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The yield experiment was a great success. The yield of 1,500 per mu was astonishing and far beyond Zhou Ming's own expectations.

So, what’s next?

Expand the planting area, contract 1,800 acres, and become a big landowner and a big grain king?

Zhou Ming shook his head and smiled. This was really too much.

How to deal with growing so much food?

Sell?

It is impossible to sell it because there is not such a big market demand.

Considering the traffic conditions and local customs in this era, selling grain for more than a hundred miles was basically unprofitable.

Tens of thousands of kilograms of grain may not be exchanged for even one spiritual coin.

"The economic structure of this world is mainly a self-sufficient natural economy. Large-scale commodity transactions have not yet formed that kind of market. There is no need for trafficking of low-value-added food."

Zhou Ming is not interested in being an old farmer who works hard every day. Farming will not be his main business. He can only plant a few acres of land for fun.

So, what does he want to do?

What's the real purpose?

What kind of farming does he mean by farming?

Naturally, he wants to change the appearance of the entire Limburg Village, and then hopes to change the farming of this world.

And in the process, enhance your reputation, cultivate your own power, stand in the position of a leader, and stir up the world.

Therefore, he established an "agricultural mutual aid cooperative" and recruited all the old, middle-aged and young women in the village to become members of the cooperative.

A total of 233 people.

Except for the Lin family, a large family in the village, all the peasant women in the village have joined the cooperative.

How did Zhou Ming do it?

Two reasons.

One is the bonus of appearance. Being young and handsome is an advantage. Zhou Ming’s good skin accounts for 50% of the reason.

The other is that at the mobilization meeting, the new planting model promoted by Zhou Ming painted an attractive prospect for what kind of huge changes it will bring to every household.

I won’t go into details for a long discussion, but I can summarize it in just a few sentences:

Follow me and learn how to farm. One acre of land can produce as much as three acres!

Follow me and make tools, and the time and energy it takes to take care of an acre of land will be one-third of what it used to be.

Follow me and engage in half farming and half animal husbandry. From now on, women will be the main force in family production. There will be endless food, meat, eggs and milk are available every day. Men will not even need to go hunting in the mountains.

In short, if you follow him, Zhou Mingqian, your life will only get better and more comfortable!

All the ladies, old and young, were moved, not by the beautiful vision described by Zhou Ming, but by the confident and eloquent demeanor he displayed during his speech, which made these young and old ladies blush and shy, and their hearts pounding. Jump.

"I used to think Zhang Shanhe was handsome, but now I realize how handsome he is!"

"Compared to that piece of dead wood in my house, I don't know how strong Zhang Shanhe is. The words coming out of his mouth are as if they were coated with honey."

"It would have been better if I had been born thirty years later. I will definitely marry him and give him ten or eight babies!"

"For the sake of your sweet mouth and good looks, I will join your cooperative."

"As long as I can see mountains and rivers every day from now on, I will join any club!" Some girls said with an infatuated look.

The members of the cooperative joined so enthusiastically, and all the women's resources in the village gathered around him. Zhou Ming was naturally overjoyed and had a sense of accomplishment... Of course, if he were to know the specific reasons why these women joined, he would not know. Do you know if you will be depressed and vomit blood?

But no matter what, Zhou Ming, who had a lot of resources at his disposal, led all members to launch a vigorous large-scale production movement soon after the cooperative was founded.

First, I scraped together materials and money, bought two horses and one cow from a passing caravan, and transformed them into plow horses and cattle. The expense was not small. As a result, many men accused me of being a prodigal, and I had a few quarrels, but nothing happened. Harm the overall situation.

Then 2,000 acres of land were circled outside the village, 1,000 acres were planted for pasture, and 1,000 acres were planted for grain.

The horses and oxen played a huge role. It took only five days to plow so much land.

Then there are seed selection and sowing, building public toilets, fertilizer plants, irrigation canals, weeding and watering, going to the forest to cut trees and make agricultural machinery and tools, catching pheasants and driving them to the fields to eat insects, catching pigs and sheep for domestication and breeding... With many affairs, all members of the cooperative were so busy that they did not have a day off in three or four months.

Zhou Ming's statement that "the workload is only one-third of what it was before" has become a complete lie!

Not only did the labor intensity not decrease, but it increased several times.

Even because they are too busy, some housewives put aside their families and serve the cooperatives wholeheartedly.

This has led to disharmony in many family relationships, and quarrels are commonplace.

There were even several instances of domestic violence.

The agricultural mutual aid cooperative has become a thorn in the eyes of many men, and Zhou Ming has also been warned in private several times.

However, the cooperative was not destroyed by these disturbances and difficulties. None of the women asked to quit. Instead, they became even more motivated, buried their grievances, gritted their teeth, and wanted to do a good job in their big business.

As they moved forward hard, they felt as if faith had been injected into their bodies.

