Urban Sims

Chapter 391 Starting today, the status of women has greatly improved
The yield experiment was a great success, and the yield of [-] per mu was astonishing, and it was far beyond Zhou Ming's own expectations.

So, what's the next step?
Expand the planting area, contract a thousand or eight hundred acres, and become a big landlord and a big grain king?

Zhou Ming shook his head and smiled, this is really overthinking.

How to deal with so much food grown?

sell?

It is impossible to sell it, because there is not such a big market demand.

In addition, with the traffic conditions of this era and the tax customs in various places, it is basically unprofitable to sell grain for more than a hundred miles.

Even tens of thousands of catties of grain could not be exchanged for a single spirit coin.

"The economic structure of this world is mainly a self-sufficient natural economy. Large-scale commodity transactions have not yet formed such a market. There is no need for trafficking in low-value-added food."

Zhou Ming is also not interested in being an old farmer who works every day. Farming will not become his main business, and he can only cultivate a few acres of land for fun.

So, what is he trying to do?
What is the real purpose?
What kind of farming is his so-called farming?

Naturally, they want to change the appearance of the entire Limburg Village, and then hope to change the farming in this world.

And in the process, improve your own reputation, cultivate your own power, stand in the position of the leader, and stir up the world.

Therefore, he established an "Agricultural Mutual Aid Cooperative", and attracted all the old, middle-aged and young women in the village to become members of the cooperative.

233 people in total.

Except for the Lin family, the big family in the village, all the peasant women in the village joined the cooperative.

How did Zhou Ming do it?
For two reasons.

One is the appearance bonus, young and handsome is the advantage, Zhou Ming's good looks account for 50% of the reason.

The other is what kind of huge changes the brand-new planting model advocated by Zhou Ming will bring to each household at the mobilization meeting, depicting an attractive prospect.

I won't go into details for a long article, but I can sum it up in a few words:
Follow me to learn how to farm, the output of one mu of land can reach three mu!
Follow me to make tools, and the time and energy spent on taking care of an acre of land in the future is one-third of the past.

Follow me to engage in half-agriculture and half-pastoralism. In the future, women will be the main force of family production. There will be more food, meat, eggs and milk every day, and men will not even need to go hunting in the mountains.

In short, following Zhou Mingqian, life will only get better and better, and the more comfortable it will be!
All the young and old women were moved, not because they were moved by Zhou Ming's description of the beautiful prospect, but because of his confident and well-spoken demeanor when he gave a speech, which made these young and old women blush and shy, and their hearts fluttered. Jump.

"I used to think Zhang Shanhe was handsome, but now I realize how handsome he is!"

"Compared to the dead wood in my house, Zhang Shanhe is so strong. The words that come out of his mouth are like honey."

"It would be great if my mother was born 30 years later. I will definitely marry him and give him ten or eight babies!"

"For the sake of your sweet mouth and good looks, I will join your cooperative."

"As long as I can see the mountains and rivers every day in the future, I will join no matter what club!" There was also a girl who looked like a nympho.

The members of the cooperative society joined so enthusiastically, and all the women's resources in the village gathered around him. Zhou Ming was naturally overjoyed and full of sense of accomplishment...Of course, if he was asked to know the specific reasons why these women joined, it would not be Do you know if you will be depressed and vomit blood?

But no matter what, Zhou Ming, who had a lot of resources in his hands, led all members to launch a vigorous mass production campaign shortly after the cooperative was established.

First, he put together supplies and money, bought two horses and one cow from a passing caravan, and transformed them into farm horses and cattle. hurt the overall situation.

Then 2000 mu of land was circled outside the village, 1000 mu of which was planted with pasture and 1000 mu of land was planted with grain.

The role of plowing horses and oxen is huge. So much land can be plowed in only five days.

Then there are seed selection, planting, public toilets, fertilizer plants, irrigation canals, weeding and watering, logging in the forest to make agricultural machinery and tools, catching pheasants and driving them to the ground to eat insects, catching pigs and sheep for domestication... In three to four months, all the members of the cooperative have been so busy that they have never had a rest.

What Zhou Ming said, "the workload is only one-third of what it used to be", is completely a big fool!

The labor intensity not only did not decrease, but increased several times.

Even due to being too busy, some housewives have left their families aside to serve the cooperative wholeheartedly.

This has led to disharmony in many family relationships, and quarrels are commonplace.

Even domestic violence occurred several times.

The Agricultural Mutual Aid Cooperative has become a thorn in the eyes of many men, and Zhou Ming has also been privately warned several times.

However, the cooperative was not damaged by these disturbances and difficulties, and no woman proposed to quit. Instead, she became more motivated, buried her grievances in her heart, gritted her teeth, and wanted to do that big job well.

The way they are working hard, it feels as if their bodies have been infused with faith.

