Roland still remembers that when he traveled through the academic circles on the earth before, he deeply reflected on the failure cases of various forms of "communalization movements" in ancient and modern China and foreign countries, and summed up two main factors: one is the "incompatibility of incentives" as he just said; The second is "information asymmetry" – those in power in the commune have the opportunity to use their information advantage to the detriment of public and private interests. He deliberately omitted the second factor just now, after all, the person in charge of the "Harvest Ring" is Sister Jinlong herself, wouldn't it be boring to mention this stubble.

Valentina leaned over her cheek and pondered for a long time, breaking the silence in the room with a sigh.

"My dear, in the morning Mr. Yodel asked me why there were more women than men in the 'Land of the Greens', and I did not tell the whole truth for the sake of my face."

Roland's heart sank: "Did you have infighting?" ”

Valentina smiled bitterly and nodded: "You guessed it, and more than once, the cause was mostly some trivial little contradictions, and then there was a heated discussion about whether the commune system was fair, and those who opposed me thought that their talents and ideals were suppressed in such a backwater-like environment, and the dull life in the green country suffocated the young people, so they asked to leave here, revise the current commune system according to their own ideals, and create a new community that reflects individual values and is more suitable for free use of individual talents." I agreed with them to go their own way, but with one additional condition - the so-called 'commune reform movement' was not allowed in the Far East, and then most of them crossed the sea to the New World, and from the recent news, the development was quite good, and just a week before your visit, several young people asked me to resign, and frankly told me, 'I plan to go to the New World to join my brother and start a business together.'" ”

"In other words, the druids who left the Greenland to start their own businesses were mostly men?" Roland asked.

Valentina nodded slightly: "Boys have more ambitious hearts, and they always have the urge to start a big business, and even the practice of druids can hardly wear out the innate ambition of a man...... How can I say it, I hope they can succeed, but I am also worried that they will be in a hurry and clash with the local forces......" Sighing, she slowly brushed the hair around her ears and smiled at Roland: "What you just said made me realize that there is a deep-rooted crux within the 'Harvest Ring', so what strategy do you use to avoid making the same mistake?" ”

"Valyusha, the key is the issue of 'property rights' that I just mentioned, the rural communes I plan to promote in the Far East are actually based on the traditional countryside and transformed into collective farms controlled by state-owned assets. The difference is that the rights and interests of the farm are not evenly distributed to each member, but according to the assets and contributions that each person brings into the commune, no matter how much farmland the commune cultivates and how large the scale of expansion, at least 50% of the total assets are owned by the government, ensuring that the nature of the state holding remains unchanged. Roland introduced.

Valentina nodded again and again, and at the same time wondered: "Will the government be too domineering to own fifty percent of the shares of the farm, and will those members who have worked hard to reclaim wasteland and improve farmland be disgruntled?" ”

Roland smiled slightly, and corrected confidently: "Valyusha, the Kolas government is not 'just owning fifty percent of the shares of the farm', this is in exchange for perfect welfare and public services, and it is the government's share of rights." ”

"Welfare and public service ......," Valentina's eyes were a little confused, "what exactly does it mean?" ”

"This is complicated to elaborate: the state will provide the village communes with all aspects of welfare, from medical care, hygiene, education, culture to public security, etc., to ensure that the members of the commune receive basic security from the 'cradle' to the 'grave', and all the above services will be converted into capital to own 50% of the shares of the farm, and the rest of the shares will be distributed to the collective farm; Self-cultivated farmers who bring their own farmland to join the farm will get the corresponding shares, and the average acre of land will be converted into one share, and the specific good land and bad land will be weighted and calculated after being reviewed by the village management committee; The managers of the farm—the village chief, the priest, the druid, and the sheriff—will also receive a portion of the equity or option awards. ”

Roland took the herbal tea handed by Valentina and took a sip, the fresh medicinal fragrance penetrated into his heart and spleen, and his throat was no longer dry.

Putting down the teacup, he then explained his blueprint for rural construction to Sister Jinlong: "With the increase of newly cultivated land, the scale of the farm has become larger, and the converted share capital of cultivated land has also increased. ”

"Does the fact that the state owns 50 percent of the farms mean that the state will take 50 percent of all crops?" Valentina asked warily.

Roland couldn't help laughing, took her hand and said, "My dear Valyusha, dividends are not such a simple and crude algorithm, but ...... Well, I have to be honest with you, after the crops are harvested, the government authorities that own 50% of the shares of the cultivated land do theoretically have the right to take 50% of the entire harvest, but in practice the accumulation rate of agricultural production cannot be so high, the agricultural tax set by the first five-year plan of the Kingdom of Kolas is only 20%, and the rest of the agricultural products that should belong to the state are exempted, which can be regarded as a tax rebate subsidy for agricultural production by the state, and it is also a compensation for the compulsory purchase of grain from the peasants by the state at a low price. ”

Valentina was so clever that it was easy to hear Roland's subtext: the Kolas government legally retained the power to raise agricultural taxes up to 50 percent, but except in an emergency such as war mobilization, the government would not impose such a high tax burden that would greatly harm the enthusiasm for agricultural production.

To sum up, it is not difficult to see that the farm that Roland wants to establish is actually a 'state-controlled agricultural development company', and the "commune" is just an abbreviation to emphasize its state-owned nature.

In the ensuing conversation, Roland further explained to Valentina the great advantages of this "commune" model.

"The core competitiveness of state-owned farms lies in the fact that we can mobilize a large number of extraordinary professionals such as Priest Sindra, Green Druid, Sindra Guardian and Forest Ranger to devote themselves to rural construction, and their spells and professional abilities, which were originally expensive and scarce resources, are now available to the communes they work in at a cheap to almost free cost, thus giving state-owned farms a huge comparative advantage over private farms."