Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 228 Stamps
"Well, the water in the ancient tomb is cold in nature and poisonous, and it kills people if you eat it by mistake. The water in the grain poppy is pungent and poisonous, and it is also the water in the poppy in the ancient tomb. Wash your eyes to hell, taking too much will make you feel depressed."

"Wash your eyes to hell? Is this a bit taken for granted?"

"It may also be compiled based on the records of previous classics. It is impossible to know what others say. After all, there are too many ancient books, and not all of them are the essence."

"So, there are ghosts and gods inside, it is true to wash your eyes and be able to discern clearly."

"...This can be rounded back for you..." Zhang Lu couldn't help but be tongue-tied.

This meal was considered a hard meal, after eating, Zhou Zhi sent the girls home.

Originally, the normal route should have sent Feng Xueshan to the nearest place first, then sent Jiang Shuyi home on the small slope, and then sent Zhang Xinyi along the new road.

But in this way, there will be no time to be alone with Jiang Shuyi, so Zhou Zhi will take Feng Xueshan back to the dormitory of the power company first, then walk across the city street to send Zhang Xinyi, and then walk through the camphor forest to return to the new road , and send Jiang Shuyi home.

It just so happened that the cushion that grandma made for Dr. Zhao was ready, and it was going to be delivered today.

Dr. Zhao's cushions are very particular, and the first thing he does when he goes to the pharmacy on the third day of the year is to change the cushions.

Ever since Imperial Physician Zhao cured grandma from being paralyzed to being able to walk while supporting the wall, this has become an unwritten habit of Imperial Physician Zhao.

Next year is the Year of the Monkey, so although the patterns on the mat are spliced, they are divided into three levels in terms of visual effect.

The outermost layer is a picture of the eight trigrams, and the inside of the picture corresponds to the eight treasures. The eight treasures pattern surrounds a "Shen" character, and a five-flowered monkey three is pressed on the character.

The reason why it is called the five-flowered monkey is because the monkey has embroidered patterns representing hair swirls on the knees, elbows and forehead of the monkey, which add up to exactly five flowers.

It should be said that the overall design has a sense of design. In addition to being exquisite, there are also cultural elements and series elements, which are similar to...stamps.

Zhou Zhi is also collecting stamps, but his purpose is different from porcelain, calligraphy and painting, his purpose is pure - to realize cash.

However, due to the limitations of local exchanges with foreign countries, the most valuable thing in Zhou Zhi's hand is the Gengshen monkey ticket.

Monkey ticket, also known as Gengshen Monkey, or Golden Monkey, is the Republic's first zodiac stamp issued by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications in 1980.

The background of the monkey ticket is red, and the design is a golden monkey drawn by the famous painter Huang Yongyu.

A edition of 500 sheets, with a circulation of about [-] million pieces and a denomination of eight cents.

Now in Zhou Zhi's hands, there are a few monkey stamps collected from postal markets in several counties near Manzhou. Of course, there are no full sheets of eighty sheets, and the largest is a four-by-four sheet of sixteen sheets.

In addition, there is another series that Zhou Zhi himself is very interested in—text tickets.

Text stamps refer to the nineteen sets of eighty special commemorative stamps issued in 1970.

During that time, the stamp numbers that had been used for many years were canceled and replaced with new marks such as "Wen 1" and "Wen 2" on the side paper of the full-page stamps, so they were called "text stamps".

Since many stamps contain portraits of leaders, the width of the stamps is deliberately increased to prevent the faces of the characters from being covered when the stamp is cancelled.

They are a specific product of a specific historical period, reflecting the historical style of that turbulent era, and leaving a lot of real materials for future generations to think about and study, so Zhou Zhi is very interested.

In addition, it is not too long from that era, and these tickets are not too difficult to collect.

Of course, what is really precious during this period is the kind of "unissued bills", that is, due to various special reasons, they did not flow on the market, and were eventually taken back and destroyed. There are only a few treasures that survive.

Among them, the most famous is "The Mountains and Rivers of the Country Are Red", which is divided into "A Big Slice of Red" and "A Small Slice of Red". In addition, there are "Long Live the National Victory" and "Black Inscription".

If these types of tickets can be obtained, it is a chance to pick up money, but it is a pity that it belongs to the northerners, and Zhou Zhi has never found it in the Manzhou postal market.

Now the most valuable items in Zhou Zhi's hands are not from the mail market, but from the Jiachuan County Armed Forces - Blue Army Mail.

In [-], after an agreement between the Communications Department of the Military Commission and the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications was in charge of designing and printing a set of stamps specially for "military sticks" in order to give preferential treatment to servicemen in sending letters for free.

A set of three stamps.The pattern of the stamp is the military emblem, and the words "for military stickers", "People's Post of China" and "800 yuan" are printed below the military emblem.

The three stamps have the same pattern and face value, but the background colors are orange, brown and blue.They were later called "Yellow Army Post", "Purple Army Post" and "Blue Army Post" by the philatelic circles.

Among them, the Yellow Army Post and the Purple Army Post were issued first. Not long after the Blue Army Post was issued, the major military regions received feedback from troops that it was very easy to reveal the number, station, and movement of the troops on the envelope, and it was inconvenient to control the scope of use.

After the country became aware of this problem, it quickly stopped using it and took it back. The remaining large number of stamps were all destroyed, so the stamps with the least outflow were the Blue Army stamps.

Zhou Zhi found several boxes of discarded envelopes in the Jiachuan Armed Forces Department, and they were thrown in the warehouse as garbage, and all the letters inside were gone.

Zhou Zhi asked Fang's father to find out about the situation at that time. It turned out that during that period, it was also one of the tasks of the Ministry of Human Resources and Armed Forces to handle letters sent to the hometown by soldiers serving in other places, and to send letters to the families of soldiers.

Many soldiers left their hometowns at a very young age, and they could not even read and write. They did not have the opportunity to write letters home until they were literacy in the army. The names and addresses of their relatives were all written incorrectly. These tasks had to be handled by the Ministry of Human Resources and Armed Forces. .

What they deal with is letters, and there is a set of procedures for recording and archiving by special personnel.

Envelopes were not among them, and no one realized their value, so several boxes were left in the warehouse, and no one knew about it for a long time.

So Zhou Zhi honestly collected these boxes of garbage. Most of the envelopes only had military stamps, and very few had stamps on them. From the inside, Zhou Zhi sorted out some valuable old stamps, including two yellow military stamps, two Zhang Zijun post, and a very precious Blue Army post.

The vast majority of the rest are "text tickets" and "old Ji Te".

The most precious items in "Lao Ji Te" include "Goldfish", "Chrysanthemum", "Mei Lanfang", "Butterfly", "Huangshan" and "Peony". Among them, there are two miniature sheets of "Mei Lanfang" and "Peony". Not high, in fact, the price is not too high even if it is put into later generations, and the circulation is also relatively large, Zhou Zhi easily put them together.

Zhou Zhi's plan is to get rid of the monkey tickets and military mail in his hand when the timing is right, and just keep the "word tickets" and "old Jite" as collections.

Doctor Zhao is not at home as usual. Although the old man is not in the system, he can be said to be conscientious in his work. He insists on working until the 29th of the Lunar New Year before calling it a day.

In the words of the old people, it means that when a sick person comes to his home, he will not choose a day. Instead of letting the apprentice take him home, such as opening the door early to work, he should be more practical.

It seems that the old man has never thought about it. In fact, he can let others do it first and lie down for a while.It is this kind of "never even thinking about it" that Zhou Zhi's family admires.

(End of this chapter)