Five hundred captive laborers from the Battle of Chengmai, with the cooperation of temporarily requisitioned civilian laborers, urgently built a trestle for unloading heavy equipment on the dedicated wharf of Jiazi Coal Mine in Haikou Port. The advance battalion of the First Marine Mobile Wing
The logistics equipment and maintenance equipment carried were unloaded from the ship.
The First Mobile Regiment is located outside Qiongshan County. Due to the large amount of equipment and the need for a large amount of coal, the entire Regiment's camp adopts a field camp method. All daily necessities are unloaded from the ship, and even the equipment is used.
The coal is all high-quality Hongji thermal coal specially transported from Lingao.
The first batch of agricultural technicians trained by Tiandihui held the wooden stakes and ropes that marked the plots. They marked the plots on the land where the floods had receded according to the surveyor's instructions, delineating the first piece of land directly under the jurisdiction of the Agricultural Committee.
farm.
In addition to farms under direct jurisdiction, similar work is also carried out in farmland contracted by Tiandihui. After measuring and marking the plots, agricultural machinery officially moves in to clean the fields and carry out farmland infrastructure. The land where the floods have receded has left behind
There was a layer of river sand and debris, and it took a lot of time and labor to just clean up the fields. The tractors of the First Mobile Wing were emitting black smoke, spraying white gas, and making a clanging sound of metal hitting each other in the wet fields.
Moving slowly, at this time, a large number of dumbfounded indigenous people would gather at the edge of the fields: from rich families wearing silk ribbons to disaster victims with scanty clothing.
Chang Shide occupied part of the original Qiongzhou Ordnance Bureau's house in Qiongshan County. He hung a plaque of Tiandihui Qiongshan Branch at the yamen gate - of course this is also the seat of the undisclosed Qiongshan County Agricultural Bureau.
Subsequently, under his direct command, Tiandihui began to launch a comprehensive propaganda offensive in Qiongshan.
Different from the last recruitment campaign, the main purpose of this campaign is to lure local people, whether they are farmers or landlords, to participate in Tiandihui's "rural cooperative" system.
The rural cooperative system is not a cooperative system established in the 1950s. Chang Shide believes that based on the current agricultural level, it is quite difficult to adopt high-level mutual aid and cooperation. The loose nature of farmers is also a problem for a cooperative system that lacks binding force.
It is not out of time. Therefore, the Rural Cooperative Medical System he established in Leizhou is similar to the Japanese-style Rural Cooperative Cooperative: farmers voluntarily participate, and participating farmers must receive technical guidance from the Rural Cooperative Cooperative, and the Rural Cooperative Cooperative provides seeds, compound fertilizers, and pest and disease control when necessary.
At the same time, the Rural Cooperative Cooperative will also provide agricultural machinery services: including mechanized harvesting, pumping irrigation and farmland drainage. Agricultural products are sold uniformly by the Rural Cooperative Cooperative.
All these services and agricultural inputs are provided for a fee, but settlement can be delayed until after the agricultural products are harvested - of course, a certain amount of interest must be calculated. During the agricultural contract, Delong also provides small amounts of credit, which farmers can use
Land or future harvests serve as collateral.
Since farmers have almost no cash in their hands, they inevitably resort to various small loans in production. This is also the reason why rural usury has been very prosperous in the past. Now this credit has been changed to rural cooperative cooperatives to provide, using credit
The first purpose is to control the exploitation of farmers, and the second purpose is to crack down on rural usury, clean up the rural economic environment, and prepare for Delong's large-scale entry into the countryside.
Tiandihui's rural cooperative medical system does not absorb landless peasants - pure tenants or farm laborers are not within the scope of rural cooperative medical care. The objects of rural cooperative medical care are self-cultivators and small and medium-sized landowners.
In addition, the owners of the agricultural land manage the land themselves, and the Agricultural Association does not intervene - it only provides "guidance" and "assistance". Chang Shide believes that this is the most ideal way to treat small farmers at this stage.
Under this system, although farmers have received great benefits, their ability to resist disasters has not been qualitatively changed. They are still in a very fragile position. On the surface, they have escaped the greedy and plundering rural loan sharking system.
However, they are actually trapped in the more complex and pervasive rural cooperative loan network. If the management is not good at all, they will fall into the predicament of being unable to repay the credit. According to Chang Shide’s experience in Leizhou, under this system, homesteaders
A state of polarization will emerge more quickly: some people with flexible minds, high agricultural standards, large amounts of land and good management will use the various supports provided by the Heaven and Earth Society to stand out in agricultural production and gradually rise, while the other group of people will rise in agricultural production.
They gradually fell into trouble due to the endless "credits" and eventually lost their land - of course, once they had to pay back the land to Tiandihui, Tiandihui would benevolent and arrange for the whole family to work as agricultural workers or industrial workers in direct-operated farms.
