During the New Year's holiday, there was laughter and laughter on the streets, and red artillery battles were paved all over the roadside.

The boss Yang Wu also knows that no matter how you hide in the outside world, it is not home after all. In the New Year, I have to go home and sit in front of the TV to watch the New Year's party and have a reunion dinner. When I came back this time, I didn't eat what I said when I went out in the summer, and I helped Yang Quan bring two tapes with a conscience. I don't know if I bought it casually on the side of the road, or I chose it on purpose, Yang Quan listened to a few pop songs from Xiangjiang and even liked them.

Zhou Aifu also took the train for a few days and nights and shook back, and suddenly two adults were added to the family, and everyone suddenly realized that this family was indeed small.

The child has grown up, and there is not enough bed to squeeze the two brothers. When they were young, the two brothers couldn't pee in a pot, and although they had been sleeping in the same bed, they never agreed on their views, and after arguing countless times, they simply ignored anyone.

After the two came back this time, Yang Quan and Zhou Aifu were arranged to go to the office with a few quilts to make do. These two people have to talk at night, and they have been sleeping together for many years.

Yang Wu has not been very good outside for half a year, working in a small factory during the day in the coastal city, and at night he and his colleagues are blindly pondering opportunities to make a lot of money. I also have a salary of eighty or ninety yuan a month, which is just enough for wine.

This time, I asked the boss to advance my salary for the trip home, and when I got home, I was surprised to see that everything seemed to have changed a lot.

The walls of the room were refreshed and the sofa was replaced. The old factory closed down, and new production lines were built. The important thing is that this new factory has a lot to do with his own family, in Yang Wu's words, if the new factory is a baby, he is still a brother-in-law who is related by blood.

For the sake of Yang Quan's face, the girl's family who broke up with Yang Wu asked the media to raise the matter again, but this time it was Yang Wu's turn to be unwilling. has money in the family, and he can't look down on the woman who is thin and can't have a baby. If you have a high vision, you have to pick and choose more.

Yang Quan ignored the boss of the family, how to live his life. During the day, I hid in the office and read books comfortably, and bought a collection of Lu Xun's essays, a copy of "Wenxin Carving Dragon", and a sketch learning method from the library.

Although there are many books in Xinhua Bookstore, they are mainly for all ages and cultures at all levels, and there are not many suitable for Yang Quan. Relieve fatigue and change taste, these books are enough.

At dinner on the second day of the Lunar New Year, Zhou Aiping casually said at the dinner table that pork had become more expensive, which made Yang Quan suddenly remember that the price had broken through.

In September 1984, the first symposium of China's young economic theorists initiated by more than a dozen media units such as "Economic Weekly" and "China Youth" was held in Moganshan, Zhejiang Province, which was the Moganshan Conference. The meeting put forward a price reform plan -- to adopt a combination of regulation and release, that is, a "dual-track system".

The "dual-track system" refers to the unified pricing and allocation of products under the national directive plan, and the market pricing of products sold by enterprises.

In 1985, the State Council began to implement a "dual-track system" that combined regulation and decentralization in the means of production sector; in the same year, price reform began to take off, and the prices of agricultural and sideline products were adjusted and liberalized.

However, less than a year after the implementation of the "dual-track system", there was a "downfall of officials" in China, just as there was a popular saying at the time: "One billion people are 900 million down, and there are still 100 million people thinking." It refers to the abnormal phenomenon that there is an unplanned and unplanned "collusion" in society, and a lot of money can be made in the market by approving a single note.

At the end of 1986, the State Council recognized the economic chaos caused by the "dual-track" price, and the Beidaihe Conference in 1987 decided to implement the "price breakthrough" and completely abolish price control.

In March 1988, the "price break" first started in SH, and soon spread to the whole country, and then evolved into a frenzied rush to buy. "Starting from the refrigerator, color TV, and washing machine, salt, soap, wool, and toilet paper are basically bought as long as they are related to the necessities of life.

After Yang Quan heard that his mother's pork had risen, he immediately contacted the matter. At present, it is only February, and the price increase is only affected by some necessities due to holiday consumption. In a larger analysis, it may be that the state began to make banknote factories work overtime, which caused inflation, and unconsciously prices rose slightly.

In 1987, the investment in fixed assets increased by 23.6 billion yuan compared with 62.1 billion yuan in the previous year.

