rising steadily. Even if Baoguo Migu does not implement its own development plan and only cooperates with the planning of the farmers' association for planting, the acquired land will only pay off in three and a half years. After that, there will be high profits after each crop.
In Japan, it is entirely possible to get rich by farming. Even with the ridiculously high wages, the income of Japanese farmers is comparable to the average level of white-collar workers. After the 1990s, when the wages of Japanese white-collar workers stagnated or even declined, the income of farmers was able to directly reach the gold-collar level.
…
Another day passed, and on the second day, Nan Yi went to visit the cooperative factory where the Ikeda trainee was sent.
Starting out early in the morning and not until after seven in the evening, Nan Yi had only visited six or seven factories. There was no other way, as the factories were scattered all over the place, and most of his time was spent on the road.
In addition, before entering each factory, Nan Yi has to look at each person's information and photos in the car, so that he can call people's names as soon as he enters the factory. The trainees will feel that they are always valued.
Although Nan Yi has always been concerned about the dispatch of Ikeda trainees, it is impossible for him to take the time to look at the information of each trainee. After years of business expansion, the number of trainees has now exceeded 8,000.
This is because the relevant personnel of Ikeda Company do not pay much attention to this business, otherwise the number of people would expand faster.
Nan Yi was also unable to explain. For Ikeda Company, the profit from the trainee business was minimal. On average, the gross profit that a trainee could bring was less than 200,000 yen per year.
After deducting operating costs, maintenance staff salaries, taxes, etc., the actual net profit generated by the trainee business last year was 70 million yen, and the profit brought by each person was equivalent to less than 200 yuan.
Fortunately, although I didn’t make any money, I still received a lot of fair reviews.
At around 8:30, Nan Yi came to the area of ​​old and dilapidated wooden houses near Takadanobaba. After searching for a while, he knocked on the wooden door of a house.
The wooden door opened, and a burly figure was illuminated by the light, "Comrade Nan?"
"Qiu Guangyue, long time no see."
"Comrade Nan, it's really you. I went to your workplace to look for you, and they said you were sent back to China." Qiu Guangyue held Nan Yi's hand tightly and shook it up and down excitedly, "You were sent back again?"
"No, I got promoted in China. Now I am in charge of everything in China. I came here for a meeting and will be back soon." Nan Yi said, muttering in his heart, "Indeed, I got promoted to the highest position."
"What a pity! I was hoping you would be transferred back." Qiu Guangyue said regretfully, "Look at me, I'm just standing at the door, and I didn't even ask you to come in and sit down. Comrade Nan, come in, come in."
"Forget it. It will definitely be a mess if you guys live together. Just stand outside and talk for a few minutes."
Qiu Guangyue scratched his head with his hand and smiled innocently, "It's really a bit messy. Wait a minute, I'll go buy some drinks."
"No, I just drank a can of juice." Nan Yi stopped Qiu Guangyue who was about to run to the street and said, "I heard that you are planning to return to China?"
"I still have nine months left on my contract with the factory. When it's over, I plan to go back."
"Is it because of the contract renewal? If so, don't worry. We will discuss contract renewal with the factory. Even if we can't come to an agreement, we can still find a new factory for you."
Trainees rarely have long-term contracts. Generally, factories will only sign two or three-year contracts. Five-year contracts are rare, and longer contracts are even rarer. Trainees stay in Japan for a long time and must change factories and sign new contracts in the middle of their stay.
"No, I miss home so much, I miss my wife and my children. I want to go back and live a good life with them." Qiu Guangyue said, his eyes becoming moist.
"If you miss home, go back. You came out and suffered so much, isn't it just to hope that your home will be better? Go back and live a good life. Buy a hilltop if you can, buy as much residential land as you can, build as big a house as you can, don't worry about not being able to live in it. You can build as much as you want now, but it's hard to say in the future."
