The vast wastelands on both sides of the Nandu River also attracted agricultural residents to establish plantations.
"This time, I plan to inspect Haikou and make plans for building the first demonstration farm in the north of Hainan Island."
Wu Nanhai nodded: "Then let Dugu propose and go with you. He told me that he wants to go to Wenchang, and focus on the first batch of immigrants allocated to the agricultural population, and select a group of future employees."
What Dugu Sui does every day is to plant rice with bare feet, and every night he dreams about washing his feet and landing on the beach. If the agricultural port builds a reclamation system, someone will have the land, and it will naturally be a steel barrier to the planned economy, which is different from what he supports. The political spectrums of a man are quite overlapping, so naturally they can be regarded as an upward thoroughfare. Therefore, he is very motivated and is a leader in the running department.
The two men were well aware of Dugu's intention to propose marriage but did not point it out: after all, what they did was beneficial to the department.
When the sun was shining brightly that day, Yun Suji and Dugu Sui took four carriages and set off from Lingao in a mighty manner. When the sun was about three o'clock in the morning, they had already stopped at Chengmai County Station.
After the victory of the Lingao Defense Battle, as part of the "Grand Cross Road" transportation plan, the Jiaotong Port organized a prisoner-of-war brigade to invest more than 3,000 people. It took two months to complete the Chengmai Highway along the direction of the Hainan West Line Expressway in the old time and space. The 10⊥ cinder gravel road to Qiongzhou Prefecture is under construction. All the stations along the way have been renovated, and Poinciana trees are planted on both sides of the road. In the old time and space, the Poinciana plant was tall, drooping due to the horizontal spread of the crown, thick and broad, and attracted the wind. It played the role of a shade tree in tropical areas. In the new time and space, the Poinciana tree was also selected as a tropical street tree by the transportation department. Lush growth grows on both sides of the roads in Lingao, Sanya and other places.
Now there is a new scenery on the roadside. Black telegraph poles have been erected, and the first phase of the island's wired telegraph project is roughly completed. Cable telegraphy has connected Chengmai, Qiongshan and Wenchang from Lingao to the west.
Yun Suji came all the way. What you see is farmland that has been harvested. Now the farmland is planted with rice field green manure: milkvetch. As far as the eye can see, there is already a little bit of greenery. Due to his keen observation ability, which he has been working on the front line of agricultural technicians for a long time, he noticed at a glance that the number of farmers in the fields was obviously low.
"A good man doesn't make six months' worth of money." He said secretly.
This is a common saying, although it is not June yet. But the busy season of autumn harvest and autumn planting has passed, and farmers have returned to storage. During the slack period, very few people go to the fields. In the past, Yun Suji ridiculed the Southeast Asian natives for sitting idle all day. I originally thought that this saying among the people was just a word of mouth, who would let money go without making any money. But in the past two or three years in Hainan, he deeply felt the real gold contained in this sentence.
The year after the Senate first landed. The villagers see money like mosquitoes see blood, and the speed of various constructions is repeatedly refreshed under the generous rewards. However, with the help of Tiandihui, after the initial improvement of rural life, many people have become rich, although the future dad tea has not yet been born. It can be said that in the more than a dozen relatively affluent villages around Dongmen City, there are already many people who are addicted to the "Australian lifestyle" and "senior enjoyment". These farmers who have become rich spend their days doing nothing but drinking tea and drinking in Dongmen Market, or squatting in the shop and driving a big boat. They know that they can live a better life if they work harder, but they are already very satisfied with their current life. Some people simply did not even go to work for the farmland water conservancy construction corvee that was required every winter. Directly hire new immigrants to do the work.
This is something not only felt by him and Tiandihui, but also by veterans on the front lines of industry, agriculture, and civil affairs. Elders with financial expertise proposed that agricultural taxes should be appropriately increased and the gap between industry and agriculture should be expanded to reduce farmers' disposable income.
This is almost a common practice in late-industrial countries. In the absence of overseas markets, the industrial system was built by maximizing the exploitation of rural surplus value. Although the Senate has a huge overseas market, it is always dissatisfied with its needs for funds and manpower.
In the view of financial professionals, the living standards of farmers under the rule of the Senate have improved too quickly. The increase in disposable income makes them inevitably use their surplus accumulation to improve their lives - this is human nature. but. The industrial system of the Senate is already very weak. A large amount of accumulation and industrial production capacity must be used to produce export goods and expand infrastructure investment. Now in order to meet the needs of the private market and maintain the stability of the currency value of circulating notes. We have to increase the production and sales of goods for the local market.
This proposal caused great controversy within the Senate: the Senate wanted to make Lingao's new society have a "beacon effect", and improving the living conditions of farmers was the most effective approach in this time and space. Forcefully suppress farmers’ income. Not only will it damage this policy, it will also have a negative impact on people's hearts.
