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To outsiders, this may seem like a ridiculous scene. All the senior officials of the Kingdom of Kilili gathered together and listened to a teenage child deliver a speech on the principles of state affairs decision-making.

Hua Zhen has just turned eighteen. Many of his words are naive and he looks very childish, but no one in the venue dares not to take him seriously.

When Huanxiang Industrial was first established, many people only regarded Hua Zhenxing as a "prince" who was the target of several elderly people's training. Although they were very polite to him, they did not respect Hua Zhenxing himself.

But today's Hua Zhenxing is different. He can become the chief instructor of Yangyuan Valley only because he is truly the founder of Yangyuan Technique.

Hua Zhenxing raised funds and personally trained personnel to establish the Yangyuan Skills Center. After this training system first took shape, it trained a large number of students.

In the special historical period of Kilili Kingdom, when civic education has not yet been restored, the Yangyuan Shu Center and the supporting New Alliance Study Classes have trained the personnel urgently needed by departments and institutions at all levels, and temporarily served as a talent selection system.

A staff member of a certain government department suddenly stopped going to work one day. It turned out that he had received his salary or embezzled public funds to go drinking. This sounds unbelievable, but it is not impossible in the country of Jili, and it is very troublesome.

No matter how talented you are, if you want to become a first-level Yuan Yuan master, you must be self-disciplined and have qualified cognitive and learning abilities. Otherwise, the introduction to cultivation will be nonsense. This also ensures the basic quality of a public servant.

The country's original medical and health conditions were very poor, and the infection rate of various viruses was very high. If a person might die at any time, there was no way to entrust him with important responsibilities and train him for a long time.

Becoming a Level 2 Yangyuan Master will ensure that you are healthy and energetic.

If you want to become a third-level Yuan Cultivator and reach the realm of spiritual clarity, let alone practicing any magical powers, the most important thing is to ensure that such a person has strong learning potential and understanding ability, and can continue to grow.

As for breaking through the four realms and becoming an intermediate Yuan Yuan Technique instructor, that is another level of talent. Currently, there are only about a hundred people in Jili Kingdom. Those first to third level Yuan Yuan masters with a larger base played a backbone role in this special historical period.

Hua Zhenxing's achievements are not limited to this. He is also the most important founder of this new country. Therefore, when delivering a speech of this nature on this occasion, no one can openly question his qualifications, regardless of whether he fully agrees with his views or not.

This was a private internal meeting, and there were some things that might be best for him to say. For example, in his speech just now, he used Ciel as an example many times, and he did not mince words.

Only he could say this kind of thing, and he said it so naturally that no one in the audience, including Ciel himself, felt there was anything wrong.

The agenda of this meeting lasted for a week, interspersed with group discussions and discussion of issues. It was only in the afternoon of the second day, but the content of Hua Zhenxing's speech actually had the nature of comprehensive guidance.

There are many things that should have been said by Ciel. Huazhenxing decided to do this temporarily for two reasons.

First, after these two days of discussion, he found that the core purpose of each policy must be clarified. If the direction goes astray, it will be useless no matter how perfect the details are.

The second reason was that he did not want to take over Charles's position and wanted to leave the final conclusion of the meeting to Charles. First, many topics are clarified so that subsequent discussions can proceed in the right direction, and Charles can make a better summary in the end.

Some people in the venue frowned and thought, some nodded repeatedly, and some took out pens and notebooks to take notes quickly, while Hua Zhenxing's speech continued——

"When it comes to decision-making in the economic field, the primary issue is people's livelihood, which is what Dongguo often talked about in the past few years. The issue of food and clothing. For Kilili Kingdom, it is a matter of survival. In agricultural development planning, I will only mention a few points that require special attention.

First of all, with the current natural resource conditions of the country, can it support its current citizens? The answer is definitely yes. No matter how poor the country is, a population of more than 10 million can maintain a low level of self-sufficiency in normal times. This is a fact!

So everyone must pay attention to this fact. Kyili Country is different from some countries. It has not relied on food imports for many years and has no conditions to import food on a large scale. However, it has the conditions to feed its citizens. This is different from many people. Understanding is different.

In the past, the country exported agricultural and animal husbandry products overseas every year, mainly goats and dromedary camels. Although the scale was small, the small amount of foreign exchange earned was used to import high-end consumer goods.

The problems existing in agriculture are not only extremely low production levels, but more importantly, extremely low risk resistance.

In the past, once climate abnormalities or large-scale natural disasters occurred, it would lead to the spread of famine in local areas, which would lead to social unrest. This is the first thing we need to solve.

Therefore, the specific goal of the first five-year plan in agriculture is to ensure domestic food supply and prevent famine in the event of abnormal weather or large-scale natural disasters.

