Li Cunxun had a small notebook in which he recorded what Dong Shuheng had to do that day, what he had done in the past, and what he would do in the future.
This notebook may be regarded as Huai Haijun's top secret. Li Cunxun has always kept it close to him, and the used notebook will be sent to Huai Haijun's archives and sealed.
Li Cunxun also grew up receiving traditional Chinese education. He knew that the emperor had historians around him to record his daily life.
He regarded what he was about to do now as a record of daily life, and regarded it as a sacred mission.
Li Cunxun added in the small notebook: "On the afternoon of May 2, the President met with Mr. Schoenby at the Dafeng Gunpowder Laboratory to discuss the invention of smokeless gunpowder and provide him with an important piece of advice."
Turning to the next page, it read: "On May 3, I went north to inspect the main irrigation canal project. I visited collective farms. I commended the advanced representatives of the project construction."
Huaihai Haijun's three-horizontal and one-vertical project lasted for nearly a year. The first phase of the project has now been completed. Since it has entered the rainy season and the amount of water is too large, subsequent projects have not been carried out for the time being.
Nearly one million refugees originally recruited have now entered the stage of resettlement and production. Collective farms and farms of the Bureau of Agricultural Reclamation have sprung up along both sides of the main irrigation canal, and most of the refugees have been resettled into the farms.
These refugee collective farms are somewhat different from Huai Haijun's farms. The land is distributed to each household. Farmers in the farms have the right to use the land, but the ownership of the land is with the collective, ensuring that the land will not be bought and sold at will.
Except that it cannot be bought and sold freely, in other aspects it is the same as your own land and can be passed on to future generations. The collective farms do not collect taxes now, and they will have to pay public grain like other rural land after one year.
The reason why not all of them have been turned into the original corporate-style farms is because when the Huaihai Navy recruited refugees, they promised that everyone who participated in the construction of the water conservancy project would be allocated ten acres of land.
However, these people are refugees with nothing. If the land is directly allocated to them, they will not be able to farm it!
Forcing them to work on the farm would violate their original promise.
So Dong Shuheng came up with the rural collective farm model.
The land is collectively owned by the farm. Each collective was originally a construction section. Everyone was very familiar with each other and it was convenient for collective management.
When dividing the work into sections, Huai Haijun also deliberately separated people from the same clan to prevent the same clan from controlling collective power and oppressing smaller clans.
Mutual oppression among clans has always been a chronic disease in rural China, and it has not been completely eliminated until the 21st century.
Dong Shuheng's carriage crossed the bridge next to the gate of Sheyang River, followed the Seawall Avenue, and not long after walking further, he arrived at the North Jiangsu Irrigation Main Canal.
This main canal connects Hongze Lake to the west and reaches the sea in the east, running in an east-west direction. It not only eliminates the flood hazard of Hongze Lake, but also allows the water of Hongze Lake to be drained all the way to the sea along the main canal. The original Hongze Lake has become
Turning troubles into treasure has truly become a lake that benefits the people.
The carriage first arrived at Linhai Town, a newly established township. It used to be a saline-alkali land. After the main canal was repaired, there was a large amount of water to irrigate the saline-alkali land and turn it into fertile farmland.
Through the window of the carriage, Dong Shuheng could see the resettled refugees who were renovating farmland on the plain. These refugees had been busy at the river construction site for a year.
Now they are starting to work on the land on their farm. They need to get rid of the weeds first and then plow the land.
Each farm has large livestock distributed by Huai Haijun. These large animals also worked hard on the construction site, and now they are as active in the farmland as these refugees.
After these farmlands are rested, they will be divided into neat pieces by small ditches. There are also field ridges around the fields so that water can be stored in the fields.
The land containing saline-alkali must be plowed deeply first, and then soaked in water for a period of time. After the saline-alkali in the soil is fully dissolved, the saline-alkali-containing water can then be discharged into the river along these channels and into the river.
sea.
After repeating this several times, the land can be planted with crops. However, it is obviously too late to plant rice this season. We can only plant other crops first.
Linhai Town is a newly built town. In order to facilitate the management of the refugees, the Huaihai Navy previously established an engineering corps, which organized the refugees into semi-military groups and managed them. Each regiment was responsible for the construction of a section of the project.
Now that the main project is over, all engineering corps have also been disbanded. The original companies have become the current villager groups. Several villager groups have formed collective farms, and then more than a dozen farms have formed a market town.
This town used to be the location of an engineering division headquarters. Now it has been changed to a town. In fact, the people are still the same. It turns out that the engineering corps had already formed a complete management system, which is still in use today.
There are a dozen collective farms in this town, and the total population is about tens of thousands. In many places, the scale of tens of thousands of people is equivalent to the size of a small county.
However, this place is sparsely populated and everything is drawn on white paper. In order to reduce the number of management personnel, Huai Haijun adopted this large market town model.
The largest building in the town is the school auditorium. This auditorium is not only used by the school, but also holds important collective activities in the entire town, or organizes theater performances.
The local hardware facilities are still imperfect in many places. Now that manpower has been diverted from the river construction site, some basic projects for road construction and housing in the town have started one after another. The whole town feels a bit like a large construction site.
Under Huai Haijun's rule, everything was so fast-paced, and the power of the people was brought into full play. There was basically no time to relax.
