"Wang Defa? There is such a magical operation?!" Li Hanxing was still shocked.
Liu Xing shrugged and said with a smile: "What's even more amazing is that at the beginning, the Island Country Agricultural Association expected the official to pay for their decision and asked the official to provide subsidies for farmers who took the initiative to reduce production or even stop production; of course;
Well, the officials are not fools, how could they agree to such a weird request, so they directly rejected the proposal of the Agricultural Cooperative, so the Agricultural Cooperative could only pass the money on to consumers."
"Wait a minute, consumers in island countries are not fools. How could they accept such an inexplicable consumption?" Li Hanxing asked quickly.
"It's very simple. A recently popular Internet term in China - involution. These two words can highly summarize what the Japanese Agricultural Association does."
Liu Xing took a sip of water and continued: "The meaning of involution is very simple, that is to do some useless work for one's own benefit, in order to squeeze out one's competitors. An analogy that may not be appropriate is a street.
There are two barbers, and their skills are almost the same, so if nearby residents want to get a haircut, the probability of going to a certain barber is 50%; one day, a barber wants to get more hair.
Because of the customer flow, he chose to reduce the price by 10%, so he got more customers, but if he wanted to get the same income as another barber, he would have to put in a certain amount of labor time."
"However, from a short-term profit perspective, the barber who cut the price obviously got more income, so the other barber naturally chose to follow up when he saw this situation. As a result, the income of the two barbers became different again.
There is not much, and it is not much different from the income before the price reduction, but the time they need to work has increased by 10%; of course, although the two barbers in this example lose more than they gain, their consumers have received tangible benefits.
There are real benefits, but the involution caused by the Japanese Agricultural Cooperative has made everyone suffer together."
"First of all, farmers. Whatever they want to plant and how they plant it must be approved by the Agricultural Cooperative. In addition, during the planting process, the Agricultural Cooperative will send people to conduct on-site investigations. Once anything is found that is not in line with the Agricultural Cooperative's wishes, the Agricultural Cooperative will
Choose to refuse to purchase these agricultural products...Li Hanxing, think about it, is there any place in the world where all the agricultural products on this acre of land will be classified as substandard products just because one acre of land produces one more pound of agricultural products? Even these
The quality of agricultural products is very good, so now the Island Country Agricultural Cooperative has become the largest landowner in the world. Farmers throughout the island country are working for the Island Country Agricultural Cooperative. Therefore, the island country’s de facto second largest bank is a bank under the Agricultural Cooperative.
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"Let me go, are the agricultural cooperatives in the island country so rich?" Sun Huiwen on the side couldn't help but ask.
"Almost all financial transactions related to agriculture go through the bank owned by the Nongxie, so the cash flow of this bank is outstanding, and this bank is also the source of the Nongxie's confidence. However, according to last year's statistics, the bank under the Nonghyup
Banks invested these deposits in either the property market or the stock market, and in the end only about 2% was invested in agriculture."
Liu Xing raised his two hands and said seriously: "A great man once said that we must grasp with both hands and be strong with both hands. Since the Agricultural Cooperative has established a firm foothold in the economy, then in order for it to be able to stand
If the country is more stable, it will naturally seek another force; in the island country, there is a rule called differential voting, which means that one vote of the agricultural population can vote for more votes of the urban population, so farmers have become a large vote bank.
So the Agricultural Cooperative relied on the votes of these farmers to elect many members. This is the characteristic of the island country - ethnic members."
"Member of the clan, I know. Sun Huiwen and I joined a transportation company for a certain task before. At that time, we saw a councilor who claimed to be a transport clan came to the company to canvass for votes. At that time, I wanted to ask if there were any councilors from the dragon clan, but it turned out
There really are peasant members here."
