Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1361 Philanthropy
In the entire senate, there was not a single veteran who was majoring in sericulture. Wu Nanhai was very worried about Li Yaoer, an agricultural technician who had become a monk halfway, so he tried to raise autumn silkworms in Lingao, which made Li Yaoer completely According to the book, the final result proves that agricultural technology books and science and education films are indeed very accurate guidance materials.Every time there is a problem, as long as it is dealt with according to the map, there will be no disadvantages.

The silkworm house was completed, and Li Yaoer set up a sericulture production team in the villa. Since most of the current servants in the villa have jobs, most of the members of the production team are refugees from the shantang—sericulture households are given priority.These dozens of families have specially settled a residential area.Men are responsible for reclaiming wasteland and planting mulberry, while women are responsible for raising silkworms.More than a dozen people were selected from the private school in the villa as students of the sericulture training class.

One of the main tasks of the sericulture production team is to open up mulberry gardens and plant mulberry trees.Further expand the mulberry planting area.Although the leaves of the mulberry trees planted last year and this year cannot be harvested, they will be of great use in the future-in the Jiangnan plan of the Agricultural Committee, the future Phoenix Villa will be the location of the agricultural professional school. deficit.It is no surprise that such a generous investment.

Mulberry has strong adaptability. It can grow in arid or humid areas no matter the land is poor or fertile. It is easy to plant and manage, has few pests and diseases, and has high economic benefits. Especially the mulberry leaves. In the silk-producing areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, a load of mulberry The average price of leaves can be sold for three renminbi of silver. At that time, the average yield was twelve dan of mulberry leaves per mu.It is equivalent to the income of a good paddy field that can harvest three stones of rice per mu.

However, there are very few good paddy fields that can produce three stones of rice, and it is also a matter of luck to be able to harvest so much rice every year. However, mulberry planting can be planted everywhere on slopes and corners, and the leaf yield is generally stable.You can also get extra income for burning firewood and mulberries.

In the mulberry garden of Lingao Committee of Agriculture, modern dense planting mulberry technology is adopted to plant mulberry trees with both fruit and leaves. Under strict management, it can reach the level of 1000-2000 kg of mulberry per mu and 1500 kg of mulberry leaves.

Here in Hangzhou, it is impossible to have the same agricultural technology and agricultural materials as Lingao, and the water and heat conditions are also slightly inferior, so the estimated yield is much lower.The types of planting are also mainly leaf mulberry, and only about ten acres of fruit-leaf dual-purpose mulberry are planned to be planted.

By visiting the members of the production team, Li Yaoer roughly knew that in the local mulberry gardens, the standard of 240 plants per mu was planted with "high-dry mulberries" with taller trunks.The amount of leaves produced is somewhat different according to the degree of careful management and the amount of fertilization, but the average monthly output of 800-1200 catties of mulberry leaves per mu can still be achieved.

With the high-yield mulberry trees introduced by the villa and scientific management, Li Yaoer is fully confident that the yield per mu can reach 1000 kilograms.
That's what I said, but this is a few years later, and the sericulture industry in Fenghuang Villa still has to rely on purchased mulberry leaves to survive.Mulberry leaves cannot be picked in advance, they can only be purchased in the market.Once the silkworms enter the three-sleep period, the price of mulberry leaves will skyrocket, and there may be a situation where there is a price but no market.Therefore, how to ensure the supply of mulberry leaves for the sericulture production team became the most important task for Zhao Yingong before.

The easiest way, of course, is to buy mulberry gardens or directly buy mulberry leaves. It is naturally the safest way to buy mulberry gardens, but it will not be easy to buy a mulberry garden with a suitable location at a short while-the silkworm farm is in Phoenix Mountain Villa. The transportation cost is too high if the distance is too long.Moreover, the taxation of mulberry gardens is very heavy. Now the mulberry gardens opened in Phoenix Mountain Villa are all income from land reclamation. As long as the yamen is a little bit in order, they will hide that they will not be able to take classes. But it is rare for the mulberry gardens that are already registered to not pay taxes. too much.For the sake of caution, Zhao Yingong decided not to buy mulberry gardens for the time being—this year Li Yaoer's work is mainly on breeding and experimental silk reeling, and the demand for mulberry leaves is limited, so it's okay to go to the market as you go.

Originally, he didn't care much about the supply of mulberry leaves. Things that burdened Shengdou Xiaomin were nothing to him.

