Tuwei villages like Liujiazhai are not uncommon in Lingao. [Full text reading] was also very common in various parts of China at that time. The fortress has strong independence and can cope with the government, paying grain and paying taxes. However, it is difficult for the government to control the affairs inside. When the Chuanchuan Group held a political consultation and business association meeting, Liu Jiazhai also sent representatives and elected liaison officers; he handed over food and dispatched officers, and seemed very obedient. When the comprehensive anti-bandit operation in the countryside began, Liujiabao politely refused the task force to enter, but he cooperated very well with the anti-bandit work. Whether it was recruiting rural warriors to perform tasks or supplying supplies, they were all in charge. The task force and the army responsible for suppressing bandits were both impeccable.
But this kind of obedience does not satisfy the Chuan Chuan group - their ideal social form is the absolute control of the political power at the grassroots level. Although these fortresses will not violate the requirements of any ruler, they are also unloyal subjects, united behind closed doors. Whether they are bandits, officers, soldiers, or people like them, they can deal with them all, and they will have a positive effect on maintaining local stability. The disadvantage is that once the situation changes, the situation changes faster than turning the page of a book, and it is difficult for the rulers to regard it as a stable rear foundation.
"If we don't fix the forts in the countryside, we will be the name of the Warring States Period." Wen Desi pointed out at the Civil Affairs Work Conference, "These fort owners are obviously obedient to us, but secretly they may be colluding with bandits, pirates and the government." If there is any trouble, they will immediately turn against you!"
Now Liu Youren has come to study in person. Wu De made a prompt decision and discussed with Wu Nanhai to send the most capable people to Liujiazhai to provide agricultural technology guidance and social work. From this aspect, he would create a breakthrough and gradually win over these semi-independent rural fortresses to form an alliance with the crossing group.
"We have also opened an agricultural supplies store for everyone. If you are interested, you can go to the first floor to see if there is anything you need." Wu Nanhai pretended to be mysterious and said, "We just received a batch of agricultural tools..."
Everyone who participated in the training immediately left the classroom - Lingao's iron farm tools are scarce supplies, not to mention Australian farm tools. Australian things are always known for their exquisiteness and ease of use. Being able to get one is not only useful but also He has a lot of face in the township party.
Tiandihui's agricultural supplies store is located on the first floor of Tiandihui. The door faces the street and is kept in good order. Various agricultural supplies are displayed inside. They are all recently produced by machinery factories and wood products factories for the agricultural promotion movement. There is no new thing that can be called a "big killer" here yet. The items on display are all things that everyone recognizes. However, the advantages in quality, appearance and shape of the products produced by modern industrial capabilities still make the indigenous people linger.
"It's the same hoe, but why does the Australian hoe look so delicate?" Fu Buer said with emotion.
"It's so delicate. Isn't it likely that it won't last a long time?" someone asked doubtfully.
"Not durable? Australian products are famous for being easy to use and durable."
"That's right, look at this steel mouth. It's much better than Blacksmith Li's hoe in the city - his hoe is so brittle! It will break after a while."
"I want this, and this, and this -"
"No matter, I want one of each, not three." This is someone with a lot of money.
There are also those who don’t have much money, so they can only stand back and watch, with a look of envy on their faces, but they are short of money and think that the price of such a good thing will not be cheap - the ironware made by Blacksmith Li is not cheap, let alone this. .
"The total amount of this batch of farm tools is only fifty. Each household is limited to purchasing four pieces. One piece of each type." Ye Yuming said.
Everyone let out a sigh of regret.
"Four pieces, four pieces, how much silver do you need?"
"No money required." Ye Yuming said, "Our store only accepts Lingao grain circulation coupons."
Now everyone was dumbfounded. They all knew that circulation coupons were a kind of treasure currency for Australians. Except for Dongmen City and some surrounding areas, no one uses this - a piece of paper is used as money, which makes me feel uneasy.
"Can't it be done with silver?"
"No, we only accept circulation coupons." Ye Yuming smiled broadly.
There was murmuring below, and someone proposed to exchange silver for circulation certificates.
