To Feed the Farmers
The Xidan warehouse was filled with goods, and Tie Ning was reluctant to leave.
Yang Jianguo asked him why.
Tie Ning said,
"This place stores ten days 'worth of rations for the entire capital, including the countryside. I'm not at ease!”
Yang Jianguo was speechless.
"If I remember correctly, our Number 34 has the right to use a limited number of police forces?”
Tie Ning nodded.
"Yes!"
Yang Jianguo said helplessly,"
"Within your authority, just send a team of soldiers over to guard it!”
Tie Ning was enlightened.
"That's right!"
"There were originally soldiers here, but during these two years of disasters, the warehouse was empty, so there was no one.”
Minister Wu thought for a moment and said to Tie Ning,"
"Comrade Jianguo and I will stay here and watch. Take my note and go straight to the Public Security Bureau to find Comrade Xiang.”
Tie Ning was just about to agree when Minister Wu shook his head again.
"Don't look for Comrade Xiang, go directly to the Ten Commanders and ask him to arrange a team of soldiers.”
Tie Ning didn't dare to delay. He quickly called the driver and left in a small car.
Holding the half peach in his hand, Minister Wu was somewhat lost in thought.
"When I was young, a peach was enough to fill me up for a day. Now that she was old, she still couldn't eat a peach.”
Yang Jianguo laughed.
"You're in your prime. How can you be old?”
Minister Wu waved his hand:
"Birth, aging, sickness, and death are the laws of nature. No one can avoid it.”
"I'm not afraid of getting old. I'm still serving the people. I feel especially fulfilled every day.”
Yang Jianguo was filled with respect.
He knew that the old man was speaking from the bottom of his heart. Prime Minister Wu was truly one with knowledge and action. He had served the people all his life!
None of his friends or enemies said that he had a bad character.
Even Duke Chang, who wanted his life, was impressed by him.
This was a true moral role model.
Yang Jianguo knew that he couldn't be like Minister Wu. When facing Minister Wu, he always felt that the most beautiful things in the world were presented before his eyes.
Under the reflection, he was truly ashamed.
However, if you were to let Yang Jianguo be someone like Minister Wu, he wouldn't have such a lofty consciousness.
Yang Jianguo was the kind of person who would give you 40 yuan if he had 100 yuan. If he only had one yuan, he would never give it to anyone else.
To put it bluntly, Yang Jianguo was an ordinary good person.
He would not deliberately harm others. When he saw others harm others, he would weigh the pros and cons and stop them.
When he encountered difficulties, he would also take the initiative to help!
That was all!
In contrast, Yang Jianguo was more willing to learn from Old Master Li.
Someone once commented,"
"Old Man Li is a human, and Minister Wu is a god.”
Even if Yang Jianguo's ability was already inhuman in the eyes of others, he still couldn't do what Minister Wu did.
It was completely out of all kinds of vulgar interests!
Minister Wu asked,"
"You just said that even if you want to pay off your debts, you have to use our products to pay off your debts…"
"Why did you do that?"
Yang Jianguo said without hesitation,"
"The items produced in my space are the best!”
he explained.
"Food, vegetables, chickens, ducks, cows, and sheep must have a suitable environment for them to grow well.”
"I can adjust the environment in my Portable Space at will.”
"How can there be such good conditions in reality?”
Minister Wu nodded repeatedly:
"You're right."
"When farmers farm, they have to depend on the weather.”
Yang Jianguo smiled bitterly.
"Prime Minister Wu, I'll tell you the truth. Even if we realize modern farming in the future, we still have to depend on the weather.”
"Modern planting is to reduce labor, increase water irrigation facilities, and increase the amount of fertilizer used.”
" But if there's a natural disaster, such as the El Nino or La Nina phenomenon..."
"Oh, these are two abnormal extreme climates. One is global warming, and the other is global cooling.”
"To put it simply, you can say that there is a drought and rain.”
"It's not easy to encounter a year with good weather. The wheat is about to mature, but it just happens to be the rainy season. A large area of wheat is soaked in the field.”
Minister Wu was silent.
Yang Jianguo said seriously,"
"For thousands of years, farmers have been the group of people who suffered the most.”
"They have never been real people.”
"Only now have they been masters for a few years, yet they have encountered a natural disaster.”
"What I mean is that we should take advantage of this year and next year's famine to properly feed the farmers.”
Minister Wu's hand trembled: "
"Next year is still a famine year?"
Yang Jianguo sighed."
"Right, next year will still be the year of famine."
Minister Wu looked at Yang Jianguo silently, and his expression gradually relaxed.
Yang Jianguo whispered,"
" What I mean is, as long as it's food, whether it's rice, wheat, highland barley, millet, kaoliang, corn, soybeans, sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes..."
"As long as it's edible, we'll exchange it for something of equal value!”
Minister Wu reminded him:
"The yield per mu of sweet potatoes and potatoes is very high.”
Yang Jianguo was quite generous.
"I changed them all!"
Minister Wu silently gave him a thumbs up.
Yang Jianguo stretched out his hand.
"We'll give them all to them and exchange them for food produced in the realm.”
"It doesn't matter if it's rice, wheat, or highland wheat. As long as they like it, we'll exchange it!”
"Taking advantage of this famine, we can organize the farmers to build roads and irrigation works.”
"We have to make good use of the work points system."
Minister Wu asked curiously,"
"How?"
Yang Jianguo pointed at the warehouse.
"Work points can be exchanged for chicken, duck, fish, and all kinds of food!”
He said frankly,
"It's a famine year now. I reckon that some villages don't have any food at all.”
"Then what should we do?"
"Aren't there work points?"
"One day of work will give you the corresponding work points, and you can use them to buy all kinds of necessities.”
Minister Wu suddenly came to his senses,
"Your work points are equivalent to credit currency?”
Yang Jianguo nodded slightly."
"Yes!"
"It's the same as the ticket system for workers.”
He said matter-of-factly,
"In a situation where there's no shortage of food, there's no reason to divide people into three, six, and nine grades through this artificial division, right?”
Nowadays, people's understanding of each position was similar. They were equal in personality, but the division of labor was different.
As long as there was a division of labor, there would be jobs that people yearned for.
Do farmers like being farmers?
No!
Who would be willing to get up early and work hard at night and only see a few benefits in a year!
Nowadays, there was a saying in the countryside,
"A stethoscope, a steering wheel, and a salesperson who is priceless; Food control office, broadcasting station, movie screening, postman; Food department, cotton station, three-foot podium, military department!”
The farmers still hoped to be able to walk out.
Yang Jianguo had a fire burning in his heart. Since he came to this era, he must find a way to improve the status of farmers.
Let's start with the food and work points system!
Minister Wu was pensive:
"Work as a form of relief?"
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