Chapter 389 The Helplessness of the Agricultural Society
Chapter 389 The helplessness of the agricultural society
"Although onions cannot be the main course, they are very common seasonings, but the king, minister, and the envoy, who can lack who!" Li Tai said.
In fact, with the current population of tens of millions of people in the Tang Dynasty, it is not realistic to say that it can create more than one million industries by relying on onions, but it is not true that only a few counties around Xingyang can live a good life by relying on these onions.
What a difficult thing.
After all, Xingyang's geographical location is really superior.
As long as the Chinese politics still has a confrontation mode between the east and west with Chang'an and Luoyang as the core, then Xingyang will not be weak.
Because the entire Grand Canal must first converge to Xingyang, and then from Xingyang to Luoyang, the significance of Xingyang's geographical location can naturally be imagined.
To be honest, Xingyang's status after the Tang Dynasty was getting lower and lower, and a big reason was that the political ecology of China had undergone fundamental changes.
Since the Song Dynasty, there has been basically only the confrontation between the north and the south. In the confrontation between the north and the south, a new Grand Canal was built. Then Xingyang naturally has no special significance, so it can only become a part of the Yellow River.
It's an ordinary city.
After Li Tai and his group finished their meal, they left the restaurant and went to the Agricultural Society. They walked to the door. The sound of reading aloud came from the Agricultural Society, which read "Thousand Character Text".
The agricultural society created by Li Tai is part-time job to enlighten poor people to study in primary schools.
The main focus is on "Thousand Character Classic", but Li Tai said that it is necessary to let the liberal arts students produce more story reading materials as supporting enlightenment materials for "Thousand Character Classic", and many of these story reading materials are related to agriculture.
From the types of agricultural products, changes in the solar terms, more famous agricultural figures, etc., in short, you will make up some positive agricultural stories for me.
As the book was finished, the young gentleman in the agricultural society rang the bell.
The children took out their own earthen bowls and ran towards the cafeteria happily. For them, eating was their favorite thing.
When Sun San watched the children leave, he showed some relief on his face and began to pack up his courseware.
However, Sun San soon noticed that someone came to the agricultural society, which made Sun San a little confused.
He looked at Li Tai, the leader, as if he had some impression but couldn't remember it. However, when he looked at Bai He, he couldn't help but look at him and said, "Madam Bai He?!"
Looking at Li Tai again, he suddenly said, "Wei...Wei..."
"White, what Wei, called the priest! Sun San!" Li Tai looked at Sun San and said.
"Sacrifice!" Sun San heard Li Tai calling his name like this, and felt a heat flowing into his brain.
Just as he wanted to salute Li Tai, Li Tai stopped Sun San and said:
"Don't do these false rituals. Let's find a place to sit and follow you to learn about the local situation!"
"No!" Sun San immediately found a seat for Li Tai, and wiped it with his cuffs deeply for fear that there would be something unclear on it.
After all the work was done, Li Tai sat down. As for himself, he was so nervous that he really didn't dare to sit down.
"You sit there too, let's chat and we won't eat yours!" Li Tai said to Sun San.
"No!" After hearing Li Tai's order, Sun San did not dare to delay too much, so he sat down and accompanied him carefully.
Li Tai said, "You have been in Xingyang for at least five years, right? I remember you graduated from the eighth year of Zhenguan."
"You have a good memory for King Wei. As you said, I have been working until now after being assigned to the Agricultural College." Sun Sandao.
"Yeah!" Li Tai nodded, "How is it like Xingyang? What are the good places and what are the bad places?"
"Everything is good, what's wrong with this day!" Sun San said, without saying anything about the difficulties.
"Then let's talk about the bad things!" Li Tai looked at Sun San and said, "Don't talk nonsense. There is no difficulty in working at the grassroots level!"
When Sun San heard Li Tai's words, he could only smile silly and said, "If you want to say that there are difficulties, it is just that there are some people in short supply!"
"I remember that every agricultural society will have three or three students from agricultural institutions." Li Tai looked at Sun San and said, "Speaking of this, I only saw you when I came in today?! What about the other people?"
"It has been February, and more and more people come to rent cattle, and they are all taking the cattle out!" Sun San sighed.
