1988 was destined to be an extraordinary year, from the rush to buy grain in February and March, to the rush to buy daily necessities in April, and the price "rush" in July and August, until September, when the state vigorously rectified the situation and made the economy "hard landing". Every month or even every day in Xizhou City, people are living in a frenzy of buying and buying, and every household has become a warehouse of daily necessities, and some families can not even use up the cotton wool pants and leather shoes they buy for a lifetime.

After the internal rectification of the supply and marketing cooperatives, the counters involved in the price hike were taken back from the contracting rights have been vacant, and after more than half a year of panic buying, people's purchasing power has fallen to the bottom. After the counter was recovered, the site became the fixed assets of the supply and marketing cooperative, which was empty and did not generate any income, so the supply and marketing cooperatives did not even turn on the lights, and a large number of counters were blinded.

Especially in the evening and at night, it always feels like a black hole. In the past, many of the sales staff of the contractor lived in the counter with beds like Li Tongfu and Wang Shan, but now because there is no one, it is quite eerie. When I go to bed at night, I always feel like something is coming out of it. So much so that Li Tongfu and Wang Shan went to the toilet in the middle of the night, and they had to use flashlights together.

On October 19, the People's Government of Northwest Province held a working meeting on cleaning up fixed asset investment projects, implementing the spirit of the State Council's "Notice on Cleaning Up Fixed Assets Projects under Construction, Reducing the Scale of Investment, and Adjusting the Investment Structure", and requiring all prefectures, cities, departments and bureaus to quickly carry out the work of cleaning up, compressing and adjusting. In order to ensure the smooth progress of the clean-up work, the provincial people's government has set up a project team for the clean-up of fixed asset investment.

After several days of meeting and study, the leaders of the supply and marketing cooperatives decided to continue to contract the currently vacant counters, and give priority to the merchants who have already contracted the counters of the supply and marketing cooperatives and have not participated in the legal operation of disrupting the economic order. All the hard conditions seem to be specially prepared for Wang Yanhua and others. When Li Tongfu brought the good news back to the Liufang Wood Processing Factory in Shibi Village, Yang Liufang didn't even think about agreeing to continue to expand the contract.

"Brother, we just finished paying off the principal and interest of the last meeting, if we continue to contract, this time we don't have as much money as last time, and if we start the meeting again, we will have to prepare more money, which means that we will have to pay more interest in half a year."

"Brother, how much money do we have in our accounts now?"

"The income of the hardware store counter in addition to expenses and wages, as of yesterday there was only more than 2,600 yuan, and in addition to the labor insurance supply of Hongclay Village, because of this period of rush purchase, our purchase cost has increased a lot, but we are still according to the previous contract supply, so there is almost no profit. In addition, the customization of competition uniforms and school uniforms for the Township Education Committee is also very profitable, so the sum of several items is less than 10,000. The remaining few entries are the sales of our furniture and our settlement, the last confiscation up, a total of 32,078 to us in the past few months, so we still have 34,678 yuan left in the account, at the end of the month to pay wages, but also to set aside the cost of the furniture factory autumn acquisition of raw materials, can use the funds of 30,000 has been to the sky. Li Tongfu took the notebook he carried with him and carefully reported to Yang Liufang one by one, Yang Liufang worked with numbers all day long, and his mental arithmetic ability was very strong, so he could sum it up almost without reporting. Therefore, when Li Tongfu handed over the notebook, Yang Liufang didn't answer it.

"Brother, I don't have to worry about your account, I already know it in my heart. How much does it cost to contract the part of the furniture that we used to sell next to us? ”

"There are a total of six sets of counters, and the contract fee is 60,000, and now the value of the goods in the counter, I don't know how much less the furniture factory is, but the other goods should be worth about 50,000."

"The last batch of furniture from the factory let Brother Qin pull over there are two sets of sofas, two Eight Immortal Tables, two Strip Cases, and more than ten stools, the cost of the goods should be less than 10,000, plus what you just calculated, it should be about 120,000. We're going to raise 90,000. In this way, brother, you ask Yanhua to go to the department in charge of contracting in the supply and marketing cooperatives to ask the leader to see how to make the price, whether our furniture that has not been sold can be returned to us, or sold to us at a price. The purpose of this is that we can take less from the meeting! ”

"Well, I'll let her ask when I get back. In this way, if the six counters are connected to us, half of the entire original hardware store will be ours. ”

"Yes, brother, I mean the same thing, I want to use it as both a showroom and a warehouse and a store, because on the whole, 10% has been taken away by others in the past few months, and our profits are also quite considerable, and there is also an intangible publicity value that is immeasurable. Because up to now, the furniture production in our factory is still more in Hanwangchuan, and there are fewer in Xizhou City, if we can open the furniture market in Xizhou City, the later development is very beneficial. ”

"Okay, brother, I understand, then I'll go back to this now."

