Just when Li Zhigao was figuring out how to use money to recruit talents, and what talents to recruit, the knock on the door sounded again.

"Who?" Li Zhigao asked loudly.

"Master, it's me, Sun Shun."

"Oh, Sun Shun, come in."

This Sun Shun is one of the family members recruited by Li Zhigao at the beginning, because he is very clever, so he takes him with him as a follower, after all, Liu Runsheng has a lot of things to do now, and it is inconvenient to be his own subordinate anymore.

Soon, that Sun Shun opened the door and came in, and carefully closed the door, and then bent down and trotted to Li Zhigao's desk and stood up.

Seeing him nodding like this, he looked like a slave, and he was completely unworthy of the modern suit he was wearing, although Li Zhigao was not very satisfied with this, he could only make do with it at present. After all, this guy is from the Qing Dynasty, and he is still used to hard work, so it is really difficult for him to change his style immediately and straighten his backbone, and make a style like a British housekeeper. Fortunately, he is very reliable, so this image problem does not matter.

Thinking of this, Li Zhigao smiled at him and nodded: "What's the matter?" ”

"Sir." Sun Shun bent down with his hands on his thighs, and then whispered, "Zhou Daqiang, the head of the tenants in the Zhuangzi, has come over and is waiting outside for your summons. ”

"Zhou Daqiang? Oh, got it. Li Zhigao nodded, "Let him wait a minute, I'll go over and talk to him." ”

This Zhou Daqiang is the village chief of Chenjiazhuang, and he is also the head of the tenants who rent his own land, and he can also do martial arts, he has a good gun, and the force value seems to be quite high.

This time he came over, it was Li Zhigao who took the initiative to ask him, in order to talk about the new lease of the land, after all, Li Zhigao got so many high-yield hybrid rice seedlings from modern society, so he had to go to the ground quickly, right? If you want to go to the land, someone has to plant, and if you still follow the original land leasing method, it is definitely not suitable. After all, the original tenants all contributed their own means of production, that is, the tenants could not plant whatever they wanted, and the landlord only provided the land as a means of production.

Although Li Zhigao felt that his new plan would definitely be better for the tenants, it would definitely not be so easy for them to accept the new method, but Li Zhigao didn't have time to reform and forcibly demolish with them.

After changing into a suit, Li Zhigao left the room and came to the assembly place of the camp, where there were already fifty gun-wielding soldiers wearing camouflage uniforms standing in line, and it seemed that they had been waiting for him for a long time.

The leader of these soldiers is a tall man, who is none other than Wang Erbiao, who once pointed a gun at him.

Li Zhigao's current regimental training and armament is still small, the soldiers are too Chinese illiterate, there is a serious shortage of grass-roots officers, and the number of guns is limited, so the former Soviet Union's set of simplified version of the five-five five-year establishment method with a large base number is implemented.

To put it simply, in this regimental exercise, 10 people in a squad, 50 people in a platoon in five squads, and a company in five platoons with a total of 250 people, and 500 people just form two companies.

In addition to the regular soldiers, the deputy or logistics troops are also in accordance with this formation, so a thousand people are a total of four companies.

The advantage of this establishment is that it is simple and easy to remember, and the large establishment can also provide a stronger density of firepower, but the disadvantage is that the command is not flexible, but in the current situation, there is basically no need for flexible command or anything, and you just get a three-three system, which is just as difficult to command, and even more difficult to command than the five-five system.

Li Zhigao does not have high requirements for this team now, he only requires them to have a little organizational surname, and it is enough to be able to line up and fight several platoons of guns when facing the enemy.

At present, there are a total of 1,000 people in the entire regimental training, of which he is the supervisor of the regimental training, the boss of the team, Liu Runsheng and Marven are in charge, theoretically they can each be in charge of 500 people, but Marven still has his own business to be busy, he is not in the army at all, just a name, Liu Runsheng, is not good at leading troops, he is actually just a logistics director and political commissar and military police captain, so it is Scott and Edward who actually preside over the military training and various arrangements.

