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Chapter 215: Return to Hometown 5
Through the promotion of new agricultural methods, water conservancy construction, promotion of improved varieties, soil pesticides, and proportional fertilizers by Tiandihui, crop yields per mu have doubled. This has made farming a profitable business for many farmers—rather than just a means of eking out a living. All families with a little more land are expanding their operations, and many fields that had been 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. 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 labor has been absorbed into the local area. They became industrial workers, joined the army and navy, and entered schools, which immediately exposed the problem of labor shortage.
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 small amount of money - people are born with the pursuit of profit.
"Probably the wife of the house is forcing everyone to crow until the ghosts crow every day." The wife of the house is Fu Yijin's mother, so Fu Fu still retains a little politeness, but the children in the family have always hated and feared the wife of the house. , even his biological children are no exception.
Fu Xi laughed a few times: "Of course, but now the food is good, and the wife of the house is not as stingy as before. Otherwise, everyone would be clamoring to quit their citizenship."
After labor prices rise, there are job opportunities everywhere. Including Bairen City, there are recruitments of workers every day. In the past, the danger of losing one's source of livelihood or even starving to death no longer existed if one left the main house. If the head of a family continues to exploit his slaves, they can just walk away and work for the Australians. The owner's loss of a labor force does not count, even if he goes to pursue it, 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 many options for the poor. Whether they work for the Australians, serve in the military, or go to school, they can make a living. Not to mention that the Australians now have extremely strict control over human trafficking, and require slave owners to pay 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 building 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. residential area. In this way, the household registration number of Meiyang Village has expanded to a large village with more than 150 households and a population of nearly 1,000 people.
"There are more outsiders, and the village is no longer quiet." Fu Yijin frowned and complained, "Although dad is the village chief, the outsiders don't take him seriously. Not long ago, they fought over the water release. One."
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 watered first and how much water should be released becomes the focus of the struggle among farmers.
"Why?" Fu Fu found it strange. Generally speaking, immigrants are mostly bullied. When they held a meeting before returning home this time, officers from the Political Department also specially promoted the spirit of "uniting immigrants and helping immigrants."
Fu Yijin didn't want to talk much. She felt that women shouldn't interfere in this matter. Besides, she didn't think it was easy for her to explain things clearly. She was so ugly.
Fu Xineng, who is still studying, said: "How can immigrants be bullied? Now half of them are immigrants and half of the villagers. Moreover, the immigrants have been uniformly divided into land, and they have been given food, farm tools and seeds, and the rich and poor are equally divided. We have arrived in a strange place again, and everyone It’s a tense situation. Who in our village is poor and poor, rich and rich, and the rich are bullied by immigrants. The poor in the village only see it as a joke. Who is willing to come forward?”
"That's it." Fu Fu thought this thing was quite new, "This doesn't mean immigrants are bullying the villagers."
"The outsiders just have no conscience." Fu Yijin complained, "The land originally belonged to our village, but now we have given them so much, as well as the food for the outsiders in the first year and the labor to build houses, all belong to our village. Come on, they got the land, settled down, and all of a sudden they were shaking." Fu Yijin probably felt that the villagers suffered a huge loss from this matter, so he couldn't help but ramble on. She was uneducated and her speech was unorganized. She would talk about this thing and that thing, which made Fu Fu confused. In short, it was all immigrants who were unreasonable and had no conscience.
"You can't say that." Fu Xi's own status is more aloof, and his feelings for Meiyang Village are not that deep. "The land owned by the outsiders is wasteland that has not been cultivated in the village for many years. Everyone helps to open up wasteland and build houses. But the chiefs also gave them money, so it wasn’t for nothing. Besides, the rations for the first year and so on were fines for concealing the acres of land—not a good deed. It’s hard to say who owed it to whom. But then again, immigration It is true that households feel that they are outnumbered and are dissatisfied with the village's management: they say they want fairness, but in reality they have to take precedence - that's how the water release incident broke out last time."
"This way we won't become enemies anymore."
