Chapter 6 The Way of Self-Whistle
Everyone dispersed, and Feng Jian saw that Hu Baocai wanted to say something, so he asked, "Uncle Hu, is there anything else?" ”
Hu Baocai stubbornly said: "My lord, you see that a villain is too old and weak, and his daughter-in-law and grandson are lonely and helpless, even if he cultivates the fields in the future, it will be difficult to have a good harvest, and his life is still difficult to maintain!" ”
Hu Baocai's face was full of flattery, and Feng Jian looked at the slightly hunched old man in front of him, and his heart was heavy......
There must be more than one family like Hu Baocai's family, how should they get out of their current predicament?
Hu Baocai's family does not have strong labor, and in the future, everyone will reclaim the wasteland and farm, and the survival of his family will become a big problem!
In later generations, such a family should be a five-guarantee household in the countryside, relying on collective relief to survive.
How do you solve this kind of thing now? Like later generations, this kind of people are specially listed as the five guarantee households, and they are given special care?
What will other people think about this outpost, you must know that at any time, there is no lack of inequality, and if you do not do it properly, you will make the whole outpost deviate from morality and complain.
There must be similar people in other outposts in the cottage, I wonder how they deal with it? I have time to ask Hu Dadao for advice.
Feng Jian remembered that in later rural areas, farmers who did not have strong labor at home would transfer their contracted land to agricultural cooperatives, and the cooperatives would integrate the land of many farmers into one cultivation, and the farmers would receive a part of the field harvest from the cooperative every year as compensation.
If the experience of later generations is used for their own purposes, the problems faced by people like Hu Baocai will not be scratching their heads.
To put it simply, later generations of farmers will take the contracted land into agricultural cooperatives, which will produce and operate and distribute profits according to the proportion of land invested by each household each year.
Since many farmers in agricultural cooperatives voluntarily merge and concentrate their land, the land is formed in a contiguous area, which is suitable for large-scale production and operation, and the benefits it produces are incomparable to that of a single household.
Those who do not have strong labor force can sit back and wait for the annual land dividend as long as they invest their land in the cooperative.
However, the rule of Huluyan is that all the reclaimed wasteland is owned by the cottage commander, and the villagers in the village reclaim the fields and hand over a part of the land to the commander Xu as cottage grain every year.
On the land issue, Huluyan's practice is no different from that of the landlords and gentry under the mountain, and the villagers still can't get their own land.
The only benefit is that they are no longer exploited by all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and it is this benefit that this group of simple villagers is also grateful to the leader of the cottage Xu Dade.
In this era, people's land possession is more intense than imagined, and the villagers want to own a piece of their own land, and the landlords and gentry who own a large area of land (including these cottage leaders who take the land as their own) firmly occupy the land and do not let go.
However, the reality is that Pingdu Prefecture is a hundred miles away, but a lot of fertile land is uncultivated, thus becoming a wild land full of wild grass.
It is not that the farmers do not want to farm, but they cannot afford to plant the land, and the tenant farmers rent a year's plough land and at the end of the year, instead of getting food, they owe the government rent taxes, and in addition to the frequent natural disasters, bandits and bandits can appear at any time, even if the land is fertile, few people dare to rent in such an environment.
What does it mean to allocate land to a land that aspires to a breadwinner's family? It means to get the wholehearted support of the peasants of the land.
According to historical records, by the 28th year of Wanli (1600), the Ming Dynasty had a population of about 190 million, and nearly 90% of the population lived in rural areas. The remaining 70%. It is the people's land, and most of the people's land is owned by the landlords and gentry, what does this mean! This means that there were at least 60 million peasants in the Ming Dynasty who lost their land and were eager to own it.
Of course, these realities are not directly related to Feng Jian, Feng Jian calmed down and thought about how to solve the current problems faced by his own whistle, about the production and operation mode of agricultural cooperatives, he can change his face to implement in his own whistle, but land ownership can not be moved casually, and now he is soft-spoken or honestly acting in accordance with the rules of the cottage.
