Chapter Eighty-Seven: Construction
At Chen Xian's urging, the Yang family grabbed the wheat that was not yet ripe in the field and allocated the northernmost 1,000 acres of land to Chen Xian.
As for how the losses of the Yang family and the Bai family are equally divided, it is not Chen Xian's concern.
Taking advantage of the sowing after the summer harvest, Chen Xian began to experiment with his own agricultural cooperative system.
This kind of agricultural cooperative system was not thought up by Chen Xian, but mentioned by the Internet writer in the outline of his novel, Chen Xian read it, and thought it seemed good, so he tried it, anyway, he didn't have any research in this area, and there was no better way.
The land allocated to Chen Xian by the Yang family is located in the northernmost part of the farmland area around Dongzhuangzi, and is a narrow plot of land from east to west.
When Chen Xian rewarded his subordinates with land, he deliberately rewarded the relatively barren new fields in the northernmost area, and then proposed to gather all the fields together and set up an agricultural cooperative, the owners of the fields, including himself, would take the farmland as shares, and the cooperatives would hire workers to cultivate the land in a unified manner, and for the agricultural workers recruited, the cooperatives would pay monthly salaries, and when the harvest came, the cooperatives would take 30% of the total harvest as income, and the remaining 70 percent. Dividends will be distributed according to the proportion of each household in the total field.
First, after this war, Chen Xian's prestige has reached a peak, second, these workers under Chen Xian have already taken his words as the truth, third, this kind of cooperation, if his family accepts the employment of the cooperative, then there is a salary every month on weekdays, and there are dividends during the harvest season, and the days seem to be more secure, and fourth, if regardless of fat or thin, the average dividends, then it is obvious that Chen Xian suffers the most, so the promotion of agricultural cooperatives is very smooth.
After concentrating the farmland into the cooperative, Chen Xian ordered people to bulldoze all the ditches and ditches in the more than 1,000 acres of land under his control, and gather all the scattered plots into a large area.
This narrow stretch of land is just right for heavy ploughing.
In terms of cultivation tools, Chen Xian developed a larger three-share heavy plough on the previous heavy plow.
The heavy plough looked like a horse-drawn carriage, and the workers in control sat on a seat on a wheel frame, under which three sets of ploughshares were mounted.
Such a heavy plough can turn over three rows of soil at a time, and the efficiency is immediately tripled, but the horsepower required is naturally doubled.
Because the resistance was too great when the three ploughshares were heavily ploughed, Chen Xian adopted the method of combining cattle and horses.
Horses are agile and enthusiastic, they walk fast, and they plough the land at the same speed, much faster than oxen.
But Chen Xian found that horses also have shortcomings, they lack the toughness of cattle, and when they encounter dry and hard soil, they will stop when the resistance of the plough is too great.
Although the ox is slow, it has great strength and tenacity, and even when it encounters an area of resistance, it will try to move forward and do everything in its power to move forward.
When encountering soft soil, the horse will accelerate with the ox, and when it encounters an area with dry and hard soil, the ox can move slowly with the horse without stopping.
This kind of three-plough heavy plough in technology, in fact, there is not much difficulty, but the original heavy plough is enlarged, a plough is changed into three ploughshares in parallel, coupled with the accumulation of technology during this time, the transformation of the plough is not too difficult for Chen Xian.
Chen Xian began to improve the heavy plough after the spring ploughing, and after five or six tests and improvements, it has now been successfully finalized.
The efficiency of the new heavy plough is more than 2.5 times that of the old heavy plow, and a heavy plough can plough 20 acres of land a day!
This is certainly nothing in the face of modern machinery, but in this era, it is definitely an out-and-out miracle.
Chen Xian copied ten sets of new-style heavy ploughs, and forced Yang and Bai to sell dozens of cattle and horses to him.
Yang Bai's family didn't have so many cattle and horses, but when Yang Miaozhen and Peng Yibin came, they brought a lot of mules, horses, camels, grain and grass.
Forced by Chen Xian's threats, the two had no choice but to send people to Dongzhuangzi to ask for a meeting with Yang Miaozhen and Peng Yibin, and bought these mules and horses from them.
