In this sentence of Ah Q's biography, the old lady Zhao's ridicule of Ah Q's claim to be surnamed Zhao was later extended to the misplaced behavior of the ruling class in which the ruling class wanted to impersonate the ruling class.

To put it simply, it is like a group of petty bourgeois white-collar workers, who are obviously proletarians who do not control the means of production, but they like to stand on the bourgeois perspective and criticize the mud legs of the rebellion in the Republic of China, completely forgetting that they have been in the 18th generation, and they are probably just gray animals that are shaving in the soil.

It is said that Hu Wenhai's family cannot be said to be surnamed Zhao, but it is no problem to label them as vested interests. But the old Hu family actually didn't feel that they had anything special because of this. Before Hu Wenhai graduated from university, or even before he joined BYD in his previous life, the Hu family's life was not easy.

Hu Shiwu, an eighth-level worker, has a good son, at least he entered the 501 factory later, not to top his quota. After retiring in 85 years, although he didn't have to tease his grandson, he held the chessboard every day to find an old man to kill two games, and when he had nothing to do, he went back to the metalworking workshop in the factory to have a good time, and his life was more or less moist.

And Hu Jiefang became the director of the 501 factory, but he did not get any benefits for the old Hu family. The old Hu family lived in this bungalow on the outskirts of Xiucheng until the end of the nineties, and then changed to a new house of more than 80 square meters in a community under the tide of demolition.

From the 80s to the 90s, what did Hu Jiefang pay? For the 501 factory, he was 10 years older than normal. Before the age of fifty, he was exchanged for a full head of gray hair, and the key is that with the collapse of the 501 factory, his whole spirit collapsed.

What about Hu Wenhai? His fate is always good. benefited from the basic cultural foundation of Xiao Yeqin and Hu Jiefang. Since childhood, he has been nurtured and carefully cultivated by his family. His academic performance and personality growth are better than those of children of the same age.

After graduating from university, he did not return to Xiucheng, but worked in a private company, and finally found his own position in Wang Chuanfu's BYD.

Hu Wenhai's senses of state-owned enterprises and their workers are very complex.

On the one hand, his later life experience taught him that before the 80s, the Chinese working class was a "privileged class", or at least a "middle class", enjoying a completely different quality of life from the peasants. can be done under such conditions. The performance of the workers of the state-owned enterprises was very disappointing. The workers of state-owned enterprises, who rapidly "degenerated and decayed" in the 80s, lost the advanced nature of the working class since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

But on the other hand, he didn't understand very much that it was these people who finally created the miracle of "Made in China". If you are really lazy in your bones, why does it suddenly become admirable when you change the environment?

To be honest, Hu Wenhai didn't think much about it before.

For anyone born in Bohai Province, ten years and twenty years later, many things are associated with a historical term: the great layoff.

Hu Wenhai knows too much about the tragedy caused by the great layoffs in the 90s in this province that was once the eldest son of the republic.

The ultimate goal of the so-called "labor dispatch" is not to engage in "regular workers" and "temporary workers" in state-owned enterprises in the future. Rather, it is hoped that a social security system will come out as soon as possible.

In this way, the labor company will not fail, even if the factory where the workers work is closed down or sold. At the very least, these workers are still state workers, and they still have a minimum guarantee.

This is just a trivial effort he made as a native of Bohai Province to look back on that unbearable history.

Of course, this has led to a more flexible employment policy for state-owned enterprises, and in the era when private enterprises are not active, it is a bit positive to slightly increase the enthusiasm of workers.

But the problem is, to be honest, he really didn't have much research on the Great Layoff. Regarding the state-run economy, he is more of a cold observer, and even a little dismissive.

It's like playing a game, when you beat a game, you can read the file and start over. Without the sense of urgency to go straight to the pass, you can find a lot of things that you have ignored before.

Among the older generation of state-owned enterprise workers, there are conscientious and responsible masters like Hu Shiwu, and there are also old people who go to work every day to drink tea and read newspapers.

Among the new generation of workers, there are three people who steal things from the factory and sell them, but there are also outstanding people who shine in a different environment.

Can the hat of low vitality of state-owned enterprises be buckled on the heads of workers?

In his previous life, Hu Wenhai did not have an answer in his heart. Or this kind of practice of characterizing a person based on the attributes of a certain group of people is simply unscientific.

Those who went to work in the 80s were no worse than those who went to work in the 50s. However, if we want to talk about the system, what is the difference between the golden period of state-owned enterprises in the 50s? Some people who joined the work in the 50s and 60s climbed to leading posts in the 80s, but this is precisely the source of chaos......

Hu Wenhai was sitting in the car, and his heart was extremely conflicted at this time. According to the views of his previous life, he naturally supports the sale and sale of state-owned enterprises, because within the scope of his vision, the efficiency and execution of private enterprises are undoubtedly stronger than those of state-owned enterprises.

