Chapter 408: Comfortable and Uncomfortable
Time flies quickly, and winter goes to spring in a blink of an eye......
The previous Spring Festival can be said to be extremely lively.
The villagers in the countryside by the water have never enjoyed such a nourishing New Year's Festival.
There is no need to worry about food and clothing at home, and there is still money to buy some candy and snacks for the children at home, and let the mother-in-law cut a few new pieces of cloth to make a few new clothes.
The food on the table is no longer a rough and unpalatable multigrain cookcake, but a snow-white and fluffy steamed bun, and you can also eat fresh fish and pork, and by the way, there is a plate of salted duck eggs, and the life is not too moist.
The simple people are naturally very grateful to their lives and bring earth-shaking changes to their lives.
The contact points stationed in each village are stuffed with all kinds of farm gifts during the New Year's Festival, salted eggs stuffed with chicken, duck and goose eggs, meat such as bacon sausages, and kimchi made from vegetables or wild vegetables.
Liangshan Benzhai did not retreat, nor did it mean in vain, but gave a few catties of white sugar and brown sugar to the people of each village, almost every family, as well as some snacks and candies that had been pondered by the food workshop recently, which attracted the eager cheers of the children in the village.
That's right, adhering to the meaning of Chai Daguanren, the food workshop on Liangshan has not stopped researching the deep processing of grain and various miscellaneous grains.
At present, a lot of different styles of products have been made.
Basically, they are all candy, as well as dried fruit snacks or something, of course, there are all kinds of sauces, which are relatively rough, and the raw materials are not high and can be obtained in large quantities.
A few benchmarks were set up, and there were tangible benefits there, and the rest of the villages that were watching or not acting actively were suddenly on fire, and then they were more active, and at the same time, they were very explicit to show favor to the village.
Chai Daguan wants such an environment......
Otherwise, why did he spend a lot of effort to help these villages get rid of poverty and get food and clothing, and even run to a well-off life to live a nourishing life?
Do good deeds, don't talk about it......
He naturally has needs, such as responding to all calls, and the enthusiastic support of these villages, as well as sending a steady stream of fresh blood to the village, and unswervingly standing on the side of the village when there is something.
In short, although Chai Daguan is generous, he also has a lot of requirements!
At present, almost none of the villages near Shuibo can meet his requirements and conditions.
However, many villages have begun to move in this direction, which is the main reason why Benzhai has vigorously supported these villages.
Sent by Liangshan Benzhai to guide the farms purchased by the villages, after more than half a year of exploration and operation, there is also a lot of production during the New Year's Festival.
At least kill pigs and sheep, almost every family can share dozens of catties of meat, and they can eat well for a while during the New Year's Festival.
There are also chickens, ducks and geese raised on a large scale, which can not only provide a steady stream of eggs, but also make the villagers change their tastes, which is really unimaginable.
At least last year, the villagers didn't dare to imagine that life could be so prosperous, and they were even more grateful and close to Liangshan Village that brought all this.
In order to avoid some bad things, the village is even busier during the New Year.
Chai Daguan sent almost all of his leaders out as inspection envoys, and went deep into the villages that had been renovated by the village to check whether the brothers stationed there had done anything unclean.
Although these villages have popularized rune communication, these things like old-fashioned mobile phones are all in the hands of the brothers stationed in each village, who knows if they will secretly make small moves?
In addition, it is also to prevent some troublemakers in the city, and some people who have been forcibly reformed through labor and temporarily put back at home for the New Year.
Ahem......
There is a reason why so many villages under Liangshan Benzhai have developed smoothly and there have not been many twists and turns in the middle.
Almost every village has the existence of green-skinned gangsters and the like, either the first time they notice that the situation is not good and run away, or they are caught by the villagers and sent directly to the mines affiliated to the village for labor reform.
Chai Daguan didn't mean to be polite to these green-skinned gangsters, the government couldn't manage him, and he didn't care about the strange words of some villagers who were 'nosy', anyway, if it fell into the hands of this village, there would be no good fruits to eat.
Of course, the mines belonging to Benzhai are not places with a high incidence of death in the traditional sense.
By improving some of the tricks, he came up with some more practical and especially suitable tools for use in the mine, which greatly improved the mining efficiency and reduced many casualties.
Therefore, the villages that took refuge in Liangshan Benzhai basically did not have a fierce backlash because the green-skinned gangsters in the village were arrested and sent to labor reform for mining.
As long as no one dies and no mutilation, in fact, each village is still happy to accept strong restraint and discipline for the unstable factors in the village.
