Chapter 485: Analysis of the Economic Situation
"You are so young now, and you are also a fairly senior government official, are you confident that you will take over the core of power in the future?"
"Mr. Witt, you don't understand China's national conditions, and we can't ask such a question in China. Since you have brought it up, I would like to tell you that I am an economic cadre, and I lack experience, study, and confidence in governing the country. It is my greatest wish to be able to take charge of a place, contribute to the economic construction of a place, and benefit the people. β
"As you just said, and the outside world has also commented that you are a strong man in economic construction, can you analyze the current economic situation in Europe and find the crux of the problem and the solution?"
"It's a big question, it's difficult, and I haven't done any research on the economic situation in Europe, so I can only try to analyze it. The solution to the problem that occurred in Europe is still a precursor at present, and it will intensify in the future, and even cause social unrest in Europe. At this stage, it seems that I may be premature, I will say it in vain, and you will listen to it. β
"What is the reason?"
"According to my analysis, the reason for this is not how much of a mistake has gone in your own European economy, but an international phenomenon with a high degree of regularity. This has happened in many countries that have pursued the economic policies imposed by the International Monetary Fund. β
"According to you, the IMF's economic policy is wrong?"
Wuyang smiled: "Mr. Werther, you are all engaged in economic work, and you must be much deeper than my thinking, maybe you won't agree with my thinking, but I still have to insist." The implementation of such economic policies. In fact, it is an economic and financial war that plunders the economies of countries and the wealth of their people. Previously, it was for the marginal areas of the economy. For example, the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Latin America are now turning to Europe. β
Mr. Witte said: "Where is the specific table? β
"First of all, they advocate privatization in competitive fields under the pretext of improving efficiency, and then they demand that state-owned enterprises withdraw from important industries on the grounds of anti-monopoly and other reasons, so as to remove the obstacles for state-owned enterprises to control the economic lifeline and strategic industries of monopoly consortia, and these industries fall into the hands of monopoly consortia, and they can do whatever they want to plunder the national economy and people's wealth."
"Can you give an example?"
"There are so many examples of this. For example, after selling an oil company to a consortium. They can raise the price of fuel at will, so that all the wealth of the people will be looted, and the price of fuel will rise, and with it, the price of freight, all kinds of raw materials and all kinds of goods will rise sharply, and the country's economy will serve the consortium. β
"Doesn't your country also have price increases in the monopoly industry?"
"The monopoly industry in our country is basically in the hands of the state, and even if they increase their prices, their profits are nothing more than extra wages, bonuses and benefits, and the majority is still the state. The consequence is at most that the country is rich and the people are poor. If it falls into the hands of a monopoly consortium. That is, if it falls into the hands of individuals, will the consortium pay for the construction of various projects that benefit the country and the people? Will it be used to develop the welfare of the whole society? β
"Mr. Li, your thinking is profound, go on."
"Mr. Werther, you've won the prize. In fact, as a person engaged in economic work, as long as you have a clear mind, you can think of these things. The second step of the IMF's economic policy is to liberalize the capital market and the financial market, and to dismantle the obstacles to the free entry and exit of monopoly consortia, and the third step is for the monopoly consortia to manipulate the IMF and appear as a savior, and under the pretext of saving the crisis or exacerbating the crisis if it is not reformed, it will propose a series of neoliberal 'reform and adjustment programs' with more stringent conditions, and force the privatization of natural monopolies, public utilities, and strategic industries. At this point, a considerable part of the population will certainly be deprived of basic living conditions, and this will lead to a crisis of social unrest. β
"What about the back?"
"Of course, there's bloody looting below. Once the above goals are achieved, the financial oligarchy will take off their pretenses, immediately take advantage of the fire to rob, take advantage of the collapse in asset prices to control the economic and financial lifelines of other countries, and vigorously carry out privatization, taking advantage of unemployment to cut the work benefits of employees, and taking advantage of the economic downturn to cut social welfare, so that the people will be burdened with heavy debts and the shackles of poverty. Mr. Werther, few people will take to the streets if they are able to support themselves, but if there is a danger of freezing and starving, even the faint of heart will not care about it. β
"Mr. Li, you have taught us a good lesson, thank you. However, as far as we know, you are also one of the financial oligarchs, and you have also benefited greatly from the acquisition turmoil in various countries. How would you explain this? An old man with glasses said.
