The first half month after the harvest begins is the busiest, while harvesting, threshing, and drying as soon as possible, and at the same time, it is necessary to plow, breed, and plant seedlings, and to seize the time to plant the second crop of rice. www.biquge.info Liu Yao not only stopped school teaching and military academy training, but also stopped brick kilns and cement kilns, let the children go back to help the family do farm work, and let Yao Ying and Liu Man work in the fields with him.

Labor in the rice field can be one of the hardest jobs in the world, not to mention the itching and uncomfortable rice when harvesting, the leeches coming from time to time when planting rice, and the repeated bending every day can make people's backaches to the point of breaking. Liu Yao's labor protection is the best, not only has a straw hat and a full set of protective clothes, but also brings a set of clean clothes every day, and after a day of work, they will wash it in the canal before going home. From the second day of her labor in the field, Yao Ying resumed the fine tradition of stuffing sweet potatoes into the hearth of the large stove for dinner, so that the family could eat sweet roasted sweet potatoes while walking home.

Liu Man sighed while eating sweet potatoes: "Now is the happiest time of the day." I work in the fields every day, and it is by thinking about this time that I can persevere. It's really tiring to do farm work. I don't think it will last more than a month. ”

"It doesn't take a month. Now this time is called double grabbing, grabbing seeds and harvesting, we must seize all the time, and we must not let the land be empty. Liu Yao walked behind with his son in his arms, looking at his daughter who was eating sweet potatoes lovingly.

"I don't see the word double robbery. The part of our secret book on rice cultivation does not mention this. Liu Man asked strangely.

"Have you forgotten that your grandfather was engaged in rice breeding? Although I had never been in the field, I was a child who grew up on the edge of a rice paddy. Liu Yao replied proudly, and continued: "Fang accidentally chose China's 70s to do this test, which may be the good luck of the earthlings." Our group of people, who were agrarian and non-market economies in our childhood, witnessed and participated in the tremendous changes of the entire era. The so-called path from an agrarian society to a capitalist society has been completed in one generation for hundreds of years. ”

Liu Man looked at the sweet potato skin in his hand, stuffed it into his mouth and ate it, and then said: "We have to complete this road in a generation again, right?" ”

Yao Ying put her arms around her daughter's shoulders and said distressedly: "Don't eat the skin, you can eat when you go back." The younger brother Liu Ze held his sweet potato in his hand and reached out to grab his sister's.

Liu Yao said with a smile: "In the past, at home, the two children had to be forced to eat, but now it's good, and they will rob it." ”

The family laughed and walked home, the sky was getting dark, and a handful of diamond-like stars could already be seen in the western sky.

After the double robbery, Liu Yao distributed the grain owed according to the recorded figures and the interest payable, including the ten catties of grain distributed to everyone to thank everyone for helping to harvest. Although only half of the grain is rice, and the other half is sweet potatoes and corn, a person who was originally empty-handed, only after one harvest, can pick up grain one by one, which still makes every villager very admired.

The executive's father and son and Mei Xiang operated the entire process of "repaying the debt", everyone checked the numbers in person, looked at the scales in person, and satisfactorily picked up their own food.

Liu Yao sent the villagers away one by one, and told them to rest for a few days before coming here to work, and confidently told everyone: "As long as you are willing to come here to work, you can come." ”

When all the outstanding debts are paid, all the work for this harvest season will be completed. At dinner, the meal was very rich, and there was a large pot of wine - this was a sample product of the sauce garden sent by Zhou Liya. The taste of this wine is not bad, but the degree is too high, estimated to be close to 70 degrees, and a table of people drink it with a grin. Liu Man really couldn't stand it, and asked, "Can you mix some water or juice into it?" All the men who drank said yes in unison.

After dinner, the family sat in the courtyard to cool off, planning whether to give themselves a few days off and go to the beach to have fun after everything was over. I haven't been to the beach since the salt pans were built.

The couple planned how to get there, what to bring, whether to spend the night at the beach. Liu pointed to the starry sky and shouted: "Stars! Star! His sister said to him, "Yes, it's a star." In the place where we came, there were no more than ten stars in sight throughout the night. And here, at least tens of thousands. ”

Zhao Shilu suddenly walked into the courtyard and shouted as he walked: "Sir, things are not good." ”

Liu Yao asked strangely: "Old Zhao, you are usually very calm. What's the big deal? ”

"Everyone in the neighborhood is saying that you can turn stones into gold, call for wind and rain, and say that you can come to work as long as you want, and now there are a lot of people coming. It is estimated that from tomorrow onwards, a lot of people will come. After Zhao Shilu finished speaking, he wiped his sweat and sat down.

