Hong Yanwu's father, Hong Lucheng, had an outstanding temperament when he was young and was a standard beautiful man. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info but now he has been sick in bed for half a year, and most of his hair is gray, and he is no longer so good-looking. Especially the yellow, dark and thin cheeks, and the wrinkles at the corners of the eyes and cheeks, all prove a truth - sick people are really easy to get old. In addition, he was originally a tall person, and it was also because of his leg disease that he developed the habit of hunching over his waist. Now, no matter which acquaintance, when they see him on the bed like a golden hook prawn, they will always feel that he is a lot shorter out of thin air, like he is pumping alive.

Speaking of Hong Lucheng's illness, it was completely because during the "Ten Year Movement", the unit supervised his labor reform and arranged him to take care of the sundries warehouse in a cold and damp air-raid shelter for a long time. Since the end of last year, in just half a year, his legs from the knee down from the initial numbness and soreness, quickly developed into pain and erosion, so that now the two calves hidden under the quilt have become black and rotten into blood.

It is well known that patients who have been sick in bed for a long time are prone to bedsores. So in order to suffer less sin, Hong Lucheng insisted on enduring the pain and moving his body several times a day. And just now, just as he was struggling to move with his elbows supporting his upper body as always, he suddenly felt a sense of weakness. As a result, the force was out of control, and the sores on the calf were touched at once, causing a particularly piercing pain.

However, although Hong Lucheng fell on the bed and beads of sweat the size of beans appeared on his head, he still bit his lip, clenched his fists stubbornly, and refused to hum half a sound. His daughter Hong Yanru was boiling medicine in the hall, and he was afraid that his daughter would hear it.

After a few moments, the pain seemed to lessen slightly. Hong Lucheng gasped a few times, and with a ruthless heart, he sat up again by holding the head of the bed. How do you say that? It's like a thousand pins piercing his leg at the same time. He was undoubtedly sweating more, but he still stood still. In this way, he resisted, until the pain in his heart had subsided a little, and then he gritted his teeth again and moved a little. After a long time, trembling, he finally completed the scheduled action and leaned against the head of the bed with a cold sweat.

Hong Lucheng let out a long sigh of relief and closed his eyes. Moving is often the time when the leg hurts the most. In order to feel better, he often closes his eyes like this and thinks about things. At this time, he often reviews the stories about the ancestors of the Hong family and the road he has traveled in his life, so there will always be some indescribable confusion and confusion......

Hong Lucheng was born on January 27, 1917, and the lunar calendar is the fifth day of the first month of the sixth year of the Republic of China. In 1977, he was exactly sixty years old. He and his wife Wang Yunlin were married in 1937, and they have always respected and loved each other, and they have three sons and one daughter so far. Most of his life was ordinary, especially after the establishment of the Republic. But if I have to find any special symbols from him, it probably comes from his family background. Because he was not born in an ordinary family, but was born in the top wealthy family in the capital before the liberation - the Hong family, known as one of the eight mansions.

In my country, when talking about families and rich people, there must be a classification, and it can't be used for a pot of stew. Before 1949, the wealthy class in Beijing was very complex, ranging from new rulers who alternately entered the political arena, to the remnants of the former Qing dynasty and the abolished official families of Beiyang, and even Russian princes and nobles who had fled to Beijing. Even wealthy businessmen and wealthy businessmen have differences between "bureaucratic capital" and "private capital" due to different sources of funds or business content, and there is a difference between "new industrialists" and "traditional businessmen".

The Hong family has always been praised by the people of the capital for its prosperous trading and good management, and is the most typical representative of traditional merchants. Before the liberation, there was a smooth slip about the time-honored shops in the capital - "the head of the horse Juyuan, the foot of the inline, wearing Ruifuxiang, the waist around the four Heng, the tea Wu Yutai, sitting in Long Shuncheng, the big Hongmen banquet, prolonging the year of Qi Ren Hall." Among them, the phrase "big Hongmen banquet" refers to the Hongjia family with the restaurant restaurant and the dumpling shop based in the capital, and the homophonic words of the word "banquet" - "Yan" and "Yan" as the shop name.

The family history of the Hong family records that the ancestor of the Hong family, Hong Xiangqi, came to Beijing from his hometown in Fushan, Shandong during the Yongzheng period, and counted down to the generation of Hong Lucheng's father, Hong Xiaoru, the Hong family has gone through nine generations in the capital. These 200 years of business accumulation and connections provided the foundation for the Hong family to get involved in other more lucrative industries, so when Hong Xiaoru was in charge, the Hong family's business territory had become extremely large.

