Rebirth of Siheyuan starts in the 1980s

Chapter 414 That’s not what you told me back then!

Since Cao Zhiqiang had originally booked a deluxe room and three standard rooms, it was not troublesome to temporarily add an adult and a child.

For example, Yu Feihong's father can first live in a room with Xu Qingdong, while his daughter Yu Feihong can live in a room with Zhu Lin.

Even if we didn't know each other before, young people in this period all like to make friends, and they will become familiar with each other after chatting.

Although Cao Zhiqiang also wanted to stay and have a meal with these people and chat more by the way, he really couldn't stay at this time.

Because he had to go to Qiao's house first to visit Cao Lili, Qiao Simei, their biological father and two biological brothers, and have a meal there by the way.

Cao Lili and Qiao Simei had already gone there at this time, and they were probably already waiting. They had already agreed to go, and it would be inappropriate not to go.

Anyway, we have a long way to go. Yu Feihong is here for filming this time and will stay for at least three days. There will be plenty of time for communication in the future.

When Cao Zhiqiang got back into the passenger seat of Jeep 212 and waited for Li Youfu to see him off, Li Youfu did not start the car. Instead, he looked very anxious and hesitated to speak.

"Lao Li, what's wrong with you?" Cao Zhiqiang asked in surprise, "Do you have something to tell me?"

Li Youfu struggled for a while, then turned around and said to Cao Zhiqiang: "President, I have a major situation to report to you!"

"A major situation? What major situation?" Cao Zhiqiang asked.

Li Youfu frowned: "Yes, it is a matter between Yuhong Machinery Factory and Hongguang Machinery Factory, taking advantage of their positions to speculate and make a small treasury."

Cao Zhiqiang was stunned: "What?"

Li Youfu sighed: "As of now, I will tell the truth. After you hear this, please don't be impulsive and don't tell anyone. Otherwise, we will all be in doom."

Immediately afterwards, Li Youfu told how Yuhong Machinery Factory and Hongguang Machinery Factory used their train quotas to transport industrial materials while secretly smuggling private goods and then reselling them to earn the price difference.

To talk about this, we must first talk about the economic system of this period.

Although the country initiated economic reforms and launched a so-called market economy as early as 1978, this was actually done step by step and was not liberalized all at once.

Throughout the early 1980s, due to underdeveloped transportation and the prevalence of local protectionism, the country had not yet formed a unified market, resulting in large price differences in different regions.

The reason why the prices of things related to the national economy and people's livelihood, such as rice, flour, grains and oils, do not vary much from place to place is because the prices of these things are controlled by the state.

However, for daily consumer goods such as cloth, clothing, electronic products, etc., there are huge regional price differences.

However, even if the price difference between different regions is not small, it is not easy for an ordinary person to want to buy and sell.

The first one is that there are no private enterprises at this time, and most are self-employed. The scale of self-employed business is restricted and cannot be too large, which makes it difficult to expand operations.

The second one is the lack of transportation.

At this time, long-distance transportation, in addition to the legendary air transportation and sea transportation, was basically land transportation, among which cars and trains were the main ones.

As for horse-drawn carriages and donkey carts, there are actually some, but strictly speaking they cannot be transported over long distances.

Cars can only be purchased by units, and individuals are not allowed to purchase cars, so if you use a car for long-distance transportation, you basically don’t have to think about it.

As for trains, private individuals can only take passenger trains and transport goods with luggage. It is conceivable that the volume of this transportation method will not be very large.

As for chartering a train, unless you have great connections and can open a letter from a certain leader, and the railway will grant you a temporary train, otherwise it is impossible for private individuals to have the opportunity to charter a train for transportation.

This is because train transportation at this time is based on a planning system plus a quota system, usually a certain unit is connected to a certain unit.

For example, Hongguang Machinery Factory and Yuhong Machinery Factory have a long-term cooperative relationship. It can even be said that Yuhong Machinery Factory is a branch factory supported by Hongguang Machinery Factory. Therefore, there are also differences between these two units.

Fixed train skin quota.

It's just that with the development of the times and the decline of the two units, the products produced by the two factories have become less and less, resulting in mutual train quotas that are often vacant. However, because there is a long-term fixed quota between the two,

Even empty wagons have to be taken away.

To put it simply, it means insufficient production, untimely regulation, and a waste of transportation capacity.

Therefore, in the early 1980s, the railway system was overcrowded for passenger transport, but there were often empty freight trains.

There is no way. The planned economy has a bloated structure. Everything is according to the plan and indicators. No one will remove the carriage just because it is empty and feels that it is a waste of transportation capacity.

