"I don't doubt the revolution at all, but where does the revolution lead us? What kind of situation will you go through? I'd love to figure it out. Li Shouxian asked a very sharp question.

"Do you think there shouldn't be a mass bankruptcy in the private sector?" Xu Yuanshan's voice was full of surprise. There is no doubt that BJP members do not care about the life and death of private enterprises. As a representative of the young cadres of the People's Party, who is widely regarded as favored by Chen Ke, Xu Yuanshan was quite surprised by the question raised by Li Shouxian.

"I don't think we had that in our previous predictions. This is ill-conceived, not bankrupt. Li Shouxian replied.

It should have been carefully considered, and none of the cadres present had any special objections. But now it is Chen Ke who is presiding over the work of the People's Party, and at least so far, Chen Ke's decision-making has not caused any deviation beyond the control of the overall situation, so Li Shouxian's question seems a little "stupid".

Xu Yuanshan already somewhat understood why Li Shouxian came to ask him. Xu Yuanshan proposed to "allow private enterprises to intervene in certain industries", making him a rather "alternative" guy in the People's Party. But this is not to say that Xu Yuanshan really intends to support private enterprises, but he feels that in the pursuit of maximizing efficiency, it is too expensive to rely on the People's Party to support all industries by itself. As far as Xu Yuanshan's heart is concerned, he doesn't care about the life and death of private enterprises at all. When it is necessary for private enterprises to come out and participate in labor, it is good that private enterprises exist, and private enterprises should have nothing to do with the People's Party on weekdays.

was about to speak, but saw Chen Keshi Shiran walk into the conference room, everyone couldn't care about talking anymore, and in a rumbling sound, the comrades got up one after another.

"Sit down." Chen Ke waved his hand. All the comrades sat down at the end, Chen Ke glanced at everyone's strange looks, and he smiled, "It seems that I missed something." ”

Shang Yuan briefly introduced the matters discussed just now, and at the end, he said: "Chairman Chen, I have heard many comrades say that this bankruptcy is a common phenomenon. Moreover, the bankrupt landlords and gentry seem to have a lot of hatred for us. ”

"Is it normal to take someone's money than to kill your parents?" Chen Ke said with a smile.

"Chairman Chen, now that things have developed to this extent, I think we have to arrange this kind of thing in the plan." Li Shouxian said, "This contradiction has become more and more prominent. ”

"The bankruptcy of the private economy is quite normal from the perspective of the law of economic operation." "Let me start by asking, why did they go bankrupt? ”

Immediately, a comrade replied, "Chairman Chen, just say it." There are so many discussions that it's easy to get confused. ”

"It's easy to get confused. Hehe. Chen Kegan laughed a few times, "Okay, I'll talk about it." ”

It is not surprising that the vast majority of the private enterprises are now engaged in the grain processing industry, and the mills and oil processing are the main force of these private workshops, and the People's Party's control of grain production has directly cut off their sources of raw materials, and the cooperatives have set up the same factories.

Simply explaining the truth, Chen Ke continued: "Let me first make it clear that when the general direction of the policy was formulated, there was indeed no consideration for these private enterprises. There is another very important reason for their bankruptcy, that is, our People's Party has distorted supply and demand. ”

Historically, Stalin's economic policies, including the early years of New China, including after the Great Depression, when the capitalist system of free competition encountered fundamentally unsolvable problems, distorting supply and demand was one of the most basic policies. If it is described in a more elegant word, it can also be called "industry feeds agriculture".

If it is purely for profit, the price of industrial products will be ridiculously high. For example, when Chen Ke was in school, he often talked about the "unequal exchange of agricultural and industrial products" in his political books. Latin American countries exported several tons of bananas and replaced them with semiconductor radios. Later, as Chinese industrial products conquered cities around the world, this statement gradually disappeared in China. A new narrative has emerged that "foreign capital manipulates the prices of commodity trade to extract money from China." "The raising of iron ore prices by Brazil's Valsui River and Australia's Rio Tinto is a vile example of the capitalists' plundering of China's wealth.

The core of industrial feedback is that by lowering the price of production tools produced by heavy industrialization, the sales scope is expanded almost regardless of cost, and the cost in the production field is rapidly reduced and the production efficiency is rapidly improved in the short term. The only companies that can provide investment in heavy industry are undoubtedly state-owned enterprises under the government. For example, in the base areas, the government led by the People's Party is obliged to undertake this task.

In the base area, the price of iron farming tools is only less than 20% of the price outside the base area. According to the normal trade model, consumers are "the one who pays the highest price". However, the base areas will be able to make no profits, and the highest priority will be to ensure that the people in the base areas can buy and use these iron farm tools. This is a standard case of distorting supply and demand.

"The private sector is clearly out of our scope of distorting supply and demand, and of course they can't sustain it." Chen Ke finally came up with a summary.

"So how long will this policy of distorting supply and demand last?" Li Shouxian asked, and after receiving such a theoretical explanation, his eyes sparkled.

"Ideally, as productivity develops, production costs fall rapidly, and the final market price is already the same as the distorted price. At that time, prices were completely liberalized, and both private and state-owned enterprises competed freely. Chen Ke replied.

