Chapter 158 can’t be printed out, it really can’t be printed out! (Seeking monthly votes)

The problems between countries are never simple one-on-one issues, but rather they affect the entire body.

Especially in a country like ours.

There are some things that Li Changhe did not continue to tell them.

This loan between China and Japan was actually very sensitive in that era, so sensitive that in addition to China and Japan, countries such as the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union all intervened strongly.

Of course, the targets of this strong questioning are all Benzi, because they all know that we are too lazy to pay attention to them.

For example, many people in later generations praised the fact that Japan’s aid had fewer restrictions and did not force us to buy all its products, saying that Japan was sincere.

It’s all bullshit!

The real reason is that the Americans are unhappy. Before the big boss has reached an agreement with us, you, the little brother, have hurried forward to give us money.

So the Americans decisively revise the book and at the same time add a requirement to it, which is that the loan must be based on a non-restrictive agreement.

To put it bluntly, the money is given to us, and we can buy from whichever company we want and from whomever we want, and we are not allowed to limit ourselves to buying only from the book.

Because normally, aid loans, as part of the economic model, are usually used to export domestic industrial products in the name of loans.

Just like the Americans supporting the Chinese in later generations, in name they were giving money, but all this money had to be used to buy American military products. In essence, they were eliminating part of the military products and giving them to the Chinese, and also collecting their interest and collateral.

In addition to the Americans, the Soviet Union also threatened China over this matter and even asked for a loan of the same amount. In essence, the other party just wanted to ruin the loan.

There are various opinions about this batch of loans, including within the book, and many people hold opposing views.

Li Changhe remembers that in the end the loan negotiations were reduced by about one third, and then the nature of the loans became partially restricted.

In other words, part of the loan money must be used to purchase industrial products from the country.

This is why some people later complained that the foreign exchange was used to buy cars and televisions, but not in industry.

"Changhe, then do you think it's a good thing for us to use their loan?"

“It’s a mixed bag!”

Li Changhe shook his head and sighed.

"How to say?"

Haven continued to ask curiously.

"From the perspective of national industrial strength, it is beneficial for us to communicate with small countries, including loans. Our industrial base is weak now, including infrastructure, steel and many other aspects, and the gap with the world's leading level is too large."

"And Xiaobenzi's current technology can indeed be said to be world-leading."

It can be said that notebooks in the 1980s reached the peak of their industrial technology. In many industries, their technology was indeed stronger than that of Europe and the United States.

For example, in the early 1980s, the United States and Japan shared the semiconductor market equally.

But by the mid-1980s, the United States was already struggling with its photolithography machines.

As for the future ASML, it has not yet been born. One of its origins, the semiconductor division of Philips, is still on the verge of bankruptcy.

"But industry is industry, and industrial output is helpful to us, but in addition to industrial output, cultural output is generally accompanied by it."

"Just like us, we haven't seen the loan yet, but we have seen the movie "The Hunt", and there may be more movies and TV shows in the future."

"This will be a cultural export, just like many people will think the script of the movie is good and will have a good impression of it."

"We imitated its clothing, such as the windbreaker we bought before. Even my wife bought it. This is the cultural influence."

"This is actually the influence of cultural ideology, which I think we should guard against."

"But in this regard, I think the country will have countermeasures."

Cultural influence is inevitable, after all, the other party is actually tempting with sugar-coated bullets.

Li Changhe felt that the country had also taken this into consideration in his previous life. Apart from anything else, the three perspectives on Japan that were taught in his textbooks when he was a child were very positive. These people were irrelevant.

At least he thinks that most people born in the 1980s and 1990s hate everything except the comics in this book and a certain unspeakable movie series.

In fact, Li Changhe felt that there was another point that could be manipulated, and that was the repayment of the loan.

Li Changhe remembered that the notebook in his previous life required calculation in US dollars and repayment in Japanese yen.

That is, the yen you borrowed is worth a certain amount of U.S. dollars at the time, and you will repay the loan in the future with yen of equal value in U.S. dollars, thus avoiding the exchange rate risk.

However, Li Changhe could not remember whether this requirement was signed at the beginning or after the Plaza Accord.

Because the aid loan is divided into several installments, one every few years.

Li Changhe thinks it is most likely the latter, because in this era, Japan's financial sector is still closed to the outside world.

