Jing Cuncheng has seen the world. In the 1960s, he had been to Japan on behalf of Zhongfang, and also to several African countries such as Tanzania. After he came back, he, like the staff of the Ministry of Foreign Trade at that time, had foreign exchange quotas and could take them home.

Jing Cuncheng clearly remembered the electric fan he brought home. His wife pulled two feet of cloth and made clothes for the electric fan. Usually, she placed it in the living room. She was only allowed to look at it and not use it.

Afterwards, Jing Cuncheng was rising faster and faster, and there were more and more opportunities to go abroad. At that time, the subsidies for going abroad were all denominated in US dollars. Saving a little bit of money was a lot of money, and he never felt that he had lacked money.

As one of the few central enterprises with import and export powers, Jing Cuncheng started to handle thousands of dollars when he reached the deputy department level. When he was the deputy minister, it was normal to approve hundreds of thousands of yuan per note.

However, memories are memories, experiences are experiences, Jing Cuncheng has been at Deling Farm for nearly 10 years, and he has forgotten what the US dollar looks like, and he can guess what the situation is at home from the letters from his family and friends.

A foreign exchange coupon of 1,000 yuan is equal to 500 US dollars, which is something that my wife and daughter cannot take out, and brother-in-law is also impossible to take out 500 US dollars.

This is 5,000 yuan, and no public funds are embezzled or embezzled. No ordinary person can take out this money.

Could it be allocated by the superior department?

Jing Cuncheng couldn't help but think of this point and immediately rejected it.

What reason does the superior department have to allocate large amounts of foreign exchange to individuals? This is never possible, at least it is impossible to give to deputy ministerial-level cadres.

The cadres of labor reform farms are also confused.

As judicial punishment institutions, they have not been easy for them in the past few years.

Although the released cadres have never been retrieved, no one can say what the next one will be rehabilitated.

However, the order to rehabilitate has not been released, and everything is speculation.

The cadres of the field department still did not come forward. They had deliberately alienated their relationship with the detainees. The best way to not make enemies is not to contact them. Tao Feng, who had to contact the detainees, was different. He was very glad that he did not make trouble during the day.

Although I said a few bad words and put the money for the coal cakes in my pocket, I gave the coal cakes and medicine after all.

Despite this, Tao Feng remained in Jing Cuncheng's room, took care of Lao Zhang with difficulty, and took a large amount of coal cakes from the guard room, burning the earthen stove warmly.

The doctor also stayed here and gave Zhang Jun a liquid to the night. Before dawn, he woke up.

Seeing this, Jing Cuncheng didn't care about that anymore. After staying in the farm for ten years, he had already tasted all the joys, sorrows, sorrows and happiness. He just thought it was nothing, and he ate and ate. He participated in the training and work of the farm as usual every day. If there were any friends who needed help, he would be unsuspecting.

Within two days, more than 200 yuan of foreign exchange coupons were lent out, and more than 100 yuan was used.

There are too many people and too many demands in this Deling Farm.

...

Jing Cuncheng's brother-in-law Xu Wu came one day after he came, and brought a big backpack with him, including clothes, food, books, and newspapers.

The local altitude of nearly 3,000 meters made Xu Wu panting, but Jing Cuncheng exercised, grabbed the bag in front of Tao Feng, and said, "Tao Jian, the things should have been checked, we can just do our own work."

"I just want to help." Tao Feng smiled a little flatteringly.

Jing Cuncheng patted the bag and said, "Sir Tao is busy, just let's talk."

"Okay, come to me if you have something to do." Tao Feng left reluctantly.

Xu Wu was a few years younger than Jing Cuncheng, but he looked much younger. When Tao Feng left, he asked, "Can't this person believe me?"

Jing Cuncheng asked with a "hmm" and said, "What's the matter with the money you sent?"

"Xiaolan has a student who lent her."

"Foreign students?"

"The Chinese. Xiaolan and Duan Hongsheng, whom his grandfather came forward to invite, were from the Hedong Province light industry system. They were not of high level and knew many people. They were also demobilized cadres. Now they are retired." Xu Wu tried his best to tell the information he knew.

Jing Cuncheng frowned and said, "How can he, a retired cadre, get a 1,000 yuan foreign exchange coupon? Xiaowu, don't make mistakes."

Xu Wu is also a thin middle-aged man, almost the same as his peers. He was breathing and said while walking: "The money was not raised by Duan Hong, but by his grandson."

"Where do young people in their 20s get the money?"

"The manuscript fee and technical fee are also the ones. How could I accidentally be careful about this? I have checked it specifically. He wrote manuscripts for many magazines and newspapers half a year ago, and others paid him a lot of manuscript fees. Among them, the Science Pictorial gave him more than 2,000."

Jing Cuncheng interrupted: "You haven't made any mistakes if you pay more than 2,000 yuan?"

"I won't talk about the three highs now, it's very safe." Xu Wu smiled and said: "The manuscript fee of more than 2,000 is indeed a lot, but after all, the country has reformed and opened up. The central government has also said that there will be no more movement. There is no problem with the source of the manuscript fee."

"Reform and opening up are naturally good..." Jing Cuncheng pondered for a moment and did not continue to talk about these political issues. He could only suppress his mood and asked again: "For the royalties of more than 2,000 yuan, it is not much to lend 1,000 yuan. What about the foreign exchange coupons of 1,000 yuan?"

