Chapter 116: Shadow Government is More Efficient

If there is an organization that can serve everyone wholeheartedly and satisfy people from all walks of life under the premise of fairness, then this institution must not be the government, but Wal-Mart.

Huge profits were made by the shareholders (the ruling class), consumers (the ruled class) were given the benefits of good quality and low prices, employees (officials) received various benefits of a stable income, and suppliers (producers: part of the ruled class, in feudal times were peasants and craftsmen) had a stable and huge source of orders. The root of all this comes from the application of advanced logistics technology and large-scale procurement to reduce costs.

If a government wants to achieve such a level, it needs to provide high-quality and low-cost public services (goods) in exchange for a perfect approval rate (profit), and to achieve this goal, it needs to have massive resources (abundant supply, low prices), advanced institutions and advanced technology (low logistics costs).

In order to maintain extremely low resource purchase prices for a long time, it is necessary to grasp the power to set commodity prices, and in order to maintain the advanced system and science and technology for a long time, it is necessary to devote determination and energy to the establishment of education and to maintain a political structure with high mobility and vitality.

This was obviously difficult to achieve in the 11th century, and the Travelers sought to achieve these goals by the middle of the 12th century. The technical conditions for the dream of a strong country have been prepared, but a large number of problems have not been solved, such as the quantity and quality of talents, the scale of natural resource utilization, the level and coverage of infrastructure, the degree of ideological unity, the level of integration of cultural and ethnic backgrounds, and the preparation for the negative impact of cross-continental exchanges such as biodiversity and invasive species.

The traversers who had just obtained the power of the central government did not express any excitement and excitement at all, not even the internal celebrations, what should they do or what to do, as if the emperor's family had nothing to do with him, it was not a matter at all!

At the shareholders' meeting at the end of Yuanyou's 12th year, Li Ji proposed that the third five-year plan of Chenji Group was a typical example of pouring cold water and giving a gold bar. The main reason for the failure to meet the deadlines for the industrial plan is that the steel and cement industries have crowded out too many resources, resulting in a large number of heavy chemical industries not having enough building materials to build factories and new production lines, and the engine industry and the power industry, which are not urging enough interest groups, to complete the plan most slowly. Yang Wenhui, who is in charge of the building materials field, was ridiculed as the biggest bandit who did not hesitate to rob halfway in order to exceed his targets. Gao Jing, who rarely attends resource allocation meetings, can't stand Lao Yang's greed. After the final statistics were released, except for Accountant Liu, who had no concept of industrial resources, the other traversers who had been complained about by the lack of raw materials and manpower all year round were angry. The three industries of steel, cement and construction that Lao Yang is responsible for occupy almost 48% of the resources and manpower.

In the end, Li Ji had to come out of the round and tell them that the purpose of crowding out resources in infrastructure construction is to achieve perfect high-speed accumulation, and that taking the real and nameless planned economic system is the only shortcut to achieve high accumulation, and as long as they survive the Third Five-Year Plan, they will be followed by the era of balanced industrial layout, and perfect rhythm and speed can be achieved regardless of regional balance or industrial balance.

Modernizing electricity at a time when the world was under feudal rule was as unrealistic as communism in the 19th century, and the Third Five-Year Plan set an average annual growth rate of 20 percent in total industrial output and 12.5 percent in total agricultural output. The total investment in capital construction is 2 billion dragon yuan (Chen Ji Qian was changed to the only legal currency of the Chinese Empire of the New Dynasty, Chen is the dragon, referred to as Long Yuan), at the beginning of 1945 (the new year was changed to the Yuan Republic 1940, the first year of the Western Zhou Republic was the first year of the era, the imperial era name was abolished, and this law was adopted in the future) Statistics should show that the number of rural cooperatives reached about 1/3 of the total number of households, the output of steel was 450,000 tons, and the grain output was 80 million tons. The population of 120 million has basically achieved full coverage of four-year compulsory education in primary school, and the life of running water and central heating after the first industrial revolution has been initially realized in large and medium-sized cities, and the life of sewers and public baths in small cities and villages has been initially realized.

In this nondescript system of semi-planned and semi-market economy, the industries that traverse the masses act as a giant trust on the scale of state capitalism, with orders and scale that even exceed the effectiveness of a standard planned economy. This unprecedentedly large group has pushed its internal efficiency to the limit, and cross-shareholding with partners has led to monopolies and competition in a state of limits. In other words, there will be no waste caused by excessive competition, and there will be no inefficiencies caused by monopolies.

The independent consortium standing behind the new government is both a huge supporter and a powerful watchdog. Originally, he was both a boss and a teacher, and he had absolute prestige in front of all the officials of the new dynasty, and this model of capital controlling power and power derived from capital completely subverted the traditional model of relying on bloodline and violence to establish political power in the past, and perfectly unified the profit-seeking of capital and the social nature of promoting economic development.

In the past, the traditional scholars' understanding of capital was that businessmen pursued profits, and the lack of moral and institutional constraints would undermine social stability, but this new society allowed all intellectuals in the East to re-see the wisdom of Guan Zhong thousands of years ago and the means to use capital to strengthen the country.