In the early 1980s, Japan was actually very closed. The government supported enterprises internally, provided continuous low-interest loans, and allowed domestic enterprises to go overseas to seize the market.

It is also very closed to the outside world. Many high-quality companies within the country do not allow European and American capital to invest and hold shares. The outbound flow of funds is also controlled and cannot flow freely.

It is also because of this that the American capitalists can't stand it anymore. You guys are a bunch of bastards. You are asking the country to help enterprises compete and set up national technology alliances to seize the market.

So the American capitalists were angry and started lobbying, and then the Americans took ruthless actions against Japan.

Li Changhe remembered that it was not until 83 or 84 that the Americans forced Japan to relax restrictions on bank capital circulation and exchange rate controls.

Only at that time did the Japanese yen become a liquid currency in the international market.

That is why Li Changhe felt that anchoring the value of loans to the US dollar was something that happened after the Plaza Accord.

But it is difficult to say now, because the Japanese yen has not yet been liberalized to allow free circulation of exchange rates. Even if Li Changhe wanted to remind them, he had no way to do so.

You can't say that you are betting that the Japanese yen will appreciate in the future, so it's more economical to lock in the value in US dollars and buy Japanese yen instead.

The exchange rate in Japan has not been liberalized yet. It would be strange if the country believed you for such an article.

It's just a gamble!

And to put it bluntly, at his current level, it is difficult for him to influence the country's decision-making. He can only continue to look for opportunities.

"It's true that listening to your words is worth ten years of reading, Changhe, you really know a lot."

"Go to the library more often and read more books, not only the Peking University Library, but also the National Library in the city. We are all studying political economics. In the future, many things have to be analyzed together, and we can't just look at one point one-sidedly."

Li Changhe spoke seriously to several people at this time.

"Don't worry, I learned it!"

Several people agreed in unison.

Even if Li Changhe didn't say it, they had been in contact with him for such a long time that they were unconsciously influenced by some of the things they saw and heard.

This can be seen from the manuscript of "The Rise of Great Powers" compiled by the students.

After the initial confusion, their writing became better and better. Li Changhe felt that some of the manuscripts did not need to be revised and could be approved directly.

Just as Li Changhe was thinking about this, Wang Jian ran in.

"You guys are still in the mood to chat, we are all so busy."

"No, Changhe, I don't think I can go on like this, it's too tiring, I can't finish printing, I just can't finish printing!"

At this time, Wang Jian was sitting beside He Xiaofeng's bed, waving his hand weakly and said.

Behind them, Li Shaomin and Bi Jingquan each carried a large bag of letters.

"Don't just sit there, come and open the letters, look carefully at the people who are asking for book orders, and make a good count."

“Be sure to do a good job of statistics to see if they want the first issue, this special issue, or both.” “Also, pay attention to those with money sandwiched between them, mark them out!”

Lao Bi wiped the sweat from his head and spoke hurriedly to Haiwen and the others.

"Wow, so many letters?"

Haiwen looked at the two big bags in surprise and said with emotion.

"Is that a lot? There are several more packages in the printing room."

"Changhe, we can't keep going like this. There are too many students buying these products. And I've noticed that it's not just college students who are buying them. Many people in society have also written to us asking to buy them."

"Some want the first installment, some want the second installment, and some want both."

“We are simply too busy to handle it right now.”

“There’s no way to print all the copies.”

Wang Jian waved his hands helplessly at this time.

This time, as time went by, word of mouth spread among readers.

More and more students and even young people in society have learned about the "Rise of Great Powers" series published by Peking University's Department of Economics.

"Didn't the student union arrange someone for you?"

Lao Tao asked curiously at this time.

Wang Jian gave a wry smile.

"Lao Tao, we still have to go to class. Even if we assign people, we only have so much time to work after class every day."

"You can't just skip classes and do this!"

After all, they are students and their main focus is on studying. It was originally a hobby, but now they want to turn it into a career.

"If we really fight like this, it will be a real hassle!"

Li Changhe nodded thoughtfully.

It's a good thing that the magazine is popular, but now it's too popular and it affects everyone's studies, which is not a good thing.

"This has to be resolved. To be honest, publishing issues one by one, with a small print run, is very labor intensive for us."

“I think it needs to be changed!”

"Why not just publish it as a book?"

Li Changhe actually originally planned to make "The Rise of Great Powers" into a series and then run it slowly in school.

