Siheyuan: I am different He Yuzhu

Since the conversation between He Yuzhu and his sister He Yushui that day, He Yushui started going to school alone and going home alone every day, while He Yuzhu devoted all his energy to the work in the canteen. Under He Yuzhu's patient guidance, the cooking skills of the cooks in the canteen of Red Star Steel Rolling Mill have greatly improved. For the aunt who helped with chores before, He Yuzhu also patiently taught her how to cut vegetables.

However, although the working hours are longer than before, they still do not exceed 8 hours in total. After all, it is not easy to work overtime in this era, let alone in logistical departments such as the canteen. After all, the current level of electrification in the country is not high. Without sufficient light source, even if you want to work overtime at night, you can't do it.

Since the public-private partnership, He Yuzhu could no longer leave the Red Star Steel Mill after lunch, so he had fewer opportunities to go to the countryside to pick up leaks and learn from his master Guan Xuezong. He could only go out occasionally on weekends. After knowing that He Yuzhu had become a leader, Guan Xuezong expressed his understanding and support for He Yuzhu. He hoped that He Yuzhu would work hard in his leadership position, make achievements, and not disappoint the expectations of the organization and the people.

The villagers who were used to selling things to He Yuzhu hoped that He Yuzhu would go to their village frequently to collect old things in the future, but He Yuzhu simply couldn't do it. So after repeated discussions, he changed his weekly visit to the village to once every two months. But this is not a long-term solution after all. If he wants to do this business for a long time, it would be best for He Yuzhu to find a client, but after thinking about it, there is no suitable person around He Yuzhu. Master Guan Xuezong has a lot of experience, but his identity is sensitive and he is not suitable to go there; although his cousin Cai Quanwu has free time, he does not have enough experience and does not understand antiques.

After some deep thinking, He Yuzhu racked his brains and came up with a simple and crude method. When he collected old things in the village before, he paid a commission to the village. So after negotiation between He Yuzhu and the village, He Yuzhu still entrusted the delivery person to carry the goods, but He Yuzhu no longer ran to every village to collect things. If the villagers don’t want old things, they still send them to the village committee, and the village committee will issue a note to the villagers according to the price set by He Yuzhu. When He Yuzhu rests every weekend, He Yuzhu entrusts the delivery person to load the goods and deliver them to He Yuzhu. At that time, He Yuzhu gives the money to the delivery person and asks the delivery person to take it back. 1% of the total value of the client’s delivery is the village’s commission.

In this way, the villagers, the village committee, the delivery people and He Yuzhu were all happy, because He Yuzhu directly marked the prices of various porcelains based on his previous experience. For example, in the price book that He Yuzhu handed over to the village, the prices of various porcelains were clearly written. After the villagers read the price book written by He Yuzhu and knew the minimum price they sold, they were more confident when they went out to collect the goods. The villagers were more interested in going out to collect scraps during the agricultural insurance period.

The village committee earned the difference by helping to receive the goods. With this stable income, the village committee's account situation has been greatly improved. After a month's work, each village committee can earn almost 10 to 20 yuan. After all, the money He Yuzhu said before, that he would go there once every two months, was too little for the village.

The people who help He Yuzhu deliver the goods think the same as the village committee. After all, the difference in the amount of money received is almost 8 times more between delivering once every two months and once a week. He Yuzhu now has a stable channel for picking up leaks, and has a deeper connection with the village committee, so he is no longer afraid of being reported in the future. After all, the interests of a village from the village committee to every ordinary villager are deeply tied to He Yuzhu. If He Yuzhu disappears, they will return to the days of having to rely on digging for food in the soil. Since He Yuzhu went to their village to collect rags, in addition to farming and selling food, they have an extra sum of money to trade in rags. Many families rely on this money to solve the bride price for marrying a daughter-in-law, and some rely on this money to build a new house. In short, they do not allow anyone to destroy their current life.

As for the sales of the materials produced by He Yuzhu's blessed land and cave, they were basically all handed over to Cai Quanwu and Zhang Hu. He really didn't have time to manage these things. It happened that after the public-private partnership, Cai Quanwu had more time and didn't need to stay in the tavern every day. He Yuzhu could only put the eggs in the house in Qudeng Hutong every night after get off work. As for settling accounts with Zhang Hu and others, he had no time at all, so he handed it over to Cai Quanwu for management. On weekends, he would find a place to secretly trade live pigs with Mr. Huang on the black market.

Zhang Hu and his friends have gradually started their own families. Of course, He Yuzhu personally prepared everyone's wedding banquet. After all, He Yuzhu had promised them that he would not only prepare the wedding banquet for everyone, but also prepare a red envelope of 10 yuan for each person. Following He Yuzhu's advice, they applied for houses at the scrap yard very early, so when the scrap yard was distributing houses, there were fewer applicants, so each of them was allocated a larger house. After being allocated a house, they all moved out of the house in Chunshu Hutong that Shang Zhirong sold to He Yuzhu, so He Yuzhu's house in Chunshu Hutong became vacant again.

Zhang Hu and his six companions started trading eggs with He Yuzhu in 1948. After they started working at the scrap yard, they helped He Yuzhu pick up antiques at bargain prices. Over the years, each of the six people has accumulated a considerable fortune, and their lives are getting better and better.

