Chapter 15: The War of Ideology
Free and fair.
Shen Jiannan was wondering if he had brought colored glasses to Huang Guoqiang before, and when he suddenly heard this, his face turned black with anger and he just wanted to scold his mother, but he really experienced how 'free' and 'fair' the US financial market is.
is free enough to directly freeze his bank account on the charge of market manipulation, and fair enough that he almost didn't get arrested and imprisoned because he made too much money because he was a Huaxia native.
If it is true to manipulate the market, it is ridiculous to use the crime of manipulation in the capital market and 100 million US dollars to manipulate the market of tens of billions of dollars.
Fair?
That's even more.
Even the Federal Reserve is the private bank of the major families, so what is fair.
If it weren't for his identity, which was really inappropriate to explode now, Shen Jiannan really wanted to rush into the classroom directly and ask Huang Guoqiang to ask: Do you know what freedom and fairness are.
But for the students, what Huang Guoqiang said meant something else.
The basic national policy of the United States is freedom, equality, and justice, and it is precisely because of these three principles that capital from any country in the world can enter and exit the American market at will. It is precisely this kind of freedom and fairness that the U.S. economy will shake ahead of other countries, and the U.S. financial market will have pricing power over many commodities around the world.
In other words, unsuccessful markets are unfree, and financial markets that have no pricing power over resource commodities are unfair. Just like the mainland market, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) has a strict review of capital inflows and outflows, and the unfair monetary policy of the dual-track system is the main reason for the backwardness of the domestic economy.
Although, Huang Guoqiang did not say these words.
As Huang Guoqiang's words fell, the faces of the students present could clearly see the complex expressions of yearning, anger, and hatred of iron but not steel.
People have feelings.
Born on this land, the imprint from birth makes everyone have a deep love for this land.
Just like a university professor surnamed Zheng in later generations talked about Internet trolls and indignation, he said: Some people say that indignation misleads the country, but these people forget one thing, anger is an emotion, why are they angry?
Because hatred of iron does not make steel, because of the depth of love.
No one doesn't want their family to be rich, no one doesn't want their country to be rich and strong.
But if poverty is caused by institutional problems and injustice, it will undoubtedly hurt a person's emotions a lot.
The domestic market economy is not free enough, which leads to economic backwardness, so why can't we let go of market freedom? Those officials are all pretending to be in their heads? Isn't the United States a living example of the United States, and it can't copy homework?
People's financial markets have the power to price global commodities, so why can't their own countries fully open up their financial markets to attract more capital in a fair way?
What are the pig heads thinking about making policies?
Huang Guoqiang, who was on the podium, did not seem to realize that his remarks had planted a strange seed in the hearts of the students present, and he sighed and talked about the advanced economic theories learned in the United States.
"Of course, the strength of the U.S. economy does not depend entirely on the development of the financial market, and its fundamentals are also an important link that cannot be separated. For example, American agriculture, in our country, is planted for food rations, but American agriculture is completely mechanized agricultural economy. ”
"When I was doing research in Chicago, I learned that the level of agricultural development in the United States is at least 100 years higher than that of other countries. ”
Did you misunderstand this guy?
Huang Guoqiang's sigh and heavy look made Shen Jiannan wonder once again if he had misunderstood him, after all, there are naturally many problems with others from God's perspective, but in this era, some things cannot be seen from the perspective of the future.
At least, what Huang Guoqiang said now is right.
has been delayed for more than 300 years, and it is not easy to be able to pull the distance to a hundred years little by little.
"Our country is a big agricultural country, right?
But in the nineteenth century, the United States began to lay out the layout of agricultural modernization, more than ten years of development so that the United States agriculture, has a great advantage, because the United States is now mostly mechanized, in some aspects can be said to surpass many start-up countries, guess what, the United States can reach an acre of corn yield can reach how many catties?
“......”
The tone of the question immediately attracted the attention of all the students present, most of whom were born in rural families, and their confidence in a large agricultural country has always been rooted in their bones.
But hearing Huang Guoqiang say this, there are naturally too many doubts and curiosity in my heart.
Looking at a pair of curious eyes, Huang Guoqiang stretched out two fingers with a look.
At this stretch, all the students present were dumbfounded.
You know, even if the wind and rain in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are smooth, the yield of corn is only more than 800 catties, which is still the result of a great increase in the output of fertilizer in the past few years, and in the early eighties, fertilizer was restricted from purchase and sales, and the average corn yield was only more than 400 catties.
