Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 453 Change
"From what my old man said, your father-in-law wants you to go to the public security department. Xiao Dalu from the Municipal Bureau will be transferred to the Criminal Investigation Bureau 1 of the Public Security Headquarters as the director."

Su Xiaotong did not hide anything and told everything he knew.

What he said surprised Li Yancheng a little.

He went to the Municipal Public Security Bureau and served as deputy director. This was the deputy director of the Public Security Bureau of Beijing. Not to mention being in charge of criminal investigation, it was a very important position no matter what he was in charge of.

"Thank you!" Li Yancheng nodded: "My father-in-law hasn't told me about this yet. Maybe he wants to wait until things are more settled before telling me."

That day, Mr. Fang talked to him. Although he rejected the suggestion to go to the grassroots level for training at that time, he also knew that he might really have to leave the Social Affairs Bureau headquarters. He did not expect that his father-in-law would find such a good position for him.

This may be the advantage of having someone in the court.

"It's not certain yet. My old man also said that this is possible, but no one can tell what the final outcome will be until the documents are issued."

"I understand. Let's not talk about this anymore." Li Yancheng waved his hand. He didn't want to talk about this anymore before things were completely settled, so he asked.

"Have you arranged for someone with the surname Liu?"

"It's arranged. If you don't come before noon, I'll be going to see you in the afternoon."

"What's wrong? Could it be that they have found out the problem?" Li Yancheng felt a little surprised. It was not even twelve o'clock yet. Even if he arranged for someone to investigate Liu Yuguai as soon as he got to work at eight in the morning, they would not be able to find out anything so quickly.

Now is different from the future. There are no computers and no "eyes in the sky" everywhere. Even if you want to investigate a person's file, you have to go to the Archives Bureau to retrieve it. The Social Affairs Bureau's investigation has privileges and does not require such cumbersome procedures, but you still have to check one by one.

"What a coincidence! After the routine morning meeting, I just assigned tasks to the Investigation Department, and they told me that Liu Yugui had actually entered their sights."

Damn it! ! !

What the hell is this? Is this Liu a sleeper? Or has he been bribed?

Hearing Su Xiaotong's words, Li Yancheng's eyes widened.

Before he could ask anything, the other party continued, "Actually, it was reported by the Pingchang County Public Security Bureau. They said that they received a report from the masses that several people with foreign accents were asking them about the military base and what kind of military unit it was.

The man they were questioning was a former militiaman and now worked as a security team member in the police station. He was very vigilant. He felt that these outsiders had bad intentions, so he reported it to the station. When their director heard about it, he arranged for someone to keep an eye on those people for two days.

It turned out that these people were not only asking questions, but also taking photos with cameras. The director immediately reported it to the county bureau. As you know, the public security department dared not suppress such matters, so they reported it.

The people from the Investigation Department also followed them for a few days and found that they seemed to have come from abroad specifically for sightseeing, but many of the photos they took privately were exterior photos of prohibited places.

Just three days ago, our people discovered that one of those people bypassed the tour guide assigned by the hotel and contacted someone privately..."

"Is this person Liu Yugui?"

Before Su Xiaotong could finish his words, Li Yancheng interrupted and asked.

"Yes, the person who had contact with the foreign Chinese was Liu Yugui. As soon as they had contact that day, the investigation department had already investigated him thoroughly."

That's it!

"Have you found out what he was doing in contact with that person?"

"We don't know what they did specifically yet, but the day after they made contact, Liu Yugui had foreign exchange certificates in his hands, and the amount was quite large."

Foreign exchange certificates are a special product of this period. They were issued from April 1 this year and withdrawn from the market on January 1, 1995. During these fifteen years, the country implemented a very special dual currency system, with RMB and foreign exchange certificates circulating in the market at the same time.

With the reform and opening up, the number of foreigners visiting China and returning overseas Chinese has increased day by day, but the supply of many material markets in the country is still relatively tight at this time, and residents' daily necessities (such as grain, oil, meat, cloth, etc.) are still supplied in a fixed quantity.

In order to meet the needs of foreigners coming to China and returning overseas Chinese, the country built a number of foreign-related hotels and friendship stores.

