Chapter 846: Chatting About Deng ta guo (II)

I and Zhu Sheng walked through Qi he zhen and arrived at Qi He.

It is a very small river.

The river water flowed slowly, very clear.

"Zhu Sheng, look, this river water has become clear; in the past this river was famously a stinky river.

Wastewater from mines, glass factories, and residents was all discharged into this river.

"Before, anyone passing here had to cover their nose." I pointed at the Qi He and said.

"Yes, everything is done by people.

In the past, we blindly developed, blindly industrialized, never considering these things.

Water pollution, air pollution, land pollution, and so on.

For development, we sacrificed too much.

Sigh, there's no way around it. This is the growing pain of our industrialization.

If we had not industrialized, we would forever remain an agricultural society.

Do you know, Jianqiang, being in an agricultural society,

is equivalent to being decoupled from modern societal development.

Our several thousand years of development have, in history, once seen prosperous periods.

That is the ceiling of agricultural society's development.

Our development within the agricultural society has always been outstanding.

Our agricultural breeding and water conservancy are world-class.

But no matter how hard we try, grain output is limited, land is limited, resources are limited.

When the population increases, internal turmoil begins.

It goes from prosperity to decline.

Therefore we must industrialize,

we must carry out industrial upgrading.

We must transform the ancient agricultural nation into a powerful industrial nation.

Only then can the nation remain undefeated among the nations.

Many people only see superficial things and cannot understand the deeper aspects.

If we do not industrialize,

could we now have developed to this point?

How to feed so many people, how to let so many people eat and live well, how to develop the nation's infrastructure?

You can imagine what this place was like twenty years ago.

What people ate, what they wore, what they used,

what they relied on for travel.

Over these past few decades, we have undergone tremendous change.

We have been keeping pace with world development and have not fallen behind.

Jianqiang, the law of development for everything is, it is people.

Always remember, humans are the masters of all things in the world.

The same piece of land, we can pollute, and we can also govern it.

"Unlike some countries that only develop without governing.

They never reflect." Zhu Sheng said at this moment.

We looked at the river for a while, then continued walking along the Qi He; both sides of the Qi He have been built with very beautiful dikes, planted with willows, and paved with asphalt roads.

One can no longer see the old muddy roads.

Twenty years ago, would we have dared to imagine all this?

Passing through this willow grove, we arrive at the Qi he qiao.

This is an old bridge; not far away there is also a new bridge in use.

On both sides of the Qi he qiao there are many people fishing,

they are leisurely fishing on the bridge.

On the opposite bank of the river is a small market, with many people strolling about.

The sunset is sinking in the west; life is so tranquil and harmonious.

Zhu Sheng was on the bridge at this time,

said to me: "Jianqiang, I have not finished what I just said; I have analyzed the fundamentals of Deng ta guo."

Let's continue talking about their bad points.

"Zhu Sheng, I really want to hear about their bad points," I said.

Thus we two stopped our steps on the bridge.

Zhu Sheng said: "The current bad points of Deng ta guo are,"

the low efficiency of Deng ta guo,

so low as to make people's hair stand on end,

for example, their largest city built a subway only a couple kilometers long, which took decades to build and cost tens of billions of dollars to complete.

A school takes over twenty years to be completed.

A hospital takes over ten years to be completed.

A bridge takes five or six years to be built.

Why is this so? There are two aspects; one is party strife.

They don't consider people's livelihood at all, only their own party's interests; they oppose anything that is not beneficial to their party.

They even cause trouble for the ruling party for no reason.

Everyone falls into mutual internal drain.

Next is the labor union; the labor union in Deng ta guo is so strong it can negotiate with the president.

Although the union can protect ordinary workers' rights.

But they are overprotective.

Some of their demands are even unreasonable.

If something is not done just right, they go on strike.

This is done to increase development costs.

Why has Deng ta guo's manufacturing industry relocated? Mainly because costs are high and labor expenses are high.

The labor union organization cannot escape blame for this.

And Deng ta guo's waste is beyond description.

We have always been in a stage of scarcity, so we consider waste shameful at heart.

But the people of Deng ta guo consider waste to be their tradition,

In their consciousness, there is basically no environmental concept, nor do they advocate frugal living.

They want to live in big houses,

they want large-displacement cars.

This is not even the half of it,

Some states are already very dry, severely short of water, needing to buy water from other states,

yet their residents still waste water, for example, sprinkling water on golf courses,

even every household has a swimming pool, changing the water weekly, though the owners don't swim,

furthermore, the lights in their rooms are always on, and the air conditioning runs all summer, regardless of whether anyone is present.

The same is true in winter.

Moreover, supermarket food is regularly taken off the shelves regardless of quality.

This not only wastes food but also pollutes the environment.

Such massive waste leaves the entire populace without any notion of thrift and household management.

The poor wander the streets, while the rich can own luxurious estates; the wealth gap is huge.

Know that it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but hard to go from extravagance to frugality.

If their finances change even slightly, ordinary people will cause trouble.

So you will often see them demonstrating, striking, and so on.

In fact, all this is caused by their excessive waste of resources.

These two items are Deng ta guo's domestic affairs, the source of their decline.

Of course, this is not the main cause; the primary cause is war.

These years they have been busy with war, stirring up conflict worldwide, creating suffering.

Why is this so? Because they become rich through arms.

In the two world wars, they were arms dealers, and people all over the world came to them to buy arms.

Thus the military-industrial complex became their elite,

as long as there is war, they can make money.

When the cannon fires, gold flows in myriad amounts.

Know that the president's authority is national defense; here there is a loophole, because of counter-terrorism, the president has special privileges.

Thus war brings a rolling stream of wealth for everyone.

The world is like this,

Whatever modern warfare you can understand, whatever conflicts you see in the world, behind them lies their shadow.

They never wish for world peace to develop.

What would arms dealers do if peace developed? Would they go farm?

Even without war, they must manufacture war.

Internal drain from party strife, external entanglement in war.

You can imagine how fast this decline is.

Don't look at their strong military and financial currency,

those things are like bunkers built on sand.

Everything is based on human will.

Any system has both a good side and a bad side.

The key is how people use a good system to benefit the ordinary folk, rather than using a bad system to seek private gain for themselves.

Jianqiang, you don't envy those immigrants; they will someday regret it.

Because these countries' predecessors were pirates and drug traffickers,

once they run out of money, their true nature will be exposed."

"Zhu Sheng, I don't envy them at all.

Actually, we can leisurely stroll here in Yin Tian, how comfortable.

To run to an unfamiliar place and still be bullied by outsiders.

I really can't figure out what they're thinking.

How they think, it's not because they have dirty money in their hands.

Afraid they'll spit it out one day? Hehe, as long as the money is dirty, no matter where you put it, it'll be a disaster. Zhu Sheng sighed.