Chapter XLVIII
"Aren't these Diao people afraid of the king's law?" Zhou County Commander of Nangong County trembled with anger in the yamen. But being blocked at the gate of the yamen, it just continued, how can I be the county commander in the future.
"How many people are out there?" The county magistrate of Nangong County asked.
"My lord, I think there must be at least two hundred people outside." The voice of the official did not dare to speak too high, for fear of irritating the county magistrate.
"Shhh The prefectural magistrate felt a feeling similar to a toothache. Needless to say, there must be someone behind the scenes. "Let's find out who's behind it!" The prefectural commander ordered.
Sometimes even the county magistrate is not a hundred miles of marquis who can do whatever he wants, and the county magistrate of Nangong County suddenly found that hundreds of mischievous idlers can have one heart, which is also very difficult to deal with. The officials wanted to go out to inquire about the news, but as soon as they opened the door, they saw idlers standing at the door, and they shouted: "Life can't go on, and there is going to be a rebellion." "The officials were not allowed to go out at all.
"Are you going to rebel?" The official shouted.
"We're just going to do the opposite!" The idlers shouted at each other.
In the face of such hob meat, the officials really have no choice. With the guy in his hand, the official really didn't dare to go out the door. Otherwise, if you go out, you will have to come back. After reporting the incident to the prefectural magistrate, the prefectural magistrate was furious. This is also too deceitful.
"Come on, the official will take you to see it himself. If the official gives me an order, you will call me out. The prefectural commander shouted.
As soon as the door opened this time, the idlers were still at the door. Seeing the official uniform of the county commander, the idlers were noisy again, "I can't live, I'm rebelling!" Hearing these words, the county commander's face was gloomy, and he was about to let the officials fight out, but he saw two people crowded to the door. The prefectural commander's hand was raised, pointing at the idler. Seeing the two people who crowded to the door, the county commander's fingers trembled, and his gloomy face was almost green with anger, "Pull these two bastards in for me." The prefectural commander shouted to the officer.
The two were pulled through the door, and the door slammed shut. The officials were about to wait for Zhou County's order to speak, but they saw Zhou's county order rushing up directly and kicking each of them first. He kicked and shouted, "Rebellion? It's really the other way you go. ”
The two young men took a kick but did not complain at all, but they both opened their mouths with a smile, "Hello uncle." "Hello teacher."
As soon as these words came out, the officials were very surprised. Zhou Xianling waved his hand to the officials, "You guys go down." After finishing speaking, the county commander was still angry, and kicked the two of them again. This Zhou County Commander is a native of Julu, Hebei, and the two young people he kicked off, one is Pang Zi, who has been reading with this Zhou County Commander for several months. One is Zhou County's nephew, Pang Tianshuo. Pang Zi and Pang Tianshuo are distant cousins.
Seeing these two bastard boys actually play this hand for themselves, Zhou Xianling was almost angry. took the two of them into the study, and the county magistrate scolded: "Why does Brother Jing have relatives like you?" ”
"Teacher, I can't ......help it," Pang Zi said. Although he had only studied in Zhou County's order for a few months, Pang Zi still didn't dare to make a mistake with the teacher.
Zhou Xianling stared at Pang Zi for a while, but did not continue to scold, "What kind of rebellion?" I'll open a ticket, and you can lead these idlers to give people a charge in the future. ”
This was originally the purpose of Pang Zi's operation, he thought that there would be some twists and turns, but he didn't expect Zhou County's order to agree so easily. This made Pang Zi overjoyed, "Thank you, teacher." ”
Zhou County's order said with a straight face: "I will only help you this time, if something else happens in the future, I can only do business." ”
In this way, Pang Zi got the ticket and started a dart game.
Every time I think of this incident, Pang Zi feels lucky. In fact, Zhou Xian Ling is a very serious person, and it is not easy for him to help so happily.
"Is Mr. Hoshidai here?" After entering his yard, Pang Zi shouted.
"Mr. Chen is not here." It was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy who came out to answer.
