This mentality has both advantages and disadvantages, but it's indeed a bit unusual in the bureaucratic world where the essence lies in the interplay between the two sides. During this process, both sides need to make some preliminary investment, but the frugal mentality of the Li family's patriarch meant he was destined not to put in too much before a result was achieved.
This resulted in him rarely getting the opportunity to cooperate with others again after one cooperation.
Just like this time, without Li family patriarch's instruction, Dong Tianyu and Ye Liuyun would definitely collect resources and send them to the War Reserve Warehouse. However, the resources they would collect are considered private property of both families without his instruction.
But after the arrangement of the Li family patriarch, the resources they send to the War Reserve Warehouse in the future would become public property for everyone to use.