That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 1476 I am the original author!

When Li Ye and Duan Jiajun arrived at the cafeteria, most of the students who came to participate in the training had already arrived, and Li Ye attracted a lot of attention from the moment he entered.

Li Ye looked around carefully but didn't find any familiar faces, which made him feel a little strange.

Most of these people are as calm and composed as Duan Jiajun, so why are they all staring at him?

Duan Jiajun noticed Li Ye's unusual behavior and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong, Li Ye?"

Li Ye also whispered, "It's nothing, I just feel like everyone is looking at me, but I don't know them."

"You mean this? Hehe~"

Duan Jiajun smiled and said, "Everyone envies you, huh? We're all like half-ripe cabbages, while you're a fresh and promising young man!"

"What kind of outstanding young man am I? I just look young, hahaha."

Li Ye chuckled lightly, thus changing the subject.

It was only then that he realized he had become very conspicuous in this training program.

If there were still about a third of the students of similar age to Li Ye when he last studied at D School, there are almost none this time.

This is actually a cognitive misconception that Li Ye has unknowingly fallen into over the years.

Many of his classmates, relatives, and friends have achieved great success. Not to mention Wen Leyu, Wen Qingsheng, and Pan Xiaoying, even Sun Xianjin, Fu Yingjie, Zhen Rongrong, and others have all crossed the threshold of deputy director level.

Therefore, Li Ye can only be considered excellent in his circle of friends, but not particularly outstanding.

But when Li Ye arrived at the training class, he realized that while there were plenty of section chiefs in their twenties, it was truly rare to find a division chief in his thirties.

In particular, the people around us were listed as "reserve talents" for further study, which kept out a group of people who were forced to grow too quickly.

This is similar to some dating videos from decades later.

They readily demand a six-month salary of one million from their future spouse, with seemingly valid reasons—look at so-and-so, who is already a billionaire at such a young age, is it too much for me to ask for a one million annual salary?
Not too much at all.

When all you see are those exceptional individuals, you inevitably forget how outstanding and overwhelming a million-dollar annual salary would be if diluted among the general public.

The tallest tree in the forest catches the most wind; I must keep a low profile this time.

However, Li Ye decided to keep a low profile that day, but he failed to do so the next day.

. . . . . . . . .

The second day was the first day of class. In the morning, the teacher covered some routine topics, and in the afternoon, the teacher distributed an internal reference document to the adults for everyone to study and discuss.

"This is a reflection written by an economist after witnessing the collapse of the Soviet Union firsthand, based on his personal experience and investigation. It has been recognized by many scholars in mainland China and has good learning and reference value for us."

Li Ye was stunned for a moment, then opened the article and immediately knew that he had guessed correctly.

He wrote this article, which was later given to several uncles and elders by Teacher Ke. As it passed around, it somehow ended up here.

Fortunately, this article was unsigned, otherwise Li Ye would have had to explain to everyone whether this Li Ye was the same Li Ye as the other Li Ye.

However, just when Li Ye thought that everyone would be amazed by the author after reading this article, he was met with a lot of ruthless attacks.

These students read the article quietly in class, but they started having a heated discussion when they ate dinner in the cafeteria that evening.

"The article 'Thoughts and Feelings After Seeing Su E's Collapse' is too one-sided and too idealistic. Su E's path is clearly not viable, yet he still affirms that the commonalities between us and Su E are valuable."

"I think this author has made an idealistic mistake; he's simply greedy. He wants to retain Sue's early ability to achieve rapid success while also wanting to learn from the reform experience of Western free-market economies. Isn't that a contradiction?"

"That's right. We achieved very good results in previous years, but after coming into contact with Western ideas, we quickly fell into difficulties. Therefore, the Suzhou experience and the Western experience are incompatible."

"Suzhou had problems before, but now it seems the problems are even bigger. I also have a friend in Suzhou who told me personally that Suzhou's economic situation this year is far worse than it was in 91 when it just collapsed, and there is no sign of recovery at all."

"But Su'e has cried after all! They only have one path left: change, which is called shock therapy."

