Kai Fu Han

Chapter 371 Preface
Since Jingyan left the labor camp at the end of the year, Chai Gou has stayed at home and has not gone out to work again.

After being away from his wife, children and mother for more than a year, Chai Gou felt the value of family even more and cherished the opportunity to be with his family even more.

Some of my former companions in the labor camp in the countryside couldn't stand the boring life at home, so they went to the city together to work with the construction team to earn a dollar.

Chai Gou did not follow.

Chai Gou always felt that his life was quite good. Although his family was poor, he could still marry a virtuous and hard-working wife and have two children, a son and a daughter.In the past, even if he was captured, defeated and captured, he could still save his life in the end and earn money and food to send home.

Chai Gou didn't know how long this good luck would last. He was now content with his current stable life.

The grain tax is very low in my own fields, so I no longer have to worry about starvation in the future.

But after returning home, without the income from working hard, Chai Gou immediately felt that his income had dropped significantly, which was a bit hard to accept.

The income from farming is too low. My son and wife take care of the few acres of land at home. It is a waste of labor to just lie in the field.

If you want to diversify your land, you can only move elsewhere.

Chai Gou didn't want to move. On the one hand, it was difficult to leave his homeland. On the other hand, he was worried that if he moved away, his brother would not be able to find a home when he returned.

Fortunately, in February, people from the town gathered together and talked about many good policies. More than a dozen families in the village sold their land to the government and then moved to other counties.I heard that when I went to other counties, the government not only allocated ten acres of land to each person on a per capita basis, but also gave them a house and borrowed money without interest (within three years) to purchase household items, farm tools, and even horses.

After the land in the village was taken over by the alliance, it was leased by the government to the people who stayed in the village. Chai Gou applied for [-] acres, but only five acres were subleased to him.

With these five acres of land, Chai Gou immediately felt much more at ease, and no longer considered going outside to work hard to make money.

At the end of February, the village chief convened every household and read out the Xinghan League's notice on collecting manure to establish nitrate fields.

The notice requires each village to select one or two households to be responsible for collecting the feces of the people in the village, and then establishing saltpeter fields according to the guidance of technical personnel.Submit saltpeter regularly according to quota requirements.

When Chai Gou was in the labor camp, he heard stories from fellow workers about the dung households.

In the city, there are special dung households. Although there is no government establishment, they are generally ancestral businesses. Unless there are special circumstances, the government will not change people.

The excrement households specialize in collecting the excrement of residents in cities and towns.

It sounds like a shabby and unpopular job, but there is still some profit in it.Therefore, these excrement households not only do not receive the government's sanitation fees, but also need to pay regular contributions to the sanitation officials.

However, apart from a little money for the government officials, there is no cost to this transaction.

If you have the strength to do it, you can do it yourself. If you can't do it, you can ask others to do it outside the city. Every household collects feces and swill every morning and evening.

The manure and swill will be sold to farmers after being fertilized, and even hired people can be paid with manure.

As long as the above is done well, it is equivalent to picking up money.

Chai Gou has been farming for most of his life, and he knows the difference in defense between fertilizing and not fertilizing. In good years, the difference can be half.So if it were me, I would be willing to exchange some small money to buy manure to fertilize the fields.

After hearing the village chief's notice, Chai Gou first thought that this could be done, but then he thought something was wrong.There is a difference between the village and the city. The excrement of the city people is useless and is garbage. You can collect it at your door without paying.The excrement in the village is manure. Every family will gather in the fields to compost it, and they will not give it to others at will.

After asking the village chief, Chai Gou finally found out.

This time, the government strictly stipulated that feces in the village must be processed centrally, and each household is not allowed to dispose of it on its own.Indiscriminate urination and defecation are strictly prohibited in cities and on rural roads. Every square in the city and every village in the countryside must have at least one public toilet.

If someone urinates or defecates at will outside the home or makes compost in the village, he will be fined if caught. Those who refuse to change after repeated admonitions will be fined and sentenced to forced labor.

The collected manure will be collected by the nitrate farmers to produce nitrate soil. After the nitrate soil is collected and handed over, the remaining manure can be disposed of by the nitrate farmers for their own use or sold to the villagers.

Considering that the villagers could use the manure for free, but now they have to spend money to buy it after going to the saltpeter field, the people will definitely not be willing to do so.In order to prevent people from reacting negatively, the government stipulates that if people are not caught violating the rules, each person can receive ten kilograms of food stamps from the village chief every month.

This is equivalent to the fact that as long as the self-produced excrement is handed over, even if there is a disaster year with no harvest, you can still survive with ten kilograms of grain per month combined with weeds and bark.

This policy was decided after careful consideration by Liu Xinqi. He knew that if this policy was implemented, more than half of the grain tax would definitely be subsidized. However, the production capacity of saltpeter has risen to a strategic level, and "urgent measures" must be taken to alleviate the shortage of saltpeter. There is a shortage, and a complete strategy can only come after other means of producing nitrate are available in the future.

After Chai Gou once again asked the village chief about the quantity regulations for saltpeter submission and other details, he was the first to sign up to become a saltpeter farmer.

Ten days later, because there was no competition, Chai Gou became the only nitrate farmer in Chaijia Village. The village allotted him five acres of land specifically to build a nitrate field.Technicians from the county seat taught Chai Gou the techniques for building nitrate fields, as well as daily maintenance, methods of extracting nitrate soil, and precautions.

In the first month, due to lack of experience and the initial construction of the nitrate field, Chai Gou did not complete the prescribed nitrate soil production. Fortunately, there was a three-month protection period for the new field, so his superiors did not punish him.

In the second month, Chai Gou worked even harder. He inspected every household and actually caught a few villagers who were handling feces privately. After reporting it to the village chief, the village chief immediately punished them and canceled the order. Their food stamp subsidy for the second quarter.

After killing the chickens to warn the monkeys, the other villagers became more honest. In the second month, the output of the nitrate field in Chaigou increased greatly.

In the third month, the per capita nitrate soil production (total nitrate soil production/permanent population in the village) even ranked among the top ten in the town, and was rewarded by the town.

Only then did Chai Gou realize that he could not only make money by selling manure, but also earn reward money, and his enthusiasm became even higher.

Even when walking in the village, the villagers would look at me with disgust;

Even if his son doesn't understand him and says what he does is too bad;
Even if this job is really dirty.

Chaigou didn't care, as long as he saw the food tank at home was full and the food coupons were getting more and more, he believed that he made the right choice.

He believed that as long as he could work this job for two or three years, he would be able to build a new house for his family, just like the houses in the city. It would be built entirely of bricks, with tile roofs, whitewashing on the inside, and even windows. Use glass.

As long as it's dawn, the house will be bright.

He also wanted to put hot stoves in all the rooms and get a wife for his son.

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(End of this chapter)