Five, three, three, a big carrot (below)

Eh, I just found out that many friends voted for the annual selection or voted for the work column, which is of little use to me.

Please vote for the previous writers, so as not to waste the votes, thank you very much! ――

Farmers are no strangers to the Weihai base under construction, who have participated in the construction of the base as labor when they have just been recruited and the land has not yet been allocated. The brick houses built by the Qiong Navy are not a very mysterious thing in their eyes, and some of them are smart and clever and have learned the art of laying bricks and tiles with the construction team, as long as there are building materials, they can build them themselves.

With the scale of the construction of the Weihai base, it is definitely an out-and-out big city in their eyes. When they were helping to move bricks and mud and transport tiles and timber on the construction site in the city, these people must inevitably have this idea in their minds - it would be nice if our family could live in such a brick house.

It's just that in most people's minds, such thoughts are only fleeting and belong to fantasy. After all, they had just escaped from the danger of starvation, and immediately thought about brick houses, which was too big a leap in the middle, and those peasants did not dare to make such extravagant hopes.

Unexpectedly, a few days ago, the construction workers in the city suddenly came to the village, measured the land, transported the materials, and started work without saying a word. The villagers didn't know what the "village office" was, but after the house was almost formed, they found that the house was very suitable for their own homes!

-- This is a set of general housing atlases designed for ordinary rural residents by the members of the civil engineering team after investigating many dwellings in this time and space, and absorbing the characteristics of dwellings in various places in later generations, including styles, structures, and materials...... and detailed samples, etc., all compiled into a book, for the private choice. Among them, according to the climate, geography, folk customs and other natural conditions of each place, the forms of folk houses are also diverse. Although those farmers didn't know the small abacus of Pang Yu and others, this house naturally attracted them, making many villagers think in their hearts: If they live in their own homes, how should they be arranged here and there...... Even if it's hopeless, just think about it.

Therefore, one can imagine how surprised and excited these villagers were when Xie Xi announced to them on the stage that the Qiong Haijun would go back and build the same tiled houses for them...... The whole village was boiling.

"This bad guy, how accurate is his grasp of people's hearts......

Wu Nanhai stood beside him, watching coldly as the villagers admired Lao Xie as a living Bodhisattva, but the corners of his mouth twitched slightly. As the leader of the agricultural group who participated in the decision-making, of course he knew that Pang Yu and the two bad ghosts had arrangements for Xie Xi - Xie Xi was full of promises to build a house at this time, but he didn't say that it was free! At that time, even if the civil works on the base are completed, it will not be so easy for these farmers to get the materials to build brick houses.

Drawing on the lessons of the past, Pang Yu and others have decided that in Shandong, they should change the "completely all-encompassing" model in Hainan and replace it with the necessary paid services -- the building materials for building houses are no longer provided to the peasants free of charge, and the agricultural group will help to contribute some of the money, but most of the other will have to be purchased at their own expense.

The main reason for adopting this method is that the cost of this kind of brick house is much higher than the simple wooden house they promoted in the south, and they cannot afford to bear the construction expenses completely by the Qiong Navy.

Here in Shandong, the temperature can easily drop below zero in winter, so the bamboo-reinforced concrete, which is currently very common in the south, cannot be used - in winter, the bamboo strip and the cement will gradually detach due to the excessive thermal expansion and contraction coefficient, and eventually destroy the strength of the component. Without the availability of cheap and high-quality bamboo-reinforced concrete components, it is unrealistic to switch to reinforced concrete, so we have to increase the amount of traditional materials such as cement, bricks, and wooden planks and beams, which makes the cost of building a house much higher all of a sudden.

In addition, although the building materials they use are all from ordinary clay and fine sand, and the fuel is only coal, which is not rare in Shandong, it is much more time-consuming and labor-intensive to make them into qualified and durable building materials than the mechanical processing of wood on Hainan Island. The technicians and craftsmen of the Joan navy were not happy to build houses for themselves, and asked them to give these hard-earned things to the peasants for free.

