Chapter six hundred and seventy seventh: not suffering from widowhood but suffering from unevenness

Twenty to thirty thousand people gathered, and the road at the entrance of the Agricultural Association had long been blocked.

However, the rally was very peaceful, which is in line with the character of Thai people. They do things in a hurry or slow, and even the protests are Buddhist.

Looking at the demonstrations in Thailand, it is sometimes very funny. Some protesters kneel directly to the people being protested, as if to say, if I kneel for you, you will agree to my request!

Then the protested person also knelt down at the protesters, saying that I will kneel for you too, but I just don’t agree!

The demonstrations and protests instantly turned into New Year's greetings from Shandong people.

As a reporter for the newspaper, Papan was dispatched by the editor-in-chief to conduct an interview on the spot.

Papan came to a farmer and asked, Where are you from?

We are from Lopburi, Wanmian County, the farmer replied.

Do you have any demands for coming here for the rally? Papan then asked:

We want agricultural machinery! The farmer continued: The Agricultural Association has spent 5 billion baht to buy agricultural machinery, but we do not have our share. We ask the Agricultural Association to allocate agricultural machinery to us!

As far as I know, the five billion baht order has just been signed, and the product has not yet started production! You are coming now to ask for agricultural machinery, isn't it too early? Papan asked.

Early? I think it's too late! The Agricultural Association has promised to give priority to providing agricultural machinery to Dacheng Prefecture. The number of this batch of agricultural machinery is only 4,000 units. Yes, said the farmer.

4,000 agricultural machines? How did you know? Papan asked.

What the agricultural experts said! the farmer replied.

What the experts say may not be right! What if they say it wrong? Papin, as a reporter, the word question is carved into the bone marrow.

The farmer replied: How much is a rice harvester, and the price of agricultural machinery companies is also clearly marked. How many agricultural machinery can be bought by 5 billion baht, you can know how many agricultural machinery can be bought by adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing!

Papin nodded, the math problem was indeed irrefutable, so he continued to ask: Then how many do you think these 4,000 agricultural machines should be distributed to you?

Our Lopburi Prefecture has such a large area of ​​rice cultivation. If I want to see it, we should give us all 4,000 agricultural machinery. The farmer said.

Then have you considered what the farmers in other provinces should do? Papan asked.

The farmer also felt that this requirement was too much, so he said, Then give us half of Lopburi House!

There are a total of 77 provinces in Thailand. Except for those provinces in the south that have a relatively small area of ​​rice cultivation, and the remote mountainous areas of the Golden Triangle, there must be 50 provinces that are the main producing areas of rice. If half of the agricultural machinery in Lopburi House were distributed, the other forty-nine houses would not be in trouble!

Obviously, the peasant's demands are impossible at all.

It seems that this opportunity to protest will not end in a while! Papin thought to himself.

Yes! Please don't worry, I will solve it as soon as possible. President Song En put down the phone with a sad face.

Then Chairman Song En said: The minister said that Mr. Prime Minister has begun to pay attention to this matter, and he wants us to immediately resolve the matter of farmers' opportunity to protest.

It's also like dealing with the farmers of Dachengfu, saying that the priority will be to assign agricultural machinery to them and send people away? Na Kun asked.

President Song En pondered for a moment, then said: It's okay if it's just a farmer from Dacheng Prefecture. Now that farmers from several provinces are here, we can't promise that everyone has the priority to be allocated. Moreover, farmers from some provinces are here. , one or two thousand units in one breath, how can we have so many agricultural machinery to distribute to them!

This farmers' meeting is nothing more than worrying about not being able to distribute agricultural machinery. Speaking of the number of agricultural machinery, the contract we signed with Kubota is not 4,000 units, but a minimum supply of 10,000 agricultural machinery.

Nakun continued: Why don't we tell the peasants who gathered about this news first? In this way, more peasants will be allocated agricultural machinery,

Maybe they will disband and go home.