At this scene, someone screamed in horror:

"Not only was Zhang Shanhe possessed by the evil demon, he also brought our mother-in-law and daughter with him, who was also possessed by the evil demon. No! We must bring the women back, and we can't let them continue to mess around!"

The power of these words was huge, and the men took coercive measures one after another. After a lot of fighting, they dragged their women back home, and surrounded Zhou Ming with evil eyes, ready to give him a good beating.

Fortunately, the situation has become clear at this time. Zhou Ming is not only not afraid of these angry eyes, but also smiles slightly: "You will know after you follow me to the fields. Take a look at the high-yielding golden wheat growing in the fields. How did it thrive under the leadership of this evil spirit like me?"

Yes.

The golden wheat is ripe.

A large area of ​​gold.

It's so bright that it's hard to open your eyes.

The men who followed were all surprised. They had gone hunting in the forest for more than ten days. When they came back, not only were the golden wheat fully mature, but they were still looking so good?

The yield per mu is around 1,500 kilograms.

"This is one of the fruits of the labor of the women in your family over the past few months."

"On average, a household has four acres of wheat fields, and the grain produced is equivalent to the previous 12 acres, which is enough to feed each family for a year."

"There are also more than 1,300 pheasants, 800 hares, 50 wild boars and 5 wild sheep in the pasture over there. Women from various families caught them in the forest. Although it is not many, it is at least equivalent to you. Man, go hunting in the mountains twice and you’ll get more than twice.”

"As far as I know, every time you go hunting, although it is very dangerous, the prey you bring back can only last for five to seven days at most. Then you have to go into the mountains to hunt again, and your wives and children who stay at home have to eat What I buy the most are the vegetables and grains I grow myself, and I have to prepare a portion for you before going into the mountains."

"So, do you think you have the right to beat and scold your mothers-in-law? Not only do they support themselves and their children, they are also busy with all kinds of things, and they also have to make you feel comfortable!"

"Do you think they joined the cooperative because they were bewitched by me, Zhang Shanhe, or because they were possessed by evil spirits? Wrong! They actually hope to harvest more food and let their men go into the mountains less often, thus reducing the possibility of Danger encountered!”

"In my cooperative, the ones who work the hardest are the widows. They have lost their men and are raising their children alone. Their life is very difficult, but now they see hope, because as long as the cooperative continues to operate, they can My son will not need to go to the mountains to hunt all year round in the future, he can live in the village with enough food and clothing!"

"This is your woman!"

"A woman possessed by an evil spirit!"

"If you still think it's necessary, please go back and continue beating me!"

Zhou Ming yelled at the muscular men in front of him with a mocking look on his face.

Quiet.

Absolute silence.

Everyone lowered their heads.

His face turned red to the back of his ears, and he felt ashamed.

"Woooooo~"

The women hugged each other aggrievedly and burst into tears.

"Snapped!"

A big man slapped himself, walked up to his wife, put his arm around her shoulders and said, "My dear, I was wrong. I shouldn't have hit you yesterday!"

"You're the one who's been stabbed a thousand times~" His wife hit him hard on the chest twice, then buried her head in the man's chest and cried even louder.

Some people regretted it and ran home quickly, shouting: "Mother, I was wrong, please hit me a few times!"

Most of the big men returned home silently, the indignation on their faces and the anger in their eyes turned into low-headed contemplation and weak retorts.

Zhou Ming's profound ideological education class had a very significant effect. The relationship between husband and wife in the village was obviously much more harmonious.

The next day when I went to the fields to harvest ripe golden wheat, there were many men who had never done farm work, and they had sickles in their hands.

Of course, there were some who really couldn't save their face. Although they didn't go to help, they didn't complain or complain behind their backs. They even helped out a little without realizing it, such as carrying bags of wheat back to their homes. of.

The golden wheat harvest work was completed smoothly.

After eating noodles and baked bread made from new wheat, many villagers' homes were filled with laughter and laughter on this day.

The various plans implemented by Zhou Ming's cooperative have triggered a new round of debates and collisions in the discussions among these families.

Some stronger women actually asked their men to stop hunting in the mountains and help her at home, assisting in the operation of the ranch and increasing the production of meat, eggs, and milk.

Naturally, the men immediately objected. What kind of destruction of the cooperative? Don’t participate, definitely don’t participate!

We are hunters, not women sitting at home!

"Three or four of you men die every year when you go into the mountains. A few years ago, you encountered a strange beast, and thirteen of you died at once! You can't catch much prey, so you might as well work at home."

"No, we are born as hunters, and we will die as hunters! We cannot be the peasant women who are laughed at!"

Due to the dignity of the hunter, not surprisingly, none of the men expressed interest in joining the agricultural mutual aid cooperative, and although they had no objections, they would never participate.

But no matter what, starting from this day, the status of women in the family, who usually worked hard and had little say in family affairs, was greatly improved for the first time!

Thanks to readers for the tip!