Volume 134 [Meeting in the Capital]

Xu Demin is a cultural official, poet, writer, painter, calligrapher and photographer, but his profession has nothing to do with literature and art. He studied accounting in technical secondary school, worked as an accountant in a state-owned factory, studied economics in Fudan, and taught economics as a teacher in Fudan.

His life seems to be a bit off track.

The two chatted from science fiction to literature, and from literature to China's economic situation.

Anyway, he is not engaged in economic development work in the government. Xu Demin chatted casually. He said: "The central government has established the socialist market economy line, and now we are in a very critical and embarrassing period. This critical and embarrassment is reflected in two aspects. One It is a theoretical issue, whether Marx’s political economy can still adapt to the market economy; the second is a practical issue, how should state-owned enterprises be reformed! These two issues involve China’s national system. .”

Song Weiyang said with a smile: "The core of Marx's political economy is nothing more than the labor theory of value. Commodities in a socialist market economy still have two factors: use value and value, and these two factors are still determined by the dual nature of labor. Value is still the general labor condensed in commodities, and the amount of value is still the amount of labor condensed in commodities...so I think that Marx's labor theory of value is fully applicable to the socialist market economy."

Xu Demin said: "The problem is that the current situation in China and the world is very different from that of Marx at that time. Value is not only created by labor as a factor of production, but by all factors of production. Except for ordinary human labor In addition, there are elements such as land and capital. Especially capital, which has shown too much power in the past two years, and the value of capital even exceeds the value of labor to a certain extent."

"Indeed." Song Weiyang said.

Xu Demin said: "So I thought about making a supplement to Marx's labor theory of value, that is, the value of commodities is created by all social labor, not only living labor, but also dead labor, materialized labor and past labor. factors of production."

Song Weiyang smiled and said, "Senior, you can't talk nonsense. Before you let it go, you will be labeled as a 'theoretical capitalist roader'."

Although Xu Demin only added one sentence, he completely overturned Marx's labor theory of value and turned it into Say's factor value theory. These two factions are mortal enemies and have been opposed for more than 100 years. Recognizing the factor value theory is tantamount to shaking the correctness of our party.

Xu Demin spread his hands and said: "So this is an endless loop. If you want to explain the socialist market economy reasonably, you must introduce the factor value theory, which overturns Marx's labor theory of value. This theoretical problem must be solved. There are also many economists discussing it at the moment, but they have not found a reasonable explanation. Fortunately, I am in charge of culture, so I don’t need to worry about it.”

"How can it be so troublesome?" Song Weiyang laughed. "Land belongs to the whole people. It is a country that all Chinese people have punched and kicked under the leadership of the party. Therefore, the land itself is the carrier of the value of people's labor. As for capital , that is also labor income, which can be classified as general labor results. Doesn’t this conform to the labor theory of value?”

"You are lying and cannot withstand scrutiny." Xu Demin said.

Song Weiyang said: "It's fine if you can explain it, and it doesn't have to be a fallacy."

Xu Demin said: "That's the only way to go."

Song Weiyang said: "In fact, the key point of the problem is that "Das Kapital" mainly analyzes the traditional market economy, Marx's labor theory of value, how to reflect and explain the modern market economy. I think it should be from "German Ideology" , "The Theory of Surplus Value", "Critique of Political Economy" and "Das Kapital", excavated and sorted out relevant discussions, and enriched and developed them in light of the current economic situation. Social things are constantly changing, and only when they develop Marxism can guide us in solving the new problems we encounter as we move forward.”

"Hahaha," Xu Demin laughed, "After you graduate, you should be transferred to a government department to do theoretical research."

"Let's forget it. I'm just a half-baked guy who's read some "Das Kapital". Bragging is fine, but research is not." Song Weiyang shook his head and said.

Xu Demin asked: "Who is the teacher who taught you economics?"

Song Weiyang said: "My major is sociology."

Xu Demin was stunned for a moment, and then he couldn't help laughing: "Your junior, you have a lot of ink in your stomach, and you can talk about everything logically. You are an entrepreneur, so let me ask you again, how should Chinese enterprises develop?"