"Two thousand pounds?"
"How is this possible?"
"Professor Huang, you're not kidding!"
“......”
Huang Guoqiang shook his head heavily.
This shaking of the head seems to shatter the confidence in the hearts of I don't know how many people.
But at this moment, Huang Guoqiang spoke again.
"It's not two thousand pounds. It's two thousand kilograms!"
Quiet.
Deathly silence.
It was like a thunderbolt that bombarded the consciousness of all the students.
The highest yield per mu is 800 catties, and the yield per mu is as high as 4,000 catties......
How is this possible!
"How is this possible?"
Some students stood up excitedly and questioned Huang Guoqiang, their eyes full of hope seemed to be expecting Huang Guoqiang to be joking, but there was an infinite loss and collapse in the depths of their eyes.
Huaxia is the largest industrial country in Asia.
Agriculture is everything that every peasant family is proud of, and the peasants rely on hard work and diligence to make China's grain exports repeatedly hit new highs.
But......
Finally, one student recovered from the shock.
The great man said that science and technology are the primary productive forces, and as long as you learn, you can make progress.
If you are lagging behind, you can catch up by learning.
What about the three-hundred-year gap!
"Professor Huang, do you know why their production is so high?"
Huang Guoqiang frowned and pondered for a while, and said: "On the surface, it is because of the high degree of scientific planting and mechanized productivity in the United States, and in the provinces with the largest agricultural and grain production in the United States, whether it is planting or harvesting, it is completed by mechanization in all aspects. Sowing is by airplane, and harvesting is by reaper.
With scientific management, their agricultural yields are extremely high.
But if we look at the most fundamental reason, it is actually a system problem.
I would like to ask all of you, do you want to be farmers?"
Who wants to be a farmer?
The students present suddenly had their first answer in their hearts - no.
Countless families have worked hard to let their children study, why?
In order to get out of the countryside, away from the land.
Why are students admitted to the university with hard work and thousands of miles away from their hometowns to school?
Study?
No, in order not to be a farmer.
Peasants are the most humble professions, and no matter how hard they try, they will starve to death in the harvest years and starve to death in the famine years.
Nobody wants to be a farmer.
Obviously, Huang Guoqiang knew everyone's answer very well, and he did not continue to ask this question, and the conversation turned to other topics.
"Whether it is human beings or the natural environment, it has always been a history of survival of the fittest, and in the history of human beings for thousands of years, it has always been a pyramid hierarchy. The economic strength of the United States does not depend only on the financial level of the daze, whether it is agriculture or technology, it is at least a hundred years ahead of the developing countries. ”
"In the United States, the status of farmers is very high. The average annual income of a farmer's family is as high as $30,000. Equivalent to the middle class, almost every peasant family has at least one car. And the social status of farmers is also very high, and when a farmer goes to the bank, he will be treated like a VIP. ”
"But that's not the case in other countries, for example, when a former student of mine mentioned his family to his classmates in the city, he always avoided talking about his family background. Why? Because his parents were farmers. ”
"I didn't mean to criticize this classmate for his morality, although I didn't like what he did. But why, he didn't dare to mention that his parents were farmers?"
"There is only one reason, the peasants represent poverty and backwardness, and they represent humility and incompetence. ”
"Why is this so? Supply and demand determine the basis of value. Obviously, the proportion of peasants is too large. ”
And his real problem comes from the system. Fair. ”
"Farmers, they don't get the justice they deserve. ”
"For example, the employees of the enterprise work in the factory, and when they retire, they have a pension and medical insurance, but the farmers have nothing. They worked hard all their lives, working until they died of old age. ”
"I also came from a peasant family, and my father, on the day he died, was still harvesting wheat in the field. ”
"That's right. At that time, the land had not yet been divided, and he was exhausted from working for the production team. ”
“......”
The students fell silent.
It takes more than ten years for the land to be delivered to the household, and some older students will not know what kind of life they have when they are in the production team.
"But it turns out that the private economy can stabilize itself. ”
"After the land was transferred to the countryside, our food production really reached a new high, and we no longer had the famine that worries us every year. ”
"This is not the only case in our country, for example, in the United Kingdom, since Margaret Thatcher came to power to promote the privatisation reform process, the British economy has emerged from a long downturn cycle in less than a decade......
