Chen Zhiting's enrichment began as a peasant, because he was more familiar with the countryside, and he thought he had a lot to say about it, but he still underestimated the technocrats who had grown up over the years.

These technocrats don't understand rural China as well as Chen Zhiting, but they understand the world better, they have a broader vision, and they have more templates to refer to.

Chen Zhiting presided over a meeting at the household department and asked officials at all levels to publish methods on how to increase peasants' incomes.

These officials, who have come from government schools and have studied professional agricultural knowledge, constantly compare the agricultural situation of various countries and constantly express their own opinions.

Britain does not attach importance to agriculture, their self-sufficiency rate of agricultural products is declining step by step, and can only meet the needs of half of the population, and Britain has completed the concentration of land through the brutal enclosure movement, with large and medium-sized farms in the majority, which is too different from China and has no reference significance. The same is true in the United States, where farms are larger and less relevant than those in the United Kingdom. German agriculture was run by Junker landlords, and although it was not as large as that of Anglo-American agriculture, it was still quite large.

On the contrary, French agriculture, which was considered backward by this era, is of great significance to China. Because of the Great Revolution in France, seventy percent of the population were peasants, and half of the peasants were self-cultivated farmers, and the farm area was generally not large, all of them were less than one hectare, which was similar to China's small-scale peasant economy.

However, in the Western sense, although the peasants' income is less than that of other developed countries, compared with the Chinese peasants, the French peasants are relatively rich, after all, each household has more than one mu of land per Chinese.

The officials gave Chen Zhiting an analysis of French agriculture and told him that the reason why small farmers in France are richer is that they generally engage in commercial agriculture, and many farmers are producing fruits and vegetables, growing grapes, and making wine, and the output is much higher than simply growing grain.

Chen Zhiting understands these very well, because of his knowledge in the countryside, and those farmers who grow vegetables and fruits earn more.

Livestock officials also explained that farmers in Germany and France also generally raise livestock, meat or milk, and the income is no less than that of growing vegetables.

Chen Zhiting listened very seriously, but he was very angry, these people obviously understood very well, but why didn't they do it before?

Through reading the Hubu's files, he found that the Hubu's support for agriculture and rural areas was concentrated in the mulberry sericulture in the Liangguang region, while the animal husbandry industry was placed in the alpine grassland areas of Yunnan, and other measures were discussed.

When he questioned these officials, they made Chen Zhiting stop the fire with a single word.

They asked, what if the peasants all went to grow vegetables and trees, and the grain was used to raise pigs, cattle and sheep, what would happen to the rations?

This is a very real problem: China is not self-sufficient in food!

Relying on imports, the first is not safe, and the second import has to be rich. Therefore, they encourage the highest value-added and exportable sericulture, and for those high value-added agriculture that meets domestic demand, they know how to do it, but they dare not do it.

This problem has put Chen Zhiting himself in trouble, let the peasants engage in economic planting, there will not be enough grain to eat, and they will all grow rations with low added value, so how to enrich the people and how to make hundreds of millions of peasants rich.

Suffering from no choice, he asked the emperor for instructions.

What he didn't know was that his knowledge had become obsolete compared to this modern administrative body, but the emperor still used him, in fact, the emperor was only using his identity. Through his status as a prestigious gentry, the emperor was promoting his own ideas.

So Zhu Jinglun has a lot of insights into this.

He told Chen Zhiting that it is not impossible to import, but it must be safe. Importing food from the United States and Russia is not safe, but importing food from Vietnam, Siam, and even Cambodia and the South Seas is safe. But the agricultural production efficiency is not high, and the agricultural level of Vietnam and Siam cannot feed a few people for one farmer. The combined population of these two countries is only more than 10 million, and counting the total of more than 20 million peasants in Nanyang, they can feed China's population of 350 million at most.

Therefore, the food shortfall within 30 to 50 million is safe.

It is suggested that Chen Zhiting can manage 50 million peasants to change their production methods in a short period of time, set up a special organization, provide farmers with fruit tree saplings, introduce two kinds of animal husbandry, and help them set up wine-making workshops and even wineries.

50 million peasants are enough for Chen Zhiting to be busy, and it will be considered a very successful success if it can be completed within 10 years, and after 10 years, if a good way or method is formed, it can continue to be popularized under the condition that food security is solved.

Chen Zhiting considered that he would be in his eighties ten years later, and it was not certain whether he was still alive, so he was not in a hurry to think about the future generations.

As for the issue of how to implement the policy, Zhu Jinglun gave suggestions.

Government support is one thing, but more importantly, farmers need to invest themselves, which is a business problem after all.

It is not a matter for the government to use financial subsidies for a long time, so it needs to be done through commercial means.

The last time the two of them talked about the issue of rural insurance, Zhu Jinglun suggested that the rural insurance companies in the cities should first give the insurance company a monopoly on the commercial insurance business of water, fire, and diseases in rural areas, and also force all farmers and landlords to pay catastrophe insurance premiums every year, and the insurance companies should give preferential insurance premiums to the poorest tenant farmers, and if the tenant farmers still cannot support themselves, the insurance companies should help them apply for government subsidies. In short, it is necessary to insure against natural disasters, serious illnesses and other accidents that can bankrupt peasant families.

