Hu Wenhai left the imperial capital in a gloomy manner, although Shan Nuo later repeatedly claimed that the failure of the exercise was due to the synthetic group itself letting down its vigilance, and no one else was to blame.

However, Hu Wenhai, who caused chaos because of his "nonsense", still had no face to continue to stay in the imperial capital.

The Imperial Capital Military Region is worthy of being the Imperial Capital Military Region, and powerful facts have proved that war is not just a high-tech competition, but also an all-round contest that cannot be prevented. The sophistication of technical equipment and tactical thinking does not determine the final victory.

The people, and only the people, are the driving force behind the creation of history.

Of course, although the Imperial Capital Military Region began to give the synthetic regiment a dismount, it did not want to stubbornly keep the original combat system in this way. As a matter of fact, there are not many network-centric combat talents in China, except in the composite regiment, that is, the 38th Group Army of the Imperial Capital Military Region has the most advantages in this regard.

At almost the same time that the synthetic regiment was engaged in engineering in Iraq, **** also set up an experimental brigade organized with the same equipment and army building ideology. In addition, the helicopter brigade, communications regiment, and electronic countermeasures detachment to which the **** itself is attached have provided the basic soil for the implementation of network-centric warfare.

The synthetic regiment's exercise in China this time really picked a hard bone. also knew the tricky situation that Shannuo was facing, and Hu Wenhai smiled even more bitterly. He, Shannuo's old friend, not only did not play a good role, but helped him back, how can this make people embarrassed?

Although Shannuo and Hu Wenhai agreed, when the system construction in the city was completed, he would also ask him to visit and guide. It was repeatedly reiterated that the failure of this exercise was definitely not his responsibility.

However, Hu Wenhai, who realized that he was a half-bucket of water and an amateur, still decided that in the future, in terms of military technology, he must not stretch out his hand indiscriminately about the technical details that he did not know.

This happened, and the people who should have been seen here in the imperial capital have seen it. Everything that needs to be said has been said. Hu Wenhai simply raised his butt and got on the train back to Xiucheng.

He has been gone for nearly a month, and it can be said that the inside and outside of the embroidery city are almost earth-shaking. The biggest change is that the self-employed, which was originally a non-mainstream class, suddenly became popular in Xiucheng.

It is really difficult to reverse the consciousness of the common people. It is said that the country is easy to change, and its nature is difficult to change. The transformation of adults' three views is often a difficult problem. Sometimes, when adults face a reality that does not match their three views, they would rather starve to death than give in.

In some historical stages, this has created countless heroic deeds that can be sung and cried. At other times, it becomes a stubborn footnote.

Hu Wenhai has no intention of commenting on whether people's three views are good or bad during the period of planned economy. However, from a practical point of view, it is obvious that in the past era of planned economy, people's consciousness could not adapt to the subsequent market economy commodity society.

Individual. It was on the eve of this change that the ducks in the spring river were the first to feel the pulse of the changes of the times.

The economic model of Xiucheng in the past was not suitable for the development of self-employed people. But even so, these self-employed people are like weeds, and they still grow savagely under many obstacles.

But before the Spring Festival in 1986, many self-employed people in Xiucheng suddenly felt that business seemed to be doing well all of a sudden.

And that's all changing. At first, it started with a small store called Dongfeng Express.

"Don't go home yet. ”

Hu Wenhai came out of the train station and searched around. Soon. He managed to find a conspicuous and familiar blue sign and stood in front of what looked like a bookstore.

The shop is located right next to the railway station square, and the signage and decoration are completely different from the design of other shops of this era. The unified VI visual identity, light box signboard and other modern visual elements are as if a CCB branch has traveled through 30 years later.

Against the backdrop of a row of messy and old old storefronts, it is as if Qiu Xiang glanced back against the backdrop of a group of ugly girls.

The name of the store. Delicately printed on the signboard light box by specially designed fonts. The four words "Dongfeng Express" are deformed through the font, with an indescribable sense of speed. Underneath this signboard are spacious floor-to-ceiling windows and doors, and a constant stream of people.

"Let's go over there. Hu Wenhai pointed to the sign of Dongfeng Express. Without waiting for Qin Kai and Wang Ye to answer, they walked over.

Walking to the door of Dongfeng Express, Hu Wenhai looked inside from the huge floor-to-ceiling window, and only then did he get a clear view of the panorama of the store.

Although its façade is not large, it has opened up two other stores, and together it has at least two or three hundred square meters of indoor area. On the surface, it doesn't look like a futuristic courier company, but rather a bookstore or library.

The main "goods" in the store are a bookcase, a bookcase of books. But unlike other bookstores, the books here seem to be all in one set.

"Hello customer!"