But ever since he wanted to set up a sericulture cooperative to control silkworm farmers and silkworm cocoons through the cooperative, he had a new idea: Judging from the various information collected from various sources, the sericulture industry in Jiangnan is the same as the sugar industry in Leizhou. very dependent on loans.

In this industry, whoever can control the loan will get the biggest share of the market.

Controlling farmers through loans is a common method used by Tiandihui. In Leizhou, Leizhou Sugar Industry Group was gradually formed through this. Therefore, he has already started to prepare his own small loan plan, and asked Delong's Hangzhou branch Made several plans.

And last fall, the northern part of Zhejiang, the Hangjiahu area suffered a severe drought, and there was no rain for seventy days from August to October, and the countryside was extremely desolate.Although Jiangnan is rich in products and did not cause large-scale refugee riots like the north, but now that production is to resume, sericulture households will have an even more urgent need for loans.

But he soon discovered that his plan was too idealistic.This is not Hainan, where the Senate has taken power, nor is Leizhou under the control of the Leizhou Sugar Company, a violently backed trust.Here he has neither a political basis for violence nor an economic monopoly.To implement a new thing like cooperatives, we are faced with a situation where no one trusts us.

Originally Zhao Yingong planned to ask Delong to set up agency offices in several nearby towns where the silk cocoon trade was flourishing to provide loans to sericulture households, but he soon discovered that almost all of the microfinance in rural areas in this time and space is manipulated by local landlords and cocoons. In the hands of the middle peasants and rich peasants, the silk cocoon shop and the green leaf shop also have a foot in it.The common feature is that there are many lenders participating in the lending, but each lender's scope of lending is very small-basically all in the local area.

In an era when most peasants live no more than [-] miles from their homes and cannot enter the county town several times in their lifetime, it is a dream to set up a bank to allow peasants to take loans on their own initiative—and peasants are very suspicious, they would rather believe Homegrown loan sharks wouldn't trust a bank popping up -- let alone a cooperative
Silkworm farmers have been operating in this way for thousands of years, and they will never easily join a "cooperative" that pops up suddenly.In order for silkworm farmers to join cooperatives and accept technical guidance of modern sericulture, there must be a sample to demonstrate the various benefits of participating in cooperatives.

During the period of the Republic of China, Suzhou Sericulture College promoted the improvement of sericulture in the local area, and it also set up a promotion center in Kaixiangong Village.Through continuous promotion and publicity, the improvement of sericulture was carried out step by step. If the Anti-Japanese War had not broken out, it was entirely possible to establish the first Chinese sericulture agricultural cooperative organization in the local area-in fact, the Kaixian Gong at that time The village and some nearby villages have already had such a trend.

Just staying in Fenghuang Mountain Villa to engage in closed small-scale production, it will never be impossible to create a cooperative.The four words of going deep into the grassroots are not for nothing.Even the most successful Japanese agricultural cooperative organization spent a lot of energy in persuading and mobilizing farmers to join the association at the beginning.

Floods and droughts have been quite frequent in Zhejiang in the past few years. Although the consequences of these disasters are not as severe as those in the northern Central Plains at that time, the entire rural economy is still greatly damaged. There are many victims without food and clothing. Since I have contacted The gentry set up a philanthropic hall to accommodate and send out refugees, so this agricultural cooperative organization can also operate under the brand name of "a place for aftermath".

In the name of organizing refugees to produce and save themselves, in the name of Cixintang, set up a demonstration society of silkworm raising and silk reeling.Use refugee women for work.With the righteous brand of charity, with the backing of a group of Catholic gentry, and the friendship of the Fushe, there will be no problems in the matter of setting up a sericulture group by itself.

He immediately called Li Yaoer and expressed his thoughts.Li Yaoer has nothing to disagree with.I just feel that I have just started to lead students, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to take care of it if the scale is too large.

"It doesn't matter," Zhao Yingong reassured her. "Many of the refugees who are taken in have experience in raising silkworms. As long as you strictly control the technical requirements, we will provide better seeds, and it will not be a problem to get a good harvest."

"If this is the case, we have to set up a silkworm farm at the foot of the mountain." Li Yaoer said, "There are too many people in the Shantang, and I'm afraid it's not suitable for silkworm rearing."

"The silkworm farm and the silk reeling factory can be set up by the riverside with the sign of Shantang. It's similar to the concept of a charity factory. Of course, it should be closer to the Shantang, so that workers don't have to spend too much time commuting to and from get off work."