In most rural areas in China today, as long as you are part of a collective, it is very easy to buy a hill or some residential land. Whether it is a hill or a residential land, the total price may only be a few cents per acre. As long as you can survive in the village, you will definitely not lose money if you buy it.
"I don't want to stay in the countryside anymore. Houses are not expensive in our county town. I plan to buy a house in the city and move my whole family to the city to earn a living."
"It's good to eat royal food, Lao Qiu, how many children do you have?"
" I have three kids, two girls and one boy. When I came out, the boy was only a few months old, but now he's several years old."
When talking about his children, Qiu Guangyue's face showed heartfelt joy and longing.
"Since you have three children, buy four houses. Each child will have a room, and you and your wife will live in one. You have plenty of strength, so do some small business if you can. If you can't, find a job. Don't go to a factory, you can unload goods at the railway station or sweep the floor for a sanitation company. As long as you have a job, you will have security when you get old."
Qiu Guangyue looks like a simple and honest man, but Nan Yi has not had enough contact with him to tell whether he is a stubborn person or not. If he is a stubborn person, it would be better for him not to do business, as he will easily lose all his savings.
Now, whether you work as a loader on the railway or as a cleaner in the sanitation industry, you still have the opportunity to get a regular position, and with a regular position you will have a pension. Now you have a house and savings, and in the future when the house is demolished you will have a house and a pension, and your life will not be too bad.
"If girls are going to get married, we don't need to buy them houses, right?"
"You decide on this yourself. Even if you don't buy one for a girl, you should prepare one for a boy as early as possible. Everything in China is getting more expensive now. Your little money is a lot of money now, but it will be hard to say in the future. A house requires a lot of things, so it's better to buy it early than late."
Nan Yi said, looking at his watch, "It's getting late, I have to go, Lao Qiu, you should also go to bed early. My home is in Beijing, if there is a chance, we can meet again in China."
Qiu Guangyue nodded hurriedly and said, "Okay, okay, Comrade Nan, I will definitely come to see you."
Apart from those who had been expelled and whose initial contracts had been fulfilled and who would no longer be sent to Ikeda as trainees to pay "protection fees", Qiu Guangyue was the first person to clearly express his intention to return to China.
For Nan Yi, Qiu Guangyue went back a little too early. If he had returned in the 1990s, he would have had the opportunity to connect with Nan Yi's next plan.
Among the trainees who have earned enough money and returned to China, Nan Yi also wants to select some suitable candidates for future cooperation. Whether it is the reclamation group or the convenience store chain that currently only exists on paper, the trainees are very suitable partners.
The next day, Nan Yi went to Kanagawa to inquire about the research progress of agricultural machinery for serving the country. He also visited his own land and picked some button mushrooms and autumn eggplants.
On September 10, Teachers' Day, Nan Yi's short trip to Japan ended.
Nan Yi first sent Nan Youqiong to the plane to pick him up, and then flew back to the capital with Nan Wuwei.
As soon as he returned to the capital, Nan Yi worked as an apprentice in a machine repair factory for three days. These three days made Nan Yi realize a fact - he had no talent to be a lathe operator.
There was no other way. Nan Yi could only ask a sixth-level master worker to machine the tank gun parts according to his idea. Then, under the gaze of an eighth-level worker who looked at him like a prodigal, he returned to the old house in shame.
After assembling the tank gun and pressing it onto the tank, a toy tank that can be pushed and fired small projectiles is finally completed.
After the tank was completed, Nan Yi spent another day making two wooden airplanes driven by rubber bands for Nan Wuwei. Then he thought about it, but couldn't think of any other toys that could be handmade. With nothing to do, he had some free time.
Staying at home, reading the news and reading books, Nan Yi happily passed the days until the day of the autumnal equinox.
He was enjoying the peace and quiet at home, but things were in turmoil at Shengchen Pharmaceuticals.
It had to be blown up, as there were only six days left before September's salary payment. But when I looked at the bulletin board, I saw that the factory's financial data was being updated every day, but the numbers were decreasing every day, with no sign of an increase.
