"By the way, Brother Song, the day before yesterday, I had a phone call with Brother Zhengguo, and asked him to come to Yangcheng directly to meet after he arrived in Pengcheng. But now Pengcheng doesn't even have a place to live, just a guest house is still in tatters and there are few rooms, and I asked last time I went over, and now the rooms are all booked out at the end of the month, and there is no place to live, unless you borrow it from local farmers. ”

In the end, Gu Jie remembered this matter and explained it to Song Yuanchao, Song Yuanchao frowned after hearing it, he didn't expect that Pengcheng would be like this now.

At first, Song Yuanchao arranged the meeting place in Pengcheng, and Pengcheng was closer to Xiangjiang and convenient to come and go. Second, in a few days, it will be the official establishment of the special zone in Pengcheng, and Lin Daoyuan will meet them in Pengcheng, but now Gu Jie actually said that Pengcheng has no place to live, and the guest house has long been booked, which makes Song Yuanchao a little unprepared.

After thinking about it, Song Yuanchao put this matter aside for the time being, he planned to take the time to call Lin Daoyuan to ask about the situation, if it really didn't work, they would go to Pengcheng that day and then go back and forth, anyway, it was convenient to have a car, at most it would take some time on the road.

Song Yuanchao knew more about the later generations of Pengcheng, but he didn't know much about the days when the Pengcheng Special Economic Zone was first established.

This is actually not to blame Song Yuanchao, after all, at that time Song Yuanchao was just a temporary worker of an engineering company under the telephone bureau, and his daily work was only dealing with wires and telephones, and he was tired like a dog at work, and when he got home, he only thought about oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, eating and sleeping, where would he care about those national affairs?

What's more, these national events were too far away from Song Yuanchao, who was an ordinary person at that time, and he only knew some relevant news in newspapers and TV at most, and when Song Yuanchao went to Pengcheng in later generations, it was already in the early nineties, and Pengcheng at that time had long been different from the past and had changed greatly.

In fact, the same is true, when the Pengcheng Special Economic Zone was just established, the conditions of the whole Pengcheng were extremely poor, just like Gu Jie described, the road was not easy to walk, the place to live was not good, and there were often water and power outages, and there were large areas of farmland all around, so it could be said that there was nothing to want.

This kind of place can't see any future at all, and no one will believe that Pengcheng will be in less than ten years, and its development speed has shocked the whole world, thus completely opening the pace of rapid development of reform and opening up.

Before 1981, there were no hotels in Pengcheng, and some were the guest houses that Gu Jie said. The first hotel in Pengcheng is the Zhuyuan Hotel in Luohu, which is also the first Sino-foreign cooperative hotel in China (I remember yes, please correct if there is a mistake).

With the completion and opening of the Zhuyuan Hotel, Pengcheng finally has a place to receive merchants, and then the East Lake Hotel opened in 1982 opened a series of hotels in Pengcheng The construction boom of a series of hotels in Pengcheng was completed and opened in 1986, marking that Pengcheng has been at the forefront of the road of reform and opening up.

"There's no urgency here, anyway, there are still a few days to go, let me think about it."

"Brother Song, there's one more thing ......." Just as Song Yuanchao frowned and thought about it, Gu Jie suddenly remembered something, he approached Song Yuanchao with a mysterious look and said, "I met someone on the street a few days ago, guess who I met?" ”

"How can I guess that?" Song Yuanchao immediately smiled when he saw him like this, this world is so big, and people he knows say so, and he guessed that he was not a roundworm in Gu Jie's stomach.

"Zhang Bin......!"

A familiar name came out of Gu Jie's mouth, which made Song Yuanchao stunned for a moment, how long had he not heard this name? It's been a year and a half.

After the Spring Festival in 1979, Song Yuanchao returned to Shanghai from the northwest, and the first thing he did in Shanghai was to pull Li Daqi, Gu Jie and others to engage in the trading of hangers.

The trading of hangers earned the first pot of gold for Song Yuanchao and others, and it was precisely with the harvest from the sale of hangers that there was a series of later developments.

When I was making hangers back then, in addition to Song Yuanchao, Li Daqi and Gu Jie, there were actually two people, that is, Zhang Bin and Wang Jianjun.

Zhang Bin and Wang Jianjun are not only Li Daqi's friends, but also Song Yuanchao's junior high school classmates, at that time, the two of them were pulled into this group, firstly, they were acquaintances, and secondly, they were also pulled by their classmates, thinking that at that time, they were all educated youths who returned to Shanghai, with neither jobs nor income, and their lives were very unsatisfactory after they came back.

But Song Yuanchao and they never expected that when the business of hangers had just been formalized, Zhang Bin and Wang Jianjun broke up with Song Yuanchao and them under the trend of interests, and after the gang was dispersed, Zhang Bin and Wang Jianjun not only secretly dug up the corners of Song Yuanchao, but also found a few people to pull out and work alone, and even formed a gang to engage in bullying and dominating the market for the sake of interests.

At that time, Wang Jianjun and several young people who followed them were arrested in the air-raid shelter where they were making hangers, and Zhang Bin happened to be not there, and after learning the news, he ran directly from the vegetable market with complex terrain, and no one knew Zhang Bin's whereabouts anymore.

