Great Entrepreneur of the Universe

Chapter 262 The Thirteen Taibao of Dongting Lake

January 1, the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, Jiaxing.

Several large ships belonging to Wang Shouliang docked from Hangzhou Bay, and then took a fleet of Pearl River T-cars and bicycles to the first Sihai Farm in Jiaxing.

Sitting in the car, looking at the vast tracts of neat rice fields, and the farm Qijiazhuang Living Base looming ahead, Bai Xiuzhu said with surprise, "Big shopkeeper, in just one year, the cement roads here have been built so quickly. "

"This place looks completely different from the rural areas and mountain villages in the mountainous areas of eastern Guangdong. Isn't the food, housing and life of the villagers in Qijiazhuang base much more comfortable than in some small towns or counties."

Wang Shouliang first purchased more than 30 acres of farmland in Zhejiang, which was divided into ten large farms, including three in Jiaxing, covering almost 10 acres of cultivated land.

The old saying goes that if Su and Lake are ripe, the world will have enough. They praise the abundant grain production in Su and Lake. In fact, Jiaxing's production capacity is even better.

When Wang Shouliang strives to master more money and food, he will certainly not ignore this agricultural treasure land.

The three large farms in Jiaxing are divided into three areas. The one closest to a dock in Hangzhou Bay is this one. This farm covers 11 natural villages. The Qijiazhuang base that Bai Xiuzhu mentioned...

In fact, before Wang Shouliang bought land and hired people, people with the same surname accounted for 90% of the village. It was a very common clan village in southern society.

To put it bluntly, under the Pearl River series of enterprises, if a Pearl River instant noodle factory outsources instant noodle cartons and the popularity of instant noodles is reduced, any old-style landlord or rich man who sets up a carton factory will become rich.

The strength of the southern clans in the late Qing Dynasty or the Republic of China was actually very stubborn, large and conservative. For many eras, the imperial power did not go to the countryside.

According to the memorabilia collected in the Genesis Plane, the floods that spread throughout Hunan in 06 began in the spring.

That's not easy to manage.

They are all equipped with bicycles, uniforms, shoes and hats, and long and short firearms.

When it comes to bicycles, sugar mills, flashlights, steel plants, and even the attached engineering shovel production workshop, just a few raw material sources of income can support a large number of national enterprises.

It is still winter, and the winter rice in many farms in the Yangtze River Delta has just been planted. Even if it is growing well now, especially with the use of high-quality bird droppings from Nauru for fertilizer, it cannot stop the floods that stretch half of the river system. Useless.

The entire Qijia Village will distribute houses from house to house according to the employment model and contribution model, or rent a house to you.

Under Bai Xiuzhu's curious words, Wang Shouliang shook his head and said, "It's nothing like this, but it's not bad to get it like this from the beginning."

No matter what happens, if you stay nearby to supply coal to power plants and raw materials to cement plants, you can become a rich man and make a lot of money.

At the site of the original village, other buildings except the clan ancestral hall were demolished and expanded into a three-story "冂"-shaped tube residential building.

When Wang Shouliang's Sihai Farm entered the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta, it first selected land and negotiated with the gentry, the largest local landowner clan. After the negotiations were completed, they transformed from landlords to entrepreneurs and embraced new life with the entire Pearl River series of factories.

On this farm, steam tractors, steam threshing machines, steam rollers, etc. are all common. They are all products purchased by the Sihai Group from Europe and the United States.

A power station has also been built here. There is a large power station on the entire farm. The power lines are repaired and directed to the living bases of the 11 former natural villages and current farm villages. The collective supplies briquettes, coal stoves, knives, etc. by purchasing them with money or distributing them through contributions.

When Wang Shouliang purchased his own large farm group, he certainly did not say that he would forcefully break the clan structure and directly transform the original small peasant families and villages into mixed and disorderly urban villages.

He came to the Yangtze River Delta this time to inspect the grain storage conditions of various farms, as well as the waterproof and flood prevention infrastructure...

In this case, each farm base is convenient for construction and management.

Living in a building, having electricity, building street lights, and burning briquettes, this was a really... novel experience for the Chinese rural areas in the early 20th century.

Besides, each of these farms also has a team of 120 members of the security department patrolling, guarding, and managing the 11 natural villages day and night.

When he buys land, when he talks about where to buy it, he basically looks for the leader of the largest local clan. If you are willing to sell it, I will give you a high price, and I can also guide you to transform into a new national entrepreneur and capitalist.

Naturally, the ruffians and gangsters were driven away early, and those who remained at the farm living base to work were all honest farmers and hard-working breadwinners.