In order to get out of the predicament, the central government was forced to issue more currency, which further pushed up the momentum of inflation.

After Yang Quan returned to the office, he took a pen to conceive of several daily necessities with the largest rise, and items such as steel and coal were also doubling, which were not directly related to people's lives, so they paid less attention.

At nine o'clock in the evening, Zhou Aifu smoked a cigarette and got off the mahjong field, leisurely returned to the office, ready to sleep. In the New Year, I was busy playing cards during the day and mahjong at night. Someone has the meal ready, and it's time to go back to the office and sleep. Compared with Yuecheng, except for the colder weather, this kind of day is the envy of the gods.

"Er'er~, haven't slept yet?What about me, relying on my seniority, I'm going to criticize you here......" Zhou Aifu returned to the office and saw that the light was still on, Yang Quan sat on the desk with a pen to write and draw, immediately extinguished the cigarette in his hand, stretched out his finger and lit it on the table.

"Chinese New Year is Chinese New Year, and making money is making money. We have a finite amount of time in life, and there is no limit to the amount of money we can wait to be earned. If we put a limited amount of time into an unlimited amount of money-making work, we will definitely lose a lot of money. The Chinese New Year is a time for the people of the whole country to take a holiday and rest, and you and I are no exception, so how can you work during the rest time? Tomorrow your uncle will take you to play mahjong for entertainment. Zhou Aifu lit the table while squinting at the notebook, and said in a low voice.

Yang Quan saw Zhou Aifu coming in, his ears directly filtered the just now, and opened the book to explain: "Uncle, it's a good time for us to make money." I have counted the latest data showing that the annual GDP in '87 was 11,962.5 billion yuan, an increase of 11.6% over the previous year, while in '86 it was 8.8% higher than in '85, and in '85 it was 13.5% higher than in '84. ”

Zhou Aifu's mind was confused as soon as he heard these data, and he only remembered that two keywords had been added compared to the previous year, and he hurriedly reached out to stop it.

Yang Quan didn't see it, and continued with strokes in his hand: "In the data released in 87, the primary, secondary, and tertiary industries increased by 4.7%, 1 3.7%, and 14.4% respectively. The total investment in fixed assets was 379.17 billion yuan, an increase of 21.5 percent over the previous year. ”

Zhou Aifu stretched out his hand and said, "Don't water, talk about the point, talk about people." ”

Yang Quan coughed his throat, thinking that he had finally found a few convincing figures, but you didn't listen. Closing the notebook, he said: "I'll say the last number, the total retail price index for the whole year increased by 7.3% compared with the previous year. ”

Zhou Aifu said: "What does this mean? It means that the price has risen?"

Yang Quan said: "It shows that under the correct guidance of the reform and opening up policy, the policy of stabilizing the economy has achieved remarkable results, and the national economy is developing at a high speed. But there are also problems, there are loopholes in macroeconomic management, the aggregate demand of society exceeds the aggregate supply of society, and we are experiencing inflation. ”

Zhou Aifu said: "What does inflation mean......?

Yang Quan thought for a while: "Prices are rising. ”

Why use rising prices to describe inflation instead of currency depreciation. Although these two words influence each other, they are different.

Unlike currency depreciation, overall inflation is a decrease in the value of money in a given economy, while currency depreciation is a decrease in the relative value of money between economies. The former affects the value of the currency in the country in which it is used, while the latter affects the value of the currency in the international market. The correlation between the two is one of the economic controversies.

In Yang Quan's view, the inflation of '88 belongs to the level between rapid inflation and hyperinflation, which seriously affects normal life and social and economic development.

Zhou Aifu didn't expect it to rise much, but still didn't care and asked, "How much does it rise?"

Yang Quan said: "It may not rise much in a short period of time, about 10 percent. But under a specific policy, it may double or triple the price?"

Zhou Aifu knows what a specific policy means, and the dual-track price system is a specific policy. The difference between prices outside the dual-track system and within the two-track system is too large to be ignored, and if the country breaks the dual-track policy, the price rise is predictable to all. Zhou Aifu may not know what inflation is, but he will not be unaware of the dual-track system.

He took out a cigarette from his bosom, put it in his mouth, lit it and took a deep breath, slowly exhaled it and asked, "You mean stockpiling?"