Looking at Li Hanxing who was playing homophonic jokes, Liu Xing said with a smile: "The ethnic councilors are the characteristics of the island country and must be tasted, so these farmers' councilors as representatives of the agricultural association will naturally cover the platform of the agricultural association, so the agricultural association
The cooperative has finally found its last piece of the puzzle; since it cannot resist, it can only choose to join. After all, surrendering will lose half the money. However, because the agricultural cooperative has monopolized everything from the production end to the sales end, although ordinary agricultural products are in business
The income is stable, but it is too stable. It is equivalent to working in the company from 9 to 5, abiding by the company rules, and occasionally having to work overtime and so on. In the end, your monthly income will be the same amount."
"Then what can you do, that is, you can only start to involute, because you can't involute in terms of output and price, then you can only involute in some weird directions. In the beginning, it is over-packaging.
Fruit baskets are just trivial. If you put fruits of the same size and in good condition in a grid, the value will double; of course, such excessive packaging will also be tempting to those who need to give gifts.
Strength, so changing the fruit itself is the real roll, and the fastest way to change the fruit is to make it bigger. As for the taste, we will talk about it later."
"So now we can see that there are various 'big' fruits in the island country. Their prices are naturally much more expensive than the ordinary version, but the nutrition and taste cannot be complimented. Of course, there are also some fruits that have enhanced sweetness.
The quality and taste, as well as the appearance and so on, so the price of these fruits has gone up to a higher level; as for agricultural products with improved nutritional content, I think it is a kind of IQ tax for ordinary people, because these agricultural products are not in the game.
One bite of those enhancement potions can permanently increase your attribute values."
"Well, I remember that I used to create an intermission growth, which asked me to spend a lot of money to buy some highly nutritious fruits and vegetables, and then I would have a 50% chance of increasing a certain attribute value. Of course, there is also a 100% chance.
There is a 45% chance of having no effect, and a 5% chance of deducting certain attribute values."
Hearing what Li Hanxing said, Liu Xing smiled and said: "Then you must choose this intermission growth. There is only a 5% chance that negative events will happen, because such good intermission growth is too good."
It’s rare.”
"It's a pity that this inter-act growth requires too much money. At that time, Sun Huiwen and I were just a fledgling mercenary, but we didn't have a sum of money to start this inter-act growth... It's really a penny that can stump a hero.
Oh, if I had known earlier, I should have accepted this interlude growth first, and then taken Sun Huiwen with me to the bank to 'borrow' some money in the next module to deal with the emergency."
Looking at Li Hanxing with a regretful look on his face, Liu Xing could only shake his head and said: "It seems that this is just the Cthulhu Game Hall playing tricks on you. It gave you something that looks beautiful, but is impossible to do."
The inter-act growth, even if you chose this inter-act growth at that time, when you go back to the next module, you will find that this module takes place in the deserted wilderness; but Li Hanxing, you are not yet there yet
Late, because there are still many agricultural products with high nutritional value in the island country. Their only disadvantage is that they are relatively expensive, but what we are most in need of right now is money."
"Yeah, why didn't I think of this?"
As Li Hanxing spoke, he took out his mobile phone and started the shopping mode, "Wait a minute, the best strawberries in the island country are from Sawada's family? Apple too?"
Liu Xing went over to take a look and found that many kinds of agricultural products produced by the Zetian family are known as the best in the island country. They are rich in vitamins ABCDEFG, calcium, iron, zinc, selenium, copper and plutonium... Well, the last one is a joke.
All in all, when Liu Xing looked at Zetian's sales list, he thought for a moment that he was watching an advertisement for a certain TV shopping platform.
"Then I'll call Sawada Yaon first and ask. It would be great if we could eat and drink for free."
As a man with strong mobility, Li Hanxing dialed Sawada Yaon's phone number as soon as he finished speaking.
As a result, Sawada Yaon's answer was very straightforward, that is, the agricultural products produced by the Sawada family were all improved by her, so she was very sure that although the nutritional value of these agricultural products was more than ordinary similar products, this increase
In fact, it is not too high, so the Sawada family uses some spring and autumn writing techniques when promoting on the Internet. For example, the unit on the nutrition comparison table is "piece", and the weight of one Sawada family brand apple is equivalent to two ordinary varieties.
of Apple, so the two numbers in the same row on the comparison table look quite different.