At that time, all kinds of industries under the name of the Hong family were: Yanqing Hall, Yanxi Hall, Yanmei Building, Yanxingju, Yanmei Zhai, Yanmei Zhai, Jinlan Zhai, Yanying Zhai, Yanxiang Zhai, Yanfu Zhai, Yanhua Zhai, Yande Zhai, and Yanning Zhai. These villages and dumpling shops span Beijing and Tianjin, with a total of 18 joint semicolons. Among them, Yanqingtang and Yanxitang are among the top ten halls in Beijing, Yanmei Building is one of the eight buildings in Beijing, Yanxingju is one of the eight major residences in Beijing, and Yanmei Zhai and Yongxingzhai are called the leaders of the Beijing North Case Oven Bureau that year, and the limelight even overtook Zhengmingzhai and Ruifangzhai. Let's put it this way, the catering industry in the capital alone is occupied by the Hong family for two-three out of ten.

In addition, the Hong family also operates Tianbao Gold Store, Sanyang Gold Store, Wanqing Pawnshop, and Antique Shop Jubao Zhai, and co-founded Ginseng Zhuang Yanshoutang with Tai Hospital Shoujia. The semicolons cover Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Nanjing, Xi'an, Qingdao, Yantai, Luda, Shenyang and other places, a total of 16.

In the capital, everyone knows Hong Jiafu. But when it comes to what kind of life the Hong family is living in, most ordinary people can only rely on conjecture except for some appearances that they understand in the tube. For example, when the people say that they are rich, they must "wear gold and silver, and wear fine clothes and food." And the real wealthy family only said, "Sheng Ge returns to the courtyard, and the lights go down the stairs." The difference between them can be judged in one word. Moreover, in addition to the superior material conditions, in the real life of the business tycoon, there are also many unspeakable bitterness.

These are by no means diseaseless moans. The rulers of our country have always considered it extremely immoral for businessmen to sell what others produce for profit. Moreover, from the root of the problem, it is believed that the profit-seeking nature of businessmen is a hidden danger to mess up society, and it is very unreliable. As a result, the "businessmen" stratum has always been strictly guarded against and implemented a "policy of suppression," that is, "emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business." Therefore, a businessman is rich, but his social status is always humble.

Take the Qing Kingdom as an example, if a merchant should wear a blue cloth coat, then he must wear a blue cloth coat, and you can't do it if you have money. Moreover, the son of a merchant is not allowed to be an official, which is probably what is now called feudal oppression.

Speaking of which, Hong Lucheng's father admired Emperor Yongzheng very much in his life. Well, the reason is a little bit different. According to Hong Xiaoru, in a feudal society based on agriculture, the rulers were most afraid that the people would leave their household registration and become displaced people, so they would lose the object of exploitation, so they often tried every means to control personal freedom. However, in all dynasties, only the Yongzheng Dynasty's policy of "spreading the land into the acre" was crooked, and it actually provided the people with real personal freedom, which made it possible for people to choose a career out of the land. Otherwise, according to the old bondage system, the Hong family would have no chance to leave their hometown at all. And even after arriving in the capital, it is also impossible to recruit enough people and men. What's more, if it weren't for the fact that the Qing court despised commerce to the point of disdain, and stipulated that banner people would be stripped of their flag status if they did business, then Han merchants like the Hong family would not have any chance of developing even if they were in the capital. Hong Lucheng also deeply agrees with his father's point of view.

However, even if the basic conditions for doing business are in place, it is still very difficult for an ordinary businessman to expand his business or to enter the field of state monopoly. Unless, you go to the elite and become a so-called "official businessman".

In that special historical era, the Hong family was not exempt from vulgarity. However, the Hong family also verified a truth with their own experience - to be an "official businessman", although the social status is more decent, and there will be a lot of convenience in doing business, but the vice president is equally serious, and even some of the gains outweigh the losses.

The logic is not difficult to understand, precisely because the backer is an "official", so the businessman who takes refuge not only has to accept the unfairness of the distribution of rights and interests, but also bears a lot of sacrifices and risks because of the special needs brought by the identity of the backer.

For example, in the late Qing Dynasty, the "government and business cooperation" was a black hole that swallowed silver. I don't know how many "officials and businessmen" were forced to fall into the quagmire and became victims because the main family catered to the "upper peak".

After that, the ensuing abdication of the Qing Emperor was a catastrophe that almost made the entire Beijing shopping mall funeral for the Beijing officialdom.

During the Qing Dynasty, the main consumers in the capital were Manchu and Mongolian bannermen and officials. Therefore, the Xinhai Revolution brought down the Qing government, not only did the consumer market shrink sharply, but even many old debts were difficult to recover, which led to the direct bankruptcy of a large number of small and medium-sized industrialists and merchants. And the more "official and businessmen", the greater the loss in this case, because the biggest customer of these big merchants is the Forbidden City.