Alright, let's talk to the leader of the farmers first, and tell us that we are purchasing 10,000 units this time, not 4,000 units. Let them go home and wait in peace. Song En said.

The Thais are not taking advantage of them. They also know that the price of Japanese agricultural machinery is so expensive, and 4,000 units can be sold for 5 billion baht.

Therefore, when the contract was signed, the Thais took the lead in requesting that the number of orders for this batch of agricultural machinery should not be less than 10,000 units.

Thais also want to take advantage, hoping to buy high-quality Japanese products at low prices.

The labor cost in Japan is so high. Kubota will definitely lose money if it takes orders at this quantity, so Kubota thought of a trick and transferred the order to Dayang Machinery Group.

Kubota is responsible for providing core components such as engines, and Dayang Machinery Group is responsible for production, which can greatly reduce production costs and complete the supply of 10,000 units.

At that time, the price of agricultural machinery of the same specification was only about one-third to one-half of that of Japanese products. And the huge order of 5 billion baht, the production scale is relatively large, and it can also reduce some costs.

Therefore, with this order, Kubota can still maintain a good profit, and can also occupy the Thai market, and the Ocean Group can also make a profit.

However, those agricultural experts did not know the details of the contract. They calculated according to the normal quotation of Kubota agricultural machinery, so they came to the conclusion that 5 billion baht can only buy 4,000 agricultural machinery.

In the conference room of the Agricultural Association, Nakun handed the agricultural machinery purchase contract to the farmer representatives of the provinces.

Not 4,000 units, but 10,000 units? a farmer representative asked questioningly.

Of course, this is the contract, it's written in black and white! If you don't believe me, look at it! Na Kun pointed to the contract, and then said: We have 10,000 agricultural machinery to distribute to everyone, so you don't have to rush, why don't you go home first? As for the distribution of agricultural machinery, let's wait until the agricultural machinery arrives.

If there are 10,000 units, how can we score 3,000 units in Suphan Province? A farmer representative said immediately.

Our Surin Mansion also needs 3,000 units! The peasant representative next to him also said.

Our Nakhon Ratchasima land area is bigger than your Suphan and Surin provinces, so we need 4,000 units! said the third farmer representative.

There are only 10,000 agricultural machines in total, and the three houses have been separated, so what about the rest of us? the fourth person said.

The fifth person immediately said: With 10,000 agricultural machinery, on average, there are 200 in one government, and when you open your mouth, there are three or four thousand. Do you really think we are transparent?

Our Nakhon Ratchasima has such a large area of ​​rice cultivation, and 200 agricultural machines can get enough points? Even the village chief can't get it!

Your Nakhon Ratchasima has a large rice planting area, and our Prachin Province rice planting area is not small! It is normal for us to ask for more.

According to what you mean, we guess that a small place like Nafu can't be divided!

Several peasant representatives quarreled first.

Looking at this scene, Na Kun's heart was suddenly filled with helplessness.

It seems that if the distribution is not settled, there is no way to send these farmers away!

In the hotel room, Yue An was on the phone with Li Weidong, reporting the situation in Thailand.

Do not suffer from widowhood but suffer from unevenness, and do not suffer from poverty and anxiety. The wisdom of Master Confucius more than two thousand years ago, even today, is still full of philosophy.

Yue An An said with a long sigh, and then said: There are 77 provinces in Thailand, of which there are about fifty provinces, all of which use rice as the main crop, and 10,000 rice planting machines are divided into fifty provinces. enough?

When it comes to dividing things, I am not afraid of being divided less, but I am afraid of uneven distribution. Some people are divided more and some people are divided less, and those who are divided will naturally have opinions.

I remember 20 years ago when I was still in the company. At that time, the factory divided pork for the Chinese New Year, and everyone was selective about the fat and lean. If anyone got the lean meat, they would definitely be unhappy. In the end, all the lean meat was distributed to us young people. That's all, I've complained to the Chief of Logistics for a whole year!

