Qian Shulan originally wanted to wait for Jiang Yuying to get off work at the Hongqi Hotel, but who knew that she was at home today.
Jiang Yuying was a little surprised to see her godmother bringing Zhengguo over.
You came to the county town on such a hot day, you must have something to do.
Zhengguo immediately called out, "Aunt."
Speaking of Jiang Yuying's favorite child, besides Xiaodie, it is Zhengguo. This child is very clever and brought her a lot of laughter during the Chinese New Year.
Jiang Yuying liked Zhengguo very much, so she immediately grabbed a handful of fruit candies from the drawer and gave them to him.
Qian Shulan was a little puzzled, "Why didn't you go to work today?"
"I went to the headquarters to help out on the weekend the past two days, so I have a day off today." The Grain and Oil Bureau is very busy right now.
Because of the robbery, the director of the Grain and Oil Bureau asked the strong laborers in the warehouse to go out with the driver. Then he transferred people from the grain stores to manage the warehouse. Jiang Yuying also worked overtime for two days before she finally got a day off.
Qian Shulan nodded and told him about her plan of coming to the city.
It was still early, so Jiang Yuying immediately took them to the Housing Authority to find a house.
"If you just want the house, it's easy. But if you want to transfer your household registration as well, it will definitely not be easy." Although Jiang Yuying didn't understand this, she had heard about it from her colleagues.
She thought for a moment and said, "We should ask our colleagues at the Grain Administration for details. They know more than me."
Qian Shulan frowned. Of course it would be better to transfer the household registration when buying a house. Otherwise, how could the third and fourth children be transferred from temporary workers to regular workers
Arriving at the Housing Authority, the two first asked about the household registration transfer.
When they arrived at the Housing Authority, an aunt named Wu came to greet them warmly. This person was also an old acquaintance of Jiang Yuying, and she was the one who introduced them when they bought the house before.
Upon hearing the purpose of their visit, Aunt Wu immediately took out a copy of the "Household Registration Regulations of the People's Republic of China".
Point out one of these to them:
Citizens who move from rural areas to cities must hold an employment certificate from the city’s labor department, an admission certificate from a school, or a certificate of approval for migration from the city’s household registration authority, and apply to the household registration authority in their place of permanent residence to go through the procedures for moving out.
"Do you have this proof?" Aunt Wu looked up and asked.
Qian Shulan nodded and said, "Yes, my son has one."
Aunt Wu smiled and said, "That's fine! As long as we register the house in his name, we can transfer his household registration when the time comes."
Qian Shulan was stunned. Doesn't that mean she would have to buy a house for each of her sons and daughters-in-law? Where would she get so much money? Even if she could take it out, how would she tell her family
She was anxious, "My other sons are registered under the same household registration, can they be transferred together?"
Aunt Wu did not answer immediately. She turned two more pages and found another one and pointed it out to her:
The annual “agricultural to non-agricultural” indicator is controlled at 1.5 per thousand of the local non-agricultural population.
"Theoretically, it is possible to transfer, but the quota is too tight." Aunt Wu said to the two people, "There are 300,000 people in our county. According to this rule, only 450 people can be transferred each year. I heard from the police that the application list for rural-to-urban conversion has been queued up to 1970. I guess some of you are waiting."
Qian Shulan was extremely depressed. Does this mean that she has to buy a house for each of them
Do you really want to cheat people like this
She grabbed Aunt Wu's hand and said, "Sister, do you have any suggestions?"
Aunt Wu glanced around.
Qian Shulan understood immediately. She glanced around and saw so many people around. She quickly changed the subject and said, "Big sister, can you introduce the house to us first?"
Aunt Wu nodded, immediately closed the book on the table, and looked through the property information she had registered before. "This house has a very small area, but the price is ridiculous. It has been listed in our housing management office for several years. Many people have asked about it, but no one has bought it."
Qian Shulan's heart skipped a beat. What kind of price could be so prohibitive that so many people would stay away from it
"He wants two hundred dollars."
Qian Shulan frowned. This price wasn’t that high.
But when they arrived at the house, they realized that even fifty yuan was too much for her, let alone two hundred yuan.
This is even worse than Du Fu's thatched cottage. At least his cottage has thatch, but this one is just four empty pillars.
Not only is the place extremely small, there is almost no intact wall.
Jiang Yuying was straightforward and sneered, "Aunt Wu, are you selling the house? You're selling the foundation, right?"
Aunt Wu nodded seriously, "Don't mention it, it's true."
Qian Shulan was not interested in watching anymore.
She bought a house not only to transfer her household registration, but also to have a place to stay in the county. It was not good to always live in the Jiang family, not to mention that Jiang Yuying was about to get married, and there would be no one in the Jiang family by then.
"Big sister, please introduce something else to us."
"I'm worried that you don't have enough money, so I found the cheapest one. Since you don't like this one, let's look at something else." Aunt Wu flipped through her notebook again. "This one is not bad. The place is big, the land is more than 200 square meters, and the house is also good, but the price is a bit expensive, and most people want food."