He inspects farm warehouses in various places, not only to see whether the stored grain can meet his own needs, but also whether it can provide disaster relief to nearby areas when floods come.

If it wasn't enough to provide relief to the surrounding area, Bai Xiongqi would continue to run around, buy grain, transport it, and put it into the farm warehouse one by one.

His motorcade was still running. Qi Dakui, the captain of the security department stationed at the farm, had received the message and came with several guards, their bicycles smoldering, to pay him a visit.

The two parties met more than 500 meters in front of the Qijiazhuang Living Base. They got off the car and chatted for a while before Wang Shouliang said, "How was last year's autumn harvest?"

Qi Dakui smiled brightly, "Thanks to the director, the bird droppings shipped from overseas are also used to fatten the rice. The rice produced in one season is comparable to the previous year's grain production."

"Now every farm living base is full of warehouses. Even if there is a disaster before next summer's harvest, we can still survive until the next autumn harvest."

"Also...thank you for your blessing, Director!!!"

Qi Dakui is also a man who returned home in fine clothes last year. His hometown is here in Jiaxing. At that time, he was just about to starve to death. Xin Yiheng left his hometown and went to Shanghai to work. He accidentally entered the Pearl River Series Security Section and has been fighting until now.

When he returned to his hometown, he was really in the surrounding areas. No, he was one of the most important figures in Jiaxing.

He has 119 men under his command and 120 long rifles, which is impressive. How can he say that he has Zhujiang and the Sihai Escort Bureau behind him? !

The next moment, in order to explain that he was not flattering randomly, Qi Dakui added, "Director, when I fled and went to Shanghai alone to make a living, it was not a natural disaster, but my mother's serious illness, which I couldn't save even though I borrowed loan sharks. return."

"In addition, all kinds of miscellaneous taxes are levied on me. If I don't leave, I will have no way to survive..."

"After the great autumn harvest, no one from the county came to collect taxes, and they didn't dare to collect taxes. There were no exorbitant taxes..."

"My fellow villagers wish that every family would place your memorial tablet at home to worship you. Even if our security department searches for it and orders us not to do that kind of thing, we can't prevent accidents. Every now and then, we find someone kneeling down to worship you."

Wang Shouliang, "..."

Wang Shouliang was speechless. After all, farmers in this era are so miserable. Let’s not talk about whether you own land or whether you are exploited by local tyrants and evil gentry and cannot survive.

When renting cultivated land from local tyrants and evil gentry, should they pay 73 or 82? Those 70% and 80% belong to my grandfathers. When you finally get it, you still have to face various taxes...

Even if it were not the kind of tax that a small county in the Republic of China would crazily allocate a hundred years later, it would not be much better than the former in the late Qing Dynasty and the late Qing Dynasty.

Sihai Farm has a large amount of cultivated land, and the hired farmers also distribute the land to people and households. Depending on how many acres they plant this year, the harvest will start at 50-50.

For example, if you achieve the goal of how many kilograms per mu you produce, the farm and your family will get 50/50 points. If you are capable and can increase the yield by this many kilograms, you can even get 64 percent. You get 60%, but only give the farm 40%. .

The fields are distributed to each household, and the share depends on your ability. How many acres of land can you get an extra few hundred kilograms? ?

This can maximize the enthusiasm of farmers.

After the farm was divided with the farmers, the farm as a whole negotiated taxes with the Qing court...the farmers did not have to face the tax collectors, and then the tax collectors did not dare to come? !

That's right, Sihai Farm has three farms in Jiaxing, with 360 young adults, 360 bicycles, 360 Jiachen 1904 long rifles, pointed bullets, and equipped Mauser pistols!

How many nights did the tax collectors of the Qing Dynasty come to collect taxes while drunk? ! Not to mention the additional apportionment.

This is near Hangzhou Bay, and Wang Shouliang's Sihai Fleet passes by from time to time... A tax issue will make too many farmers burn incense and worship you.

After he was speechless, he spoke, "The granaries of various farms continue to expand. I have received news that there may be floods next year. Regardless of whether it is accurate or not, we must prepare for the worst."

It’s only January 1th. How can we predict whether there will be floods next spring and summer, and whether they will affect the summer harvest? In this regard, generations of ancient Chinese sages did not have much high-tech equipment to predict, nor much scientific knowledge system.

Not to mention using supercomputers to deduce.

However, China has had many proverbs about natural disasters since ancient times. A "auspicious snow heralds a good year" is to use the amount of snow in the twelfth lunar month to deduce whether the next year's harvest will be good.

There are also "carp are released in groups, and the floods will rain wildly even if the water does not rise." "Carp jump on the river surface, and heavy rain is coming." "The beginning of summer is sunny, and there will be a drought." etc.

