Perfect Feast

Chapter 97 Eloquent Talk

In fact, the main purpose of his interjection at this time was not because Liu Yang said something spontaneous and folk, which touched the fundamental problem of the domestic agricultural model, but deliberately disrupted the situation.

When a person speaks, if the speech is smooth, the human brain will continue to think along this pattern, and the spoken words will become more and more fluent and clearer.

However, if you are suddenly interrupted when you are speaking smoothly, the person's thinking will come to a standstill, and when you continue to speak, it will generally be out of bounds with what you said originally, or it will be specious.

What's more, the person who interrupted Liu Yang was still such a great god. It would be a miracle if this kid could still speak smoothly.

He didn't know that Liu Yang originally majored in social management when he was in school. This major involves a wide range of knowledge, including social, political, financial and other aspects. Liu Yang has dabbled in all aspects.

In addition, after he arrived in Huling County, facing such a poor county with fertile land and high agricultural production, he did not know how many times he pondered these questions.

Why does Huling County's high agricultural output not increase its income? Why do farmers pay hard work, but do not get the corresponding return? Wait, wait, Liu Yang has been thinking.

If you want to boost the economy of Huling County, it is absolutely impossible not to pay attention to agricultural development.

The question that Zhao Zhenzhong asked today happened to be something that Liu Yang had been thinking about and discussing for a while, and it was gradually taking shape. It's just that the conditions in Huling County are not yet mature. He just stays in his expectation and hasn't implemented it yet.

Even if Zhao Zhenzhong doesn't ask today, as long as the opportunity is right, Liu Yang himself will ask this uncle for advice. Zhao Zhenzhong took the initiative to ask, and it really made Liu Yang's itching. You can't let him talk now.

No, that's not what I meant. Listen to me first... Liu Yang seemed to have already taken over my identity as Zhao Zhenzhong at this time, he paused for a while, and then continued: The third is the Israeli model. The characteristic is actually a high-tech agricultural model, represented by Singapore, Hong Kong, and Israel. Israel, which has almost no arable land, relies on technology to cultivate land. Because of the high cost, it has to rely on subsidies to survive, which can be regarded as a subsidy model. There is no reference point, so I won't talk about it here.

What I want to say is that I have made some mistakes in agricultural production, and based on these misunderstandings, we have introduced a series of wrong agricultural policies, which have delayed the development of our agriculture. And, this situation has not yet be corrected...

How dare a small county magistrate criticize the country's policies for mistakes in front of his elder brother? It's incredible to think about it.

Hearing this, even Zhao Zhenbang couldn't help but sweat for this kid.

I said in my heart that you are brave enough, you are not only criticizing the current leadership team, I am afraid that even our old man was swept into it when he was in office.

No wonder he emphasized from the beginning that this was a chat between the elders and the younger generation. It turns out that this kid already knew that what he said was too shocking!

In order to remind him to be merciful, Zhao Zhenbang got up, picked up the kettle, actually poured a glass of water for Liu Yang and put it on the coffee table in front of him.

But who knew, this kid actually said that he had a coma and couldn't stop the car at all.

Thank you! Liu Yang stretched out his hand to block it, and allowed Zhao Zhenbang to put the teacup in front of him, continuing to speak incessantly: Over the past sixty years, the production relations of my country's agriculture have experienced many repetitions: the most important place in the countryside The means of production—land, has changed from being owned by feudal landlords to being owned by farmers, and then being owned by the state (people's communes), and now it is back in the hands of collective farmers (household joint production contract). These 'repeats' and 'repeats' of production relations. However, no matter how many changes there are, one fact remains unchanged: agriculture can only develop when the land is in the hands of farmers, and vice versa...

The question is, Marx has already fully explained the corruption and evil of private ownership, and predicted that it will be replaced by public ownership, but why in our practice, 'public ownership of the people's communes' is not as good as 'private ownership of joint production contract'? Is Marx Is it wrong, or is our understanding of Marx wrong?

Actually, the real reason is that we have always had a misunderstanding of the 'public ownership' advocated by Marx. We think that only 'ownership by the whole people' is public ownership, Marxism, and socialism; Workers' ownership is regarded as Marx's public ownership. Even joint production contracting obviously liberates productivity by changing production relations, but we mistakenly think that it liberates productivity by adjusting the distribution plan...

Other than that, what other problems did we have? Liu Yang was so inconspicuous that he didn't even see Zhao Zhenbang winking at him.

First, our agriculture is still a 'planned economy' at present, but we think it is a 'market economy'. At best, our agricultural model can only be regarded as a 'planned small-scale peasant economy model'. Because our country's agriculture is fundamentally It is a planned economy, but the production method is small-scale farmers. The problem is that we have not recognized this fact so far, and most of the policies we introduced do not conform to the reality of agriculture.”

As we all know, whether an industry is market-oriented or not must meet at least three conditions, and all of them are indispensable: first, the means of production must be able to trade freely. For example, factory equipment and even factories should be able to be bought and sold freely; second, the price of products is determined by the market , the state must also crack down on the behavior of monopolizing market prices; third, what producers produce should be decided by the producers, not by the state plan.

