To be honest, he also wanted to use this wool to make a suit of clothes, but he didn't dare. At his level, wearing such a suit would not be glamorous, but would cause trouble.

"It's okay, I'll ask someone else." Fangyuan shrugged and said.

"But..."

At this time, Director Liu said something, which made Fangyuan feel that there was something wrong.

Sure enough, Director Liu said: "I can help you ask others."

"Hahaha! If that's the case, that would be great."

In fact, Deputy Director Liu also hopes to have a good relationship with Fangyuan. In this case, if he needs wool in the future, it will be easier.

"Let's do this! Come back tomorrow and I'll ask you questions today."

"Okay."

Fangyuan also knows that this matter cannot be rushed, because it is not a trivial matter. If it is ten or twenty catties of grain, he will solve it directly, but this is thousands or even tens of thousands of catties of grain.

Fangyuan chatted with Director Liu for a while, then left and came to the outside of the steel rolling mill. Li Weiguo was still standing there.

Seeing Fangyuan coming out, he quickly came over and asked, "How's it going? Have you found the person?"

"Well! I found it. Let's go and find a place to stay first."

"Okay."

This time Fangyuan did not go to the hotel where he stayed before, but found a small hotel near the steel rolling mill. Fangyuan had a letter of introduction, and as long as he paid, he could stay there.

There are still two rooms, of course, both are relatively small single rooms.

After solving the housing problem, the two people came to the street.

"Let's go buy something."

When they got outside, Li Weiguo listened to Fangyuan, so he followed Fangyuan without even asking him what to buy.

Fangyuan took Li Weiguo to the non-staple food store, pointed to the sweet-scented osmanthus cake inside and asked, "Give me two kilograms."

The salesperson glanced at Fangyuan and asked, "To use a ticket or not?"

"Uh!" Fangyuan was stunned for a moment and asked, "Can I buy it without a ticket?"

Fangyuan really doesn’t know about this, and even said that it is completely beyond his scope of cognition, because it was not like this before.

Before, when he bought peach cakes or snacks, he had to have a food stamp. Without a food stamp, they wouldn't sell it to him.

"Yes, but the price is very high."

"How much higher?"

"Six times more!"

"Hiss!" Fangyuan took a breath, six times more! It really scared him.

For example, peach cake, if you use tickets, it is only 45 cents per pound, but without tickets, it is 3 yuan and 15 cents per pound.

An increase of six times does not mean that it is six times. For example, if a pound cost one yuan before, if it increases six times, it will cost seven yuan a pound.

"What if I use a ticket?"

"The ticket is still at the original price." the salesperson said.

"Auntie, let me ask, when did this start?" To be honest, Fangyuan really doesn't know.

He didn’t know when it became possible to buy without a ticket and just use money.

"It's been a while, why, you don't know?"

Fangyuan quickly shook his head and said, "I don't know. If you hadn't told me today, I wouldn't have known."

On January 19, 1961, Vice Premier Chen proposed: "Now that supply is tight, we should 'walk on two legs', that is, some commodities can be purchased with vouchers and bills, and some commodities can be purchased as long as you have banknotes."

The high-price policy is implemented for a small number of products that need to be purchased with tickets. It started with high-end pastries and candies and expanded to restaurants, shops and many other places.

In February 1961, it was finally decided to expand the supply of high-priced pastries to all large, medium and small towns across the country before the end of March.

Not only that, but the supply of high-priced candies has also been expanded to all cities and villages across the country.

High-priced pastries and high-priced candies do not require tickets, are unlimited, and are fully supplied.

Of course, if you have tickets, you can also buy them at the original price. The high price is only for those who don’t have tickets and want to buy them.

As a result, this year, 410 million jins of high-priced candies and 390 million jins of high-priced cakes were sold, with a total of 3.3 billion yuan being withdrawn.

Of course, this is all for later, it’s just the beginning.

Of course Fangyuan is not stupid enough to buy it at a high price. If you don’t have a ticket, forget it. If you have a ticket, you still pay a high price. Only a fool can do this.

