1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 171 Fall~
"Ah?" The waiter was confused.

Her friends were also confused, except Milan, who had a slightly blushing face and smiled charmingly with her face covered.

Everyone: Just pamper her!

The waiter couldn't make a decision, so he called the manager.

Ms. Song Huaijia was wearing a red long dress, her hair was elegantly tied up behind her head, she was wearing light-colored lipstick, and holding a small handbag, she looked like she was going to a party.

"Hey~ What's wrong? Are you here to cause trouble for me? Teacher Jinghongke~" She smiled.

"Don't! Sister Song, you can't tease customers! Aren't we God?"

"God? If God comes, I will make fun of him just the same." She sat on an empty chair.

"Why? I heard you wanted to buy tableware?"

Xia Tian nodded: "My friends all said it was very beautiful. I want to buy a few sets to take back as souvenirs."

"What else do you want to buy? I'll give you ten sets." Sister Song is so generous!

Xia Tian waved his hand: "No! Let's sell it!"

He glanced at the crowd and said, "If you don't sell it, someone will steal it sooner or later. These animals in Yanjing are not human beings."

"Yu the Great used drainage to control floods, so you might as well sell it generously, or even do some publicity, or give it away as a commemorative gift or something!"

"When running a business, you need to be flexible and expand your business scope. Print the date, words, and souvenirs on it."

Ms. Song didn't take it seriously at first, but after Xia Tian said that, she found it quite interesting. "Interesting, you are quite good at business!"

Xia Tian smiled but said nothing: "It's just about making peripheral products! How much money can you make by opening a restaurant? Creating culture and developing influence is the hard truth!"
In fact, Ms. Song is already on this path, relying on the influence of the entertainment industry.

In the end, Ms. Song gave Milan a complete set of tableware including silver spoons, forks and chopsticks...

Finally, we gave Xia Tian and his family a 20% discount on their table of food!

It saved Fang Yan and Ye Jing more than three hundred yuan!
Xia Tian didn't take this meal seriously. He just noticed that Xu Xun was indeed calm and taciturn now.

However, after this meal, Ye Jing discovered a "new way to make money"!
A dozen people spent two thousand yuan on a meal!

Two thousand!
He took away all of their private savings.

For an average worker, it would take at least two years to save up!

"Is opening a restaurant so profitable?" Ye Jing couldn't help but feel tempted.

Of course, he also knew that not every restaurant could make money like Maxim's.

But as long as it can achieve one-tenth or even one-twentieth of the effect, it is better than tinkering with a digital watch yourself!
I spent half a year to save up enough money for two meals, and I almost went to jail for two and a half years.

Opening a restaurant is still a good business!
The more he thought about it, the more excited he became. He even discussed it with his childhood friend Fangyan...

Ye Jing: Let’s open a restaurant too!

Xia Tian naturally didn't know what they were planning, and even if she knew she wouldn't care.

Although he has a good choice of chef.

But He Yuzhu himself is not very reliable. If he meets two such unreliable bosses, it is hard to predict what the outcome will be.

Besides, given their personalities, even if this restaurant is opened, it’s not certain how long it will last.

……

Nothing major happened in the last month of this 83 years.

At most, at the end of the summer, I met the members of the Wanlimawang band at the Xinhua Bookstore.

While complaining, they said something self-deprecatingly: "Recently there is a band composed of overseas students and foreign personnel, called the Mainland Band... It is very popular, very popular, and very supported."

The band's members came from different countries, and in the next few years, they held more than 200 performances in the mainland. They even recorded China's first rock album with the China Philharmonic Orchestra under the support of Culture B, and also set off one of the earliest disco movements in China.

As for Wanlimawang, who is also a member of the band, not only did he not support them, he almost chased them and beat them.

It would be fine if there was no comparison, but now that there is comparison, I feel...unpleasant.

Wanlima Wang: It has to be a foreigner, look at all the green lights along the way.

Xia Tian: Be careful with your words and don’t talk about state affairs!