"Brother, I don't care about this moment and a half, I'll come back after lunch."

"Master Li, my brother is back, it's hard for you to stir-fry two dishes." Yang Liufang went out and walked into the canteen and said to the canteen master.

"Boss Yang, the same as before?"

"Yes, fry more, let my brother take it back in a plastic bag, he and the third brother can eat it hot." Since Yang Liufang went to the supply and marketing cooperatives to see them on New Year's Day and knew that eating was so hard, every time Li Tongfu came back or Qin Jiajun came to pick up the goods, Yang Liufang would ask the master to fry more vegetables and let them take them back to eat hot.

The two chatted in the bedroom for a while, and when the meal was ready, Yang Liufang asked the village chief and the master to accompany him and Li Tongfu to eat together. During the banquet, when he talked about expanding the counter of the contracted supply and marketing cooperative, the village chief of Shi immediately said: "It's so bad, two younger brothers, I'll go back and tell your sister-in-law, I have also made some money with you in the past two years, I will take it out, and you will use it first." ”

"Brother Shi, thank you in advance, if your family is not in a hurry, you can tell your sister-in-law that we can pay you a higher interest than the bank, after all, we have to pay for the meeting."

"Those two brothers, my salary is counted, and the family doesn't have much money, so I also propose that you use it first."

Yang Liufang was very moved at first when he heard it, and then went to see Li Tongfu and found that he was also looking at himself, nodding to each other. After they finished eating, Yang Liufang called Li Tongfu back to the bedroom.

"Brother, I think we can raise funds from the workers, from the opening of the furniture factory to the present, these workers, Brother Shi, including Wang Shan, if you want, we can raise at least 20,000, after all, Brother Shi is more here, more than 10,000."

"Brother, that's what I mean, there should be more on Wangshan's side than Brother Shi."

"Yes, brother, you can find an appropriate time to reveal it to him." It's really brothers, and they have a heart.

Yang Liufang sent Li Tongfu away, and when he came back, he told the village chief Shi his plan, and asked the village chief to come forward to see if the workers were willing to participate in the fundraising, and repay 105 after collecting 100 for half a year, so that Yang Liufang would pay half less interest than the money he took from the meeting. The head of Stone Village said that the workers who worked in the factory and the workers who participated in the rotation of the furniture factory did not expect everyone to be very positive. It's better to keep your money in a furniture factory, at your doorstep, than in a bank where you can't touch it. There are only two people who are unwilling, the family is too poor, and they have just finished building a house after earning money, Yang Liufang adopts the principle of voluntariness and is not reluctant.

Before noon the next day, everyone took out their family's money and handed it to the stone village chief, who sent the money along with the list, Yang Liufang saw that everyone was 300 and I 500, and there were more two painters, and each family was 2000; Stone Village has the most grown, a total of 10,000; After all, there are 31,069 funds raised in the village alone.

Li Tongfu did not return until more than three o'clock in the afternoon.

"Brother, I've been waiting for the supply and marketing cooperatives to hold a meeting to study, the furniture can't be discounted, and it can't be said to be ours, because that means that we are also involved in raising prices, in that case, the brands of civilized merchants will be taken away. We're not qualified to contract anymore. However, Yanhua won an extra month to give us an extra month to adjust the counter. In the first year of the contract, we only paid for 11 months. ”

"Brother, that's great, look at this." Yang Liufang handed over the fundraising funds and the list.

"So much. By the way, Wang Shan wants to give 20,000 here, but he doesn't want interest, he wants shares. I can't make a decision, come back and discuss with you. ”

"Brother, I think I can give shares, what do you think?"

"I think it's fine, but how much is appropriate? You can't give 1% like Yanhua. ”

"That's impossible, so let's do it, brother, in the past six months, our counter has made a total profit of 46,000; I think giving 0.2% is already skyrocketing. ”