Chapter six hundred and seventy-seven: not suffering from widowhood but suffering from inequality
Chapter 677
Twenty to thirty thousand people gathered together, and the road in front of the Agricultural Association was already blocked.
However, the rally was very peaceful, which is in line with the character of the Thai people. They do things without haste, and even the protests are Buddhist.
Look at the demonstrations in Thailand, sometimes it is very funny. Some protesters kneel directly to the people being protested, as if to say, I kneel for you, so you just agree to my request!
Then the people who were protested also knelt down to the protesters, saying that I also knelt for you, but I just didn’t agree!
The demonstrations and protests instantly turned into New Year greetings for Shandong people.
As a reporter of the newspaper, Papan was sent 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 Prefecture, Wanmian County. The farmer replied.
You came here to gather, do you have any appeals? Papan then asked:
We want agricultural machinery! The farmer continued: The agricultural association has spent five billion baht to buy agricultural machinery, but we don't have our share. We ask the agricultural association to allocate agricultural machinery to us!
As far as I know, the contract for the five billion baht order has just been signed, and the production of the product has not yet started! Is it too early for you to come here to ask for agricultural machinery? Papan asked.
Early? I think it's too late! The Agricultural Association has promised to give priority to providing agricultural machinery to Dacheng Mansion. The number of this batch of agricultural machinery is only 4,000. If you don't come to ask for it, I'm afraid there will be less than one. Yes. The farmer said.
4000 agricultural machinery? How do you know? Papan asked.
That's what the agricultural experts said! the farmer replied.
What the experts say may not be right! What if they are wrong? As a reporter, Papan, the word question is engraved in his bone marrow.
The farmer replied: How much is a rice harvester? The agricultural machinery company also clearly marked the price. How many agricultural machinery can be bought for 5 billion baht? You can know it by calculation. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division can still deceive people!
Papin nodded. Mathematical problems are indeed irrefutable.
So he went on to ask: Then how many of these 4,000 agricultural machines should you distribute to you?
Our Lopburi prefecture has such a large rice planting area. In my opinion, we should give us all 4,000 sets of agricultural machinery. The farmer said.
Then have you ever considered what should farmers in other prefectures do? Papan asked.
The farmer also felt that this request was too much, so he said, Then give us half of Lop Buri Mansion!
There are a total of 77 provinces in Thailand. Except for those provinces in the south with relatively little rice planting area and the remote mountainous areas of the Golden Triangle, there must be 50 provinces that are the main rice producing areas. If half of the farm machinery is distributed to Lopburi Mansion, the other forty-nine mansions will still be in trouble!
Obviously, the farmer's request is simply impossible.
It seems that this opportunity to protest won't be over for a while! Papan thought to himself.
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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 farmers' opportunity to protest.
It's also like dealing with the farmers in Dacheng Prefecture, saying that the agricultural machinery will be allocated to them first, and send them away? Nakun asked.
Chairman Song En pondered for a moment, then said: It's okay if it's just a farmer from Dacheng Mansion. Now that farmers from several mansions have come, we can't promise that everyone has priority for distribution. Moreover, farmers from some mansions , One or two thousand units are needed at one go, how can we distribute so many agricultural machines to them!
The farmer's gathering this time 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, but a minimum supply of 10,000 agricultural machinery.
Na Kun went on to say: Why don't we tell the farmers who gathered this news first? In this way, more farmers will be allocated agricultural machinery, and maybe they will disband and go home.
Alright, talk to the leader of the farmers first, and tell us that we are purchasing 10,000 units this time, not 4,000. Let them go home and wait with peace of mind. Song En said.
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The Thais are not being taken advantage of. They also know that Japanese agricultural machinery prices are so expensive, and 4,000 units can be sold for 5 billion baht.
Therefore, when signing the contract, the Thais took the lead in requesting that the quantity of this batch of agricultural machinery orders 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 receives orders according to 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 Chinese products was only about one-third to one-half of that of Japanese products for the same specification of agricultural machinery. Moreover, with a huge order of 5 billion baht, the production scale is relatively large, and the cost can be further reduced.
Therefore, with this order, Kubota can still maintain a good profit, and it can also occupy the Thai market, and Dayang 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 only 4,000 agricultural machinery can be bought for 5 billion baht.
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In the conference room of the Agricultural Association, Na Kun handed over the agricultural machinery procurement contracts to the representatives of farmers in various prefectures.
Not 4,000, but 10,000? A farmer representative asked suspiciously.
Of course, this is a 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 sets of agricultural machinery for everyone, so there is no need for everyone to rush, why not 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 our Suphan Province get 3,000 units! A farmer representative said immediately.