Foreign currency circulation was prohibited in the country and exchange was inconvenient. In order to facilitate these people to purchase items and pay fees in designated places and at the same time distinguish them from domestic residents, the State Council authorized the Bank of China to issue foreign exchange certificates on April 1, 1980.

Foreigners must exchange their foreign currencies for foreign exchange certificates at the Bank of China or designated foreign exchange exchange points, and use them at the same value as RMB within the specified range.

When they leave the mainland, they can choose to exchange the foreign exchange coupons for hard currency or keep them for use when they come to China next time. During this period, many foreigners who came to China called the foreign exchange coupons "travel currency."

Foreign exchange coupons have another name, called privileged currency. A foreigner who has been to China once wrote in his book that if money could speak, then foreign exchange coupons would be 50 percent louder than the RMB.

With foreign exchange coupons, you could buy imported goods in China, spend money in special places, and even exchange them for US dollars. These are functions that the RMB does not have.

Of course, foreign exchange coupons cannot be used as currency in all places, but only in specific places, such as foreign-related hotels, Friendship Stores, duty-free shops, etc.

Only in these places could people buy high-end goods that were considered luxury goods at the time - Remy Martin liquor, Marlboro cigarettes, color TVs, Swiss watches. Some handicrafts and silk with Chinese characteristics could also be bought in Friendship Stores.

Now is the initial issuance stage, only foreigners and returned overseas Chinese have this thing. Many ordinary people don’t even know that there is such a currency. After a period of time, owning foreign exchange coupons will no longer be the exclusive right of foreigners.

Some ordinary people could get some foreign exchange coupons from their overseas relatives and friends. Once they had foreign exchange coupons, they immediately became the envy of their colleagues, neighbors and friends, because foreign exchange coupons were special passes to enter and exit Friendship Stores.

You read that right. Friendship Store is not open to anyone. If you want to enter, you need foreign exchange coupons. If you don't have them, then sorry. If you want to buy something, go to the supply and marketing cooperative or department store. The emergence of foreign exchange coupons also led to a new profession in China, the foreign exchange dealer, which is actually a scalper. It is similar to what Zhu Yongyang and his brothers do, except that Zhu and his brothers deal with all kinds of bills and scarce materials, while these foreign exchange dealers do this.

From the early 1980s to the early 1990s, the most common greeting foreigners and returned overseas Chinese in Beijing or other major tourist cities in China was probably "Would you like to change money? Would you like to change money?"

These professional currency traders risked going to jail and found business opportunities in the common people's desire for foreign exchange coupons and foreigners' demand for RMB.

With RMB, foreigners can spend money in any store and restaurant, but FECs can only be spent in designated places, and the price difference between RMB and FECs makes currency speculation a lucrative profession, even though it is illegal.

Before 1994, China's exchange rate system was a dual-track one.

One was the official exchange rate set by the State Administration of Foreign Exchange. At that time, the powers of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange were actually exercised by the Bank of China. The other was the corporate foreign exchange market exchange rate. This dual-track system was not abolished until January 1, 1994.

Before the dual-track system was abolished, individuals could use foreign exchange coupons to exchange for hard currencies such as the U.S. dollar at the official exchange rate. At that time, the official exchange rate was that one U.S. dollar could only be exchanged for less than two RMB.

If people only have RMB in their hands, they can only go to the ghost market to exchange it for US dollars.

Usually, the exchange rate in the ghost market is higher than that in the foreign exchange market serving enterprises, often one US dollar to about nine RMB.

Corresponding to the black market exchange rate of the US dollar, the black market price of foreign exchange coupons at that time was usually one hundred and thirty RMB for one hundred foreign exchange coupons. The price difference was so large that everyone would want to take a bite of it.

By the mid-1980s, as the enthusiasm for going abroad grew, more and more people specialized in foreign exchange transactions.

This situation continued until 1998, when the country continued to relax restrictions on individuals purchasing foreign exchange, from US$2,000 for personal travel abroad within the year to US$3,000, then to US$5,000, US$8,000, US$20,000, and finally to US$50,000 in 2007. At this time, those professional foreign exchange traders completely disappeared.

