Chapter Fifty-Seven: Countermeasure

  "Uh...alright! Nelson, we're counting on you for this one. The company's shares won't change, but we need you to help us open up the market..." Liang Sanping said over the long-distance phone call at the post office.

  Although he had tried his best to make a long story short, the phone bill still made him heartbroken. And now that he was making an international call, he needed an introduction letter too!

  On one hand, he lamented the inconvenience of communication in this era, while on the other hand, Liang Sanping could only reluctantly pay up.

  Now that things have gone this far, even if he didn't get a definite answer, Liang Sanping could only return to Quemoy Island. Professor Liu had already called several times to urge him on.

  The second batch of vegetables on the island is about to be harvested, and at the same time, the experiment with the hundred-flavor pancake has reached a critical stage. Professor Liu's intention was for Liang Sanping to return and assist with some record-keeping.

  In the future when I get a job title for Liang Sanping, it will be easier to fill out forms.

  "Xiao Liang... I've seen too many things like this, it's heartbreaking but what can we do?! We have to obey the bigger picture..." The old man sounded exhausted on the phone with Liang Sanping.

  "It's already like this, you can only do your best." The old man obviously knew something and was persuading Liang Sanping with a bitter tone. Liang Sanping also knew that he was of no use here.

  So after communicating with Nelson, I decided to return to Quemoy Island.

  "Lao Lan, I'm going back to Qiong Island tomorrow..." With a sip of wine, Liang Sanping felt that today's wine was very bitter. Lan Bin's hand, which was picking up dishes, paused for a moment, and then calmly said.

  "It's better for you to go back, you're just wasting time here. Why not go back and do something useful..." Liang Sanping nodded in agreement, then smiled and said.

  "What a pity! I was boasting at that time, saying that if this vegetable is done, I'll let you go back to Hainan Island to help me. It seems that my boastful words were too big!"

  Lan Bin couldn't help but burst out laughing and said to Liang Sanping, "You're right, I've received news about you several times. I really thought you'd succeed..."

  Lan Bin said, putting down his wine cup and facing Liang Sanping: "My words are always effective. As long as you achieve success in agriculture, I will return to help you on the island of Qing!"

  Liang Sanping smiled and raised his wine glass, clinking it against Lan Bin's. The two of them downed their drinks in one gulp.

  At this time, the phone in Lan Bin's house suddenly rang. Lan Bin looked at it with suspicion, as his rank was not enough to be equipped with a phone. However, since Lan Cheng and Mu Shan were there, their equipment was naturally better.

  "Hello! I'm Lan Bin, who is this?" Lan Bin furrowed his brow and picked up the phone.

  "Comrade Lan Bin, I am Ge Tai. Is Comrade Liang Sanping at your place?" Lan Bin was taken aback upon hearing this, as many people knew that Liang Sanping was at his home.

  Ge Tai doesn't need to be mentioned, and for most of the daytime, Liang Sanping is with Ge Tai. The two of them are busy running errands at the Agricultural Reclamation Bureau and local departments.

  Ge Tai came to Yang City, it's impossible that he just ran errands for Liang Sanping. There must be other things to take care of, and the coordination with Nongken requires him to go to the headquarters in person.

  "Director Ge is on the phone for you, Sanping..." Lan Bin knew that Director Ge's call at this time must be extremely important. So without any small talk, he handed the phone directly to Liang Sanping.

  "Director Ge, I'm Liang Sanping. What are your instructions?" Liang Sanping took the phone and spoke to Ge Tai in an extremely polite tone. Regardless of whether this matter succeeded or not, Ge Tai was doing his best to help him.

  It's worth Liang Sanping's admiration just for this point.

  "Come to the reception room right away, I'm waiting for you in the room!" However, on the other end of the phone, Ge Tai sounded extremely anxious and said: "There's an important situation here, come over immediately so we can discuss it..."

  Ge Tai's words made Liang Sanping sober up immediately. He then said to Ge Tai on the phone, "Commissioner, I'll be right there! Please wait a moment..."

  Liang Sanping hastily hung up the phone and bid farewell to Lan Bin before hurrying away.