At this scene, someone yelled in horror:
"Not only Zhang Shanhe was possessed by the evil spirit, but also our wife and daughter were also possessed by the evil spirit. No way! We must pull the women back, and we can't let them go on messing around!"

The power of this sentence was enormous, the men took coercive measures one after another, dragged their women back home after a lot of tearing, and surrounded Zhou Ming with unkind eyes, preparing to beat him up.

Fortunately, the situation has become clear at this time. Not only is Zhou Ming not afraid of these angry eyes, but he smiled slightly: "Everyone, follow me to the field and you will know. Look at the high-yielding golden wheat growing in the field. How did it thrive under the leadership of this demon like me?"

Yes.

Golden wheat is ripe.

A large piece of gold.

It's so bright that it's hard to keep your eyes open.

The men who followed were all astonished. They went hunting in the forest for ten days, and when they came back, the golden wheat was all ripe, not to mention, how did they grow so well?

The yield per mu is around 1500 jin.

"This is one of the fruits of the labor of the women of your family in the past few months."

"On average, a wheat field of four mu per household can produce as much food as the previous 12 mu, which is enough for each family to feed for a year."

"In the pasture over there, there are more than 1300 pheasants, 800 hares, 50 wild boars and 5 wild sheep. They were also caught by women from various families in the forest. Although they are not many, they are at least equivalent to those of you. Man, go hunting in the mountains for more than two harvests."

"As far as I know, every time you go out to hunt, although it is very dangerous, the prey you bring back can only last five to seven days of food, and then you have to go to the mountains to hunt again, and the wives and children you stay at home eat. Most of them are vegetables and grains grown by themselves, and I have to prepare a portion for you before entering the mountain."

"So, do you think you have the right to beat and scold your wives? Not only do they support themselves and their children, but they are also busy with various things and serve you comfortably!"

"Do you think they joined the cooperative because they were bewitched by me, Zhang Shanhe, because they were possessed by evil spirits? Wrong! They actually hope to harvest more food, reduce the number of times their men enter the mountain, and reduce the possibility of Danger encountered!"

"In my cooperative, the hardest-working widows are those widows. They lost their men and took care of their children alone. Their lives are very difficult, but now they see hope, because as long as the cooperative continues to operate, they will In the future, my son will not need to go to the mountains to hunt all year round, but he can live a good life by staying in the village!"

"This is your woman!"

"A woman possessed by a demon!"

"If you still think it's necessary, please go back and continue beating!"

With a sneer on his face, Zhou Ming yelled at the muscular men in front of him.

Quiet.

Absolutely quiet.

Everyone bowed their heads.

She blushed to the back of her ears, feeling ashamed.

"Woooooo~"

The women hugged each other aggrievedly, crying together.

"Snapped!"

A big man slapped himself, walked up to his wife, put his arms around her shoulders and said, "Mother, I was wrong, I shouldn't have hit you yesterday!"

"You have suffered a thousand knives~" His wife hammered his chest twice, and then buried her head in the man's chest, crying even louder.

There were also people who repented and ran home quickly, shouting: "Mother, I was wrong, please hit me a few times!"

Most of the burly men returned home silently, the indignation on their faces and the anger in their eyes turned into contemplation with bowed heads and powerless rebuttals.

Zhou Ming's profound ideological education class had a very significant effect. The relationship between husband and wife in each family in the village was obviously much more harmonious.

When I went to the field to harvest the mature golden wheat the next day, many men who had never done farm work appeared with sickles in their hands.

Of course, some of them really couldn’t save face. Although they didn’t help, they didn’t complain and complain behind their backs anymore, and they even helped a little bit unconsciously, such as carrying bags of wheat back to their home. of.

The golden wheat harvesting work was completed smoothly.

After eating noodles and baked bread made from new wheat, the homes of many villagers were filled with joy and laughter on this day.

The various plans implemented by Zhou Ming's cooperative triggered a new round of debate and collision in the discussions among these families.

Some more powerful women actually told their men not to go hunting in the mountains, but to help her at home, assist in the operation of the ranch, and increase the production of meat, eggs and milk.

The men naturally objected instantly, what kind of broken cooperative?Do not participate, resolutely do not participate!
We are hunters, not women sitting at home!

"Three or four of you men die every year when you enter the mountains. A few years ago, when you encountered a strange beast, thirteen died at once! You can't catch much prey, so you might as well work at home."

"No, we are born hunters, and we will die hunters! We can't be a peasant woman who is laughed at!"

In the dignity of the hunter, it was no accident that none of the men expressed interest in joining the Agricultural Mutual Aid Cooperative, and would never, if not object to it.

But no matter what, from this day on, women who usually work hard and have little say in family affairs, their status at home has been greatly improved for the first time!
　Thank you readers for your rewards!

　　
　
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