After Xu Haihao and Song Ying interviewed, for two or three months, the wind was calm and nothing happened. Lin Zhenhua originally thought that after the two reporters returned from the interview, they would definitely send a draft, but after waiting for two months, Lin Zhenhua gradually forgot about this matter. He thought, maybe Xu Haihao suppressed this matter for the purpose of protecting him.

Lin Zhenhua didn't know that just when he forgot about it, thousands of miles away in the western suburbs of Yanjing, in a classroom at the Central Party School, his Lin Zhenhua's name was being repeated by a group of officials. These officials are all middle-aged and young cadres from the economic management departments in various localities, and their ranks are mainly deputy departments and departments, and they are all reserve talents trained by departments at all levels. What they are discussing is an internal reference provided by the teacher, "Observation on the Pilot Reform of the Contracting System of the Labor Service Company of Hanhua Machinery Factory".

This internal reference is precisely from the hand of Xu Haihao, who used a realistic approach to introduce the process of Lin Zhenhua's contracting labor service company, and truthfully wrote down all aspects of the factory, from the opinions of leaders to ordinary employees. Among the internal references, there are two most sensitive issues, one is whether Lin Zhenhua should take a high contract fee, and the other is whether Lin Zhenhua wants to reinvest the contract fee into the enterprise and own the shares of the enterprise at the same time, whether it is in line with socialist principles.

"I think that Lin Zhenhua's behavior is a serious act of demolishing the foot of the socialist wall." One of the directors said angrily: "This so-called reformer is actually nothing more than a capitalist hidden in our system. His aim is to use the property of the state for his own primitive accumulation, and when the time is ripe, he will show his fangs and swallow the assets of the people into his belly. ”

"Director Lu, I think your point of view is a bit left." Another division chief retorted, "Hasn't the central government repeatedly emphasized the need to advocate bold reforms? In my opinion, since such a method as the contract system can achieve good results in the rural areas, why can't it be extended to the cities and to the reform of our state-owned enterprises? ”

"Lao Wei is right, what's more, I see that in this case, what Lin Zhenhua contracted is not a state-owned enterprise, but a large collective enterprise. Large collectives are originally collectively owned by labor groups, and their distribution system can be flexible and diverse. Another student said.

"I do support Director Lu's point of view. Everyone must see clearly that the key to Lin Zhenhua's phenomenon is not that he took a high contract fee. Well, let's just think that according to the principle of more work and more reward, Lin Zhenhua fulfilled the contract commitment, and it is reasonable to take more money. But notice that he did not use the money for personal consumption, but demanded that the money be put into the labor service company for the purchase of machinery and equipment, and offered to the factory to own shares according to his own capital contribution. Isn't this about being a capitalist? ”

"The last time Mr. Li from Peking University gave a lecture, didn't he talk about the issue of the joint-stock system? Our country is now seriously short of construction funds, and individuals are encouraged to invest, what's wrong? ”

"Where did you put the socialist system? If individuals can invest, won't the state become capitalist? ”

"No matter how much an individual invests, can it be compared with the country? Our country is still dominated by public ownership, and the individual economy is only a supplement. I assert that even if the policy is liberalized for 30 years, the proportion of individual capital in the entire national capital will not exceed 10%, and public ownership will account for more than 90%, how can it be considered capitalism? ”

“……”

Today's people may not be able to understand this controversy at all. At that time, there was a visible and invisible imprisonment in the mind, which can be described as absurd today. Decades later, a doctoral supervisor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences recalled that when he was working on his doctoral dissertation, he was going to write about a problem about the labor market, and his supervisor immediately warned him: This is a minefield and must not be touched. Under socialism, the laborer is the master of the country, and labor cannot be used as a commodity. If he dares to write like this, he will not get a degree, and I am afraid that he will lose his personal freedom.

In Wuhu, Anhui Province, the fool and the prince hired 12 workers for a long time, which immediately caused an uproar, and a group of theorists took Marx's original work to argue that employing more than eight workers is exploitation. In a socialist country, there is a system of exploitation, and this is worth it? The question of whether Nian Guangjiu is restoring capitalism has even reached the highest level of the central government.

That is, at a time when the decision-making and academic levels are cautiously exploring these minefields, tens of thousands of ordinary laborers are throwing themselves into this tide of reform with the courage of succession. Their practice is far ahead of theory and policy.

In Taizhou, Zhejiang, a group of peasants could no longer stand the pattern of private partnerships having to wear a red hat of "township enterprises", and submitted an application to the Wenling County Social Enterprise Management Bureau to register a private partnership. Chen Xinhe, the head of the production section, stamped a bright red seal on this application, and he didn't know that it was this seal that made him the first person in the real sense of China's joint-stock reform.