Li Weidong smiled and replied, I was better than you at that time. Although I was a young man at the time, I was a dispatcher of a transportation company. If there is any good thing, it's all over our hands first. The general manager of the company has to be placed behind our dispatchers.

Yes, you are a transportation company. In the era of shortage of supplies 20 years ago, truck drivers are more popular than university professors. You have no shortage of oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, sugar and tea! Yue Anan said.

Li Weidong went on to say: What do you mean by that sentence, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. We front-line drivers and dispatchers are quite wealthy in terms of material, but the things allocated to the logistics side are not very good.

When I first started working, I was doing a car repair. I remember that on the first Mid-Autumn Festival at that time, the moon cakes sent to me were all baked. At that time, my father retired, and the moon cakes given to me were fresher than the ones given to me. .

However, the company's canteen was criticized by the leaders because of the pasting of moon cakes. Later, the company's canteen simply stopped making moon cakes, and issued moon cake tickets directly, and asked us to go to the supply and marketing cooperative of the grain and oil station to receive moon cakes.

Yeah, after I arrived at the ministry, all the shopping coupons I gave out were shopping malls, and I rarely gave out real goods. Yue An'an paused, then continued;

That's what Old Master Kong said, don't suffer from widowhood but suffer from unevenness. If you distribute pork directly, there must be fat and thin, and it can't be distributed evenly. If you give out shopping coupons, even if you give less, but at least it's fairer. Employees will not have an opinion.

Li Weidong went on to say: Some people get more points and some people get less points. This situation is better. But if some people get the points and some people don't, then the trouble will be big!

When others eat meat, I drink soup, and when others eat meat, I starve. There is still a big difference. If other people eat meat and I drink soup, at most there is dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction will likely accumulate and will not erupt until a critical point.

But other people eat meat and I'm hungry, that's a terrible thing! In ancient times, those hungry peasants dared to rebel directly! How many dynasties in China were eventually destroyed by hungry peasants!

Although the peasants in Thailand are not hungry, but those peasants who can't get the agricultural machinery, can they really recite two sentences of Amitabha and accept it calmly! In the face of real interests, I don't believe that Thai people are really so Buddhist!

Yue Anan asked, Chairman, when will I go to the Thai Agricultural Association to talk?

Don't worry, isn't there 10,000 agricultural machinery now? Go to those experts to write a few articles and re-analyze how to distribute the 10,000 agricultural machinery. Let the bullets fly for a while. Li Weidong replied.

The number of agricultural machinery increased from 4,000 to 10,000, and a new distribution plan from agricultural experts appeared in the media.

However, these distribution plans have been calculated, and in the end, they have all come to the conclusion that it is not enough!

If one million people are divided into one million people, and everyone is a dollar, then the million people will have no opinion;

If you pick one person out of this million people and give him all the million, then the 9,999,999 people who didn't get the money will scold the shady!

Three people become tigers. When most people scold the shady at the same time, even if it is not a shady, it will become a shady!

Farmers in Thailand can accept that everyone can't get a share. But some people can get it, and some people can't, which is totally unacceptable.

More importantly, there are only a few people who can get agricultural machinery, while the vast majority of farmers cannot get agricultural machinery, which aggravates the inequity.

The more unfair it is, the more dissatisfaction it will inspire, and the more farmers will rally to protest.

If I don't make trouble, the agricultural machinery will definitely not be assigned to me, so it's better to make trouble and bet what if.

Different voices gradually emerged. Some farmers said that it would be better to cancel the agricultural machinery contract and use the 5 billion baht as a subsidy directly to the farmers who grow rice according to the hair.

Of course, the ruling party would not do such a thing. If it did, it would be tantamount to handing over the handle of election bribery to the opponent party, and it would still use taxpayer money to openly bribe elections.

Directly using taxpayer money to buy votes for yourself is too blatant after all, and wise politicians would not do that.

