The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 318 Triangular Debt Formation
After finishing the discussion in the morning, Zhou Lingying gave Jiang Yan one thousand yuan and accompanied her to buy a lot of New Year's goods in the city.

In addition to her husband, she also has children to accompany her. However, Chen Changgen will have a hard time this year. Before Jiang Yan forgives him, Jiang Yan will not accompany him when he visits relatives during the Spring Festival.

Jiang Cheng was also a little upset about Jiang Yan's affairs, mainly because people of this generation could not think straight. If Jiang Yan was more open-minded, Jiang Cheng would have asked her to divorce directly. As long as she had money, it would not be a problem for her to support a college student gigolo at her age.

In the afternoon, Jiang Yan and Chen Changgen, whose face was bruised and swollen, took the bus back to their hometown.

After returning home, Chen Changgen would definitely not be able to hide this from his parents. When Chen Changgen returned to Changcheng from Shenzhen, he was actually a little optimistic.

After all, it was just a few thousand yuan, and he thought it would be paid off in a few months. The couple and the canteen business brought in tens of thousands of yuan a year. They built a house, bought furniture and appliances, and kept it a secret from others, but they still lived a comfortable life.

But he didn't expect Jiang Yan to be so stubborn and insisted on telling Jiang Cheng about this. Jiang Cheng's actions were equivalent to depriving him of everything. Now Chen Changgen had no idea how to live in the future.

If you want to make money, you have to go to Shenzhen to work, at least that's what Chen Changgen knows. If you don't go to Shenzhen, even in the urban area of ​​Changcheng, the salary level is not even half of that in Shenzhen, and it's hard to find a job.

Moreover, if Chen Changgen really has to go to Shenzhen to work alone and live apart from Jiang Yan, it will be even more difficult to reconcile.

So Chen Changgen currently has no way out, and when he returned home, he confronted his parents directly. After hearing the situation, Chen Changgen's parents scolded Chen Changgen for being a good-for-nothing, but despite the scolding, they still persuaded Jiang Yan to reconcile with him.

Chen Changgen works as a security captain in Shenzhen, earning more than 1,000 yuan a month, plus bonuses and benefits, 15,000 yuan a year. We have to live together, and even if we are angry, we can't joke about work.

Even if Chen Changgen gives half of his earnings to Jiang Yan, he can't be asked to go back to the countryside to farm.

Chen Changgen's father also beat him up in front of Jiang Yan and made him kneel in front of Jiang Yan. In addition, many relatives came to persuade him, and Jiang Yan's anger subsided a little.

However, she still didn't let Chen Changgen touch her body and they slept in separate rooms.

They would not go to Shenzhen again, and Jiang Yan also made a concession, allowing Chen Changgen to help out in the soy sauce factory's store after the New Year. He would not be paid, but would live and eat with his son and daughter, and would be given some pocket money every month.

Jiang Cheng and his family did not go back to their hometown early to celebrate the New Year this year. In fact, he only went back early with his family in the two years when the house in his hometown was just built.

But the New Year celebration in the countryside is really boring, there are not many fireworks and firecrackers. Since then, many people go home for the New Year to gamble and play cards.

The ditches in the countryside are all frozen, and there are no fish or shrimp. There are no big mountains nearby, and there is no prey in the mountains. In fact, in some big mountains, the more winter it is, the more hunters like to go into the mountains to hunt. The grass and trees are all dead, and the traces of animals can no longer be hidden.

Jiang Cheng doesn't gamble. If he did, he could have a "fulfilling" New Year. Zhou Lingying, on the other hand, gambles a little, playing cards with her neighbors, but the winnings and losses are never big.

Before Jiang Cheng traveled through time, he was a gambler and would play mahjong with his relatives every New Year.

In this era, Jiang Cheng also had a gambling addiction, but it became boring. If someone cheats, they will at least hide the cards, or mark them, or have someone to help.

Jiang Cheng never carries his hidden cards with him when he cheats. He hides them in the space.

Moreover, he never forms a group, and at the end of the game, when five identical cards appear, no one can catch Jiang Cheng cheating on the spot, so people won't suspect him.