At present, although there are kilns for burning tiles and bricks in various parts of the Ming Empire, the technology and output cannot be compared with them. It is impossible to compete with them. Bricks and tiles are just that, glass and cement, this technology has so far only been exclusively owned by the Qiong Navy, even if it spreads in the future, many small technical thresholds are not easy to cross. Therefore, it can be expected that for a long time, these building materials will be the fist products monopolized by their Qiong Navy.

-- Monopoly products, of course, must be operated according to the monopoly model. If building houses for these peasants is seen as a burden, it will be a very big burden. But if you think about their needs as an untapped emerging market, then this market is also extremely large.

Not to mention that they can also use this process to make the building materials business inland in the Ming Dynasty. Here in Shandong, there are even Beijing divisions and down to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and all kinds of new things can be spread much faster than the remote corners of Hainan Island. The construction of the Weihai base will inevitably drive the overall economic development of the local area, and there is no doubt that in addition to the territory controlled by their Qionghai Town, other prefectures and counties under the Ming Dynasty will also develop.

As long as Julie is here, when it comes to these economic plans, it is absolutely impossible for the Joan Navy to suffer. Even if it seems to have suffered a loss in the short term, it will definitely not take long to get it back with interest, and the ability in this regard is that Pang Yu and Zhao Lide together will be ashamed of themselves.

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Of course, Xie Xi will not say these bad things at this time, and other managers will come forward to publicize the specific house sale plan in the future, such as Julie's trading company, which is very interested in taking over. As the supreme leader of the Qiong Navy here, Xie Xi only needs to maintain a positive image of himself.

However, in the subsequent contact and conversation with the villagers, Xie Xi also mentioned some future housing distribution issues - some villagers thought this was too good to believe it. So Xie Xi roughly mentioned it, saying that in the future, you may have to pay some money yourself, but don't worry, if you can't afford it, you can borrow money from our Qiong Navy, build a house and live in it first, and then pay it back slowly in the future.

When the peasants heard that they wanted to borrow money, they were all frightened by the usury of the landlords, but Xie Xi said lightly: If our Qiong Navy wants to deceive you, why should we divide the land and divide the land? Those villagers also made sense when they thought about it -- the nests they live in, the land they plant, and the seeds they planted in the fields were all sent by Qiong Haijun, and if people want to force them to sell their sons and daughters, they don't have to go to such great lengths.

So most people accepted this explanation, and because Xie Xi did not explain in detail the details of buying a house, only said that it would be discussed at that time, those farmers did not take this matter too seriously - after all, in their opinion, the matter of this brick house is still a bit illusory, and there is no need to stare at Master Xie for endless questions, that is, people will not admit it at that time, at most it will only be regarded as a sweet dream.

After a period of time, Xie Xi, Wu Nanhai, Pang Yu and others successively carried out similar visits to several surrounding villages to publicize their policies to the villagers. Promised to give those villagers the hope of "building a big tiled house".

This good hope made many of the peasants who had come here full of enthusiasm, and they could complete the tasks assigned by the Qiong Navy and the agricultural team with the fastest and most rapid enthusiasm. At the same time, because of this hope and the fact that there is a brick house as the core, the cohesion of the various migrant villages has become very good, and there has never been a phenomenon of escape. On the contrary, some villagers who had fled earlier returned and asked to be re-admitted.

Their demands were all denied, and rightfully so—if the Joan Navy had punished these people unpunished, it would be unfair to those who had honestly remained in the village.

After solving the problem of unstable people in the migrant villages, Wu Nanhai successively took out the policy of distributing chicks and piglets that had been used on Hainan Island, but the quota was not as lenient as on Hainan Island -- each family only gave four chickens for free, and the pigs had to be adopted on credit. On the other hand, the batch of iron tools transported from Hainan Island also arrived, and it was also distributed to the peasants on credit.

――As the saying goes, "those who have a constant birth have perseverance", but if this constant birth comes too lightly, it will not be taken seriously. After Pang Yu and the others reflected, they felt that Qiong Haijun's previous policy was too lenient in this regard, so that those peasants would run away casually. So just be stingy now, lest these peasants think that their kindness is too low. RO