Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 404
The wind is rustling, and the autumn mood is strong.

There are many short-brown farmers walking back and forth on the ridges of grain fields, with bamboo hats on their heads and long bamboo poles on their shoulders, with a hook at one end.Once you find the barnyardgrass in the paddy field competing for nutrients with the seedlings, the bamboo pole will slip out in your hand, and with a light hook, the barnyardgrass will be hooked out and thrown beside the ditch.

This set of movements is like flowing clouds and flowing water. It not only needs to test the school's eyesight, but also requires extremely high wrist strength and dexterity.For those who practice makes perfect, a bamboo pole can be flexibly rotated in the hand, as if the extension of the arm, which not only clears the weeds, but also does not hurt the seedlings. The calm and unhurried posture has a faint sense of a great master.

If there is such a master weeder in any farm, it is like a treasure and needs to be treated seriously and respectfully.

Near the ditches next to the rice fields, there are often children in linen shirts playing and laughing, hunting butterflies and catching insects. Occasionally, some older children carry bamboo baskets and rummage in the grass nests, collecting some berries and herbs.

This kind of agricultural products are purchased for a long time in every farm. If you are lucky enough to find a large gathering point, the work points you can get in exchange will even exceed what your parents earn in a day.At this time, the children are proud of their achievements and clamoring for their parents to eat extra meat.

Of course, when doing these things, they also have to take care of the buffalo in the mud pond.Those buffaloes are all owned by Zhuangzi. If they lose weight and get sick, which will affect Zhuangzi's harvest at the end of the year, every household in the village will lose a few cents of their yearly bonus.If this kind of thing really happens, parents and elders will not be polite to their children. After a few meals of bamboo boards, their buttocks hurt so much that they dare not sit up for half a month.

At noon, the women who cultivated mulberry and silkworms in the workshop had time to spare, and quickly made a soup of hot food, and put them in huge bamboo barrels. The strong arms of the men carried the barrels onto the bamboo raft sampan one by one. and so on, and then shook out Zhuangzi, and sent the rice soup to various places where Zhuangzi belonged.

At this time, during the whole busy day, families of men, women, old and young will get together and sit on the ground, holding soup while eating, while laughing and talking about trivial matters, thinking about how much work points they can get throughout the year, how much surplus they can have at the end of the year, and how much money they have accumulated. In the next year, I will replace it with a more spacious brick and tile house, and I will still prepare for my children's work, study, and marriage.

After the lunch gathering, the men went back to work in the fields, the children went to play and graze the cattle, and the women returned to the village with their rolls. Then, according to their own strengths and abilities, they either reeled silk, cooked fish, or It is to pick ripe melons and fruits in the orchard, or to raise and take care of the poultry in the farm, or to prepare hay for winter.

After a busy day, everyone performs their duties in an orderly manner.At sunset, the big bamboo hall in the village was full of people, waiting for the clerks in the bamboo hall to calculate their work points for a whole day's work.

Whenever this time is also the busiest moment of every farm.Some people's work points exceeded expectations, and the whole family laughed, and laughed at a few neighbors who were too lazy and didn't know how to improve.

Some people suspected that the calculation of work points was wrong, so they quarreled in Dazhutang and asked the clerk to do the calculation several times. After learning the skills, I will also be the manager!"

The wooden barrels under the big tree are full of plum soup or bamboo leaf tea for people to drink to cool off the heat. Of course, there are also all kinds of food, but this extra meal at night will deduct work points, and most people are reluctant Such a waste, pour a stomach full of herbal tea and get over it.

If you really can't stand it, you can use the wild pheasants, fish and shrimps, wild vegetables, etc. caught and collected during the day's work to make a pot of soup, which is enough to feed the whole family.If the children are really noisy, they can only take out the dried fruit cakes distributed by the farm during the New Year's festival to appease them, and threaten the children to work more tomorrow to earn back this unnecessary extravagance.

Although each family in the farm has a share of wax and oil tickets, in fact, few people light candles after nightfall.Those who can light up the lights, except for those who are in charge of the house, are those whose children are studying in the art hall and need light to illuminate their studies.

Of course, this type of family is often the first-class wealthy household in the farm.Therefore, there is a folk proverb circulating in Wukang and even in the whole of Wuxing today, which is used to satirize those people who are glamorous and talk big: "You can't open your eyes to see things at night, and you are worthy of the surname Shen!"

After working for a day, the child was washed away with mud covered by his neck, and then he was thrown on the bed, and soon fell into a sound sleep, but he was dishonest in his sleep, kicking his legs and yelling at his parents to take them to Longxi Baixi Play in the garden.

Listening to these sleep talk, the couple went on to whisper a few gossips, and soon there was a steady snoring sound.

