Sixty-year-old only child: The system taught me how to become rich

vegetable. There were no prices on vegetables at that time, and green onions, coriander, etc. were basically given away for free. Buy cucumbers, buy cabbage, and give you green onions for free.

Most of the vegetables at that time were radish and cabbage. Whenever radish and cabbage are on the market, the price rarely exceeds 5 cents per pound. There were very few tomatoes on the market at that time, and tomatoes were among the best vegetables of that era, costing about 15 cents per pound.

3: Urban and rural income

Peasants are paid according to work points, and young people are paid 10 points per day for their labor. At the end of the year, they are paid according to work points. At that time, our production team was only paid cents per worker. Our production teams are relatively good, and many of them earn less than a dime per worker. Common people have a saying: A labor force can't work as well as an old hen for one day.

Workers and teachers almost belong to the same category. When I joined the company, I was paid 40 to 100 yuan. After working for half my life, the most I could get was around yuan. At that time, the salary of cadres was slightly higher, but it could exceed yuan per month, unless they were a county party secretary. At that time, our village had a deputy county magistrate, and his salary was less than yuan.

4: Student tuition fees

In 1, I was in the first grade of elementary school. Fifty cents for tuition and miscellaneous fees, and yuan for books, which adds up to cents.

In 74, when I went to junior high school, I had one yuan for miscellaneous expenses and one and a half yuan for books. A total of two dollars and fifty cents. It’s very low!

Money was valuable at that time, but it was just too hard to earn. In 1978, my father had a major operation, and he only spent 110 yuan in the hospital for three and a half months. Isn’t that very little? You may not believe it. That's it

The 110 yuan was borrowed from several houses by my mother.

Low income and low wages do not completely determine the low prices at that time.

What determined prices at that time was the planned economy. No matter what the price is, the state controls it. It is not easy to increase the price. At that time, although people's lives were a little harder, the society was very stable. Social stability probably also contributes to price stability.

At that time, prices were not high. Shaobing, fried dough sticks, and popsicles were only 3 cents each.

4 cents. If you spend one yuan to buy these things, you can buy them

33 sesame seed cakes or fried dough sticks, or 25 popsicles.

At that time, one yuan could cover one semester's tuition for a first-grade primary school student.

Although prices were cheap at that time, it was not possible to buy whatever you wanted.

In the early 1960s, my country's productivity was lagging behind and the supply of goods was extremely scarce. In order to ensure the balance between supply and demand, the state implements planned supplies of daily necessities such as food, clothing, and other items for urban and rural residents, and issues food stamps, cloth stamps, and other special purchase vouchers based on population rations. When buying something, you must purchase the amount stated on the ticket.

那个时候，一元钱可以购买：1斤7两猪肉或2斤羊肉；8斤大米；6斤面粉；10斤玉米；1斤7两鸡蛋；7尺平布或4尺斜纹布；50盒火柴……

At that time, there was also a type of cigarette stamps classified as non-staple food stamps, which were issued through government, commerce bureaus, companies, stores and other channels.

At that time, cigarette coupons were an exclusive benefit for residents with urban hukou, but those with rural hukou could not enjoy it!

At that time, a pack of "Qinjian" cigarettes cost 12 cents; a pack of "Da Jianshe" cigarettes cost 4 cents; a pack of "Yingchun" cigarettes cost 3 cents; and the best "Da Qianmen" cigarettes cost cents a pack. In other words, one yuan can buy packs of "Diligence and Thrift"; packs of "Big Construction" and about packs of "Daqianmen".