"He's going to the feedlot again?" Pang Zi asked the child.
"Mr. Chen has gone to the peasant association."
After Pang Zi got the ticket for the dart game, Chen Tianhua set up the first peasant association in Gaojiazhai. The first members of the peasant association were farmers who participated in the feedlots. After that, Chen Tianhua spent most of his time in the peasant association, and Pang Zi was used to it.
In order to go to Hejia Village today to buy people's hearts, Pang Zi has taken away a lot of chickens, ducks and pigs from the breeding farm since the day before yesterday, although he is ready to return to Nangong County immediately, but Pang Zi feels that he still has to say hello to Chen Tianhua before leaving, thank you. If it weren't for Chen Tianhua's farm, where would there be so many livestock and poultry for Pang Zi to use? Thinking of this, Pang Zi got up and went out and went to the breeding farm to find Chen Tianhua.
From last year to now, Chen Tianhua has been in Hebei for almost a year. Because of learning the Chinese pinyin handed over by Chen Ke, although his accent still has a strong Hunan flavor, Hebei people can understand what he says.
At this time, Chen Tianhua was sorting out fertilizer in the earthworm field with other farm personnel. Carrying a hoe to do the work skillfully, that is to say, the humus made from grass stalks, pig manure, and chicken manure is covered on the earthworm field that has been organized. After the autumn harvest, there is no shortage of straw. Spread a layer of simmered things, another layer of wheat straw and sorghum stalks, another layer of soil, another layer of humus, and then straw and soil. Everyone who worked in the earthworm fields wore masks, but even so, the pungent smell still made my eyes a little unopen.
When Chen Ke was left in Hebei, Chen Tianhua was already mentally prepared that the future work would be very difficult. But in a long conversation with Chen Ke before parting, Chen Ke gave Chen Tianhua three suggestions, one is not to promote anything to the people to beat away foreigners. Ordinary people don't care about this kind of thing at all. Second, we must understand that the problem now is to develop the productive forces so that the people can produce more food. Third, it is necessary to set up an organization that truly belongs to the common people -- peasant associations.
Chen Tianhua admires Chen Keke very much, since Chen Ke said so, Chen Tianhua really implemented Chen Ke's three suggestions. In fact, Chen Ke has only heard of Chen Tianhua's name, because Chen Tianhua committed suicide in 1905 in history, so Chen Ke has no concept of Chen Tianhua's "possibility". This is also the reason why Chen Ke left Chen Tianhua in Hebei. Chen Tianhua is a person who can see the current superficial problems and can ask more profound questions. As for how to find a solution to the current problems in China, Chen Ke, as a latecomer, has a very low evaluation of the ability of people in this era to solve problems.
History has proven that only by carrying out a complete revolution and shattering all the old order will a new order be rebuilt in China. Only in this way can China be saved. Any reformism is.
Chen Ke has always been puzzled by one thing, the era of industrialization and the era of agriculture are two social situations that are incompatible. Why is it that there are always people who are in the industrial age, and then cling to the "veil of warmth" of the agricultural era and do not let go? Even in the twenty-first world, such fools are still endless. Most of these people call themselves "public intellectuals", and most of them have one characteristic: they only revere the status of "scholars" in China's agricultural era. I think I have recognized some broken words and read a few sour words. You can be high, and you should be born with power. Most of these people advocate the "Republic of China model".
The so-called "Republic of China model" of the Republic of China is an era when such "public intellectuals" who have read some books occupy a high position in society. These people who advocate the "Republic of China style" in the 21st century are all people who think that they are superior to others.
Because Chen Ke has a good impression of Chen Tianhua, but since there are no traces of Chen Tianhua in history after 1905, Chen Ke must let Chen Tianhua prove that he is not this kind of "Republic of China fan". Because Chen Ke actually has a very serious idea, if he is in power, these predecessors of the "Republic of China Fan" will not want to have the slightest political power at all. Even if it is a rubber-stamped CPPCC meeting, Chen Ke will not give these people any chance. Therefore, Chen Ke very much hopes that Chen Tianhua can withstand such a test.
