Chapter 86: Fighting on Two Fronts



Since the early 1980s, you can make a fortune by setting up a street stall, but many people don’t dare!

In addition, in the early stage, "iron rice bowl" law enforcement personnel were set up to crack down on those who disrupted the market order. They really arrested people and took them away once they were caught, and even broke the weighing rod in public.

Many people witnessed this scene. The common people were shocked and trembling with fear, and did not even have the intention to commit a crime.

Starting from the mid-1980s, the crackdown was not so frequent and the law was not strict. The crackdown on disruptors of market order became just a formality, but many people felt embarrassed again!

In the eyes of most people, leaders, cadres, the working class, and farmers all possess higher consciousness and status than street vendors. In life, whether rich or poor, isn't it all about prestige? Many people are trapped in this mindset!

What's more, it is still unclear whether it will work or not. Most people have thought about it in their minds and then joined the wait-and-see team. The vast majority of people are "thieves with desire but not courage".

This also led to the fact that many of the first group of people to become wealthy were once unemployed people who had been struggling to find work. Forced by life, having enough to eat was naturally more important than prestige, so they entered the industries that were the first to make fortunes.

Gradually, as more people started doing it, the word "face" could not keep up with the pace of economic development. When people saw others enjoying good fortune and began to be jealous and follow the trend, the market was already almost saturated!

It's a very simple logic. The first group of people had both the start-up capital and the experience, and they had already divided up most of the market.

The above are the reasons why Bi Yue advised herself not to get angry when diners asked her how to marinate meat!

Those who could afford to eat barbecue in the mid-1980s were not people who were forced to make a living. They ate and asked about it, but among hundreds or thousands of people, there were only three or two who dared to ask and dared to really become her competitors. They were all courageous and capable!

Most people just "hate others" and want to vent their anger!

Ever since this barbecue restaurant, which is similar to a food stall, opened for business, Dashan Ge has been dumbfounded by the money he has made. Every night, he doesn't wash the dishes or clean the pots, but sits cross-legged on the kang to count the money. He often gets very excited when counting the money.

The barbecue stall only opens at around five in the evening every day and lasts until about eleven at night. If the drinking continues, the stall will close at 12:30 at the latest. In just these few hours, the profit can be four or five times by selling bulk beer, meat and vegetables!

Business was so good that Chu Yifeng initially ordered six iron plate pots for Bi Yue, and later she added twenty more, but that was because there was no room for a table outside!

No one expected such a grand occasion and they were all a little dumbfounded, except Bi Yue who remained calm and composed.

The plans she made for one deal after another were not just random ideas.

For example, this barbecue stall, she thought about it every day before she started, the possibility of it being copied is higher than other industries, but it is attractive!

People in this era have almost no fat in their stomachs, so the smell of barbecue can spread for two miles. There is no need for advertising, and the company wins by the smell of meat!

When more people become jealous, she will stop.

Bi Yue wrote down these words in her diary. She regarded it as a "wake-up call" for herself. She warned herself that no matter what she did, she should not be confused by "immediate benefits"!

The passage reads: When others dare not act, you act! When others are acting, you withdraw! When others are not buying stocks, you buy! When others are buying this stock, you sell! Don't be greedy and never eat too much!

She especially wrote next to the word "stock": Only buy original shares! If you don't have any, forget it!

Do you really think that everyone who trades stocks makes money? The answer is obviously no!

If you can really travel through time and space and earn money on everything you buy, that's bullshit!

Not to mention her vision for stocks, in her opinion, even a person's "original heart" is not something that ordinary people can keep!

With very little money, Bi Yue had to calculate every step of her business, just like her barbecue stall.

Businesspeople don't care about size. It might seem like a low-skilled business, but in this day and age, it's still possible to make money without capital, just to eat, drink, and wear. The smaller the business, the better. The remaining money can be used to buy property!

Bi Yue was very open-minded about the fact that she could only do these small businesses, and she never had any lofty ambitions. Besides, the actual situation did not allow it, although she dreamed of traveling through time and space and wanted to become a real estate developer. But the actual situation was:

The Enterprise Law wasn't established until 1988, and the Company Law was introduced in 1993. Most private enterprises today are either affiliated or employed, with little connection to foreign countries. You say she's an outsider who started her business by "turning over a fortune" and has no connections, no capital, and no time. If she doesn't turn over a fortune, what else can she do?!

Pork, 1.2 yuan per pound. Take a pound of marinated pork, put it in a thin layer on a plate, and throw in a lot of onion slices. How many plates can you fit into a pound? A plate costs 2.7 yuan.

Plus, she kept talking nonsense to others, saying that her family had a unique craft and it was a time-honored brand!

Unlike other time-honored establishments called "Bi's or Zhao's," this place has a large plaque inscribed in black marble with the words "Qiqihar Barbecue Restaurant" and a bunch of explanations below, explaining where Qiqihar is located and why its barbecue is famous. It's almost like a scene from "Chuang Guandong" (a Chinese historical drama about crossing the Great Wall) has been incorporated.

Who cares if it's true or not? The reason for inviting people to barbecue, those who can afford it, is to enjoy the food and to introduce a new place.

What Bi Yue didn't know was that while they were busy making their fortune, her uncle was in the same city as her at this moment.

It was just that her uncle Bi Tielin was standing at the train station with a man waiting for the train and did not come to see her.

It is said that many things are just coincidences. After leaving Zhaojiatun, Bi Tielin's first stop was Qiqihar, which is the location of the restaurant that Bi Yue vigorously promoted.

When he got there, he knocked on the door of a dilapidated house with a broken roof. When the person inside opened the door and saw that it was him, his excitement was beyond words:

"Tielin! You're out too?! That's great! I've been looking forward to this day!"

Uncle Bi said, "Xizi, is grandma still here?"

Wu Yuxi, who had been in the same cell with Uncle Bi, had tears in his eyes. Bi Tielin patted him on the shoulder:

"We are all the same. However, we have to start over, for ourselves and for our loved ones who are still alive."

After that day, Bi Tielin took Wu Yuxi to Kyoto first. He met alone with Chen Fengxiang, who was already a "big leader", and turned down his suggestion to study for two years and then arrange to work as a driver and secretary.

He only left an IOU to his "uncle" Chen Fengxiang and boarded the train from Kyoto to Kunming with his brothers.

(Monthly tickets requested!!! Everyone, please check your ticket folders again to see if you can get two more monthly tickets to cover the second and third updates today!!) (To be continued.)

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