New agricultural methods, water conservancy construction, promotion of improved seeds and soil pesticides, and proportional fertilizers have been promoted by Tiandihui, which has doubled the crop yield per mu. Farming has become a profitable thing for many farmers.
Rather than just barely making ends meet, all families with a little more land are expanding their operations, and many fields that had been abandoned due to low yields and unprofitability have been restored to cultivation.
The result is that labor has become expensive. Lingao is not a place with abundant labor in the first place. In the past, it was simply low agricultural output and low farmers' production enthusiasm that covered up this problem. Now, the demand for labor has greatly increased, but rural areas are idle.
However, a large number of laborers were absorbed into becoming industrial workers, joining the army and navy, and entering schools, which immediately exposed the problem of labor shortage.
The direct response to the shortage of labor is that the price of hired labor has skyrocketed. This is heartbreaking for the landlords and rich peasants who have become accustomed to giving people a full meal and a small amount of money to work for a day - people are innately pursuing profits.
"The wife of the house must be forcing everyone to crow like chickens every day, right?" The wife of the house is Fu Yijin's mother, so Fu Fu still retains a bit of politeness, but the children in the family always hate the wife of the house.
I'm afraid, even my biological children are no exception.
Fu Xi laughed a few times: "Of course, but now the food is good, and the wife of the house is not as stingy as before. Otherwise, everyone would be clamoring to quit their citizenship."
After the labor price rises, there are job opportunities everywhere. Including Bairencheng, where workers are recruited every day. In the past, if you left the main family, you might lose your source of livelihood, or even risk starving to death. No longer exists. Which family head continues to exploit
As for the slaves, they can just use their feet to fuck them and then run away to work for the Australians. The loss of a labor force in vain does not count. Even if they go to recover, they will only get back a small amount of money.
It is completely impossible to buy another slave with this kind of money now. There are many options for the poor. Whether they work for the Australians, serve as soldiers or go to school, it is more than enough to make a living, not to mention the current Australian population.
The trade was extremely strictly controlled, and slave owners were required to pay a heavy tax.
Fu Yijin smiled awkwardly and said nothing. After Fu Fu asked about how the village seemed to have grown, he learned that Meiyang Village had indeed expanded much more than before. The immigrants assigned to Meiyang Village were notified by the People's Committee for Civil Affairs and the Tiandihui
With the help of Wen Desi, a new residential area was built on the wasteland on the other side of the river outside Meiyang Village according to several building plans of the standard village made by Wen Desi. In this way, the household registration of the entire Meiyang Village was counted.
It expanded to a large village with more than 150 households and a population of nearly 1,000 people.
"There are more outsiders, and the village is no longer quiet." Fu Yijin frowned and complained, "Although dad is the village chief, the outsiders don't take him seriously. Not long ago, they fought over the water release.
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After the construction of farmland water conservancy is completed, farmers no longer rely on the weather. However, when there is a drought, which piece of land should be drained first and how much water should be drained becomes the focus of the struggle among farmers.
"Why?" Fu Fu found it strange. Generally speaking, immigrants are mostly bullied. When they held a meeting before returning home this time, the officers from the Political Department also specially promoted the spirit of "uniting immigrants and helping immigrants".
Fu Yijin didn't want to talk much. She felt that women shouldn't interfere in this matter. Besides, she didn't think it was easy for her to explain things clearly. She was so ugly.
Fu Xineng, who is still studying, said: "How can immigrants be bullied? Now half of them are immigrants and half are villagers. Moreover, the land is divided uniformly among the immigrants, and they receive grain farming tools and seeds. The rich and poor are equally divided. We have arrived in a strange place again, and everyone is
They are all at odds with each other. Who is willing to stand out among the poor in our village, the rich and the rich, and the rich who are bullied by immigrants? The poor in the village only see it as a joke."
"Is that so?" Fu Fu thought this matter was quite new, "Doesn't this mean immigrants are bullying the villagers?"
"The outsiders just have no conscience." Fu Yijin complained, "The land originally belonged to our village, but now we have given them so much, as well as the food for the outsiders in the first year after they came here, and the labor to build the houses, all belong to our village.
Well, they got land, settled down, and all of a sudden they were shaking." Fu Yijin probably felt that the villagers suffered too much in this matter, so he couldn't help but ramble on. She was uneducated, and her speech was not coherent.
He would talk about one thing and another, which made Fu Fu confused. All in all, the immigrants were unreasonable and heartless.
"You can't say that." Fu Xi's own status is more aloof, and his feelings for Meiyang Village are not that deep. "The land owned by the outsiders is wasteland that has not been cultivated in the village for many years. Everyone helps to open up wasteland and build houses.
But the chiefs also gave money, and it was not for nothing. Besides, the rations for the first year and so on were fines for concealing the acres of land - it was not a good deed. It was impossible to say who owed it to whom. But then again, immigration
It is true that households feel that they have too many people and are dissatisfied with the management of the village: they say they want to be fair, but in reality they have to take precedence - that's how the water release incident happened last time."
