I became the richest man in the world after losing my life in a vegetative state.

Before Yang Ming got in the car, he was going to leave 1000 Hong Kong dollars here.

Mr. Shen knew that when Mr. Yang attended the National Day ceremony in Xiangjiang, he always left a sum of money after every purchase.

Now Mr. Shen and Secretary Zhang feel that the funds allocated by the old Mr. and Mr. Xi are specially for Mr. Yang and his party. How can they let Mr. Yang spend more money?

"Mr. Yang, funds have been allocated to entertain you." Secretary Zhang reminded hurriedly.

"Then I can't let them work here for free."

In the end, before leaving, the staff who had been busy for most of the day, including the chef and the aunties, each received ten RMB in hard work fees.

For ordinary domestic farmers who earn just a few yuan a month, this is a lot of money.

These chefs and aunts did not expect that they were suddenly selected by the people above to cook and entertain Mr. Yang and others. Now, before Mr. Yang left, he gave each of them a huge sum of ten yuan.

When they carefully put the money into their pockets and remembered that Mr. Yang smiled and shook hands with them and thanked them, these kitchen and aunties felt that today's meal was really worth the work.

They remembered that Mr. Yang and others had a lot of meat and vegetables left over. When they were about to go back to eat, they found that Mr. Yang and his party had already gotten in the car and left.

They still didn't know much about the identities of Mr. Yang and others. They just knew that someone from above was sent to greet them, which was certainly not simple.

"Mr. Shen, Secretary Zhang, do you think the money I just gave to the chefs and aunties can go into their pockets?" Yang Ming asked with a smile.

He also wanted to give more to the chefs and aunts, one hundred Hong Kong dollars each, but Yang Ming didn't think it was much. However, Yang Ming thought, no matter how much money was given, how much would fall into the pockets of these people?

"Maybe."

Secretary Zhang didn’t dare to vouch for it.

Mr. Shen is even more like that.

Yang Ming shook his head and said nothing more.

He had returned to the car and continued northward by car with Yang Jirong and his wife.

At this time, the straight-line distance from Qianshui Town to Longchuan County, Yang Jirong's hometown, should be less than 200 kilometers.

This is the case for straight-line distance.

According to the current domestic highways, they are basically built through some towns and urban areas. Moreover, they are basically dirt roads, which are winding and not like the highways that were almost straightened later.

Yang Ming knew that many of the highways in the future would not pass through the centers of big cities, but would just open near them.

In this case, it not only saves a lot of demolition costs, but also straightens the distance between the two places.

It's different now.

They left Tamsui Town in Huiyang and continued their journey north.

Leading the team ahead were Mr. Shen and Secretary Zhang’s motorcade.

As he went further north, Yang Ming discovered that there were more rural areas and more fields.

There are also more adobe houses with tile roofs in these rural areas.

Compared with the desolate situation in the countryside below Pengcheng, which is close to Xiangjiang.

Now Yang Ming found that there were more people here. He saw some farmers in ordinary clothes driving buffaloes, and also saw some adobe houses with tiled roofs emitting white smoke. This should be the life of local farmers in this era. .

Here, in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, many people ran to Xiangjiang. However, the further away from Xiangjiang, the less people ran.

Now I see more people here, and it has more rural characteristics of this era.

Yang Jirong and Li Yufang were in a much better mood now. The road was still bumpy. When Yang Jirong looked outside, he was indeed in a much better mood.

"Yufang, Peter, I feel the same as when I went to Xiangjiang. Nothing seems to have changed outside."

"Daddy, there should be changes."

Yang Ming remembered that he had studied history and researched relevant information.

In the winter of 1978, 18 farmers in Xiaogang Village, Fengyang County, Anhui Province, implemented the agricultural "big contract" with the spirit of "dare to be the first in the world", which kicked off the domestic rural reform.

Almost at the same time, in a small mountain village in Shangyi Commune in the Huicheng area of ​​southern Guangdong, the pioneering move of "household responsibility for production" was also carried out.

At that time, "household production quota" was a forbidden area, and the commune system of "one village and two villagers" seriously weakened the enthusiasm of farmers.

As for the implementation of the household contract responsibility system in rural areas, as early as the beginning of 1975, the Huangkengpai production team of the Guangfeng Brigade of Shangyi Commune in Zilin County was the first in the country to implement the "divided fields, individual work, and household management" model.

Compared with Xiaogang Village, Fengyang County, Anhui Province, which implemented separate farming in the winter of 1978, Zilian went to Yiyi more than three years earlier.

By October 1978, Shangyi Commune fully implemented the household contract responsibility system and implemented "dividing fields and working alone".

In other words, there are actually some places in China that have secretly implemented the model of allocating farmland to each household, or even contracting production to each household. The more you work, the more you get, and you do it yourself.

Yang Jirong and Li Yufang didn't understand this.

Now I was a little surprised when I heard Yang Ming talk about allocating fields to households.

"Peter, you just talked about big pot rice in the canteen in Tamsui, why are you dividing the fields into households now?" Yang Jirong asked in disbelief.

Big pot meal?

Even if Yang Jirong and Li Yufang have not experienced it, they know what it is like. However, it should be said that the distribution of farmland to each household and the big pot rice are two completely different properties.

"Daddy, Mommy, the country is constantly changing, but outsiders don't know it yet."

"I think it is good to divide the fields into households. The more work you do, the more you will get. Of course, hardworking people can have enough to eat, but lazy people can only starve to death." Yang Jirong said.

He himself believes that the more work you do, the more you will get, and you should get rich through hard work.

That big pot meal is simply unrealistic and goes against human nature.

While Yang Ming, Yang Jirong, and Li Yufang were chatting in the car, Yang Ming and Yang Jirong learned from the information about their hometown brought to them by Mr. Shen.

Now my hometown is the Sanjiantang production team. The so-called production team refers to the rural collective ownership cooperative economic model, which is different from the big pot rice era.

In the era of large collectives, the system of communes was a management model of "three-level ownership, team-based". As the basic production team, it was both a labor organization and an economic entity.

The material and economic benefits of each member are closely linked to the performance of the production team.

Because the commune assigns various physical material handover tasks and various apportionments to the production team as planned, the production team must complete them unconditionally. After completing the tasks, the remaining material goods and money will be distributed to the members by the production team in accordance with relevant policies.

Therefore, the rations and cash of all members are not fixed. When the year is good and the harvest is good, there is more food, which can basically fill their stomachs. Even after completing the task of buying pigs, the production team can plant seeds in the summer during the holidays. During the period, a few pigs could be killed and distributed to the members to improve their meals and make tooth sacrifices.

If there is a famine year and grain production decreases, after handing over the public grain and purchased grain, the production team will not have much food left to distribute to the members, and the members will have to tighten their belts and live half-starved.

It was almost the norm in the 1960s for commune members to have insufficient food to eat, so it was a pleasure to have enough to eat in that era.