Feng Jian thought of imitating the production mode of agricultural cooperatives in later generations, and began to gather all the personnel and materials within the scope of his outpost to collectively reclaim wasteland, collect the production tools and food materials of each household and distribute them in a unified manner, and distribute different jobs according to the ability of men, women and children at the outpost.
Because all the materials are concentrated and the rationing system is implemented, it temporarily solves the problem of eating for those who do not have strong labor, but this is not a long-term solution, Feng Jian still has to continue to worry about this matter!
In addition, in order to encourage people to actively open up wasteland, some incentives can be set up, such as the outpost can be reclaimed spontaneously in addition to the collective cultivation of farmland, and every additional acre of wasteland, the outpost will take out some of the public grain as a reward or convert it into work, and in the future, you can exchange food for your own post with your work points, and in the future, your own outpost will become rich, and the villagers can also exchange meat and vegetables and other non-staple foods at the outpost with their work points at the end of the year.
Feng Jian looked at Hu Baocai and said, "Uncle Hu, don't worry, the outpost will not ignore you, I will find a way to help your family solve the difficulties they are facing!" ”
Hu Baocai's heart suddenly put it in his stomach, and complimented: "Thank you for the kindness of the little flag officer, and the useless body of the little old man is willing to provide you with guidance in the future." ”
Listening to Hu Baocai's flattering words, Feng Jian had goosebumps all over his body, and he sent Hu Baocai away after saying anything.
Came to Huluyan cottage for so long, has not met with my mother, taking advantage of my free time, quickly looked for my mother's whereabouts, saw that my mother had boiled a pot of porridge waiting for me, some neighbors around me were surrounding my mother to gossip, see myself coming over, there is some flattering greeting.
If Feng Jian was not the little flag officer of his own post, these neighbors would be so flattering, drinking the gruel handed by his mother, Feng Jian sighed in his heart.
The night is coming, the mountain breeze blows with the autumn mood, blowing away all the dry heat of the white day, the Huluyan cottage is lit up with a little light, and the villagers in the village are bursting with cooking smoke.
In the square, everyone in the square made some simple food according to their own wheelbarrows, and the family was busy with livestock looking for forage to feed.
After eating a simple meal, the futon on the wheelbarrow was spread on the ground, and the family lay down next to each other, ignoring mosquito bites in the mountains, and no longer had to be afraid when they came to the mountains, and most people soon fell asleep.
Those who lost their loved ones in the Twin Peaks Valley looked grief-stricken, and they mourned and cried in a low voice around the bodies of their relatives.
For these people, Feng Jian is now not able to provide them with better help except sympathy, he remembers that Hu Dadao said that the people who are killed and injured on the battlefield, Huluyan Cottage will give them compassionate care, and they have time to figure it out.
The unburned bonfire "crackled", and the flickering light reflected the faces of the villagers, and the camp soon resounded with a variety of different sounds, snoring, farting, and dreaming.
There is a platform on the top of Huluyan Mountain, the platform is relatively wide, and a pavilion is built on it, called Cuifeng Pavilion. It is said that it was built during the period of Wang Mang of the Western Han Dynasty, four stone pillars hold up the tall pavilion body, each of the eight pavilion corners hangs a copper bell, the mountain wind blows, the copper bell makes a crisp sound, the Cuifeng Pavilion gets its name from this.
Sitting in the pavilion to the west can see the famous Reclining Buddha Mountain, in the moonlight this mountain shape gods are ready, lifelike, as the saying goes: "Buddha is a mountain, the mountain has a Buddha." This is not bad at all, and it makes people sigh at the miracle of creation.
In the night breeze, a thin cloud and mist wrap around the pavilion on the top of the mountain, and people walk in it like a dream, suddenly like a fairyland.
