Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 244 Advance Cooperative
Bai Mingxiu inspected agricultural production in Jiangnan Province during the summer harvest season.Since the recovery of Jiangnan last fall, Nanming has used his organizational advantages to quickly realize basic agricultural cooperation in Jiangnan, and has cracked down on the clan system, forming a new set of agricultural production relations.

At the same time, chemical fertilizers produced in Australia and Guangdong, as well as various improved varieties that Bai Mingxiu obtained from the system, were also used in Jiangnan.It is not only super rice that is popular, but also a large number of high-yielding crops, which makes a large number of agricultural products obtain very good harvests in this year's summer harvest season.

Looking at the busy figures of the farmers in the farmland, Bai Mingxiu still sighed: "Large agricultural production without large-scale mechanization is still insufficient in production efficiency."

The lion lady who was following him teased: "Your Highness, this is a water town in the south of the Yangtze River. It is a small-scale farming with intensive cultivation. Even a big combine harvester can't do it."

Bai Mingxiu touched his nose, feeling helpless.He feels sorry for the hard work of the farmers, but at this stage he does not have tractors and other modern farm tools. These things can only be produced by climbing the technology tree with a little bit of steady work.Although Bai Mingxiu has relatively advanced technology in many places, Daming is still an agricultural country through and through.

Gu Yanwu, Yin of Yingtian Mansion, who accompanied His Royal Highness to inspect, didn't know what His Royal Highness was talking about with the beautiful girl. Gu Yanwu also excitedly introduced to Bai Mingxiu: "His Royal Highness, it seems that this year we can meet the grain production of the whole world. More than double that of last year. It’s all thanks to the New Deal of Ming Dynasty and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

Bai Mingxiu has never been interested in taking credit, and he just listens to Gu Yanwu's words.

He said: "Food production is still the top priority of our Ming Dynasty's agriculture. The core of our agricultural development is to let the people have enough to eat. Now the country is establishing a strategic grain reserve system, and we have to store it for a few years. grain, but I think that after a few years, our grain production will be able to increase to a very high level. In a few years, the cooperatives will focus on planting cash crops, and even set up team cooperatives. , operating some small factories related to agricultural production, and increasing the income of farmers’ brothers is more important than anything else.”

While he was talking here, the accompanying imperial writer was recording frantically behind him.The important instructions given by the Prince Supervisor are basically reported to the newspaper. Any spiritual instructions given by the Prince must be understood by the officials at all levels and the people below.Although this is a bit uncomfortable for later generations, it is very important for people of this era to be able to listen to the holy will at all times and follow the instructions from the prince.

In the Chinese dynasties of the feudal era, ordinary people and even intellectuals had a sense of haziness and mystery in theological sense towards the authority of the emperor.The Emperor is more of a symbol and is far away from people's daily lives.Bai Mingxiu didn't want to be like this. Anyway, he was like a leader of later generations. Whatever he did or said today, he would be punished.Daming Daily has the largest circulation in the country, and is read by government agencies at all levels and even by most literate people.Thanks to the steam-powered printing and papermaking industries of the Ming Dynasty, the cost of newspapers was very low, and the selling price was also very low, so they were still profitable.Moreover, the vast majority of Ming citizens enjoyed this experience of constantly consuming information. Nowadays, readers feel like they are falling behind if they don’t read newspapers for a day.

In this way, what Bai Mingxiu thinks and understands about things can basically be understood by the public through newspapers, and it also largely prevents local officials from cheating.Not to mention, the Metropolitan Procuratorate of Nanming is more mad than the Yushitai of all dynasties. Anyone who bites, as long as there is a little fishy smell, that person will be finished.

His Royal Highness here said that everyone has worked hard to grow food in the past few years. After a while, if you think about cash crops and rural industrialization, someone will take it seriously.

Gu Yanwu said: "The minds of the people in the south of the Yangtze River are very active. In the past few months, the imperial court had some demonstration work, and some cooperatives below have started to set up. For example, the cooperative we just visited borrowed from the bank with the land as collateral. money, built a few rice hullers to hustle the rice. A cooperative next door built a steam mill based on suggestions, mainly to grind potato starch. Now I heard that they are going to make potato flour and sell it in the city. go."

Bai Mingxiu also laughed after hearing this: "I'm also worried, as long as there are connections, everyone will make more money than me."

Gu Yanwu smiled and said, "It's also the agricultural counseling units in all prefectures and counties that are working properly."

Agriculture and industry and commerce counseling are basically the most characteristic gadgets developed by Bai Mingxiu in this era, and basically transform the government into a service-oriented function.First of all, the Government Council spent a lot of energy sorting out various possible routes, including rice husking, mills, non-staple food processing, economic crop planting, forestry industry, etc., and then selected according to the actual situation of each place, and issued a large amount of materials After that, it was sent to the agricultural counseling units in various places.

Ordinary farmers will not take the initiative to consult, but because of the construction of grassroots organizations, now the township government often invites representatives of rural cooperatives to hold meetings, and some meetings are about agricultural guidance. To communicate, the proportion of people who are interested may not be high, and there may be fewer people in the end, but as long as it is done, it will be easy to succeed. In the coming year, other villages will be jealous and will follow their own small projects.

As for loans, some cooperatives are bold enough.Each cooperative has collectively owned public land, on which everyone works and is distributed according to their work, and on the other hand, they can mortgage it to the bank to obtain funds to handle affairs.Anyway, this land is not their own, even if it is compensated, it is considered as the public's.That is to say, under such unconscionable motives, many rural cooperatives rely on their special status to borrow at low interest rates to purchase equipment and build factories. In the end, this part of the money is collected by industrial manufacturers as profits, becoming a wave of normal and high-quality loans. business activities.

Of course, not all places can do this. After all, the commercial banks in Daming are still in their infancy.

In Nanming, Bai Mingxiu promoted the strong development of a series of heavy industries such as iron and steel, mining, railways, and shipbuilding on the one hand, but on the other hand he also promoted the production of agriculture and light industry that benefited people's livelihood. The former was conducive to the birth of a powerful industrialized country, while the latter was Conducive to the improvement of people's living standards.

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