The necessities of people's livelihood are food, clothing, housing and transportation.

This was the second winter after the rebels settled in Julu City. Last winter, when hundreds of thousands of refugees arrived in Julu City, they were short of clothing and food. If they had not been properly deployed, it is estimated that half of them would have froze to death that winter last year.

It's getting colder this year, but the situation is much better. Julu has seen two seasons of food, and at least there is no shortage of food. In terms of clothing, this year is not much better than last year, and the situation is even worse, because this year is different from last year.

In comparison, there was not much fabric input, so people wore their clothes for an extra year and became even more worn out.

But apart from clothing, other logistical support is extremely sufficient.

Last winter, when supplies were scarce, we had no choice but to come up with many ways to keep out the cold, such as the igloo method, the method of using ginger water to keep out the cold, the fire kang method, and the method of weaving wheat straw to keep out the cold, etc.

Ways to combat the cold.

The conditions are much better this year. There is no need to use igloos. As early as after the autumn planting, in order to prepare for the cold winter, the Julu engineering team arrived in every village to help the villagers build houses. In a few months, even though it could not be done in Julu countryside,

There is one room per person, but even if it is crowded, it can be fully lived in.

When resources remain unchanged, if coordinated properly, the living standards of everyone can be greatly improved.

For example, a certain family has a big house, but there is little food in the house, and a certain family has a dilapidated house, but has a lot of food in the house. In winter, the house is strong but there is no food, and the body is not full and warm, and it is trembling. Those who have food, the house

There is air leakage everywhere, and no matter how full you are, you will still get cold. This means that everyone who has a house and food will suffer from the cold.

And if resources can be used as a whole, those who have food can discuss with those who have houses, and take some food to live in the homes of people who have houses to spend the winter. In this way, two families can squeeze into one house to spend the winter, and those who lack a house can have a warm house.

With enough food to eat, both families had a warm winter.

This is the role of coordinating resources.

But the actual situation is that resources cannot be coordinated at all. People who have food value food more than their lives. They would rather be frozen or have to eat more to fight the cold than think about using food to live in others.

At home, similarly, when a person who is short of food at home is hungry and frightened, he looks at his neighbor's dilapidated house and thinks to himself, look at how warm my house is, look at your dilapidated house, see if you can

Survive the winter.

There is a thought-provoking story. It is said that broth is boiling in heaven and hell, and at the same time, everyone has a long spoon in his hand. Such a spoon cannot be fed to his own mouth.

People in heaven will help each other and feed each other with spoons. People in hell don’t help each other, they are all hungry, so it is obviously the same broth. People in heaven eat in vain, but people in hell do not.

Hungry and skinny.

Where resources are scarce, people become more selfish.

The poorer the village, the more indifferent and mutually exclusive the people are.

This is an endless cycle with no solution. The more resources are scarce, the more poverty there is. The more intense the competition among people for those resources, the more indifferent and selfish human nature becomes. But similarly, the more selfish and indifferent human nature is, the more resources are coordinated between each other.

The more difficult it is and the resources cannot be used in a coordinated way, the more poverty there will be.

There are two families in the countryside. One has a warm house but little food, and the other has a lot of food and a dilapidated house. Both families suffer from the cold every winter because of their ignorance, short-sightedness, difficulty in coordinating resources, conflicts between neighbors, and

For various complex reasons, it is impossible to coordinate resources between the two households.

The situation in Julu is completely different. Julu has already adopted a preliminary collective work model.

Li Mengxi spent so much effort to completely tear down the people in Julu Countryside. Now in Julu Countryside, in a village, the population comes from all directions. In one village, there are not even three or five people from the same village.

No one belongs to the village, and neither does the house. Legally speaking, all the land and houses belong to the public and are not private property, so distribution is much simpler.

Because it is not a private property, in the winter, the villagers moved to whichever house they felt was warmer, and everyone lived together without anyone having any objections.

Resource coordination, which is extremely difficult to achieve in ordinary rural areas, occurs naturally in preliminary collective farms.

On a snowy winter day, dogs can freeze to death outside. In one camp, the campers huddled in the house. A fire was lit in the house, and the fire was burning hot. A group of campers in thin clothes were wrapped in quilts.

We gathered around the fire to keep out the cold, and the red flames burned everyone's faces brightly red.

Very few ordinary people in the country have the luxury to light a fire from day to night to keep out the cold. According to this method, no one can carry firewood.

The reason why Julu Tun Point can have the luxury of setting the fire from morning to night is because of overall coordination.

This involves cost issues. If people live in family units and a family of five lights a fire, only those five people can keep out the cold. The maximum utilization efficiency of a fire is that when a fire is lit, the whole house is covered with water.

Hot, a fire can satisfy the needs of at least twenty people to keep out the cold.

But there are only five people in a family, and lighting a fire can only meet the needs of five people to keep out the cold. At the same time, the firewood for a family is not enough to light it continuously from day to night.

