Mage? Spell Engineer!

Collecting grain is always a big problem. From the perspective of farmers, they work hard to sow, weed and fertilize wheat, and see them sprout and ear, becoming fuller and golden.

Finally, they work hard to cut and separate the wheat stalks and fruits.

This also means that grain will be separated from the cultivators. The owners of the land, the farmers' creditors and their lackeys will jump out of the big houses and castles, take away the big heads, leaving the farmer's family with pitiful surplus food and the uncomfortable taste of half-hunger and half-fullness.

Fortunately, the style of the new reclamation is different. At least from sowing to harvesting, there are scary-looking but fast-working mechanical machines to help, especially the combine harvester. A big steel spider hangs a rolling sickle. After harvesting, it is immediately concentrated by the transmission belt into the destemming machine on its back, and then pulled from the "spider's butt" to the small follower dump truck behind.

Of course, the harvest could not be handed over directly to the farmers. Instead, the people of the "Zwillinger" agricultural and commercial society recorded the rough yield on the spot and then took it to the steam-powered mill.

For the pain of losing food, there is a "pain relief patch" called the land deed to soothe it.

"Is this really mine?" The farmer from Valois, now a farmer on the newly reclaimed land, got the land deed and touched the thick piece of paper to his palm, full of disbelief.

"Check it again? Joem, plot 337-339, Kempson South District, the whole family has a total of 15 acres."

"Yes, yes, 15 acres, not a penny less." The farmer's heart was immediately at ease. He couldn't believe that he got his own land in a foreign country in just half a year.

No, in Valois, he was just a tenant farmer. When the noble lord was in power, he was given the land to farm. He paid as much as he planted, and the lord rewarded him so that his family would not starve to death. Some commissioner drove the noble lord away and brought a musket and a guillotine to ask him to continue to pay the surplus grain.

Then the imperialists came again, and the commissioner ran back to the city in fear. Joem gritted his teeth and made the most important decision of his life: run away with his family, the farther the better.

Although he almost died on the road, at least he has now achieved perfection, realizing what he dared not dream of when he lived in a straw hut.

He could not recognize the full word "fifteen acres", but just held the deed tightly and turned to leave: "Hey! Fifteen acres!" He had an impulse to shout all the way from the mill to his new home: "I have land!"

"Hey, hey, hey, wait a minute, don't leave in a hurry." The staff hurriedly called out to this overly excited person: "This is the remaining grain of your family, it's all yours, you can take it away with the ticket, or you can sell part of it at the next window for cash."

Jom represents the general situation of Kempson immigrants. In the past, one laborer could only manage five acres at most, with mechanical assistance, and they did not need to be responsible for water conservancy. This year, two laborers in a household can manage thirty to forty acres. When he first arrived and there was no harvest, he still had enough energy to do some odd jobs to make a living.

He, his wife, and his children each have one. With the addition of fertilizers, the harvest of three acres can support a year's food supply. The special zone tax, the redemption of land and the hiring money of the structure, seeds and fertilizers. Together, they collect nearly 70%.

The proportion is very high, but for their family, they would rather hand over 70% of the 15 acres than be tenant farmers for the master, working hard to manage the five or six acres of land for a year, and then half of it is taken away and they are half hungry and half full.

And the land is still theirs! Hey! Thinking of this, Qiaom also thought that he could continue to do odd jobs during the slack season, that is to say. He took out some of his share from his family and exchanged it for cash, bought a headscarf for his wife, and a can of precious canned fruit for the children, and finally. The last bit of money was carefully wrapped and put in his inner pocket, and he got on the cart and pulled the rough noodles home humming a song.

On the bumpy road, the wheat flour stuck on the sacks at the mill rose up and turned into flying ash in the sun. Joem really wanted to take a sip, as if he could taste its sweetness.

For the new farmers who had everything normal and harvested smoothly, like Joem, they were all happy to get their own land and surplus grain, but some were not so lucky.

Rorschach sat on the construct, walking along the ridge of the field while listening to the report of the agricultural and commercial cooperative employees. According to preliminary statistics, there are still about 30% of new immigrants who cannot meet the production requirements for redeeming the land due to various reasons.

Some of them applied fertilizer improperly, some were unlucky and did not get good land, or they were unable to farm due to sudden physical conditions.

And there are two types of people who abandoned the land:

One is to find that working is more profitable than farming, and they repair the land with a hammer and carry buckets to the factory!

Others are former urban residents or even old Kempson city people. They think that the policy of the special zone is to give away land, and they claim the land in a speculative way without planting honestly.

Originally, speculators planned to hire people to plant for them, but since the Special Zone did not impose any identity restrictions on claiming newly reclaimed land, after understanding the policy, hired farmers all contracted their own land and worked on it, leaving the "small bosses" dumbfounded and unable to find professional players.

"How should we deal with the above situation?" According to the internal data of the Agricultural Commercial Society, grain production increased unprecedentedly this year, but at the same time, "Zwillinger" itself suffered astonishing losses, because in fact, the construction of water conservancy, rental and sale of agricultural machinery and sale of seeds and fertilizers, each of which was either not calculated or "super low price".

The Special Zone was frightened by the economic accounts, thinking that this was not repairing the land, but digging a financial hole. Or Rorschach insisted that the magic industry subsidize agriculture: "You only know how to calculate money, money, money, and don't you see how many non-agricultural population we have now? No one is farming, what do we eat?

"Nowadays, tens of thousands of people are often gathered together in factories. Apart from our own subsidies to allow farmers to continue planting, who can feed us? If we only rely on imports, we will suffer a small loss and become a big loss sooner or later!"

Rorschach's attitude has not changed now. The land cannot be abandoned and can only be cultivated. Waste is not allowed: "Those who do not meet the standards should be considered on a case-by-case basis. If it is not their own fault, they are allowed to apply for an extension for one season and get their property back." As for the rations, once the winter wheat is planted this year, we can still get the land after paying off next year. We must make it clear to them.

“As for speculators, they should give up when faced with difficulties. If they have income, they will take back the fields. The money for machinery, fertilizers and seeds will be deducted from the grain. If the money is not enough, they will have to ask them to collect the money.

"All the abandoned and reclaimed land plots can be gathered together through replacement. Good land can be exchanged for land with poor land conditions in the hands of farmers." Luo Xia recalled the current scope of work of United Agricultural Machinery and gave a Valuation:

"It is best to form a collective farm with about five hundred households as a unit, and hire farmers who have not received land to train employees. Members of each farm are divided into 40% of the shares and are not allowed to resell them. The remaining Half of the 60% shares are subscribed by rural commercial companies or steel mills, and the other half are put on the market. Don’t those city people who have spare money like to invest? Let them bring back blood to rural commercial companies.

"Collective farms must do a good job, plan water conservancy, give priority to the supply of fertilizers, and apply to the special zone for machinery when there is insufficient manpower. The most important thing is to keep up with the training of the people who operate them. Farms and small farmers must compete with their fields. , to set an example. The new round of reclamation is also done in the form of collective farms and claims.

"There are also cooperatives, and we need more support. In short, whether in industry or agriculture, the more they unite to produce, and the more there is division of labor and collaboration, the more we need to support them."

As for the small farmers who have obtained the land now, they will either continue to accumulate and gradually become rich step by step until they become rich, or they will lose their land due to natural disasters, man-made disasters or market fluctuations.

Rorschach chose to resolutely suppress the first situation, and at the same time avoid turning small farmers into tenant farmers if the second situation occurs. Instead, cooperatives and collective farms took over to help them become agricultural workers or guide them into factories.