Linjiayuan Village, Lupu Town, Cangnan, Fuzhou, Jiangsu, Zhejiang,

A small village on the East China Sea.

Previously obscure,

Now it is the largest smuggling market in the vicinity.

Why can the people of Yuzhou get rich? On the one hand, he has a business mind, and on the other hand, he is bold and daring.

They drove fishing boats to the high seas, traded silver dollars with foreign smugglers, and brought back large quantities of Japanese goods to Hong Kong Island.

It is about 800 kilometers from Jiangcheng to Yuzhou, and the high-speed train only takes 3 hours, but in this era, the green train needs to take a day and a night.

Get off the train and continue on your way.

Take a bus to the county, take a passing truck to the town, and finally come to the outside of the village.

The market is not in the village, but on a dirt road for agricultural machinery outside the village, with flatbed trucks and tractors parked on both sides of the dirt road, and all kinds of goods are placed on the body, just like a rural market.

Walking past the stall, Lin Yi carefully looked at these smuggled goods, and thought about what to put in.

There are a lot of cloth sellers, indeed good, polyester serge, polyester knitting, mainly from Hong Kong, Japan, and even Taiwan Island, the quality is good, the color is more, the price is cheap and there is no need for a cloth ticket, and it will definitely be robbed if you get it back.

The biggest problem is that it is not easy to transport due to its large size.

TVs, most of the Japanese brands, now the mainstream is black and white TV, there are also color TVs, Lin Yi asked, the price can only be described as expensive.

Tape recorders, dual cards, single cards, single speakers, double speakers, four speakers, and all kinds of tapes are sold by the way.

There are also many stalls selling watches, such as electronic watches, quartz watches, Japanese mechanical watches, and even Swiss watches.

There are also cigarettes, bicycles, nylon umbrellas, nylon mosquito nets, electric fans, cameras, and video recorders.

Lin Yi stopped and went, asking about the price from time to time, and while understanding the market, he was thinking about what to buy and sell it back.

Excluding the fare to and fro, his capital is only five hundred.

You have to choose the kind of goods with low prices, high profits, and small and easy to carry, and finally Lin Yi decided to take the electronic watch back.

"Boss, how do you sell this kind of electronic watch?"

"12 pieces."

"12 is too expensive, cheaper."

"I have good quality, and I want to have a cheap one, this kind of eight yuan a piece." The boss picked up an electronic watch that looked like a cartoon toy watch and said.

"I'm going to want this kind of good."

"How much."

"50 pieces."

"Then 11 pieces."

"10 yuan, it's cheaper to buy so much at once."

bargained, and finally sold 50 yuan for 10 yuan a piece of the kind of electronic watch that was of good quality.

When he left, he now had just over 50 dollars left on him.

Now the speculation is very strict, Lin Yi didn't dare to swagger back with a pocket of watches, he thought of a way, now it has entered autumn, there is a coat outside the autumn coat, he borrowed a needle and thread from the proprietress in the hotel, tore the inside of the clothes, and sewed the watch on it piece by piece.

I looked at it in the mirror and nodded with satisfaction.

......

"Catch him~!"

There was a commotion in the carriage.

A middle-aged man was carrying some goods in his bag, and it was estimated that he also entered the private goods market, and was found out by the police.

This scene happened right in front of Lin Yi's eyes, his face was trying to keep his composure, but his heart was pounding.

The police continued to check, and when Lin Yi was checked, Lin Yi opened the ragged canvas bag, which contained a few clothes and a pack of snacks, and the police waved his hand to let him pull it up and check the luggage of the next person.

Get on the bus and check,

Check on the road,

Get out of the car and check.

There are still a few kilometers near the train station, and when the train is still moving, someone opened the window and threw bags of things down, Lin Yi looked outside curiously, and found that there were many people on the side of the train track, so he took the package and left.

Boy

When resisting Japan, the railway guerrillas used it.

