On February 6 of the fourth year of Chongzhen, it was the beginning of the spring ploughing of the year, and after breakfast that morning, the man generally inspected the farm tools at home to see which ones to be repaired and which ones to be replaced, and made a decision one by one. On the same day, you can start sorting out the farm tools by yourself or ask someone to start arranging them.

After breakfast on this day, the women use the millet, soybeans, and sorghum soaked the day before, grind them with a mill, and chop them with the mountain mushrooms and bacon pickled in Lidong and make a fragrant filling, wrap them in the middle of the sorghum soybean and millet noodles, make fragrant Yangchun dumplings, pad them with dried lotus leaves, put them in the pot and steam them, and the whole family sits together and eats a meal of "Yangchun dumplings" happily.

In previous years, when eating "Yangchun dumplings", the person in charge of the family would tell the family about the production plan to be cultivated in the new year and what crops to be planted, and asked everyone to work hard to do a good job in Yangchun and seize a good harvest in the new year.

This year, the cottage set up a mutual aid association, what should be planted in the field and what should not be planted have a unified arrangement of the mutual aid association, and the villagers only need to see the mutual aid association on time to work. Every year, except for a part of the harvest that goes to the mutual aid association, the rest belongs to his family.

The cottage mutual aid association made strict rules, where the cottage allocated the land, shall not be sold or transferred privately, the household held by the land contract must be reviewed and confirmed by the mutual aid association every year, once found that the person who buys or sells or transfers the field, immediately confiscates the illegal gains, and drives the buyer and seller out of the gourd rock, leaving them to fend for themselves.

In fact, the cottage households still live on the harvest of the fields, and no family is willing to sell the land.

In addition, the cottage mutual aid association stipulates that all workers who participate in the mutual aid association will be paid according to their work, and the laborers will end their work in one day. It is necessary to gather in one place for a collective evaluation, from the highest to the lowest, to determine the work that everyone deserves. Hard-working workers will naturally get more rewards, and many laborers will naturally not let those who steal and cheat take advantage of them!

With the introduction of these regulations of mutual aid associations. If you are in the mutual aid association because you don't work well because of cheating, you will be demerit by the mutual aid association, and when the harvest season comes, the cottage mutual aid will be directly deducted from the due grain harvest, and the serious ones will directly confiscate the fields and drive them out of the cottage to fend for themselves! Most of the bankers are calm, and a small number of people who have bad ideas have quietly put away the idea of opportunism

When the Shanzhai Mutual Aid Association was just established. There are some people who take advantage of loopholes, and repeatedly do not change, and finally these people were mercilessly driven out of Huluyan Cottage, a winter has passed, I don't know if these greedy people can still survive!

The Supervision Department of the Mutual Aid Association will also send inspectors to supervise and investigate the working areas of each area from time to time, and immediately correct and deal with the phenomenon of illegal fraud once it is discovered.

Early in the morning, Feng Jian and his mother ate fragrant Yangchun dumplings together, came to the courtyard, and saw Cheng Yousheng standing outside the courtyard with his head shrunk and waiting. complained a little: "Why don't you go into the house to get warm, but you have to be cold outside." ”

Cheng Yousheng sniffed and said: "After entering the house, the old lady has to greet the villain again, and the villain can't afford it." Why don't you stay outside and wait for you! ”

Feng Jian was a little helpless in his heart, his own personal guard was like before, and he almost subconsciously distanced himself from himself. After thinking about it carefully, I found that almost all of my subordinates were more respectful in the face of themselves.

Feng Jian grinned. With a somewhat self-deprecating smile, he waved his hand to Cheng Yousheng and said, "Go to the mutual aid association." Today is the day of the start of spring ploughing, let's go to the mutual aid association to join in the fun. ”

The Huluyan Mutual Aid Association was set up in a vacant courtyard on the right side of the Huluyan Assembly Hall. The courtyard here has been expanded and has become the largest office in Huluyan.

Huluyan General Mutual Aid Association, the Supervision Department, the Logistics Department, the Breeding Department, the Grain Storage Institute and other mutual aid offices under the Mutual Aid Association are gathered here.

Huluyan General Mutual Aid Association was just prepared to be established in Layue last year, with Sun Fang as the president and Qin Huaibao as the vice president, it can be said that these two people are the leaders of Huluyan agriculture, and their status is equivalent to the status of Xu Yannian and Zhao Shougang in the Zhenshan Camp of the Zhenshan Camp.

The Huluyan General Mutual Aid Association usually does not interfere in the affairs of the subordinate cottage mutual aid associations of Huluyan, and its main responsibility is to coordinate and balance the movements of the subordinate mutual aid associations, concentrate the grain collected and stored by the subordinate mutual aid associations, carry out processing, transportation, trading, etc., and then return the income to the subordinate mutual aid associations in proportion. In order to facilitate the reproduction of mutual aid associations.

Feng Jian led Cheng Yousheng into the empty courtyard of the Mutual Aid Association, only to see that the courtyard was full of Huluyan villagers.

When the villagers saw Feng Jian walk in, they respectfully greeted Feng Jian, and Feng Jian also returned the salute one by one.

Some anxious villagers followed Feng Jian and asked: "Commander, most of the land reclaimed in our cottage is sloping land, and in the past, we could only plant sorghum, soybeans, cotton, and tobacco in the spring, I don't know what kind of crops the mutual aid association plans to plant this year?" The little ones should go back and prepare suitable farm tools. ”

Feng Jian waved his hand and said: "Don't be impatient, in view of the fact that there are many dry fields on our hillside, the Breeding Department of the Mutual Aid Association will make arrangements later." ”

Without pause, he walked into the Mutual Aid Conference Hall. Sun Fang, Qin Huaibao and the others spewed out bursts of smoke from their cigarette pouches and pots, filling the entire conference hall with smoke.

