The travelers decided to implement a completely different civil administration model in the first and second production teams of Bairentan, which they fully controlled. That is, the people's commune system implemented in China in the 1960s and 1970s.
The people's commune system began in 1958 and was officially abolished in 1985, existing for a total of 27 years. The most profound impression it leaves on people is "one big boy and two boys". However, the people's communes that actually operate are guided by the 1962 "Draft Amendment to the Regulations on the Work of Rural People's Communes" and adopt a three-level ownership, team-based production and operation model, while maintaining the people's commune's political and social integration system.
under this system. The people's commune is not only a political unit in rural areas, but also a production and operation entity in rural areas. The secretary of the commune is not only responsible for party affairs, but also manages industrial and agricultural production and civil affairs. On the bad side, the communes have too much and too wide control, the institutions are bloated, the system is rigid, the distribution system is too equal, and the commune members are not very motivated to produce.
On the bright side, the 27 years under the people's commune system were the 27 years in which the Chinese government had the strictest control over rural society and farmers in history - political power was not sent to the countryside, and the situation of clan tyrants controlling power at the grassroots level in rural areas was basically eliminated. In that era of sluggish economic development, backward productivity, and low literacy levels among the people, the people's communes played a role in concentrating efforts on major issues and stabilizing social order. Rural primary medical services, popular education, water conservancy, and mechanization have all made great progress during this period. The high concentration of power under the people's commune system and its strong control over human and material resources are extremely attractive to travelers.
Some members are concerned about the agricultural production efficiency under this system: During the People's Commune period, the actual agricultural productivity of each labor force has been declining. Will the adoption of such a system by time-travelers cause the same problem?
"I personally think it doesn't matter. The purpose of this people's commune is not agricultural production but civil administration." Ma Qianzhu explained, "It can effectively integrate administration, people's livelihood, public security, education, and military to form a Completely attached to our social fabric.”
This new grassroots government accepts the leadership of the Internal Affairs Committee under the Executive Committee in terms of structure and the leadership of various professional groups on specific matters.
The commune adopts the household registration system. With the household as the basic unit, single people must also start their own business. The registered population, regardless of age or sex, is called "members". Those members who have obtained employee qualifications will enjoy relevant benefits in accordance with regulations.
Each household has a piece of private land. Private land cannot be transferred but can be inherited. It is up to the head of the household to decide what to plant on the private land. Private land is not allocated based on head count, but only on a household basis. Households with a large population will be allocated some area in proportion. A standard household (the area of 4 people is 1, so for every additional person in the household registration, the coefficient increases by o.1, and is capped when it increases to 1.5 - the purpose is to promote family separation and avoid the formation of a large family with several generations living under the same roof. If families are separated, the cohesion of the family will be reduced, which can effectively prevent some families from doing evil because there are many men.
The Executive Committee has considered that after the introduction of this policy, there may be "fake separation" for the purpose of allocating more land, just as "fake divorce" occurred in the original time and space for demolition, and stipulates that only married couples will be given private land during the separation. , single men and women who separate their families can set up household registration, but they cannot enjoy private land and must wait until they get married.
The houses of co-operative members are built by the passers-by and then sold to co-operative members according to relevant welfare policies, but each household can only enjoy this benefit once. Members are not allowed to build their own houses within the jurisdiction of the state without the consent of the House of Representatives. Members can freely buy, sell, donate, or inherit their houses, but only after paying the house payment.
Members are not allocated land other than their own plots. There are three basic incomes: the first is the output of the family's private land; the second is the work points obtained by participating in the commune's labor dispatch; the third is the income from side jobs.
Among the members, men aged 18 to 55 and women aged 18 to 45 are called the entire labor force. Males aged 13 to 17 and 56 to 65 and females aged 13 to 17 and 46 to 55 are called semi-laborers. In principle, every man and woman in the semi-labor force and full labor force must participate in commune work assignments and complete a certain number of basic days of attendance, unless they are recruiting for work, joining the army, or going to school. Extra work beyond the basic attendance days will be regarded as overtime work, and the labor department of the executive committee will pay work points according to a coefficient of 1.2.
Those who are not in this age group are called auxiliary labor. If they are willing to participate in dispatched work and can complete it, they can also obtain work points, but the number of days of attendance is not specified.
