Chapter 42 New Currency
The first ray of sunlight in the early morning shone through the window, and Wang Jianfeng and Yu Li slowly began to wake up.

Yu Li lay lazily in Wang Jianfeng's arms, the blush on her face had not completely faded, which made Wang Jianfeng excited again. Amid Yu Li's exclamation, a harmonious melody began to play in the room again.

It turns out that life lies in movement.

The wedding was over, and Wang Jianfeng and Yu Li were preparing to go back to the city to work. They had both taken leave, and tomorrow would be the last day, so Wang Jianfeng took Yu Li to greet relatives and friends and wish them a happy new year.

The next day, Wang Jianfeng and the Yu family began to return to Sijiu City.

Everyone in the Siheyuan knew that Wang Jianfeng was returning to his hometown to hold his wedding. At that time, Yan Bugui thought that Wang Jianfeng and Yu Li could get some benefits by holding the wedding in the Siheyuan.

The two of them came back, and of course everyone knew that their wedding had already taken place.

Qin Huairu also knew the news, of course. Although she knew it when Wang Jianfeng and the others returned to the countryside, she still felt a little jealous.

The days that followed were much more dull. Wang Jianfeng and Yu Li had originally planned to take some time to invite colleagues and friends for a meal, but after thinking it over they decided not to put it into action. The main reason was that it was not necessary, otherwise it would make too much noise to invite so many people, and the people in the courtyard would definitely know about it.

The key point is that Wang Jianfeng felt that there was really no need for extravagance. When he just got his marriage certificate, he had already sent wedding candies to the neighbors in the courtyard.

Finally, the two decided to treat their colleagues, relatives and friends to a meal, but they treated them separately, just to keep in touch.

Wang Jianfeng was invited once by a colleague from the purchasing department of the steel rolling mill.

Yu Li was invited once by someone from the Supply and Marketing Cooperative.

Finally, Yu Li's relatives invited her once.

This made Wang Jianfeng and Yu Li very tired, but the effect was achieved. Yu Li had just started working not long ago, and through this dinner party, everyone became familiar with each other.

As for Wang Jianfeng's colleagues in the purchasing department, they all had to go to the countryside for purchasing and therefore couldn't get together. This time, with Wang Jianfeng's invitation, everyone got together and exchanged some purchasing experiences with each other.

As for the people from Yu Li's mother's side, they were mainly acquaintances. Because Wang Jianfeng was getting married in his hometown and didn't make it over to attend the wedding, they came back to treat him to a meal. Wang Jianfeng just wanted to get to know them.

Fortunately, the wedding is only held once, and the other three times are purely for treating people to dinner and getting to know each other better, otherwise it would be so exhausting.

In the following days, Wang Jianfeng started to slack off again. His purchasing task had been completed and he no longer had to go to the countryside to make purchases. Most of his time he either stayed in the steel mill or went to the library to read books to pass the time.

It is worth mentioning that the courtyard was relatively peaceful during this period. The only thing that was not harmonious was that Qin Huairu returned to Qinjia Village alone a few days after the Spring Festival.

It seems that the Jia family is taking advantage of the Qin family, but Qin Huairu is happy to have some peace and quiet. The only thing that makes her uncomfortable is the stick plot. It can only be said that the mother and son are becoming more and more strangers.

It was not until the end of February that Wang Jianfeng heard the latest news on the radio and realized that the "Big Black October" era had arrived.

In order to correct the shortcomings of the first set of RMB, such as the large denomination, improve the printing quality, and further improve China's monetary system, the government issued an order on February 1955, 2, deciding that the People's Bank of China would issue the second set of RMB from March 21, 1955, and withdraw the first set of RMB. The second set of RMB was issued on March 3, 1, based on the first set of RMB.

The exchange rate between the old and new sets of RMB is 1:10000, followed by the familiar big black ten, and then the yuan, jiao, fen and li. Maybe young people nowadays have hardly used fen and li, but most of them should have used jiao.

In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, before Chang Shenkai retreated to Taiwan, he indiscriminately issued gold yuan coupons and took away a large amount of gold from the country, which led to severe inflation and infinite depreciation of prices. For the sake of the people, the country chose to bear the losses and issued the first edition of RMB, so the face value was very high, and the country paid a huge price for this.

By this year, after several years of rapid development, everything is moving in the right direction and the national economy has recovered rapidly.

By this time, the impact of the war on the national economy had been gradually eliminated, industrial and agricultural production had rapidly recovered and developed, the commodity economy was becoming increasingly active, and market prices were stable.

On the basis of balanced revenue and expenditure, the national fiscal revenue has exceeded expenditure for several consecutive years. The national commodity inventory and gold reserves have also increased year by year. The monetary system has been consolidated and improved accordingly. An independent and unified monetary system has been established.

In fact, Wang Jianfeng had been looking forward to this new currency for a long time. With the new denominations of yuan, jiao and fenli, he would not have to use large-denomination currency every day, which could not actually buy many things.

You should know that the second set of RMB was used for more than half a century and was not discontinued until 2007, so Wang Jianfeng is also very familiar with this currency.

When the national policy came out, there were still people who hesitated, but Wang Jianfeng's family went to exchange it as soon as possible. He was very clear about the strength and purchasing power of this currency.

He also wanted to take this opportunity to sort out his assets, and a lot of the money hidden in the cellar began to be exchanged for new currency one after another.

In the past six months of work, he has basically earned back the money he had used to buy a house, renovate it, buy a car and a radio, as well as the money he used for his wedding and for Qin Huairu. It turns out that middlemen can make money faster by earning the difference. It is not that easy to do it on your own. The purchasing agent is worthy of being one of the eight major members.

Although he offered the highest price to his fellow villagers, the price he supplied to Zhang Hai and Zhao Xingguo alone was enough for him to make a fortune.

Not to mention the money he earned from fishing, which would be even more. If it weren't for his own high expenses, he would have even more money.

The new currency has been issued, and the ticket era will arrive soon. The issuance of the new currency actually does not have such a big impact on everyone, it just makes it more convenient.

The country's macroeconomic regulation has been in place since the coupon era, and this has affected all aspects of life.

Wang Jianfeng could only stock up on daily necessities before this, otherwise even if he had money later he might not be able to buy things, and he would need tickets.

Wang Jianfeng's family has no shortage of food and meat, but cloth and cotton are not so abundant. However, he cannot stockpile too much of these things, otherwise these big guys in the courtyard may report him.

As for food, he could still find a way to solve it because he was purchasing for the steel mill canteen. But it was hard to say about the rest. He could only think of making more clothes and quilts or something.

The street office also began to come to the Siheyuan to explain the exchange of the new currency, and the Siheyuans also began to exchange the new currency one after another. In fact, not only the Siheyuans, but the entire city and even the entire country were beginning to exchange the new currency.

Of course, some people kept a portion of them as coin collections and did not exchange them.

In fact, Wang Jianfeng also kept some money as a collection. Most of the money has been exchanged by him, and then part of the money has been deposited in the bank.

(End of this chapter)