Brother Lin was chatting with his apprentice. Someone came out of the dispatching room behind him and asked him blankly: "Master Lin, I heard that the 'Holy Light' Steel Plant is going to be withdrawn?"
What......?
Brother Lin was teaching his apprentice, but when he turned around he was confused and said, "I don't know."
The people in the station dispatching room were smiling, their faces full of gossip, and they expected to get more information from Brother Lin, "You don't know? It just came from the steel plant.
It is said that Mr. Zhou feels that the Tianyang Steel Plant is too small, consumes too much energy and pollutes too much, and wants to directly lay it off to free up the city's power supply for other development.
He also said that from now on Tianyang’s scrap steel will be shipped to the provincial capital, and all steel in the city will be purchased from outside.
We have only had a few good days, and we are about to be laid off in the blink of an eye. There is already a commotion at the steel plant, and many workers cannot accept it."
After hearing the first half of the sentence, Brother Lin was also stunned. But after hearing the second half, he sneered and said: "So what if you can't accept it? Tens of thousands of people in the group have been laid off, so why do they care about hundreds of people in the steel plant? This is a blackmail.
Who is it?
Besides, our small steel factory is really not doing well. It can only produce crude steel, not even rebar. If it is of no use, it might as well be laid off."
The people at the station were originally making a fuss, but Brother Lin said a few words and had nothing to say. Thinking about it carefully, the quality of the steel plants in the city is indeed very poor, so it is better to shut them down to avoid frequent power outages in the city.
It didn't matter whether it was a big deal or not. Many employees at the station gathered around to discuss it. Some said it was good, some said it was not, and everyone was noisy.
While they were talking, the people in the dispatching room hurried back to their posts. Not long after, a truck drove into the platform. More than a dozen flatbed carriages were all packed with hundreds of tons of bundled steel bars.
‘Old Jiefang’, which had just unloaded steel ingots, started loading steel bars again.
The apprentice who was learning to drive clicked his tongue and said: "Master, I heard that the price of unplanned steel bars is very expensive now. All those who waste steel bars will get rich."
Under the planned economy, the state has the final say on almost all commodity prices.
A box of matches costs 2 cents, and a pound of salt costs 13 cents. The prices are uniform across the country.
This will definitely be beneficial in the early stages of economic construction, ensuring that people can obtain cheap goods when supplies are in short supply and avoid hoarding.
But if things go on like this, the economy becomes rigid and lifeless. Because production and prices are fixed, "good or bad work is the same, and whether you do it or not is the same", workers lose their enthusiasm.
The result of testing human nature will inevitably be that the most selfish people benefit the most.
After correcting the chaos, repairing the collapsed national economy became the top priority. Domestic economic reform was earlier than that in the Soviet Union, and the process was slower. It was an authentic process of crossing the river by feeling for the stones.
Beginning in the 1980s, China implemented a dual-track price system for a large number of production materials that were in short supply, and the planned economy began to transition to a market economy. In the 1990s, a merger was implemented.
To put it simply, the in-demand materials such as steel bars, coal, and rubber produced by state-owned enterprises are divided into two parts.
A part is sold within state-owned enterprises, and the price is determined by the state, ensuring that the original production system remains unchanged. The excess part is allowed to be sold freely to the market, and the price is determined by the market, stimulating new business vitality.
The market price is definitely much higher than the planned price. In order to make money, companies naturally have the motivation to produce. They must first complete the planned tasks assigned by the state, and then work hard to produce unplanned output.
When the merger is completed, prices will be completely determined by the market. The state will no longer impose rigid plan restrictions and will only require companies to pay more taxes.
There are too many gray areas in this price transition.
Just how to turn the planned low-priced goods into unplanned high-priced goods has become a trick for many people to make a fortune. As for the approval slips, they are flying like snowflakes.
Many of the criticisms of the 1990s in later generations often stem from this.
but......
Under the premise that reform is necessary, domestic gradual reform is better than Maozi's one-size-fits-all 'shock therapy'.
I don't know if "Tutou" took the wrong medicine, but actually believed in the deceptive lies of the West, hoping to transform from a planned economy to a market economy within half a year.
They wanted to rely on the "invisible hand" to reverse the many shortcomings of the Soviet economy and solve all problems.
It's a lot of trouble for normal people to move. In such a large country, with a population of more than 100 million and thousands of companies, it is necessary to change the system within half a year.
Is this a dream?
Shock, shock, doesn't sound like a good word. Isn't it just that we are not far from death?
Strange things like brain circuits often appeared in Maozi's history, making people wonder if their heads were frozen by the Siberian cold current and led to strange evolutionary directions?
Reality is always stranger than fiction. Fiction requires logic, but reality does not. So Mao Zi really went into shock and went to the grave.
Ordinary people don't think of so many causes and effects.
Looking at the steel transported to Tianyang by train, the train station employees on the platform didn’t know whether it was ‘planned’ or ‘unplanned’.
"Master Lin." The person from the station dispatching room came out again and asked politely: "Where is this steel used?"
Just asking knowingly...
Brother Lin asked angrily: "What do you want to do? Pull a few tons from the middle?"
Don't tell me, this kind of thing is not new.
During transportation, there may be shortages of goods, out-of-stock packages, or even no trace at all. It is usually caused by internal and external collusion and internal conspiracy. People nowadays will do anything to make money.
The people at the station smiled and said, "Master Lin, look at what you said. I'll just ask."
Brother Lin became even more embarrassed, "Stop making crooked ideas. Whatever you can do, the 'Holy Light' can also do. Really, you will always have a hard time."
"Don't dare, don't dare."
The people at the station waved their hands and walked away with a smile.
Brother Lin sighed and looked at the station cargo yard.
The supply and demand of the 'Shengguang' Group is extremely strong. In addition to the Taipingqiao Pier being full of goods, the same is true at the train station. There are more than one or two people who have made wrong decisions.
The company 'Harmony Logistics' has established a special security team, with hundreds of veterans responsible for the inventory and transportation of goods. However, goods are still lost from time to time.
Some can be found, and some can't be found.
In about half an hour, the station's crane loaded another six or seven tons of rebar on "Old Jiefang". Brother Lin called his apprentice and drove the steel bars to the construction site.
This is the last class today. After delivering the goods, Brother Lin will go home.
The newly built apartment building of 'Shengguang' is still in the process of being completed, and Brother Lin can't move in yet. So after he got married, he lived with his father-in-law first.
I returned home happily. My new daughter-in-law was in the kitchen, my father-in-law and mother-in-law were watching TV in the living room, and several of the woman’s relatives also came. It was quite lively.
Brother Lin greeted them one by one, and when he entered the kitchen, he asked his wife: "What's going on today? Are there so many people here?"
Lin Wan personally selected the new wife, focusing on her knowledge, temperament, and family background. The younger sister was afraid that her brother would be too stupid and would be bullied after marriage.
The only flaw is that the new daughter-in-law's family has too many relatives, including seven aunts and eight aunts. This is not... trouble comes to the door.
The new daughter-in-law was washing vegetables and whispered to her husband, "Some uncles from my family want to ask you for a favor."
Brother Lin's expression remained unchanged, and he recalled in his mind what his sister had told him before he entered the bridal chamber - Brother, if you want to live a good life, blame me for everything. Don't agree to anything, otherwise your family will be restless.