In the office of the research institute, after Zhou Yang hung up the phone, he fell into deep thought!
Through the phone conversation with Lu Zhengjun just now, Zhou Yang basically figured out the ins and outs of the matter.
It can be seen that the current sickle plan has attracted the attention of the highest level.
But this is inevitable, because the current domestic economic development is really bad, and the country's demand for foreign exchange has reached an uncontrollable level.
Under such circumstances, Sickle plans to earn 200 million yuan in foreign exchange income a year, which is obviously attractive to the top management.
Not to mention sending a few veterans there and setting up several scientific research institutions to serve them, they will fully support it no matter how high the price is.
To put it bluntly, the country is too poor and short of money now!
Moreover, Zhou Yang also knew that a situation like this would continue and become more serious.
Especially after the reform, we have officially integrated with other countries, and we need a large amount of foreign exchange every year to support foreign trade needs.
Of course, even if there is no foreign exchange, then the country’s gold or other precious metals can only be used as the general equivalent.
But no one had that much gold and silver, so they had to risk their lives to earn foreign exchange. In the 1980s, a word was coined in China—earning foreign exchange.
Both domestic enterprises and various external window units were assigned the task of earning foreign exchange. At that time, no matter what you did, as long as you could get foreign exchange, you were the talent the country needed.
In such a general environment, it is inevitable that the Scythe Project, a project that has already achieved initial results, will enter the attention of high-level officials, and this is what Zhou Yang hopes to see.
It was actually not difficult to implement the Sickle Plan in the early stages. It only took Zhou Yang, Yan Gengdong, Lu Zhengjun and others to get it running and make a lot of profits.
But the further back you go, the harder it will be to implement this plan.
The reason is also simple. In the early stage, it was just about making money by selling products, which was usually just normal business behavior and would not cause restrictions and suppression by other forces.
But the further you go, the larger the areas involved will be, the easier it will be to touch on the core interests of Western countries, and the more difficult it will be for individuals to deal with it.
At this time, the support of national power is needed. If you adopt various policy restrictions on me, we will help introduce countermeasures.
If you dare to use dirty tricks, then I will send mercenary security forces to protect you.
At the same time, the Scythe plan will require a lot of support from national intelligence in the later stages, which cannot be accomplished by a single individual.
All in all, Zhou Yang is very satisfied with the development of the Sickle Project.
But Zhou Yang is now also worried that once higher-level officials intervene in this plan, whether their previous agreement with the Ministry of Commerce will become invalid.
You must know that according to their previous discussion with the Ministry of Commerce, half of the profits from the Sickle Project will be turned over to the state, and the rest will be used for development.
However, now that the military, Ministry of Health and other departments have joined in, the Ministry of Commerce has obviously lost control of the entire plan. It is still unknown whether the top management will care about the tacit understanding between them.
Zhou Yang is not saying that the leaders above are short-sighted and killing the goose to obtain the eggs, but the current domestic economy is indeed not very good.
In particular, the extremely high fiscal deficit has reached a jaw-dropping and shocking level.
As we all know, the so-called fiscal deficit actually means that the national finances cannot make ends meet and are in debt!
However, in the past nearly three decades, national finances have rarely experienced fiscal deficits.
The reason is that we are engaged in a planned economy, and the biggest feature of the planned economy is "export according to income", that is, our national budget is arranged based on the country's expected income, and we can do as much things as we can.
In this way, even if it is slightly exceeded, it will not be serious, and you can get over it by moving here and there or tightening your belt.
But things have been different in recent years. As our relations with Western countries have greatly eased, and the economic blockade imposed by Western countries on us, led by Zeiying, has weakened, we have also had the opportunity to contact and even purchase advanced Western technology and technology. equipment.
For example, take the famous Fourth Three Plan, which originally planned to introduce complete sets of equipment worth US$4.3 billion from Western countries within three to five years. Later, a number of additional projects were added based on this plan, with a total planned total of US$5.14 billion.
In short, in the past few years, while the West is no longer blocking, we have been buying from other countries!
These technologies and equipment do not just disappear after being bought, nor do they just sit there and look at them. Instead, these technologies and equipment must be utilized to serve our economic development.
So, while we were buying and buying, we also began to invest and build factories on a large scale across the country, and ordered various scientific research institutes to conduct various studies on the purchased Western technology and equipment.
As a result, more and more domestic funds have been invested in this area, and the fiscal deficit has become more and more serious.
The higher authorities are obviously aware of the seriousness of this matter, so they hope to respond to the economic crisis that may arise at any time by adjusting national strategies.
Therefore, the government issued a new plan the year before last, which planned that the infrastructure investment within the national budget would be reduced to 39.6 billion yuan in 1975, 36 billion yuan in 1976, and 24 billion yuan in 1977.
The number of large and medium-sized projects under construction will be reduced from 1,700 to less than 1,000.
To put it bluntly, we need to reduce investment and reduce expenditures to avoid building up debt.
However, the results of the implementation are somewhat unacceptable. It has been almost three years since the new plan was implemented. Instead of being reduced, the amount of funds invested has increased significantly.
The fiscal deficit has become even more serious!
In desperation, on March 28 this year, senior officials issued the "Request for Instructions on Resolutely Compressing and Strictly Controlling the Purchasing Power of Social Groups", proposing to control the purchasing power of social groups within 10 billion to 11 billion yuan in 1977.
There is no other way. If we cannot stop spending, we will only be able to curb national consumption.
If we don’t do this, there won’t be that many domestic products for people to consume, which will inevitably lead to serious inflation!
Under such circumstances, Zhou Yang was really worried that his superiors would use the money from the Sickle Project to fill the holes.
In order to prevent Weiyuan Company from being drained, the only way is to invest as much as possible and make more money.
Therefore, it is necessary to develop new drugs and explore new markets.
Fortunately, Zhou Yang had already made a preliminary plan for this matter before. After returning from the northwest, he would think carefully about how to implement it.
Thinking of this, Zhou Yang picked up the phone again and made a call!
"Dudu!"
After a few busy signals, the phone was picked up: "Who is this?"
"Hello, comrade, I'm Zhou Yang from Factory 888. Help me pick up Mr. Jiang!"
"Please wait!"
Soon, the call was transferred, and Mr. Jiang's voice came from the phone: "Xiao Zhou, why did you remember to call me today!"
"Chief, I'm calling you today mainly for two things..."
Before he finished speaking, Jiang Lao said with a smile: "There are still a lot of things to do, so hurry up and tell me. After that, I have to attend a high-level meeting!"
"Okay, the first thing I want to ask is when will the money for expanding our research institute be available?"
"This is already in progress, and we will try to get it in place within a week!" said Mr. Jiang.
"Thank you, chief. The second thing is that we are seriously lacking scientific research equipment. From computers to printing paper, we are short of everything. Can you help us solve it?"
"If you need any equipment, please just place an order, and I'll ask the comrades in the department to help you solve it then!" Jiang Lao said.
"Chief, there happens to be a comrade in our unit who is in the capital. Could you please ask him to go directly to the comrade in charge of this matter in the ministry?" Zhou Yang said.
"It seems that your boy is well prepared. Okay, you ask him to come to the ministry tomorrow morning to find Sun Yanjun to take over, and I will say hello to him!" said Jiang Lao.
"Thank you very much, chief!"
"If you really want to thank me, then you kid should come up with more advanced technologies. I won't accept it just with your mouth!"
"Understood, I won't let you down for sure!"
"Okay, I'm waiting for your good news!"
After saying that, Mr. Jiang hung up the phone directly...
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