Hu Wenhai looked at it from the outside for less than two minutes, and a little girl wearing a blue lady's suit and stepping on high heels, who looked to be about eighteen or nineteen years old, but less than twenty years old, ran out of the store: "Are you looking for a self-employed person who is looking for a source of goods? Or is it from the supply and marketing department of which manufacturer? Come and sit down first, do you know anything about us and our Dongfeng Express? I can introduce it to you." ”

Look at her hands on her waist, standardized marketing smile, with light makeup and pulled up hair on her face. Hu Wenhai was vaguely in a trance, as if he saw the future bank account manager.

"Oh?" Hu Wenhai seemed to be a little interested, nodded and said, "The three of us plan to do some small business, but we don't understand anything." I heard that Dongfeng Express has a way, so I came to take a look. ”

"Oh, this big brother, then you are in the right place! Let me tell you, we can solve any problem for you when you do business!"

The little girl's service was full of enthusiasm, and after confirming Hu Wenhai's intention, she simply pulled his arm and dragged him to the store.

It should be said that she is worthy of being a girl in the Northeast, Hu Wenhai can't cry or laugh, this style of painting has changed too quickly. Originally, he thought that it was the uncle at home who trained well, but who knew that it was actually three minutes of heat and returned to its original shape.

looks like a neat business elite on the outside, but in fact, she is still a hearty Northeast girl inside.

just stumbling like this, Hu Wenhai was pulled closer to the store by this little girl who didn't look very old.

"Hey, three big brothers. What business are you going to do?" asked the little girl, tugging.

"We, it's not like we haven't thought about it yet. Hu Wenhai smiled dryly, shook his head and said: "Our brother retired from the army, and he couldn't find a job in the local area for a while, and his family took some money, so he planned to do a small business to support himself first." ”

"Ahh It turned out to be the People's Liberation Army!" The little girl nodded, looking a little more enthusiastic: "I said big brother, have you ever been to southern Xinjiang?"

"Southern Xinjiang...... We've been there. ”

"Oh, that's still a big hero!" the little girl's eyes were almost starry. Without saying a word, he pulled Hu Wenhai to a bookshelf.

"Then big brother, come and see, here is the catalog of goods that our Dongfeng Express can organize. As long as you fancy it. We Dongfeng Express can transport it to Xiucheng for you, and you can make money immediately when you get it to your own store and sell it. ”

"Oh, that's a good idea!" Hu Wenhai nodded a little excitedly: "So we don't have to organize the supply of goods by ourselves, and we don't have to worry about how to do transportation?"

"More than that!" the little girl smiled: "If you get the goods through our Dongfeng Express, you can generally get half or one percent lower than the market price." One is that our transportation cost is low, and the other is that we can negotiate with the manufacturer. Big brother, if you have figured out which industry to do and what goods you need to buy, tell me, I will give you the lowest price, and some of them can be 20% cheaper than those on the market!"

Hu Wenhai looked at the bookshelves in front of him that were two meters wide and two meters high. Curious asked, "I said big...... Girl, what do we want to buy? Can you find messages on this?"

"How can you!"

The little girl's head shook like a rattle, and she proudly puffed up her chest and said crisply: "Here is the catalog, do you understand the catalog? Here there is only the introduction and evaluation of manufacturers and product types, specific commodity information and transaction details, I have to find the corresponding manual through the catalog, and the detailed information is recorded on it." ”

Hu Wenhai was dumbfounded. Pointing to the books crammed into the shelves, he said, "Are these just catalogs?"

"That's right! Let's not talk far, just our Bohai Province, how many industrial categories and supply and marketing types. Counting township enterprises, neighborhood offices, and school-run factories, is there no more than 100,000 enterprises? First of all, there is an introduction to the company, then the qualification certificate, industry honor, business model, enterprise level, main projects, and finally a brief introduction of the main products. A manufacturer, to say the least, it takes twenty or thirty pages to introduce the end. Just to record the simple introduction of these manufacturers and manufacturers, there must be millions of pages, and there is not such a bookshelf?"

Hu Wenhai was in a cold sweat when he heard it, and he didn't even notice it when he grew up.

Looks like I've made a mistake that I took for granted. In the era when there was no Internet and computers, how much information should be involved in sorting out and displaying the commodity information of enterprises and products in a province, and Bohai Province, which is also a major industrial province?

Think about the census in later generations, which was a major event of national mobilization. And the commercial census, especially in a province, was probably not a trivial matter in the eighties.

No wonder, a catalog occupies a bookshelf. He looked more closely, and in front of each grid of the bookshelf, there was a copper nameplate, on which the industry of the catalog enterprise in the grid was inscribed.

