During this period, Beikai established a complete set of rules and regulations. Local miners recruited from Beiqi were issued work licenses according to the number of coal dug, and cart pushers were issued licenses according to the number of trolleys. They were also issued with enough wages to not go hungry during injuries or illness.
After work every day, the workers go to the Delong agency of the cooperative to get their work points and exchange them for circulation coupons. The workers use the circulation coupons to buy food, alcohol, clothing and other commodities sold by the cooperative. In addition to wine
, cigarettes and candies are the most popular commodities. The tools used by the miners also need to be purchased, but now they are owed to them on credit. Based on the price of the tools, Bekai deducts 10% of the miners' daily wages to offset the cost of the tools until
Until all payments are made.
If it were replaced by a more vicious and greedy capitalist, using "loans to buy tools" could use simple economic methods, leaving miners heavily in debt and never being able to pay back the price of the tools - tools are subject to wear and tear after all. But
The elders have always believed that exploitation must be moderate. In the long run, moderate exploitation helps to extract the surplus value of workers for a long time instead of treating workers as disposable consumables. Under the Lingao system, labor force is precious.
In terms of remuneration, Bekai followed the instructions and gave appropriate incentives - at least to make the people feel that working in the coal mines is slightly better than farming. The Acer base station needs to recruit enough local workers to work as miners, and reputation is very important.
Li Mei's design for mining area commerce is that workers can obtain all consumption without leaving the mining area - most local commerce in this time and space is just blank. Now there are more than 600 people gathered, and there are associations with a certain consumption capacity. If you don't do something,
It is a pity for business. Business first builds momentum for the circulation coupons and makes initial preparations for the next step of promoting the circulation coupons.
The circulation coupons issued to the workers were quickly used up in Hongji Town. The circulation coupons were issued at the beginning of the month, and most of them were withdrawn at the end of the month. Heavy manual labor required workers to eat a lot of food, and working in the fields and mines required a lot of clothing.
The consumption is also very large. However, the cooperative recycles the rags at a discount: the price is reduced based on the pound. The rags are cleaned and disinfected and sent back to Lingao Papermaking.
Singles without family members spend more money, and they have to go to small restaurants every now and then to eat and drink. Some people have learned to smoke - because some of the naturalized laborers who come from the upper class of labor are smokers.
, local workers in Beiqi also regarded this habit as "fashionable" and took up smoking.
At the beginning of the second month, dozens of local workers in Beiqi left. Although Beiqi was a little disappointed, he still instructed the cooperative to exchange the circulation certificates held by the departing workers into rice or copper coins and give them to the workers. As a result, he
Unexpectedly, after the workers returned to their hometowns, they quickly brought their families and fellow villagers out to work in the mines. When Bekai inspected the mines one time, he found that many local women wearing bamboo hats were also in the mines.
It really shocked him when he was carrying coal. Although he had seen women among the naturalized people in Lingao crushing stones in quarries, going to farmland, and even working on construction sites—women in Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian were the most famous.
He is famous for being able to do hard work, but this is the first time he has seen a woman carrying coal in the mine.
"This is such a waste." Bekai's eyes fell on the women carrying coal. Because carrying coal wears out clothes a lot, almost all the miners are in rags - and the women are no exception. Although they look dark-looking
Although she was short in stature, the skin exposed under the tattered clothes still made Bei Kai have some reveries. Especially some of the women's figures were quite petite and exquisite, with well-shaped bumps.
With his authority here - his power is the same as that of Tang Menglong in Jiazi Coal Mine. He has the power of life and death over everyone at Hongji Station. It's nothing if he really wants to play with a few local women. But Beikai
I still control my impulse to act recklessly. However, it is such a waste of resources to just let women dig and carry coal!
Bekai sent electricity to the Ministry of Colonial Trade and asked them to send agricultural technicians and rice seeds. Although the soil here is not good, the Baitang River is close at hand, so it is convenient to divert water to grow rice.
"It happens that everything the miners pull out is put to use. Our slogan is: no waste!" Bekai said to Dugu, an inspector of the Tiandihui of the Ministry of Agriculture who came to inspect, to propose.
When Dugu proposed marriage, he pulled the spring and autumn uniform of the East German People's Army on his shirt and hummed a few times. Although he had stayed in Nongkou for a long time, he was still not very interested in agricultural matters. Dugu proposed and stayed in Nonggkou.
A few months later, they were officially appointed as "inspectors" by the Organization Department. Both Wu Nanhai and Ye Yuming knew that marriage proposals were not suitable for agriculture, so they might as well go around and see the farmland infrastructure. Nowadays, most of the agricultural technicians are returnees.
They are from a civilized background, and there is an elder who often visits them to supervise and encourage them so that they can work harder.
This time they sent rice seeds and agricultural technicians, and Dugu Proposal came to Hongji with the ship. There were some legends about Vietnamese girls among the elders, and Dugu Proposal was also very curious about it.
