In fact, the people are really quite insensitive. They didn't realize that the prices of dishes in restaurants in the capital had already risen with the price increase of non-staple foods, and they had quietly increased several times.

In the past, "Muxi meat" and "back pot meat" were only a few cents, but now they have become one dollar and two pieces. The roast chicken, which used to be priced at only one dollar, has become three or four yuan.

It's only been more than half a year, and the price increase is so high. If it weren't for the fact that going to a restaurant to eat was too far away from the people's lives, I am afraid that the people would have been resentful.

On the other hand, price increases, which are closely related to people's lives, have always been widespread, but they are more secretive.

For example, the price of vegetables in the year was divided into equal prices, and what was sold at what price. In this way, there are often problems, and the stores often raise the price of their own, raising the vegetables that should be sold for seven cents a pound from the third class to the first class, and selling them for a dime per catty.

Although newspapers in those days published notices of price adjustment issued by the government, some people would go out of their way to buy groceries with newspapers, just to see if the price of the store had risen. But even if these people find a problem, they can't do anything about it.

The grocery store copes with it in one sentence. "Comrade, the fast horse can't catch up with the green vegetable shop, the price in this newspaper is dead, but in fact, the price is changing at any time, this has risen again, and we can't help it. Do you want to make the country suffer heavy losses for the sake of your own penny?"

On the contrary, it seems that the picky people are stingy and vexatious.

This is the general ecology of society at the moment. Inadvertently, "serving the people" began to change to "serving the money".

Even Hong Yanwu's "Tianxingju", where he works, has recently raised the price of fried liver by four cents per bowl. Because if this is not the case, what will happen to the rising costs? Not to mention that the profit is less, and Manager Sha has no basis to give everyone a bonus? Then I have to let the customer suffer a little loss.

But even then, these are only superficial drizzles, which should be understandable if people put themselves in their shoes. What is completely unacceptable is that it is further caused by the active price, the acceleration of the business system and the increasingly serious problems of shady trading.

In the hearts of the people, the move of beer with cold dishes is probably considered to be the earliest "tie-in" behavior. Actually, it's wrong to get home. Large-scale tying has long been active in the internal circulation of the business system.

For example, taking cigarettes as an example, "peony", "friendship", "ceremonial flowers" and other normal channels of Grade A cigarettes cannot be seen at all. "Daqianmen", "Phoenix", "Dazhongjiu", "Beijing", "Xiangshan" and other Class B cigarettes are also not easy to buy. But the C and D cigarettes below the "North Sea" are a bit unsalable.

In order to solve this problem, tobacco companies naturally have to "tie in" cigarettes, and good cigarettes and bad cigarettes are wholesaled together. If you want good, you can't do without bad, and everyone understands that this is not a "rule" that is not explicitly stipulated.

And when the store gets these cigarettes, good cigarettes will naturally become "internal welfare", bad cigarettes don't matter, if they can be sold, they will be sold, and if they can't be sold, they will be smashed in their hands, and let them become real "bad cigarettes", anyway, the loss is not their own home, and no one is distressed.

In addition, in addition to the real, real "tie-in". There are still some deceptions and nominal "tie-ins", which is even more excessive.

For example, the leather shoes that Hong Yanwu sold to the people of Shandong. How did the Shandong people digest these high-priced shoes that had been overpriced?

Shandong people have two methods, the first is to sell out and sign false contracts with other units.

They only marked a pair of leather shoes of more than 30 yuan from Hong Yanwu at a price of 20 yuan in the contract, and at the same time "tied in" a batch of "goods" that only existed on paper to make a profit. In the end, the other unit either disposes of the loss report, or sells the "goods" that never existed to other places.

The second is that Shandong people's own units leave this batch of shoes for internal distribution, so they must be processed in the purchase link. They only need to record the shoes as a "tie-in" item at the time of purchase, and they can pass the account review.