Take the Hong family as an example, the "Yan" brand Dumpling Shop has always had the work of making confessions instead of the dumplings inside and outside the palace, and the ginseng Zhuang Yanshoutang has long specialized in the ginseng and deer antler velvet of the East and West Imperial Pharmacy, so that a total of 160,000 taels of goods have been lost. Another example is the Yue family of Qi Rentang, because they enjoy the honor of enshrined other imperial medicinal materials in the palace, they also have to grit their teeth and hold on to a deficit of nearly 200,000 taels. Among all the merchants who had economic dealings with the Qing Palace, the biggest loss was probably the Xinglong Wood Mill Ma Jia, which was specially built for the royal family. It is said that the 220,000 taels owed by Xiu Guangxu Dongling and the more than 30,000 taels owed by Xiu Beihai were not paid by the royal family, and the arrears left for the Ma family back then also became a dead letter that could never be paid with the advent of the Beiyang government.

When Beiyang was in power, the government began to advocate "westward wind" and "industry to save the country", and the status of merchants was ostensibly improved. But in fact, the treatment of merchants not only did not improve, but on the contrary, it was far worse than that in the late Qing Dynasty. Not to mention the warlord rivalry that has caused a shortage of goods in the market, nor the government's covert efforts to open the door to the economic plundering of foreign capital. The most important thing is that the Beiyang government collects harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes that are much more ruthless than those of the Qing government. Moreover, during the warlord war, every general who led troops into Beijing treated the merchants as meat in a bowl and extorted them at will. In this case, the "hemorrhage" of the merchants can be imagined.

What's more, those GIs are not perfunctory. As soon as these guys are released from the barracks, they are all swarmed to take advantage of the market. And the Hong family's shop, because of its delicious food and drink, has naturally become the primary target of the violation. The most striking characteristic of GIs is that they are "bastards" and come sideways in everything. scolded "Ma Labazi" for eating and drinking for nothing, and even blatantly robbed with the gun in his hand, if he resisted, he would definitely smash the store and hurt people.

Since Hong Lucheng was a child, he has been accustomed to seeing his father have a headache and trouble because of the ruffians. And this kind of days that make the Hong family both troublesome and heartwarming will not come to an end until the Northeast changes banners in 1928.

However, the end of the feudal system, after all, still played a positive role in the change of world style. In particular, it should be mentioned that from 1919 onwards, due to the influence of the "May Fourth" ideology, a number of new business representatives began to emerge in society. This group of people is very young, and many of them are high-level intellectuals, and even "returnees". They do not have the sophistication and restraint of the old businessmen, but show abundant enthusiasm, take the responsibility of enriching the country and strengthening the people, and take the route of saving the country through industry. Although they are also paranoid and idealistic, they are the most vengeful and country-loving businessmen in the history of our country. And all kinds of new factories and companies they set up have quickly become the most dazzling focus of the business community with their strong wealth creation capabilities and new business models.

Whenever he mentions this past, Hong Lucheng has to feel sincere admiration for his father. In the context of this era of alternating between the old and the new, it is precisely because of his father's shrewdness that the Hong family did not stick to the rules and was bound by the old traditions.

Although Hong Xiaoru does not have the vision and experience of staying abroad like the industrialist, he knows how to take advantage of the situation and invest to make profits. Although I don't understand the new industrial management methods and industrial technology, I understand the most fundamental principle of the market - any business is always based on money. Therefore, he resolutely seized the opportunity and invested heavily in Yue Qianzhai's Salt Industry Bank and Huang Yizhu's Zhongnan Bank, as well as the Juno Hotel founded by the German James, and soon shared the sweetness from these foreign industries.

When Hong Lucheng became his father's assistant, he personally respected these industrial elites and persuaded his father to continue to invest in the Danfeng Match Factory in Beijing, as well as the joint-stock Jinmen North Steamship Company and Jinmen Lizhong Acid Factory. In this way, while sharing the profits, the wealth of the Hong family also indirectly contributed to the country and achieved a win-win result.

In fact, from 1927, when "Jiang Guangtou" settled in Nanjing, to 1937, when the Nanjing government was in power, it can be described as a rare golden period of "ten-year construction" in China's industrial and commercial circles. Although foreign capital and government-run capital were extremely strong during this period, the achievements of the private industrial and commercial class in a short period of time were still magnificent, and even the concepts of "saving the country through industry" and "saving the country through science" evolved into a trend of the times.

