Imagine the world

Chapter 408

In the eyes of outsiders, this may be a very absurd scene.The high-level officials of Jili Kingdom gathered together, and they all sat there listening to a teenage child give a speech on the principles of state affairs decision-making.

Hua Zhen had just turned eighteen, and many of his words were naive, and he looked naive, but no one in the venue dared not take him seriously.

When Huanxiang Industrial was first established, many people only regarded Hua Zhenxing as a "prince" who was the key training object of several old people. Although they were very polite to him, they did not respect Hua Zhenxing himself.

But today's Hua Zhenxing is different. He can become the chief instructor of Yangyuangu because he is the true founder of Yangyuanshu.

Huazhenxing raised its own funds and personally trained personnel to establish the Yangyuanshu Center.After the initial scale of this training system, it has trained a large number of trainees.

In the special historical period of Jili Kingdom, civic education has not yet resumed. The Yangyuanshu Center and the supporting new alliance study classes have trained personnel urgently needed by departments and institutions at all levels, and temporarily acted as a talent screening system.

A staff member of a government department suddenly stopped going to work one day. It turned out that he had received his salary or embezzled public funds to drink.This sounds unbelievable, but it is not impossible in Jili Kingdom, which is a headache.

No matter what your talent is, if you want to become a first-class nourisher, you must have enough self-discipline, and have qualified cognitive and learning abilities, otherwise the entry into practice is nonsense, and this also guarantees the basic quality of a civil servant.

The original medical and health conditions in Jili Kingdom were very poor, and the infection rate of various viruses was very high. If a person might die at any time, there is no way to entrust them with important responsibilities and train them for a long time.

Becoming a second-level nourisher can ensure that the body is healthy and energetic.

If one becomes a third-level Yuan-Yuan teacher and reaches the state of Yuanshen Qingming, let alone practice any supernatural powers and spells, the most important thing is to ensure that such a person has a strong learning potential and understanding ability, and can continue to grow.

As for breaking through the four realms to become an intermediate Yangyuanshu instructor, it is another level of talent, and the current Jili Kingdom only has about a hundred people for the time being.Those first to third-level nourishing masters with a larger base played a backbone role in this special historical period.

Hua Zhenxing's achievements are not limited to this, he is also the most important founder of this new country, so when he makes a speech of this nature on this occasion, no matter whether he fully agrees with his views, no one can openly question his qualifications.

It was a closed internal meeting, and some words might be best for him to say.For example, in his speech just now, he used Charles as an example many times, and he did not deny it.

Only he could say this kind of words, and he said it very naturally, and all the audience, including Shire himself, didn't think there was anything wrong.

The schedule of this meeting is one week, interspersed with group discussions and joint discussions on topics, and now it is only in the afternoon of the second day, but the content of Hua Zhenxing's speech is actually in the nature of a comprehensive guide.

Many things should have been said by Charles.Hua Zhenxing temporarily decided to do this for two reasons.

One is that after these two days of discussions, he found that the core purpose of each policy must be clarified. If the direction is deviated, no matter how perfect the details are, it will be useless.

The second is precisely that he does not want to take Shire's position, and wants to leave the final conclusion of the meeting to Shire.First clarify many topics, and then the follow-up discussion can proceed in the correct way, and Charles can make a better summary at the end.

In the venue, some people frowned and thought, some nodded repeatedly, some took out pens and notebooks to quickly record, and Hua Zhenxing's speech continued——

"In economic decision-making, the primary issue is people's livelihood, which is the problem of food and clothing that Dongguo used to talk about in the past few years. For Jiliguo, it is the issue of survival. I will only say a few points that need special attention in agricultural development planning.

First of all, with the current natural resource conditions of Jili Kingdom, can it support the existing citizens?The answer is yes, no matter how impoverished the country is, the population of more than 1000 million can maintain a low level of self-sufficiency in normal times. This is a fact!

So everyone must pay attention to this fact. Jili Kingdom is different from some countries. It has not relied on food imports for so many years, and it has no conditions to import food on a large scale, but it has the conditions to feed its citizens. This is different from many people. Recognition is different.

In the past, Jili State exported agricultural and animal husbandry products overseas every year, mainly goats and dromedary camels. Although the scale was small, the small amount of foreign exchange obtained was used to import high-end consumer goods.

The problem in agriculture is not only the extremely low production level, but more importantly, the extremely low ability to resist risks.

In the past, once climate anomalies or large-scale natural disasters occurred, it would lead to the spread of famine in some areas, which in turn would lead to social unrest. This is what we need to solve first.

Therefore, the specific goal of the first five-year plan for agriculture is to ensure the domestic food supply in the event of abnormal weather or large-scale natural disasters, so that famine will not occur.

