Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 954 Leizhou Experience
Five hundred captive laborers from the Battle of Chengmai, with the cooperation of the temporary conscripts, urgently built trestles for unloading heavy equipment on the special wharf of the Jiazi Coal Mine in Haikou Port.The logistics equipment and maintenance equipment carried by the advance battalion of the [-]st Maritime Mobile Wing were unloaded from the ship.

The base of the First Mobile Wing is located outside Qiongshan County. Due to the large amount of equipment and the need for a large amount of coal, the camp of the entire wing is built in the field. All daily necessities are unloaded from the ship, and even the equipment is used All the coal is high-quality Hongji thermal coal specially shipped from Lingao.

The first batch of agricultural technicians trained by the Tiandihui used the wooden stakes and ropes to mark the plots, marked the plots according to the password of the surveyor on the land receded by the flood, and delineated the first area directly under the jurisdiction of the Agricultural Committee. farm.

In addition to the farms directly under the central government, similar work is also carried out on the farmland contracted by Tiandihui.After measuring and marking the land, the agricultural machinery will officially enter the field to start clearing the field and doing basic construction of the farmland.A layer of river sand and debris was left on the land receded by the floodwaters, and it took a lot of time and labor to clean up the fields.The tractors of the First Mobile Regiment emitted black smoke, spouted white gas, and made the clanging sound of metal impact. They were moving slowly in the wet field. At this time, a large number of stunned people would gather on the edge of the field. Indigenous people: from the big households in silk to the disaster victims in scanty clothes.

Chang Shide occupied part of the former Qiongzhou Arms Bureau in Qiongshan County.At the gate of the yamen, a plaque of the Qiongshan sub-helm of the Tiandihui was hung-of course, this is still the location of the undisclosed Qiongshan County Agricultural Bureau.

Then under his direct command, the Tiandihui began to launch a comprehensive propaganda offensive in Qiongshan.

Different from the previous recruitment offensive, the main purpose of this offensive is to lure local people, whether farmers or landlords, to join the "rural cooperative" system of the Tiandihui.

The rural cooperative medical system is not the cooperative system established in the 50s in the old time and space—Chang Shide believes that it is quite difficult to adopt high-level mutual aid and cooperation in terms of the current agricultural level, and the looseness of farmers is not suitable for the cooperative system that lacks binding force. Outdated.Therefore, the agricultural cooperative medical system he developed in Leizhou is similar to the Japanese-style agricultural cooperative medical system: farmers participate voluntarily, and participating farmers must accept the technical guidance of the agricultural cooperative medical system. The confederation also provides agricultural machinery services: including mechanized harvesting, pumped irrigation and farmland drainage.Agricultural products are uniformly sold by the Agricultural Cooperative Organization.

All these services and the agricultural materials provided are charged, but the settlement can be delayed until after the agricultural products are harvested-of course, a certain amount of interest must be calculated.The agricultural contract also provides micro-credit through Delong, and farmers can use the land or future harvests as collateral.

Since farmers have almost no cash in their hands, they inevitably resort to various small amounts of credit in production, which is also the reason why rural usury has been very prosperous in the past.Now this credit has been changed to rural cooperative medical care. The first purpose of using credit is to control the exploitation of farmers. The second purpose is to combat rural usury, clean up the rural economic environment, and prepare for Delong’s large-scale entry into the countryside.

The rural cooperative medical system of Tiandihui does not absorb landless peasants—pure tenants or farm laborers are not included in the scope of the rural cooperative medical care.

In addition, the farmland owners manage the land themselves, and the farmer's union does not intervene—it just provides "guidance" and "assistance". Chang Shide believes that this is the most ideal way to treat small owner farmers at this stage.

Under this system, although farmers have benefited greatly, their ability to resist disasters has not been qualitatively changed.They are still very vulnerable.On the surface, they seem to have got rid of the insatiable and plundering rural usury, but in fact they are caught in a more complicated and pervasive rural cooperative loan network.If there is a slight poor management situation, it will fall into the predicament that the credit cannot be repaid.According to Chang Shide’s experience in Leizhou, under this system, self-cultivating farmers will soon become polarized: some people with flexible minds, high agricultural level, more land and good management will take advantage of the various supports provided by Tiandihui Stand out in agricultural production and gradually rise, while others will gradually fall into trouble in the endless "credit" and finally lose their land - of course, once they have to pay the land back to Tiandihui, Tiandi will be very merciful Arrange the whole family of farmers to work as agricultural workers or industrial workers on direct-operated farms.

Although the Spartacus Group has made a series of criticisms on the so-called "Leizhou experience" and "agricultural cooperative medical system" in its social magazine "Chiqi" and clearly stated in "Four Comments on Leizhou Experience", the so-called "Leizhou experience" It is a big poisonous weed to support new landlords and implement "new rich peasantism". However, this experience is completely in line with the agricultural policy of the Senate, so it has been strongly encouraged by the Executive Committee and has become an important promotion model.

