[27] Candy and gold

According to the advice left by Xiaoqiang last time, in December 1949, New China continued to step up the rush to transport materials in the United States. In consideration of the very possibility of the outbreak of the Korean War and the imminent campaign to recover Taiwan, the central authorities demanded that a large amount of materials that were currently backlogged in the United States be shipped back, and at the same time, foreign exchange deposited in the United States should be quickly exchanged for gold and shipped back to China.

You must know that once China and the United States have bad relations and the United States freezes China's foreign exchange in the United States, as it has done historically, and detains its materials, then this will cause heavy losses to the already financially strained New China. Of course, the central authorities, who learned of this information in advance, could not sit idly by.

On the other hand, the central authorities have instructed that Hong Kong and Macao should be used as a window for China's foreign trade to help and support local patriotic businessmen in setting up trading companies.

Once there is a blockade, Hong Kong and Macao will become China's import and export platform for the West. But now with Cao Xiaoqiang, the value of Hong Kong and Macao as a small export platform for the West still exists.

Because Xiaoqiang has become the most important import platform.

Historically, the United States initiated a comprehensive licensing system for exports from Chinese mainland and Hong Kong and Macao (previously only for strategic goods were subject to licensing management), and "anything that a soldier could use" was not allowed to be shipped to China, including textiles and rubber scrap, thus imposing a de facto total embargo on China. On the 16th, the U.S. government announced that it would "put under control all assets of the Communist Party of China under the jurisdiction of the United States" and banned ships registered in the United States from sailing to Chinese ports.

The CIA has taken note of China's recent anomalous moves. According to the CIA's analysis, China's preparations to defect to the Soviet Union were China's efforts to defect to the Soviet Union, and the CIA's report to the US State Department pointed out that China must be in urgent need of gold to buy Soviet arms. The U.S. State Department agrees with this view.

Gold is not an embargoed material, and the United States has no reason to obstruct it, so the losses that may have occurred in history have been avoided in advance.

And some well-informed countries in the world are also curious about the recent gold hunger in New China. As a result, some countries have asked through indirect channels whether China is ready to follow the example of the Bretton Woods system and adopt a gold standard monetary system.

We borrowed a donkey from the slope and replied that we had this intention, but we needed more gold for reserves.

This makes Western countries feel funny, a country that has just been born, what strength does it have to engage in the gold standard, before the establishment of monetary credit, once the gold standard is implemented, the gold will be exchanged. What's more, you are very poor, and it is inevitable that the currency will be appropriately overissued, and it will be funny if you can't cash it out then. There could be a collapse of the monetary system.

Wall Street was keenly aware of this, so under the assurance of Wall Street, the US government connived at China's import of gold, because in their opinion, this is the poor Chinese government* that is killing itself, these dirt buns are too ignorant of the economy, can the gold be eaten when it is shipped back? Without industry, you will die sooner or later.

In fact, it is not like that at all, and you all know what this gold is used for.

In 1950, China's exports were $2 billion and imports were $2.13 billion.

According to the dollar gold standard under the Bretton Woods system, the gold content of one dollar is 0.888671 grams of gold. In other words, the country's exports can be exchanged for about 1,777 tons of gold.

At the same time, we have to import 2.13 billion US dollars, which means that as a country with a trade deficit, we have to discount gold or equivalent goods. Now Xiaoqiang can basically contract most of the purchases, so we will not have to work hard to import those materials by various means, and New China will become a trade surplus country.

Thanks to the technological era of 2010, the price of industrial products is ultra-low compared to 1949, plus the value preservation effect of gold.

According to the exchange rate in 2010, 1 gram of gold is exchanged for 300 yuan. Theoretically, 1,777 tons of gold would be equivalent to 533.1 billion yuan.

How powerful this purchasing power will be in 1949 is unimaginable.

Xiaoqiang has no doubt that this method will eventually collapse the Bretton Woods system, which collapsed only in 1973.

Even if China could only halve its imports in 1950, the country would gain more than 250 billion yuan in purchasing power.

