No matter what the result is, Guo Zhuocheng is unwilling to accept it.

He is only willing to beat the side drum on the side by himself, unconsciously pointing out the direction to others, and let others do the troublesome things, and the price reform is the most troublesome thing at present, how can he get his hands dirty? Of course, he will not do anything that offends the leader.

In previous lives, China's price reform was not very successful. As soon as the reform began, prices across the country began to skyrocket, leading people to desperately buy supplies, for fear that if they bought slowly, the money would become waste paper. At that time, people could buy everything and drag everything home and hoard it.

Prices soared, currencies depreciated sharply, and workers' incomes did not increase significantly, and some officials or their families and children took advantage of their power to enrich themselves and unscrupulously buy and sell scarce materials, which aroused the anger of the masses, and in 99 there was a storm of heavy losses.

Of course, although China's price reform was thrilling and the losses were staggering, it was still safely passed, and finally the price system was successfully transformed, and China's economy embarked on the road of rapid development.

Russia's reforms, on the other hand, are much more unlucky, and they are trying to do it in one step when they start to carry out price reforms, and they are engaged in shock therapy: full liberalization of prices, tightening fiscal and monetary policies, and large-scale privatization.

This method, which was so successful in Bolivia, was simply copied by Russia, and even the American expert Sachs, who invented it, was invited to Russia as an economic adviser.

In that year, a severe economic crisis broke out in Bolivia, with an inflation rate as high as 4,000% and a negative economic growth of 2%. The country adopted the advice of a young economist named Sachs: abandon expansionary economic policies, tighten money and finance, liberalize prices, and implement zi

You trade, speed up the pace of privatization, and give full play to the role of the market mechanism.

This is unconventional and has caused a sharp economic shock in Bolivia in a short period of time, as if the patient was in a state of shock. However, as market supply and demand have returned to equilibrium, the economy has returned to normal. Two years later, Bolivia's inflation rate had fallen to 5%, GDP had grown by 2%, and foreign exchange reserves had increased more than 20 times.

However, when this method was applied to Russia in early 992, it did not save Russia, but instead halved Russia's GDP, and its total GDP shrank to only one-tenth of that of the United States. The whole of Russia almost went into real shock and died. In February 992, Gaidar zhèng

FU disbanded, and "shock therapy" was declared a failure.

The application of this method in Russia has given China an unexpected benefit: based on Russia's failure, the Chinese have unexpectedly gained a strong self-confidence and pride that has lasted for more than a decade -- self-confidence is aimed at the "gradual reform" that China has always adhered to, and the pride is aimed at Russia, which is "inferior to us."

Until previous lives, Chinese thought that China's reforms were far more successful than Russia's, and they were complacent. Individually, China's price reform has not been very successful. But compared with Russia, the judgment is superior. The mood is much better as a result.

Guo Zhuocheng stared at Yu Gangqiu for a while, obviously it was impossible to pass the test without saying anything substantial. He had to say part of his thoughts, saying, "I think the first thing to do is to solve the price difference between the planned and unplanned areas. This kind of price difference is the easiest to produce defeat, the easiest to corrupt our cadres, and the easiest to attract the families and children of cadres to make money in this field. This is definitely a cancer, and perhaps this price difference has brought us a lot of benefits in history, but its danger is also huge, and it is not suitable for the laws of the market economy at all. ”

Yu Gangqiu looked at Guo Zhuocheng and asked sternly, "Did you hear something?" What did you find? Is there a high-ranking official who has made a huge amount of money from it? ”

Guo Zhuo said sincerely: I heard and heard a lot in my previous life, and it can be said that there are many officials who take advantage of this price difference to be greedy for money, and this kind of official is very common. To tell the truth, sometimes it is really impossible to blame these officials or their children, because as long as they or their parents write a note, they can get a lot of indicators of unplanned materials, and then put these indicators in an envelope and hand them to the businessmen around them whose eyes are as wide as duck eggs, and the businessmen will be very grateful, one praises them for their benevolence, ability, and enough friends, and does everything possible to send thanks, and also serve you extremely comfortably and comfortably.

Who wouldn't want to do this kind of thing that can earn both fame and money, and not have to take much risk? It's easier and safer than lying on a bill and grabbing it full.

Even if this official in power is a gentleman at the beginning, and he is spotless at the beginning, it is really difficult and difficult to hold this power for a long time, and there is no strong supervision to restrain them, so that they can endure the temptation according to their conscience and faith. Slowly, they will also become like everyone else, and start quietly making money.