For this type of Zhuangzi, the larger ones are between a hundred hectares, and the smaller ones are 200 to [-] hectares. The number of Zhuangzi is more than a thousand, and the few are between a few hundred.In Wukang alone, there are more than [-] Zhuangzi of this kind, among which there are only about [-] who truly belong to the Shen family, but almost all Zhuangzi are around the Shen family or attached to the business alliance.

It was already the end of August when Shen Zhezi returned home, and then there were more guests, and it continued to be noisy until the beginning of September. Most of the people in Wuzhong were famous and surnamed, and they had seen them all over the place.Afterwards, although there was an endless stream of visits every day, but fortunately, it was not as concentrated as in the first few days, and I was able to get out and do some of my own things.

He has been living in Jiankang for the past few years, and has almost never returned to his hometown. Now Shen Zhezi's third uncle Shen Hong actually manages most of the family business.Although there are communication situations from time to time, it is not as deep as seeing it with your own eyes.

So as soon as he had free time, Shen Zhezi and his third uncle went around Longxi to inspect the entire Wukang.

The development of the cooperative is even better than Shen Zhezi expected. Many of the first batch of restructured Zhuangzi have almost doubled their production capacity.

For example, the Longxi Old Village run by his family's ancestral business has a population of more than [-]. This number may not seem large, but it has grown after a large number of people have been transferred to Kuaiji.

It can also be said that this is the most typical model of cooperative farms. The main cultivated land is between 20 hectares, and there are already more than [-] various workshops. The main food products produced every year, in addition to meeting self-consumption, also have a large surplus.As for the by-products of the workshop, it is completely pure profit.

This Zhuangzi alone has an annual profit of more than 5000 million yuan.The reason why there is such a huge income is because many products produced by Longxizhuang have already represented the most top-notch craftsmanship.Products like celadon, snow satin, and caramel have formed a dual monopoly in market and technology.

Not only orders from the business alliance came like snowflakes, but even merchants from as far away as Jingjiang lived in Wukang all year round, and they only hoped that a little bit could be leaked through the fingers of the business alliance.

However, the income of other Zhuangzi is not as high as Longxizhuang, and some even have a slight loss.In the final analysis, too high-end luxury goods are only a means to ensure income, not the focus of Shen Zhezi's business.Most Zhuangzi still focus on farming. After all, food is the core of maintaining social stability and stimulating population growth.

Now the model of agricultural cooperatives, with Wukang as the center, has quickly become popular throughout Wuxing.On the one hand, it is because of the strong support of Yutan, the county government, and on the other hand, it is naturally because this model has more advantages than the closed manor-style management, and can quickly fission.

In the past, the manors were too conservative, the persons and properties of the shade households were not owned by themselves, and there was little communication with the outside world, which resulted in low production capacity, and the accumulation of capital was very primitive and slow. After deducting the cost, the real gains were actually not many.

What cooperatives bring is a market-oriented, precise division of labor, industrialization, and large-scale production methods.In other words, as long as the big households provide agricultural tools, cattle, fields and other means of production, they can get a lot of income, provided that they give up part of their personal control over the farmers.

It is true that population is an extremely important property for the big clans nowadays, but from another perspective, it is actually a burden.At the beginning of Shen Zhezi's crossing, the huge food shortage almost caused his family to collapse. This is the inevitable price to be paid for shading a large population.

Of course, in addition to the advantages of the organizational form of the agricultural cooperative, another very important reason for its rapid expansion is the sales channel of the business alliance.The existence of the business alliance can realize the fastest and most convenient output. When cross-regional market transactions become the norm, then the previous hoarding becomes meaningless, and the previous too slow operation becomes outdated.

In the past period of time, Shen Zhezi received many visiting villagers in the village. Apart from discussing current affairs, what he felt the most was that the strong feudal customs inherited from Soochow in Wuzhong were breaking the ice.When discussing family business, especially young people, it is no longer based on population and land, but on the basis of goods and accurate profits.

Of course, the first prerequisite for this series of changes is to ensure regional security and normal production and transactions.Just like in the past, every time there was a war in Jiangdong, the rebels would inevitably swarm in, production would be severely damaged, and transactions would be impossible to carry out.

However, with the establishment of the Dongyang Army, regional security was guaranteed. Although Wu Xing was still in turmoil, normal production was not delayed.With the general poor harvests in various places this year, grain will become an extremely important political bargaining chip in the second half of the year or even in the next two years. Wu Xing's summer grain has been put into storage, and it can already be called the presence of a sea god in the current situation!

So right now, for the Wuzhong scholars headed by the Shen family, it is simply an unprecedented superior situation in the country!If you want soldiers, you have soldiers, if you want money, you have money, if you want food, you have food. It can be summed up in a simple sentence, that is, rich and powerful!

　Alas, I'm going to stay up late again tonight. . .There will be three more. . .

　　
　
(End of this chapter)