In fact, from what Su Yonglin knows so far, collective economies have begun to emerge independently in some areas.
Because frequent infrastructure project construction in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China required a large amount of labor, which affected agricultural production and caused conflicts among farmers' families.
In order to resolve this contradiction, many local peasant associations have begun to explore the collective economy in practice.
Su Yonglin learned about the methods adopted by some flexible peasant association instructors from the reports of some local revival meetings.
When there is a dispute between a family with a large labor force and a family with a small labor force, the farmers' association will step in and ask the family with a large labor force to help the family with a small labor force cultivate the land during production.
They could then be paid a portion of the harvest from the portion of the land they helped farm.
While gaining more income, it can also ensure that families with a small labor force have enough food to eat without losing too much.
But this situation will still harm the interests of households with less labor, who feel that their harvests are smaller. .
Families with a large labor force will also feel dissatisfied, because they may be able to get more harvests by using their time helping others on their own land, instead of just getting such a small [remuneration].
Both families with a large labor force and families with a small labor force feel that they are at a disadvantage and feel dissatisfied.
Therefore, whenever there is a project, families with less labor are less willing to go out, and families with more labor will feel unfair over time and refuse to help families with less labor cultivate their land.
When this situation occurs, the farmers' association is very troubled, and the leaders of the farmers' association can only go out to help with the farm work themselves, coordinating manpower, material resources and cattle, in exchange for more family work.
But this doesn't exactly solve the problem.
In many places, civil disputes have arisen due to this contradiction, and the quarrels have caused endless headaches for local farmers' associations.
They were unable to solve the problem independently and were tired of coping. They could only report it to their superiors many times and request mediation.
As a result, the Zhongdu Renaissance Association headquarters received many similar reports.
Su Yonglin was at a loss at first and knew the solution, but was unable to advance for a while.
He could only arrange for a group of planners to prepare for the calculation of the collective economic distribution method to prepare for the subsequent collective agricultural reform.
Now that he had some energy freed up, planners had achieved certain results, so he decided to start promoting the construction of the collective economy, upgrade the farmers' association to an agricultural production cooperative, and make the collective economy the mainstream of land production in the Ming Dynasty.
From then on, the Ming Dynasty will bid farewell to the decentralized small-scale peasant economy and establish a collective agricultural economy that cooperates with each other and bears risks for each other.
And at this stall, the time has come to test the planners.
This set of operations looks good, but to run successfully, it requires a rather complex and reliable work point calculation method for unified distribution of collective agricultural teams after the harvest.
Issues related to distribution are crucial and directly determine the life or death of the collective economy.
The planning team needs to go to rural areas in person to set up different calculation methods for collective agriculture in different areas based on different types of soil, types of crops, etc.
At the same time, they also learned from the semi-piece-rate payment distribution method that had been successfully operated in the factory, and tried to integrate this principle into farmers' production actions to enhance farmers' production enthusiasm.
This is an extremely large and complex project, and regional differences are the main problem.
Fortunately, Su Yonglin introduced the concepts of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to his subordinates very early, and the concepts of Arabic numerals. He also attached great importance to the mathematical calculation ability of officials. All imperial examinations regarded mathematical calculation as a very important assessment content.
Therefore, there are currently a large number of planners in the imperial court, and they are widely used in all aspects of government affairs.
For example, the artillery force relies on a team of planners to conduct scientific ballistic calculations. The planners will help the artillery crew calculate the maximum range and optimal shooting angle of the artillery, and have begun to introduce the concepts of rear sights and crosshairs to help them determine the shooting direction. direction, improve shooting accuracy.
There are many mathematical problems involved in this area, and the amount of calculation is also very large, which cannot be solved in a short time.
In contrast, the distribution issues of the collective economy are also very important and complex.
Su Yonglin has arranged for a group of planners to prepare mathematics since the second year of Hongwu. Now that some results have been achieved, he can start to select individual areas for collective economic experiments.
Use the calculation results in collective economic experiments, spend a period of time conducting experiments, and when the final results come out, you can summarize your experience, identify gaps and fill in the gaps, and then promote this system to the whole society.
