The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 297 If you don’t take it, I won’t take it~~~
At the beginning of 1982, which was actually the end of 1981 in the lunar calendar, Jiangdonglai supermarkets in the other three cities also opened.

Zheng Ke plans to spend the New Year in Shenzhen. Her belly is not too big at the moment. But if she goes back to her hometown for the New Year, her pregnancy symptoms are very obvious, such as morning sickness.

A few years ago, Zheng Ke sent some nutritional supplements and money back from the post office. She went to Shenzhen alone to have a child with a man. She didn't know how to explain this to her family.

However, Zheng Ke seldom went home because of work, and she had to see if she had any condolence missions during the Spring Festival. In addition, as a widow, it was very awkward for her to go to her parents' home or her husband's home during the Spring Festival.

In this year, the household contract responsibility system was affirmed, and it was planned to gradually open up the household contract responsibility system in an all-round way.

This also means that in good harvest years, city dwellers can buy some high-priced food from the countryside. Although food stamps still have value, their price on the black market will not be high.

The days passed quickly. Jiang Cheng's eldest daughter was already in the second semester of the third grade. The second daughter was also in the second semester of the first grade. By September, both daughters would be promoted to a higher grade.

My niece Jiang Juan has also grown from a little girl to a big girl, now 17 years old. If it were in the countryside in the past, she would have been married.

There are still girls in rural areas who get married at the age of 16, but not many. The poorer the place, the earlier the girls get married. The city around Changcheng is not rich, but it is much better than some places in Shaanxi and northern Shaanxi.

Jiang Juan is now in her second year of high school and will be preparing for the college entrance exam next year. If you take this into account, I have raised this niece for more than five years, and she is no different from my own daughter.

Jiang Cheng paid for everything she ate, wore and used. And everything from menstrual pads to breast wraps was also made by her aunt Zhou Lingying.

Because he ate well during his growth period, and the Jiang family had pretty good genes, his height and figure were considered very good in that era.

Jiang Juan's grades in school have always been good. If her grades don't drop and she performs consistently in the college entrance examination next year, the Jiang family will have a female college student.

It's hard to describe the two nephews in my niece's hometown. Zhou Lingying gave birth to a son, which cut off some of the ideas from her sister-in-law. To put it bluntly, she couldn't make the whole family die.

Now, Li Xianglan can only hope that when her son grows up, Jiang Cheng, as his uncle, can arrange a good job for him.

In elementary school, Jiang Lin's grades were OK. But in junior high school, they were not so good. Because he went to school in the county town, which was much more interesting than the towns, and there were more places to spend money.

Jiang Lin is also thirteen years old, and his dirty hands and feet have not been completely eliminated. Now he is more mentally sound, and he is no longer like Jiang Juan, who used to come home with less money or less money at home.

It is useless to deny it, especially if the thief only took part of the money. A real thief would never steal a little bit of money, he would definitely take the whole thing.

So Jiang Lin currently seems to be not good at studying and is a little too playful, but that doesn't seem to be a big problem.

Jiang Yang's behavior was acceptable, but he was not good at studying. Or maybe he was not good enough to be a township primary school teacher. Anyway, during the Chinese New Year last year, Jiang Cheng heard him read pinyin in his hometown, and he almost laughed to death.

It's not that the pinyin is spelled incorrectly, but the pinyin is pronounced correctly, but the characters are in dialect. Jiang Cheng couldn't figure out how this was done.

The Hama dialect in my hometown is hanmao (pronounced "hanmao"). The pinyin can be pronounced by hama Jiang Yang, but it is a dialect once you read it.

It was also from this year that Jiang Cheng could no longer be too affectionate with his daughter. Hugging and kissing was fine, but his eldest daughter was already nine years old, so Jiang Cheng could no longer give her a bath.

Of course, Jiang Zhaozhao will definitely not take precautions against her parents in this regard now, but Jiang Cheng has to pay attention to this aspect.

Not to mention her nine-year-old daughter, when Jiang Juan, who was eleven years old, first came to the city, she didn't even care about Uncle Jiang Cheng when she took a bath.

Of course, an eleven-year-old wouldn't let anyone bathe her.

It can only be said that people with evil thoughts will see others as evil. In this era when thoughts were relatively pure, Zhou Lingying thought that Jiang Cheng did not bathe his older daughters just to let them bathe themselves, and she never thought that Jiang Cheng was avoiding something.

If Jiang Cheng's taboos were known to others in this era, they would be viewed as strange, because you would be taboo if you had evil thoughts. In this era, would a father have such thoughts about his daughter?

