After the autumn harvest last year, in view of the insufficient number of large combined harvesters, Beihai Town Machinery Factory began to mass imitate the "McCormick Harvester" that once appeared in another time and space, with its working efficiency 4 to 5 times that of manual harvesting.

This thing is relatively simple to make. Apart from wood, it is cast iron parts, and does not require precision processing. The only one with high technical content is the tooth knife for cutting.

The working principle of the entire machine is that the horses drive the wide wheels of the rear harvester forward. The gears connected to the bridge chain rake drive the four windmill fan-shaped grain dividers to rotate, push the wheat ears into the collection table. At the same time, the cutting machine on the front end will cut the wheat rod and leave only about an inch of wheat stubble on the ground.

The maintenance of the horse-drawn harvester is very simple. If the grain divider is broken, the farmers can repair it themselves. If the tooth knife of the divider is broken, they can apply to the agricultural machinery station again and change it. As for the price, it is 100 Beihai silver dollars a set, including two horses.

According to Zhao Liang's plan, Beihai Town Machinery Factory will start to imitate the first generation of combined harvesters in history this winter, and it is the kind that uses fuel engines.

The use of new agricultural tools on a large scale is actually closely related to Beihai Town breaking the traditional small peasant economic structure and following the organizational form of the "collective commune" in another time and space history. The reason why farmers under Beihai Town can quickly accept new things and are willing to buy industrial products is because the various natural villages adopt agricultural cooperation methods.

The reason why Zhao Xin and Chen Qingsong did this was not because they were far-sighted, but because of the actual conditions of refugees from the island country at the beginning. Because of the famine, each family lacked labor and was difficult to operate 50 acres of land; and Beihai Town also had to recruit soldiers from these people, which led to a shortage of labor, so they could only adopt a cooperative and mutual assistance model. Therefore, unified management, rational use of land, and the construction of water conservancy and basic farmland construction became a natural thing.

The same was true for early Henan immigrants. The backward agricultural production technology and insufficient labor force made them forced to be included in this system. When Shandong immigrants with relatively abundant family labor in the later period, Zhili immigrants arrived, because the principle of allocating land based on families and dispersing and resettling the family was adopted, the intervention ability of clan forces was greatly reduced.

In other words, the small peasant economic land management method based on clans is not allowed in Beihai Town; more seriously, as long as Beihai Town continues to be industrialized, all areas under its rule cannot be allowed.

You should know that as long as a country or regime enters industrialization, as the establishment of various systems will bring a lot of institutional expenditures; this includes taxes, medical insurance, electricity, water fees, communications, logistics and other costs, that is, "institutional costs".

Because China at the end of the 18th century was ultimately an agricultural country, with 90% of the more than 300 million people living in rural areas, the institutional costs generated by industrialization must be transferred through rural areas, that is, rural populations can only purchase and use industrialized goods, and urban populations alone cannot be digested.

For example, tractors have the greatest application of agricultural production, which is almost useless in towns. For example, when power is applied to every village, farmers have to pay the electricity bill; if power is not applied, farmers need to purchase horse lanterns made in Beihai Town instead of continuing to use dim oil lamps.

There is a very prominent example in the history of another time and space, which can illustrate the opposing contradiction between industrialization and the small peasant economy. In 1949, in order to improve farming efficiency, a "double-wheeled and double-share plow" was produced - compared with the wooden plow commonly used by farmers at that time, it was commonly known as "iron plow" by the common people, and its price was only 39 yuan. However, even if the government vigorously promoted and mobilized, the farmers just refused to buy it, and it was not promoted until after the commune was reorganized.

You should know that China's small peasant economic model since ancient times has led to the diversified operations including industry and commerce that do not use currency transactions, and farmers do not have the habit of buying with currency. If you need any farm tools, just find a skilled craftsman in the village to make one, and the price is to exchange agricultural products.

For example, using the eggs laid by his own hens to exchange for matches for the cooperative, this is a barter transaction. Agricultural products and industrial products cannot be monetized in rural areas, resulting in the economic operation mode being planned and cannot be marketized.

For the rural areas of Qingqing in this era, land annexation of the officials and gentry classes led to ordinary farmers not having 50 acres of land to operate, and the officials and gentry classes with large amounts of land could achieve low-cost operation in a cheaper way by hiring rural bankrupt and proletarians, and lack the motivation to demand new agricultural tools.

In fact, Zhao Xin kept introducing talents from another time and space, and the reason was the same as the "Soviet aid to China" in the history of another time and space. The difference is that Zhao Xin had to spend money on hiring people, so the scale was not that large and the speed of industrial system construction was not that fast.