Of course, this is also because Chen Ke did not know that there would be such a big flood in Anhui in 1906. In the disaster area, Chen Tianhua will definitely be able to withstand even more severe tests. If he knew, he would have taken Chen Tianhua to Anhui.
Chen Tianhua didn't know what Chen Ke really thought, he just knew that Chen Ke had asked him to practice a very hard revolutionary road in Hebei. Chen Tianhua has participated in such a thing as using existing social contradictions to launch a revolution. But it was all the dissatisfaction of the middle strata of society with the Manchu regime, either out of righteous indignation or because of long-standing economic contradictions.
In Hebei, Chen Ke asked Chen Tianhua to study the needs of the people at the bottom for revolution. What exactly do the people need, how did their revolutionary needs arise? How to tell the people the fact that if they do not revolution, they will never have a future.
When Chen Tianhua asked Chen Ke how he dealt with the people, Chen Ke only said one sentence, "Work with the people."
Now Chen Tianhua is working hard. Although Chen Tianhua's family is poor, his father is a scholar, so Chen Tianhua himself is not short of books to read. Later, I read well, and someone paid to help. He continued his studies and was even able to study abroad. Farm work is not too accustomed to Chen Tianhua. As for Chen Tianhua's main breeding farm, not to mention. This is a model that Chen Ke imitated the 21st century feedlots, and there is a gap of nearly a century between the two sides in terms of the understanding of the management model of the feedlots.
With Pang Zi's help, Chen Tianhua first gathered the owners of the saline-alkali or wet-laced land around the village. All such land is rotten land, and no one who has it is poor. Because these lands do not produce much food, if they were poor, they would have sold them and bought good land, or simply changed it.
Chen Tianhua was not short of money, and Pang Zi took the lead, and with a rent of 50 taels of silver a year, more than 200 acres of "rotten land" were contracted down for a year and a half. If you have land, you have to be served, or Pang Zi came forward, and the people in the village who lacked land, had no land, or were forcibly seized were arranged to come to work.
The farm soon became a laughing stock in the surrounding villages. Some people actually raised earthworms, and even used bricks to repair some exercises. Everyone laughed at Chen Tianhua and these people, just these brick money, they can't earn back in their lifetime by raising earthworms. If you want to dig earthworms, you just go to the ground and dig them, so why bother so much?
Not to mention the people who came into contact with this kind of artificially bred earthworm for the first time, even Chen Tianhua, who had only read the book written by Chen Ke, was also worried in his heart. But he relied on his blind faith in Chen Ke and persevered according to what Chen Ke wrote in the book. It wasn't until more than two months later that Chen Tianhua, who had initially mastered the laws of earthworm reproduction, finally began to buy the first batch of chickens, ducks and piglets from the villagers. After another month, the nearby villagers were horrified to find that the chickens raised in the farm led by Chen Tianhua were growing extremely fast. They are all chicks for more than a month, and the chickens and ducks in the feedlot are half the size of the chickens and ducks in other families.
So naturally some people came to inquire and learned that these chickens and ducks all feed on earthworms, but almost use earthworms as the staple food every day to get the effect. The villagers who knew this "secret" could only shake their heads. Villagers will catch some earthworms when earthworms are often seen after the rain, and catch some fish and shrimp as a supplement to chicken and duck feed. Everyone who has raised chickens and ducks knows that these earthworms and small fish and shrimp can occasionally get some, and if you go to get them every day, it is extremely uneconomical.
In addition to raising chickens, ducks and pigs, live earthworms are also used to raise small fish and shrimp in specially dug fish ponds. Therefore, these villagers go to the natural environment alone to capture very cost-effective things, and Chen Tianhua has greatly reduced the cost through artificial breeding.
In fact, Chen Tianhua just brought knowledge to the countryside, and after organizing and making a little use of the resources here, he achieved great results.
