"Professor Wu, it should be the surplus value of eight people who have been exploited!"

One student replied hesitantly.

"Hehe, surplus value, I would like to ask everyone, what is the surplus value of the people who can't even eat? Now the problem of our country is not the problem of surplus value, but the problem of keeping everyone well fed and clothed, these two basic conditions cannot be solved, what kind of surplus value can we talk about?

Fool is a typical private enterprise, far more dynamic than grocery stores, but it was caught ......... for employing eight workers.

You are students, I won't talk about you, but now many high-level people can't understand this matter, and they have all kinds of doubts about reform and opening up, and even want to obstruct it, they are stupid, they don't understand the laws of the economy at all, and if they continue to do this, they will be sinners of the country!"

The more Wu He spoke, the more excited he became, and he almost scolded in the end.

The people sitting at the bottom are all stupid, how dare this Professor Wu scold the top level of the state, isn't this anti-revolutionary? Now the whole strike hard is still going on, what if he is arrested?

I really didn't expect that this Professor Wu was in his fifties and his temper was still so hot, completely different from the gentle and elegant appearance of later generations, it seems that he was also an angry young man when he was young!

Wu He is a well-known economist in the country, and the country's top leaders have to ask for his opinions when making decisions, so he is very clear about the opinions and propositions of the country's top leaders.

What Wu He said is indeed true, and not to mention that twenty or thirty years later, the world has given the highest evaluation to the tremendous achievements made by the country in reform and opening up, but in the early days of reform and opening up, many people in the top echelons of the state maintained a vigilant attitude toward reform and opening up, and did not absolutely support it, and the most important point was the great debate on whether or not there was exploitation of the private economy.

In the early days of reform and opening up, there were self-employed people, and the so-called self-employed people were all small workshops with families as units, buying some tofu and buying some steamed buns, for example, now the breakfast shops that set up stalls outside in the morning in the capital are called self-employed, and the state is very supportive of this, but as the scale of self-employed households grows larger and larger, it is inevitable that workers will be hired, and this is a problem, what is the problem? That is, the question of how many people to hire.

Employing less than seven people is still called self-employed, and employing more than eight people is a private owner, which is commonly known as "seven up and eight down", and the state still has a huge controversy over private owners.

This book mentions that once the number of private operators employing more than eight people exceeds eight, they will inevitably begin to exploit them, and in fact they have embarked on the road of capitalism; for a country led by the proletariat, the four words capitalism are undoubtedly as fierce as a flood of beasts, and no one dares to touch them.

At the beginning of '83, the state also issued a circular, which pointed out: "Rural individual industrial and commercial households and experts in the planting and breeding industry, please help and bring apprentices, you can refer to the "Several Policy Provisions on the Urban Non-agricultural Individual Economy" for implementation, and for those who exceed the above provisions, it is not appropriate to advocate it, not to publicize it publicly, and not to rush to ban it, but to guide them according to the situation, so that they can develop into different forms of cooperative economy. Rural individual businesses and various service industries should be appropriately developed and given necessary support for the convenience of the masses because they operate flexibly and conveniently. Long-distance trafficking by individual farmers or partners should also be permitted.

It is precisely because of this "seven up and eight down" Of course, some smart southerners can avoid this line, that is, they contract a collective enterprise, which is not a private enterprise, under the protection of the collective nature, they can hire more workers, but in this way, the problem of property rights will be buried, once the enterprise becomes bigger, there will be contradictions between the collective and the individual, and then there will be a fight, and many enterprises with very good benefits will end up bankrupt。

The man named Nian Chang mentioned by Wu He is also a man of the hour, and he is not famous now, but according to the time, after eight or five years, his reputation as a fool will spread throughout the country, not because he is bold, but because the country's supreme head Deng Lao mentioned his name at a meeting, which made him famous, and even the brand with "fool and melon seed" has spread throughout the country, but that was two years later, and this year, he should live in prison.

In Liu Lang's view, the change of the economic system in the early stage of reform and opening up is the most important thing, but the most important thing is the ideological change, people in the past few decades have been exposed to the idea of class struggle, and the concept of capitalism is the enemy can be said to be deep-rooted, as long as it is capitalism, there is exploitation, where there is exploitation, there is resistance.

Is capitalism synonymous with exploitation?

Of course, Liu Lang disagrees, so where does the wealth created by capitalism come from?

More than thirty years later, a book called "Small Island Economics" has been on the list of world bestsellers for dozens of weeks, and it has a high reputation around the world.

The fundamental reason is that this book is not the kind of preaching, the content is to tell everyone the simplest economic theory in the form of storytelling, that is, seven or eight-year-old children can understand, so this book pinnacles the obscure inherent model of previous economic books, and has achieved great success, Liu Lang feels that he needs to write this book to change everyone's thinking.

Wu He did not talk about the content of the textbook, but talked about the current economic situation, his only purpose is to "brainwash" these students, so that they can truly understand the benefits of the private economy, and at the same time tell them that the country has only this way to go, and the planned economy is no longer needed may be able to contribute to the country's economic development in the future.

Of course, in Liu Lang's view, Wu He's economic theory of the country has not yet been fully formed, the so-called complete private economy, that is, the market economy does not exist in the world, isn't there that sentence "capitalism also has a plan, socialism also has a market", even in the era when the marketization is very high more than 30 years later, there are still many large state-owned enterprises in the country, and there is still a planned economy within the state-owned enterprises, of course, the market economy is dominant, there is no doubt about this.

The class ended under Wu He's quotations, and I have to say that his eloquence was quite outstanding, and the students listened to it with fascination and gave him warm applause.