In the first half of August, Leng Yan would still let the employees conduct drills, but in the second half of the month, she completely let the employees go, and the employees returned to the state of doing nothing and receiving a salary for nothing.
By September, she had become similar to Nan Yi. She would go to the factory whenever she wanted, only showing up once every three to five days and leaving after staying for an hour or so.
"Lao Qin, what should we do?"
In the office that Leng Yan allocated to the Sky-High Price Group, Qian Liaoyuan and Qin Shuguang sat opposite each other, both of them frowning.
Both of them are the first generation of employees of Jiuyao Factory. They were born when Jiuyao Factory was still fighting guerrilla warfare in the mountains. It can be said that from the day they were born, their fate was tied to Jiuyao Factory.
"What else can I do? I have to keep selling stocks. I don't believe that I can't sell these stocks." Qin Shuguang said in disbelief.
Qian Liaoyuan frowned even deeper, "Salary will be paid soon."
"Why are you in such a hurry? Didn't that little bastard Nan boast that as long as he was there, the workers would get their wages?"
"Old Qin, why don't you understand? Director Nan promised that we would definitely get our wages, but he can leave. Once he leaves, this place has nothing to do with him anymore."
Qin Shuguang was stunned for a moment and said, "No way? Isn't he here just for the stocks?"
"If the factory is not run well, what's the point of taking the stocks? It's too painful to clean up the mess. You can't have heard what the other workers in the factory are saying? How many people were there here before? How many are left now?"
Boom, boom, boom.
After three muffled thunders, water began to pour down from the sky.
In the morning, Nan Yi told the two children that it was going to rain and asked them to remember to come back and take shelter.
But the two children who knew it was going to rain planned to build a home of their own before the heavy rain came.
With the combination of bricks, branches and raincoats, the two children quickly built a shack. Then, they squatted in front of the shack, holding their chins with their hands and looking up from time to time.
As the water poured down, the two kids jumped and cheered for a while, then went into the shack they had built.
It was raining heavily outside and drizzling inside. The two kids were soaked to the skin, but they were still happy and kept repairing the roof of the shack.
At the opening of a narrow open space, Nan Yi held an umbrella and silently counted the time.
There is ginger soup on the fire, and the two children cannot get exposed to the rain for too long.
“It’s very beautiful.”
"Too dry, you should recite a poem, dreaming back to the time when we were childhood sweethearts, with a smile whispering in your beautiful ear."
Having brought up three or four children, Nan Yi first taught them on their own and then read a lot of ancient books and poems that he had never read before. He stopped swearing and put away his bookish baggage, and now he can act like a cultured person.
"Feudal dregs." Leng Yan spat.
In the 1960s and 1970s, textbooks were all revolutionary materials, and math problems had to incorporate political education, not to mention Chinese textbooks. Tang poetry and Song lyrics were not in the textbooks, and even if they were, teachers did not dare to teach them.
Unless they have a family background in ancient poetry, people of Nan Yi's generation have hardly ever been exposed to ancient poetry, so it is normal for them not to know even a single Tang or Song poem.
Leng Yan’s words about “feudal dregs” are completely on point.
"You must have been so excited, so aggressive."
Leng Yan did not refute this time. When she was a child, her mother actually took her to the hospital to get chicken blood. It was said that the chicken blood injected into her body came from a fat rooster weighing six pounds and seven ounces.
"The Sky-High Price Team can't hold on any longer, and the other employees are very upset."
"Well, go prepare the money, more notes and bills, the thickness of each employee's salary cannot be less than five centimeters."
"Where can you prepare it? You don't have a single cent in your account."
"I don't, but you do. I'll be missing for a while, so I can give you the stage and give you the opportunity to show how much you care about the employees and how you can turn the tide."
"Aren't you afraid that I'll be beaten by the employees?" Leng Yan said with a smile.
