20 years of spring breeze

Chapter 596 Foreign Exchange Notes

Xiaowei said: "It's so far away, thousands of kilometers, twelve days is not too slow, anyway, it will take about ten days for us to go back."

Xiaohong said: "Huh? We have to stay in Yangcheng for so long? What else are we doing?"

Xiaowei said: "Let's take a look around. The business here is much more developed than ours. Study and study. Don't you want to go to Bayu after that? It will take a few days? There is also Beidaihe."

Xiao Hong thought for a while and nodded, and said, "Okay, it's about the same."

Because people from the Ferrari company were coming in the afternoon, the four of them didn't go anywhere. They just strolled around the hotel. There are friendship stores and shopping malls, as well as some private shops.

Friendship Shopping Center is a product of a special period. It learned from the Little Baihua Store in Soviet Russia. It is a place that serves foreigners and privileged people. In that era of lack of supplies, there were goods from all over the world here, and it was not easy to show tickets Color TVs, refrigerators, Moutai, Swiss watches, bicycles, gold jewelry, antique calligraphy and paintings, etc. are all in sufficient supply here.

This is also where the country earns foreign exchange. Renminbi cannot be spent here, and foreign exchange certificates must be used.The People's Bank of China has printed a special kind of money specially for places like Friendship Stores, which is used by foreigners in China, and is equivalent to RMB, called foreign currency exchange certificates.Interestingly, in 80, the maximum denomination of RMB was ten yuan, and there were fifty and one hundred foreign exchange certificates.

Fifty and one hundred denomination foreign exchange certificates are popular among collectors now.

At that time, a dual-track foreign exchange system was implemented in order to earn foreign exchange. The official exchange rate was more than five yuan, five yuan to five yuan seven, but it was close to nine yuan in the foreign exchange market.

There are many people who specialize in exchanging foreign exchange certificates squatting at the entrance of the Friendship Store, carrying a military schoolbag, smoking a cigarette and looking at the passers-by.When I saw someone looking into the store, I asked, "Do you want foreign exchange certificates?" Their prices were kept very low, 90 yuan for a ten-yuan foreign exchange certificate.

Although the Friendship Store has a wide range of products, the prices are relatively expensive. At that time, the goods exported by our country basically lost money due to currency exchange, and only the Friendship Store could make money.Foreigners have no choice, they can't buy things in ordinary shopping malls, so they have to pay high prices to buy from here.

Then a group of privileged people will also buy things here, because there is no limit to everything here.As for why the privileged class?Where can ordinary people get foreign exchange?Then foreign exchange certificates became a hot commodity. People with a little ability tried their best to find this thing. The scale of the black market was getting bigger and bigger. Many smart foreigners no longer went to the official designated places to exchange foreign exchange, but went to the black market to exchange.

On January 95, [-], in order to regulate the foreign currency market, and because domestic commodities were no longer in short supply, the country stopped the circulation of foreign exchange certificates, and the Friendship Store became an ordinary shopping mall.

At that time, the salespersons in the Friendship Store were all very powerful. They were all tall and beautiful women who were carefully selected. They used specially approved imported cosmetics to make up, wore white shirts with small lapels, red vests and red bow ties, and spoke fluent English.On the vest, there is a name tag sewn on the right chest, and a small metal national emblem badge on the left chest, as much as you want.

The four of them went in and walked around for a while, but it was not easy to use money, and they came out again in a desperate state. A buddy at the door smiled and asked, "Can I change some foreign exchange certificates? Chinese money is not easy to use here."

Xiaowei glanced at the man and asked, "Northern?"

That buddy stood up, put his schoolbag behind his back and said, "Hebei people, where are you from?"

Xiaowei said: "We are from the Northeast, you, how do you change?"

The buddy said: "It's all three to one. We are all northerners. I'll give you two to one. How about it?"

At that time, foreigners had to go to designated places to exchange foreign exchange certificates, and ten dollars was exchanged for more than 50 foreign exchange certificates.Scalpers exchange renminbi for foreign exchange certificates from foreigners, 80 foreign exchange certificates for [-] yuan, and then double the face value of the foreign exchange certificates and sell them to Chinese people. The middle profit is quite large.At that time, all those who were caught by the police who sold the coupons got rich.

Xiao Liu coughed on the side, took out a cigarette and said to Xiao Wei, "Lend me the lighter."

Xiaowei took out the lighter to Xiao Liu, shook his head and said, "Forget it, my friend will come over this afternoon, and I can get some with him. It's too expensive for you."

That buddy's eyes lit up: "Brother, can you get this thing? Hey, get some more, I'll trade it with you at [-]:[-], okay?"

Xiaohong thought about it in her heart and said in surprise: "You guys make so much money?"

The buddy smiled and said: "Make up, make up, earn a living. Really buddy, can you do it? My price is definitely not low."

Xiaowei said to Xiaohong: "Shall we go back or go shopping again?"

Xiaohong looked at the time and said: "I left the room number, why don't you go back, there is no contact information here, and I can't find it when someone else's home comes."

The buddy said: "My buddy, I'll give you ninety, okay? Fifty for ninety, the highest price. There's nothing higher than this in the market, okay?"

Xiaowei shook his head and said, "Forget it, I don't want to do this, I'm not interested." Turning his head to leave, the buddy stretched out his hand to pull Xiaowei, Xiao Liu blocked him with his hand, took out his police officer's card and flashed it in front of his eyes Liang asked, "Did you show your face?"

That buddy's face turned pale, and he turned around and ran away, jumping around for a while, and ran away with more than ten people, Xiao Hong started cooing happily watching it.

Turning the outside corner back to the hotel, and entering the gate, Xiao Liu said, "There were two plainclothes men next to him, who probably caught the coupons. If you exchanged with him just now, we wouldn't be able to leave. The crime of reselling foreign exchange is not a crime." Little, just trouble."

Xiaowei said: "Really? I didn't see it. If you don't have a business trip, maybe I will trade with him."

Xiaohong said: "You made it up when you said you were looking for a friend to change? I thought it was true, and I was still wondering who to look for. Your heads are turning so fast."

Xiaowei said: "That's right, the people from the Ferrari company will come over this afternoon, let them help change some."

Xiao Liu said, "Change some, I'll make some too."

Xiao Hong rolled her eyes and said, "You said you broke the law just now, and knowing the law and breaking the law will increase the crime."

Xiao Liu laughed and said: "This thing is not easy to fix. It's too expensive to change on the black market. If you have a chance, get some. What's the law if we ask someone to change it and don't resell it?"

Xiaowei said: "Okay, let's change it. I just bought a watch for Xiaohong. I saw a good watch just now, and there are jewelry and so on. Xiaohong doesn't seem to have any jewelry at all."

Xiaohong poured powder on Xiaowei's body with a puffed face.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, people from the Ferrari company drove from Hong Kong Island to Baiyun Hotel.There is no restriction for them to drive over there, just need to register at the border.

(End of this chapter)