It has been seven years since Beihai Town was established. The most basic thing is to increase the literacy rate, reduce the proportion of illiteracy, and increase the number of skilled workers. With the arrival of 500,000 new immigrants, the proportion of illiterate and semi-illiterate suddenly increased, accounting for 45% of the population of Beihai Town.

Faced with such a situation, in addition to expanding basic education and promoting literacy movements in natural villages, another solution is to join the North Navy and reduce the illiteracy rate through the force's compulsory learning system.

The more the North Navy fights southward, the more prominent the problems will be, and the corresponding institutional costs will surge. This situation not only exists in the Qing Dynasty, but also in East and West Siberia; it is just that the territory captured by Beihai Town is too large, and the so-called large-scale urban population is only a few thousand at most, and the signs are not obvious at present.

In short, as long as Zhao Xin and his companions continue to promote industrialization dominated by state capital, they will be opposite to the traditional small peasant economy and will inevitably become enemies of the landlord and gentry class. It is impossible for both sides to reconcile, and they will definitely have the idea of ​​eliminating their opponents as soon as possible.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content below! However, all the above mentioned is only a slight understanding of the new deputy commissioner of the Administrative Office Hong Liangji. What he could understand is that his so-called "deputy commissioner" is probably equivalent to the fifth-rank magistrate of the Qing Dynasty. He has to take care of everything except military affairs.

When a juren in the Qing Dynasty wanted to enter the official position, he usually started with a pen and post. You should know that the real Jinshi was a seventh-rank county magistrate. Hong Liangji became a senior official in charge of the Hunchun area from a white hand, and he was also considered a senior official in Beihai Town.

Looking at the nearly three hundred years of history of the Qing Dynasty, there are very few officials who can write memorials and bluntly tell the current shortcomings and accuse the emperor of the faults. There are only two people in counting them. One is Sun Jiagan, who is very familiar to later generations, and the other is Hong Liangji. However, Hong Liangji in history is even more fierce than Sun Jiagan, and is known as "the most tough bone in the Qing Dynasty". He was able to almost behead Jiaqing, who was known as "Renzong", and his power of "Begging for leave and Farewell to Become a Prince and Say the Current Affairs" can be seen.

You should know that a person who can move the world because of his own righteousness, and even Jiaqing issued an order to rehabilitate Hong Liangji, and then reduced the rain and relieved the drought, and even included this matter in the official history is rare in the thousands of years of Chinese history.

Zhao Xin was interested in this kind of character. Just like asking Jiang Fan to join the army first, he deliberately left Hong Liangji for a while. Seeing that he was not anxious or impatient, he sent him, Liu Taigong and others to the administrative school. After some government affairs training, he arranged to go to Hunchun, hoping to handle local Manchu affairs and border issues fairly and impartially through this person's integrity.

When the Battle of Hunchun entered its final stage, the North Navy attacked east and west, the Manchus in Hunchun City could not retreat to Jilin, and Naqitai took away all the soldiers, resulting in most of the Manchu families staying.

How to manage these people will determine whether Beihai Town will manage other areas in the northeast in the future. You should know that the killing Wula, Heilongjiang City, and even Qiqihar, Mergen, Jilin, and Shengjing under the Qing Dynasty were all composed of bannermen as the main residents. Everyone is staring at the every move of Beihai Town. If the local officials stationed are unfair, it will lead to the death of the Kurkaqi people and Feiyak people in the surrounding villages, thus shaking the rule of Beihai Town in the entire Northeast region.

"Mr. Hong, this is a summary of the household registration files of the Eight Banners Manchus and Kurkhaqi people in Hunchun."

In the office of the Administrative Office, a civil affairs clerk responsible for managing the archives placed the sorted information on the table.

Hong Liangji, who had just arrived at any day, opened the file and looked carefully. He found that the summary of the file was sorted out in detail, including male and female gender, age group, Niulu, ethnic group, etc. This sorting method can only be done by those trained in administrative schools.

"Yizhi, do you understand Manchu language?"

"I understand. I have lived in Ningguta for many years in the next family."

The person who spoke was a middle-aged man in his thirties, wearing a dark blue uniform of a civil affairs clerk. This person was Zhang Yubei, who had been sent by Naqitai to negotiate with the Beihai Army, whose courtesy name was Yizhi. After the Beihai Army occupied Ningguta, Zhang Yubei, who was exiled as a descendant of the Han people and had the reputation of supervising students, quickly defected to Beihai Town. After more than a year of study in the administrative school, he was sent to Hunchun to serve as a civil affairs clerk in charge of household registration and field.