"It's been several months. If you haven't dealt with Shi Hongqi, you deserve to be beaten." Nan Yi spat, and then said, "If we don't take this opportunity to remove the internal thorns and smooth out the edges, the factory will be in chaos in the future without waiting for the peach pickers to come."
"Okay, I won't go to the factory these days. I'll make arrangements for the machine first."
Nan Yi nodded and said, "Well, go five minutes before get off work ends on the 30th. Remember to contact Bai Yuqi, he is a talented person."
"How much will you give him?"
"Give him the same as the 11th grade standard, 200 per month, and give him a subsidy of 2,800 per month."
"Three thousand yuan is a lot. I'm sure someone in the factory will make a scene."
"He's worth the price. Besides, I want to buy horse bones for a fortune. As I said before, if you want to do it, you have to do it the best. Shengchen Pharmaceutical can't just rely on gimmicks to sell cold medicine. It has to have its own flagship product."
"Aren't you going to make pagoda candies?"
"I can't make money from pagoda candy, and I don't plan to make a lot of money with it. I hope Shengchen Pharmaceutical can attract a golden phoenix. Otherwise, I can only risk it all to start health products. Once things are sorted out at the factory, I'll put an advertisement in the newspaper. I'll offer 100,000 gold a year. I just hope the phoenix will come and bring Fang to invest, and I'll get dividends every year."
"Once this advertisement is published, Shengchen Pharmaceutical will become famous throughout the country. With such high salaries, I don't know how long this topic will be discussed in newspapers. Shengchen Pharmaceutical and Boss Nan will definitely be pushed to the forefront." Leng Yan sighed.
"Shengchen Pharmaceutical will definitely be the winner, but I may not. The darling of the newspapers this year will only be Ma Chengbao. He is the hero of Chengbao, and I am at most a clown who imitates him."
"Boss Nan, it seems like you are just imitating others."
"Really? Maybe I remembered it wrong." Nan Yi said indifferently, looking up at the sky, "The rain is getting heavier, it's time to let the two little ghosts go back to the house."
As he spoke, Nan Yi walked to the front of the shack, called the two kids out, and took them back to the living room.
Thunderstorms come quickly and go away even faster.
Before he finished cleaning up the mess left by the two kids getting wet in the rain, Nan Yi saw that the sky outside had cleared up.
After the two kids finished drinking the ginger soup, Nan Yi took them out for a walk.
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In 1912, Shanghai fired the first shot of prize-winning savings in the mainland. Frenchmen Fano, Pan Teng, Mai Di and Chinese Zhang Hongsheng established the International Savings Association, which set aside 25% of the savings every month for prizes, with five prize levels.
There is one first prize winner with a reward of 2,000 yuan, and the last prize winner with a reward of 12 yuan. There are 200 places in total.
The appeal of saving with rewards is endless. 22 years after the establishment of the International Savings Club, the number of members exceeded 130,000, with a total savings of 65 million yuan, accounting for one-fifth of the total savings in the country at that time.
In 1952, after the liberation, prize-winning savings reappeared in Shanghai. At that time, it was called "prize-winning fixed-term savings" with a two-year deposit and full withdrawal period.
There are three types of two-year time deposits: 40,000 yuan [old currency] per month for the whole household, 20,000 yuan per month for 1/2 household, and 10,000 yuan per month for 1/4 household. Every 100,000 whole households are allocated a bonus unit, and prizes are drawn every month.
As soon as depositors make a deposit, they can participate in the prize redemption with the deposit certificate printed with the prize number of that month.
The deposit certificate is affixed with deposit certificates of 24 different months, which will mature in two years and can be redeemed for principal and interest. The activity implemented a serial prize activity, which was launched on August 1, 1952 and stopped on April 1, 1953.
Then, on April 1, 1953, a one-year fixed-term savings program with prizes for lump-sum withdrawal was launched. The deposit, withdrawal, prize drawing and prize collection methods were the same as the previous "two-year program", except that the prizes and interest were changed.
