"Isn't Caidie produced by Shangdu Cigarette Factory? How could it be out of stock?"
A cigarette is only 3.5 yuan, and Xia Xiaolan can't afford it.
Although she has 30 years of knowledge far ahead of the times, she has no understanding of the cigarette market in 1983. Tobacco is monopolized by the state. Take "Cai Die" as an example. The Shangdu Cigarette Factory has a fixed number of "Cai Die" cigarettes produced each year, and the produced "Cai Die" is not all sold in Shang City or even the whole province. Instead, it is distributed to all parts of the country - the "Naibute" produced by Shangdu Cigarette Factory, but it is difficult for Shangdu people to buy.
If you want to buy it, you have to find a relationship and increase the price! It is very difficult for people in Shangdu to buy one or two packs for free. Xia Xiaolan just opened her mouth to ask for one. There is no such thing as "tickets" when buying cigarettes now, unless there is a meeting of the government department and special approval from the leader can be bought in units of cigarettes. Tight cigarettes.
The "Daqianmen" produced in Shanghai is also 0.35/box. Uncle Xia Xiaolan smokes this cigarette, and she already has a lot of face in Qijing Village. 'Daqianmen' is also well-known across the country, after all, it is the best-selling cigarette in Shanghai. However, Xia Xiaolan can buy 'Daqianmen' in Shangdu, but not 'Cai Die' Tobacco reselling will definitely make a lot of money. This idea popped into Xia Xiaolan's mind, and she couldn't suppress it no matter what.
Hundreds of thousands of cartons of cigarettes a year are scattered all over the country. Cigarettes are an industry with extremely regional characteristics. Except for a few "famous cigarettes" with particularly hard brands, people from all over the world have their own preferences for what kind of cigarettes they smoke. People in Shangdu recognized the three brands of Shangdu Cigarette Factory, and the cities around Shangdu may like their local products. People in Shangdu can't buy 'Cai Die', and 'Cai Die' may be unsalable in other places.
What about taking the 'Naibute' that was allocated to other places and selling it back to Shangdu?
Xia Xiaolan was dizzy.
"Are you still buying cigarettes?"
Called back to her senses by the salesperson, Xia Xiaolan nodded, "Then get me a big front door."
There is a big front door.
However, Xia Xiaolan doesn't have a cigarette ticket, and the price of cigarettes is 0.35 yuan per box. She wants 50 cents a box.
Carrying the cigarettes that she had just bought with her mouth worn out, it took Xia Xiaolan a while to calm down.
Yes, tobacco is too profitable, but she must be able to find a way, this is not a private business, there must be someone official. Xia Xiaolan can't do it in a short period of time, but it doesn't mean that she can't get to know these characters all the time, and the development of contacts should start with Hu Yongcai.
The original purpose was to find buyers for rice field eels, but it didn't mean she could only sell rice field eels all the time.
Xia Xiaolan rode a bicycle and headed west.
In the early days, the western suburbs were a wasteland, but after the 1950s, large-scale industrial factories of national cotton, grinding wheels, coal machines, printing and dyeing, etc. successively settled in the western suburbs of Shangdu. The Shangdu City Committee decided to build a new office building in the western suburbs. Now that the office location has changed, we have to build a municipal party committee guest house by the way. In 1963, the building of the Municipal Party Committee Guest House was repaired. Now 20 years have passed, and the appearance of the guest house has been maintained well. A circle of colonnades has been added around the 5-storey building, and the eaves are protruded outwards, making the building as a whole patchwork. The glazed tiles and carved patterns are exquisite in the atmosphere.
This place has been developed for 20 or 30 years, and it is not as desolate as Xia Xiaolan thought. It is just that people in the old Shangdu used to call it "Western Suburbs" to distinguish it from the old city center. Of course, there is no bustling snack street and farmer's market here, and those who come to the municipal party committee guest house are either for meetings or business trips, and they are all serious unit employees and government employees.
