Era: Retired from the army at the beginning and returned home

We haven’t seen each other for more than ten years, and women are always more sentimental than men.

After Sissi returned to her parents' home, she kept saying nothing for many days. After learning that Sissi was back, her brother-in-law also came to visit. Luo Cheng's brother-in-law no longer lives here in the compound. He got married and lives in another military region. My brother-in-law also has a son and a daughter now. Even though he got married later than Sissi, he gave birth to her earlier.

Two sons and one daughter took Luo Cheng's children everywhere to play. Sissi brought back gifts for her nieces and nephews here. This time she also brought a color TV. China has just opened up, and there are still not many rich people. Those who can afford a black and white TV are amazing. There is a TV at home, and many neighbors come to watch it.

As for color TVs, they are still imported, costing thousands. A little kid from Sony can sell for several thousand yuan at this time.

In fact, there is not much to do in Sissi's parents' home this season. Luo Cheng's children are still young, otherwise they can still go to the army to play robbing. And this season, there are no dragonflies, butterflies, birds, reptiles, etc. in the countryside, except for some local toys that can interest Luo Cheng's children for a while, but then they feel boring.

After staying in SH City for more than ten days, the child slept in brother Qianqian's old room. Sissi's room was still reserved. Naturally, Luo Cheng and Sissi slept in her old room instead of looking for a hotel outside.

Dai Tiande said he regretted letting Sissi go have sex with Luo, causing Sissi to leave her hometown and follow him for more than ten years. But when they heard about Luo Cheng's current property in Xiangjiang, the whole family didn't know what to say.

Reform and opening up means opening up to the outside world and requires external capital to develop the economy. But the policy is still being piloted in Shenzhen City. Other regions are waiting and watching. Ordinary people still dare not do business casually.

With the assets of the Luo Cheng family, they are definitely the invisible richest people in Hong Kong. It is not an exaggeration to say that they monopolize half of the wealth. It is normal for some industries to earn tens of millions a month and bring in profits of hundreds of millions a year, and Luo Cheng is basically involved in such high-quality industries.

Inspector Lu, who only accepted bribes from commissions, was able to flee to Taiwan and immigrate to Canada with 500 million in assets before Hong Kong electronics companies took off completely in 1974. After running away, there are still nearly 100 million fixed unprocessed assets left in Xiangjiang, and the appraisals are generally less appraised to facilitate auctions. In fact, if calculated normally, the assets that were not taken away would be over 100 million.

Not to mention Luo Cheng's assets. If it were in South Korea, he would have no problem being a chaebol. It's just that he doesn't like monopoly industries and likes to make money with others.

So how rich is he? In history, when the richest man Li came to invest in China, he was received by national-level figures. If we really talk about assets, Luo Cheng will only be higher than Li now. Li made his fortune in real estate, and Luo Chengcheng was in Xiangjiang. How could he miss this career? Even the richest man Li borrowed a lot of money from the bank he opened. In Xiangjiang, this guy is now starting to use leverage.

Anyway, if someone from Sissi's family needs money now, Sissi can easily mobilize a lot of assets without telling Luo Cheng. Just a small change, the money invested in a movie is now a huge amount of money in China.

As for money, Sissi’s family didn’t ask them for it. They still lived a pretty good life. Pensions may be pitiful for Luo Cheng and others, but in China, for Sissi’s parents and grandfather, , the pension is not spent at all. They are retired leaders, and there is a medical clinic here in the compound, and medical treatment is free. Usually there are gifts given out during Chinese New Year and holidays. Those who are really having a hard time are farmers and ordinary people.

After staying for more than ten days, Luo Cheng and his family left, leaving a car for Sissi's family. The commercial vehicle that Luo Cheng drove here more than ten years ago is still in service at the research institute and has not been scrapped. Luo Cheng originally donated it to the research institute on behalf of the automobile factory. Therefore, after Dai Tiande retires, he cannot use the vehicle for his own use.

Now the car left by Luo Cheng is really personal property. Even if they are not afraid of checking, Sissi’s parents said that the entire car was too high-profile. But Luo Cheng said it didn't matter, just tell him directly when asked. In the future, they would not only go back to Xiangjiang to visit relatives. So many people who escaped back then will, like them, return to the country to visit. It is common for people to gift some assets to relatives in China.

