LOL: Summoner of Goddess Janna

The two men, Jie and Shen, rose into the air and flew into the air following the evil soul aura.

The two quickly flew out of Weili City and flew to the vast countryside outside the city. Village after village passed quickly under them, and finally:

"It's only ten miles ahead." Shen warned accurately this time.

"Ten miles ahead...where is the evil spirit?" Jie's expression showed a hint of solemnity.

"What's wrong, robbery?" Shen turned to look at his friend: "Is there some important place ten miles ahead?"

"Yes." Jie replied thoughtfully: "That's Nanmu Village, a very ordinary village in the past."

"But now, it is one of the first important pilot villages set up by the Ionia branch in Navoli Province to verify the feasibility of rural collective enterprises."

"Rural collective enterprise pilot?" Shen Wei was stunned.

He knew what this so-called rural collective enterprise was.

To be precise, it should be called a collective enterprise-oriented countryside.

Or to go straight to the essence, it is a village community with collective ownership, but it is just operated with the logic of an enterprise in a market environment.

This concept is not unfamiliar to Ionia today.

Because when Li Wei was giving the Ionian comrades blood before the war, in addition to launching a cannon of "comprehensive modernization under equilibrium", he also proposed a "rural collective enterprise" Beautiful idea.

And the reason why he came up with this idea was not that he was planning to run into the main body of Janna. Otherwise, he would not have emphasized that this is just a collective enterprise under a market economy environment.

The reason why Levi proposed this idea is very simple and well-founded.

Because in the future Rune Land, the intensification of agricultural production must be the general trend.

Agricultural intensification facilitates unified management, scientific planting, continuous management, and large crop area, thereby improving agricultural production efficiency, resource utilization efficiency, resource allocation efficiency, improving product quality, ensuring food safety, and increasing food production.

In contrast, it is difficult for loose small-scale farmers to concentrate their efforts on transforming agricultural facilities and pooling capital to import agricultural machinery and fertilizers. Not to mention low production efficiency, its own ability to resist risks is also very insufficient in the face of market fluctuations.

And as the world becomes integrated in the future and industrialization gradually advances in Runeland, a large number of Ionian farmers will definitely leave the countryside, move overseas, and work and settle in cities.

The rural labor force in Ionia will be greatly reduced, and the phenomenon of land abandonment will become more and more serious. This has caused a waste of land resources.

And if these Ionian farmers who came to the city did not want to abandon their land for nothing, they could only rent the land use rights to large grain growers and agricultural companies in their hometowns.

The result is a disguised shift towards agricultural intensification.

It's just that a big grain grower will have a headache looking at the fragmented land he rents from small farmers. This kind of fragmented land that is difficult to manage in a unified manner will drag down the efficiency of agricultural production.

"That's why President Levi thought it would be better to get it right from the beginning." Shen recalled what he had seen more than a year ago.

At that time, the leader was vigorously carrying out social transformation in Ionia.

While Li Wei hopes to conquer the local tycoons and divide the fields in Ionia, he also tries to not divide the fields in some areas, but directly transfers the land use rights to the collective ownership of the village community, and manages and operates it in the form of a collective enterprise. .

Under this model, villagers are no longer loosely independent small farmers, but shareholders of a collective agricultural company.

Through voluntary association, democratic management, risk sharing, and benefit sharing, we have not only achieved agricultural intensification, but also protected everyone’s personal interests. It seems to have the best of both worlds.

The managers of collective enterprises are also leaders elected by the villagers themselves.

If you have faith to ensure the purity of corporate managers, you will not be afraid that the collective enterprise will change its flavor as it is run, so that it will inexplicably suffer huge losses, be inexplicably bankrupt and sold, and inexplicably become the private property of the company manager's family.

"This is a good idea, but..." Today, Shen still feels that Levi's original idea was good.

But something went wrong at the first step.

Because it is easy to conquer a country, but it is difficult to sit on it.

The leader has been making waves before, and it has been a smooth journey, with almost no major setbacks along the way.

They can always win the welcome and support of all the people at the bottom in the most perfect and most satisfactory way.

