Everyone was attracted by his few words. Yun Suji paused and said in a long tone:
"If you offend the secretary, you won't be able to live. If you offend the captain, he will do the heavy work. If you offend the accountant, he will poke you with a pen. If you offend the custodian, you will use a scale. If you offend the man who digs up excrement, three scoops will be counted as two scoops!"
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone burst out laughing. These farmers didn't know what "secretary" or "captain" was, but they could get a taste of it. Yun Suji knew: There is nothing new under the sun.
Now, the distance between everyone was getting closer. Yun Suji asked everyone about the production situation and whether the food was enough to eat. Everyone rushed to talk:
"There is enough food to eat, and the land here is more than ten times better than our hometown!" Someone said, "The ground can grow things all year round. No matter how poor people are, they can still eat pumpkins."
"Thanks to the leaders for bringing us to this blessed land! We have land to plant crops, we have enough to eat, and we don't freeze in the winter."
"Even though I don't know how to plant paddy fields, the agricultural technicians from Tiandihui are very few, and they don't even come to the fields of our small farmers! They only go to the fields of a few big grain farmers!"
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"There's too much labor. Growing rice is inherently more demanding than growing dry land. We've been busy for a year, and we don't let anyone take a break until winter!"
Yun Suji had heard the villagers talk about the burden of labor more than once, and had seen a lot with his own eyes, so he asked: "You all said there is too much labor, what kind of labor is it?"
"We have everything," Lao Yang said, "dam construction, canal digging, land preparation, road paving... everything is available. Even the materials used by the brick and tile factory are asked to unload at the dock! There is no sand to build a house, so we are called
Let's go dig it. When it's discharged on the Nandu River, it's up to us to transport it."
"It's a good thing to build reservoirs and canals." Yun Suji was puzzled, "It's all turned into irrigated land. What's wrong with it? It's bitter first and then sweet."
"Chief, you are right, but the reservoirs and canals built in the county in recent years have nothing to do with our village, and the water cannot flow into our fields. It will be painful for you and sweet for others! The water in our village is irrigated
The land was built by the village itself, who worked on it and built the canals."
"In the beginning, it was just that in the refugee camp. We couldn't just eat the chief's food for free. But now that everyone has a family business, how can we cultivate the land with so much labor?"
"It's not fair to provide labor service. Last time, we provided labor service to the army to transport grain and grass. The grain farmers, big and small, who had cars and livestock did not have to do labor service, so they asked us to use small carts to push it!"
"Some households have a lot of laborers, so I will send one; some households only have one laborer, so I will send you!"
"Even if you don't do any hard work, you still have a lot of assignments. Last month, we were assigned to make military shoes. Well, no matter whether you have a woman in your family or not, we will distribute them on a per capita basis, two pairs for each person! Who can I ask for as a bachelor?" a young man complained.
road.
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Yun Suji smoked a cigarette and listened to the chatter in his ears. Things in the countryside are really not that complicated! Of course, he is aware of the various actions of village cadres at the grassroots level, including all kinds of evil things. Just say that the villagers in front of him
A relatively concentrated opinion: It is unfair to send laborers. This is enough to prove that the village cadre has financial problems. Not to mention that he has seen with his own eyes that his style is rough and he beats and scolds the villagers. According to the theory of the Law Society: this is all illegal.
However, the village affairs he saw along the way: roads, houses, sanitation, and water canals were all organized by the villagers. Reforms such as banning foot binding and changing customs were also very resolute. In this regard, the model village is also
Well-deserved. Not to mention the 17th century, even in the Chinese countryside in the 21st century, Village Chief Fan is also a capable and responsible grassroots cadre.
He feels that the biggest problem is the "labor labor" reported by the villagers. Now it seems that it has become common practice to require villagers to labor for free, and villagers are asked to labor for everything. If it is taken for granted to carry out farmland water conservancy in winter, on weekdays, unloading, digging, etc.
The villagers have to be asked to do things like making sand, which makes the villagers' labor force too worthless. The arbitrary occupation of labor force also affects agricultural production.
He thought about it and asked, "How many grain farmers do you have here?"
Lao Yang said: "Not many. Just four or five."
During the resettlement of refugees, those who were resettled in standard villages on both sides of the Nandu River were allotted wasteland according to the standard of 30 standard acres per labor force. The Tiandi Association's mechanized farming team helped open up the wasteland. Some refugee families have a lot of labor force. Naturally,
Get a lot of land.
Although the Senate did not intend to cultivate a class of small farmers with extremely low risk resistance, the material level of the Lingao regime at that time was not enough to transform the refugees into agricultural workers on intensive farms, so they had to adopt this method of distributing refugees.
Local production of self-help methods.
Now it seems that this method is quite successful. Judging from the statistics and what I have seen along the way, most of the refugees in Standard Village have been able to feed themselves and serve the cause of the Senate. Not to mention the remaining agricultural products they provided
.The annual amount of labor alone is a huge wealth.
