My 1979

Li He got up early in the morning and ran around as usual.

I finally breathed a sigh of relief when I saw the report on Hanzheng Street in Wuhan in the newspaper column.

The State Administration for Industry and Commerce held an on-site meeting on the National Small Commodity Market in Wuhan, hoping to publicize the experience of the Hanzheng Street Small Commodity Market throughout the country.

Hanzheng Street Market, which is mainly composed of individual traders and sells daily necessities, has become famous throughout the country.

Hanzheng Street has become a 400-meter-long street market with hundreds of employees. They purchase goods directly from manufacturers according to customer needs and set their own prices based on market supply and demand.

All the debates about the scope of the concept of "small commodities" have finally been settled.

In the past, if an individual purchased, transported, priced and sold goods within the scope of the state's unified sales and purchasing, he would be considered a speculator and would be guilty of speculation.

The only products that the state allows individuals to sell are small commodities, so the scope of small commodities is not so easy to define. In some places, clothes and flashlights are counted as small commodities, and individuals can sell them freely. Some places only count needles, threads, and needles as small commodities, and if you sell clothes, shoes, etc., you are speculating; some places are more open and only crack down on dealers in bills and foreign exchange certificates, ignoring others.

This national disparity is stark.

Li He believes that this time the People's Daily and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce came out to set the tone, which can be regarded as a revolution in the field of commodity circulation. Without the spark of Hanzheng Street, there would not have been a prairie fire across the country. Small commodity markets suddenly popped up everywhere. After that, the national market developed rapidly. Shenyang Wu'ai, Zhejiang Yiwu and other markets emerged one after another, and the tide of market economy also heated up. Naturally it followed.

Li He took Su Ming's telegram as soon as he returned to class.

Su Ming had bought the recorder and materials from Hong Kong through Yu Dehua, but the tapes produced were either scrambled or blurred, and he was still in the exploratory stage.

Li He also knows that burning tapes is the most troublesome and can only be done by people with certain experience. Once a frame cannot be recorded, it will cause a tape jam, which means that the tape will be scrapped and the recording will fail, which is equivalent to useless.

If the magnetic strip is worse, the recorded sound will be even harder to listen to. If the recorded song is better and the sound range is wider, the noise can be ignored. If it is an English tape, there will only be a sizzling sound. Many students do deeply disturbed by this.

The telegram also mentioned Yu Dehua's situation. Yu Dehua had finally established a firm foothold and made a net profit of HK$150,000 from the first batch of goods. Su Ming was so envious that he sighed that the money came too easily. I became more determined to make tapes.

Li He went to the post office and sent a telegram back to Su Ming first. Without worrying about the money, he typed more than 200 words, explaining some tape burning tips and key points. As long as his hands are skilled and stop shaking, he can make good tapes.

At the same time, he sent a telegram to Yu Dehua, asking him to start recruiting talents in Hong Kong and form a team operation. It is always difficult for an individual to work alone. Clothing, shoes, hats, bags, and electronic products, there are simply too many industries that can complement each other. .

Li He later heard from friends that after 1978, the entire Shenzhen was like a huge processing factory with a shortage of factory buildings. Many factories were located in the cowsheds and barns of the production team. It was good to be able to build a tin house. The Hong Kong boss sends the materials to Shenzhen every afternoon, and the products are shipped back to Hong Kong the next day. It was then that processing with supplied materials became popular. Basically every household in Shenzhen was doing processing with supplied materials. They were busy bunching grapes, tying watch straps, making glue flowers, and making silk flowers. This is how each family workshop started.

Li He also understood that the "three to one supplement" enterprise was only a low-level introduction, and the introduced enterprises were generally relatively backward. Most of them were small workshops, and their machinery and equipment were obsolete and obsolete from Hong Kong. However, this was At this time, Shenzhen is already a big winner.

It was New Year's Day in a blink of an eye. Li He could only lament that time passed too fast. Campus life was so pure and simple, two points and one line, but there was an invisible busyness in the air. Many students posted mottos on their desks. , carefully decorated in the lower left corner, such as "It's rare to gamble in life, but if you don't gamble today, when will you gamble", "On success or failure, life is heroic".

Li Aijun was still guarding the shoe stall in the corner. On his stall were some inconspicuous things, such as small nails, scraps of leather, forefoot, back sole, shoe polish, and glue.

It was raining heavily, the wind was blowing hard, and the weather was very cold.

The umbrella in the corner was crooked and of no use. The rain had wet his hair and back. He was stooped and his face was green with cold, but he didn't care about it at all. He just lowered his head and looked serious. Very focused and meticulous.

Repairing shoes was his livelihood, and his only livelihood. And only labor can highlight a person's value.

Li He did not look at him with sympathy, because he knew that everyone is equal in the face of labor and life, and I believe Li Aijun thought so too. I don’t want to be pitied, I just want to live the same life as ordinary people.

Li Aijun saw Li He and said with a smile, "I see in your school, you are probably the most leisurely one. Look at the people coming and going, who is not holding a book, and who is not running. How are you living your life? He looks more like a retired veteran cadre."

Li He did not deny that what he said was true. He sometimes thought about his own mentality. Once people solve the problem of food and clothing, they start to choose to be lazy, mediocre, or indulge in all kinds of weird material pursuits.

Li He occasionally wonders whether he has spiritual needs, which can be explained simply by achieving "difference" and "identity." "Different" means trying every means to prove one's own specialness, trying hard to prove that one is "different", becoming the richest man in the world, or at least becoming the richest man in China. In the end, there are all kinds of awesomeness that cannot be explained.

At the same time, we pursue "identity". "Identity" is a social characteristic that fulfills people's natural pursuit of "differentness" in order to adapt to survival. For example, decades later, everyone will have a class reunion, drive a Mercedes-Benz, exchange business cards and use titles, so it will be easy to get praise and recognition. If you dress yourself up as a beggar, you will naturally be different, and no one will recognize you, only look down upon you.

As Li He was approaching graduation, he was also thinking about the future. After much deliberation, he decided to go into business. As for gaining recognition by joining politics, Li He has already dismissed it. It may be a shortcut in the eyes of others, but in his eyes it is unattractive and a daunting path.

"Is it cold? Why don't we brothers go get two glasses and drink to death?" Li He knew that Li Aijun's drinking capacity was about the same as his own, so he dared to say such arrogant words.

"You ask me?"

"No, the landlord's family doesn't have any food left. You, boss, treat me to a treat."

"Then forget it, I'll go home and eat."

Li Aijun said this while still cleaning up the stall and putting things away so that they wouldn't get caught in the rain.

The two of them headed towards Lao Li's restaurant.