Siheyuan started as an unlicensed knight and became a hero of justice

It is still very risky to be a "speculator" at this time, especially now that the standards for determining speculation and profiteering vary from place to place.

The original traders collected eggs from the countryside and carefully brought them back to the city to exchange for food coupons. Many of those who sold eggs on the streets were reselling food coupons.

Later, they bought imported goods and industrial products that did not require invoices from coastal cities or big cities, and then secretly sold them in small cities that required industrial product invoices.

As people's needs change, speculators seize the opportunity and sell whatever the people need or whatever is in short supply.

If someone is unlucky and resells a small amount of goods, he may be convicted of speculation!

The best-selling commodities are imported goods and large industrial products produced in Shanghai and Beijing.

Because buying these things originally required industrial product tickets, and starting from the 1980s, some cities began to gradually cancel industrial product tickets, and many people saw business opportunities.

You can almost double the profit by just reselling it. Who wouldn’t be jealous?

Different places have different reactions to this behavior that disrupts market order.

Some places turn a blind eye, thinking that we have now entered into reform and opening up and no longer have a planned economy; some places simply arrest people and deal with them as those responsible for speculation and profiteering.

For a while, there was confusion about the standards of law enforcement across the country because of different standards!

Of course, these are just minor activities. The real "speculators" are those who take advantage of the price difference between planned and unplanned commodities and make profits by reselling related commodities in the market.

Of course, there are also "international traders". In places like Heilongjiang that border the Russians, almost every village has people working as traders for the Russians. There has even been a case of "a truckload of watermelons in exchange for a tank".

In fact, many places still turn a blind eye to "international traders". After all, the things international traders bring back do not require foreign exchange.

Many "international traders" even have the support of local governments, especially in transactions with the Russians, they really make a lot of money.

They exchanged agricultural products and cotton coats for the "scrapped" tanks that the Russians could still drive normally, saying that they were using them as tractors, but in fact they were just attracted by the special steel and engines on the tanks!

After Wu Zhen's investigation, this information continued to flow into the hands of the leaders above, and a special form was also made.

Looking at this well-organized information and facing the chaos caused by reform and opening up, the leaders began to make new decisions.

It was decided to gradually relax the restrictions in an orderly and conditional manner, and to temporarily postpone the relaxation of restrictions on military and civilian matters, such as rare metals, sugar and staple food, and to gradually cancel various tickets such as industrial product tickets, in an orderly and steady manner.

Those officials and leaders and middle-level cadres of relevant units who abuse their power to make money by reselling planned materials must be punished severely and swiftly!

As for "official corruption" with extremely huge amounts of money and serious impact, according to Wu Zhen's suggestion, such scum can be executed immediately by firing squad!

The leaders admired Wu Zhen's decisiveness in killing. Only by punishing the criminals quickly, severely and strictly can those who take chances be deterred psychologically and serve as a warning to others!

The greatest harm is caused by those "copies" of raw materials controlled by the state and the "official speculators" who resell the "copies". These people disregard the security and interests of the country.

Wu Zhen provided a lot of evidence regarding these "official corruptions" that harmed the country and society.

Wu Zhen strongly suggested that these people be publicly tried and shot on the spot. Only in this way can these greedy and corrupt officials be restrained.

However, it is not enough to just kill corrupt officials. We also need supporting laws and regulations and a complete set of management systems to prevent problems from happening.

Otherwise, even the sharpest knife cannot stop those corrupt officials from continuing to come.

Simply imposing heavy penalties on corruption may deter corruption in the short term, but it will cause endless troubles.

Just like Zhu Yuanzhang had resorted to the deadly weapon of "skinning and stuffing straw", but he still couldn't stop the corrupt officials from continuing to spread!

Therefore, increasing the cost of corruption, strengthening supervision over corruption, making corrupt officials pay a greater price, and making it more difficult to commit corruption, especially ensuring financial transparency and putting corrupt officials under everyone's supervision, is the right way to go!