Zhang Yubei immediately introduced the number of local households to Hong Liangji and focused on the situation of the Manchus. In general, the local Eight Banners Manchus in Hunchun are mainly five categories: white, yellow, yellow, red, and red. The surnames are mainly Anchula Guarja, Neyin Guarja, Suva Guarja, Sakdabi, Juelu, Hesheli, etc.; in addition, they also include Hezhezi, Kurkaqi, Feiyakha, Xinjiang Balikun'erut Mongols. As for the Han people, they are newly divided into eighty households, of which half of them are naturalized in the island country.

After the Northern Navy occupied Hunchun, these old and new Manchus changed their surnames to Han when registering household registration. For example, all Guarjas changed their surnames to "Guan", Saqdabi changed their surnames to "Zu", Hesheli changed their surnames to "He", and Niu Hulu changed his surname to "Lang"; the most troublesome thing was Juelu, changed his surname to "Zhao".

Hong Liangji looked at the ten lines at once, and when he saw the composition of the nation, he said in surprise: "There is still a local rebirth?"

Zhang Yubei Road: "There are only three households, all of whom are merchants from Ningguta. The two families have surnames Li and the other family has surnames Ma."

"Businessmen? What business do they do?"

"Participated goods and fur goods occasionally get involved in trade with the Li Dynasty. Sir, we are short of cows here. In the past, we traded with the Huining of the Li Dynasty, and exchanged them for horses or fur goods, salt and cloth for them."

"Do they have a license issued by Beihai Trading Company?"

"The people from the trading company had talked to them before, but they thought the business tax we set was too high and did not agree."

"This is not possible! In the future, all traders or businessmen must have a license issued by Beihai Business Company. Private companies cannot interfere in grain trading! Furthermore, now, whether it is arable land or harvesting, they use machines in various places. Even harvesters are pulled by horses. What do you need to do for scalpers? Apart from eating meat, the remaining purpose is to sell skins and make armor."

Hong Liangji studied at an administrative school. Beihai Town adopted an exclusive purchase of grain and would never allow private participation. The purpose is to narrow the gap between industrial and agricultural scissors, ensure the price of agricultural products, and prevent immigrants from losing their enthusiasm for farming due to the organizational form of collective communes.

Zhang Yubei was startled. He didn't expect that Deputy Commissioner Hong would have such a big hat and that the three Hui merchants would be in trouble.

Hong Liangji thought for a moment and said, "Yizhi, please send someone to notify the heads of the Hui tribes of these three families, and I will say that the official will ask them to come to the office office at 8 am tomorrow."

"Sir, I'm so serious. This is all in the next job."

As the two were talking, the guards outside the door came to report that Li Chao Huining Mansion sent someone to ask for a visit.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! Zhang Yubeidao: "Sir, if you guess correctly, Huining will definitely be discussing the transaction this time."

"Oh? How do you say this?"

"Since Hunchun was brought under the rule of King Zhao, our mutual trade with Huining has stopped. Previously, King Zhao and Lord Shen of the Ministry of Trade meant that if Li Chao did not agree to return to North Hamkyung, we would not open a mutual trade for a day. What's more, the court, oh, no, the Qing Dynasty still had thousands of troops stationed in Huining. Once the mutual trade was opened, the spy who spyed on military affairs would take the opportunity to enter."

Hong Liangji nodded and said, "So that's it. However, King Zhao sent me here, and his negotiations with Li Chao on border affairs were also within my official position." After that, he said to the guards, "Invite them in and talk to the main room."

The office space of the Hunchun Administrative Office is the official office of the former Associate Office. It has three main rooms and two west wing rooms, and one room in the customs defense warehouse and one door. It is all thatched houses and there are no walls. After the Northern Navy occupied Hunchun, it has been in military control. Mislang just pushed down the thatched houses, rebuilt brick houses, and added wooden fences. He himself set up the command center in the martial arts hall inside the south gate of the city, and lived there.

The only major construction project in the city was the original official school house. All three thatched houses were demolished and converted into three rows of primary schools with a total of fifteen wood-carved rooms, and a playground was built. All children of the city's age must be admitted, regardless of gender. The teacher was three 16 or 17-year-old teachers sent from Beihai Town, mainly teaching literacy, Mandarin and mathematics.

At present, the Guanfangkuan has been changed into a household registration archive. Zhang Yubei and his family live in the west wing room. Hong Liangji himself lives in the east room of the main room, and the other two rooms have been changed into a reception room, and the west room is the office room.

Hong Liangji's family is now living in Beihai Town, where living conditions are the best in Beihai Town. He is alone, so he doesn't pay much attention to it.
Chapter completed!