Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 393 Touring the Countryside

It is not uncommon in Lingao to see the soil fences like Liujiazhai, and it was also common in all parts of China at that time.Fortress has a strong independence, to deal with the government, pay a lot of food and taxes, but it is difficult for the government to control the affairs inside.When the time-traveling group held a political consultation meeting, Liu Jiazhai also sent a representative and elected a liaison officer; they were very obedient when they handed over food and dispatched members.When the all-out banditry campaign started in the countryside, Liu Jiabao politely refused the team's entry, but he cooperated with the banditry work very well, whether it was recruiting Xiangyong to perform tasks or supplying supplies, he was ready to handle it.The task force and army responsible for carrying out the banditry were impeccable.

But such obedience does not satisfy the Transmigration Group—their ideal social form is absolute control over the regime and the grassroots.Although these fortresses will not violate the requirements of any ruler, they are also subjects with no loyalty, and they are unified behind closed doors.Whether it is bandits, officers and soldiers, or them, they will all deal with it, and it will have a positive effect on maintaining local stability.The disadvantage is that once the current situation changes, it is faster to turn the face than to turn the book, and it is difficult for the ruler to regard it as a stable rear foundation.

"If we don't get rid of the fortresses in the countryside, we will be famous in the World War I." Wen Desi pointed out at the civil affairs work conference, "These fortress owners are obedient to us in the open, and they may be colluding with bandits, pirates and the government secretly. If there is any disturbance, they will immediately turn against each other!"

Now that Liu Youren came to study in person, Wu De made a decisive decision and discussed with Wu Nanhai to send the most capable people to Liujiazhai to do agricultural technology guidance and social work, so as to open a breakthrough in this aspect and gradually strive for these semi-independence The country fortress in the country is allied with the time-traveling group.

"We have also opened an agricultural material store for everyone. If you are interested, you can go to the first floor to see if you need anything." Wu Nanhai pretended to be mysterious, "I just bought a batch of agricultural tools..."

All the people who participated in the training left the classroom immediately——Lingao’s iron farm tools are scarce, not to mention that they are Australian farm tools. Australians have always been known for their exquisiteness and ease of use. He has a lot of face in the township party.

Tiandihui's agricultural material store is located on the first floor of Tiandihui, facing the street, and it is well organized.There are various agricultural supplies on display.They are all newly produced by machinery factories and woodwork factories for the agricultural extension movement.For the time being, there is no new gadget that can be called a "big killer".Everything on display is familiar.However, the advantages of the quality, appearance and shape of the products manufactured by modern industrial capabilities still make the indigenous people linger.

"It's the same hoe, why does the Australian hoe look so delicate?" Fu Buer said with emotion.

"It's so delicate, I'm afraid it won't be used?" someone doubted.

"Not durable? Australians are famous for their durability."

"That's right, look at this steel mouth, it's much better than Blacksmith Li's hoe in the city——his hoe is so brittle! It will break in a while."

"I want this, and this, this—"

"It doesn't matter, I want one of each, not three." This is rich and powerful.

There were also people who had little money, so they could only shrink back and look at it, their faces full of envy, but their pockets were shy, and the price of such a good thing would not be cheap—the rough ironware made by Blacksmith Li was not cheap, let alone this one. .

"The total quantity of this batch of farm tools is only [-] pieces, and each household is limited to four pieces. One piece of each type." Ye Yuming said.

Everyone let out a sigh of regret.

"Four pieces are four pieces, how much silver do you want?"

"No money is needed." Ye Yuming said, "This store only accepts Lingao Grain Circulation Coupons."

Now everyone was dumbfounded. They all knew about circulation coupons, which were a kind of treasure issued by Australians.Except for Dongmen City and some surrounding areas, no one uses this-a piece of paper is used as money, so I don't feel at ease thinking about it.

"Can't you use silver?"

"No, only circulation coupons are accepted." Ye Yuming smiled.

After muttering for a while, someone proposed to exchange currency notes with silver.