Even if you really want to use taxpayer money to buy votes, you can't be so blatant, you have to make some changes, such as putting forward a subsidy bill, going through a procedure from the parliament, etc.

Thailand's opposition party also jumped out at this time and began to criticize the 5 billion baht agricultural machinery orders.

Song En returned to the office with a gloomy face.

He had just returned from the Ministry of Agriculture, and the minister scolded him in the face and told him to solve the problem of the farmers' rally protest within a week.

The order of 5 billion baht for agricultural machinery was originally intended to show goodwill to farmers and consolidate votes in rural areas, but it was unexpected that due to the problem of distribution, it caused a large number of farmers to protest.

If things are not handled properly, it will not only fail to show favor to farmers, but will offend many farmers and lose a lot of votes.

Seventy percent of the population in Thailand are farmers. If you offend the farmers, you should choose wool!

So Song En is very clear that if he can't solve this matter satisfactorily, not only will he not be able to keep his position as the chairman of agriculture, but even his position as the minister of agriculture will not be preserved.

But it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. Ten thousand agricultural machines are not enough for the farmers of the 77 prefectures!

Otherwise, just cancel the order and forget about it. If you don't have any, there will be no trouble! Song En secretly thought.

At this moment, Na Kun knocked on the door and walked in.

Don't bother me if it's okay! If you have something, don't bother me if it's not important! Song En said angrily.

Na Kun hesitated for a moment, then said, President, do you remember Mr. Yue, the general manager of China Fukang Agricultural Machinery Company?

Song En subconsciously looked at the wardrobe behind him, there was a famous brand suit, which was given by Yue An not long ago.

As the chairman of agriculture, there are many companies that come to give gifts, such as agricultural machinery companies, seed companies, fertilizer companies, pesticide companies, etc., and even construction companies will send big gifts to Na Kun for the construction of irrigation facilities such as reservoirs.

This kind of gift of brand-name suits is usually just to make friends with Song En and leave a good impression on Song En, so that it is convenient to find Song En to do business in the future.

If you really want to ask Yu Songen, you can't just send a suit so shabby.

Song En is now devastated by the protesting peasants, and he has no intention to meet foreign entrepreneurs, so he shook his head: Have you not seen so many peasants outside? I have no intention to meet foreign enterprises recently, Help me find an excuse to push it!

President, this Mr. Yue said that he has a way to help us solve the current predicament! Na Kun continued. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

What did you say? Do you say it again? Song En immediately came to his senses.

Na Kun had no choice but to say in detail: Mr. Yue came to me this morning, and he said there was a way to help us solve this peasant rally!

How? Song En asked immediately.

Mr. Yue said that as long as the five billion baht order is handed over to Fukang Agricultural Machinery Company, the problem can be solved. Na Kun replied.

It turned out to be an order grabber! Song En curled his lips and continued: He said he can solve the problem, so you believe it? Nakun, you trust others too easily, especially businessmen, even more untrustworthy! I see him Just for this 5 billion baht order!

President, I have inquired. This Fukang Agricultural Machinery is a large-scale agricultural machinery enterprise in China. I think their responsible person should not be full of trains. Na Kun said, leaned forward and leaned forward. body, lowered his voice and said:

And we can't find a way to solve the problem for a while, why don't we spend a little time and see this Mr. Yue, in case he can really help us solve the problem! Even if he really wants to deceive you , you lost at most ten minutes of time!

Song En frowned and thought about it for more than ten seconds. He felt that what Na Kun said made sense, so he nodded and said, Alright then, arrange for me to meet this Mr. Yue!

Okay, I'll arrange it right away. Na Kun nodded, then walked out of Song En's office quickly.

After closing the door of Song En's office, Na Kun touched his pocket, where there was an envelope containing money.

Then Song En said silently in his heart: Mr. Yue, you have not spent this money in vain, I have already done the work for you! Whether you can win the order of 5 billion baht depends on your own ability!