Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 392 The Clients of Tiandihui

The lack of funds has always plagued the county schools here.When it comes to education investment, the school fields in Lingao County are as much as four to five hundred mu, so it can be said that they don't pay attention to it.Xuetian is a kind of official land, and there are official tenants as usual--the family of Lu Jia, Wu Nanhai's apprentice.This system was implemented well in the early years, but after a long time, it inevitably has many disadvantages.The burden on the official tenants was too heavy, and gradually the tenants began to flee, and up to now there are not even one in ten.No one responded to the tenant recruitment.Wang Ci was a scholar, so he didn't know the way of economics, so he was helpless except to ask for help everywhere.In vain, hundreds of acres of good paddy fields outside the county gate were abandoned, but the county school was so poor that it couldn't even afford the pigs used to worship Confucius several times a year.The scholars in the county school have not received tuition money for many years, and they rarely come to the academy, so the county school is deserted.Distressed, the money for repairing the Confucian Temple could not come out, and the famous Molixuan Academy became a dilapidated building.

The so-called urgent medical treatment, Wang Ci saw that the decline of the county school was getting worse day by day, and it was impossible for the county to use money to maintain it, and it was not a long-term solution to ask the gentry to donate.We still have to start with rectifying the school field.But scholars don’t do farming, and no one is willing to come to farm. Hearing that Australians are willing to help with farming, Wang Ci came to ask them for help.

Ye Yuming didn't dare to make decisions by herself, so she hurriedly reported to the Agricultural Committee.Wu Nanhai had long coveted the school field outside the west gate of the county.Hearing about this, he immediately agreed, asking Ye Yuming to follow up and provide technical services according to "VIP" treatment.

At present, Tiandihui signed a technical service contract with Lingao County Jiaoyu Wang Ci-strictly speaking, this is no longer a technical service contract, but more like a contract.Because there are no laborers in the school fields except for a few official tenants who are struggling to cultivate.Everything has to be resolved by the Heaven and Earth Association.

This matter has aroused Wu De's great attention-this is the first step for the Crossing Group to enter Lingao's official land.So it was reported to the executive committee, and everyone felt that this was a good opportunity to further control the Lingao County government.Although the county school is just an educational institution, it is the management institution for scholars in the county. It can gain a good reputation in this matter, which is of great benefit to win the hearts of local intellectuals.

In the end, according to the inertia of Chinese people, this matter was upgraded from a simple commercial activity to a political level. Whether it was the county government or the executive committee, both sides "attached great importance" and sent personnel to conduct "close consultations."

According to Wu Daling, it is best not to provoke this gang of thieves, but it is inconvenient for Wang Ci to stop him if he wants to do so.The most important historical site in the county, Jasmine Hall, was about to collapse, and the county school was in dilapidated condition. So far, he hadn't allocated a single penny for repairs, and it was barely repaired with the donations from Liu Dalin and the county gentry.In the past few years, Wang Ci has not received a penny from the county except for his own poor salary.The stall of the county school was maintained by soliciting sponsorship everywhere.

Master Wang insisted that the matter was very good, and he also gave many reasons.The county magistrate Wu originally had the idea of ​​letting this matter go, but after Wang Zhaomin's analysis, he felt that it was good for the county and not bad, so he completely acquiesced.Of course, his personal benefits are also indispensable here.

Members of the Council of Agriculture personally stepped in—Wu Nanhai became the main person in charge of the Xuetian project.He brought the two brothers Lu Jia and Lu B to inspect the school field in person.

Wang Ci led the few remaining tenants in Xuetian, including Lu Da, the father of the Lu family brothers.These ten or so people were waiting on the ground, welcoming the arrival of the "chief".

Wu Nanhai and Wang Ci had a polite exchange.Wang Jiaoyu was a scholar after all, and although he couldn't speak official Chinese, he could still speak crappy Guangzhou vernacular.The two talked and gestured, and they were able to communicate without a translator.

It was the first time for Wang Ci to see the leader of the "Kun Thief" at close range. Seeing that the man came with a good face, kind eyebrows and kind eyes, he was not the vicious and evil person he imagined, and his heart finally fell.

