Chapter 333 Some things cannot change! Cost!
Song Wancheng, "Emperor Yang of Sui is so powerful, why can't he defeat the aristocratic families even though he has money!"
"The aristocratic families are too powerful. The Sui Dynasty was the strongest era for aristocratic families in my country's feudal history. The aristocratic families are too terrifying. Even Li Yuan, the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, cannot be ranked.
The most famous ones are Gao Ying of Bohai Gao family, Yang Su of Hongnong Yang family, and Changsun Sheng of Guanlong Group. They are all so powerful that they have no friends.
When he is on horseback, he can be the commander-in-chief! When he is off horseback, he can be the left and right prime ministers! He is good at both civil and military affairs.
Emperor Wen of Sui, the father of Emperor Yang of Sui, is highly respected by foreigners abroad. His series of policies, including the Kaihuang Code and the progressive tax system, have influenced us today.
But how many people in the world know who Emperor Wen of Sui was? They just try to discredit Emperor Yang of Sui. How many people know about the achievements of Emperor Yang of Sui?
What did Li Shimin leave behind during the Tang Dynasty? The greatest period of the Tang Dynasty was during the reigns of Li Ye and Wu Zetian, and the Zhenguan Reign was just a boast.
Li Shimin wrote a book called "The Imperial Model" and his wife wrote a book called "Female Training", which were very much in line with the ideas of later Confucianists.
Li Shimin was not good enough. He even changed his "Daily Records". Since Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian", my country's history has been changed too much.
The failure of Emperor Yang of Sui was that most of his ministers were from aristocratic families, which resulted in him having no one under his command, no generals, and no soldiers.
He messed up the north, hoping to use the Han people in the south to suppress the Hu people in the north, but he forgot two important things.
One is: Emperor Yang of Sui considered himself a Han Chinese, but his mother was an orthodox Hanized Xianbei, Dugu Qieluo?
Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty was a true mixed-race.
The southern aristocratic families did not recognize that Emperor Yang of Sui was a pure Han Chinese. He was not his father, Emperor Wen of Sui, Yang Jian. Yang Jian was a pure Han Chinese, but Yang Guang was not!
Second: The southern aristocratic families are also aristocratic families, and it is useless no matter how good Emperor Yang of Sui is to them.
The foundation of an aristocratic family is "one's family first, then the country". Emperor Yang of Sui and his son have been digging for the foundation of the aristocratic family.
One is people, and the other is the system of honorary officials, which were what the aristocratic families cared about most at that time.
The southern families did not worry that Emperor Yang of Sui would turn around and deal with them after he wiped out the northern families.
Because of the existence of aristocratic families, no matter how talented Emperor Yang of Sui was, it was useless. He had no friends in the Sui Dynasty, unless he became a puppet emperor.
Everything is up to the family.
Emperor Yang of Sui had been in power for several decades, and the aristocratic families were at their peak.
His advantage was that by the time of Wu Zetian, the aristocratic families had been basically eliminated, and our country was led from the era of aristocratic families into the era of feudal bureaucracy!
It will greatly shorten the time it takes for society to progress! "Cao Dongfang has seen too many comments from netizens in this regard in his later life.
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"I really don't know who Emperor Wen of Sui is." Commander Song told the truth.
"'Ten unpardonable crimes'! This is what is written in the Kaihuang Code. Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty made almost no mistakes during his reign except for being 'afraid of his wife'. How can we criticize him? People who came after him just downplayed him.
As time went by, no one knew who Emperor Wen of Sui was! "Cao Dongfang explained.
"It's rare to see an emperor who is afraid of his wife. It's quite interesting." Second Aunt Song Xianxian expressed her opinion.
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"The country is now conducting pilot projects in rural areas. What should we pay attention to?" Song Wancheng asked.
“There are mainly two aspects.
One is: national policies must not change! Orders cannot be changed overnight. This is a government credibility issue!
It’s fun when the people don’t trust the government!
Therefore, there cannot be people who speak in a sarcastic way there, especially cadres!
The second is the cost issue.
Farmers must be able to earn money. Officials and farmers must keep in mind the cost price. At least let farmers earn more, around 20% of their income, and not less than 10%.
Otherwise - if no one does the work the next year, then it won’t be a farmers’ problem.
The state must compensate farmers. There are units in our country that are making losses. For example, those who mine iron ore are not counted as prisoners, but they are making 100% losses.
It needs state financial subsidies. "
Cao Dongfang read this information in later generations.