The goal should not be too high, even if we can exceed it in reality, we should not be too ambitious.We must not only solve the problem of total output, but also solve the problem of unified transportation and distribution structure of materials.

The agriculture and animal husbandry of Jili Kingdom used to depend on the weather and was very fragile.Once a famine occurs, it is difficult to transfer food from one place to another. Instead, some people will hoard it and take the opportunity to blackmail it.

The current development of Dongguo is very successful. Some people think that Dongguo can do it with us. This is not only an illusion, but also an illusion.

Which other country in the world can have the size of Dongguo, such a profound cultural heritage, and such a high-quality labor force?

And some people only saw the rapid development of Dongguo in the decades after the reform, but have you noticed the accumulation and preparations in the decades before the reform?
Such a large-scale construction of farmland water conservancy and social transformation not only plowed the land of the whole country, but also smashed the old strata of the whole country and plowed them thoroughly. The price is quite heavy.Does Jiliguo have this process? Have we made up this lesson?

The second tendency is that there are still some comrades with overseas education background, who advocate learning from and learning from developed countries in everything.

There is nothing wrong with this way of thinking, but if we say what model some developed countries use, we will use whatever model, and then we can develop in the same way.This is no longer a fantasy, but a delusion regardless of the facts.

Because Jili Kingdom has been doing this for so many years, I will not expand it for the time being.

Closer to home, or agriculture.Jili Kingdom is different from Dongguo in that it does not have the historical accumulation of thousands of years of farming civilization, and there are hardly many people who have mastered traditional agricultural technology.

We also don’t have too much historical burden, and we don’t have the need to stabilize the rural society by means of family land redistribution management, because we don’t even have a rural society in the traditional sense!
The colonists in history wanted to implement the urbanization of modern industrial civilization directly on the basis of tribal society, and plundered the land of various tribes in the countryside to develop the plantation economy. This is the legacy of Jili Kingdom itself.

We come to complain about history again today, but it is no longer helpful.

The family contract responsibility system does not conform to the actual situation of Jili Kingdom. If it is enforced, are we going to create a matrilineal clan society in the vast new villages?Moreover, this segmented and fragmented agriculture comes at the expense of efficiency.

According to actual conditions, it is a more reasonable and feasible choice to concentrate on reclamation and operation of large-scale farms and plantations.The specific issue we want to discuss is how to formulate the goals of the first five-year plan under this premise.

A committee member from Huanxiang Industry also mentioned during the lunch chat that the technology of directly synthesizing starch with carbon dioxide has appeared in Dongguo, and its efficiency far exceeds that of traditional agriculture. Should our research department also follow up?
I don’t think this is a joke. It is impossible for our agricultural scientific research department to follow up too many projects, but we can pay attention to this direction, even if it is only as a future technology prospect, but we can’t expect to have results now.

This should be a topic of scientific research, I said a little bit in advance.The reason why I want to mention this topic is that cassava is the most reliable starch-producing crop with the highest conversion efficiency so far, and it is also the most suitable crop for the climatic conditions of Jili.

We have great advantages in the production and processing of cassava, even reaching the world's leading level.All of you here should not underestimate yourselves and think that Jili Kingdom is backward in everything. In fact, we also have areas in which we are ahead.

Although the output of cassava is much higher than the existing staple foods in the world, it has always had two restrictions as a staple food.

One is that it is poisonous and not resistant to preservation. It must be ground and soaked in a short period of time. This process is extremely labor-intensive. It's hard to do anything else.

The second limitation is that the taste is not good. In the past, it was simply boiled into a paste, and the nutrition was not comprehensive.

Now we can not only solve these two problems, but also solve them very well.In terms of large-scale intensive planting of cassava, proper crop rotation and utilization of whole plants, the Fiso Port Land Reclamation Area has accumulated sufficient experience, and the more important results are in the field of processing.

Huanxiang Industry has developed special equipment for large-scale centralized harvesting and processing. After detoxification in an industrialized manner, raw cassava powder that can be stored for a long time is produced.

More importantly, we have also developed a variety of food processing methods, appropriately adding a small amount of other ingredients to improve the taste and nutrition, and launched various end products such as noodles, steamed buns, flower rolls, and bread.

Just for noodles, we have produced more than a dozen types, and promoted more cooking and processing methods to make the taste better and richer, and to improve the quality of life.

This agricultural technological achievement, including the supporting cooking and processing methods, must be vigorously promoted nationwide.It guarantees our food security, and various products can be used as raw materials for light industry in addition to being used as rations.

The high yield and application promotion of cassava has given us enough confidence to save more land in agriculture to grow various other crops and develop animal husbandry and aquaculture.