"I have a ticket, please give me two catties!" Fangyuan said, handing over two catties of non-staple food stamps.

"Okay! I'll weigh you right now."

Two kilograms of sweet-scented osmanthus cake cost Fangyuan one yuan and thirty cents. This is if you have a ticket. If you don’t have a ticket, just these two kilograms of sweet-scented osmanthus cake cost nine yuan and ten cents.

Fangyuan suddenly felt that money seemed worthless. Two pounds of sweet-scented osmanthus cake cost nine yuan, while his eldest sister's monthly salary was only ten yuan.

In other words, the eldest sister’s monthly salary only buys two kilograms of sweet-scented osmanthus cake.

Even if my mother's salary is increased by one level, it is still enough to buy eight kilograms of sweet-scented osmanthus cake.

"Fang Yuan, what's wrong with you?" Li Weiguo asked, seeing that Fan Yuan kept walking with his head down, as if he was worried about something.

"It's okay, let's go back to the hotel first."

"Okay."

The two of them returned to the hotel. Li Weiguo went to get two thermoses of boiling water. Fangyuan took out a paper bag from his pocket and opened it. There was tea inside.

Wash the cup, put some tea leaves in it, and then pour boiling water.

Tea is a good thing, but it is classified as a second-class material by the country and is rarely seen in the market.

It is estimated that only people like Fangyuan who lack nothing can enjoy it.

Of course, this is talking about his kind of people, and he is not the only one. There are many people like him in the imperial capital who don't lack anything.

The day passed like this. Apart from going out to eat, Fangyuan and Li Weiguo stayed at the hotel this day.

There was no conversation all night. After dinner the next morning, Fangyuan asked Li Weiguo to stay in the hotel while he went to the steel rolling mill alone.

Rather than letting Li Weiguo wait at the gate, it would be better to let him stay in the hotel.

It was the same doorman from yesterday, so Fangyuan went in smoothly. He already knew Director Liu's office and didn't need to ask any more questions.

"Dong dong dong!" Fangyuan went up and knocked on the door.

"Come in."

"Director Liu." Fangyuan opened the door and went in. He shouted first and then closed the door.

"You're really anxious, I've just gone to work and you're here."

Fangyuan shrugged, walked over and sat down and said, "There's no way!"

"Is there anything you can do?" Director Liu shook his head in disbelief.

Because in his eyes, Fangyuan is a man with great supernatural powers, and this guy can get such hard-to-get cloth and wool materials by hand.

You must know that anyone who can get a few feet of fabric like wool is considered capable.

Fangyuan did not answer this time because he was anxious to know how things went, so he asked: "How is it?"

"I have contacted you and I will take you there in a moment."

After saying this, he glanced at Fangyuan and said, "But let's make a deal first. We've made contact. I can't guarantee whether it will work or not."

"It doesn't matter. If it doesn't work, I'll think of another way."

"Okay, just wait a moment! I'll finish what I'm doing."

"Hmm!"

Then Director Liu started to get busy. In fact, there was nothing busy at all. He just looked at the documents and signed them.

It was almost ten o'clock when the work was finally done. Director Liu stood up and said, "Let's go. I'll take you there. It's not far."

He was right, it was indeed not far, not even one kilometer.

"This is not..." Looking at the door of this place, Fangyuan raised his head and looked at Director Liu and said.

"That's right, it's right here."

The place Director Liu brought Fangyuan to is the Imperial Radio Factory, which is currently the only radio factory in the Imperial City.

Don't think that this is a radio factory that only produces radios. If you think so, you are wrong. This factory not only produces radios, but also produces televisions.

In fact, the first TV set in China was not produced in the imperial capital, but in Tianjing, the first TV set was produced in 1958.

In 1960, that is, last year, the Imperial Radio Factory also began to try to produce television sets.

The reason why Fangyuan was surprised just now was because of this. She thought that the radio factory was too big, much bigger than the steel rolling mill.

Of course, this refers to the factory area and number of employees.
To be continued...