"I'm going to work for Mr. Wu this time." Wang Ci made a bow, "Farming is not a trivial matter, and the quality of the school field is even more related to the morale of Lingao..."

"I understand this." Wu Nanhai smiled, "Don't worry, there will be a good harvest in autumn!"

Wang Ci thought to himself why this person talked big when he came up, without even a polite word, he is really a barbarian from overseas.

"Then I will have to rely on you a lot."

"This is Zhuangtou who is in charge of the school field, Lu Da." Wang Ci shouted, "Why don't you come and meet Master Wu!"

Lu Da ran over and kowtowed.It was the first time Wu Nanhai met his apprentice's father.Thin and small, he looked like a traditional farmer, with blue homemade clothes and knotted clothes, not much better than a beggar.

Wu Nanhai inspected the condition of the school field first, and then said it was a pity.This school field is much better than the land they saw in Meitaiyang. It is close to the river bank, it is easy to divert water, and there is no problem of waterlogging.It's the best land locally.

Lu Da respectfully handed over the booklet of acres of land. Wu Nanhai couldn't understand the schematic diagram like a ghost drawing, so he just asked, "How many fields are there? How many paddy fields, how many dry fields?"

"Returning to the master, the paddy field has a total of 320 six acres and four points, the dry field has 110 five acres and one point, and the garden land has thirteen acres."

"Is there no other place?"

"Nothing."

"Plant something."

Lu Da reported that the main crop is rice, and the dry land is a local millet.Sweet potatoes and peanuts are also grown by tenants, but not many.

There is a lot of land, but there are few people to cultivate it.Originally, Luda planned to recruit some long-term workers to plant wasteland.But after all, if you hire long-term workers to plant all the wasteland, you will have to pay more money and food. Not only will you not be able to afford anything, but you will have to pay for it. It is better to just abandon the wasteland.

The most useful thing is the garden: plant some vegetables, and then raise pigs with vegetables such as pumpkins in the vegetable field, these few tenants can barely maintain.

Wu Nanhai had the bottom line in his mind, and started his school field renovation plan.

On the morning of this day, a group of laborers from Bairen Commune appeared outside the west gate of the county with tools and a newly-produced "Zidian" mass-produced wheelbarrow. Several students studying surveying and mapping brought soil Amidst the noise, a branch line began to extend from the Bairen-Lingao Highway, leading directly to the west gate of the county.

To build roads in advance, this is the consistent style of Time Travel Group in doing business.Lu Da stared at the road construction site in full swing, dumbfounded——Isn't Tiandi going to help plant the land?How to repair the road to the ground first.He originally thought that Heaven and Earth would send the seeds, and then send a few people over to give advice, but he didn't expect this to happen.

He hurried out with Ding Zhuangdu from the tenants of the school field, and saw the "Chief Wu" who led the team, and his two sons were standing beside him, carrying green satchels.Lu Dagang was about to kneel and kowtow, but was stopped by Wu Nanhai.

"You don't need to be too polite, gather all the tenants in the school fields, and I will count the population and assign work."

"All the young men have come here to wait for the chief's dispatch—"

"Bring out the women, old people, and children. Lujia, prepare to register!"

"Yes!" Lu Jia took out a notebook from his satchel.

"Young one, let's call it now." Lu Da thought, which part is this singing about?Not daring to be negligent, he hurried back to a side street in Guanxiang, Ximen, and called out all the family members of the tenants who lived there.Old people, women and children, not one is left.

After counting, there are seven tenants in Xuetian, more than 40 men, women and children.Check and register one by one.Then, according to the plan made in advance, Lujia assigned people to work according to their gender and physical strength.Strangely, all the young men were ordered to stay and wait for notice.

The road construction team is fighting hard, and a new operation team has come here.With tools, vehicles and cattle and horses.Level the land and dig ditches.The originally messy and jumbled field ridges were all eradicated and changed into large square grid fields.The original simple soil ditch has become a criss-cross channel system with separate irrigation and drainage.

Then came herds of cattle.These oxen are pulling huge iron-wood agricultural machinery—before the appearance of diesel engines and steam engines, large-scale animal-powered agricultural machinery appeared in the Americas.This is the first time that Lu Da has seen this kind of large-scale animal-powered agricultural machinery-here it has been changed to be drawn by cattle.The scene of more than a dozen cows lined up on the land dragging a huge machine for deep plowing made many passers-by stop and watch, unwilling to leave for a long time.

