Agricultural methods, water conservancy construction, promotion of improved varieties and soil-agricultural blending materials have doubled the crop yield per mu through the promotion of Tiandihui. [Read the latest chapter] Farming has become a profitable thing for many farmers instead of just making a living. All families with a little more land are expanding their operations. Many fields that were originally abandoned due to low yields and unprofitability have been restored to cultivation.
The result is that labor becomes expensive. Lingao was not originally a place with abundant labor force. In the past, it was simply low agricultural output and low farmers' enthusiasm for production that covered up this problem. Now the demand for labor has greatly increased, but a large number of idle rural laborers have been absorbed into becoming industrial workers. The problem of labor shortage was immediately exposed with the addition of the 6th Navy and the entry into schools.
The direct response to the shortage of labor is the skyrocketing price of labor. This is heartbreaking for the landlords and rich peasants who are used to getting people to work for a day with a full meal and a little money. People's pursuit of profit is innate.
The lady of the house is probably teasing everyone every day, right? "The wife of the house is Fu Yijin's mother, so Fu Fu still retains a little politeness. However, the children in the family have always hated and feared the wife of the house, even his own children and daughters are no exception.
Fu Xi laughed a few times, of course, but now that the food is good, the housewife is not as stingy as before. Otherwise, everyone would be clamoring to deregister. "
With labor prices rising, job opportunities are everywhere. Including Bairen City, where workers are being recruited every day, the danger of losing their source of livelihood or even starving to death no longer exists if they leave their home. If the head of any household continues to exploit and abuse his slaves, they can vote with their feet and walk away to provide a good life for the Australians. The owner has lost a labor force in vain. Even if he goes to recover, he will only be able to get back a small amount of money. It is completely impossible to buy another slave with this kind of money now. There are more options for the poor. Whether they work for the Australians, serve as soldiers or "make a living", it is more than enough. Not to mention that the Australians now have extremely strict regulations on human trafficking and slave ownership requires paying a heavy tax.
Fu Yijin smiled awkwardly and said nothing. After Fu Fu asked about how the village seemed to be getting bigger, he realized that Meiyang Village had indeed expanded much more than before. The immigrants assigned to Meiyang Village, with the help of the Civil Affairs People's Committee and the Tiandi Society, built a new residential area on the wasteland on the other side of the river outside Meiyang Village according to several building plans of the standard village made by Wen Desi. . In this way, the household registration number of the entire Meiyang Village expanded to a large village with more than 150 households and a population of nearly 1,000 people.
There are too many outsiders in the village, and the village is no longer quiet. Fu Yijin frowned and complained.
Although my father is the village chief, the outsiders don't take him seriously. Not long ago, there was a fight over the release of water. "
After the construction of farmland water conservancy is completed, we no longer rely on the weather for food. But when there is a drought, which piece of land should be drained first and how much water should be released becomes the focus of farmers' struggle.
Why? "Fu Fu found it strange that most of the immigrants were bullied. During the meeting before returning home this time, the officers of the Political Department even promoted the spirit of uniting immigrants and helping immigrants."
Fu Yijin didn't want to talk much. She felt that a woman shouldn't talk too much about this matter. She didn't think it was easy for her to tell the matter clearly. She was ugly.
Fu Xineng said how could immigrants be bullied? Now half are immigrants and half are villagers. Moreover, the immigrants uniformly divided the land and received food, agricultural tools and seeds. The rich and the poor shared the land. Once again, we arrived at a strange place and everyone was in a tense mood.
In our village, people are poor, rich, and poor, and the rich are bullied by immigrants. The poor in the village only treat it as a joke to see who is willing to stand up. "
That's it. "Fu Fu thinks this thing is quite new. Doesn't this mean immigrants bully the villagers?"
Outsiders just have no conscience. "Fu Yijin complained that the land originally belonged to our village, but now they have been given so much food and the food for the first year from outside households. The labor to build the houses came from our village. Once they settled down with the land, they started to tremble. It's over." Fu Yijin probably felt that the villagers had suffered too much from this matter, so he couldn't help but ramble on. She was uneducated and spoke in an incoherent manner. She would talk about this thing and that thing, making Fu Fu confused. All in all, it was all immigrants who were unreasonable and had no conscience.
You can't say that. "Fu Xi's own status means that his feelings for Meiyang Village are not that deep. The land occupied by outsiders is wasteland that has not been cultivated in the village for many years. Everyone helped to open up wasteland and build houses, but the elders also gave money, so it is not in vain. . Besides, the rations for the first year and so on are just fines for concealing the acres of land and are not doing a good deed. It’s hard to say who owes whom. But then again, it’s true that the resettled households feel that they have too many people and are dissatisfied with the village’s management. It needs to be fair and practical. It’s up to them to take the lead. That’s how the trouble started last time.”
