The pilot program of the People's Commune proposed by Yuan Ruoxiu coincides with a project currently being prepared by the Executive Committee.

After the North American Gang completed their mission to explore the abandoned salt pan area, the Executive Committee had no time to discuss their report when a pirate attack occurred. Now that the pirate matter has basically been dealt with and the situation has stabilized, the Yantian project is back on the agenda.

There is not much technical hurdle in reclaiming this abandoned salt pan area, and even if you don't have any real work in the salt pan, the Ministry of Information Industry has a large database of detailed plans for reference, covering all aspects of salt pan production from design and construction to commissioning and operation. Although limited to the conditions of this era, the salt works of the people through the public may not be able to reach the level of sea salt production in later generations, but it is not too difficult to control the cost while surpassing the salt production rate and quality of the salt works of the same era. In the view of the Executive Committee, as long as the production of sea salt is on a large scale, then the road of foreign trade through the public can be regarded as a basic guarantee.

At present, there are two main problems plaguing the Executive Committee on this project, one is the defense system of the salt plant, and the other is the management system of the salt plant. In terms of defense, according to the construction of the Ministry of Military and Police, the settlement of the saltworks workers can be set up far from the coast and inland by the mountains, and once the enemy attacks from the sea, the warning of the Guò Yulinjiao post can be used to let the saltworks workers go into the mountains in advance to avoid danger. However, the problem of the management system is not so easy to solve, and it is not so easy to organize a group of local people to settle in the salt works reasonably, and at the same time organize production and bring them under the unified civil administration of the people.

However, the people's commune plan proposed by Yuan Ruoxiu undoubtedly lit a bright light for the Executive Committee, and this organizational form that could merge production, life, and political power management was quite suitable for the planning of reclamation and tuntian in the current period.

After discussions, the Executive Committee finally decided to set up two pilot communes, one is the Yanchang Commune opposite Yulin Point, and the other is the Nongken Commune on the east bank of the Tiandu River. The members of the commune were mainly fishermen who used to live by the sea, landless farmers, and some Li people who wanted to get out of the mountains.

The commune will uniformly distribute agricultural tools, cattle, seeds and other means of production, and the relevant departments will formulate a unified production plan and lead the implementation. The administrative body of the Commune is the Management Committee composed of the Commune, which will be directly responsible to the Executive Committee, and the specific personnel shall be the technical guidance department responsible for organizing production, the civil affairs department responsible for the management of social affairs, and the military and police department responsible for public security and defense.

The commune will also begin to trial the "labor hierarchy" proposed by Ren Liang, and all local residents who join the commune will begin to implement identity registration and labor volume statistics. The "labor hierarchy" will be implemented in the commune for a period of time to fill in the gaps, and the improved system will be gradually introduced into other projects under construction. This can also avoid a situation where all projects are rushed forward and the HR department is overwhelmed.

The next topic is about the trip to Yazhou, which is also one of the most discussed topics in the public at present. Regarding the plan proposed by Luo Shengdong, the executive committee also publicized it at the forum, and opened the registration channel, all those who are interested in participating in this trip to Yazhou can sign up, but they must indicate their motivation and purpose for participating in this action. In addition, the Executive Committee also made a point of explaining the dangers of the trip, and warned those who wanted to treat the operation as a short trip that it was better to dismiss it as soon as possible.

Of course, even if you sign up, you still have to go through the strict screening of the executive committee. Because the public personnel will still make up the majority of the trip, there will be no more than five places reserved for self-registered participants.

For security reasons, the main body of the team will still be the elite personnel of the Military Police Department, and the other five members of the North American Gang will participate in the operation, except for Dr. Johnson, who will remain behind. The main reason for the Executive Committee to keep Johnson was that the base camp must also keep a professional doctor just in case, and in addition, Johnson was the only one of the six members of the North American Gang, and it was also out of human interest to minimize his expatriate errands. They will be joined by five other members of the Military Police Department, and Yan Chujie will accompany them as the top decision-maker of the team. In addition to the safety guards along the way, they will also complete the investigation of the geography, hydrology, and civil conditions along the way. If there is enough time, and on the premise of ensuring security, they will also conduct military reconnaissance of Yazhou Water Village and Yazhou City to collect intelligence materials for possible armed occupation in the future.

One person from each of the three major departments of industry, agriculture and construction will be responsible for purchasing various raw materials needed by their respective departments if there is an opportunity to trade with local merchants in Yazhou. Schneider, the head of the Ministry of Finance, personally went out to inspect "the professional qualities of merchants in this time and space and the level of spending power of ordinary people."

At the same time, Schneider also played the role of cashier and accountant, and was responsible for coordinating the expenses that may be incurred during the trip. Before the crossing, the Executive Committee had spent a great deal of money on a whole ton of silver and a small amount of gold, which amounted to about 27,000 taels according to the weights and measures of the period. In order to make it easier to use, the Executive Committee also made a portion of the silver into silver ingots and broken silver in advance.