The goal should not be too high. Even if we can actually exceed the target, we should not aim too high. We must not only solve the problem of total output, but also solve the problem of unified transportation and distribution structure of materials.

The agriculture and animal husbandry in Kilili Country used to depend on the weather and was very fragile. Once a famine occurs, it is difficult to transport food from one place to another. Instead, people will hoard it and take the opportunity to extort money.

Dongguo's current development is very successful. Some people think that we can do the same in Dongguo. This is not only an illusion, but also an illusion.

Which other country in the world can be as big as Dongguo, with such profound cultural accumulation, and such high quality of labor force?

And some people have only seen the rapid development of Dongguo in the decades after it was reformed, but have you noticed the accumulation and preparations in the decades before it was reformed?

Such large-scale farmland and water conservancy construction and social transformation not only plowed the country's land, but also completely plowed the country's old classes into pieces. The price was quite heavy. Does the country have this process? Have we made up for this lesson?

The second tendency is that some comrades have overseas educational backgrounds and advocate learning from developed countries in everything.

This kind of thinking is not wrong, but if some developed countries use whatever model they use, we will use that model, and then we can be equally developed. This is no longer a fantasy, but a delusion that ignores the facts.

Because this is what Jili Country has done for so many years, I won’t go into details for the time being.

Let’s get back to the subject, let’s talk about agriculture. Unlike the Eastern Kingdom, the Kilili Kingdom does not have thousands of years of historical accumulation of farming civilization, and there are almost no people who have mastered traditional agricultural techniques.

We don’t have too much historical baggage, and there is no need to stabilize rural society through family-based land redistribution and management, because we don’t even have a rural society in the traditional sense!

The colonists in history wanted to implement urbanization of modern industrial civilization directly on the basis of tribal society, and in the countryside they plundered the land of various tribes to develop a plantation economy. This is a legacy of the country itself.

It is useless for us to complain about history today.

The household responsibility system is not in line with the actual situation of the country. If it is forcibly implemented, will we create a matrilineal clan society in the vast new villages? Moreover, this kind of segmented and fragmented agriculture comes at the expense of efficiency.

According to the actual conditions, it is a more reasonable and feasible choice to focus on cultivating and operating large-scale farms and plantations. The specific issue we want to discuss is how to set the goals of the first five-year plan under this premise.

A committee member from Huanxiang Industrial also mentioned during the lunch chat that technology for directly synthesizing starch using carbon dioxide has appeared in Dongguo. The efficiency is far higher than that of traditional agriculture. Should our research department also follow suit?

I think this is no joke. It is impossible for our agricultural research department to follow up on too many projects, but we can pay attention to this direction, even if it is only as a future technology outlook, but we cannot expect to have results now.

This should be a scientific research issue, I mentioned it in advance. The reason why I mention this is because so far the most reliable starch-producing crop with the highest conversion efficiency is cassava, which is also the most suitable crop for the climatic conditions of Kilili Country.

We have great advantages in the production and processing of cassava, and have even reached the world's leading level. Everyone here should not belittle yourselves and think that Kilili Country is lagging behind in everything. In fact, we also have areas where we are leading.

Although the yield of cassava is much higher than that of various existing staple foods in the world, its use as a staple food has always had two limitations.

First, it is poisonous and cannot be stored well. It must be ground and soaked in a short time. This process is extremely labor-intensive. Therefore, in the past, people could only dig, cook, and eat freshly, and it was very difficult to barely fill their stomachs. It's hard to do anything else.

The second limitation is that the taste is not good. In the past, it was simply boiled into a paste, and the nutrition was not comprehensive.

Now we can not only solve these two problems, but we can solve them very well. Fisoport Agricultural Reclamation Zone has accumulated sufficient experience in the intensive cultivation of cassava in large areas, proper crop rotation and utilization of the whole plant. More important results are in the field of processing.

Huanxiang Industrial has developed special equipment to collect and process the cassava on a large scale. After detoxification in an industrial way, it produces raw cassava powder that can be stored for a long time.

More importantly, we have also developed a variety of food processing methods, appropriately adding a small amount of other ingredients to improve taste and nutrition, and launched various end products such as noodles, steamed buns, flower rolls, and bread.

We have produced more than a dozen types of noodles alone, and have promoted more cooking and processing methods to make the taste better and richer, and to improve the quality of life.

This agricultural technological achievement, including supporting cooking and processing methods, must be vigorously promoted nationwide. It ensures our food security, and various products can be used as raw materials for light industry in addition to being used as rations.

The high yield and application of cassava have given us enough confidence to save more land in agriculture to plant other crops and develop animal husbandry and breeding.