"Sir, your information is incorrect, our family has not been involved in the financial industry, mainly in construction, mining and manufacturing. Among today's female guests, there are a few financiers, who are friends of my wife, who may have had financial dealings, but they don't invest in other people's properties. β
"We're not asking anything anymore and we're going to have a drink," Witte said. Mr. Li, you live in the southwest corner of the country, and it is very commendable that you can have such an understanding of the economic situation in the world. If you can lead a larger region, or China as a whole, you may be able to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past. β
Wuyang smiled: "Mr. Witt, you really don't understand our national conditions, this kind of thing is just something we say in private, no one will take it seriously, but you can't say it again regardless of the occasion." If you European and American monopoly conglomerates, or have spokespersons in power in our country, if you hear our conversation today, I will go home tomorrow and pick up my children. β
Witte also smiled and said: "You are not a government official anymore, maybe our cooperation will be more convenient." Mr. Lai, if your country is also attacked by the IMF, how will your financial empire face it? β
"Mr. Werther, please don't call our business a financial empire, we are just a big ship that can sail the seas. We have limited strength, but when we are attacked, we will do our best to deal with it. If this so-called reform starts from within. We're going to have to make a full acquisition. We will not let these enterprises related to the national economy and people's livelihood fall into the hands of others. β
Witte said: "You just want to turn the monopoly of the state into the monopoly of your group, so that your government officials can continue to be in power?" However, whether you are a government official or not, we still have to drink alcohol. Tomorrow we will sign our cooperation agreement. β
"Thank you, thank you Mr. Witte and all friends, may our friends be all over the world, and may we be able to create a brilliant tomorrow together."
When we arrived at the restaurant, Mr. Witte proposed not to drink white wine, but only red wine, and Wuyang did not prepare any good red wine here, only red wine shipped from his own winery. However, the winemaking technique was imported from Romania, and the taste of the red wine is very good. Coupled with the fact that there were the owners of Romanian wine companies on the scene to promote it, the wine was drunk more.
The wives of the afternoon sun. Except for Yu Huijuan and Qin Xiaoying, who had to come forward, although everyone else came, they didn't eat together, and they entered the room after the meal. There are only about 80 rooms in the wool yard, and these people are just arranged to live.
Wuyang summoned his own people together to discuss some things, and Ouyang Qi was also invited to participate. Xiong Gangqiang said: "Secretary Li, Witt also asked me those questions just now, and I couldn't answer them at all, no wonder he said that I am a transactional person." β
Wuyang said: "Our work focuses are different, you have so many things every day, where can you be like me, sit down to read books and newspapers, and think about problems." β
Guo Zhiping said: "As long as we can do our own work, it is not our turn to consider major events in the world." β
Ouyang Qi said: "Chairman Guo, if all entrepreneurs think like this, it is a matter of time before the company goes into the quagmire. β
Guo Zhiping asked, "General Ouyang, how can this be?" β
Ouyang Qi said: "I won't tell you the theory, let's take the Asian financial turmoil a few years ago, why did only Hong Kong remain the only Asian Tigers at that time? It was because the head of the central government at that time had a clear understanding of this problem and immediately mobilized the central government's financial resources to block the attack of the financial predators, so as to preserve Hong Kong's economy. If it weren't for the decision of the head of government at that time, or if the head of government himself was on the side of the financial predators, would there be any way for Hong Kong to stop it? β
"There's definitely no way." Xiong Gangqiang said.