This data calculated by Xiaoqiang completely shocked Comrade Chen Yu, one of the members of the 491 Nuwa Project Leading Committee and the brain of New China's economic work. As the director of the Financial and Economic Committee and the vice premier in charge of the country's financial and economic work, he asserted in front of the chairman that Cao Xiaoqiang was the gravedigger of the imperialist dollar hegemony; It is one of the most important 400 million in New China; It is a strategic weapon more important than the atomic bomb; It is a super national treasure that needs to be protected at all costs.

You must know that the price of the F80, the main fighter of the US military in this era, is more than 90,000 and nearly 100,000 US dollars, and the price of the most advanced F86 is as high as more than 170,000 US dollars.

Based on the F80 alone, an F80 is equivalent to more than 26.6 million yuan in 2010, and the price of the higher-performance J-5 J-6 purchased from 2010 is only one percent of his price.

Comrade Chen Yu made a vivid analogy to the chairman: Xiaoqiang is a banknote amplifier, eat it for one dollar, and spit it out for one hundred yuan. It is the God of the poor nation.

It is said that Xiaoqiang, who is in the secretariat office, has finally drafted the proposal on land reform at this time.

Xiaoqiang's suggestion is very simple, and the opening question says: Do you want land reform?

The answer is yes, and the meaning needs not be said.

But the target should be narrowed, and at most a small number of kulaks, except for the landlords, should be involved, and the middle peasants should be protected.

After the completion of the land reform, as far as the present stage is concerned, it is necessary to implement the household responsibility system of joint production, and the Soviet collective farm system should not be rigidly copied. Because the productive forces are not enough, without mechanization and large chemical fertilizers, it is difficult to reflect the efficiency of production in the implementation of collective farms.

Xiao Qiang wrote in his suggestion that the Soviet Union had fewer people and more land, and China was just the opposite, so copying it would definitely not work, and the Soviet way was only applicable to the Wasteland Reclamation and Construction Corps in Xinjiang and Northeast China.

Under the contract responsibility system for joint production, individual enthusiasm for production can be brought into full play, which is conducive to production at the present stage of the small-scale peasant economy. The labor force needed for farmland and water conservancy construction can be solved by the labor division system, and the state allocates funds for a project, and the money is evenly distributed to the total labor required to complete the project, and each labor division has a monetary value.

Of course, there is a financial burden to do so, but it is a real way to enrich the people. The amount of water a bucket can hold depends on the board with the shortest bucket, and China's peasant income is the shortest piece of national income. It is difficult to lengthen this board, because it will affect the fledgling industry, but Xiaoqiang still feels that under the market economy, the floating pricing of industrial products can be used to solve the over-issuance of this part of the currency, and the fairness of urban and rural areas is truly achieved.

When the industrialization of New China has developed to the point where a large number of peasant workers are needed, the collective farm system will be gradually implemented, and a small number of people will be used to cultivate a large amount of land by a small number of people by mechanization and large chemical fertilizers, and the surplus rural labor force will be used to work in the cities, so as to speed up the country's urbanization development.

Xiao Qiang didn't know much about other things, so he just wrote these suggestions based on the experience of later generations. I believe that the chairman, who has watched the documentary many times at this time, will make the most haode decision.

After all, the chairman is the expert on China's rural issues.

After finishing writing carefully, Xiaoqiang stretched his waist and handed over to the confidential department as usual.

After going to the logistics office to get the tea, Xiaoqiang planned to slip away. He always felt a little sleepy and wanted to go back early to catch up on sleep.

learned from the logistics department that he had been assigned a driver, and the driver's name was Liu Zhen, so Xiaoqiang took Liu Zhen's car back to his residence.

As soon as Xiao Qiang returned to the house, Yu Feng came over and checked Xiao Qiang's pulse. After returning home, Xiaoqiang relaxed, leaned on the sofa, and did not feel sleepy. So the two of them chatted and waited for dinner.

"Xiexie, the snacks you gave me last time were delicious." Yu Feng sat on the edge of the sofa, raised his eyes to look at Xiao Qiang, and said embarrassedly.