Therefore, the first agricultural project that needs to be clearly implemented is to determine the planting range and area of ​​cassava, vigorously promote technology, and synchronize supporting processing plants and food promotions. However, this is not clear in the current outline.

There are also some comrades who have also realized the importance of agriculture and have put forward very radical development ideas. I think this outline almost always adopts this approach when it comes to agricultural issues.

The draft mentions that we must take advantage of the rare favorable conditions now, and more specifically, we can obtain assistance from the East, including technical guidance, special loans, and material assistance, and strive to fully realize intensification, mechanization, and Industrialized agriculture developed greatly.

We want to engage in concentrated large-scale agriculture. Large-scale mechanized operations and industrial production are indeed the most suitable path. We must leave enough space for this path in planning, but it cannot be done this way!

In this outline, the plan is quite detailed. It counts the existing land area in the country that can be developed and planted on a large scale. It also lists how many tractors, harvesters, pumps, fertilizers, pesticides, seeds, etc. are needed. Checklist.

But I want to ask, does this plan serve the people of Guinea, or does it serve the international excess capital and excess production capacity?

Most of the things on this list we don’t have ourselves and either rely on direct aid or imports through loans. Let's not talk about investing the entire country's credit resources on this. Can we get all these things? Even if we do, what will be the consequences?

Do we have so many operators of large agricultural machinery? Some people say that you can train while doing it, but I am afraid they are too optimistic. Even if operators can be trained, what about maintenance personnel? And we don’t even have maintenance technology or spare parts supply capabilities.

Others say that aid workers can be introduced, just like the Beiluo River Bridge and Lofogen Hydropower Station, and agricultural aid projects can also be introduced. But can we carry out so many projects, and can we do this for the country’s main agricultural production?

The money was borrowed from others, the operators were sent by others, the equipment and materials were sold to you, and the production and maintenance services were also provided by others... May I ask what we have done? Is it just to carve out a piece of land that can be exploited? Reclaimed wasteland?

Can this kind of get-for-nothing plan solve the problems of people's livelihood security and agricultural development in Kilili Country? Think about it for yourselves, is this realistic?

Many people may still not understand that if we can get such assistance, no matter how much it is, there are obviously advantages to be taken advantage of, so why don’t we and can’t we take advantage of it?

This is actually the food plan assistance program provided by many international aid organizations to poor and backward countries, and it has also been given to several countries. Commissioner Liang Ziming here has also participated in this type of project. What are the results we have seen?

Some people think that the reason why this program is not successful is that the aid is not enough, or the conditions attached to the aid are too harsh. There is a reason for this, but it is not only this reason.

If there is any difference now, it is that we have turned to Dongguo for help and want to cooperate at the national level.

I have a set of data here, which is the world's total staple food production and the world's total population... Obviously, global food production can fully meet the needs of the global population, so food is only a local problem, our own problem.

No matter how much the world's total food production is, famines still occur frequently in many countries. Therefore, our agricultural development goals are first based on ensuring our own safety, rather than participating in international production competition.

Even if everything goes well with the above plan, we can do the math and see what we will get in the end? The designated farmland was reclaimed, various equipment and materials were imported, and enough food was produced, but a heavy debt was left behind.

That is a debt that we simply cannot afford to repay, even if it is an interest-free aid loan. We cannot afford to do so.

Can we use grain exports to repay debts? Is the food we produce under such circumstances competitive in the international market? After deducting debt interest, procurement and maintenance of materials and equipment, hiring of personnel and other production costs, the economy is completely at a loss.

Exporting grain to pay off debts, do we need to protect our own people's livelihood? But without exporting food at a loss, are we able to carry out such large-scale agricultural subsidies from other aspects? The debt crisis is inevitable.

Some people are aware of the loopholes in the plan and want to make up for it as much as possible, saying they want free and unconditional assistance. Are you still shameless? Even if this pipe dream comes true for now, what will aid partners think of a greedy country like ours?

Once we enter this mode, we will continue to rely on this mode. The equipment will always break down, and new fertilizers and pesticides will have to be purchased every year. We will never be able to afford the production costs, and we will never be able to develop.

If we are a well-intentioned partner, will we see hope in our aid investment? We will only feel that we are mud and cannot hold up the wall!

If we switch to a malicious partner, not to mention, we will not be left with anything that can repay the debt, and it will only repeat the collapse of the Kingdom of Miles.

What are the solutions to future debt problems? If we break the contract and default on the debt, the little bit of national credit we have just recovered will be exhausted, and the road to cooperative development will be cut off.

‘Why should I pay back the money I borrowed based on my ability? ’ Many people here have this morbid idea, and it may still remain in their subconscious mind. But this is really not your ability, but other people's kindness, trust or other intentions.