It’s not that no one has discovered the tricks inside, but there are really not many people who dare to exploit this loophole to make profits.

The main thing is that this kind of taking advantage of loopholes is a job crime.

Everyone is living a good life, who would commit a crime just for three melons and two dates?

Of course, it’s not impossible to take advantage of loopholes, but you have to do so reasonably and legally.

For example, Cao Zhiqiang used these train quotas to transport books and records published by Hongguang Publishing House and develop his own distribution channels. This is a reasonable and legal exploit.

Why do you say that? The reason lies in the nature of Hongguang Publishing House.

Although Hongguang Publishing House is contracted and operated by Cao Zhiqiang himself, in name, it is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hongguang Machinery Factory. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a department of Hongguang Machinery Factory.

As a subordinate unit of Hongguang Machinery Factory, it is only reasonable to use Hongguang Machinery Factory's train quota.

Even if the items being transported are not industrial raw materials or spare parts, the railways had only given Hongguang Machinery Factory quotas before, and they did not say what they had to transport.

For example, in the 1960s, Hongguang Machinery Factory used its own train quota to transport grain and medicine, as long as there were orders from above.

But no matter what, if you want to use Hongguang Machinery Factory's train quota reasonably and legally, the products you transport must be produced by Hongguang Machinery Factory.

Although "Journey to Jianghu" published by Hongguang Publishing House is a set of books, not raw materials or spare parts, it is a real product of Hongguang Publishing House.

Since Hongguang Publishing House is a subsidiary of Hongguang Machinery Factory, it is not illegal to use Hongguang Machinery Factory’s train quota to transport books.

Why does Cao Zhiqiang want to establish his own sales channels and compete with units such as Xinhua Bookstore and the Post and Telecommunications Bureau?

Basically, it relies on Hongguang Machinery Factory’s train freight quotas in major cities across the country.

That's right, not only Yuhong Machinery Factory in Jinling City can do this, but other brother units in other provincial capitals that have transportation quotas can use trains to transport their own books.

As long as the books are shipped and the goods are distributed directly locally, the cost will definitely be lower than that of Xinhua Bookstore and other units, and the profit will naturally be more.

There is also the record "Blooming Life" produced by Huaxia Audio and Video Company. Why did it sell well all over the country in such a short period of time? Why did it break the sales record so quickly? In addition to the fact that the content is really good, it also has its own train transportation channel.

For example, the records produced by the Beijing Tape Factory were shipped to Jinling City using the Hongguang Machinery Factory's train quota, while the Xinhua Bookstore's train quota was still waiting to set off.

Of course, the nature of Huaxia Audio-Video Company is different from that of Hongguang Publishing House. It is not a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hongguang Machinery Factory, but a joint venture between an organization and an individual.

But because of the shares of Huaxia Audio and Video Company, Hongguang Machinery Factory accounts for 51% and is a proper absolute shareholder. Therefore, this can also be regarded as a state-owned enterprise and a sub-unit of Hongguang Machinery Factory.

As long as it is a sub-unit of Hongguang Machinery Factory, there will be no problem in using Hongguang Machinery Factory's train quota for transportation.

Anyway, if you don’t load the goods, the train skin won’t be removed, so you might as well load some goods.

In other words, if you want to use Hongguang Machinery Factory's train freight quota, the conditions are very strict, that is, the products transported must be the products of Hongguang Machinery Factory, or the products of its subordinate units, and cannot be the products of other units.

For example, if you use Hongguang Machinery Factory's train quota to transport bicycles produced by other factories, this is not allowed. This is also a job crime.

If it is sold for money, then the crime will be increased one level and the crime of speculation will be added.

Therefore, there is no problem with Cao Zhiqiang's approach, but it is very problematic if Director Wang of Yuhong Machinery Factory asks Li Youfu to do this.

During this period, the production of books and records was mainly in the capital, so Cao Zhiqiang used the Hongguang Machinery Factory's train quota to transport books and records from the capital to Jinling, but the trains were all empty on the return trip.

Because Yuhong Machinery Factory currently does not have what Hongguang Machinery Factory needs.

Therefore, Director Wang of Yuhong Machinery Factory, after discovering Li Youfu's operation, thought carefully and decided to use the train quota of Yuhong Machinery Factory to bring private goods and load some cloth and clothes when transporting them to the capital.

The silk is then sold in the capital.

The reason why Factory Director Wang did these two things was because he was very cautious, mainly because of the huge profits and insensitivity.

