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Secretary Bao had already stood up when Friedman had just walked into the reception room, and took the initiative to walk towards the opposite side with high interest, smiling kindly and cautiously.

"Oh, thank you Secretary Bao for your kindness. A reserved Chinese nodded, shook hands slightly with Secretary Bao, and expressed his gratitude a little coldly.

"This is Mr. Zhang Wuchang, a professor of economics at the University of Hong Kong—"

Secretary Bao turned around and wanted to introduce Hu Wenhai, but he found that Hu Wenhai didn't get up from his seat at all, and was still sitting there with a teacup in his hand.

"Oh, dear Mr. Hu, I'm Milton Friedman, and it's a pleasure to meet you. ”

Milton Friedman was dressed in a formal suit and tie, his shoes were shining blindly, and he had a formal smile on his face.

"Mr. Milton, please be seated. Hu Wenhai took a sip of tea, nodded, put down the teacup and said.

Secretary Bao and Zhang Wuchang couldn't help but look at each other, these two people actually matched each other like this, and they seemed to forget the two people who felt good about themselves.

"Mr. Milton has worked hard from afar, and on my own behalf, I would like to welcome you. ”

Hu Wenhai was talking, and he also glanced at Secretary Bao coldly.

Secretary Bao blushed when he boarded, stared at Hu Wenhai angrily, and expressed dissatisfaction with his public slap in the face.

Hu Wenhai is fighting back against him "representing" himself, Secretary Bao can only understand it this way, of course, Hu Wenhai does mean this.

Koko, Lao Tzu has never worshiped your temple, he casually represents me, how old are you?

Secretary Bao really has never had such an experience, since he sat on the throne of the chief's secretary, he was almost the incarnation of the chief when he was outside, who had ever been so contemptuous and so faceless on the spot?

It's been a long time.

Well, successful people always have all sorts of quirks. Secretary Bao had no choice but to comfort himself like this, asking him to attribute Hu Wenhai's performance to the peculiarity of a genius.

Of course, Secretary Bao has seen a lot of geniuses, and even he himself is sometimes called a genius. However, those geniuses in the past cannot be compared with Hu Wenhai, who is worth tens of billions of dollars.

Besides, even if Secretary Bao wanted to compare, he had nothing to threaten Hu Wenhai's ability, so he had to say that it had never happened.

"It was my honor to meet Mr. Hu. Milton Friedman said with some excitement.

"To tell the truth, it is a wonderful thing to be able to appear in a country like China, where the market is not developed, and to be a business wizard like Mr. Hu and the richest man in the world! Seeing the appearance of Mr. Hu, I know that China should be a country of capital. ”

In an almost aria tone, Friedman recounted his feelings: "You're a young man in your twenties — oh, I'm sorry, I don't have any objections to Mr. Hu's age, but it's really amazing." ”

"Hehe, Mr. Milton's words are too praised. Hu Wenhai shook his head: "My achievements are because I was born in China, my grandfather's generation created this country, it was the socialist motherland that cultivated my father, and it was the Chinese school that educated me to become the successor of socialism." My achievements can only say that we Chinese have the quality of not losing to the nationals of other countries in any field, and how shallow the capitalist system is. ”

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Hu Wenhai's non-cooperation made Milton Friedman's later rhetoric suddenly embarrassing stillborn. And he keenly felt that Hu Wenhai's attitude towards him was not friendly.

Well, even people who are not so perceptive can detect it at this time, and Hu Wenhai may not have much affection for Milton Friedman.

"Mr. Friedman is a guest from afar, so Mr. Hu should not be so-for-tat. We should not grasp these things so tightly today, and the topic should still revolve around economic issues. ”

Secretary Bao seemed to have forgotten the embarrassment just now, sat back next to Hu Wenhai, and persuaded him in a low voice.

Hu Wenhai glanced at him, didn't say anything, and nodded indifferently.

In the final analysis, Milton Friedman was nominally "invited" by him, at least as the owner's broad mind Hu Wenhai still has.

"Since Mr. Friedman has traveled a lot in China, what do you think of our economy?" Secretary Bao saw that Hu Wenhai put away his saber rattling arrogance, and began to take the initiative to beat the side drum.

"Oh, I am very amazed by the results of China's economic development since the reform and opening up. But beneath the surface of the economic boom, I think you're in a very dangerous time. ”

Secretary Bao hurriedly echoed: "Indeed, our current economic development in China can be said to have reached a critical juncture. At this time, any hesitation and retreat will cause losses to the country and the people. ”

"So Mr. Friedman, how do you think the Chinese economy should solve these most pressing problems next?"