Of course, even the Sawada family has not escaped the clutches of the Island Country Agricultural Cooperative, so the output of agricultural products of the Sawada family is not high, and this is when the Sawada family is making special brands... According to Sawada Yaon,
Back then, the Sawada family, who were still growing ordinary crops, was cheated by the Agricultural Cooperative. Even though the Sawada family was already considered the largest family in Ziwu City, they were devoured by the Island Country Agricultural Cooperative and could only put their products on the market.
Sell in your own store.
Although agricultural products are not a major source of income for the Sawada family, steaming steamed buns is not enough to win reputation, so Sawada Yaon spent a semester researching those new varieties, and then sold them to the Island Country Agricultural Cooperative at a high price.
...No way, when Sawada Yaon tasted the new varieties he developed, he felt that these fruits and vegetables were not as delicious as ordinary varieties. As for the added nutritional value, they were better than nothing, so he still
It's better to sell it and make some money.
As a result, Li Hanxing's plan to eat and drink for free failed, because the agricultural products produced by the Zetian family were limited in quantity and had been ordered long ago.
Looking at Li Hanxing who was a little disappointed, Liu Xing said with a smile: "Didn't Sawada Yaon say that the taste of those agricultural products is not good, even their creator is not willing to take another bite... Of course
Well, I heard that the fruit baskets in island countries are specially used to visit patients. Although the fruits in them look very good, they taste like crap, so I don’t think you want to eat candles every day."
"Forget it, I'm still a man who attaches great importance to oral pleasure."
Li Hanxing shook his head and continued to complain: "It seems that the island country's agricultural cooperative is really a strange existence. It is nominally to protect the farmers of the country, but in the end, except for a small number of farmers, all other farmers have become
Its workers; as for the consumers in the island countries, they are even more unlucky. Originally, they could eat affordable and good-quality agricultural products, but in the end they had to pay high prices because of the self-interest of the agricultural cooperatives. No wonder in
Before I came to the island country, I often heard that people in the island country couldn’t afford fruit.”
"You can't afford to eat fruit, but you can afford to drink 100% pure juice. This very magical and realistic thing may only happen in island countries, because those fruits with poor quality cannot be put on the market and can only be sold at low prices.
I’m going to make juice, that’s why there are so many juice drinks in the island country.”
As Liu Xing spoke, he looked at the fully automatic vending machine (free version) not far away - because there were too many people in the farm and the location of the farm was relatively remote, so Mr. Guchuan asked him to
Several vending machines were obtained and placed everywhere so that everyone can use them at will.
"Huh? When you said that, Liu Xing, I realized that there are indeed quite a lot of juice drinks in this vending machine. But then again, the original owner of this farm is quite powerful. He was able to bypass the agricultural cooperative to do business."
Li Hanxing said with some admiration: "So the reason why this farm has become what it is now is because the original owner of the farm offended the Agricultural Cooperative, and the Agricultural Cooperative ended up being the one who took advantage of it, right?"
"Nine times out of ten, after all, the agricultural cooperatives of the island country are already a huge interest group. They will not just watch this farm break the rules they set, even if the products that this farm can produce every year are very limited.
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Liu Xing touched his chin and asked curiously: "Have the villagers mentioned any conflicts between the original owner of this farm and the agricultural cooperative?"
"Of course there have been some conflicts, but they can only be regarded as minor conflicts. They are nothing more than the agricultural cooperative not issuing certificates to the farms and telling downstream customers not to buy products from the farms. However, the results have been very little. Other than that,
In addition, there are some shameful little actions, such as cutting off water and electricity, but because the original owner of the farm has some skills, the farm can continue to operate until the quality of the farm's products really declines... Of course,
Everyone thinks this is a good thing done by the Agricultural Cooperative, but unfortunately there is no evidence to prove this."
Hearing this, a thought suddenly flashed in Liu Xing's mind, that is, the one who controls the drought is not the Nagoya Agricultural Cooperative, right?!
After thinking about it carefully, Liu Xing felt that this possibility was quite high.