In the summer, I went to Xinhua Bookstore and bought one book, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and one book, "Love in the Time of Cholera", both written by the South American Colombian writer Marquez.

He unexpectedly won the Nobel Prize in Literature last October, so a batch of his works were urgently pirated in China - without authorization.

Because of this, Marquez publicly said that he would not grant us authorization 150 years after his death.
But the theory of true fragrance is unquestionable - making money is not shabby~
Speaking of which, we haven't joined the World Copyright Convention yet, so it can't be considered piracy~
It's stolen but not completely stolen~
Magical realism novels also have a great influence on domestic writers!
At this time, piracy was already rampant in the market.

For example, the genuine copy of The Legend of the Condor Heroes in Xinhua Bookstore costs 40 yuan for both volumes, but the pirated copy sold at street stalls may cost less than ten yuan.

Of course, the quality is difficult to guarantee.

There wasn't much piracy here before, because the printing factory was state-owned. But later, when it became self-financing, piracy became rampant.

Those small book stalls outside are full of magazines and informal books, including pornographic material, street literature, martial arts manuals, and so on.

There are also various Hong Kong t-stories, pirated books and pirated tapes.

Many works of martial arts authors on the island were sold by pirated booksellers under the names of Jin Yong and Liang Yusheng. After reading them, many people felt: Is this a big change in style?!

……

The last month of 83 passed quite uneventfully. Apart from being invited by Director Huang in the summer to prepare for the 84 Spring Festival Gala, there wasn't much happening.

But in the south, many things are beginning to emerge in full swing.

For example - trader!

Like Xia Tian’s friends, or Ye Jing who deals in electronic watches, they can only be considered small-time dealers.

The real profiteer, that is the one who robs!
At this time, a dual-track system was implemented, that is, the prices of goods and raw materials in factories and markets were different, and each had its own value system.

This creates an opportunity to go back and forth.

The second generation, who usually have connections, would get approval from various factories, buy cheap raw materials and products from the factories, and then sell them in the market at high prices.

Now as long as you have something, you will have no trouble selling it.

That's what we call a big fall!

For example, Wang Shi from Pengcheng in the south later set up a real estate company called Wanke.

...It's a self-contained system, that's amazing!
Moreover, the transportation capacity is limited at this time. From small things like sleeper tickets to large things like factory products or raw materials, if you want to ship them out, you need someone~
After graduation, Wang Shi started working in Pengcheng, and then he keenly discovered that there was a huge price difference between corn in the north and south!

So, without any start-up capital, he gained the trust of a group of merchants in Guangdong Province through his eloquence, asked them to prepay a large sum of money, ordered a large number of corns from the north and shipped them to Guangdong Province, and earned his first pot of gold in his life.
It had nothing to do with his father-in-law, who was then the deputy governor of Guangdong. As for his divorce from his wife after his father-in-law's death, it was because of emotional incompatibility.

The Wanke was originally created for the convenience of pouring it over and over.

Not to mention that you can’t buy corn even if you have money now, even if you have corn you can’t transport it out!
Now if you sell the flowers you grow at home, you may be convicted of something!

Moreover, the transportation capacity is limited, and ordinary people cannot get train cars to transport corn from north to south!
Talented people of this era like Mr. Wang have now begun to make great changes and emerge.

A piece of data: in 79, the deposits of Pengcheng Construction Money House, the main money house in Pengcheng, were only 381 million yuan.

By 83, it had reached 7.19 million yuan, an increase of nearly 200 times in four years!
Obviously the economy is not developing that fast, so where does the money come from?
So, in a sense, the miracle of Pengcheng was not created by attracting foreign investment, but was "poured" out by the people of the whole country.

The rectification and reorganization in the previous two years did curb the overheating of the economy, but it also dampened the enthusiasm of local governments for reform. So the task in 83 became to inspire the people of the country and reawaken their enthusiasm for reform.

Time, it is like a giant striding forward, bumping up and down. It will not wait for anyone who is thrown off.

And those capable people are all standing on the shoulders of giants~
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(End of this chapter)