"The dual-track price system is the biggest problem of China's current economic deformity, which not only produces a large number of ** and illegal transactions, but also damages the ability of enterprises to produce and people to consume. Milton Friedman put it bluntly: "I think solving the two-track price system is the most urgent issue in China at present. ”

"Oh, what Mr. Friedman said!"

Secretary Bao's performance made Hu Wenhai wonder if this secretary had ever had the experience of being a crosstalker? Otherwise, it would be really difficult to explain why he was able to cooperate with Friedman so tacitly.

I saw him turn his head and look at Hu Wenhai and said: "Hu is always the owner of the largest private enterprise in our country, so what do you think of the dual-track price system?"

Hu Wenhai raised his eyebrows, and the development of things has been very obvious now. Friedman and Secretary Bao went to great lengths to facilitate this meeting, I am afraid that the purpose is to find allies on the dual-track system of prices -- no, with the energy of the chief behind Secretary Bao, he can't get his own support, so does he want to indirectly win the support of Grandpa Chen Fa? Or does he want to stand up and create public opinion for the price merger?

I have always stood on the route of price merger, and I have also figured out a suitable price merger plan in the Northeast. As long as the current momentum continues, it is very possible for China to gradually achieve a comprehensive liberalization of prices in the next two to three years.

So Friedman and Secretary Bao are still allies? Did you misunderstand them?

Thinking of this, Hu Wenhai's face softened a lot, and he nodded: "Yes, the dual-track price system is a transitional measure that has to be implemented under special circumstances, and I think it should be said that price liberalization is an inevitable policy." ”

"I was invited to have a conversation with Secretary Bao's leaders about China's economic issues. ”

Milton Friedman said with some caution: "As Mr. Hu said, I intend to recommend to the central government of your country to end the control of prices. According to my research, in order to break the current economic problems such as inflation and material shortages in China, it is necessary to fully liberalize the control of prices in a short period of time. In this way, although there may be a brief period of chaos, the order of the market will be quickly established, and the government will be able to produce real commodity value efficiently and fairly. ”

"Wait!"

Hu Wenhai's eyes widened, his brows furrowed, and he even looked at Milton Friedman with some ferocity: "Are you saying that China should loosen its control over prices in a short period of time?"

"Yes, rest assured, a market economy will be quickly established on the ruins of a planned economy. Milton Friedman nodded: "I have studied the economic crisis in Bolivia in 1984, after the implementation of a series of policies such as price liberalization, trade liberalization, currency devaluation and tax reform, and privatization of state-owned enterprises, Bolivia's economic crisis was quickly established because of the market-oriented order, and finally achieved a South American economic miracle. Bolivia is now completely out of the economic crisis, with an annual GDP growth rate of 2.5%. I believe that even if we don't learn from all of their practices, liberalizing prices can at least reverse inflation and let the prices of goods be determined by the market. ”

Hu Wenhai's face was completely dark at this time, and he was gloomy and silent.

Because of a noun, it broke into his mind.

Prices are at a checkpoint.

Originally, he thought that prices would be liberalized, because the model he had explored in the northeast could be gradually liberalized in a relatively stable process. As a matter of fact, the mode of cracking down on the overthrown, increasing industrial investment, and deciding on the liberalization of prices in a certain field according to the actual situation has now achieved very good results in many areas. As long as prices are liberalized in a planned manner according to this model, the comprehensive integration of prices is a foreseeable result.

But looking at the arguments of Secretary Bao and Milton Friedman, it is clear that the leaders behind Secretary Bao are not satisfied with such a slow process.

Liberalizing prices in a short period of time and quickly establishing a market effect is obviously more in line with someone's intentions, otherwise Secretary Bao would not have jumped up and down so hard here.

This is different from Gorbachev's "shock therapy" at best, in the hope that marketization can re-establish a perfect economic order in a short period of time.

Commodity price scarring, like shock therapy, may be useful for Bolivia, but for a large country like China and the Soviet Union, the complexity of the market is worlds apart.

Gorbachev pursued a new way of thinking, and some say he was bought by the Americans. What could the Americans use to buy the General Secretary of the USSR?

Perhaps Gorbachev also hoped that the Soviet Union would return to its glory, but his shock therapy simply buried the Soviet Union.

Was Gorbachev bad? He was just stupid.

(To be continued.) )