However, the actual situation of my country's agriculture is: the most important means of production, 'arable land', cannot be freely traded; the most important agricultural product (grain) is priced by the state; the state strictly implements the basic national policy of 'taking grain as the key link', More than 70% of the farmland has been designated by the state as a main grain producing area where only grain can be grown, and even corn is not allowed to be planted. Even in a place like Shanghai, where every inch of land is expensive, the state issues a production plan of 2 billion catties of grain to Shanghai every year .”

In this way, the problem arises. If an industry that is not a market economy, you treat it as a market economy industry, or say that production is planned and sales are market-based, it means that the government only cares about production and ignores sales. It means that the government has relieved itself of the responsibility of planned sales in sales. Therefore, today's farmers are facing the biggest dilemma in sales. It has led to high and high yields of grain, but they can't sell at a high price. Some Some people may say that food is related to the national economy and people's livelihood, and if the price is liberalized, it will lead to a series of problems. But why can other industries set their own prices, but farmers can't? In this way, only farmers will suffer...

Hearing this, Zhao Zhenbang's heart couldn't help but tremble. From the bottom of his heart, he felt that Liu Yang's words seemed to have some truth. However, this statement cannot be accepted by people like him who have been accustomed to hearing orthodox theories since childhood.

Looking at the eldest brother Zhao Zhenzhong, he found that the expression on the elder brother's face also changed slightly, and Zhao Zhenbang's heart rose to his throat.

After pondering for a while, Zhao Zhenzhong stared at Liu Yang and asked, According to what you said, what do you think is the way out for agriculture?

High-end, organized, and urbanized. Liu Yang replied without hesitation.

High-end, this is easy to understand. It's just that many people have asserted in recent years that the development of high-end agricultural products lacks universal significance for the development of my country's agriculture. Because they believe that the living standard of Chinese people is not high, and the demand for high-end agricultural products is still very limited. In fact, for a country with a shortage of agricultural products, the direction of agriculture should of course be based on production first, and it was reasonable for my country to do so 30 years ago. But it's a different story in a country already producing more than it needs.

There are only 300 million urban residents in my country. Even if the average annual per capita consumption of agricultural products is 3,000 yuan, the total consumption of the country is only 900 billion yuan. On the surface, this figure is not small, but when it is averaged among the 1 billion rural population, there is only 900 yuan left per capita. After deducting the production and distribution costs, the amount that can reach farmers is only 300 to 500 yuan. Therefore, even if farmers can produce more agricultural products, the consumption capacity of the city is so large, and the lack of purchasing power means that farmers' income cannot be increased by simply increasing production.

Unless the demand market for agricultural products is expanded. However, it is difficult to expand the consumption of domestic agricultural products in the short term, so we can only go to the high-end international market.

However, high-end agricultural products must at least be safe, so our high-end agricultural products cannot enter the international market. The emergence of unsafe foods such as poisonous milk powder and poisonous dumplings is the primary reason why our products are difficult to enter the international market.

Another point is that some people have long understood the reason why producing high-end agricultural products can increase income. Why are our farmers still not rich? In addition to the flaws in the safety mechanism mentioned above, there is another more important reason, that is, our agricultural production method or the form of agricultural production organization is too backward.

The agricultural production method of Dongying island country has led to the distribution of agricultural products and profits in the hands of farmers. And our mode of production determines that the profits of our agricultural products are in the circulation link, not in the hands of farmers, so it is difficult for farmers to become rich. If the government comes forward to organize farmers' products to go directly to supermarkets, farmers' income can be increased several times or dozens of times at least.

Humans are social animals, suitable for centralized living. Therefore, urbanization is the symbol of human civilization. Urbanization can save cultivated land, save energy, and increase employment. Only urbanization can achieve a low-carbon and high-quality life. Therefore, the direction of human life should be in the city.

After all, the destruction and pollution of the natural environment by rural life is several times or even hundreds of times that of cities. In particular, too many rural populations live in places where people should not live at all. This is why tragedies like Yushu, Wenchuan, and Zhouqu continue to repeat themselves.

It is not a scientific concept of development to stop the process of urbanization and develop the countryside. In fact, since the reform and opening up, our most important achievement is our urbanization process. We are already an industrial nation. Because our industrial gdp has greatly exceeded agricultural gdp. It is estimated that the proportion of agricultural gdp to total gdp this year may not even be 10%, and the population engaged in agriculture has already accounted for less than 20% of the country's total population. Under such circumstances, why should we develop new countryside?

Scattered living, just the roads do not know how much arable land will be wasted. It costs at least a few trillion yuan to connect villages, and at least tens of billions to connect groups and villages. We don’t have that much money at all!

Moreover, building new roads will take up a lot of cultivated land. Taking a step back, even if there are roads and new villages built, most of the rural population will go to the cities to work. Who will live in the new villages?

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