*************** It’s the weekend again. I wish you all the fun and make money. Although the economic crisis has come, the price of pork has also dropped. You guys work hard! If you have all kinds of tickets in your hand, it’s better to vote for a few little wolf! *************

"Wujian, brother, how about discussing with you?" Fan Kang smiled and peeled an apple and handed it to Fan Wujian's eyes.

When Fan Wubing heard this, he immediately turned his gaze to his brother Fan Kang. He looked open and seemed to be unable to find any clues. So he took the apple, ate it hard, and then asked, "What's the matter?"

"How about changing the room for the two of us?" Fan Kang smiled.

Why? Fan Wubing felt a little strange, turned his head and looked at his room, then looked at his brother's room, but didn't notice any big difference. In short, Fan Kang's room was two square meters larger than his own, which made no sense at all.

The only difference is that Fan Wubing’s room is on the south side, while Fan Kang’s room is on the north side, that’s all.

Well? There must be something strange here! Fan Wubing naturally would not believe that Fan Kang would change rooms with him for no reason. Although the ancients advocated friendship and respect for brothers, Fan Kang was not so generous. There was no need for him to occupy such a large room, even if he was a child.

Fan Wubing's eyes looked out along the window of his brother Fan Kang's room. He saw it across the street and looked out along the window of his room. There was a staff family building, and he could see the balcony opposite. It was noon, and he saw someone coming and going inside, obviously making lunch, and a red flashed by.

"Oh--" A flash of inspiration flashed in her head, and Fan Wubing immediately understood why her brother Fan Kang had to change rooms with him.

"Hehehehe-Okay, brother! Tell me quickly, who is the girl you like?" Fan Wubing smiled and questioned Fan Kang with a bad look on his face.

Although Fan Kang was fourteen, his face was naturally far below Fan Wubing's thickness. He immediately turned red when he heard this and ran away in panic, and said, "Don't talk nonsense, kid!"

"Oh! The kid is old and his thoughts are complicated!" Fan Wubing shook his head and sighed in an old age.

After Fan Wubing's smile faded, his heart was filled with worries.

Last year was the year of the US election. On November 4, Republican Ronald Reagan defeated Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter in one fell swoop and became the 40th president in American history, about to begin his eight-year career in the White House.

This American president, who was born as an actor, not only set a precedent for an actor to successfully advance to president in American history, but also the oldest in office among all previous presidents.

In Fan Wubing's view, President Reagan undoubtedly successfully combined his career. Before entering politics, Reagan served as a sports broadcaster, lifeguard, newspaper columnist, film actor, TV program actor, and motivational lecturer, and was a leader of the American Film and Television Actors Association. His speech style is brilliant and convincing, and he is hailed by the media as a "great communicator."

But what is most worth mentioning is that during his eight years in power in the White House, he put forward the Star Wars plan. This false plan that later generations considered to be specifically targeting the Soviet Union, and finally successfully dragged another superpower into the quagmire of the arms race until it collapsed completely and was broken into pieces.

Fan Wubing still remembers it very clearly until today. President Reagan said on the day of the inauguration, "The government is not the solution to the problem, the government itself is the problem."

The domestic situation is still in a fog. As the economy recovered for two years after the reform and opening up, problems also surfaced.

In addition to state-owned enterprises, hundreds of thousands of small enterprises have emerged. They either fight on their own or form alliances to compete with state-owned enterprises for markets, raw materials, employees, and profits.

There has been a dispute in China about how to protect state-owned enterprises.

The propulsing faction represented by Xue Muqiao, an economist who participated in the overall reform plan at that time, believed that the reform of decentralization and concessions had limitations, and advocated focusing on the "price management system reform" and "circulation channel reform", gradually abolishing the administrative pricing system, and establishing commodity markets and financial markets.

Another opinion believes that the reform of state-owned enterprises "must strengthen centralization and unity" and "the final focus is centralization and unity of the central government". Some people therefore proposed the theory of "cage and bird", which means that enterprises are like birds, and they cannot always tie their wings and let them fly freely. However, the state-owned economic system is a big cage. No matter how the birds fly, they should not fly out of this cage.

The latter argument ultimately convinced the central decision-making level that the "cage and bird" theory dominated the ideas of enterprise reform in the entire 1980s in the future, and the reform of state-owned enterprises became a "change in the cage". Based on this theory, looking at the situation in 1981, the conclusion is very easy to draw.

The reform of state-owned enterprises must be progressive step by step under stability and central control. How to change can you "cross the river by feeling the stones" and take one step at a time. The most urgent task is to rectify those "birds outside the cage" that do not obey commands and cannot be controlled. It is they that disrupt the entire economic situation.

The central government's judgment was very responsive to state-owned enterprises. Soon, a large number of voices appeared in local media and internal reports, accusing those small unplanned factories of how to compete with standardized state-owned enterprises for raw materials, disrupt market order, and cause state-owned enterprises to suffer huge losses.

In short, if the pilot enterprises are not doing well, it is all caused by the wild birds outside the cage. The judgment of the situation and the resulting directional decisions directly lead to a major turn in reform policies.

On January 7, the State Council issued an "Instructions on Strengthening Market Management and Cracking Speculative Breaking and Smuggling Activities", which stipulated that "individuals (including private partnerships) are not allowed to sell industrial products without the approval of the industrial and commercial administrative department." "Rural cooperatives collectively can traffic in the second and third categories of agricultural and sideline products that the state does not purchase after completing the national acquisition tasks and performing the negotiation contract. The first category of agricultural products is not allowed to sell", and "private purchases of cars, tractors, motor ships and other large transportation vehicles are not allowed to engage in trafficking."

On January 30, the State Council issued another document "Several Provisions on Adjusting the Industrial and Commercial Taxation Burden of Rural Cooperatives and Team Enterprises", which clearly stated that "in order to limit the competition for raw materials with large and medium-sized advanced enterprises, the provisions for exempting industrial and commercial tax and industrial and commercial income tax for two to three years in the early stage of establishment will be treated differently according to different circumstances... Any advanced enterprises with large and large competing materials and profitable companies, whether they are newly established or original enterprises, will be subject to industrial and commercial income tax as required."

These two documents are harsh and have detailed measures, and are required to publish reports on the front pages of major media. For a time, "cracking down on speculation" became the most important economic movement this year.

"Oh! It seems that the direction of the wind is about to change again!" Fan Wubing flipped through the newspaper and threw it onto the desk, not without worries.
Chapter completed!