"Silver can't be exchanged for circulation certificates, but grain can." Ye Yuming said, "Everyone can go to Delong Grain Bank to get it. One rice of brown rice can be exchanged for one yuan."

Immediately, someone took care of the long-term workers and servants under him, and hurried back to collect grain and go to the East Gate Market to exchange for circulation coupons.Not everyone has silver, but food is abundant for small and medium-sized landlords and rich peasants.The price of iron farm tools is not cheap, and the prices set by agricultural material stores range from 50 to 100 yuan.

For those who can't exchange rice for circulation coupons for a while—such as Lu Da and the others, there are a few who have some fields at home but have recently been unable to turn around due to various circumstances.Yan Ming, the president of the grain bank who had been waiting for a long time, immediately came out to promote Delong's small agricultural loan business.In order to fully consider the ability and acceptance of farmers, Yan Ming designed this kind of loan without collateral, with interest calculated on a monthly basis, the monthly interest is 2%, and the principal and interest will be repaid in one lump sum after the autumn harvest.

This kind of interest is roughly the same level as Lingao's current rural loan market, which is in the middle and low grades.Yan Ming believes that this interest will not cause too much repayment pressure for the growers participating in the planting plan.

What Delong lent out was circulation notes, and what he took back were also circulation notes.If the lender does not have negotiable certificates in hand, he has to go to Delong to exchange grain for negotiable certificates before repaying the loan.This extra procedure actually means that the financial sector expects to forcibly expand the circulation of negotiable notes through lending.Even a few minutes in the hands of the natives gave them the concept and confidence to use the currency notes.

Yan Ming talked tirelessly for about five or six minutes, spitting all over the place, but the people below still didn't respond.Obviously, this sudden good thing made everyone feel a little overwhelmed.No one dared to come out and be the first to try it out-this borrowing money is no better than borrowing money from fellow villagers. Is it so easy to borrow money from thieves?Everyone has this idea.

In the end, he still couldn't resist the temptation of iron farm tools. Under Yan Ming's repeated assurances, Zhang Youfu guaranteed that there would be absolutely no tricks in it. In addition, through the painstaking management of the Transit Group, they finally gained some credibility in Lingao. The rest of the people Finally got a loan.Yan Ming was so tired that he was sweating.

"Xiaoye, it's really not easy for you in this world." Yan Ming was deeply moved.

"It's actually much better. After all, we have some foundations. After all, we haven't broken our trust with the people this year."

"If you want me to say, it's better to put in the effort to build an intensive farm." Yan Ming looked at the pile of loan documents that had just been stamped with his fingerprints. and then employed as laborers on the farm.”

"You're ruthless! But we still suffer from too few people. The Agricultural Committee's Tiandihui plan is to support a group of private intensive farms to undertake agricultural production, so that we don't have to do everything by ourselves— We just need to master the superstructure."

"So that's the case!" Yan Ming nodded, "I kind of understand the thinking of the executive committee."

After Fu Buer came back from the study class, he was as excited as anything.In the study class, he not only learned a lot of new farming methods, but also visited the farms that the aborigines rarely set foot in—in a word, it was an eye-opener.

It's just that his wife troubled him again.The farm tools bought back with hundreds of catties of rice were scolded by his wife for more than an hour, and Fu Buer beat his wife up in a rage and simply ignored her.The caretaker who took care of himself packed up all the farm tools at home, washed the cattle and fed them concentrate, and was ready to do a big job when the farm technicians arrived.

He looked forward to it every day, and finally he got the high-yielding seeds and agricultural technicians he had dreamed of.When a young Kun man appeared at the entrance of the village alone with a big bag on his back, the whole village of Meiyang Village became a sensation—the Kun thief had never been to Meiyang Village before!The young girls were all called back home, and Fu Buer's elder, Fu Yousan, the richest man in the village, was so frightened that he pretended to be sick and hid.