"How long will that take?"

"What kind of process does that have to be done?"

Almost at the same time, Xu Yuanshan and Li Shouxian asked at the same time.

These two questions greatly reflected the personal qualities of the questioner, and Chen Ke did not rush to answer, but looked at the two comrades carefully. Xu Yuanshan is not an ordinary person after all, Chen Ke paused, he already knew that he had said the wrong thing, Xu Yuanshan immediately changed his words, "What kind of process does it have to be completed in the middle?" ”

Shang Yuan was very impressed in his heart, Xu Yuanshan has been in the logistics department, and it is normal for him to be inferior to Li Shouxian in terms of knowledge, but Xu Yuanshan is never stubborn, and this kind of motivation to change when he knows his mistakes is already very impressive. Glancing around the other comrades, some comrades' faces showed praise for Xu Yuanshan, while some comrades had a mocking look on their faces. Others simply didn't understand what was going on.

Be lenient with others and strict with yourself. This is the style that the People's Party has always propagated, but this attitude is originally a manifestation of its own quality, and Xu Yuanshan does not feel that there is anything to be ashamed of changing his words. This is because Xu Yuanshan does not think that saying the wrong thing has anything to do with "decency" or "shame". Therefore, Li Shouxian, who has an extremely correct attitude, is certainly worthy of attention, but Xu Yuanshan, who also has a good attitude and is just a lack of understanding, is also a talent that can be created at least now. But those comrades who praise or ridicule, their qualities are worth considering.

Thinking of this, Shang Yuan suddenly thought that if he didn't have a good teacher, if his teacher hadn't scolded him at a critical moment, he was afraid that he wouldn't know these things at all. Thinking of this, Shang Yuan felt scared for a while. And the teachings of the teacher Li Hongqi came to my heart again, "I saw the darkness in myself, and found a way to overcome these tyranny, cruelty, and shamelessness in my heart." As long as you are a real worker, live frankly. This tyranny becomes bravery, cruelty becomes firmness, shamelessness becomes modesty. ”

As soon as he was distracted, Shang Yuan missed quite a discussion. By the time he came to his senses, the discussion had already jumped to "the relationship between the accumulation of labor and the bankruptcy of private enterprises." ”

"Comrades, there are two situations in China's rural labor force at the same time, first, the labor force is expensive. Second, the cheapness of labor. In addition to having their own land, ordinary people also have to learn a craft. When the farm is busy, it is naturally cultivated land, and when the farm is not working, it is made by handicraft. This kind of highly skilled manual labor is the expensive category of labor. After all, the scope of production in the countryside is very narrow, and there are only a few things. My hometown likes to say, there is wisdom to eat wisdom, but there is no wisdom to work hard. And those who eat wisdom generally belong to the more expensive labor force. In this regard, too, it has been greatly affected by the distortion of supply and demand. ”

In terms of technical content, the industrial system that the People's Party has worked so hard to build is undoubtedly the system with the highest "intellectual cohesion" in China. This system is also spreading in the base areas. Now each county has its own ceramic production factory, and there is no problem with the daily use of dishes and chopsticks. As enamel bowls began to go on sale, even the traditional food container market is constantly being squeezed. State-owned enterprises have technology, capital, and markets, and if traditional workshops can survive in the face of competition from such enterprises, this is a truly rare thing.

"As for cheap labor, such as women, the elderly, of course, there is also a part of child labor. The base area also provides great employment opportunities. Needless to say, the annual mulberry silkworm production period, the strength to carry the burden, no strength but patience to take care of the silkworm baby, strength and patience are insufficient, but willing to learn, you can work in the mulberry garden. As a result, labor that was extremely cheap or even unsellable can now earn wages through labor. And this salary is even quite a ......," Chen Ke said eloquently. The comrades corresponded to the work they were responsible for, and many comrades had smiles on their faces.

"The big purchase of these cheap labor is also one of the major reasons for the bankruptcy of the workshop." Chen Ke came to this conclusion that surprised everyone again.

"Private workshops, in the final analysis, are about making money. On the grounds that apprentices teach the trade, these workshops reduce the cost of wages to the limit. However, we have purchased a large number of cheap labor, which has led to a general increase in labor prices, and as a result, private workshops have encountered a shortage of labor supply. Naturally, they can't sustain it. ”

In the past few years, there has indeed been such a problem in the base areas, and the masses have been working for themselves in a hurry, which has directly led to the fact that many projects that could recruit a large number of people as long as they provide some food have become difficult to find labor to participate in. Even if they came to participate, they were all old men and old ladies, and they were not so much here to participate in labor, but to make a living and save some money for their families. The government is truly the great savior of the people, and without the government, how many people will die in various disasters and how many people will have to go bankrupt. Even so, the people, when they can do it for their own benefit, naturally cast the government aside. This is true for governments, and even more so for private companies.

There was no smile on the comrades' faces this time, everything in the base area was created by labor, and if there was not enough labor force to devote to the production of this public domain, needless to say anything else, it would be impossible to complete the large-scale basic water conservancy construction work in time in the near future.

