Go back to the prosperous days and become a layman

Chapter 463 Development in the Cracks
Tang Zhitong arrived at Chunshu Hutong on time, but when he arrived, Ye Zhijuan had not returned yet.

"Xiao Tang, Director Ye hasn't come back yet. It's cold outside. Come in and have a cigarette." Grandpa Gao saw Tang Zhitong riding his bike into the yard, opened the door and shouted to Tang Zhitong.

"Okay!" Tang Zhitong locked his bicycle and walked quickly into the message room.

The message room is not large. It is both where Grandpa Gao works and where he lives. The room is very simple. Although it is equipped with all kinds of pots, pans, and utensils, the only extra furniture is a single bed, a small stove, two chairs, and two stools.

"Roll one?" Grandpa Gao took out his pipe and made way.

"Uncle Gao, please smoke mine. You're so strong that I can't control you." Tang Zhitong took out his own pack of cigarettes from his pocket and gave one to Uncle Gao.

"Haha, thanks to you, my life has improved." Grandpa Gao did not refuse and took it happily.

When Tang Zhitong took out the matches, Mr. Gao refused and said, "Save one and use mine."

Tang Zhitong just watched as Grandpa Gao took a coal ball out of the stove, put it to his lips and lit a cigarette.

"Oh, Uncle Gao, if you accidentally drop this on your clothes, you'll have all the money for matches for a year." Tang Zhitong took a puff and reminded him.

"No, my hands are steady. I didn't even shake when I held the gun in the snow." Grandpa Gao replied confidently.

"Uncle Gao, please tell me about those events back then."

"Next time, Director Ye is back." Grandpa Gao pointed outside the door. Ye Zhijuan was leading Wang Jingmin in from outside, holding a lunch bag in her hand. It was obvious that she had no plan to cook tonight.

"Okay, see you next time, Uncle Gao." Tang Zhitong didn't even have time to sit down when he put the unfinished cigarette on the ground and stomped it out before leaving.

After Tang Zhitong left, Grandpa Gao shook his head, picked up the cigarette butt on the ground and put it on the windowsill.

"Mom, Jingmin." After Tang Zhitong went out, he greeted Ye Zhijuan from behind.

"Brother-in-law, why are you here?" Wang Jingmin turned his head with a smiling face.

"Let's go home and talk." Ye Zhijuan didn't ask any more questions and invited her son-in-law into the house first.

After entering the house and changing shoes, Ye Zhijuan poured a glass of water for Tang Zhitong, then asked with a smile: "Why are you here at this time today? Is there something?"

"About the promotion of the manual..." Tang Zhitong told Ye Zhijuan about Yan Xiongfei's visit to him, and finally pointed out the meaning: "This incident reminded me that since the audience group has been expanded, should this barefoot doctor also recruit some young men?"

"Well, you've thought it through correctly. Some of the communes below have also reported this to the Women's Federation, hoping to increase the number of places for male educated youth." After hearing this, Ye Zhijuan did not criticize her son-in-law for taking on the matter. Instead, she was very pleased that he could find loopholes in these small matters and give her timely feedback.

"Okay, then I feel relieved." When Tang Zhitong heard that Ye Zhijuan already knew about it, he didn't plan to care about it. He didn't need to worry about how to recruit or how many to recruit.

"What's the name of Comrade Yan's nephew?" This was the first time that her son-in-law came to her for a friend's matter. Ye Zhijuan was concerned and planned to help, as long as the young man was not too far from the recruitment standards.

"Wang Bo, the Wang of kings, princes, generals and ministers, and the Bo of magnificent waves." Tang Zhitong immediately gave his name.

"It's a very ordinary name. Which commune is he from?" Ye Zhijuan nodded and asked another question.

"Oops, I forgot to ask. I'll go ask now." Tang Zhitong slapped his head, then touched it embarrassedly. This name is very popular. If there is a duplicate name...

It would be fine if both of them passed the exam, but if anything else it would have been a joke.

"Don't be in a hurry, let him register according to the process first. Because of the approval from above, some of the wording in the manual needs to be adjusted. It would be inappropriate to mention women and children separately. The subsequent printing will also take some time. It will probably take another week to prepare for the exam. You can call and ask and then tell me." Ye Zhijuan stopped her son-in-law and explained.

"Okay! Then I'll go back first, Mom." After finishing the business, Tang Zhitong got up and prepared to go home.

"Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, what are we eating this Sunday?" Wang Jingmin was doing his homework nearby and eavesdropping with his ears perked up. He didn't care about the content of the conversation, he just wanted to ask his brother-in-law about the weekend menu after the conversation was over.

"Is there anything you want to eat?" Tang Zhitong had never thought about this question, so he directly passed the question back to his brother-in-law.

