032: Municipal Party Guest House

"Isn't Caidie produced by Shangdu Cigarette Factory? Why is it out of stock?"

A cigarette is only 3.5 yuan, so Xia Xiaolan can't afford it.

Although she has 30 years of insight far beyond the times, she has no understanding of the cigarette market in 1983. Tobacco is sold exclusively by the state. Take 'Caidie' as an example. There is a certain number of 'Caidie' cigarettes produced by Shangdu Cigarette Factory each year. Instead, it is distributed to all parts of the country - the 'color butterfly' produced by the Shangdu Cigarette Factory, but it is difficult for Shangdu people to buy it.

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. Xia Xiaolan wants one. There is no "bar" when buying cigarettes. Unless the government department holds a meeting and has special approval from the leaders, they can buy cigarettes as a unit. Tight cigarettes.

The 'Daqianmen' produced in Shanghai is also 0.35 per box. Uncle Xia Xiaolan smokes this cigarette, and he has a lot of face in Qijing Village. "Daqianmen" is also well-known nationwide, after all, it is the best-selling cigarette in the Shanghai market. However, Xia Xiaolan can buy 'Daqianmen' in Shangdu, but not 'Caidie'... Tobacco reselling will definitely make a lot of money. This thought popped into Xia Xiaolan's mind, but she couldn't hold back.

Hundreds of thousands of boxes of cigarettes per year are scattered all over the country. Cigarettes are an industry with extremely regional characteristics. Except for a few major brands of particularly hard "famous cigarettes", people everywhere have their own preferences for what kind of cigarettes they smoke. Shangdu people have identified the three brands of Shangdu Cigarette Factory, and the cities around Shangdu may like their local products. People in Shangdu can't buy 'Caidie', and 'Caidie' may be unsalable in other places.

What about taking the 'color butterflies' rationed to other places and taking them back to the merchants to sell them?

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 large front door.

However, Xia Xiaolan does not have cigarette tickets. The price of cigarettes is 0.35 yuan per box. She wants 50 cents for a box.

Carrying the cigarettes that she bought after breaking her lip, Xia Xiaolan calmed down after a while.

Yes, tobacco is too lucrative, but she has to be able to find a way, it's not a private sale, it has to be someone with an official profile. Xia Xiaolan can't do it in a short period of time, but it doesn't mean that she can't know these characters all the time. The development of contacts should start from this Hu Yongcai.

The original purpose was to find a buyer for the eel, but that doesn't mean she can only sell the eel all the time.

Xia Xiaolan rode a bicycle and walked west.

In the early days, the western suburbs were a wasteland, but after the 1950s, large-scale national cotton, grinding wheels, coal machines, printing and dyeing and other industrial factories have successively settled in the western suburbs of Shangdu. The Shangdu Municipal Committee decided to build new office buildings in the western suburbs. Since the office location has changed, by the way, we have to build a guest house for the municipal party committee. In 1963, the building of the Municipal Party Committee Guest House was repaired. Now 20 years later, the appearance of the guest house has been kept in good condition. A colonnade has been added around the 5-storey building, and the roof is overhanging. The glazed tiles and carvings are exquisite in the atmosphere.

This place has been developing for 20 to 30 years, and it is not as desolate as Xia Xiaolan thought, but it is used by the old business people to call it "the western suburbs" to distinguish it from the center of the old city. Of course, there is no lively snack street or farmers' market here either. Those who come to the Municipal Party Committee Guest House are serious unit workers and government workers, either for meetings or business trips.

Xia Xiaolan came running on a bicycle without a letter of introduction, no matter how beautiful she was, she was dressed as a peasant.

The hostel did not say that farmers would not be allowed in, but without a letter of introduction, there was no need to think about food and accommodation, it was impossible. Xia Xiaolan said that she came to find relatives, and the people in the guest house told her to wait at the back door.

After a while, a short man in his thirties came out from the back door. He was no different from anyone Xia Xiaolan had seen in this era, except that he was quite fat. Everyone has no oil or water in their stomachs. In 1983, there were more skinny people and less fat people. As expected, it was purchased by the guest house of the Municipal Party Committee. It was a fat poor.

When the face is fat, the eyes are small.

Hu Yongcai's eyes widened at Mung Bean, he didn't know when he had a relative of Xia Xiaolan.

Xia Xiaolan looks so outstanding, even if they are distant relatives, Hu Yongcai will definitely not forget them as long as they meet once. How could Xia Xiaolan make him think carefully:

"My name is Xia Xiaolan, and Uncle Zhu Liang 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 don't move around frequently, and Hu Yongcai is considered to have a little power in his hands, and he is afraid that others will come to him for help without any reason. Xia Xiaolan quickly handed over the bag in her hand, "I have something to trouble Brother Hu."

Hu Yongcai's eyelids jumped at the sight of the contents in the bag.

What a big deal 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 to take the lead in acquiring the eel.

"If you think it's fine, I'll bring some samples."

What sample, it is clearly left over from the farmer's market.

Hu Yongcai knew it in his heart. Buying something is not a big deal. Xia Xiaolan is too much to give away a cigarette.

Then the eel brought by Xia Xiaolan is not small, and to be honest, it has reached the acquisition standard. But Xia Xiaolan made a deliberate trip and gave him a heavy gift, so it was impossible for the sake of twenty kilograms of eel. How much will this make? Not worth being a big front door pulling relationship.

Hu Yongcai wanted to show the face of Hu Zhuliang, who introduced Xia Xiaolan, and for the sake of the front door, he told Xia Xiaolan the truth:

"you

Regardless of the size of the hostel, ingredients like yellow eel don’t take much, regardless of whether it’s a leader or an ordinary cadre who comes to a meeting, the standard for food is 1 yuan a day. I can buy all the eels you brought this time... But there are so many every day, the hostel will definitely not be able to eat them. "

All the guests have their own food standards. In addition to receiving the accommodation of leading cadres at all levels to Shangdu, it also includes the venues of major meetings organized by the Shangdu government and the Municipal Party Committee, including the People's Congress. No matter which level of cadres come, they all have the same food standard. One yuan per person per day is paid by the government, and those who eat only need to pay a pound of food stamps.

1 yuan to eat the staple food must be enough, and there are also meat dishes, but it is impossible to eat eel all day long!

Xia Xiaolan is also not disappointed. Hu Yongcai has something to say. He can't eat more than 20 kilograms every day. How about every few days? Investment is all about doing business. What she wants is not a momentary big profit. As long as she has established a good relationship with Hu Yongcai, she is not afraid that her eels will not be sold.

"I listen to you."

Hu Yongcai saw that she was not swayed, she was generous, and she was beautiful. He had a good impression of Xia Xiaolan.

"Uncle Zhu Liang is older than me, you don't want to be yours, just call me by my name."

Xia Xiaolan immediately climbed down the pole:

"Big Brother Hu!"

Hu Yongcai smiled until his eyes narrowed, "Wait here, I'll call someone out to weigh the eel."