But Yun Suji is well aware of the economic vulnerability of small farmers. The good life of small farmers now is based on several factors: the Senate's squeeze on agriculture is relatively light; the conflict between people and land in Hainan is not acute, and floods and droughts are less severe than on the mainland.
It would take much less than that, coupled with the promotion of a series of agricultural technologies by Tiandihui, to achieve such a well-off situation.
In the long run, small self-cultivators who work alone cannot last long. Yun Suji is eager to know the real situation of the "grain households" that have begun to appear among the immigrants. He knows that there are new large farming households in every village--
The villagers call them grain households. How these grain households made their fortunes and what their specific production and management conditions are, there is still no clear investigation report.
He was about to ask the grain farmers about their situation when he suddenly saw Village Chief Fan running over along the field ridge.
The village accountant had organized the leaders of each group to come to the village office to meet with the leader, but they could not be found anywhere. When they found Lao Kong's house, his mother-in-law said she had gone to the fields with Lao Kong before she came over.
Although I knew that Chief Yun had taken a look at Lao Kong's property from a distance, he didn't see anyone idle.
He found it from the east end to the west end, then from the west end back to the east end. As soon as he came over, no one said anything.
He said to Yun Suji: "Chief, let's go back to the village hall."
Yun Suji said: "Okay, you go back, I want to talk to them."
Village Chief Fan said: "What can we talk about with these people? Let's go back to the office! The heads of each group are here, waiting for the leader to lecture."
Yun Suji saw that he looked down on everyone and wanted to touch him a few words, so he said half-softly and half-hardly: "It's my job to talk to them. You go first, I'll be back in a moment."
Seeing that his words were wrong again, Village Chief Fan didn't dare to scream, but he wanted to hear what they were talking about, so he didn't want to go away and just stood outside the circle. When everyone saw that he didn't leave, no one spoke.
It seems that all the eighteen Arhat statues in the temple have become mute.
When Yun Suji saw that he didn't go away, no one dared to speak. He guessed that everyone was afraid of being oppressed by him and wanted to drive him away, so he asked him:
"Who are you waiting for?"
He chirped, "I won't wait for anyone." Then he slipped away.
Yun Suji originally wanted to kill his prestige, but when he thought of doing so, it would undermine the work at the grassroots level. He didn't say anything more. When it came to the situation of the grain farmers, everyone said that these were "capable people": maybe because
There was a lot of labor in the family, and the head of the family could run a business or sell local products to make a fortune. With the extra money, he hired the Tiandi Hui's mechanized farming team to open up new wasteland, and they all expanded their own land. The household with the largest number already had
Four hundred standard acres of land.
"With so much land, who are they?"
"Tie up the animals and buy machines. A set of machines can support several people, and if the number of people is short, just hire workers." Lao Yang said, "There are always people who are not doing well."
"Who will do the labor?" Yun Suji felt strange. "If the hired workers are assigned to labor, will the employer not lose money? The crops will not wait for anyone."
"If you become a hired worker, you don't have to do hard labor." Lao Yang smiled meaningfully. Everyone around him laughed, and a few young men also joked: "Next year I will work as a hired labor instead of having to do hard labor."
The villagers' words made Yun Suji more and more convinced that the new landowners in Borang Village had an interest relationship with the village chief.
Yun Suji returned to the village office with the guards and saw Village Chief Fan and about a dozen "group leaders" waiting in the yard. According to the "Standard Village Organization Method" of the Senate, every ten households in the village were assigned an A, and one
"Group leader" is similar to the chief of ground protection under the protection system.
Seeing the leader coming, Village Chief Fan quickly led his team leaders to bow to the leader. Yun Suji waved his hand and said, "You're welcome. I came to the countryside this time to see the situation and listen to everyone's opinions.
"After that, he asked Village Chief Fan to bring some benches and let everyone sit down in the yard. Everyone said, "I don't dare." They reluctantly sat down on the benches, and Yun Suji also pulled up a bench.
sit.
Seeing that everyone was still a little reserved, he smiled and said: "Don't be restrained, everyone. I'm not here for a private inspection by Mr. Qingtian, nor am I here to 'guide' the work. I'm here because I want to hear what everyone has to say."
Thoughts and opinions. Say whatever you have. Don’t have any ideas.”
Even though he said this, the leaders of the group still hesitated and did not dare to speak. Those who spoke, they only said something like "I have a better life in Hainan because of the blessing of the Senate" and "The Senate is so kind and benevolent."
Yun Suji saw that several people were looking at Fan Twelve, apparently waiting for him to make up his mind. He said, "Old Fan, you say it first!"
Fan Twelve had something in his mind. He didn't know what Kong Xiaode had said to Chief Yun, and what the villagers on the field had said to the chief just now. He was secretly suspicious when he suddenly heard Yun Suji call his name, and he couldn't help but be startled.
, quickly stood up and said: "I, I didn't do anything!" After saying this, he realized that he had let slip, and his face suddenly turned red.
Yun Suji was secretly amused and said sternly: "You know what you have done! You can first tell me what problems there are in the work in the village now." (.)