Indeed, not to mention anything else, toiletries alone are worth a lot of money when they are put outside, toothbrushes and toothpaste are still rare nowadays, especially the former, because plastic has not yet been invented, toothbrushes can only use pig bristles with limited production as bristles, and the latter is still a necessary raw material for high-end brushes, such as frieze on warships, which can only be used bristle brushes, so the price is very expensive; In addition, the cost of fixing the handle of the brush has to be carried out by hand and cannot be industrialized, so the cost of self-cultivation is further increased, and the annual income of the homesteaders is not enough to equip the whole family with even the worst toothbrush. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info and soap, especially soap in the market price is also expensive, even if it is a domestic middle-class family, can only save use, often take several baths before using a soap.

And Liu Lanxin's favorite alabaster and hand cream, the two skin care products, said that this is Li Hui's earliest civilian invention, because he had been hand-formulated in the university pharmacy laboratory class (and even had a slight psychological barrier to the use of these things), after the completion of the old base in Jiaodong and China's first chemical factory, Li Hui "invented" it as soon as possible, and the result immediately triggered the coaxing of consumers, especially female consumers. Since the first chemical plant was only experimental in nature, the output was very limited, and the large-scale chemical plant planned for the foundation had not yet been put into operation, so the supply of products was seriously outstripped. Under the planned economic system, these daily necessities were first directly supplied to cadres (including intellectuals and heroic models with grades and no official positions) at prices only slightly higher than the cost according to their ranks, and even fewer of them entered the market, with the result that the prices were extremely high.

Well, after the two purges of revolution and land reform, the rich people with total family assets of more than 100,000 yuan in China are no longer one in a hundred, and the remaining people are basically incorporated into the system, and most of them are not low, and they can generally get more or less "special supplies", so they naturally will not spend a lot of money to buy, and the main force that really hypes these daily necessities is actually foreigners who come to China. Since there is no such product in the West at present, as the so-called "scarcity is expensive", there was a period of time when foreigners who came to China bought it back and resold it at a price of hundreds of pounds a bottle, and there was still a huge room for profit, because Western ladies were even willing to spend thousands of pounds to buy it, and Li Hui did not know whether to say that Westerners were too rich or women were too crazy.

Household appliances, although not as popular as most of them (those who don't have the money to afford them, hire people to do them, or use some local methods [such as saltpeter ice instead of refrigerators] are cheaper). But the market price is not low, and counting the new drugs that "the leader uses first", the living expenses of Li Hui, the head of state, are actually frighteningly high, no wonder Liu Lanxin would say that.

"That's different, skin care products, electrical appliances, medicines, these things are expensive, but just came out, the production capacity has not yet gone up, even toothbrushes, with the development of the bristle industry, the price will drop greatly, a few years later they will definitely enter the ordinary people's homes, our leading cadres are just a little earlier, will not be separated from the masses, but also conducive to the promotion of these new products." , Li Hui heard Liu Lanxin's question, and did not hide it from her, and directly said his own considerations, "And those high-end jewelry and clothing are different, they cannot be mass-produced, that is to say, ordinary people will never be able to enjoy them, if senior cadres pursue these things, the people will inevitably be dissatisfied." And this dissatisfaction cannot be eliminated. In addition, to a certain extent, the practical value of those things may not be great, and selling them so expensive is just a rare and unusual compulsion, and this is the most important thing for cadres. ”

"Will it make the people feel that the official master is superior?" , Liu Lanxin really had a blue heart, and immediately understood, and looked at Li Hui's gaze and couldn't help but have a little more respect, to have such a mind shows that he really cares about the people, and it is really fortunate that such a person becomes the leader of China!

Li Hui was a little stunned after noticing the change in her expression, because it was obviously more respect than love!

Later, the relationship between the two husband and wife was as Li Hui expected, although they could be called respectful and respectful, but they never had that sweet feeling, maybe this is the price that must be paid after becoming a politician?

However, Liu Lanxin is completely worthy of the evaluation of virtuous helpers, in addition to her wife's duty, she also helped Li Hui intentionally or unintentionally find a lot of omissions in his work, especially in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

The ability of the biochemical soldiers is not bad, but the lack of initiative is too much of a headache for Li Hui, those who have obvious problems, or serious problems exposed during implementation, they can still find and report, and those who can't see the consequences in a short period of time, or just bring inconvenience and reduce efficiency, they often turn a blind eye. For example, in the matter of the national census, Li Hui did not finally think of doing it until after he got married and Liu Lanxin asked him if he liked boys and girls......

Regardless of whether it is the central or local government, the economic data that can be directly counted are the total amount, but the real reflection of the living standard is the per capita data, if the population data is not accurate, how can the per capita data be accurate?

I don't know if I don't check, I was shocked when I checked it, the population data estimated by the Manchu Qing Dynasty used at the front was really seriously inaccurate, and it had always been claimed to be 40,000 people, but after the first national census, Li Hui was surprised to find that the population of the Huaxia Republic was close to 500 million! Although some of them were born within two years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the populations of Myanmar and Siam were also included in the calculation, it is obvious that the population of China before the First Sino-Japanese War would not have been less than 470 million.

The most direct significance of this discovery is that Li Hui realized that the Chinese people are poorer than he originally estimated, with a 20% lower income level, and the impact is very large, and poor families may not even survive.

As a result, some of the original long-term construction plans were postponed, while the construction of resettlement, military tun and farmland water conservancy was further intensified, and the fertilizer plant was ranked first in industrial construction. In the current situation where industry is limited to the undereducated population and it is difficult for it to develop to too large, it is clear that increasing agricultural production is the best way to improve people's living standards. Compared with the cultivation of improved varieties with a long cycle, the speed of land reclamation, water conservancy and chemical fertilizer is undoubtedly much faster, Li Hui is not as ruthless as Stalin after all, even if he wants to tighten his belt to speed up construction, at least he must solve the problem of food and clothing first, right? (To be continued.) )