"It seems that something happened to you, so someone must watch it before renting it!" Li Tai thought.
"Yeah!" Sun San nodded and said, "You are the King of Wei. At the beginning, we were also from ordinary people, so we were happy to rent the cattle to the local people.
But if we didn't send anyone to watch, those who rented it would not cherish the plowing ox at all, and let the ox work to death, regardless of whether the ox could bear so much work. If the ox slowed down, he would still take a whip
smoke.
Because the cow is not theirs, it will be fine as long as they finish their work. Whether or not they need to do it has anything to do with him.
In general, during the busy farming season, fatigue of plowing oxen is also the norm. If we don’t pay attention, plowing oxen will die!”
"This is too much!" Bai He frowned when he heard Sun San's words.
"This is pretty good. A village people rented the ox and borrowed it a few times when we didn't know it. When we found it, the ox had already been in the hands of a village tyrant.
At that time, in order to get the plowing ox back, it was the officers and soldiers who came over, and even the Zheng family in Xingyang came forward to take the plowing ox back!"
Sun San said, "From now on, we dare not borrow it randomly. Every time we rent out the ox, someone will have to guard it."
"In this way, it will be difficult for those small acres to rent our oxen. On the contrary, those large villagers with large zodiacs will give priority to the oxen from our agricultural society." Li Tai understood
nodded.
"King of Wei..." Sun San wanted to say something when he heard Li Tai's words, but in the end he nodded helplessly.
Compared with small farmers who have farming fields into fragmented fields, those large farmers with fields are not only more intimate with themselves and others, but also much easier to work.
When Li Tai heard Sun San's words, he pressed his temple. To be honest, this does not mean that people who are poor naturally have bad natures, so they are not worthy of help.
Instead, people will definitely not carefully maintain public goods that are not their own, so this reason is the case of renting plowing oxen.
But for the people of the agro-school, they need to be responsible for all the oxen.
Not to mention death, even if you come to weigh and find that the cow is thin during the Chinese New Year, you have to write at least 10,000 words of review letter.
In this case, people from agricultural institutions are forced to plow the land with the people who rent oxen to make their own plowing land every time, with the purpose of ensuring that their plowing oxen will not be abused by others.
If you add someone, then the originally cheaper ox rent will naturally become more expensive.
After all, there are only three or five people in the entire agricultural society. In this way, it will naturally become whoever gives more money and whoever goes there first.
This allows big farmers who are not short of money to enjoy the benefits brought by students from agricultural institutions and oxen. As for those small farmers, there is nothing they can do about it.
Li Tai couldn't help but sigh. To be honest, many things were designed at the beginning, and they planned to benefit the lower class, but as things developed, reality would eliminate these inappropriate things.
"That's it." Sun San nodded and said, "Now every time it's the beginning of the year, the time is full. Even some people know that they need help, but when those big players give money, we can't let them go
Come down!"
"In this case, no matter how many people you have, it is not enough!" Li Tai shook his head and said, "If you want to go next year, you will ask the local village chief to come forward to sign a contract with you.
Try to contract out most of the oxen at one time. As for how to divide the oxen after renting out, you don’t have to worry about it.
You just need to make sure that the ox rented out can come back safely, otherwise the village chief who rents out will lose money.
As for the specific allocation matters, you don’t have to worry about it. Leave it to their village chief to solve it. If there are really people who need help, relying on your face, you should be able to help one or two families occasionally, but if there are too many, don’t think about it.
You can't control it!"
Li Tai said this and couldn't help feeling a little helpless.
To be honest, I want the agricultural society to truly take root at the grassroots level, but the reality is really impossible.
It can only reach the village level. If you want to settle down to one-on-one connection with every household in the village, you still can’t do it out of realistic considerations!
Or, with the organizational power of the agricultural society, it is already the limit to reaching this level. If you want to go deeper, you need a new organizational form.
Li Tai thought about this and looked at Sun San, and said, "Is there anything else except for the lack of manpower?"
"It is after the primary school is opened, because our agricultural society gives the children to their school for a meal, so the people around them will stuff their children over, and some families who can't survive will secretly stuff their children over." Sun San said.
"So, our agricultural society has unknowingly raised four children, all of whom are girls."
