Chapter 6: Conflict of Interest (2nd Update, Asking for a Monthly Pass)
Conflicts of interest in reality are always unavoidable in many cases, and even the Northeast Governor's Office, which seems monolithic to the outside world, is in fact nothing more than a community of all kinds of interests -- lucrative remuneration, company stocks, and ungraded official positions, which have long bound the interests of the government and officials to a certain extent. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Officials who have subscribed to company shares over the past two years have tied their personal interests to those of the company, which is why they have supported the unification government in North Korea to implement a unified economy in order to receive more generous dividends. As for the unscrupulous officials of the 13-level "clerk system" implemented by the Unified Supervision Office in the past, the "constraints" of the system wandering outside the Qing officialdom and leaving its officials without any chance of entering the officialdom have become decorations.
On the one hand, it is cut off by the road to the government, and on the other hand, it is entangled in practical interests. So that whether it is the Unified Supervision Office or the current Northeast Governor's Palace, it can maintain a certain degree of "monolith", just as in the same period of confrontation with the imperial court, the whole government is all around a goal to fully protect, and there is no mutual tie, on the one hand, the old habits of the new government in the government are completely unofficial, and the officials in the government are also used to being arbitrary. On the other hand, there is no idea of trying to achieve in order to protect their own interests, and their interests will only be protected if they succeed, and if they fail, they will be ......
Benefit!
No matter how noble the purpose, no matter how pure the motive, in the end everything can be attributed to the good. And the apparent unity can also be divided because of interests, as in the Doge's Office at this time, in the past few days. In the discussion around the issue of reclamation, they have been caught up in contention again and again.
Once again, he broke up unhappily, and served as a guard in the Lushun Naval Office, where he was temporarily stationed. Seeing the Governor walking out of the conference room with a gloomy face, he secretly sweated for those officials in his heart, how could an official who disobeyed the thoughts of the officials like them have been able to do it for a long time, but these days these people don't seem to care about this matter at all.
After the Governor left the conference room, the officials of the palace came out of the conference room one after another, and most of them walked in groups and talked as they walked.
"Minister Xu, if we continue like this. Your Excellency the Governor's side......"
When the young official's face showed a sad face, the minister of agriculture and commerce who was questioned only raised the corners of his lips.
"Don't worry, as long as we do it with reason. What's the matter if the big handsome side is angry, after all, everyone is doing business......"
The current Governor's Mansion is just a unified supervision office that has changed the soup but not the medicine, and in the past two years, everyone in the palace knows how to deal with the marshal. The marshal who grew up in the West since he was a child has no view of the hierarchy of current officials. When encountering problems, they also like to discuss with their staff and officials, and solve them in the discussion, and over time everyone is also accustomed to this "mz" style, although in many cases, the marshal is still arbitrary, but that is in the case of some issues can not be agreed, in the end everyone has to reserve their opinions, as for what disobedience to the official after the dismissal of the official and even lose his head. It's not something they've been worried about, not to mention that the big man doesn't like to kill. And everyone is not guilty of death, as for the dismissal...... Compared with the slaves who are submissive, the big guy still prefers people like the big guys.
"Besides, even if the marshal says that we have selfish intentions, but in this selfishness, it is not not a public heart, hundreds of millions of acres of official waste can be controlled by the government, the government can be cultivated, and the small people can be cultivated, so why can't companies and enterprises be cultivated? It's a matter of business standards, and we must not give up because of cowardice! The interests of the government must be maintained, and the interests of the small people must be protected. ”
If Tang Haoran heard Xu, the minister of agriculture and commerce, say this, he would probably only kick him out of the governor's palace in annoyance, even so, when he left the conference room, his face had already become ugly, and after returning to the office, his anger that he tried to suppress immediately exploded.
"Bang!"
When the teacup fell to the ground with a crisp sound, Tang Haoran asked angrily.
"Okay, this is really public and selfless, what are the interests of industrial and commercial enterprises, what kind of government has let go of the small people, but why does it control enterprises, when the economic control was implemented in North Korea, why are they eager to control all the straw!"
