Siheyuan started as an unlicensed knight and became a hero of justice

Why are these just stopgap measures? Because, in essence, the real meaning of reform is just a redistribution of benefits.

Although we can make up for the losses by making the pie bigger, in terms of proportion, someone will always suffer.

The reason why we must persist in reform is that the country must make timely adjustments to the economy to make the country more dynamic, which will definitely be a good thing for the country.

But for individuals, it is not a good thing for everyone, there will always be some people who suffer.

In addition, if reform is likened to re-cutting the cake, then those who have always taken the largest piece will certainly strongly oppose it.

In addition, everyone has selfish motives, and the interest groups represented by those who are responsible for cutting the cake will definitely strive for the greatest benefits for their own groups.

If there are too many people who oppose it or if there are people who are powerful enough to oppose the reform and even overturn the table, then the reform will definitely go wrong.

The same is true for opening up. Closing the country to the outside world will definitely lead to backwardness and is definitely not a solution. However, opening the country means that we have to face more challenges.

This challenge is in all aspects: economy, culture, technology, ideology, medicine, military...

Although farmers did gain some benefits in the early days of reform and opening up, overall they still suffered a lot.

Because in the final analysis, the primary industry has to take social stability into consideration, so profits are always the lowest.

Food is the foundation of a country, so the prices of major grains are strictly controlled by the country. Although they are liberalized, they are only controlled within a certain range, and the most common grain grown by farmers is the staple food.

Besides, where does the cheap production labor come from? Isn’t it mainly from farmers?

At the call of the country, farmers enthusiastically set up township enterprises, worked hard, and strived to produce products for export and earn foreign exchange.

As a result, many people have become wealthy, but there are still more farmers who cannot adapt to the changes of the times and have not enjoyed the dividends of reform and opening up. Their quality of life has not been substantially improved, and the quality of life of a few people has even declined.

As a result, the income gap between farmers gradually widened, as did the gap between regions, with a sharp contrast between coastal and inland areas.

In particular, the coastal cities in the south and their surrounding cities have developed rapidly, while inland areas and areas with underdeveloped transportation have not gained much benefit.

But there is no way around it. Our country has a vast territory and transportation also has a great impact on costs.

Therefore, areas close to export ports and areas with developed transportation have natural advantages.

After all, this is no longer the era of planned economy. After cost accounting, coastal areas definitely have geographical advantages.

This has led to different attitudes towards reform and opening up in different places. Some places are very positive, some are not, and some even have resistance.

As the saying goes, what is worrying is not the lack of wealth but the inequality of distribution. Therefore, places that have not benefited from the dividends of reform and opening up have strong complaints, and some places demand that the country treat them equally.

Reform and opening up also led to a rapid widening of the gap between the rich and the poor, not only among ordinary people but also among local governments. As a result, not only did ordinary people’s thoughts fluctuate, but the thoughts of some cadres also fluctuated.

These are the growing pains of reform, an inevitable process, and a test that our country must go through.

The road of reform and opening up was destined to be bumpy from the very beginning. It required sincere cooperation from all aspects of our country so that we can forge our own avenue of reform and opening up.

Although Wu Zhen knew this process, he had no way to interfere with this necessary process.

All Wu Zhen could do was to continue to provide detailed and accurate intelligence to help the leaders above make correct judgments based on the accurate intelligence.

At the same time, problems should be discovered in a timely manner, and those officials and cadres who are corrupt, abuse their power, and act recklessly should be discovered and reported as soon as possible, so as to strive to reduce the trial and error costs of reform and opening up.

Wu Zhen also knew that now was not the most difficult time, because reform and opening up had not yet reached the most critical moment, and the real tests had not yet really arrived.