It's a pity that these local bourgeois industrialists are really unlucky. The feathers had just grown, and before they could be full, they were invaded by foreign enemies. And the superstructure, which was supposed to represent their interests and protect their growth, showed its true face as both a soft egg and a bastard at this time. After the outbreak of the war of aggression against China launched by Japan, the Nanjing government only knew how to find merchants to donate money and grain, but the army could not fulfill its responsibilities to defend the land, so that most of the efforts of the industrialists for several years were in vain, or they hid in the concession or were forced to go into exile for thousands of miles.

Under the nest, how can there be eggs? The national disaster is at the head, and the Hong family has not been spared. After the fall of Beijing and Tianjin, under the "grain restriction policy" of the Japanese, the Hong family's shop could not make ends meet, but the Japanese did not allow it to close, so they had to lose money to maintain. In particular, Hong Xiaoru refused to use counterfeit money and refused to do business with Japanese merchants. Therefore, the Hong family's shop is blackmailed by traitors and spies who come to the door every day. The most unfortunate thing is that with the spread of the war, the Hong family's shops in other places have also been destroyed by the war, and few can be saved in the end.

Fortunately, Hong Xiaoru is still wise as the head of the Hong family. When the Lugou Bridge Incident just broke out, he secretly arranged for Hong Lucheng to escape with his new wife Wang Yunlin, and took a boat from Jinmen to Huhai. And when he left, he also handed his son a deposit receipt, and Hong Lucheng learned that his father had been depositing 600,000 silver dollars in Citibank in the United States just in case.

After arriving in Huhai, Hong Lucheng did not live up to his father's expectations, drunk and dreamed of death in the concession, or waited for the war to subside, but was always looking for ways to help the Hong family preserve their strength and reduce losses.

When Hong Lucheng found that under the footsteps of the Japanese invasion of China, the Huhai Concession was showing a deformed prosperity due to the increase in the number of refugees, he immediately cooperated with Hartung, a Jewish real estate developer who was then a director of the Ministry of Industry Bureau, and used the money from Citibank to build Western restaurants, cafes, dance halls and nightclubs in the concession, and soon made a lot of money. Therefore, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, when he returned to the capital, Hong Lucheng had accumulated enough financial resources to save the ancestral business and reputation of the Hong family, which was precarious and on the verge of bankruptcy. finally made his critically ill father let go of his heart and passed away peacefully holding his hand with a smile. However, this prosperous history of the Hong family cannot get rid of the shackles of history, and it is only a flash in the pan after all.

In the following three years, due to the government's extremely improper handling of the post-war economy, "looters" flew all over the sky, wantonly enriching their own pockets in the name of confiscating "enemy property." China's industrial and commercial class has always been in a state of "orphans". At that time, in order to maintain an industry, it can be said that it was trembling and dismal management, not only to bear the losses caused by the invasion of the lower Japanese chieftains, but also to face the threat of squeezing and annexation of the bureaucratic capital of the "four families" of Chiang, Song, Kong, and Chen.

After the civil war began, prices in Chiang's area soared, and the authorities forced the people to hand over silver dollars and gold to exchange them for worthless "gold yuan bills". As a result, the entire economy is collapsing, and the gods are powerless to return to the sky. It is no wonder that some people gritted their teeth at that time and called the chairman of the committee "Jiang should die" and privately declared that "the Three Peoples Party will not die, and there is no heavenly reason." Therefore, during the civil war, most of the industrial and commercial classes in our country did not advance and retreat with the Three People's Party, but only waited and waited for the dust to settle as soon as possible.

In this context, even if Hong Lucheng has business talent, there is nothing he can do. It is really good to be able to barely maintain the operation of many industries, and to earn a mouthful of food for the old guys of the Hong family. Seeing that private capital didn't know what the way out was, Hong Lucheng's heart was only gloomy.

In 1949, the army swept through. With the defeat of the Three People's Party in Taiwan, the world easily turned red.

In the early days of the country's economic development, because the private economy played a pivotal role in the country's economy, and because the newly ruling Red Party was faced with some practical problems, it still needed the help of national capital. Therefore, as long as it is not bureaucratic capital, it is not a comprador of foreign banks, the industrial and commercial class is still defined as "the people" and is the so-called enlightened "democrats". Even in the national flag, it occupies the position of a star.

At this time, the high-level of the Red Party was courteous to the well-known businessmen and gave them very generous treatment. For example, Yue Songsheng, the thirteenth-generation successor of Qi Rentang, belongs to the representative figures in the business circles who actively support the Red Party. Not only was he promoted and reused, but he even became the deputy mayor of Beijing in the future.

With the Hong family's reputation in the business community of the capital, Hong Lucheng is naturally also a key united front target. The government has arranged for him to have a title and a position. However, Hong Lucheng has always adhered to the ancestral teachings, is accustomed to low-key behavior, and instinctively does not want to be this early leader, so he finally politely declined the post of deputy to the Municipal People's Congress and a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and was only willing to take the name of "businessman".

