【183】The Three Armies of the Galaxy Shadow Shake (11)

The base area was operating in an orderly manner under Yao Fan's militarized management, and in order to solve the impending grain shortage, Yao Fan decided to implement the policy of unified grain purchase and marketing.

Before the implementation of the unified purchase and sale of grain, Yao Fan's grain sources had three aspects: one was to purchase from 2012, the second was to rely on the public grain handed over, and the third was to buy from grain merchants in the market. Given the large food shortfall in the future, relying on market food purchases in 2012 is clearly not an optimal option.

Just as the central authorities considered when New China implemented the policy of unified grain purchase and marketing in 1953, Comrade Chen Yun once said: "Some comrades have proposed that we can buy a little more grain by eliminating the merchants. In my opinion, the removal of merchants does not mean that the peasants' grain will definitely be sold to the state. ”

The leaders of New China were all sophisticated people, and they knew that when the peasants had surplus grain in their hands, they were reluctant to sell it, and the peasants in the small-scale peasant economy were very inclined to sell the grain to prepare for the famine, or to make wine, or even to raise livestock. Moreover, generally speaking, it is impossible for the state to purchase in bulk higher than the market retail price, and once a famine year occurs, the peasants' reluctance to sell will become even stronger. On the one hand, the state cannot take out food for disaster relief, and on the other hand, people in some areas have a lot of grain stored at home, and once it is not properly stored, it will become moldy, and the shrewd farmers will sell the moldy grain after a little treatment, completely ignoring the strong carcinogenic aflatoxins in the moldy grain will endanger their health, after all, there are always greedy and cheap people in the world who buy grain.

For Yao Fan, the best way to increase grain reserves at present is to implement the policy of unified purchase and marketing of grain; in this era of extremely low agricultural output, this is a very good food security policy, and for grain farmers, the only thing they are concerned about is the price of unified purchase and sale of grain, and it is the most important thing to set a price that satisfies the people every year.

Due to the local drought in 1875, the price of grain has risen sharply, and 100 catties of rice cost 7 taels of silver, but this has fallen a lot from the price of 8 taels of silver and 100 catties during the Chinese New Year. As a result of the land reform carried out on nearly half of the landlords in the base areas and the policy of dividing the land and surplus grain among the poor hired peasants, many landlords sold a large amount of grain in panic and secretly fled with their families.

Yao Fan did not use violent means to stop this escape, but only announced that the land of the fleeing landlords would be immediately subject to land reform.

Now Yao Fan's troops, workers, and prisoners add up to more than 20,000 people, and the 5,000 tons of indica rice he purchased from 2011 are now almost exhausted, but fortunately, there are still a large number of landlords' grain stocks in the land reform, totaling 11,000 tons, plus 1,000 tons of captured Qing army rations, Yao Fan has 12,000 tons of grain in his hands, enough for 60,000 troops to eat for a year.

However, according to the preliminary estimate of He Wannian, who is currently the director of the commercial committee of the Shandong Commune, if the drought of 1876 really worsened and spread as widely as Yao Fan said, there would be a grain deficit of 300,000 tons in the base areas occupied by Yao Fan alone throughout the year, and if Yao Fan liberated the whole of Shandong, the grain deficit would reach 1 million tons.

Although Yao Fan could solve the food problem with space-time trade, he still hoped to keep this dependence to a minimum as much as possible.

At the meeting of the Revolutionary Committee of the Shandong Commune, Yao Fan announced the implementation of the policy of unified purchase and marketing of grain, and at the same time announced the establishment of supply and marketing cooperatives in all townships and towns under the counties, so that the sales outlets would thoroughly cover the grassroots rural areas in the base areas.

He Wannian had become a probationary party member under Yao Fan's education and mobilization, and according to the treatment of the enlightened gentry, the He family retained the house and all other property after accepting the land reform, Yao Fan knew that He Wannian was still a businessman at heart, and he just bet the treasure on himself. Yao Fan was very grateful to He Wannian for being able to persuade the whole family to carry out land reform, but He Wannian said his heart very honestly: "If the Shandong Commune fails, except for following Yao Fan to flee overseas, the Qing Kingdom will never leave him any way to live." "In that case, what is the value of land?

He Wannian nodded again and again: "I agree, once we cover all the towns and villages in the base area, then this monopoly business network will bring a steady stream of profits to the commune."

The concentration of pricing power over salt, grain, industrial goods, and all the qiē in the hands of the Commune meant that the wealth was rolling in, and our Commune would be able to afford to raise the army on its own.

Comrades, the soldiers of the Hunan Army and the Huai Army are paid 6 taels of silver per month and 260 taels of battalion officers, but our PLA is paid 10 taels per soldier per month, and there is not much difference between the salaries of officers and soldiers, but where does the more than 200,000 taels of silver come from every month? We can only divide the land by fighting local tyrants, and once we have a military stalemate, where will we collect taxes?

According to the current law of our commune, except for the customs tariff, which is the same as that of the Qing government, there is no tax on the small merchants and peddlers in the base area, that is to say, although we can collect public grain on grain, there has been no commercial tax and Ding tax, and there is no other harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes.

At present, I think the policy of supply and marketing cooperatives is very good, and together with the unified purchase and sale of grain, we have solved all our military rations and military expenditures. ”

After listening to He Wannian's words, everyone's eyes looking at Yao Fan showed even more admiration.

