The chart was quietly pasted on the blackboard, but the data spoke louder than anything else. Thirty years ago, the per capita share of food was very low, at the point where people did not starve to death. Since 1870, the supply of oil had increased by leaps and bounds. After 1875, with the development of the Northeast as a turning point, the country's commodity food supply increased by leaps and bounds. After 1880, with the popularization of high-quality alfalfa and the large amount of alfalfa transported from East Africa, the domestic coastal city circle's meat supply increased by leaps and bounds.
"The changes in life can be seen from many aspects. In the past few years, the factory's income has increased a lot, but the price of leather shoes has not increased. Almost everyone has enough money to buy leather shoes. Now that the material for the soles of cloth shoes has improved, people's interest in lighter cloth shoes has increased. " The Minister of Agriculture glanced around and said in a somewhat suspenseful manner, "Everyone, don't think that leather shoes have nothing to do with food. If we can't raise so many animals, how can we have so many leather shoes to wear on our feet? If people can't eat their fill, how can they raise animals? "
Hu Chenghe felt that these things did not seem to have much to do with the "supply and demand imbalance" mentioned by the Minister of Agriculture. He asked, "Then tell us, what happened?"
"What happened?" Premier Levis took over the conversation. "The current China has been divided into two. The old countryside is one China, and the new system with the city as the core is another China. The new China does not need the products provided by the old China, so the old China is generally poor and poor, while the new China is getting richer. "
Ruan Xihao was very unhappy with Levis. Looking at Levis's imposing speech, it completely represented the attitude of the government. He snorted, "Isn't this the problem of the government that you are leading? Our army is very serious in the construction. Whether it is the Northeast, the Northwest, or North America, they are all built by our army. "
This kind of contradiction had almost become a daily occurrence. Levis also ignored Ruan Xihao. He continued, "The city is extracting wealth, products, and labor from the countryside at an unprecedented speed. Those who have recovered from the army rarely return to the countryside. Those with junior high school education would go to the city as long as there was a chance. It seems that the management of the countryside that we had envisioned before is about to fail … "
"Tsk!" Ruan Xihao snorted coldly, expressing a considerable degree of mockery.
Levis didn't look like he was going to back down. He frowned and said loudly, "Especially the rural system that we originally hoped to have with retired soldiers as the core has now proven to be a great failure."
Seeing that Levis was fighting back, Ruan Xihao sneered, "Don't drag the army into everything. The army is not involved in local affairs. If it was our army that was in charge, there definitely wouldn't be these problems. "
Even if the meeting didn't end on bad terms, at least they didn't come to any conclusion. After the report was over, Levis called all the ministers together. He almost flew into a rage during the meeting. "The army interfering in politics? What is this? Back then, the military had caused so much trouble at the farm, and they had only reluctantly taken a step back. Now look at them, being picky, as if they can do a good job after taking over the government! "
In theory, the ministers here were under the management of the State Council, but in reality, several major ministries, including the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Construction, had a deep relationship with the army. They were basically separated from the army. Unlike the other ministers who stared at Levis, these ministers looked at the table and didn't look at Levis, who was very unhappy.
After this outburst, Levis finally put forward his own opinion, "Now there are few places where the army is really in charge, but there are many places where they can speak. I now ask everyone that no matter what the army says, we should go at our own pace. At least until now, our comrades have done a good job. I hope our comrades can persist and not waver! … "
Listening to Levis's arrangements for the army, the Minister of Railways, Wu Shaozu, felt very uncomfortable. Like Levis, Wu Shaozu was also an old soldier. He was from Nanjing, and his previous identity was a spy sent to Vézé by the King Of The East. Since the King Of The East was killed in the Tianjing chaos, it became a natural choice for Wu Shaozu to follow Vézé wholeheartedly. Later, when he became the founding Major General and was appointed as the Commander of the Railway Army, Wu Shaozu felt a little uneasy and wondered if he had been kicked out of the core circle of the army. He quickly understood the great significance of the railway to China, and this uneasiness disappeared.
Wu Shaozu felt a little uneasy at this time, even a little sad. The army used to be the most important force under the command of the Military Governor Of Vaize. Starting from the General Staff Headquarters, including the military and civil affairs, everything revolved around the core of the army. But the times changed too quickly. First, there was the Restoration Party that led everything, followed by the gradual separation of the civil affairs from the army, and then the continuous separation of the military industry. When the army's farms were completely separated, the army was left with a simple army.
