Chapter 459 They are used to finding a father
The king quickly apologized and said, "Thank you Mr. Kobayashi Ichiro for your affirmation."
"I am just one of the millions of people in the foot basin, and I sincerely hope to make my due contribution to the development of the foot basin."
Kobayashi Ichiro smiled and said, "Since you have a good attitude, I was going to try you and give you at least a five-year reformation sentence."
"Now, your sentence can be waived."
"But labor reform cannot be exempted."
"You and your family will be sent to the rural areas on the outskirts of Dongjing for labor reform. You will have to support yourself by growing crops and vegetables with the help of farmers."
"We will give you some start-up funds. Whether you live well or not from now on will depend entirely on your own luck."
When the king heard this, his heart sank.
You don't have to die, that's a good thing.
But, I have to farm?
This, isn't this asking for death?
He has been pampered since childhood and can't even pick up a bottle when it falls over.
Where can I farm?
If I farm on my own, I will probably starve to death.
"But, I, I don't know how to farm." The king said with a bitter face, "I can do some work in sorting out the classics, okay?"
Kobayashi Ichiro's face also turned cold: "It's normal not to know how to farm. No one is born with the ability to farm!"
"You can learn from the farmers! After a season, I think you will have learned most of it!"
"You must learn to endure hardship! Go deep into the grassroots and experience the hardships of the people's lives."
"Otherwise, how can you understand the hardship that Foot Basin is experiencing now?"
"Well! Only by experiencing suffering can one truly stand with the people."
"Also, while learning how to farm, I also hope that you can think deeply about the suffering that your royal family has brought to the foot basin, and realize your mistakes!"
"I hope you can write a book in the end, and the title of the book is "Citizens' Opinions"!"
The king could hear the anger in Kobayashi Ichiro's words.
He quickly apologized with a smile and said, "Mr. Xiaolin, you are right to criticize me."
"I, I will try my best to learn how to farm."
"I will also think carefully about the questions you raised."
Kobayashi Ichiro said, “Go ahead!”
"Accept the arrangements made for you by the people."
The king was brought out.
Ichiro Kobayashi rubbed his face with both hands. He was a little busy and a little nervous now.
Because, the foot basin now is actually a mess!
There are problems everywhere.
There's trouble everywhere.
The most troublesome thing is that there is not enough food in Jiaoben and in the country.
They don't have enough foreign exchange to buy food.
Today, the international food market is also very tense.
The world food market is still controlled by Western grain traders.
These grain traders are desperately creating a food crisis.
Because only by creating a food crisis can food prices rise to the sky and they can reap huge profits.
Poor Jiaoben, because he could not be self-sufficient in food, he became a lamb to be slaughtered by the Lizard grain merchants.
There are many people and little land in Jiaoben. Even in this continent, most of the land is mountainous and has no value for farming.
Even if all the land in a basin is used to grow potatoes, it can only support 40 to 50 million people at most.
But now, their population has exceeded 100 million.
These 100 million plus people are starving for food.
Why did the people of Jiaoben rise up in resistance before?
Isn’t it because you can’t survive anymore?
They can't survive anymore, so they rise up in resistance. They hope to get a chance to change.
This also gave Ichiro Kobayashi an opportunity.
People who participated in the Red Army could basically still have a full meal.
At that time, the Red Army's food was supplied by the dragon.
But the dragon didn't help for nothing.
People also require that these aids be converted into resources for repayment in the future.
Jiaoben is a resource-poor country, so what resources do they have?
Well, it’s not that there aren’t any, but they are very few.
For example, the silver mine in Jiaoben was once very famous.
The silver produced here is of very good quality.
Of course, they also have good gold mines.
Jiaoben began to develop silver mines in the 16th century and once became a world-renowned silver supplier.
But after hundreds of years of mining, the silver in the foot basin is now almost exhausted.
In addition to silver mines, Jiaoben also has good forest resources.
Ichiro Kobayashi was a little overwhelmed. Now, he had to consider exchanging his meager resources for food.
No matter what, you have to stay steady!
If we want to maintain stability, we must ensure that the people have enough to eat.
Then sell those resources.
Most of those resources are to be exported to the dragon.
Now, Jiaoben can only import food from dragons and bears.
This is such an irony.
Back then, when Julong had just started its reform and opening up, Jiaoben imported a lot of resources from Long.
