Chapter 273: Trouble in the South (1)
"In order for the economy to be further active, in addition to the production capacity, the purchasing power of individuals must also be increased. Of course, it is also important that more people become part of the industrial society. Therefore, I am very much in favor of the Governor's policy, because deepening the land reform itself can promote the liberation of the rural population, and the large amount of basic investment will make the whole society less expensive. Pang Congcong, chairman of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, chose to support Wei Ze's First Five-Year Plan.
Zhou Gaoming, deputy director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC), who is at this stage at odds with Pang Congcong, of course, also put forward his views, "Of course I support the governor, but from now on, the cost of the whole country is getting higher, not lower." Originally, you only had to fetch water to drink water, but now you can drink tap water, and how much money has been spent to build Nanjing's tap water supply system. Speaking of water, several reservoirs have been built in Nanjing, which is also a big investment. However, the increase in agricultural production in the farmland around Nanjing was limited. In other words, the extra production is completely generated by a large amount of investment. ”
Pang Congcong has also been concerned about this issue for a long time, and she immediately retorted: "What kind of water did Nanjing people drink before? The well water is already good, but in fact, many people can only drink river water. Can that compare to tap water? Drinking tap water is at least much less likely to get sick. As for farmland water conservancy construction, you should not only look at the increase in income, but also look at the output under various drought and flood disasters. After the reservoir is established, even if it cannot completely guarantee the harvest during drought and flood, at least the yield will be more stable. Nor can the effects of this faith be completely ignored. After the completion of the reservoir, it will not only take one year or two years, and the increase in production will add up to a lot, and the total amount is very scary. ”
Not to be outdone, Zhou Gaoming, the deputy director, replied: "We are the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, and we are in charge of state-owned assets, including reservoirs. After the reservoir is completed, it still needs to be managed and maintained, and the greening of the reservoir area and forest protection do not need to cost money? ”
"The demand for irrigation is not so strong south of the Yangtze River, but it is different in areas north of the Yangtze River. There's a big difference between good and bad land over there. The First Five-Year Plan has deepened land reform and strengthened agricultural construction, which has greatly increased the output of millions of acres of land. ”
"But that still requires a lot of investment, and far water can't quench the thirst of the near."
"On the whole, it is impossible for fiscal revenue to increase rapidly in the short term, and at this stage, we must start from the basics......
Generally, the two kinds of people are unlikely to blend into the SASAC, the main leaders of the SASAC began to argue, and other comrades couldn't help but join the battle group, and the whole discussion became more and more heated.
“…… If investment is growing so fast, if investment is still increased at such a rate, the fiscal will dare to dry up......"
"That's not depletion, it's just deficit......"
"Isn't this the job of the Ministry of Finance, we can't even snatch the job of the Ministry of Finance?"
"The Ministry of Finance will not spend money on money,"
"We are responsible for the management of state-owned assets, and we have to do our best to operate state-owned assets!"
"Increasing basic investment is state-owned asset management, and it is also state-owned asset management to operate the current assets well, which is the same thing......"
"It's not the same thing at all, look at the price, can it be the same thing......
The recent work of the SASAC is actually not so busy, after all, what is a state-owned asset, how to manage the existing assets of the new unit of the SASAC, and this docking work is not fast enough. After all, it is not easy to order the local government to obediently hand over the management of state-owned assets. It must be cooperated by the power of the State Council. Because of Wei Ze's absence, Premier Bi Qingshan's appeal and execution are obviously not as strong as Wei Ze's.
External problems are so difficult, and there will naturally be many internal solutions. The various discussions range from concrete to direction, and from direction to theory. At the request of Pang Congcong, the staff of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) took out "Capital" and the "Introduction to the First Volume of Capital" written by Wei Ze in accordance with the 21st Century Political Studies.
I have to say that Uncle Ma, who is a university scholar, has indeed lifted the fog that has been shrouded in capital operation. Wei Ze's guide really played a role. It is not ordinarily difficult for these comrades in China, who do not even have the concept of capital, to learn Capital on their own. After the introduction, there is a program.
Two weeks later, the SASAC actually came up with a consensus text. At the beginning of the article, Weize's views on the three economic cycles are quoted, namely the cycle of scientific and technological development, the cycle of industrial investment, and the cycle of product identity. These three cycles have nothing to do with capitalism or communism, and are an explanation that later economists agree on for economic fluctuations.
According to the SASAC, the most pressing question at this stage is how long the country can endure the heavy pressure of massive investment. Everyone thinks that the best solution in the short term is to make a breakthrough in the development of productive forces. That is to say, the cycle of scientific and technological development that can be artificially shortened for decades, or even hundreds of years, or even thousands of years. If breakthroughs in science and technology can lead to breakthroughs in productivity, the heavy pressure will be alleviated in the next three to five years.