In southern Jiangsu, as early as 1969, a group of ordinary farmers in Huaxi Village had quietly started a business. By 1978, Huaxi Village had 1 million yuan in fixed assets and 1 million yuan in bank deposits. Thirty years later, China's wealthiest village spent 6 billion yuan to build an 118-story high-rise building.

In Zhongguancun, which is only a few kilometers away from the Central Party School, one of the first batch of 10 professor-level researchers of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chen Chunxian, a nuclear fusion expert, resolutely went to the sea and built the first private scientific and technological entity in China -- the Advanced Technology Development Service Department of the Yanjing Plasma Society in a warehouse......

Mediocre scholars are still clinging to "Capital" or "General Theory of Money Interest" to find a model for strengthening the country and enriching the people, while wise ordinary workers, peasants, government cadres, and scientific and technological workers have already raised their sails and broken into the blue ocean of market economy.

"Comrade He Haifeng, why don't you speak?" The teacher stood on the podium and watched the students discuss enthusiastically, which was very gratifying. He turned his eyes and found that He Haifeng, a cadre of the Xiangping Provincial Light Industry Department, who had always been active and unique, had a smile on his face, but he didn't say a word. The teacher was surprised and couldn't help but call his name directly.

He Haifeng stood up and said to the teacher and classmates: "I'm sorry, everyone had a very heated discussion just now. I didn't dare to speak, in fact, the main reason was to avoid it, because I had a very close personal relationship with Comrade Lin Zhenhua, who was written in the internal reference, and it can be said that I had forgotten the old man. ”

As soon as these words came out, the entire class of students became excited, and everyone asked He Haifeng questions:

"Really?"

"Lao He, let's talk about it, is this Lin Zhenhua really three heads and six arms?"

"Nei Sanri said that his English can talk to foreign experts, this is bragging, right?"

"Also, he has done so much technological innovation, it can't be that their factory planted other people's achievements on him for the sake of a model, right? This kind of thing has happened in our system. ”

“……”

He Haifeng nodded and said to everyone: "The situation of Lin Zhenhua mentioned in the internal reference, according to my understanding of him, should be true. If there is any shortcoming, it is that Lin Zhenhua's ability has not been fully demonstrated. ”

"Is there such a god? Lao He, don't brag for him just because he is a friend, according to what is said in this internal reference, he must at least be at the level of a master's student at Huaqing University. Someone retorted loudly. If Lin Zhenhua was at the scene, I am afraid that he would have to rush over and shout: Dude, you know me too well!

He Haifeng said: "I talked to him, and he said that when he was in the army, he once studied for a period of time from a rightist professor who was reforming through labor near the station. In fact, my interaction with Lin Zhenhua is also due to the fact that he helped us solve two technical problems that had been troubled for a long time in just a few words at the dinner table. ”

Subsequently, he introduced the two porcelain factories to everyone, and also talked about the opportunity to come to Lin Zhenhua in the petrochemical industry and recommend Lin Zhenhua to Ford as a translator. What he said was what he had personally experienced, and it was a little more realistic than the internal reference written by Xu Haihao, and the students and teachers present were so drunk that even those who had a lot of criticism about the "Lin Zhenhua phenomenon" began to feel that this person was not bad in nature.

"Hearing Lao He say this, I began to like this Xiaolin a little. Lao He, you said he was only 20 years old this year? A student asked.

He Haifeng nodded: "That's right, it's only 20 years old, and my daughter calls him brother." ”

"It's a pity to be so young and talented, and he should be transferred to the top, so that there is no problem with contracting." Someone suggested.

Another said: "I don't think so, young people, it's better to break through at the grassroots level." Our company can't always rely on Qiao Guangpu, and we have to have a younger generation to take over. ”

Qiao Guangpu, who is talking about this person, is the protagonist of the sensational novel "The Appointment of Director Qiao", the director of a heavy machinery factory, who is already in his 50s. At that time, the aging of the cadre team was also a very serious problem.

"Well, that's all for today's class discussion. After class, if you are interested in this case, you can continue to discuss it. However, this material belongs to the internal reference, which is classified and is not allowed to be passed on. The teacher instructed, and then he turned to He Haifeng and said, "Comrade He Haifeng, after class, you come with me, I have something to know more from you." ”

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Thanks to the book friends for correcting, Wenling, the birthplace of the first joint-stock cooperative enterprise, belongs to Taizhou, Zhejiang, which is mistakenly written as Wenzhou in the book, which has been corrected.

Both the Taiwen region is an important birthplace of China's reforms.