In addition, Levi himself has been winning all the way with the goddess Janna. He has not received enough training, and his philistine habits have not diminished. He is hesitant in doing things and is determined to reform, but he does not dare to face the side effects of reform...

Therefore, the overall governance idea of ​​the leader was to cater to public opinion as much as possible and win as much praise from the masses as possible.

They regard themselves as ideal ideal rulers and cannot bear to hear any voice of dissatisfaction.

Therefore, the first principle of rural collective enterprises that leaders try to promote is——

Voluntary association.

But are the farmers of Ionia willing to unite?

Of course not!

The biggest dream of farmers is to become landlords.

Now the "villages next door" are dividing their fields, and everyone has their own land.

Why can't they own their own land? Instead, they have to hand it over to some "collective enterprise" for unified management?

These Ionian farmers who have just come out of the old society and have no prenatal education per capita cannot understand what "company", "shareholders", "equity", "dividends"...

From the Ionian perspective, the collective enterprise that the Leader wants them to establish is the new landowner who is weighing on them.

Unless they hold the land directly in their own hands, they will still be tenant farmers.

Everyone is unwilling to unite, and the leader wants them to unite, but is unwilling to break the rules of voluntary alliance.

The result of this is...

None of the rural collective enterprises envisioned by Li Wei came to fruition.

The leader has accomplished nothing and even caused public outrage and resentment.

"Wasn't this plan stopped a year ago?" Shen looked at Jie with some confusion: "Why is it starting to be piloted again now?"

"This..." Zed looked helpless: "It's a long story."

Shen has been busy doing environmental assessments for more than a year, so he naturally doesn't understand the situation in rural areas.

The land distribution policy implemented at the beginning did indeed make the vast number of poor peasants in Ionia turn around, and gave the poor peasants who were originally forced to work for the landlords a high degree of enthusiasm for production.

"But do you know, Shen?" Jie asked: "Our Wind Leader Association's grain purchase plan in Navoli and Baru'e provinces has only completed less than 70%."

"The food exported from Ionia to overseas this year is actually less than the Noxian statistics in previous years."

"The price of food on the market now is almost the same as it was during the war."

"Huh?" Shen was slightly startled.

As a great master, of course he would not buy food and cook for himself. He really didn't notice the abnormal food prices this year.

"How is this possible?" Shen couldn't figure it out.

The war is over, and the leader has allocated fields to the vast number of Ionian farmers.

Ionia has also had good weather this year. Not only did it not suffer any major disasters, it also ushered in a bumper harvest.

A stable production environment far away from the war, the enthusiasm for production brought by dividing the fields, and a bumper harvest brought by God's good work. This set of positive buffs stacks up...

“Shouldn’t this year’s grain production be higher than in the past?”

How can we allow grain exports to decrease, grain prices to rise, and even Leader’s official grain purchase plan to fail to be completed?

Shen really couldn't understand.

"Because the farmers' lives have become better." Jie gave an unexpected answer.

"?" Shen was still puzzled.

Isn't this a good thing? How can it still cause food prices to rise?

"It's certainly a good thing for Ionia's farmers."

"In the past, under the oppression of the landlords and Noxian invaders, they could only eat a pitiful amount of wild vegetable porridge and coarse grain steamed buns every day. They could only eat a meal of white rice every few months, and there was not necessarily a mouthful of meat all year round. .”

"They barely maintained their lives in this way. And the food they worked hard to produce was plundered by the landlords and colonists to the maximum extent possible, and was sold on the market in exchange for their personal wealth."

"But now, they've turned over."

"They can eat white rice and noodles every day, and use the excess grain to raise pigs and chickens, so they can eat meat every month."

In the past, the poor peasants of Ionia could only eat the minimum life-sustaining meals.

But now, they eat more, eat well, and are able to hoard surplus food.

"This..." Shen gradually heard something was wrong.

Assume that an Ionian tenant farmer's annual output is 1,000 kilograms of grain.

In the past, they were exploited by the landlords and colonists. 800 pounds out of 1,000 pounds were paid to the master as rent.

