National Tide 1980.

Chapter 470 The Butterfly Effect
May of 1983 was actually a very chaotic and lively month for the people of Beijing.

Because there are many new things that have never been seen before, all of which come out this month.

It is both exciting and stimulating, but also a little difficult to adapt and at a loss.

As for the taste, whether it is sweet or bitter, sour or spicy, no one really can tell.

But one thing is certain, that is, these things all prove that the lives of ordinary people have changed more and more dramatically compared with the past.

For example, the effect of the amendment to the Marriage Law has begun to become prominent.

Thirty-six women formed a "Qin Xianglian Petitioning Group" and jointly petitioned the All-China Women's Federation this month, suing their husbands as "Chen Shimei".

These women are intellectuals who have consciously supported their husbands' careers over the years.

But after these husbands turned over, they resorted to the "emotional breakdown" article in the new "Marriage Law" and filed for divorce, so they don't want to be a bad wife.

In this sensational incident, not only did the lawsuit hit the central government, but it was also the first time that people in the capital heard a new word - "the third party intervenes", and they have been discussing it for a long time.

And the ending is quite intriguing.

Despite being intervened by the highest authority, none of the 36 "Chen Shimei" were divorced at the time, and they all expressed that they would seriously reconsider.

But within ten years, they were all divorced.

I have to say that it is the particularity of this era that made a big joke with these families...

Coincidentally, there are similar things.

Following the country's reform of the labor system and the launch of the contract system, there has also been a latest change in the operating system.

In order to improve the operating conditions of small commercial units with serious losses, the state also introduces the contract system, which plays a huge role in rural areas of our country, into the urban commercial system.

From this month, the service bureaus of each district in the capital have distributed certain pilot indicators, and began to require general stores to try to implement the contract system.

That is to say, the government began to allow the managers of some convenience stores and small restaurants with limited scale and few employees.

On the premise of retaining his public office, he went to sea to make money for himself.

From then on, what is handed over to the country, the rest is his own.

But even this kind of good deed that makes Ning Weimin envious now, was actually resisted by most of the people in charge of the shops and restaurants.

Few people are willing to stand up and be responsible for their own profits and losses.

People who are used to earning a solid job are used to sitting back and enjoying their success, and they no longer have the courage to be independent, so they want to live on the back of the public.

As a result, there was a lot of trouble and tension between the service bureau and many grassroots leaders because of this incident.

The resulting contradictions and conflicts are more serious than the rigid apportionment of treasury bills by various units.

No matter how honest and capable grassroots cadres were in the past, once they were named and asked to take the lead, they all became glaring King Kong who dared to turn the table.

In the past, the cadres of the service bureau who had been regarded as honored guests at the grassroots level were all treated coldly and looked down upon, and were regarded as cruel officials who wanted to smash people's jobs.

Look, the state begs individuals to make a fortune, and offers considerable preferential treatment and support conditions, but no one likes to go.

Is it strange?
So there is no way, because of the difficulty of implementation, these people below have a tendency to hold back and retreat.

The service bureau had no choice but to further relax the contracting conditions, and also allowed grassroots employees to recommend themselves to contract small shops.

If the original person in charge is really unwilling to try, he can be assigned another post.

This is a good thing, and many grassroots workers are willing to give it a try.

Some people are inherently restless speculators, and they are sure that the country cannot really make the store dirty.

After thinking about it, although he is responsible for his own profits and losses, he spends the money of the country and still has a public office on his head, so there is no real risk.

Why not do it if you can be a manager?

Then Lord Yan will play with the little devil, and he will be comfortable for a while.

There are also some real people who just want to do things well, and they don't know how to flatter them.

This kind of people has some ability, and they have long had a big opinion on the superfluous people in the store, and they have long been looking forward to self-reliance, becoming serfs and singing.

There are even some honest people recommended by grassroots employees.

Everyone just had too much resentment against the original manager, hoping that someone could replace the original leader.

Whoever is the leader is stronger than before.

Needless to say, in this way, it became the key to breaking the game.

The original managers of each small store saw that they were about to be replaced, and it was inevitable that they would be in chaos.

So some are reluctant, some are discouraged and decide to let the virtuous, some change their flags to conform to the general trend, some give credit to the service bureau to negotiate conditions, and some even use anonymous letters to retaliate against their leaders.