In 1906, if someone had an egg or duck egg a day. Eating chicken, duck and fish once every five days, how big does this have to be to do? The poor people in the feedlot have basically achieved it.
If it is an ordinary person, if it can achieve such an achievement and let the people live such a life, they will naturally be complacent. Chen Tianhua is actually an ordinary person. The reason why he was not complacent was very simple, and the plan left by Chen Ke specifically discussed the situation at this stage. Now, for the first time, Chen Tianhua understands what is called "industrial production" and what is called "small-scale peasant economy".
The purpose of the "small-scale peasant economy" is production to satisfy a subsistence lifestyle, while "industrial production" is production for the purpose of "trading". Although the smallholder economy also raises chickens, ducks, and pigs, it is all incidental. Chen Tianhua personally set up this farm with the aim of producing more poultry and livestock. And the ultimate purpose of these productions is to sell these poultry and livestock to make money. Before there was enough sales, Chen Tianhua found that he had encountered a "product backlog" for the first time in his life. A lot of "chickens and ducks" can't be eaten at all.
With a kind of fanatical support for Chen Ke, Chen Tianhua even forced himself to read the part of the book "Chinese Cultural Inheritance and the Rise of Materialism" about the changes in "agricultural society" and "industrial society".
In this part, Chen Ke explains how "the agricultural system looks at the warmth and warmth in weekdays and good years", and it becomes a hell on earth in disaster years. Therefore, Chen Ke firmly believes that the alternative agricultural system must be completely destroyed by the industrialization system. For example, in an agricultural system, the addition of just one industrial variable can trigger a chain reaction at once.
Because the small-scale peasant economy cannot be compared with the cost of industrialization in any case, Chen Ke warned Chen Tianhua in the document he left for Chen Tianhua. It is an absolute foolish act to distribute the products produced by the farms to the poor people free of charge.
As long as Chen Tianhua's farm succeeded, it was actually basically sentenced to death for farmers in Nangong County who wanted to make a fortune by raising poultry and livestock. It is absolutely impossible for a smallholder economy to be compared with industrial production. In addition to getting all farmers to join the Federation of Livestock Industries, that is, the Farmers' Association. Any competition will only keep the peasants bankrupt.
Chen Tianhua really didn't believe it, because when he began to suggest that the people of Gaojiazhai join the peasant association, he was met with "onlookers" and refusal. The northerners had no confidence in Chen Tianhua, a southern barbarian. Everyone knows that Chen Tianhua came with Pang Zi, a guy who is not doing his job. Since Pang Zi is not a good person, Chen Tianhua will not be much better.
As the saying goes, toast is not eaten and punished by drinking. Since Chen Tianhua's kindness was not recognized by everyone, he could only follow the method provided by Chen Ke. In the following month, the price of poultry, chickens, ducks and eggs in Nangong County fell by 30%. Nangong County is originally convenient transportation, businessmen gathered, and is known as "Linqingshui Wharf, Nangong Dry Wharf". The gathering of businessmen means that consumption is strong, and the breeding industry looks inconspicuous, but it is actually a way for many people to obtain money. It's just that a lot of people don't feel it.
And another characteristic of the animal husbandry industry is that livestock and poultry have to be eaten as long as they live. If you eat less, you will lose weight, and if you lose weight, you will not be able to sell it at a high price. If these animals and poultry are killed while they are fattening, the meat will spoil if it is not sold immediately. Still can't sell for a price.
Chen Tianhua's big dumping made many families feel the crisis in an instant. Because of Chen Tianhua's feedlot, the proportion of earthworms and small fish and shrimp in the feed is very high. This means that there is enough protein and phosphorus. And much less food is consumed. Other families raise a much higher demand for food, don't look at the price reduction of 30%, which immediately makes raising chickens and ducks uneconomical. Not only that, if you look at the grain alone, perhaps it may be more cost-effective to exchange the grain for chickens and ducks to Chen Tianhua.
In the fifth month of the farm's opening, someone finally came to the door to ask for trouble.