Chapter 284: I Have a Dream
There was silence in the room, Wang Ye had a faint smile, while Zhou Jinlie and Wei Qingshan were stunned.
"Shhh Wang Ye, what do you kid want so many people for? ”
"That's a million people! Do you know how many people are in a million? You should know! ”
"After all, your Red Star Consortium has gone through a whole year of crazy expansion, and now the employees plus their families, one is counted as one, and the total is not enough for 100,000 people."
"One million people, more than ten times the embodiment of your Red Star Alliance!"
After a short silence, Zhou Jinlie's voice was full of amazement, and Wei Qingshan next to him looked at Wang Ye, with a look of interest on his face, lit a cigarette and asked:
"Yes! What do you kid want so many people for? ”
"With the scale of the Red Star Alliance, I'm afraid we can't eat so many people, right?"
"Hurry, hurry! Tell us, what exactly are you going to do? What's the plan? Let's give you the staff staff and see if it's feasible. ”
"I'll tell you, the matter of a million people now, but the big thing that the leadership focuses on, if you can really solve the problem of this million people, hey!"
Speaking of this, Wei Qingshan only had a rather mysterious smile left on his face, but his voice stopped abruptly.
Subsequently, under the gaze of the two leaders, Wang Ye coughed lightly and said:
"It's actually very simple, farming!"
As soon as these words came out, Wei Qingshan and Zhou Jinlie both showed unexpected expressions, in fact, they all had their own guesses in their respective hearts about Wang Ye's purpose of asking for this million people.
With the arrival of spring and the rise of temperature, a large-scale expansion project has begun, and it is said that the entire plant is almost going to swallow the county seat of Laiyang, so large scale, the demand for workers will definitely increase.
Therefore, Zhou Jinlie and Wei Qingshan both think that Wang Ye should start some new projects, or carry out large-scale expansion of some of the current projects, and then gradually absorb these millions of people in the new factory and transform them into workers in the consortium, such as their automobile manufacturing industry.
But they never thought that Wang Ye actually wanted to farm!
"Farming? Farming! ”
At that moment, Wei Qingshan and Zhou Jinlie couldn't help but repeat this word almost at the same time, while Wang Ye didn't seem to be aware of their surprise, he smiled and nodded and said:
"That's right, it's farming!"
As Wang Ye's words fell, Wei Qingshan and Zhou Jinlie reacted completely, and the two couldn't help but glance at each other, and then Zhou Jinlie frowned and said:
"Just where you slapped Laiyang? How can you have rich arable land for you to plant? ”
"Even if the land is cleared, there is no arable land that can accommodate a million people. Not to mention Laiyang, even if it is Yuntai, even if it is Luqi Province, it is impossible to have such a big place! ”
Regarding Zhou Jinlie's statement, Wei Qingshan, who was next to him, nodded in agreement, and said at the same time:
"Luqi Province is already a large province in terms of population and agriculture, and there is no excess arable land at all."
"And in recent years, even in the border provinces and the three northeastern provinces, there is not much land that can be cultivated, basically all the places that can be planted have been planted, and the farmers are not even willing to let go of the front and back of the house, where do you go to find a place where a million people can farm? If nothing else, you can just say that our agricultural reclamation troops, how many numbers have been withdrawn over the years? ”
"If it's scattered farming, what's the difference between it and the demobilization of a million people and returning to their hometowns to farm?"
"The advantage of scale is scale"
Under Wang Ye's gaze, Wei Qingshan suddenly stopped talking and talking, his expression was stunned for a moment, and Zhou Jinlie next to him already had a rather surprised expression on his face.
It was clear that they had guessed something.
And Wang Ye looked at the faces of these two old men, restrained his smile and said very seriously:
"Two leaders, of course I know that arable land is scarce in China."
"That's why I want to farm, and I want this million people."
"Because I don't farm in China, there is no land for me to plant in the country, and I can't grab land with the people, and for me, rolling in the nest is not interesting at all, it is a pot of soup, no matter how much you stir it, you can't get anything, and if you want to make this pot of soup beautiful, you have to find a way to add materials from the outside to the inside!"
"I'm going to farm in a foreign country, and my first target at the moment is Africa, Tanzania!"
After Wang Ye finished speaking, there was silence in the air, and Wang Ye could see that the eyes of the two leaders were beating slightly, which meant that their thoughts were violently clashing.
Finally, after a few seconds.
"Will it work?"
"Can someone let you plant?"
In the end, the two leaders asked almost the same question at the same time, using different words, perhaps under the influence of Wang Ye, these two did not worry and dwell on whether it was reasonable to do so, whether it would cause any international disputes and contradictions, but were concerned about whether the plan could be promoted.
"Ahem! Listen to me, both of you! ”
Under the gaze of Wei Qingshan and Zhou Jinlie, Wang Ye stood up and walked to the table, unloaded the globe placed on the table, and returned to the sofa with a ball in his arms.
"Two leaders, look! This is Tanzania. ”
"The geographical location of this country is very suitable for the development of agriculture, and I have read some of their materials, and the current theoretical cultivated land area in their country is about 44 million hectares, totaling 660 million mu."
"That's a terrifying number! Because the arable land area of our country is less than three times that number. ”
"But what about the population? There are almost a billion people in our country, compared to 20 million in Tanzania. ”
"And although Tanzania has 44 million hectares of arable land, they actually cultivate less than one-sixth of it, or about 100 million acres."
"But this 100 million acres of land, they are not serious about planting, most of them are just scattering seeds, and there are almost no chemical fertilizers and pesticides to weed, and then they will wait for two or three months to harvest."
"Not to mention, they have high temperatures throughout the year, so they can actually plant three crops, but they generally only plant one."
