The controversy about "The Night of the Military Port" is indeed sensational, and ordinary people often compare this incident to the "Cinderella and the Prince Kiss" incident in "Popular Movie".

However, if we only use the turmoil in the literary and artistic circles to summarize the summer of 1979 in Beijing, it is completely impossible.

Because these two things can only reflect one aspect of the entertainment life of the people in the capital, it is too one-sided.

Like the next two events, such as the official opening of the Great Hall of the People to the public, began to receive public visits. Or Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranasinghe Premadasa presenting a baby elephant to the children of the Republic on behalf of the children of Sri Lanka, "Alaria", which actually had a similar sensational effect.

If it is to spread to all the social activities and daily life of the people in the capital, then there are even more remarkable things.

However, if you want a stick in the east and a hammer in the west, then the introduction will be too messy and disorderly. Going back to the roots, we have to focus on the most fundamental places.

That's actually just one word – people.

It must be said that the summer of 1979 in Beijing was too hot. But this heat is not only caused by seasonal changes, but also by people.

In fact, this year, maybe the people in Beijing feel the deepest, and the most remembered impression is one impression, there are many people!

Because don't look at the streets of the capital this year, there are still no cars on the streets of the capital, and there are not even many bicycles. But in this year, it seems that overnight, there are many young people in the capital.

They are the intellectual youths who returned to the city one after another from the rural areas and the Production and Construction Corps in 1979!

Writer Liang Xiaosheng called the return of intellectual youth to the city a "hurricane". In "There is a Snowstorm Tonight", he wrote: "In just a few weeks, the tide of returning to the city has become unstoppable like the tide of the Qiantang River. This year, 400,000 young intellectuals returned to the city, plus young students who had just graduated from middle school and no longer needed to go to the countryside to join the queue. ”

Therefore, it is precisely because of these extra people out of thin air that the ecological environment of the capital will be greatly improved.

Even the emergence of many new things and the change of many old affairs caused by this can be called an epoch-making milestone.

First of all, if there are more people, you have to eat and drink. You have to find something to do.

Relying on the "shopping book" of the people in the capital alone, it is obvious that they can no longer afford the extra 400,000 mouths. In the face of the 400,000 unemployed young people suddenly born in the capital, no matter how much government work there is, there is nothing to be done.

As a result, the economy of complete public ownership has finally begun to break the shackles and crack a big crack.

On 30 June, the "Beijing City Revolutionary Committee" issued the "Opinions on Strengthening the Management of Bazaar Trade," pointing out that in accordance with the spirit of the central government's "opening up more employment outlets" and "opening more service outlets under collective ownership," it has not been a month since the central government called for actively organizing unemployed people to develop various collective economies. There are already 52 rural markets in the suburbs of Beijing and 13 urban agricultural and sideline product markets.

People in Beijing have an extra place to buy agricultural and sideline products, which is a lot more convenient or secondary, and the key is to buy things outside the index.

As a result, through the trading of farmers' markets, the agricultural and sideline products in the suburbs of Beijing that were not planned greatly alleviated the living needs of the capital's rapidly growing population.

At the same time, the peasants' enthusiasm for production has also increased greatly, and it can be said that their days have ushered in the most promising and best time.

Just like now, every household in Longkou Village has raised a lot of chickens, and some people have even begun to follow the example of Zhaoqing and the An family brothers and sons to pour eggs into the city.

As for Hong Yanwu, he no longer needs to help Longkou Village sell eggs on his behalf.

Now that he has a legal place to go, every time the An brothers and sons come to deliver the eggs he needs, the others can be sold directly to the purchasing department of the "farmers' market" in the name of the "Longkou Village Production Brigade", and they don't even need to go to the market to set up stalls. It's best to earn two points each, and it's very convenient.

And at the suggestion of Hong Yanwu, Zhaoqing and the An family brothers also changed the situation of petty fights and turned into professional "egg dumping troops".

The specific division of labor is still Zhaoqing is responsible for collecting, and An Sun and An Moon are sent into the city to sell.

But the difference is that Zhaoqing has expanded the scale of the acquisition to four or five nearby villages. Moreover, Hong Yanwu also gave An Yang and An Moon two old bicycles as a means of transportation. These two allow them to make at least five or six trips to the capital every month.

What's more, Zhaoqing also used his ingenuity to make a careful transformation of the two bicycles.

