Qiming 1158

Chapter 1179 Destroy them all

Now Daming has just established the country for six years, and the situation in the Central Plains has just improved. Almost all industries are state-owned, which helps to provide the people with help on their most basic needs.

Such a state is naturally very beneficial when the country is in a period of recovery.

During this period, the private sector was weak, there was almost no capital, and many industries were left to be developed.

Therefore, it is necessary for the state to directly help these industries to provide the most basic demand guarantee for the people.

This is necessary.

However, when the country has entered a period of rapid development and the people's deposits have begun to increase, it is necessary to release some industries to private operation, so as to stimulate the development of the private economy, enhance the country's economic vitality, and make the cake bigger. These industries should not continue to be held in their hands.

It is not normal or healthy to always use state decrees to stimulate commercial production and demand. It is conducive to the restoration of national strength, but it is not completely conducive to sustainable development.

Su Yonglin held a meeting at the Ministry of Finance at that time, and suggested that the Ministry of Finance carefully study which industries Daming must firmly control, and which industries do not need to be firmly held in their hands and not let go.

For example, the grain industry, mining, steel industry, military industry, shipping industry, construction industry, land, mountains, forests, rivers, etc. must be controlled by the state. There is no need to say that these must be controlled by the state, and related industries must be state-run.

Otherwise, the chaos of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period will return, and the original intention of the establishment of the Ming Dynasty will not be guaranteed.

There are currently more important industries such as salt and fertilizer, which should also be dominated by state-owned enterprises to protect the peasant groups who are still vulnerable and have not yet escaped poverty. In order to make them full and salty.

The most powerful products in foreign trade belong to the industry, such as silk, tea, porcelain, etc., which are luxury goods and should be dominated by the state.

While using these luxury goods exports to earn real money, it is also necessary to control their production scale and output to avoid reckless expansion of production capacity after private intervention. On the one hand, it will lower prices and cause vicious competition, and on the other hand, it will also destroy food production.

As for catering, personal clothing, transportation leasing and other industries, there is no need to hold them tightly, and they can be opened to private entry when the time is right.

Just like the Song Dynasty, some industries such as catering, accommodation, clothing, transportation, leasing, etc. were also left to the private sector. Facts have proved that the development is not bad.

Needless to say, cooking has been around since the Song Dynasty.

Needless to say, the clothing industry does not need to be state-owned.

Accommodation is also harmless, the land is in the hands of the state, enough agricultural land is preserved, and the rest can be used for commerce and industry.

The transportation leasing is quite special, but the emergence of the "Didi and Donkey" industry in the big cities of the Song Dynasty and the leasing of sedan chairs and rickshaws in later generations also proved the actual business needs and vitality of this area.

At the end of the fourth year of Hongwu, at the State Council, Su Yonglin listened to the report of the Ministry of Finance and found that they had a great interest in holding almost all the industries in their hands and making them state-run. Industry nationalization.

They believe that in this way, they can provide funds for the development of the country to the maximum extent, and at the same time, it can also protect the interests of the people to the greatest extent, and prevent profiteers from hoarding and harming the people.

Some officials even put forward a more extreme opinion, believing that all business should be state-run, put an end to the emergence of profiteers, and make business a revolutionary auxiliary force to serve the people.

In the past dynasties, profiteers hoarded strange things in famine years, and the people were miserable. The cheap rice grains in normal seasons can be sold for sky-high prices at that time.

Many of the officials of the Ministry of Finance themselves have experienced such a hardship, and they deeply hate it. They believe that private business, as a symbol and part of the old society, should be completely eliminated and a complete state-run transformation should be completed.

The ideal society of their dreams can be truly built without the purpose of making money.

Such an idea has a very broad market in the Treasury Department, and many Treasury officials are trying to build a real heaven on earth with this goal.

This is indeed the real ideal society, the highest level of human social form pursued by revolutionaries and people with lofty ideals in all dynasties, but... it is not yet possible.

Su Yonglin also yearns for such a high-level social form, but he also knows that he can't do it.

It's impossible for everyone to put everything together now.

Unlimited state operation is of course impossible, so Su Yonglin put forward his own views and suggestions at the State Council.

"It's like the restaurant, restaurant, and snack stall industry, which belongs to the private industry right now. It is very prosperous and full of vitality. It can create a lot of things that people like to eat. Want to step in?
You are planning to build a state-run restaurant, and in the future, you will open it all over the country. What are you talking about to create a Ming Dynasty's catering standard and improve the people's ability to appreciate food... Is this necessary?I don't think that is necessary.

The country should focus on a higher level, which is related to whether the common people can eat their stomachs, whether they will starve and freeze, and ensure that the situation that happened in the past dynasties will not happen again. This is guaranteed no matter what.

As for whether it can be more special, and how to eat it in a different way, this is not something the country should dictate. What can you do with restaurants?It's nothing more than taking up the space for private benefits and letting some businesses that make a living close down. Is that necessary? "

Everyone in the meeting looked at me and I looked at you, but no one objected to Su Yonglin's views.

Because there is really no need for this thing to be state-run, it won't make life difficult because it's not state-run, and it won't cause huge problems because it's not state-run

It's just that the Ministry of Finance has habitually put forward such an idea because of the inertia of the development of state-run economic policies that have been continuously promoted over the years, and because the current economic policies have brought a huge boost to Daming's more and more financial expenditures, so everyone takes it for granted. The more state-run the better.

But the economy is not such a simple thing, and it cannot be done well by a hot 100% state-owned enterprise.

After talking about catering, Su Yonglin also mentioned Shuibingsi.

"Cold drinks are now a relatively luxurious thing, whether it's sugar or ice, it's not easy to get, so it's okay to be state-run now, but in the future we'll have a better life and improve our technology, so there's no need to be state-run. .

Can I eat cold drinks or not, is it related to national security?no?A long time ago, the nobles had cold drinks to eat, but the common people could not eat it, and we just hope that this kind of food that only the nobles could eat can be eaten by the common people.

It is the so-called Wang Xietang Qianyan in the old days, flying into the homes of ordinary people, don't always do some strange things and become princes and nobles to enjoy, but ordinary people can't touch it, that is called separation from the masses, that is, high-class humanization .

So we set up a water ice company precisely to oppose this kind of privilege. If you can eat cold drinks, you are a superior person. If you can't eat cold drinks, you are the masses. We don't want this kind of thing.

When the technology improves in the future, and sugar and ice cubes are not uncommon, then the private sector will be opened up. If anyone in the private sector wants to manage these, then let them do it. I think it is very good, what do you think? "

(End of this chapter)