Therefore, the first agricultural project to be clearly implemented is to determine the planting range and area of ​​cassava, vigorously promote technology, and synchronize processing plants and food promotion. However, the current outline does not make it clear.

Some comrades also realized the importance of agriculture and put forward very radical development ideas. I think this outline almost always has ideas in this regard when it comes to agricultural issues.

It is mentioned in the draft that we should take advantage of the rare favorable conditions now, and more specifically, we can obtain assistance from Dongguo, including technical guidance, special loans, and material assistance, and strive to fully realize intensification, mechanization, and Great development of industrialized agriculture.

We want to engage in concentrated large-scale agriculture. Large-scale mechanized operations and industrialized production are indeed the most suitable path. We must leave enough space for this path in planning, but it cannot be done in this way!

In this outline, the plan is quite detailed. It counts the existing land area in the country that can be developed and planted on a large scale, and how many tractors, harvesters, water pumps, fertilizers, pesticides, seeds... are all listed. list.

But I would like to ask, is this plan serving the people of Guli, or is it serving the excess capital and excess capacity in the world?
Most of the things on this list are not owned by ourselves, and we either rely on direct aid or imports on loans.Let me not talk about spending the entire country's credit resources on it, can all these things be obtained, and even if it is obtained, what will be the consequences?
Do we have operators of so many large farm machines?Some people say that training can be done while working, but I am afraid it is too optimistic.Even if operators can be trained, what about maintenance personnel?And we don't even have the maintenance technology and the ability to supply spare parts.

Others say that aid workers can be brought in, just like the Beiluo River Bridge and the Loforgen Hydropower Station, agricultural assistance projects can also be introduced.But can we participate in so many projects, and can the major agricultural production in the country do the same?
The money is borrowed from others, the operators are sent by others, the equipment and materials are also sold to you by others, and the production and maintenance services are also provided by others... May I ask what we have done? Is it just to carve out a piece of land on the country? Reclaimed wasteland?
With this plan of getting something for nothing, can the problems of people's livelihood security and agricultural development in Jili be solved?Think about it for yourself, is this realistic?

Many people may still not understand that if we can get these aids, no matter how much they are, there are obviously advantages to take advantage of. Why don't we and can't take advantage of them?

This is actually the food program assistance program of many international aid organizations for poor and backward countries, which has also been given to Jiliguo.Member Liang Ziming present here has also participated in this kind of project. What kind of results have we seen?

It has been argued that such programs have been less successful because there is not enough aid or the strings attached to the aid are too stringent.There are reasons for this, but not only this reason.

If there is any difference now, it is that we have changed the object of help to Dongguo and want to cooperate at the national level.

I have a set of data here, which is the total output of staple food in the world and the total population of the world... Obviously, the global food output can fully meet the needs of the global population, so food is only a local problem, our own problem.

No matter how much food is produced in the world, famines often occur in many countries.Therefore, our agricultural development goals are firstly based on ensuring our own security, rather than participating in international production competition.

Even if the above plan goes well, we can do the math, what will we get in the end?The designated farmland has been reclaimed, various equipment and materials have been imported, and enough food has been produced, but heavy debts have been left behind.

That's a debt that we can't afford to repay, even if it's an interest-free aid loan, we can't afford to do that.

Can we pay our debts with food exports?Is the food we produce in this situation competitive in the international market?After deducting debt interest, production costs such as the purchase and maintenance of materials and equipment, and the employment of personnel, the economy is completely at a loss.

Exporting grain to pay off debts, do we still need to protect our own people's livelihood?But without exporting food at a loss, do we have the ability to carry out such a large-scale agricultural subsidy from other sources?A debt crisis is inevitable.

Some people realized the loopholes in the plan and wanted to make up for it as much as possible, saying that they would strive for free and unconditional assistance.You still want to be shameless?Even if this daydream is temporarily fulfilled, what will aid partners think of a greedy country like ours?
Once we enter this mode, we will continue to rely on this mode. The equipment will always break down, and we have to buy new fertilizers and pesticides every year. We will never be able to afford the production costs, and we will never be able to develop.

If it is a well-intentioned partner, do you think there is hope for our aid investment?They only think that we are mud and cannot support the wall!
If it is replaced by a malicious partner, let alone, nothing that can repay the debt will be left for us, and it will only repeat the collapse of Jili Kingdom.

What is the solution to future debt problems?If we break the contract and renege on the debt, the little national credit we have just recovered will be exhausted, and we will cut off the road of cooperation and development.

'Why should I pay back the money I borrowed based on my ability? 'A lot of people here have this kind of sick thinking, and it's probably stuck in the subconscious.But this is really not your ability, but the kindness, trust or other intentions of others.

