Siheyuan: I am a trader in both worlds!

Chapter 510: Disaster and Opportunity

"Are you trying to turn this place into a dumping ground for your products? Surely not?"

"How could it not be? Look, after we cooperate, we'll need to buy teaching materials and equipment from you, right? We'll also need to buy steel bars and cement from you on a large scale, right? And then there's fertilizer and agricultural machinery, which are the biggest expenses of all!"

"A large combine harvester costs at least tens of thousands of yuan, which is over a million yuan where you live! Tens of thousands of yuan, how many years would we have to work to save up that much money?"

As they were talking, Ximen Lang magically pulled out a thick stack of black dollars from his pocket, amounting to no less than tens of thousands, and placed it directly in front of Bai Ling.

Bai Ling was completely stunned by what she saw.

It took a long time for him to come to his senses.

As he took another large stack of so-called pocket money from Ximen Lang and put it in the drawer, he said irritably.

"Who can compare to you, my young master! With just a flick of your finger, you can amass wealth that an ordinary person couldn't earn in several lifetimes! But ordinary people have to toil in the fields to make a living! To toil in the fields, even if you made them work in the fields for a year without eating or drinking, they still wouldn't earn much money!"

"That's not the point. The point is that we buy everything from you, we import everything from you. You're doing great, you're making a killing, but what about us? What about our industries?"

This is indeed a major problem that cannot be ignored.

If everything were bought from the future, and all of them were high-quality goods that were both good value for money, then it would be a truly remarkable achievement.

This is absolutely a catastrophic blow to the related industries in Beijing!

Its power is no less than detonating a nuclear bomb directly in these industries. At that time, many industries and factories in Beijing will be wiped out, if not all of them, but at least a large portion of them will be destroyed.

Because their factories aren't competitive. You could work them to death and they still couldn't produce such high-quality, affordable products!

Even if we worked our hardest and succeeded, the cost would never be as low as the entire industry chain of later generations!
And the vast majority of people are extremely short-sighted.

They only focus on immediate gains and have no vision for the long term, nor are they willing to look that far ahead.

If this truly creates a path dependency in later generations...
That would be bad!
Let alone decades, it would take a hundred years for it to recover its former vitality, let alone develop.

Although these industries in their area were never really developed to begin with.
"But we still have to have dreams. After all, what if? What if we develop in the future? If path dependence completely blocks our path to the top and becoming the world's best, wouldn't we be at a huge loss?"

Hearing Bai Lingtian's shameless words, to be honest, if Bai Lingtian weren't his wife, Ximen Lang would have spat in her face!
And it strives to reach the pinnacle, becoming the world's best.
"We're so awesome, generations of us have worked tirelessly for so many years, achieving so many remarkable accomplishments, yet we wouldn't dare claim to be number one in the world. You haven't even accomplished anything yet, and you dare to say that! Have you no shame? Where do you get the nerve to say that? Your tone is way too arrogant!"

Indeed, even in later generations, which had already taken off, they only achieved global leadership in a limited number of fields.

But what about Bai Ling?

That's what he says the moment he opens his mouth!

How could Ximen Lang possibly keep his composure?
After a good scolding, Bai Ling felt embarrassed.

He genuinely wanted to facilitate this, and naturally, he knew perfectly well that Bai Ling wanted to use this as a pretext to secure more favorable conditions for Beijing. Ximen Lang said speechlessly.

"Yes, I admit that this does mean we'll have to buy a lot of things from our side. Whether it's subjective or objective, there is indeed a suspicion that Beijing is being used as a dumping ground, but the problem is, we don't have any, do we?"

"Even if there were, our production capacity couldn't keep up! A few small cement plants, small fertilizer plants, and small publishing houses—what good is that output? They can't even meet our current needs, let alone our subsequent construction."

"As for seeds and various highly automated agricultural machinery, boss, do you know how much suffering we endured, how many years of hard work we put in to achieve what we have today? Even so, we have only barely managed to stand firm in the first tier, far from being far ahead."

"What makes you think you can compete? You don't even have the basics. You only produce 60 cars a year, a number so low I'm embarrassed to even mention it. What can we do if you don't buy? If you don't buy, how can you develop education or build a large farm?"

"Or are you saying you don't want to sell soybeans to us and make money from us anymore?"

Having finally managed to carve out a large chunk of profit from the future, and seeing the return on their investment, Bai Ling and Lao Luo certainly wouldn't give up easily, much less abandon this golden opportunity to propel agriculture forward.

Therefore, upon hearing Ximen Lang say this, Bai Ling immediately took his arm, seemingly wanting to say something but saying nothing, yet it was as if she had said everything, her big eyes sparkling.

Since Bai Ling has already adopted this stance, Ximen Lang certainly can't continue to argue with Bai Ling and Lao Luo on this matter.

He pinched Bai Ling's nose and said something in an annoyed tone.

"Just say you want something in return, don't give me this nonsense. Seriously, you're being so formal with me, I'm speechless!"

Bai Ling became embarrassed by what she said.

Then, without any preamble, Ximen Lang made a direct promise.

"The more advanced, the more advanced, like seeds and large agricultural machinery, are definitely not negotiable! Because our side has only just started developing in these fields and has only recently reached the first-class level, it is definitely impossible for us to give them to you."

"But for some less important technologies and data, such as small agricultural machinery, I will try my best to get them for you. There shouldn't be any problem."

"While it certainly can't be the latest technology, even outdated technology should be enough for you to set up an agricultural machinery factory and then sell it abroad to earn foreign exchange."

"Sell it outside? Why don't we use it ourselves?"

Seeing that Hao Pingchuan had asked such a stupid question, Ximen Lang said irritably.

"Nonsense! If we have good ones, why use the bad ones?! Since we're not using them, of course we should sell them at high prices to those big fools outside, cough cough, international friends!"

Upon hearing this, Hao Pingchuan couldn't help but give a thumbs up and immediately praised him.
"Wow! You're really something!"

After discussing everything with Lao Luo and Bai Ling, Ximen Lang began to keep them in suspense.

"Actually, I brought back several big surprises this time, each one an absolute bombshell! But unfortunately, the timing isn't right yet, so let's wait and see. I'll tell you all about them in detail when the time is right!"

(End of this chapter)