When publicizing collective farms, the government and the Renaissance Association focused on solving problems for farmers.
The problem faced by farmers is that working and farming often become a choice between two options.
Fortunately, the family has enough labor force, mainly farming, and the rest goes to the construction site. If the family labor force is not enough, the problem will be very serious, and the farmers' association cannot solve it. There are often disputes in the village, making everyone very unhappy. .
Finally, after a long period of entanglement and helplessness, the court came up with a solution to the problem called collective farms.
As the name suggests, a collective farm.
When faced with a dilemma and want to solve the problem, then join the collective farm with your land.
When it's your turn to work, you go to work, and your farm will arrange for people to help you cultivate the land to ensure a harvest.
When it is other people's turn to work, you must cultivate the land for everyone under the organization of the collective farm, work hard, and serve everyone's land like your own land, regardless of whether the land belongs to you or others.
When the land finally harvests, it will not be distributed based on the original harvest on the land, nor will the harvest be distributed based on whose family the land originally belonged to, but will be distributed based on something called work points.
Work points are obtained and accumulated through various aspects such as labor force's agricultural production, construction site work and logistical chores services for the members of the collective farm.
Everyone gathers the harvest from the land together, weighs it publicly, records it publicly, and then distributes it publicly according to individual work points.
It is fair, just and open. Anyone who has any doubts can go to the Farmers Association and ask about this matter. Everyone speaks openly and no one is deceived.
In short, if you join a collective farm, you will be one of our own. When there is a good harvest, we will have enough to eat together. When there is a famine, we will tighten our belts and live together.
You will never starve anyone, you will never leave anyone alone, and you will never abandon or give up. As long as you work hard and don’t be lazy, then everyone will have something to eat, and you will have something to eat.
Moreover, there are no thresholds for collective farms, and there will be no strange restrictions. You can join voluntarily, and if you feel bad about it at any time, you can also quit.
Come in, welcome.
Exit and go.
Of course, a collective farm cannot have no rules at all. Without rules, there would be no circle. I believe everyone has no doubts about this.
The biggest rule of a collective farm is that after entering, while enjoying the services of the collective, you must also serve the collective.
And after entering, the land becomes collectively owned rather than owned by you personally, and you cannot freely buy and sell it like before.
If you want to get your land back and buy and sell it freely, you can just file a report to quit the collective farm. Once you quit, the land is still yours, and you can do whatever you want.
But during the collective farm period, the land was owned by the collective, you were a member of the collective, and the private ownership of the land was temporarily frozen.
Moreover, those who commit crimes, are lazy and do not change, even if they join the collective farm, they will be kicked out. The collective farm is a production institution where everyone shares the results of hard work, not a charity institution for raising lazy people.
Make this matter clear to the farmers without deceiving or hiding it.
Those who are willing to accept can come in, and those who are unwilling to accept will not be forced by the court.
This system was first tested near Zhongdu. The central government directly monitored and managed the system, operated it carefully, and carefully asked farmers about their feelings.
Surveys are conducted every quarter, and a general selection is conducted every year. The originally designed system has also been adjusted and constantly updated and iterated during these surveys and selections.
As expected, many farmers initially refused to join the collective farms because they could not accept that the land became collective and not their own, thinking that the court was messing around.
Some people think that this is a conspiracy by the imperial court. It is because the imperial court regrets and does not want to hand over so much land to farmers and wants to take the land back from everyone. This is a conspiracy.
No matter what they say now, it is easy to join now, but it will be extremely difficult to quit then!
Therefore, a considerable number of farmers have a strong sense of vigilance against this.
In order to mobilize more farmers to join, members of farmers' associations at all levels took the lead in joining collective farms, and they also tried their best to persuade farmers to join collective farms.
But if they really don't join, they have no choice but to let it go.
The statistics on collective farm membership in the first year are ugly. In fact, not many farmers have joined collective farms. In most rural areas, less than 40% of farmers have joined collective farms.
Before the spring of the next year, some farmers felt that there was not much difference between joining or not joining, and there would be no improvement in their lives, so they decided to quit.
The imperial court kept its promise and did not stand in the way.
There are also some people who join the collective farms with the idea of cheating and cheating to collect wool. However, they find that the wool cannot be harvested at all, so they either quit voluntarily or are kicked out by the collective farm.
So the data becomes even more ugly.
But in the second year, the superiority of the collective farms gradually began to be reflected.
After all, the power of the collective is greater than the power of the individual, especially in this era of backward productivity and powerful natural disasters. It only takes one slightly less than smooth experience to change the views of many farmers.
In the second year after the implementation of the collective farm policy, the Yanyun area had less rain than the previous year and was slightly drought.
The water conservancy projects built by the government played a big role, so the disaster was not serious, the reduction in grain production was relatively limited, and the overall situation did not change.
But placed within a region, the difference between individuals and collectives is still very clearly reflected.
On the one hand, everyone gathered firewood, carried water together, and took turns to carry water and rest. The production planning was scientific and effective, and the efficiency was very high. Everyone collectively overcame difficulties and ensured the production scale and results of the collective land.
On the one hand, the situation is difficult, and land revenue reduction is inevitable.
During the autumn harvest, after the work points are distributed within the collective farm, the income of farm members is generally higher than that of individual farmers. The contrast is very clear, and the happiness index rises significantly.
The tables were turned.
With the strengthening of propaganda power, after the autumn harvest, a large number of farmers who felt that their personal power was small but their collective power was strong asked to join collective farms, directly forming a trend of joining collective farms.
According to final statistics, 93% of farmers in the entire experimental area have directly joined collective farms.
The remaining 7% are just not to join. Maybe saving face is also an important reason.
Su Yonglin had heard about it. When the first batch of farmers chose to join the collective farm, many people ridiculed them, thinking that they were cheating on the government by joining the collective farm. The government wanted to use this collective farm to take back their land. .
Absolutely not joining, no matter what.
That's okay, don't force it.
However, after farmers outside the experimental area heard the news that collective farms used collective power to challenge the water shortage crisis, they expressed their interest in collective farms and asked the local farmers' association when they could set up a collective farm trial here. Test the waters.
With the obvious benefits right in front of you, who else is really stupid?
So in the third year, at the beginning of the sixth year of Hongwu, the number of collective farms in Zhongdu increased threefold compared to the fifth year of Hongwu. The number of collective farm members also increased significantly, and the collective farm policy was initially recognized by the people.
This made Su Yonglin very happy.
In Henan and Shandong, due to the existence of the Yellow River Project and long-term disaster experience, farmers generally have greater demand and acceptance for collective farms.
And because of geographical factors, they have cooperated with the government for a long time. There are many people in this area joining the army and supporting the army in many campaigns. The circulation of white strips is the highest, and it is an absolute old revolutionary area.
The people in these areas generally trust the Ming government more, and lack the same vigilance as the farmers in the Yanyun area.
Coupled with the propaganda of the story of the implementation of collective farms in Yanyun area organized by the Fuxing Society, collective farms in Shandong and Henan areas quickly accounted for more than 50% of the total farmer households once they were implemented in the sixth year of Hongwu, and then quickly exceeded 70%.
By March, this number had stabilized at around 88%, currently less than 90%.