Song Weiyang said: "The development of Chinese enterprises faces two basic problems. First, the development of Chinese enterprises is carried out in the process of system change, and will continue to develop in the process of system change. This system can be understood as the national economic system. It can also be understood as industrial rules and regulations. This is the major premise for the development of Chinese enterprises. The development of state-owned enterprises is not for me to talk about. Let’s talk about private enterprises. In order to compete head-on with foreign-funded enterprises. Second, Chinese enterprises must find their own position in the middle age of the world industrial system and continue to grow and develop on this basis. Now that the world economy is integrated, it is impossible to develop behind closed doors. On the one hand, we must resist the invasion of foreign capital, and on the other hand, we must also think about taking the initiative to fight out.”

"That's a good summary, and it's a good idea!" Xu Demin raised his opinion of Song Weiyang again, and left his phone number, "This is the phone number from my work unit. Let's communicate more in the future."

Song Weiyang put away the phone number with a smile: "I'm just talking nonsense, don't take it seriously."

"You don't need to be modest," Xu Demin said, "You can expand your discussion on the development of Chinese enterprises just now, write it into a paper, and submit it to a social science magazine for publication. If the writing is wonderful, it may even be included as an internal reference."

"Think about it." Song Weiyang said.

Xu Demin is not a high-ranking official, he deals with artists all day long, and has been marginalized from the very beginning. Talking so much is just a good relationship, and it does not help the development of Xifeng Company. Maybe one day I can get to know other leaders through him.

Both of them are good at chatting. On the plane, they talked together, and the passengers in the seats next to each other were stupefied.

Xu Demin seemed to be going to the capital to attend a seminar on literature and art work. After getting off the plane, Song Weiyang waved goodbye to him, hailed a taxi and went straight to the hotel.

The hotel was booked in advance by Xifeng's sales company in Beijing. Song Weiyang read the book in the room for a long time. At night, his elder brother Song Qizhi finally brought someone here.

"Is CCTV Biaowang really that useful?" Song Qizhi asked as soon as they met.

Song Weiyang smiled and said, "Of course it works."

Song Qizhi said: "It must not be more than 25 million."

"Don't even think about less than 30 million." Song Weiyang said.

"It's just a prime-time advertisement, there are too many!" Song Qizhi said in shock.

The current situation of Jiafeng Liquor Industry is very bad. In the hands of Song Shumin, the products have gradually gone out of Xikang and sold well in neighboring provinces. In 1992, the annual sales peaked at 160 million yuan.

But in the hands of Zhong Dahua, the rapid expansion of Jiafeng Liquor came to an abrupt end, almost all the markets outside the province were lost, and the market share in the province also declined sharply.

The house leak happened to rain overnight, and on New Year's Day in 1994, the government suddenly imposed a consumption tax on alcohol. The consumption tax rate of grain liquor is as high as 25%, which is equivalent to directly eating up a quarter of the sales, and the profit of the winery has dropped sharply.

Song Qizhi said: "In order to get rid of non-performing assets and buy out the seniority of workers in state-owned enterprises, coupled with the mess left by Zhong Dahua, Jiafeng Liquor is now in debt of more than 40 million! Feng's brand has become rotten, and the products are getting harder and harder to sell. I went to the prison to ask my father for advice, but the results were minimal. The situation is worse than it was a few years ago. Now I have tens of millions to bid for the king. If the effect is not good, the winery will directly turn yellow!"

Song Weiyang said with a smile: "CCTV is very good, why did it want to create a standard king?"

"Sell advertising fees." Song Qizhi said.

"This is the first CCTV bid winner. If the factory that got the bid wins collapses, what do you think other companies will think?" Song Weiyang asked.

"Biaowang can't... Hey, I know," Song Qizhi slapped his thigh, "Central TV will put up the Biaowang brand to make more advertising fees in the future. They will definitely help promote it, not just during the prime time period. It's only a few seconds!"

Song Weiyang said: "How is the trademark changed?"

"Don't mention it," Song Qizhi shook his head, "Jiafeng Liquor is a rotten brand, but there are still many regular customers. You asked me to change to a new trademark, but the distributors and consumers didn't recognize it at all, and the new products were backlogged in the warehouse. It can’t be sold here!”

Song Weiyang laughed and said, "That's just a good time to sell new wine with the help of CCTV's Biao Wang."