Of course, these "tricks" will inevitably derive more techniques and forms when commodity prices are becoming more and more loose.

And because the benefits behind it have become more, it is like being injected with a catalyst, or the magic spell of "open sesame", so that the doors of convenience that were originally half-hidden and half-concealed are quickly opened. No one can stop this trend and cannot stop it.

Hong Yanwu, as the person who is in it, and the person who ponders these things every day, is probably the first person to figure out the mystery here. And once he understands it, he will dare to open his teeth even more.

He now thinks that the best business to do is not TV, but tobacco and alcohol. The reason is simple: in an era when public spending dominates, these are the main needs.

Like the first business in June, he took two boxes of Chinese cigarettes.

The purchase price of foreign exchange coupons was five yuan each, but he knew the scarcity of this thing, so he had the courage to quote twenty yuan a piece. I didn't expect the two thousand yuan to get it smoothly. It actually achieved a profit of 300 percent.

The second business is another six-box Moutai. Of course, the older the wine, the better, so he didn't touch his stock, but bought it from the store for the price of six yuan and six foreign exchange bills a bottle. Later, it was poured to the other family for 30 yuan a bottle. The profit is also more than three times.

Don't look at these two transactions, but soon Hong Yanwu was taken aback by the real market.

Not to mention that he later learned that the person who bought the "Zhonghua" sold it on the spot, and at the price of 30 yuan a piece, he poured two boxes of cigarettes to others on the spot. I'm looking for him to buy another cigarette.

The subordinates who promoted the Moutai business also came to him to report to him, saying that the person who bought Moutai felt that he had taken a big advantage and had drunk too much and leaked the bottom. Dare to love in their hometown, Moutai is seventy or eighty yuan.

And that's not all. Facts have also proved that he is not the only person in the capital who has a lively brain. Soon he found that someone got Moutai from a special channel, and sold it on the street, and the price was as high as forty or fifty yuan, and some people were willing to buy it.

All of this made him really understand what it meant to loosen the price system. This is a miracle, layer by layer, the price is fried like this. It's no wonder that things are really in the hands of the people, so it's no wonder they can be cheap!

Yes, it's a good thing for Hong Yanwu, he sent it.

In May, because he spent the first half of his money and energy on collecting and printing stone calligraphy and paintings, although he earned a lot that month, his book wealth did not increase significantly.

After a month, he only had 20,000 foreign exchange coupons and 100,000 yuan in cash, and his inventory of electrical appliances was almost exhausted. It looks like he lost sixty or seventy thousand.

But in June, his cash swelled suddenly.

Because I dared to ask for the price, it was much easier than last month, but I earned 110,000 yuan. By the end of the month, he had already controlled a full 100,000 foreign exchange coupons and 130,000 yuan.

And since you have sufficient funds, of course, you can receive red envelopes. So after Hong Yanwu made a phone call to the "generals" in Bincheng, and after he mobilized some of his subordinates, the unified action began in the five cities of Beijing, Langfang, Jinmen, Shijiazhuang, and Bincheng.

The goal is to get all the full-page monkey tickets you can buy at the post office!

In the same way, it was also from this time that society became chaotic. There is one word that is starting to become a hot word in society, and that is "price".

For a long time afterward, in various surveys, the attention to price almost always ranked first or second, and often on a par with the ** question.

After that, major price inspections were also carried out frequently, and the price bureau soon became a very famous bureau, and the price inspection offices and supervision stations in various places were also very powerful.

In retrospect today, this historical stage was not only the beginning of the whole society breaking through the price barrier, but also the beginning of the country's thrilling leap from a planned economy to a market economy, and the purpose was, of course, to finally make prices a signal to guide the allocation of resources.

However, we must not fail to admit that it is indeed a big detour that we have taken by spending so much effort to eliminate the market and eliminate prices. Now, if the market is restored and prices are recognized, the price to be paid will inevitably be quite heavy.