Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

There are still many people in Siheyuan who dream of getting rich overnight.

In the eyes of these people, Xu Damao can make a fortune outside and wear a set of clothes worth more than one hundred yuan. As long as they figure out Xu Damao's way of making money, they can also make a fortune outside.

Even if I don't have the ability to make a fortune, it would be fine if Xu Damao could take me out to make big money.

From the next day, Xu Damao became a popular person in the yard.

Yan Fugui will treat us to lunch at noon today, Liu Haizhong will treat us to dinner tonight, and the Li family will treat us to lunch the day after tomorrow...even Qin Huairu from the Jia family, at the instigation of her son Banggeng, treated Xu Damao to dinner.

Three days later, everyone finally found out the reason why Xu Damao made a fortune outside.

Tang Dashan immediately found Wang Dong: "Master..."

"I found out..."

"Xu Damao said he made his fortune by doing foreign trade..."

"After the reform and opening up, a large number of electronic devices came to Hong Kong Island, including radios, televisions, and bicycles..."

"He bought these imported radios at low prices from coastal dealers, and then found a way to deliver them to inland counties and sell them to ordinary people at a higher price."

"If you're lucky, you can make thirty dollars from a radio, and hundreds of dollars from a TV."

"In less than a year, Xu Damao earned tens of thousands of yuan through foreign trade."

"I heard that Yan Fugui in the front yard, Liu Haizhong in the back yard, and several neighbors all want to follow Xu Damao to do foreign trade."

"The Jia family also wants to follow Xu Damao to do foreign trade and make a lot of money..."

"But the Jia family has no money and doesn't want to miss this opportunity to make a fortune. Bang Geng decided to quit his current job and work for Xu Damao. He followed Xu Damao to do foreign trade and resell those electronic equipment between the coast and the inland."

"Pfft..."

Wang Dong, who was drinking tea, spit out the tea in his mouth, stared at Tang Dashan with wide eyes and sighed: "Xu Damao, this kid really dares to say that..."

"Does he know what foreign trade is?"

"Although our country has established a foreign trade bureau, ordinary people have no access to foreign trade at all. The ones who can really do foreign trade business are basically some large state-owned factories."

"Xu Damao doesn't even have a company or a factory. He probably can't even get into the Foreign Trade Bureau. How can he still want to do foreign trade business?"

"This kind of statement can only fool those neighbors in the yard who are uneducated but want to make a fortune..."

Tang Dashan believed Wang Dong's words without a doubt.

Wang Dong opened four large restaurants in downtown Beijing and had more than a thousand employees, which was more than the number of workers in many state-owned factories in downtown Beijing.

In addition, the reputation of Dongjun Hotel in Sijiu City is getting better and better, and it has provided a large number of jobs in the local area. Not to mention the street director, he has even met several district heads in Sijiu City.

In Tang Dashan's eyes, not to mention the district head, even the street director is a cadre that is out of reach for ordinary people.

The master often meets the district head, so he must know a lot of national policies that I don’t know.

So if Wang Dong said that Xu Damao was fooling people in the foreign trade business, then he must be fooling people, so he asked immediately.

"master……"

"If Xu Damao didn't make his fortune from foreign trade, then what business did he do to make his fortune?"

"Smuggling..." Wang Dong thought for a moment and answered.

"If I'm not mistaken, the radios, televisions, and bicycles that Xu Damao bought from those vendors along the coast should have been smuggled in from Hong Kong Island." "If the radios and televisions were imported through normal channels, it would be good to make more than ten yuan per set. It's definitely not as much money as Xu Damao said."

"The radios smuggled back from Hong Kong Island don't have to pay taxes, so naturally you can make more money."

"Isn't this just speculation and crime?" Tang Dashan exclaimed with his eyes wide open.

"It is indeed a crime..." Wang Dong nodded.

"But now reform and opening up are being carried out everywhere, and people are trying every possible way to make money. There are more and more private enterprises doing business. As long as they don't go too far and just do small things, even if someone finds out, they will turn a blind eye."

"But if Xu Damao's smuggling scale gets bigger and bigger, and he makes more and more money, and even affects the customs' profits, and he is finally targeted by the industrial and commercial departments and the public security departments, then it will be troublesome?"

After listening to Wang Dong's explanation, Tang Dashan's face became serious.

After thinking for a while, he replied: "Master..."

"Then I guess Xu Damao will definitely be targeted this time."

"Before, he was smuggling alone, selling radios and televisions worth a few thousand yuan at most, which added up to only a few dozen."

"Xu Damao's smuggling will definitely get bigger and bigger in the future."

"I heard that Yan Fugui from our front yard directly used 3,000 yuan of his pension money to invest in Xu Damao and let him do foreign trade business, which is what you call smuggling, Master."

"Liu Haizhong from the backyard also paid two thousand yuan."

"Including the other neighbors in the courtyard, Xu Damao made at least 10,000 yuan."

"I heard that he still has 10,000 yuan, which adds up to more than 20,000 yuan."

"If we continue smuggling, we will have to sell more than a hundred radios at a time..."

"Do you think I should go back to the courtyard to remind them..."

If something unexpected really happened to Xu Damao while smuggling outside, the money invested by Yan Fugui and Liu Haizhong would definitely be wasted.

This money must be the retirement money they have saved with great difficulty. If something unexpected happens, their future retirement will be affected.

Although Wang Dong didn't have a very good relationship with them, he still didn't want so much money to be wasted by Xu Damao, so he subconsciously nodded.

After all, they are neighbors in the same yard, so you should remind them. As for whether they listen or not, that is none of your business.

But he swallowed the words back when they came to his lips.

Be it Xu Damao, Yan Fugui or Liu Haizhong, none of them are good people, and they will never let go of any grudge, especially Xu Damao.

If he knew that I stopped him from making money in Siheyuan, he would definitely hate me to the core.

Although Wang Dong himself is not afraid of Xu Damao, Wang Dong has a wife, a son, a father-in-law and a mother-in-law, and several restaurants.

If Xu Damao takes revenge on his family for his hatred towards me, I would be so sad that I would not be able to cry.

Moreover, since Yan Fugui and Liu Haizhong have decided to invest their pension money in Xu Damao to do foreign trade, it shows that they have thought it over carefully.

If I rashly raise objections and ask them to think more about it, they might think that I am stopping them from making a fortune, which would cause them to be dissatisfied with me.

Then he told Tang Dashan about his concerns.

Tang Dashan was also a kind-hearted person, and he didn't want so many of his neighbors in the courtyard to be deceived by Xu Damao. But he was also a very family-oriented person, and compared to whether his neighbors would be deceived, the safety of his family was obviously more important, so he gave up the idea of ​​reminding his neighbors on the spot. (End of this chapter)