When Luo Cheng and Xixi left, they each gave their brother-in-law's children a red envelope. But they don’t have RMB when they return to China, and the Hong Kong dollar is not very versatile in China, so the red envelopes they receive are all hawk coins.

There are Eagle Sauce Coins, which can be spent at the Friendship Store.

However, as soon as Luo Cheng and the others left, all the gold eagle coins given to his nieces and nephews were confiscated. It was true that Sissi's family members were all leading cadres of the military region, but the landlord's family also had no food left. This eagle sauce coin is very useful. The domestic exchange rate is 1.6 to 1, that is, one dollar and six exchange for one eagle sauce coin.

However, the domestic exchange business is currently not open to individuals, which means that if you have money, you cannot exchange it for U.S. dollars. People with U.S. currency simply do not recognize the official exchange rate. Therefore, the real black market exchange rate reaches six or seven yuan to exchange for one U.S. dollar.

Sissi casually gave her a red envelope to her brother-in-law's second son and daughter, each worth 500 U.S. dollars. If you exchange this on the black market, it will cost tens of thousands of dollars.

After leaving SH City, the family took a car back to Ngee Ann City. There was a driver driving the car, so they didn't have to work hard on their own. But what I want to complain about is that after many years, the road from SH City to Ngee Ann City is still not very good.

After another two days, Luo Cheng returned to Ngee Ann City. He arrived at the courtyard house that belonged to him back then, but now the house is really different.

This house was allocated to Luo Cheng, but in 1966, Luo Cheng went to Xiangjiang on business and disappeared. In the first year, everyone didn't think much about it. After all, Luo Cheng was the secretary of the industrial zone at that time. In the eyes of others, he was a very big official. But after a year or two, some people started to speculate out of boredom. The main reason was that the time of disappearance was too coincidental. Not long after the person disappeared, the era of educated youth came.

Even though Luo Cheng's reputation was high, two years after he disappeared, many people began to speculate whether he was like other people like him, whether he ran away because of making money or escaped and deliberately avoided Xiangjiang. Anyway, there are various theories, some say that the boat sank, and some say that they met bad guys on the other side of the Xiangjiang River. Anyway, everyone is very bored and just gossips based on their imagination.

All theories are useless until there is evidence, but the person has disappeared for a few years, and it is time for the house to be repossessed. During the recycling, Zheng Xue was the only one living there, but her own unit was allocated a staff room, so she couldn't stay away just because you lived there before. What's more, this house still belongs to the state. Even if it is a staff house, it is still a state-owned asset.

Therefore, the courtyard room was taken back in 1971, and now three families live in it, with kitchens set up in the left and right rooms. There are also piles of things in the corners of the yard. Compared with the neatness and cleanness before, it is a huge difference.

"You~you are~Secretary Luo~Luo~."

When two luxury cars drove up to the compound, they naturally caused quite a stir. Luo Cheng didn't expect that he would be recognized as soon as he came here. His appearance has changed much more than that of Sissi, and his figure has gained a little weight. However, he has also continued to exercise in recent years, and he looks better than the average middle-aged man in later generations. much better.

Luo Cheng was recognized by his one-year-old grandmother, but Luo Cheng did not recognize her. Sissi was still attentive and recognized her as her neighbor Aunt Wang who used to live across the street from the yard, but the difference between her now and her past was really big. However, Aunt Wang is still alive these days. She is around seventy and can still take care of herself. She is really old and in good health.

When Luo Cheng came back, he really spread the news. There were many workers in the factory nearby, and they are still workers in the industrial zone. These days, unless there are special circumstances, most workers will stay in the same factory for their entire lives.

Many young temporary workers who may have just joined the factory back then are now middle-aged. If they are in their thirties or forties, they have experienced more vicissitudes than Luo Cheng, but just like that, they are much better than the people in the countryside. Rural people in their forties and fifties are just like old people.

Seeing that Luo Cheng was back, they all called Secretary Luo enthusiastically. The years when Secretary Luo was in the industrial zone were the best and most promising years for the workers. At that time, an ordinary worker in an industrial zone was as popular as a salesperson in a supply and marketing cooperative. How many people dreamed of entering an industrial zone.

But then the district chief was changed and a new secretary came, and things gradually changed. Everyone knew that Luo Cheng rejected the little devil's order and went to Xiangjiang to benefit everyone.

Later, news came out from the industrial zone that before the new district mayor and secretary arrived, Luo Cheng had a meeting with the top management. Let us maintain and slow down the increase in the number of employees, otherwise the benefits will not keep up. At that time, Secretary Luo really thought about the employees.