  There were no taxis available at this time, and even if there were, Liang Sanping wouldn't have been willing to take one. It was already late, so in order to avoid trouble, Lan Bin personally rode a bicycle to send Liang Sanping to the reception office.

  Watching Liang Sanping enter the reception room, Lan Bin did not follow him in. Instead, he went home directly.

  "Commissioner, what's going on?!" Liang Sanping asked with a serious expression, looking at Ge Tai, who had a not-so-good-looking face and motioned for Liang to sit down.

  After Shu Heng delivered the tea water, he said to Liang Sanping: "This time, the old leaders went to the imperial capital for reporting, but the situation is not optimistic..."

  "Not a few old comrades opposed this proposal, especially the leaders of the industrial and financial departments." However, Ge Tai said to Liang Sanping, "These two departments are considering more financial and industrial mechanical import issues..."

  "The Ministry of Finance is considering that if we cooperate with Wan Hong Corporation this time, we will earn a large amount of foreign exchange. This is extremely important for our foreign exchange reserves."

  "And the industrial mouth is hoping that through this project, Wanxiang Corporation will assist us in importing some industrial machinery from Japan. Especially machine tools, our current machine tools are far behind those of Europe and America, and even with Japan there is a huge gap..."

  "But on the Japanese side, they have always been hesitant to export machine tools to us. Even some advanced industrial equipment is not willing to be exported to us..."

  "The leaders of the industrial mouth hope to break through this project and let Wan Hong Co., Ltd. provide us with a batch of industrial machinery. First, improve our industrial environment..."

  Liang Sanping's face looked quite unpleasant. Must we sacrifice our agricultural interests for the sake of industrial development?!

  "Sanping, I know what you're thinking. But the reality is that although leaders in agriculture and reclamation support us, it seems that the situation with industry and foreign exchange is more worrisome for the elderly in Tokyo..."

  Liang Sanping sighed helplessly, he knew this was also unavoidable.

  The current situation of our country is like this: importing a large amount of goods and even raw materials requires foreign exchange. This is due to the weakness of our industrial foundation, and the gap between us and foreign countries is huge.

  Chemical fertilizers, we have no way to be self-sufficient. The rest of the industrial products, even primary industrial products are extremely scarce. In heavy industry, although some parts are ahead of Japan, other parts and light industry are far behind...

  "Sanping, think carefully if there's any way...". Ge Tai also worried about this to the point of turning white-haired, a nationwide chess game. But how can he turn his own situation around?!

  The situation on the island is now like this, and it's easy to have a chance to turn things around. If he misses this opportunity, Ge Tai will never forgive himself until death.

  He seemed to see the eyes of those villagers looking at him during his investigation, that longing gaze he couldn't forget. He felt guilty towards those eyes.

  "Commissioner Ge! I'm not a god, where can I get you foreign exchange and those industrial equipment...?" Liang Sanping sighed: "Isn't this making things difficult for people..."

  Actually, Liang Sanping thought to himself: I'm not wrong for crossing over, but I didn't bring anything with me that would allow me to cross back or suddenly appear out of thin air. Everything has to be based on my own capital.

  After all, Liang Sanping thought that his capital was still too little. If he had enough capital, why should he be afraid of the challenge from Wan Hong Corporation now?

  "Wait a minute..." Liang Sanping said, suddenly becoming stunned. He furrowed his brow and fell into deep thought. Ge Tai saw this and didn't dare disturb him.

  Even Shu Huan on the side held her breath and stared intently, both of them knew that this time it was a gamble for their own political future. If they won, then they would be considered to have made it to the top.

  But if you lose, your superiors will inevitably give you a label of "overly ambitious". With that kind of label, it's hard to make progress again...

  "Third Master Liang, how is it?! Have you thought of any way?!" Ge Tai asked somewhat anxiously after seeing Liang Sanping sink into deep thought for a while.

  "There is a way, but I don't know if it will work..." Liang Sanping heard this and looked up at Ge Tai, saying: "I can only say that I'll try my best."

  "This plan has a high success rate, but I only have sixty percent confidence in it..."