Guo Shucheng's meaning is to let all materials be in the market from now on

You circulation, except for special military materials, there is no planned and unplanned, in the same place and in the same batch, the price is the same, only because of the different quality, different scarcity and there is a difference in price, and this difference is determined by the market, not zhèng

fu artificially prescribed.

Guo replied: "I haven't heard of any cases, and I haven't found anyone making profits in them, but I can imagine that there must be people who can't bear the benefits and profits and do something wrong." This kind of price difference is actually dragging the cadres into the water, and it is a virus that is very contagious. ”

Yu Gangqiu hesitated and said: "Your opinion is good, but we have so many state-owned enterprises, they don't have much profit at all. If we give them the planned supplies at lower prices, these factories may be able to barely survive. But they simply can't afford unplanned price shocks. If they are allowed to purchase raw materials in the market, many enterprises will lose money, they will become insolvent, and the more products they produce, the more they will lose money. In the words of the capitalist countries, these factories will have to go bankrupt, many workers will have to lose their jobs, they will have nothing to do and no wages. If we do this, will China still be a socialist country? ”

Guo Shucheng nodded and said, "I know, so it's inconvenient for me to express my opinion on this kind of thing just now." ”

In the previous life, everyone was at a loss whether to let the factory go bankrupt, because the word "bankruptcy" has long been given a very strong political meaning by the Chinese people, which is something from a capitalist country, how can it appear in a socialist country?

In the end, everyone couldn't think and had to think, finally, someone came up with a beautiful name "reduce staff and increase efficiency" to replace it, these four words are much better than the word "bankruptcy", and they are positive and positive, so that people who don't know not only will not feel scared, but also feel very pleasant.

Yu Gangqiu said: "Don't be sloppy with me anymore, you must have your little Jiujiu in your heart." Otherwise, you won't be able to tell the difference between canceling planned and unplanned items. Today you have to give me a good talk about what you are going to do with these factories. You should know that we just can't do anything about these factories now, and we really want to close them. However, if we really want to do this, not only will the workers below scold us to death, but even the old comrades around us will say that we have changed and that we are engaged in capitalism, because the workers will not be allowed to lose their jobs in a socialist country. ”

Guo Zhuocheng had to take another step back, but he first put forward his own conditions: "Vice Premier Yu, if you can promise not to let me take care of this matter, promise not to leak what I said today to others, and promise not to transfer me from my current position, I will tell you, otherwise I won't say it." ”

Yu Gangqiu smiled: "Oh, you kid still know how to cherish feathers?" Are you still afraid of the stigma on the government? Not bad. Come on you kid is ambitious, hehe, I remember. We old guys have to do whatever kind of landmines and test the depths, and you just want to do the easy ones, and only do the ones that are harmless to your reputation, right? ”

Guo Shucheng smiled: "Don't be weird when you're old, I'm not bad from you?" Besides, what I am doing now, how many of you can do, how many of you can make money for the country as shamelessly as I do? You can't be willing to transfer me from the Third Machine Department, right? As soon as I leave like this, it's not that I'm bragging, and the country will immediately reduce its foreign exchange earnings by at least two billion dollars, every year! ”

Yu Gangqiu said: "You kid is very confident. Do you really think that without Zhang Butcher, we can only eat mixed pigs? Your set of money-making tricks that don't have to be shameless as long as you have money, the people below you are about to learn it. If you are transferred, they can still make money for the country. ”

Guo Zhuocheng said: "However, at most, they have learned the ability to do business, and they have never learned how to take advantage of opportunities, and they do not know how to make money by taking advantage of various favorable conditions, and it is difficult to make more money." If you think about it, if you let them go abroad to sell tanks, even if they can sell them, a Type 69 tank will sell for 300,000 dollars at most. And I, as soon as I sell it, it is 600,000 US dollars, and the other party still doesn't bargain with me, this is the difference. ”

Yu Gangqiu had to nod and said, "This is indeed the fact. However, the reason why you were able to sell for a high price of $600,000 was because of your strong backing from your motherland. ”

Guo Shucheng said bluntly: "Who doesn't use the motherland behind them as a backing to sell arms? If you ask my people to sell him, will he say he's Vietnamese or Cambodian? Let's just say that in the past, under your auspices, tanks were sold to the Afghan resistance, and it was not the same in the name of the state? You are sending them to the battlefield again, and you are risking offending the Soviet Union, and as a result, you still can't talk about the high price of 600,000 dollars per tank. ”

Then, he smiled and said, "Vice Premier Yu, you are really not as good as me in terms of business. ”