But after the new district mayor and secretary came, they shouted high-level slogans to solve the employment problem of more people. To make greater contributions to domestic industrial development, not only increase production, but also recruit a large number of employees.

The benefits that Secretary Luo had finally created slowly disappeared little by little. Even at the back, the factory manager, who was a man of steel and labor, almost always changed his position every few years. It has been like this for many years, and the benefits have not improved again.

None of the older workers miss the time when Secretary Luo was here. Back then, when the workers were thinking about their wages and benefits every month, what better surprise would there be. Later, when everyone paid their wages and benefits every month, it would be good if they prayed that the benefits would not be reduced.

The three families living in the yard now are a little embarrassed. They are all people who came to the industrial zone after Luo Cheng left. The house was assigned by the street office. When they first moved in, the neighbors warned them how dare they live here. This was the place Luo Shu remembered back then. If Secretary Luo comes back, how will they explain it?

When I first moved in, I was worried. But the leader of the industrial zone, who is probably his third term, no longer builds employee buildings for employee welfare. There were no employee housing allocations, and those who later started working and were assigned to the industrial zone had to rely on the street offices in the city to find housing.

Fortunately, there are many transportation points from the city to the industrial area, which were all completed when Luo Cheng was here. When workers in the city go to work in industrial areas, they only have to get up half an hour early at most.

As one household lived there for almost two years without any problems, two more households were gradually added. The neighbors nearby stopped advising because it had been five or six years since Luo Cheng disappeared. The yard was originally allocated to Luo Cheng. It couldn't be left vacant for more than ten years just because he didn't come back. .

As for Zheng Xue, she is not considered a regular resident. If she doesn't leave, she will be occupying state property.

The current residents don't know what to do when they hear everyone say that the former Secretary Luo is back. They also apply for housing in the street. What's more, this person now is not the secretary of the industrial zone, so he can't drive them away arbitrarily.

Luo Cheng never thought about going back to his house. There is a hotel in Ngee An, but for them now, the conditions are very established. I came here just to take a look, but I didn't expect the houses here to be like this.

Let the current residents rest assured that they are here just to have a look and they will definitely not want to take the house back. After chatting with nearby people for a while, many people asked Luo Cheng whether he would return to the industrial zone to become a leader.

Regarding this issue, I can only say calmly that I will never be a leader in an industrial zone again, and I will be an ordinary person from now on.

No longer a leader, everyone believed him, but no one believed Luo Cheng when he said that he would be an ordinary person from now on. It's a beautiful car and it's the driver's. The clothes are bright and beautiful, and you know you have money without asking.

And Luo Cheng was indeed polite, despite the large scale of the industrial zone, with as many as 100,000 employees. However, the efficiency of machinery and equipment is low, and workers’ wages are not high. One hundred thousand people are only a few million per month. This demographic dividend is really good. If the salary was the same as in Xiangjiang, it would be 200 million.

It is impossible to go back to the industrial zone. If there is an opportunity in the future, we can cooperate in the form of investment. But now Shenzhen City is the first to open up, and he also wants to take advantage of the domestic demographic dividend, which is only a monthly salary of dozens of yuan. The salary of one person in Xiangjiang is equivalent to that of fifty people here.

In the future, if low-end industries are moved back to China, hundreds of millions of workers can be saved a year. But Luo Cheng doesn't want to go to Shencheng, and still wants to return to Ngee An to bring wealth to his hometown people.

Of course, even if Luo Cheng does not invest in Shenzhen, some of the industrial companies Luo Cheng invested in Xiangjiang may invest in Shenzhen. For example, toy factories. Historically, many toy factories in Xiangjiang were unable to cope with the high cost of labor, and then moved to deep cities in China. In just a few years, some places in Shenzhen City have created hundreds of millions of profits by processing toys.

It’s not just toys. In fact, under the impact of Hong Kong’s high-profit electronic products, workers’ wages have increased, and many low-profit industries will be transferred to the country. Clothing, daily necessities, home appliances, etc.

Therefore, Luo Cheng does not need to go to Shenzhen to develop anything. The companies and industries in which he holds shares will naturally have people going to Shenzhen to develop. What Luo Cheng wants to develop in Ngee Ann City is naturally his unique share. It must be large-scale and brand-oriented.