So what to do with the insurance premiums paid by hundreds of millions of farmers every year, even if each person only pays half a tael per year, it is still hundreds of millions of funds.

Zhu Jinglun suggested that insurance companies set up banks, rural insurance banks, and use the money to lend to peasants. Provide financing facilities for farmer enterprises, and provide subsidies and subsidized loans for investment such as expanding production scale and reducing costs. Preferential loans with a repayment period of 10 years and an interest rate of no more than 5% will be provided for small projects with an investment amount of less than 10 taels. Projects of more than 500 taels can apply for preferential loans with an interest rate of no more than 5% and a repayment period of 20 years, and the government will discount the interest. For large projects of more than 10,000 taels, ultra-long low-interest loans with a repayment period of 30 years will be launched.

Through the situation of commercial banks, to encourage the development of rural industries, perhaps a particularly advantageous monopoly giant will not appear, but it is very possible to appear a large number of viable rural food companies, and later Japan, Germany, and France have a large number of such small companies, and many of them have also developed into world-renowned boutique companies, taking a large amount of high added value from the pockets of China's rich.

In addition to training peasants' children to work in the cities, rural enterprises are also encouraged to hire peasants. If two or more employees are employed, an additional subsidy of 1 tael will be given for each additional employee. Comprehensive tax incentives are given to agricultural enterprises, and agricultural enterprises can be exempted from paying factory tax.

As for the question of who will carry out the law and how to do it, Zhu Jinglun suggested that the local public bureau, which is already not a small power, should be in charge, and the public bureau is composed of rural gentry, and has always been an institution that cooperates with the government to manage the countryside and manage the peasants, but the organizational ability of the village scholars is too poor, and Zhu Jinglun suggested that the public bureau hire technical personnel to raise its own level to the level of government agencies.

Zhu Jinglun envisioned that such local bureaus would eventually become organizations similar to agricultural cooperatives or agricultural associations, and that these organizations are often the ones that protect the interests of farmers in Western countries, but there are no such organizations in China, so it is impossible to compare.

Manager Zhu put forward these suggestions, obviously he was not idle during this time, the bank even took into account the interest rate and repayment period, obviously it was impossible to think about it blindly, but consulted relevant experts.

Chen Zhiting fully adopted Zhu Jinglun's specific and operable suggestions.

He proposed to Zhu Jinglun that the establishment of a basic insurance system in the city and the compulsion of all workers to at least join unemployment insurance, for the current Chinese workers, the most terrible thing is not that there is no one to provide for the elderly, no one to see a doctor, to provide for the elderly to have children and see a doctor, to be honest, the control of diseases in this era is still very low, quite a lot of diseases are not treated, headache and brain fever minor diseases will not die, the real fatal thing is that the workers who have nothing have lost a stable income.

In order to keep the enterprise from heavy pressure, the first ten years of the enterprise only needs to bear half, that is, one-third of the total premium, and the other third is given back to the enterprise through tax exemption and other ways.

In the event of an unemployment crisis, the insurance company pays 60% of their previous wages to at least make ends meet.

Chen Zhiting is not very concerned about urban workers' insurance, because he believes that once urban workers return to their hometowns, there are few unemployed workers in the cities. Moreover, even if they are unemployed, no matter how big the economic crisis is, there will only be one or two out of ten people, and the two or three unemployed are far less than the rural population. For him, it was not a big deal of governance.

But he still took Zhu Jinglun's advice.

Soon, one policy after another was discussed and implemented.

Chen Zhiting's knowledge is outdated, but he does not lack the ability to govern, after all, he has been a scholar for so many years, and his ability to manage people is very strong, he still has prestige, and he can guarantee the implementation of his own policies.

Zhu Jinglun just wanted to use such a person to promote his own ideas, but in fact, he still underestimated this old master.

An old guy in his seventies who has been immersed in officialdom for half his life can never be underestimated.

Chen Zhiting has his own ideas, especially in rural schools.

He complemented these policies through education.

Through the government and rural public bureaus, the peasants will be promoted to the planting and breeding of cash crops, the cultivation of vegetables and fruits, and the peasants will be allowed to use bank loans, mainly to let the landlords establish rural enterprises, establish pigs, cattle and sheep farms to raise livestock, and establish wine-making workshops, slaughtering and processing meat products workshops and fruit drying and drying workshops.

At the same time, relevant courses have been set up in rural schools, at least in township schools (junior high schools) set up in towns, with the intention of improving the situation of peasant children who "do not grow cotton in clothing, do not grow rice in food, and build houses without afforestation".

His goal may not be achieved, but he can cultivate a large number of talents in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, make rural schools more nostalgic, and make China's rural education more like a temple house that the Japanese despise.

The role of education is lagging behind, but the role of industry is immediate, investment may not have a return, but the investment itself will definitely have an impact, under the promotion of the government, hundreds of millions of funds smashed into the countryside, and changes soon appeared.