"If we want the economy to be more active, in addition to increasing production capacity, personal purchasing power must also be increased. Of course, more people will become part of the industrial society. This is also very important. Therefore, I am very supportive of the governor's policy. Deepening the land reform itself can promote the liberation of the rural population. A large amount of infrastructure investment will lower the operating cost of the entire society. "Pang Congcong chose to support Vézé's Five-Year Plan.
Zhou Gaoming, the deputy director of the SASAC who was at odds with Pang Congcong at this stage, also put forward his point of view. "Of course I support the governor, but from the current situation, the cost of the entire country is increasing, not decreasing. In the past, drinking water only required fetching water. Now drinking water is drinking tap water. How much money was spent to build Nanjing's tap water supply system? Speaking of water, several reservoirs have been built in Nanjing, which is also a large investment. However, the increase in agricultural output in the farmland around Nanjing is limited. In other words, the extra output is completely driven by a large amount of investment. "
Pang Congcong had long been concerned about this issue. She immediately retorted, "What water did Nanjing people drink in the past? Well water is considered good. In fact, many people can only drink river water. How can that compare to tap water? At least drinking tap water makes people sick much less. As for irrigation and water conservancy construction, you can't just look at the increased income. You also have to look at the output under various drought and flood disasters. With the reservoir, even if it can't completely guarantee a harvest, at least the output is much more stable. The effect of this confidence can't be completely ignored. After the reservoir is built, it won't just be a year or two. The increase in output will add up to a terrifying total. "
Zhou Gaoming, the deputy director, was not to be outdone. He replied, "We are the SASAC, in charge of state-owned assets, including the reservoir. After the reservoir is built, it needs to be managed and maintained. Don't we need to spend money on greening and forest protection in the reservoir area? "
"The need for irrigation south of the Yangtze River is not so strong, but the area north of the Yangtze River is different. The good and bad areas there are not too big. The Five-Year Plan deepens the land reform and strengthens agricultural construction, which has greatly increased the output of millions of acres of land. "
"But it still requires a lot of investment. Distant water can't quench present thirst."
"Overall, it is impossible for financial revenue to increase rapidly in a short period of time. At this stage, we have to start from the foundation …"
It was impossible for ordinary people to sneak into the SASAC. The main leaders of the SASAC began to argue, and other comrades could not help but join the debate. The whole discussion became more and more heated.
"… The investment is growing so fast. If we continue to increase the investment at this rate, our finances will dry up …"
"That's not depletion, it's deficit …"
"Isn't this the work of the Ministry of Finance? We can't possibly steal the work of the Ministry of Finance!"
"It's not like the Treasury has gold or silver."
"We are responsible for the management of the state-owned assets, so we have to do our best to operate the state-owned assets!"
"Increasing basic investment is the management of state-owned assets, and operating the current assets well is also the management of state-owned assets. They are the same thing …"
"It's not the same thing at all. Look at the price, how can it be the same thing …"
The SASAC was not that busy recently. After all, what was a state-owned asset? How would the SASAC, a new unit, manage the existing assets? This connection work was not fast enough. After all, it was not easy to force the local government to obediently hand over the management of state-owned assets. He needed the cooperation of the State Council. Because Vézé was not there, Prime Minister Bi Qingshan's appeal and execution were obviously not as strong as Vézé's.
The external problems were so difficult to solve, so there were naturally many ways to solve the internal problems. All kinds of discussions from specific to direction, and from direction to theory. In order to resist foreign aggression, one must first stabilize the internal situation. Now that things were so complicated, the staff of the SASAC, at the request of Pang Congcong, took out "Theory of Capital" and "Introduction to Capital, Volume I" written by Wei Ze according to the 21st century politics class.
It had to be said that as a university scholar, Uncle Ma's book really opened the fog of capital operation. Vézé's guide really worked. It was very difficult to let the comrades in China who did not even have the concept of capital learn "Theory of Capital" by themselves. After the guide, there was a program.
Two weeks later, the SASAC actually came up with a consensus document. The beginning of the document quoted Vézé's views on three economic cycles, namely the science and technology exhibition cycle, the industrial investment cycle, and the product recognition cycle. These three cycles had nothing to do with capitalism or democracy. It was an explanation that later generations of economists agreed on for economic fluctuations.
The SASAC believed that the most urgent problem at this stage was how long the country could withstand the heavy pressure brought by a large amount of investment. Everyone felt that the best solution in the short term was to have a major breakthrough at the production exhibition. That was, the technology exhibition cycle that could easily take decades, or even hundreds or thousands of years could be artificially shortened. If a breakthrough in science and technology could lead to a breakthrough in productivity, the heavy pressure in the next three to five years could be fully alleviated.