Yang Miaozhen and Peng Yibin are also generous, anyway, one of them was wiped out, and none of them planned to bring cannon fodder back.
The price of cattle and horses in Jin Country is cheaper than that in Song Kingdom, and if it is in Song Kingdom, a horse will cost seventy or eighty yuan.
Today, the Jin Kingdom still occupies a large area of pasture in the north of the Yanshan Mountain Range, and the horses are quite sufficient, and the price of horses in the market is much cheaper than that of the Song Dynasty.
Today, in the market of Jinguo, there are nearly 30 horses and 167 cattle prices.
Dozens of cattle and horses, the price is not low, Chen Xian did not have so many copper coins in his hand, so he proposed to exchange heavy plows for cattle and horses.
The new heavy plough is so large that it can't be hidden, and the two outsiders heard that this thing can plough twenty acres of land a day, and they have long been greedy for it, and now Chen Xian is willing to exchange this treasure for cattle and horses, and the two outsiders are naturally overjoyed.
After some bargaining between the two sides, Chen Xian finally exchanged ten pairs of heavy plows for five pairs of cattle and horses from Yang Bai's family.
Chen Xian himself rushed to produce five new heavy plows.
With these five new heavy ploughs and newly recruited laborers, it only took half a month for Chen Xian to plant more than 1,000 acres of farmland with soybeans.
Since Chen Xian defeated the reinforcements invited by the Yang and Bai families, the families of Chen Xian's workers began to apply in large numbers to settle in Xinzhuangzi.
The eastern half of the new Zhuangzi was quickly filled, and the newly built brick houses in the middle were quickly distributed, and these new family members brought a large number of agricultural labor to Chen Xian.
The agricultural cooperatives were running smoothly, as were the engineering teams, which were well manned and the pace of construction of brick houses increased dramatically with the addition of more than 300 captives.
The construction of the new Zhuangzi has embarked on a virtuous circle.
In just over a month, the engineering team repaired the townhouses that divided the Zhuangzi into the east and west in the plan, and accepted more workers' families.
Chen Xian did not take matters into his own hands when it came to agricultural cooperatives and engineering teams, and the most important thing he did was to appoint management and formulate rules and regulations.
Chen Xian once worked in the middle level of the factory, and opened his own farmhouse as a boss, of course, he is not ignorant of management, but he is not very proficient, and the management methods he understands are some relatively basic things.
But even so, these management knowledge, in this era, are beyond the times, in fact, even in modern society, everyone knows some of the most basic management knowledge, in this era, are extremely advanced.
In terms of institutional planning, Chen Xian spent much more effort on agricultural cooperatives than on engineering teams.
The so-called instability without agriculture is not only of economic significance to a force, but also of great significance to security.
In addition to the general manager, finance, production, warehousing, sales and other general departments, there is also a board of directors, which is elected by all shareholders involved in the agricultural cooperative, that is, from all land owners, in fact, from all the workers under Chen Xian, Chen Xian stipulates that except for the war dead, the landowners he rewards are the workers themselves, not their families.
Even the families of the war dead did not have the right to vote and be elected as directors if there were no other workers in the family, and Chen Xian stipulated that only his students, and those whose studies were recognized by him, had the right to vote and be elected.
The election of the board of directors adopts a one-person-one-vote system, regardless of the number of shares.
Of course, the chairman of this board of directors is Chen Xian, who is the largest landowner among these landlords.
The 20-member board of directors does not participate in the day-to-day operation of the cooperative, but every member of the board has the right to inspect all the accounts of the agricultural cooperative, check the inventory, and the quality of the products at any time, and remove any of the managers of the cooperative by a vote of no confidence if the board of directors has any doubts.
This system is designed to take into account the efficiency and fairness and stability of agricultural cooperatives.
The engineering team, for its part, did not have a board of directors, but appointed managers and established simple rules and regulations.
However, Chen Xian's workers elected a safety committee with the right to supervise and investigate the safety of the team's production processes and products.
Chen Xian clearly told the management of the engineering team that they should be responsible for the safety and quality of the project they are building.