Qian Shulan was quite satisfied with this. "Okay, let's go check this one out first."
When we got to this house, it had been divided into a dozen small houses. "This is the part on the left that is for sale."
Qian Shulan suddenly had an idea, and she grabbed Aunt Wu's hand and walked out.
The homeowner was a little confused by their actions, and when he came to his senses, he pouted, "I don't want to buy it, what are you looking at! You are so idle!"
Jiang Yuying was behind her, glanced at her and said lightly, "I don't like it!" She glanced at the messy and dim room with disdain.
The owner was choked by her. He took one look at the messy house and even felt a little disgusted.
"Big sister, you just said there is a way. Do you mean buying the house, dividing it into several parts, and then selling them to other sons?"
Aunt Wu glanced at her several times and gave her a thumbs up. "You thought of it before I even told you. You're amazing! That's right! We can do this!"
This method would never have worked in the past, but it is feasible in this era.
What Qian Shulan didn't know was.
In order to strengthen state control and bring private properties back into the arms of the state, the state introduced a new policy in 1956: "Opinions on the Current Basic Situation of Private Properties in Cities and Socialist Transformation."
There are two specific ways to transform:
The first is state-managed leasing, which means "the state will uniformly lease, allocate, use, repair and maintain the property, and give reasonable profits to homeowners based on different targets."
The second is public-private partnership, that is, "the original private real estate companies and certain large house occupants can be organized into a unified public-private real estate company to carry out public-private partnership."
Of the two methods, state-run rent is the absolute mainstream.
State-managed leasing not only means that the homeowner loses the autonomy to operate the house, but also means that the homeowner simultaneously loses the ownership of the house - according to relevant regulations, "for any house rented by the state, the homeowner can only receive a fixed rent and cannot take back the house that has been rented by the state."
In other words, state rent-management is nothing more than a means of forcibly nationalizing private housing in cities while avoiding the term "nationalization."
The owner of a state-owned house has actually lost the ownership, so after the owner dies, his family members cannot be allowed to inherit the house.
Nowadays, most houses only have real estate licenses but no land certificates, and the land belongs to the state.
Aunt Wu explained to her, "But it's not like you said, selling it to other sons. Instead, you buy a house and then hand it over to the government for rent. Then you can let your other sons rent it. And their household registration can also be registered there."
The state stipulates that houses rented by the state can be used for household registration, but the tenant needs to apply for it.
"Homeowners like you who contribute to the country are entitled to priority in household registration allocation."
Qian Shulan's mouth twitched. According to this statement, this house could only be used for registration and did not belong to her at all. Oh, by the way, she could still receive rent.
"Can't we have the best of both worlds?" Qian Shulan struggled a little. She spent so much money to buy a house, but it didn't belong to her. Why was she so aggrieved
Aunt Wu shook her head.
Qian Shulan thought for a moment and said, "How about this. You help me find three houses. One can be used to operate the state-owned business as you said. The other two can be used as our own residence. I have many sons, so I have to buy a house for each of them."
She couldn't let outsiders live in her house, because if she wasn't careful, they would be targeted. So she had to buy them separately.
One set is specifically used for transferring household registration, one set is for Zhengguo, and the other set is used as their family’s residence.
Aunt Wu nodded. "Now our country stipulates that the land area below the reconstruction starting point is 50 square meters. Any area exceeding this must be handed over to the state for reconstruction. After this policy was implemented, most of the large houses in our county have been reconstructed. Only a small part was delayed because of the Great Leap Forward. After the Great Leap Forward is a complete success, the government will definitely continue the reconstruction. So it's a good opportunity for you to buy now. You won't be able to buy it in two years."
Qian Shulan agreed with this statement. As far as she knew, those public-private joint ventures later all became state-owned enterprises, not to mention these large tracts of land.
Then they looked at three more companies.
The first one was a large house, about 100 square meters, built before the founding of the People's Republic of China. The roof was covered with grass and had mottled marks. The furniture was more than ten years old.
The price of this house is not high, three hundred yuan and two hundred kilograms of food.
One of them was only 42 square meters in area. It was a small and dilapidated mud and straw house that looked like it was about to fall down. This house was really uninhabitable. Qian Shulan planned to buy it and rebuild it when she was not busy.
The price is not expensive, just one hundred yuan for one hundred kilograms of grain.
The last unit is 50 square meters, which is just right. The house is very new, with red bricks and red tiles, and cement walls. The ground is covered with a layer of blue bricks. The furnishings of the house are also very good, simple and elegant, and you can tell at a glance that the family is very well-off.
"The family moved to the provincial capital for work. Because the company provided welfare housing, they sold the house in their hometown."
Nowadays, if you have a house on your household registration, you cannot get welfare housing.
Don’t think you don’t know because you are not in the same place. If someone wants to frame you and finds out that you have a house, you might even lose your job. So most people don’t dare to do this.
The owner of this house doesn't want money, he only wants 600 kilograms of food.