A master may have hundreds of tenant farmers under his command. He receives 800 kilograms from each tenant and keeps a small part of it for hoarding, which is already a large amount.

So when the landlord receives 800 catties, he will store 200 catties himself and sell the rest.

Then there are 600 kilograms of grain on the market;

Now Ionian farmers have turned over and divided their fields, and their enthusiasm for production has increased. One person's annual output is 1,200 kilograms of grain.

Assume that the leader's tax is only 200 pounds. They eat another 300 kilograms themselves, and use another 100 kilograms to raise pigs and chickens to improve their food.

Because they were scared of hunger in the past, they had to stock up on another 300 kilograms for emergencies.

In the end, there were only 300 kilograms of grain left that could be sold on the market.

then...

Production has increased, but the amount of commercial grain on the market has been greatly reduced.

In a market environment, what will happen if there is less food supply on the market?

"So the speculators got wind of the situation and got together to collect grain and speculate on it."

"When farmers saw the sharp rise in grain prices, they became even more unwilling to accept the official purchase price given by the leader, and began to spontaneously stockpile and store grain in order to sell it at a higher price."

There is a shortage of commercial grain, and grain prices rise. When grain prices skyrocket, no one is in a hurry to sell grain.

In the end, the leader could not purchase food, and Ionia's food exports to overseas countries were greatly reduced.

"This..." Shen understood.

To put it bluntly, compared to the past squire tyrants and Noxian colonists who continued to fish from the bottom of the lake, the Leader took too little from the Ionian farmers.

The benevolent policy of dividing farmland and reducing taxes actually triggered a wave of grain speculation and caused difficulties in the supply of commercial grain.

"But we are the leaders." Shen said hesitantly: "Ionian farmers finally turned around. They want to eat well and live a better life. What's wrong with that?"

"Alas..." Jie sighed: "There is always a discrepancy between ideals and reality."

“Real-life problems are very complex, and it’s not always possible to find a solution that satisfies everyone.”

Just like now: The living standards of Ionia's farmers have improved, but Ionia's external exports have plummeted.

And Ionia can't earn enough money on its own... No matter how thick the health bar of Big Brother Zaun is, no matter how selfless his support is like a brother, it is impossible for a person of such a size to rely solely on their transfer payments. A huge backward agricultural country developed.

"As a backward agricultural country, if Ionia does not extract enough surplus from agriculture, it will not be able to quickly realize the primitive accumulation of seed benzene, and it will not be able to develop industry and enter modernization as early as possible."

"Of course we can 'govern by doing nothing' and let everyone drink and eat meat and live an pastoral life of small farmers."

"But if we don't move towards industrialization and modernization and let people keep farming in the countryside, then as time goes by, the population will continue to grow and the per capita cultivated land area will continue to decrease..."

"The living standards of farmers in Ionia will only get worse and worse."

“It will take less than two generations for the so-called pastoral pastoral to turn into unsolvable systemic poverty.”

In order to avoid this desperate outcome, the collectivization of agriculture is imperative.

The administrative costs for individual small farmers are too high. Leaders cannot go door-to-door to persuade small farmers to hoard less grain and sell surplus grain.

However, if hundreds of small farmers are integrated into a large collective enterprise...

The leader only needs to send someone to deliver an official document on "Combating Grain Speculation" to corporate managers, and he can easily stimulate companies to sell their hoarded surplus grain, stabilize grain prices, and solve the market-wide grain shortage.

Only then can Ionia's food exports increase, and more capital can be obtained to invest in modernization.

"I see..." Shen nodded with mixed feelings.

But he thought about it and said, "But there's no need for us to do it too hastily, right?"

Unlike Levi's previous life, the leader of this world is invincible.

Ionia is protected by the goddess Janna, and if it doesn't immediately develop industry and enhance its overall national strength, it will be hunted and strangled by the international community surrounded by wolves.

To the Ionians, far from being an enemy, the other side of the sea was a brotherly country where each of them could freely go and settle.

This greatly reduces the need for rapid industrialization.

"Jie, didn't you say before that the association has changed its work route and only plans to build a 'balanced priority limited modernization' in Ionia?"