"In this way, everyone will no longer become enemies?"
"That's not the case. After the last fight over the release of water, the resident policeman and the owner of the house went to drink tea and talk to the two leaders, and everyone finally made peace. Anyway, there was no life-threatening lawsuit, and they kept looking up all day long.
You see, you can't prepare for a fight every day. But right now, no one is paying attention to anyone, Han River Chujie. If you lose a duck and run to the other side, consider yourself unlucky."
Fu Fu was instilled with the idea of "unity" in the army, and he couldn't help but blurt out: "This is not good."
"Of course it's not good. It's hard for me to be the village chief - except for the official duties arranged by the higher ups, people won't obey you at all. Chief Wan came to teach new farming methods, and they were both customers of the Tiandihui, but both parties refused to come together. They had to
It took two lessons to finish. Everything in the village is difficult to handle, and both sides must be at odds with each other. The head of the house, the village chief, is half the village chief." Fu Xi said as she pulled some wild flowers from the roadside and knitted them casually.
Hua Huan said, "I think the master of the house will probably complain to Chief Wan again tonight."
"The chief doesn't care?"
"Chief Wan said that he is from the Tiandihui and doesn't care about this matter." Fu Yijin continued to complain, "I want dad to report it to his superiors. Dad doesn't dare to go -"
"It's not because he's afraid that the chief will dislike him and he can't do things and can't be the village chief." Fu Xi no longer has any respect or fear for the head of the family. "Anyway, no big trouble has happened, so he's just going to stay here."
The three of them walked and joked as they headed towards the village. The part where the original residents lived is now called East Village. The layout has not changed much, and most of the houses are still the same. However, the river at the entrance of the village has become much clearer - the river was washed away by the fertilizer accumulation activities.
It was cleaned, and the originally shaky wooden bridge was rebuilt and became wide and strong enough.
A new public toilet was built at the entrance of the village, and according to Fu Xi, there is also one at the other end of the village. The public toilet itself is nothing special, except that the cesspool is made of bricks and plastered with cement - everyone says that Australians live a luxurious life.
It is said that this is to create "biogas". As for what this biogas is and what it is used for, no one knows yet.
"It is said that this is called unified accumulation of fat." Fu Xi said, "This way the home will be much healthier."
Compared with the newly built fortress-style houses in the West Village, the houses in the East Village look old and dilapidated. Although the new immigrants in the West Village live in strange houses that the people here have never seen before, Fu Fu knows that although the area occupied by each household is
It's not big, but it has all the facilities, and it's an all-brick house. It doesn't leak in the summer and doesn't let in the wind in the winter. It's very comfortable to live in. Just the brick house makes almost all the aborigines in the East Village.
It’s all incomparable - you must know that in the past, only a handful of households in Meiyang Village lived in brick houses. The rest of the houses were all made of bamboo strips with yellow mud on the walls and a layer of white ash on them. It was considered elegant, but the roofs were not
It's all straw.
No wonder immigrants and aborigines suddenly had conflicts. Fu Fu thought, the gap was too big. He himself couldn't understand why the leaders were so kind to the immigrants and built them free houses that only landlords could live in in the past.
The house of Fu Buer's family had just been renovated. After the end of the land tenure last year, Tiandihui, out of consideration of setting a pacesetter, let him share most of the land he had not received from Fu Yousan's family on a sharecropping basis. Fu Buer continued to improve the land.
He gained a lot from the two projects of sparse planting of rice and rice and built up confidence, so he was willing to invest and listen to the guidance of agricultural technicians. This year he got a huge harvest - just sold the seeds to Tiandi Hui to improve the soil.
Tens of thousands of pounds of broad beans were sold.
With money in hand and becoming the village chief, Fu Buer immediately started renovating the house according to the traditional thinking of Chinese farmers. This matter immediately attracted the attention of Ye Yuming and Wu Nanhai. In order to turn Fu Buer into a "new
A pacesetter for "New Agricultural Rural Areas", and at the same time setting a vivid example for farmers to develop a "courtyard economy" and engage in side businesses. Fu Buer was encouraged by Wan Lihui to develop an "Australian-style farmhouse". Tiandihui specializes in
Lingao Construction Company invited designers and workers to build this house for the Fu family based on the drawings of various "new rural" houses in the big library and the specific local conditions.
In addition to living in it, this house also takes care of side business, storage, and processing. The structure is reasonably designed and the space is fully utilized. In terms of practicality and habitability, it is more than three hundred years ahead of the best landlord's house in Lingao. It is the most popular.
What's extravagant is that there is a special toilet in this house - not the original cesspool.
Of course, Fu Buer paid a high price for this house - so much so that after the house was built, he was penniless and had to apply for a loan from the Tiandi Society to start production activities. (To be continued. If you
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