[Chapter 248] People's Commune! Women can hold half of the sky!

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This kind of money is incredible to outsiders. But it is not new to Xu Xingxia. In the early stage of Zhenshuobao, there must be a great price. As long as the foundation is well established, things will be easier to handle. In fact, many troops in later generations have been used to boost men in this way. He still clearly remembers a sentence: "It is glorious to be a revolutionary human trafficker!"

An adult male student only costs three cents of silver, and ten thousand adult male student only costs three thousand taels of silver. However, the value created by 10,000 adult male student must be far more than three thousand taels. How much can a ten thousand adult male student do? If all farms, at least more than 100,000 mu of land can be cultivated, and a grain production of at least 100,000 stones a year will be produced. If half of them join the army, there will be five thousand people. The 5,000 musket team equipped with Minni guns will definitely go sideways in Ningxia Town.

Besides, there are their families. These people can also create value. At that time, there was no saying that a business was planned. As long as they could have children, ordinary families would try their best to have children. Most military families had seven or eight families, and it was not uncommon for families with more than ten. It seemed that the Xu family had only five people, which was too few.

The large farms planned by Xu Xingxia are not just farms. They are actually equivalent to the people's commune in later generations. In addition to agriculture, there are also industry, commerce, and even the army. In short, workers, peasants, commerce, and soldiers are all available. Everyone relies on labor to obtain labor points. Different labor points are calculated. The more labor points you get, the more material rewards you can get, and the more opportunities you will be promoted.

Xu Xingxia did not think carefully about whether the people's commune method could work in the late Ming Dynasty. He was not a theorist and his relevant knowledge was not rich. However, he believed that other roads would definitely not work. It was impossible to distribute the fields to military households. Once they were divided, he would not be able to concentrate all his gains to the greatest extent. Now he must take all the resources he could use in his own hands.

Besides, after the fields are scattered, every household must be equipped with messy things such as farm tools, oxen and other things. This is a very complicated and trivial matter, which will involve the energy of many people and involve the ownership of these items. On the contrary, if it is turned into a people's commune, farm tools, oxen and so on, it can be handed over to the collective for management, which is simple and quick.

Who is the collective? To put it bluntly, it is Xu Xingxia himself. Everything in the commune is essentially his personal private property. The white-clothed army is his armed servant, while ordinary military households are his tenants. Well, it is incorrect to say that tenants are not operated in the way of tenants, but should be said to be purely working. They only obtain rated money and grain from the people's commune, and nothing else belongs to them.

Will the military households welcome this operation method? Xu Xingxia is probably popular. Because those military households who have escaped must have no surplus food on their bodies. Military households who have surplus food can continue to live may not come easily. For those military households who have no life, if they share the fields with them, they must wait until the food is harvested before they have the chance to fill their stomachs. This can take several months. The way of the people's commune is that as long as you come, you will have food and work, which is seamlessly connected.

For Xu Xingxia, it is also a troublesome to allocate the fields to military households. It is difficult to operate how much they divide and how they divide them. It may take several months just to measure the fields. Does he have such manpower and material resources? No! In his command, except for a very small number of people such as Wang Qinian, there are not many people who know how to settle accounts. With so many fields and so many military households, how to calculate? How to draw lots? How to combine them? How to fair?

People don’t worry about being weak, but only worry about unevenness. This is what the old man said to be dead. It doesn’t matter if the military households live a poor life a little bit, but the key is that they cannot feel unfair. It is difficult to achieve fairness by dividing land and land. The fields are always good and bad, and how to match them is a problem. With the Chinese people’s bad nature, no matter how they match them, there will definitely be people cursing them. Xu Xingxia has seen too many such examples, whether in previous or later life.

The number of military households is different, and the number of males is different. How to determine how many acres of land each person should obtain? Does the elderly have a distinction between women? Does the children have a distinction between children? This is all a troublesome. No matter how you decide, there will definitely be someone who is not satisfied. Instead of working hard and ending up with a thankless result, it is better not to distinguish it. Just come to my field to work and I will give you food, which is both convenient and simple.