Ouyang Qi said: "It's not that there is no way, think about it, can the funds that Soros unite and the financial oligarchy that can use be compared with the funds of the major consortia in Hong Kong?" If the heads of the major consortia can have a sober understanding, sacrifice some interests, and unite to deal with financial predators, it will be enough for Soros to sink into the sand, and without the support of the central government, there will not be much of a problem. β
Li Tianye said: "What the general means is that in the future, our group can also unite with the consortium within the United Nations to jointly block the attack of the financial oligarchy, no matter how the central government's policy changes, our national economic system can still be in the hands of the people, can we understand it in this way?" β
Wuyang said: "Yes, that's it. Chairman Xiong, after you go back this time, you can set up an economic research institute to systematically study the macro and micro economics at home and abroad. It's best to do it with Mr. Yu's side, their strength may be stronger. The institute can hire full-time researchers, or hire part-time personnel, our existing team personnel, can also participate in research, published high-quality papers, we must not only repay the remuneration, but also give priority to the use, in the salary tilt, these people are our strategic forces, is our national weapon. β
Xiong Gangqiang said: "In this case, it is better to take the lead in the establishment of Mr. Yu." We already have more than 20 research institutes, except for computer studios, which are all money-burning, and we lack leaders in this area. β
Yu Huijuan said: "Okay, let's take the lead." β
Wuyang said: "I don't want you to pay for the funds, I'll pay for it." Chairman Xiong, how has the profitability of the computer development company been in recent years? β
"Very good, in recent years, the development of urban lighting engineering software, is a very money-making software, last year about 70 cities to promote, the profit of more than 120 billion, of course, only more than 80 billion."
"Can the rest be recovered?"
"Their operating mode is not to take back all of them, but to keep a part of them, and to be responsible for maintenance and upkeep in the future, and continue to expand the scope of compatibility. There is also an annual usage fee. Although not as big as the initial gains. It's still good. β
Wuyang asked: "Are these profits enough for the expenses of other research institutes?" β
Xiong Gangqiang said: "It doesn't take so much, the aviation city to establish an engine laboratory, such a large project, the investment is more than 5 billion, the production of an aircraft, to build a simulated cockpit, only a few hundred million is enough." β
"Chairman Xiong. Although you are not responsible for the establishment of this economic research institute, the talents under your command must also actively participate, and you may have more senior talents with a doctorate degree or above than Yu Zong. β
Yu Huijuan said: "We now have 223 doctors, I don't know how many are Chairman Xiong's side? β
Xiong Gangqiang said: "Speaking of nearly 400 doctors, in fact, our doctors are basically concentrated in the aviation city, and other enterprises, that is, less than 100 people. Computer development companies, again accounted for half. β
Ouyang Qi said: "Secretary Li." Last night I discussed it with Mr. Werther, and Mr. Werther put me in touch with a friend at Airbus, and his friend proposed such a plan, and I don't know if you can accept it. β
"What's the plan?"
"It's that you build an airline, buy 20 planes from Airbus, they don't care what routes you open up, they can help with other things, such as training pilots, mechanics, flight attendants, ground crew, etc., they only sell you two finished planes, and the rest, they can provide all kinds of spare parts according to your needs, and assemble them in your aerotropolitan."
Wuyang said: "We need the most advanced models, we need core production technology, can they provide it?" β
"I'm afraid it's difficult, but I believe that anything can be discussed, do you form a delegation after Christmas, negotiate with them in the past, negotiate the best, and there will be nothing to lose if you can't negotiate, the big deal is to spend some money, you only need to take out 1% of this income, which is enough to organize a delegation for a trip to Europe."
"How much does it cost this time?"
Zhu Bei said: "This time, they were sold a total of 117 tons of red jade, yellow jade, purple green and black jade, the cheapest was 8 million euros per kilogram, the most expensive was 16 million euros, and the average was 13 million euros, and there were three people including Mr. Witt who did not buy it." β
Wuyang said: "It's really a lot, General Ouyang, I don't know if this money is enough to form an airline?" β
Ouyang Qi said: "Where you need so much money, I think all the expenses are added together, and 10% of it is enough." β
"Well, the income from this time, in addition to the formation of airlines, will be used to carry out this package of cooperation projects."