Once his funds arrive, he will take the opportunity to see if he can upgrade it into a magazine, for example, by registering it under the name of Peking University, and then slowly turning it into a print media.

But now it seems very difficult.

Because time does not allow!
[The Rise of Great Powers] became popular so quickly, and now it is not only circulating among college students, but also spreading to the whole society.

Once this book becomes popular in society, it will cause an even bigger sensation, and the demand will surely be even greater. A makeshift team of just a few students like them will not be able to cope with such a large demand.

Even if it was printing for the school, it would probably be difficult, after all, the amount of paper needed at that time was a huge amount.

Paper is a scarce commodity these days, otherwise there wouldn’t be enough paper to print the emergency college entrance examination papers for the 77 class.

The time has not yet come to publish a magazine. Even if a private magazine is to be affiliated with another, it will have to wait until the reforms are carried out on the magazine companies, allowing them to be responsible for their own profits and losses. Only then will there be an opportunity to do so.

Now it is 79 and all magazines are owned by the state. There is no consideration for profit and all sales are under unified management. There is no chance for you to affiliate with the state.

Unless you do it secretly, like the day Chen Jiangong attended the Today magazine party.

This magazine was privately created by Bei Dao and Mang Ke and a few others. They had no publishing qualifications, so they printed the magazines themselves and sold them secretly.

The reason why Li Changhe knew this is because this group of people found agents in many schools to help them sell it.

It’s OK if there’s one from Peking University, there’s also one from Beijing Film Academy.

The agent Li Changhe was quite familiar to me. He was the same guy as Chen Kaige. He helped sell these underground magazines at the Beijing Film Academy and occasionally attended gatherings organized by Today. He was a loyal literary and artistic figure.

It’s a pity that these people have too one-sided cognition and only pursue freedom, democracy and human rights. Li Changhe can’t get along with them.

"It's good to publish a book. It's convenient to publish one book at a time."

"But if that's the case, then it will take a long time. We haven't finished writing yet."

When Wang Jian heard about publishing a book, he was immediately interested, but he asked a key question.

"This is a very troublesome matter, Lao Tao, go find the leaders of each group and call all the members together, we need to hold a meeting together."

"When it comes to publishing a book, we first need to agree on the same idea internally, such as how to name the author."

"How should we arrange and distribute the royalties from publishing books?"

"Besides that, there is one more thing. Whether this book can be distributed is another matter."

"This is our department's own internal magazine. To put it bluntly, it's an internal publication. It doesn't matter if we sell it privately."

"But if you publish a book, you have to let the editorial department review it. It's not certain whether the book can be published."

“I have to go to the publishing house and ask!”

Li Changhe is now familiar with two publishing houses, one is People's Literature Publishing House and the other is Beijing Publishing House.

Jingcheng Publishing House published his second collection of novels, "Selected Novels of Li Changhe", after the Spring Festival.

It is said that it sold quite well and was very popular across the country. After all, most readers knew that Ling Jue was Li Changhe.

Li Changhe didn't pay much attention to it. After all, whether the book sold well or not had little to do with him. All he had to do was collect the royalties.

[The Rise of Great Powers] should now be considered a social science book. It is neither a pure economic science book nor a literary novel.

Li Changhe felt that it was unlikely that the People's Literature Publishing House would print his work, but it might be possible that the Beijing Publishing House would print it.

After all, Beijing Publishing House is a comprehensive publishing house that can print books of all kinds.

"What you said is true. How about this? I will call all the team leaders and team members first. We will have a meeting tonight to study it and see what everyone means."

Lao Tao nodded and prepared to go and notify.

"We can discuss the issue of authorship first and come up with a few suitable ones."

"For example, we sign our name as: Peking University, Class of 77, Department of Political Science and Economics?"

"Well, some 78th-level students have also joined the team. It's not a good idea to only recruit 77th-level students."

Wang Jian spoke at this time, he knew more about the personnel changes than Li Changhe.

"Then we can just go to Peking University's Economics Department, and then list an editorial committee at the end, and put everyone's name on the editorial committee, how about that?"

Li Changhe said thoughtfully.

“I think this is good!”

"can!"

"Let's talk tonight."

Several people agreed with Li Changhe's proposal and thought that they could discuss it in the evening.

Then there is another question: what to do with the royalties?
(End of this chapter)