Instrumentation, electrical engineering, mining facilities, agricultural machinery, electronic equipment, household appliances......

This is clearly a census of the industry in Bohai Province, Hu Wenhai really doesn't know how his uncle Hu Shengli did this great achievement during his absence.

"How about this big brother, do you have any familiar industry? Let's do business, and we pay attention to being familiar with it and not doing it well. If you've been exposed to any work in the past, find out what we can do in this industry. For example, there are quite a few automobile soldiers in your troops, right? Automobile soldiers must be able to repair cars, right? It is good to open a car repair shop, and cars, motorcycles, and those who have cars are not bad for money. Otherwise, if you have worked in a mechanical repair shop, why don't you buy two machine tools and make some ordinary auto parts yourself? Of course, it doesn't matter if you haven't been in contact with machinery and equipment, have you ever been in contact with communication equipment in the army? Our communications company on the railway is preparing to outsource its business......

The enthusiasm of the little girl's introduction is high, and all kinds of business experiences from all walks of life seem to be at your fingertips. Hu Wenhai was originally thinking about things, but he just listened absentmindedly. However, when I suddenly heard about the outsourcing of railway communication business, I couldn't help but come back to my senses.

It seems that he left Xiucheng during this time. There's really a lot going on.

"Big sister, what do you mean by outsourcing the business of railway communications? We have really worked as signal soldiers in the army. ”

Hu Wenhai's words made the little girl's eyes light up, and her smile suddenly became warm: "Oh, that's great! We also have telephones on the railway, which were originally mainly used for our own internal dispatch and communication. However, there is still a surplus of telecommunications resources, so we are ready to open them up to those in need in society, so that the country's property will not be wasted? Our railway's own telecommunications company has limited manpower, so we plan to outsource some engineering and service projects. This outsourcing is to contract to self-employed individuals or construction teams, and pay according to the project. What's the matter, big brother, are you interested?"

"Oh? ”

Hu Wenhai was really a little impressed by the Xiucheng Railway Branch, which drove away the original group of old people. Now the initiative has changed a different world.

But this is indeed a good idea, Dongfeng Express contacts suppliers and self-employed individuals, which are the two groups with the largest communication needs in the current society. As long as we come up with a different business outlook from the Post and Telecommunications Bureau, I believe that it is a matter of time before the anti-customer situation prevails in the telecommunications market.

In fact, don't look at the more than 30 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, as far as Xiucheng is concerned, the phone number is only five digits. In Xiucheng City, there are mainly enterprises and institutions with telephones, and there are very few people who have telephones at home. Then there are the public telephones everywhere. Public telephones are not available in any store like in the 90s, but are like "talk bars". It is a facility exclusively operated by CTT. Long-distance communications, these days, mainly rely on telegraphs.

With such a small foundation, the Xiucheng Railway Branch has invested tens of millions of yuan, which can offset the advantages of the telephone system of the Xiucheng Post and Telecommunications Bureau in terms of scale. It is mainly the application of program-controlled switches in the late eighties, which provides a technical basis for the increase in the number of telephones and reduces the cost of calls. In this regard. On the contrary, a blank sheet of paper is more advantageous for railway communication.

It can be seen that the new leader of the Xiucheng Railway Branch is obviously a very thoughtful person.

When he had the opportunity, Hu Wenhai wanted to meet him.

"Great, since you're interested, big brother. It just so happens that we have a partner company of Dongfeng Express that has launched a new service. The little girl rummaged through the bookshelves at hand for a while, and found a stack of papers with forms printed on them: "Come on, come on, as long as you press a handprint or sign here, we can help you go to the commercial bureau to run the formalities." You can rest assured, we are familiar with the commercial bureau, and we will definitely let you not suffer. ”

Hu Wenhai took the form and looked at it, what the little girl said was right. This is an entrustment procedure, from qualification verification to application for procedures, the procedures for setting up a self-employed store can be entrusted to a service company called Junpu. Of course, there is a fee for the service company to help with the procedures.

However, when Hu Wenhai saw this form, he couldn't help frowning.

This thing looks a little familiar.

Hu Wenhai looked a little embarrassed, touched his pocket and said, "How much does this cost? Our brother has just been discharged from the army, and he doesn't have much money on him." ”

The little girl waved her hand again and again: "It's not expensive, it's not expensive, three hundred yuan will help you finish the race." 500 yuan, expedited for a month. A thousand dollars, you can get results within a week. ”

Seeing that Hu Wenhai was a little moved, the little girl made persistent efforts and said: "Big brother, this business is really easy to do now, open the door one day earlier and make money one day earlier." If you go to run the procedures yourself, you don't say whether you can run down, you really have to go through the process, and it is it for half a year. For such a long time, didn't all the money be earned? 500 yuan a month, 1,000 yuan a week, a difference of more than 20 days. If you really plan to do a railway communication project, after the two projects are completed, let alone 500 yuan, you can earn 1 or 2,000!"