"Silver cannot be exchanged for circulation coupons, but grain can." Ye Yuming said, "Everyone just go to Delong Grain Store to get it. One meter of brown rice can be exchanged for one yuan."
Immediately, someone took care of his long-term workers and slaves, and hurried back to pick up grain and go to Dongmen Market to exchange for circulation coupons. Money may not be available to everyone, but food is plentiful for small and medium-sized landowners and rich farmers. The price of iron farm tools is not cheap. The prices set by agricultural supplies stores range from 50 to 100 yuan.
For those who can't get rice to exchange for circulation coupons at the moment - such as Lu Da and others, there are also a few people who have some fields at home but have been unable to make money due to various circumstances recently. Yan Ming, the president of the grain bank who had been waiting nearby, came out immediately to promote Delong's small-amount agricultural loan business. In order to fully consider farmers' ability and acceptance, Yan Ming designed this kind of loan to be unsecured, with interest calculated on a monthly basis. The monthly interest is 2%, and the principal and interest will be repaid in one go after the autumn harvest.
Such interest rates are roughly the same as those in Lingao's current rural lending market, and are in the low to mid-range range. Yan Ming believes that this interest will not put much repayment pressure on growers participating in the planting plan.
What Delong lent was a tradable certificate, and what he recycled was also a tradable certificate. If the lender does not have negotiable notes on hand. You have to go to Delong first to exchange grain for circulation coupons and then repay the loan. This extra procedure is actually the financial sector's hope to forcefully expand the circulation of negotiable securities through lending. Even a few minutes in the hands of the natives gave them the concept and confidence to use the currency notes.
Yan Ming talked tirelessly for about five or six minutes with saliva flying around, but the people below still didn't respond. Obviously, everyone was a little overwhelmed by this sudden good thing. No one dares to be the first to try it out - this loan is no better than the loan between fellow villagers. Is it so easy to borrow money from a thief? Everyone has this idea.
In the end, I couldn't resist the temptation of iron farm tools. With Yan Ming's repeated assurances and Zhang Youfu's guarantee, he guaranteed that there was absolutely nothing fishy here. In addition, Chuan Chuan Group worked hard and managed to gain some credibility in Lingao. The rest of the people Finally got a loan. Yan Ming was so exhausted that she was sweating.
"Xiaoye, it's really not easy for you to meet in this world." Yan Ming felt deeply.
"Actually, it's much better. After all, we have some foundation. After all, this year, we have not broken the trust of the people."
"If you ask me, it's better to put all the effort into building intensive farms." Yan Ming looked at the pile of loan documents that she had collected and had just been fingerprinted. "It's so complicated that it will directly drive these farmers and landlords into bankruptcy. Then hire them as laborers on the farm."
"You are cruel! But we still suffer from having too few people. The Committee of Agriculture launched this Tiandihui plan to support a group of private intensive farms to undertake agricultural production, so that we do not have to do everything ourselves - We just need to master the superstructure.”
"So that's it!" Yan Ming nodded, "I kind of understand the thinking of the executive committee."
After Fu Fuji came back from prison, he was as excited as anything. During his stay, he not only learned many new farming methods, but also visited farms that few indigenous people could set foot on - which was an eye-opener.
It's just that his wife once again caused him trouble. After spending hundreds of kilograms of rice to buy farm tools, his wife scolded him for more than an hour. In a fit of rage, Fu Buer beat his wife and completely ignored her. The caretakers who took care of themselves packed up all the farm tools at home, washed the cattle and fed them with concentrate, and prepared to start a big job when the agricultural technicians arrived.
He looked forward to it every day, and finally got the high-yielding seeds and agricultural technicians he had dreamed of. When a young Kun man appeared alone at the entrance of the village carrying a big bag, the whole Meiyang Village was shocked - the Kun thief had never been to Meiyang Village before! All the young girls were called back home, and Fu Buer's elder Fu Yousan, the rich man in the village, was so frightened that he pretended to be sick and hid.