On this trip, the executive committee specially approved 3,000 taels of silver for the action team as action funds, which in the eyes of economic expert Schneider was as unrealistic as a cannon fighting mosquitoes. At this time, the silver taels still retain a relatively strong purchasing power, one tael of silver can buy rice and two stones, the nearly 200 kilograms of rice in exchange for later generations, its value has increased by seven or eight times compared with the Ming Dynasty. Schneider joked before crossing over that the wormhole only has a time limit and no limit on the number of times it can be used, as long as the wormhole is used to pour rice and silver back and forth between the two time and space, the speed of making money is much faster than using foreign trade orders to cheat short-term loans. The Executive Committee was not unmoved by this proposal, but considering that the frequent large-scale grain trading would inevitably attract the attention of the departments concerned, it still did not adopt this method of making quick money in the end.

At this time, the legal salary of officials in the Ming Dynasty is not high, taking Yazhou as an example, the number one leader of the civil official system is Zhizhou, from the five-grade officials, the monthly salary is 14 stones, and the statutory annual salary is less than 100 taels of silver, and the second-in-command state Tongzhi only has a monthly salary of eight stones. In the military attache system, if Luo Shengdong is fortunate enough to be promoted to the general, his annual military salary will not be less than fifty taels of silver, which is still the amount that can be obtained under the condition that the superiors have no greed and no arrears. In a remote place like Yazhou, the socio-economic level is limited, and three thousand taels of silver on the market is simply an astronomical amount, whether it is used for trading or bribing Luo Shengdong's boss, this amount is far beyond the need. To put it mildly, if Luo Shengdong knew that this team had brought three thousand taels of silver, he would have turned his face directly when he returned to Yazhou and brought soldiers to grab the silver.

The low level of officials in the Ming Dynasty is considered an extreme in all dynasties. It is recorded in the "History of the Ming Dynasty" that when Hai Rui was the county magistrate in Chun'an, Zhejiang, he bought two catties of meat because of his mother's birthday, which was rumored to be a strange talk by Zhejiang officialdom. When Zhang Juzheng was building a house in his hometown, Mingshenzong gave him a thousand taels of silver, but the people of the time said that "the number is too much", and the emperor's reward for the important ministers of the court was at this level. Ming Taizu set an ultra-low standard of official treatment, and it is no wonder that although he came up with the ruthless trick of "peeling the skin and grass" to prevent officials from greedy for ink, he still could not prevent the gradual decay of the entire bureaucratic system.

The Ministry of Information Industry also has a public assignment quota, and Menghe originally planned to let Liu Zhuo go, but this quota was finally snatched away by female reporter Luo Wudan. After Luo Wudan worked as a war correspondent last time, there seems to be a tendency to become more and more bold. She will be responsible for the entire video recording and collection of footage throughout the operation, and will issue a series of press releases to cover the operation in detail upon her return.

In addition, the Executive Committee selected five members from among the registered travelers to participate in the operation as special observers. In the current situation that the political system of crossing the public itself is not perfect enough, this can actually be regarded as a disguised form of supervision. During the operation, the five Special Observers will closely monitor the various departments for negligence or other acts contrary to the interests of the public and will submit an independent report to the Executive Board upon their return.

Finally, there are a few places reserved for local Ming people, which is mainly to facilitate communication and information collection between the crossing and the local people in Yazhou. The father and son of the Yu family, who have become veteran leaders of the party, were honorably elected again because they had been to Yazhou City many times, and in addition to them, in order to show their strength and win over the relationship, the executive committee also specially named Fu Jiatong's future master Fu Li.

Fu Li has been living in the temporary settlement of the Li people outside the No. 2 base these days, going to the hydropower station construction site to work with other Li people during the day, and going to Zhou Hengxing's language study class to practice Chinese at night. Recently, he has been transferred to Ning Qi's class, and together with other Li people who are fluent in Chinese, he has begun to receive a streamlined primary education from the Crossing Public, mainly focusing on basic mathematics, so that the Li people can accept the "labor hierarchy" that will be introduced by the Crossing Masses in the future. At the same time, Ning Qi will gather the children of Ming and Li people after school to carry out targeted cultural indoctrination, such as letting them watch some well-prepared promotional videos.

When the projection screen showed a city full of high-rise buildings, a highway full of vehicles, and a huge ocean-going ship like a mountain, all the children were stunned. Fu Li also asked Ning Qi after class if the incredible pictures he saw were images of fairyland.

Ning Qi's answer is still deeply remembered in Fu Li's heart decades later: "This is not a fairyland, this is the new world that the Executive Committee will lead you to build. ”