Time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle.

The time soon came to April 1981, and Liang Kun and Wang Hai took the Guangzhou-Kowloon through train and came to Guangzhou again.

The first stop of Liangkun's trip to Guangzhou was to participate in the Canton Fair.

In order to receive Liangkun and his entourage, the Guangdong Provincial Government actually sent a special reception staff.

Don't think crookedly, this receptionist is not a beauty, but a middle-aged male accountant in a state-run teahouse, named Kang Ershou.

Wang Hai smiled and said nothing about the arrangement of the Guangzhou Provincial Government, which seemed to be a basic exercise6.

Kang Ershou said to Wang Hai: "Boss Wang, meet again!" ”

Wang Hai also said hello to Kang Ershou lukewarmly.

Liangkun took the initiative to introduce himself: "My name is Lin Huaikun, just call me Liangkun, not a big boss, don't call me 'Boss Lin', thank you." ”

Kang Ershou praised with a smile on his face: "Boss Lin is really beautiful. ”

Kang Ershou took Liangkun and Wang Hai to the venue of the Canton Fair - Liuhua Road, which was still a suburb at this time, so it was necessary to take a taxi to get there.

Kang Ershou, who sat in the co-pilot, said: "The full name of the Canton Fair is called China Import and Export Fair, which was founded on April 25, 1957, jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Commerce and the Guangdong Provincial People's Government, and held in Guangzhou in spring and autumn every year. In order to run the Canton Fair well, the Ministry of Commerce also set up a China Foreign Trade Center in Guangzhou last year, which is specifically responsible for hosting the Canton Fair; As for the Guangzhou Municipal Government, as early as 1956, according to Premier Zhou's suggestion, the Guangzhou Automobile Company was established and established, which was one of the earliest taxi companies in China after the Beijing Capital Automobile Company. The Isuzu car we were riding in belonged to the Guangzhou Automobile Company. As the saying goes, there are three treasures in Guangzhou: driver, doctor, and pork guy. The driver here is our comrade taxi driver. ”

The taxi driver smiled and said, "Comber, don't make fun of me." It's so hard to drive a taxi, how can you sit in a teahouse all day long, sigh tea and listen to birds, and get a salary, and come comfortably? ”

Liangkun nodded in his heart, it is really good to arrange this Kang Bolai, he looks burly and upright, but he is humorous and good at relationships, which is better than some vases that just have a good-looking face but an empty stomach and an empty head.

Entering the venue, Liangkun and Wang Hai visited accompanied by Comber.

Judging from the slogan at the venue, the Canton Fair at this time was still exhibited by various professional head offices, which was also convenient for Liangkun to find what he wanted.

In the exhibition area of the China Tea Import and Export Corporation, a subsidiary of the China National Import and Export Corporation of Native Products and Animal Products, Liangkun frightened the staff in charge of reception with a word.

A receptionist in a four-pocket blue tunic was stunned and asked in Mandarin, "Sir, are you saying you want $500,000 in Pu'er?" ”

"I'm sorry, I don't know if you understand Cantonese." Liangkun also said in Mandarin: "What? Are you too little? That's a lot! I'm also working hard to make money! ”

Wang Hai smiled and said: "Our brother Kun didn't talk nonsense, he really worked hard to make money." ”

Because he often travels back and forth between provinces and Hong Kong, Wang Hai can understand Mandarin, but he can't speak, so the staff still can't understand his words.

Liangkun looked at Wang Hai strangely, and then realized that something was wrong.

The receptionist said: "I remember last year's Canton Fair, our country exported more than 1,000 tons of Pu'er tea to Hong Kong and Macao, and the foreign exchange earned was less than 500,000 US dollars. This is already big news, and at $500 per tonne, that's the best of the best. ”

In 1981, the dollar was still at an all-time low of 1.75 yuan against the yuan. But in fact, the US dollar at this time is an international currency, equivalent to gold, and is also called "US dollars"; And what about the yuan? It can only be circulated in China, and even the member countries of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance at this time do not recognize the renminbi, only some symbolic foreign exchange reserves. Therefore, for a long time, obtaining foreign exchange, especially hard currency such as the US dollar, is an important task for China's foreign export trading companies.

On the first day of the opening of the Canton Fair, a deal of 500,000 US dollars was reached, which is definitely worthy of the propaganda phrase "winning the first battle".

Soon, in the exhibition area of the China Grain, Oil and Food Trading Company, Liangkun shocked the staff with another $500,000 deal.

