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Chapter 16 Rural Cooperatives

Seeing this, Yang Zheng raised his hands and pressed them down. He stopped everyone's voices and said, "Our Guo Village is not far from Chang'an. Everyone brought all the land except for the land used to grow food. Growing vegetables and fruits, raising fish, and raising livestock! There is definitely a market for these things in Chang’an! We, Guo Village, want to set up Datang’s first rural cooperative to be responsible for the sale of these agricultural and sideline products, and then distribute the benefits according to the output of each family ! What do you think?"

Rural cooperatives?This thing was too new for the people of Datang, and no one could understand it for a while, but many people understood those few words afterwards!
Liu Er asked: "My lord, although our land is not too small, if we divide it up to grow vegetables and raise fish, I'm afraid there won't be enough food!"

Yang Zheng laughed and said, "Hehe, don't worry, sir, I have crops with an yield of [-] or [-] shi per mu. With these things, are you still worried about starvation?"

Seventy or eighty stone?Everyone couldn't help but gasp!
Yang Zheng put down his wine glass, picked up a sweet potato from the table and said, "Do you know what this thing is called? It's called sweet potato! The yield per mu can definitely reach 80 shi! Let's try it first!"

Everyone was busy grabbing sweet potatoes and eating them, and there was a burst of admiration in the yard: "It's so delicious, sweet and delicious! My lord, can this sweet potato really produce 80 shi per mu?"

"Haha, that's right, if you want to plant, you can come and get sweet potato vines starting tomorrow! Haven't you harvested all your wheat? It's just used to grow sweet potatoes! The ridge in front of my door is probably enough for our Guo village to plant." , At the same time, I want to tell everyone that this sweet potato can be traded with the imperial court. It will be much more convenient for you to exchange for salt, cloth, ironware and so on. Tomorrow, every household can grow it by themselves! What is to be done is to dig the canals, every piece of sweet potato fields must be opened with canals to facilitate irrigation, of course, your other crops, vegetables, melons and fruits can be irrigated! Every household can have canals, can everyone do it?"

As long as everyone listens to Yang Zheng, it will be easy for everyone, and he exempted a large part of everyone's taxes just now. As long as Yang Zheng and his descendants rule Guocun for a long time, then he and his descendants will not have to pay. The tax has been paid, and now Yang Zheng's status in everyone's mind is even higher than Li Shimin's!
Sure enough, Brother Liu Dasan was the first to express his opinion: "Since the Sir said so, our three brothers will have sex with the Sir!"

Seeing this, other people expressed their willingness to grow sweet potatoes.

Seeing this, Yang Zheng threw out another big news: "Don't worry, everyone, I will plant other crops for you tomorrow spring. Have you seen that rice field? The yield is not low. You can't just eat sweet potatoes, eat those things." I lost my appetite and just spanking, so everyone still eats some rice and pasta, don’t worry, I will lead everyone to get rich!"

Everyone burst into laughter after hearing Yang Zheng's words. Everyone is very optimistic now. Some people also know that Yang Zheng opened a restaurant in Chang'an, and the business is very booming. They use vegetables, fruits and fish and sheep grown at home. Shrimp, crab, chicken, duck, goose, etc., so they obviously understand the economic value of it!
Yang Zheng saw that everyone was willing to follow him, so he picked up the wine bowl again and said, "Come on, let's make a toast to the establishment of the Guocun Cooperative!" Then he took the lead in drinking it all down!

After everyone followed, the banquet officially began.All the food that everyone ate was produced by Yang Zheng. Obviously, the taste of the food and wine was beyond everyone's imagination. This made everyone more hopeful about their future life!

After drinking and eating, Yang Zheng called Liu Dacheng and said, "Uncle, you are the village official of Guocun, and you will organize everyone to join the cooperative and receive sweet potato vines tomorrow. After you go back, you will inform other people who were not present today." The villagers, just say that I will free them of my share, let them all join the cooperative and grow sweet potatoes, if they don’t want to, forget it!”

Liu Dacheng said in confusion: "My dear son-in-law, are you really exempted? Then what's the point of conferring this title on you?"

Yang Zheng said with a smile: "Uncle, don't worry, I have plenty of ways to make money! Besides, as long as the whole village gets rich, won't I have a higher status in everyone's mind?"

Liu Dacheng then said: "Okay, I will organize the whole village tomorrow. By the way, is this cooperative really feasible?"

Yang Zheng patted his chest and said, "Uncle, don't worry, the population of our Tang Dynasty will increase, and we will definitely sell well by then. Except for Chang'an, other states and counties will have our money!"

After everyone left, Changle pulled Yang Zheng over and asked, "Yonggui, do you really want to form that cooperative?"

Yang Zheng nodded and said, "Yes, this is a good thing that benefits the country and the people. It not only organizes production and develops the economy, but also benefits the court and the common people. What's wrong with that?"

Looking at Changle's worried look, Yang Zheng couldn't help but said, "What's the matter? Are you worried that you won't have anything to eat when you get married?"

Chang Le blushed, and spat in his mouth: "Hey, who is going to marry here? Don't be ashamed!" Then he ran away in a hurry, followed by Xiaobai and Xiaohei, two "white-eyed wolves", these two little guys Now I'm very close to Changle, sometimes Yang Zheng calls me twice, but I don't care!
This night, the entire Yang Mansion was full of joy, and the servants also had their own rooms. At the same time, what kind of cooperative is the Sir going to set up? It must be a huge profit, so everyone in the Yang Mansion is full of energy!Yang Zheng was no exception. This kid forcibly pulled Liu Ying and Alice onto the same bed tonight, and was raped once!
Early the next morning, Yang Zheng was drooling with his arms around the two wives, and Yang San shouted outside the door: "Master, get up quickly, the villagers are here!"

Rubbing his sleepy eyes, Yang Zheng thought to himself that these people are really diligent!After washing up casually, Yang Zheng went to the kitchen to take a sip of the millet porridge made by Meier, and then went out to the main room.

Good guy, there are hundreds of people here, which is probably all the people in Guo Village!
Yang Zheng took out the charter of the Guocun Cooperative that he took time out last night, and handed it to Liu Dacheng to circulate to the villagers!Those who can read naturally see clearly and clearly; those who cannot read can only listen to other people's dictation, but now everyone has seen how Yang Zheng made it, so everyone also believes in Yang Zheng!
After the circulation is over, each household will sign and stamp on it to confirm that the charter is officially in effect!There are a total of 52 households in Guo Village, and all of them are here!

Afterwards, Yang Zheng took everyone to the sweet potato field. Last night, he entered the space and quietly pulled out some sweet potato vines that hadn't yet bear fruit. Rattan scissors make several sections, and then ask everyone to do the same!

Then Yang Zheng demonstrated the sweet potato planting technique, which was actually quite simple. First, the land was taken out, and then the cut sweet potato vines were buried horizontally in the mound. Then, with the watering of the space spirit spring, The sprouts will naturally come out!And in the middle of the row, other things can be planted, such as vegetables, so there is no delay in planting sweet potatoes!
Yang Zheng asked each family to allocate part of the labor force to plant sweet potatoes, and the other part of the labor force to start rebuilding the canals.Because there is a small river near Guocun, every household has basically built water canals. What they are doing now is to connect and reinforce them. Yang Zheng is not willing to go door-to-door to give Lingquan. As long as the canal is open, he is putting a gap in the fish pond , that’s fine.

At the end of the day, every household in Guo Village connected the canal, and Yang Zheng also made a gap in the fish pond, carrying the pond water from the Lingquan to flow along the canal to every household!Followed by the sound of crackling and jumping fish...

(End of this chapter)