Chapter two hundred and eighteen.
Before traveling through time, I remember watching a movie describing World War II, called "Tiger Tiger!", so Wang Hou's designated production plan this time was called Cotton Mianmian! As the name suggests, the cotton cover he dug out from his father-in-law Cao Cao's garden finally came in handy!
It has been more than a year since we stole cotton. I wonder if new cotton has grown in Cao Cao's garden. Anyway, Wang Hou has a good housekeeper. Under Wang Fu's leadership, the cotton fields in Funiu Mountain have made great progress and have trained more than 50 cotton breeders. This time, there are more than ten cars of cotton seeds brought to Qingzhou.
Moreover, cotton likes light and is not very picky about land. The environment near Rizhao is extremely suitable for growing cotton. It can be called Rizhao. Needless to mention the lighting environment, no one comes to cultivate here. It is precisely because it is close to the seaside that the land is quite barren and not fertile, and there is not much yield of grain, but growing cotton is enough.
As for the production method, it is the responsibility system for household contract responsibility. If you put it bluntly, just share the land with small farmers and let them be responsible for production and cultivate self-cultivated farmers.
It sounds simple, but this method is of great significance to a dynasty. The reason why the Western Han Dynasty was able to rise up on the ruins of the Qin Dynasty was because the Han Dynasty followed the Qin Dynasty's strategy and rapidly attacked the deep-rooted clan forces in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period for hundreds of years, forcibly divided the clans. During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, local tyrants were forced to live in the capital, dismantling the fundamental basis for the restoration of the six countries and supporting the prosperity of the Western Han Dynasty. The Eastern Han Dynasty was to cultivate self-cultivated farmers as the social and economic foundation. The Eastern Han Dynasty could not surpass the previous dynasty from beginning to end, and it was because during the Eastern Han Dynasty, the power of local aristocratic families had already expanded. Even Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu had to rely on the power of the aristocratic families to establish the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Therefore, when it comes to the Western Han Dynasty, the fierce Hundred Years of War between Han and Hun! The Western Regions are connected, Liaodong is seized, and the three Hans are destroyed! However, by the Eastern Han Dynasty, most of the memories are only endless struggles between eunuchs and relatives! Moreover, by the end of the Han Dynasty, the dignity of the central court was weakened, and the local super-family tying the Han Empire easily torn apart.
Not only Han Han, but also Chinese history seemed to have fallen into this vicious circle. It founded the country, eliminated a large number of local separatist forces, and created a large amount of unowned land for self-cultivated farmers to distribute. However, with the development of the economy, the rich families of local tyrants rose up, and self-cultivated farmers went bankrupt. The bureaucratic families in the middle sucked the country and the poor farmers, causing severe social turmoil. Then peasant uprisings broke out everywhere, and ambitious people took advantage of the chaos and ended an era. Wars and chaos eliminated the population in large quantities, created unowned land, and entered the next cycle.
Even if the Song Dynasty was destroyed by foreign tribes, this was the reason. It was not that the greedy Bianliang bureaucratic families embezzled the military and horse breeding land established by Emperor Taizong of Song in Henan. When the Jin army crossed the Yellow River, why did there be no cavalry to fight? More than 400,000 imperial guards were trapped to death by more than 100,000 Jin troops?
In Dongjun and Rizhao, Wang Hou did this to reopen the work of an era and indirectly and directly re-cultivate self-cultivated farmers.
However, the scale of this time is much smaller than that of Dongjun. After all, Dongjun redistributes social property, and the land by the Yellow River is fertile and the plains are vast. All forces actively provide materials and means of production, and there are more than 80,000 real laborers who are put into production. It is strange that the scale is not large. In comparison, Rizhao is famous for its barren land. Wang Hou himself has limited help, and Rizhao City is composed of immigrants, which is far less human resources than Dongjun.
Even if Wang Hou was very active in this production mobilization meeting, the land that was actually contracted was only more than 80,000 acres of cotton fields.
However, the development of this cotton village seems to be more prosperous and brilliant than that of Dongjun.
Wang Hou has hoarded cement metal construction materials for more than a year and finally opened some. If you want to reclaim the land outside the city, it is essential to have a place to live? Moreover, everyone knows that under the propaganda offensive that Wang Hou has promoted the good cement building, warm in winter and cool in summer, and the discount on building building materials for small buildings, and the concessions that can only be made without interest loans, his architectural aesthetics has finally been recognized by the people!
On the construction land on the edge of cotton fields, while there was still half a month left to plow in spring, many employees who earned some cloth in the steel factory in winter took out the cloth they saved in exchange for building materials. Jia Xu saw the particularly awkward two-story cement buildings that rose from the ground. Two or three households built a building together. In the suburbs of Rizhao, there were about 200 small cement buildings.
Those refugees who escaped from war this spring were not as economically treated as such. They had no money to build a house, so they could only pick up some broken wood and stones at will to build a shack. It was more primitive like Wang Hou's strategy when he opened Funiu Mountain, just make a few piles of straw and have a place to sleep.
Although the place where they live is simple, these refugees were also transferred to Wang Houmianmian's plan. Because in the past few months of reclaiming cotton fields, the government has borrowed grain and agricultural tools from them. Although they don't know what the cotton Wang Hou asked them to plant, Wang Hou promised that two asbestos bouquets could be exchanged for one stone of wheat. In his original words, they were all poor anyway, so why not try it for a year? Even if they lose, they owe a lot of debts and just use oil to escape!
But what if I win?
The weather warmed a little bit, and Rizhao City seemed to gradually stabilize. Most of the crowded residential areas were emptied. In addition to the workers who still worked in steel mills in the city, the remaining 22,300 people have moved to the suburbs. The desolate seaside poverty fields that have not been cultivated for thousands of years have been desolate. Cows are squirting and selling coolies and starting to pull up ridges. Then cotton seeds are buried in the ridges. These magical crops from Central Asia, thousands of miles away, began to take root and sprout on the most eastern land in East Asia.
I don’t have the energy or strength to run a school here. Walking in the fields, I can still see a large group of little kids who don’t know anything, running around and playing around. The parents who worked hard to control the ox were so angry that they waved their hands and shouted there. The refreshing spring breeze blew from the beach, and the warm wind, facing the sunshine, the cotton seedlings that had just exposed their heads swayed like a green wave. Looking at this scene, Wang Hou took a deep breath of fragrance comfortably.
However, compared to his lord's relaxed and happy appearance, officials and advisers such as Jia Xu were not so comfortable. The old face was full of disgust, and his eyes passed by the ugly concrete building just built beside him. Then Jia Xu stinked an old face again and clasped his fists at Wang Hou stiffly.
"Dongweng, Jia heard a joke, it was very interesting. I would like to entertain the lord!"
"I don't want to listen!"
Wang Hou rolled his eyes and shook his head. Unfortunately, the lord's halo is not omnipotent, and opposition is ineffective. Jia Xu and he didn't see that, and then he shook his head and started shaking his head.
"Once upon a time, a native of Song passed by the beach and watched the people on the beach pile things with sand, which was very spectacular and strong. So he sold his property and hired a large number of workers to build a magnificent fortress on the beach with sand, which made him feel great about the lord!"
"But the lord's majesty was not so good for a few days, suddenly a big wave swept over, and the sand sculpture fortress of the Song people fell apart in an instant! The Song people, who had nothing, were covered with sand, and turned into a big sand sculpture, standing on the beach!"
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Chapter completed!