What started as a group of amiable and composed middle-aged people quickly turned into a commotion, clearly applying the phenomenon of Su E to the current situation in mainland China.

It has been almost two years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and its economic situation is getting worse and worse, which has made many conservative people in mainland China more resistant to the West.

In fact, until 2000, many people in mainland China did not approve of becoming part of Western globalization. After mainland China joined the WTO, many people were pessimistic and thought the sky was falling.

There are also many people who oppose these conservative ideas. Their reasoning is the collapse of Sugo. The lesson of the past is right there. If not changing will lead to collapse, then what is there to hesitate about? There is only one way to go: change!
No matter how much they argued, both sides felt that there was something wrong with the article written by Li Ye.

Li Ye's goal is to combine Chinese and Western approaches, retain the core business, attract overseas capital and experience, and ultimately form his own unique characteristics.

In Li Ye's eyes, this was the most correct idea imaginable, but in the eyes of these students, it became a matter of wanting both.

Seeing that everyone was criticizing him more and more, Li Ye, who originally wanted to keep a low profile, had no choice but to step in.

"Actually, I think there's nothing wrong with this article. We've been reforming for over a decade now, and everyone has witnessed the changes around us. What Suzhou University couldn't do, we've actually already accomplished."

"You think you've already succeeded? Then you don't know the inside story."

One classmate immediately retorted to Li Ye: "Do you even know how much we've given up over the years?"
Our foreign aid has been drastically reduced, the Third Front construction project has been almost entirely cancelled, and military spending has been declining year after year.
Countless science and technology and military projects have been cancelled, and even the 507 Institute was almost shut down, yet it experienced serious financial problems in recent years. So where did all the money we saved go?

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Li Ye roughly knew where the money had gone, but he couldn't say it here.

Since the easing of Sino-Western relations, mainland China has established diplomatic relations with many Western countries, and then spent over four billion US dollars to implement the "43 Plan."
Before this project could even go into production and generate returns, they immediately followed up with the $82 Project, which involved spending over eight billion US dollars to continue importing high-tech equipment from abroad.

It can be said that in just a few years, the money that would have taken more than a decade to spend was spent. The people below then aggressively launched various projects, which naturally led to various problems and made many people distrust that the West could lead the mainland to "get rich together".

The current situation in Suzhou provides further evidence for them, so despite the rapid development of the mainland in recent years, people still maintain a high degree of vigilance towards the West.

Li Ye thought for a moment, then said, "Actually, everyone's cautious attitude is correct. Change is like climbing a mountain of knives; every wrong step could have serious consequences. But we are different from Su E."

In fact, the establishment of the Sugo regime was too easy; a few shots were fired and the Tsar was overthrown. They then achieved tremendous development through simple and direct methods, leading to insufficient internal self-reflection, arrogance, and a misguided path.

"But our journey over the past few decades has been completely different. It can be said that few countries in the world have gone through such a difficult period as we have."

Everyone knows Cuba, right? How many years did it take them to gain independence? Grava thought independence was too easy, which is why he perished in Bolivia.

But what about us? We've had countless arguments, taken countless detours, and fought countless fierce battles before we finally achieved this level of execution.

"So we are different from everyone else... We have the ability to do things that others cannot."

Li Ye was actually being somewhat subtle in his words.

China's greatest achievement over the past few decades has actually been cultivating countless outstanding and remarkable figures through continuous exploration.

Otherwise, I really wouldn't dare accept the West's "goodwill," which would ultimately leave those people speechless.

Even though Li Ye only uttered half of his sentence, it was enough to silence everyone.

Because Li Ye's words were based on his feelings about the achievements of the mainland in later generations, they could be written down as "reflections" and submitted to those in power by the people around him.

Whether it's right or wrong doesn't matter; what matters is whether you like watching it.

When evening came, Duan Jiajun began to discuss things in detail with Li Ye. Before turning off the lights, Duan Jiajun suddenly asked Li Ye a question.

"Young man, have you read this article before? Why do you understand it so thoroughly?"

[I'm the original author! How could I not understand it perfectly?]

(End of this chapter)