Chapter 601 The Sea Turtle Is Getting Cocky, Let's Raise Her with a Local Turtle?
This kind of gathering at Zhang Qiyan's house is not only a dinner party, but also a place for mutual communication. Several of Li Ye's senior brothers often get angry because of some financial issues.
As an economics guru, Zhang Qiyan will act as a commentator, guiding and helping these proud disciples as much as possible.
You must know that during the early 1980s, the winds in the mainland were changing from east to west. Once outstanding reserve cadres like Yu Xiufen and Zou Mengcheng made mistakes in judgment, their future would be affected.
In every discussion, Li Ye was always the most "gentle" among the brothers.
He never liked having meaningless arguments with others, but today, Cai Minying had just shown up, and Li Ye was tit for tat.
Just now Cai Minying just expressed her views on the "Plaza Accord", but Li Ye felt that something was wrong.
She admires Western economic policies too much.
The "Plaza Accord" is obviously a war for the West to harvest Japan's stupidity, but Cai Minying still thinks that the lighthouse people did the right thing. Should we also listen to their opinions and fatten ourselves up, waiting for others to harvest in the future?
However, Li Ye couldn't be sure of Cai Minying's thoughts based on just a few words, so he threw out the hook of "protecting the poor" to test it out.
Of course, this has always been Li Ye's point of view - to do my best to do things that are beneficial to the ordinary people.
Even if you provide five insurances and one housing fund to low-level employees like Brother Dong! It is also a contribution.
The result of the test made Li Ye quite disappointed.
"Protecting the poor? How could you have such an idea?"
Cai Minying looked at Li Ye in surprise, and then asked very quickly: "Classmate Li Ye, are you a person who lived thirty years ago?
Don’t you know that some people need to get rich first? Do you think it’s still an era when whoever is poor is glorious?”
"Although the lighthouse has a relief system for the poor, that is not the reason why the poor need to be taken care of. Over there, homeless people are also despised."
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"Senior Sister Cai, first of all, I agree with the policy of letting some people get rich first, but what happens after they get rich? Let the rich help the poor, or let the system help the poor?"
Li Ye interrupted Cai Minying's words, and then said calmly: "Poverty and wealth are relative and cannot be balanced. The rich will always be in the minority.
This time, Lighthouse signed an agreement with the other four countries. In the end, most of the wealth plundered went to the rich.
Sister Cai, you said that you should study Western economics. I think it is good. Otherwise, I would not have chosen Western economics as a major.
But it would definitely be inappropriate to completely copy the Western free economy to the mainland, because the Western free economy is still too biased towards the rich.”
When Cai Minying expressed surprise at "protecting the poor," Li Ye knew that she had completely inserted herself into the capital economy and had forgotten the nature of the institution she served.
After Cai Minying returned to China, she joined the Mainland's Economic Planning Committee!
[You are poor because you don’t work hard enough and you deserve to be poor. 】
Perhaps Cai Minying's idea is the same as that of most pioneers today, which is to change the situation in the mainland as soon as possible and get rid of the label of poverty and backwardness.
The prosperity overseas just proves the advanced nature of the free economy over the planned economy in the mainland, so Cai Minying firmly believes that she is right.
But Li Ye knew that if the Western free economy was allowed to rage in the mainland, real oligarchs would appear in the mainland many years later, and the increasingly rare homeless people on the streets would eventually reappear.
Although many people in future generations will scold their mother for the gap between the rich and the poor, and many rich people do dominate, everything is relative. The mainland invests more in the people at the bottom than any other country in the world, and for the rich The restrictions have never been relaxed.
No matter how poor the poor are, they must still have basic clothing, food, shelter, and transportation.
Decades from now, how many homeless people will there still be on the streets? How many more people are starving to death?
No matter how rich the rich are, they can't be lawless. It's okay for you to be a young model in a private jet club, and your eighteen illegitimate children don't care about you. But if you dare to be greedy and always want to empty the poor people's pockets of the last piece of steel, even The interests of the country also dare to be touched.
One finger can kill you. If you don’t believe it, just give it a try.
However, Li Ye's "conservative" thinking is in the minority in this era, especially among young people who have not experienced hardships. He is definitely an "alien".
Cai Minying, who was interrupted by Li Ye, waited until Li Ye finished speaking and immediately said angrily: "Classmate Li Ye, don't you know that interrupting someone else's speech is a very impolite behavior?"
Li Ye replied instantly: "Sorry, I couldn't help it."
Cai Minying: "."
What Li Ye is showing now is the so-called politeness in the West. It takes no effort at all to talk. Many things in the West are so hypocritical, such as the so-called free economy, which is only free for themselves and free for others. What the hell are you thinking? eat?
Cai Minying stared at Li Ye for a long time, and then asked: "You have studied with the teacher for three years. What have you learned? Do you want to continue to be poor? Do you want the people around you to remain poor like you? ?”
Li Ye shook his head lightly: "Actually, I am richer than most people. If the economy is completely liberalized, I will make more money.
