The supreme chief said unhurriedly: "Give you five minutes, you say, I have any good way for you." ”

The words of the supreme chief were very vague: here you should not complain on behalf of the peasants, we all know, but there is no way to solve it all at once. Now you can just talk about your solution, what tricks do we have?

Guo Zhuocheng, who was reborn, was a high-ranking official in his previous life, so he naturally would not stupidly say that the current and previous policies were not good, and he would definitely not criticize the current policies here, but reminded the Zhongyang bosses to pay more attention to these problems and strive to solve them faster than in his previous life.

In the previous life, it was not until 2005 that the problem of peasants' grievances was solved, and the agricultural tax was slowly abolished, the relevant agricultural subsidies were greatly increased, and the investment in water conservancy facilities was increased,...... Through these reforms, the peasants gradually became richer than the townspeople. Contrary to the past, after 200 years, it will be more difficult for ordinary people to obtain a rural hukou than it is to obtain an urban hukou, and if they want to obtain an urban hukou, they only need to pool money to buy a commercial house in the city, but it will be even more difficult to obtain a rural hukou.

Seeing the agreement of the supreme leader, Guo Zhuocheng said: "We, including all the leaders here, must know that at present, the average price of grain in China is only about half of the international grain price, and the peasants basically have no money to make except for a full stomach for farming at home all year round, and the peasants' enthusiasm is naturally not high. I believe that with China's policy to encourage private individuals to set up companies and enterprises, factories and enterprises will appear like a rain after a rain in the future, which will inevitably lead to the need for a large number of workers and employees in these factories and enterprises. Where do these non-agricultural populations come from? On the one hand, they are diverted from the existing factories and enterprises with poor efficiency, and on the other hand, they come from the unemployed youth, but these diverted and unemployed people cannot meet this demand, and most of them can only come from the rural areas.

That's a great thing, and it's what we're after. The peasants' entry into factories and enterprises will certainly greatly promote the development of the national economy, greatly increase the income of the common people, and gradually narrow the gap between urban and rural areas.

However, this has also brought about a hidden danger, that is, the peasants who have moved to the cities and factories and enterprises are all young and strong laborers, and they are the backbone of the rural areas, and their transfer is bound to greatly weaken the strength of the rural areas and have a negative impact on agricultural production. There is already a shortage of food in our country, and if they leave the land, the agricultural situation will be even less optimistic, and perhaps the food shortage will be even worse.

Some people may say that the efficiency of many enterprises in the cities is not good, the income of workers is very low, and the peasants may not leave their homes or their homes. In fact, even if the wages of workers are only a dozen or twenty yuan, as long as they can save a few yuan or more than a dozen yuan in addition to eating, they will come out. Because this money is a huge amount of money that they can hardly hope for, it can solve many problems at home, buy salt, buy oil, buy clothes for their children, and provide children with education. ”

This is the migrant worker chao that everyone knew in the previous life, so Guo Zhuocheng's tone was very affirmative.

All the high-ranking officials were obviously infected by Guo Zhuocheng's self-confidence, and they were all thinking: once this situation arises, what will happen to the countryside?

Guo Zhuocheng continued: "China has a large population, but the area of cultivated land is too small, and there is already a shortage of grain. What to do? First, we have taken administrative measures to prevent the peasants from leaving, adopted the method of encircling and chasing and intercepting them, and adopted strict household registration control to force the peasants not to move. Is this method good? Obviously not good! As the saying goes, people go to high places, and water flows to low places. If we really do this, and really use force to force the peasants not to leave, it will be going against the people's wishes and doing what the peasants are evil, and not only will we not be able to solve the fundamental problem, but on the contrary, it will easily stir up social contradictions, easily cause violent social turmoil, and will also cause a large waste of manpower and material resources, which will severely hinder our reform process, especially the development of industry.

So what do we do? As the saying goes, it's better to be blocked than to be sparse. I myself propose to fully open up, farmers who are willing to stay, and those who are not willing to stay will enter factories and enterprises, so that everyone will be happy and happy.

In this way, we must put more effort into the word 'retention', that is, how to retain the peasants, how to retain them? In fact, the flow of talent between urban and rural areas is also a kind of competition, a kind of competition between cities and villages for talents. Our aim is to increase the competitiveness of rural areas.

In order to retain the majority of farmers, on the one hand, we must increase the development of chemical fertilizers, fine seeds, pesticides, and agricultural machinery, and do our best to increase agricultural output. On the other hand, it is necessary to raise the purchase price of agricultural products, reduce the economic burden on peasants, and make peasants feel that farming is profitable and profitable. In addition, people generally have a mentality that they are unable to leave their homeland, a mentality of fear of unfamiliar places, and the influence of family affection, which can greatly slow down the pace of their departure from the countryside and leave more people in the countryside. ”

Guo Zhuocheng did not say radical measures such as "abolishing agricultural taxes" and "lifting restrictions on peasants' migration," but only said that "reducing the burden on peasants" was a vague and vague statement.