Coal, oil, timber, etc. are all transported to the port by train every day, and then loaded onto ships at the port and shipped to the foot basin.
At that time, foot basins were at their peak.
And the dragon was penniless.
Now it’s good, it’s about to turn around.
The foot basin now has to sell resources in exchange for the dragon's industrial products, electronic products and food.
Resources are limited.
Exchanging resources for food is likely to be unsustainable.
Therefore, the first priority now must be to increase food production capacity.
With a large population and few job opportunities, many people in Jiaoben will probably want to go back to farming.
No matter what, farming can at least provide enough food.
If you don't have a job in the city, you will really die.
Nowadays, the task of distributing land to households is really difficult.
In the past, the proportion of farmers who used foot basins was very small, less than 10%.
Things are better now. Many people voluntarily go to the countryside to farm.
There isn't much land to begin with, and if you divide it per capita there's even less.
How to do?
There is no other way but to grit our teeth and let more people survive.
Therefore, all those who wanted land were granted it.
Ichiro Kobayashi hopes to obtain high-quality hybrid rice seeds from Julong and strive to significantly increase production.
The yield of rice as a crop was originally not very high, with only a few hundred kilograms per acre.
But Julong managed to cultivate hybrid rice with a yield of nearly one ton per mu.
Although hybrid rice doesn’t taste good, it’s good enough to feed the people.
For a long time, rice has been the staple food of Jiaopen, and the Jiaopen people mainly eat rice.
Even if all the land in a basin is planted with rice, it still cannot support more than 100 million people.
Then we must develop a sideline breeding business.
Well! According to Long's suggestion, the foot basin can develop offshore aquaculture.
Jiaoben is a major marine fishing country.
However, it is not really a major breeding country.
Now, the dragon has the best breeding technology.
I hope the foot basin can get support from the dragon.
Ichiro Kobayashi is devoting all his efforts to agriculture.
But, to be honest, agriculture can only help ordinary people to fill their stomachs.
If we want to restore the prosperity of foot basin, we need to go a longer way. Foot basin does have a certain industrial foundation today.
However, there are not many left.
Moreover, foot basins are rapidly losing more market share around the world.
Industry is worrying.
Xiaolin was almost worried to death.
However, no matter what, production must be restored after large-scale industry is nationalized.
Even if you can satisfy the needs of the foot basin first.
No matter how big the market in Jiaoben is, there are more than 100 million people, right?
This market is not small.
Satisfy domestic needs first.
Then strive to gain more overseas export markets.
For example, reaching an agreement with resource-supplying countries and exchanging products for their resources.
This can solve the resource problem.
Second, it can expand overseas markets.
Eventually a positive cycle is formed.
Even so, I'm afraid we can only find a little hope in the cracks.
The dragon next to him is too strong now.
Ridiculously strong.
So strong that it made Ichiro Kobayashi despair.
Ichiro Kobayashi now hopes to sign a free trade agreement with the dragon.
However, he was also worried that the free trade agreement would cause the basin itself to collapse instantly.
After all, a free trade agreement is about both parties opening up their markets to each other.
Then, this must be beneficial to the strong.
The weak will be abused by the strong to the point of doubting their lives.
Why does Ichiro Kobayashi want to sign a free trade agreement again?
That’s because if we sign a free trade agreement, we might be able to form an industrial alliance with the dragon.
In this way, Foot Basin may have the opportunity to provide supporting services to the dragon's enterprises.
Then, we will work together to seize more overseas markets.
This way, the foot basin can drink some soup while the dragon eats meat.
What if we don’t sign a free trade agreement? The dragon will probably eat up all the overseas markets bit by bit.
Moreover, if Jiaoben does not sign a free trade agreement with Long, I am afraid that other small countries around it will rush to sign it.
Then the foot basin has even less chance.
What makes Ichiro Kobayashi uneasy is that he is actually under great pressure from both inside and outside.
The people of Jiaoben actually strongly support the abolition of the system of kings, royal families and aristocrats.
There will be some resistance to completely abandoning all the shrines and other things that are left in the foot basin by the remnants of the old foot basin and burning the spirit tablets of the evil spirits.
Because many people in Jiaoben think it is a national tradition.
They might even think that it was the god who was sacrificed for the foot basin.
There are many people who hold this view.