Along with these professional currency traders disappeared the Friendship Stores. These stores earned a lot of foreign exchange for the country, but with the end of the foreign exchange coupons, many of them were transformed into ordinary department stores, although they may have retained the name of Friendship Stores.

The Foreign Exchange Commodity Building, located on Huixin East Street, Yangchao District, Beijing, was once one of the largest stores specializing in foreign exchange coupons in Beijing.

In the 1980s and 1990s, it was an enviable thing to be able to shop in this building with foreign exchange coupons. During the transformation, it was transformed into the Beijing International Jewelry Trading Center.

Let us turn our attention back to the office of the Director of Operations Division 1.

When Li Yancheng heard Su Xiaotong say that the man surnamed Liu not only met privately with one of the people who came from abroad, but also had foreign exchange certificates in his hands that had been on the market for less than half a year, his eyes lit up.

At that time, 99 percent of the people didn't even know there was such a thing as foreign exchange coupons. Even if they knew about it, no one dared to take it to designated places to spend money for fear of being caught. After all, foreign exchange coupons were only for foreigners and returned overseas Chinese.

Needless to say, the man surnamed Liu had foreign exchange coupons in his hands, and they must have been given to him by the person who came back from abroad. This is interesting. Why did he need foreign exchange coupons?
Buy something from him? Buy what? What could he have that someone from abroad would want?

Don't forget that the man surnamed Liu is a cadre, and a cadre of a certain rank. His status requires him not to contact foreigners in private. Although those people have Chinese faces, their nationality is foreign, so it is not an exaggeration to say that they are foreigners.

When a high-ranking cadre contacts foreigners in private, what does he want to do? This requires a thorough investigation to see if he has done anything to betray his own people.

"In this case, I have to change my plan..."

"Wait a minute." Before Li Yancheng could finish his words, Su Xiaotong said, "Don't be in a hurry to change your plan. Listen to me first."

"you say"

"The Investigation Division has investigated Liu Yugui these past two days. This old guy has done a lot of shabby things. He works in the Anti-scalping Office and is the deputy director, but he has done a lot of these things himself. According to the preliminary investigation, if we hand him over to the Supervisory Commission now, there will be no problem at all for him to spend the rest of his life in prison.

As for your plan, let me say that you should just bring the man surnamed Liu here, and ask him about his private contact with foreigners. Find out who set him up, and then go to his house to find out."

Li Yancheng raised his eyebrows. Coincidentally, he thought the same thing.

"This is what I wanted to say just now. Before coming to you, I went to my father-in-law's place, and he told me to go directly to his house.

Judging from this method, it must be someone's kid who did it. It's just right for me to step in. If there is really something fishy going on, then let the old man and the others deal with it."

Old Luo doesn't like to play conspiracies. When he was on the battlefield, the wars he commanded were also grand and violent. But this doesn't mean that the old man won't play dirty. It's just that after hearing what his son-in-law said, the old man immediately went through all the possible people in his mind.

How to say it, those who can reach this point all have intricate connections, and those who can reach this level still have different thoughts in their hearts from ordinary people and low-level cadres. Regardless of whether they have different political views, it is all for the country and the nation.

Therefore, there are some things that the old man doesn’t want to do anymore. As the saying goes, always leave a way out for others so that you can meet again later.

This is also the reason why Li Yancheng plans to change his plan. Since his father-in-law said so, he doesn't plan to do anything too extreme. After finding out who is the person who directs Liu Yuguai to do things, he plans to visit him in person and use courtesy first and then force.

"In that case..." Su Xiaotong pondered for a moment and then said, "Dacheng, then I will have someone contact Liu Yugui directly."

"Well, judging from the behavior of those people who came back from abroad when they were traveling, this Liu might be involved in some case. You should have someone conduct a thorough investigation."

"Don't worry. If things really don't work out, I still have you." As soon as he said this, Su Xiaotong's breathing suddenly stagnated, and then he smiled and shook his head.

"If you are really transferred to the public security department, we will have to file a report and go through the formalities if we want to interrogate those criminals with you. It won't be as simple as it is now."

"Xiaotong, the requirements for interrogation work will definitely become more and more stringent in the future, and the laws will become more and more perfect. The re-establishment of the procuratorate is for supervision, isn't it? Our work style must also be changed in due course."

(End of this chapter)