Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 315
A heavy rain washed down in April, taking away the remaining cold in the air.

I have not encountered such a heavy rain in Dengzhou for many years, and the changes in the weather make the farmers at a loss.

Sun Xin held meetings for several days to study the drainage work.

Due to the establishment of the supervisory committee, the entire east of Dengzhou is already a game of chess, and Sun Xin's power is gradually expanding.Wendeng County has 6000 miles under its jurisdiction, with more than [-] households, of which more than [-] villages are organized by the Supervisory Committee. It can be called a highly organized Fortress Village, which has reached more than [-] miles. Commander, this kind of organizational density is enough to enable Sun Xin to do some big projects in the entire county area. Of course, it can't be as big as the joint construction of reservoirs in later generations. Cao Ting probably should find him to organize such a big project. It's troublesome, but the basic drought and flood prevention can still be done together with the organization of the supervisory committee's labor force.

Now the population under the jurisdiction of the Supervisory Committee has reached 15. Sun Xin's initial foundation was Shili Pai outside Dengzhou Prefecture. Incorporated into the jurisdiction, it has been further expanded to Muping County and Wendeng County since the year before last.

The control over Wendengsunxin in the east of Dengzhou is the most secure, and Muping County has just stepped in and is now expanding rapidly.

There are four counties under the jurisdiction of Terengganu Prefecture: Penglai, Mouping, Wendeng and Huang County. It is expected that the coverage of the supervision committee in Mouping County will be expanded to [-]% to [-]% before going to Huang County.

Such expansion has brought the population under the jurisdiction of the Supervisory Committee to more than 20.

In addition to the more than 7 bonuses brought about by the expansion of power, the new population of more than 2 is purely due to the influx of immigrants from other places, as well as the newborns of the local board of supervisors.

Since the expansion of the Supervisory Committee the year before last, Sun Xin and Le He noticed that the farmers under the Supervisory Committee had far more children than the common people in other places.

For thousands of years, the farmers here have been in a state of half-starvation and half-satisfaction, and have always had little spare energy to reproduce the population. However, the arrival of the Supervisory Council has finally given the local people a chance to have enough food. Children are the most primitive investment choice for common people.

After giving birth to a child, the older brothers and sisters in the family can help to take care of it, and there is an extra pair of bowls and chopsticks when eating, not to mention that the child can't eat much food. When the child grows up to seven or eight years old, he can help the family work and earn One's own rations can already be considered more than half of the labor when the food intake is close to that of an adult at the age of thirteen or fourteen.

Therefore, the cost of raising a child is nothing more than providing him with food and drink for six or seven years. However, if a farmer gives birth to seven or eight children, as long as one child is promising, the fate of the family can be changed.For the poor, it's a good bet.

Now the age limit for recruiting workers in factories under the supervision committee has been set to 13 years old. This is the result of Sun Xin’s compromise after repeated orders that child labor should not be used.

As for the other small workshops, as long as they can do the work, no matter how young they are, they can also use it. Sun Xin can’t even take care of this kind of thing, because whether it is the factory owner, the child’s family or the child himself, they are all willing to come out to work and earn money. .

Although the supervisory committee stipulates that every child must receive three years of compulsory education, there are countermeasures. In order to let the children come out early to earn money, some dealers have already sent their children to school at the age of three or four. , so that children who are six or seven years old can already work.

Statistics show that child workers are more likely to be injured and die during labor than adult workers, and the large number of newborns makes it difficult for the weak medical institutions of the Supervisory Council to afford it.

Take Sun Xin’s Sun Ji as an example. Every year, a large number of sick children are sent to Sunjiazhuang to see them. Sun Ji has even developed a pediatric clinic for this purpose. Sun Xin also sent barefoot doctors to each supervisory committee, but children must still be dying in large numbers.

For this situation, Sun Xin found that he had almost no way to manage it.

Let me say a very cruel word, if this time and space did not have the life brought by the Supervisory Council, this wave of childbearing climax would not have come at all, and these children would not have appeared in the world in the first place.

Faced with everyone's urge to have children, no matter how much the social security capacity of the Supervisory Committee expands, it is impossible to match the bankers who are desperately trying to have children.

What's more, a large amount of surplus capital of the Supervisory Committee has to be used to invest in new fields and factories. There is very little money that can be used to provide welfare education and barefoot doctors for farmers. Now almost all literacy schools and barefoot doctors are It is being done in a voluntary manner, no matter how much investment is made, it will hurt the foundation of the supervisory committee and the protection army.

In fact, to this extent, the dealers of the supervisory committee are already spreading the word that Qingtian is alive, and Sun Xin's longevity tablet is quietly enshrined by many dealers, burning incense day and night.