"These children cannot be raised locally!" Li Taisi said: "Send them to Luoyang, it is not convenient for you to take care of foster care."
Sun San couldn't help but be stunned when he heard Li Tai's words, wanting to refuse, but looking at Li Tai's eyes, he knew that he could not refuse.
"Some of these children may not be able to raise them, but some of them are simply the people who are raising people in the agronomy society, so they deliberately throw the girls in the agronomy society.
When the girl grows up, she will come and go back, saying that she is her own child, then she will recognize her relatives, and then sell it to the local brothel!
This kind of thing has been seen in Chang'an for a lot of things." Li Tai couldn't help but sigh.
"No, there would be no such inhuman mother!" Sun San couldn't help but open his mouth when he heard Li Tai's words, but he was a little unbelievable.
Because what Li Tai said was beyond his imagination of human nature.
"It's not that something like this has happened in Chang'an, but I just opened that brothel!" Li Tai sighed.
"..." Sun San's mouth did not twitch for a moment, and he almost forgot that this man was the richest master in the Tang Dynasty.
To be honest, although Li Tai opened a brothel, he did not send the orphans he trained to the brothel, but asked them to go to the hospital to become female doctors or sent by peacocks to weaver girls.
However, in this era, brothels often become the ultimate destination for little girls. Li Tai will at most give them a chance to choose for those girls who eventually stay in brothels.
"So the agricultural society's attitude towards orphans is to adopt orphans in another place.
As for whether they want to find their relatives, then wait until they grow up and make their own decisions!"
Li Tai said, "I know this is a bit unkind, but we don't need to let their biological parents hurt them twice. This is the best protection we can give them."
To be honest, Li Tai did not discriminate too much against these orphans.
On the contrary, although these people are sensitive, they are also strong, especially the Peacock weaving industry is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more skilled female workers needed. They don’t have to worry about not having a job when they grow up.
After all, things like female workers are actually not easy to recruit.
Because the composition of the economy in the feudal era was a small peasant economy, and the small peasant economy was a family composed of men and women weaving and becoming the smallest economic unit.
My own textile factory with female workers as the theme is actually competing for productivity with such families.
Li Tai knew that if he followed the capitalist approach, it would be correct to force these small peasant economists to go bankrupt and then let them go to work.
But I carefully maintained the size of the textile factory. Even if I slowly cultivated various orphans, I would not want to force these families to break up, which would trigger unnecessary social unrest.
Because as long as you enter industrialization or pursue profits, these women will inevitably spend a lot of time on their work.
Their time to take care of their families will naturally be shorter. If they have any goals they need to catch up, they will naturally treat people as mining. If they are scrapped, they will be scrapped. Anyway, they will harvest one batch and another batch.
But now the Tang Dynasty can achieve the world's first place as long as it develops normally. It is not necessary to complete the industrialization of the Tang Dynasty society in its lifetime, but to release the productivity of the Tang Dynasty and find ways to expand the influence of the Tang Dynasty and complete the Great Daquan period.
The feudal system of Tang.
Even if the Tang Dynasty is destroyed in the future, Han culture should not be trapped in East Asia. It is not said that it dominates the world, but at least there is no problem in becoming the dominant Asian leader. This is your goal.
Therefore, Li Tai did not want to force these Weaver Girls to do so, but just kept improving the knowledge and skills of these female workers, finding ways to improve their productivity, and giving them the opportunity to choose for the future.
"You fill in their information in detail. After sending it to Luoyang, Peacock will come to deal with these things!" Li Tai waved his hand and said, "If you have nothing to do with it, I have a problem. Do you know this?"
Li Tai said, then took out the persimmon cake wrapped in paper and asked.
"Permacea?" Sun San looked at the persimmon cake with a little surprise.
"There are many things here in Xingyang. Does the king like to eat them too? I'll get them now!"
"No need, we have eaten enough!" Li Tai said, shaking his head,
"In the future, a team of researchers will be sent to study persimmons specifically, and you will help them.
I will give you funds when I return to Luoyang, and you will get ready at that time!"
"Okay, okay, please rest assured. Sun San must have done this matter." Sun San nodded repeatedly and said.