Wang Chuanfu's foreign investment in battery fighting has been losing steadily, and the car is even more complicated than the comprador state-owned enterprise that makes the Chinese face countless times longer. Huawei's network can be sold to the Americans, and the Americans will not let him enter the American market, but Lenovo, which is subsidized by the state, has become an "American conscience enterprise".

The contrast between the two sides is so obvious that he subconsciously feels that state-owned enterprises are unfair market competitors, and will only rely on privileges and government support to form small circles and force private enterprises to bow their heads. China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs), with the exception of non-profit sectors that are clearly the responsibility of the government, should compete with their private competitors.

As for saying that capitalists have no conscience, what do they need the law to do? Supervision is in place, enforcement is resolute, and there is no conscience and reverence for the law.

But last night's whim conversation between him and the old man Hu Shiwu opened another window in his life.

Combined with his experiences and observations after being reborn, he had to admit that his past views were not entirely correct.

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"Before the 70s, the motivation of workers was still very high, and at that time workers could exert a lot of influence on the management of enterprises. ”

Hu Shiwu after hearing Hu Wenhai's question. As if full of nostalgia, he said: "Before the eighties. Needless to say, the future of the workers is naturally quite good. Taking the factory as their home is not just talking, the vast majority of workers work with this sense of responsibility. Even if there have been problems and movements of one kind or another in the past 30 years, the country has maintained a fairly rapid growth rate except for a few years. ”

Hu Wenhai nodded immediately, and he remembered this number clearly in his heart. China's GDP was $18 billion in 49 years, and $900 billion in 1985. If we deny the achievements of the previous 30 years, then is this number falling from the sky, or is it drilled out of the ground?

GDP growth. It shows that there is no problem with the mode of workers' participation in management, and it can bring impetus to China's economy: "But grandpa, why don't the current workers in state-owned enterprises have the same motivation as in the past?"

"Why?" Hu Shiwu snorted and sneered: "Because the factory is not a worker's! Don't look at the current workers can still slap the table with the factory director, but everyone has a rod and scale in their hearts." This is not the time before the eighties, when the workers were not in charge, but the leaders decided the fate of the workers, and the country could not absorb so much of the new industrial population. ”

"With the rapid decline in the social status and living conditions of the workers, and the serious employment difficulties faced by the urban industrial population, how can there still be the spirit and bureaucracy to compete for the management of enterprises?"

"Who is in control of the country and the enterprise? The position of the factory directors, technicians and bureaucrats, the workers, has plummeted. Of course, there is no motivation to manage the enterprise. But that's not the worst, the worst thing is that after all, we're still wearing the skin of state-owned enterprises. The management of management cannot learn the methods of capitalism to mobilize enthusiasm, and the appearance of eating must not be too ugly, so it can only abandon efficiency and pursue so-called fairness, that is, it has become a big pot of rice. ”

"You see, since the 80s, the efficiency of state-owned enterprises has started to decline significantly. On the surface, it is the reason for the so-called egalitarian big pot rice. But fundamentally, it is the exclusion of the workers from management and the bureaucracy's monopoly on the management of capital. Not to mention anything else, it is now said in society that one billion people are 900 million people, but who are the people who can really get the profits of reselling? How many of them are ordinary workers with no background? The eyes of the common people are bright, not their own things, why are they so active?"

Hu Wenhai was dumbfounded by Hu Shiwu's words, he never knew that this history turned out to be like this in the eyes of the old man.

He asked reluctantly: "Is there any way to mobilize the enthusiasm of the workers in the state-owned enterprises again?" What if we can return to the enthusiasm ......of the workers in the 50s?"

Hu Shiwu simply interrupted his question: "You ask your father, is he willing to be supervised by the whole factory, with a salary similar to that of the workers, and with the heaviest heart of the whole factory." Or are you willing to monopolize power, this factory director is true to his word, and the fate of his workers is single-minded?"

Hu Wenhai was speechless.

Hu Jiefang is a very responsible operator, and in order to keep the 501 factory in the future, it can be said that he has worked hard, and even took his own life's pursuit. However, if he is asked whether he is willing to involve workers in management or expand the management authority of the factory director, the answer to this question is not known.

"Then there's no way—"

"No, there's no turning back after taking this path. Hu Shiwu's words are categorical.

Hu Wenhai was speechless, and if he thought about it, why did the collapse of the Soviet Union give the Chinese such a huge shock? In fact, the problems faced by the two socialist countries at this time were almost the same: the workers' enthusiasm for production was reduced, power was concentrated in the bureaucracy, and economic development was sluggish.

