February 17th, New Year’s Eve!
Early in the morning, Zhou Yang was woken up by his mother, who told him to have breakfast and follow his elder brother to buy supplies!
Since it's New Year's Eve, today's breakfast is also particularly rich.
Li Youwei not only rolled out noodles for everyone, but also put a poached egg in everyone's bowl.
After eating breakfast, Zhou Yang and Chen Beixuan followed their elder brother Zhou Ping out of the house and went to the streets to buy so-called supplies!
The supplies are different from the goods sold by supply and marketing cooperatives or ordinary stores, but are equivalent to the New Year welfare for citizens.
Although the national economy is indeed facing difficulties and the deficit is serious, the government is still thinking about people's livelihood and trying every means to ensure the living needs of the citizens.
Especially during special holidays like the Chinese New Year, a large amount of supplies are sold to the citizens as welfare. These supplies are provided free of charge, such as "Cuban sugar" (brown sugar), "Iraqi dates", etc. Some popular fish, shrimp, vegetables, etc.
Since supplies are only available during special festivals and are in limited quantity, you need to purchase them with your household registration book and grain and oil book.
In addition, the price is affordable enough, so it is a rare opportunity in this era to harvest the country's wool.
Of course, because the opportunity is so rare, the citizens are unwilling to give it up.
Every time at this time, men, women, and children in the city would flock to the supply sales points on the street. Some people even started queuing as early as five or six in the morning. It was a lively scene.
Following his elder brother to the supply sales point, Zhou Yang was immediately stunned by the sight in front of him.
I saw that the so-called sales points were just a row of long tables temporarily set up on the street. Behind the tables was a row of staff. One of them was responsible for checking household registration books or grain and oil books, and the other was for weighing. Another person is collecting money.
Of course, what is really shocking is not the sales point itself, but the citizens buying things.
It's not a big sales point, but there is already a long queue, and it's so long that you can't see the side at a glance. You don't know how many people are buying things.
Arriving at the end of the team, the eldest brother took out two household registration books from home and handed them all to Zhou Yang.
"Xiao Yang, you line up here to buy supplies, and I'll go to the market over there to buy some firecrackers!"
"OK!"
"Remember, according to this year's regulations, one household is given 2 pounds of shelled peanuts, 1 pound of sugar, 3 pounds of meat, and 1 pound of melon seeds. We have two household registration books, so don't miss anything." The eldest brother said.
"You can't miss it, you're not a child!"
"OK!"
After finishing speaking, the eldest brother turned and walked towards the supply and marketing cooperative in the distance.
After the eldest brother left, Zhou Yang and Chen Beixuan slowly moved forward with the queue of citizens while observing the crowd around them.
After observing for a while, Zhou Yang suddenly discovered a phenomenon!
Maybe it’s because of the Chinese New Year, or maybe it’s because they have harvested the country’s wool. In short, almost everyone’s face is filled with happy smiles.
Standing on the street, all that came to my ears were the chatter and laughter of the citizens.
This made Zhou Yang couldn't help but think of later generations. It was clear that the economy was developing rapidly decades later and had maintained a good situation of steady growth.
At the same time, the income of Chinese people is also rising, from the current salary income of 30 yuan to 4-5,000 yuan, and some people's monthly salary income reaches more than 10,000 yuan, which is simply incomparable now.
But what is strange is that as everyone’s quality of life gets better and better, and material conditions become more and more abundant, more and more citizens feel that the pressure of life is getting heavier and their happiness is getting lower and lower. .
Zhou Yang didn't want to explore the reasons, but he really hoped that the people would always be as happy as they are now.
Because there were so many people buying supplies, Zhou Yang and Chen Beixuan waited in line for more than two hours until it was almost eleven o'clock when it was finally their turn.
Things are sold according to the account. The salesperson checked the Zhou family's account and immediately marked it after confirming it was correct.
After settling the bill, Zhou Yang received two packages of supplies that had already been weighed!
At this time, the eldest brother had also returned from buying firecrackers. After the two parties met, they immediately walked towards home...