Unaware that he had caused such a commotion, the young Kun thief pulled his foot covered in yellow mud from the ridge of the field while cursing.A pair of Jiefang shoes has been wrapped in mud into two big mud balls.He was wearing a standard "Australian suit": a green double-breasted jacket, and a colonial-style rattan bamboo skin copper basin summer hat with a butt curtain hanging behind his head.It was Wan Lihui.

Wan Lihui's ideal of the Japanese governor-general failed to come true—not only did he fail to become the governor-general, but he also failed to realize the freedom to play with guns. He was issued a pistol for self-defense, but only six bullets were issued.There are SKS-D semi-automatic rifles distributed on the farm, but they can’t touch it except that they can fire five rounds of bullets during the regular military training every month.

Wan Lihui and he abducted two brothers, Wan Lihuang, to work as breeders on the farm, not only serving the animals every day, but also composting and fermenting a steady stream of rotten fruits from various places to prepare feed for earthworms.One or two boatloads of jackfruit are shipped from Leizhou every day. This kind of fruit is almost everywhere in Xuwen. In ancient times, the circulation level was very poor. A large amount of jackfruit could not be transported out at all, and it was piled up in the ground to rot. Leizhou Sugar Company sent people They were purchased at a low price and shipped to Lingao one by one.

Baskets and baskets of this dripping, rotting stench were transported to the farm for the two brothers to receive and dispose of.Dealing with these things every day, although there is a mask, Wan Lihui still feels a sweet and greasy smell in front of his nose wherever he goes, and even loses his appetite.

Hearing that Tiandihui would assign him to go to the countryside as an itinerant agricultural technician, Wan Lihui was so moved that he almost cried—at last he could raise earthworms without composting!

"Brother, I will leave this farm to you." Wan Lihui said solemnly to his brother who was wearing a mask and exuding a strong smell, "This is a major issue related to new agriculture. You must do a good job and do it for us. Glory to all families. From now on, you will be the Secretary-General of the Japanese Governor-General's Office!"

After saying these high-sounding words, Wan Lihui quickly slipped away.

Tiandihui's agricultural technology going to the countryside adopts the itinerant system. Each technician is in charge of five or six villages, and stays in a village for a few days at a time. This is repeated in turn, and the whole production stage is uninterrupted so that problems can be found and solved in time.

Wan Lihui took his luggage, which was configured according to the suggestion of the Field Exploration Department.In response to the problem of unclean drinking water, Wan Lihui packed water purification tablets produced by the pharmaceutical factory and packets of bleach in his luggage.The Ministry of Health provided simple medicine and hygiene training to the itinerant agricultural technicians, and equipped a medicine box with some basic medicines-including several well-received Chinese patent medicines recently produced by Runshitang.

"You agricultural technicians are not only the instructors of modern agricultural technology, the seeders of modern science, but also the propagandists of our great cause! You must have this awareness every minute and every second outside the green zone!"

Ma Qianju made this statement at the banquet sending off the itinerant agricultural technicians to the countryside.Talking about a few agricultural technicians is very unpleasant-this fucking responsibility is too heavy, right?

The villages that the roving technicians were going to were almost in the blue zone within a radius of [-] kilometers of Bairen City. After continuous clean-up and patrols were organized to carry out normal security patrols, this area has become quite safe.The Internal Affairs Committee believes that there will be no safety problems for agricultural technicians going to the countryside alone.There is no need to send soldiers specifically for escort.Wan Lihui came to Meiyang Village alone.The patrol sent him five kilometers away from the village, gave him directions, and let him enter the village by himself.

It took him two and a half hours to walk this five-kilometer road. The ridge road in the rainy season is not only full of mud and water, but also extremely sticky, and it takes a lot of effort to walk.Wan Lihui has always claimed to be the son of a real farmer, but the situation in the Lingao countryside in the 17th century still shocked Wan Lihui. This humble field road alone shows how huge the gap between these hundreds of years is. .

Wan Lihui looked desperately at his feet that were stuck in the yellow mud. The boots on his feet might be detached from his feet at any time--losing a pair of combat boots is a serious loss that cannot be held at the party!Wan Lihui pulled his foot out with all his might, and simply took off his shoes and socks.The shoes are tied together with laces and hung directly around the neck.

