After Liang Jinsong finished speaking, the air inside the jeep returned to silence again, leaving only the rumbling sound of the engine, and Liang Jinsong's sadness and weakness were clearly written on his face without any cover.
In fact, from a macro level, Wang Ye knows more than Liang Jinsong.
Last year, in 1981, China's military expenditure was 16.8 billion, accounting for more than 16% of the government's annual fiscal expenditure.
There are more than 200 third-tier factories across the country. In order to support these military factories that are half-operating or even not operating, the annual subsidy cost exceeds billions of yuan!
Most of the remaining money was eaten by the troops. After all, the size of the Chinese army now reached an astonishing 4.2 million people, and the railway troops alone exceeded 400,000.
You know, in a sense, the existence of the army is an "investment", and the channel for investment recovery is war.
If there is no war, then theoretically, all investment in the military will be "wasted", and the military will not be able to truly and directly bring economic income to a country.
But when a war breaks out, everything changes.
This is why after a few decades, the U.S. military expenditure can account for more than half of the government's annual fiscal expenditure. That is because their troops are constantly fighting wars, and they can obtain dividends through these wars!
As for the details of military expenditures, they are normally divided into three parts.
Part One: Equipment R&D and Procurement.
Part 2: Consumption of daily training materials.
Part 3: People eat horse chews.
Even for many countries, not all of the first part of the expenditure is military expenditure, because some research and development expenditures are actually through other scientific research expenditure channels, with the purpose of reducing the proportion of military expenditures.
In today's China, almost all military expenditures are consumed by the third part. Not only the people in the army eat horse chews, but also the people in military industrial units such as Red Star Machinery Factory eat horse chews.
The final result is that daily training levels are low, equipment research and development is lagging behind, weapons procurement is low or even non-procurement, and almost no new equipment is included.
It is precisely because of this.
This year, the 400,000-strong Railway Army will be abolished, and in a few years, the army will be streamlined one by one until the new century.
Its main purpose is to save a little from the already small military expenditures and fill it in the field of military scientific research. It can even replace equipment with scientific research and maintain the advanced nature of military equipment. This is still true even in China forty years later. .
Think of this.
Wang Ye couldn't help but let out a long sigh and took out his "Hongmei" cigarettes from his pocket. The price was much cheaper than the Daqianmen cigarettes that Liang Jinsong smoked. It was a type without a filter holder. As a graduate student, Wang Ye Ye can afford the rations of cigarettes.
"Come on, Director! Get one!"
Then Wang Ye lit a red plum for Liang Jinsong and couldn't help but comfort him by saying:
"The difficulties are temporary, but our reforms will definitely succeed."
"If you have conditions, you have to go. If there are no conditions, you have to go. As long as your thinking does not slip, there are always more solutions than difficulties. Red Star Machinery Factory will definitely succeed in converting the army into civilians. I am confident that we can win this battle!"
"Then we will promote the military-to-civilian transformation of more than 200 third-tier factories across the country!"
Hearing Wang Ye's heroic words, Liang Jinsong took a deep breath from his cigarette and coughed while unable to help laughing and said:
"As expected of a young man at the age of Jiro, he really dares to think and do!"
"The world is yours and ours, but in the final analysis it is yours; you young people are full of vitality and are in your prime, just like the sun at eight or nine o'clock in the morning; hope is pinned on you."
"Sure enough, this sentence is correct!"
"but......"
Having said this, Liang Jinsong smiled and said with a change of style:
"All talk and no practice."
"Your rhetoric is of no use now, we have to look at the reality!"
"The Red Star Machinery Factory is located in the mountainous area southwest of Laiyang County, Yuntai City, Luqi Province. It is more than thirty kilometers away from the county seat and hundreds of kilometers away from Yuntai City. With this distance alone, it is difficult to carry out any projects. Business is not easy.”
"Want to build roads? Let me tell you, there is no money!"
"Not to mention, there are currently more than 1,200 cadres and workers on staff at the Red Star Machinery Factory, and the total number including family members is more than 5,000."
"It's easy to feed one person, but when five thousand people ask for food from you, you'll know what a big deal it is!"
"I'm telling you kid, don't think it's that simple!"
Then both of them lost interest in talking and just smoked cigarettes in the car.
At the same time, after leaving the urban area of Quancheng, the rest of the journey was hell. The level of infrastructure in this era was very poor. Even if there were no expressways, the provincial roads were also full of potholes. In addition, the mount under the butt was 212 industrial garbage. , so dizzy that he died.
"Made, no matter what, we must build a car in the future."
"It feels like this car is going to fall apart in minutes, and my stomach acid is going to reflux, ugh..."
Time passed little by little, and finally, amid Wang Ye's secret complaints, after more than six hours of bumpy ride, the car finally arrived at the gate of the Hongxing Machinery Factory located in the mountainous area of Laiyang County at four o'clock in the afternoon.
Liang Jinsong got out of the car first, and at the same time he heard a middle-aged male voice:
"Director Liang, long time no see! Hahaha!"
Wang Ye resisted the feeling of vomiting and looked to the side after getting off the car. The first thing that caught his eye was the door of Hongxing Machinery Factory. The shape is quite simple. The biggest difference from most state-owned factories is that the door looks like two There is a power grid on the high wall extending out from the side.
"State-owned Red Star Machinery Factory."
On the pillar on one side of the gate, a signboard with black characters on a white background with mottled paint seems to tell the history of the factory.
"Haha, I didn't expect that Director Li would come to take over!"
"Let me introduce you, this is Wang Ye, the director of the Red Star Machinery Factory appointed by the Fifth Machinery Department!"
Following Liang Jinsong's voice, Wang Ye quickly walked over there and saw another 212 jeep parked at the gate of the factory. At the same time, a slightly stocky middle-aged man who looked in his mid-thirties was talking to Liang Jinsong. Jinsong shook hands.
"Wang Ye, let me introduce you. This person will be your immediate leader from now on. You need to have a good relationship!"
"Comrade Li Gang is the deputy director of the Yuntai City Industrial Bureau and is in charge of the development and construction of Yuntai City's state-owned factories. He is also the director of the Yuntai City Industrial Reform and Development Office."
After hearing Liang Jinsong's introduction, Wang Ye immediately understood that this young man and powerful figure in Yuntai City's industrial system!
His power does not come from the position of deputy director of the Industrial Bureau. After all, there may be several deputy directors in a bureau. His power comes from the position of director of the Industrial Reform and Development Office!
The reason is also very simple. With the country's reform and opening up, the emergence of the dual-track economic system has caused a great impact on the current operations of state-owned factories. The former big pot rice model has reached the end of the road.
In normal history, since 1985, state-owned enterprises have begun large-scale joint-stock contracting reform.
The purpose of establishing the Industrial Reform and Development Office is to explore the development direction of state-owned enterprises, and in the future it will also lead the reform of the contracting system of state-owned factories in various provinces, cities and counties.
"Hello, Director Li, I am Wang Ye!"
The thought flashed past, and Wang Ye quickly stepped forward to shake hands and say hello.