In the end, in such a chaotic environment, with different reactions from various people, the contracting system was launched with difficulty.

There is no doubt that this is a historical opportunity that can only be provided by special times.

Many people got on this special train for wealth creation by accident, chance, or even confusion.

There are also many people who miss such opportunities for development for the same reason.

Because of this, there will be no peace in the commercial port from now on.

Because once everyone understood, the stick that seemed to be handed over from above turned out to be sugar cane that was too sweet.

It is still unavoidable that there will be another dispute between you and me.

This is human nature...

What's interesting is that when ordinary people's marriage and work have problems, they also start to make troubles in terms of health and exercise.

This month, Beijing People's Broadcasting Station officially announced that it would stop broadcasting gymnastics music.

This signifies that the government no longer needs to prescriptively promote and call on the public to participate in physical fitness.

The masses can already rely on self-consciousness and take the initiative to work hard to control their own health.

And the way of exercising has also begun to show diversified development.

In fact, since the beginning of the year, there have been sports associations for the elderly, fishing associations, kite associations, dragon boat associations and other mass sports organizations.

It's just because the government completely let go of it all at once, and the people are completely willful. Such a great thing can go away, and huge hidden dangers have emerged.

The qigong superstition in the name of science began to become popular in society at this time.

All kinds of exercises and masters who came out of nowhere, attracted believers among the people by advocating that they can cure all diseases and have miraculous curative effects, and they grew rapidly.

In this year, there were 170 six Health Qigong articles published in sports periodicals alone.

Needless to say, it is precisely because of this kind of advocacy that it is getting bigger and bigger, which misled people's pursuit of health into a wrong path.

In the end, it resulted in far more absurd and serious consequences than the chicken blood and hands-off therapy back then.

It can only be said that blind obedience is absolutely unacceptable.

Even if the wishes and motives are good, they are for the pursuit of health and happiness.

But if you don't have the ability to judge, and believe what others say, it will often backfire and cause bad results.

The reverse is also true.

Just as it is not necessarily a good thing to blindly believe in authority, it is not necessarily a bad thing to insist on one's own personality and not to follow the crowd.

If you don't believe me, just take a look at the hairdressing industry in Beijing at this time.

In the same month, some new types of private barbershops—individual hairdressers—suddenly appeared in the hutongs of the capital.

The operators of these small shops are young and young, and the biggest difference between them and traditional barbershops is that they are trendy and avant-garde.

For example, the names are all in the style of youthful romance and foreign style.

What about "Flying Hair Salon", "Elegant Hair Salon", or "Weina", "Mengsha"...

For another example, for interior decoration, posters and photos of Hong Kong and Taiwan stars and foreign stars must be pasted all over the wall and room, so as to attract people's attention.

The most fashionable pop songs must also be played through four speakers in the room, which is called background music.

Even the hairdresser's own hairstyle is so special, what he wants is to show off his personality.

And it is guaranteed to be something that people have never seen before, so it is "Hong Kong style".

So although these small shops are usually poorly equipped, the hygiene and safety conditions are completely incomparable with regular barbershops.

Even if some shopkeepers are really not good at craftsmanship, they just boast that their craftsmanship comes from Huacheng, but in fact they are just beginners.

But relying on the trinity package service of "washing, cutting and blowing" and the fashion concept of all-round creation, they still attract many young men and women to their stores.

So from then on, the new hairstyles on TV and magazines can be "transplanted" to young people's heads in a timely manner.

People who come to hair salons can choose hairstyles according to their face shape, head shape and personal preferences, or even create their own hairstyles.

Haircuts are no longer the same as everyone else, an ordinary basic need of life.

Instead, it has become a real embodiment of fashion interpretation.

But in the eyes of most middle-aged and elderly people, this is also a thing that makes no sense.

Older people don't understand how young people can be so stupid as to do this.

I would rather pay several times more than the barber shop, and would rather wait in a long queue and wait twice as long as the barber shop.

It is also necessary to let these masters who can't even use the faders to make themselves out of their hair to be nondescript.

This day is really messed up...

Of course, even fashion and popularity must be divided into different levels.

It is different from several small hair salons that have just emerged and are still rare, and it is difficult to form a scale effect.