Since Ionia's future positioning is already a tourist destination with little industry + the world's breadbasket.

Then there is no need to build so many factories, and there is no need to rush to extract surplus from agriculture and increase export income?

"You're right." Zed nodded in agreement with Shen's question this time.

Because they saw the chaos in the grain market, some people within the leaders have been making calls for comprehensive collectivization of the countryside.

However, out of the same considerations as Shen, the top leaders of the Leader finally decided to let Ionia speed up the pace slightly and take a gentler path to modernization.

"That's why we have only launched a batch of rural collective enterprise pilot projects and only implemented rural collective enterprises in some areas of Ionia. We are not in a hurry to fully promote this model."

"Moreover, even if the pilot is successful in the end, we have no plans to use direct administrative measures to implement this law."

This pilot is not only for the leaders, but also for the majority of Ionians.

The production efficiency of rural collective enterprises with intensive and large-scale production, under the effective management of leaders with the blessing of faith, is definitely higher than that of loose small farmers.

Coupled with Ionia's relaxed international environment and limited modernization needs, the surplus that Ionia needs to extract from agriculture and the burden it places on the countryside have become less exaggerated than imagined.

The output is high, and not so much needs to be taken away.

Therefore, even if rural collective enterprises cooperate with the policy to sell surplus grain, the living standards of their village community members may not be much worse than that of Ionian small farmers who work alone.

"We hope to build these pilot enterprises into successful examples of agricultural collectivization, so that Ionian farmers can see the benefits of rural collective enterprises and get rid of the independent small farmer mentality."

"Introduce some policies to provide targeted subsidies to villages that are willing to set up collective enterprises..."

If you are willing to work together, you can buy Zaun's fertilizers, pesticides and agricultural machinery at subsidized prices.

And partnership means concentration of capital. The fruits of everyone's labor are gathered together, and naturally there is money to buy agricultural machinery that is very expensive for individuals.

As time went by, those who worked in partnership started to drive tractors, seeders, and combine harvesters, while small farmers who worked alone were still digging the ground with hoes and driving old oxen to pull plows...

Then everyone will naturally see the gap and actively invest in rural collective enterprises.

"In short, we will first withstand the dissatisfaction of some people, use administrative means to achieve partial collectivization in Ionia, and ease the pressure on commercial grain supply."

"When these batches of rural collective enterprises are successful, Ionian farmers' ideas will change, and then they will be promoted on a large scale through subsidies and incentives."

Let some people unite unwillingly at first, and then unite first to drive cooperation, and then let more people unite voluntarily.

This is the goal of the leader.

As he said that, Zhe looked at his old friend seriously: "Shen, do you know now why this little Nanmu Village is so important?"

This is the first batch of pilot villages, and it is a benchmark that will affect the implementation of the leader's policies. Its significance is of course important.

"That's it." Shen nodded secretly.

"But..." While flying in the wind, he looked at the village in front of him that was gradually showing its outline.

The breath of evil spirits is in that direction.

"But this evil spirit is not here. Is it because of this policy?" Shen was a little confused.

This collectivization transformation policy of the leader has at most caused dissatisfaction and vigilance among small farmers.

But the small farmers are at best temporarily dissatisfied.

They were rescued by the Wind Leader from the powerful squires and Noxian invaders more than a year ago. They wouldn't summon evil spirits to attack the pilot village just because of this dissatisfaction, right?

Even if there are crazy people who can do this, do they have the ability?

The person with such extraordinary power is not only a sect elder, but also a powerful person from a wealthy family.

But these people hate everything about the leader, and they will not specifically oppose this policy.

"Yes." Zed nodded: "So what I'm worried about is that the other party is not coming for the pilot village, but for the leader."

Because Nanmu Village is the only collective enterprise pilot in the Weili area, a considerable number of leading grassroots cadres have gathered here.

But this place is not like Weili City, where a strong man like Youjie is personally in charge.

In other words: "If someone wants to retaliate against the leader indiscriminately, then..."

Zed used his rich experience in attacking Noxians indiscriminately in the past few years, and judged in a solemn tone:

"This is the best target!"