Chapter 129

The summer rain came quickly and quickly, and the first moment it was only dark clouds, but it was only a bag of cigarettes, and the raindrops the size of beans poured down with lightning speed. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 The thunder of info was so loud that even the windows seemed to tremble, accompanied by the slight creaking sound of the windows or the wall panels, which made people even suspect that the wooden house would collapse at any time.

Wooden house.

Compared with the brick houses and mud houses in the mainland, in the northeast land, tens of thousands of immigrant settlements, a wooden house, is its biggest feature, which is entirely due to the rich timber materials in the northeast, of course, more importantly, compared with a large number of brick and tile factories, the establishment of wood processing factories is cheaper and more convenient. In addition, the Northeast also has a wealth of experience in the construction of prefabricated wood buildings - whether it is the street buildings or the barracks when the city was first built, they were originally made of wood. Even the wooden houses of the first settlements, even if they were relocated from the wooden houses demolished in the city.

Because of this, those wooden houses with a foreign flavor and even two-story "attics" have become the homes of immigrants from the Northeast from the beginning. Whether it is the bright living room or the spacious and tidy bedroom, the immigrants are very excited, and in the eyes of many, this house is undoubtedly the beginning of their good life, and it is these houses that have made the dilapidated villages and northeast disappear without a trace.

Of course, like land, these houses are also loaned out by the government, which is also characteristic of migrant settlements - planting official land, living in official houses, and then paying off all this with the rent that they have exchanged for sweat year after year. Even so, the hearts of these immigrants are still full of gratitude to the government, and as a way to express their gratitude, they are to hang a "standard statue of the handsome" in the house. If it weren't for the procurators and the first chiefs, it is estimated that these people would even put incense burners under the standard statues, as if worshiping God, and put incense on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month to express their gratitude.

"Boom ......"

There was another thunderclap, and the room was lit up through the glass window. It only made the woman who was sewing the clothes tremble in fright, and the needle accidentally pierced her hand, and immediately a bead of blood gushed out.

"Oops!"

When the woman with her hands pricked up in pain, she looked out of the door with some complaints, and under the corridor outside the door, the man stood on the side of the corridor, holding on to the handrail of the corridor, looking into the distance, as if he was in a daze there.

"It's raining a lot......"

Wu Mantun muttered in his heart. However, he was not in a hurry, and according to the technicians of the Agricultural Rehabilitation Society, it was the time when the wheat needed water, and if there was no heavy rain that could penetrate the ground, it would have to be irrigated with water from the diversion canal.

In fact, this is the reason why local farmers in Northeast China do not grow wheat - wheat is not drought tolerant, and its water demand is surprisingly twice as large as that of sorghum, and the Northeast and Zhili's hometown are about the same, and the rainfall is not very large, in the spring. Although the snow water in winter is wet, the ground is wet enough to grow wheat. However, in April and May, when the wheat needs the most urgent rainfall, the rainfall is often insufficient, and if it is a dry year, the harvest will fail, so no one wants to plant wheat without irrigation. Even this year, because of the spring wheat planting, more than 100 families in the village were a little unhappy, so much so that he had to go door to door to persuade these people.

In the end, everyone was persuaded because the Fuli Water Conservancy Company had built a canal to divert river water into a dry ditch with iron pipes. Then divide the branch canals, you can irrigate the fields at any time, although the annual water rent per mu is 3 jiao, but for the people in the village, the water fee is also affordable, and it is also cost-effective, after all, when the ground is watered in a hurry, sorghum rice and beans can be more buckets.

It is precisely because of this that everyone will accept wheat, unlike the general sorghum in Kannai, where wheat is grown, water is very important, without water, and there may even be no harvest, but here, with the canal, everything is not a problem.

"The yield per mu is four or five hundred catties ......"

Through the heavy rain, looking at the green wheat waves outside the village, and looking at the layers of wheat waves that fluctuate with the wind in the wind and rain, Wu Mantun couldn't help but muttered that the technicians had said that the seeds used in the village were all new seeds provided by agricultural companies. It is said that the production capacity per mu has reached four or five hundred catties, and one mu has topped more than three acres of land.

