Chapter 53 Food Savings

Feng Jian looked around at the neighbors of the Shen family and said: "This is a supplementary regulation just issued by the Huluyan Mutual Aid Association, all the neighbors should be the first people to know about this matter, please inform each other, if there is surplus grain at home, you can store it in the Mutual Aid Association for food." ”

The Huluyan Mutual Aid Association's move is just like the fact that the political axe department in later generations issued debts to the outside world and repaid the principal and interest on an agreed date, and concentrated the collection and storage of surplus grain in the Huluyan households to the urgent needs and paid the grain interest.

It is only natural that you have to pay interest on your loan, and it has been since ancient times! Therefore, after Feng Jian said that the cottage collected and stored surplus grain and paid grain profits, the surrounding villagers did not react much.

Not to mention that almost every household can't eat enough now, even if there is a little surplus food at home, they won't take it out!

If you have food at home, you don't panic, and it's safest to store it in your own home!

Seeing the indifferent expressions of the surrounding villagers, Feng Jian knew in his heart that the villagers in the village couldn't even eat enough, so what thoughts did they have to participate in the grain storage.

The land of this era was divided into two categories: official land and private land, and the official land (including Juntun field and Wangfu Zhuangtian) accounted for about 30% of the land, and the other 70% of the land was controlled by the landlords and gentry of the Ming Dynasty.

The vast majority of both government and private land is operated by renting land, while the common people, who account for the largest proportion of the population, rarely own their own land, so they can only rent land as tenants.

In the year of calamity, under the primitive and backward production and cultivation methods, it is naturally difficult to have a good harvest.

The first condition for the form of agricultural mutual aid association promoted by Feng Jian is to distribute the land to the villagers, and the villagers have their own fields, and in turn, the mutual aid will produce ownership.

It can be said that the mutual aid association founded by Feng Jian is not assisted by agricultural machinery in later generations, and all other aspects are the same as all the functions of agricultural cooperatives in later generations.

If the business measures are appropriate, the countless ordinary people who have no food and clothing in this era will be the biggest beneficiaries!

Taking the Huluyan villagers as an example, in the past, a family cultivated 50 acres of fields, cultivated and fertilized until harvest, and in addition to the cottage grain paid to the cottage, the family could barely maintain food and clothing at most.

However, the mutual aid association changed the production and cultivation method of the villagers and each household, and adopted the form of agricultural cooperatives in later generations to concentrate the existing 1,200 acres of land in Huluyan for production and operation.

Facts have proved that the harvest of the production and operation of cooperatives in later generations is more than double the harvest of the production and operation of a single household!

I believe that in this era, with the production and operation mode of the mutual aid association, there will also be good harvests.

The farmer joins the mutual aid association of his family's land, and most of the grain is at the disposal of the farmer at the time of harvest.

Since then, not only have the family not had to worry about hunger. And every household will have a surplus of food.

Why did Feng Jian propose that the villagers could deposit their surplus grain in the grain storage center of the mutual aid association, but the neighbors of Shen Xiaoshan's family were indifferent.

Feng Jian felt that it was because the Huluyan Mutual Aid Association had just been established, and the cottage villagers had not really benefited from it, and there were some doubts about whether the promise of the Mutual Aid Association would be fulfilled.

It seems that the most impressive move at this stage is not grain storage, but lending the grain stored in the cottage to the villagers!

Feng Jian continued: "At the same time, the Huluyan Mutual Aid Association stipulates that all households in the village can borrow some grain from the grain storage center of the Mutual Aid Association for daily life due to lack of food at home. All the grain borrowed by the farmers does not charge any interest, and it can be returned to the grain storage house when the harvest is in the following year. ”

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Feng Jian's words were like a bombshell, which made the people at the scene dizzy, and people suddenly forgot the purpose of coming to Shen Xiaoshan's house, and the "buzzing" sound suddenly resounded through the house.

Most of the villagers in the village have suffered from usury in the past, and they have to repay double the principal and interest when they borrow a bucket of grain from outside the village, and many of them are forced to join the cottage by usury!

The mother-in-law of the Wang family said quickly: "There is such a good thing, you can go to the grain storage center to withdraw grain for free, and do not charge any interest, the cottage will not be to pit our villagers!" ”

"No, the commander just said that he would not charge any interest."

"Hey, you have to speak with your conscience in front of the commander, what can our poor villagers do!"