Otherwise, the project of labor reform can only be to repair bridges and pave roads, and by the way, do some non-dangerous heavy physical work.
With such a good free labor, Chai Daguan didn't have the mind to let it go easily.
The villages around Shuibo have had a nourishing year, and more and more small traders and hawkers have recently made a lot of money for the New Year.
The production of many villages, especially a large number of fresh pigs and mutton, as well as agricultural and sideline products such as chickens, ducks and geese, is naturally earned by the trading houses controlled by Liangshan Benzhai, but the remaining is enough for a large number of small merchants and hawkers gathered around to eat with their mouths full of oil.
They took advantage of the little difference in the middle to travel very diligently between the new villages and towns around Shuibo, and at the same time activated the economy and business, they also benefited themselves and their families a lot.
There are a few shrewd small traders who are already planning to reside in the new countryside on the edge of the water.
They keenly discovered that there were many good things produced in the new countryside on the edge of Shuibo, which were all channels and directions for them to obtain benefits.
Some sweets and snacks that taste good are not even seen in the county, and they are counted into profits if they change hands casually.
What makes them even more envious is the treatment of the villagers......
All adult villagers, except for the fields where only 30% of the rent is rented, almost all of them have a job to do, and can earn a steady stream of extra money.
Not to mention the big fish and meat every day, at least three meals a day are oily, which is very attractive.
The children of the villagers, regardless of whether they are male or female, the younger ones read and write in the village school, and the older ones are sent directly to Liangshan Benzhai for further education.
Moreover, the cost of these education is quite small, and almost every villager can afford it, which is not a big burden.
Although the school does not focus on the imperial examination, in addition to the Mongolian learning, after arriving in Liangshan Benzhai, what is learned is a variety of practical skills in life, such as arithmetic, medical skills, civil engineering, brick and tile architecture, etc.
But even so, the small merchants and vendors who often come over are so envious that their eyes are red.
The people at the bottom are very practical, they pay more attention to tangible benefits and benefits, and they don't have the heart to invest a lot of money in the unpredictable imperial examination.
In addition, although the economic situation of each village has improved greatly after almost a year of transformation, it does not mean that the villagers have much money in their hands.
Without a good atmosphere and family foundation, not every child has an unswerving ideal of the imperial examination at a young age, and the whole family has to end up with it.
At this time, the cost of reading is too high!
Chai Daguan easily came up with suitable movable type printing and lithographic printing, as well as cheaper papermaking, which could keep the cost of books very low.
But the strength of teachers is not easy to copy, such as the imperial examination, it is really difficult to move an inch without a good teacher, even if the genius of Tianzhong sometimes falls in some inconspicuous places.
For example, Xu Wei in the Ming Dynasty, his ability and talent are naturally quite strong, but until he died, he was only admitted to the juren.
Seeing that the villagers in the new village on the edge of Shuibo were treated so well, those small traders and hawkers suddenly moved their minds and asked if they could join their village.
Those new rural areas, which are already about to form a pattern of their own interests, will naturally not agree to let outsiders benefit.
However, the news was quickly summarized to the Chai officials, and the officials naturally had different ideas.
He wished that the number of people who belonged to the village would be as large as possible, and if he could completely throw the number of urban residents away for an unknown number of miles, it would be called success.
However, he did not forcibly ask the villages that had gradually formed a pattern of interests to accept outsiders, but found some places near Shuibo, but the land was very barren and barren, and established new villages.
Although the land environment of these villages is not very good, most of them are relatively advantageous in terms of geographical location, and they are basically located in the middle of several villages.
Including small traders and their families who are willing to accept the guidance of the village, these villages do not produce any goods, even the daily necessities production workshops are pitiful, but exist exclusively as a supplementary force for the shops and commercial channels of Liangshan.
At the same time, they have appeared to say and testify in person, and the influence of Liangshan Benzhai has deeply invaded the hearts of the people at the bottom of the surrounding towns.
When the time is right, these people, who are struggling to survive at the bottom of the town, may drag their families to join the newly built commercial villages.
In short, with more than a year of continuous efforts, Liangshan Benzhai and many villages attached to this village, this New Year's Festival is not moist, there are fish, meat and all kinds of food, and the life of being able to wear new clothes is not too moist.
Some people are proud, and some people will be disappointed, and the vast number of villages on the edge of Shuibo have a nourishing life, relying on the exploitation of the people at the bottom to make a fortune, or the so-called rich and noble families who have been accustomed to this mode of life, this year's day is not so comfortable......