Even Jiang Cheng's space is limited, not the kind that requires contact. As long as he operates quickly and no one stares at his cards, he can complete the card exchange without touching them.

The exciting part of gambling is that there are wins and losses, luck and chance. When Jiang Cheng could win by playing cards, he couldn't control his ability to cheat and used space. After playing in Hong Kong for a while, he quit gambling because he felt it was meaningless.

The key is that gambling doesn't make money as fast as Jiang Cheng's legitimate business. If someone dares to play Jinhua with him, Jiang Cheng doesn't mind winning or losing hundreds of millions.

Jiang Cheng thought it would be more interesting to travel during the Spring Festival, by self-driving, and get a large commercial vehicle from Hong Kong, even if he had to pay the customs duties. His space could not accommodate a car that was too big.

There are actually many brands of RVs for sale in Hong Kong. A cheap small RV only costs about 100,000 Hong Kong dollars, while a luxurious one costs about 300,000.

Of course, truly wealthy people usually go directly to car manufacturers to customize their RVs. It is normal to spend tens of millions to customize RVs from high-end brands such as Rolls-Royce and Bentley.

Jiang Cheng doesn't need to customize anything. It's too luxurious and there's no need for that in China. A motorhome worth more than 300,000 yuan will be enough.

Now that Jiang Cheng obviously has a soy sauce factory that makes money, if he gets a motorhome, no one will ask where the money came from.

Jiang Cheng's family spent New Year's Eve in the city, buying firecrackers and lots of fireworks. Before the Spring Festival Gala started, everyone set off fireworks in the yard and had a lot of fun.

After the Spring Festival Gala started, everyone went back to their rooms to watch TV. I have to say that the current Spring Festival Gala is really better than the later ones.

Another "old acquaintance" appeared in this year's Spring Festival Gala. Song Dandan made her first appearance on the Gala and performed "Lazy Man's Blind Date".

The performance of "Pepper Noodles" by Zhu Shimao and Chen Peisi made Jiang Cheng feel that it was much more interesting than most of the skits in later generations. It had no connotations of the past, and at most it just reflected the current phenomenon, and it was purely for the purpose of making everyone laugh.

The purpose of performing a show, no matter what type it is, is to make everyone like it and enjoy watching it. If we have to consider the educational significance of a show, it will only limit everyone's creativity and imagination.

It can be said that if the Spring Festival Gala of the 1990s were rebroadcast in the future, it would probably have higher ratings than the new Spring Festival Gala.

After celebrating New Year's Eve in the city, people go around to pay New Year's greetings on New Year's Day. Children are happy because they receive red envelopes everywhere. However, when children of this era reach the age of twelve, their elders no longer give them New Year's money.

People like Jiang Zhaozhao, Jiang Panpan, and Jiang Niannian may not receive New Year's money from others. But~~.

"Dad, Mom, Happy New Year. I wish you good health and ever-younger life."

"Dad, Mom. And me, I hope Dad becomes more and more handsome, and Mom becomes more and more beautiful."

"Dad, Mom. Happy New Year. I wish you all happiness."

"Mom and Dad~~"

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On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Jiang Zhaozhao brought his younger brothers and sisters to visit his parents early in the morning to wish them a happy new year.

Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying were so happy that the red envelope of New Year's money was equal to the money given by all other relatives. Besides, they never lacked money to spend. It was not that they were given New Year's money. It was that if they wanted something, they would tell them, and even if they couldn't buy it in Changcheng, Jiang Cheng would buy it for them from other places.

They don’t have to worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation, and they have nowhere to spend money. They don’t wear makeup, and they don’t have any cosmetics. They all use vanishing cream to maintain their skin.

As for clothes, Jiang Cheng bought them Hong Kong-style clothes, which were better looking than those in Changcheng Mall. They also didn't have the habit of buying clothes for babies.

So she really couldn't spend much money, and the New Year's money was just a formality. Jiang Cheng always asked Jiang Zhaozhao if she wanted money, but she refused it even if he gave it to her.

