After crossing the Bian River by ferry, Li Ping'an greeted him from afar: "Have you beaten?"

"I've beaten!" The person who came laughed and walked forward with a smile.

After these days, everyone has seen the situation clearly. As long as they have not committed any major incidents, they will only beat the boards in the inspection camp. The public officials responsible for the execution are tired, and they will just do it perfunctorily and keep it for a day and a half. As the saying goes, if they get beaten, they will be reborn and come here for a while, and they will be divided into two pieces of messy things before, and they will be good people who abide by the law since then.

After leaving the pier and walking north, I saw a straw hut on the side of the road, and a big list of articles was posted there: "Recruit people to reclaim the fields."

Li Ping'an told Liu Dadao: "There are all four big words there, which are the places where people are recruited? It's great to do things here in the river."

After saying that, the three of them went to the shed together and looked out of the shed.

A man wearing a short brown man inside put a red hoop on his arm and was drinking tea. When he saw Li Ping'an and the other two, he shouted: "What are those birds looking around outside? This is the place of the government, do you want to have some bad intentions!"

Liu Da hurriedly pulled the two into the shed and bowed, "Brother, don't talk nonsense! We are all law-abiding people on the other side. I heard that people are recruiting people to reclaim land here and come together. I just want to find a job and find food and clothing."

After hearing this, the man waved to the few people: "Since I want to recruit the fields, I will come inside to speak."

Several people entered the shed, stood in front of the table, and looked at the man sitting behind the table in unison.

The man looked at the three of them, pointed to the red hoop on his arm, and said, "In Xiahu Zhonghai, the village clerk in Village B over there, is on duty today. Are you here to recruit land, where are you from? Do you have family members? Should you settle down here or work for a short time?"

Liu Dadao: "The three of us are from Yongcheng County opposite, and we do odd jobs every day. We have been having a hard time recently, so we can make some money by doing odd jobs."

After hearing this, Hu Zhonghai was frustrated and took three signs from the table and asked the names of the three.

Li Ping'an was always obsessed with the incense burning of his mother and hurriedly said, "Brother, don't worry. I am also from the city opposite. My family has married, but I have no children yet. I also have an old mother. I live in because I am renting a house, and I don't know what the regulations are for registering here."

When Hu Zhonghai heard about his family's resignation, his eyes lit up: "It's different to have family's resignation. There are built houses in the villages here, and there will be a place to live in. In addition to the fields cultivated in the village, each family also has some private fields for vegetable fields, and they are collected by themselves, and they are exempt from taxes for three years. If you don't want to live in the official village, you can also reclaim the fields by yourself. The government lends you grain, seeds, and ploughing tools, and only two cents of interest a year. As long as you reclaim the land for a few years, you will be a middle-class family, as if you have no place to live in the city opposite."

Li Ping'an thought he had heard it wrong, so he looked at Liu Da and Zhu Xian beside him and asked, "There is such a good thing in the world?"

"Where is there any fake news about the official affairs? "

Li Ping'an still disbelief and took Liu Da and Zhu Xian out to read the list article and asked them to read it for him.

Not far from the shed, Du Zhongxiao and Liu Ji walked among the newly opened fields, checking the situation of the land reclamation.

Looking at the barren and messy land not far away, Liu Ji and Du Zhongxiao said, "You let the people who reclaim the fields gather in the village to live together, and leave some vegetable fields with them. In fact, it has the ancient meaning of a well field. In the present opinion, this method is excellent. Why do you still leave some families there to reclaim the land by themselves, lend them agricultural tools and seeds for them? How easy it is to be managed by the government in the village!"

Du Zhongxiao smiled and shook his head: "Is it easy to save trouble? In fact, it may not be necessary. Everyone farms together, harvests together, and then divides them into each family after harvesting the grain. It seems that everything is good. But when working on weekdays, who will take care of it? When the final division is divided, who will take care of it? Not to mention the miscellaneous work on weekdays, who will supervise the work? At the beginning, these are easy to say, but in just a few years, there will be disputes. The ancient system of the Wellfield field has been more than one or two thousand years ago. I don't know how many capable people think this method is the most popular, but no one can return to this ancient method. It can be seen that it is not easy."

The well-field system that literati kept mentioning in ancient times did not refer to the pre-Qin slavery system, but the rural collective economy in a sense.

The core issue of agricultural economy is the ownership of land as a means of production. Later generations understand this, but the ancients also understand it. From the private manor system, to the well-field system of collective economy, even various forms of mutual assistance for rural cooperatives, and even public ownership, almost everyone has proposed it to the Song Dynasty, and many have even practiced it, but without exception, they have failed.

In the past few decades, Du Zhongxiao's previous life, from small self-cultivated farmers who evenly distributed land, to mutual aid cooperatives, to large public-owned communes, and to households, he was just a very short time to re-contract these land systems from ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad. And the reality is that every earth-shaking reform can only last for 10 or 20 years, and then it has to be changed.

Unless it is constantly transforming from an agricultural society to an industrial and commercial society, no matter what kind of land ownership is, it can only solve the problem for decades. The development of agricultural productivity is so slow, and there is no way to achieve a thousand years of experience.

According to Du Zhongxiao's political class in his previous life, the most important class contradiction in this era is the contradiction between the landlord class and the peasant class. Du Zhongxiao does not need to use his knowledge from a thousand years later to remind others that most of the scholars in this era are clear about it. However, some of them believe that the solution to the problem is to light taxes and reduce taxes to curb land annexation. Some people believe that the country should support small self-cultivated farmers in terms of policies and crack down on land annexation. Some people believe that the landlord class should be directly eliminated. Those who ploughed have their own land, and those who did not ploughed should not occupy land. The last one is the flat land law and well-field system of Li Yue and Zhang Zai and others, and they are doing it from theory to practice.

What Du Zhongxiao is better than these people is that he knows that these issues cannot be viewed only from a logical and ethical perspective, but also on productivity and production relations.

The farms were built by the land and were actually collective economy dominated by the government, and farmers were allowed to have their own land. Du Zhongxiao's previous model did not last long for many years. Why do you think that this era could solve the rural problems? So in addition to these farms, Du Zhongxiao also imitated the usual practices of this era, borrowing official start-up funds and means of production, allowing farmers to shoot seeds, which are the villages that Liu Ji saw.

Why is this? Because a very important fact learned from Du Zhongxiao from his previous life is that at this stage, one kind of ownership and production relations cannot be used to conquer the world. Multiple ownership coexist and richer production relations, the court will take more initiative.

Seeing that Liu Ji was still a little confused, Du Zhongxiao said: "Prime Minister, in the past, the states used to recruit people to reclaim land, mostly borrowed seeds and farm tools, and exempted from taxes for many years. However, many local people lost their political interest, and when it came time to collect taxes, many farmers would abandon the land and leave. I am different here. Tax exemption is not the key, the most important thing is borrowing. These farmers, all the materials are loaned to them by the government, and the interest is paid every year, and the interest remaining is their income from farming. This kind of loan is not limited to years and months. As long as they still plant here, they will lend them to them, and the government will only earn interest."
Chapter completed!