"That's a good thing. I'm asking people to do the work. As long as they are willing to bring their own rations and let me owe them, I am willing to recruit many people. Liu Yao poured a cup of tea and brought it over, and then said: "I have calculated the account, this season's rice is beaten, and half of it will be exchanged for one hundred catties according to one catty, and I can feed the people of our village and the whole village of Chahe Village." If the people of the two villages don't do their own work, they all come to me. Do you estimate that there will be 50, 100, or 200 people coming? ”

"That's not it, people from both villages will come to you to work. But the people who are going to come will not burn, and I think there may be about 300 people, all of whom have no fields, and about half of them can really work. Before Lao Zhao finished speaking, Mei Xianzhuo walked in, also with a worried face.

Liu Yao poured another cup of tea and handed it over, and asked, "Can these people work?" ”

"There's nothing you can't do with work. It's just that some of them are relatively weak, and they don't have any food rations. Lao Zhao said worriedly.

"It's a problem without rations, and I don't think I can feed so many people until the autumn harvest. This is just the summer harvest, they should have done some work for others, how much is there always a little harvest, right? ”

"It's a little, but they borrowed a lot of food, and I'm afraid there won't be much left after paying it back."

"Lao Mei, Lao Zhao, our village has a good summer harvest this time. Can you get everyone to give a little bit of relief? It's not in vain, even if I borrowed it, I will pay it back to everyone after the autumn harvest, and I will pay interest. Liu Yao asked the two of them a question. The reason why he dared to borrow heavily was because historical records show that in the past two years, the wind and rain have been good, and the grain harvest has been very good. If the cubes don't joke with people and strictly reproduce history, then the supply of food will be abundant.

"Do you owe the food rations of the people working in our village, and you have to borrow food from them to help those in other villages who can't eat?" Mei Xianzhuo reasoned out his thoughts.

"Yes. I'm just asking you to dig out your money and do things with me. Liu Yao said firmly.

"Have you ever wondered what if the autumn harvest is bad?" Zhao Shilu asked worriedly, and Mei Xianzhuo also nodded on the side and looked at Liu Yao.

"No one can say for sure what the future holds, but I'm 80% sure."

"Eighty percent sure, then you can do it." Mei Xianzhuo gently put down the teacup and said firmly. "Then Lao Zhao, you have to bring people to build some sheds, these people have to have a place to live."

"It's right to have a place to live, but it can't be a shed, it has to be a dwelling. When people come, let them make their home here. It's not like we don't have land here. My Liberty Mountain, which is itself too high to be cultivated, is just right for people. Liu Yao got up and went into the house to get a few drawings, spread them out in front of the two, and then said: "This is the picture of the house I drew." Each household occupies an area of 20 meters square, with a total of 400 square meters of land. Build a two-storey house with an area of about 200 square meters, so that the house has a total of 350 square meters, and there is 200 square meters of open space around the house where you can grow some vegetables. ”

"Your house is very good, the rooms are neat and sturdy, there is a canal to bring water into the house, and there is a sewer. This is completely the same as the shed, one heaven and one underground. Zhao Shilu suddenly saw the special place of the house.

"Yes, I'm going to build a village here that has never been done before." Liu Yao said with certainty. In his plans, all dwellings were to have an overhead aqueduct next to them, just as the Romans had built. Canals can be made of masonry, cement or ceramic pipes, and are pipes that are neither pressurized nor strictly closed, using gravity to allow water to flow.

"Well, this house is too expensive, isn't it?" Yao Ying said suspiciously.

"Aren't we here to rebuild civilization? A civilized dwelling should have a courtyard for each family. Something like an apartment building should not have existed until the industrial age. Of course, some dormitories-like houses will be built, which can reduce the per capita construction cost, but it is for single people to live temporarily. Everyone with a family must have their own yard! ”

"And the treehouse!" Xiao Man jumped and shouted next to him.

"If the children of those families need it, they can have it." Remembering that in the original time and space, Xiao Man's heart was to have a treehouse, but the **** strict land policy made it difficult to realize this wish, Liu Hengqi was even more determined in his thoughts. ’

Mei Xianzhuo ignored the conversations that he couldn't understand as always, thought to himself, and asked suspiciously: "Your house is so good, don't talk about those who have no land, even if it is from our village, they want to live here." This house, oh, your house, you're not going to give them a free place to live, are you? ”

"Of course it won't be free. Anyone can come and rent or buy these houses, including the villagers in our village. Liu Yao looked at the two with a smile, and said, "A house as big as the two of them must be reluctant to give up." But I'm sure most people would be willing to give up their current home to live in this home. ”

"If you want to buy it, how do you price it? If you want to rent, what is the price? Zhao Shilu finally removed his eyes from the drawings and raised his head and asked.