When he ran, Zhang Bin directly took away the money that Wang Jianjun put on his side, which was originally used to buy raw materials, but before Zhang Bin could buy raw materials, something happened, so as soon as Zhang Bin ran away, the money disappeared with Zhang Bin.

According to Wang Jianjun's later statement, this money is more than 4,000 yuan, but if you add the money owned by Zhang Bin himself, I am afraid that the total amount exceeds 5,000.

Not to mention last year, even now this 5,000 yuan is not a small amount, if calculated according to the salary of ordinary workers of about 50 yuan a month, this 5,000 yuan is the total income of ordinary workers for more than eight years, which is an out-and-out huge amount of money.

Wang Jianjun didn't talk about this person for the time being, this guy couldn't live because of his own evil, and he was finally arrested, and now I don't know where to squat and eat in prison.

And Zhang Bin brought this huge amount of money like the world evaporated, the public security looked for him for more than half a year and didn't find his figure, but who would have thought that he would appear in Yangcheng now.

"Are you sure you're right?" When Song Yuanchao learned that Gu Jie saw Zhang Bin in Yangcheng, he was surprised and couldn't help asking.

"How could I admit my mistake, I know this kid turned to ashes." Gu Jie said categorically: "At that time, I was driving at a traffic light and stopped to light a cigarette, this kid walked directly in front of my car, for a while I thought I was dazzled, and when I reacted and planned to get out of the car to chase him, this guy was gone." ”

Gu Jie recounted the scene when he met Zhang Bin, that day he drove to deliver a batch of goods, and on the way back waiting for the traffic light, the fashionably dressed Zhang Bin walked past his car, at first Gu Jie really thought that he was dazzled and recognized the wrong person, and when he reacted and looked carefully, wasn't the person in the past Zhang Bin?

Although Zhang Bin's dress is different from before, his hair is longer than when he was in Huhai, and he still wears a deputy microphone mirror and looks like a dog, but Gu Jie will definitely not admit it, just like he said, Zhang Bin can recognize it even if he turns into ashes.

"That's it?"

"That's right! Just this one. Gu Jie nodded and said, "I went there a few times and didn't run into this guy, I don't know if he happened to be passing by that day or what to say." He seems to be mixing well, and he wears five or six people, and he doesn't know what he's doing now. ”

Song Yuanchao frowned, thought about it, shook his head and said, "Forget it, don't tell anyone else about this, just treat it as if it never happened." Although Zhang Bin's kid is not authentic, he was also a partner friend at the beginning, and now we take our Yangguan Road, he takes his single-plank bridge, what does he do. ”

"I see." Gu Jie nodded and didn't mention it anymore, at this time Li Daqi came back, knocked on the door and came in to see Song Yuanchao and Gu Jie chatting, he also sat down, and the three of them continued to talk for a while, and soon it was lunch time, and everyone went downstairs to eat together.

Lunch was eaten on the second floor, because there were many people now, and they were usually busy, so Gu Jie specially invited a local grandmother to help them cook.

Grandma's food is good, although it is not as good as the restaurant, but it has a homely taste, after eating, everyone went upstairs to rest, Song Yuanchao took a shower, changed into dry clothes, and lay on the bed thinking about it.

That night, Song Yuanchao called Lin Daoyuan in Yanjing and told Lin Daoyuan about the residence in Pengcheng that he had heard. Lin Daoyuan was not very clear about the information fed back by Song Yuanchao, so he asked Song Yuanchao to leave his phone number and call him later.

An hour later, Lin Daoyuan's phone call came back again, and on the phone, Lin Daoyuan told Song Yuanchao that the conditions on Pengcheng's side were indeed not very good, so the original idea of letting Song Yuanchao and Lin Yan live in Pengcheng together was now unrealistic, and even Lin Daoyuan himself was afraid that he would return to Yangcheng that day, so let Song Yuanchao and them still live in Yangcheng, and wait for the early departure of the day to meet in Pengcheng.

Since Lin Daoyuan said so, Song Yuanchao arranged it like this, and after determining the time on the phone, Song Yuanchao hung up the phone.

The next day, Song Yuanchao and Li Daqi, accompanied by Gu Jie, visited various markets in Yangcheng, looked at the specific situation in Yangcheng, even ate lunch outside, and went out in the morning until the evening and did not come back.

And Lin Yan has been with Ying Caixia all the time, plus Gu Jie is not there, Ying Caixia needs to be in charge here on Gaodi Street, Lin Yan is very interested in Ying Caixia's work, and she just took this opportunity to help in the store, and at the same time familiarize herself with their business in Yangcheng.

On the third day of Song Yuanchao's arrival in Yangcheng, Qin Zhengguo, who came from Xiangjiang, also crossed the border from Luohu and returned from Pengcheng.

On the day Qin Zhengguo came, Song Yuanchao and Gu Jie went to pick him up in person, and by the way, they also happened to see the specific situation in Pengcheng. When he arrived at the local Song Yuanchao, he was sure that what Gu Jie said was not right at all, the current Pengcheng was not the Pengcheng of later generations at all, and it was a loss to make arrangements as soon as possible, otherwise I am afraid that I would not even be able to find a place to live according to the original gathering in Pengcheng.