In addition, the economic policy at the beginning of the founding of the country was also very stable. In terms of economic control, in addition to cracking down on speculative business such as gold, silver, and foreign exchange, the new regime's compulsory confiscation was only aimed at bureaucratic capital and enemy property. The attitude towards the private and individual economy, apart from restoring production and rectifying new labor-management relations, is only "utilization, restriction, and transformation."

This state of consensual economy lasted until 1952. And during this time, the whole world was almost reinvented. You have to start all over again, and you have to learn the language from scratch. As a result, not only were the stubborn social diseases of the pre-1949 period swept away, but the development of society was also rapidly advancing and being as far away as a dream.

It was indeed a heroic era, but while the triumphant march was taking a closer look, you would also find that there were some cracks, which were very inconsistent with the light of the gold letters on the red background.

From 1950 onwards, "mass movements" from all walks of life were launched. For example, the intellectuals' "ideological reform movement", such as "land reform", "suppression of rebellion", "purging reactionary associations", and so on. This series of measures to clean up the remnants of the old regime and create new social norms was unquestionable in its righteousness at the time, and it also added a saving color to the Red Party. However, because the method goes beyond the legal system and is not subject to policy constraints, there have been many cases of excesses and policy violations. In short, although these movements did not affect the business class, they played a role in killing chickens and monkeys.

It was from this moment that Hong Lucheng's spirit was always in a state of suppression, and he began to worry about his own situation. He must not become careless and cautious, neither bothering in politics nor daring to make more money, but only seeking to be a submissive citizen under the new regime and do his share in his own business.

Not long after, the government organized Hong Lucheng to participate in the mass movement of "learning national policies and actively educating himself", and he began to realize that he had an "original sin". In order to "atone for his sins," he first actively responded to the "Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea and Defend the Country" movement, and did not hesitate to sell his property to raise funds, donating a few planes and a few antiaircraft guns. Then, it also took the initiative to hand over more than a dozen idle properties for rent to the government to solve the problem of resettlement of the increasing population of Beijing citizens. Sure enough, his efforts to perform well were recognized by the government, and the encouragement of the public and the red certificate was like a talisman, which calmed his restless heart for the time being.

If history is fair, then Hong Lucheng's move can be described as wise, and then it will be blessed. It's just that if the wind and rain come according to the weather forecast, it doesn't matter if the storm is raging. If you can prepare for the difficulties safely, there is no such thing as driving people crazy.

Where would Hong Lucheng have thought that only two years later, an investigation that swept the entire industrial and commercial circles would come out of thin air. And when he presented his certificate of merit at the mass struggle meeting and mentioned everything he had done at this time, no one believed him at all. History is so pathetic that the sneering sentence of others, "Can capitalists still be patriotic?", wiped out all his hopes of proving his innocence.

In particular, on February 16, 1952, as the major newspapers of that day published news, it was revealed that some unscrupulous businessmen led by Wang Kangnian, the manager of Huhai Dakang Pharmacy, had committed various crimes of stealing state property and entrapping the volunteers. The most primitive sense of justice in people's hearts was touched, and thousands of simple people threw themselves into newspapers and newspapers, calling the "five poisons" capitalists "the most hateful people."

To be honest, a businessman like Hong Lucheng who is based on integrity actually hates scum who ruin the reputation of businessmen. But at that time, the overall image of the industrial and commercial class plummeted, as long as it was a businessman, whether it was poisonous or not, almost everyone shouted and beat it. Every capitalist or owner, everybody has to pass through a sieve.

There is no need to mention the specifics of that time. In short, when he was isolated and reviewed, Hong Lucheng completely collapsed, and he had to confess to the "Tiger Team", and even automatically increased the code. When his "tiger" was released, he had been beaten to the ground, like a "dead cat", and he couldn't even recognize the way home, so the tiger fighters found a car to send him back. Fortunately, because of his good attitude, a few days later, the workers' meeting announced that he had "completely confessed" and as a lenient object, he was demoted from the original first level of "completely illegal households" to the third level of "half-guarding and half-illegal households". (If it is a completely illegal household, at least a prison sentence will be imposed)

In May of the same year, the "movement" was completely victorious. The merchants who had survived the disaster also returned to their factories and shops. However, this investigation has made many people afraid to do business, and some people even shouted in private, "If you do business again, you will be a grandson!" But before they could decide whether they really wanted to close their doors, the huge punishment that followed forced these people to continue to take on the "grandson" who had just sworn an oath.