However, the Supervisory Council has done so well that the local government is already quite afraid of Sun Xin. The worst case is Wendeng County, where more than [-]% of the landowners have joined the Supervisory Council, and the largest source of finance and taxation in this county is under the jurisdiction of the Supervisory Council. Dengzhou No. [-] Textile Factory, the county office is full of people from the supervisory committee. These are local famous people who actively joined after seeing the power of the supervisory committee.

Except for the Liuguan county magistrate sent from other places and the local county magistrate who didn't dare to get too involved with the supervisory committee, Wendeng's senior officials have not been running into the yamen very much recently. When they came out for a walk, the first thing they said was This identity is not an official of Wendeng, but a director or steward of a certain village supervisory committee.

Interested people became terrified when they saw this situation. Since ancient times in Shandong, there has been a custom of burning incense to cause chaos. Above the government, once the flag of rebellion is erected, it is a serious den of rebels.

But Sun Xin’s Supervisory Committee has always been under the banner of protecting Jinganmin, protecting grain, property, country and family, uniting almost all local gentry, large and small, and even paying taxes honestly—of course, the so-called tax payment is actually all unified by Sun Xin’s Sun Family Village The fiscal surplus was allocated to pay, and the specific amount was negotiated by the people on the supervisory committee and the county government.

Due to the large amount of profits from the factories under the jurisdiction of the Supervisory Committee, the fiscal and taxation of Wendeng County and Muping County are paid in full every year, which makes all officials on the two front lines of Wendeng and Muping very comfortable.

When they collect taxes, they don’t even need to go to the farmland to urge them. They will bring the burden to the door. Every official should have enough money. Even if there is a little wind, Sun Xin is willing to give to the local officials. What is there to be dissatisfied about dry stocks in some factories, and there is no clear order from the imperial court, so local officials are naturally happy to be fooled like this.

Among them, there are many who have long been tied to the interests of the Supervisory Committee. If it is impossible to say, when the Supervisory Council really rebels, they will also wave the flag and shout together.

How much money does Zhao Guan's family give them each year?Looking at this Sun Xinguan, Sun Guanren may be more kind to him than Zhao Guan's family.

After gradually mastering the farms in two counties and three places, in April, Sun Xin organized a large-scale cattle breeding work at the supervisory committee, with the purpose of breeding cattle suitable for the local conditions.

After the implementation of the policy that each supervisory committee must be equipped with a sufficient number of cattle, the number of cattle has continued to increase as the financial situation of the supervisory committee has improved in recent years.Now the Supervisory Committee has become the largest cattle breeding unit in Shandong and even in Song Dynasty.

It's just that the quality of livestock in this era is really poor. The locally raised farm cattle are completely different from the Shandong big yellow cattle in Sun Xin's memory. Hard to compare.

The breeding of fine cattle breeds has been under the responsibility of state agencies in modern times, but in ancient times it could only be carried out under the organization of large households.

Due to the remoteness of Dengzhou, there were few large households in the area who could own more than ten cattle, and it was even more difficult to build their own breeding stock.

The first batch of agricultural students of the Supervisory Council University had already read the book for a year, and basically all the agricultural knowledge that Sun Xin knew that was suitable for this era had been passed on, and more things needed to be explored by themselves.

Sun Xin is not omniscient, even if he has more experience in farming than everyone else, but Sun Xin doesn't know much about the skill point of cross-breeding livestock, so he simply leaves it to these college students as their main topic before graduation.

There are already signs of Zong Ze's opening, and Sun Xin predicts that he will expand the land soon.

In a new place, how to get the local people to join the supervisory committee as quickly as possible? This matter has now been settled. According to the experience of the cadres, the best way is to promote the policy of a supervisory committee with four public cattle. .

The people's demand for livestock is frighteningly strong, and even if they only hear that they can use cattle for farming every year, they will spontaneously be willing to join the Supervisory Council.

Now Zongze has not spoken yet, but Sun Xin must first prepare a sufficient number of cattle for this purpose.

At the end of April, Sun Xin and Zeng Saihua, whose stomach was already very noticeable, took a car to Zengtou City.

Zengtou City is more prosperous than last year. After a year of construction, the production capacity of Zengtou City Textile Factory has finally reached the planned 600 million catties of hemp yarn a year. The size of Zengtou City Textile Factory surrounded by the city wall has expanded a little. And the market street that Shi Wengong built for Zengtou City in advance is also crowded with people.

Most of the merchants come from the east to get the goods, and they transport them to Dengzhou directly to the sea. Secondly, there are also many merchants from Hebei. The hemp yarn in Zengtou City has already gained some fame in Hebei, and there is no need to rely on rebates to attract customers like last year. up.

(End of this chapter)