Chapter 270: Do good deeds or take advantage of others’ misfortune!

Li Yi took Wang Xia out of the three-story building, or the office of their Beihua Foreign Trade Company, and walked directly in the direction of Mosk Bank.

The car was speeding through the city, and along the way many citizens could be seen happily walking out of state-owned supermarkets, holding many cans, bread, and milk in their arms.

Not all of these are products from the Dragon Kingdom, some are also goods from Europe!

In fact, Maozi has been importing materials, especially grain, from Europe over the years, which has become a tradition of Maozi.

Although the Iron Alliance is currently the largest country in the world, they have thousands of miles of fertile soil and vast plains. Even in their heyday, they had to overpower the beautiful country.

With such a strong steel alliance, coupled with a far less dense population distribution, at least in terms of cultivated land area and food cultivation, there should be no food shortage problem.

Moreover, even during the dark period of Tsarist Russia, food was exported to various European countries. Therefore, from the perspective of high-level officials, providing food and clothing for the people has never been a problem, and it is not even a problem at all.

However, after entering the Alliance era, the world's largest country in terms of territory, which suppressed the entire Europe, could not even supply domestic food and needed to import it from abroad.

The reason why this problem arises is, first of all, that during World War II, the alliance's food production suffered huge damage. Both the production and supply of food dropped sharply. After the war, it was difficult to recover for a while. Original food supply needs.

In addition to the war factors in the early years, it was closely related to the political system at that time.

From 1918 to 1921, the Alliance implemented a surplus grain collection system in agriculture. At that time, except for their own seeds and rations, all farmers' grains had to be collected by the government.

This caused farmers to be extremely dissatisfied and their enthusiasm for labor dropped significantly. They would rather go hungry than cultivate land to grow food. Naturally, the alliance's agriculture suffered huge losses during this period.

Next is the agricultural policy of the Bearded Era. During this period, the alliance's agricultural taxes were extremely high, but the purchase price of food was extremely low.

Moreover, if a tractor was used to plow the land at that time, 35% to 45% of the agricultural harvest would be collected as tractor usage fees, which was even more expensive than plowing the land with a horse. It is simply impossible for a country to do well in agriculture under this kind of system.

In fact, during the alliance period, senior leaders were not unaware of the seriousness of the food problem and tried to solve it.

For example, Little Baldy once launched a corn policy, and agricultural tax revenue was better than before.

However, at this time, there were problems such as poor management in the collective farms, and coupled with improper measures to vigorously promote corn cultivation, the alliance not only failed to solve the problem of food shortage, but instead a serious food crisis occurred.

After the failure to promote corn cultivation, coupled with the alliance and the long-term competition for hegemony, not only agriculture failed to develop, but the entire alliance was even heavily in debt.

In the end, the alliance could not even come up with the money to import food, and the people's living standards were declining day by day.

The alliance eventually disintegrated and withdrew from the stage of history, which was also closely related to the food crisis.

Thinking of this country's past glory and current loneliness, Li Yi couldn't help but sigh. He really saw him building high-rise buildings and saw his buildings collapse. Things in this world are really unpredictable, and God's calculations are not as good as those of man!

However, Li Yi is just a common man. He cannot reach too high a level and cannot change the overall situation of the world. All he can do is change the destiny of himself and his friends around him.

For example, Wei Sanpao, Qi Rong, and Wang Xia, if they have the spare capacity, can also help these poor poor people. Li Yi cannot do other things beyond his personal ability!

For example, at the Lao Shizi banquet, it was not necessary to think about the intention of the alliance's top leaders to provide him with more supplies, and even wanted to use him to further build a good relationship with the Dragon Kingdom's business community.

However, Li Yi knows how much he has. If he can't get involved in this kind of thing, then he won't get involved.

The alliance between government and business is indeed a quick way to make money. After all, it controls all kinds of resources, so it is a complete win.

But Li Yi knows better that the risks of political and business alliances are also huge, because businessmen who unite with politicians are no longer just businessmen, and an accident can actually hurt people, or even be hurt by others.

There are too many examples of this in our Dragon Kingdom, such as Shen Wansan, the wealthy Ming Dynasty, the eight Shanxi merchant families in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the red-top businessman Hu Xueyan, and various foreign compradors in modern times!

When he was prosperous, he was majestic, but when he was down, he ransacked his family and exterminated his family. Li Yi didn't want to have even half a cent to do with them.

This is why he would rather travel here and there to purchase supplies than cooperate with high-level forces at home and abroad during this period.

It's not that Li Yi doesn't have the capital, but that he doesn't want to!

Seeing Li Yi's thoughtful look, Wang Xia couldn't help but ask: "Brother Yi, what are you thinking about?"

"It's nothing, I just feel that the changes in the world right now are really hard to comprehend. It's a pity that such a glorious alliance has become like this!" Li Yi said.

Wang Xia couldn't help but said: "Who says it's not the case? I don't know how they did it with their hands full of Wang Zhao, even if they are high-level pigs."

Li Yi stopped him before he finished speaking, and then said in a deep voice: "It's better to say less about this in the future. The alliance's intelligence department is pervasive. Maybe there are their bugs on our cars or in our houses, so It’s not a good idea to spread your words to someone else. Don’t cause irreparable losses to yourself due to unnecessary mistakes, especially if you are happy!”

Wang Xia's expression suddenly changed when he thought of some legends within the alliance, and he hurriedly said: "I remember it!"

"Just remember, we are businessmen, our purpose is to make money, and other things are not ours to care about!"

Wang Xia sighed and said, "I understand the truth, I'm just a little angry!"

"What are you angry about?"

"Brother Yi, I understand what you just said in the room. The top leaders of Mao country don't care about the life and death of these ordinary people! The wheat and canned food they eat in their country, the milk and soda they drink are all... Ours! Why would he have a party to celebrate like this? What a shame!"

Li Yi sighed helplessly and said: "In fact, since the 1980s, Big Brother's problems have been very obvious. It has serious bureaucracy and only focuses on the production of heavy industry. It engages in an arms race and does not pay attention to the needs of the common people. ! In fact, a lot of food is imported from Western Europe, and agriculture is not developed at all! It’s normal to be like this!”

While driving, Wang Xia said in a deep voice: "Do you think what we are doing is doing good or taking advantage of others?"

"Why do you ask that?"

"It's not right to say that we are taking advantage of the situation. After all, we have really helped a lot of people. But if we are doing good deeds and accumulating virtue, we are making money from these people, so I always feel a little uneasy!"

Li Yi heard the words and said with a smile: "Don't be unreliable, we have kept the price very low. Compared with those unscrupulous men who sell a can for twenty rupees, our status in the hearts of the people is completely different! Those I just want to make a lot of money, what do we call this, this is sustainable development!”

It's just that Li Yi didn't say anything in his heart, where is this? When the beautiful country actually implements the so-called Wanta Project, you will know what it means to take advantage of the situation.

In comparison, they are just giving help in the snow!

Wang Xia was very confused about the term sustainable development, but after Li Yi enlightened him, he felt much better!

Yes, the prices they offer are far lower than those of those scammers. Isn't this considered a good deed?