Land has become an asset, and people who have lost it have turned it into bank money, and they have received food or money from the bank on a regular basis. At the same time, they earn much more from their jobs in other fields than they do in agriculture. This greatly satisfies their needs. With such a demand, many things become extremely beneficial to them.

Because this is a great division of labor in socialization. More and more people are entering the secondary and tertiary industries, and agriculture, as the primary industry, concentrates a large amount of land in the hands of a small number of people, and some people who are willing to farm will get more land. Cancel the assignment. Reducing the tax burden has made them more motivated to farm, and they now have to think about how to grow more and more food, and how to make a big difference in their living conditions.

Because they suddenly found that the land contract agreement they signed with the bank suddenly increased the size of the land a lot. The land of some enlightened landlords has risen by more than 10,000 mu at once, and some even more, even if it is an ordinary person's contracted land, it has exceeded 150 mu, and most of them are around 250 mu of land. But they only have two or three people in the workforce. To cultivate such a large land, it would take more than seven or eight people to cultivate it, and at least two or more oxen would be needed to cultivate it, which would have made them very worried. In this regard, the Agricultural Bank of China has also actively lent funds, providing them with a large amount of funds to purchase cattle, planting, and farm tools. In conclusion, agricultural production is a top priority.

Although it is not yet the New Year and spring, it is enough to make many people anxious. Because they have so many things to be busy, so much.

Grain, cattle, vehicles, these are related to agriculture, transportation, and some markets are specialized daily necessities, mainly soap, glass utensils, these markets are mainly some daily necessities, a wide variety, but people are very fond of it. Mainly for daily consumption, there are a few small merchants concentrated here, and they are concentrated near the East Gate Market. Of course. There are also clothes, some people who are engaged in transportation, they have money in their pockets. They run transportation, and they can earn dozens of red tickets at once, and they don't have to worry about food, and they have to improve their clothing. People who are reluctant to spend money will buy some cloth and go home to make a new dress to wear, and many families in the base area have new clothes to wear. Let their mothers and daughters-in-law make clothes for themselves to wear, and if they are willing to spend money, they will also pull two feet of flower cloth. Mother, daughter-in-law doesn't know how happy to be.

A man who has money and no daughter-in-law can't do it. Many of the people who run the transportation are bachelors, and there is no one to make clothes for them to wear if they have money. They can only buy. Fortunately, there is such a market to meet their needs.

Among them, the most willing to buy is the military coat, which is made of good material and at a fair price. Some also have dog skins on them. It's very warm, and the kind of big republican hat, which looks very good, and it's very warm to wear in winter, and it's not cold to walk in this army coat. When resting, lie on the haystack, cover the military coat like this, and save the quilt. They are the largest consumer of ready-made clothing.

In addition to that, there is some food, and when they have money in their pockets, they will buy all kinds of food. Meat is the most consumed of them all. Pork is known as a mean thing. But the common people like it. Lamb they like too. Expensive. Beef is more expensive, because a lot of it is cultivated cattle, and the military also needs beef, there is no way. There are also some people who will raise some chickens and ducks. It's their best delicacy outside of pork.

Outside of meat is miso sauce. This is the thing that people consume the most, because stir-fry has not yet appeared, and sauce is the place where they get the most flavorful food. Fortunately, salt is fully liberalized. According to the regulations of the local government, all imported salt is exempt from tax as long as it is qualified. This is to allow large quantities of salt to flow into the base areas. To meet people's demand for salt, salt is also a strategic resource.

Salt is duty-free, and there is another commodity, not only duty-free, but also import tax rebate according to the scale if it is transported in, with good quality and large quantity. This is a very incomprehensible rule of Shangwu. This commodity is oil, also known as fierce fire oil, which is an important resource for extracting large quantities of fuel. Shangwu is well aware of its value. Oil provided a large amount of fuel to the airships of the 4th Infantry Division. At the same time, kerosene can also provide lighting. Anyway, there's so much more to need. But there is no such thing in the base area, and Shang Wu knows very well that it is in the area occupied by the Republican Army. In addition to only coal resources, resources such as oil are too scarce. This made Shangwu have to take the way of importing to solve the problem. In many cases, this is also a solution that is forced to come up with helplessness.