Ichiro Kobayashi didn't dare to push it through forcefully.
Because he was worried that it would arouse the anger of the people in the basin.
But what about the outside world?
The dragon will certainly demand a complete reckoning and all kinds of mistakes must be corrected.
If this task cannot be completed, it will probably affect the future.
It’s really a headache.
Now Ichiro Kobayashi can only increase the intensity of his thinking.
He hopes to truly improve the people's ideological level.
Then, correct those mistakes one by one.
Therefore, we must vigorously strengthen the education of correct historical views and eliminate the original erroneous ideas.
In fact, the work of ideological education is already underway.
The main purpose is to reflect on the war, and then to make the people of Jiaoben feel awe by exaggerating the dragon's current power.
The foot basin man is very crazy.
He had always considered himself the best student in Yazhou and didn't bother to hang out with other students in Yazhou.
They think that since they are so outstanding, they should play with the Eagle-Lizard faction, and they think they are a member of the Lizard faction.
Even though they are in decline now, the people of Jiaoben always feel that they still have an inexplicable sense of superiority in Yazhou.
This sense of superiority must be dealt a heavy blow.
Therefore, we need to exaggerate the dragon's immense power.
For example, the open and secret struggles between dragons and eagles, few people have discussed them in detail before.
Now, on the Internet platform, there is a large amount of detailed information about how the Eagle was defeated and abused by the Dragon.
When people in Jiaoben see too much of this, they naturally start to think to themselves: Damn, a dragon is actually more powerful than an eagle?
After all this time, it turns out that the reason we were able to escape safely from the Eagle's clutches was because the Dragon provided us with so many advanced weapons.
So, how dare we act rashly in front of the dragon?
In the past, the eagle was the father, so in the future, if the foot basin wants to develop well, it must recognize the dragon as the new father.
As for the mistakes made before, they must of course be corrected according to Long's requirements.
If you don't make the corrections, aren't you afraid of getting beaten by Long?
For the past few thousand years, people have actually regarded the dragon as their father.
But later, due to an accident, it rose up and caused a huge disaster to the dragon.
Do you still want to go against your father now?
This is simply because you don't want to live, right?
Therefore, many problems can indeed be solved through publicity.
Ichiro Kobayashi decided that he would go to Julong in person in the near future. He would deeply repent and kneel down to ask for forgiveness.
I just don’t know whether I can achieve the goal.
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As for the dragon, it is actually also paying close attention to the progress of the foot basin.
Wang Haoran did not expect that the Red Army in Jiaoben could make such rapid progress.
Originally, according to his idea, even after the Eagles withdrew, the Red Army would probably not be able to take power immediately.
Maybe they will even have a fight with the local authorities.
Everyone killed each other in agony, and then the Red Army could succeed with the general support of the people.
This process will take at least a year and a half.
However, after the eagles withdrew, the King of Foot Basin’s authorities could not even last a week.
It collapsed.
It collapsed completely.
This is a little unusual.
After all, the royal aristocracy of Foot Basin has existed for thousands of years.
They are very powerful, and their roots are so intertwined that any single move can have an impact on the entire body.
Such a huge force of royal aristocrats and financial tycoons collapsed in an instant without any resistance?
However, after thinking about it carefully, Wang Haoran felt that it was actually normal.
Because these foot-basin elites are actually very good at benefiting themselves and not others.
They saw that the ship was leaking and about to sink, so they probably ran away long ago.
Today's foot basin elites are almost everywhere in the world.
In this situation, why would they fight so hard?
If you see something is not right, just run away, isn't that okay?
Therefore, now all the elite tycoons and others who could escape have already escaped.
The Red Army did not kill them all, but showed an attitude of being willing to cooperate.
In this situation, wouldn't it be better for us to cooperate with each other?
Why do we need to fight and kill?
The leader also attached great importance to what happened in the foot basin.
Therefore, after Kobayashi Ichiro announced that the foot basin would abolish the king's nobles, the leader called Wang Haoran over again.
"Haoran, Kobayashi Ichiro has already expressed to us that he hopes to reach a free trade agreement. Please share your thoughts."
The leader said to Wang Haoran with a smile.
Wang Haoran smiled and said, "Well! After the eagle left, there was actually a vacuum in the foot basin."
"We must hurry up and integrate the foot basin into our system..." (End of this chapter)