Liangkun also said to Wang Hai: "Four dollars a bottle of Moutai is too cheap." ”

Hearing the accompanying Comber, he was speechless for a while, "Boss Lin, 500,000 US dollars is more than 100,000 bottles of Moutai, what year are you going to drink it?" ”

Liangkun said to Comber: "Comber, didn't you call me 'Liangkun', not 'Boss Lin'?" ”

Kang Ershou said: "Speaking of which, I am also from Xiguan, but a big high roller like you is not the boss, who can be called the boss?" ”

At this time, a Moutai staff member who looked like a leader said to Liangkun: "Mr. Lin, our Moutai production plan this year is only 2.5 million bottles, and the export target is 500,000 bottles, and you will take a quarter of this transaction, and we have no way to deliver it for the time being, you see......"

Liangkun said: "It's okay, I can give you the money first." I'll find a warehouse in Guangzhou to store it, and your delivery will be delivered to my warehouse in Guangzhou. However, I have one request. ”

The staff said, "Please say, as long as it is a reasonable request, we can agree." ”

Liangkun said: "The goods you shipped, I only received them according to the good packaging, and if there is damage on the way, you will be responsible for replacing and replenishing the goods." ”

The staff wiped the cold sweat from his head and said, "This is as it should be, we can promise." ”

After buying Pu'er and Moutai, the "ammunition" prepared by Liangkun ran out at once, and it was time to leave.

On the way out of the Canton Fair venue, Liangkun couldn't help but say to Wang Hai: "This is really, it's easier to spend money than, and it's harder to make money than to eat!" ”

Wang Hai thought for a while and said, "Actually, it's better for you to spend the money in place like this." Every time I came to Guangzhou, the leaders of those military regions warmly invited me to attend the Canton Fair. Of course, I can't refute this face, but I can't just look at it and not buy it. Which time do not sprinkle hundreds of thousands of pieces, buy a bunch of shelf-stable handicrafts and put them in the warehouse to eat ashes, and send them when you see people during the New Year's holidays. If something is sent out, it will be annoying. This time, you bought enough wine and tea for you to drink for a lifetime, and I don't think those military leaders will invite you to the Canton Fair again. I've learned another trick! ”

"Pu'er tea has been popular in Hong Kong for many years, mainly because Yunnan has the cheapest Pu'er tea, which is used as free tea by tea houses and teahouses," Liang Kun said. Later, the price of Pu'er tea rose and tea houses no longer provided free tea, but they cultivated the habit of Hong Kong people who like to drink Pu'er tea. Rich people drink tea not only to talk about the taste, origin, and type of original tea of Pu'er tea cakes, but also to start to value Chen, the older the Pu'er tea cakes, the higher the price is speculated. If I save these pu'er, I won't lose anything. ”

Wang Hai said: "It's reasonable for you to buy Pu'er, if you want to sell Moutai in Hong Kong, it's really difficult!" ”

Liangkun said: "You also know that Moutai is specially for the People's Liberation Army and national leaders. The mainland compatriots will not be so poor forever, and when they become rich, there will be a market for these Moutai. I don't need to cultivate the market, Moutai is born a luxury. Moreover, the wine is the fragrance of Chen, and the more my batch of Moutai goes on, the more expensive it becomes! ”

Wang Hai said: "I don't know if I can see that day!" ”

Kang Ershou turned his head from the co-pilot of the car and asked, "Two bosses, are you going back to the military guest house directly, or where are you going?" ”

Liang Kun said: "As the saying goes, the food is in Guangzhou, and the taste is in Xiguan. I want to eat some authentic Guangzhou Xiguan food. Comber, I heard you say that your family lives in Xiguan. I don't know if it's inconvenient, you can lead the way and find a delicious Xiguan restaurant? ”

Kang Ershou smiled: "Convenient, how can it be inconvenient?" The two bosses are patriots who support the construction of the country, and of course I will try my best to meet the requirements of the two bosses. Chen Tianji, Lane 15, Baohua Road, is good, it is a time-honored brand in Xiguan, why don't you go there? ”

Liangkun said: "Comber, anyway, it's almost dinner time. Since you are delayed from going home for dinner, it is better to call your family and I will treat you! Everyone eats together, and it is also a little lively. ”

Kang Ershou said: "This is not good, you are guests from Hong Kong from afar, how can you invite my family to dinner?" This is a violation of foreign affairs discipline. ”

Liangkun said: "What kind of foreign affairs discipline? We Hong Kong people are also Chinese, not outsiders. I hit it off with you, and you've been running with us all day, so it's reasonable to treat you to a meal. That's it! ”

Kang Ershou originally wanted to refuse, but thinking that his wife and children had not had a tooth sacrifice for a long time, he had to agree half-pushing, half-on-the-spot.