Shang Wu's laboratory, Shang Wu just taught some Li Bida some basic knowledge of experiments and left. He had to figure it out for himself, because he couldn't read what was written in the report.

"The problem of agriculture must also be solved as soon as possible. Otherwise, it would not be possible to solve so many problems by simply importing large quantities of food. Jia Xu said worriedly.

"Hmm. This problem must be solved. Shang Wu said.

"But this problem seems to be more troublesome to solve, the problem is concentrated on labor, production tools, seeds, although the Agricultural Bank continues to provide loans, but they alone cannot complete the output of such labor. The amount of cultivated land in the base area exceeds 2 million acres, but there is a shortage of labor, because a large amount of manpower is concentrated in industry, transportation, and construction. Under such circumstances, on average of 100 acres of land, only two and a half people can cultivate, and two and a half people can do what kind of things. We also import cattle, but the number of cattle is far from meeting the demand, and the price of cattle is rising. If this continues, there will be big problems with land cultivation in the coming year. Jia Xu said worriedly.

"Hmm. It's a big problem, a big problem. Shang Wu said.

"Of course it's a big problem. If we can't solve such problems in time, many things can't be carried out, and in this case, our situation will become more unfavorable. Jia Xu asked.

"Hmm." Shang Wu nodded.

Land is indeed concentrated in the hands of a small number of people, but this is not the same as land annexation, after land annexation, because the landlords have the ability to carry out such land annexation, they can use more advanced production methods to farm, but the martial contractors, the amount of land contracted has far exceeded their production capacity, this will form a burden, and because the factory can create more value, this makes a large number of people willing to go to the factory and not willing to go to the cultivated land, because in that case, It's going to be harder, so it's a big trouble for them.

"I see, so be it." Shang Wu thought for a moment and said.

"We can set up a special company, such a company to do the production." Shang Wu said.

"They can recruit cheaper labor from outside and distribute it to the farms, of course, through the company's distribution. They need to sign contracts with the farmers, and they can take out a loan from the bank to pay for such a fee, and then the bank will collect the money after the harvest. The people here are living well, but we can get more of these people from other regions to solve such problems. Shang Wu said.

"At the same time, such companies concentrate on the purchase of cattle, avoiding the rise of agricultural products such as cattle, farming tools, seeds, etc., they can concentrate on growing one agricultural product, so that it is more efficient, and if necessary, they can also buy some machinery. For example, all kinds of agricultural machinery, such as seeders, or other machinery to complete this amount of labor. Shang Wu said. This is in reference to the way that agricultural production in the United States provides. Shang Wu hoped that this method would greatly improve the agricultural situation in the base areas. After all, such an approach means a lot to them, and if there is no good agricultural foundation to help them solve such things, the results can be imagined.

"Hmm. Yes, maybe they can get better development, I think, we can also let those retired soldiers do such things, we provide loans, put them on this, you don't know, I have a lot of such retired soldiers, they have to be pushed down because they are injured, if they can be allowed to do such things, I think they are still very willing, after all, most of them are veterans in agriculture, in addition, I have another idea, I don't know whether to say it or not. Jia Xu thought about it and said.

"Lao Jia, you can't say anything." Shang Wu said.

"People, this time we fought against the northern Montenegro bandits, I found that most of the Montenegrin thieves were ordinary people who were coerced in, they are actually good people, and we all know very well the offensive ability of our army, if they rush over at once, they will definitely cause a lot of casualties. So, let's take prisoners as much as possible. After capturing a large number of prisoners, we will not be able to replenish the army as before, and I think we can concentrate them and hand them over to the agricultural companies in this area to deal with, on the one hand, let them atone for their crimes, and on the other hand, arrange for them to enter the field of production, and the army can no longer arrange people. Jia Xu said.

"Don't say it, it's a big deal. If you hadn't thought of this, we'd be annoyed. Shang Wu stood up and said.