Benefit!
In the final analysis, it is still interests, and the interests of the unified supervision government in the DPRK lie in industry and commerce, and the implementation of economic control can not only reduce the cost of raw materials, but also expand the market, and at the same time can suppress North Korean businessmen.
As for now, although the Northeast is in charge, this chain of interests immediately looms in shape, and this reclamation is only the first step.
"The big handsome is angry, everyone is just a temporary disagreement,"
Looking at the anger on the adult's face, Song Yuxin, who originally wanted to settle the matter with the mud, was interrupted by Tang Haoran before he finished speaking.
"Disagreement? I see that their eyes have fallen into the eyes of money, if they are satisfied in the matter of reclamation today, tomorrow, I am afraid of this economic control, they will also point fingers......"
With a sigh, Tang Haoran did not continue, some things could not be said, at least not thoroughly, just like today, he can say that the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce maintains the "interests of the company's enterprises", at most he only accuses it of ignoring the interests of the government and the small people, but does not accuse them of maintaining "their own interests", because many officials are shareholders of the reclamation company.
It was only at this time that Tang Haoran truly understood what the "profit is the class", and realized the resistance to reform, in order to defend the "fat" that has not been eaten in the mouth, the officials who are accustomed to being submissive can confront themselves face to face and support the comprehensive reclamation under various excuses, not to mention these officials who have become accustomed to arguing under their own requirements.
If other issues face many resistances, in order to maintain the unity of the house, maybe Tang Haoran will give in, but now this problem. But it is not that Tang Haoran will give in, the root of it is that concessions are very likely to shake the "fundamentals".
"A thousand miles of embankment, destroyed in an anthill! If we make concessions on this issue today. Tomorrow, in order to maintain the interests of the so-called people, they will question the economic control, and it is estimated that those companies are more willing to export independently than the government alone to preside over foreign trade, and they still have the right to set prices, as long as the right to trade is mine. The government can then set the price of agricultural products such as soybeans according to demand......"
Perhaps the most powerful weapon of economic control is the "scissors gap" between industry and agriculture, and the artificially formulated asymmetric "scissors gap" is based on the government's dominance of trade. Just as this year's price of North Korean rice is 10 percent lower than last year, this price reduction could make the Korean rice and grain trading company millions in profits, enough to build several large factories.
At present, the "scissors gap between industry and agriculture" under the control economy pursued by the DPRK is gradually increasing. In the exchange of industrial and agricultural products, the price of industrial products is higher than the real value. Agricultural products are priced below value, and this artificial price difference is based entirely on economic control, through which North Korea alone can earn as much as 15 million yuan in non-tax revenue this year, and according to the plan of the Control Committee, this figure will be doubled in the next three years. This may not seem like a lot of money, but it is enough to support the industrialization of a region.
And this is precisely the purpose of economic control - through the monopoly of the market. The people should be extracted in order to obtain the funds needed to carry out economic construction. and then accelerate the country's industrial development. In fact, this is the fundamental reason why Japan and Germany successively implemented economic control during World War II. It was even one of the institutional guarantees for the rise of Japan after the war, and it was also the institutional guarantee for the so-called "Han River Miracle" at the beginning of its existence. Of course, in order to distinguish the pre-war "controlled economy" from the big northern powers, Western economists called it the "guiding capitalist economic model," but in fact it was still a "controlled economy," or a semi-planned economy.
And it is precisely because China is a weak country and a backward country that Tang Haoran will choose this kind of "big control, small market" economic control system based on "resource control and does not exclude market competition mechanism". However, although it does not exclude market competition and private capital, it restricts private capital, even limits its profits, and even limits its investment scope, which will naturally provoke the resistance of private capital.
No one in North Korea opposes economic control because it is the North Koreans who control it, and the North Koreans who oppose it with low status and no one cares about, but what about the Northeast? Now that private capital is ready to enter the Northeast, how will they view economic control?
