Chapter 182 Customers of Tiandihui

Lack of funds has always plagued the county schools here. When it comes to investment in education, Lingao County has four to five hundred acres of school land, which cannot be said to be ignored. School land is a type of official land, and as usual there are official tenants -

This is the family of Lu Jia, Wu Nanhai's disciple. This system was implemented well in the early years, but over time it inevitably became full of disadvantages. The burden of official tenants was too heavy, and gradually the tenants began to flee, and now it is almost non-existent.

1. No one responded to the call for tenants. Wang Ci was a scholar and had no idea about economics. He was helpless except asking for help everywhere. Hundreds of acres of good paddy fields outside the county gate were wasted in vain. The county school

But he was so poor that he couldn't even afford the pigs used to sacrifice Confucius several times a year. Scholars in the county school had not been able to receive tuition money for many years, and they rarely came to the school.

It was a desolate place. It was hard to find the money to repair the Confucian Temple, and the famous Molixuan Academy had become a dilapidated building.

The so-called emergency medical treatment, Wang Ci saw that the county school was deteriorating day by day. It was impossible to ask the county to provide money to maintain it, and asking the gentry for donations was not a long-term solution. We still had to start by rectifying the school fields. But scholars are not engaged in farming.

, and no one was willing to come to sharecrop the land. When he heard that the Australians were willing to help farm the land, Wang Ci came to ask for their help.

Ye Yuming didn't dare to make the decision himself, so he quickly reported it to the Agricultural Committee. Wu Nanhai had long been coveting the school field outside the west gate of the county. When he heard about it, he immediately agreed, asking Ye Yuming to take over, and follow the "

VIP” treatment to provide technical services.

At present, Tiandihui and Lingao County Jiaoyu Wangci have signed a technical service contract. Strictly speaking, this is no longer a technical service contract, but more like a contract. Because there are currently only a few government tenants on the school field who are barely surviving and farming.

, there are no workers at all. Everything has to be solved by the Heaven and Earth Association.

This matter attracted Wu De's great attention - it was the first step for Chuanchuan Group to enter the official land of Lingao. So it was reported to the executive committee, and everyone felt that this was a good opportunity to further control the Lingao County Government. The county

Although the school is just an educational institution, it is the management organization for scholars in the county. Being able to gain a good reputation in this matter will be of great benefit to win over the hearts and minds of local intellectuals.

In the end, in accordance with the inertia of the Chinese people, this matter was upgraded from a simple commercial activity to a political level. Both the county government and the executive committee paid "high attention" to it and sent personnel for "close consultation."

According to Wu Daling's opinion, it is best not to provoke this group of thieves, but if Wang Ci wants to do this, he can't stop him. The most important historical site in the county, Moli Pavilion, is about to collapse, and the county school is also in dilapidated condition. He has not spent a penny of repair funds so far.

It has not been allocated, and it can only be repaired with donations from Liu Dalin and the gentry of the county. In the past few years, Wang Ci has not received a penny from the county except for his own poor salary. He relies on soliciting money from everywhere.

It is only through sponsorship that the county school can be maintained.

Master Wang argued that this matter was good and gave many reasons. Magistrate Wu originally thought of letting this matter go, but after Wang Zhaomin analyzed it, he felt that it would be good for the county and not bad, so he completely acquiesced.

Of course, his personal benefits are also indispensable.

The members of the Committee of Agriculture personally took action - Wu Nanhai became the main person in charge of the Xuedian project. He took two brothers, Lu A and Lu B, to personally inspect the Xuedian.

Wang Ci led the few remaining tenants of Xuetian, including Lu Da, the father of the Lu family brothers. He was the head of Xuetian, and he was half a manager, but his appearance was not much better than the others. These ten or so people were

At the end of the field, we welcome the arrival of this "chief".

Wu Nanhai and Wang Ci exchanged pleasantries. Wang Jiaoyu was a scholar after all. Although he could not speak Mandarin, he could still speak poor Guangzhou vernacular. The two of them talked and gestured, and they were able to communicate without an interpreter.

This was the first time that Wang Ci saw the leader of the "Kun Thieves" up close. When he saw that the man had an upright appearance and kind eyes, he was not the vicious person he had imagined, and a stone fell in his heart.

"This time we have to work Mr. Wu." Wang Ci bowed, "Farming is not a trivial matter, and the quality of the school fields is even more related to the morale of Lingao's articles..."

"I understand this." Wu Nanhai smiled, "Don't worry, there will definitely be a good harvest in autumn!"