We must cure this sickness, otherwise we will establish New Guinea, and we must not have this subconscious mind when making decisions, otherwise it will definitely not benefit the country and the people, and will be unjust and helpless.

If you want to repay, you can only sell assets, and we only have those farms and plantations, and some state-owned assets that we have saved with great difficulty will also be controlled by international surplus capital.

At that point, not to mention food security, even food production itself will lose control. People can produce whatever they want and sell it to whoever they want.

At that time, I am afraid that no one will think about growing cassava, and will only consume all the irrigation resources to grow cash crops such as palms, and the profits will not be left for us to import enough food.

Many countries in Latin America, especially South America, have the best agricultural production conditions in the world, but they are all caught in a debt crisis. Along with continuous social unrest, the government has changed crop after crop.

What is the cause of this?Some people even coined a term called "Rummy Trap". Our development level is far inferior to those countries, so we should not jump into this trap, especially not digging a trap for ourselves at the beginning of planning.

If it is another industry, the collapse may be the collapse, but the collapse of agriculture will really starve to death!

If all of us here turn a blind eye to the hidden dangers, when this situation really happens in the future, everyone will be the murderer, intentionally or unintentionally.

Some people may still ask, will it really collapse?
Not to mention the above situations, let me just give an example, what will happen if the international situation changes, for example, aid cannot be obtained, or there are local conflicts, or we are subject to blockade sanctions for some reason?
In that case, the chemical fertilizers and pesticides needed for agricultural production cannot be transported in, and the supply of oil to drive the machinery will also be lost. Large areas of land will be abandoned. If there is another extreme climate in some areas, there will be famine!
These questions are not complicated, and even elementary school students can figure out the answers. Don't you all understand?It's not that I don't understand, the main reason is short-sightedness, because the problems are all in the future, and the benefits are all in the present!
Some people are lucky, thinking that it will be done first, maybe there will be a turning point in the future?This is the speculative psychology of gamblers. Put your chips down first, maybe you will win if you open the cards?

Some people still want to use the simplest and most relaxed method to solve those problems that really require hard work. In essence, they still want to take shortcuts and imagine that they can get something for nothing, but there is no such shortcut in the world.

It doesn't rule out that a few people see the benefits. If such a plan is implemented, those who handle it can take advantage of the opportunity to make a lot of money, and then they can pat their ass and make a fortune and leave. As for the famine, it's none of his business?
I'm sorry, my words are rough, I should control my emotions.I believe that the starting point of most people is still good. What they want is to do more quickly, save as much as possible, and try to achieve the most ideal results in the shortest time.

I suggest giving up this delusion of reaching the sky in one step. Chairman Shire gave a speech "Labor Creates the World", which should be familiar to everyone present. We need to go down to earth to complete primitive accumulation.

What I just said is tantamount to negating the agricultural plan.This is not to deny everyone's hard work in formulating plans, so the reasons must be clearly stated. I deny that it is the kind of consumerist industrial development ideas.

Here is just one conclusion: the result of overdrafting the future can only be losing the future.

The less we own and the more we overdraw our future, the bleaker the future will be.So what is a more reasonable planning solution?The most important basic work, of course, is to organize the labor force for production under the existing conditions.

Self-reliance, hard work!
We do need assistance and cooperation from the outside world, such as Dongguo. For example, agricultural technical guidance is necessary, and production personnel training is also necessary. The New Alliance has already done this in Banda City since the year before last.

Start accumulation from low-level construction, leaving room for continuous improvement, so that each step of accumulation is effective and self-controllable.

When it comes to specific projects, such as cassava planting and processing technology, we are already very mature, and we can also develop related equipment.

But what are we missing?Without further promotion of its industrial base, this cannot be built in a day, but can only be developed gradually.Moreover, with the size of the country, it is impossible to develop all industrial categories and the entire industrial chain, and can only make key choices.

If there is an aid cooperation project, even if we invest limited funds ourselves, we will first introduce a production line that can produce simple agricultural machinery and equipment, such as tractors, as well as cassava harvesting and processing machinery developed by ourselves.

Going up this chain, for example, we need to use a lot of steel and parts, which still need to be imported in the short term, but our related products can also be exported to other countries in the Black Desolate Continent, striving to reach the advanced level of the Black Desolate Continent.

Member Tang Senzhi nodded there... You are right, we have to selectively accept the transfer of some excess capacity, and try to improve these industrial chains in the First Five-Year Plan and the follow-up Second Five-Year Plan.

The most important field related to agricultural production is water conservancy construction, which involves issues of industrial development, so let me say a few more views on industrial issues, related to this are diplomatic and financial market issues..."

(End of this chapter)