This conclusion is easy to draw, as long as you really understand the economy and have a certain amount of social management practice, you will know that China's productive forces have reached a point of "exhaustion" in a certain sense. In recent years, the land reform has actually been quite useful, reducing the internal land pressure on overseas immigrants, and the people have been given more land than before, except for the landlord and gentry class, which has been attacked by the state. The law does not allow the sale of land, and the people have the heart to make a fortune by farming.
But this kind of thing is useless to think about, and a large part of the reason for the explosive growth of the steel industry of the new government is the full popularization of iron farming tools in the countryside. Including the popularization of rubber shoes, coupled with women's emancipation and strict foot binding, the productive forces were indeed released in large quantities in a short period of time.
People's spirit can be incomparably high, but manpower cannot be squeezed indefinitely. In the past decade or so, this wave of productivity liberation has unleashed the productivity of China's hundreds of millions of people, and even though the advent of the steam engine has made large-scale irrigation a feasible reality, this wave of productivity development has really reached its peak. Pang Congcong often visits the Pearl River Delta, and after a lot of field research and summary, Pang Congcong found that if he wants to increase the yield a little more, he needs farmers to exhaust their bodies. From a farmer's point of view, this input-to-output ratio is not cost-effective. The power supply in the cities is barely available, and there is simply not enough capacity to put electricity in the countryside. The steam engine was bulky and inconvenient, and the investment and maintenance costs were too high, making it unsuitable for large-scale use in rural areas.
The SASAC people are not fools, and after a serious meeting to sum up, coupled with the guiding role of Capital, everyone can understand that China's rapid development is actually in the hands of Wei Ze alone. Weeser led the Liberation Army to develop a number of incredible technologies, which, combined with the needs of society, exploded into astonishing power under the new system.
There is no room for major changes in the current social system, and the people's needs are still strong, even stronger than before. What China needs most now is for Weiser to once again take the lead in promoting the development of China's science and technology. As long as Wei Ze can make a breakthrough in China's productive forces, none of the problems we are facing now will be a problem.
What kind of breakthrough can solve the problem, the comrades of the SASAC are actually not clear. What kind of technological progress can be called a breakthrough, the comrades of the SASAC really do not understand. There is only one thing that everyone can be sure of, in today's China, if there is one person who can solve this problem, it is Wei Ze. During the discussion, the comrades of the SASAC established a fact. All the progress made by China over the past decade or so, social, scientific, technological, and military, all came from Wei Ze. If even Weeser is unable to push for this breakthrough, we really don't know who else can lead China to continue to progress.
Sometimes the obvious facts are in front of you, but you can't recognize them clearly. Just like before this discussion, the SASAC people just knew that Wei Ze was everyone's leader, and everyone needed to follow the leader. Wei Ze went north, and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission began to do it on its own.
After the Chinese peasants were allocated the land, they were in high spirits and wanted to make a fortune on their own. After the SASAC has the authority and action, every member also wants to make great achievements to prove themselves. If they want to achieve great things, they have discovered that the best and most direct way is to stand on the shoulders of giants. The comrades of the SASAC clearly saw that they were obviously not giants, and the comrades of the SASAC saw even more clearly that they had actually stood on the shoulders of giants for a long time, and it was this giant that brought them to today's height.
After reading the revised consensus, I waited for the final summary of opinions. But no one spoke first, and the summary of the past and the expectations for the future have already been said in the consensus, and if new opinions are to be put forward, the content of the consensus can only be overturned. The reason why he was silent was because some comrades excitedly said when Wei Ze went north, "We will work hard and surprise the governor when he returns!" Even comrades who have not spoken so openly actually agree with this view. What I didn't expect was that there was no need to wait for Wei Ze to come back, everyone had to take the initiative to ask Wei Ze to come back and lead everyone to work.
In addition to this relatively superficial matter, quite a few comrades once believed that it was the efforts of these people, including them, that allowed Weeser to stand in his current position. The re-understanding of the facts has subverted their old views, and if there were no people from the SASAC, Wei Ze would only have to find a group of other people as his subordinates. If they had not become Wei Ze's subordinates, these people in the SASAC would not have reached the status and height they have today.
Perhaps because as a woman who is more vulnerable than men, Pang Congcong has long seen these things clearly. In the discussion, she also saw clearly the arrogance in the hearts of these male colleagues who wanted to save face. After being the secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee for so long, Pang Congcong knows very well how important a man's face is to them. So she didn't say a word, and she didn't want to stimulate everyone's self-esteem meaninglessly.
After being silent for a while, the deputy director of the SASAC finally spoke: "We must ask the governor to come back and preside over the work." What do you think? ”
"Agreed!" "Agreed!"
In a short period of time, all the personnel seriously expressed their complete unanimous opinion.