Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 757 Returning Home ([-])

The promotion of new agricultural methods, water conservancy construction, promotion of improved varieties, soil pesticides, and proportioned fertilizers has doubled the yield of crops per mu.This makes farming profitable for many farmers – not just a meager means of subsistence.All the families with a little more land are expanding their operations, and many fields that were abandoned due to low yields and unprofitable profits have been restored to cultivation.

The result is that labor becomes expensive.Lingao was not originally a place with abundant labor force. In the past, it was nothing more than low agricultural output and low production enthusiasm of farmers to cover up this problem. Now, the demand for labor force has increased greatly, but a large number of rural idle labor force has been absorbed. Industrial workers, joined the army and navy, and entered schools, so that the problem of labor shortage was exposed at once.

The immediate response to labor shortages is skyrocketing labor costs.This is heartbreaking for the landlords and rich peasants who are used to giving them a full meal and a little money to make them work for a day-people's pursuit of profit is innate.

"Maybe the lady of the house is forcing everyone to scream like hell every day?" The lady of the house is Fu Yijin's mother, so Fu Fu still retains a little politeness, but the children of the family always hate and hate the lady of the house. Fear, even the few biological children are no exception.

Fu Xi chuckled a few times: "Of course, but now the food is good, and the wife of the head of the house is not as stingy as before. Otherwise, everyone will be clamoring to quit their citizenship."

After labor prices rise, there are job opportunities everywhere.Including Bairen City, where workers are recruited every day. In the past, if you leave the main house, you may lose your source of income, and even the danger of starving to death no longer exists.Whichever family owner continues to oppress and abuse the slaves, they can vote with their feet and walk away to work for the Australians.It doesn't count if the main family loses a labor force in vain, even if they go to pursue it, they can get back a little worth.It is completely impossible to buy another servant with this amount of money.There are many outlets for the poor. Whether they go to work with Australians, serve as soldiers or go to school, they are more than enough to make ends meet. Not to mention that Australians now have extremely strict control over human trafficking, requiring slaves to pay a heavy tax.

Fu Yijin smiled awkwardly and didn't speak.Fu Fu asked about the fact that the village seemed to be getting bigger before he realized that Meiyang Village had expanded a lot than before.With the help of the People's Committee of Civil Affairs and the Tiandihui, the immigrants assigned to Meiyang Village built new houses on the wasteland on the other side of the small river outside Meiyang Village according to several architectural plans of the standard village made by Wen Desi. residential area.In this way, the number of households in Meiyang Village has expanded to a large village with more than 150 households and a population of nearly [-] people.

"There are too many migrant households, and the village is not quiet anymore." Fu Yijin frowned and complained, "Although Dad is the village head, the migrant households don't take him seriously. Not long ago, he was beaten for water release. One."

After the construction of farmland water conservancy is completed, we no longer depend on the sky for food.However, when there is a drought, which piece of land should be watered first and how much should be watered has become the focus of struggle among farmers.
"Why?" Fu Fu felt strange. Generally, most of the migrants were bullied. During the meeting before returning to their hometown, the officers of the political department also specially promoted the spirit of "unity and help immigrants".

Fu Yijin didn't want to talk too much, she felt that a woman shouldn't intervene in this matter, besides, she didn't think it was easy for her to explain the matter clearly, she was so ugly.

Fu Xineng, who is still a student, said: "How can immigrants be bullied? Now half of the immigrants are half of the villagers. Moreover, the immigrants have divided the land, got food, farm tools and seeds, and the rich and the poor are equal. In a strange place again, everyone They are all twisted together. Who in our village is poor and rich, and the rich are bullied by immigrants, and the poor in the village are just a joke, who wants to stand out."

"That's it." Fu Fu felt that this matter was quite new, "Doesn't this mean that the immigrants bully the villagers?"

"The migrant households just don't have a conscience." Fu Yijin complained, "The land originally belonged to our village, but now we distribute so much to them, as well as the food for the migrant households in the first year and the labor to build the house are all from our village. Well, they got the land, settled down, and all of a sudden trembled." Fu Yijin probably felt that the villagers suffered too much from this matter, so he couldn't help talking about it.She was uneducated, her speech was disorganized, she said one thing and another, making Fu Fu confused. In short, all immigrants are unreasonable and heartless.

"You can't say that." Fu Xi's status is more detached, and his feelings for Meiyang Village are not so deep. "The land of the outsiders is wasteland that has not been planted in the village for many years. Everyone helped to open up wasteland and build houses. But the chiefs also gave money, and it wasn’t for nothing. Besides, the rations for the first year were fines for concealing the acres of land—it’s not a good deed. It’s impossible to say who owes whom. But then again, immigrants The households feel that they have a large number of people, and it is true that they are dissatisfied with the management of the village: they say they want to be fair, but in reality they have to take the lead—that’s how the water release happened last time.”