Although Scott and Edward are not good at planning, with their previous experience in the army, they can do it well and barely pass.

In addition to being military instructors, these two men also held the position of company commander, and each commanded 250 people. In other words, Scott and Edward were the de facto commanders of the five hundred regular soldiers.

As for the other 500 logistics troops, because of the low requirements, there will be no company commanders for the time being, and only platoon commanders will be set up at the highest, all of which will be under the direct command of Liu Runsheng and Li Zhigao, and the company commanders will be appointed according to the situation in the future.

In short, in this contingent, the company commander level is to be directly appointed by Li Zhigao, but the selection of grass-roots officers such as squad leaders and platoon commanders below is temporarily based on the principle of the soldiers themselves competing for posts and selecting them because they are not familiar with each other.

At the beginning, those who want to be officials compete for their own posts, and then re-elect them after three months, which is the same as when a new student has just entered the school, and the teacher asks the student to compete for the class cadre, and then work for a period of time and then let the classmates re-elect the class cadre.

However, after all, these people have a low level of education and are young, and as soon as the way of competition for posts came out, they all wanted to be officials, and in the end they became a fighting ring, that is, using the means of martial arts to determine the commander.

Although the method is a bit barbaric, but fortunately, the result is still successful, at least after such a martial arts, the new commander can at least make the people below obedient, after all, for illiterate soldiers, no matter how much they say, it is not as effective as fists.

This Wang Erbiao relied on this martial arts competition to stand out, relying on his martial arts to win the position of the first platoon commander in one fell swoop, commanding fifty people, and during this period of training, his first platoon seems to be the one with the best training effect and the most satisfactory to the instructor Scott.

Li Zhigao also saw that this Wang Erbiao has a very solid foundation in martial arts, and he knows a lot of words, so he should have a background, but he doesn't talk about his past, and he won't ask, anyway, as long as he is obedient, everything is not a problem, and at least until now, he has always behaved very obediently.

This time, because he wanted to deter, he naturally took out the first row of Wang Erbiao and scared Zhou Daqiang first.

Li Zhigao is holding a grudge, the last time he came to Zhuangzi to negotiate with this Zhou Daqiang, Zhou Daqiang brought more than a dozen people to talk to him, and when he sat and talked face-to-face, there was a row of young men with big guns standing behind him, and he was engaged in the same as the underworld negotiation, and he seemed to have eaten himself.

After the negotiation was over, he seemed to feel quite satisfied, he laughed and played a big gun in front of him, and finally someone in his row of young people suddenly threw a wooden board to himself, and then, Zhou Daqiang immediately shot out, and poofed in front of him to pierce the two or three inches thick plank, obviously to demonstrate to himself!

At that time, I was not strong enough, and I didn't want to cause more trouble, even if I said that I was good, now, I have soldiers and guns, and the rules have to be changed.

Of course, I am also afraid that Daqiang will be angry and stab himself with a big gun this week, Li Zhigao has brought so many soldiers to protect himself, at least, he can't bring so many people and weapons to see him, even if Li Zhigao's explosiveness is enhanced, it is still a little hairy to face a martial arts master alone.

Soon, Li Zhigao led people to the mobile board room that was specially used as a reception room, where there was a long conference table, and then he asked the fifty people to divide into two parts, one part of the thirty people guarded outside the room to block the people brought by Zhou Daqiang, and the other twenty people were divided into two rows in the room, standing on one side of the long table, ten people on the other, and Li Zhigao himself sat at the head of the long table.

Then, behind him stood Wang Erbiao, who was dressed in camouflage and carrying an Enfield rifle, but he himself was wearing a suit, and the whole thing was mixed and matched.

But don't say it, although it is a little nondescript, but when Zhou Daqiang was put in alone by the soldiers outside empty-handed, he was really frightened by this formation, and stood opposite Li Zhigao tremblingly, his face was like earth, and he no longer looked like he was calm and breezy when he faced Li Zhigao.

