Chapter 229 Stamps
"Well, the water in the ancient tombs is cold and poisonous. If you eat it accidentally, you will be killed. The water in the grain poppies is pungent and poisonous. It is the water in the food poppies in the ancient tombs. Wash your eyes to see ghosts, there are many It’s frustrating.”
“Isn’t this a bit taken for granted?”
“It may also be compiled based on the records of previous classics, and it is unknown what others say. After all, the ancient books are too numerous, and not all of them are the best.”
“So, there are ghosts and gods in them. It is true to wash your eyes more and be able to discern clearly.”
"...I can get all this back for you..." Zhang Lu couldn't help but be speechless.
This meal was considered a hard meal. After eating, Zhou Zhi sent the girls home.
Originally, the normal route was to take Feng Xueshan, who was nearest, first, then go up the hill to take Jiang Shuyi to her home, and then take Zhang Xinyi along the new highway.
However, there was no time to be alone with Jiang Shuyi, so Zhou Zhi sent Feng Xueshan back to the dormitory of the electric power company first, and then walked across the city street to see Zhang Xinyi off, and then walked through Xiangxiang Street. Zhanglin returned to the new highway and sent Jiang Shuyi home.
It just so happened that the cushion that grandma made for Dr. Zhao was ready and would be sent together today.
Dr. Zhao's cushions are very particular. The first thing he does when he goes to the medicine shop on the third day of every year is to change the cushions.
Ever since Imperial Physician Zhao cured my grandma from paralysis to the point where she could walk while holding on to a wall, this has become an unwritten habit of Imperial Physician Zhao.
Next year is the Year of the Monkey, so although the patterns and colors on the mat are spliced together, they are divided into three levels in terms of visual effect.
The outermost layer is the Bagua diagram, and the corresponding eight treasures in the picture are the eight treasures. The eight treasures pattern surrounds a word "Shen", with a five-flowered monkey three pressed on the word.
The reason why it is called the Five-Flowered Monkey is because this monkey’s knees, elbows and forehead were embroidered with patterns representing hair whorls on the monkey’s knees, elbows and forehead, which added up to exactly five.
It should be said that the overall design has a very strong sense of design. In addition to being exquisite, it also contains cultural elements and series elements, just like... stamps.
Zhou Zhi is also collecting stamps, but his purpose is different from porcelain, calligraphy and painting. His purpose is very pure - to make money.
However, due to the limitations of local external exchanges, the most valuable thing Zhou Zhi has now is the Gengshen Monkey Ticket.
Monkey stamps, also known as Gengshen monkeys or golden monkeys, are the first zodiac stamps of the Republic of China issued by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications in 1980.
The background of the monkey ticket is red, and the pattern is a golden monkey painted by the famous painter Huang Yongyu.
There are eighty pieces in one edition, with a circulation of about five million pieces and a denomination of eight cents.
Now Zhou Zhi has a few monkey stamps collected from the postal markets in several counties near Manzhou. Of course, there are no full pages of eighty consecutive stamps. The largest one is a four-by-four stamp. Sixteen consecutive cards.
There is also a series that Zhou Zhi is very interested in - text tickets.
Word stamps refer to nineteen sets of eighty special commemorative stamps issued from 1967 to 1970.
During that time, the stamp markings that had been used for many years were canceled and replaced by new markings such as "文1" and "文2" on the margins of the full-page stamps, so they were called As a "word ticket".
Since many stamps bear portraits of leaders, the size of the stamps was deliberately enlarged to prevent the faces of the people from being covered when the stamps were cancelled.
They are specific products of a specific historical period, reflecting the historical style of that turbulent era, and leaving a lot of real information for future generations to think about and study, so Zhou Zhi is very interested in them. Plus, it's not too far away from that era now, so these tickets aren't too difficult to collect.
Of course, what is really precious during this period is the "unissued tickets", which are not circulated in the market due to various special reasons and are eventually withdrawn and destroyed. Only a few Rarely preserved treasure.
The most famous one is "The Mountains and Rivers of the Country Are All Red", which is further divided into "The Big One is Red" and "The Small One is Red". In addition, there are "Long Live the Nationwide Victory" and "Black Inscription".
If you can get these kinds of tickets, you will be lucky. Unfortunately, it is an opportunity for northerners, and Zhou Zhi has not found it in the Manzhou Post Market.
The most valuable items in Zhou Zhi's hands now are not from the postal market, but from the Jiachuan County Armed Forces Department - Blue Army Post.
In 1953, the Communications Department of the Military Commission and the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications agreed that in order to give preferential treatment to active military personnel for free mailing, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications was responsible for designing and printing a set of stamps specifically for "military use."
There are three stamps in the set. The stamp pattern is a military emblem, with the words "for military personnel", "China People's Post" and "800 yuan" printed below the military emblem.
The three stamps have the same design and face value, but the background colors are orange-red, brown-red, and blue respectively. They were later called "Yellow Army Post", "Purple Army Post" and "Blue Army Post" in the philatelic circles.
Among them, the Yellow Army Post and the Purple Army Post were issued first. Soon after the Blue Army Post was released, major military regions successively received reports from the troops, believing that it was very easy to reveal the troop number, location, movement status, etc. from the envelope, and it was inconvenient to control the scope of use.
After the country realized this problem, it quickly stopped using it and took it back. All the remaining stamps were destroyed, so the Blue Army stamps were the ones that leaked the least.
Zhou Zhi found several boxes of discarded envelopes at the Jiachuan Armed Forces Department. They were thrown into the warehouse as garbage, and the letters inside were gone.
Zhou Zhi asked Dad Fang to learn about the situation at that time. It turned out that during that period, it was also one of the tasks of the Ministry of Human Resources to handle the transfer of letters to soldiers serving in other places and send them back to their hometowns, as well as to send letters to the families of soldiers.
Many soldiers left their hometowns at a young age and were not even literate. It was not until they became literate in the military that they had the opportunity to write letters home, including the names and addresses of relatives, but they were all written incorrectly. These tasks, It has to be handled by the Ministry of Armed Forces.
They deal with letters and have a dedicated person to record and file a set of procedures.
The envelopes were not among them, and no one realized their value, so several boxes were left in the warehouse and no one knew about them for many years.
So Zhou Zhi collected these boxes of garbage honestly and politely. Most of the envelopes only had military stamps and very few had stamps. From them, Zhou Zhi sorted out some old stamps of some value, including Two yellow Army stamps, two purple Army stamps, and one very precious Blue Army stamp.
The vast majority of the remaining ones are "literal tickets" and "Old Jite".
The most precious ones in "Old Jite" include "Goldfish", "Chrysanthemum", "Mei Lanfang", "Butterfly", "Huangshan" and "Peony", among which there are two more "Mei Lanfang" and "Peony" The price of these small sheets is not high now. In fact, even in later generations, the price will not be too high. The circulation is also relatively large, so Zhou Zhi collected them easily.
Zhou Zhi's plan is to sell the monkey tickets and military mail at the right time, and just keep the "character tickets" and "Old Jite" as collections.
As always, Imperial Physician Zhao is not at home. Although the old man is not in the system, he is very conscientious in his work. He insists on working until the 29th of the Lunar New Year. He will take the pulse diagnosis kit with him on the second day of the Lunar New Year. Sit in the hall.
In the words of the elderly, patients do not pick a day when they come to their home. Instead of asking the apprentice to take him home, for example, opening the door early to start work, one should be more down-to-earth in life.
The old man seems to have never thought about it. In fact, he can let others do it first and lie down for a while. It is this kind of "never thought about it" that makes Zhou Zhi's family particularly admired.
(End of this chapter)