In this way, everyone will not become enemies? "
That's not the case. After the fight over the water release last time, the resident policeman and the owner of the house went to have tea with the two leaders and everyone finally made peace. Anyway, there was no life-threatening lawsuit. People who look up and look down all the time can't prepare for fights every day. But now no one cares about Hanhe Chujie. Consider yourself unlucky if you lose a duck and run to the other side. "
Fu Fu was instilled in the army with the idea of "uniting the brain" and couldn't help but blurt it out.
this is not good. "
Of course it's not good. It’s hard for the head of the family, the village chief, to be a civil servant except for the officials who are arranged by the above and they won’t obey you at all.
Wan Changlai teaches new farming methods and is a client of Tiandihui, but both parties are unwilling to participate together. It takes two sessions to finish. It would be difficult to do anything in the village, and the two sides would definitely be at odds with each other. The head of the family, the village chief, is half the village chief. Fu Xi said as she pulled some wild flowers from the roadside and made a garland of flowers. I think the master of the house will probably complain to Wan Chang again in the evening. "
Don’t you care? "
Wan Chang said that he was from the Tiandihui and "didn't care about it." Fu Yijin continued to complain and asked his father to report it to his superiors. Dad doesn’t dare to go.”
It's not because he's afraid that the chief will dislike him for not being able to do things and become the village chief. "Fu Xi has no respect or fear for the master of the house. Anyway, he is just going to stay here until a big incident occurs."
A man was walking and joking towards the village. The part where the original residents lived is now called the East Village. The layout has not changed much. Most of the houses are sunny. However, the river at the entrance of the village has become much clearer. Active activities have cleaned up the river. The original rickety wooden bridge has also been rebuilt. became sufficiently broad and strong.
A new public toilet was built at the entrance of the village. According to Fu Xi, there is also one at the other end of the village. There is nothing special about the public toilet itself, except that the cesspool is made of bricks and is plastered with cement. Everyone says that Australians are too extravagant. It is said that this is to produce biogas. As of now, no one knows what the biogas is and what it is used for. Know.
It is said that this is called unified accumulation of talismans. Xi said that this way the home will be much more hygienic. "
The houses in the East Village look dilapidated compared to the fortress-style houses in the West Village. Although the new immigrants in the West Village live in strange houses that the people here have never seen before, Fu Fu knows that although each household occupies a small area, it has all the facilities, and it is an all-brick house that does not leak in summer and does not leak in winter. It is very comfortable to live in the wind. Just the brick and tile houses outshine almost all the aborigines in East Village. You must know that in the past, only a handful of households in Meiyang Village lived in brick and tile houses. The rest of the houses are all made of bamboo, the walls are pasted with yellow mud, and the top layer is painted with white ash. Even if they have elaborate roofs, it goes without saying that the roofs are all straw.
No wonder immigrants and indigenous people suddenly have conflicts. Fu Fu thought the gap was too big. He himself didn't understand why the elders were so kind to the immigrants and built them free houses that only landlords could live in in the past.
The house of Fu You'er's family had just been renovated. After the end of the land tenure last year, Tianchihui let him sharecrop the land on a sharecropping basis out of consideration of setting a pacesetter. The family did not receive most of the land from Fu You'er's family. Fu Buer gained success in land improvement and sparse rice planting and built up confidence, so he was willing to invest and listen to the guidance of agricultural technicians. This year he got a huge harvest and only sold seeds from Tiandihui to improve the soil. Tens of thousands of broad beans were sold.
After getting money and becoming the village chief, Fu Buer immediately started renovating the house according to the traditional thinking of Chinese farmers. This matter immediately attracted the attention of Ye Yuming and Wu Nanhai. In order to make Fu Buer a pacesetter for new agriculture and new countryside, and at the same time enable farmers to develop in the next step
"Garden economy" is a vivid example of a sideline business. Fu Buer was encouraged by Wan Lihui to develop an Australian-style farmhouse. Tiandihui specially invited designers and workers from Lingao Construction Company to build this house for the Fu family based on the drawings of various "new rural" houses in the big library and the specific local conditions.
In addition to living in this house, it also serves as a side business, storage, and processing. The structural design is reasonable and the space is fully utilized. It is more than a hundred years ahead of the best landlord's house in Lingao in terms of practicality and residence. The most luxurious thing is that there is a special toilet in this house instead of the original cesspool.
Of course, Fu Buer paid a high price for this house. After the house was built, he was penniless and had to apply for a loan from the Tiandi Society to start production activities. a! ~!