The pricing unit of foreign exchange coupons is RMB, which means that a meal with RMB is 1 yuan, and a meal with foreign exchange coupon is also 1 yuan. However, a place where you can eat with foreign exchange coupons may not necessarily charge RMB. Therefore, even Americans come to China to say that China's foreign exchange coupons are privileged currencies, and crew members call it a tourist currency.

It can be said that during the implementation of foreign exchange bonds, it is equivalent to China having two currencies.

And the difficulty of obtaining this currency is the greatest.

Especially for Chinese people, it is really difficult and unimaginable to obtain foreign exchange reasonably and legally.

Needless to say, a slightly remote province that wants to earn $1 million every year by selling resources is like the difficulty of obtaining the scriptures of the West. Not only do you have to be strong, but you also have to find a backer. Interception is easy to say, but difficult to do.

In 1983, China's total exports were US$22.2 billion and imports were US$21.4 billion. In other words, the trade surplus was only US$800 million. Such careful accounting was not enough for the central government to hold all the accounts, and it was difficult for local governments to intervene.

Jing Cuncheng has been away from society for ten years and his thinking has slowed down. He asked again: "Duan family has an overseas relationship?"

Overseas Chinese remittance is the only channel for ordinary people to obtain foreign exchange. As for business trips abroad to bring foreign exchange back, only one or two cases can be seen in Beijing. In other places, just think about how many people around you can go abroad for public expenses, and then divide by 100, you can roughly understand the difficulty.

Xu Wu smiled a little, then put it away again, and said seriously: "I don't know whether the Duan family has overseas relations, but foreign exchange coupons are indeed earned by Xiaolan's students. As far as I just mentioned, the technical fee."

"What technology can earn 1,000 foreign exchange coupons, or does the foreign exchange coupons depreciate?"

"The price of foreign exchange coupons has increased." Xu Wu shook his head and said, "I don't understand the technology they are doing. Maybe there is a British pharmaceutical company who came to set up a factory in China and used his technology to pay him a foreign exchange for a total of 600 US dollars. He had to lend it to us. After all, he let him leave a hundred dollars himself."

This money was actually paid to him by Yang Rui through Hong Kong Huarui Pharmaceuticals.

Foreign exchange cash is useless in China. Of course, in places like Beijing, Shanghai, the US dollar, pounds are hard currency. After all, Hedong Province is backward. Yang Rui wants to use foreign exchange, or in other words, if you want to buy some imported things, you must use foreign exchange coupons.

Moreover, the foreign exchange he exchanged for foreign exchange coupons must have a way out. Although a piece of black money inexplicably will not be confiscated immediately, the possibility of being investigated still exists.

Jing Cuncheng could better understand the value of foreign exchange coupons, sighed and said, "A student finally got a savings and said he was lent to you. You would be embarrassed to accept it? Why did you return it to others?"

Xu Wu was also embarrassed and lowered his head and said, "It's not that there's nothing I can do about it. His grandfather also agreed, saying that when you come out, he will compensate for his previous years' wages in one lump sum. At that time, if the RMB is paid back, foreign exchange, it will be compensated at the price of the black market."

Jing Cuncheng's eyes lit up a little and he asked, "Is there hope for rehabilitation?"

Xu Wu looked around and lay down in Jing Cuncheng's ear and said, "I'm here for this time."

"Let's go and talk about it." Jing Cuncheng pointed to a ridge of fields.

The two of them sat in the ridge and could see the situation around them. They felt that they would not be eavesdropped. Xu Wu wiped his sweat and breathed the air from the plateau in big mouths, saying, "There are good and bad things, I'll talk about it slowly."

"You said." Jing Cuncheng sat on the ridge of the fields. Although he was dressed like an old farmer, his eyes were as sharp as ever.

Xu Wu looked at him at this moment and suddenly felt very confident and said, "We feel that the central government has been rehabilitating the rehabilitation to this day. Next, a large number of people will be rehabilitated. After this batch is over, it will be even more difficult to rehabilitate it."

"I agree." Jing Cuncheng was thinking about rehabilitation every day, and he could also see clues in the newspaper.

Xu Wu nodded and said, "Xiaolan's student, Yang Rui, this young man has a lot of ideas. He proposed a theory, which I think is interesting."

"Oh, you said."

"Yang Rui said that there are three types of people who cannot be rehabilitated now. The first type is that they have indeed made mistakes and are remembered. The second type is that they are also remembered but are hated by others..."

"The analysis makes some sense. What about the third type?"

"Forgotten." Xu Wu looked at Jing Cuncheng's expression and said, "We think you should be the third type."

Jing Cuncheng laughed: "I didn't expect that I, old Jing, would be forgotten one day."

Xu Wu forced a smile and said, "The people above must be very concise in their work, but they have confused and lost many information. My sister has been to Beijing several times in the past two years and has been received, but what she got is all about scenes and clichés. We feel that we can't wait any longer."

"What's your idea?"

"Yang Rui called this crisis public relations. First of all, I would like to ask you to write a few letters, explain the situation, or express your feelings, and you can also talk about the past. In short, you have to find someone to speak for you."

Jing Cuncheng touched the beard on his jaw without comment.

"The second point is called Ruanwen. We are going to find some comrades from your old army and old colleagues from Zhongfang to write some articles and mention you."

"What's the use of this?"

"Three people become tigers. Besides, if the person who speaks for you is holding some newspapers in his hand, isn't it more convincing?" Xu Wu laughed at this point. When he first heard this idea, he was extremely surprised.

Just like Jing Cuncheng's expression.

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Chapter completed!