This time, when trying to stop the influx of private capital into agricultural reclamation, in the face of the backlash of private capital, Tang Haoran saw the possibility that he might challenge economic control in the future - interests, and they would do everything possible to defend their own interests, unless they ......
"They will come step by step, first the official famine, then the trade right of soybean exports, and then the soybean pricing power, then the foundation of economic control will be shaken a little bit, and when it is completely shaken, the so-called economic control is simply a joke in the eyes of the world!"
At that time, even the entire Governor's Office had to give way to the huge vested interests and put away the extremely effective tool of economic control in the short term, otherwise internal disagreements could even turn into internal crises, and this was exactly what Tang Haoran tried his best to avoid, but how could this crisis be avoided and the people's dissatisfaction could be alleviated as much as possible?
"Dashuai, this ......"
The adult's worry made Song Yuxin, who originally intended to persuade the adult to make concessions, couldn't help but be shocked in his heart, originally in his opinion, it was just the immediate benefit of the big guy, it was not a big deal, and this is almost the same as rewarding meritorious deeds, sometimes the ruler should close his eyes when he should close his eyes, but now when the adult said this, he couldn't help but be stunned, if this is the case, then ...... How's that good?
If in the past, he didn't care whether the controlled economy would be shaken, it was because he didn't know, he didn't understand, but now he clearly knows that the annual funds obtained from the "control" of North Korea alone are enough to build nearly 1,000 kilometers of railways and build more than a dozen large factories, and according to the Japanese staff in the prefecture, in the decades of the Meiji Restoration in Japan, the investment in the shipbuilding industry was only 180,000 yuan, and the investment in the machinery manufacturing industry was only more than 200 yuan, and the reason why the investment was so small was entirely because its funds could not be raised, and the government and enterprises were also the same.
In contrast, the DPRK under economic control has no financial problems at all, and even if it is left in the DPRK according to the will of the marshal, no more than 30 percent of the DPRK construction will be used for the construction of the DPRK, and it is also several times that of Japan.
But on the other hand, Song Yuxin didn't know that the financial resources from this economic control system were to get part of the money earned by businessmen into the hands of the government, and naturally no one was happy to see the government dig the silver in the bowl into the government, no need to ask, they would naturally resist it, and in the past they could still contact it because the big guys and the government worked together to dig up the bank from the bowl of the North Koreans, but now it is different, now they are taking money from their pockets, although the silver has not yet entered their pockets.
Thinking of the big guy's resistance, Song Yuxin's heart couldn't help but rise with a burst of worry, looking at the angry face on the big handsome's face, thinking about the big guy's concern for the reclamation matter, just when he was worried about how to solve this matter, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said softly.
"Dashuai, in fact, instead of arguing with them about this matter now, it is better to put this matter down first!"
There are some things that do not necessarily have to be solved in a hurry, they can be put aside for a while, and then this matter is not necessarily an important matter.
"Down? Jieqi, what do you mean? ”
Tang Haoran looked at Song Yuxin in surprise.
"Dashuai, now that this governor's mansion has just been built, everything is the beginning, how can it be delayed? I think it's better to put this matter aside for a while, and it's important to do the big thing first, as for this reclamation......"
After a pause in his voice, seeing that the big man looked pensive, Song Yuxin continued.
"You can wait until the land survey is completed before making a decision, otherwise you don't know how much you have to go, how to reclaim it? How to put? As for the present, it can be cultivated by the agricultural reclamation group first, well, as for the resettlement of displaced people in the Guannai, this is really a normal resettlement, not to mention reclamation, even if they are allowed to plant, what they plant is also the cooked land reclaimed by the agricultural reclamation group, and they have to pay rent to the government, if the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce has a statement, they will be given tens of thousands of acres of cooked land, as long as they pay rent, what does it matter? As for you...... I'm afraid I still have to deal with the governors in the customs more, do you say this is the reason, after all, you are also one of the nine governors in the world! ”
(In the past, the monolith was because of common interests, and now verbal disputes are also born out of profit, just like many companies, entrepreneurship is the most united time, now...... Where there are people, there is struggle, and how to balance the interests of officials is a difficult problem.
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