After a day and a night, Lin Yi returned to Jiangcheng, and after passing the train security checkpoint, his mood was completely relaxed and he exhaled deeply.

Finally home safely.

The next step is to make money.

......

At the beginning of 1980, the State promulgated the Several Provisions on the Registration and Administration of Urban Individually-owned Industrial and Commercial Households.

People's hearts sprout,

The young seedlings pressed under the slate broke through the slate and quietly emerged.

Some people started small business, mostly agricultural products and craftsmen, but industrial products were still not liberalized, and a strictly planned economy was implemented.

Lin Yi rode his bicycle home, and saw the lady who sold eggs on the side of the road, the uncle who sold vegetables, the middle-aged man who sold fish, and the one who shaved his head, repaired shoes, and repaired bicycles.

The bicycle flexibly walked through the narrow alley, crossed a stone bridge, turned a corner and came to the entrance of a small courtyard, next to a small river, the river water is clear and flowing slowly, the city has many lakes and rivers, so it is named Jiangcheng.

There were two young people squatting in front of Lin Yi's house.

One is wearing a blue factory uniform, the other is wearing a green military uniform, the main color of the clothes in this era is blue, green, black, white and gray, and occasionally there are one or two women wearing red clothes on the street, which will attract people to look twice.

Seeing Lin Yi coming back, the two quickly stood up.

"Brother Yi."

"Brother Yi, you're back."

These two are Lin Yi's best friends in the world, the one in military uniform is called Li Xiangqian, and the one in blue factory uniform is called Jiang Wu.

Lin Yi got out of the car,

Li Xiangqian naturally caught the handlebar.

Jiang Wu took off the things hanging on the car, and said with a happy face: "Hey, this fish is big enough, and there are two bottles of small yellow crane towers." ”

Lin Yi took out the key to open the door and entered the courtyard directly, Li Xiangqian followed with the car behind, and Jiang Wu consciously went to the kitchen to clean up the fish and cook.

Meals are ready an hour later.

A pot of fish stew.

A bag of spiced peanuts,

Two bottles of Little Yellow Crane Tower.

The meal costs about four or five dollars.

In this era, it is already considered a luxury, after all, a regular worker nowadays has a salary of only more than 30 yuan a month, and a cadre is only forty or fifty.

It was dark, the lights in the courtyard were turned on, the four corners of the table were placed under the persimmon tree, and the three brothers ate and drank.

"Brother Yi, Xiao Wu shouted at me and said that you are looking for us to have something, and someone has provoked you? Guy what I brought. ”

Li Xiangqian said and teased the corner of the green military uniform, revealing the Mitsubishi thorn handle.

Li Xiangqian only came down from the southwest battlefield at the beginning of the year, and he had experienced real battles, killed people and seen blood, but he was a rural soldier, and he could only return to the rural areas of Jiangcheng County to work as a farmer regardless of the work assigned to him after leaving the army.

"I brought it too." Jiang Wu also took out a knife.

Lin Yi sighed,

The nature of people in this age.

Years of disasters and struggles have cultivated a more fierce character.

But I was also moved in my heart that there are so two brothers who are willing to work hard for themselves, which are worth cherishing for a lifetime.

"Put the guy away, no one messes with me, and I don't stab anyone, I called you here to ask you, do you want to make money?"

Jiang Wu and Li Xiangqian were both stunned.

"Making money, naturally I think, now I am poor and dead, and I can't afford to smoke." Jiang Wu sighed.

"You can't afford to smoke? I don't even have enough to eat. Li Xiangqian said.

Jiang Wu and Lin Yi are the same, they are both returning to their hometowns to know the youth, Lin Yi's family is now the only one left, one person is full of food and the whole family is not hungry, Jiang Wu's family of six, after returning to the city, his father asked someone to find a relationship, and finally let him enter the zipper factory as a temporary worker, get up early and be greedy for a month, and his salary is only nineteen yuan eight.