With Wang Ye's introduction, Wei Qingshan and Zhou Jinlie's expressions began to become indescribable, although the relationship between China and Tanzania is good, but in the past, most of them were "high-level" exchanges, talking about military affairs, who will exchange each other's questions about how much arable land, how to plow the land, and how much harvest?
Unless Wang Ye is like this, he will specifically investigate these problems.
Finally, under the gaze of the two, Wang Ye spread his hands and said helplessly:
"So, we used 18 times the actual arable area of Tanzania to feed 50 times their population."
"But even so, Tanzania is doing well in Africa."
"In most of the good years, they can barely maintain a self-sufficiency in food production, unlike other countries in Africa, which also need to import food from the rest of the world."
"Tell me, is this outrageous enough?"
Faced with Wang Ye's question, Wei Qingshan and Zhou Jinlie were silent for a second, and finally said one after the other:
"Outrageous!"
"It's outrageous!"
Hearing the two leaders say this, Wang Ye smiled and continued:
"So my plan is pretty simple."
"In the past, in order to reclaim the land in the border areas, didn't we organize construction and agricultural reclamation corps? There is such a case first, and I am going to copy the homework. ”
"Of course, it must not be called the Corps, this will have a bad impact, I am going to call the company, the agricultural reclamation company!"
"When the time comes, in the name of this company, I will go to Tanzania to officially contract land, anyway, they have nearly 700 million acres of arable land, and now they only cultivate 100 million acres."
"I will contract the land, and I will send these million people over one by one and let them all go to farm!"
"And I think the Tanzanian authorities should have no reason to refuse me, after all, on the one hand, they can get the corresponding tax revenue, and on the other hand, they can also solve the country's food security, not to mention that they can also cooperate with us to dump grain in the African region, exchange mineral resources and other materials from other African countries, and further increase their country's regional influence in Africa."
"For us, on the one hand, we can earn dollars, even if we don't have dollars, we can exchange them for various mineral resources, and on the other hand, we can directly bring back food to eat ourselves."
"Leaders, what do you think of my plan?"
As soon as Wang Ye's words fell, it was obvious that the expressions of the two leaders present were much more solemn, because they had discovered the most critical problem, that is, national food security!
At present, in China, food is barely enough, and it is not very safe.
If Wang Ye's plan is really successful, it is equivalent to having a big granary in China, which can greatly increase the level of domestic food security, not to mention, grain is hard currency in the world, and grain is dollars!
And Wang Ye also mentioned just now that growing food in Tanzania and selling it in Africa can increase Tanzania's influence in Africa, so in fact, think about it from another angle, can't it also increase the country's influence in Africa? This is a very critical question, because influence represents wealth and profit.
"Shhh I'll do the math! I'll do the math! ”
"Normal strong labor, no livestock assistance, only simple farm tools, a person can plant five or six acres of land, if there are livestock, then you can plant ten acres, if there is a tractor and some agricultural machinery, a person can plant twenty or thirty acres of land, converted to calculate, one million people is 30 million acres of land?"
"Tanzania has 660 million mu of arable land, and even if they have planted 160 million mu, there will still be 500 million mu of land left."
"A million people, it's not enough!"
In the end, the old man Wei Qingshan calculated for most of the day, and looked at Wang Ye at the beginning, his eyes were full of light, and he looked radiant, which perfectly interpreted what it means to integrate farming and warfare.
"It's not enough, but it's just our first step."
"As long as the cooperation goes smoothly in the future, we can also absorb more and more domestic surplus labor, join our agricultural reclamation company, and go to Tanzania to farm."
"Not to mention, with the development of our agricultural machinery, the area that can be cultivated by a single person will continue to increase, just like the United States, the Great Plains mechanized planting, it is said that one person can plant a thousand acres!"
"The vast majority of farmland in our country is mountainous, except for a few plain areas, large-scale mechanical agriculture is not possible, but Tanzania is different, people are also in the Great Plains area, and large-scale mechanized planting can be developed, which is too efficient!"
"If one person plants a thousand acres, a million of us can plant a billion acres of land!"
"Hey, Tanzania isn't enough!"
"So in the future, we will also expand to other African countries, such as Sudan, and recently the United States and the Akandi Restoration Congress are not fighting? The place where they fought was called Darfur, and although there were some mountainous areas, the valleys were fertile and very suitable for farming! ”
"Not to mention the eastern part of Sudan, it's all the Great Plains."
Speaking of this, Wang Ye stood up again, installed the globe in his arms, coughed lightly under the gaze of the two old men, and said pretentiously:
"I have a dream."
"The former West, which conquered countless colonies with strong ships and cannons, accumulated wealth full of blood and hatred."
"We are different from them, our nation is peace-loving by nature, but if we want to develop, we must also accumulate wealth, so how will our wealth come from?"
"They use weapons, and we use cooperation!"
"They kindled the flames of war in that land, then we sold the weapons they needed to the warriors who defended freedom, and when the warriors drove out the enemy, then we came to this place, and we took them to farm, and we brought them to mine, and we brought them to make agricultural tools, and we brought them houses, and they brought war, and we brought peace."
"I want to see one day in the future, when we work together all over the world."
"On that day, we will be incomparably stronger!"
"And my dream is world peace!"
After Wang Ye finished speaking, there was silence in the office, Wei Qingshan and Zhou Jinlie glanced at each other, and the last two couldn't help laughing.
Laughing happily, laughing heartily.
Finally, after the laughter stopped, Wei Qingshan looked at Wang Ye and said with approval in his eyes:
"The world is yours and ours, but in the end it's yours."
"Wang Ye, come on! Towards your goal, never stop! ”
"I'm looking forward to that day too, and if I can see that scene, I'll die without regrets."