Learn? When I was studying, you didn't know if it started to divide from a single cell!

Zhong Bai ignored the young man, but rushed straight towards Bayi Street.

After reversing the two buses, it took half an hour, and after seeing the Chinese characters of "Bayi Street >" written on the iron white road sign on the side of the road appear in his eyes, Zhong Bai got off the bus and squinted at the entrance of the street, and a familiar prototype of a small commodity city immediately appeared in his eyes.

From the flow of people at the entrance of the street, it can be seen that the grassroots people in China who have just reformed and opened up have a large demand for all kinds of commodities.

Bayi Street was a famous wholesale market in Tiandu in the early 80s, and almost all the small and large commodities in the province were concentrated on this street with a length of no more than 600 meters.

Now you can already see some bosses wearing gold and silver, and the rhythm of nouveau riche is negotiating with customers in the store, which makes Zhong Bai feel a little surprised.

But it's right to think about it, although the classic sentence "let some people get rich first, and then drive others to get rich" has not yet been proposed, but the objective law cannot be changed, which is also a specific manifestation of China's slow economic take-off in the 80s.

When he came to the "Longkou Store" in the mouth of the young man, when he saw Zhong Bai enter the door, a middle-aged boss immediately greeted him, but after looking at him twice, his face did not seem to be very affectionate, but said coldly.

"Where did the young man come from, don't wander around the store if it's okay."

Obviously, this is another boss who speaks so indifferently because he sees his young face.

But Zhong Bai didn't mind at all, because he was here to investigate the market situation today anyway, so it didn't matter if he was a little blind, as long as he could get useful information.

In addition, the people of Tiandu are affectionate to the locals, and they are known for their indifference to outsiders, especially for the people from the following areas and counties, it can be said that they have always been superior to others in terms of mentality, and this is not a day or two.

So he immediately spoke a proficient Tiandu dialect and asked: "Comrade, I heard from a friend that you have the latest trendy toad glasses for sale here, I don't know how much a pair is?" I'd like to take some to the area below to sell. ”

As soon as he heard Zhong Bai's proficient Tiandu dialect, the boss's face suddenly turned cloudy and clear, and he laughed and said, "Hehe, if you don't speak, I thought you were one of those young people who came from other places to study in Tiandu." What's the matter, someone in the family is self-employed? Want to learn how to sell things and make money? ”

Why do I talk to you about business, but you come up and talk to me about it?

Zhong Bai was a little puzzled, but he was quickly relieved.

Because in these years, self-employed people are originally rare and rare, and it is often some people who choose to take the initiative to be self-employed, and they are basically not young, where is he so young?

So it's normal for the boss to ask like this.

Zhong Bai immediately followed the other party's words and said, nodded and said: "Yes, my uncle is a self-employed person in the Pingyang area, I just graduated from a technical school this year, and I don't look down on the factory assigned to the county, the uncle said that I can make money by doing business with him, and I heard that the toad mirror has been very popular recently, after all, the uncle has not returned to Tiandu for many years, so let me inquire in Tiandu, if appropriate, I will help him buy goods and sell them in Pingyang." ”

"No wonder, I'll just say that you are a good Tiandu doll, how can you be willing to go to the kind of place in Pingyang area where birds don't poop to do business? It turned out that there were relatives at home. The boss suddenly realized: "This toad mirror is indeed popular every day, I can sell one or two pairs of retail sales a day, but they are all sold quietly." ”

"Quietly selling?" Zhong Bai frowned and asked.

The boss lowered his voice and said in a pointing tone: "You haven't done business at first glance." Tianyi is no smaller place than Pingyang, the top is strictly controlled, the policy is not clear yet, and these toad mirrors are all obtained from foreign countries, do you think you can sell them on the street casually? ”

"What policy is not clear? Uncle, I really don't understand this. Zhong Bai half-seriously addressed the other party as "uncle", which is also a common name for strange elders in Tiandu, and asked.

The boss obviously has a good rhythm of being a teacher: "You are asking the right person, and other families probably won't tell you this." The toad mirrors that are sold in the whole Tiandu now are all from the Xiangjiang side, and these things can only be bought with dollars, dollars! The state is very strict in the management of foreign exchange, and foreign exchange is not used to buy these things, but to buy those machines and technologies, so it is controlled above, you know? ”

"And that said?" Zhong Bai looked very cooperative, and pretended to ask rhetorically.

It turned out that the other party was talking about this, and Zhong Bai actually understood it very well.

Although this boss is a bit tricky, there is nothing wrong with his words in general.

In 81 years, China's foreign exchange reserves were very limited, and the country paid attention to concentrating big money to do big things, and most of the foreign exchange reserves were used to import a large number of industrial machinery and technology from foreign countries, and only a very small amount was used to buy light industrial products and toad mirrors, which were not even considered necessities of life.

This is also the reason why genuine MD toad mirrors can be sold at a high price in China, because most of their sources are not the Lingnan Guangfu mentioned by Zhong Bai, but another international financial center across the Xiangjiang River - HK.

Speaking of HK, YG was still a colony in '81, and it won't be returned to China until 16 years later, so many of the foreign goods imported from HK are not through formal channels.

The existence of this phenomenon is indeed because of the special phenomenon created by this history, but any phenomenon has two sides, on the one hand, it does make China lose part of its foreign exchange, but the amount is not much; On the other hand, these foreign commodities entered the vast mainland of China through the special channel of HK, which also satisfied the needs of some of the people for cultural life.

Yes, this is also the reason why Huaguo is not strong enough at present, if it is imported from MD in a dignified manner, even if tariffs are added, how expensive can these toad mirrors be?

In the final analysis, it is because China's current industry is not strong enough, and this is the most fundamental reason, if our country's industry is strong, the country does not need to spend so much foreign exchange to buy those industrial machines and equipment that have been eliminated by them from foreign countries, and there will be more money that can be used to improve the living standards of the people and the needs of spiritual civilization?

Seeing Zhong Bai standing in place and not speaking, the boss thought that he had calmed the other party, poked his arm with his hand and said: "Young man, don't think about those who have and don't, and the policy is not something that we ordinary people can change, let's talk about business, how much money is your uncle going to buy?" ”

"Uh, uncle...... I'd better take a look at the goods first, otherwise I don't even see the goods, how dare I talk nonsense? Zhong Bai didn't answer, but asked rhetorically.