Two years later, on October 1, the interest on maturity was cancelled and replaced with a prize-winning loan with no interest; in January 1959, the prize-winning loan was cancelled and replaced with an interest-free loan, and on June 17, the prize-winning loan was restored. From January 1, 1961, the loan was changed to interest-bearing and incorporated into the zero-deposit and lump-sum savings system.
The reason for such repeated goings-on is not that people have nothing to do, but that some decision makers are opposed to prize-winning savings, believing that doing so will easily create a mentality of taking chances among the masses.
For example, the first phase of the prize-winning fixed-term savings had a draw every month, with the first prize being 20 million yuan. Every time the draw was held, the bank door was crowded with people, almost as lively as the pigeon ticket draw in the old society.
Perhaps because of this, prize savings were discontinued in the 1960s.
It was not until the 1960s that financial system reforms were carried out to enhance the function and role of savings in raising funds. Major banks resumed award-winning savings, tried special savings combined with deposits and loans, savings for house purchases, etc., to fully meet the different requirements of depositors at different levels.
After being suspended for 22 years, the "Zero-Deposit and Lump-sum Withdrawal Collective Savings Reward Activity" was finally launched in 1982 at the Yan'an Theater in Yanzhong Green Space in Shanghai. The organizers were the Savings Department of the Shanghai Branch of the National Bank and the Fourth Radio Factory.
Shanghai TV station broadcast the event live, and TV viewers in Shanghai saw the familiar yet unfamiliar lottery machine on the screen.
As soon as the prize-winning savings were restored, many variations soon emerged, including housing savings, etiquette savings, collective savings, zero-deposit and lump-sum withdrawals, fixed-term and flexible savings, etc. It can be said that there is everything.
Not only are banks trying their best to absorb deposits from ordinary people, some local governments are also busy issuing regular interest-bearing and prize-winning stamp bonds in their own jurisdictions to raise funds for local construction.
However, in the 1980s, most people's wages were generally not high. Apart from the necessities of food, clothing and life, each family had basically no money left at the end of the month. It was almost impossible to rely on ordinary people to voluntarily purchase stamp bonds.
Therefore, when the unit employees received their salaries at the beginning of each month, in addition to their salaries, each person would always receive a few bonus bonds worth five, ten, or twenty yuan. The amount of bonds allocated was determined based on the proportion of their salaries, so everyone would receive some "waste paper," no matter how much.
In the eyes of the employees in the unit in the past two years, all kinds of levies were just waste paper. Stamp prize bonds were better, at least they could be redeemed, but only a small group of people could win the prize. For those young people who were unlucky, had never won a prize, and did not have enough money to spend, it was still meaningless.
So before the national debt could be circulated, there were already some smart people in the local area who were buying up "stamp bonus bonds" everywhere. The five-yuan denomination was only one or two yuan, the ten-yuan denomination was four or five yuan, and the twenty-yuan denomination was seven or eight yuan. When the unit paid salary day, these people would appear at the unit gate.
The most attractive thing about stamp bonus bonds and prize-winning fixed-term savings for ordinary people is the "lottery draw", and this core has been analyzed by many smart people.
Like the time savings with prizes, the material exchange fairs that developed in the 1950s based on the market began to flourish again in the late 1970s. There was basically an exchange fair held every year in villages, towns, and urban-rural fringe areas.
After the prosperity of exchange meetings, trade fairs as imported products also began to appear. Compared with ordinary markets, they have the meaning of exhibition, and compared with ordinary exhibitions, they have the purpose of sales.
In short, "trade fairs" were created to sell rare things.
But the trade fairs that appeared in mainland China in the late 1970s were different. What they sold were rare items, but also surplus materials. As for why this contradictory contradiction arose, it was because of the existence of the "supply system based on tickets."
Those who can get tickets have bought them, and those who can’t get tickets can only wish for it.
At the beginning, the exhibition only sold washbasins, thermoses, teacups and the like. These things were no longer rare for city dwellers, but they were very attractive to rural people because no tickets were required at the exhibition.