This conclusion was very easy to reach. As long as one really understood economics and had a certain degree of social management practice, everyone knew that China's productivity had reached a certain point. The land reform in recent years was actually quite useful. It reduced the internal pressure on overseas immigrants. Except for the landlords and gentry who were comprehensively attacked by the state, the people got more land than before. The law did not allow land sales, and people wanted to become rich by farming.
But this kind of thing was useless. A large part of the reason for the explosive growth of the steel industry under the new government was the full popularization of iron farming tools in the countryside. Including the popularization of rubber shoes, women's liberation, strict foot binding, productivity was indeed released in a very short period of time.
People's aspirations could be incomparably high, but human power could not be squeezed unlimitedly. The wave of productivity liberation in the past decade had unleashed the productivity of hundreds of millions of people in China. Even though the emergence of the steam engine had made large-scale irrigation a feasible reality, this wave of productivity development had really reached its peak. Pang Congcong often went to the Pearl River Delta to inspect. After a lot of field research, Pang Congcong found that if he wanted to increase production a little more, he needed to exhaust the physical strength of the farmers. From the perspective of farmers, this ratio of input and output was not cost-effective. The power supply within the city was barely enough. At this time, there was not enough ability to invest in electricity in the countryside. The steam engine was cumbersome and inconvenient. The investment and maintenance costs were too high. It was not suitable for large-scale use in the countryside.
The people of the SASAC were not fools. After a serious meeting, coupled with the guiding role of Theory of Capital, everyone could understand that the flight of China was actually in the hands of Vézé. Vézé led the Liberation Army to open up many incredible technologies. These technologies were combined with social needs, and under the new system, they exploded with amazing power.
There was no room for major change in the current social system. The needs of the people were still strong, even stronger than before. What China needed most now was Vézé to lead the China technology exhibition again. As long as Vézé could make a breakthrough in China's productivity, all the problems faced now would not be a problem.
In the end, the comrades of the SASAC did not know what kind of breakthrough could solve the problem. In the end, what kind of technological progress could be called a breakthrough, the comrades of the SASAC really did not understand. There was only one thing that everyone could be sure of. In China, if there was one person who could solve this problem, it was Vézé. In the discussion, the comrades of the SASAC confirmed a fact. All the progress in China over the past decade, social, scientific, and military, came from Vézé. If even Vézé was unable to promote this breakthrough, they really did not know who else could lead China to continue to progress.
Sometimes the clear facts were in front of them, but people could not recognize them. For example, before this discussion, the group of people of the SASAC only knew that Vézé was everyone's leader, and everyone needed to follow the leader forward. Vézé went north, and the SASAC began to work on its own.
After the China farmers were allocated land, they wanted to rely on themselves to become rich as soon as possible. After the SASAC had authority and action, every member also wanted to make great achievements to prove themselves. If they wanted to make great achievements, they found that the best and most direct way was to stand on the shoulder of a giant. The comrades of the SASAC clearly saw that they were obviously not giants, and the comrades of the SASAC clearly saw that they actually stood on the shoulder of a giant. It was this giant that brought them to today's height.
After reading the revised consensus, they waited for the final summary of opinions. However, no one said anything first. The summary of the past and the expectations for the future had already been said in the consensus. If they wanted to put forward new opinions, they could only overturn the contents of the consensus. The reason why they did not say anything was because when Vézé went north, some comrades said excitedly, "Let's work hard and give the commander-in-chief a surprise when he comes back!" Even comrades who did not speak so openly actually agreed with this view. Unexpectedly, without waiting for Vézé to come back, everyone took the initiative to ask Vézé to come back and lead everyone.
In addition to this relatively superficial matter, a considerable number of comrades used to think that it was the efforts of these people, including them, that allowed Vézé to stand in his current position. The new understanding of the facts subverted their old views. If it were not for the group of people from the SASAC, Vézé would only need to find a group of other people to be his subordinates. If they had not become Vézé's subordinates, the group of people from the SASAC would not have been able to reach today's status and height no matter what.
Perhaps it was because as a woman who was weaker than men, Pang Congcong had long seen this clearly. During the discussion, she also saw the deep arrogance in the hearts of these male colleagues who were dead set on saving face. Having been the secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee for so long, Pang Congcong was very clear about how important a man's face was to them. Therefore, she did not say a word and did not pointlessly stimulate their self-esteem.
After a long silence, the deputy director of the SASAC finally said, "We must ask the commander-in-chief to come back and preside over the work. What does everyone think? "
"Agree!" "Agree!"
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