Although they are all prosperous villages of immigrants in the Guannai, and there are not a few old people, they are all people who have started to do farm work since they were young, with a yield of 500 catties per mu...... Wheat straw is harvested more than that! In almost everyone's opinion, this is impossible. It's like a book from heaven.

But is it really impossible?

Thinking of this, he looked at the barn not far from his home, where every household in Xingwang Village had such a barn - livestock lived on the ground of the barn, and the upper layer was where the forage and grain were stored. It is said that this was learned from foreigners, and it is indeed convenient, especially the tinplate grain bucket, in which even mice can't enter.

Like other families in the village, Wu Mantun's barn also raised livestock, in addition to the foreign-style heavy horse, there were ten sheep, which were exchanged by the agricultural company from the grassland, in the past, the big guys only knew that raising sheep was for meat, at most they could sell another skin, but who would have thought that now even wool can be sold, and even by selling wool in the future, it is enough for the family to eat.

The village is different from the outside, there are many rules, that is, raising a sheep, it is also like raising horses, there are also such and such restrictions, sheep are exchanged from the grassland sheep are ewes, if it is a male, it must be fanned first, and the same as raising horses to castrate, said to avoid affecting the cultivation of good breeds.

According to the technician, as long as there are three generations of sheep, the wool will be produced more and more, and the quality and yield will eventually be similar to that of foreigners. Raising sheep is like this, raising horses is even more troublesome, and the horses in the village are all "substitute horses", which are raised for agricultural companies. They are all mares, and according to the contract signed with the company, they can only be brought to the stallion, where there are state-owned Arabian stallions. If someone has a local miscellaneous horse in order to save trouble, they will be fined the same price as the foal, and the foals bred by those mares will also follow the method of "the stallion is castrated, and the mare is retained".

In this regard, as a soldier, Wu Mantun naturally knows the reason, this is "horse politics", in the army's point of view, the short and inferior Mongolian horse, that is, not suitable for cavalry to kill, also not suitable for pulling guns, just like the Western-style two-wheel double-plough at home, with a Western-style horse to pull the plough like playing, but to replace the Mongolian horse needs two horses. It's even a little strenuous.

It is precisely because of this that the marshal will run this horse administration, firstly, the troops need cavalry horses and heavy horses to pull carts and artillery, and secondly, the people themselves also need it.

There's so much to think about here!

"Life is the way it is. What else is there to think of? ”

Thinking of this, Wu Mantun's face showed a smile, took out his pipe, and then smoked, his eyes narrowed into a thin slit, occasionally listening to the sound of the wind and rain mixed with the cries of sheep and chickens, he even happily raised the corners of his lips, and then happily sat on the wooden chair under the corridor, which made him even have a thought. I don't want to go to the barn anymore to clean up the livestock pen.

But this thought is only fleeting, he knows that this farm work depends on a diligent character, in the village, starving to death, poor are second-rate people, as long as people are diligent, they will not be hungry.

What's more, this winter is still pointing to this season's livestock fat! As long as the fertilizer and water can keep up. Maybe we can harvest another 500 catties of wheat next year, when the time comes. The day...... Thinking of this, Wu Mantun suddenly thought that compared with last year's halving, this year's tax rent will have to be paid according to the full standard, and the government rent alone will be handed over to 30% or 5......

Although if four or five hundred catties of wheat are harvested, it is estimated that more than one hundred and seventy catties will have to be handed over. It hurts to think about it, but if you rent someone else's land, you will not only have to pay more than 50% of the rent this season, but also have to take on other tasks, although the Northeast only receives one season of grain a year. But if it is not the official land that is rented, and the grain harvest this season will have to go to the owner to do two or three months of work, it is all the work of clearing the wasteland, anyway, the owner will not let the tenants be idle, if it touches the black-hearted owner, maybe even the noon meal will have to be brought by himself. In contrast, renting official land is the most trouble-free, and it will be fine if you pay the public rent. It's not that it's okay, whether it's the training of the Zhuang Ding Regiment, the renovation of the village roads, or even the repair of the canals, they are all carried out while the farm is slack, but these jobs are all their own work, and doing their own work will naturally make me feel more comfortable.

"Unless it's a public rent, what's the point, oh yes, the land tax, how can this land tax be paid......"

