Fan Yang smiled again and asked about his old business.

"You know something, I've heard it, what?"

Section Chief Li picked his head, there was no longer an elder at all, and said: " I still ran outside for so long, and I also saw those who poured the masters, big bags and small bags, pickpocketed trucks, squeezed trains, sold some clothes, fruits, dried fruits and the like, I heard people say, there are pine nuts in the Great Khing'an Mountains to the coast, others are big, all use train wagons to ship, there are a lot of people who make money, but I have not been able to figure out, those people from Beijing, to Moscow, more than 9000 kilometers, back and forth to half a month, but also have to pass through Mongolia, across the three countries, how do they make money? Su Lian's big brother's money, so easy to earn?"

"Well, it's really easy to earn, aren't you in Guangzhou, why did you go to Beijing again?" Fan Yang asked.

"No, I heard people say that I couldn't get to Beijing. ”

"Then you mean the K3 international column, right?"

"Yes, it seems to be an international train, I heard that the train, ordinary people can't buy tickets at all, a ticket is thousands, but they sell some clothes, gloves, and say that it will cost 10,000 yuan to run a trip, so much money?"

"Hehe, that's a product of a special era, and it doesn't work now. ”

Indeed, the international reversal that has been circulated by the outside world is a product of a special era.

Just like Section Chief Li said, more than 9,000 kilometers, back and forth for half a month, many people are carrying two big bags, containing nothing more than a few goods, leather jackets, gloves, leather shoes, sportswear, why can you make so much money?

The first is an exchange rate reason.

China and Russia live next to each other, a total of more than 4,000 kilometers of border, just the border, across several provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, the most important border cities have a total of four, Manchuria, Heihe, Suifenhe, Hunchun.

Suifenhe and Hunchun, one next to North Korea and the other to Japan, are the trade gateways of Northeast Asia, mainly by sea, which cannot be touched by ordinary people, and the border with Russia is also a maritime frontier.

Without a few million, you can't play there at all.

And the myth of folk wealth is created by Heihe, and the second is Manchuria.

First of all, let's talk about Heihe, Fan Yang stayed in Heihe for 6 years in his previous life, and he is very familiar with that place.

Heihe is in the northeast, in the territory of Harbin, which is a typical border city, only one river away from Russia, and in the past was the Russian Far East, the capital of Almu Zhou, Burshensvik.

The two cities are across the river and are China's main transport route to the Russian Far East.

Even during the period of bad relations between China and the Soviet Union, people-to-people trade between the two places was very frequent.

Of course, the vast majority of private trade is illegal.

It is mainly smuggling.

And how profitable is it?

In the summer, it's full of divers.

A bottle of liquor, a bottle for a dollar, you just have to swim across the river, you can sell it for 20 yuan.

When winter comes, there is more smuggling because the river freezes.

There is an exchange rate reason for this.

Before the disintegration, the ruble was even more valuable than the dollar.

1 ruble, 1.5 dollars.

In the fifties and sixties, on the Chinese side, only thirty or forty yuan of wages, the per capita wage level of Sulian was several hundred rubles, as the ruling center of Sulian, Russia, the welfare benefits were higher, he was not like China, he pursued a policy of monetary austerity, and he had a lot of money, which caused the middle class of Erros, officers, soldiers, and workers to have a lot of savings.

But there's a catch.

As in the era of China's planned economy,

With money, you can't buy things, you have to supply them with tickets.

Not only luxury goods, but also many basic daily necessities are difficult to buy.

Coupled with the decades-long arms race, Su Lian's light industry has not been able to keep up, and it looks rich on the surface, but in fact the materials are very scarce.

"It's much better, now I can barely walk on crutches, but I don't like to talk very much, and you have to go and play chess with him when you're free." ”

"I know, I know, I'll go to him when I'm done with these two days, can you finish today?"

Uncle Liu looked at the second boy of the Fan family, and began to be sensible, at the age of seventeen or eighteen years old, he squatted in a pit with a hammer stone, and he couldn't find a few of them in the entire production team.

"Work hard, you should be done, and we'll move the stones back today. ”

After speaking, Fan Yang's eyes rolled, staring at the cigarette gun on Uncle Liu's waist, and couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

Uncle Liu smiled, this kid, why don't you learn well, I don't know when you will learn to smoke.

Then he took out a polished paper pocket from his pants, spread it out, and took out a leaf cigarette: "Take it and smoke it." ”

"Thank you, Uncle Liu. ”

Fan Yang took it excitedly, lit it twice, the spicy smell of smoke choked his tears, no way, he was reborn in this life, I don't know what's going on, and I brought my addiction to smoking.

But you can't really smoke this cigarette, just turn it in your throat a few times, and it's over after a good time.

As he spoke, he was going to dig the two stones.

"Forget it, Erwazi, you just move a stone back, I'm done anyway, I'll help you chisel these two stones, see if it will rain this day, and finish a thing early." ”

"What's so embarrassing about that. ”

"You're polite with me. ”

Uncle Liu helped to move a few stones to the wheelbarrow.

"Alright, then I'll go back first. ”

Pushing the wheelbarrow, he swayed to his home.

This wheelbarrow is really hard to push, and it is really difficult to operate alone.

Uncle Liu asked, "Why didn't he come over to help you today?"

"He's still sleeping, I'm afraid, it's okay, I can do it alone. ”

Finally pushed the stone home, the mother hurriedly ran over, and the mother and son supported the wheelbarrow and unloaded the stone.

Seeing that Fan Yang was sweating and his clothes were wet, he was still a little distressed: "Yangyang, are you tired? ”

"I'm not tired, okay, I'll just come alone. ”

This is really manual work, and I pulled back and forth twice, and I was so tired that I didn't feel much, but my stomach gurgled, and the little porridge I drank in the morning had already been consumed.

"I'm so hungry. ”

Touching my stomach, it's still very early before noon, no, I have to find something to eat.

Just thinking like this, he heard someone behind him call him: "Fan Yang, Fan Yang." ”

A boy of the same age, seventeen or eighteen years old, black and strong, ran over like a treasure, lifted his clothes mysteriously, and let Fan Yang take a look.

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