The notice received by the Hong family was no exception, which clearly stated that the total amount of back taxes and fines was 500 million yuan. (Before the currency system was changed, 500 million yuan was 50,000)

For a period of time in the future, the tax collector came to Hong's house every day to sit on the rope and take the money if he had it. In order to pay a huge amount of compensation, Hong Lucheng had to collect valuable things at home and sell them to raise funds. Previously, it was some cultural relics, calligraphy and paintings, and then it was the turn of his wife's clothes and jewelry.

After liberation, pawnshops have completely disappeared. Cultural relics, calligraphy and paintings should be sent to the glaze factory, and spring silk cotton robes and mink coats and other things can be consigned in the trust bank, but gold rings and gold jewelry can only be taken to the bank due to government regulations. Hong Lucheng's wife, Wang Yunlin, refused to go to the bank again after only going to the bank once, saying that she couldn't bear to say goodbye to the old things. After finishing some more things, let Hong Lu send them over. It wasn't until he saw the bank's people artificially inspect the fineness of the gold and twist the very fine jewelry into a mess that he realized his wife's mood. In this way, it lasted for two years, and more than half of the Hong family's belongings were gone, and it was only after this huge debt was paid off one after another.

1954 was another crucial year for the business community. As Qi Rentang, under the leadership of Yue Songsheng, took the lead in announcing the implementation of public-private partnerships, various industries in the capital have had a strong response to this. Soon after, the silk shop Ruifuxiang, and the food industry Huifeng Tang, Cuihua Lou and Senlong Restaurant also announced the implementation. Faced with this situation, Hong Lucheng couldn't help but feel anxious.

The Hong family has been passed down to Hong Lucheng for the tenth generation. In terms of his heart, he really doesn't want to be this last generation of "broken family" sinners. Not to mention that he himself has a strong interest in trading, not to mention that his father was still solemnly asking him to pass on the Hong family's inheritance at the last moment of his death. If he just gave up his ancestral business, he would not only be sorry for himself, but also sorry for his father, who had high hopes for him? But if we look at the actual situation, it will be very difficult to maintain it.

First of all, the social situation does not allow it. In fact, individual public-private partnerships in the food and beverage sector began as early as 1950. I think it was Tongheju who took the first step, and in 1952, Fengzeyuan and Judequan followed suit. Hong Lucheng has long seen that this road may be the trend of the times, and the country's determination will not be reversed. Coupled with the fact that he has deeply comprehended that kind of power, he knows that he wants to resist, it is simply a fool's dream.

Secondly, let's talk about the difficulties in management. Due to the effect of the inventory of the industrial and commercial classes, the social atmosphere has become more frugal, resulting in the continuous shrinking of the high-end consumer market, and the final result is that the catering industry has been reduced to a social welfare industry as a whole due to the long-term implementation of low-price supply, and it is not profitable at all. In addition, in recent years, the state has begun to implement a system of unified supply and marketing of agricultural products, and vouchers are required for everything to be purchased, which has made it particularly difficult for private enterprises to purchase raw materials.

The actual situation of the Hong family at present is that most of the restaurants have closed due to their light business, and only one Yanmei building is barely maintained. The menu has also been scrapped, and it is only available on a daily basis, serving some home-cooked dishes that are not in season. In addition, the situation of even the dumpling shop is not much better, due to the lack of a lot of sugar, oil, preserved fruits, eggs and cream, it can only bake some crude stove food, and it is basically about to become a baked cake shop. In this way, there will naturally be fewer and fewer customers coming to the door, and the store's loss will be even more ironclad. Even if you don't have a joint venture, you probably won't be far from closing it yourself.

To sum up, the answer is already obvious. But Hong Lucheng's heart knot was difficult to let go of after all, so he couldn't take this step for a long time. At a critical moment, it was a sudden event that helped him make a decision.

After New Year's Day in 1955, the old house of the Hong family's Sanjin courtyard was taken by the street office at that time, and wanted to requisition it and change it into a nursing home. For this reason, the street director specially invited the cadres in charge of the public-private partnership in the catering industry in the district to come to the door to talk about the project, and coincidentally, he was the "captain of the tiger fight" during the "inventory".

Seeing each other again, the captain of the year has become the chief of the department, although this time he has been replaced with a "comrade" with a pleasant face and a closed mouth. So, after the Spring Festival in 1955, the two old shops that the Hong family had been operating in the coal market for nearly 200 years were closed, and the sign of the old nursing home was hung on the door of the Hong family's old house.

However, these houses are not completely irrelevant to the Hong family, because the street funds are limited, so the property is not transferred, only counted as a temporary rental, for an initial period of 15 years. And in order to show his gratitude, the street also helped to contact a new residence, which is Fouruli No. 2 Courtyard.