In the past, it would have been a tyranny, but under Huai Haijun's rule, there were no complaints. That's because although Huai Haijun also used civilian power, it was not free.
The people are not getting poorer and poorer through labor, but are getting richer and richer. That's why they are willing to work so hard now. If the Qing government carried out these projects, it would definitely be forced labor.
People not only have to work, but families will also face the dilemma of having no income because those who are conscripted into labor are the main labor force of the family.
In ancient times, the main labor force of each family was the backbone of the family, and was probably responsible for the family's livelihood.
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When Dong Shuheng came to the auditorium, there was already a group of people waiting there. The leader was none other than Mr. Feng Daoli and Mr. Feng.
Dong Shuheng has always respected Mr. Feng very much. He is an old man who has strong feelings for the country and the nation, and is also an old man with selfless dedication.
"Hello teacher, Dong Shuhengda stepped forward and gave a student salute to Mr. Feng."
"You are the president. You don't see people every day, and you treat us old guys like cattle. Why are you free now?" Feng Daoli said pretending to blame.
Everyone on the side snickered. Next to him were several of his capable students, and the one closest to him was Du Hui.
"Teacher, look at what you said. If you are tired, you can go back to the academy to rest, but no one will stop you. Don't forget that you are still the dean of the Water Resources Institute, not just these few students." Dong Shuheng said to him.
He pointed and joked with his teacher Feng.
Among the old guys close to Wei Yuan, Dong Shuheng all calls them teachers.
In their words, whatever good things Wei Yuan has, you have to share them with everyone. Now that you have a good apprentice, naturally you can share them with everyone.
"Hmph, you just want to trap me in that ivory tower, do you want to suppress me until I get rusty?"
"Teacher, look at it, you are still willing to endure hardships outside, but you can't blame the students. When you get older, you can do whatever you want. Anyway, the students will be responsible for helping you make money and help you find people."
"Okay, I won't embarrass you anymore, let's take you to see our results."
As he said that, he opened his old legs and led the way. Dong Shuheng led a large group of people and followed closely behind Feng Daoli. However, Dong Shuheng clearly felt that the old man had become a lot more stooped since he was ill last time.
Everyone came to a small hall. There was a large window in this hall. Light came in and was reflected by the white painted walls, making the hall bright and transparent.
In the middle of the hall is a huge sand table. The sand table is very realistic.
Dong Shuheng knew at a glance that this was a sand table in the northern Jiangsu area. Lakes, rivers, and seas were clearly marked on the sand table with fine blue sand, and the land was made of brown soil. Even the terrain was clearly displayed.
Dong Shuheng saw at a glance a straight river connecting to the sea from the east of Hongze Lake.
"President, come to see, this is the main irrigation canal. It is said to be a canal, but in fact it can be regarded as a big river. Its potential runoff is no less than that of the Huaihe River." Now that we are talking about business, Feng Daoli no longer relies on his old age with Dong Shuheng.
Even the title has been changed.
"It is divided into two layers of inner and outer dykes. Normally, the river flows through the channel in the inner dyke. When there is a flood, the river channel between the outer dyke and the inner dyke is used for flood discharge." Feng Daoli continued.
"Teacher, wouldn't the land between the inner and outer dykes be wasted in this way?" Dong Shuheng asked doubtfully.
"It seems that you have neglected all the recent government affairs. We have submitted a report to the military government. The land within these embankments can be cultivated, and after the flood, these lands are very fertile."
"The flood cycle is predictable, and there is an approximate time when floods will pass through at that time of year. As long as the crops are harvested in advance, it will be fine."
After hearing this, Dong Shuheng suddenly realized that this model is very similar to the planting model on both sides of the Nile River. Floods are not always bad. The developed planting industry on both sides of the Nile River relies heavily on the Nile River floods.
Later, the famous Aswan Dam was built on the upper reaches of the Nile River, and the floods were controlled, but Egypt's food production decreased sharply.
Dong Shuheng had only seen the reports on these projects before, but he had been running around here and there in the past year and had no time to ask about this matter in detail.
Mr. Feng Daoli has been personally handling this matter. Dong Shuheng only paid attention to two things. One was the project funds. He asked the Ministry of Finance to make every effort to ensure the project funds; the other was the refugee issue. This matter
He arranged the early stage of the matter, which involved the coordination of multiple military and political departments of Huaihai Navy.
As for the subsequent project situation and progress, he basically had no involvement.
Why is it said that "a family with an old man is like a treasure"? Several old gentlemen helped him guard the house, which really made Dong Shuheng worry a lot. Because of this, Dong Shuheng was able to run around with confidence and complete his layout.
Today there were two oil bottles following behind, and it was unusually quiet. Maybe I was a little cautious seeing an old man who the president respected very much.
Du Ji and Shang Tai Wang have not yet woken up from such a big project. At first, they went out with Dong Shuheng to inspect the project. They just walked around and looked at it, but they didn't feel that profound yet.
Now after seeing this sand table, I finally have an intuitive understanding of this big project. Combined with what they saw on the ground, how can we prevent these two children from small countries from being shocked!
Understanding the situation was just a prelude. Next, Dong Shuheng commended the Huaihai Navy military and political personnel and refugee representatives who had performed outstandingly in this project in this auditorium.