The car came to Chen Tianji's snack bar, and after Liangkun got out of the car, he said to the driver: "Comrade driver, I want to trouble you to take Comber home to pick up his family." ”

The driver said: "Don't bother, Comber doesn't have to follow, I know his family, I know his wife Aunt Kang and his four sons." ”

Liang Kunqi said: "Comber, do you have four sons?" ”

Kang Ershou said proudly: "Yes! As I said, there is great power in numbers! Build socialism together! ”

Walking into the small store of Chen Tian Kee Snack Bar, Kang Ershou introduced: "His family only sells three snacks: ancestral cool fish skin, steamed pork rice noodles with soy sauce and traditional Xiguan boat porridge. However, everything is delicious. However, Boss Lin, can you pay dollars when the time comes? It is more cost-effective not to count according to the official seven cents and five cents, but to count it as ten dollars on the black market. ”

Liangkun looked at Kang Ershou's burly figure and righteous face, and had a line in his heart that Chen Xiaoer wanted to say: "I can't think of it, I can't think of it, you guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes actually play the foreign exchange black market." ”

However, think about it, Xiguan is the place with the strongest commercial atmosphere in Guangzhou.

Xiguan, named after its location outside the west gate of Guangzhou City under the jurisdiction of Nanhai County during the Ming and Qing dynasties, was the only treaty port for China's foreign trade at that time, but all merchants from the West who crossed the ocean needed to enter Chinese mainland through it. More than 1,400 years ago, the Indian monk Bodhidharma went to China to preach, and landed in Xiguan.

During the Manchu Dynasty, the four major families of the Thirteen Lines "Pan Lu Wuye" became rich and expensive officials and merchants who reached the imperial court because of the foreign trade monopoly policy of "one mouth".

Seeing that the merchants of the Thirteen Lines got rich first, the aborigines of Xiguan followed suit. Foreign trade is not done by everyone, and the aborigines poured into the surrounding industries of foreign trade, opening the machine room for weaving, printing and dyeing for export. Due to the fact that the weaving industry has less capital and more profits, machine rooms have sprung up. As a result, on the one hand, a large number of farmhouses were converted into machine houses, and on the other hand, the indigenous people abandoned their farmland and became factory owners.

At the same time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty's policy of "moving the border and forbidding the sea" also brought a large number of unemployed labor resources to the textile industry in Xiguan. The Tan family, who were forced by the Manchu government to give up their lives as fishermen and relocate to the interior, began to pour into the computer room to work, and were called "computer room boys".

Of course, it is better to work than to farm or fish, and I heard that there is an opportunity to break away from agricultural production facing the loess or fishery production that is precarious, and the poor peasants of the three rivers and five mountains are pouring into Xiguan like a tide of agriculture.

This is the formation of Xiguan like the "Qingming Riverside Map".

Kang Ershou's family also arrived, and Kang Ershou's wife Wang Yulian took her four sons Kang Qiguang, Kang Qizong, Kang Qiyao, and Kang Qizu.

Wang Yulian looks gentle and virtuous, a traditional Guangdong housekeeper mother-in-law, currently working in a state-owned cotton spinning factory, which can be regarded as a continuation of the tradition of her ancestors as a "machine room boy".

The eldest son, Kang Qiguang, also works in the factory where Wang Yulian works, but he is not a regular worker, just an apprentice.

The second son, Kang Qizong, has just returned to Guangzhou from Conghua, where he "went to the mountains and the countryside", and has not yet found a job, so he is unemployed at home.

The third son, Kang Qiyao, is a "four-eyed boy", which is the pride of the whole family and is studying in college.

The eldest Kang Qizu is a large bear child who is in high school.

After introducing his family members one by one, Kang Ershou said: "Today, it is Boss Lin and Boss Wang who are hospitable and thank you to the two Hong Kong compatriots. ”

Of course, the Chinese have to talk while eating.

Liangkun said: "Sure enough, the fish skin is the most delicious, the fish skin is crisp and has no fishy smell, made of mackerel skin, plus spices, peanuts and ginger shreds, sprinkled with sesame seeds, and with secret soy sauce, the perfect fusion of fresh and chewy." ”

Kang Qizong intended to please the Hong Kong boss who invited him, and stretched out his thumb and said, "Boss Lin is really a gourmet!" However, Chen Tian Kee's boat porridge is also good, with ingredients such as sashimi, lean meat, shredded fritters, peanuts, chopped green onions, shredded eggs, floating skin, shredded jellyfish, shredded barbecued pork, shredded duck and squid, etc., which are not boiled, but the hot porridge base is poured into the ingredients and blanched, the porridge bottom is smooth, delicious and rich in taste. You have a taste! ”

Liangkun tasted a small bite, it was too hot, and spit it back into the bowl.

Kang Qizong was also extremely embarrassed.

Liang Kun hurriedly said: "It's none of your business. It's because I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry! ”