The young thief didn't know that he had caused such a big commotion. He cursed and pulled out his muddy feet from the ridge road. A pair of Jiefang shoes had been wrapped in mud and turned into two big mud balls. He was wearing a standard "Australian suit": a green double-breasted coat. Wearing a colonial-style rattan-shaped bamboo skin and copper basin hat with a butt curtain hanging from the back. It was Wan Lihui.
Wan Lihui's beautiful ideal of a Japanese governor was not realized - not only was he unable to become a governor, he was not even allowed to play with guns freely. He was given a pistol for self-defense, but it only contained six bullets. There is a -D semi-automatic rifle on the farm, but except for the fact that it can fire five bullets during the regular military training every month, it is untouchable.
Wan Lihui and his kidnapped brother Wan Lihuang worked as breeders on the farm, not only serving the animals every day, but also composting and fermenting the rotten fruits shipped from all over to prepare feed for the earthworms. One or two ships of pineapple rice are shipped from Leizhou every day. This kind of fruit is almost everywhere in Xuwen. In ancient times, the circulation level was very poor. A large amount of fruit could not be shipped out at all. It was piled in the ground and rotted in vain. Leizhou Sugar Company sent People buy them at low prices and ship them to Lingao one by one.
This stuff, which oozes water and has a rotten stench, is transported to the farm in baskets and baskets, and the two brothers receive and dispose of it. Handling these things every day, even though he has a mask, Wan Lihui still feels a sweet smell in front of his nose wherever he goes, and even loses his appetite.
Hearing that Tiandihui would assign him to work in the countryside as a roving agricultural technician, Wan Lihui was so moved that he almost cried - he could finally raise earthworms without composting!
"Brother, I'll leave this breeding farm to you." Wan Lihui said solemnly to the brother who was wearing a mask and exuding a strong smell. "This is a major matter related to new agriculture. You must do it well and serve us well." It’s a shame for all the families. From now on, the Secretary-General of the Japanese Governor-General’s Office will be your job!”
After saying these high-sounding words. Wan Lihui quickly slipped away.
Tiandihui adopts a touring system for bringing agricultural technology to the countryside. Each technician is responsible for five or six villages and stays in a village for a few days at a time. This process is repeated in turns, without interruption during the entire production stage, so that problems can be discovered and solved in a timely manner.
Wan Lihui received his luggage, which was configured according to the recommendations of the field exploration department. In response to the problem of unclean drinking water, Wan Lihui packed water purification tablets produced by the pharmaceutical factory and bags of bleaching powder in his luggage. The Ministry of Health has provided simple medical and health training to the roving agricultural technicians, and is also equipped with a medical kit containing some basic medicines - including several well-received Chinese patent medicines recently produced by Runshitang.
"You agricultural technicians are not only the teachers of modern agricultural technology and the seeders of modern science. You are also the propagandists of our great achievements! You must have this kind of consciousness every minute and second outside the green zone!"
Ma Qianzhu said this at a banquet to send off the roving agricultural technicians to the countryside. This made several agricultural technicians feel very uncomfortable - this TD is too responsible, right?
The villages that the patrol technicians are going to are almost in the blue zone within a radius of 40 kilometers from Bairen City. After continuous cleaning up and organizing patrol teams to conduct regular security patrols, this area has become quite safe. The House Committee believes that there will be no safety problems if agricultural technicians go to the countryside alone. There is no need to send special soldiers for escort. In this way, Wan Lihui came to Meiyang Village alone. The patrol sent him five kilometers away from the village, gave him directions, and allowed him to enter the village on his own.
It took him two and a half hours to walk this mere five-kilometer road. During the rainy season, the ridge road was not only filled with mud and water, but also extremely sticky. It took a lot of effort to move even one step. Wan Lihui has always regarded himself as the son of a real farmer, but the conditions in the rural areas of Lingao in the 17th century still shocked Wan Lihui. This humble field road alone showed how huge the gap was over the past few hundred years. .
Wan Lihui looked desperately at his feet that were stuck in the yellow mud. There was a possibility that the boots on his feet would be dragged off at any time - losing a pair of combat boots was a serious loss of not being able to party! Wan Lihui pulled out his feet with all his strength, and even took off his shoes and socks. The shoes were tied together with laces and hung directly around the neck.
