Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 136 New System ([-])

The traversers decided to implement a completely different civil administration model in Bairentan, which they fully controlled, to produce the first and second teams.That is, the people's commune system implemented in China in the 20s and 60s.

The people's commune system existed for 1958 years from 1985 to 27 when it was officially abolished.It leaves the deepest impression on people as "one big and two public".However, the people’s communes that actually operate are guided by the 1962 Draft Amendment to the Work Regulations of the Rural People’s Commune, adopting a three-level ownership and team-based production and management model, while maintaining a system of people’s communes integrating government and society.

under this system.The people's commune is not only a political unit in the countryside, but also a production and management entity in the countryside. The commune secretary is not only responsible for party affairs, but also manages industrial and agricultural production and civil affairs.On the bad side, the commune has too much management, the organization is bloated, the system is rigid, the distribution system is too even, and the enthusiasm of the members is not high.

On the bright side, the 27 years under the people’s commune system have been the 27 years in which the Chinese government has the strictest control over rural society and farmers in history – the government does not go to the countryside, and the situation of clan tyrants holding power at the grassroots level in rural areas has basically been eliminated.In that era when economic development was sluggish, productivity was backward, and the cultural level of the people was low, the people's communes played a role in concentrating resources on major tasks and stabilizing social order.Rural primary medical services, popular education, water conservancy, and mechanization all achieved considerable development during this period.The high concentration of power under the people's commune system and the strong dominance over human and material resources are extremely attractive to travelers.

Some members are concerned about the efficiency of agricultural production under this system: During the period of the People’s Commune, the actual agricultural productivity of each labor force has been declining. Will cross-travelers adopt such a system cause the same problem?

"I personally think it doesn't matter. The purpose of this people's commune is not agricultural production but civil administration." Ma Qianju explained, "It can effectively integrate administration, people's livelihood, public security, education, and military affairs to form a Totally attached to our social fabric."

This brand-new grassroots regime accepts the leadership of the Internal Affairs and Civil Affairs Committee under the Executive Committee in terms of system, and the leadership of various professional groups in terms of specific affairs.

The commune adopts a user registration system.With the household as the basic unit, bachelors should also set up their own households.The registered population, regardless of gender, age or age, is called a "community member".Members who have obtained employee qualifications shall enjoy relevant benefits according to regulations.

Each household owns a piece of private land, which cannot be transferred but can be inherited. What to plant on the private land is up to the head of the household.Private plots are allocated not by head, but by households. Households with large populations will increase their area proportionally.The area of ​​a standard household (4 population) is 1, then the coefficient increases by 1 for each increase in the population in the household registration, and the coefficient will be capped at 0.1—the purpose is to promote family separation and avoid the formation of a large family of several generations. If the family is single, the cohesion of the family will be reduced, which can effectively prevent some families from committing crimes because of too many men.

The Executive Committee has taken into account that after the introduction of this policy, there may be "false separation" for the sake of more land, just like the "false divorce" in the original time and space for demolition, and it is stipulated that private land is only given to married couples during family separation. , Single men and women who live in separate households can establish household registration, but they cannot enjoy private plots and must wait until they get married.

The houses of the members are built by the traversers and sold to the members according to the relevant welfare policies, but each household can only enjoy this treatment once.Without the approval of the Internal Affairs and Civil Affairs Committee, members are not allowed to build their own houses within the jurisdiction of the crossing regime.Members' housing can be freely bought, sold, gifted, and inherited, but only after paying the housing payment.

Members of the commune do not allocate land other than private plots.There are three basic incomes: one is the output of the family’s private land; the other is the work points obtained by participating in the commune’s dispatch; the third is sideline income.

Among the members, men aged 18-55 and women aged 18-45 are called the full labor force. Men aged 13-17 and 56-65 and women aged 13-17 and 46-55 are called semi-labor.In principle, every man and woman in the semi-labor force and full-time labor force, unless they are recruiting, joining the army, or going to school, must participate in the commune's assigned labor and complete a certain number of basic attendance days.The extra assignment beyond the basic number of days of attendance is regarded as overtime, and the labor department of the Executive Committee pays work points according to the coefficient of 1.2.

Those who are not in this age group are called auxiliary labor. If they are willing to participate in dispatched work and can complete it, they can also get work points, but there are no specific regulations on the number of days of attendance.