"Emm... Can I have some dumplings again?" Wang Jingmin tilted his head and bit the tip of a pencil. After thinking for a while, he spoke.

"Okay, let's eat dumplings." Tang Zhitong nodded in agreement.

Dumplings are easy to arrange, as there must be flour. The current supply of flour accounts for 50% of the total household ration. The filling is not difficult to solve, as there is a cellar full of cabbages at home.

However, Tang Zhitong didn't want to eat vegetarian food. He planned to wait and see the weather. If it was cold, he would have a reason to try the whole Spanish mackerel. If it was not cold, he would make a three-fresh filling. Anyway, he had eaten shrimp paste last time.

Ye Zhijuan listened to the side, and waited until Tang Zhitong finished speaking before asking, "Eat whatever you have on hand, and don't go out of your way to ask for help. The future situation is not optimistic, understand?"

"Mom, don't worry, I know. I've discussed with Wenwen, and we'll send some pine nuts here every week. As for food, I'll make another trip east before the Spring Festival. I may not get flour, but I'll definitely bring back corn." Tang Zhitong told Ye Zhijuan his plan to reassure her.

"Yeah." Ye Zhijuan nodded and said nothing else.

Ye Zhijuan also noticed that Jingmin had lost weight. There was a shortage of vegetables some time ago, and most of the time he relied on his son-in-law and daughter to bring him pickled vegetables, fish and meat. If it weren't for the Iraqi dates at home and the pine nuts his daughter often sent him, she really didn't dare to imagine what would happen.

The child is growing up, and she doesn’t dare to think about it in other places...

When Tang Zhitong went downstairs to the gate of the Women's Federation dormitory, he met Xiao Wang who was sending his sister back.

"Why are you here?" Xiao Wang asked in surprise.

"I have something to do, so it's a good opportunity for us to go home together." It was just after school, and there were many pedestrians on the road at this time. It was not a place to talk, so Tang Zhitong spoke vaguely.

"Okay, let's go home." Classmate Xiao Wang smiled and waved to Jingying without minding. Then she, her husband and sister-in-law walked out of the alley and headed south.

"Hey, we are going to give out bonuses again." Turning the corner, Xiao Wang shared with Tang Zhitong the news he had just heard today.

"It's not a festival, why give out bonuses?" Tang Zhitong was stunned.

"Hey, it's the Leap Forward Award. It will be given out in two days. It was given to enterprise employees last year, but employees from cultural, educational and health departments were not included then. This year, new employees from these departments were added." Student Wang said proudly. He was just short of money to buy wool, and this money came from a legitimate reason. Who wouldn't like it?
"Well, it has nothing to do with us, but I have to congratulate you." Tang Zhitong smiled after hearing this and had a rough guess in his mind.

On the surface it looks like a bonus, but in reality it is giving out money to stimulate consumption.

Last year, the one-year fixed deposit interest rate was 14.4%, so Zhang Guifang felt distressed when Tang Zhitong deceived her into taking the death benefit for her late father under the guise of getting a job.

The interest rate is too high!

It is no exaggeration to say that during this period, if a person had 1000 yuan in the bank and lived on the interest alone, he could still live a comfortable life. When Tang Zhitong took the exam last year, the one-year fixed deposit interest rate had dropped to 7.92%;

Two months later, on New Year's Day of 59, the interest rate dropped to 4.8%;

On July 7 this year, it just rose a little to 1%.

Anyone with a little economic common sense can see that lower interest rates mean stimulating consumption.

In order to stimulate consumption these days, a combination of measures are used, not just in terms of deposit interest rates. A while ago, newspapers were advertising that radios could be purchased for free, that is, on credit or in installments, but Tang Zhitong didn't buy one.

Tong Wang was right. Consumption is indeed a kind of contribution. However, due to ideological and ideological reasons, no one dares to mention it in the current propaganda department.

There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's eyes.
This sentence was said by Shakespeare himself.

Regardless of whether it is right or wrong, this sentence shows that Hamlet is a controversial character, but his portrayal as the protagonist of the novel is successful.

It also shows that everyone has their own ideas and their views on the same thing are different from others.

The same information can be interpreted differently by different people at different levels.

Those with great abilities can see the general trend, those with lesser abilities can smell the direction of the wind, and those with dull abilities can only watch the excitement.

Tang Zhitong used to be the one who just watched the fun. Without others’ guidance, he would never have thought of the hidden information behind the news.

Who would have thought that behind an oil tanker truck there was a factor of falling freight rates?

Just like the bonus given out to classmate Xiao Wang this time, if Tang Zhitong had not been living in this era and had not experienced decades of explosive knowledge shock, he would never have thought of stimulating consumption.