Walking on the dirt road with bare feet is indeed much more comfortable. Wan Lihui has never walked barefoot. Even in rural areas in modern time and space, there are many remnants on the ground such as broken glass and rusty iron pieces.
Wan Lihui entered Meiyang Village with this image.
Meiyang Village, where Fu Buer is located, is one of many small villages scattered along the Wenlan River, located on a small slope. The village is not big, with many thorny shrubs planted around it as a barrier against bandits, and a small river surrounding it. There is also a simple suspension bridge over the river. Because public security has improved greatly recently, Ding Zhuang, who was originally stationed at the bridge, has been withdrawn. Only women washed and washed rice at the river port there.
At this time, the women were gone, and only Fu Buer and his domestic boy stood at the bridge to greet him, the "chief". In addition to being a client of the Tiandihui, Fu Buer was also the "liaison officer" of the village, traveling across the countryside to the countryside. Meiyang Village is supposed to be hosted by him. Many curious children and women stood in the distance, watching and commenting on his attire and appearance, despite the dissuasion of their families.
Wan Lihui couldn't help but blush as he listened to the laughter and comments coming from the women from time to time. Now the women were talking even more enthusiastically.
Wan Lihui and Fu Buer exchanged polite words and followed him home. Most of the houses in the village are houses with bamboo strip walls and straw roofs - the residences of the poor. It can be seen that there are several wealthy families here. The layout of the buildings in the village is very random, because there are only about thirty households in the village, so the population is small, so it does not seem crowded. Dirty water and garbage were everywhere. Pigs and chickens wandered leisurely in the mud, sometimes looking for food in the garbage.
"This environment!" Wan Lihui said in his heart, recalling all the vaccinations he had received and the medicines he had brought.
"This is it." Fu Buer brought him to the gate of a courtyard. Fu Buer's family is considered to be one of the better-off families in the village. When you enter, you will see a large courtyard with three brick main rooms in the middle and wing rooms on both sides. They are all inhabited. There is also a side yard used for raising livestock, stacking farm tools and housing long-term workers.
Fu Buer cleaned a wing room for Wan Lihui to stay and rest. Wan Lihui saw that the whole environment was quite clean, so he decided to live here.
As soon as I opened my big backpack, I heard a woman in the main room quickly chirping and screaming in Lingao dialect, followed by screams and wails like a slaughtering pig. Wan Lihui was confused for a moment.
"This is the head of the family beating his wife." The person who spoke was the domestic girl of Fu Buer's family. Her name is Fu Xi, a girl about thirteen or fourteen years old. Her clothes are quite shabby, but she looks very neat and has two black braids. Come in with a teapot. Meeting Wan Lihui was a blessing.
"Can you speak Mandarin?" Wan Lihui was surprised. Fu Xi's Mandarin is not very standard, but at least he can communicate. It's much better than my own Lingao talk that even people in Lingao may not understand.
"I know a little bit, I go to school in Fangcaodi."
"Going to school? Are you a student at a national school?"
"Yes, the master sent me to study," Fu Xi said while helping to pack his luggage. "The master said you were coming because there was no one in the family who could understand Mandarin, so he called you back."
"Oh, you will still go to school after I leave?"
"Of course, the national school is much more interesting than here, the food is good, and it's not dirty." The girl curled her lips, "Our family is better in the village. The master became very clean after he came back as a prisoner last year. ”
"Your master is quite open-minded and is willing to send girls to school." Wan Lihui said.
"He was reluctant to let Fu Qing and Fu Xiang do their work. He asked me to learn to read and keep accounts with an abacus. He also wanted to learn spinning and other things."
There are four domestic boys in Fu Buer's family. In addition to these three, there is also an older one named Fu Fu. I sent it to Fu Buer when the Spring Travel Group was recruiting young men.
"It is said that he served as a soldier in the security group." Fu Xi said, "When you become a soldier, you become wild. The master was originally counting on his military salary, but in the end he didn't get a penny. He was so angry that he cursed his mother." She burst into laughter at this point. I laughed, probably because I felt very happy! ~!