It is much more comfortable to walk barefoot on the dirt road.Wan Lihui has never walked barefoot. Even in the countryside in modern time and space, there is no shortage of broken glass and rusted iron pieces on the ground.

Wan Lihui entered Meiyang Village with such an image.

Meiyang Village, where Fu Buer lives, is one of many small villages scattered along the Wenlan River, located on a small soil slope.The village is not big, surrounded by many thorny shrubs as a barrier against bandits, and surrounded by a small river.There is also a simple suspension bridge over the river.Because the public security has improved greatly recently, Ding Zhuang, who was originally on guard at the bridgehead, has been withdrawn.Only women wash and wash rice on the river port there.

At this time, the women also disappeared, and only Fu Buer and his family boy stood on the bridge to meet him, the "head"--Fu Buer was not only a client of the Tiandihui, but also a "liaison officer" of the village. Meiyang Village is supposed to be received by him.Many curious children and women stood in the distance, watching and discussing his attire and appearance despite the dissuasion of his family.

Wan Lihui blushed when he heard the laughter and discussions from the group of women from time to time.Now the women talked more vigorously.

Wan Lihui and Fu Buer said a few words of courtesy, and followed him to the house.Most of the houses in the village are houses with bamboo strips, walls and straw roofs—the dwellings of the poor.It can be seen that there are several rich families here.The layout of the buildings in the village is very random, because there are only about [-] households in the whole village, and the population is small so it doesn't look crowded.Dirty water and rubbish are everywhere. Pigs and chickens wander leisurely in the mud, sometimes rummaging through the rubbish for food.

"This environment!" Wan Lihui said in his heart, recalling all the vaccinations and medicines he had injected.

"This is it." Fu Buer took him to the gate of a courtyard.Fu Buer's family is considered to be in better condition in the village.Entering is a large courtyard, with three main rooms of brick and tiles in the middle, and wing rooms on both sides.They are all inhabited.There is also a side courtyard for raising livestock, stacking farm tools and living for long-term workers.

Fu Buer cleaned one of the wing rooms and came out for Wan Lihui to rest.Wan Lihui saw that the whole environment was clean, so he decided to live here.

As soon as I opened the big backpack, I heard a woman in the main room yelling quickly in Lingao dialect, high and low, and then there were screams and wailing like killing a pig.Wan Lihui was confused for a moment.

"This is the head of the family beating his wife." The one who spoke was Fu Buer's domestic girl, named Fu Xi, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl, dressed in shabby clothes, but neat and tidy, with two jet-black braids.Come in with a teapot.When I met Wan Lihui, I was blessed first.

"You can speak Mandarin?" Wan Lihui was surprised.Fu Xi's Mandarin is not very standard, but at least he can communicate.It's much better than my own Lingao words that people in Lingao may not be able to understand.

"A little bit, I go to school in Fangcaodi."

"Go to school? You are a student of a national school, right?"

"Yes, the master sent me to read it," Fu Xi said while helping him pack his luggage, "The master said you were coming, and there was no one at home who could understand Mandarin, so he called you back."

"Oh, you're still going to school when I'm gone?"

"Of course, the national school is much more interesting than here. The food is good, and it's not dirty." The girl pouted, "Our family is better in the village. The master became clean after being a prisoner last year. gone."

"Your master is quite open-minded, and is willing to send girls to school." Wan Lihui said.

"He is reluctant to let Fu Qing and Fu Xiang's labor go. Let me learn how to read characters, calculate and keep accounts. I also want to learn spinning and so on."

There are four domesticated boys in Fu Buer's family. In addition to these three, there is another one named Fu Fu who is older.When Kaichun Traveling Group recruited young men, it was sent to Fu Buer.

"It is said that he was a soldier in the security regiment." Fu Xi said, "Being a soldier will be wild. The master originally counted on his military salary, but he didn't get a penny. He was so angry that he scolded his mother." She said here. Laughed, probably feeling very happy.

(End of this chapter)