He continued: "It is good to say that the peasants' burdens should be lightened, but the issue of raising the prices of agricultural products involves several issues: That is, can urban residents, especially those with difficult families, and the workers of enterprises with poor economic returns, accept the changes in the prices of grain, meat, and vegetables? Will it bring serious damage to the country's economic construction and will it bring a heavy burden to the country's finances? In the final analysis, can we accept high food prices? Will the consequences of high food prices do more harm than good, or do the benefits outweigh the harm?

I believe that the benefits of implementing high food prices outweigh the disadvantages. If this is the case, we must take relevant countermeasures: first, the minimum or standard wage for workers and enterprise workers should be changed or raised, or the state should provide food subsidies to urban residents living in poverty, so that they can cope with this change. in order to reduce their complaints as much as possible.

This is an obvious drawback, which will obviously increase the burden on the country's finances.

But this burden can be alleviated or even eliminated in other ways, and I will explain it in detail later. I would now like to talk about the impact of high food prices on other countries and the benefits that may have in my country.

Our biggest fear now is that high food prices will crush the economy. However, many countries in the United Kingdom, and Europe have implemented policies of high food prices, and as a result, their economies have grown at the same high rate. At present, South Korea has also begun to implement high food prices, and the share of its agricultural output in the national economy has increased rapidly, and none of these countries have experienced economic collapse as a result of high food prices.

Looking back at our country, I think the benefits of high food prices are actually obvious. If China implements high grain prices, many problems in the rural areas will be easily solved, and in particular, peasants' incomes will be greatly increased. If the income of the vast number of peasants increases, they will generate tremendous purchasing power, and this will inevitably promote the development of enterprises and factories, because the products of the factories will have an unlimited rural market. At that time, we will not need to rely entirely on foreign trade to pull the economy, but we will be able to generate a huge driving force just by relying on the new domestic demand in the rural areas. With the circulation of commodities and the development of the market, our income, especially tax revenue, will increase greatly, and fiscal revenue will increase greatly, and in a certain amount we will be able to make up for the grain price subsidies given to those poor urban residents, and will also be able to reduce the pressure on our expenditures and change the distribution of wealth among all strata in the country.

It can be said that our markets are interconnected, not simply separated, and it does not mean that the peasants get more money, the state treasury will have less revenue, and the workers will become impoverished because they pay high grain prices. In ancient times, it was said that the wealth of the world is a fixed number, and some people get more wealth, while others get less wealth. This is not the case at all, wealth is created by everyone, and it will only create more and more, the total number will become larger and larger, and the peasants will become richer, and the country's fiscal revenue will increase greatly.

In fact, making farmers rich is also our goal and direction of efforts, only by making farmers rich can we reduce the gap between the rich and the poor, if we deliberately lower the price of food does not rise, can make fertilizers, pesticides, diesel, seeds, agricultural machinery, and so on these must be produced by factories, enterprises of the price of the product what? Do you also hold them down and keep them from rising?

If the prices of these commodities are suppressed, the interests of the enterprises producing these products will inevitably be harmed, and their production enthusiasm will not be high, and the quality and quantity of the products they produce will be even more unable to meet the needs of agricultural production, and the problem of food shortage will never be solved.

However, if we do not suppress the prices of these commodities and let them rise along with the prices of other industrial commodities, then the peasants will be even more unable to afford the chemical fertilizers, pesticides, seeds, and agricultural machinery necessary for agricultural production, and they will be even more desperate, and they will flock to the cities in a swarm, preferring to earn a meager wage of a few yuan or more than a dozen yuan a month, rather than fertilizing the soil, not buying agricultural machinery, and having no interest in building water conservancy.

In the long run, our agriculture will get worse and worse, and it will regress more and more, and this time it will form a vicious cycle.

It can be said that if the peasants' income is not provided, it will not be good for the price of the commodities supplied to the rural areas to rise, and it will not be good if the price does not rise. What if we now enforce high food prices? This problem is not a problem, because the farmers have money, they can tolerate price increases, they can tolerate these enterprises to make reasonable profits. When the time comes to let go of their prices, we zhengfu don't need to be more hearted at all.

Now assuming that Zhengfu subsidizes the low-income urban population, will our finances be able to afford it? It is necessary to calculate the question of how much money we should subsidize to the urban poor, and whether we have the financial capacity to help them? ”

Speaking of this, Guo Zhuocheng smiled at the bigwigs in front of him.