Yao Fan said quietly: "In the future, we must do it in agriculture, in addition to the public grain, do not charge other fees, and in business, not collecting taxes now does not mean that there will be no taxes in the future, the purpose of not collecting taxes now is to activate the market, so that those merchants who transport materials into the base area can make sweetness, as long as there is profit, these businessmen are willing to take this risk, if we collect taxes, then who is willing to take the risk to come?" As long as there are these profit-making merchants, the Qing government will not be able to really block us, and we can still buy whatever we want. The people in the base areas will not be unable to buy familiar daily necessities.

You see, our base area has been established for so long now, and we have fought several battles, but can't we still buy all kinds of foreign commodities in the market? This is because we have no commercial tax, and small merchants and even big merchants who collude with the Qing army will take the risk to run to us. ”

Li Hainiu smiled: "It's not, now it's April, and there are a new batch of Jiangxi-made mats on the market, as well as new tea before the Ming Dynasty, I don't know how they passed the Qing army checkpoint." ”

He Wannian said with a smile: "Buying and selling people, what other ways are there besides bribery." The Qing army will not get along with money, and if the deal cannot be done, he will not be able to get bribes, wouldn't it be unpleasant to ask for himself. ”

Li Jun said: "We have to be careful that there are secret agents among these people, and the investigation cannot be relaxed." ”

Bai Xiaoqi said: "Since the chairman appointed me as the director of the Communications and Intelligence Committee, I have not relaxed the investigation of these businessmen for a moment, and now there are more than 150 people in the intelligence department of our army, and there are informants from various towns below, and the peasant association is also very vigilant, and if it finds lawbreakers, it will come to complain." ”

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After the meeting, Yao Fan came to the Zibo Mint, because the Fangzi Power Plant has successfully generated electricity, and now the equipment of the Zibo Mint can also start operating, for Yao Fan, a person from the steel industry, the coinage is really not difficult, silver and steel are simply dough compared to the production of silver coins and wear-resistant and hard modern alloy coins are completely different things.

The small metallurgical furnace and condensation tank are quickly assembled, the silver slab will be formed here, and sent to the drum press through the drum feeder, the silver plate is stamped to make it uniform and the surface is smooth, and the conveyor belt behind it has also been installed in place, followed by the stamping feeder, followed by the high-speed automatic punch to complete the commissioning, Yao Fan's customized high-hardness stamping template in 2012 has been installed and fixed in the punch, followed by a vibrating grinding machine for surface polishing and acute angle passivation.

This silver coin stamping machine is originally used for high-speed stamping of high-hardness cases of stainless steel mechanical watches, which can stamping 3,000 embossed cases in one hour, and the size of the case and the embossed pattern can be changed at will through guò changing molds. After Yao Fan asked the manufacturer to stamping soft goods such as sterling silver commemorative coins, the manufacturer changed the equipment to double-ended stamping, which can stamping 6,000 silver coins per hour, which is enough for Yao Fan.

Trial production was carried out from morning to evening, Yao Fan finally mastered the thickness of the silver plate that made the silver coin weigh 26 grams, and after adjusting the parameters of the roller press, Yao Fan finally produced the currency of the Shandong Commune, with two ears of wheat surrounded by the word Chinese One Yuan and four numbers 1876 printed on the front and a peony flower pattern on the back.

Yao Fan wiped his sweat and told Wang Guidao: "One qiē is carried out in accordance with the operating regulations, the waste liquid in the grinder is precipitated and retained, and then silver nitrate is made into silver nitrate and then used caustic soda to turn the silver into smeltable oxide and extract it." ”

Wang Gui didn't seem to understand, so he chased Yao Fan to ask questions, and Yao Fan took the trouble to answer them one by one.

"The mint is an important place for the government, and it must be constrained in accordance with the strictest management process, and every silver coin must be strictly controlled, not one less!"

"Yes! , Chairman, don't worry, if anyone dares to touch the public money, it will be a bad death. ”

After finishing the work of the mint, Yao Fan rushed to the office of the Communications and Intelligence Commission, which was the former Weifang County office.

Yao Fan walked into the yard and saw Bai Xiaoqi's son Bai Kang playing outside the yard, Yao Fan stepped forward and asked, "Bai Kang, is your mother there?" ”

"Hello Uncle Yao, my mother is in the office."

Yao Fan came to Bai Xiaoqi's office and asked straight to the point: "How is the training of telegraph operators in your communications department progressing?" ”

Bai Xiaoqi saw Yao Fan coming over in person, and said busily: "There are teaching materials given to us by the chairman, and young cadres who can read and hyphenate characters, and now we have trained a class of 60 people to send and receive newspapers, these people have all read, learn Chinese pinyin very quickly, and can learn to operate by memorizing the code." Depending on the situation, I have become proficient in memorizing the worksheet for adjusting the frequency of reporting. ”

Yao Fan nodded and said: "The code must be proficient, and the technical instruction manual issued by the code must be studied repeatedly, now because we are the only army in the world that uses military radio stations, and there is a unique means such as pinyin letters, so we don't need to use the code for the time being, but in the future, we will use the code instead of the code." In the future, these 40 people will be assigned to various division headquarters and regimental headquarters, which will ensure that our army will be able to keep in touch with the central authorities wherever it goes. ”