The Legend of Wuzai Village in Wuzai Village

At one time, Wuzi Village was like the black wooden cliff and the top of the North Sea. Most people who come to the North Sea to wander the rivers and lakes will go there, whether to worship or conquer.

This is the birthplace of the North Sea myth. A residential area covering an area of 0.333 square kilometers, during the peak period, thousands of companies set up camp, real estate companies are covered with signs, and people with accents from all over the country are talking about land and buildings. Many houses in Wuzai Village are rented by companies, and some generous companies even raise the annual rent to 200,000-300,000 yuan. The villagers in Wuzi Village really felt what "getting rich overnight" meant. According to the records of Beihai City, Wuzai Village was originally an orchard of a local rich man. Because there is a small house in it (called Wuzi in Beihai), a village gradually formed, which was called Wuzi Village during the land reform. Before 1985, it was a natural village, with only 18 households,1person and 106 mu of land, mainly planting sweet potatoes and sugarcane.

In the mid-1980s, the government allocated part of this area to veteran cadres as their homestead. Later, Beihai Zhong Fang Company saw the opportunity for residents who lost their land in the process of urban expansion to build houses in the city, and developed this small village into a commercial house. The construction market price of 8× 10m2 is about 50,000. 1990 when the neighborhood Committee was established, the occupancy rate of more than 800 commercial houses in Wuzi Village was very low.

"Long before the rise of Beihai myth, Beihai had a certain foundation of land marketization. Citizens are no strangers to land and commercial housing. " Yang Jianping, former mayor's secretary, said.

He refers to the characteristic homestead in Beihai. Different from welfare housing distribution in other places, in the era of planned economy, Beihai people allocated land instead of ready-made houses. Employees of state-owned enterprises, institutions and institutions each have a homestead. What kind of house to build, whatever.

A family can have a homestead if a person works in an office. There are two people in the government and two homesteads. If parents also retire from government agencies, then a family often has four homesteads. These homesteads are generally built into three or four-story buildings, with single-family houses and land all over the world. In the subsequent development of Beihai, these buildings became the object of competition by thousands of companies and also became the symbol of wealth. Under the action of banknotes, the original two-story building was built with four floors, and the original four-story building was built with six or seven floors.

"Wuzi Village is more than three meters older. The three meters that grow out of thin air are all piled up by money. " A left-behind person said.

In that era when hundreds of thousands of people swarmed in, the knocking at the door filled Wuzi Village. It was not the police who came to you, but the hungry cry for rent. The rental price has risen rapidly, from the initial tens of thousands to the final hundreds of thousands.

Feng, former deputy general manager of township enterprise city, clearly remembers that the annual rent of the first house they rented was 6.5438+200,000 yuan. They wanted to add some money to buy a house, and the landlord promised to consider it. A few months later, the landlord tried to kick them out. It turns out that someone gave the landlord a high price of more than 6.5438+0 million yuan. In order to vacate the house and sell it as soon as possible, the landlord generously exempted Feng's rent. Seeing Feng's reluctance, the landlord even gave them some compensation.

Smart real estate developers see the hidden business opportunities. They persuaded the landlords in Wuzi village to take charge of raising the house, and then they sold the house and shared the money equally.

Beihai people with many homesteads are worth millions overnight. They are the first rich in land marketization. Every morning, Lao Tang, a native of Guizhou, appears on the street of Wuzi Village on time, and people greet him from time to time on the road. Wuzai Village has now grown to more than 50 hotels, large and small. In this emerging catering industry, "the flag of the king changes in Chengtou", "Guizhou homely flavor" is a flag.

For boss Tang, it is so long and so short to open the ten-year memory of Wuzi Village. Just knowing fate's birthday, he said, "My 40th birthday was also spent in Wuzai Village." Many times, he likes to walk alone in this short street after the restaurant closes, which feels like walking in a history book opened in Wuzi Village.

