Chapter 3493
Li Xie's attitude towards labor export suddenly made a 180-degree turn. Although everyone on the executive committee was a little surprised, the senior officials of Haihan were obviously happy to see such a change in attitude.
Nowadays, Haihan's overseas territory is constantly expanding. Organizing large-scale immigration from the country to these overseas colonies not only costs high resettlement, but also the actual number of immigrants recruited is far from meeting the local demand for labor.
Human resources are organized from vassal states to participate in infrastructure construction in overseas colonies. The cost of employment is relatively low, and they are basically young and strong personnel. The labor efficiency is higher than that of immigrants transported domestically.
It's just that Li Zhen was unwilling to fully cooperate in this area before, and it was inconvenient for Haihan to suppress him for such a trivial matter. Now that Li Zhen has changed his mind, the Executive Committee is of course willing to cooperate with North Korea.
Since Li Zhi succeeded to the throne, under the instruction of Haihan, North Korea has fully implemented the use of Haihan Mandarin and Chinese characters. Even culture and education have basically used Haihan’s teaching materials and teaching methods. The difference between young Korean workers and Han people is not too big. It is large and can adapt to Haihan's living environment more easily.
Regardless of whether Li Zhen wants to use the export of labor services to open foreign trade channels, or uses this method to further win over Haihan, as long as he can provide a large number of laborers that Haihan needs, other conditions are not impossible to negotiate.
Sure enough, after this statement was approved by the Executive Committee, Li Zhen immediately put forward his request: "Xiao Wang hopes that all Korean labor used by your country outside the mainland must be exported through Seoul."
Obviously Li Zhi also knew that his direct competitor was not other countries, but his brother Li Hao in the north.
Li Zhi knew very well that he could not completely cut off Pyongyang's contacts with Haihan, so he took the initiative to limit the conditions to Haihan's homeland, so that he could at least monopolize the labor channels sent to Haihan's overseas territories in his own hands.
Compared with China, where human resources are relatively abundant, it is obvious that overseas territories far away from the mainland of Haihan have the greatest demand for labor. Li Zhen's request shows that he is thoughtful.
Tao Donglai saw through his mind and said with a smile: "I can agree to it, but the number of workers provided by Seoul must make up for Pyongyang's share."
Li Zhi did not mention Pyongyang, but he never left Pyongyang. In this case, Tao Donglai simply said it openly and did not hide the cooperative relationship between Haihan and the Pyongyang authorities. If he wants to kick out Pyongyang's monopoly, Li Zhi must show enough sincerity.
Having said this, Li Xie had no room for regrets, even if he had to bite the bullet.
After Li Zhi agreed to Tao Donglai's request, he learned from the other party that the number of workers exported by the Pyongyang authorities to Haihan every year was no less than 50,000. This was a small court in Pyongyang with a population of only two million. , definitely not a small number.
However, among the laborers provided by the Pyongyang authorities, Tao Donglai deliberately ignored how many of them went to Haihan and how many of them were sent to overseas regions. Apparently, he wanted Li Xie to compare this. standards to provide labor sent overseas.
Although the southern region under Li Zhi's jurisdiction has a larger population, tens of thousands of people must be organized to work abroad every year, which is by no means a simple task.
Taking away tens of thousands of young people from the country is not a trivial matter that can be done casually. You must know that the chaotic armed forces under Li Zhen add up to a total of only about 100,000 people. Such a twist will greatly affect the domestic recruitment of soldiers in the future.
Of course, it may not be military recruitment that bears the brunt, but production activities. In particular, agricultural production, which requires a large amount of labor, may see a sharp decline in food production after this, which will trigger food price fluctuations and lead to social unrest.
Although the possible consequences would be serious, there was no turning back. Li Xie knew that if he showed any hesitation, he might lose this rare opportunity. He immediately patted his chest and assured everyone in the executive committee that in the future, the number of workers exported to Haihan's overseas territories would not be less than 50,000 per year.
After hearing this, Tao Donglai did not let him go. Instead, he pressed him again: "The standard of fifty thousand people per year is more suitable for Pyongyang, but it is still too few for you. I think one hundred thousand people is about the same." .”
"Ten...hundred thousand...this..."
Li Zhi wanted to immediately refuse Tao Donglai's excessive request, but he couldn't say it. He could only express tactfully that he also had great difficulties: "Master Tao, if so many people are taken away, there will be no labor force in the country." If you grow food, there will be a food shortage!”
Tao Donglai said: "This is simple. How much food can be grown by 100,000 people can be estimated based on previous years' data. We will arrange to export the corresponding quantity to your country to ensure that there is sufficient food supply on the market."
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This sounds very kind and thoughtful for Li Xie. But Li Zhi secretly complained in his heart that this was not for his own sake. He clearly wanted to take this opportunity to control North Korea's grain market.
If North Korea's own food supply is insufficient and it needs to import a large amount of food from Haihan every year to maintain its supply, wouldn't that give Haihan another handle?
Moreover, importing grain requires a large amount of funds, which is equivalent to immediately returning part of the money earned from Haihan through labor export to Haihan.
At this time, Li Zhi had realized that his attempt to play tricks on these old foxes in the Haihan Executive Committee was simply a trick. They had already prepared a series of traps for him to get into.
But is this set okay without drilling? Li Xie knew the answer very well. If he had a choice, it would not be Haihan's style.
At this time, Li Zhi even had a suspicion that Zheng Zha had received Haihan's instructions before and deliberately promoted the benefits of labor export during the meeting, but kept silent about Haihan's various demands in order to drag himself down. Get into the water.
But now that the matter has come to this, what else can be done? Li Zhi could only follow the wishes of the executive committee and continue to handle this matter.
When he came out of the executive committee, Li Xie was in a daze.
The few things that needed to be done were all done, but it didn't seem that Haihan took any advantage. Instead, there were some more troublesome things that were not easy to solve.
Back at his residence, Li Bai asked about his meeting and talks with the executive committee, and Li Zhi said everything went well.
But Li Bai was a little unsure about this: "Since everything goes well, why does my father look unhappy?"
Li Xie frowned and said: "Yes, we obviously had a good conversation, but I still feel that something is wrong."
At this time, he didn't quite understand whether his meeting with the Executive Committee had achieved his goal or whether he had become a self-indulgent lamb.