When he went to buy bearings in the afternoon, Tang Zhitong thought of the news he read in the newspaper last year. At that time, he thought that "the road to true bearingization is long and arduous."

But after chatting with the salesperson, Tang Zhitong lamented that he was too narrow-minded, because when he reported on bearing technology last year, Luoyang Bearing was completed and put into production.

At this time, Harbin bearings and Wafer bearings are still in production.

As the production capacity of bearings increased, they looked for sales channels, so they promoted the products in various ways to encourage people to buy the bearings.

The equipment was purchased with a loan from the north, and some of it is facing obsolescence and is not the latest technology.

Even this kind of technology is not easy to come by.

Although the contract was signed a long time ago, it was not implemented all at once. At that time, the Bruins and the Eagles were fighting, and the Bruins said, "I have to surpass you."

The rabbit followed behind and said, "If you surpass the eagle, then I will surpass the shit-stirring stick."

This is how the two old Western representatives, "surpass" and "catch up" came about (this part was reviewed and slightly modified).

The implication is: I am your younger brother, I agree with you, I support you, and you can't let me down. The projects we agreed on before must be fulfilled, right?
After all, our country is poor and backward and is in urgent need of laying these foundations.

As it turned out, this move was the right one, because on June 59, 6, the North unilaterally tore up all aid contracts to China.

Even if they want to take away those that have already been implemented, we won’t let them!

As for the "friendliness" that followed, it was only because everyone had the surname "She" and they just maintained basic face.

At the same time, we also need to consider how to digest industrial products.

The North is thinking about exporting industrial products, otherwise it would not support so many projects.

We want to pay off our debts with industrial products, but the North prefers our industrial raw materials, food, and US dollars.

However, the export routes were blocked by the West, so only some light industrial products could be exported under the name of national capitalists in Hong Kong and counties who were close to the mainland. They suffered a lot for this, so they were always treated with preferential treatment, and were given the utmost honor after their death.

In this kind of environment, the US dollar is highly valued, so Ye Zhijuan was promoted at the instigation of Tang Zhitong.

The export routes for industrial products have been basically blocked, but once the factories built with loans go into production, if their output cannot be sold, the problem will be very, very, very big, and if not handled properly, the whole thing will fail.

At that time, the only way to go was domestic sales, so there was publicity for products such as bearings, including news reports and advertisements in various newspapers, magazines, and telephone directories, all of which were industrial products.

But why would the people care about this? In a small peasant economy, only the output of the land belongs to them, and the rest can be made up as long as they can. If the higher-ups call on the higher-ups, I will pretend not to hear them, and if they ask me to pay, there is no way I will do that!

In view of this situation, large-scale collectivization was carried out in October 58, solving the sales problem of industrial products such as bearings through a public-to-public approach.

At the same time, the authorities are delegating power to local governments, allowing them to launch the "Five Smalls" to stimulate consumption.

Decades later, some people will point to this era and say, this is not acceptable, that is not acceptable; this is not right, that is not right; this is wrong, that is wrong.

Let's think about it from another angle. A group of powerful people who can cross the Chishui River four times, maneuver and dodge in various conflicts, and not only survive but also grow and develop should be people with vision, right?

Can they not see the drawbacks? Isn't the reason they do this because there is no other optimal solution?

Although the process was tortuous, we managed to get through it, laid a solid foundation, and accumulated a good fortune.

Giving bonus to student Xiao Wang is also part of the story. The original intention was to encourage employees to go shopping, but in reality there was a huge deviation!
唐植桐看过一份公开的资料，从57年到62年，每年的城乡居民储蓄存款年底余额分别是：35.2亿元、55.2亿元、68.3亿元、66.3亿元、55.4亿元、41.2亿元。

During the most difficult three years, we saved the most money!

It is precisely because of the attempts in the past two years that the Chinese people’s love of saving money has been confirmed, so there has never been any initiative to directly give money to the people to consume.

In the future, whenever you want to stimulate consumption, you can either trade in old products for new ones, or use subsidies, cash back, coupons, etc. In general, you have to spend money to enjoy discounts. If you don’t spend money, you won’t get a penny.

So whenever an "expert" comes out and says that they want to learn from a certain country and give each citizen a certain amount of money, don't just stand there and make a fuss.

Don’t even think that if many people add fuel to the fire, you can get a lot of money by giving more likes, more replies, and more reposts.

We don’t know what the purpose of those “experts” is. Maybe as long as more people pay attention to it, and more people know that he made such a proposal, and people subconsciously compare it with a certain country, his purpose will be achieved?
Anyway, the money will definitely not be given out, just like the aid projects, there is no such thing as a free lunch. We can only rely on ourselves to develop. This is true for both the country and the individuals.

(End of this chapter)