Si Xiaosong and Si Xiaobai are finally free. The family no longer cares about them. Children in the whole city can run out and play freely.
The heavy autumn harvest has ended, and the threshed and dried grain has entered the warehouse. In addition to keeping enough rations in various communities, the rest of the grain has been purchased by the government and entered the official warehouse.
After the production team and animal husbandry team completed the liquidation, they also distributed wages to the shareholders according to their work, and also received dividends from the collective operation of the year. The farmers and herdsmen also received money.
The rule Yang Fan set for them was the principle of dividing the fat among five horses.
Twenty percent is given to Mr. Yang as tax. Mr. Yang’s system cannot be self-sustaining without tax. After all, he has done so much universal education, universal medical care, supporting the army, scientific research, etc. In the early days, it all relied on Yang Fan
Advance payment, but sooner or later you have to rely on your own hematopoietic ability.
Twenty percent is given to the local government as construction tax, which is used for local government operations, various project construction and public utility expenditures.
Since the city of Duolun is in its infancy, money will be spent everywhere, whether it is building city walls, docks, roads and bridges, or even reclaiming land, establishing public health and warehousing systems.
Now 20% of Yang Fan's tax revenue and 20% of local local taxes, a total of 40% are used for local construction.
Only when the local development matures in the future, Yang Fan will actually withdraw the 20% of tax revenue from the local area.
The remaining 60 percent is reserved for businesses and individuals.
Twenty percent is retained within the company as a capital reserve fund to expand production and corporate liquidity. This part is a collectively owned asset.
After all, we have to buy seeds, fertilizers, and replenish and repair damaged production tools every year. It is impossible to do it without money.
Twenty percent is used as remuneration for corporate employees. This part is distributed according to the principle of more work, more gain. 25 farmers who work in the community must be paid.
The last 20% is used as shareholder dividends. This part is based on family units. A family is regarded as one shareholder.
This year Xingfu She planted a total of 2,500 acres of sorghum. A total of 2 million kilograms of grain were harvested. The government purchase price was one penny and two kilograms, and straw was one penny per acre.
A total of one million yuan was obtained from selling grain, which is one thousand guan. It is roughly equivalent to one thousand taels of silver. From selling straw, one could get 250 taels of silver.
Because our community has livestock to raise, such as cattle, horses, donkeys, sheep, etc., we only sold 200 taels of straw. The rest was used for the livestock to eat in the winter.
In other words, according to the 20% dividend, 240 taels of silver are divided among 25 families. One family probably has less than 10 taels of silver. This is a huge sum of money.
No one expected that they would make money in the first year and earn nearly ten taels of silver.
Sibeigou's family of eight are all laborers, and they still have wages for this harvest. Because they work a lot, they earn more than other families. The wages totaled twelve taels, three cents, and five cents.
This income makes the whole family happy from ear to ear.
Originally, they planned to keep part of the sorghum as rations, but after some research, Old Uncle Zhong and others found that eating sorghum was not cost-effective.
Sorghum is used to make wine. It is considered a cash crop and the price is relatively good. It is a bit wasteful to eat it.
Why not sell them all and use the money to buy corn to eat, which costs three pounds per penny.
Whether it's corn noodles with pancakes or rice porridge with kidney beans, the whole family has been drinking it for a year. They are all used to it. The corn noodles are also very delicious, chewy and smooth.
Save one-third of your money and you can buy soybeans to make miso and tofu, as well as vegetables for the winter.
So they sold all the grain.
When selling grain, they didn't get any silver or copper coins, but only a bunch of banknotes. This made many people panic, fearing that their year's harvest would be expropriated without compensation.
But they soon discovered that silver and copper coins were of no use here. The stores did not accept these items, they only accepted banknotes.
Those who hid silver and copper coins had to go to the bank to exchange them before they could use the banknotes to buy things in shops and markets.
Because each community sells its harvest to the government and only retains a small amount for its own use. Therefore, large-scale purchases must be made in stores and markets run by the government. Small-scale household purchases can be purchased at flea markets and roadside stalls.
But soon everyone discovered that it was not as convenient to use silver and copper coins as banknotes, so roadside stalls and flea markets only accepted banknotes.
Banknotes earn better interest when deposited in banks, while the interest on silver and copper coins is less than half. After calculating the balance, people are even less willing to hold silver.
When farmers make money, they must first repay this year's loan repayments. These loans are repaid in equal installments of principal and interest over ten to fifteen years.
The remaining money can be spent freely by each family.
In the government-run stores, there is a dazzling array of products. From needles and threads to large cattle, horses and vehicles, daily necessities and production tools are all on sale.
During this period, the most popular items purchased by people were cast-iron stoves. Although the newly built adobe houses this year all have masonry pots, fire walls, and earthen stoves.
But as long as you have a fire for cooking, it is still very cold in winter. Winter on the grassland can reach minus 20 degrees Celsius, which is similar to that in the Northeast.
This is where a cast iron stove comes in handy.
Because briquettes are very cheap and resistant to burning, you can connect the cast iron stove to the fire wall and fire kang. In this way, the house can be kept warm all day long.
An iron kettle is placed on the stove lid so that the house is humid in winter and hot water can be supplied around the clock.
Duolun Coal has now opened its doors, with four branches and more than 20 coal stations throughout the city.
There is also a donkey cart transport team that delivers goods to your home and is responsible for loading and unloading.
We operate various sizes of cast iron stoves, iron stove barrels, iron kettles, fire tongs, honeycomb briquette makers, etc.
The coal station sells both loose coal and ready-made briquettes. You can make your own briquettes or buy ready-made ones.
Everyone in the city is ready to take a good rest and have a comfortable winter.
Now the yield in the fields is so high and the income is good. In the winter, I can't work for half a year. My wife and children heat up on the bed every day. This kind of life is really comfortable.
Except that one strong man from each household had to participate in irregular military training, there was basically nothing going on.
I heard that the public bathhouses and theaters run by the government are also about to open. People are looking forward to a winter of enjoyment.
In order to prevent things from happening during the past six months and people being too idle to cause trouble, Yang Fan bought many theater troupes from various places and sent them to Duolun to set up a theater to enrich cultural life.
The children began to play wildly. In this era, the children of the poor had already become heads of family and started working with the adults at the age of eight or nine. They did not have much time to play in their childhood.
However, Si Xiaosong did not sleep in like other children and went out to play wildly. As soon as it got light, the cow got up, put on his beloved little basket, picked up the long bamboo clip, and went out to pick up manure.
Si Xiaosong resented farming deeply because it was too bitter. He didn't like farming. In order to get rid of the fate of being a farmer, he racked his brains to find opportunities to make money.
Finally he found one, what is in short supply now, fertilizer!
So he got up early to pick up livestock manure on the road and carried it home to collect manure. His family saw him getting up early every day to pick up manure and did not interfere with him. After all, this was better than eating and having fun.
He planned in his mind that after a few days, when no one at home would pay attention to him, he would sneak Xiaobai over the barbed wire fence and dig vole holes.