Wealth

For the Chinese, the most important economic activity in 1981 was the fight against "speculation."

In order to improve the viability of state-owned enterprises, the government has taken a two-pronged approach. On the one hand, it restricts the business scope of small and medium-sized enterprises and private enterprises in the form of legal provisions from the decree and establishes a strict access system. On the other hand, it is from the means of production. In this regard, thresholds are set to increase the production costs of small and medium-sized private enterprises and reduce their competitiveness.

　　At the beginning of the year, the price of steel increased by 130%, and the price of coal increased by 500%. The market prices of various means of production have increased substantially.

The sharp rise in production costs immediately increased the production costs of small and medium-sized enterprises and private enterprises by several times. For most small and medium-sized enterprises and private enterprises that have just developed less than two years ago, it is tantamount to worsening the situation and crushing the camel. The last straw.

　　 Another major measure is to levy high taxes on profiteering industries, which is not only new, but also additional.

At this time, many of the wealthy people who started their business and later became the Forbes China rankings have encountered the most difficult period of their lives. Production costs have risen sharply. At the same time, many contracts previously signed have been suspended. The reason is that according to the superiors. It is stipulated that state-owned enterprises can no longer purchase products of township enterprises or private enterprises.

The most direct one is to restrict the development of township and village enterprises within a certain area, strictly control the transformation of agricultural population into non-agricultural population, and control the rural population to work in cities, so as to avoid the stress of employment in cities that are already being returned to the city by educated youths. "Harassment" of the rural population.

　　 These measures have directly led to the development of many small businesses that have been established in the past two years falling into a quagmire, stagnating or closing down.

　　 Sure enough, it didn't take long for the members of the economic investigation team to come to Chunguang's splendid pig farm again.

　　 "You have to explain your problems honestly. Our policy is consistent, be lenient in frankness, and strict in resistance." The person in charge of the investigation team said to the three brothers very seriously.

　　 What confession is lenient and resists strictness, I am afraid that confession is lenient. The three brothers had already made a plan. They dealt with the investigative team members. They just didn't say a word of affirmation, and the other party was very angry.

　　 "It's useless for you to do this. Cooperating with the government is the only way out. Since you have not done anything wrong, you are not afraid of ghosts." The investigating team member saw that the three brothers were not getting in, so they said.

　　Wang Laosan has a bit of language art, and he replied lukewarmly, "Although I didn't do anything wrong, but the ghost always knocks at your door, can my life be better?"

　　 The people in the investigation team heard it, and immediately choked back.

　　 It’s not over yet. Before the investigation team stayed in the village for half an hour, a large number of villagers blocked the pig farm.

The pig farm uses migrant workers, and there are a lot of them, which directly solves the problem of surplus labor for the village. Therefore, many people in the village rely on the pig farm to get rich. At this time, I heard that the investigation team wanted to move. Everyone immediately stopped working on the pig farm.

　　 The old men in the village carried sticks to question the inventory team, "We have just passed a few days, and you are here. Why don't you come when we are starving?"

　　 Some young men working in the pig farm also came to bomb them, "We have been bachelors for many years, and when we find a partner, you will be separated as soon as you come. If this daughter-in-law can't find you, you will be responsible!"

　　 The investigation team immediately fell into the unbearable People's War, and finally couldn't stay in the pig farm any longer, so it had to retreat in a desperate manner. Since it didn't get any negative materials about the pig farm, the matter had to be let go.

　　 just like that, the Spring Festival passed in a blink of an eye.

However, the popularity of this inventory movement has intensified. The air in Panshi City is still very dignified. Banners of "Strike against criminal acts in the economic field" are hung everywhere, and loud speakers that have not been sounded for three or four years are booming again. Cried out, every day there are strong-sounding editorials and the like on the air.

The small retail outlets in the city that operate Wujinjiao have received notice from the taxation department that the business tax will be increased in the future, from 0.35% in previous years to 6% with the supplementary penalty. If there is a problem, it will not be reported. Chase the penalty twice.

　　 This trick is ruthless enough, and many people are stunned. The little bit of hard money earned by working day and night in the past two years may not even be enough to pay the taxes. It seems that this business cannot go on.

As for those unlucky ghosts who were deemed to be "speculative and interfere with the normal order of the economic field", they were even more miserable. Some were directly imprisoned and sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from five to ten years, and illegal income was confiscated. Empty.

A shopkeeper with a relatively large business scale was restricted by the tax department to not go out. As a result, he rolled up five hundred catties of food stamps, two thousand yuan in cash and various documents. Even his wife fled out of Panshi City without saying goodbye. It is a pity that the public security system across the country has already taken action. In less than a week, he was arrested in a neighboring province and was escorted back. Panshi City also held a public trial meeting specifically for these "speculators". He was imprisoned by the Big Five. Taiwan, accepting criticism and scolding from the masses, and then sentenced to four years in prison.

Coincidentally, in this economic struggle that lasted for more than a year, the so-called "Eight Kings Incident" occurred in Wenzhou, which has the largest concentration of individual industrial and commercial households. In early 1982, the central government issued a crackdown on the economic The emergency notice of criminal activities arrested a group of people who were on the forefront of the market economy with the crime of "speculation" ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ In Wenzhou, the birthplace of the private economy, the hardware king Hu Jinlin, the miner's lamp king Cheng Buqing, and the screw king Liu Dayuan, contract magnate Li Fangping, second-hand goods magnate Wang Maiqian, catalog magnate Ye Jianhua, coil magnate Zheng Xiangqing, and electrical appliances magnate Zheng Yuanzhong were listed as important targets. This is called the "Eight Kings Incident".

　　 In fact, the "Eight Kings Incident" is only the tip of the iceberg of this economic purge. By the end of 1982, 164,000 cases of various economic crimes had been filed nationwide, 30,000 people had been sentenced, and 320 million yuan had been recovered. In the more than two years since the "Eight Kings Incident," Wenzhou and Zhejiang's pace has been much slower. The economic purge caused the private sector to encounter the first cold wave, which greatly slowed its growth momentum, especially the first-mover southern Zhejiang and Pearl River Delta regions that suffered the most shock and pressure.

　　 The "Eight Kings Incident" is not accidental. The use of government machinery by the state to contain the "vanguards" who broke through the old system by private forces obviously means beyond the economy.

　　 Until three years later, Yuan Fanglie, then secretary of the Wenzhou Municipal Party Committee, deeply felt that "the case of the Eight Great Kings is not overturned, and there is no hope for Wenzhou's economy to invigorate." He organized a joint investigation team to review all the case files. Several of the arrested persons were released on bail pending trial, or acquitted, and then restored their reputation and returned the confiscated property.

　　 It's just that the time has passed by now, and things are no longer humans.

Throughout the whole year, Fan Wubing maintained a very low-key lifestyle, either raising pigs, or planting flowers, or going to a clothing factory to give advice, and to provide Wuzhi Xiaoji with one or two genius ideas and obtain the corresponding In return, all in all, this year is really depressing.

　　 Fortunately, reform and opening up are indeed the general trend, and this depression will not last long.