Yu Huijuan said: "We are an independent conglomerate, and we can't use this money. β
Xiong Gangqiang said: "Although the company's money is also yours, we have money, and we don't need it, and it is not easy to deal with it in the accounts, and we will pay a lot of income tax." Secretary Li, now our annual corporate income tax is more than 100 billion yuan, this is still the gold jewelry industry, as a self-employed person, in the retail link of each store pΓΉ to pay income tax, otherwise I don't know how much more to pay. β
Wuyang said: "Mr. Yu, are your enterprises paying taxes formally?" β
"We are all able to withstand tax inspections, and there is no reasonable tax avoidance. When you talked to Mr. Witte and the others just now, didn't you say that you wanted to defend the country? β
"Yes, the normal payment of taxes should be, and we can't be investigated and punished for tax avoidance, which will damage the image of our company and the long-term development of the company, Chairman Xiong, do you think this is right?"
"Exactly. However, our business for many years, has formed a relatively fixed mode of operation with the local tax authorities, how much tax to pay each year, everyone is confident, if suddenly increased too much, the tax authorities will inevitably have doubts about the taxes we have paid before, but it is not conducive to the stability of the situation. β
Wuyang smiled, "Chairman Xiong, it's no longer the time for us to fight the world back then, we must take stability as the overall situation, since you think you can keep it steady, it's good to continue." By the way, Chairman Xiong, Mr. Yu, you have more enterprises now, do you think you care about your employees? β
Xiong Gangqiang said: "I think we should be good to our employees, anyway, over the years, our employees, whether they are senior managers or industrial workers, have hardly resigned." We have all in place our holiday overtime pay, all kinds of insurance and funds that need to be paid. In particular, we have been implementing the bonus system you implemented back then, and the oldest employees can get more than 1,400 yuan in bonuses every month, and if you work for 10 years, we will pay 2,400 yuan every month. β
Yu Huijuan said: "These we have also implemented, since the year before last, we have made a small property right property for the housing of employees, which is welcomed by the majority of employees, for which we have invested a lot, but it is vital to unite people's hearts." β
Wuyang asked, "Chairman Xiong, have you done it?" β
"No, we just built a lot of dormitories for our employees, and we don't know what a small property is."
Yu Huijuan said: "The so-called small property rights, that is, the company is responsible for land acquisition to build houses, according to the needs of employees to build various specifications, built employees can invest in the purchase, housing prices are very cheap, such as the housing prices within the fourth ring of the capital are more than 30,000 per square meter, our small property rights, the price is only 5,000 yuan per square meter." In addition, as long as the employee subscribes, we can deduct it from his salary year by year, and we are also responsible for the procedures that need to be handled. Employees don't need these houses anymore and can return them without any reason, and we still refund the original selling price. β
Ouyang Qi said: "This method is good, it can solve the difficulties of those young people who are old and need to get married, if they come from the countryside, their hometown already has a house, and they can return it when they go back in the future, which is equivalent to living in vain, the only drawback is that there is no value-added." β
Xiong Gangqiang said: "How can sugarcane have two sweets, so it is very good, we have to do this when we go back, lest the employees are old and cannot live a married life when they get married." This method seems to be the company is at a loss, in fact, the employees live, should be regarded as the company's benefits to them, the company is now building a house to occupy the land, the future can continue to appreciate, the company is sweet at both ends, so to speak, or to buy more land. β
Wuyang said: "For factories and mines that have been built, try to buy land nearby, don't let employees commute too far to work, and buy larger land for new factories and mines." Tomorrow you will still talk to Mr. Witt about cooperation projects, General Ouyang, please mediate more, we want their advanced technology and management concepts, but also maximize their interests. β
Zhu Bei said: "I see that there are still a few pieces of yellow and black green in the stone cutting room, and I will sell them to Mr. Werther tomorrow." β
Wuyang asked, "What Huang Cui?" Did you cut it out today? β
"I don't know, anyway, after dinner, I went to take a look, and it was piled up in the stone cutting room, and I asked them to put it in the warehouse, and they only moved a few small pieces, and the big ones were several tons, and they couldn't move them."
Wuyang said: "That's Bao'er is going to carve a dog, it seems that we can only carve it next time." General Ouyang, Mr. Werther, are they chartered cargo plane transport? Do you want to cut it smaller? β
"You're busy with your tomorrow, so you don't have to worry about these things. We may be leaving tomorrow, and you have to give me some money now. β
"Okay, how much do you want?" (To be continued......)