Wang Ci thought to himself: why did this person talk big words when he first came up, and didn't even say a polite word? He was really a barbarian from overseas.

"Then I have to rely more on you."

"This is the head of the village in charge of the school field, Lu Da." Wang Ci shouted, "Why don't you come over and see Mr. Wu!"

Lu Da ran over and kowtowed. This was the first time for Wu Nanhai to see his apprentice's father. He was thin and small and looked like a traditional farmer. He wore blue homespun clothes and knotted clothes. He was no better than a beggar.

Wu Nanhai first inspected the situation of the school field, and after seeing it, he even expressed his regret. This school field was much better than the land they saw in Meitaiyang. It was close to the river bank, it was easy to divert water, and there was no problem of waterlogging. It was considered to be the best in the local area.

Good land.

Lu Dagong respectfully handed over the farm acreage booklet. Wu Nanhai couldn't understand the schematic diagram that looked like ghost drawings, so he just asked: "How many fields are there? How many paddy fields and how many dry fields?"

"Replying to the master, the paddy fields total three hundred and twenty-six acres and one quarter, the dry land is one hundred and fifteen acres, and the garden land is thirteen acres."

"Is there no other place?"

"there is none left."

"What are you growing?"

Lu Da reported that the main crop grown was rice, and a local millet was grown in the dry land. Sweet potatoes and peanuts were also grown by tenant farmers, but not many.

There is a lot of land, but there are no people to cultivate it. Originally, Lu Da planned to recruit some long-term workers to plant the wasteland. But after calculation, if he hired long-term workers to plant all the wasteland, he would have to pay more for food. Not only would he not get anything, but he would also have to pay for it.

, it’s better to just give up.

The most useful thing is the garden land: grow some vegetables and use the pumpkins and other vegetables in the vegetable field to raise pigs, so these tenants can barely make ends meet.

Wu Nanhai felt confident and started his plan to transform the school field.

On the morning of this day, a group of laborers sent from the Bairen Commune appeared outside the west gate of the county with tools and pushing a newly produced "Zidian-style" mass-produced wheelbarrow. Several students studying surveying and mapping brought soil

Then, amidst the noise, a branch line began to extend from the Bairen-Lingao Highway, leading directly to the west gate of the county seat.

Roads need to be built beforehand, which is the consistent style of the Chuanchuan Group when doing business. Lu Da looked at the busy road construction site and was dumbfounded - wouldn't Tiandihui want to help with farming? How come the road was built to the end of the field first? He had originally

I thought that the Heaven and Earth Society would send seeds and send a few people over to give guidance, but I didn't expect that this would happen.

He quickly brought all the young men from the Xuetian tenants out, and saw "Chief Wu" leading the team. Standing beside him were his two sons, carrying green satchels. Lu Dazheng was about to kneel down and kowtow, but was stopped by Wu.

Nanhai blocked it.

"No need to be too polite. Gather all the tenants in the tenant farming fields. I want to count the population and assign work."

"All the young men are here to wait for the leader's orders -"

"Bring out the women, the elderly and the children. Lu Jia, prepare to register!"

"Yes!" Lu Jia took out a notebook from his bag.

"Young man, let's go and call." Lu Da wondered where this song was coming from. Not daring to be slow, he quickly returned to a side street in Ximen Pass and called out all the family members of the tenant farmers living there.

Not a single old man, woman, or child was left.

After counting, there were seven tenant households in Xuedian, with more than 40 men, women, old and young. They were checked and registered one by one. Then Lu Jia assigned people to work according to gender and physical condition according to the plan prepared in advance. Strangely, all the young men were assigned to work.

He was told to stay and wait for notification.

The road construction team was fighting hard, and a new work team came here. They brought tools, vehicles, cattle and horses. They leveled the land and dug ditches. The originally messy and uneven field ridges were all eradicated and turned into square and large ridges.

A square grid field. What was originally a simple ditch has been transformed into a criss-crossing channel system with separate irrigation and drainage.

Then came herds of cattle. These cattle were pulling huge agricultural machinery with iron and wood structures. Before the advent of diesel engines and steam engines, large animal-drawn agricultural machinery had appeared in the Americas, with each machine having as few as four horses.

There are as many as a dozen horses on the side. This is the first time Lu Da has seen such large-scale animal-driven agricultural machinery - here it is changed to be pulled by cattle. More than a dozen cattle are lined up on the land, dragging the huge machinery.

The scene of deep plowing made many passers-by stop and watch, unwilling to leave for a long time.