We must cure this disease, otherwise we will not be establishing New Guinea. We must not have this subconscious mind when making decisions, otherwise it will not benefit the country and its people, and it will be unjust and unhelpful.

If we want to repay, we can only sell assets. We only have those farms and plantations. Some of the state-owned assets we finally saved will also be controlled by excess international capital.

If it really gets to that point, let alone food security, even food production itself will be out of control. People can produce whatever they want and sell to whomever they want.

By then, I’m afraid no one will want to grow cassava, and all irrigation resources will be consumed to grow cash crops such as palm, and the profits will not be left for us to import enough food.

Many countries in Latin America, especially South America, have the best agricultural production conditions in the world, but they are all trapped in debt crises. Along with continued social unrest, governments have changed one after another.

What causes this? Some people even coined the term "Lami Trap". Our development level is still far behind those countries, so we cannot jump into this trap, especially not to dig a trap for ourselves at the beginning of planning.

If it were another industry, it might just collapse, but if agriculture collapses, people will really starve to death!

If all of us here turn a blind eye to the hidden dangers, when this happens in the future, we will all be murderers, intentionally or unintentionally.

Some people may also ask, will it really collapse?

Let me not mention the above situations. I will give you just one example. What will happen if the international situation changes, such as being unable to obtain assistance, or there is a local conflict, or we are subject to blockade and sanctions for some reason?

In that case, the fertilizers and pesticides needed for agricultural production cannot be transported in, and the supply of oil for running machinery will also be lost. Large areas of land will be abandoned. If extreme weather occurs again in some areas, famine will occur!

These questions are not complicated. Even primary school students can calculate the answers. Don’t you all understand? It’s not that I don’t understand, the main reason is short-sightedness, because the problems are in the future and the benefits are in the present!

Some people are just trying to get away with it, thinking that if they get started first, maybe there will be a turn for the better in the future. This is the speculative psychology of gamblers. Put your chips down first and then talk about it. Maybe you will win as soon as the cards are opened?

There are still people who still want to use the simplest and easiest way to solve problems that really require hard work. In essence, they still want to take shortcuts and imagine that they can get something for nothing. But there are no such shortcuts in the world.

It is not ruled out that a few people see the benefits. By implementing such a plan, the person handling it can take the opportunity to make a lot of money. When the time comes, they can make a fortune and leave. As for famine, does it have anything to do with them?

I'm sorry, my words are difficult to hear, I should control my emotions. I believe that most people have good intentions. They want to work hard and quickly, and try to achieve the best results in the shortest time.

I suggest that we give up this kind of delusion of reaching the sky in one step. President Charles gave a speech "Labor Creates the World", which everyone here should be familiar with. We need to be down-to-earth to complete primitive accumulation.

What I just said is tantamount to negating the agricultural plan. This is not to deny everyone’s hard work in formulating plans, so the reasons must be made clear. I deny that it is the consumerist industrial development idea.

Let me just say one conclusion here: The result of overdrawing the future can only be to lose the future.

The less we own and the more we overdraw the future, the bleaker the future will be. So what is a more reasonable planning solution? The most important basic work is, of course, organizing the labor force for production under existing conditions.

Be self-reliant and work hard!

We do also need assistance and cooperation from the outside world, such as East China. For example, agricultural technical guidance is necessary, and production personnel training is also necessary. The New Alliance has already done this in Banda City since the year before last.

Accumulation starts from low-level construction, leaving room for continuous progress, so that each step of accumulation is effective and independent and controllable.

When it comes to specific projects, such as cassava planting and processing technology, we are already very mature and can also develop related equipment.

But what are we missing? Without the industrial foundation to further promote it, this cannot be built in a day and can only be developed gradually. Moreover, with the size of the country, it is not possible to develop all industrial categories and the entire industry chain, and can only make key choices.

If there is an aid cooperation project, even if we invest limited funds ourselves, we will first introduce production lines that can produce simple agricultural machinery and equipment, such as tractors, as well as cassava harvesting and processing machinery developed by ourselves.

Moving up the chain, for example, a lot of steel and parts will still need to be imported in the short term, but our related products can also be exported to other countries in the Black Waste Continent, striving to reach the advanced level of the Black Waste Continent.

Commissioner Tang Sen nodded there... You are right, we must selectively accept the transfer of some excess production capacity, and try our best to improve these industrial chains in the First Five-Year Plan, including the subsequent Second Five-Year Plan.

The most important related field for agricultural production is water conservancy construction, which involves issues of industrial development. So let me talk about some views on industrial issues. Related to this are issues related to diplomacy and financial markets..."