industrial overlord

Chapter 91 Internal Reference
After Xu Haihao and Song Ying's interview, for two or three months, nothing happened.Lin Zhenhua originally thought that after the two reporters returned from the interview, they would definitely publish a manuscript, but after waiting for two months, Lin Zhenhua gradually forgot about it.He thought, maybe Xu Haihao suppressed this matter for the purpose of protecting him.

Lin Zhenhua didn't know, just when he forgot about it, in a classroom of the Central Party School in the western suburbs of Beijing thousands of miles away, his name, Lin Zhenhua, was being repeated by a group of officials over and over again.These officials are all young and middle-aged cadres from various economic management departments. The ranks are mainly deputy directors and directors.What they are discussing is an internal reference "Observation on the Pilot Reform of the Contracting System of the Labor Service Company of Hanhua Machinery Factory" provided by the teacher.

This internal reference was written by Xu Haihao. He introduced the process of Lin Zhenhua contracting the labor service company in a realistic way, and truthfully stated the opinions of all aspects of the factory, from the leaders to ordinary employees.In this internal reference, there are two most sensitive issues. One is whether Lin Zhenhua should pay a high contract fee, and the other is whether Lin Zhenhua wants to reinvest the contract fee into the enterprise while owning shares in the enterprise. Is it in line with the principles of socialism? .

"In my opinion, Lin Zhenhua's behavior is a serious act of tearing down the walls of socialism." A director said angrily: "This so-called reformer is actually just a capitalist hidden in our system. His purpose , is to use the country’s property to carry out his own primitive accumulation, and when the time is right, he will show his fangs and swallow the people’s assets into his stomach.”

"Director Lu, I think your point of view is a bit left." Another director retorted, "Didn't the central government repeatedly emphasize that bold reforms should be advocated. I think that since the contract system can be used in rural areas It has achieved good results, why can’t it be extended to cities and our reform of state-owned enterprises?”

"Old Wei is right. What's more, I read in this case that what Lin Zhenhua contracted was not a state-owned enterprise, but a large collective enterprise. The large collective is originally collectively owned by the labor group. Its distribution system, It can be flexible and varied,” said another student.

"I support Director Lu's point of view. Everyone should see clearly that the key to Lin Zhenhua's phenomenon is not that he took a high contract fee. Well, let's assume that according to the principle of more work, more pay, Lin Zhenhua fulfilled the contract commitment , It is reasonable to take more money. But everyone noticed that he did not use the money for personal consumption, but asked to put the money into the labor service company to purchase machinery and equipment, and proposed to the factory that he would pay according to his own contribution. Own shares. Isn’t that what it means to be a capitalist?”

"When Teacher Li from Peking University gave a lecture last time, didn't he talk about the issue of the joint-stock system? Our country is currently in serious shortage of construction funds, so what's wrong with encouraging individual investment?"

"Where did you put the socialist system? If individuals can invest, wouldn't the country become capitalist?"

"No matter how much personal investment is, can it be compared with the country? Our country is still dominated by public ownership, and the individual economy is just a supplement. I assert that even if the policy is liberalized for 30 years, the proportion of personal capital to the entire national capital will be the same. It will not exceed 10%, and public ownership accounts for more than 90%, how can it be regarded as capitalism?"

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People today may not be able to understand this kind of debate at all.In those days, the tangible and intangible confinement of thought can be described as absurd in today's view.Decades later, a doctoral supervisor of the Academy of Social Sciences once recalled that when he was doing his doctoral dissertation, he planned to write a question about the labor market. His supervisor immediately warned him: This is a minefield, and you must not touch it. .Under the socialist system, laborers are the masters of the country, and labor power cannot be used as a commodity.If he dared to write like this, he might lose his personal freedom even if he could not get a degree.

In Wuhu, Anhui, Nian Guangjiu, the idiot melon seed king, hired 12 workers, causing an uproar. A group of theorists took Marx's original work and argued that employing more than 8 workers was considered exploitation.Is it okay that a system of exploitation has emerged in a socialist country?The question of whether Nian Guangjiu is restoring capitalism has even reached the highest level of the central government.

That is, when the decision-making and academic levels are carefully exploring these minefields, tens of thousands of ordinary workers are throwing themselves into this tide of reform with the courage of one after another.Their practice is far ahead of theory and policy.

In Taizhou, Zhejiang, a group of farmers could no longer bear the fact that private partnerships had to wear the red hat of “township enterprises” and submitted an application to the Wenling County Community and Brigade Enterprise Administration for registration of private partnerships.The old man Chen Xinhe, chief of the production department, stamped a bright red seal on this application. He didn't know that it was this seal that made him the No. 1 in the true sense of China's shareholding system reform.