When the Hong family moved to a new location, the place was much smaller, and there were no shadow walls, no hanging flower doors, no fish tanks, ceilings and pomegranate trees. Hong Lu was bored in his new home in the east courtyard of Guanyin Temple, only holding two wooden plaques of the old shop, and was depressed for many days.

He was really sad in his heart, but he couldn't say anything. The expropriation was approved by him, he showed positive and progress in front of people, and sighed behind his back, what kind of thing is this?

It is still his wife who knows Hong Lucheng best, and knows that what he is most reluctant to do is the two old shops, but he found another way to say, "If you move away, move away, although this place is not big, but now it is not as good as in the past, the servants are gone, and there are only a few people in the family, and they can live enough." If you think about the benefits, the huge yard of the old house can't be suppressed, the house will get older and older, and we won't have the energy to clean it up in the future, and it will be bad sooner or later if we put it in our hands. ”

Wang Yunlin is right, the courtyard of the Hong family's house has indeed shown a decadent old appearance. Hong Lucheng was moved, and he found that his wife understood the cause and effect logic of the world better. Nothing is immutable, everything is originally nothing. See through, that's what it's all about.

Hong Lucheng's depression gradually unraveled. As soon as this heart twisted around, the public-private partnership thing came naturally. Originally, since the old shop and the old house are gone, there is nothing to be reluctant about.

Soon, Hong Lucheng went to the captain to discuss the specifics of the public-private partnership. The captain didn't expect to kill two birds with one stone, and he praised and encouraged him while he was happy, and the conditions given were also very superior, except for the policies of some countries that stipulate death, the rest can be discussed. In particular, on the issue of Hong Lucheng's personal job placement, the scope and treatment set aside are relatively lenient and can be chosen by him. And after Hong Lucheng pondered for a while, the condition he put forward was just to settle the guys, and there was nothing else to ask for. The captain was even more happy and readily agreed.

This requirement is really not difficult to do, because the restaurants and restaurants under the name of the Hong family no longer exist, except for the old Yanmei Lou shop that has just closed, most of the employees of the Zhuang restaurant have long been paid by the Hong family, and those who have returned to their hometowns have changed their careers. In fact, the focus of the placement is only on those dumpling shops.

After several discussions, an agreement was quickly reached. The chefs of Yanmei Building were relocated to other state-run restaurants by the catering company of the city's three commercial bureaus, and more than 100 employees of the eight dumpling shops became workers in the state-owned pastry factory. As for the stores of those dumpling shops, because their business methods still maintain the manual production mode of the front store and the back factory, they were directly abolished. Several stores were finally transferred to the Second Commercial Bureau of the city, and became non-staple food stores that had a consignment sales partnership with the state-owned pastry factory. Hong Lucheng himself became an accountant working at the Beijing Sugar Pastry Corporation.

Perhaps there are some out-of-the-ordinary situations in the past as a lesson from the past, but this time the country is relatively mild, and the conditions given are quite generous. In the process of checking and verifying the capital, the method of self-assessment and self-reporting and supervision by workers was adopted, and the private stock capital of 68,000 yuan was finally set, which was sufficient to have a fixed interest of 280 yuan in accordance with the provisions of the "redemption policy," and the Hong family did not suffer a loss.

In terms of work arrangement, the captain also allowed Hong Lucheng to choose a work place closer to home and gave him special preferential treatment. Hong Lucheng enjoyed the treatment of the administrative level of 15, and his salary was set at 108 yuan accordingly. In the food industry, the highest-level technician at that time only received more than 70 yuan at the top, and probably in the entire company, this number had to be ranked in the top few. From this point of view, Hong Lucheng's income is enough to ensure that the Hong family has no worries about food and clothing, and everyone from generation to generation can live a "superior life".

However, when Hong Lucheng first received the letter from the People's Bank of China in a brown paper envelope stamped with the postmark of "Postage Paid", he was still depressed. He knew that in the future, in addition to the fixed interest sent by this cold letter, all the achievements of the Hong family's ancestors for generations would probably be buried by time.

Hong Lucheng's real heart was after work.

In the factory, along with the conveyor belt of the machine, all kinds of pastries are rushing forward like water, and the workers are wearing white aprons and white sleeves, clean and neat, like foreign doctors. At first glance, you think it's in a foreign country. In contrast, the way Hongjia Dumpling Shop relies on the palm case and apprentices to make it, which not only looks outdated, but also has a ridiculous low yield.

This scene of a state-owned pastry factory using a machine to produce pastries made Hong Lucheng feel black in front of his eyes, and he felt bitter in his heart.

Why do you use machines everywhere now? Also, once and for all, fewer people use them, and there is no need to smoke and burn. But if they are all improved like this, then all the craftsmen in the future can be regarded as vain.