At this time, the way to meet everyone's cold protection needs with limited firewood is to coordinate and maximize the utilization efficiency of firewood.

A fire can heat a house, so fill the house with people. Suppose a house can hold twenty people, and each of the twenty people can put together a portion of firewood, which is enough to keep them warm day and night.

Through the overall planning method, the heating cost has been reduced several times in disguise, which is equivalent to increasing the quantity of firewood several times.

After the cost was reduced several times, it became affordable to have a bonfire from day to night.

This was the first peaceful winter for the people of Julu after the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

This winter, most people feel bored. Boredom seems to only appear in princes and nobles. It is strange for this kind of emotion to appear in people.

For ordinary people who are accustomed to busy work, they are used to being busy from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, and are used to being busy all year long.

But in winter, people can only huddle in their houses and can't do anything.

After agriculture, the best productive activity is undoubtedly weaving.

However, the loom has not yet been finalized and has not yet been mass-produced, so it is impossible to operate one loom per person.

Except for weaving, all the remaining production is not enough to support long-term production.

In their spare time, the common people can weave baskets, straw sandals, mats and straw hats, but the demand for these things is not large, so they can make a bunch of them after a while. These things are not very useful, and they are not very useful.

No matter how much quantity is needed, the government will not buy it in large quantities, so it cannot be sold even if it is compiled.

When all production was almost saturated and heavy snow closed the winter, the people of Julu became bored.

In a village, the white snow has covered the village. Among the white snow, there are scattered houses. There are eighty or ninety houses in the village, half of them are dilapidated, half of them are left, and half of them are uninhabited. All the campers are gathered here.

Went to the warmest house.

In the largest house in the village, there was no room for sleeping. The whole house was covered with beds, and no less than twenty people were crowded in it.

It was windy outside, the door was closed tightly, and a fire was lit at the door. The fire was burning brightly, making the whole room very hot.

On the fire was hanging an urn, and the water in the urn was boiling.

The man near the urn got up from the bed and yawned sleepily. He looked at the boiling water and said to everyone, "The ginger water is boiled, who wants to drink it?"

Most of the people lying in the room, asleep and in a daze, shook their heads in refusal.

Ginger water is very effective in keeping out the cold. Drinking a bowl of hot ginger water will make your whole body sweat. A bowl of hot ginger water can keep you warm for two hours. Ginger water was originally an excellent weapon to keep out the cold, but now that people are rich, firewood is enough to keep out the cold.

Now, no one wants to drink ginger water anymore. After drinking the ginger water, I feel very tired. If I drink ginger water while roasting the fire, I feel even more tired.

A convoy came to this farm.

The strong mules pulling the cart made a grunting sound, and the snow under the wheels crunched. When they arrived at the village, looking at the quiet village, the driver jumped out of the car and shouted at the top of his lungs, "Tofu~"

Who wants tofu~"

With a creak, the door opened.

A farmer trotted over with his neck hunched and carrying half a basket of beans.

A tofu seller came over every day. Both parties were used to it. It was cold and neither of them said a word. The tofu seller quickly weighed the beans.

The ratio of twenty-three pounds of beans to tofu is: one pound of beans to one pound and eighty ounces of tofu, and twenty-three pounds of beans to thirty-six pounds and four ounces of tofu.

The farmer came with only half a basket of beans, but returned with a basket full of tofu.

When the farmer returned to the house with the tofu, the people who were sleeping were no longer sleeping, and everyone happily took out their own small jars to share the tofu.

In just a moment, the basket of tofu was distributed. The peasants gathered the tofu over the fire, added water, and cooked it for a while. When the soup was hot, they broke up the dry pancakes and put them in and cooked for a while. They couldn't wait long.

The meal is ready in one go.

Tofu already contains a lot of salt, so there is no need to add additional salt. Just stew the tofu and it will be delicious.

After having a hearty meal, the peasants covered their heads with quilts and went to sleep again.

How can such days not be boring?

The tofu sold by the government deliberately added a lot of salt. The purpose was to use salt to bind the sales of tofu, and then use the tofu to take back the precious beans from the hands of the people. So far, it seems that this policy is very successful.

Collectivization has an unexpected special effect. If it is an ordinary village, some people will be very frugal. Even if they have beans in their hands, they will not exchange them for tofu. They would rather eat bran vegetables. Even if the tofu is sold extremely cheap, even if the tofu is added with

Even with salt, it is inevitable that some old people will remain indifferent.

But collectivization has brought about a collective life. Others buy tofu together, and everyone eats the tofu when they buy it. If you don’t buy it, watch others eat it, and others kindly give you another two yuan. If you feel bad, you will have to pay it back next time.

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It doesn't matter if the door is small or the household is small. Everyone lives with the door closed and doesn't care about what others eat. You can't see anything with the door closed.

But in a collective life, everyone eats together, and it is impossible to keep out of sight and keep in mind.

This inadvertently made selling tofu go more smoothly.
Chapter completed!