But I still believe that we must follow our own path based on our national conditions, and we cannot blindly trust Western economic policies.”
"Ha~"
Cai Minying finally smiled.
She smiled and asked Li Ye: "You don't think that you are really rich just because you have earned a large amount of royalties, right? You should actually go abroad to see what true wealth looks like."
Li Ye glanced at Cai Minying and didn't speak to her again.
In this world, there are a few people who can discuss the issue of "whether you are rich" with Li Ye, but Cai Minying is definitely not included.
Because people who can earn a billion dollars will not be deceived by the performance of the Western liberal economy.
They have been playing the free economy for many years, and now they say they want to "lead you", and then you just follow their baton. Have you really played like this?
Therefore, you cannot be led by your nose, even if there is a carrot in front of your nose.
It's better to eat the carrot and go your own way.
But Cai Minying was obviously not satisfied with Li Ye's "cessation of activities". After all, even Yu Xiufen, a sharp-tongued person, said that the junior sister had a bad temper, and obviously failed to suppress her.
But before Cai Minying could speak again, Professor Zhang said first, "Okay, you two are smart people. Minying studied abroad for three years and broadened her horizons and learned knowledge.
Li Ye has his own unique understanding of the mainland's economy. You two can benefit from each other by communicating more in the future."
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Yu Xiufen, Zou Mengcheng and others looked at Li Ye and Cai Minying, and then they couldn't help but chuckle, especially Yu Xiufen, whose face was full of gloating.
But Cai Minying was just stunned, and immediately said: "Teacher, did you call me here today just because you wanted him to convince me of some of my opinions? Then you may have wasted your efforts because I have no interest in communicating with him?"
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Everyone stopped laughing and looked at Zhang Qiyan in surprise.
Professor Zhang looked at Cai Minying silently for a few seconds, then stood up and took a piece of material from the bookshelf.
"Minying, you've been a little distracted lately. You didn't even listen to what I said to you a few days ago.
Not only did you not listen, you also wrote a proposal and submitted it. Yesterday, they forwarded the report to me and asked me if the suggestions contained in it were what I meant. "
Zhang Qiyan looked at Cai Minying and said warmly: "I was thinking yesterday, if I didn't criticize you so loudly that day, wouldn't you be so reckless?"
"Although Li Ye did not study abroad, he has a broad vision and is familiar with overseas situations, and he has his own opinions on controlling the wind direction in the mainland."
"So I hope you can communicate with Li Ye. If you think that I, an old man, have some backward thoughts, then you young people will always have a common language, right?
I remember that you used to always argue with your senior brothers and sisters, but now, how long has it been since you discussed it with them? They are in front-line positions, and many things are more thorough than what you see. "
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Everyone was stunned again, and Li Ye finally understood that the teacher wanted him, a country turtle who grew up in fresh water, to teach turtles coming back from salt water how to "mix culture"?
But why? Just because turtles and turtles are both members of the order Turtles and the family Cylindidae?
Li Ye reached out and took the proposal letter with some impoliteness, and quickly read it.
Anyway, there are only a few Eastern and Western theories at the moment. Li Ye, who is familiar with history, can understand it at a glance. There is no need to pick out the words with a magnifying glass.
After a few minutes, Li Ye breathed out and threw the proposal back on the table.
Zhang Qiyan said in surprise: "Li Ye, you are done reading now."
Li Ye nodded and said nothing.
Zhang Qiyan asked again: "What do you think?"
Li Ye shook his head and said simply: "I don't understand, no objection."
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Zhang Qiyan was choked.
Even Wang Zhiyuan, the most honest person present, could see that Li Ye's words were insincere and even a little bit "disgusting".
That's right, Li Ye just disliked it.
Study abroad for three years, spend at least 20,000 US dollars, and end up with this?
In her proposal, Cai Minying mentioned the extremely sensitive issue of "privatization" in a sideways manner, and the examples she relied on were developed countries in the West such as Beacon.
Li Ye is not opposed to privatization. After all, the private economy is an important supplement to the state-owned economy. He is now one of the beneficiaries of privatization in the mainland.
But Cai Minying is so stubborn that she has expanded her private goals too much, even vaguely including railways and electricity.
As far as the 1980s are concerned, overseas railways and electricity are of course more advanced than those in the mainland. Because the mainland is experiencing power outages all day long, the power supply for units such as hospitals cannot be fully guaranteed.
As for the train, forget about it. You can't squeeze in at any time, even if you squeeze through the window.
So Cai Minying's suggestion seems to be correct.
But unfortunately, Li Ye knew exactly how backward projects such as railways and electricity would develop in the mainland.
It's just that Cai Minying is an elite who has returned from studying abroad, a master's degree, and a senior sister, so it's not easy for Li Ye to criticize her in the first place.
Anyway, with her ability, it is impossible to change such an important national policy and change the historical trajectory of these two world-class achievements. After all, those who have walked through the hail of bullets are not dead yet! The brakes will be applied at critical moments.
So just forget it.
But Cai Minying understood Li Ye's eyes.
"It's not that you don't understand, you just look down on it, right?"
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