1993, that summer was as hot as fried. The development of the North Sea spread to Guizhou. Mr. and Mrs. Lao Tang from Zunyi came to Beihai with 10 thousand yuan and chose the most lively Wuzi village at that time to open a small restaurant. Since then, they have never left Wuzai Village.

Today, ten years later, Wuzi Village, with a permanent population of more than 4,000, has gradually changed from a company village to an urban landscape integrating dining, exotic culture and the sea, which is as famous as Wangfujing in Beijing and Nanjing Road in Shanghai. Whenever foreign guests wander or dine here, the old Beihai people who witnessed that thrilling history will tell you what miracles have happened in an obscure building in this village and who celebrities have been here, which has become a symbol of Beihai.

Eating food became the carrier of that myth. People who want to remember and look for something can get something here. Huangdu Hotel is the only high-grade hotel in Wuzi Village.

1By the end of 992, Huangdu Hotel was more full than any other hotel in Beihai. People from several companies often huddle together to make a floor, and everyone rushes away. The corridor is full of fast and powerful steps. A man was carrying a big cardboard box and put it at the front desk for the hotel to keep. The security guard helped lift the carton, which was too heavy. After a while, the man came down and said to get something. He casually opened the carton, which contained a box of neatly packed RMB. He took out a stack and sealed the carton carelessly. He was dumbfounded, but he was used to it at that time.

Outside the hotel, there are people frying beds, waiting for vacancies.

A Beihai person has nothing to do with it, no homestead, no expropriated land and no fishing boat. Before he became rich, he was an honest man, not clever, but always diligent. /kloc-in the winter of 0/992, honest people feel a little stressed when they watch people around them go home with millions of bills overnight. He walked back and forth several times in the short and crowded streets of Wuzai Village. Finally, he stopped at the gate of Huangdu Hotel. Others rushed in and out, holding various approvals in their hands, and others held eye-catching "red line maps" of land. As soon as they come out and go in, it may be millions. The whole Huangdu Hotel is full of such people.

He suddenly felt that the opportunity had come. He came up with an idea that surprised everyone.

The next day, he prepared a simple pen and paper and carefully knocked on the door of a room in Huang Du Hotel. "Sir, do you buy land? Still selling land? " There is no doubt that people who live here either sell or buy land. He quickly wrote down each other's needs and turned to the next room.

In just a few months, he became a famous land agent in Wuzi Village.

1993, winter came in Beihai, and people with land on hand became the last stick to deliver parcels, which caused heavy losses. Those who were eager to buy land vanished overnight. Only he, an honest man at the beginning, was able to get away with it because he concentrated on matchmaking. A local writer in Beihai described Wuzai Village as follows: There is a community called Wuzai Village in Beihai, which is simply the "China Village" in Beihai. Hunan, Sichuan, Chongqing, Guizhou, Northeast China, almost all over the country. Selling mutton kebabs, roasted sweet potatoes, Huajiang dog meat and Guilin rice noodles, especially all the year round, spring, summer, autumn and winter, all kinds of hot pot flowers are in full bloom, and mala Tang makes people cry and nose. At the beginning, Beihai people were scared and eyeing up, but now they are still in high spirits, and they can compete with Sichuanese, Guizhou people and Hunan people who are not afraid of spicy food. Yes, nothing can stand the taste of Beihai people except airplanes and four-legged benches. Without time-honored brands and so many golden rules and regulations, it is often new to eat. Is it also an example of "all rivers run into the sea" in the North Sea?

Lao Tang's "Guizhou homely flavor" restaurant has expanded several times in Wuzai Village. His son was born in Beihai and became a Beihai native. He is one of the few old signature restaurants that have persisted here. Many bosses of low tide companies went back to Beihai to find him as "information director". The small society around him is a barometer that directly reflects the rise and fall of the North Sea.

"Someone shouted,' Old Tang, Old Tang, are you still in Beihai?' "Old tang said.

A Beihai native said that even if Wuzai Village is razed to the ground in the future, it will still be a symbol of Beihai and will always be the most passionate memory of this immigrant city.