A common folk method for predicting the success of the year is the Stove Horse Head. On the day of the Lunar New Year, the Stove Lord is worshiped. In the first month, the results of how many dragons control the water and how many oxen plow the fields are determined can predict whether the summer harvest will be a disaster or a disaster. Good harvest.

Let’s not talk about the scientific nature of this... As the most orthodox and long-standing symbol of agricultural civilization, China has many folk methods for predicting drought or floods.

Wang Shouliang didn't need to explain anything to anyone. He just said a few words, which was easier to stabilize and even boost morale. "Everything is done in advance, and failure in advance is an old saying in the Book of Rites."

"In recent years, let's not talk about the Yellow River bursting its banks in eastern Shandong. How many evils were caused by the floods across Hunan last summer? Regardless of whether there are floods before the summer harvest, we should first store up food. If we have food in our hands, then we will have nothing. Panic."

"You also escaped, and you know how terrible the disaster is."

"If there are enough grain reserves, if there is a flood and trouble occurs, I can give you authority to expand the security department from 120 to 400 people according to wartime expansion. At that time, you, the captain, will be directly promoted to deputy department. "

"Jiaxing has three full-staff deputy departments with 1200 people, which is enough to maintain food and provide disaster relief."

Qi Dakui suddenly realized, and he felt moved and proud that a soldier died for his confidant, "Thank you to Director Renyi, even if I die in the disaster relief work in my hometown, I will have no regrets in this life."

After excitedly saying some words of determination and issuing several military orders, he suddenly scratched his head and said, "By the way, Director, I almost forgot to report to you. I received a radio message saying that it was Kai from Yalun. Wen, Brian from the Shanghai Public Settlement, Hugo from North America and others want to come to the farm to talk to you about something."

"Their respective ships should also be chasing after them."

Fixed radio stations are being built one after another in large physical bases on land such as farms. Apart from the need to learn techniques and decoding to generate electricity and receive messages, this thing is actually more convenient than wired telephones.

For wired phones, the phone lines need to be repaired in advance.

Wang Shouliang laughed dumbly, "I know, now that we have arrived at Qijiazhuang Living Base, I will stay here at night and meet them in the farm canteen."

His large ship Sihai also had radio receivers.

The biggest difference between radio and telephone is that when dialing a phone number, you can be sure whether the other party answered or not. In radio messages, I turn the content into Morse code and send it out. In fact, there is no one-to-one goal.

Send out, many stations that can receive radio messages are checking how many messages have passed through me these days... Those who are checking can receive them.

If no one checks it, then the party who sent the message really doesn’t know whether you received it or not.

The biggest joy of the First World War is that France sends out many messages every day. I know that I sent a lot, and I also know that Hans the cat should have received a lot... I am not sure whether the target I sent received it first, or Hans. The cat got it first.

All I know is that during non-war periods, the special code book should not be messed with easily, lest the enemy break the secret by relying on a large number of precedents when war breaks out.

Wang Shouliang not only knew that many old friends were following his footsteps, but also roughly knew the purpose of their visit.

This is not just for the Minas oil field in Indonesia.

They came for the 1-mile Dongting Lake and Thirteen Taibao gangs that started making trouble on January 4th, in just half a month.

A large number of grain dealers in Yinglun, North America, France, etc. who were making money were robbed. The rice was gone, the ships were gone, and the people transporting the rice ships were almost gone.

Damn the Thirteen Dongting Lake Taibao, those bastards are just wearing the uniforms of the Sihai Escort Bureau, driving small-tonnage steel steam destroyers purchased from Yalun and North America, and casually covering up the words "Wuzhishan" and "Huaguoshan".

Just replace the flag of the Thirteen Taibao Water Bandits with the flag of the Sihai Escort Bureau? This was done too roughly.

I don’t know how many of Wang Shouliang’s old friends were so angry that their livers ached.

When Wang Shouliang got on the car again and headed towards the gate of the "冂"-shaped tube building of the Qijiazhuang Living Base, he saw some farmers lining up in the courtyard to get water from the well. He couldn't help but sigh. The living base is equipped with electricity and briquettes, two or three bedrooms and one living room in the Tongzi building, and public toilets and public baths are the big arrangements.

There is no other way to draw water from traditional wells. The water supply project can be repaired, but it is a waste of resources.

I still don’t think about it that much. At least reinforced cement concrete buildings are much more resistant to floods and cold than most wooden houses or old brick houses.

The popularity of glass windows has brought about a superior basic environment.

The floods of 1906 would definitely not be able to destroy these "冂" tube towers. The short horizontal line below the character "冂" is a one-story high courtyard wall. It is not built into a three-story building to avoid shading.

(End of this chapter)