Our Surin Mansion also needs 3,000 units! The farmer's representative next to him also said
Our Nakhon Ratchasima province has a larger land area than your Suphan and Surin provinces, so we need 4,000 units! The third farmer representative said.
There are only 10,000 sets of agricultural machinery in total, and the three of you have divided them up, so what about the rest of us? the fourth person said.
The fifth person immediately said: 10,000 sets of agricultural machinery, on average, there are 200 sets in a mansion, and you open your mouth for three or four thousand. Do you really think we are transparent?
We have such a large rice planting area in Nakhon Ratchasima, can we get enough points for 200 agricultural machines? Even the village chief can't get enough points!
Your Nakhon Ratchasima province has a large rice planting area, and our Prachinburi province has a large rice planting area! It is normal for us to ask for more.
According to what you mean, we guess that a small place like Nauvoo will not be able to share!
Several peasant representatives started arguing.
Looking at this scene, Na Kun was suddenly filled with helplessness.
It seems that if the distribution is not settled, there is no way to send these farmers away!
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In the hotel room, Yue Ping'an was on the phone with Li Weidong, reporting the situation in Thailand.
Don't worry about poverty but worry about inequality, don't worry about poverty but worry about anxiety. The wisdom of Confucius more than 2,000 years ago is still full of philosophy even today.
Yue An'an said with a long sigh, and continued: There are 77 provinces in Thailand, about 50 of them are rice-based crops, and 10,000 rice-growing agricultural machines are divided into 50 provinces. enough points?
When it comes to distributing things, one is not afraid of the small distribution, but of the uneven distribution. Some people have more distribution and some have less distribution. Those who have less distribution will naturally have opinions.
I remember when I was still in the company twenty years ago, when the pork was distributed during the Chinese New Year in the factory, they were all picky and lean. If anyone got lean meat, they would definitely be unhappy. In the end, all the lean meat was distributed to us young people. On this matter, I complained to the logistics chief for a whole year!
Li Weidong smiled, and replied: I was better than you at that time. Although I was young at the time, I was a dispatcher of a transportation company. If there is any good thing, we will pass it through our hands first, and put it away first. The general manager of the company has to be queued behind our dispatcher.
Yes, you are a transportation company. In the era of shortage of supplies twenty 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 is that sentence called? Wherever there are people, there are rivers and lakes. We front-line drivers and dispatchers are quite rich in material terms, but the things allocated to the logistics side are not very good.
When I first started working, I was in auto repair and car inspection. I remember that on the first Mid-Autumn Festival at that time, the mooncakes given to me were all burnt. At that time, my father retired, and the mooncakes given to me were fresher than those given to me. .
However, the company cafeteria was also criticized by the leaders because of the pasting of the mooncakes. Later, the company cafeteria stopped making mooncakes at all, and directly issued mooncake tickets, allowing us to go to the supply and marketing cooperatives at the grain and oil stations to pick up mooncakes.
That's right. Later, after I arrived at the ministry, all I was issued were shopping coupons from shopping malls. I seldom issued real items. Yue An'an paused, then continued;
This is what Confucius said, don't worry about scarcity but inequality. If you distribute pork directly, there must be fat and thin, and it can't be distributed equally. If you give out shopping vouchers, even if you give less, at least it will be fairer. Employees won't have a problem.
Li Weidong went on to say: Some people get more and some people get less. This situation is better. But if some people get the share and some don't, then the trouble will be big!
I drink soup when others eat meat, and I am hungry when I eat meat with others. There is still a big difference. If others eat meat and I drink soup, at most it is dissatisfaction, but there is a high probability that dissatisfaction will accumulate and will not erupt until a critical point.
But if others eat meat, I will be hungry, that is a terrible thing! In ancient times, those hungry peasants dared to directly rebel! How many dynasties in China were eventually destroyed in the hands of hungry peasants!
Although farmers in Thailand are not hungry, but those farmers who do not have access to agricultural machinery, will they really recite a few words of Amitabha, and then accept it calmly! In the face of real benefits, I don't believe that Thai people are really so Buddhist!
Yue Anan asked, Chairman, when should I talk to the Thai Agricultural Association?
Don't worry, don't you have 10,000 agricultural machines now? Go find those experts to write a few articles and re-analyze how to allocate 10,000 agricultural machines. Let the bullets fly for a while. Li Weidong replied.
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The number of agricultural machinery rose from 4,000 to 10,000, and a new distribution plan given by agricultural experts appeared in the media immediately.