Fundamentally speaking, it is that the development of the productive forces cannot keep up with the expansion of the worker group. The state cannot afford to buy off the entire working class and the people who want to squeeze into the working class and enjoy the "privileged, middle-class life" of the working class in the past, so it can only buy off the entire working class and the people to buy off a small number of bureaucrats.

In the end, the bribery of the bureaucracy led to low production efficiency, economic stagnation, and increased national discontent. The Soviet bureaucracy was even more dissatisfied with the fact that they could not squeeze the workers as much as possible and could not continue to expand the power in their hands, so they simply wanted to tear off this skin from their bodies, look up to the Western capitalists, and abandon the entire working class. Let the working class change from the former masters of the state and the participants in factory management to the grass-roots people without power.

And the Soviets really did just that, and it is needless to say what the result was.

In the final analysis, the development of productive forces cannot keep up with the growth of the size of the worker group and the demand for materials. If only the Soviet Union had been able to meet the demands of buying off the working class - when Brezhnev had just come to power. This effort has been made. But it soon became clear that this was something that the Soviet Union could not afford.

He turned to buying off the bureaucratic class, and in the Brezhnev era, the corruption of Soviet officials was almost at its peak, and in the last years of his rule, the Soviet Union's economic growth came to a near standstill, providing a realistic basis for the bureaucratic tearing down in the ********** years.

The abandonment of the concrete manifestation of the working class in the Soviet Union was naturally the collapse of the Soviet Union, the transformation of the bureaucracy into capitalists and oligarchs. The time when Russia had just become independent. It is almost the world that the capitalists dream of the most.

And this historical process took place in China, which is manifested in the wave of layoffs. On the one hand, 15 million workers in state-owned enterprises have been laid off, and on the other hand, civil servants have become the envy of the profession, and there is no difference in essence between the two.

Of course, from another perspective, China's 20 million workers in state-owned enterprises in the first 30 years could not really be said to be "proletariat". The real proletariat is actually a peasant who wants to live and die and is not paying taxes.

It can only be said that the position of the workers after the nineties has only returned from the middle class to its original position in history.

But the problem is that thirty years ago, the peasants sacrificed, and the workers benefited. The vested interests of the 20 million workers were taken away, but the living conditions of the peasants did not change in any way. It's worth pondering. Since the workers and peasants did not get any benefits in the end, where did the benefits go?

Eighties. The clouds are treacherous.

It's just that fortunately, with the good teacher Mao Xiong, China did not become the Soviet Union after all, and the rice tofu was good, and China rushed out of a sea of corpses and blood on a Shura road. And when there is a chemical reaction between capital and the bureaucracy, finally the buggy state capitalism is born. Two thousand years later, China re-industrialized and became the world's factory in one fell swoop thanks to state capitalism.

To be honest, state capitalism, no matter how bad it is, is still a hundred, a thousand times stronger than the neoliberalism of the ********** elections that believed in Reagan's evil.

And Hu Wenhai's purpose is actually very simple, since this process is already irreversible, then in the 90s, we should replicate the successful cases of 2,000 years later, and release this "flood beast" as soon as possible.

There are so many big truths in this world, he just doesn't want to think about it so much.

Do what you can, change or protect the range of your sights, and that's all he can do.

Hu is always a person who loves himself more than everyone else, and does not have the courage to challenge the whole world by himself.

So be it.

When the car stopped, he pushed the car door, and Uncle Xiao and Xia Boyang seemed to have been waiting for a lot of time at the door of their house.

"Xiao Baozi and Jin Yishun's fried chicken, have you eaten them?"

Hu Wenhai smiled, shook the food in his hand, took out the key to open the courtyard door, and invited the two in.

"Hey, I heard that Brother Hai, you came back by special train this time!"

Xia Boyang looked Hu Wenhai up and down, as if he had never known him.

"I'm dizzy myself, let's go, let's talk while eating. ”

Hu Wenhai smiled embarrassedly, opened the door first, opened the cup and pan, and brought out a table of snacks.

Mr. Hu himself doesn't drink alcohol, but he opened a bottle of Coke. Not to mention, Coca-Cola in the 80s is not a powerful drink, but it is really a fresh item, and the grade of Sanxian noodles is almost the same.

"I said Wenhai, is there something wrong with me?" Uncle Hu Shengli pulled his chicken head and asked with relish.

"Something, but you hear first. Hu Wenhai nodded, turned to Xia Boyang and asked, "Old Xia, how is the project in your hand progressing?"

"I was about to say that. Xia Boyang wiped his hands with paper, took out a notebook and pen, and then said with a gesture: "With your relationship, Mayor Wang specially coordinated a piece of land for us." However, the policy was not suitable, so it was covered with a layer of skin by the labor service company, and then contracted to our marine engineering company. The name of the company is your sea and my ocean, how about it?"