Even as a security chief, Wu Mantun couldn't remember how the land tax was paid for a while, because last year's land tax was exempted, and the big guys didn't pay the land tax. But this year is different, this year the land tax will start to be paid.

"The imperial grain and national tax, it is a matter of course, take care of him, anyway, this day is getting better and better day by day, even if he stays in his hometown in Shandong, the old wealth is not necessarily more comfortable than living in himself......"

Thinking of the warm house behind him after burning the kang in winter, Wu Mantun's face was talking to himself, and then thinking of his daughter-in-law's pregnant body, the smile became more and more brilliant, for him, this is the day he dreamed of, as for some newspapers said what "immigrants are equal to serfs" and other words, in his opinion, it is just the nonsense of some scholars, they know what the people want, what they want is not the current kind of wife and children, a comfortable life without worrying about eating and drinking.

"It's time to pay taxes, if you don't pay taxes, Dashuai can help more poor people......"

Some people can forget, but some can't forget, although as a civil affairs officer, but Sun Yelin's work is not easy, this new civil hall only has two "officials", one is a civil affairs officer, and the other is a police officer, the work of the two is to cooperate with each other, tax collection is one of the work of civil affairs officials, of course, it is also the work of police officers.

According to the working procedure, after calculating the amount of taxes, the civil affairs officer issued a notice in the name of the civil affairs officer, and then the police officer who had been in charge of collecting taxes collected and collected them in each village, deposited them in the tax account of the government office, and finally deducted the local tax retained deposit in proportion to the balance, and transferred the balance to the governor's office.

"Da Da ......"

The sound of the abacus echoed in the room from time to time, and two clerks were making calculations there, planning the amount of taxes that each village needs to pay this year, this kind of work is not complicated, and the old village tun, which has not implemented the new system, still converts all taxes into taxes according to the old system. As for the private settlements, the work is simpler.

For any new settlers to the settlement, they need to build aqueducts according to the drawings under the command of the chief of the armor, so as to connect with the aqueducts of the water conservancy company, which means that their fields are all irrigable fields, and this type of arable land is set at a local price of 17.5 yuan according to the Land Survey Bureau, and with the land price, the calculation of the tax amount is very simple, that is, 2.5% of the land price, plus a local tax equivalent to 1/5 of the land tax, and the two total land occupation price is 3%.

"The tax on one acre of land is 0.525 yuan......"

This is an inconspicuous figure, but if we count the more than 30 percent of the more than 1.1 million mu of land that has been reclaimed under the Xinmin Department, all of them are immigrants recruited the year before last, which means that they will start paying taxes this year, and the department will get rid of its dependence on the appropriation from the higher authorities for the first time, and rely only on the land tax, not only can it maintain the operation of the department, but it can even do many things that it wanted to do in the past.

"This year, the land tax payable by the whole department of local taxation alone is 237,563 yuan, and the exemption is ......"

In the voice of his subordinates, Sun Yelin wrote down such a figure in a notepad, and the Civil Affairs Department can keep one-fifth, which means that the income of the Civil Affairs Department will exceed 50,000 yuan for the first time this year, and what does this mean?

Well, you can consider running an additional middle school, where should the middle school be chosen? Last year, Sun Yelin considered setting up an agricultural middle school to teach new agricultural techniques.

"Oh, maybe, it's time to apply for a health officer to be dispatched and start a hospital......"

Sun Yelin, who felt that his "pocket" was full, could imagine how abundant the income in the hall would be next year and the year after next, enough for him to "squander" at will, and many dream things, with sufficient funds, can be turned into reality.

"Schools, hospitals...... These are all places where money is spent, and students also need a place to read, and there should be another library...... Well, these can be used to get funds from the higher-ups, well, to run a good primary school first, if there are not enough primary schools, it is estimated that the application for the expansion of the middle school will definitely be rejected......"

Finally, after listing the plans to spend money one by one, Sun Yelin walked out of the office, in the courtyard after the rain, the air was extremely fresh, and the courtyard was full of verdant colors, the northeast in May was the most tranquil time of the year, in the courtyard, Sun Yelin looked at the stagnant water in the courtyard, thinking of the previous plans, but he smiled like self-deprecation.

"That's where it is, so I'm going to go big, and I'll lay the foundation in front of me before I ......" (To be continued.) )