Chapter 1194: Fields of Oz (VIII.)
Roland said this was not just paper. From Krasbourg to Grand Falls, the unemployed and homeless who used to live in the slums are now looking for jobs, and new factories are being created every day to absorb these laborers, and demand is even outstripping.
Roland never felt that the population was a burden, only in the eyes of the incompetent rulers. The population of the Far East is not too large but too small, and as industrialization progresses, mining and steelmaking require a large number of workers, more workers are needed for road and bridge construction, and tens of thousands of jobs are created in industrial areas such as hospitals, schools, canteens, etc. If young people don't have the motivation to leave the countryside, who will fill those jobs?
Roland's implementation of land reform, rural communes, and state-owned farms was primarily aimed at serving the basic national policy of "industrialization". The nationalization of land resources and the restriction of private land reclamation have allowed the new labor force of rural families to enter the factories without obtaining enough land to earn a living, thus providing sufficient free labor for the emerging manufacturing industry.
"You say that the vigorous development of urban industry can absorb the surplus labor from the countryside, which I admit is reasonable, but we druids also have a creed, firmly believe that everything in the world is like nature, the four seasons change, there will always be a time of prosperity and decline, industry cannot expand indefinitely, there will always be a time of saturation, and if there is still a surplus labor force at that time, where will we go to find jobs for them?"
Valentina's questioning surprised Roland, who had heard for the first time foresee in the simplest of philosophical terms, "periodic economic crises", a chronic disease of capitalist society.
"Sister Valyusha, it is true that as you said, industry and commerce cannot expand endlessly, and when it reaches a certain stage of development, it will inevitably fall into stagnation and even recession, and a large number of factories have closed down to make the labor surplus in the market, wages have fallen, and the urban unemployment rate has risen, and young people from the countryside feel the pressure of urban life, and may miss the stable rural life, so there will be a wave of urban migrant workers returning to their hometowns to farm. The greatest benefit of the rural commune is reflected at this moment: the state-controlled farms must shoulder the political mission of sharing the country's worries, and it is their unshirkable social responsibility to accept migrant workers who have returned to their hometowns. ”
"Will this put unbearable pressure on the countryside?" Valentina asked worriedly.
"There's definitely some pressure, but it's not going to be as bad as in the city." Roland grabbed the cushion on the back of the chair, squeezed it into a small ball and let it go, and the cushion filled with fluffy cotton immediately returned to its original state, "Farmland is like fluffy cotton, far more flexible than factories in terms of absorbing labor, especially under the guidance of the druids, one or less people farming actually has little impact, and the relatively low cost of living in the countryside is also conducive to absorbing the urban unemployed, so that the city can avoid the social degradation, crime rate and even violent revolution associated with the rise in unemployment." ”
Valentina has not been exposed to the "macroeconomics" of the earth, but her vision is broad enough, her knowledge is profound, and she has long-term practical experience in operating and managing nearly 1,000 collective farms, and it is not difficult to appreciate that the "urban-rural dynamic equilibrium" model designed by Roland has a simple and beautiful mathematical structure, and in an ideal state, capital and labor can flow freely between the city and the countryside, forming a complete circuit:
During the economic upswing, urban industry and commerce expanded their operations, and the current situation of labor shortage prompted wages to rise, and high wages induced rural people to move to cities, so as to obtain higher returns than farming; A part of the income earned by peasant workers in the city should be sent back to the countryside to subsidize their families, so that urban capital will flow to the countryside, and the more money in the hands of the peasants, the greater consumption demand will be generated, so as to buy more industrial products produced by the city, and the commercial activities from the city to the countryside will become more vigorous, which will further promote the prosperity of urban industry and commerce, and need more labor from the countryside.
On the contrary, when the economy is in a downturn, urban industrial and commercial profits decline, and they are forced to reduce the scale of operation, cut wages, and lay off workers, there is a surplus of labor in the market, the unemployment rate rises, and the migrant workers in the cities feel the pressure of life and are dissatisfied with the sharply declining income level, a tide of returning to their hometowns to work in agriculture will be formed, so that the population will return from the cities to the countryside, and the social turmoil caused by the excessive number of unemployed people in the cities will be avoided, and the return of migrant workers will provide sufficient cheap labor for the expansion of cultivated farmland. The expansion of farmland provides more agricultural products, which reduces the price of food and industrial raw materials in the market, and the reduction of the cost of food and raw materials helps to bring urban industry and commerce out of the downturn and return to the economic upswing as soon as possible.
Pondering and understanding the operation of this system, Valentina couldn't help but hold her breath, and after a long time, she let out an exclamation: "It's perfect, it's impeccable!" ”
Roland smiled bitterly. Sister Jinlong's praise, he deserves it. First of all, this system is not his original, it draws on the theories of many political and economic scholars on the earth, and also refers to the social systems of some countries in reality.
Roland did not expect the system he designed to last, and with the changes of the times and the environment, it was inevitable that this system would become anachronistic, and should be decisively abolished after completing its historical mission.
According to his own point of view, the Far East will be able to continue this system in the next 30 years, and whether it will be able to play a positive role in 30 years...... Frankly, he doesn't know.
Confidants talk about like-minded topics and unconsciously ignore the passage of time. Roland and Valentina talk so speculatively that they forgot to make out for each other, and it wasn't until dawn when the rooster crowed that Valentina realized that she had wasted the night. Roland insisted on making up the public food for Sister Jinlong, so the two of them secretly came to the morning light.
An hour later, Sister Jinlong collapsed into the arms of Xiao Qinglang from exhaustion, feeling the heat flow slowly spreading deep into the abdomen, and at the same time, she remembered that she couldn't help but shout indiscriminately just now...... Covering his hot cheeks with his hands, he murmured, "Don't let anyone hear you...... Otherwise, you will really have no face to go out. ”
Roland smiled and kissed her, reassuring her not to worry. Long before making out, he set up a 6-ring magic "area shield" to seal off the entire room, so that no movement would leak out.
A stone fell to the ground in Valentina's heart, and she curled up again into the arms of the little lover and coveted the warmth.
Roland didn't want to spend his precious ** like this, so he picked up the jade body and jumped into the hot spring to take a sweet hot bath. When the couple wiped each other's bodies, they invariably remembered the romantic love of the night in the Platinum Dragon Temple on Paradise Island, and you recalled the scene with a smile, teasing and joking with each other, and then they naturally combined intimately in the hot spring, and relived an old dream.