Although the country has not yet abolished cloth stamps, due to the high production of cotton cloth, people in various parts of the country have long since stopped using cloth stamps when buying cloth.

In addition, because the country has not yet established a unified market at this time, the circulation of materials from various places is very weak.

To put it simply, when you are in a city, you can often only enjoy local products. It is often difficult to buy products from other places.

The same cloth is produced, but with different raw materials, different production techniques, and even different environments, the quality of the products produced is also different.

Jinling cloth is better than the local cloth in the capital, so the price is higher and it is very popular.

Other than that, it’s all Jinling silk and satin.

In fact, the Jinling silk and satin industry at this time was already overproduced, but export channels had not yet been opened, nor had domestic transportation.

This leads to the fact that the price of local silk and satin in Jinling City is quite low, while in other places, such as the capital, the price of Jinling silk and satin is quite high, and it is also very popular.

At this time, there were not so many miscellaneous new fabrics in the country, and silk and satin were still the favorite fabrics of the relatively wealthy people in the city.

Especially now that it is summer, using silk and satin to make a summer dress is both beautiful and cool, and is the favorite of many women in the capital.

The most important thing is that cloth and satin are overproduced items and can be purchased without cloth tickets, so it is easy to sell them.

There are a few train leather goods in total. After they are transported to the capital, you only need to say hello to the owners of a few silk and satin shops, and they can eat them all themselves.

But no matter what, this is using Yuhong Machinery Factory's freight quota to resell other materials. It's fine if they don't find out. Once they are found out, there will definitely be big trouble.

"Isn't it?" Cao Zhiqiang frowned after hearing all this, "How can you do such illegal things? Didn't I say, we are porcelain now, we can no longer do things in the same old way, don't always think

If you are opportunistic, even if you are opportunistic, you must do it skillfully and openly."

"Yes, everything you said is right." Li Youfu nodded with a grimace.

Cao Zhiqiang said angrily: "Also, Factory Director Wang asked you to do things involving private goods. You can refuse. Why do you just do whatever he says?"

Li Youfu sighed: "Didn't Factory Director Wang say that if we don't help him bring the goods and sell them for money, he won't help us receive the goods from Hongguang Publishing House and won't borrow their warehouse.

Although Hongguang Machinery Factory has a freight quota, if the opposite unit does not accept it, it will be in vain."

Cao Zhiqiang touched his chin: "That's true."

That's right, although today's large-scale state-owned factories have fixed train quotas, if they want to transport goods, they must be received by their brother units across the street.

If the unit opposite doesn't accept it, then you can't load the truck and deliver the goods.

In other words, for factory-to-factory shipments, the two units must agree in advance. If one party fails, the shipment will fail.

Therefore, if Yuhong Machinery Factory, as a unit of Jinling City, really refuses to accept goods from Hongguang Machinery Factory, such as books and records, it will really be a big trouble.

But no matter what, this is a crime. Others don't understand it. As the director of the factory, it is impossible for Director Wang to understand it.

"Of course Director Wang understands," Li Youfu said with a wry smile.

"So, he specially found a remote warehouse and contracted it to me in the form of a contract operation. Then every time he brought private goods, he would have people take the goods directly to the warehouse I contracted, instead of Yuhong

The regular warehouse of the machinery factory.

In this way, if something happens, he can make a pushback, saying that he didn't know anything about it, and made me the scapegoat.

After all, the warehouse is contracted by me, and the goods are pulled into the train through here. If something happens, it will be found on me!"

Cao Zhiqiang frowned: "Did you ask Factory Director Li? Did you ask him to come forward to solve the problem?"

"I found it!" Li Youfu said, "When Factory Director Wang here asked me to do this, I immediately called Director Li, but, but he..."

"What happened to him?" Cao Zhiqiang asked.

Li Youfu sighed: "Director Li actually thought this idea was good, and then he colluded with Director Wang and contracted a warehouse for me at Hongguang Machinery Factory in Beijing. From now on, all goods brought from Yuhong Machinery Factory will be

Put it in the warehouse I contracted."

Speaking of this, Li Youfu looked at Cao Zhiqiang and said: "President Cao, that's not what you told me at the beginning! Now that Director Wang and Director Li are doing this, aren't they working together to push me into the fire pit?"

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If something happens, they will be fine. They can just refuse to admit it when the time comes. There is no evidence anyway.

But I can’t do it. I’m just an outsider with no background and no foundation. If something happens, I’ll be in trouble.”

The fever is 39.9 degrees, this virus is too ferocious!

(End of chapter)