If the people's commune is a factory, these foreign military households are workers. If you have the ability, you will work, no matter if you are a man, an elderly person, a woman, a child, or a soldier! Even if some military households think that doing this does not meet their requirements, they will only choose to leave at most. Behind them, more military households will come. The only thing Xu Xingxia needs to manipulate is the amount of money and food he gives them.

"Mr. Qianhu... can I send out the owed money and grain?" A military householder asked expectantly. The other military householders also looked at Xu Xingxia helplessly with their eyes. The Tartars washed Zhenshuobao completely. After they came back to Zhenshuobao, they could no longer find any food to fill their stomachs. I am afraid that it will not be easy to pass this winter!

"I can only apply to the superiors and ask the superiors to issue the issue as soon as possible. However, the number is too large and I guess there is no need to issue it. You are not unaware of the situation of the superiors. They will not care about our lives or death. If we want to live a good life, we still have to count on ourselves, not others." Xu Xingxia shook her head and said in a cold tone.

The military households present were all a little disappointed. If the money and grain owed by the superiors could be distributed, they should be able to spend this winter. The amount of money and grain owed by each of them was not small. If all of them were distributed, it would be no problem to support for one or two years. However, since even Xu Xingxia said so, it seems that it is indeed very unrestrained.

Chen Denglong said: "Don't worry, Lord Qianhu has said that our White Army has sufficient money and food. As long as you do things for our White Army, you can get rich returns. There is no problem at all when you spend this winter."

The military household, who led the lead, said: "I don't know what Lord Qianhu wants us to do?"

Xu Xingxia said calmly: "Of course I'm building a house! Build the house first, and everything else is easy to say! If there is no house, I'm afraid I can't get through this winter!"

At this time, Gao Zhengcheng had already arrived with several backbone military households. They had just completed the specific area inside Zhenshuobao, where should Qianhuobao be built, the location of the craftsmen workshops, stables, training grounds, military camps, armorys, gunpowder depots and other buildings, and they had also been determined. Compared with Weizhen Fort, the biggest advantage of Zhenshuobao is that the internal space is large, and when arranging the buildings, there is a lot of room for maneuvering.

The first five hundred thatched huts were arranged by Gao Zhengcheng and others in the southwest corner of Zhenshuobao. This is a relatively leeward area. Even if the north wind blows, the harm to the thatched hut will not be great. In the future, behind the thatched huts, there will be a large number of bricks and tiles, which can effectively block the north wind. As we all know, thatched huts are exposed on all sides. If they are built in a position with wind, this winter will definitely be tragic.

"Everyone comes here! Let's talk while walking!"

Xu Xingxia immediately called everyone over and discussed the construction of the house on the spot.

There is no problem when building a house, the military households present. They have the strength to work. As long as they can eat enough, they can work constantly. The first thing they need to do to build a house is to prepare wood, prepare stones, and excavate the foundation. These tasks can be done by men and women, and even some children can do.

"Use labor points to exchange for food." Xu Xingxia said concisely.

The operation method of the people's commune began to operate from now on. Xu Xingxia's advice was that adult men would do a day's work and give three labor points. Adult women would do a day's work and give two and a half labor points. Children or the elderly would do a day's work and give one and a half labor points. Each labor point could be exchanged for one pound of grain. If a military family had eight people, basically, they could earn more than ten pounds of grain a day.

The military households were quite satisfied with such remuneration, especially military families with few males and even no males. This time, Morigen attacked Zhenshuobao and almost all the males in Zhenshuobao were cleared. Most of the remaining ones were women and children. In the past, no matter what they did, they were basically counted only males, not women and children. Now, with Xu Xingxia's kindness, they can also support themselves through labor.

There are probably as many as 3,000 women and children who temporarily live in Weizhen Fort. Of course, these people cannot eat and work in vain. No matter how capable Xu Xingxia is, she cannot afford to support so many idle people. He must let them create value. In later generations, women can handle it for a long time, and Xu Xingxia does not think that women will be weaker than men at all. Therefore, when considering the problem, he took the women into consideration without hesitation.

The military women in the Ming Dynasty had a relatively big feature, which was that they did not bind their feet. Even if they did heavy work, they were not inferior to men. Some military women could even pick 180 kilograms of stones. Such women were only counted as two and a half points, which was actually a loss. However, the overall social atmosphere at that time was like this, so Xu Xingxia could only do this.
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