Liu Yao replied confidently: "The cost of housing is two, one is masonry, cement and labor, and the other is the price of land. The price of masonry and cement will have to be asked by my wife and Wang Daixi. Liu Yao patted Yao Ying and Liu Man, let them also participate in the topic, and then said: "One kiln brick, one kiln cement, there is an account that can be counted as labor. Other materials, such as dirt, ore, water, and occupied land, are from my land, and there is no need to spend money to buy them; It is charcoal that I burned, and I cut it from the mountains and forests. These items look difficult to bookkeeping. That's very simple, anything that doesn't need to be purchased is not counted, only labor consumption. In this way, the total number of kiln bricks and the amount of artificial rations consumed in the kiln bricks are calculated, and it is easy to calculate the price of a brick, and the price of cement can also be handled in this way, and how much grain is equivalent to a catty. Of course, we can add a 30% profit to this price. ”

Mei and Zhao felt that such an algorithm was very novel and made sense.

"Dad, is this how the modern economy calculates?" Liu Man asked curiously.

"It's pretty much the same. But this account is actually meaningless. The price of anything is generated in exchange. Without exchange, there is no price. Now we think it is very reasonable to calculate the cost according to the cost of labor and purchased materials, not the cost of resources such as land and soil, but if no one is willing to pay at this price, this cost is useless. ”

"So how can you get people to pay at this price?" Liu Man then asked.

"It's about making Zhao's construction company build a good house that everyone wants, so that people are not only willing to pay according to this number, but even willing to increase the price. This transaction price is the real price of the house. Liu Yao said with great interest.

"What is Zhao's Construction Company?" Zhao Shilu caught a message that seemed to be related to him.

"In the future, your Zhao family father and son will specialize in building houses, and according to the current words, it is called a construction society. The construction company should buy bricks from the brick kiln and buy cement from the cement kiln; The land will also be bought. Then pay to hire a man-made house. Once the house is built, sell it to the person who wants to buy it. This construction company is the company. Because it is a construction company, it is called a construction company. ”

"Why is the company called a company?" Mei Xianzhuo asked curiously.

"If the construction club is owned by Lao Zhao alone, it can be called anything. But in this construction society, your Zhao family accounts for 70%, and I want to account for 30%, it is a public institution, and it is called a company. Liu Yao replied as simply as possible, in order to avoid entanglement, there is a saying: "This year, I will not be busy talking about the company's affairs, and next year I will talk about whether to do things according to the company." Now let's calculate the cost according to what I just said. We are going to sell or rent the houses we have built to the newcomers, so that they can live and work in peace. ”

"The house is also there, the rations are also available, what are you going to let them do?" Mei Xianzhuo has not forgotten to sort out the whole situation.

"That's exactly what I'm going to discuss with both of you. I'm going to use the wasteland on the right bank of the Shiroku River, near the village of Chahe. ”

Mei Xianzhuo said very regretfully: "If that wasteland can be used, nearly 3,000 acres of cultivated land can be cultivated, and the land is flat and fertile, and it can also be irrigated by river water nearby." It's just that a huge river embankment needs to be built to keep the water, otherwise every spring and summer flood, the flood will rush and no crops will be retained. ”。

"The amount of work on this embankment is so huge that it is beyond the capacity of a few hundred of us to solve it. Embankments require boulders, but there are no convenient quarries nearby, and transporting boulders alone is an unimaginably huge project. Zhao Shilu objected from a technical point of view.

What they said is reasonable. But we can do it now without the usual methods. First of all, we can open up mountains and blow up rocks in the upper reaches of the Shilu River. Tang Zuoxiang's gunpowder has been prepared, and a large amount of saltpeter and sulfur can be bought, which is enough for us. The boulders are transported by boat, which is convenient and fast, and the result is half the effort. Zhao and Mei glanced at each other and nodded slowly.

Liu Yao said again: "Secondly, now we have cement. In the past, the embankment was built, all relied on the weight of the soil and stone itself to stand firm, the slope was gentle, the bottom of the embankment should be at least three zhang wide, and the top should also be more than one zhang, so the soil and stone cost was huge, and now the cement can be combined with boulders, the river embankment can be very steep, and the overall calculation is only two meters wide, less than one zhang. ”

The two of them were already familiar with Liu Yao's new weights and measures, and they silently estimated it in their hearts, and suddenly felt that it was very possible. Liu Yao saw that the attitude of the two had changed, so he said to the two: "Please also ask Brother Zhao to bring Jiao Huang, measure the basic data, and then come and calculate the project quantity with me, we are totaling." If the land is used, please ask Mr. Mei to plan the matter of reporting and registration with the government earlier, and how to prevent the county magistrate from making up his mind. ”

The two nodded again and again, discussed some more details, and the moon rose above their heads before leaving.