"Yes, you go on. Hu Wenhai nodded and listened carefully.

"The location of this land is still good, in the middle of the north gate and the big pot pit. Although the surrounding area is a bit desolate, it is relatively easy to get land. The residents were very cooperative. At present, the project is progressing and the site is being cleared. Aim to complete the demolition and land leveling by December. In the future, it is planned to build a residential area, two markets, and a leisure and entertainment center. The design of the community is 600 houses. There are 160 stores on both sides of the market, and the leisure and entertainment center opposite the community has an indoor area of more than 50,000 square meters with five floors......"

Hu Wenhai waited until Xia Boyang finished his introduction, and then asked: "Have you spread the news, and how do the merchants in the city react to this?"

"Well, we don't need to take the initiative to spread the news at all, I just took the land here, and it has already been spread all over the city. ”

"What's the reaction?

"Hey. Xia Boyang looked quite excited: "Not only self-employed, but also many unit workers and cadres came to me and asked how to sell the house and whether they could buy it." I'm listening to you, I don't ask for much profit in housing, only 100 yuan per square meter. When many people heard this price, they had to pay to buy a house at that time, and they had to eat people if they didn't collect money!"

"How much is the size of your house? The price of a square meter is 100, and most people can afford to buy it?"

"You can afford it!" Xia Boyang said as a matter of course: "Most of our houses are 50 or 60 square meters, and about 100 are 100 square meters. Even if it's a big house. The price of more than 10,000 yuan is also available to those who can afford it in Xiucheng. Ordinary people have money. Even if you don't have it at home, relatives and friends can borrow it once. Not to mention many self-employed people, 10,000 yuan is nothing, just two months' profits. However, at such a price, the sales of housing are more than 4 million, which is barely enough to settle the accounts. ”

"What about the construction unit, have you found it?"

"Uh, I-" Xia Boyang hesitated, shook his head and said, "If you have a goal, Brother Hai, the construction unit, of course I will listen to you." ”

"What is my goal?" Hu Wenhai was stunned for a moment, and then cried and laughed: "As long as you don't cut corners, of course you will operate the specific things, and I only want the result." ”

"The main profit point of the project is not to put it on the residential area, but the shops and entertainment centers are the real places to make money. Do you have a clue about attracting investment?"

"Of course there is!" Xia Boyang nodded and said: "The electric street in the pot and big pit, the clothing street in Linxi Road, and the furniture market in Tiebei, many stall owners in these open-air markets want to enter our market, and no matter how high the price of the shops is, they don't frown, it depends on the direction in which these two markets plan to operate." The key is to fancy the entertainment center, our entertainment center can be built, and it will definitely bring a large number of people at that time, and this shop can naturally make money no matter what it does. ”

Hu Wenhai and Xia Boyang discussed the real estate project for a long time, and Hu Shengli was stuffed with a belly just by eating and listening.

It wasn't until the discussion between the two here came to an end that Hu Wenhai turned his head to look at Hu Shengli and asked, "Uncle, you also heard it, what do you think of this project that I am engaged in?"

"Thoughts?" Hu Shengli shook his head inexplicably: "Could it be that you want me to do this? Although I didn't do well in the railway, I was a serious job after all......

Hu Wenhai was helpless, even if it was a person like Uncle who would do business and make a world by himself in the future, at this time, he still focused on national work.

"I didn't ask you to do this, I heard that you are uncomfortable on the railway, didn't you suggest engaging in tertiary production and reducing staff to increase efficiency?"

"Don't mention it, it was rejected by the leader. Hu Shengli looked frustrated.

"Actually, I have an idea, it's up to you to do it. ”

"What do you say?" Hu Wenhai's ability, Hu Shengli knows. He said that he had an idea, which was definitely not an ordinary idea, and his eyes widened when he immediately mentioned his spirit.

"Contracting intercity commuter trains!"

"Commuting is a lump sum? This is all employee benefits within the railway, what's the use of contracting it?"

"You know the low utilization rate of commuter cars, right?"

"You know, there are fewer people who have commuting needs. Hu Jiefang nodded.

"So this piece is obviously a tertiary resource that needs to be revitalized, why don't you try it? You also listened to Xia Boyang's words just now, there are already many self-employed people in Xiucheng City alone. The channels they purchase are basically near Bohai Province, which is the range that commuting can cover. What if we use idle commuting resources to organize manufacturers to supply goods directly to self-employed individuals?" )

PS: This chapter can be regarded as the author's view of that period, writing about the Northeast, the eighties and nineties have always been inseparable from the topic of layoffs, and it can be regarded as brightening the author's ass......

It's really not easy to go through the political ideas, and I won't do this kind of thing in the future......