Counterattack 1988

Chapter 7 My eggs can lay eggs!
Shanghai is the largest industrial city in my country.

Many domestic economic reforms started in Shanghai, and then radiated to the whole country.

All kinds of foreign goods and foreign trends of thought were first imported into Shencheng, and then spread to all parts of the country.

At the beginning of March 1988, Shencheng adjusted the retail prices of 3 types of commodities, most of which were small commodities or daily necessities, with a price increase of 280-20%.

This was originally a very normal means of market regulation.

Cheap things hurt farmers!

With the increase in social average wages year by year, prices of course have to be adjusted appropriately.

However, people don't think so!
Seeing that the prices of various commodities, especially the necessities of life, are constantly rising, the common people think that a substantial price increase is about to begin, so there is a fierce panic buying wave in large and medium-sized cities.

How crazy was the panic buying back then?

for example.

Shencheng Match Factory still had a backlog of 2 million boxes of matches in its warehouse at the end of February, and another 6000 million boxes were produced in March.

However, within three days after the price adjustment in March, 3 million boxes were sold out at once, and the nearly 4000 million boxes of matches produced in April were sold out within three months!

According to media reports at the time, a certain resident bought more than 500 boxes of matches for storage at home, someone bought 200 kilograms of salt, and someone bought 10 boxes of washing powder!

In the face of this situation, the government issued various red-headed documents to limit the rate of price increase, which seemed pale and feeble, and the rate of price increase soon exceeded the provisions of the document.

The leaders of the city stood up and said that the city has abundant material reserves, especially the stocks of tobacco and alcohol, and appealed to the citizens not to loot them.

As a result, turning around, the price of tobacco and alcohol supplies immediately increased by 30%, which gave the city leaders a resounding slap in the face.

When prices are soaring, people generally believe that "saving money is worse than saving goods". Money is a piece of paper, and goods are real, which can keep out the cold and satisfy the hunger.

The consequence of panic buying is rising prices, which is an economic law.

The price of eggs in Shencheng soared from 1.5 yuan per catty to 2.7 yuan per catty!

After hearing the news of the price increase of eggs, Li Wenxiu couldn't believe her ears!

Did this man's words really come true?

"Wenxiu, tomorrow is Sunday, and everyone is off. Let's move the eggs downstairs and set up a stall on the side of the street to sell the eggs, shall we?" Wang Lin said to Li Wenxiu that night.

"It's time to sell it! If you don't sell it, your eggs will stink!" Li Wenxiu chuckled, "Hey, how do you know that the price of eggs will increase?"

"Sense of smell!" Wang Lin pointed to his nose and laughed, "Sensitivity to national policies!"

"Can it be sold tomorrow? Will others really buy our eggs?"

"Where do we have eggs? We don't even have sex! How do you lay eggs?"

Li Wenxiu was stunned for a while before she realized it. With a cry, she stretched out her hand to hit Wang Lin: "Okay, you're bullying me again! I won't sell eggs for you tomorrow!"

"..."

The next day is a rest day.

Before the implementation of weekends in [-], party, government and enterprise units all had single holidays, that is, one day off on Sunday.

At this time, the rush to buy supplies in Shanghai has already blown up. Although it has not yet reached the point of madness, some people with the same keen sense of smell have already started to buy supplies and hoard daily necessities.

Wang Lin and Li Wenxiu got up early in the morning. They first moved a few boxes of eggs and set up a temporary stall on the side of the road.

As soon as the two put the eggs out, someone came to ask the price: "Comrade, how do you sell the eggs?"

"Two yuan and seventy one catty!" Wang Lin replied, "It's the same price now."

"Is it a fresh egg?" the customer asked.

"Can the eggs from the state-owned farm not be fresh?" Wang Lin brought a bowl, and in front of everyone, touched an egg, touched the edge of the bowl lightly, and knocked an egg into the bowl.

The yellow yolk and translucent egg white are more convincing than a thousand words!

More and more people are watching.

Most of the people who lived in the vicinity were workers in the textile factory, and some knew Wang Lin and Li Wenxiu, and asked, "Isn't this Wang Lin from the machine repair class? Why are you selling eggs?"

Wang Lin laughed and said, "It's not that you just got married, and you're going to have a baby soon, so it's going to cost a lot! So it's good to start a side job and earn some money for milk powder and diapers."

"You two are really working hard!" The workers all laughed.

Li Wenxiu lowered her head shyly, and gave Wang Lin a blank look.

Wang Lin laughed and said, "Everyone, come and see, these eggs are so fresh! These are really good eggs from state-run farms! The quality is exactly the same as that of rural eggs! If you want to buy them, hurry up and buy them, the number of eggs is limited! Until it’s sold out! Get it fast, get it fast!”

He yelled and called many onlookers.

"Give me two catties." Someone said.

"Okay, two catties, five yuan and forty cents, daughter-in-law, I came to weigh it, and you are responsible for collecting the money."

Li Wenxiu hummed, and took the money from the customer.

"I'll buy five catties!" Someone shouted again.

"Give me three catties of eggs!"

Li Wenxiu was busy collecting money and looking for change.

She is very quick, careful, and organized. Everyone collects the money first, then delivers the goods, and after the customer is done, she receives the next customer.

The money goes through her hands, and there is no mistake for a penny.

Wang Lin looked at her, thinking that this is really a good wife, a good helper in business!
"Sold out? Are there any more?" The customer who came later saw that the box was empty, and became anxious, "Are there any eggs?"

"More, more!" Wang Lin hurried home to carry the eggs downstairs.

More and more people are rushing to buy eggs.

It turned out that the eggs in several nearby stores had already been sold out!