But Jiang Fei and Jiang Yue in Hong Kong are big spenders, and now they like to buy jewelry. They wear light makeup when they go out, mainly because they know how to dress up, and makeup is just a decoration. If they wear heavy makeup, Jiang Cheng might take action, because he doesn't want to see his daughter wearing too much makeup to look like a ghost.

Jiang Fei is still young and not a big spender, but this year she wants to learn how to drive and says she wants to buy a sports car so she can take her dad and mom out for a ride.

That little mouth is so sweet, but the money to buy the sports car was not given by the parents.

After Jiang Zhaozhao paid New Year's greetings to her parents, Jiang Cheng asked her to take the fourth, fifth and sixth children to pay New Year's greetings to the neighbors in the yard. These three were young and could receive New Year's money.

Of course, it is good if the neighbor can give 50 cents or 1 yuan. In the past, neighbors gave each other 10 cents or 20 cents. This is still not for the money, but for the celebration.

What's more, other people's children will come to Jiang Cheng's house to pay New Year's greetings. If Jiang Cheng's children don't go to other people's houses, people will think that they look down on them.

After paying New Year's greetings early in the morning, Jiang Cheng drove his family back to his hometown. The car was no longer a sedan, but a commercial vehicle, which was also the latest popular car in Hong Kong.

But even if a commercial vehicle can comfortably seat eight people, if you are going on a trip, not only will the driver be tired, but the passengers will also be tired. It is better to get a large RV with two floors so that you can sleep or lie down.

When Jiang Cheng returned to his hometown, he just wanted to pay New Year's greetings to his parents. He would not go to his uncle's house. If he had not had conflicts with his uncle and aunt, he would have gone to both of them.

Jiang Cheng didn't understand the specific rules of New Year's greetings. Anyway, Jiang Cheng didn't need to visit his mother's relatives to pay New Year's greetings. In the original owner's memory, when he was young, his mother Zhao Yuxia would take him to pay New Year's greetings to his grandparents.

By now, his grandparents had long passed away. Jiang Cheng's maternal relatives would probably end up being separated from him after his uncle passed away, or even after his mother passed away.

Because as long as Zhao Yuxia is still around, my uncle's children will still come here to pay New Year's greetings, because Zhao Yuxia is their aunt.

Jiang Yan also went back to her parents' home to pay New Year's greetings, and there was no such thing as New Year's greetings between brothers and sisters. Since the word "bai" is used in New Year's greetings, it is natural that the younger generation is paying New Year's greetings to the older generation.

So when Jiang Cheng returned to his hometown, he didn't have to go out to pay New Year's greetings. He just had to pay his New Year's greetings to his parents and give them some money.

Since Zhou Lingying gave birth to a son, his parents' hearts have also shifted to him. After all, their later years still depend on Jiang Cheng, and since Jiang Cheng has a son, it is normal for him to be partial to his grandson.

Jiang Cheng's children paid New Year's greetings to their grandparents. Jiang Zhaozhao, Jiang Panpan and Nian Nian did not receive any New Year's money because they were too old.

The fourth, fifth and sixth children did receive red envelopes from their grandparents, but their preference for boys over girls was too obvious. Jiang Ping received ten yuan in red envelopes, while Jiang Sisi and Jiang Mengmeng, who were girls, only received one yuan.

Zhou Lingying was a little amused when she saw this scene. However, such things were too common in rural areas, and even in cities.

Jiang Cheng and his family stayed in their hometown for one day, and held a banquet at home the next day. In the past, everyone was poor during the Spring Festival, and they did not pay attention to holding a banquet to entertain relatives during the Spring Festival, but now they have started to pay attention to it.

If he hadn't stopped communicating with Jiang Dahai, he would have done it first on the second day of the Lunar New Year, because he was the eldest. Jiang Changhe was the second oldest and came in second. If there were many brothers, they would have continued in this order, and it would be normal to have it from the second to the tenth day of the Lunar New Year.

In Jiang Cheng's generation, if his parents are gone in the future, he will only interact with Jiang Yan and his sister-in-law.