But these allocation plans have been calculated and calculated, and finally revealed a conclusion, that is not enough points!
Do not worry about scarcity but inequality. If one million is distributed to one million people, and each person is worth one dollar, then the million people will have no objection;
If one person is selected among the one million people, and the million is given to him, then the nine million nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine people who have not received the money will curse the shady people!
Three people become a tiger, when most people scold the shady at the same time, even if it is not a shady, it becomes a shady!
Farmers in Thailand can accept that everyone can't share. But some people can get it, and some people can't. This is completely unacceptable.
More importantly, there are still a small number of farmers 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 arouse, and the more farmers will 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 gamble just in case.
Different voices also gradually emerged. Some farmers said that it is better to cancel the agricultural machinery contract and use the 5 billion baht directly as a subsidy, and give rice farmers a human hair. Then everyone will be happy.
Of course, the ruling party will not do such a thing. If it does so, it will be tantamount to handing over the handle of election bribery to the opponent party, and it will still openly bribe elections with taxpayers' money.
It is too blatant to directly use taxpayers' money to buy votes for oneself, after all, wise politicians would not do this.
Even if you really want to buy votes with taxpayers' money, you can't be so blatant. You have to work around it, such as proposing a subsidy bill, going through a procedure in parliament, and so on.
The opposition party in Thailand also jumped out at this time and began to criticize the 5 billion baht agricultural machinery order, and things were getting worse and worse.
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Song En returned to the office with a gloomy face.
He just came back from the Ministry of Agriculture, and the minister scolded him and told him to solve the problem of farmers' rally and protest within a week.
The five billion baht order of agricultural machinery was originally intended to show favor to farmers and consolidate votes in the countryside, but unexpectedly, because of the distribution problem, it caused a large number of farmers to protest.
If the matter is not handled properly, not only will it fail to show favor to the farmers, but it will offend many farmers and lose a lot of votes.
Seventy percent of the population in Thailand are farmers. If you offend farmers, then choose wool!
So Songen knew very well that if he could not solve this matter satisfactorily, not only would he lose his position as the chairman of the agriculture association, but he would also lose the position of his superior leader, the minister of agriculture.
But it's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice, and 10,000 sets of agricultural machinery are not enough to distribute to the farmers of 77 prefectures!
Otherwise, just cancel this order. If everyone doesn't have it, there will be no trouble! Song En thought to himself.
At this moment, Na Kun knocked on the door and walked in.
Don't bother me if you have nothing to do! If you have something to do, don't bother me if it's not important! Song En said angrily.
Na Kun hesitated for a moment, and then said, President, do you still remember Mr. Yue, the general manager of China Fukang Agricultural Machinery Company?
Song En subconsciously looked at the wardrobe behind him, and there was a set of brand-name suits there, which was given by Yue Anan not long ago.
As the president 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 give 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 will be convenient for him to find Song En in the future.
If there was a request for Song En, it would be impossible to give him such a shabby suit.
Song En is now overwhelmed by the protesting farmers, how can he have the heart to meet foreign entrepreneurs, so he shook his head: Didn't you see so many farmers assembling outside? How can I have the heart to meet foreign companies recently? Help me find an excuse to push it!
President, Mr. Yue said that he has a way to help us solve our current predicament! Na Kun continued.
What did you say? Say it again? Song En immediately recovered.
Nakun had no choice but to elaborate: Mr. Yue came to me this morning, and he said he could help us solve this peasant rally!
What way? Song En asked immediately.
Mr. Yue said that as long as the order of 5 billion baht 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 then said: He said he can solve the problem, you believe it? Nakun, you are too easy to trust others, especially businessmen, even more unbelievable! I think he Just for this five billion baht order!
President, I have inquired about it. This Fukang Agricultural Machinery is considered a large-scale agricultural machinery enterprise in China. I think their person in charge should not be so full of words. Nakun said, leaning forward. body, lowered his voice and said:
And we can't find a solution to the problem for a while, why don't we spend a little time and meet this Mr. Yue, in case he can really help us solve the problem! Even if he really wants to deceive you , you lose at most ten minutes of time!
Song En frowned and thought for more than ten seconds, and felt that what Na Kun said made sense, so he nodded and said, Okay then, arrange for me to meet this Mr. Yue!
Okay, I'll make arrangements right away. Na Kun nodded, and then walked out of Song En's office quickly.
After closing the door of Song En's office casually, Na Kun touched his pocket, where there was an envelope containing money.
Then Nakun said silently in his heart: Mr. Yue, you didn't spend this money in vain. I have already settled the matter for you! Whether you can win the order of five billion baht depends on your own ability!
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