“......”
"What does that mean?"
"Fairness is fairness even if it is unfair, injustice is fairness. ”
"If a farmer pays but does not get the return he deserves, then he will have a lazy mentality; if a worker sweats but does not get a reasonable return, he will have a negative mentality; because American farmers have high incomes, they will have countless energy to devote to agricultural research, and eventually form a virtuous circle.
The developed industry of the United States will drive more talents to devote their energy to industrial science and technology research and development, and eventually promote its industry to become stronger. ”
"I'll give you an example. In the 70s, in order to compete with General Motors in the United States, Rolls-Royce invested a lot of money in the research and development of new products, but it was unable to make new progress. Later, Margaret Thatcher came to power, and Rolls-Roy changed from a state-owned enterprise to a joint-stock company.
As a result, the government's subsidy for Rolls-Royce's research was terminated, and the board's performance appraisal of the R&D team was changed, and only new R&D results were awarded.
A month later, Rolls-Royce's new engine was introduced. ”
“......”
"Why did Rolls-Royce's R&D department complete the R&D task that could not be completed for more than ten years in just one month?"
"Drive. ”
As he spoke, Huang Guoqiang turned around and wrote a line of big characters on the blackboard.
"I think everyone now knows that money, as a general equivalent, is a manifestation of the transformation of labor. But the hierarchy of the social pyramid means that only a few people can always stand at the forefront of a certain field. ”
"There can be many reasons. Everyone is different in all aspects, some people are hardworking, some people are lazy, some people are smart, and some people are stupid. ”
"Is it fair to let a person who is both smart and hardworking get the same treatment as a person who is both lazy and stupid?"
"Obviously, it's not fair. ”
As Huang Guoqiang put down the chalk in his hand, the students couldn't help but ponder.
The disadvantages of state ownership have been very prominent in recent years, nepotism, iron rice bowls and low innovation and production capacity, so that I don't know how many state-owned enterprises have come to the brink of bankruptcy.
Not to mention anything else, even Hongxing Steel Mill and Hudong Heavy Industry, the largest steel mills in Shencheng, are on the verge of bankruptcy. It is precisely because of various considerations that a large number of enterprise employees have been laid off and entered the society.
And the reason, as Huang Guoqiang said, is that under collective ownership, fairness is actually a kind of unfairness.
Even Shen Jiannan, who was standing outside, couldn't help but ponder.
In fact, all countries have experienced the two institutional rules of privatization and public ownership, and in some respects, Huang Guoqiang's statement is actually correct.
Dogs also have the difference between smart dogs and stupid dogs, and it is naturally unfair to let a person who is strong in all aspects get the same treatment as a mediocre or even a lagging man.
It is under this logic that the privatization process in the United Kingdom has been promoted, and thus the British economy has been sluggish for more than a decade.
But I don't know why, Shen Jiannan always felt that something was wrong with Huang Guoqiang saying this.
Could it be that this is your own subjective bias?
Just then, a student stood up from his seat again.
"Professor Huang. According to what you say, the development of the United States is fundamentally based on freedom and fairness, and the economy is due to institutional problems.
But why did I hear that the United States is not as fair as you say? In the United States, Chinese Americans have the lowest status, being discriminated against by whites, bullied by blacks, and even Mexicans are treated better than Chinese. ”
"This ......"
"And. As the world's second largest economic system, it is no worse than the United States in terms of industrial level and scientific and technological level. As far as I know, in recent years, the economy has surpassed that of the United States and ranked first in the world.
However, in recent years, the global sales of automobiles have occupied the world's largest share, and the manufacturing of this has spread to all corners of the world.
On the contrary, the sales volume of American car brands and automobile brands are not at the same level at all, and most of the daily chemical products in the market are called this product.
In addition, in household appliances, we can see on the street that Panasonic, Fujifilm, and Sony products occupy almost 70% of the market share. And it is rare to see American goods.
Then there is the modern precision equipment, as far as I know, the steel level of this and Germany ranks first in the world, in the eighties, the use of CNC forging steel, steel manufacturing and precision manufacturing even ahead of the United States nearly ten years. ”
“......”
Huang Guoqiang, who was speechless after the student's words, was speechless, and his face became very ugly. Because he had already recognized who this student was.
As a school professor, Huang Guoqiang generally does not attend open classes.