"How do you know? Have you ever been to the mine?" Song Wancheng was surprised.
Cao Dongfang, "I haven't visited domestically, I've only transported iron ore. I've seen it abroad, iron ore is losing money, and they demand an increase in the FOB price of iron ore. They charge two eagle coins for one ton of iron ore.
The price is basically the same as in our country.
However, the iron content of their iron ore is more than 50%, and can reach 65%! It is a rich iron ore.
The iron content of iron ore in my country is basically below 35%, which is considered as poor iron ore.
That is to say, the iron output of foreign iron ore is nearly twice that of ours.
They are all losing money, so what about us? It’s not hard to imagine! "
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"Just raise the price of iron ore revenue, it's not a big deal!" Song Wanfang didn't understand.
"Can't!"
“No!”
Cao Dongfang and Song Wancheng both opposed this.
"Why?" Song Wanfang asked puzzledly.
“This is an institutional problem. Basically, all industries across the country have this problem, not just the iron ore mines.
If you want to move the iron ore factory, you must move all the units related to the iron ore factory!
A single move can affect the entire body! "
Cao Dongfang explained.
"It's not just the iron mining industry in the country that is losing money. Almost all of the country's mining industries are losing money! What should we do?" Song Wancheng asked Cao Dongfang.
“It’s easy and difficult!
The easy way is to raise the ex-factory prices of all enterprises except for people's livelihood enterprises, such as steel mills, automobile factories, shipyards, etc. to a level that does not break even.
This is easy to solve.
Do you know the international export price of one ton of steel in the United States? 400 Eagle Currency, and how about in my country? 45 Yuan, a difference of nine times, plus the interest rate is 13.5 times!
If we conduct bilateral trade, we will suffer a huge loss. The Americans will buy at 45 yuan and sell at 3 or 4 American dollars per ton.
Has the government calculated how much we earn? Has the American people in the United States earned?
Regarding taxes, our cost will not exceed 100 yuan, or even be a loss. But for the Americans, after adding the export tariff and freight cost, the cost is less than 200 yuan. How much money can they make?
By then, our country will become a manufacturing factory and ATM for foreigners.
Our price can be raised to more than 250 yuan.
Foreigners have almost no profit in terms of price, and there is also the issue of export tariffs!
This is a manifestation of unequal trade, an economic plunder of our country by foreigners, and it is caused by our country itself.
If it's just a loss.
Losses are just a matter of cost.
Easy to solve.
The difficulty lies in our country's system, which needs major changes.
So it is not easy to do, but it is also difficult to do. Reform is always a hassle. "Cao Dongfang explained.
“How to solve it!”
"If I bury it, I can't solve the problem, and I can't solve the person who created the problem," said Cao Dongfang.
"It's not a good idea to bury people. I didn't expect the country has so many problems!" Commander Song disagreed with burying people.
"Why so many questions?" asked Mrs. Song.
“It’s hard to say.”
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Mrs. Song, "You guys talk, I'll go cook. Let's eat first, then talk!"
"I am coming too!"
“Let’s go!”
Except for Song Xianxian, the other four women in the house went to cook!
"I'll go too." Song Xianxian seemed reluctant to go to the kitchen to cook.
Cao Dongfang, "Uncle Song, where is the phone? I want to use it to call my mom and tell her what's going on."
"It's upstairs. I'll take you there. I'm sorry to have changed your plans."
"It's just a small matter. Just make a phone call and tell me."
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After the call, Cao Dongfang came back and continued chatting with Commander Song and others, and Song Xianxian also came back.
"Didn't you go out to cook? Why are you back?" Cao Dongfang asked Song Xianxian who had returned.
"They all complained that I couldn't cook, and since there were too many of them, they kicked me out." Song Xianxian felt helpless as she was looked down upon by her mother and the others.
"It's not a big problem. You can use the cooking time to do other things you want to do. There are good and bad cooks." Cao Dongfang didn't care.
"Why do you cook so deliciously?" Song Xianxian couldn't understand.
“Mastering martial arts will lead to mastering everything. As long as it is a job that requires control, I can learn it quickly because of my martial arts control.
Control is very important and you will also need it during surgery.
Basically, once I get an item, I know its weight.
After I know how much seasoning to put in one pound of food, I can put less if it is eight ounces, and more if it is one and a half pounds. If I know this in my mind, I will never make a mistake in the weight of the seasoning.
And the control of the temperature is better than that of normal people! "Cao Dongfang explained.