Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Family Farm

Whether it is Jiangnan Group or Kunkaisi, they are all one company first of all. Since it is a company, it must adhere to the profit-oriented and cannot do loss-making transactions. Otherwise, the shareholders will rebel and the company will have to shut down.

However, all the projects that Kunkaisi took over were money-losing goods, because the government could not afford to pay for the construction of large-scale projects.

Daming is an out-and-out small government, and the government is poor. Even the richest county government in the world, such as Changzhou in Wu County, can't catch up with a wealthy family, how can it be possible to afford to pay tens of millions of taels for repairing embankments?

The solution given by Zhao Hao is that Party B advances the project payment, and Party A repays the debt with the land use right.

The key to the success of this so-called 'Kunshan model' depends on whether it can obtain sufficient benefits from these lands.

Considering that the benefits brought by large-scale projects far exceed the economic scope, as long as the income and expenditure are generally offset, or even a slight loss, this model can be promoted throughout Jiangnan, and Jiangnan Group will completely lay a solid foundation. Let the wind and rain blow, and I will not move.

Of course, it would be great if a positive cycle could be formed.

So Zhao Hao spent a lot of thought on the hundreds of thousands of acres of land in Kunshan County. Even if it is simply to keep its golden signboard, it will never allow the Kunshan model to become a loss-making business.

The reason why so many Jiangnan bigwigs take him as the leader and are willing to listen to his orders is not because he can always win!

As long as you can move from victory to victory, you will have fewer and fewer enemies, and you will be able to speak your mind and do what you do right.

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After a long time of thinking and discussion, Zhao Hao finally decided to draw on the 'staff family farm system' to carry out unified planning and separate production of the 600,000 mu of land in his hands.

The so-called 'family farm system for workers' is a new mode of production explored by the state-owned farms of later generations after the reform and opening up, and it is the application of the large-scale rural package in the state-owned farms.

It not only promotes the production of farm workers, but also actively improves productivity. In addition, it has avoided the shortcomings of peasants fighting their own battles after contracting land, scattered production, lack of planning, and the inability to popularize some large-scale agricultural machinery and new production-increasing technologies.

Specifically, it is to contract the farm land to farmers in blocks and produce in a family unit, but the farm manager and technician are responsible for the unified arrangement of production plans, unified planting patterns, unified supply of seeds and farm tools, unified technical guidance, unified production cost assessment, and unified purchase and sale of agricultural products, so as to improve agricultural production efficiency and achieve the purpose of high yield and income increase.

Moreover, the planting risk is borne by the farm, and the planting cost is also paid by the farm without interest, which completely eliminates the farmers' worries.

After harvesting, after deducting taxes and planting costs, all land income is divided equally between the farm and the farmer, which ensures the production enthusiasm of the farmer.

Zhao Hao is confident that his system is still very competitive. But the problem was that the Jiangnan clique had grabbed so much labor from Kunshan that there were not enough local farmers......

Dai Gao told Zhao Gongzi that from the current situation, local farmers can only cultivate 300,000 mu, and the remaining half need to recruit displaced people to cultivate in the county.

Zhao Hao nodded, natural disasters in the north of the Ming Dynasty for many years, especially in Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, and Shaanxi, where the breeding of vassal kings was rampant, a large number of farmers brought their families and abandoned their land to go into exile.

Zhao Hao has encountered this problem in Nanjing and Beijing. Whether it is his Xiaocangshan project or the Beijing Xishan Company, all of them are homeless.

There's no way, who made our Zhao Gongzi Bodhisattva heartbroken. Don't you think of them as cheap labor......

The Jiangnan region, the richest region in the country, is naturally a place where a large number of displaced people gather. Especially in a big city like Suzhou, the number of displaced people can even reach 200,000.

Last year, the market in Suzhou was sluggish, and a large number of workers were unemployed, but Kunshan was engaged in large-scale projects, which naturally attracted many displaced people to come to the county to work for a short time.

Before the end of the third phase of the project, Zhao Hao specially told Kunkaisi to keep these displaced people as much as possible and let them continue to serve Kunkaisi.

Because the people of the Ming Dynasty have a natural wariness of the rich. Especially these exiles who have been miserable by the vassal kings and magnates are even more difficult to believe in any promises from the owner.

Through last year's project, these displaced people should have built a basic trust in Kunkaisi. Let them recruit new outcasts, and it will be more effective than Kunkais's own throat cut.

To this end, Kunkaisi announced that all the 'agricultural workers' who have signed contracts can be rewarded with one or two silver for each qualified agricultural worker recruited by the company.

All of a sudden, the enthusiasm of these displaced people was aroused. The so-called things gather by like, people by groups, and the daily exchanges of the displaced people are also the displaced people. They took the opportunity of returning to Suzhou for the New Year to vigorously publicize and agitate their fellow villagers. As a result, before the fifteenth year, a large number of displaced people left Suzhou City with their families and came along the Loujiang River to Kunshan.

"As of yesterday, 17,000 displaced families have reported to the county." Dai Gao reported to Zhao Hao: "In addition to Fucheng, we have also set up more than a dozen recruitment points in Songjiang, Taicang, and Wujiang, and it should not be a problem to recruit another 10,000 households before the end of the month." ”

"Hmm." Zhao Hao nodded and advised: "We must properly settle these peasant workers, don't conflict with local farmers, and do a good job in preventing infectious diseases." Before starting work, you might as well give them more nutrition, so that they can take care of their bodies and work to have strength. ”

"Childe is always so benevolent." Gu Dadong, the old man, is now full of sycophants.

"Childe, don't worry, anyway, all the rations advanced will be deducted at the time of harvest, and we won't be stingy." Dai Gao is much more honest.

"You big landlords, you are really good at abacus." Zhao Hao laughed and scolded, which can be regarded as acquiescing to 'the wool is out of the sheep'.

"I can't help it, Childe." General Manager Dai repeated the mantra again and said with a wry smile: "Not to mention that we have never planted two crops of rice in Kunshan before, no one knows what it will be like this year." Even if it is planted smoothly, the yield per mu in one season will be two stones and five stones, and the two seasons will add up to only five stones. One of the stones had to be taxed, and half of the land had to be rented to the landlord. On average, there are only two and a half stones left in the last acre, and this is not counting the cost of seeds, farm tools, fertilizer, and irrigation. If we provide food to the farmers in vain, we are afraid that we will lose money. ”

Gu Dadong and the others nodded again and again, and they also felt that Gongzi's set was too merciful. Carrying any burden on yourself can make a good reputation, but how to make money?

"Hahaha." Seeing the bitter gourd faces, Zhao Gongzi laughed and said, "Don't worry, the two crops of rice will definitely be a success." Pan Zhongcheng's family has been planting for more than ten years. In the past, we couldn't plant because of the big water every year. ”

After a pause, he said mysteriously: "Moreover, this son will go to you in two days and invite a current Shennong to come over and help you increase the output, won't everyone be happy?" ”

"Oh?" All the hearts of the people were relieved, and they felt that their worries were gone. Childe has played a package ticket, what else is there to worry about?