Perhaps, there is no such thing as an immortal object. Just like his old mansion, the demise of the Hong family's time-honored brand is irreversible, right?

Perhaps, the Hong family's shop is indeed old.

Perhaps, he is also old......

In 1956, the transformation of private capital reached its climax. On January 15, as Yue Songsheng, on behalf of the Beijing Federation of Industry and Commerce, presented the good news of Beijing to the great leader at Tiananmen Square, Beijing's industry and commerce have taken the lead in realizing the "public-private partnership" of the whole industry. Subsequently, all parts of the country followed quickly. Since then, the country's traders have peacefully disappeared and blended into the general population.

It stands to reason that since the coffin has been sealed. Then there will be no more "movement" directed at the business class, and everyone can breathe a sigh of relief and start a new life with peace of mind. But in fact, it is not the case, the curse is still there, and the "original sin" cannot be completely wiped out.

From 1963 onwards, a large number of bittersweet pamphlets were flooded to re-indict the evils of the black-hearted landlords of the old society. What followed was the widespread and long-lasting "Remembering the Bittersweet Memory" movement. At that time, although there was no longer a policy to call on the "water dogs" of capital, the old businessmen were brought out again one by one to bear the influence of the ugliness of the industrial and commercial class, and became a group of people standing on the sidelines.

To be honest, Hong Lucheng's experience is somewhat wronged. As far as the Hong family is concerned, they have always been very concerned about the income and life of grassroots employees. In the ancestral training of the Hong family, in addition to the requirements of taking care of the life, old age, sickness and death of the shopkeepers, and trying to promote middle-level cadres to ordinary employees, it also specifically stipulated that "no dismissal (dismissal) without reason, no specialization, must eat with the shopkeepers, and unite them with the concept of sharing honor and disgrace". Where would it be like the rich man "Zhou Papi", who used "rooster crows in the middle of the night" to squeeze his subordinates?

But in the face of reality, Hong Lucheng had no other way, so he had to use the old method, try his best to ask himself to lower his head and be a man, and protect himself and his family by keeping a low profile.

In addition, he would never dare to show any resentment about the wealth he had lost. When you think about it, you can understand that in society as a whole, "rich" has become a shame, and no one will be nostalgic for a rich life of spending days and drinking all day. Although thrift is essentially a painful thing, it cannot be done because of poverty, but once it is established as the mainstream of the whole society, it is a thing to be proud of.

In that era, not only Hong Lucheng, but even the last emperor was transformed into a pure one. Pu Yi wrote a very sincere letter of determination in 1958, saying that he would "strive to be a red flag bearer" or something. Therefore, Hong Lucheng also worked very hard to participate in labor and learn simplicity. The people live as they live. Try your best to integrate in order to become a part of the "people" as soon as possible.

Even in life, Hong Lucheng still retains a little bit of attention in the past and refuses to be so-so in terms of diet, so he can only enjoy it secretly behind closed doors. Even if he was not accustomed to eating without washing his hands, spitting, swearing, and barbaric manners like some workers and peasants, he had to nod his head and greet each other affectionately when he saw these "red five categories".

He can't be blamed for his hypocrisy, it's all due to circumstances. The change of the year is not something that a person can resist, the arm can't twist the thigh, and the death of the year is simply awkward for himself. Otherwise, if you still maintain the sadness of "the carved fence and jade masonry should still be there", then needless to say, there will be more to lose.

Gray people like Hong Lucheng and their relatives have always lived like this. However, what is unthinkable is that although it has reached such a point, there is still a catastrophe that will involve the people of the whole country and cannot be avoided.

In August 1966, the social form changed abruptly again, and the Red Guards held high the banner and set off a frenzy with overwhelming red. This time, however, was a hundred times more intense than the previous ones, and it did not ease people's breath at all, and it seemed that they were about to change to the end.

No, it's simply not a sport, it's a tornado. It was this unprecedented storm that shattered the remaining property, self-esteem, and personality of the Hong family......

Thinking of this, Hong Lucheng opened his misty eyes, and his chest was full of emotion that the sea was once unbearable.

In our country, the so-called rich families really have nothing to boast about.

Thinking back then, I don't know how many people envied his family background, imagining how generous and refreshing his life was in the golden cup and jade cup and BMW incense car. But who can appreciate his centuries-old pain in the changing times, such as his involuntary body, his white head overnight, and his posthumous descendants?

In his life, he seems to be carrying the heavy three words of "capitalist" on his back, walking an extremely steep downhill road, and he can't hold his feet at all. The more I look forward to the peaceful days, the more my body goes down.

If you talk about the taste in detail, it is just a "can't carry a lot of sorrows".