"East, good East." This age is about forty-five or sixteen years old, and Zhou Daqiang, who is in the prime of life, first bowed his hand, then bowed his head and bowed his waist, and whispered to Li Zhigao, who was only in his early twenties and looked younger than his son, "You, you always call me here, yes, do you have any orders?" ”

"Oh, Lao Zhou, you're welcome, come, come and sit." Li Zhigao smiled and pointed to his right hand, "Come and sit down, let's sit down and talk." ”

"No, don't dare." Zhou Daqiang smiled carefully.

"I said let you sit, and you sit." Li Zhigao smiled and said, "What, don't you give face?" ”

With Li Zhigao's words, Wang Erbiao in the back snorted coldly, and the other soldiers also raised their guns at Zhou Daqiang, and immediately scared Zhou Daqiang half to death, and hurriedly ran to the place pointed by Li Zhigao's right hand to sit down, but his butt was only lightly next to the small half of the chair, not so much sitting, but half squatting, and he knew that it was very uncomfortable at a glance.

With a wave of his hand, the soldier put away his gun, and Li Zhigao said to Zhou Daqiang with a smile: "Old Zhou, how is the ground turning?" It's time to plant rice, right? ”

"It's okay, it's okay." Zhou Daqiang looked around carefully, and then replied, "It's been a few days since I planted rice." ”

"Uh-huh." Li Zhigao nodded, and then said, "It's all my own people, and I have something to say, frankly speaking, I think the yield of the rice you are planting is too low, and I want to plant some other high-yield rice, so I want to change the original land agreement." ”

As soon as he heard Li Zhigao's words, Zhou Daqiang laughed miserably in his heart, thinking that he had finally come.

In fact, as soon as Li Zhigao brought his troops over, Zhou Daqiang received the letter, and he had already sent someone to spy on him, but after hearing that there were more than 1,000 people on the other side, and there were 500 British fast guns, and he practiced ping pong all day long, he broke off his heart to resist.

How is it reversed? There are only about 300 households on his side, and the population is less than 1,500 people, and the number of people alone is more than others, but they are all rabble, counting the old and weak women and children, only speaking of men, there are only 700 men in total, and excluding the old and weak, there are only more than 400 strong men, and the weapons are only hoes, sickles and some large knives and spears, and there are no firearms at all.

How can this strength be compared with others? It's really fighting, it's not enough for people to kill! There is no need to kill, as long as people send 200 people over and fight a platoon of guns to intimidate, the people on their side will probably have to give in immediately.

Fortunately, Li Zhigao has been training with his head bored during this period of time, and he didn't pay attention to them, which also made Zhou Daqiang save a few days, thinking that the other party didn't care about his bitterness haha, who knew that he would come in the end.

"You, you're the owner." Zhou Daqiang said dryly, "The land is yours, and naturally you are the master, just ask, just ask the owner to do a good job, just give us a bite to eat." ”

"Don't look like that, in fact, my proposal is good for you, a great benefit."

Immediately afterwards, Li Zhigao told his plan.

Li Zhigao's plan is not complicated, and it is easy to understand, that is, to change the original way of tenants cultivating grain by themselves, to a method of providing the means of production to the peasant households themselves, and at the same time purchasing the peasants' products in a unified supply and collection.

To put it simply, in the future, on the land owned by Li Zhigao, no matter how much land you contracted to cultivate, you can't choose the crops you cultivate on this contracted land, but can only plant the crops provided by Li Zhigao, except for the vegetables and other things grown in the backyard.

To be specific, the tenants and Li Zhigao have to sign a new lease contract, and the tenants are not allowed to plant anything else on the contracted land, but can only plant the crops designated by Li Zhigao, and Li Zhigao provides crop seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, planting methods and agricultural machinery during this period, all of which are free for the tenants to use. In other words, the 40% harvest is the reward for the farmer.

In addition, because it is necessary to plant the crops specified by Li Zhigao, there is a certain risk for the tenants, if the harvest is not good or the grains are not harvested when the crops are finally harvested, then Li Zhigao will set a minimum harvest value, and the number of the lowest value will be calculated according to the number of normal years in previous years, which can be checked to ensure that everyone will not go hungry.