The clothing model industry has been developing for two or three years in China, and now it is entering a period of high-speed development.

Especially this month, even an epoch-making milestone happened.

All the more so that this industry, which has always been controversial, has been the focus of the whole country.

what's up?
It must be said that many coincidences have come together.

On the one hand, in late April, a clothing, shoes and hats fair in five provinces and cities hosted by the Ministry of Light Industry was held in Beijing as scheduled.

The Shanghai Fashion Show Team also came to Beijing along with the Shanghai Pavilion.

On April 4th, the opening ceremony of the fair was held in the theater of the Agricultural Exhibition Hall. The Shanghai fashion model team performed to the public for the first time in the capital and achieved amazing success.

After that, the 20-day performance was in full swing, and the venues were full.

Because the audience was so enthusiastic, the Ministry of Light Industry had to decide to add another [-] days and postpone the exhibition to one month.

It should be said that this is what actually happened in history, which is already sensational enough.

But what is different from history is that this kid Ning Weimin also brought a huge butterfly effect.

In the same month, the first model contest—“Splendid Oriental Model Contest”—planned by Pierre Caton Clothing Company and jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Textiles, the Ministry of Economy and Trade, and several fashion magazines in Beijing was also officially announced to the outside world.

Trials are tentatively scheduled to be held in Beijing in late June.

The entry criteria cover all provinces, cities and regions across the country, and it is open to all fashion models with actual stage experience.

The registration brochure for the competition declares that as long as they have the basic quality of being on stage, young women of the right age who meet the height of 1.7 meters three or more and weigh less than 58 kg can come to participate with the relevant letter of introduction from the performing unit.

All contestants entering the preliminary round will be reimbursed by Pierre Carton for their travel expenses.

And bear the full cost of board and lodging and training within the three-month competition schedule.

The 24 fashion models who entered the finals will be signed by Pierre Carton with a three-year labor contract, responsible for further training and recommending related work.

So this competition has completely heated up the clothing model industry.

In particular, the ongoing clothing fair was like pouring oil on the fire, which made it even more difficult to find tickets.

The ticket price was obviously only one yuan and fifty cents, but it jumped directly to five yuan.

Moreover, because of the urgent consultation and strong request of the Ministry of Light Industry, the first model competition eventually became not only a competition co-sponsored by three ministries and commissions.

For the purpose of business exchange, the Ministry of Textiles also temporarily decided that on the closing day of the exhibition, the models who went to Nishiura Department Store in Japan to perform last time would be organized to hold a joint performance with the Shanghai Fashion Show Team.

This is amazing, the best models from the two cities of Beijing and Shanghai will perform together.

Needless to say, the ticket price on the last day skyrocketed to 15 yuan per ticket.

The ticket dealers in the capital are considered happy, and have completely ushered in a grand carnival.

But this is not the end, because it is even more coincidental that this month coincides with the visit of the then French President Francois Mitterrand to China.

And the reception banquet was arranged at the Jianguo Hotel in Beijing.

As a result, an extremely unexpected situation happened during the banquet.

When this Francois Mitterrand came to Jianguo Hotel, he got out of the car, surrounded by the crowd, and saw Pierre Carton's franchise store as soon as he entered the hotel lobby.

As the saying goes, fellow countrymen are teary-eyed when they see fellow villagers. This kind of affection is not unique to Chinese people, and foreigners are the same.

The French president did not expect to see French brands here, so he was so happy.

Just so excited, he made an impromptu decision and stayed in the franchise store for 10 minutes.

The other people have to accompany the whole process.

What is even more unexpected is that the French president is quite in high spirits.

He not only laughed and chatted with the salesperson in the store, but also went into the store and looked at the listed products quite seriously.

I am also very interested in the sculptures brought by Ning Weimin.

When taking a photo with the salesperson, he even raised his thumbs up in public to cheer for the French brand like a child.

The people from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs saw how happy the man who came to sign the memorandum of nuclear power cooperation was so happy, so they took this matter seriously.

Later, I communicated with the French staff in private.

In this way, Song Huagui became a special guest at the farewell dinner for the French President.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs invited her to arrange a small fashion show of about 10 minutes to add to the fun.

Needless to say, the clothes worn by the models must be the products of cooperation between the two countries.