The coursework on economics and finance was taught by other teachers in the school, including other teachers who had returned from studying abroad, and students who had stayed in the school before, including several students from Shen Jiannan's past.
And Huang Guoqiang will only bring some better students among the graduating students.
Of course, that doesn't mean he won't take public classes.
The school's teachers are not wealthy, and in order to solve the shortcomings in this area, Huang Guoqiang will also take the time to exchange economic and political understanding with students.
Because there is no division, finance and economics are only general concepts, so things are often talked about in a whimsical and unambiguous way.
Han Bowen, that is, the guy standing now, likes to pick bones in eggs the most.
Several times, when it comes to supply and demand and value and Keynesian New Economic Theory, this guy jumps up and finds fault, and it's always impossible to refute.
has been pushed several times in a row, and Huang Guoqiang doesn't need to ask to know what this annoying student wants to say.
Sure enough, Han Bowen suddenly changed his words and turned the topic back to the system.
"But as everyone knows, it is a country with a very strict hierarchy of classes, and the relationship between superiors and subordinates is comparable to that between the head of the family and the general in ancient times, and there is no such thing as American-style freedom and fairness.
However, his breakthroughs in science and technology are changing with each passing day, and he has never lost to any country.
Professor Huang, you said that the development of the United States is fundamentally based on freedom and equality, which is really incomprehensible to the students, and I hope you can solve my doubts. ”
“.......”
Bar spirits are everywhere.
For Huang Guoqiang, a guy like Han Bowen is undoubtedly a kind of bar essence.
But he can't help but answer this question, no matter what, he is a professor who has returned from studying in the United States, if he can't answer such a question, wouldn't it be a joke if he spreads it.
After a few quick thoughts, Huang Guoqiang kept organizing the language in his heart, after all, it was a professor's level, and he quickly thought of how to answer this question.
"I am very good at learning, which can be seen from the Tang Dynasty. It is said that I learned the level of smelting and forging in the Tang Dynasty from Huaxia, and has been using its essence to this day. ”
George Soros, an American economist, once said that his ability to learn is very scary. Their dedication and ingenuity to the manufacturing industry are almost to the point of being demanding. ”
To borrow the words of the great man, science and technology are the first element in modern production, and he said that he has carried forward the spirit of science and technology to the limit and applied it in any field. ”
"For example, Ben's toilet. As we all know, the toilet is used to deal with sewage. But this is not the case, and his dedication and sincere and dedicated attitude make the water in the toilet bowl even drinkable. ”
What you are talking about has something to do with the system we are talking about?
Isn't it about freedom and equality?
Didn't you say that the United States developed economically because of freedom and equality, and that the United States was able to become the world's largest power in 200 years, because of the basic national policy of the Declaration of Independence?
Han Bowen couldn't help rolling his eyes, as Shen Jiannan's loyal disciple, he was really not interested in Huang Guoqiang's logical theory of stealing concepts, generalizing articles, and avoiding reality.
What is Financial Freedom?
His teacher mentioned it in a course.
To make a definition of financial freedom: that is, money can flow around the world effortlessly, without restrictions on the size of the amount, no restrictions on use, no verification of sources, no trouble of currency conversion, and no time limit.
But if we put what we have learned into practice, freedom is actually the logic of a robber telling sheep that they should be eaten by wolves.
In other words, only when the wolf faces the sheep, will he speak of freedom.
Why?
In real life, it is impossible for drug dealers to have financial freedom for their money, because the source is not legitimate, and the legitimate income of ordinary people is naturally free, so drug dealers are naturally more eager for financial freedom than ordinary people.
It has never been possible to become Asia's second economy by financial freedom.
But apparently, Huang Guoqiang did not answer this question head-on at all.
The toilet water is still drinkable, why am you stupid?
I don't believe you've drunk it.
Maybe it was the bias of subjective consciousness, Han Bowen was angry and secretly slandered in his heart.
Bell Bell Bell –
Suddenly, a real phone rang from outside the classroom, and a different sound immediately attracted everyone's attention.
Isn't it Shen Jiannan or anyone, listening to Kevin Mitnick's words on the phone, a hint of coldness flashed in this guy's eyes, and a sarcastic smile appeared on his face.
Huang Guoqiang's wife, in addition to the positive identity, actually has an unknown identity, which is particularly interesting.
"Professor Huang, have you ever drunk the water in your toilet? Otherwise, how do you know that you can drink the water in your toilet?"