The entire reconstruction site was noisy like a hornet's nest. Such a large-scale concentration of manpower and material resources on agricultural production shocked Lu Da from the bottom of his heart:

"The land can still be farmed like this!" He muttered. He saw his eldest son standing on the edge of the field with great dignity, holding a strange object and gesticulating. The younger son held a piece of wood and wrote something on it.

. He looked over and saw that there was a large iron clip holding the paper on the wood piece. It was filled with words and things that looked like ghost drawings - he had heard someone say that this was called the "Big Food Number" and it was used by the Australians.

Digital. Lu Dalian didn’t even recognize the Chinese digital. Seeing his son actually writing skillfully and shouting with the workers from time to time, I felt a little sweet - the boys have become successful! But there is also a little bit of joy in my heart.

It's sour, as a father, I haven't made any progress at all...

Not long after his reflection, the young men of the Xuedian tenants were all gathered in Bairen Commune, led by Lu Yi, where they would be given a fifteen-day Tiandi Hui farming training.

Not only the tenants in the field attended the training class, but also other customers who participated in the Tiandihui planting promotion plan. According to the notice, at least one person from each household and a maximum of three people came. Most of the landowners themselves and their family's strong labor force - small landowners - attended the training class.

A lot of farming is done by one's own hands. Fu Buer himself also brought his family's long-term workers to learn.

Wu Nanhai’s courses focus on promoting planting techniques and field management of common crops. These agricultural methods are all proven effective through long-term practice. He has long discovered that the level of agricultural production technology in Lingao is extremely low, and many of them have been widely used in the Ming Dynasty.

Planting techniques and agricultural tools are all missing here. He once asked the teacher if there were any local agricultural books that sold books, and the teacher actually said that there was no bookstore here at all. To buy books, you have to go to Fucheng at least. As for several important agricultural books in ancient times

Even scholars like Wang Ci have never heard of such famous books as "Essential Art of Qi Min".

Needless to say, the new agriculture of the 21st century has not even absorbed the advanced achievements of the 17th century. Therefore, Wu Nanhai’s textbooks were designed to be simple and easy to learn, combined with the advanced agricultural technology at that time, focusing on teaching the planting techniques of rice, wheat and sweet potatoes. To apply

A fashionable saying is "in line with the level of social productivity at that time".

Obviously, the agricultural department is on the right track by adopting the strategy of planting their own fields first and then promoting it after achieving results. Otherwise, it would be strange that these farmers would believe Wu Nanhai based on some of his strange remarks during class.

Wu Nanhai draws up a planting plan while taking classes. He does not plan to give these customers too many varieties of new crops. In fact, he prefers to turn them into single-crop farms.

Rice is the highlight of grain production, and Wu Nanhai plans to promote short-legged and lodging-resistant rice varieties in the fields of these customers this year. According to the climate characteristics of this time and space where the accumulated temperature level is lower than that of modern time and space, a rice-rice-wheat rotation method is adopted

.

Although the yield of wheat is not high, compared with rice, wheat also consumes much less labor in field management. Another factor is that many people in the Chuanchuan Group like pasta, and everyone hopes that the canteen can make steamed buns every now and then.

Noodles and pancakes are popular foods among the masses. Finally, the Navy hopes to use baked biscuits instead of strange rice cakes as dry food for navigation in the future.

Next is sweet potato. He plans to plant this high-yielding crop in all customers' dry fields so as to serve as a demonstration and promotion role as soon as possible and let more farmers accept this crop. Sweet potatoes can be produced in large quantities. With sweet potatoes, there will be starch.

Industry, with the starch industry comes the modern food industry. Whether it is the starch industry or the food industry, the scraps produced can be used as feed.

With feed, the scale of the breeding industry can be further expanded. The livestock manure and manure produced in the breeding industry are returned to the fields to provide sufficient nutrients for the soil.

At the same time, the promotion of order farming is also in progress. According to the principle of voluntary application, Ye Yuming signed breeding agreements with several farmers near Bairencheng and loaned chicks to them.

People who applied to raise chickens were more enthusiastic than expected. It only takes 20 eggs to exchange for a chicken, and all future eggs will be underwritten by Australians. The benefits are quite attractive. Because the value is not high, it is

For small farmers, even speculation can afford to take this risk.

The number of chicks is limited, and only 20 households can receive the chicks in the first batch. Other farmers can only register first and wait in line. Ye Yuming thinks this is good: the promised provision of formula feed, because earthworm breeding has not yet been completed.
To be continued...