usatvline Chapter 812 Famine
Chapter 812 Famine
After hearing what Sir Carl said, Chen Yang did not admit it, but he did not deny it either.
He didn't think about being a savior or anything like that, he just wanted to use this card to whitewash his identity.
He didn't want to be called to the Far East Military Tribunal as a Class A war criminal someday in the future...
Chen Yang knew very well that the problems he had could not be proven by Director Dai or Zheng Jiemin.
Not to mention anything else, just the fact that he provided efficient material supplies to the Japanese is something he couldn't explain even if he had a lot of mouths.
In addition to transporting supplies, there was also large-scale transportation of poison gas bombs.
Once this inhumane lethal weapon is touched, it will be useless even if his heart is red, or even his whole body is red.
But in this situation, Chen Yang has no choice. Sitting in his position, he can see more and provide more useful information for Shancheng.
But if you ask him why he didn't cooperate with the Red Party when he knew it would win in the future...
As for this problem, in his opinion, the current Red Party is not strong enough to fight against the Japanese on the front battlefield.
Even if he had important intelligence to tell the Red Party, their military strength was not enough to compete with the Japanese.
Moreover, the fewer people who knew about his identity, the safer he would be.
The ancients said that great loyalty may seem like treachery, but Chen Yang is the opposite. When everyone thinks he is a traitor and a man who will do anything for money, he is safest at this time.
As for the use of the famous brand of Penicillin, it was the escape route he left for himself...
"Sir Carl, I don't want to be a savior." Chen Yang explained with a smile: "I just want to make everyone's interests more stable."
"You should know that the essence of any medicine is to serve humanity."
"You are putting the value of medicine above that of human beings. It is true that you can make huge profits in the short term, but this does not make sense in economics."
"If we want to circulate medicine quickly, we have to make the price of medicine affordable."
"People are the foundation. We produce so many medicines not to store them in the warehouse and let them expire."
"This stuff is not milk that can be thrown away casually."
Karl pondered for a moment and said, "Minister Chen is right. There is an essential difference between medicine and milk."
"These Jews are so abominable. If they hadn't caused so much trouble, drug prices would have remained stable for a while."
Chen Yang did not refute. In fact, without the Jews' interference, the price of penicillin would also start to fall.
Since the raw material has been changed to corn, the cost of drug production has been greatly reduced and the efficiency has also been greatly increased.
If we maintain the original price at this time, it will slow down sales.
It is only a matter of time before the price of penicillin becomes affordable.
Only when more people can afford the medicine, will the value of Chen Yang's pharmaceutical factory be seen by more and more people and gradually recognized by everyone.
He didn't want penicillin to become a means for capital to exploit the poor.
"Sir Carl, you don't have to worry about the penicillin. I believe that based on the current sales situation, I can guarantee that your profits will not decrease."
"As for the future, it is only a matter of time before the price of penicillin becomes affordable. Moreover, we also donate a batch of medicines to ICRC every year to help them with humanitarian relief."
"Humanitarian aid? Minister Chen, you said you didn't want to be a savior."
Sir Carl said with a smile: "I am really surprised. Minister Chen, you are a profit-seeking person in the eyes of outsiders. How could you suddenly think of this?"
"If you have this idea, China currently has a good opportunity."
"With the resources and transportation network you have, you have every chance of becoming the savior."
Chen Yang was stunned for a moment, and said suspiciously: "Sir Carl, I don't quite understand what you mean."
Sir Carl said calmly: "Minister Chen, don't you know that there is a famine in Henan?"
After saying this, Sir Carl turned and left the office of the Joint Transport Department without saying anything else.
Chen Yang was not the first nor the last to know about the famine in Henan.
Future World once made a movie called "1942", and the scene in the movie was about the famine in Henan.
The root cause of this incident can be attributed to the Huayuankou Massacre in 1938. The diversion of the Yellow River resulted in a lack of water for irrigation in most parts of Henan.
In the following years, the drought became more severe.
The movie depicts the year 1942, but the reality was that it had already begun in the summer of 1941.
Moreover, this period lasted from the summer of 1941 to 1943, a full year and a half.
According to the records of a foreign media reporter named Theodore White, this famine caused the starvation to death of nearly 300 million people in Henan.
At that time, the population of Henan was only 10 million, which means that the famine caused the death of one-third of the people in Henan.
According to reports received by Shancheng, the death toll from the famine was 1,026.
Of course, for now, the Shancheng side has no idea that this small disaster, which everyone is accustomed to, will turn into a rare major famine in the history of the Republic of China in a year.
At this time, Shancheng was also preparing to apply for a loan from the US government on the grounds that northern Shaanxi had indeed been suffering from years of drought.
As to whether the loans they applied for will be used for disaster relief, it is unknown.
After all, the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region is now the Red Party’s territory. The Red Party has opened up a large number of bases in southern and northern Shaanxi, and the mountain city cannot penetrate at all.
The so-called disaster relief is just a symbolic gesture.
Since you places don't listen to the orders from the mountain city, how can they care about the lives of the local people?
But it is different in Henan. Even though there have been signs of famine this year, the Henan Provincial Government has not given up on collecting taxes.
Ordinary people can't even afford to eat, but the government still wants to collect taxes. Isn't this pushing people into a desperate situation?
Chen Yang was playing with the business card of Archimonde given to him by Sir Carl.
A sudden idea flashed through my mind. Could it be that Archimonde came to China to target these disaster victims?
You have to know that what Southeast Asia is not short of is food. The Netherlands and Britain have so many colonies. If they plan to sell food at a high price, they can indeed raise a lot of money in a short period of time.
Therefore, Archimonde's purpose in looking for me was probably not to bargain, but to use my transportation network to transport food to the disaster area and make huge profits...
I'll post two chapters today. Don't be nervous. The procedure is to have a kidney puncture. However, the indicators are not very good at the moment, so I may need to go to a big hospital for a follow-up examination.