This year, Jiang Cheng finally got the news he had been waiting for.

Some cities have started to pilot the sale of public housing, with subsidies. Individuals only need to pay one-third of the cost of the house, one-third of which is government subsidies and one-third is provided by the employer.

Even one-third of the house price can be paid in installments, but there is a little interest. If you pay the price in one lump sum, you can get a discount on the basis of one-third.

For the two houses that Jiang Cheng lives in, the price of the house is calculated based on the construction cost. The house price paid is cheaper than the materials he would have bought to build the house himself.

However, the policy has not yet reached Changcheng, and is being implemented gradually. But this also means that the policy of allowing individuals to buy other people's houses and build houses in the city is coming soon.

At present, Jiang Cheng’s house is big enough to live in, but it is a bit crowded, so the housing problem is not that urgent.

This means that in the next two years, people in Beijing can buy a few courtyard houses in the city center, and in Shanghai, they can buy a building or build a sea view villa.

However, there is no rush to buy a house in China. Jiang Cheng is going to Hong Kong to make a move.

Because there was a global economic recession in 1982, and Hong Kong's current pillar industry is still trade. The global economic recession will inevitably affect trade orders.

Then Hong Kong's economy affected the stock market, which fell again. Falling stock prices also affected the property market.

But compared with 73, even if the stock market fell sharply this time, it was still good, because when the stock market price was high this time, there were not many crazy investors.

In 1973, many people quit their jobs to invest in stocks, sold their houses to invest in stocks, and took out loans to invest in stocks. During the bull market, you could eat abalone and lobsters as much as you wanted. Some people even used US dollars to light cigarettes. It was because of the crazy stock market speculation that a large number of stockholders were directly in debt after the stock market crashed.

That year, people in Hong Kong jumped off buildings because of stock speculation, and it was reported in the newspapers every now and then. Jiang Cheng bought a house at that time, which helped some people to make ends meet. There were also many people selling houses at that time, which led to a situation where there was a price but no market.

Although the stock market was down in 1982 and fell a lot, it was nothing compared to the stock market in 1973.

Many people can hold on, and even if they have a little debt, most of them can borrow from relatives and friends around them. Unlike in 1973, many people frantically threw all their wealth into the stock market.

But ordinary people have been able to withstand the stock market turmoil this time. But if some big bosses have problems with the stock market, it will be difficult for them to balance their accounts.

The losses in foreign trade and finance were the most serious this time, resulting in an increase in the sale of ordinary houses, but the price drop was not very large. However, some industries such as skyscrapers and office buildings were hit hard. Such industries often require tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars of investment.

Directly purchasing office buildings, hotels, etc. is actually not cheap. It is not as cheap as buying land and building in Hong Kong, but it is difficult to get a good location in Hong Kong.

The construction period is also long, and it takes two to three years to buy a ready-made one. You can rent out the office building and operate the hotel yourself, and you can make a lot of money in two years.

All in all, as long as Hong Kong's economy does not decline, it is still cost-effective to buy ready-made ones.

So this year Jiang Cheng really went to Hong Kong frequently, and in Shenzhen, Zheng Ke's belly was getting bigger every month, so Jiang Cheng also had to spend time with her.

This resulted in Jiang Cheng spending less time with Zhou Lingying and his children in Changcheng, but now tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars are invested in an office building or a hotel in Xiangjiang. In the future, it would easily be worth billions of dollars.

In June 1982, after the government-owned houses were sold to individuals at low prices, the country allowed private housing sales. But it was not easy to buy or sell houses at that time. There were no specialized intermediaries, and one had to inquire about buying and selling houses.

In July, Zheng Ke gave birth to a baby girl named Zheng Shuang.

Overall, Jiang Cheng spent an ordinary but busy year in 1982. His fixed assets in Hong Kong increased, and he had another daughter.

In the past two years since Shenzhen became a special economic zone, hundreds of thousands of people from other places have poured in, creating a mixed crowd of good and bad people.

There are many pickpockets in public places with large crowds of people, such as stations, docks, shopping malls, and theaters.

Jiang Cheng's defense team was also gradually recalled in 1982, patrolling between food processing plants, clothing factories and shopping malls to maintain public order. At least to ensure that employees were safe on their way to and from get off work, and to stop troublemakers in many places.

In addition to patrol officers, the auxiliary defense team also began to have its own main business income. They caught gamblers, confiscated gambling funds, and required each person to pay a certain amount of money before they could be released.