"After the first census, I said that we are now facing a period of extreme labor shortage. With a population of more than 60 million in the base area, we will face an arduous situation if we want to build an industrialized base area, and we people in the People's Party will need to take the lead in making tremendous efforts. Chen Ke said.

There were a few sparse applause in the silence, but it did not elicit a warm applause from all the comrades. Chen Ke's explanation silenced the comrades on the front line.

Chen Ke knew very well that these were real situations in history, and Chen Ke himself dared to call on the comrades of the People's Party to follow him and make great efforts. According to normal labor and remuneration, Chen Ke should now be the richest man in the base area. Needless to say, the Nobel Prize was worth 150,000 Swedish kronor each, which was equivalent to the salary of a Swedish professor for 20 years at the time. Because it was a joint award, Chen Ke got half of it. That's also the salary of a Swedish professor for 10 years. Naturally, this money became the capital for the purchase of machinery and equipment. As for the various patent and share income that Chen Ke should receive according to foreign laws, all of them belong to the finance department of the base area.

The only exception is the 5,000 taels given by Chen Ke's father-in-law, He Ruming, which is the dowry money of Chen Ke's wife He Ying and the meeting gift for Chen Ke's daughter. Chen Ke felt that this money was a little uncertain. It's not that he cares about the five thousand taels very much, it's that Chen Ke doesn't dare to make such a head easily. If the BJP's own relatives must hand over gifts, it is not a question of whether it is good or not, but once it becomes a rule, it will definitely become the beginning of many bad things. Finally, after discussing this matter at the party committee, the asset disclosure system was finally introduced.

Chen Ke asked himself if he had indeed dedicated everything to the party. He can be said to be a great sage financially. However, the purpose of this is only to improve the persuasiveness of Chen Ke's speech. Otherwise, take out Chen Ke's actions as a shield, where is there so much money to pay wages in the current situation of extreme lack of capital in the base area.

This may be the consciousness of the proletariat, right? Chen Ke thought. The reason why he easily accepted this approach was not that he had any special thoughts in his heart at the time. Instead, I remembered what I had heard before, "If during the 25,000-mile Long March, the leading cadres sat in eight sedan chairs, each with their little wives in their arms, and big smoking guns in their hands. Can you go out 25 miles of 25,000 miles? ”

Thinking of this, Chen Ke continued: "Although we digress now. But I'll say a few more words at the end. What our People's Party is now implementing is to reduce the expensive labor force and raise the price of the labor force that was originally very cheap and cannot be sold. The final result of this is likely to be the so-called upside down of the labor body, that is, the money earned by playing with the pen is not as good as that of playing with the flat burden. The income of those who build atomic bombs is not as good as that of those who sell tea and eggs. The income of our comrades in the People's Party will probably not be as good as that of ordinary laborers. This kind of thing is likely to be around for a long time. At that time, I did not make a careful deduction about the collapse of private workshops, but I did deduce this income problem this time, and I hope that comrades must be mentally prepared for this now. ”

"Haha." This time, there were a few dry laughs from comrades.

After the discussion, Li Shouxian found Chen Ke. "Chairman Chen, this trend of bankruptcy will lead to social instability."

"I've heard that someone wants your head. You've worked hard. Chen Ke patted Li Shouxian on the shoulder.

"Since this kind of bankruptcy is bound to appear on a large scale, the landlords and gentry we let go before are only afraid that they will really rebel this time." Li Shouxian said, "How many people did we kill during the land reform, this time ......"

"Huh." Chen Ke smiled. No less than 200,000 people were killed in the four provinces of the People's Party during the land reform. This does not include regular warfare at all. If the landlords and gentry really rebelled this time, repression would also be a good option. But Chen Ke wanted to try a more gentle approach for the time being.

"Comrade Li Shouxian, I want to turn Wuhu into an economic development zone. I don't know what you think? ”

"Economic Development Zone?" Li Shouxian was puzzled.

In 1876, the "Yantai Treaty" signed by China and Britain opened Wuhu and Wenzhou in Zhejiang Province as treaty ports. In 1918, the import and export value of Wuhu Customs reached 3.5% of the country's foreign trade that year, becoming one of the giant trade ports of the Yangtze River. The Wushen Canal, which starts and ends in Wuhu and Shanghai, closely links Wuhu with the economy and culture of Jiangsu, Xi, Ningbo and Hangzhou. After Wuhu opened its treaty port, a large number of foreign companies and companies entered Wuhu, and the spread of advanced science and technology also stimulated the development of modern industry in Wuhu. The first batch of national industries in Anhui Province were established in Wuhu. In 1883, Wuhu erected a cable telegraph line, which was the first city in the province to use telegraph; Yixin (Machine-mill) Rice and Flour Company, which was put into operation in 1897, ranked first in the scale of similar factories in the country at that time; In the 30s, it also opened civil aviation and flew to Shanghai and Wuhan. After entering the 20th century, Wuhu industry and commerce developed to more than 100 species, 5 to 6,000, and became the birthplace of modern industry in Anhui Province and one of the economic centers of the Yangtze River Basin.

Since Li Shouxian first noticed the problem of private enterprises, Chen Ke wanted Li Shouxian to give it a try.