Employment in industrial and commercial enterprises established by the public will be given priority in recruiting from members. After becoming an enterprise worker, the status of a commune member remains unchanged, and he is still under the management of the commune in terms of administration, life, and justice. However, his labor management and remuneration are the responsibility of the recruiting enterprise, and the commune no longer has any involvement.
The commune management system adopts three-level management: commune-village-member group. The members' group is the most basic unit. Every eight to ten households form a group. There are chief and deputy group leaders in the group, who are responsible for conveying and supervising government orders, and supervising and managing the members.
As a first-level political power, the village has a village committee, production group, militia group, and women's group. Unlike villages under indirect control such as Yanchang Village, in villages under Bairen Commune, various administrative organizations in the village are under the leadership of the commune.
At the commune level, there are a series of administrative, science, education, culture and health departments such as social department, finance department, production department, publicity department, culture and education department, judicial office, militia team, women's federation, health station, agricultural technology station, radio station, junior primary school, and kindergarten. department. However, due to the lack of sufficient professionals, it is still just a plan and needs to be gradually improved.
Every cooperative member with more than half of the labor force must pay an income tax of 5% of the annual income, regardless of whether the income comes from work points or corporate wages. Income from private land is exempt from agricultural tax, and the income of cooperative members under the age of 15 is exempt from tax. The tax revenue is divided between the traversers and the commune at a ratio of 4:6. The commune uses this fee to maintain daily administrative expenses and pay the wages of off-duty personnel.
On the busy construction site outside the south gate of Bairen City, an inconspicuous wooden sign with black letters on a white ground was hung at the door of a small courtyard that was completed first: "Bairentan Commune". The president of the commune is concurrently served by Wu De. To be honest, none of the few employees in the production team who are actively moving closer to the organization can understand the obscure and awkward vocabulary in the "Regulations on the Management of Commune Organizations". Even Wu De himself has to call the executive committee from time to time to ask about certain details.
Lin Xing was appointed as the vice president, but he did not take up the post immediately. Instead, he and several others were sent to Yanchang Village to participate in the first cadre training class of the Salt Farm Farmers' Workshop hosted by Du Wen. Lin Xing and others all knew that they were preparing to "become officials" - the elders called them "Ti Gan". This made them feel both sudden and frightened. Before leaving, Wu De called a few people to the construction site and pointed to a tall house that was about to be completed:
"You will live in it from now on."
These "quasi-cadres" are used to the incredible things created by their superiors. What's more, they personally led the laborers to build the houses, but in their wildest fantasies, such high-rise houses have nothing to do with themselves. Everyone was stunned. After a while, Lin Xingcai asked tremblingly:
"Wuchang, are you telling the truth?"
"Of course, we always keep our word."
"How much does it cost to live there--" Lin Xing was certainly not so arrogant that Shorthair would give them a house for free.
"Sixty taels of silver, if you employees buy it, just discount it by fifty-four taels."
This price did not cause much shock. Judging from the price and wage levels in the late Ming Dynasty, this price was at an average level.
When they heard that the money could be paid year by year in ten or twenty years, the smiles on their faces became even more obvious: it is a rare good thing to pay back the money after housing.
Soon, the news spread among the production team. After work every day, someone would always run to the construction site to see the houses that would belong to them in the future. Ma Peng was one of them. After he returned to the production team, he followed the instructions Family workers are given a separate work shed. The rags he brought and anything related to cloth were confiscated, but as compensation, he got new clothes, mats and quilts. The only thing that made him unhappy was that his mother also enjoyed the "purification" he had tasted back then. When he saw his mother who had put on new clothes and had a piece of cloth wrapped around her head, Ma Peng's thoughts were extremely complicated - this A bunch of short-haired people really don’t respect the elderly.
However, this time he quit his job at Fu Fuji's family after going back to work on the farm. In addition to the good food here in Short Hair, the main reason was that he could no longer get used to the bites of fleas and bedbugs, the dark and dilapidated house, and the turbid water... ...Although short-haired people are not blessed, these most ordinary things in short-haired people's daily lives were not available in the past life.
Now Ma Peng works in a brick and tile field, digging and sifting soil every day. The rumbling sound of machines no longer makes him curious or surprised. He and his co-workers no longer have the spears of short-haired guards around them, but their enthusiasm for work is unprecedentedly high - they are building bricks and mortar for their own houses. A new life that is completely different from the past is about to begin.
