Brother Lin was chatting with his apprentice. A person came out of the dispatch room behind him, and asked him in a daze: "Master Lin, I heard that the 'Holy Light' steel plant is going to be withdrawn?" ”

What?

Brother Lin was teaching his apprentice, and when he turned around, he was confused, "I don't know." ”

The people in the station dispatch room were smiling, full of gossip, and they were counting on getting more news from Brother Lin, "You don't know? It just came from the steel mill.

It is said that Mr. Zhou felt that the steel plant in Tianyang was too small, and the energy consumption and pollution were too heavy, so he had to cut it down directly and free up the city's power supply for other development.

He also said that in the future, Tianyang's scrap steel will be shipped to the provincial capital, and the steel in the city will all rely on external purchases.

It's only been a few good days, and it's going to be laid off in the blink of an eye. There was already a commotion at the steel mill, and many workers couldn't accept it. ”

Listening to the first half of the sentence, Brother Lin was also stunned. But after listening to the second half of the sentence, he sneered: "What if you can't accept it?" Tens of thousands of people in the group have been laid off, will they care about the hundreds of people in the steel plant? Who is this blackmailing?

Besides, our little steel mill is really not good. Only crude steel can be produced, not even rebar. If you want it to have a fart, you might as well cut it. ”

The people at the station were originally making a fuss, but they had nothing to say by Brother Lin in two or three sentences. If you think about it carefully, the steel plant in the city is indeed too poor, so it is better to shut it down, so as not to have power outages in the city from time to time.

This is not a big matter, and many employees at the station gathered around to discuss. Some people say it's good, some people say it's bad, and it's noisy.

As he was talking, the people in the dispatch room hurried back to their posts. Not long after, a train of trucks pulled into the platform, and more than a dozen flat cars were full of bundled steel bars, hundreds of tons.

The 'old liberation', who had just emptied the ingots, began to load steel bars again.

The apprentice who learned to drive smacked his tongue on the side and said, "Master, I heard that the price of unplanned steel bars is expensive now. All those who toss steel bars are rich. ”

Under a planned economy, the state has the final say in the price of almost all commodities.

A box of matches costs two cents, a pound of salt and a dime and three cents, and the uniform price is implemented throughout the country.

This will certainly be beneficial in the early stage of economic construction, ensuring that the common people can obtain cheap goods in the face of material shortages and avoid hoarding.

But in the long run, the economy becomes stiff and lifeless. Because production and prices are fixed, 'good work is bad, and what is done is not the same', and workers lose their enthusiasm.

The result of testing human nature is inevitably that the most selfish person will benefit the most.

After putting things right, repairing the collapsed national economy became the top priority. The reform of the economy at home was earlier than in the Soviet Union, the process was slower, and it was an authentic crossing of the river by feeling the stones.

Beginning in the 80s, China implemented a dual-track price system for a large number of means of production that were in short supply, and the planned economy began to transition to a market economy. In the 90s, it was merged again.

To put it simply, it is to divide the steel bar, coal, rubber and other scarce materials produced by state-owned enterprises into two parts.

Some of them are sold within state-owned enterprises, and the price is set by the state to ensure that the original production system remains unchanged. The excess part allows the enterprise to sell freely to the market, and the price is determined according to the market, stimulating new business vitality.

The market price is definitely much higher than the planned price. In order to make money, enterprises naturally have the enthusiasm to produce, first complete the planned tasks issued by the state, and then desperately produce unplanned output.

When it comes to merging, the price is completely left to the market. The state no longer carries out rigid planning restrictions, and only requires enterprises to pay more taxes.

There are too many gray areas in this price shift.

Just how to turn a planned low-priced item into an unplanned high-priced item has become a trick for many people to get rich. As for the approval slip or something, it was even more like snowflakes.

This is often the root of many criticisms of the 90s in later generations.

But

On the premise that reform is necessary, gradual reform in China is better than Maozi's one-size-fits-all 'shock therapy'.

I don't know if I took the wrong medicine, but I actually believed the deceitful nonsense of the West, and pinned my hopes on changing from a planned economy to a market economy within half a year.

I want to rely on the 'invisible hand' to reverse the many ills of the Soviet economy and solve all the problems.

Normal people have a toss when they move. A huge country, with a population of more than 100 million and thousands of enterprises, will have to change its system within half a year.

It's a dream, isn't it?

Shock, shock, doesn't that sound like a good word? Isn't this just not far from death?

Maozi has often had strange things like brain circuits in history, making people wonder if their heads were frozen out of a strange evolutionary direction by the cold snap in Siberia?

Reality is always more bizarre than bizarre. Logic is needed, reality does not. So Maozi really went into shock and went to the grave.

The average person doesn't think about so much cause and effect.

Looking at the steel transported to Tianyang by train, the railway station workers on the platform did not know whether it was 'planned' or 'unplanned'.

"Master Lin." The person from the station dispatch room came out again and asked politely, "Where is this steel used?" ”

Knowingly asked

Brother Lin asked angrily, "What do you want?" How many tons to pull away from the middle? ”

Don't say it, this kind of thing is not new.

During transportation, there is a shortage of goods, a shortage of goods, a drop of packages, or even a trace of nothing, which can occur, and it is generally collusion between inside and outside, and there is a ghost inside. Nowadays, people can do anything in order to make money.

The people at the station laughed, "Master Lin, look at what you said." I'll just ask. ”

Brother Lin didn't have a good face anymore, "Let's have less crooked ideas." Whatever you can do, so can the Light. I always eat dry rice that week. ”

"Don't dare, don't dare."

The people at the station waved their hands and smiled away.

Brother Lin sighed, and his eyes were also watching from the station yard.

The supply and demand of the 'Holy Light' group is extremely strong, in addition to the Taipingqiao wharf full of goods, the railway station is also the same. There are not only one or two people who have the wrong idea.

Harmony Logistics has set up a special security team, and hundreds of veterans are responsible for the inventory and transportation of goods. But in this way, there are still things that are lost from time to time.

Some can be recovered, and some really can't.

In about half an hour, the crane at the station loaded the 'old liberation' with six or seven tons of rebar. Brother Lin greeted his apprentice and drove the steel bar to the construction site.

This is the last shift of the day. After delivering the goods, Brother Lin went home.

The newly built apartment building of 'Holy Light' is still being completed, and Brother Lin can't live in it yet. So after he got married, he lived in his father-in-law's house first.

I went home, the new daughter-in-law was in the kitchen, the father-in-law and mother-in-law were watching TV in the living room, and several relatives of the woman also came, which was very lively.

Brother Lin greeted them one by one, and when he entered the kitchen, he asked his daughter-in-law, "What's going on today?" So many people? ”

The new daughter-in-law was personally chosen by Lin Wan, who values her knowledge, temperament and family background. My sister was afraid that her brother would be too stupid and would be bullied after getting married.

The only flaw is that the new daughter-in-law's family has too many relatives of the seven aunts and eight aunts. No, things come to the door.

The new daughter-in-law was washing the vegetables and whispered to her husband, "My mother's uncles want to ask you for a favor." ”

Brother Lin's face remained unchanged, and he recalled in his heart what his sister told him before entering the cave room-Brother, if you want to live a good life, you will push anything on me. Don't promise anything, or your chickens and dogs will be restless.