Once this system is successfully promoted, Su Yonglin can believe that at least in terms of infrastructure construction, there will be no labor problems from now on.
A large number of primary water conservancy projects and road projects can be launched. The Ming Dynasty's agricultural resistance to natural disasters will be greatly enhanced, and the court's control over society will be further enhanced.
This will also be a crucial step on the road to social change.
So in July of the fourth year of Hongwu, when the Southern Song Dynasty experienced large-scale ideological turmoil due to "Hongwu Political Treatise", Su Yonglin independently established the Ministry of Agriculture to comprehensively take charge of agricultural production and agricultural reform.
Some of the powers were separated from the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Finance and became the powers of the Ministry of Agriculture.
Su Yonglin gave the Ministry of Agriculture considerable power, covering everything from national agricultural policies to local agricultural production and agricultural disasters.
For now, the most important task of the Ministry of Agriculture is to promote the upgrading of farmers' associations into agricultural cooperatives and to build a collective economy extensively in the Ming Dynasty. This task should be promoted as the most important task of the Ministry of Agriculture.
The initial collective economy pilot was arranged nearby. The Ministry of Agriculture decided to launch collective economy pilot in fifty villages around Zhongdu City.
The Ministry of Agriculture then sent special personnel to these fifty villages to find villagers to educate the villagers on the collective economy, and also brought the leadership of the peasant associations of the fifty villages to the Ministry of Agriculture for a meeting, allowing them to collectively learn the key points of collective economy operations.
These fifty villages will carry out collective economic transformation work after this autumn harvest, and will fully enter the collective economic state in the spring of next year.
The experimental period shall not exceed three years. During these three years, the advantages and disadvantages of the collective economy will be observed, deficiencies and omissions will be identified, policies will be adjusted, and a set of collective economic policies that can be promoted nationwide will be developed.
After arranging these things, Su Yonglin's work did not become easier, but became busier.
Dealing with government affairs, handling some chores, accompanying Zhao Xirui and his growing son, paying attention to the formation of the drama troupe from time to time, and taking time to write articles. These are equivalent to daily life that will not change, but with the emergence of some emergencies , he also needs to devote his energy to it.
He can be called a master of time management in the second half of the twelfth century.
Of course, this is not what he wants. He would like to be more relaxed, but he does not have this condition.
Just like in mid-July, the Yellow River Project once again received news of a flood crisis, so Su Yonglin left Zhongdu again and rushed to Kaifeng.
With his previous experience, Tian Guizi coordinated various forces to deal with the flood peak and survived this year's rainy season with no risk.
In late August, Su Yonglin ended his southern tour and returned to Zhongdu, preparing to welcome the Southern Song Dynasty envoys.
In the coming period, the Yellow River Project will advance rapidly.
Tian Guizi predicts that Hongwu will be able to complete almost half of the project volume five years ago and lay most of the foundation for the entire project. The next construction projects will be carried out on these foundations, and the efficiency will be very high.
He initially expected to complete the Yellow River diversion project before the end of the seventh year of Hongwu, returning the Yellow River to its original course, saving both sides of the Huaihe River, and restoring its former vitality.
At the latest, the project will be completely completed before the middle of the eighth year of Hongwu.
Based on his predictions, Su Yonglin set the time when he would officially go south to destroy the Song Dynasty around the eighth year of Hongwu. Before that, it was a time to work hard to accumulate provisions and train new armies, and it was also a time to continue to promote the internal reforms of the Ming Dynasty.
When the Southern Song Dynasty envoy arrived in Zhongdu along with the escorting army, Su Yonglin also learned about the results of the Shenji Battalion's first battle.
Su Yonglin was very happy to learn that the Shenji Battalion had become famous in one battle and had killed over a thousand enemies with one man killed and more than thirty injured.
The success of the Shenji Battalion's tactics means that this set of tactics and firearms is meaningful to the Ming army, and it is also meaningful to the mainstream combat methods of this era.
They can even change the laws of war in this era.
Today we can wipe out the armed forces of the landlords in Guanzhong, and tomorrow we can wipe out the armed forces of the reactionary forces in the entire Jiangnan.