He's pretty good at that.

Li Xiangqian is even more difficult, after leaving the army, he returned to the village to farm to earn work, his family has a large population, and there are a total of eight grandparents, parents, brothers and sisters.

Pointing to that bit of work,

I really can't even eat.

As the eldest in the family, Li Xiangqian's desire to make money to improve his family's life is even more urgent, he is also twenty-three years old, and when he reaches the age of finding a partner, he thinks that his family is poor and burdened.

"Brother Yi, what is the way to make money?" Li Xiangqian asked.

"A few days ago, the newspaper said that the state encourages and supports the appropriate development of the individual economy, and different economic forms compete on the same stage, and many people outside have begun to become self-employed." Lin Yidao.

"Brother Yi, do you want to be self-employed?"

Lin Yi shook his head, "Most of the things that can be done by self-employed people have a foundation before, and it is difficult for us to intervene without capital or technology." ”

After speaking, he lowered his voice, "I plan to resell smuggled goods, especially imported contraband, that one will make money quickly." ”

Xiao Wu and Li Xiangqian's eyes widened at the same time.

"Brother Yi, do you want to speculate?"

A few days ago, Jiangcheng held a public arrest and public judgment meeting, the criminals hung signs around their necks, and their arms were tied on the back of the trucks.

Lin Yi took a sip of wine,

He put down his glass and dug it in his pocket, pulling out two things and placing them on the table.

"This is, electronic watch?!"

Jiang Wu recognized the electronic watch at a glance, shouted a little excitedly, reached out and took a piece and fiddled with it in his hand.

Electronic watches are a rarity in this day and age.

Li Xiangqian also took a piece and looked at it.

"Brother Yi, where did you get the electronic watch, this is a good thing." Jiang Wudao.

"Didn't I go out a few days ago, I went to Yuzhou, bought a batch of electronic watches, and planned to come back to sell them." Lin Yidao.

"How much do you think this watch will sell?" He asked, looking at the two of them.

Li Xiangqian shook his head, "I don't understand these Yi brothers. ”

Jiang Wu thought for a while, "Shanghai's performance is 120 yuan, and the plum blossoms are about the same, and they also need industrial coupons, so they have to sell for sixty or seventy." ”

"Don't want industrial coupons, do you think 50 is easy to sell?"

Jiang Wu's face was slightly startled, and he immediately said excitedly: "50 still don't want a ticket?" That's definitely easy to sell, I have to buy a piece if I have money! ”

There are four major things to say this year.

If the family conditions are better, when you get married, you should prepare a bicycle, a semiconductor radio, a sewing machine and a watch, commonly known as "three turns and one ring".

In the mid-to-late eighties, with the advancement of reform and opening up, people's living conditions improved, and electrical products gradually emerged, and the four major items became refrigerators, color TVs, washing machines and quartz watches.

Now that the planned economy is implemented, industrial coupons are required to buy industrial products, and those who go to work can still save a little, and ordinary workers and peasants have no chance to get industrial coupons, and watches are absolutely rare in this era.

Don't want industrial coupons, the price is half cheaper than the watches sold in the mall, which will definitely make many people excited.

"Brother Yi, did you call us here?"

"Selling goods, you take electronic watches to sell, sell a piece for 10 yuan, are you interested?" Lin Yidao.

Jiang Wu swallowed the fish in his mouth hard.

He worked hard in the zipper factory for only 19 yuan a month, and he could earn a month's salary by selling two watches, and he was immediately excited.

"I would like Brother Yi?" Jiang Wu agreed.

Li Xiangqian thought for a while, "I am also willing to Brother Yi." ”

Poverty, sometimes it will give people infinite strength, anyway, they are all poor like this, Lao Tzu doesn't care about fighting.

Wealth and danger are sought!

Lin Yi smiled and raised his glass, "Okay, a toast to our career!" ”