I am one year older than Chongzhen

Chapter 249 Collectivism
Shenzhou land is about to sink, how can a woman be kind?
Everyone in the base area, including the old and weak, women and children, had to take up arms and fight to the death when facing an attack!

A young boy who has studied for three years is roughly equivalent to being influenced by nationalist ideology and patriotism for three years. Of course, he must pick up a flintlock to defend the base.

What should I do after finishing three years of elementary school?
Most of the children are only ten to 12 years old?

No way, first popularize three-year compulsory education!

The six-year compulsory education will be considered after the land is larger, the strength is stronger, and the population is larger.

Base areas require a lot of labor, and only [-]% of teenagers can go to junior high school after graduating from primary school.

The rest had to join the army or go to work in factories and farms.

Tens of thousands of people work together, and there are tens of thousands of large animals to drive. By the end of June, the number of acres of land reclaimed in the base area has reached 30 mu.

Of course, not all 30 mu of land will be harvested this year, and [-] mu of land will be reclaimed within one or two months. There is not enough time, so there is no sowing.

The stubborn disease of land annexation has plagued the Chinese nation for thousands of years, until after liberation and land reform.

The land annexation in the last years of the Ming Dynasty was in full swing.

At this time, imperial collectivism can be implemented, and it is very important to solve the land issue.

In order to prevent erroneous progress, the base area adopts the farm model, and no land can be abandoned, and land cannot be bought or sold.

Under normal circumstances, depending on the size of the basin, the land of the farm is jointly owned by [-] to [-] households for joint production, and each household distributes the harvest according to how much it contributes.

Labor is divided into general labor and skilled labor. The value of skilled labor is more than twice that of ordinary labor, and the salary of skilled workers can be five times or even ten times.

Of course Huang Yi knew the importance of scientific farming, and hoped to cultivate new farmers who could write and count, and compile agricultural books that were most suitable for the climate and land of the base area.

Experienced farming masters are technical talents even if they are illiterate. If such a person is matched with a teenager who can write and count, they can spread their experience to the entire collective farm.

All in all, collective farms can fully embody the basic principle of more work, more pay, and can organize people to open up wasteland, repair water conservancy facilities, and carry out small watershed management.

Another great advantage is that the fields belonging to the military will not be reduced or abandoned due to lack of labor.

The reason is simple. The farmers in the base area are not fighting alone. Behind them is the farm collective, which is a group of hundreds of people.

Taking care of military and martyrs' families and giving preferential treatment is one of the tasks of every grassroots town governor.

Priority can be given to job arrangements, but the fair principle of equal pay for equal work cannot be violated. Base areas have special funds to subsidize military and martyr families.

Farmers also have a common problem. They are exhausted when they are busy, and there is not enough labor force, and they have nothing to do when they are free.

This problem is more prominent in the north where only one cooked grain land is left idle for half a year.

It is impossible to solve this problem by one household or one or two villages.

Only by relying on the power of the collective to open factories and create employment opportunities.

The base areas have entered into a virtuous circle, because the investment in infrastructure is huge, so a lot of cement and steel are needed.

So you need a lot of coal, iron ore, limestone...

After adopting the collectivist farm model, the town governor of the farm can organize young and middle-aged people to go to the nearest coal mine, quarry, and construction site to work during the slack season.

The work of making military uniforms, military shoes, quilts, spinning wool, weaving felts, and knitting sweaters can be entrusted to women.

During the busy season, the farm town governor is responsible for contacting the production workers of the factories and mines to participate in spring plowing and autumn harvest.

But there is one very important point. Whether it is migrant workers or workers helping farmers, it is an obligation, but neither is free. They must be paid according to their work.

What does this mean?

The base areas are also based on agriculture, and food production ranks first.

Everyone must participate in the farming season. This is an obligation and cannot be evaded, but it is not for nothing. The beneficiary must pay wages that are not lower than the average wage.

During the slack season, the farm town governor organizes young and middle-aged people to work, and farmers can't be lazy on the grounds that they have enough food and don't want to make more money.

Because the base area rewards hard work and punishes laziness, no one is allowed to be lazy, enough food is only the minimum standard, and everyone must be encouraged to work hard for a better life.

It is impossible for an individual to be content with the status quo and not want to work to earn more money. Individuals must obey the collective, do not obey compulsory obedience, and do not repent and go directly to reform through labor.

Isn't this trampling on human rights and freedom and democracy?
Liberal democracy fart!

The base area will never allow such vain things. What Huang Yi needs is obedience, resolute obedience, and unconditional obedience!

Don't work hard and want to eat relief?There are no doors.

Forced labor, who would dare to refuse to accept it, and directly destroy it physically!

One-third of the collective farm's harvest had to be handed over to the base government.

Isn't the tax of one out of three ridiculously high?It is dozens of times the tax of the Ming court!
In fact, this one-third includes land rent and all apportionments, corvee and other expenses.

The taxation of the Ming court is indeed not high, but with the addition of land rent and various exploitations, it may exceed two-thirds of the harvest.

This is where the Ming Dynasty went bad.

If the imperial court received a tax of 1000 million taels, the taxpayer had actually paid no less than 5000 million taels.

The poorer the country, the poorer the ordinary people, the richer the royal family, the feudal bureaucrats, and the landlord class, leading to civil uprisings and mutinies.

The management of the base local government is simple and rude, and the farm can only get so much by handing in one-third of the farm, so there is no drift.

Where is it drifting? Kill the head of which level of town governor.

Yields vary from farm to farm, and a third of the harvest must be more or less.

The performance of the farm town governor is based on comparisons. Under the same conditions, more public grains are handed over, which shows that the management of this farm is the best.

Of course, it is necessary to prevent the farm town governors from being exaggerated, preventing them from being promoted for the sake of political achievements, not leaving enough rations for the farms, and ignoring the farmers' hunger.

It is actually not difficult to distinguish right from wrong, just send people to inspect from time to time, accept reports from the masses, and let the military family members of the farm play an advanced and leading role.

(End of this chapter)