Hu Wenhai had a little tangled expression on his face, but in the end he stuffed the form back, shook his head and said: "This money is too much, our brothers went to the battlefield and retired from the army, and they didn't get a thousand yuan in their hands." It's so much to go through the formalities, and it's too distressing. ”

"Then ......" The little girl glanced at Hu Wenhai with some concern, nodded and said, "Big brother, you can try it yourself." But if you get into trouble, come back to me and I'll introduce you to our manager. If he comes forward, Junpu should be cheaper. ”

Hu Wenhai's face improved a lot when he heard this, no matter whether Dongfeng Express has interests in this or not, at least his impression of this little girl is really good.

Coming out of the store of Dongfeng Express, Hu Wenhai's face sank completely. He told himself that it was already 1986 and that it was not surprising that this situation had occurred. Compared with the inverted men who have sold the coal of the power plant more than a dozen times in history, changed the plan into an unplanned, and then sold it to the power plant by four or five times the price, at least Junpu Company still has a sense of service.

The question now is whether Junpu Company only makes money for services, or stands in the way of Hu Wenhai's efforts to encourage the development of self-employed people.

In the former, Hu Wenhai wants to extend a thumbs up, at least praise this company will make money. As for the latter, hey, he has a hunch that this thing will not be so simple behind it.

"Let's go, let's go to the Commerce Bureau. Hu Wenhai got in the car and didn't even go home, so he directly asked Qin Kai to drive to the Commercial Bureau.

In the 80s, the commercial system was all controlled by the commercial bureau system. The country's supply and marketing cooperatives are run by the Bureau of Commerce. In addition to this, it is also an athlete and referee, and has the responsibility of business administration. The first hurdle to pass for self-employed business is the Business Administration Office of the Commercial Bureau. Without the approval of this unit, self-employed people cannot legally run their business.

Of course, this is specifically for large-scale self-employed individuals, and some small stall hawker business bureaus are too lazy to care.

In the blink of an eye, Qin Kai drove to the vicinity of the Commercial Bureau, Hu Wenhai asked him to park the car far away, and then walked in the direction of the Commercial Bureau with Wang Ye and the three of them.

"Hey, you guys, what are you talking about?"

"Uncle, we are going to be self-employed, and we are going to the Commercial Bureau to do things. ”

"Errand?" The gatekeeper stretched out his neck and looked Hu Wenhai up and down: "Is there a letter of introduction?"

Hu Wenhai was stunned: "Uncle, we all don't have a unit, where did this letter of introduction come from?"

"If you don't have a letter of introduction, you won't be able to enter, so let's open a letter of introduction." ”

"Uncle, then we don't have a unit, where can we open a letter of introduction?"

"The street, the village committee, if you don't have a unit, you go to the place where your household registration is located, why don't you come here without understanding any rules!"

Hu Wenhai touched his nose, obviously he didn't expect that he would touch his nose without even entering the door. However, no matter how much temper he had, he couldn't be angry with an old man who looked almost seventy years old, so he had to turn around and leave.

I don't want him to take a few steps before someone starts calling him behind him.

"Comrade, this comrade!" A semi-bald man in his forties ran over: "Comrade, do you want to go through the procedures of self-employment?

"However, the doorman said just now that there is no letter of introduction, and we can't even enter the gate. Hu Wenhai looked this person up and down, half of his head was shiny at this time, and his short and fat body ran like a leather ball, indescribably funny and obscene.

"Hey, that's all bluffing. With the face of Yi Muyue, the general manager of my Junpu Company, what kind of letter of introduction do you need to enter a commercial bureau? 300 yuan, I will not only take you in, but I will tell you clearly what to do with the various procedures and what are the ways inside. 300 yuan, how cheap is that? If you want to go through all the formalities you want to go through, you still have to deal with those cadres, this doesn't save you a lot of energy!"

Hu Wenhai thought about it, and finally nodded sympathetically. He touched his body, but he didn't take out a dime, so he had to look at Qin Kai next to him.

"Brother Qin, do you have three hundred? Otherwise, we still spent this money, right?"

Qin Kai looked at Hu Wenhai's eyes, and finally nodded and really found thirty ten-yuan "Great Unity" from his body, and then stuffed it into Yi Muyue's hand.

"Hey, hey, that's right!" Yi Muyue greedily counted the banknotes in her hand, nodded and smiled: "Your money, it will definitely not be spent in vain." Let me tell you, if you don't meet me, don't talk about the self-employed procedures, or you can't touch the door of the business administration office!" )