But he was greatly disappointed by the Vietnamese girl in front of him who was selected to grow rice and engage in agriculture. The quality of this girl was really average. To be honest, she was not as good as a naturalized citizen. Her complexion was dark and her figure was thin. It was really disappointing.
Not interested.
"The difference is too big." Dugu proposed and secretly regretted that he asked to go to Hongji for a business trip. The Vietnamese girl in the plan obviously didn't look like this.
"It's okay. Local farmers from Beiqi are coming constantly. There are always some good ones. I'll keep them for you..." Bekai said.
Dugu proposed and sighed: "Forget it, let the Senate know about this kind of thing, why don't everyone pounce on them and bite them... Besides, hygiene issues - I heard that the antibiotic stock is running out."
In addition to "escorting" rice seeds, farm tools and agricultural technicians when Dugu proposed to Hongji, he also had the task of writing a fishery report - although the Ministry of Agriculture failed to fully regain the fishery rights, the Navy regarded fishery as a maritime force.
On the grounds of supplementation, they refused to hand over their fishing rights. After negotiations between the two parties, an agreement was finally reached: the navy will continue to control the original fishing fleet under the navy, perform fishery supervision and collect the "fishing May Day tax". The Ministry of Agriculture said
Responsible for organizing indigenous fishermen to establish fishery combinations.
After determining the scope of authority of both parties, Wu Nanhai, Li Di of the Navy and others held a joint meeting on fishery work and had in-depth discussions on how to implement the fishery management agreement between the Navy and the Ministry of Agriculture. Both parties agreed on the potential of levying seafood taxes.
It's quite big, but the production scale of the indigenous fishermen here is too small.
According to figures from the Navy, the fishery tax collected by the Ministry of Maritime Power from 1630 was 4,500 quintals, totaling 500 tons. The total catch of fishermen who paid taxes and fished in the waters near Lingao throughout the year would not exceed 2,500 tons -
―Most of them were sold to the Lingao regime. During the peak period of Lingao’s traditional fishing industry from 1934 to 1936 in the old time and space, the total annual fishing catch in Lingao was as much as 20,000 tons. Obviously, even without modern fishing boats and fishing gear
, using traditional fishery production methods, the production potential in Lingao is still great.
By extension, to the entire Qiongzhou Strait, the waters around Hainan Island and even the Beibu Gulf, the fishery potential that can be tapped is astonishingly huge. Compared with the aquaculture industry, which is based on agriculture, the marine fishing industry is the only one that can provide food quickly, cheaply and in large quantities.
Sources of protein and fat. The population under the control of the Lingao regime continues to increase, and the demand for the supply of protein and fat is increasing.
To expand production, one is to expand production scale, in short, to increase fishing boats and fishing gear; the other is to fish in the open sea. The Beibu Gulf area not far from Lingao is a natural large fishing ground. In 1956, Lingao fishing boats formed a fleet to the north
In Bay fishing, the total catch in one fishing season reaches 32,000 tons. The third is to adopt new fishing gear and fishing technology, improve net gear, increase the fishing depth by a few meters, and the increase in production will be considerable.
The director of the Planning Institute, Wu De, who was a fisherman, saw opportunities in these numbers. He proposed to carry out "fishery cooperative" activities for indigenous fishermen.
Integrating the indigenous fishermen in the Lingao ruling area under one banner, promoting new fishing boats and fishing gear, promoting multi-vessel cooperative fishing, and then carrying out offshore fishing operations are benefits to people's livelihood. The indirect benefit is that the navy can be integrated
Controlling fishing boats that were originally scattered at sea is equivalent to obtaining a maritime reserve force. Fishing boats can not only serve as reconnaissance, transportation, and patrol, but can also serve as warships when necessary.
Wu De believes that fishermen have a tradition of jointly buying boats and fishing, and they have a stronger sense of business management than farmers. He himself was born in a fishing village and has a good understanding of the thinking mode of fishermen. Chuanchuan Group takes the lead in fishing
It is possible for cooperatives to carry out joint-stock operations. It is likely to be smoother than the agricultural promotion carried out by Tiandihui.
The fishery combination became another project of Tiandihui. However, this project did not advance as smoothly as expected. Fishermen are an independent and closed group in this time and space, with completely different lifestyles and codes of conduct, forcing them to
It is easy to pay taxes to fish - the regulations are clear at a glance, but it is not easy to persuade them to join an organization and engage in joint stock cooperation. Therefore, the advancement of the entire fishery combination was difficult. At first, only the fishermen near Bopu and Majiao were integrated. In 1630
The second anti-encirclement and suppression battle took place, and the work of the fishery group temporarily came to a standstill. It was not restarted until this fishery work conference.
With the east wind of the second great victory in the counter-encirclement and suppression campaign, and the demonstration effect of modern fishing gear of the navy's fishing team directly under the navy, the work of promoting the fishery cooperatives went much more smoothly. By the end of 1630, the fishery cooperatives under the supervision of the Tiandihui had taken control
More than 80% of Lingao's fishermen have raised funds to purchase several new and larger fishing boats.