Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 522 New Taiwan Dollars

Before 2 o'clock in the morning of the second day, Duan Yun had already packed his suitcase and arrived at the entrance of the staff club.

At this time, at the entrance of the staff club, Gao Lei, Erhu and Fang Rong were already waiting there.

"Where's the ticket?" Duan Yun walked up to Gao Lei and asked.

"Here." Gao Lei said, took out three tickets from his pocket, and handed them to Duan Yun, Er Hu and Fang Rong.

The departure time on the train ticket was 6:45 in the morning, and the ticket was checked in about half an hour in advance. Duan Yun had to arrive at the train station early.

The first bus from the gear factory to the train station in the morning departed at 1:5. Duan Yun and the others waited for a while before getting on the bus.

For Fang Rong and Erhu, the business trip to the south this time was definitely full of freshness. Holding the train ticket tightly in their hands, excitement occasionally flashed in their eyes.

But for Duan Yun, this business trip was not easy. In order to avoid pickpockets, he took out 3 yuan from the bank yesterday and wrapped it around his waist with cloth, leaving only a small amount of cash in his underwear. In his pocket, he became a veritable "billionaire".

After arriving at Daxing Railway Station, the sky had already begun to brighten. After Duan Yun and the others ate some fried dough sticks and tofu nao at the roadside stall in front of the railway station, they entered the waiting room with their suitcases.

There are not many people on the train at this time of year, and there are not many people in the huge waiting hall. This made Duan Yun heave a sigh of relief. The scene of being squeezed into canned sardines on the train back home last year was like a nightmare to him. Come on, today he should not encounter this situation again.

After waiting in the waiting hall for a while, Duan Yue and four people finally checked their tickets and boarded the train. After entering the platform, Erhu Gao Lei and Fang Rong immediately trotted all the way, even squeezed and carried them into the carriage first, and helped Duan Yun grab a nearby train. window seat.

After the train started slowly, Duan Yun looked at the scenery outside the window but was in a daze, while Gao Lei and the three sitting next to him and across from him were very excited. They quickly took out their poker and started playing with upgrades.

The journey to Xiamen is very long, and the train takes 23 hours to arrive. This is a very exhausting journey.

As the so-called poor family gets rich, Luanyun will naturally not let the brothers who follow him suffer, and at around 8 o'clock in the evening, the flight attendants on the train began to sell sleeper tickets.

In fact, the sleeper tickets of these flight attendants were their own sleeper berths. In order to earn more money, they sold these tickets privately to some wealthy passengers without any letters of introduction or proof, so Duan Yun bought 4 tickets in one go. Zhang, having a place to sleep at night will relieve a lot of the fatigue of the long journey, and Duan Yun leads Gao Lei and others to eat at the dining table for three meals a day, so the journey is quite easy.

After a day and night of train rides, Duan Yun and the other four finally arrived at Xiamen Railway Station.

As soon as he got off the train, Duan Yun felt an oncoming hot flash.

Xiamen is a coastal city. Compared with northern cities like Daxing, it is hotter and humid. This reason is somewhat uncomfortable.

Fortunately, several people had rested in the sleeper berths at night, so after walking out of the train station, they all looked energetic.

There are many rickshaws parked outside the train station.This kind of rickshaw sits very compactly, with three wheels, and only one person can sit on it. After seeing people pouring out of the station, the drivers of these human vehicles stepped forward one after another.

Gao Lei had been here before, so he was a little familiar with this place. After a few people got on the rickshaw, they headed towards Xiamen City.

In the 80s, the streets of Xiamen were very clean. It took about half an hour for Duan Yun and others to arrive at Zhongshan Road in Xiamen in a rickshaw.

From the perspective of urban construction, Daxing looks similar to Xiamen these days, and it feels more prosperous and energetic.

Zhongshan Road is an east-west road in Zhonghua Street, Siming District, XM City. It is the oldest commercial street in Xiamen and one of the most prosperous shopping streets in Xiamen.

What surprised Duan Yun was that Zhongshan Road is indeed very prosperous, and there are many shop signs on both sides, but they are all written in traditional characters, which is a bit like Hong Kong. Although most of the shops in the morning are not open, in the There are already many pedestrians passing through the road.

Under the leadership of Gao Lei, since they first found a hotel to live in, after paying the money for the letter of introduction, the four of Duan Yun were divided into two rooms and lived on the second floor of the hotel.

After leaving the suitcases and so on at the hotel, several people left the hotel and went outside to have breakfast.

According to Gao Lei, this Yuanfang company is right next to Zhongshan Road, and the doors don't open until 8:[-] am every day, so Duan Yun plans to wait at the door of that company after having breakfast first.

Opposite the hotel is the Overseas Chinese Building, next to the building there is a state-run restaurant that sells breakfast, it just opened, Duan Yun led people to this restaurant.

Overseas Chinese Building is also one of the early large hotels in Xiamen. It was built in 1958 and is the main place for receiving overseas Chinese in Xiamen. Its appearance is very Soviet-style.

"Brothers, do you want Taiwan dollars?" Duan Yun and others were halfway through their meal, a few young people walked by the door, and after seeing Duan Yun in a suit and leather shoes, they came over with a smile and asked in a low voice.

"We don't want anything!" Seeing this, Gao Lei signaled the young people to leave quickly.

"Wait, what Taiwan dollar are you talking about? Can I see it?" Duan Yun asked curiously.

"This boss is coming to Xiamen for the first time, right?" The leading young man chuckled, then took out two tickets from his pocket, and waved them in front of Duan Yun.

These are two New Taiwan dollars printed with the statue of Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek.

As early as the reform and opening up in the 80s, this kind of New Taiwan dollar appeared on the XM market. In some banks, high-star hotels, high-end shopping malls, and even taxis in Xiamen, you have the opportunity to see this kind of New Taiwan dollar. There are banknotes. There are also coins, mostly banknotes, with a denomination of one hundred yuan and one thousand yuan.

The exchange of NT dollars in Xiamen began when Taiwan compatriots entered the country. In the 80s, Taiwanese fishermen sailed directly into Xiamen from the sea, and the NT dollars they brought with them needed to be converted into RMB.

Generally speaking, there are two types of people who exchange this kind of New Taiwan dollar. One is Taiwan compatriots. Since the New Taiwan dollar is not a settlement currency, the New Taiwan dollar can only be exchanged into foreign exchange RMB in the mainland and cannot participate in swaps. At the same time, some shops in Xiamen do not Foreign exchange RMB is accepted, but only RMB is accepted. Taiwan compatriots need to pay foreign exchange RMB when buying air tickets and staying in hotels, and pay in RMB for shopping and eating. Therefore, Taiwanese compatriots who often come to the mainland like to exchange butter, thinking that it is more convenient and more convenient.

The other kind of people who exchange NT dollars is to circulate in the black market in Fujian.

Although Xiamen is a big market for NT dollars speculation, it is not a place where NT dollars are directly used, because Xiamen is very close to Kinmen, and smuggling by sea is difficult. The trend at sea is active, and smugglers will transport the purchased NT dollars to the sea, buy fabrics, daily necessities, household appliances and other things from Tailun, and then transport them back to the mainland to sell them, and then use the collected RMB to buy NT dollars, and the cycle repeats.

(End of this chapter)