Then think about it, the photos of the French president in China are sent to Europe by Agence France-Presse every day. What will be the follow-up effect of this matter?
Surely this will not end with the French President signing the memorandum and leaving the Republic.

Combined with the actual situation that Peel Carton's investment in China is getting bigger and bigger, and its influence is getting bigger and bigger, this matter has even gained Zhongnanhai's attention.

So those models who had performed for Mitterrand, as well as the Shanghai-Shanghai model team who came to Beijing, were all invited to Zhongnanhai to report and perform.

In this way, with the approval of the top decision-maker, the fashion show with quite the characteristics of the Republic finally obtained the license to openly go to the society.

After the report on the performance was finalized.

There are no longer any worries that can hinder the TV station from fighting for the right to broadcast the model contest.

Not only is Beijing TV station silent about the limited funds at this time, but it is hoped that Pierre Carton can provide financial support.

Even the national TV station complained to Song Huagui, saying she was not interesting enough.

Obviously advertised on their channel, but found another company to cooperate with the live broadcast of the competition.

It is conceivable that the trend of co-broadcasting by the two TV stations is already obvious.

So it is no exaggeration to say that up to this point, Pierre Carton's name has been resounding throughout the entire Republic, and it is like the sky.

As long as you are a Chinese, you will definitely recognize the highest-grade clothing in China, which is Pierre Caton.

And because of this, the top and bottom of Pierre Carton Company were almost crazy, all of them hit the back of the head with their feet.

Song Huagui even had to ask the French headquarters for help because the situation was getting out of control.

It is hoped that Pierre Carton can send some people with experience in holding model competitions and professional physique teachers to China to help.

I no longer have time to take care of things other than the main business of clothing and competitions.

In fact, not to mention the head office, even models like Qu Xiao and Shi Kaili are the same.

Since returning from Japan, they haven't had a good rest.

First, summarize the report and accept the condolences from the leaders.

Then I was busy visiting relatives and friends and presenting the gifts brought back.

After that, they heard about the modeling contest in advance through the channel of Peel Carton Company.

While continuing the daily performance tasks, register in advance and prepare for the competition.

Before he could catch his breath, several important political tasks such as performing for the President of France, exchanging performances with the Shanghai Model Team, and reporting performances for Zhongnanhai appeared one after another.

As a result, Qu Xiao, because of these sudden incidents that happened on her head, couldn't even meet Ning Weimin and give him the gift she bought from Japan.

Not only was the originally arranged time disrupted, but even her personal freedom was temporarily lost.

Because they have to gather together for training, and they also have to accept the review and safety training of the security department.

Just like that, Qu Xiao couldn't even make it to class.

People from the textile department went to contact Chongwenmen Hotel on her behalf, and completed the formalities for her suspension without pay.

And issued a red-headed document, making relevant records in Qu Xiao's file.

To prove that this is a procedure for the special needs of the country.

One can imagine how happy Qu Xiao's parents would be. Now they are completely at ease about their daughter's future.

It was really like what Ning Weimin said, seeing her daughter become more and more brilliant on the fashion stage with her own eyes.

Of course, it was also because of this that Ning Wei did not encounter any resistance from the head office regarding the matter of Ning Weimin running the Imperial Palace Restaurant, and his advance of 15 to Beishen Kitchen for repairs in advance.

Who made this timing coincidental.

Now it's not that others don't want to embarrass him, it's that they don't have time to embarrass him at all.

Now the head office only needs a meeting to announce and discuss the model competition.

Song Huagui has already told Ning Weimin that if there is nothing important before the competition, he does not need to attend the company's regular meeting.

Song Huagui didn't even read the request report he sent up.

Only let Zou Guodong read it, relayed a general idea, and signed and approved it.

If there is any hope for Ning Weimin, it is that he takes care of his own affairs and not looking for trouble for the company is enough.

As the saying goes, time and fate are also fate!
Ning Weimin himself did not expect that God would treat him so favorably at such an important juncture.

It even allowed him to have the right to operate independently.

Then he might as well just snicker like a fish in water?

Just one word, beautiful!

That's nothing to say, the funds are in place almost immediately.

He couldn't hold back the desire to let go of the situation as soon as possible, and was so excited to flex his muscles...

(End of this chapter)