Xia Xiaolan came here on a bicycle, without a letter of introduction, no matter how beautiful she was, she was still dressed as a farmer.
The hostel did not say that farmers would not be allowed to enter, but without a letter of introduction, eating and lodging were unnecessary and impossible. Xia Xiaolan said that she came to find relatives, but the staff at the guest house asked her to wait at the back door.
After a while, a short man in his thirties came out of the back door. He was no different from the people Xia Xiaolan had seen in this era, except that he was quite fat. Everyone has no oil in their stomachs. In 1983, there were more thin people and fewer fat people. It is worthy of the municipal party committee's guest house to do procurement. It is a fat job.
When the face becomes fat, the eyes become smaller.
Hu Yongcai's mung bean eyes widened, wondering when he had a relative of Xia Xiaolan's.
Xia Xiaolan looks so outstanding, even if she is a distant relative, as long as she meets her once, Hu Yongcai will never forget her. How could Xia Xiaolan make him think about it:
"My name is Xia Xiaolan, and it was Uncle Zhu Liang who asked me to come to you."
Hu Yongcai thought for a while, "Hu Zhuliang who sells eel noodles?"
He and Hu Zhuliang are relatives, but the two families do not move around frequently. Hu Yongcai has a little power in his hands, and he is afraid that others will come to him for help without reason. Xia Xiaolan quickly handed over the bag in her hand.?, "I have something to trouble Brother Hu."
Hu Yongcai's eyelids jumped as soon as he saw the things in the bag.
How big a deal is it to send a big front door?
His first reaction was to decline, and Xia Xiaolan didn't let people think about it, and directly told Hu Yongcai about asking Hu Yongcai to buy the rice field eel.
"If you think it's okay, I'll bring some samples."
What kind of samples are clearly leftovers from the farmers market.
Hu Yongcai knew it in his heart, buying something is not a big deal, and Xia Xiaolan gave away a pack of cigarettes is really too much.
Then the rice field eels brought by Xia Xiaolan were not small, and to be honest, they all met the purchase standard. But Xia Xiaolan deliberately made a trip, and gave him a big gift, so it was impossible for her to pay for twenty catties of rice field eels. How much money does this make? Not worth being a big front door pull relationship.
Hu Yongcai wanted to save face for Hu Zhuliang who introduced Xia Xiaolan, and for the sake of Daqianmen, he told Xia Xiaolan the truth:
"Don't think the hostel is not small. Food like rice field eel doesn't use much. No matter whether it's a leader or an ordinary cadre who comes to the meeting, the food standard is 1 yuan a day. I can decide to buy all the rice field eels you brought this time. but with so many every day, the hostel must not be able to eat it."
?The food standard for entertaining all their own, in addition to receiving the accommodation of leading cadres at all levels in Shangdu, also includes the venues for major meetings organized by the Shangdu government and the municipal party committee, including the People's Congress. No matter which level of cadres came, the food standard was the same, one yuan per person per day was paid by the government, and those who ate only had to pay one catty of food stamps.
1 yuan to eat the staple food must be full, and there are also meat dishes, but it is impossible to eat rice field eels all day long!
Xia Xiaolan is not disappointed, Hu Yongcai has something to say, he can't eat more than 20 catties a day, so what about every few days? Doing business is all about investment, what she wants is not a temporary big profit, as long as she has established a good relationship with Hu Yongcai, she is not afraid that her rice field eels will not be sold.
"I listen to you."
Hu Yongcai saw that she was not crooked, she was generous, and she was pretty, so he had a good impression of Xia Xiaolan.
"Uncle Zhuliang is older than me, so don't forget to call me by my name."
Xia Xiaolan immediately climbed up the pole:
"Brother Hu!"
Hu Yongcai narrowed his eyes with a smile, "Wait here for a while, I'll ask someone to come out and weigh the eels." (Remember the website website: www.hlnovel.com