"Hehe, no thanks. Don't you say I forgot, this time I brought some pastries, packed them in a box, and I left them in the warehouse. I'm going to take a look at the warehouse after dinner. Bring it back by the way. ”

Listening to Yu Feng talk about starting points, Xiaoqiang suddenly remembered that he had brought a lot of private goods with him when he came back this time, and he forgot to take them home when he was busy.

"You're so leisurely at work, and you still have time to buy pastries." Yu Feng criticized Xiaoqiang in his mouth, but somehow he was secretly happy in his heart.

The dim sum given by Xiaoqiang last time was really delicious, so the potato chips were fried, right? Then again, is that really a potato? There are some salt condiments on it, which are delicious and tight; and the crunchy cake, topped with snowflake-like white frosting, crunchy and delicious; The chocolate is very high-end, melts in the mouth, and the mouth is full of sweet milk and chocolate flavor, probably this is the real chocolate taste, right? There is also the black biscuit, I have never eaten black biscuits, who knew that it was so delicious, the white cream sandwich in it was sweet to the heart, the black biscuit was fragrant and bitter, God knows how to do it. I have never seen any of them sold in Beijing.

Such a high-end snack, Yu Feng cherished it very much, and he didn't dare to eat more, an Oreo could hold it in his mouth for a long time, and he was willing to swallow it only when it was all soaked and crispy in his mouth. A few days ago, a student from medical school came to play here, so he took it out to share it with everyone, this is miserable, you take a piece and he takes a piece, everyone tastes each taste, and this eight-treasure food box is immediately turned upside down. Yu Feng didn't feel any pity at that time, how happy everyone was eating! In recent years, everyone has tightened their belts, except for large households, who has spare money to buy dim sum, besides, these are not ordinary dim sum such as preserved fruit and candied fruit cut cake, these are obviously high-end goods that money in Beijing can't buy. When the classmates came to see these dim sum, they immediately became treasures, and praised Yu Feng's chief for his kindness, he was so good to his doctor, and he also sent such a high-level rare dim sum!

Listening to the envy and praise of his classmates, Yu Feng's heart was sweeter, sweeter than the chocolate in his mouth. I feel that the work assigned by the leader is still very haode, idle and comfortable, and the treatment is too good. Every week, the logistics office of the Central Guard Regiment sent a lot of oil, salt, vegetables, meat and eggs to Xiaoqiang, and Xiaoqiang did not stop delivering them during his business trip. During this time, Xiaoqiang was not there, and the chef Lao He, Dongzi, and himself were all full.

But in the blink of an eye, I was a little resentful of Xiaoqiang, this kid travels every day, and I, a dignified doctor who graduated from a medical school, is completely wasting my youth. Even if you don't go on a business trip, you just do a routine check for him every day, which is not overkill.

In this way, Yu Feng chatted with his classmates while thinking nonsense, and listened to them talk about various interesting cases at work, and time passed quickly.

After everyone left, Yu Feng looked at the empty food box stupidly and was a little careful, sisters! Don't bring this! You must know that if you are alone, you will be able to eat these snacks for a month. As a result, it was swallowed up by everyone like dry food in the afternoon. Yu Feng was also free and easy, muttering while washing the food box: "It's back to the ranks of the proletariat, the proletariat is the most revolutionary and advanced liliang, hum!" ”

Hearing Xiao Qiang say that he brought snacks again, Yu Feng's little appetite came up, and he began to drool in his mouth, and after swallowing it with a red face, Yu Feng suddenly came up with something she didn't expect to say: "Give it to me?" ”

After speaking, Yu Feng regretted it, his face was red from swallowing saliva just now, and now it was directly red to the base of his neck.

Xiaoqiang was also blushed, of course, for a different reason than Yu Feng, he hurriedly concealed his embarrassment, and pretended to be chic: "Everyone has it, everyone has it, everyone has worked hard recently, especially Doctor Yu, you take such good care of me, I should express it even more." ”

Yu Feng suddenly felt a little inexplicably angry, and his face suddenly returned to a faint state of tranquility. She couldn't figure out what was wrong with her.