"So we won't be enemies anymore?"

"That's not the case. After the fight over the release of water last time, the stationed policeman and the owner of the house went to drink tea with the leaders on both sides, and everyone made up. Anyway, there was no death lawsuit, and they looked up and down all day long. See, you can’t prepare to fight every day. But right now, no one cares about anyone, Hanhe Chujie. If you lose a duck and run to the opposite side, consider yourself unlucky.”

Fu Fu was indoctrinated with the idea of ​​"unity" in the army, so he couldn't help blurting out: "This is not good."

"Of course it's not good. It's hard to be the head of the village for the master of the house - except for the official business arranged by the higher-ups, people don't obey you at all. Chief Wan came to teach the new farming method, and they were both clients of the Tiandihui, but the two sides refused to attend together. You have to. It’s only after two lessons. It’s hard to do anything in the village, and the two sides must be struggling. The head of the village, the master, is half the head of the village.” Fu Xi said, pulling a few wild flowers from the roadside, and weaving them up. Huahuan, "I think the master of the house will probably complain to Chief Wan again at night."

"The chief doesn't care?"

"Shou Wan said that he belongs to the Tiandihui, so he doesn't care about it." Fu Yijin continued to complain, "I want Dad to report to his superiors. Dad doesn't dare to go—"

"It's because he's afraid that the chief will dislike him and be incapable of doing things, so he won't be able to be the village chief." Fu Xi showed no respect or fear for the master, "Anyway, nothing major happened, so he's going to stay like this."

The three walked towards the village talking and laughing.The part where the original residents lived is now called the East Village. The layout has not changed much, and most of the houses remain the same, but the small river at the entrance of the village has become much clearer—the river has been cleaned up by the manure accumulation activities, and the crumbling wooden bridge has also been rebuilt. It was built, wide enough and strong enough.

A new public toilet has been built at the entrance of the village, and according to Fu Xi there is another one at the other end of the village.There is nothing special about the public toilet itself, except that the cesspit is made of bricks and plastered with cement - everyone says that Australians are too extravagant, and it is said that this is to create "methane gas".As for what this methane is and what it is for, no one knows yet.

"It is said that this is called uniform accumulation of manure." Fu Xi said, "This way the house will be much more hygienic."

The houses in the East Village look old and dilapidated compared to the newly built fortress-style houses in the West Village.Although the new immigrants in the West Village live in strange houses that the people here have never seen before, Fu Fu knows that although the area occupied by each household is not large, there are all kinds of facilities, and the houses are all bricks and tiles. It leaks rain, and the wind does not enter in winter. It is very comfortable to live in.As far as the brick and tile houses are concerned, almost all the aborigines in the East Village are compared-you must know that there were only a handful of families living in brick and tile houses in the entire Meiyang Village in the past.The rest of the houses are all made of bamboo strips and yellow mud on the walls. It is considered elegant to paint the top layer of white ash. Needless to say, the roofs are all straw.

No wonder immigrants and aborigines have conflicts at once.Fu Fu thought, this gap is too big.He himself didn't understand why the chiefs had to treat the immigrants so well and build them free houses that used to be landlords.

The house of Fu Buer's family has just been renovated-after the end of Zhangtian last year, Tiandihui let him use the sharing system to farm most of the land that Fu Yousan's family did not receive for the sake of setting an example.Fu Buer gained sweetness and confidence in land improvement and sparse rice planting, so he was willing to invest in it and listened to the guidance of agricultural technicians. This year he had a huge harvest-sold to Tiandihui Tens of thousands of kilograms of broad beans planted to improve the soil were sold.

With money in his hands and becoming the village head, Fu Buer immediately started renovating houses according to the traditional thinking of Chinese farmers.This matter immediately attracted the attention of Ye Yuming and Wu Nanhai.In order to make Fu Buer a model of "new agriculture and new countryside", and at the same time set a vivid example for farmers to carry out "courtyard economy" and engage in sideline business in the next step.Fu Buer was encouraged by Wan Lihui to set up an "Australian-style farm estate".Tiandihui specially invited designers and workers from the Lingao Construction Company to build this house for the Fu family according to the blueprints of various "new rural" houses in the large library and combined with the specific local conditions.

In addition to living in this house, it also takes care of sideline business, storage and processing.The structure design is reasonable and the space is fully used.It is more than 300 years ahead of the best landowner's houses in Lingao in terms of practicality and habitability.The most extravagant thing is that there is also a special toilet in this house - not the original cesspool.

Of course, the price Fu Buer paid for this house was not small - so that after the house was built, he was penniless and had to apply for a loan from the Tiandihui to start production activities.

(End of this chapter)