However, just as Zhou Yang and others returned to their home, they saw Lu Zhengjun's car appearing at his door again.
At that moment Zhou Yang couldn't help but take a few steps quickly towards the house.
Sure enough, after entering the door, Zhou Yang saw Lu Zhengjun in the living room.
After seeing Zhou Yang, Lu Zhengjun stood up quickly and said, "If you don't come back, I will send people to the streets to look for you!"
"What's wrong? Why are you so anxious?" Zhou Yang said with a smile.
"It's business!"
Upon hearing this, Zhou Yang immediately put the things in his hands on the coffee table aside, then waved and led Lu Zhengjun towards the back yard.
Arriving at his study, Zhou Yang immediately asked, "What happened?"
"We received another telegram from Lao Yan this morning. He said that the people above couldn't bear it anymore and wanted us to make a decision quickly!" Lu Zhengjun said.
"What does it mean?"
"I just submitted the report. If you want to get results, you have to at least finish the New Year!" Lu Zhengjun said in a solemn tone.
"After the Chinese New Year, the day lilies are already cold!"
"Yes, but there is nothing the ministry can do about this matter. After all, we are only in charge of business. For other matters, we can only follow step-by-step procedures!" Lu Zhengjun said helplessly.
"Is there no other way for the ministry to do it?" Zhou Yang asked in a deep voice.
"It's really gone. The reply from the ministry to Lao Yan was to find a way to delay it for a few more days. But based on my understanding of Lao Yan, if it wasn't really impossible to delay, he wouldn't have contacted us so early in the morning. !" Lu Zhengjun said.
"You're right, Lao Yan's side must be in an extremely dangerous situation!"
After finishing speaking, both of them fell into silence!
After a while, Zhou Yang suddenly said: "There is another way now, but the ministry may not agree!"
"any solution?"
"Contact the military directly!"
"This...if we bypass the higher-level departments and directly contact the military, will it..."
Zhou Yang said immediately: "Actually, there is a high probability that this matter will alarm the secret department of the military in the end, unless the higher-ups are willing to compromise with a bunch of ruffians, but I think this kind of thing is unlikely to happen!"
"In that case, we might as well contact the military first and ask them to find a way to send some people to support Lao Yan and the others. As for the procedural matters, we can slowly make up for it!"
Lu Zhengjun looked at Zhou Yang, and then said: "Let's not talk about how risky this matter is, just why should the military help us?"
"I'm sure I won't be happy if I work for nothing, but if the ministry is willing to give up some of the benefits, I think it won't be a big problem!" Zhou Yang said.
"Profit? You mean money?"
"Yes, we can jointly implement the Sickle Plan with the military. We will provide the money and the military will provide the personnel!"
Then Zhou Yang said again: "Lao Lu, although the Sickle Project is purely commercial in nature, the money is very attractive. As we make the cake bigger and bigger, more and more people will be targeting us in the future. If not Without the support of the military, it is impossible for the Ministry of Commerce alone to keep this big piece of cake!"
"Then the military is willing to cooperate with us?"
"Definitely willing!"
The reason why Zhou Yang is so sure is that he knows very well how short of money the military is currently.
As the country's focus gradually shifts to the economy, military spending will be significantly reduced. The situation is not very serious at the moment, but in another two years, the military's life will be even more difficult.
By that time, almost all military departments and military-industrial units across the country had to worry about money, so much so that there were nuclear industry units buying ice cream, aircraft production units making washing machines, electric fans, etc.
Now that there is such a good opportunity to make money, you will definitely not miss it!
Lu Zhengjun thought for a while and said: "This matter is of great importance and I can't make the decision. Now I will go back and report the situation to the minister. Maybe it can be done!"
"Well, if necessary, I can personally help contact people from the military!" Zhou Yang said.
"good!"
After saying that, Lu Zhengjun hurriedly left the Zhou family!
Seeing Lu Zhengjun's retreating figure, Zhou Yang fell into deep thought...
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PS: The second chapter has been delivered. Because of the meeting, there are only two chapters today. Three chapters will be restored tomorrow!
