In the next few days, although there was no particularly heavy work, the daily coping was enough to keep Mayor Hong. Mayor Hong is busy, which means that Liang Jian has to saddle up and run around, and be busy.

On the 18th, Mayor Hong attended the city's work conference on accelerating the development of the cause of the disabled, on the 19th, he participated in the city's comprehensive rural land renovation and construction work report meeting, and on the 21st, he received the party and government delegation led by Shaoxin Mayor Lv Chuxiao to Jingzhou for inspection.

On the 23rd, he attended the 38th session of the city's leading cadres forum, which was originally a matter of the party committee, but Professor Cai Fangming, deputy dean of the Institute of Cultural Industries of Peking University, is an old acquaintance of Mayor Hong, and Professor Cai came to give a report entitled "China's Cultural Soft Power" to the leading cadres.

Mayor Hiroshi not only participated, but also accompanied the wine in the evening. Because he is a university professor, although it is also an official banquet, it is a little different from receiving the central and provincial leaders, with more chatting atmosphere and less entertainment. Mayor Hong knows that Professor Cai is not only educated, but also has a lot of alcohol, not only a lot of alcohol, but also a lot of new ideas and new perspectives that are different from ordinary people.

Perhaps wanting to give Liang Jian a chance to open his eyes, Mayor Hong said to Liang Jian: "You can eat with us in the evening and engage in service work." Liang Jian obeyed.

After three rounds of drinking, Mayor Hong asked Professor Cai a question: "Dean Cai, there is actually a question that has been bothering me, and today I have the opportunity to ask you for advice. Professor Cai said, "You're welcome. Mayor Hong asked, let's discuss together. ”

Mayor Hong said: "In our work and life, is it better to be extravagant or frugal? The central authorities have always emphasized frugality. Thrift has always been a fine tradition of our party. However, we have also seen that sometimes 'moderate' 'waste' is conducive to promoting consumption and stimulating employment. Since I became mayor, I have also been more concerned about the issue of consumption, and I have found that sometimes everyone in an area is a little 'wasteful', and the more money is spent, the more prosperous the place will be. To put it simply, if we eat in the canteen of the institution today and don't eat in this big hotel, the waiters here will have one less chance of employment, right?"

Dean Cai had been listening carefully, and after Mayor Hong finished speaking, he groaned a little and said with a smile: "Mayor Hong, how do you say it? This is really a coincidence, the question you are thinking about, I have also considered it at different times. In the past, we have always considered the issues of "simplicity" and "luxury" from the category of morality. For example, "Jane" has a moral advantage over "luxury", but if we consider this issue not from the perspective of morality, but only from the perspective of economics and social development, we are likely to come to a different conclusion......"

Mayor Hong said "oh?" with interest, "Dean Cai will tell you all about it, and let us look at this problem from a different angle." ”

Everyone knew that Dean Cai would definitely have a novel statement, so they all paused to listen to Dean Cai. Liang Jian was also very interested in Dean Cai's point of view, and he listened attentively while asking the waiter to refill everyone's teacups.

Seeing that everyone was solemn, Dean Cai was quite interested: "Everyone should know that during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was a famous reformer in the State of Qi, called Guan Zhong, right?"

Dean Cai said: "There is a very peculiar concept in Guan Zhong's economic thought, which was not easy at that time. This idea is to encourage consumption. He even advocated luxury. This cannot be said to be unique among the rulers of the past and present, at least it is rare.

In his monograph "Pipe", he devoted an article to "Extravagance". In his view, if everyone does not consume and saves money, it will lead to a decrease in the circulation of commodities, thus hindering the activities of producing profits, so it is called "hurting things". What is a commodity, a commodity is used to consume. Without consumption, there is no goods. How can we drive consumption? His answer is to spend more, even luxury.

Guan Zhong's statement is, in the eyes of orthodox Chinese scholars, a bit heretical. Even in today's view, it seems difficult to accept as a qualified ** person. For thousands of years, many Chinese scholars have also been believers in Guan Zhong, and when they encounter this point of view, they either turn a blind eye to him, or talk about him left and right, or defend Guan Zhong in every possible way. It was not until modern times that the historian Guo Moruo gave a reasonable explanation, saying that Guan Zhong affirmed pleasure and opposed thrift, he attached importance to circulation and opposed despising commerce, he advocated comprehensive employment and opposed negative relief, and in order to be able to fully employ, he advocated mass consumption and even advocated generous burials.

His focus is on the aspect where mass consumption can promote mass production. The reason why he advocated luxury was, 'If the cave of Dansha is not blocked, then the merchant will not be placed.' The rich are in charge, and the poor are in charge', that is, as long as the source of profit is not artificially blocked, the businessmen will be engaged in business day and night without rest, and the rich can only work if they continue to consume, and the poor can only work. He even built yì, which he carved before boiling the eggs. This is Guan Zhong's view on 'luxury'. This is also the only politician in history who dares to say these things about luxury!"

A female deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee seemed to disagree with this point of view, and when she saw that Dean Cai had finished speaking, she said: "But could this be that Guan Zhong is excusing his luxurious life?"

If someone else asks this question, it is also a question of Dean Cai's point of view, but this female deputy minister is quite beautiful and very good at creating an atmosphere in the wine field, everyone knows her, she asked this way, nothing more than to make the banquet more atmospheric, a bit of-for-tat atmosphere, more conducive to toasting. Mayor Hong therefore did not interrupt her.

Liang Jian also wanted to see what Dean Cai argued, so he listened carefully. Dean Cai continued: "The question raised by our female minister is very good, but I think we should first see that Guan Zhong is a mature politician who specializes in extravagance in his books, not just for his own sake. He also spoke about a very advanced point. He said that whenever the years are apologized and the people have no business to do, the state should build palaces and pavilions to promote the employment of the people, especially the destitute who have lost their possessions. At this time, the palace was not built for pleasure, but to promote employment and balance the economy.

Westerners learned this practice of stimulating economic recovery and employment through the government's fixed asset investment more than 2,000 years later, taking the depression of the world war in 1929 as an example, the United States and Germany at that time all adopted such a policy to get out of the trough. At that time, under the condition that Guan Zhong advocated consumption, commerce developed rapidly, and the country became strong, so that during Guan Zhong's lifetime, Qi became the overlord at that time. We have to look at the reasonableness of it. ”

After President Cai finished speaking, Mayor Hong first applauded. Mayor Hong said: "President Cai not only gave us a good lesson for the city's leading cadres at the department level in the afternoon, but now he has also taught our comrades here a lesson. Dean Cai smiled and said, "I won't charge for this class!" Mayor Hong smiled: "Since you don't charge money, then you will charge the bar." Let's all raise a glass to Dean Cai. ”

The female minister said: "Dean Cai, then let's have a luxury today! After the wine is finished, we will arrange another activity later, in order to increase consumption and promote employment!" Dean Cai laughed, nodded at the female minister and said: "Really, the mind is broad, and the study is useful." Everyone laughed and drank the wine.

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