The old mother-in-law of the Wang family blushed, slapped her cheeks with her hand and said: "The old woman is cheap, the cottage lends free food to help the villagers survive, and the old woman is too late to be grateful!" As he spoke, he looked at Feng Jian flatteringly.

Feng Jian smiled and waved his hand: "This commander understands everyone's thoughts, and all the neighbors can rest assured, our Huluyan seized a lot of grain from the Shi family last time, and the villagers who are short of grain in the village can borrow some of it for free." ”

The mother-in-law of the Wang family snorted: "Commander, there are seven or eight people in the old woman's family, and I don't know how much grain I can borrow from the grain storage center!" ”

Feng Jian waved his hand to signal that she didn't need to be nervous, and said in his mouth: "Your family's situation is specific how much grain can be borrowed, you can go to the grain storage center, where is there a special person to decide the amount of grain to be withdrawn according to the situation of each family." Here, the commander of the book is prepared to ensure that every household in the village can have food to survive the winter. ”

Yang Ba Niang was also a little moved, like them, the families of the soldiers of the Zhenshan Battalion did not need to borrow food to ensure their living needs, she asked carefully: "There are people in our family who are in the Zhenshan Camp, I don't know if we can borrow food." ”

The most resources in the future of the Huluyan Mutual Aid Association must be grain, and Feng Jian's current practice is to give the Mutual Aid Association a storage function of grain storage, so that the villagers in the village can not only borrow grain here but also store the surplus grain at home and make profits here.

Of course, the surplus food of the mutual aid association cannot be left in the cottage and wait for mold, and must be trafficked out in exchange for urgently needed supplies in the cottage.

The ultimate goal is to make the grain run and flow, the small scale at this stage may not have much effect, and the scale will be slowly expanded in the future, with the production and cultivation method of the mutual aid association implemented by Feng Jian, the grain storage capacity of Huluyan will be larger and larger!

In the future, grain will become the fundamental guarantee for the development and growth of Feng Jian and Huluyan, and there is no doubt that this will be decided by the implementation of the mutual aid association in Huluyan.

In this era of frequent natural disasters, the most valuable thing is not gold and silver money but food that can survive, at least Feng Jian believes that having enough food and making full use of the food in his hand will have enough weight to speak in this era.

Feng Jian felt that he was fortunate to have come to this era and had an experimental field, so that he could give full play to his strengths according to his wishes, and from this point of view, his experience as a farmer in later generations has become a guarantee for his foothold in this era.

Seeing that everyone was talking excitedly, Feng Jian waved his hand and said loudly: "This commander knows that all your neighbors are eager to go back and tell others about this news, but this president wants to advise everyone that the grain borrowed from the grain storage of the mutual aid association is forbidden to be privately transferred, sold and sold for personal gain, and once this phenomenon is discovered, the person who makes the profit will be directly driven out of Huluyan with his family!" ”

Feng Jian's last sentence quieted down the villagers who were immersed in excitement, Feng Jian came to the future, and he liked to take precautions before doing anything, and most of the villagers did not think of using cottage food to make profits.

Most of the villagers looked at the commander blankly, they wanted to hear Feng Jian's more straightforward explanation.

A nimble farmer: "We don't know what the big truth, but the farmer knows how to be grateful, the commander and the mutual aid association provide us with the opportunity to live, where can we do forbidden things again!" ”

Feng Jian nodded and said with a smile: "This commander also believes that all the fathers and elders of Huluyan will not do such a violation of law and discipline!" ”

Another farmer choked up and said: "Since the commander took over Huluyan, it has brought benefits to our villagers several times!" This time, we will provide food for free, and we will not know how to repay you...... Thank you, Commander, you are a living Bodhisattva, the wife and the whole family have kowtowed to you......" After speaking, he lay on the ground and kowtowed to Feng Jian.

"Hula" The surrounding villagers said words of gratitude, and they all knelt down and kowtowed to Feng Jian.

Feng Jian was shocked, how could he say that he would kneel, and hurriedly helped Shen Xiaoshan's mother up, and shouted to everyone to get up quickly.

Shen Xiaoshan's mother said: "Our Zhuanghu people kowtow to the officials and masters in the court for 10,000 years and don't give any benefit, and in the end we can't even eat. You're welcome! You're welcome! ”

The simple words expressed the sadness of these villagers, and in later generations, they felt that the measures that were taken for granted were so grateful to the people in this era, and Feng Jian felt heavy in his heart.

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