Yun Duo looked somewhat surprised, but couldn't help thinking, 'Just as I thought.'
Li Bingchen's face regained its indignation, and he said to Yun Duo, "That sounds nice, what joint research? We're clearly going to give those high-yield rice seeds you grew to foreigners. If those foreigners get their hands on them and figure them out, what chance will we have?"
He paused, then said to Yun Duo in a comforting tone, "Yun Duo, don't worry. My father said he will absolutely not let those traitors succeed. Between two evils, we must choose the lesser. Even if we don't promote literacy education, we can't give them high-yield rice seeds."
“It’s just right. The country’s finances are not very sufficient right now, so it would be quite difficult to promote literacy education now. I’ll save up money for two years first, and the effect will be better if we promote it when the country’s finances have more money.”
Despite saying that, Li Bingchen was still somewhat worried, and he had an even bigger... well, actually, his king father had an even bigger worry.
He feared that if those people couldn't achieve their goals through relatively peaceful means like getting a co-governance council to submit a proposal, they might resort to force, even if it was just military intimidation, such as using neighboring countries that they completely controlled to have them conduct "military exercises" on the border or something like that...
In fact, even if Li Bingchen hadn't said anything, Yun Duo could have guessed a bit. History always repeats itself in surprising ways. Even in a different time and space, a different world, a different country, the relationships between nations... if you tear off the fig leaf covering them, it's really not that different.
However, she wasn't too worried about that.
Because... during the time she studied with Zhou Linong, Yun Duo came into contact with a lot of agricultural knowledge that was already considered relatively advanced for this world. Although many things were still in the early stages of theoretical development, or even the theories were not yet fully developed, this gave her a new understanding of the knowledge she didn't quite understand in her previous life, which she remembered only vaguely.
Therefore, meeting Li Bingchen's worried gaze, Yun Duo gave him a reassuring smile: "Since they still haven't given up on our batch of rice, let's give it to them. We can take this opportunity to get them to reduce or offset some of our national debt, easing our financial pressure. Then we'll have money to promote literacy education, right?"
"No, absolutely not! That's one of our country's most important agricultural research projects this year, the hope for our country's farmers to have enough to eat. How can we hand it over to those foreigners so easily? Absolutely not!" Li Bingchen's eyes widened suddenly, and his gaze towards Yun Duo was filled with doubt. If he didn't know Yun Duo's character, he would have almost directly accused her.
Yun Duo didn't keep him in suspense. She pulled Li Bingchen down to sit and said, "Don't rush, let me finish. I just realized that there's an 80-90% chance that that batch of rice won't be suitable for planting. Using rice that can't be planted to exchange for debt relief and offsetting, and for the implementation of good national policies, is a very worthwhile deal. It even forces them to concentrate their research efforts on impossible tasks, taking a long and winding road, thus buying us valuable time for research. No matter which aspect it is, it's a win."
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