He first took the two bicycles to a small factory in Fangshan County for reinforcement. Not only was a girder added, but also layers of steel frames were installed in the front and back of the two bicycles to hold eggs.

Then eight layered egg baskets were woven for the two cars according to the dimensions of the steel frame. A straw mat was placed between each steel frame and the egg basket.

To tell the truth, Zhaoqing simply installed these two cars like two tanks, scientific and stable.

Although they have taken the initiative to reduce the loading capacity for safety, each truck is loaded with almost 1,000 eggs. According to the estimation of six pounds, it is one hundred and sixty pounds.

Don't look at these eggs for fear of breaking them, but they can be put into the basket one by one and put into the steel frame, even if they go uphill and downhill all the way, and they are running for hundreds of miles in twists and turns. At that time, how many eggs are put into the box, and how many are taken out of the box, there is not a single bit of skin.

So with these two cars, they have increased the scale of a single egg resale several times.

Not to mention anything else, when the An brothers and sons were first led to the market by Hong Yanwu, they simply stunned the entire market of egg vendors.

Even the egg collection staff circled around their car several times, shouting, "You two boys are so amazing!

On the spot, the two of them earned thirty-six yuan, which is the entire month's salary of a skilled worker. If you really want to calculate it on a monthly basis, the two of them and Zhaoqing can each earn seventy or eighty yuan.

This made An Sun and An Moon feel indescribable pride, indescribable pride, and indescribable greatness. They feel that they are generals who have won all battles, immortals who can do anything.

Therefore, after the eggs are unloaded, they have more energy in their bodies. On the way home, the two of them were like people who had drunk too much.

One shouted, "Xiongguan Mandao is really like iron, and now it is stepping forward from the beginning!"

The other is more straightforward, "Two cars and eight baskets, the salary is more than Hu Yaobang!"

I don't know how to scream! That is, no one hears, otherwise it will definitely get into trouble!

It was also during this same period that tea stalls reappeared in the bustling streets of the capital, where some young people enthusiastically sold large bowls of tea for sweaty passers-by to quench their thirst.

From morning to night, there is an endless stream of customers. There are not only local workers and foreign tourists, but also Hong Kong and Macao compatriots, overseas Chinese and foreign guests. Only a few tea stalls in the Qianmen area receive nearly 10,000 customers a day.

The best worker, and the only one who developed later, was a middle-aged man named Yin Shengxi.

He took the initiative to give up the formal job of the sub-district office, led a group of unemployed young people, started from scratch, and founded a company under collective ownership under the name of "Beijing Dawancha Youth Tea Society".

But the founder of the "Big Bowl Tea Group Company", which became famous in the future, made this choice at this time, which is not only incomprehensible to outsiders. Even in the eyes of his daughter, this is really a shameful thing.

Not only did she never go to Qianmen Street again, but she was even most afraid of hearing others ask about her father.

Because outsiders know that the latter thing is, "Why is your father, a formal state cadre, so stupid as to throw away the 'iron rice bowl' and sell a big bowl of tea? What a shame it is to do business, what is it bad to do?"

Also this summer, Guo Peiji and Liu Guixian, who live in the south of the art museum and west of Wangfujing, are worried about their two sons who went to the mountains and went to the countryside to return to the city.

They are an old couple who cook and have no way out. In addition to queuing up at the sub-district office, there was no way to solve his son's problem. It is also difficult to support five children a month on the wages of two people.

This situation made the old couple unable to sleep. They thought about it, and they both thought that the best way for their son to work was to open a restaurant.

In this way, they went to the industrial and commercial bureau to propose the opening of restaurants, but at this time, the state in the document forwarded to the industrial and commercial administration, although for the first time proposed the restoration and development of the individual economy, but only allowed the issuance of business licenses to self-employed workers engaged in repair, service and handicrafts. Restaurants are all state-run collectives, and if you want to open a restaurant and work as an individual, it is a new thing.

So even if Liu Guixian ran countless times, he went to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau every day to get who to grind with. But he still only got a reply, "You go back first, we have to discuss your affairs later." It's still very difficult to do at the moment!"

This result is not surprising, after all, everything has to be a process, and it cannot be achieved overnight.

In this year, the applicant for the first individual restaurant in Beijing is destined to have only a lonely harvest. They must continue to persevere, continue to work hard to win the turn of fate.

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