Chapter 283: Cooperatives

Li Mu stood in the middle, and the group of slaves formed a circle and squatted on the ground. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

He looked at the slaves with uneasy faces, and a flash of pity flashed in his eyes. Their palms were covered with calluses and cracks, and in some places there was pus and blood. Because they have been in the ruins for a long time without protection, they all have different degrees of radiation sickness on their bodies, although because of their strong bodies, there is no major problem, but once they get older, the immune system begins to decline, and it becomes a life-threatening charm, rapidly dividing and multiplying, taking their lives.

However, they live in such a harsh environment, and they rarely have a chance to live to that age.

The Sky Farm is a multi-storey structure that requires professional maintenance of elevators, groundwater wells, turbine generators, cables, etc. If the land were simply divided equally among these slaves, a single slave would not be able to support the maintenance of these expensive equipment. It won't be long before the entire farm shuts down completely due to lack of maintenance.

In fact, even on flat land, it is not suitable to directly allocate land to a single person. Individual farmers are extremely resistant to risk and are loosely organized to resist mutated organisms and other alien dangers. With advanced agricultural machinery, fragmented land is not conducive to agricultural automation.

Therefore, he was not going to directly distribute the land to the slaves, but to form a cooperative.

"Slaves, under the rule of the Brotherhood of Freedom, slavery is not allowed to exist, and from this day on, you are no longer slaves, you are free!"

After he finished speaking, all the slaves were silent, and then they boiled like the tide in a storm, some of them were talking nonsense, some wanted to squeeze to the front, and confirmed to Li Mu whether what he said was true, and some looked at Li Mu with hesitant and suspicious eyes.

They don't believe that pie will fall from the sky, and they don't believe that anyone will let good slave owners go to great lengths just to liberate them.

Wang Xi, who was standing in the distance, looked at Li Mu with disbelief, he didn't expect that there would be such a fool.

Each of these slaves is young and strong, and there is no disease, even if they are sold, each of them can be sold for more than sixty yuan, and all the slaves here, together, can buy more than 300,000 yuan, which is a lot of money. Even if they are allowed to work in the air farm, the annual output of grain is worth tens of thousands, deducting the cost and the discount of slave death, there are about 30,000, which is still not counting the income of those soilless vegetables, it can be said that it is making money every day.

"It's just that now you're free, and there's nowhere else to go."

Li Mu glanced at everyone.

Most of these slaves, who were originally farmers, were raided by marauders who broke through the settlements. Those who were willing to give in were absorbed into the marauders, and those who were unwilling to give in or were physically weak were sold as slaves in the slave market of Rakin Bayd.

They are already homeless, not even a loved one.

Lu Su, the leader of this group of slaves, looked at Li Mu with curious eyes, he didn't expect that he would actually look away, someone would really free these slaves and let them go free. He took Li Mu's words as a pretext for the army that wanted to let his brothers enter the Freedom Brotherhood.

But he didn't feel the slightest resistance, and he wanted to take up arms and take control of his own destiny rather than toiling day after day on this hopeless aerial farm, knowing that one day he would be devoured by the mutated creatures that rushed in.

He shared his thoughts with a few of the slaves around him, who nodded their heads and looked eagerly at the Brotherhood of Liberty soldiers with rifles in their hands, spying on their captives.

But Li Mu's next words disappointed them.

"We, the Brotherhood of Liberty, will form an agricultural cooperative, with the Brotherhood providing the space and funds, and you providing the labor. The annual settlement surplus is distributed according to the method of dividing the fertilizer among the four horses, that is, the surplus profit settled each year is divided into the income of the free brotherhood, the cooperative provident fund, the workers' welfare, and the management remuneration. The Co-op Provident Fund is used to maintain the equipment of the air farm, purchase new equipment, expand the scale of the farm, and provide compensation for employees who have been injured or injured in accidents. As for the workers' benefits, they are distributed among all workers. Management remuneration is the remuneration paid by the managers of those farms. ”

Li Mu's words made the faces of all the slaves show a hint of joy, and the plan he proposed was very feasible. The Brotherhood of Liberty has a strong position and does not make up such a thing to deceive their needs.

They think that the Freedom Brotherhood can seize the territory of the **** corpse gang, obviously the force is very strong, and under the protection of the Brotherhood, even if the income is lower, but it can be more stable. But they apparently had a twist, and the Brotherhood of Liberty was treated much more generously than they thought.

When discussing the four aspects of distribution, these newly freed slaves did not dare to shout too highly. Li Mu could only determine a suitable number by himself.

Among them, the Freedom Brotherhood distributes 25%, the cooperative provident fund 40%, the workers' welfare 30%, and the management remuneration 5%. Moreover, the basic salary of the workers is deducted from the cooperative's provident fund, and the lowest-ranking workers also have a monthly salary of one gold coin. This salary is very low compared to the dancer, but in the case of food and housing in the cooperative, it is very cost-effective. Including bonuses, a worker can get more than 30 yuan a year.

This income is very staggering, and the ordinary peasants in the wilderness can't save a few silver coins a year, and in the event of a famine, they will even have to lose money. Even the ordinary white-collar workers in Xinlinfen can only save so much money throughout the year.

This, of course, is based on the fact that Lakimbed and the Hindustani people are experiencing high food prices because of food shortages. But even if the price of food falls, these will not be treated less, because the workers of the cooperatives will inevitably be more motivated than the slaves who have no personal freedom.

The cost savings are huge, and the Brotherhood of Liberty does not siphon off all the profits like the Necrosh Gang, and the co-op will definitely be able to grow rapidly.

"The final settlement of workers' benefits will not be distributed evenly according to the capitation, but according to the recorded work performance, according to the principle of more work, less work, and no work. The basic salary of workers is distributed according to their ability to work and the type of work. If an accident is caused by cheating and slippery at work, the cooperative has the right to eliminate it. ”

He deliberately set the basic salary relatively low and the welfare relatively high, in order to encourage these newly freed slaves to work harder.

"As for the management of the cooperatives, half of them are arranged by the Brotherhood of Freedom, and half are freely elected by the workers, so as to be as fair and just as possible."

Li Mu looked at all the slaves with a hopeful expression on their faces, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

The farmers in the wilderness have too poor land, there is not enough water for irrigation, and each farmer has very small land area. The yield is very low, and it has to be exploited and pressed by cotton buyers. Naturally, their income is much lower than that of the workers of the cooperative.

He was going to implement this very strong organized cooperative model in the wilderness, and since there was no need for such a large quantity of means of production as the air farm, the distribution of the Free Brotherhood could be further reduced, even if it was reduced to 5%. This model, combined with the high price at which the Brotherhood of Liberty buys cotton, is naturally very attractive to those farmers.

At that time, the peasants of the wilderness would be on the side of the Freedom Brotherhood.

The peasants who have been organized, and the oppression that the industrialists still want to do as before, will surely break their teeth. (To be continued.) )