"That's not the case. After the last fight over the release of water, the resident policeman and the owner of the house went to drink tea and talk to the two leaders, and everyone finally made peace - anyway, there was no lawsuit involving life, and they kept looking up all day long. You see, you can't prepare for a fight every day. But right now, no one is paying attention to anyone, Han River Chujie. If you lose a duck and run to the other side, consider yourself unlucky."
Fu Fu was instilled with the idea of "unity" in the army, and he couldn't help but blurt out: "This is not good."
"Of course it's not good. It's hard for me to be the village chief - except for the official duties arranged by the above, people won't obey you at all. Chief Wan came to teach new farming methods, and they were both customers of the Tiandihui, but both parties refused to come together. It had to be It took two lessons to finish. Everything in the village is difficult to handle, and both sides must 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 a few wild flowers from the roadside and knitted them casually. Huali said, "I think the master of the house will probably complain to Chief Wan again tonight."
"The chief doesn't care"
"Chief Wan said that he belongs to the Heaven and Earth Association and doesn't care about this matter." Fu Yijin continued to complain, "I want dad to report it to his superiors. Dad doesn't dare to go -"
"It's not that he's afraid that the chief will dislike him for not being able to do things and that he won't be able to be the village chief." Fu Xi no longer has any respect or fear for the head of the family. "Anyway, he's not going to cause any big trouble, so he's just going to stay here."
The three of them walked towards the village, laughing and joking. The part where the original residents lived is now called East Village. The layout has not changed much, and most of the houses are still the same. However, the river at the entrance of the village has become much clearer - the river has been cleaned up by the manure accumulation activities, and the shaky wooden bridge has been rebuilt. It was built and became broad and strong enough.
A new public toilet was built at the entrance of the village, and 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 cesspit is made of bricks and plastered with cement - everyone says that Australians are too extravagant, and it is said that this is to create "methane". As for what this biogas is and what it is used for, no one knows yet.
"It is said that this is called unified accumulation of fat." Fu Xi said, "This way the home will be much healthier."
The houses in the East Village look old and dilapidated compared to the newly built 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. It leaks rain and does not let in the wind in winter, so it is very comfortable to live there. As far as the brick and tile houses are concerned, almost all the aborigines in the East Village are outclassed - 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 have bamboo strips on the walls and yellow mud on them, and a layer of white ash on them is considered elegant. Needless to say, the roofs are all straw.
No wonder immigrants and indigenous people suddenly have conflicts. Fu Fu thought, this gap is too big. He himself couldn't understand why the chiefs were so kind to the immigrants and built them free houses that only landlords could live in in the past.
The house of Fu Yousan's family had just been renovated. After the end of the land tenure last year, Tiandihui, in order to set a pacesetter, let him share most of the land he had not received from Fu Yousan's family on a sharecropping basis. Fu Buer gained success and confidence in land improvement and sparse rice planting, so he was willing to invest and listen to the guidance of agricultural technicians. This year he got a huge harvest - he sold light to Tiandihui Tens of thousands of pounds of broad beans grown to improve the soil were sold.
With money in hand 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 model for "new agriculture and new countryside", and at the same time set a vivid example for farmers to develop "courtyard economy" and engage in side businesses in the next step. Fu Buer was encouraged by Wan Lihui to build an "Australian-style farmhouse". Tiandihui specially invited designers and workers from Lingao Construction Company to build this house for the Fu family according to the drawings of various "new rural" houses in the big library and combined with the specific local conditions.
In addition to living in this house, it also takes care of side businesses, storage, and processing. The structural design is reasonable and the space is fully utilized. In terms of practicality and habitability, it is more than three hundred years ahead of the best landlord's house in Lingao. The most luxurious thing is that there is a special toilet in this house - not the original cesspool.
Of course, Fu Buer paid a high price for this house - so much so that after the house was built, he was penniless and had to apply for a loan from the Tiandi Society to start production activities. To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation. Your support is my biggest motivation. ,.
