The boss who had wrapped the luminous badge saw Yang Jing looking at the Selected Works of Mao Zedong and said with a smile, "Do you like this Selected Works of Mao Zedong?"
Yang Jing nodded and asked, "How much is this book?"
"Haha, this book is not cheap. If you want it, it will cost at least three hundred yuan! This copy of Selected Works of Mao Zedong is from before the Liberation. It is very rare on the market. I also spent a lot of effort to get it from someone else."
Yang Jing originally thought that the boss would ask for a price of several thousand yuan, and Yang Jing had already made up his mind to buy the book. He never expected that the "not cheap" price the boss was talking about was actually only three hundred yuan!
However, Yang Jing soon felt relieved when he thought about the auction prices of several copies of "Selected Works of Mao Zedong" before the liberation in 2003.
In 2003, Yenching Hua Xia Bookstore put seven rare early works of Chairman Mao up for auction at the "23rd Book and Periodical Auction". As a result, "Selected Works of Mao Zedong", compiled and printed by the Central Bureau of Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong and Henan in 1948, 2 volumes, paper, hardcover, 8 items, was sold for 2,420 yuan.
"Selected Works of Mao Zedong" was published by Northeast Bookstore in 1948, 1 volume, paper, hardcover, 7.5 quality, and sold for 1,540 yuan; "Selected Works of Mao Zedong" was published by Dalian Dazhong Bookstore in 1947, 1 volume, paper, hardcover, 9 quality, and sold for 3,300 yuan; "Selected Works of Mao Zedong" was published by Bohai Bookstore in 1947, 1 volume, paper, hardcover, 8 quality, and sold for 2,860 yuan.
These Selected Works of Mao Zedong were published before the liberation, and they were sold for only a few thousand yuan at the auction. What if they were sold now? After all, it is only 1994. Of course, the stall owner obviously did not realize that the 1944 edition of Selected Works of Mao Zedong in his hand was much more valuable than other versions of Selected Works of Mao Zedong. He regarded this version of Selected Works of Mao Zedong as the same as other versions before the liberation, so he called out such a low price.
If he knew that this book would be worth over a million in twenty-three years, would he regret it to death?
But if he knew, how could he offer such a low price?
It is true - being uneducated is terrible...
With the market about to open in a few minutes, many street vendors have started to pack up and stop doing business outside, and are preparing to set up stalls inside the market.
It’s not that they don’t want to continue selling outside, but every Saturday and Sunday morning, the police station and market patrols all show up early, and anyone who dares to set up a stall outside will be confiscated.
There is no other way. As the Panjiayuan Flea Market becomes more and more popular, the rental fees and taxes of the stalls have become a significant source of income for the local government. Normally, you set up a stall in the market, which is convenient for supervision, but if you sell secretly outside, the market will not only lose the rental fees for the stalls, but also a part of the taxes.
These days, tax evasion can land you in jail.
When there is no ghost market, the situation outside is not so bad. But once a ghost market opens, if there is no strict inspection, these guerrillas can sell their products outside until people go to work in the morning. Not only can they evade taxes, but they can also cause traffic jams.
This is something that absolutely cannot happen.
Therefore, every weekend when the ghost market opens, all the supervisors will be out in force. Anyone who dares to stab will be arrested! Anyone who dares to set up a stall outside at that time will be arrested!
Thanks to the high-pressure policy in the early stage of the market establishment, the market order has improved. If it is left alone, who knows what Panjiayuan will become in the future?
Yang Jing squatted on the curb, across the road was the north gate of Panjiayuan.
Although it was a bit cold, Yang Jing's heart was burning with enthusiasm. He had just arrived for less than an hour and a half, and he had already found four great things in a row. This was something he could not imagine twenty-three years later.
What made Yang Jing happy the most was not that he found so many good things, but this atmosphere, this environment and this consumption level...
In fact, Yang Jing knew very well that, except for the Longquan Ge Kiln flower-mouth plate, the other three items he bought today could not be considered bargains. Even the Ge Kiln plate could only be considered a small bargain and not a big one.
In this era, many good things from big stores are priced so low. In this era, imperial porcelain from the three dynasties of the Qing Dynasty is only a few hundred or a thousand yuan each, and things from folk kilns can be bought for dozens of yuan each.
For example, the flower-mouthed plate imitating the Ge kiln, even if it is a genuine imitation from the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods, the price is only about 10,000 or 20,000 yuan. Don't forget how much the per capita income was in that era!
In 1994, the average monthly income of Yanjing people, or the average social wage, was only a little over 500 yuan! If a plate was sold for 16,000 yuan, a Yanjing person would have to work for 30 months without eating or drinking to buy such a plate.
Not to mention that in the 1990s, the family burden of Chinese residents was relatively heavy, because families of this era generally had at least two children, and as many as four or five!
With so many children and elderly people, how much money can a family have left after a month if they rely on the couple's salary to support them? If a family can save 2,000 yuan a year, even if you know how to make a living, you still have to say that there are not many people in the family, and the proportion of people who can earn money is higher.
So, if you go back to this era and buy things at such a low price, it’s not really called a bargain.
But even if it can't be called picking up a bargain, this era is already extremely satisfying for Yang Jing.
He traveled through time from 2017, 23 years later, when prices were skyrocketing. In 2017, was 100,000 yuan considered money? A securities company held an annual advanced performance selection, and the bonus alone was 200,000 or 300,000 yuan!
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