Those who have good intentions will find another way and list on BBS a history of the development of Hainan's agricultural reclamation system with workers from Sichuan and Hunan as the main body. After reading that post, Yun Suji couldn't help but feel sad, which strengthened their determination to go around and ask for more shares from the immigrants of the "Engine" program.
Although the Planning Institute is pleased with the efforts of agricultural dignitaries, some people still question whether northerners can grow rice and tropical crops. Dugu Sui, who was in charge of the running department at the time, replied: "The disciplinary requirements in plantations are no less than those in industry and mining. We have enough whips and gallows."
No one doubts this.
The northern immigrants resettled in Qiongbei are interspersed with Fujianese and resettled according to the standard village model. Among them, 50 standard villages have been established in Lingao, 35 in Chengmai and 12 in Qiongshan.
What is annoying is that the thinking of "getting rich and settling down" prevents Standard Village from maximizing efficiency. Wu Nanhai was very dissatisfied with this - he had praised Haikou in the Government Affairs Council, and he couldn't explain it unless the production was captured. So I told them to read and listen to as much as possible during this survey and try to find out the crux of the problem.
"The traditional thinking that a good man doesn't make six months' worth of money must be broken through farming!" Yun Suji thought to himself.
Out of the importance they attach to Qiongzhou's capital, the Senate has not directly entered Qiongzhou's capital so far. Instead, a new town will be built in the Haikou area. At the same time, an army base was also established: Haikou Fort.
As for Tang Yunwen's navy, which was originally stationed at Baisha Water Village in Haikou, it has now become a complete display. Soon after Tang Shen's defeat in Chengmai, he sent people to Guangzhou and other places to seek transfer. Now he neither patrols nor does his job, but receives a monthly allowance of 800 yuan in circulation coupons from the Senate, waiting for transfer. The remaining remnant soldiers all depended on the "payment" of the Senate - of course it was not free, they had to be exchanged for work. Many of the able-bodied soldiers simply defected to the Australians, and the rest were the old, weak, sick and disabled who were looked down upon by the Australians.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism established a horse transfer station using the post station in Chengmai. Yun Suji and Dugu proposed to change horses and move on. Mongolian horses are not very adaptable to the environment in Hainan, and their mortality rate is quite high, so they must be used with care.
On the left and right of the four carriages stood a veteran guard, eight in total. They wore tropical colonial helmets, short-sleeved mango shoes, and pistols. All the carriages looked exactly the same, but the two of them were riding in the fourth carriage. The first three carriages were filled with naturalized citizens and cadres who were going together. Luggage, large and small, was neatly bundled on top of the carriage.
When passing by Shishan, Yun Suji spoke up. He proposed to Dugu and asked about the deeds of the agricultural vehicle detachment chasing the defeated Ming army in this area. Although Dugu did not participate in the battle, he went to the battlefield soon after the battle. He knew a lot about this, and he was so happy talking that he even took out his pad and drew a picture of the battlefield situation for Yun Suji.
"At that time, there was a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. Agricultural vehicles chased them all the way. There were corpses all over the ground. It was like a river of blood..." He couldn't help but immersed in his memories. "Look, that was the resting place built after the battle. The monument was specially built for the dead Ming army soldiers, and under the hill are the remains and ashes of the fallen soldiers." He pointed to the lonely stone monument standing on a hill outside Chengmai County.
"Where are our people?"
"They are all buried in Cuigang. This is the monument to the Battle of Chengmai." He pointed to another mound: "That is the ruins of the Tucheng built at that time."
Facing Chengmai County, a tall cylindrical monument stands on the ruins of an earth embankment that has collapsed into mounds but can still be roughly seen. At the top stands a double head cast from a captured bronze cannon and standing on a gear wheat ear. Eagle emblem.
Yun Suji noticed that the hills were full of green, but there were no trees or shrubs. They were surrounded by criss-crossing farmland and woods. A winding path led directly to the foot of the monument. It was obviously maintained by someone.
As if he knew what he was thinking, Dugu proposed and said, "The Chengmai County Office is responsible for the management here. The students from Fangcaodi come here every year to camp and practice, and they also clean up the surrounding environment."
“This is the right thing to do,” Yun Suji said. “Only by educating the next generation can we pass on our business.”
"It's easy to educate the next generation well, but this generation is the most difficult to educate." Dugu proposed, "Do you know what number the military emblem on this is?"
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"The third one." Dugu proposed and smiled, "Because it's made of copper. In fact, it's not all copper. It's just a wooden frame covered with copper skin. The prisoners were captured and sent to the labor camp - I suggested at that time that The body was quartered directly under the monument, but the legal experts disagreed - as a result, the second military emblem was lost a few months after it was installed. This time, the circuit court sentenced him to death for "disrespect" and he was hanged in front of the monument. , the third one will be very peaceful if installed."
"After all, you are still poor..."
"No, in fact, they are not poor anymore, at least not to the point where they need to steal to survive. They were hungry before we came, but what about now? The few thieves caught have a stable source of livelihood." (Unfinished) to be continued..)
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