The employment of industrial and commercial enterprises established by the cross-members is given priority in recruiting from members.After becoming an enterprise worker, the identity of the members remains unchanged, and they are still under the management of the commune in terms of administration, life, and justice. However, their labor management and remuneration are the responsibility of the recruiting enterprise, and the commune no longer interferes.

The commune management system adopts three-level management: commune-village-member group.The member group is the most basic unit. Every eight to ten households form a group, with a chief and deputy team leader in the group, who are responsible for the transmission and supervision of government orders and the supervision and management of members.

As a first-level government, the village has village committees, production groups, militia groups, and women's groups.Different from indirectly controlled villages such as Yanchang Village, in the villages under the Bairen Commune, various administrative organizations in the village are under the leadership of the commune.

At the first level of the commune, there are a series of administrative, scientific, educational, cultural and health departments such as the social department, finance department, production department, publicity department, culture and education department, judicial office, militia, women's federation, health station, agricultural technology station, broadcasting station, junior primary school, kindergarten, etc. department.However, due to the lack of sufficient professionals, it is only a plan at present and needs to be gradually improved.

Every member above the semi-labor force must pay income tax of 5% of their annual income, regardless of whether the income comes from work points or enterprise wages. The income from private plots is exempt from agricultural tax, and the income of members under the age of 15 is exempt from tax.The tax revenue is distributed between the traversers and the commune at a ratio of 4:6, and the commune uses this fee to maintain daily administrative expenses and pay the wages of off-duty personnel.

On the busy construction site outside the south gate of Bairen City, an inconspicuous wooden sign in black on a white ground was hung at the entrance of a small courtyard that was completed first: "Bairentan Commune".The president of the commune is concurrently held by Wu De. To be honest, the few employees in the production team who are actively moving closer to the organization may not be able to understand the obscure words in the "Commune Organization Management Regulations".Even Wu De himself had to call the Executive Committee to ask certain details.

Lin Xing was appointed as the vice president, but he did not take office immediately. Instead, he and several others were sent to Yanchang Village to participate in the first cadre training class of the Salt Farmers Workshop hosted by Du Wen.Lin Xing and others knew that they were preparing to "become an official"—the chiefs called them "promotion".This made them feel both sudden and terrified.Before departure, Wu De called several people to the construction site and pointed to a tall house that was about to be completed:

"You will live in it from now on."

These "quasi-cadres" are used to seeing the unthinkable created by the chiefs.What's more, they personally led the laborers to build the house, but in their wildest fantasy, such a high-rise house was nothing to them.Everyone was dumbfounded.After a while, Lin Xing asked tremblingly:

"Chief Wu, are you telling the truth?"

"Of course, we always keep our word."

"How much does it cost to live in—" Of course Lin Xing was not so arrogant that Shorthair would give them a house for nothing.

"60 taels of silver, if you workers buy it, just discount it by 54 taels."

This price did not cause too much shock. Judging from the prices and wages of the late Ming Dynasty, this house price is also at an average level.

When they heard that the money could be paid year by year in ten or twenty years, the smiles on the faces of several people became more obvious: the house first and then the money repayment, such a good thing is really rare.

Soon, the news spread among the production team. After work every day, some people would come to the construction site to see these houses that belonged to them in the future. Ma Peng was one of them. The treatment of family workers is allocated to a work shed alone.All the rags he brought were confiscated, but as compensation, he got new clothes, mats and quilts.The only thing that made him unhappy was that his old mother also enjoyed the "purification" taste he had tasted back then. Seeing his mother in a new dress with a cloth wrapped around her head, Ma Peng's thoughts were extremely complicated-this A group of short-haired people really don't respect the old.

However, after going back to busy farming this time, he quit his job at Fu Buer's house. Apart from the good food here, the main reason is that he found that he could not get used to the bites of fleas and bugs, the dark and dilapidated house, the muddy water... ...Although it is not a blessing for Shorthair, these most ordinary things in Shorthair's daily life were not available in the past life.

Now Ma Peng is working in a brick and tile yard, digging and sifting soil every day, and the rumbling sound of the machine can no longer make him curious or surprised.He and his fellow workers no longer have the spears of short-haired guards around them, but their labor enthusiasm is unprecedentedly high—they are adding bricks and tiles to their own houses.A new life that is completely different from the past is about to unfold.

(End of this chapter)