Although these three houses have their own shortcomings, Qian Shulan decided to buy them all. She had no choice but to buy them. Aunt Wu only had about ten properties registered.
The others are either too expensive or in the wrong location. These three are the best.
"Then I'll come over tomorrow with food and money."
Aunt Wu narrowed her eyes and smiled, "Okay!"
After Qian Shulan returned to the Jiang family, she asked Jiang Yuying to do her a favor.
Jiang Yuying was a little surprised. "Godmother, are you saying that you can only get fine grains and not coarse grains?"
"Yes! Can you help me change the fine grains into coarse grains?" These people wanted coarse grains. If she gave them only fine grains, they would definitely be suspicious.
Besides, it was just a one-time deal, and they might not have any dealings in the future, so why let them take advantage of her? She could at least make some money by exchanging fine grains for coarse grains.
Jiang Yuying was pleasantly surprised, "We have a lot of coarse grains at home! Godmother, I'd like to exchange with you!" Then she took her to the room where the grain was stored to see.
There were five or six sacks, weighing at least a thousand pounds, all of which were coarse grains, some of which were sorghum and some of which were dried sweet potatoes.
"Where did you get so much food?"
Jiang Yuying whispered, "Didn't our county have a lot of talisman paper last year? I was worried that this was true, so I secretly went to the black market to exchange for food."
Qian Shulan opened her mouth in surprise, "You have exchanged so much in just one year, it's amazing."
Jiang Yuying waved her hands. "My situation is nothing. My colleagues are more capable. They have many people in their families, so they exchanged the fine grains they were given for coarse grains. They don't dare to waste food."
Qian Shulan shook her hand and said, "You're right." It seems that the talismans she pasted were not useless! At least these city people still know how to save food.
Qian Shulan glanced at the sky and saw that it was not yet dark, so she said, "I'll go out and help you exchange food later."
Jiang Yuying wanted to help, "Do you need me to go with you?"
Qian Shulan waved her hand, "No need! Just lend me your cart."
Jiang Yuying agreed immediately, "Of course!"
Qian Shulan asked her to take Zhengguo into the house, and she rolled up her sleeves and started cooking.
"I'm in for a treat today. The food my godmother cooked is so delicious."
She smiled and came over to help pick vegetables, and Zhengguo also came over to help light the fire.
Jiang Yuying glanced at Zhengguo who was lighting the fire and praised, "Godmother, Zhengguo is so considerate."
Qian Shulan smiled happily, "Yes, the child has been admitted to a technical secondary school. When school starts next month, he will go to the county town to attend the technical secondary school. You can help me take care of him then."
Jiang Yuying was pleasantly surprised, "Really? That's great!" After saying that, she didn't even pick the food, wiped her hands, ran back to the house, and got a notebook.
Handing it to Zhengguo, "This is a reward from your aunt. Do you like it?"
The red firewood shone on Zhengguo's face, making it look particularly red. He put down the fire stick and took the notebook handed to him by Jiang Yuying.
This notebook is very thick, with a cover of kraft paper and a long red ribbon at the top, which should be used as a bookmark.
When he opened it, he saw that the paper inside was snow-white and much better than the ones he had used before.
He subconsciously wanted to refuse, "Aunt, this thing is too expensive. It would be a waste for me to use it."
Jiang Yuying waved her hand. "It used to belong to my father. But after I finished school, I didn't have the chance to use it anymore. It would probably get moldy if I just left it there, so why not give it to you?"
Zhengguo looked up at Qian Shulan, who smiled and said, "You should take what your aunt gave you. Don't let your aunt down and don't be proud and complacent, understand?"
Zhengguo nodded heavily and touched it again and again lovingly.
Seeing that he hadn't discovered the secret yet, Jiang Yuying reached out to the corner of the book cover and pulled out a small pencil. "Look, this thin pencil fits perfectly into this gap."
Zhengguo was startled, took the pencil, and put it back. Then he found that the book cover had two layers, and the pencil could be stuck in the gap in the middle without falling. His eyes opened wide, as if he had discovered a new world, full of novelty, "Aunt, this is great."
His funny look made Jiang Yuying laugh out loud and she rubbed his hair.
Zhengguo was not annoyed at all, he was very excited and happy.
"What's your major?"
"I studied mechanical manufacturing. In the future, I will definitely make a unique watch for my aunt."
Jiang Yuying was so happy, "Okay, auntie is waiting for you." She thought for a moment and said, "But you may not be assigned to a watch factory with your major. You should work hard wherever the country assigns you. As long as you succeed, auntie will be happy. You can brag about it to others when you go out."
Zheng Guo's face flushed, he nodded, and responded crisply, "Okay!"
Qian Shulan also couldn't stop smiling.
The author has something to say: The part about buying a house and converting it into state-run rent, and then giving you a residence permit, is an artistic process of the author, and the rest is from state-issued laws and regulations. Little angels can treat it as a half-fictional story.
Only the head of the household can register as a resident when buying a house, and it is too difficult for others to change from rural to non-rural. . . The woman cannot buy a house for everyone in her family, so she has to use this method.