The entire renovation site was as noisy as a hornet's nest, and such a large-scale act of concentrating manpower and material resources on agricultural production shocked Lu Da from the bottom of his heart:

"This land can still be planted like this!" He muttered.I saw the eldest son of his family standing on the edge of the field, holding a strange thing and making gestures.The younger son is holding a wooden chip and writing something on it.He turned his head and saw that there was a big iron clip on the piece of wood to hold the paper, and it was full of things like characters and ghosts. He had heard people say that this is called "big food number", which is the number used by Australians. .Lu Dalian doesn't even recognize the numbers of the Chinese people. Seeing his son writing skillfully and yelling with the workers from time to time, I feel a little sweet in my heart-the boys are all promising!But it's also a bit sour, as a father like myself, I haven't made any progress at all...

It didn't take long for him to feel that the young adults of the Xuetian tenants were led by Lu Yi, and they were all gathered in the Bairen Commune.There they will receive a [-]-day Tiandihui farming training.

Not only the tenants in Xuetian participated in the training course, but also other customers who participated in the planting promotion plan of Tiandihui.According to the notice, at least one person will come from each household, and a maximum of three people will come.Most of them come from the landlord himself and his family's strong laborers--small landlords do a lot of farming by themselves.Fu Buer also brought his long-term worker at home to study.

Wu Nanhai's courses focus on promoting planting techniques and field management of common crops.These farming methods are proven to be effective through long-term practice.He has long discovered that the level of agricultural production technology in Lingao is extremely low, and many planting techniques and farm tools that have been widely used in the Ming Dynasty have disappeared here.He once asked Jiaoyu if there were any local farmers selling books, but Jiaoyu said that there was no bookstore here at all.If you want to buy books, you have to go to Fucheng at least.As for several important agricultural books in ancient times, such as "Qi Min Yao Shu", even scholars like Wang Ci have never heard of them.

Needless to say, the new agriculture of the 21st century has not even absorbed the advanced achievements of the 17th century.Therefore, Wu Nanhai made textbooks with the aim of being easy to learn, combined with the advanced agricultural technology at that time, and focused on teaching the planting techniques of rice, wheat and sweet potatoes.To use a fashionable saying, it is "in line with the level of social productivity at that time".

Apparently, the agricultural sector is on the right track in adopting the strategy of farming first and promoting after the results have been obtained. Otherwise, based on Wu Nanhai’s strange remarks in class, these farmers would believe him.

Wu Nanhai was drawing up a planting plan while attending class.He is not going to give these customers too many varieties of new crops.In fact, he favors turning them into monoculture farms.

Rice is the highlight of grain production, and Wu Nanhai plans to promote short-legged and lodging-resistant rice varieties in the fields of these customers this year.According to the climatic characteristics that the accumulative temperature level of the current time and space is lower than that of the modern time and space, the rice-rice-wheat rotation method is adopted.

Although the yield of wheat is not high, compared with rice, wheat consumes much less labor in field management.Another factor is that many people in the time-traveling group like pasta, and everyone hopes that the cafeteria can make some popular foods such as buns, steamed buns, noodles, and pancakes every now and then.Finally, the Navy looks forward to a future where baked biscuits are used as dry rations for sailing instead of the odd rice cracker.

Followed by sweet potatoes.He intends to plant this high-yielding crop in all of his clients' upland fields.In order to play the role of demonstration and promotion as soon as possible, so that more farmers can accept this crop.A large amount of sweet potatoes can be produced, and there will be a starch industry if there are sweet potatoes, and there will be a modern food industry if there is a starch industry.Regardless of the starch industry or the food industry, the leftovers produced can be used as feed.

With feed, the scale of aquaculture can be further expanded.The livestock manure and manure produced in the breeding industry are returned to the field to provide sufficient nutrients for the soil.

At the same time, the promotion of order farming is also in progress.According to the principle of voluntary application, Ye Yuming signed a breeding agreement with several farmers near Bairen City, and lent the chicks to them.