"What about the mulberry leaves?" Li Yaoer was a little worried, "It's easy to talk about the silkworm seeds. They brought us a lot from Lingao, and I bred some of them myself. But now the mulberry trees in the villa are all newly planted, which is enough for breeding. There are not enough games.”

"I'm going to 'buy the tip leaves'."

"Buy stalk leaves?" Li Yao'er didn't understand the word, and looked at him in confusion.

"This is terminology." Zhao Yingong smiled, "You will be the head of the sericulture cooperative in the future. You have to understand many local dialects in this time and space..."

"Wait, I'm an agricultural technician, when will I be your master?"

"I think you are just right." Zhao Yingong put on an expression of "who can give up the big responsibility", "You know technology, and you are a veteran, and you know how to organize people to work. There is no obstacle for me to communicate with you. And this Didn’t you do a good job leading the sericulture production team for a few days? Just think of this cooperative as a production team tenfold.”

"But--"

"It doesn't matter." Zhao Yingong continued to cheer her up, "You don't have to be afraid of this or that. These days you should also understand our era, which is an era with little concept of human rights. The women in the sericulture production team are just as honest. A slave who doesn't hold back. Even if you kill one, you won't pay for your life..."

"Don't talk about it, I'm afraid just thinking about it." Li Yaoer frowned and said, "I always feel that I don't fit in this society—there is too much difference between here and Lingao. It's a hell on earth..." She He said and glared at Zhao Yingong, "I understand what you mean. There are no personnel arrangements here. Issues such as labor protection have to be considered. We are slave owners who run factories. Treating slave workers is nothing more than carrots and sticks. As long as we teach them well Just give them technology and let them work hard."

Zhao Yingong cursed inwardly: Wenqing's petty bourgeoisie's emotions broke out again!But he still has a pleasant expression on his face. He is quite experienced in dealing with women, and he knows that what they say when they are emotional is wrong, and it is better to let them vent their anger.

Unexpectedly, after Li Yao'er said these few words, she became silent.She is a very rational woman, and she quickly realized the absurdity of what she said-you must know that she also promised to buy a maid for her husband, and secretly considered how to "train" and "discipline" the maid after she was in place. "They, how can I put on the majesty of a "housewife", how should the maids be punished for making mistakes... It is roughly a mixed imaginary version of the various Gongdou novels and Gongdou dramas she has read before.

After all, I also like the feeling of being a slave owner, a "superior".The righteous and stern words just now seemed to be slapping himself in the face——his face turned red.

"I see. I will accept this mission - to serve the Senate!"

"Serve the Senate and the people!" Zhao Yingong corrected.

"Let's pull it down." Li Yaoer said, "Let's not talk about this first, what does it mean to buy mulberry leaves? Is there any guarantee for the mulberry leaves? At that time, if the mulberry leaves are not available, the silkworms will have to be abandoned. The loss is too great."

"No problem." Zhao Yingong explained that buying "tip leaves" is actually a primitive futures transaction. The customer pays the mulberry farm owner in advance according to a certain price, buys the mulberry leaves, and picks up the goods after picking them.The transaction of buying "tip leaves" is actually very similar to "buying young crops" at that time.They all take advantage of the opportunity when farmers are in urgent need of cash before and after the Chinese New Year to buy futures products at a lower price.Of course, if there is a bumper harvest of mulberry leaves and a sharp decrease in silkworm farmers and other factors that cause the market to plummet, buyers will naturally lose money.

However, in most years, the price of raw silk is high, and buying "tip leaves" is profitable for businessmen and silkworm farmers who operate the leaf market.Many sericulture farmers who do not have mulberry gardens or produce insufficient mulberry leaves often borrow usury loans to buy "tip leaves".As a result, a special dental bank was born, which operates the futures trade of mulberry leaves. The trading methods are also very flexible, such as buying short and selling short, and selling on credit in cash.

"...If you don't consider speculation. Since we have strong funds, it is quite cost-effective to buy this kind of futures mulberry leaves. Although the current market is bound to be more bullish than before and after the Chinese New Year, it is now the time when there is a drought. Last year, the market suffered from drought. The price of raw grain is high. When spring comes, farmers will start production activities and need money urgently. Buying at this time will definitely have a considerable discount on the price.”

(End of this chapter)