Now that my niece Jiang Juan can earn money, and Jiang Lin and Jiang Yang can also earn money, in the future it may be that my sister-in-law's side will host the New Year banquet on the second day of the Lunar New Year, Jiang Cheng will take care of it on the third day, and then we will go to Jiang Yan's side on the fourth day.

Now, when we have a banquet on the second day of the Chinese New Year, all the people from Zhao Yuxia’s family come, and from the Jiang family, only Jiang Yan comes with her children.

Logically, it was not Zhao Yuxia's turn to do the work on the second day of the Chinese New Year. But the Jiang family was special, with a promising son. If they were not allowed to do it on the second day of the Chinese New Year, and Jiang Cheng left on the third day, no one would be able to find him to do anything for them.

Jiang Cheng also wanted to make the feast on the second day of the Chinese New Year lively, so he slaughtered a live pig early in the morning. Eat what you want, take what you want. When people come, they bring a small gift, a can of food, some sugar, noodles and some meat, and they all leave with a big piece of meat.

If you take a large piece of meat home, you don't need to buy meat to entertain other relatives during the New Year. Even when you kill the pig, the neighbors who come to help will share some meat.

Jiang Changhe and Zhao Yuxia said that it was a waste to just buy a whole pig for the New Year and give so much meat to relatives. But they kept smiling, because it was too much of a face-saving thing.

After the Chinese New Year, Jiang Cheng and his family returned to Changcheng on the third day of the New Year.

This year was also the last year of the late 1980s. With the development of reform and opening up, many state-owned enterprises could no longer hold on.

Private enterprises are flexible and can immediately turn around and change their business if they see that the path is not right.

But state-owned enterprises cannot do that. They cannot change industries just because they see other industries making money. Just like the soy sauce factory that Jiang Cheng contracted before, it was destined to be a soy sauce factory, and it would not operate other projects just to solve the loss problem of the soy sauce factory with more than 500 people.

Since the beginning of reform and opening up, the government has gradually started to implement the policy that some enterprises should be responsible for their own profits and losses. However, if there is a real loss, the government still has to cover the loss.

But now the more they cover the bottom, the greater the losses. Some companies and factories have no funds, and the more they produce, the more they lose. They can't sell them, so they are all piled up in the warehouse.

Wages cannot be paid, and employees only receive the minimum guaranteed wage every month. There is no work to do in the units and factories.

The factory had no money and could not sell the goods it produced. Another important problem arose: before the reform, many companies settled their payments in the following month.

The factory has no money, and may not even be able to pay for raw materials. If it cannot pay for raw materials, the funds of the unit that purchases the materials will be tight.

Triangular debts also began to take shape rapidly. Companies sent people to collect debts, and commission rewards were given according to the amount of money collected. This started from now on.

Now the factories are only making losses and it is difficult to pay wages. In less than two years, a wave of layoffs will occur. Once this loophole is opened, many factory managers will not hold on to it.

Employees may be laid off, but leaders will basically be transferred.

When the wave of layoffs comes, tens of millions of people will be laid off. At that time, some factories will not be contracted out to everyone, but will be sold to individuals at a low price.

This also means that for many people, the second wave of wealth is coming. As long as they can provide jobs for laid-off workers, any conditions will be met.

But Jiang Cheng didn't pay attention to this after the Chinese New Year. He was going to buy a large site in Hong Kong. The location didn't matter. He needed to store things. Someone in China actually exchanged canned food for an airplane from the dying Big Brother country.

After a few transactions, the profit can reach hundreds of millions, and after deducting the costs, it is still tens of millions.

If Big Brother is no longer around, the currency will be worthless. If you have food, drink, clothes, and US dollars, you can buy industrial equipment, military weapons, and airplanes there.

Although Jiang Cheng has a lot of space, he can only store a limited amount of things. After hearing the news in China, Jiang Cheng wanted to buy a private jet, both a commercial one and a private helicopter.

A helicopter is not as expensive as a luxury car there. Jiang Cheng wants to buy some helicopters. If there are too many helicopters, he can rent them out. If that doesn't work, he can also fly them for fun.

(End of this chapter)