Citizens usually buy eggs by a few or a few, but now because of the rush to buy eggs, people who buy eggs are buying by a few catties, and some people even buy tens of catties or dozens of catties!I'm afraid that the price of eggs will double again!
Li Wenxiu used her own pocket to collect money at first, but found that there was too much change to fit in her pocket, so she took a cardboard box as a cash box and put it under her nose, which was convenient and fast.

The fiery sales scene has attracted more customers to rush to buy.

Wang Lin and Li Wenxiu sold out all the 1600 catties of eggs they had hoarded in just one day!

The two of them were so busy that they didn't even have time to drink water, let alone go home to cook lunch. They just bought a few steamed buns and deep-fried dough sticks from Uncle Chen to satisfy their hunger.

Uncle Chen and Aunt Chen, seeing Wang Lin and his wife selling eggs so hotly, couldn't help but look at each other!

"Good guy, can you rush to buy this egg?" Aunt Chen shook her head with a puzzled expression.

"Isn't it! Look how popular Wang Lin and the others are selling?"

"How much money does he have to make a day?"

"How do I know?"

"No, old man, we have to prepare some eggs at home! Now the price of eggs is one a day! Maybe the price will have to go up!"

"Then ask Wang Lin to buy a few catties!"

Wang Lin's eggs were in short supply. After the sale, the eggs were snapped up as soon as they were moved downstairs!

"The last half of the box is left!" Wang Lin said to Li Wenxiu, "Don't sell it, keep it for yourself! Now that the prices of all dishes are going up, it's better to eat your own eggs if you buy other dishes!"

Li Wenxiu said: "That's right, who would have thought that the price of eggs has doubled in just this long!"

Wang Lin bought this batch of eggs at 1.3 yuan per catty.

The current selling price is 2.7 yuan, and Wang Lin earns a net profit of 1.4 yuan per catty of eggs!
At night, the two dragged their tired bodies and sat cross-legged on the bed.

Li Wenxiu dumped all the money in a box on the bed, and began to sort through pennies, two cents, ten cents, and twenty cents.

"Wang Lin, after getting rid of the capital, I made 2200 yuan!" Li Wenxiu counted it three times, and shouted in surprise, "It only took one day! This amount of money is equivalent to my two years' salary! Isn’t this money so easy to earn? It’s a pity, you can’t earn like this every day! Otherwise, you can make a fortune!”

"As for being so excited? Didn't you just earn more than [-] yuan? You will definitely earn more in the future!" Wang Lin giggled, "How is it? Is your husband good? Marrying me will not let you suffer of!"

"Don't be fooled after making some money! The money you lost playing cards is not only two thousand!"

"Don't you don't want to turn on the pot! I have changed my past, changed my mind, and started a new life! Even the government gives the prodigal son a chance to turn back, so maybe you can't accept my change?"

"Okay, just keep your money! It's best to deposit it in the bank for a fixed period of time! Otherwise, someday your hands will itch and you'll lose at cards?"

"No, I can still use the money."

"What else do you want to do? Keep selling eggs?"

"Eggs can no longer be sold. The price has risen too much! I guess the state will immediately regulate it."

"It's not just the price of eggs that is scary? The price of meat has risen to [-] yuan! Isn't it scary? Tomatoes have risen to [-] yuan a catty! Who can afford this? I heard that university professors, because Prices have risen too fast, and I can't afford to eat, so I have come out to set up stalls! Alas!"

Of course Wang Lin knew about the phenomenon he had told her about.

This is an inevitable process of reform and opening up!
This process is called price breakthrough!
Price breakthrough is a process in which the planned economy was impacted and prices rose sharply in the process of shifting the pricing of raw materials and industrial products from planning to market in the early stage of reform and opening up.

A planned economy relies on administrative power to allocate resources, while a market economy relies on market forces to allocate resources.

The main instrument of market power is price.

Under the planned economy, the price is determined by the administration, and under the market economy, the market determines the price, that is, the price is determined by the relationship between supply and demand.

Price reform is to change from administrative pricing to market pricing.

All countries that have transformed from a planned economy to a market economy have given priority to price reform.

As early as 1984, our country's leaders repeatedly emphasized that the most difficult part of my country's economic system reform is price reform, and price reform is the key to the success of the entire economic system reform.In the next five years, we will mainly pass the hurdle of price reform. Once this hurdle is passed, other things will be easier to handle.

This year is 1988, which is the most important year for my country's price breakthrough!
Not only our country is experiencing this pain, but the big brother next door is also breaking through!Soviet citizens are also queuing up to buy supplies!
Wang Lin has no control over major events at the national level.

What he has to do is to make a lot of money along the road of national reform!

Wang Lin fell into deep thought.

Food reselling, only this time.

Now that all kinds of prices are soaring, it is already very difficult for him to hoard.

He now has 4800 yuan in funds!
At that time, it could be said to be a huge sum of money!

But for the ambitious Wang Lin, this amount of money is enough to fill his teeth, not even a start-up capital!
How to use money to make money, get rid of poverty and become rich as soon as possible?

Many people say that this is a barbaric age of getting rich, a golden age full of opportunities to get rich everywhere!
However, not everyone who has experienced this era has become a rich man!
Foresight, opportunity, courage and fortune are all indispensable!

Knowing that there was such an opportunity, Wang Lin also told Li Wenxiu about the opportunity.

But Li Wenxiu clearly knew that this was an opportunity, so she would not spend money to take this risk!

More people, like Li Wenxiu, just want to live a normal life with a stable salary. They also want to make a fortune, but they would rather choose stability than the risk of failure.

But Wang Lin has great ambitions!
(End of this chapter)