Siheyuan: Stab at Louzi at the beginning

Chapter 765 The past was the past, and the present is now

Don't ask,
There it is.
silent.

Whether you can see it or not is a problem of people and has nothing to do with the earth.

Xu Damao only read a part of the report materials on the table and found many problems.

Most of it is chaos.

"Aren't we spending money to buy food from outside? Why are we still exporting food?"

"Different departments have different plans, so don't mix them up."

Some are responsible for buying, some are responsible for selling. It is obviously the same big company, but the two departments are doing completely opposite things.

Xu Damao couldn't understand.

It makes absolutely no sense.

"If you think about it deeply, just like when we imported maltose, buying and selling is sometimes not that simple, it is more about maintaining the relationship between each other."

Of course, if you rush to maintain relationships, you will have to sacrifice some of your own interests.

Leadership and the masses are two different concepts.

Those at the top teach those below them to believe that they are the strongest, but those at the top know very well that they are still very weak and need to develop quickly. If they want to develop, they have to rely on others.

This has been the case since ancient times.

For example, during the Tang Dynasty, all nations came to pay tribute, presented local specialties, and took back a few carts of gold, silver, and jewelry. Sometimes they would even bring back a princess. Everyone was willing to come, not to mention paying tribute once a year, they would be willing to pay tribute once a month.

After all, you are here to get benefits for free, so why not come?

Compared with real benefits, what does a few nice words mean?

So don’t say that selling to your own people is expensive and selling to outsiders is cheap. There are complicated relationships involved.

“Is this the reason for buying high-priced grain with gold and then exporting some low-priced grain?”

"Buying grain is a sudden phenomenon, while exporting grain is a plan made a few years ago."

Later, Xu Damao looked around and said nothing. For example, the materials for foreign aid accounted for 5% of the annual output value, and this was this year. In the past few years when times were good, the expenditure was almost catching up with military spending.

The main countries helped are Inner Asia, Niger, South Vietnam, Laos and other places.

Compared to these, paying off debts is nothing.

Of course, ordinary people only know how to repay debts and use gold to buy food, but they don’t know that food can also be provided by aid and exported at low prices.

These data made Xu Damao somewhat shocked.

He suddenly felt that everything he had done before was meaningless. He was quite proud of himself for completing the work from beginning to end.

You won’t know until you see it, and it’s okay to say that this is a big game of chess.

"Any ideas?"

"The idea is to be far-sighted. If we keep helping for free, year after year, it will be troublesome if we cultivate a few ungrateful people. I think these things are indeed necessary, but the premise is that we must be strong enough."

It is said that the most solid alliance is formed by the binding of interests, but sometimes these interests are not so solid.

Both strong and fragile.

The most solid things are of course guns and strength.

As long as you are truly powerful, there will definitely be a lot of people rushing to curry favor with you, and having you as their father will be a piece of cake.

Even my biological father will do.

Xu Damao didn't know much about other things, but he was very familiar with the ungrateful wolf. The group of monkeys in the south helped them resist foreign enemies, and they didn't hesitate at all when they turned against them.

Therefore, unilateral assistance often does not bring any good results, and the friendship between regions is really fragile.

What 'xx friendship', what xx people can eat for free somewhere... It's okay to just laugh at such news. Even if it really is free, it's because the superstructure has paid more.

Just like the relationship with the big brother next door, we have always been their younger brother. The current situation is inseparable from the help of the neighbor, but now we are breaking up, isn’t it still breaking up? There is no long-lasting friendship between people, let alone between regions.

To borrow a phrase, the past is the past, the present is the present, everyone has intimate moments, don't take a temporary moment as permanent.

"We know this, and we had the strength and confidence before because we had the support of the big brother next door. Now things have changed. The agreement has been in place for many years. If we stop now, it would be a breach of contract."

Breach of contract...

What a strange yet familiar word.

Some agreements must be observed between people and between regions.

In the old society, it was the failure to abide by the treaty that led to the joint entry into Beijing, causing a series of serious consequences and losses, even though there were clearly better solutions.

The result is that they are blindly arrogant and think that they are the Celestial Empire, the only emperor, and you are all vassals...

As a result, he was defeated immediately.

Not to mention arrogance, even the fig leaf has been torn off, which makes everyone clearly know that the lion is already very old and can't wait to take a bite.

The little output from the soil has already been planned for ten years later.

The means of production are really just the means of production.

"These are all very normal exchanges. For example, there are many people who are dissatisfied with the amount of aid. We have discussed it twice. Now it is just because it is difficult to breach the contract. When we are stronger, it will be completely unnecessary."

"Before, we helped because of Big Brother's face. Now that Big Brother is gone, this is really unnecessary..."

Xu Damao compared the data carefully again.

"And there are more and more of them. It's obvious that they are treating us as their enemies."

"Alright, alright, stop talking nonsense. Look carefully and see the underlying issues through these data. Don't get hung up on things that are not your concern. When you can understand the issues behind these data, you will be considered to have learned it."

Xu Damao then really began to read the materials with peace of mind and stopped expressing his opinions.

Putting aside the gains and losses in small areas, it is obvious that this is a big game.

This year's exports and aid have increased so much compared to last year. The most fundamental reason is the unpleasantness with Big Brother.

It is just a minor friction now, but if it escalates, no one can predict to what extent the consequences will develop.

That's why we have to plan ahead, whether it's Inner Asia, Nia, Stan, or the surrounding Laos and monkeys including Korea and Sticks, we have to build good relationships with them first, so that if things really break down in the future, at least we can ensure that they won't add insult to injury.

At least on this point, everyone agrees with this plan.

But Xu Damao knew that it didn't exist at all.

In these small places, even if they want to recognize a father, they would only recognize the most powerful one as the father.

For example, you are weak and you have an older brother who is a little stronger than you, but you two have a powerful father in common.

But one day, your brother grew up and the family separated.

When the family property was divided, the elder brother took out part of it to bribe his weaker younger brother.

The question is, as a weak younger brother, will you choose to follow your brother who is not rich, or your powerful father?

The answer is obvious.

(End of this chapter)