However, as a company, it still has to maintain its proper style. A trade fair is not a place where anyone can enter. If anyone can enter, where is the reputation of the company? Where is the pride of the "employees"?
So, the door to the trade fair is closed, and someone is guarding it, and it is only opened to "specific people".
As for how specific people are selected, that’s simple.
The staff of the unit rode their 28-inch bicycles to a nearby brigade where work points were more valuable, and found the team leader of the production team. "Captain X, our unit is going to hold a trade fair, and we are selling hot products... The quota is very limited!"
The production team leader understood immediately that pigs could not be killed, but chickens, ducks, geese, rabbits and fish could be killed.
Just like that, the workers ate to their heart's content, and under the flattery of the production team leader, they reluctantly gave the quota to the members of the production team. Before leaving, their bicycles were filled with goodies.
Wow, he not only handled the official business well, but also benefited himself. What a capable person.
The trade fair was initially held on an invitation basis, inviting members of production teams to participate, and using the "ticket advantage" to turn the handling of accumulated materials into a way to support and help farmers.
It’s no wonder that no one who participated in the trade fair was unhappy. No one’s long-cherished wish was fulfilled, so everyone was happy.
This low-end trade fair did not last long. In 1979, it suddenly became truly high-end and attracted many people.
What is exhibited at the trade fair is no longer just a backlog of goods, but real rare items and hot commodities. If you want to go in to visit and shop, you really have to beg for admission tickets. If you can't get one, you can ask someone to go in and buy it for you.
In other places, until 1988, trade fairs were still very high-end, but in Beijing they were no longer so sacred. After all, Beijing has Asia. If you want to see rare things, you can go there. Not only can you enter freely, but the girls there are also very beautiful and can speak authentic London accent - Grandson, Don't Touch, You Buy No Up.
Tsk, I asked someone to translate it later and found out that the London accent meant: "My grandson, what are you touching? You can't afford it."
Nan Yi brought the two children to the roadside to watch the convoy of Su Province Jinkui's industrial products coming to Beijing for exhibition and sales. Jinkui was going to hold their city-specific exhibition and sales in Beijing, and the vehicles were parked on the roadside to unload goods.
You know what, there were quite a lot of cars, all big Liberation trucks. The ones in the front had already started unloading, and there were still many cars coming towards this side one after another from the back.
"Dad, there are so many trucks."
"Um."
Nan Yi responded unconsciously, but his mind was recalling a piece of news from a few months ago.
A few months ago, there was a news item in the Beijing Daily that said four young people with flexible employment pooled their money together to buy a modular cabinet and moved it to a furniture fair to sell it.
As soon as the trade fair was over, the combination cabinets were sold. They not only earned back the money they spent on buying the combination cabinets, but also received many order forms and deposits of several thousand yuan.
But they have no factory, no technical force, and no raw materials. How can they fulfill the order contract?
There is no need to worry at all. There are many small furniture factories and individual carpenters in the suburbs of Beijing. They are all worried about not getting work, so orders can be easily completed. The only difference is that the customers want horses, but they deliver mules.
This is still reliable. No matter whether the goods are good or bad, it can be considered that you have received the goods. Some people have paid a deposit, but the "manufacturer" does not deliver the goods for a long time beyond the delivery period.
When we went to argue, either we couldn't find the factory, or the "factory manager" made all kinds of excuses and refused to refund us.
Those who are a little more particular will find an excuse to ask the orderer for a discount. If the orderer pays a deposit of one thousand, they will return eight hundred. If the orderer is too demanding, they will write an IOU for the remaining two hundred without the official seal. As for whether the signature is the real name, only God knows.
"If the trade fair is run seriously, by collecting booth fees and promoting your own products, you should be able to make some money at the end of the event."
The last time Nan Yi saw the news, he thought of the idea of ​​making money at the trade fair, but later on, such trivial things were easily put aside. Today, he thought of it again, and he planned to sort out his thoughts, come up with an idea, and then give it to someone.