Although the Spartacist Regiment carried out a series of criticisms on the so-called "Leizhou Experience" and the "rural cooperative system" in its own magazine "Red Flag", it was clearly stated in "Four Comments on the Leizhou Experience" that the so-called "Leizhou Experience"
It was a poisonous weed to support new landlords and engage in "new rich peasantism". However, this experience was completely consistent with the agricultural policy of the Senate, so it was strongly encouraged by the Executive Committee and became an important promotion model.
Under Chang Shide's arrangement, the propaganda department erected large billboards outside the three city gates of Qiongshan County, with pictures and texts to promote "rural cooperative medical care is good" to the people of Qiongshan County.
Because farmers are generally illiterate, most of the signboards are paintings, diagrams and printed photos. There is also a large display stand in front of the signboard. There are sand tables, various new farm tools, fertilizer samples, seeds and crops placed on the display stand.
specimen.
Ji Denggao led the lion dance team and the gong and drum team to perform with gongs and drums every hour to attract the audience. Next to the billboard, there were also large plates of perilla-wrapped vegetable rice balls as big as table tennis balls being cooked on the spot.
, everyone who came to listen to the propaganda was given a vegetable rice ball. Through this method, the display stand attracted a large number of people from all over the country. Many families kicked out their children early in the morning: "Go to the county gate to get the rice balls!"
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The temptation of rice balls has caused a large number of spectators to gather in front of the billboard every day, eating rice balls and watching Western scenes. Ji Denggao has long been experienced in such scenes. Everyone who wants to get rice balls must receive a bamboo before starting to listen to the propaganda.
After listening, the staff handed the bamboo stick to the staff. The staff gave a rice ball and stamped the person's arm with blue ink. This indigo ink can stay on the person's skin for several days -
This effectively avoids the disadvantage of someone taking turns taking turns to get the rice balls at the three gates.
In order to ensure that there are no other drawbacks, there are soldiers from the First Infantry Battalion on the periphery who are responsible for guarding, maintaining law and order, and arresting unorganized people who defraud rice balls in bulk or rob rice balls with violence.
Chang Shide knew that almost all the people who came to see the board came for the rice balls, but he didn't care about it. These rice balls didn't cost much. He just wanted to create a momentum and spread the news that the Tiandihui would launch the rural cooperative medical system.
Spread the word as soon as possible to the four towns - in this era where communication basically relies on shouting, there is no faster way of spreading than word of mouth. What's more, he still has some confidence in the propaganda methods mastered by the Propaganda Department.
On the billboard are large posters and photos of the "new look" that emerged after the implementation of the rural cooperative medical system. Needless to say, the posters are drawn like a fairyland. In the jargon, "all are renderings." In addition, there are a lot of
Photos - all selected are photos of "new rural model" of several communes directly under the Central Government, neat houses, straight roads, herds of pigs and sheep and "happy life scenes": new stoves, gas lamps and farmers'
Meals.
In addition to the pictures promoting "Join the Tiandihui and start a new life", there are also many icons of agricultural technology, such as raising fish and ducks in rice fields, mixed rice and mulberry farming methods, biogas pools, thin planting in rice fields... There are also veteran displays on the stands.
The model masters among us have carefully crafted model sand tables: there are panoramic "new countryside" and "courtyard economic three-dimensional model display", as well as "Australian-style comprehensive farm structure diagram" and "agricultural tools and machinery use model"...
The visitors had never seen such realistic pictures, let alone such exquisite and detailed models. They were all fascinated. When they saw the new farm tools and crops on display, many people showed strong interest.
Those thick corn cobs, strong ears of rice, plump grains...
In addition to those who have known about the "Australian Farming Method" for a long time, there are also many people who came here just to get a rice ball. After being "baptized" by the signboard, they couldn't help but be tempted and asked for work one after another.
The staff came to inquire about the specific practices of Tiandihui. The staff members answered every question, and every one of them used MLM energy to promote the various benefits of joining Tiandihui:
"The fields are flooded and there is no harvest. What should I do if I can't pay the taxes? It doesn't matter. Tiandi will have a loan. They can help you pay the taxes first and wait until the next year's collection to pay them back. The interest is easy - one cent a year, which is better than what you have here.
It's much cheaper to borrow money in the village.
"The grain harvest has failed. Our Tiandi Association provides replanting services. Anyone who joins the Tiandi Association will have seedlings provided. What? You have no money. It's okay. You owe it first and you will pay it back after harvesting!
"The fields have been flooded, it's okay! We have big iron oxen, we will help you prepare the land first. The price is easy to negotiate, so we'll take care of the debt first."
"The last seven days are our Tiandi Club's preferential weekly services. Anyone who signs a contract this week will receive a 50% discount on the service fee, and there will also be a free floor plowing service!"
"Is it expensive? It's not expensive! Otherwise, you can always introduce a few households to join our Tiandi Club. If you sign one, I will give you a 5% reduction in service fees. There is no cap. If you can bring in as many as you want, I will give you a 5% discount on the service fee."
No matter how much I give you, if you bring twenty of them, you’ll be free for the whole year!”
Under the eloquent staff, many homesteaders and small and medium-sized landowners who were in trouble after the disaster were moved. Starting from the third day of the promotional activity, the contract signing rate began to increase.