Because of the cheap price of land, every household in the rural areas of the island country is a villa built by one family. Moreover, many families build new houses, make full use of the government's subsidy policy for the use of solar energy, and build their houses into solar intelligent houses, and use solar electricity for lighting, cooking, air conditioning, bathing, etc.

In addition, the electricity of the rich can be sold to the power company, and the income from the sale of electricity is about several hundred thousand yen every month, which means that the houses that the peasants live in are more comfortable and high-end than those in the city.

Compared with the rural areas in China, the farmers in the island countries are more educated, and they can be said to be more knowledgeable farmers.

Since all the public primary and secondary schools in the island country are funded by the government and built in accordance with the national unified standards, even if it is a primary school with only 10 students, indoor gymnasiums, swimming pools, libraries, science laboratories, etc. are also readily available, which is no different from the primary schools in the city.

What's more, most of the 70 and 80-year-old ladies in the rural areas of the island country have graduated from middle school or even college, so even in very remote rural areas, we can see them tidying up their homes and planting all kinds of flowers and plants in their yards.

There are two basic factors why the rural areas of the island countries can be richer than the cities, one is that there is a national agricultural cooperative organization in the rural areas of the island countries, called the "Agricultural Cooperative Association", which is generally represented by the English letter "JA".

This agricultural cooperative organization not only has its own bank, its own logistics center, but also its own agricultural and sideline products trading center, which can provide loans to farmers, and at the same time, it also gathers vegetables and fruits grown by farmers in various trading centers and provides them to agricultural product trading markets across the country, or directly to local supermarkets.

That is to say, the vegetables and fruits planted by farmers do not have to worry about rotting in the ground because they cannot be sold, you only need to drive them to the JA trading centers in various places, and the JA trading centers will be responsible for purchasing and then distributing them to all parts of the country, which can ensure that farmers have enough farming income.

Second, in addition to planting and processing agricultural and sideline products, the rural labor force is more often an industrial worker. That is, when the farm is busy, he is a farmer. When he was not working, he worked in a factory near his home, and he was a worker.

There is a special word in Japanese called "part-time work", and "part-time work" is different from leaving home to work as migrant workers in other places, where their farmland is right on their doorstep and the factory where they work is close to their home.

Therefore, in addition to the income from farming, farmers in island countries can also receive a fixed salary from factories and enterprises every month, so the income of these farmers is naturally more than that of ordinary people.

It is precisely because the farmers in the island country have a tradition of "part-time work" that many manufacturing enterprises in the island country have moved their factories to the countryside, using the rich local labor force to train a group of farmers who will not change jobs to become skilled workers, so that they can work in the factory for a long time.

Although the annual income in the rural areas of the island nation of Tohoku is higher than that in Kyoto and a few thousand yuan less than in Osaka, the land prices and prices in rural areas are much cheaper than those in large cities.

Renting a 2-bedroom house in Osaka, Kyoto, costs 100,000 yen per month. However, in rural Japan, renting a house built by one family is only 30,000 yen a month. In addition, most of the vegetables and fruits are self-sufficient, so the cost of living in rural areas is generally only half of that of big cities, or even lower.

In other words, even if peasants and urban people receive the same income, the gold content of their income is completely different, and the income in the rural areas is even more valuable.

There is another reason why the peasants of the island countries are rich, and that is that they enjoy the same social security system as the urban residents. What kind of medical insurance treatment does urban residents enjoy, and what kind of medical insurance treatment does farmers also enjoy?

This is because during the period of rapid economic development of the island country, the government of the island country formulated a unified national social security system in order to eliminate the difference between urban and rural areas, especially the unequal social security treatment of urban and rural residents.

People in island countries often say that "people in the countryside buy cars, but people in the city don't buy cars." ”

This sentence sounds strange, but it makes a lot of sense. Because of the high level of public transportation in large cities like Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto, and the high cost of parking in parking lots, most people in cities do not buy cars, but take the subway and light rail to commute to work and get to the street.

But in rural areas, because public transportation is not developed, people have to buy cars, for example, a family of four, if they are all adults, generally buy five cars, that is, one car per person, and also need a business car that the whole family can travel together.

In addition to commuting to and from work, rural areas also need to drive to shopping malls and supermarkets, etc., and it is difficult to walk without a car, so old ladies in rural areas of the island country also generally drive.

Although the rural life of the island country is very rich, it is not a big city after all, and it lacks the bustle and prosperity of a big city, so many young people in the countryside still want to leave the countryside to live and work in the big city. Therefore, the rural areas of the island country are now facing a big problem, that is, the rest are old men and old women, and there are fewer and fewer young people.

The decline in population has a direct impact on the fiscal and tax revenues of local governments. Because the island country has a special tax, called "county citizen tax" (in some places it is called "citizen tax"), everyone has to pay, that is, "poll tax". If the population decreases, the fiscal revenue of local governments will decrease.

Therefore, in order to retain young people and attract people from other places to settle in rural areas, the local governments of island countries have used their brains.

Many rural local governments in island countries have increased the number of residents, especially young people and children, and invigorated local life and economy by subsidizing settling-in allowances, building houses and renting them out to outsiders at low prices, or even waiving rent for several years.

Therefore, the farmers of the island country really can't be underestimated, which can't help but make Yuan Ye Shingo look at each other more.

But looking at the arrogance on the old man's face that he couldn't hide, he always felt unhappy, and he always had a feeling that he was being looked down upon.

After muttering for a while, Shigo Harano looked at Ai Fukuhara, who was silent, and then turned his head to look at the two of them and said, "I know the matter, but it is up to her to decide whether Ai-chan wants to go with you or not, if you want to force it, don't blame me for being unkind, I don't care who you are, the first is that you can't be forced." ”