1987: Sleepless Tonight

"Many people are still hungry. Many people can only eat a little meat during the Chinese New Year all year round. In this case, it is necessary to develop the economy so that everyone can have enough food and have a meal. There is meat for every meal."

"Let the roads be full of cars, the city be full of high-rise buildings, the streets be full of shopping malls and department stores, the sky be filled with airplanes, the ground be filled with trains, and the ground be filled with subways."

What Lu Hao said was actually the real situation decades later, and the actual situation was even more shocking than what he described verbally.

But even what he said verbally made Liang Zhenhai and Huang Minghua a little unbelievable.

Malls and department stores everywhere?

Are there really that many customers coming?

"Of course it's good to have such a scene, but I don't know if I will live to that age or if I will have a chance to see it." Liang Zhenhai said.

He didn't quite believe it.

"There must be this opportunity." Lu Hao said, "Just now, I took Boss Liang and you to look around the business under my name in Jiangcheng, as well as the well-known shopping malls, department stores and other small groceries in Jiangcheng. Shops and alleys, you should have noticed that there are many vendors active on the streets."

"This is a very important signal. The market will become more and more active, people's thinking will become more and more active, including policies will become more and more open, which is conducive to economic development."

"Economic development requires a stable social foundation. At the same time, it also requires a formal, fair, and just business environment. There are some means that are not so standardized. Business can be done at present, but after a long time, when the market stabilizes, people's After the confidence is strengthened, the relevant policies will definitely become more and more standardized.”

"For example, food safety issues, such as the acquisition of factory buildings, and the safety issues of entertainment venues, etc., some disgraceful methods, shoddy manufacturing, etc., these will be regulated and rectified."

There are actually many small workshops at the moment, soda, popsicles, ice packs, and more of these small workshops, many of which are not up to standard in hygiene, and food safety issues cannot be guaranteed.

It’s just that even if there is a problem, the scope of dissemination is not wide, because the media of information transmission is very limited, and the TV sets in many villages are only in single digits, and even some difficult villages do not have a TV set.

"If this is the case, the entertainment industry may suffer a serious setback." Liang Zhenhai said, "The reason why these places are attractive is that many of them have irregularities. I will check occasionally, such as some background comparisons. For the big ones, we can't find out about him, and if we really want to investigate, it's just a formality, and the news has been known in advance."

"But if it is a large environment, it must be strict, it is definitely not going through the motions, but will really find out the problem."

He heard the meaning of Lu Hao's words.

Entertainment venues, especially places like movie theaters and ice skating rinks, actually have a lot of dishonorable means of attracting business.

Take movie theaters as an example. Some private movie theaters, in order to attract customers and make money, will show some two-person action movies to grow wildly.

"Yes, these places rely on similar methods, so they are able to attract customers." Lu Hao nodded, "It will work now, maybe in the next few years, but it will definitely not work after a long time."

"Investing money in this kind of business is putting your own money on the fire. Sooner or later, it will be completely burned, and there will be no ashes left. The shares have been divided, and each has a moat, and the status is very solid. If you want to get involved, it will be thousands of times, ten thousand times more difficult than it is now."

Lu Hao ate the vegetables, took a bowl of lotus root soup, took a sip, moistened his throat, and then said, "I think Boss Liang, you must want to keep the business in hand for a long time, and you want to pass it on to future generations. Then, at this early stage when business is booming, when one's own capital is strong and opportunities are everywhere, one should extend one's hand to those industries that can develop in the long run, and the country will always encourage and develop unstable industries. "

"It's true that you can make quick money by relying on some unorthodox and illegal businesses, but you can't make stable money. Moreover, with your current wealth, it is extremely difficult to compete with other big bosses in these areas. It is very likely that money has been invested in it. In the end, you get nothing, just a waste of time."

"You are also aware of this, so you came to Jiangcheng to develop the market, but your direction is wrong. You should not build billiard rooms, movie theaters, etc., but food, clothing and housing that are closely related to the lives of ordinary people. After all, no matter which dynasty or generation, food, clothing and housing are definitely unavoidable."

"In terms of entertainment, it is sometimes tight and sometimes loose. Just a few years ago, I participated in private dances and held dances. If caught, I would be convicted of hooliganism. In serious cases, I might even be shot."

All dynasties have paid great attention to the control of ideology. Only by controlling ideology can people's behavior be controlled, and by controlling people's behavior, they can not only ensure the stability of the rule, but also extract surplus value.

If you want to control people's thoughts, you just start with entertainment and culture. The less confident you are in your own rule, the stricter your control over your thoughts will be. The more confident you are in your rule, the more enlightened your thoughts will be, allowing There are different voices, all-encompassing, truly contending among a hundred schools of thought.

"However, I think Boss Lu is also engaged in billiard room business." Liang Zhenhai said, "And the location of Xiaogang's billiard room is quite good."

"It's my brother-in-law's business. My father-in-law is worried that my brother-in-law can't do it alone and can't protect this business, so he let me take a share. In fact, it means that I cover my brother-in-law." Lu Hao said with a smile, "So, In fact, it’s a passive business.”

"I don't like the billiard room business. It is far less profitable than retail, catering, and other businesses. No matter how many people play billiards, can there be more people who buy groceries, daily necessities, and food? "

The cohesion of niche businesses may be strong, but the base is too low to achieve success.

"Your father-in-law is a sensible person." Liang Zhenhai said.

"Yes." Lu Hao nodded. "You've been to the billiards room too. You should be able to tell that it's not as smoky as other billiards rooms. It doesn't have a TV or video recorder to attract customers."

"And when Li Xingyong brought people over to find fault, there was another more direct way to solve this problem, that is, I directly called more people to beat up Li Xingyong and others, but I didn't."