Chapter 352: Rampant Black Market Transactions

1958 years 3 months,
Not long after the Spring Festival, Ma Yongqiu called a meeting of all the militia cadres, both big and small.
"Comrades, the purpose of calling you all here for a meeting today is mainly to talk about the increasingly rampant black market transaction problem.

The black market has been around for a long time.

Especially during the period before the liberation of Peking,
Due to the collapse of the gold yuan, black market transactions in Beijing became particularly rampant and were even exposed.
However, with the peaceful liberation of Peking, people's lives became better and better, and this black market transaction was quiet for several years after liberation.

In February of this year, the State Council officially implemented a rationing system for eight non-staple foods, including pork, fresh eggs, brown and white sugar, with tickets.

Since the issuance of meat and sugar coupons,
It became difficult for ordinary people to get enough oil and water, which led to an increasing consumption of food.
Black market transactions gradually began to revive and became more and more rampant in just half a month.

Yesterday afternoon I went to the city to attend a special meeting.
Our superiors asked us to allocate personnel from the militia to cooperate with various districts and branches to crack down on the black market in their jurisdictions.

The following tasks are assigned......"

After Ma Yongqiu finished assigning the tasks, he heard a comrade ask,
"The cavalry, let's not talk about the black market.

I just want to ask where the supplies on the black market, especially food, eggs, and pork, come from.
We in Daxia now implement a strict unified purchase and sale system. It is impossible for so many materials to flow into the black market.
Should we investigate this aspect carefully? "

Hearing this question, Ma Yongqiu frowned, then nodded.
"The problem you mentioned has been noticed by our superiors, and a special team has been set up to check all the granaries and grain stations in the city.
But this has nothing to do with our militia.

Our mission is to lead the militia to cooperate with the districts and branches to complete the black market crackdown mission.

The other things will naturally be taken care of by the superiors.
Does anyone have any questions? "

Seeing that Ma Yongqiu did not allow everyone to interfere in the affairs of the granary and grain depot, all the cadres present kept their mouths shut.

He Yuzhu quietly opened the system.
January 1958, 3 20:13
Host: He Yuzhu
Age: 23 years old (March 1935, 3)
Weight: 65 kg
Titles: LV3 Mechanical Master, LV3 Racing Driver, LV4 Chef King, LV4 Soldier King,

Space size: 50*40*10 cubic meters

Space Items:

Life-buying money*2, 42.7 taels of gold, 102758 US dollars, 23815 RMB;
大米4317斤、面粉6244斤、麸皮27135斤、食用油421斤、煤炭64218斤、猪肉924斤、鸡蛋8542个、布料359尺、酒275瓶、白糖98斤、茶叶72斤、盘尼西林42支、军用罐头195个；
317 pieces of antique calligraphy and paintings, 6 stamp albums;

Colt pistols*3, AK47 assault rifles*2, and 21763 rounds of various bullets.

Title deed*2, Certificate of Honor*X;

In fact, the black market grain trade that Ma Yongqiu mentioned is rampant.

In addition to those termites, He Yuzhu also played an extremely important role in it.

Because he realized very early on that with the deepening of industrialization, the increase in urban population, coupled with subsequent natural disasters,
Sooner or later, black market transactions will emerge and attract attention from above.

Then struck by thunder,
Compared with bulky food, various bearer bills will be the mainstream of black market transactions in the future.

There is a great risk in selling the food stored in the space.
So during the period when the black market was booming, he sold most of the food at any price.

However, the black market had just started to emerge at that time, and on average, the price of grain in the black market was only about 1 times that of the supply and marketing cooperatives, which was 2 yuan per pound.
Nearly 10 kilograms of grain were sold for just over 1 yuan.

But these foods,
It immediately attracted the attention of the Peking Municipal Government, which led to this surprise operation.

Thinking that many people might be implicated by him this time, He Yuzhu asked,
"Ma Tuan, since it's a transaction, there must be buyers if there are sellers. Those who sell grain on the black market must be arrested, but what about those who buy grain?
Those who go to the black market to buy food may just be hungry civilians. Should we arrest them directly or release them?
If we arrest them all, the impact will be too wide.”

“Captain He raised a very good question. The superiors have also thought of this situation and have made a formal decision, which is that we cannot punish without teaching.

If ordinary people simply go to the black market to buy food,
Let the unit or neighborhood committee come to pick up the person first.
Then register your name, address, and occupation to see if there are any people working in relevant departments.
If not, considering that they are first-time offenders, we will just confiscate their food, and then let their work units and neighborhood committees criticize and educate them themselves when they return home.

If you do it again in the future, you will be severely punished.

Our main target this time is the pests in Beiping City and even within the Executive Yuan."

Seeing that the leaders above did not intend to hold the people who bought food on the black market accountable, everyone else breathed a sigh of relief.

The common people's life is not easy; their life is equally difficult.
I also went to the black market quite often during this period.

Seeing this, Ma Yongqiu guessed that they must have been to the black market, but he didn't say much.

After the general meeting, several deputy captains held small meetings with the cadres under them.

After leaving the base, He Yuzhu did not return to Fengze Garden.

Instead, he took Zhou Yiming and others to the Dongcheng District Government to discuss cooperation matters. After leaving the district government, he went straight to the courtyard.

He had just returned to the gate of the courtyard on his bicycle.
Then they saw Xu Damao, who was still dressed very fashionably, riding a bicycle with Liu Guangqi on his back, turning around the alley and heading towards the courtyard in a hurry.

So he stopped, looked at them curiously and asked,

"What are you two doing in such a hurry?"

Hearing He Yuzhu's question, Xu Damao snorted coldly and did not answer him.

But He Yuzhu is used to it.

Ever since the Chinese New Year, Xu Damao has been acting weird and irritating to him.

Liu Guangqi, on the other hand, said with a smile,

"What else can we do? The street office is organizing a dance party tonight to match us unmarried young men and women to find partners.
Damao and I took half an hour off and came back early.

By the way, Zhuzi, why did you come back so early today? Don’t you have anything to do at Fengze Garden?"

When He Yuzhu heard Liu Guangqi say that they were back to attend the dance, he smiled and said,

"I went to the militia for a meeting today and didn't go back to Fengze Garden.
As for you two, I can understand why Xu Damao is in such a hurry to find a wife.
After all, after Uncle Xu and his wife moved to their ancestral home with Zhaodi in 56, Xu Damao lived alone in a western wing in the backyard.

More than enough to marry a wife.

But your family of five lives in one east wing.

There is no extra house for you in Siheyuan now, why are you in such a hurry to find a partner? "

(End of this chapter)