In southern Jiangsu, as early as 1969, when the political turmoil was raging, a group of ordinary farmers in Huaxi Village had quietly started their businesses.By 1978, Huaxi Village already had 100 million yuan in fixed assets and 100 million yuan in bank deposits. Thirty years later, this richest village in China spent 30 billion to build a 60-story high-rise.

Just a few kilometers away from the Central Party School in Zhongguancun, one of the first batch of 10 professor-level researchers of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, nuclear fusion expert Chen Chunxian resolutely went to the sea and built the first private technology entity in China in a warehouse—— The Advanced Technology Development Service Department of Beijing Plasma Society, the first business he did was to help a small street factory in Haidian solve a small problem on the power supply...

Mediocre scholars are still looking for a model to strengthen the country and enrich the people with "Das Kapital" or "The General Theory of Currency Interest", while wise ordinary workers, farmers, government officials, and scientific and technological workers have already set sail and entered the market The blue ocean of economy.

"Comrade He Haifeng, why don't you speak?" The teacher stood on the podium and felt very relieved to see the students discussing enthusiastically.He turned his eyes and found that He Haifeng, a cadre of the Light Industry Department of Xiangping Province, who has always been active in thinking and unique in vision, was smiling, but said nothing.The teacher was surprised and couldn't help calling his name directly.

He Haifeng stood up and said to the teacher and classmates: "I'm sorry, everyone had a very heated discussion just now. I didn't dare to speak. In fact, it was mainly for avoidance, because Comrade Lin Zhenhua and I wrote in the internal reference, privately The relationship is very close, it can be said that it is a friend who forgets years."

As soon as this sentence came out, the students in the whole class became excited, and everyone asked He Haifeng questions in one go:
"Really?"

"Old He, tell me, is this Lin Zhenhua really superhuman?"

"The internal reference said that his English can communicate with foreign experts. Is this bragging?"

"Also, he has made so many technological innovations, so it's not because their factory planted other people's achievements on him in order to set a model? Such things have happened in our system."

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He Haifeng nodded, and said to everyone: "The situation of Lin Zhenhua mentioned in the internal reference, according to my understanding of him, should be true. If there is any deficiency, it is that Lin Zhenhua's ability has not been comprehensively understood. show out."

"Is there such a god? Old He, don't just brag about him just because he is a friend. According to this internal reference, he must be at least at the level of a master's student at Huaqing University." Someone retorted loudly.If Lin Zhenhua was at the scene, he would have rushed over and shouted: Dude, you know me too well!
He Haifeng said: "I talked with him. He said that when he was in the army, he once studied for a period of time with a rightist professor who was reformed through labor near the garrison. My relationship with Lin Zhenhua was actually due to his chattering at the dinner table. It helped us solve two technical problems that have plagued us for a long time."

Afterwards, he introduced the events of the two porcelain factories back then, and he also told everyone about meeting Lin Zhenhua in the petrochemical machine and recommending Lin Zhenhua to be an interpreter for Ford.What he said was what he personally experienced, which was a little more realistic than the internal reference written by Xu Haihao. The students and teachers present were all fascinated by it, and even those who were quite critical of the "Lin Zhenhua Phenomenon" I also began to feel that this person is not bad at all.

"Hearing what Lao He said, I started to like Xiao Lin a little bit. Lao He, you said he is only 20 years old this year?" a student asked.

He Haifeng nodded: "That's right, he's only 20 years old, and my daughter calls him brother."

"It's a pity to be so young and talented. It's a pity to put him at the grassroots level. He should be transferred to the top, so that there will be no problem of contracting." Someone suggested.

Another person said: "I don't think so, young people, it's better to make a breakthrough at the grassroots level. Our company can't always rely on Qiao Guangpu, and the younger generation must take over."

The Qiao Guangpu this person was talking about was the protagonist in the sensational novel "Joe's Inauguration of the Factory Director", the director of a heavy machinery factory, and he was already in his 50s.At that time, the aging of cadres was also a very serious problem.

"Okay, that's all for today's class discussion. After class, if you are interested in this case, you can continue the discussion. However, this material is an internal reference, and it is classified. You are not allowed to spread it outside." The teacher ordered Then, he turned to He Haifeng and said, "Comrade He Haifeng, come with me after class, I have something to ask you for further clarification."

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Thanks to the book friends for the correction. Wenling, the birthplace of the first joint-stock cooperative enterprise, belongs to Taizhou, Zhejiang. It was wrongly written as Wenzhou in the book, and it has been corrected.

Both Taiwan and Wenzhou are important birthplaces of China's reforms.

(End of this chapter)