At this time, the stone table in the Cuifeng Pavilion was already in a mess, and there were more than a dozen shirtless men sitting next to the stone table in the pavilion, and they were pushing cups and changing lamps with each other and making loud noises, these rude men did not appreciate the elegance of fairyland.
Feng Jian lent twenty taels of silver to Hu Dadao before the banquet began, and prepared to present it to the cottage leaders as a meeting.
According to Hu Dadao's instructions, ten taels of silver were given when kowtowing to the commander, and the rest of the leaders were given two taels of silver each.
If you want to get along in the cottage, these human contacts are necessary, especially when Feng Jian first arrived, he became one of the ten small flag officials in the cottage, and he was easily hated, so this meeting gift is indispensable.
Feng Jian saw in the countryside in later generations that the villagers ushered in and sent, and giving gifts was to give face, and the people of Zhuanghu sometimes paid more attention to face.
After all the leaders of Huluyan excused themselves, they all accepted the money, and the initial estrangement gradually disappeared, and they began to talk to each other.
After Feng Jian toasted to Commander Xu and the rest of the leaders in turn, he became familiar with everyone, and when the wine was hot, several leaders patted their chests with a "tom", and bluntly said that Feng Jian would find them if he had something, and he would not refuse! Of course, Feng Jian thanked him repeatedly, and said that he would not trouble the leaders in the future.
Xu Ma Gang has been secretly observing Feng Jian, and he feels that although Feng Jian is immature, he is very tactful in dealing with people and dealing with people, not like a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy at all.
I couldn't help but be surprised, Hu Dadao had already introduced Feng Jian's family background in detail, he was from an ordinary Zhuang family, Xu Ma Gang was ready to carefully observe Feng Jian for a while, if he really could use his talents and use them for himself, Huluyan would not bury him.
During the banquet, Feng Jian talked with the leaders to get a general understanding of the current situation of Huluyan.
The commander of the Xu Ma Gang is in charge of all the affairs of the cottage.
There are five corps under the Grand Commander, and each corps has a leader.
Each corps has two posts, and each post has a small flag.
The appointment and dismissal of official positions above the leader are decided by the cottage commander Xu Mabang, and the five leaders of the corps under the commander can recommend the small flag officers of the subordinate posts, but they must be appointed by the commander Xu to take effect.
When defending against the enemy, the leader of the corps has the right to promote all the escort teams of the subordinate posts, and the small flags of the posts must be promoted.
In normal times, the specific affairs of the outpost are in charge of the small flag officer, and the leader of the corps does not participate in the specific affairs of the outpost.
For example, Hu Dadao is the leader of the three corps of the cottage and concurrently serves as the small flag officer of the three corps, that is to say, five of the ten small flag officers of the cottage are concurrently served by the leader of the corps.
From this point of view, how lucky Feng Jian was to be promoted to a small flag officer as soon as he joined the gang, those who have always been worried about this position but have failed in their wishes are not jealous of Feng Jian is fake, but because this is appointed by Commander Xu, no one dares to disobey it on the surface.
Almost all the rights of the cottage are in the hands of the commander Xu Mabang, the commander is the existence of the cottage, and everyone and everything in the village from top to bottom must revolve around him.
Don't look at the thieves who fall into the grass, as long as others think that you have harmed his interests, then you are a stumbling block in the eyes of others, and all kinds of tricks are endless.
Of course, Feng Jian understood this truth in his two lives, so to gain a firm foothold, the first thing was to hold on to the thick legs of the great commander, and secondly, to hand over Hu Dadao and several other cottage leaders.
If you want to gain a firm foothold in the cottage and manage your subordinate outposts well, you must first let your subordinate villagers be fed and clothed, and solve the difficulties they encounter, so as to get the support of the villagers of the outpost.
In addition, he can be this self-sentry flag officer is inseparable from the strong support of his boss Hu Dadao, although the two seem to have a little meaning of using each other, but with the deepening of the relationship, the deeper the understanding of Hu Dadao, the more he feels that this person is worthy of doing things for him sincerely.
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