Chapter 1236

Bear country is a very strange country. It clearly has one of the best black lands and big granaries in the world. However, the food in bear country is not enough to eat.

Besides, since the end of the world war, looking at the bear country, there have been few bumper harvests and many poor harvests. For a lot of time, the bear country has been importing food.

When the terrible dictator of bear state died, the annual grain output fell to 63-65 million tons, lower than that of the czar. During this period, the total population rose to 200 million, of which about 85 million lived in cities.

Later, the short fat man came to power. The short fat man had come up by victory in agriculture. Facing the agricultural crisis, he took a series of reform measures. First, he expanded the area of cultivated land, which enabled the government to double the annual grain output to 120 ~ 130 million tons from 1959 to 1962. However, the poor harvest in 1963 reduced the output to only 105 million tons, so that 15 million tons of grain had to be purchased from abroad.

In 1970, xiongguo achieved a record harvest, with an annual output of 186 million tons, of which 70 million tons could be supplied to the market. But compared with the growing population, this harvest record is not worth mentioning.

You know, compared with 1913, grain production only doubled, while the urban population increased seven times.

Recently, Xiong Guo set a new record of producing 238 million tons of grain in 1978, and failed in 1979 and 1980. The harvest in 1981 was also unsatisfactory.

By the end of 1981, the population of Xiong had reached 270 million, of which 180 million lived in cities. Even according to the most prudent estimation, to meet the national food and feed demand of the Soviet Union, the annual output of grain must reach about 250 million tons. However, in recent years, the annual grain output has always been only about 200 million tons.

In other words, bear country is short of food now. Bear country wants to import food. Where do you come from?

For a long time, they have imported food from Western Europe. The food there has been a good harvest. I don't know what they did. They used so little land, not only planted food to feed their population, but even exported it. Is this the problem of the system?

Thinking of the system, yevgen quickly put down the idea. Although he didn't catch up with it during the big cleaning. At that time, he was still a child, he had seen the madness of that era. He would never let himself make such a mistake.

At present, the bear country is still importing food from Western Europe and Romania, but this is very fragile, because with the war of the bear country in the mountain country, Western Europe and Romania have expressed strong opposition and resistance. Even many countries refuse to participate in the Games held by the bear country, which has cast a political shadow on this international sports movement.

Once they start to take up food as a weapon and refuse to export food to bear country, it will be a big trouble.

Now, Qin Guan mentioned this statement, which naturally aroused yevgen's interest: "do you mean that you can have surplus grain to export to us?"

The grain import and export of various countries are top secret data. Yevgen naturally doesn't know. He is also very curious about Qin Guan's questions. Putting aside the political opposition, if he can import grain from the Han country, there will be more channels for the grain problem of the Xiong country. Diversified imports will meet their interests.

What if Xiong Guo stands up and yells that Western Europe and Romania don't sell food?

Yevgen now looked at Qin Guan and saw Qin Guan nodding: "our northern industrial company is responsible for all trade with foreign countries. We have cooperation in food with the Sabbath state."

Qin Guan said this and Zandi nodded. Yes, there are grain exchanges between the Sabbath state and the Han state, which are carried out through the northern industrial company.

"Well, we can talk in detail later. Our ambassador in your capital will visit in person," yevgen said.

It's not his business. It's the business of the Ministry of agriculture. It's conveyed through the Ministry of foreign affairs. He only cares about the military. It can be said that this is an unexpected harvest.

Watching these people leave, when only general Lin and Qin Guan are left, general Lin asked strangely, "Qin Guan, you should know that we are also a grain importer now!"

Over the past few years, the grain output of the Han country has not been high. The ten-year turmoil has greatly damaged the productivity. After that, although agriculture began to develop after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, it was not built in a day. Where did it develop so quickly.

Now, Qin Guan is fooling the people of Xiong, okay? Besides, Han and Xiong do business, okay?

"Yes, I am a grain importer. The grain we import can be eaten by ourselves or sold to Xiong Guo. As long as we remove the freight, we still have profits. Why can't we do it?"

When Qin Guan said this, general Lin was also stunned. He was speculating and did a good job.

Qin Guan has a smile on his face. There are too many examples of such things in future generations.

Yes, in Western Europe, Romania will certainly take up food as a weapon to exert pressure on bear countries. This scene is too similar to soybean import in future generations.

At that time, because Eagle countries unilaterally raised import tariffs, Han countries also began to raise tariffs on agricultural products accordingly, and decided to increase tariffs by hundreds of percent on soybeans imported from Eagle countries, which was equivalent to blocking the export path of Eagle farmers. Their biggest buyer was Han countries.

Without Chinese imports, they could only rot soybeans into the ground. At this time, middlemen appeared.

Profiteers in some countries saw business opportunities. They first bought these soybeans from Eagle country at a low price, then labeled them as their own country, and then sold them to Han country at a high price. After all, Han country also needs soybeans. They can't buy them from Eagle country. They can only import them from other countries at a high price.

In such a reselling, the Han country did not benefit from raising tariffs. On the contrary, so many middlemen were cheaper and made a lot of money.

From an economic point of view, these people did a good job.

They have perfectly explained a basic law in the economy. Capital is profit driven. Where there are profits, they go. As for the sense of justice and morality, isn't it very funny to talk about justice and morality internationally?

Of course, Qin Guan saw the business opportunities. It was a good way to transport European grain to China, which could also develop his own shipbuilding industry and ocean transportation industry, and then sell these grains to the Far East of Xiong country.

At the same time, it can also reduce the confrontation with the bear country. After all, the Han country is now bent on developing the economy. Wouldn't it be better for the hairy bears in the north to appease at an appropriate time?