People applying to raise chickens are more enthusiastic than expected.Only 20 eggs can be exchanged for one chicken, and the Australians will sell all the eggs in the future, which is quite attractive.Because the value is not big, even speculation can afford this risk for small farmers.

The number of chicks is limited, and only [-] households can receive the chicks in the first batch.Other farmers can only register first and wait in line.Ye Yuming thinks this is also good: the promised formula feed, because the earthworm breeding has not yet scaled up, can not be fully implemented, and if the scale is expanded rashly, the promised things cannot be supplied, which will seriously affect the reputation.

Ye Yuming completely separates the farmers, and basically adopts the model of one household per village to spread along the villages in the main agricultural areas on both sides of the Wenlan River.In order to achieve a better demonstration effect, at the same time, he also plans to use these farmers as agricultural technology teaching points for each village in the future.

In addition to the intensive promotion project, the Ministry of Agriculture is also developing high-yield fields here.Wu Nanhai was inseparable from two people, so he simply entrusted the matter of Gaoyitian to Fa Shilu.Everyone has their hands full.But in this way, the planned pesticide factory has become uninterested.Wu Nanhai considered again and again, and decided to jointly run the soil pesticide factory and the health department, and jointly established an agricultural pharmaceutical factory. In addition to manufacturing soil pesticides, it was also responsible for manufacturing veterinary drugs.

After the fifteen days of training, Wu Nanhai announced that everyone could go back to the village to prepare farm tools and fields.The corresponding "agricultural technicians" who go to the countryside will soon go to the countryside to give specific guidance.

Everyone was confused by the content of the class, because most of them were illiterate, couldn't memorize notes, and were worrying about incomplete memorization. When they heard that someone came to guide them, they couldn't help admiring.

"The technicians who come to the door do not need to pay remuneration, which is included in your service fee. The board and lodging are prepared by each of you, and the food expenses are borne by them."

Hearing that the technician who came to the door paid for his meals, everyone felt sorry.Someone said:

"This can't be done. If you hire a long-term worker, the owner has to provide food, so you don't have to pay for the food."

"Technicians eat three meals a day, half a catty of rice per meal..."

"Even if we eat a catty, we can afford it."

"Have a chicken every day. If you don't have chickens, you can just have a fish. You have to have an egg every day..."

Those who enthusiastically expressed their willingness to provide free food were silent. Only Liu Youren from Calais said:

"It's okay, my family can afford it."

"Master Liu, of course your family can afford it." Someone was speaking sourly. "

Now that Wu Nanhai could somewhat understand Lingao dialect, he took a few more glances at the person who said he "could afford it".I saw that this man was only 30 years old, with a big shoulder and a round waist, and he was dressed like ordinary local farmers, except that the clothes were unbroken and neat, and his feet were a pair of blue cloth shoes, which were covered with muddy water.Wu Nanhai knew that farmers in the old days seldom wore cloth shoes—it was easy to wear and tear when working in the fields, and they were mostly barefoot or wearing straw sandals.When going to the city for errands, I would bring a pair of shoes, put them on when I entered the city, and take them off when I left the city.Such a person who doesn't care about shoes at all must be a rich and indifferent owner.Look at his waist with a cigarette stick of Xiangfei bamboo and a pendant of white jade.

He flipped through his personal information casually.Liu Youren came from Jialai Village and claimed to have more than 300 mu of land.However, people from the Intelligence Committee told him that Liu Youren didn't actually live in Calais Village, but a village a few miles outside the village.He is a typical local tyrant who builds a stronghold in the countryside to protect himself.The entire Liujiazhai has at least five or six thousand acres of land.Liu Youren's participation in the Tiandihui can be regarded as throwing stones and asking for directions.

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Note: Molixuan is the most famous historic site in Lingao, founded in the second year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty.In the 18th year of Shaoxing, when Hu Quan, the change repairer of the Hanlin Academy at that time, was demoted to the Jiyang Army, which is now Sanya, when he passed by Lingao, Xie Wo, the county magistrate, hired him to give lectures in the academy for more than a year.A few years later, Dai Dingshi, a local student, was admitted to Juren.This is the first Juren in the history of Lingao.Molixuan's status among local scholars is very high.

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