In the blink of an eye, it was late February 1955. The government issued an order to decide that the People's Bank of Longguo would issue the second set of RMB from March 2, 1955, and take back the first set of RMB. After knowing this news, He Yuzhu began to think about it. After all, he had a lot of the first set of RMB in his blessed land. If he didn't exchange it for the second set of RMB in time, it would all be a pile of waste paper after a certain period of time. For this reason, the street office specially organized a meeting in the No. 3 courtyard to publicize the benefits of exchanging the second set of RMB to the residents of the courtyard, and advised everyone to exchange it in time, otherwise after a certain period of time, the first set of RMB in hand could not be spent.

He has sold materials produced by Fudi Dongtian for so many years, and the accumulated money is estimated to be tens of billions of RMB. According to the government's regulation that the exchange rate between the second set of RMB and the first set of RMB is 10:, it would cost at least a million RMB to exchange for the second set of RMB. The largest denomination of the second set of RMB is yuan, which means at least hundreds of thousands of RMB need to be exchanged. So when exchanging such a large amount of money, you need to pay attention to the method. If you don't pay attention to the exchange method and are reported by someone with ulterior motives, you might be arrested and eaten peanuts. But he didn't come forward himself, after all, his height is too easy to attract attention.

After careful consideration, He Yuzhu finally decided to ask his uncle Cai Quanwu for help. It happened that his uncle Cai Quanwu had more free time after the public-private partnership. When the second set of RMB was officially exchanged on March 3, there were many people exchanging at the beginning, and long queues formed at the door of the exchange point. However, for most ordinary families, only one person works and there is a woman at home to take care of the children, so they don’t worry about exchanging between the new and old RMB.

After get off work, He Yuzhu first turned to the house in Qudeng Hutong, took out 1000 bundles of 5 yuan in banknotes from Fudi Dongtian, and put them in the basement of the house. Then He Yuzhu rode his bicycle to the backyard door of his cousin's house in Daqianmen. After knocking on the door, He Yuzhu did not go into the yard, but directly said to Cai Quanwu who opened the door: "Uncle, ride your tricycle with me to Qudeng Hutong, I have something to tell you."

Cai Quanwu looked at He Yuzhu's face and didn't say much. He turned around and went back to the yard, said something to his wife Su Xiulian, and came out with a tricycle. Cai Quanwu followed He Yuzhu to He Yuzhu's house in Qudeng Hutong. After entering the house, He Yuzhu said to his uncle Cai Quanwu with a serious face: "Uncle, when you come down here, you must not tell anyone. Only the two of us know about it, including my aunt. If others know about it, I, your nephew, will probably be dead."

Cai Quanwu said seriously: "Zhu Zi, don't worry, I promise I won't tell anyone."

He Yuzhu continued, "Uncle, you have been delivering eggs for me for so many years, so you must know that there are people behind me. I am the one they push in the open. But uncle, you don't have to worry too much. What we do is not a big deal as long as no one reports it. Isn't the second set of RMB issued now? The people behind me have a large amount of the first set of RMB to exchange for the second set of RMB, but it is not convenient for them to come forward, so now this job is handed over to me."

At this point, He Yuzhu took a breath and continued, "Uncle, when you come into the house with me later, don't panic if you see anything." Cai Quanwu nodded expressionlessly. After speaking, He Yuzhu took Cai Quanwu into the main house and opened the exit of the secret room under the room on the east side of the main house. He Yuzhu took a flashlight and led Cai Quanwu to the secret room. He opened the box in the secret room and pointed at the banknotes in the box and said, "Uncle, this is the first batch of money that others asked me to exchange. There are others later. You know that I have to go to work every day and have no time to exchange these money, so I can only trouble you now. When the time comes, please take the money in here and exchange all of it into the second set of soft sister RMB at various exchange points in Sijiu City."

Cai Quanwu looked at the wooden box full of banknotes and asked in shock, "Zhu Zi, how much money is there in this box?"

He Yuzhu said calmly: "Not much, only 50 billion in total."

Cai Quanwu said in surprise: "Only 1 billion? How much money does the boss behind you have?"

He Yuzhu said indifferently: "Uncle, this amount of money may be nothing to those big capitalists. Uncle, when you have nothing to do, come to this yard, take some money, and go to the exchange point to exchange the money for new RMB. You can exchange up to 5000 million yuan at a time at one exchange point. After the exchange, you must go to a new exchange point and do not attract the attention of the staff. When you exchange the second set of RMB, you can put it here. I will take it away and send it to others when I get off work in the evening. When Zhang Hu and others are resting on the weekend, you can ask them to take some to help you exchange."

"But I still say that one exchange point cannot exchange too much money at once. One exchange point can exchange a maximum of 5000 million yuan. Each exchange point can only exchange once. After the exchange, go to another exchange point. After all the exchange points have been exchanged, start again from the first exchange point. But it is best to change a window the second time, and each time can only exchange 2000 million yuan."

After listening to He Yuzhu's words, Cai Quanwu nodded seriously and said solemnly: "Zhuzi, I understand what you said. I will pay attention when I exchange it."

He Yuzhu didn't say anything more. After all, his uncle Cai Quanwu was a cautious person, and he was always at ease with the things he entrusted to him. So he said in a relaxed tone, "Okay, uncle, we've finished talking. Let's go upstairs. You should go back quickly too. Tomorrow, when you have nothing to do, come to this house and bring the money to the exchange point to exchange it."

After He Yuzhu brought Cai Quanwu out of the secret room, he taught Cai Quanwu how to open the entrance to the secret room in the basement, and then let Cai Quanwu go back first.