As for prostitutes, of course they will be caught, pay a fine, and then their family will be notified to come and pick them up.

The law enforcement offices under Zhang Jincai focused their efforts on catching pickpockets, robberies, and fights.

Even so, Shenzhen's police force is seriously insufficient and they are simply unable to handle the situation.

This also led to the Jiang Cheng's auxiliary defense team deliberately letting the water to raise fish, catching people in one area for a while. This led to the illegal personnel in one area coming out to act again as if they had heard the news and had passed.

So the defense team keeps going back and forth to catch people, but they just can't catch them all. It seems that the income from fines and confiscated gambling funds can't be stopped at all, there will always be more.

It was easy to earn tens of thousands of yuan from any random scene, even after deducting the portion that had to be handed in. In 1982, after deducting salaries and various expenses, the defense team actually began to make a lot of profit.

In addition to their salaries, the members of the defense team also started to receive bonuses and activity funds. As a result, when they heard that they were going to catch gamblers, they would scream with excitement.

The regular law enforcement team, on the other hand, had a hard time. The auxiliary defense team was not their subordinate unit, it could only be considered as a call for cooperation.

It is impossible to send them to dangerous places, and it would be difficult to explain if something happened. The employees of my own unit have a regular salary, and many things can be reimbursed.

Moreover, law enforcement power is also a big problem. If the auxiliary defense team goes to handle a case, it does not have the power to ask some units to cooperate.

But now they are facing a problem. In the previous year, due to the salary increase, Zhang Jincai finally suppressed the auxiliary defense team. The salary of the auxiliary defense team increased, but the regular staff of their law enforcement team did not increase, so it was difficult to lead the team.

That is, through the salary increase, Zhang Jincai was made to understand that some benefits are not easy to take. Zhang Jincai recruited these people through connections, but he had to let them know who their real employer was.

So during this year, the two units that were almost completely mixed together have now slowly separated. The members of the auxiliary defense team have also gradually understood whose command they should obey more.

But separation has both advantages and disadvantages. After all, when we were together, there was a regular law enforcement team to supervise us. The auxiliary defense team had to report everything they did to the higher-ups, but now there is no supervision.

The headquarters of Jiangdonglai is in Hong Kong. Apart from dispatching some local inspections, there is no leader watching over them.

Now the Auxiliary Defense Team has some power to arrest gambling and prostitution. In the absence of regulation, the Auxiliary Defense Team may become a protective umbrella for some people.

It would be great if someone would send money to you while you are at work. If the team leader of the defense team is upright, he may not be able to prevent the people below from leaking information.

Those who should be arrested must be arrested. If their unit does not make money, they know that Jiangdonglai cannot support them for free.

Zheng Ke is now in charge of the publicity work for all units under Jiangdonglai in Shenzhen. Jiang Cheng only found out about the problem with the auxiliary defense team when Zheng Ke told him about it.

Jiang Cheng didn't expect that some of the money handed over by the auxiliary defense team was actually tainted. This went against Jiang Cheng's original intention of forming an auxiliary defense team. He actually did it for fun. In addition, with the expansion of his own market, he needed a lot of people just for security. So he and Zhang Jincai formed an auxiliary defense team together.

But Jiang Cheng was used to being a hands-off boss, and the financial status of business-related things was easy to check. As for the auxiliary defense team, if they really accepted the tribute money, the entire team would be corrupted very quickly.

Just like the classic saying of later generations, if you don’t take, I won’t take, so how can Commissioner Geng take? If he doesn’t take, how can we make progress?

The salaries of the auxiliary defense personnel were suppressed and not in line with other staff in Jiangdonglai. They were almost the same as those of the law enforcement team.

Now the salaries of local staff in Shenzhen have also increased, but not as much as those of foreign companies. All the staff of the auxiliary defense team earn more than 100 yuan a month.

Now in this department, if someone gives a tip-off, he can get thousands of yuan, which is enough to support him for a year. How many people can resist such temptation?

There is a reason for this, because there is no senior executive from Jiangdonglai in Hong Kong. Even if someone here finds any problems, they can't fire them.

Jiang Cheng found that he had to learn from Hong Kong and use the same system as the Independent Commission Against Corruption. But hiring people to clean up the mess was not an option. Jiang Cheng felt that the Enforcement Department could not just take money for nothing.

In the end, we have to find Zhang Jincai, and the auxiliary defense team has to jointly control it, otherwise Jiang Cheng will not be able to be the hands-off boss.

(End of this chapter)