Under the arrangement of Chang Shide, the publicity department erected large billboards outside the three city gates in Qiongshan County, with pictures and texts to publicize to the people of Qiongshan County that "agricultural cooperative medical care is good".

Because farmers are generally illiterate, most of the boards are paintings, charts and printed photos. There is also a large display table in front of the board. Sand trays, various new agricultural tools, fertilizer samples, seeds and crops are placed on the display table. specimen.

Ji Denggao led the lion dance team and the gong and drum team to perform with gongs and drums every hour to attract the audience.Beside the Kanban, there is also a large plate of perilla-wrapped vegetable rice balls as big as ping pong balls. Everyone who comes to listen to the promotion will be given a vegetable rice ball. By this means, the display stand has attracted a large number of people. Township people.Many families kicked their children out early in the morning: "Hurry up and get the rice balls at the gate of the county seat!"

The temptation of rice balls has led to a large number of spectators gathering in front of the billboard every day, watching the Western view while eating rice balls.Ji Denggao has long had experience in such scenes. Everyone who wants to get rice balls should get a bamboo stick before listening to the propaganda. After listening, hand the bamboo sticks to the staff. The staff will give a rice ball here Man's arm stamped in blue ink.The ink made of indigo can stay on human skin for several days-this effectively avoids the disadvantage of someone taking turns to take rice balls in three city gates.

In order to ensure that there are no other disadvantages, there are soldiers from the [-]st Battalion of Infantry on the periphery to be responsible for vigilance, maintaining law and order, and arresting unorganized people who cheated rice balls in batches or robbed rice balls with violence.

Chang Shide knew that almost all the people who came to see the board came for the rice balls, but he didn't care about it.These few rice balls don't cost much, he just wants to build up the momentum and spread the news of Tiandihui's agricultural cooperatives to the four towns as soon as possible-in this era where communication basically relies on shouting, nothing is faster than word of mouth means of dissemination.What's more, he still has some confidence in the propaganda methods mastered by the Cultural and Propaganda Department.

On the billboards are large posters and photos of the "new look" after the implementation of rural cooperative medical care.Needless to say, the posters are painted like a fairyland in Taoyuan.As the saying goes, "it's all renderings."In addition, there are a large number of photos - all of which are photos of the "new rural model" of several communes directly under the central government, neat houses, straight roads, groups of pigs and sheep, and "happy life scenes": there must be new stoves and gas lamps Meals with farmers.

In addition to the pictures promoting "Join Tiandihui and start a new life", there are many icons of agricultural technology, such as raising fish and ducks in rice fields, rice and mulberry mixed farming methods, biogas digesters, sparsely planted rice fields... There are also veterans on display in the stands The model sand table elaborately made by the model masters among us: there are panoramic "new countryside", "courtyard economy three-dimensional model display", "Australian-style comprehensive farm structure diagram" and "farm tools and machinery use model"...

Visitors have never seen such realistic pictures, let alone such delicate and detailed models, and they are all fascinated by it. When they saw the new farm tools and crops on display, many people showed strong interest.Those thick corn cobs, strong rice ears, full grains...

In addition to those who have known the "Australian Farming Law" for a long time, there are many people who came here just to get a rice ball at first. The personnel inquired about what sounded like the specific method of the Tiandihui.The staff members answered every question one by one, every question answered ten times, and all of them showed the energy of pyramid schemes to promote the various benefits of joining Tiandihui:

"The fields are flooded, what should I do if I have no harvest and can't pay taxes? It doesn't matter. Tiandi will have a loan, which can help you pay taxes first, and then pay it back when you collect it next year. The interest is easy to say-one cent a year, which is cheaper than you It is much cheaper to borrow in the village.

"The grain harvest is gone. Our Tiandihui will provide replanting services. We will provide seedlings for everyone who joins the Tiandihui? What, you have no money, it's okay, you owe it first, and you will pay it back when you collect it!

"The field was washed away by the water, it's okay! We have a big iron ox, and we will help you clear the land first. The price is easy to negotiate, and we owe it first."

"The last seven days are our Tiandihui's discount week service. For those who sign a contract this week, we will give you a [-]% discount on the service fee, and there will be a free land digging service!"

"The price is expensive? It's not expensive! Otherwise, you can always introduce a few more households to join our Tiandihui, sign a contract and I will give you a 5.00% service fee reduction. There is no upper limit. If you can bring a few, I will give it to you How much less, if you pull [-], you will be free for a whole year!"

Under the clever tongue of the staff, many self-cultivating farmers and small and medium-sized landlords who were in trouble after the disaster were moved.From the third day of the campaign, the sign-up rate started to increase
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