Now, a group of old guys who used to be in the army began to sing a play against the army with Levis as the leader. If it was as Levis thought, the army would be completely excluded from the administrative system. By the time the older generation retired according to the retirement system, the army would just be an army. It would no longer be the powerful force that could decide the fate of China.
From the peak to the present, Wu Shaozu's feelings were very complicated. This great army had created great achievements. The Min dynasty had come to this day, and in less than two generations, China was freed from hunger and precarious days. They had also established an unprecedentedly powerful industrial system. As a builder, Wu Shaozu was of course extremely proud. But all of this did not bring about the prosperity of the meritorious group as Wu Shaozu had thought. Including him, Wu Shaozu, but under an indescribable historical situation … they were eliminated?
Thinking about these things, Wu Shaozu had completely ignored Levis's words. It was not until the sound of a chair moving reached his ears that Wu Shaozu woke up from his thoughts. He saw Levis ordering the secretary to move the blackboard, and everyone began to move their chairs according to the situation to make it easier for them to read the contents on the blackboard.
"The core problem China is facing now is that the social system is changing. The self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy is being crushed at an unprecedented speed. This is something the Commander in Chief has repeatedly emphasized many times. " After saying this, Levis thought of something. He put down his pointer, turned to the ministers, and said, "The Commander in Chief has said a lot of things, and I think they are all wise words. One of them is like this: Who am I, where do I come from, and where do I want to go. These are the three difficult problems of life. The same is true of social development. We need to know what stage we are from, where we are now, and where we want to go in the future. If we can't figure out these three points, it will be very easy for our work to go nowhere. Therefore, we need to learn the program and guidance that the Commander in Chief has said. It will be very helpful for us to solve this problem of inaccurate positioning. "
After saying this, Levis glanced at the ministers again and saw that they were indeed listening carefully. Only then did Levis continue.
"The Commander in Chief said that the self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy will definitely be replaced by an industrial system with social transactions as the core, and it will definitely be destroyed by the mode of capital operation. The purpose of all producers is not for their own use, but to sell their products in society. The money exchanged after the sale is used to maintain their lives and for their own development. This has nothing to do with good or evil, nor does it have anything to do with personal likes and dislikes. Rather, if you want the people to live a better life, you have to let the people enter the industrial era from a small-scale peasant economy. "For example, the city is not very willing to buy food from the surrounding areas. It is not that the people in the city have no conscience and do not pay attention to the surrounding areas. Instead, the city itself has so many choices. Because of the large quantity of food transported from afar, the cost of each catty of food may not actually be more expensive than buying food from the surrounding areas. Even if it is expensive, it is very expensive. This price difference is completely within the acceptable range of the city … "
Most of these words were not original by Levis. If the army had long been in admiration of the creator, Vézé, these years, especially in the last five or six years, the civil affairs department had been completely convinced. When many things puzzled them, Vézé, who was considered to be in the inner circle, seemed to have carried out a detailed investigation and clearly understood the cause, process, and results of these new movements. In particular, the prediction of the overall trend was as if he could predict it.
In the Liberation Army, there had always been a saying that no one dared to say openly, but they could not help but say it. Everyone did not believe in gods and ghosts, but they really believed that Vézé was some kind of god who had descended to earth. The degree of persistence in this kind of thing was probably comparable to the degree of belief in ancestral gods. Even the atheists in the Liberation Army did not object to this view. It was just that due to the atheistic nature of the Min dynasty and the materialistic position of the Restoration Party, everyone could not openly declare this.
Now that they heard Levis use the views put forward by Vézé so boldly, the ministers could only listen. In fact, when Vézé spoke, everyone could only listen. As for Levis, when Levis was so loyal to Vézé, it was not appropriate to say anything.
This was the effect that Levis needed. After showing his loyalty to Vézé, Levis continued, "The core of the Fourth Five-Year Plan is to strengthen compulsory education, which is to integrate people into a modern industrial society. Therefore, our work in the near future must be centered on this. The problem of food prices this time is a crisis, but also an opportunity. The key is to see how to solve it. I think that this time, we need to solve the problem with a more flexible grain sales model. What do the comrades think? "
Not long after he finished speaking, someone outside the door spoke. "I say, Old Li, you talk about the commander-in-chief all the time. The problem is that you have not really learned the core of the commander-in-chief at all. There is only one way to solve the problem of food prices. When the yield per mu in the places where it is difficult to sell food is tripled, from nearly 300 catties to 800 catties, all the problems of selling food will be solved. Those who are bad at farming will automatically withdraw from the ranks of farming, leaving behind excellent grain producers. This problem will definitely be solved. "
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