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"Director Li, are there many people in the local area who have this bamboo weaving skill?"

"A lot. All elderly people have this skill."

Li Chaoyang said subconsciously.

"What about the young people?"

"Well..."

Li Xiangyang raised his eyebrows and said, "I do know a little bit, but I can't weave all kinds of exquisite bamboo handicrafts like the old man."

"That is to say, there is a broad base of bamboo weaving here."

"Hahaha!"

Lin Kaifeng suddenly laughed and patted his thigh with his hand.

"Now we have the money to buy the ham sausage filling machine, and the way is open!"

"Ok?"

Li Xiangyang asked in confusion: "Comrade Lin Kaifeng, what did you just say? What filling machine?"

Lin Kaifeng asked straight to the point: "Director Li, do you want to work with our machinery company to export and earn foreign exchange and make money from foreigners?"

"what!"

Li Chaoyang's eyes were bigger than copper bells.

For a moment I suspected that I had heard it wrong.

Earn money from foreigners?

If Northern Machinery Company has such ability, how can Ai Min Commune have the virtue and ability to earn money from foreigners?

Lin Kaifeng pointed at the various bamboo handicrafts around him and said, "Director Li, the commune is sitting on a gold mountain begging for food."

"These bamboos are not bamboos, but gold."

"Comrade Lin Kaifeng, please stop making fun of me. How can bamboo be gold? If it were gold, it would have been cut down long ago."

Thinking that Lin Kaifeng was joking, Li Chaoyang also followed suit.

"You don't understand what I mean... Well, answer me three questions first."

"After answering this, you may have some epiphany."

Without waiting for Li Chaoyang to ask again, Lin Kaifeng said, "Compared to our country and the island country, who is richer?"

Director Li felt puzzled when he heard this question.

Is there any need to say this? Of course, island countries are richer.

Almost all high-end imported electrical appliances in China come from island countries.

Radios, electric fans, and even watches are all the best from the island country.

"what do you want to say in the end?"

"Director Li, please answer this question for me first."

Seeing that Lin Kaifeng insisted on asking questions, Li Chaoyang said helplessly: "Of course it is an island country. Their economic development is much better than ours."

"Even though I'm just a commune director, I often hear people say that the island nation is now a developed country."

"The three-turn and one-ring items that we consider rare are just common items in an island country."

"I heard that every household in the island country can afford to watch TV."

Lin Kaifeng nodded and continued, "What do the Japanese eat?"

Li Chaoyang said subconsciously: "Use chopsticks."

"The third question."

Lin Kaifeng held up three fingers and said, "The island nation's economy is highly developed because everyone is involved in high-speed economic activities."

"In this case, will they have enough time to go home and cook?"

"They will inevitably choose to eat out. Every day, a large number of customers line up outside to eat, and the number of chopsticks in the restaurant is limited. Faced with this situation, what will the boss do?"

Li Chaoyang scratched the back of his head.

What Lin Kaifeng said is correct.

The island nation's economy is developing rapidly, and everyone must have endless work to do.

I'm so busy at work, how can I have time to buy groceries and cook?

After eating, you have to wash the dishes and clean up the leftovers.

I would definitely choose to eat out.

The restaurant has limited chopsticks and a large number of customers come in to eat every day.

It’s impossible to hire a large number of people just to wash chopsticks, right?

"No no no, this is impossible!!"

After a few minutes, Li Chaoyang shook his head vigorously.

Just now, a sensational idea popped into Li Chaoyang's mind.

Pretend you are a restaurant owner.

How can we ensure the supply of chopsticks when we have so many guests to entertain every day?

The only way is to buy more chopsticks.

Throw away the chopsticks used by the guests after eating and replace them with new ones.

As soon as this thought appeared, Li Xiangyang immediately drove it out of his mind.

No matter how rich an island country is, it is impossible to be so wasteful.

Throwing away used chopsticks, isn't that a spendthrift?

If you use new chopsticks, you can have a meal.

But it will cause a lot of waste.

Looking at Li Chaoyang's strange reaction, Lin Kaifeng nodded secretly.

They can adapt to local conditions, utilize local bamboo resources to set up a bamboo weaving craft cooperative, and develop a sideline economy for the commune.

This proves that Li Chaoyang’s mind is not rigid.

Have a certain degree of subjective initiative.

Lin Kaifeng did not directly tell Li Chaoyang the solution, but guided him to figure it out himself.

It's not to keep you in suspense, nor is it to show off how capable I am.

Instead, it is to use this opportunity to observe Li Chaoyang.

If he is like some people who are conservative and refuse to accept new things.

No matter how good Lin Kaifeng's method is, no one will use it.

There's no point in doing this other than wasting your breath.

Judging from Li Chaoyang's appearance, he might be thinking of something.

Lin Kaifeng smiled and said, "Director Li, there are no outsiders here, so feel free to tell me what you think."

"If I tell you, please don't laugh at me."

Li Chaoyang put himself into the role of restaurant owner.

How can we ensure that guests eat in an orderly manner? The solution is to buy more chopsticks.

Throw away the chopsticks used by customers or collect them for recycling.

"Director Li, you hit the nail on the head."

Lin Kaifeng said with a smile: "The last time I went to the Canton Fair, I talked to several island merchants about the situation in their country."

"The Japanese invented a type of disposable chopsticks. As the name suggests, these chopsticks can only be used once and will be thrown away after use."

"The restaurant can save the process of washing chopsticks, and the guests will not be delayed in dining due to not having enough time to wash the chopsticks."

Li Chaoyang opened his mouth exaggeratedly.

“Are they really that wasteful?”

"As far as I know, the richest country in the world is the United States, and the second richest is an island country."

"As you just said, television has long been in every household in the island nation. In addition to television, if you want to know whether a family is wealthy, you need to see whether they have a television, a refrigerator, and a washing machine."

"You can understand it as the three turns and one ring of the island nation."

"The richer you are, the less you value money. We value self-reliance and living a simple and frugal life, but for them, efficiency is everything."

“Whether you are an ordinary person or a restaurant owner, efficiency equals money.”

"Bamboo is a plant that can grow in a cycle. The local area has both the conditions and the skills to process bamboo and make disposable chopsticks. The machinery company is trying to help the commune get a few machines to produce convenient chopsticks. By combining manual labor and machines, we can produce a large number of disposable chopsticks."

Lin Kaifeng also mentioned the high labor costs in island countries.

There is no labor cost in Longguo.

The quality is better than theirs, the price is lower than theirs.

Why wouldn't the island country buy disposable chopsticks from the Dragon Country?

Is it a fantasy to turn the bamboos all over the mountains into gold?

Li Chaoyang was speechless.

Whether in terms of status or energy, Li Chaoyang cannot compare to Lin Kaifeng.

Lin Kaifeng vowed that bamboo could be turned into gold.

Is it really possible?