Once the minimum harvest value is set, once the income of the peasant households in the current year falls below this minimum value, Li Zhigao is responsible for compensating the tenants for the losses out of his own pocket, ensuring that the tenants can get the minimum harvest that year, at least not so that the tenants will not go hungry.

To put it bluntly, Li Zhigao's set is a landlord system that changes the medicine but does not change the soup.

On the surface, this system is the same as in the past, it is to lease the land to the peasants, and then collect the land rent, squeezing the peasants' surplus value, but the difference from the past is that the means of production are completely responsible for him, the landlord, and the tenants only need to pay for the labor force, and no longer need to provide the means of production by themselves.

In this way, the economic burden of the tenants is greatly reduced, and because of the use of high-yield crops, pesticides, fertilizers, agricultural machinery, etc., the implementation of the proportional rent sharing method can also greatly increase the income of the tenants, and can also improve their production enthusiasm.

Although in essence, this kind of production relations is still a kind of exploitation system that is evil, outdated, backward, and should be deeply hated, knocked to the ground and then stepped on again, because of the presence of high-yield crops, pesticides, fertilizers, and agricultural machinery, that is, the means of production have been replaced, and the benefits of the exploited are far greater than those of other peasants of the same era, and the productivity has been greatly improved.

Of course, giving tenants forty percent of the harvest and giving them the minimum income guarantee is not cost-effective at all from the perspective of this era, after all, Li Zhigao wants to provide seeds, fertilizers, agricultural machinery and other high-priced means of production, but in fact, Li Zhigao makes a lot of money, and the profits are quite high.

This is because Li Zhigao is in the two worlds, technological progress will bring huge output per unit area, this kind of grain prices in the world in 1910 is very high, and the low-cost grain in later generations is fundamentally different, the two sides of the comparison, plus the difference between the gold and silver exchange rate, inflation and other factors, so Li Zhigao even if only 60 percent, in addition to the purchase of seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, agricultural machinery and other expenses, there is also a lot of profit.

In fact, if Li Zhigao's four-six rent-sharing model is really taken to modern society, he will not be able to do it, and he will definitely not be able to find people to work for him, because the labor fees of farmers in later generations are very high, but the price of grain is not high. Don't even think about the door!

Therefore, the reason why Li Zhigao's set can make money is purely because of the cheating that can go back and forth between the two worlds, and others can't learn it at all, but because of this, Li Zhigao's mechanized agriculture does not have the surname of promotion for the time being, and can only be carried out on a small scale, after all, he is engaged in mechanized intensive agriculture, unless he does nothing else in the future, and dumps the means of production in agriculture all day long, otherwise in the current Qing Dynasty, it is impossible to promote it on a large scale, but the seeds of high-yield crops and pesticides and fertilizers can be considered.

Although Li Zhigao's landlord system can also make money, but strictly from an economic point of view, Li Zhigao's landlord system is not economical, and there are still so many tenants, and the production efficiency is also a little low, so it is really better to hire a small number of industrial farmers and use mechanization to carry out an American-style farmer system, but then the change is too big, and a lot of people need to be fired, and it is not good to gather people's hearts.

Therefore, Li Zhigao did not do this for the purpose of making money, he had too many better ways to make money, and in addition to popularizing a new type of agriculture and increasing grain output, another important purpose of his doing this was to buy the hearts and minds of the vast number of peasants. As long as these farmers taste the benefits of new products such as hybrid seeds, pesticides, fertilizers, and agricultural machinery, they will develop a sense of dependence, and if they want to continue to live a good life in the future, they can only rely on themselves, the only person who can provide these things, which is equivalent to kidnapping their happiness on Li Zhigao.

As long as this pilot project is successful, others will naturally rush to take refuge in themselves when they see the benefits of this method, and after getting the benefits, in order to safeguard their own interests, they must wholeheartedly support and defend Li Zhigao.

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