Chapter XXXV. Convoys

The early summer sun shines on the surface of the Songhua River, and from a distance, it is sparkling.

The grass and red and yellow wildflowers were basking in the fiery sun that hung high in the sky, and the air was filled with sweetness.

Under the shade of a tree by the river, Li Zhongxin's right hand blocked the sparkling light spots the size of copper coins transmitted through the dense layers of branches and leaves, and looked happily at the busy crowd in the distance.

After savoring Wang Bo's recent report for a while, Li Zhong's confidence sprouted new ideas.

Seeing that there were more people fishing and picking fish, Li Zhongxin pondered for a while, and he called Bai Yunpeng's third uncle Bai Fengyi out alone.

Let him and a few people who are nimble in the fishing team form a transport team, which is responsible for riding bicycles to the surrounding towns near Jiangcheng to sell fish.

Two circles are made of iron wire (line 8) on the back seat of a large two-eight bicycle, fixed with pliers, and a hardwood stick is threaded through the middle of the circle, and two baskets are hung at both ends of the stick, or two sacks are hung to form a mobile transport vehicle.

In the 80s, unlike later generations, most of them used bicycles when they went out, and people in the prime of life rode dozens of kilometers every day without anything, that is, women carried a hundred and ten pounds of things, and they could ride a long distance.

There are many fish, and the daily sales volume increases, and Jiangcheng can't sell out, so naturally more people need to go out and sell in the towns and villages around Jiangcheng.

Interests are the source that drives people to work hard, and the formation of such a long-distance transport team can obtain higher benefits, and Li Zhongxin will naturally not let it go.

Most importantly, Li Zhongxin formed these long-distance transportation teams in order to better help him collect old stamps and some old objects in the surrounding area.

Li Zhong is confident that these young people who ride and deliver goods will definitely have considerable income in the future according to his arrangement.

A pound of fish is wholesaled to them for one or two cents, and they go to the countryside to exchange for it, and the price of each pound of big fish can sometimes even increase by two or three times.

If you catch up with the place where there is a wedding, you can earn a full ditch at one time.

In the early eighties, most people would not be in business, because business was not only despised by most people, but also met all kinds of people.

If a person has a stable job, he will never consider going into business.

At this time, the materials are controlled by the state, that is, if you want to do business, you also need to have something to sell, and it is precisely because of such a reason that urban people do not like to do business, let alone be that kind of capitalist roader.

The peasants in the suburbs are different, not to mention the lack of land, and there is no other income, and they have to look at the year to eat by relying on the weather, and when the year is good, it is nothing more than some more rations, so that the family can be fed.

If you catch up with the bad year, you won't even be able to open the pot at home.

Selling fish in various places in the company of Faithfulness is enough to earn more than the senior workers in the city every day, and as long as you can endure the hardships, the money you will earn by the autumn harvest will definitely be more than twice the income of a year, and only a little more.

Staying at home in the summer, money will never fall from the sky like pie.

Li Zhongxin does not have very high requirements for these people, they receive fish from Zhongxin Company every day, and they receive it at wholesale prices, and they sell it at retail prices when they go to villages and towns outside or farther places.

The pricing mechanism set by Li Zhongxin is very simple, the retail price can be considered according to the distance of the price, but there is a premise for the price increase, that is, the average price of fish sold in the local area is not higher than the local fish price.

In exchange for something, as long as it is grain, non-staple food, or some kind of Ming and Qing dynasties or early big money, these can be given preferential treatment to the exchanger.

As long as there is a surplus of zodiac tickets in the post office, they must tell the Zhongxin company about it, and the Zhongxin company will send personnel to the post office to buy the zodiac ticket.

Originally, Li Zhongxin only wanted to buy monkey tickets, because after all, only monkey tickets were the most valuable in later generations, and the price had doubled the most.

However, Li Zhongxin also knew that when the monkey ticket began to be valuable, the chicken ticket for 81 years and the dog ticket for 82 years also climbed all the way, but in the end, only the monkey ticket was the only one.

At this time, Li Zhongxin has a lot of spare money in his hands, and it is definitely better to turn this money into stamps that can increase in value quickly.

Now eight cents a piece to buy a stamp, and when he uses the money in a few years, the price of each stamp will increase by dozens of heels, even if it does not rise high.

In '82, the T-prefix and J-prefix stamps also had a large proportion of the post offices, which were very different from the big post offices in the city.

In the big cities in the 80s, there have been philatelic enthusiasts one after another, and the towns at this time to eat enough is a problem, although there are also some people who want to catch up with the fashion to engage in philately, there are also a few rich people will burn bags to buy some stamps, but the ability to buy stamps and the city is not comparable at all.

At this time, the more the township post office, the more stamps of all kinds will be left.

Jiangcheng is already a remote area, and the villages and towns below Jiangcheng are even more representative of remote areas, and it is precisely because of this situation that although Li Zhongxin receives a lot of money from fishing every day, there is almost no money left.

In addition to stamps and old objects, Li Zhongxin also told the people who went to the towns to pay attention to collecting some rural game and hazelnut mushrooms.

In the early 80s, you had to use a ticket to buy everything, and many things could not be bought with money, but now there are those that can be exchanged, and Li Zhongxin feels that some exchanges must be made, at least so that his family and some people around him can eat some rare things.

After being reborn, what Li Zhongxin wanted to do most was to make his family happy, he bought TV, he had spiritual food, and the rest had to be found materially.

Although Jiangcheng is not a historical city, and there is no comparison with the capital and other regions, no matter how small the lids are, they are still meat, and in order to live a happy life in the future, Li Zhongxin still needs to make such a choice.

At this time, what Qing Dynasty dragon tickets and the motherland are red are no longer seen on the market, but the monkey ticket has not been recognized by people at this time.

Monkey stamps are the first set of zodiac stamps issued in 1980, at that time, after the postal company issued, it was not recognized by the people, because stamps are after all things to send credit, people only pay attention to the face value of stamps at this time.

In the 80s, there were very few telephones, and ordinary people could not afford to install telephones, nor could they afford to make phone calls, and the contact methods in this era basically relied on writing letters.

The monkey stamp is black on a red background, and the printing is very exquisite, because there are many cases of philatelic indiscriminate letters, and many people are afraid that sending letters with such a stamp will make the recipient unable to receive it.

It is not so troublesome to mail with ordinary stamps, so not many people are willing to send letters with monkey stamps soon after the 80 edition of the monkey stamps were printed.