January 12, 1641

With the supplies listed in the second trade almost completed and ready to be prepared, the Sea Blue is about to set sail for its second overseas trade mission.

Prior to the mission, the all-hands meeting, which had been attracting much attention, was also moved forward to today, and all kinds of rumors and gossip from the previous year also needed to be confirmed to solve everyone's concerns.

In addition to the increasingly drastic reform of private ownership, which has already been rumored among the general public, there are also candidates for the addition of committee members and some other people's work adjustments that need to be discussed.

Since Wang Tiezhu stepped down from his post as a member of the committee, a seat has been vacated for members of the executive committee, and with Liu Yun in charge of staying in Batavia to establish intelligence work covering the entire Southeast Asian islands, his committee members have been in a state of zero exercise of power.

The plenary meeting was held in the grand dining room of the Shangri-La Hotel, and a banner had been hung at the entrance of the hotel by Huang Fu's staff, which read that the first general meeting of the city of Manchester in 1641 was warmly celebrated.

The immigrants of the Ming Dynasty who didn't know the situation were very puzzled, what were they going to do this time, they were hanging banners and placing flower baskets, were they going to do a happy event? After careful inquiry, I found out that this is a meeting of the Australian elders to make New Year's plans, and it is said that a new leader will be elected, which is interesting, isn't this similar to the early dynasty of the imperial court.

After all the crossings at the Manchester City base were gathered, Zhou Aiguo stood up and made a speech, the content of which was nothing more than thanking everyone for their solidarity and mutual assistance in the past six months, and then read out in front of everyone the official dismissal of Wang Tiezhu and Liu Yun from their positions as committee members, and made other arrangements.

In fact, needless to say, everyone can basically know the next work arrangements of the two, Wang Tiehammer has become the commander of the navy, and as for Liu Yun's arrangement, it is likely that he will continue to stay in Batavia as Australia's ambassador to Pakistan.

Therefore, the main focus of the discussion was the recommendation of the two alternate members, the voting on the work evaluation of the current members, and the reform of private ownership, which everyone was concerned about.

"These days, there have been rumors of privatization and economic reform in the base, and I have received a lot of questions from people in private, and today we will sit together and discuss it, I know that you have been divided into two factions, and you have had frequent contacts and discussions in the past few days after New Year's Day."

Zhou Aiguo looked around at everyone and said with a smile: "There is nothing to do with these, but discussion is discussion, I hope everyone will not be negotiable." ”

"Well, Zhou Lao, is it imperative to reform private ownership, the executive committee has made a decision that cannot be changed, so how do we distribute the factories and mines as public shares, and whether there will be a widening gap between the rich and the poor after the reform. Wu Yingyuan, on behalf of the public ownership collectives, first asked questions, saying that the widening gap between the rich and the poor was something they were most concerned about. ”

Their main fear of opposing reform is that they fear that their share will be diluted and eventually completely annexed by private individuals. But that's just because they're too worried about the company and don't know about it, and it's hard for that to happen if the law is sound.

"Xiao Wu's question I will answer first, first of all, the reform of private ownership is certain, but it will not be carried out in one step, it will take a slow liberalization, for some industries that are not the pillars of the country's lifeline, the future will be opened to private management, from the long-term development point of view, the complete public ownership system is not suitable for future development, I believe that Xiao Wu still has an impression of the era of planned economy."

Wu Yingyuan certainly has an impression of the planned economy, and many young people in their twenties may be relatively vague, but for people in their 40s, they definitely have some feelings, and they are precisely the group of young people who have moved from the planned economy to the market economy.

In the era of planned economy, most of the enterprises are public ownership and collective system, that is, everyone eats the national meal, also called the era of big pot rice, residents in order to buy the required materials are used in a variety of stamp systems to stipulate the number of purchases, sometimes the family population is more than a few feet to buy a few more steps to make new clothes for children during the New Year, but also need to ask for people.

Although most young people have not experienced this kind of life, they have more or less heard the elders in the family talk about it. Obviously, if you have the ability to live this kind of life, but you want to force yourself to live this kind of life, it is absolutely disagreeable, and it is also against the will of most people.

Then Zhou Aiguo took the Shangri-La Hotel as an analogy: "Do you like the former public-owned canteen or the current canteen a little more, if it is changed back to being run by the Executive Committee, do you agree?" ”

"Of course I don't agree," a young man from the public camp immediately objected.

The benefits of this can be seen by everyone, in the past, when the public ownership system was in place, the canteen took three meals a day to serve the time and did not provide catering services, since the contract to Huang Fu to operate, 24 hours a day operating system, meals have become more delicious and more varied, although the price has changed, but everyone still likes the current little more, you used to want to spend more money to eat something delicious can not eat.

"The reform of private ownership does not mean that we will completely dilute or eventually eat everyone's public shares, we will evaluate and quote certain industries and then contract them to relevant professionals to operate, we are collecting business income tax from him, and the tax can be used to build roads and various public constructions, which is equivalent to a part of the people to bear most of the funds, if this is the case now, no matter how much money we earn in foreign trade, all kinds of public facilities that Manchester City needs to build and need to build are shared equally by everyone, Eventually, the extra money will be distributed to individuals.

Zhou Aiguo's concise explanation again made some people begin to waver, thinking that why should they use their own money to build roads or something, these are what the government should do.

"In fact, there is no harm in reform for everyone, when the shares of some industries are evaluated and calculated, you can still choose whether to invest in the contractor's enterprise, or discount investment to the enterprise you are interested in, of course, according to the business situation, the profits obtained by investors will be different, the gap between the rich and the poor will naturally exist, any era is the law of the jungle, and if you don't work hard, you will be eliminated, just like we will be eliminated in this era if we don't work hard."

Hu Xijing's words can be regarded as a wake-up call for some people, don't hide that you want to eat a big pot of rice without work under the banner of opposing the reform of private ownership, which is not accepted by everyone at the beginning, it doesn't matter if you don't have business talent and technology, we can let your funds invest in becoming shareholders and make money together, but if you want to rely on eating a big pot of rice to let more people live the same life as you, why.