Chapter 160: The Perfect Imperial Village
Two-foot cloth is a good resource for farmers these days. At this time, the grain, cooking oil and vegetables in the Huangzhuang can be self-sufficient and do not follow the commercialization route.
Those who take the commercialization route are honeycomb coal, salt, vinegar, tea, wine, sugar, cloth, and production tools, but they can be purchased with loans.
The purchase price of wheat grain has been stable at 1 silver dollar per stone. With the guaranteed harvest of drought and flood, there was no such thing as locust plague. The average yield per mu of grain was one stone per mu. After paying the rent, a farmer could leave about 21 stone of grain every year. Huangzhuang farmers were formed with young men as the core. Each household had only one adult male labor force. When working every day, they could consume about two kilograms of flour a day. The amount of food consumed in a year was 3.6 stone of grain. For four, they usually kept 8 to 10 stones of grain. The commercial grain sold in a year could earn about 10 yuan.
The living expenses of each household in the countryside are about 5 yuan, and the remaining 5 yuan will be used to repay the loan. Plowing tools, seeds, oxen, mules, and horses are all purchased with interest-free loans. It is relatively easy to repay the money, and it takes less than two years.
Next, those royal villages will start to build tiled houses like the experimental villages. At that time, interest-free loan policies will be adopted, and construction will be built in batches by Royal Infrastructure Company to reduce costs. If a house is built, the infrastructure company will build it at a non-profit price, with a cost of about 30 yuan.
Anyway, after entering the imperial village, there is land and houses, you don’t have to go hungry and eat meat. You have to repay the loan every year, and you can’t afford to spend money on daily necessities.
Among them, cloth is a relatively large expenditure project for farmers. The reward of two-foot cloth obviously made a group of young and strong laborers suddenly excited. Two-foot cloth is equivalent to three cents of silver!
Originally, there was no wages for corvee labor, but now I suddenly had a little reward, so my enthusiasm for labor was naturally different. Everyone was trying harder to compete for labor imitation.
Obviously, this kind of reward cannot be too much. If it is too much, it is easy to cause hidden operations. But it cannot be left out. The supervisor must have some power in his hands! If you have the interests in the supervisor, you will naturally work harder. However, the selection will be subject to certain supervision, so as not to mess up below.
Under such a system, migrant workers are working hard and sweating everywhere on construction sites. Through corvee, Zhu Youxiao fully squeezed their labor value.
Now that the country is not rich and the population is large, the advantages of the demographic dividend must be fully utilized. If the people are given very good treatment and they don’t even have to work, they can eat, which is not for the people’s good, but rather harm them.
After all, there are only so many resources in this era, and there is not enough production without hard work. If everyone is a little lazy, then people's livelihood will not be developed.
In ancient times, a commander was called Mu Shou, which means herdsmen.
Ordinary people are not rich, lazy, unplanned, cultural, and vision are all main factors. If the people live too well, they will generally lose motivation and will not like to do things. For some people who have a difficult life, they usually want to work hard but have no place to work hard, and social problems arise. In the future, Americans live a good life, but the society becomes rigid and the national strength is quickly chased by China.
The imperial village model solves this problem very well. The land and other production tools are handed over to farmers for production, so that they have something to do and can provide output for society. Let them eat enough and eat meat. In this era when resources are not rich, there will naturally be a price. Since you want to enjoy this kind of welfare, you must pay more labor. These labors have their own production tasks and will be organized to build various things. There are only about two months of leisure in the year, and they are mainly concentrated in winter.
In this way, the value of labor is fully extracted and the material needs of farmers are also met. It can be said to be a win-win production organization activity.
This kind of labor force exploitation naturally requires sufficient flexibility. People will get sick, suffer casualties. Some people will always encounter some things when they are unlucky, and their lives will not be so easy. At this time, they are required to perform labor service, which will cause death.
Therefore, you don’t have to work on the construction site even if you are injured or sick, and the work in the field is done by the farmers in the entire Huangzhuang. This is equivalent to a mutual helping guarantee measure. Everyone can easily finish it by putting some effort together, allowing the injured and sick farmers to get through the difficult period. Although others have put in their efforts, the farmers who work hard are also at ease, and there are people who will help them if they are injured or sick in the future.
At the same time, financial resources are also a kind of flexibility. Ensuring farmers' income is one aspect, and reducing property losses in farmers' daily lives is also a very important aspect.
Therefore, there are many rigid regulations in the imperial village, such as limiting alcohol and banning gambling. Many people in the north have good wine, many farmers just drink poor people, while some are gambling poor people.
Wine must be available during sacrifices, so it is purchased for a fixed quota every year and holiday.
The ability of the imperial village to implement alcohol restrictions and gambling bans is that the imperial village implements semi-military management, after all, it is a baojia system. First, it is to prevent bandits and second, it is to avoid farmers being indulged outside, being infected with bad habits, or being bullied by people outside. Except for festivals and holidays, farmers are not allowed to leave the imperial village. When going to the town to go to market, they must travel together, supervise and help each other. If you want to go to another place, you have to apply, and there is no legitimate reason not to approve it.
The supply of goods on weekdays is specially managed. The supply of goods is mainly provided by vendors, and these vendors must obtain the license of the Royal Agricultural Company before entering the Royal Village. The prices of goods carried by the vendors must be verified and approved. At the same time, farmers can complain if they are not satisfied after buying goods from the vendors. Once the complaint reaches a certain quantity, they will be disqualified from entering the Royal Village to sell goods.
Just like salt, it is sold by the Royal Salt Industry Company. It is illegal to purchase private salt. The mutual supervision function of the Baojia system plays a role. There is no selfish salt in the royal village. Considering that the newly resettled farmers are not well-off at hand, Zhu Youxiao also introduced a "three-year subsidy policy", that is, within three years of resettlement, you can enjoy a preferential price of 5 cents per kilogram every year, which is 15 cents lower than the market price of official salt.
In addition, in terms of weddings and funerals, the imperial village has also imposed strict specifications to prevent the farmers from wasting money on flashy scenes in order to handle these weddings and weddings. Therefore, in the imperial village, the value of the dowry cannot exceed 1 yuan, the wine cannot exceed 2 large tables, the dishes cannot exceed 8 dishes, and the gift must not exceed 20 yuan.
Although the marriage specifications are very shabby, young people in the imperial village have no worries about marriage. Although the management of the imperial village is strict, and there is not much free time all year round. However, when marrying into the imperial village, you can eat a full meal and eat meat. At the same time, you don’t have to worry about famine or something, and you will have to build a tiled house next. For women of the same class, it is very attractive.
The degree of management of the betel set by Zhu Youxiao is extremely detailed. Such a regulation has been strictly implemented in the imperial village, and the benefits of mutual supervision of the Baojia system are fully demonstrated.
Chapter completed!