Feng Jian coughed when he entered the door, and Sun Fang, Qin Huaibao, and the presidents of the subordinate mutual aid associations hurriedly put away their cigarette pouches and greeted Feng Jian.

After greeting everyone, Feng Jian walked straight to the middle of the hall and sat down, and Cheng Yousheng naturally stood behind Feng Jian.

Seeing Sun Fang and Qin Huaibao sitting next to him, Feng Jian asked Sun Fang, "Are everything ready?" ”

Sun Fang replied neatly: "All affairs are properly arranged, the presidents of the cottage mutual aid associations under Huluyan and the directors of the three halls have arrived, and now the breeding hall has arranged to formulate this year's crop planting varieties, and the commander must be asked to see before the implementation can be determined."

Feng Jian was stunned and said: "What crops should be cultivated, your mutual aid association has more experience than me, your mutual aid association can decide for yourself, you don't need to show it to me." ”

On the side, Qin Huaibao and Sun Fang glanced at each other, bowed slightly, and said, "Commander, still remember the head of the breeding department of the Mill Cone Mountain Mutual Aid Association that you appointed in Mocone Mountain, Li Yuncong?" ”

Feng Jian had a good memory, nodded and said: "Of course I remember this person, this person has a lot of experience in increasing the production and income of agricultural crops, and this commander plans to take time to discuss with him!" ”

Qin Huaibao said with a smile: "It is this Li Yuncong, he groped for planting bud rice in Mocone Mountain last year, and found that this foreign crop is not only drought-tolerant and easy to plant, but also has an extremely high yield, with a yield of six hundred catties per mu. A few days ago, Li Yuncong found a villain and asked to promote the planting of foreign crops such as bud rice in the cottage mutual aid associations. Chairman Sun and I went to check and found that what Li Yuncong said was not a lie, so he specially added the planting of bud rice to this year's crop cultivation plan, and now I would like to ask you to nod. ”

"Yes, in this way, the yield per mu of bud rice is twice the yield per mu of crops such as wheat and soybeans, so what special means does Li Yuncong have to increase the yield of bud rice." Feng Jian asked in surprise.

Qin Huaibao pointed to the thin black man standing in the corner of the conference hall and said, "Lao Li, didn't you want to meet the commander for a long time, why did you shrink aside now?" ”

Li Yuncong walked up to Feng Jian from the crowd and was about to kneel and kowtow, Feng Jian got up and stopped: "Don't be busy saluting first, tell me about your experience in making bud rice more productive." ”

Speaking of planting crops, Li Yuncong began to talk about the Tao: "The villain summed up several experiences for the characteristics of bud rice. ”

"The first is that the field should be deeply cultivated, the manure should be even, and the manure of people and animals must be dried and crushed before the beginning of spring, and then evenly dispersed to the field."

"The second is to adopt the method of soaking seeds in warm water, and soak the seeds according to the chronological order, so that the buds planted will germinate early, have a high survival rate, and the harvest is much higher than those that directly plant the buds seeds into the ground."

"The third is that a piece of land is dug up a small nest according to a certain nest spacing row spacing, thrown on the bud rice seeds soaked in warm water, poured with manure water, covered with a handful of cow grass dung, and then covered with soil, and after the bud rice seedlings are born, leave a strong one, pull out the rest, and if there is a lack of nests, transplant a plant from many nests."

Based on the experience of Feng Jian in later generations, I learned that the second article that Li Yuncong said was that the later generations generally popularized the use of soaking and seedling breeding methods, but I didn't expect it to be used by Li Yuncong first, and there is no reason not to increase the yield of crops planted with this method!

After being stunned for a moment, seeing Li Yuncong looking at him with some apprehension, Feng Jian stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder and said: "Yes, especially the second method of soaking bud rice seeds in warm water you mentioned, not only bud rice planting can be used, but other crops such as cotton, soybeans, wheat, etc., you might as well try it!" ”

"Thank you for the commander's guidance, the villain's mouth is suddenly opened, and the villain will definitely try it on the rest of the crops when he goes back!"

Feng Jian looked at Li Yuncong's happy expression, and said in a deep voice: "I don't think you have to be able to try it at the Cone Mountain, just in Huluyan, I asked Sun Fang to carve out a field for you to experiment, how about it?" ”

"Great, the villain can't ask for it!" Li Yuncong said happily.

Feng Jian nodded, turned his head and announced to everyone: "From now on, Li Yuncong will be promoted to the head of the breeding department of the Huluyan General Mutual Aid Association, and will be in charge of the crop planting of the subordinate mutual aid associations. ”

Li Yuncong didn't seem to feel much envy around him, and he was now thinking about what kind of crops should be planted in the field that Huluyan had specially allocated to him.

Feng Jian sat back in the chair, turned his head to Sun Fang and said, "Since everything is ready, let's get ready to start!" ”

"Obedience"

Sun Fang left his seat and stood up and said, "Brothers, today is the day when all the mutual aid associations under my Huluyan will start spring ploughing, and now I will announce the specific spring ploughing arrangements......

Feng Jian sat in the chair and listened to Sun Fang's orderly arrangement, and sighed in his heart that the land policy he had implemented had been officially rolled out, establishing mutual aid associations in various cottages, and cultivating a group of agricultural talents such as Sun Fang, Qin Huaibao, and Li Yuncong.

What kind of life will be lived in the future depends on these farmers themselves, but Feng Jian learned from the experience of later generations that this kind of production method similar to that of agricultural cooperatives in later generations will greatly encourage the peasants' enthusiasm for production, as well as their desperate spirit to protect their own interests. (To be continued......)