Dear Venerable Mr. Huang Ren and Venerable Mr. Chen Shutong
Please read the enclosed article and afterward, return it to me. If you have

opinions [on it], please let me know.
Venerable Mr. Ren[zhi], in your letter you said that you would like to transmit what I said in our previous conversation to the industrial and commercial
circles. I think that you can tell a few people those things that I said that were
related to principles, such [as the words to the effect that] things should be
[handled through] discussion and negotiation, that things should be fair, that
people should do just as much business as they have capital for, and that they
should be taxed in proportion to the amount of profit they make. As for the
other [things I said], there is no need for them to be transmitted. [Also], even
in the case of the words of principle, you should only talk about them in an
informal way, and do not need to transmit them in any formal manner. This is
because these words are indeed too common; they belong to the realm of common knowledge. It is only because there is a severe problem of bureaucratism
in our government work and because many things are not done well that these
words appear to be somewhat novel. As for the concrete methods of resolving
[these] problems, they must be seriously and separately studied by the ministries of finance, the taxation offices and other offices before [the problems] can
be appropriately and adequately resolved.
In salute,
(Signed and dated)