Qiming 1158

Chapter 1225 Collective Power

The progress of [-]% is the data of the pilot area in the Yanyun area from the second to the third year.

Yanyun's test area can reach that 90.00% three progress, and the advancement of small-scale natural disasters that occurred in the second year must also be counted.

However, the first batch of collective farm experiments in Shandong and Henan directly achieved a participation rate of 80.00%, and collective farms quickly became popular in Shandong and Henan.

Because the collective farms have not been promoted to them in many areas, farmers even have some emotions, trying to persuade the peasant associations to promote collective farms on their side.

It's not that Su Yonglin is unwilling, but that collective farms are very difficult to operate, far greater than the production of individual households and small farmers. They need a certain knowledge reserve. The number of cadres who can implement this policy is not enough and needs to be cultivated.

Because the talent gap is so large, local peasant association cadres who are not familiar with this policy need to receive training from the imperial agriculture department and the general affairs department of the Fuxing Association.

During that time, members of the peasant associations at all levels in Shandong and Henan and members of the general affairs department of the Fuxing Association were working during the day, lighting up the lights and fighting at night to make up lessons.

Arithmetic knowledge training, statistical knowledge training, management knowledge training, targeted professional skills training and so on.

There are a lot of things to learn, all of which are skills problems that have emerged in the practice in Yanyun area and are then summed up and solved by everyone.

Fortunately, although it was busy and tense, there was no major trouble. The collective farm policy was very popular in Shandong and Henan, which greatly eased the production and living pressure of local farmers.

Under the collective resettlement, many farmers expressed that they have a strong sense of security and are very at ease. When they go out to work or help the army to deliver military supplies, they are not worried that the land at home will be uncultivated, and they are not worried that there will be no harvest during the harvest season.

When I went to work, I worked wholeheartedly, and when I returned home, I cultivated the land according to the tasks of the farm, and lived a regular life.

The settlement is made with the work points on hand, and no one suffers when the final assignment is made.

This sense of security and steadfastness is an important reason for them to support and join collective farmers.

Through this series of changes, the agricultural production relations in this region have also changed, and the transformation from private ownership of land to public ownership has been completed in a more moderate way.

After the superiority of this system is manifested, it will be further directed to the surrounding areas, which will greatly increase the acceptance of the collective farms by the farmers in the surrounding areas, and greatly reduce the resistance. Eventually, the area will be completed in a more moderate way. Changes in agricultural production relations.

This is what Su Yonglin estimated.

Agricultural issues are related to the life and death of the country. He is very cautious and does not dare to take big strides forward, and he does not dare to underestimate the common attributes of the peasant class. Very sensible.

In fact, when it comes to personal interests, everyone will become less rational, and whether this situation is severe or relatively mild mainly comes from the individual's estimation of the difficulty of their own survival.

When a person feels adequate security in the surrounding environment, he will be relatively rational and gentle, and when the surrounding environment makes people feel less secure, people will generally become narrow-minded, selfish, and irritable.

This is not a problem of ordinary people, it is a problem of rulers and the environment.

As a ruler, it is necessary to create a relatively safe environment, and it is also the mission of the ruler. If this mission is not achieved, the ruler is a failure. A failed ruler is not qualified to blame ordinary people for their narrow-mindedness, selfishness, and irritability.

Peasants are indeed short-sighted, but in the environment of the feudal era, short-sightedness is a necessary quality for the people at the bottom. Only if they are short-sighted enough can they not be starved to death.

It is tyranny to ask a man to take a long-term view when he is struggling to make ends meet.

While hoping that others have a long-term vision, we must first consider whether the living environment and living conditions allow others to have a long-term vision, otherwise, it is empty-handed to draw a big cake, and it will kill people.

Therefore, Su Yonglin has never considered using more direct means to quickly complete his social transformation. He has enough time and a sufficiently relaxed domestic and foreign environment, and history is on his side.

The successful implementation of collective farms and the people's low resistance to collective farms proved that Su Yonglin had succeeded in improving the environment and the success of the Ming regime.

This is the general direction.

In a small direction, farmers began to care more about the trivial matters around them rather than the crisis of survival, which itself is a manifestation of social progress, which is a harbinger of farmers starting to have a long-term vision.

Su Yonglin was very happy about this.

In the final analysis, the fundamental purpose of agricultural collectivization is to better realize the scissors difference between industry and agriculture. Through this scissors difference, primitive capital accumulation for industrial development can be carried out to help the country realize industrialization.

Because the late-developing countries have lost the dividends of the early geographical discoveries and the colonial era, they cannot carry out primitive accumulation by eating others. If they want to become a modern country, they can only do it by means of industrial and agricultural scissors.

Collective farms are better than self-employed farmers in that the government’s tax target has changed from tens of millions of individual farmers to hundreds of thousands of collective farms, which greatly enhances the government’s tax efficiency, reduces tax costs, and maximizes the realization of labor. The scissors of agriculture are poor, and the primitive accumulation of capital is completed.

This greatly promotes the development of the country's industry, and the price is that the living standards of farmers can only be maintained at a low level for a long time.

However, in Su Yonglin's place, the demand for such primitive accumulation is actually not that great.

First, the technology has not yet reached that point, and it is actually impossible to carry out full-scale industrialization. It is still in a stage of technological exploration, so it does not require so much money.

Second, through the agrarian revolution, he has obtained enormous wealth from the old rulers, the old bureaucrats and the powerful class of local landlords. At present, the Ming Dynasty is not short of money.

Third, and most important.

In this era, the world has not become a world dominated by the West, and neither the geographical discovery nor the colonization has begun.

The world is still in the chaotic period before China Unicom, everyone has not opened the fog of war, and the world in everyone's eyes is only a small piece of the world that they stand on.

Therefore, what Su Yonglin should do most is not to develop industry by realizing the scissors difference between industry and agriculture through collective farms, but to carry out great voyages, lead the trend of the times, and realize the primitive accumulation of capital for Daming through the dividends of great geographical discoveries.

He does not need to complete the primitive accumulation of capital through the hard work of the peasants at all.

The reason he wants to promote collective farms is really to increase grain production, increase national grain reserves, and then help farmers withstand natural disasters that are difficult for individual farmers to resist.

He wanted farmers to have a collective organization to fight natural disasters through collective strength and achieve high survival rates.

Through the existence of this collective farm, the transformation of the national land system in the Ming Dynasty was realized, and the transformation from individual private ownership to collective public ownership was realized, so as to eliminate land annexation, eliminate landlords, and make landlords no longer appear.

At the same time, through the organizational education of collective farms, the peasant class is transformed, so that they truly have collective consciousness and organizational consciousness.

He hoped that farmers would know to find a collective to find an organization in case of trouble. When encountering injustice, there is an organization they can rely on. When encountering tyranny, they can organize a group to fight.

A single peasant household is extremely vulnerable to power and violence.

And Su Yonglin learned from the behavior of ancient clan clan clan clan clan clan clan clan clan clan clan clan clan clan group formed the original purpose to form power in the place originally is to resist the tyranny of the ruler.

The ancient people learned through the lessons of blood and tears that when fighting against the ruler, the strength of an individual is very small and it is difficult to resist, but if it is a group, it will be different.

In the later feudal era, the imperial power did not adopt a strategy of confrontation when facing the clan of local gentry families, but a strategy of wining over with tenderness, and even in some eras the imperial power had to retreat.

This is a testament to the power of the collective.

(End of this chapter)