"To be honest, the cattle harvesting industry on the Pampa grassland has had many adverse effects on the existing agricultural system in China, right?" In a brick and stone "luxury" house in Niuzhuang Town, Navy Major Li Zemin from the First Fleet was chatting casually with his old friend He Yuan: "If the three-cross rotation system is collapsed, you can't help but blame!"

"Your accusation is too severe, I can't afford it." He Yuan, the mayor of Niuzhuang Town and deputy department-level cadre, laughed and said: "The three-cross rotation system in the countryside has been implemented for decades, and the newly developed areas are still in progress. How can it be so easy to collapse? You are worried about it."

In fact, what Li Ze*min mentioned just now is not completely whining. The bison hunting industry in Niuzhuang, Yinhai and other places has indeed had a certain impact on the rural ecology of the east coast. However, it seems not very obvious at the moment, but it has already revealed signs and has caused concerns among some knowledgeable people.

They believe that in the strict sense of the rural areas of the east coast have not kept up with the country's development pace in recent years. This can be seen from the fact that the average income of the peasant class has gradually lagged behind the working class. In fact, this sign has occurred many years ago. In recent years, it has only become more and more obvious. The income from growing grain is gradually decreasing. Many farmers in the suburbs of big cities have begun to switch to economic crops such as vegetables, fruits, sesame, peanuts, sunflowers, castors, etc., vigorously develop nursery and gardening, and fewer and fewer people are engaged in traditional grain planting. To put it bluntly, this is also a market choice, which is forced by the situation.

In these so-called big cities and economically developed areas, the traditional three-crop rotation system of households has long collapsed. Farmers had no choice but to start forming cooperative organizations to reduce production costs and enhance their ability to respond to market changes. Moreover, with the increase in social development, this situation began to spread more and more to other places. For example, malls, Jingjiang, Yong'an, Tieling, Daxing and other places are also on the way to rapidly degenerate, but in other vast inland areas, the three-crop rotation system of small households is still a typical ecology of rural areas on the east coast, affecting the livelihoods of millions of rural people.

This state has shown a bad trend after the opening of Niuzhuang Port and the great development of the bison industry, that is, the surprisingly cheap bison has been introduced into the country in large quantities, resulting in a big drop in the market prices of live cattle, beef and leather, which has greatly affected the income of farmers.

As we all know, in areas where the three-crop rotation system is strictly implemented, farmers usually raise several cows at home. The feed of cows is mainly derived from alfalfa grown on fallow land (alfa can fix nitrogen fertilizer fields), and the feces produced can be used to feed the fields, which is quite cost-effective. In addition, elderly cows can also be sold on the market, with cow horns, cow skin, cow tendons, beef tongues, and beef fats all sold at a good price, and beef needs no mention of beef. And if you raise cows and happen to live in the suburbs, you may also be able to sell some milk to the residents of the city on weekdays. Of course, the milk girl who was once popular in Meilin County, which was once popular in the past, has proved from the side that some farmers are engaged in this industry.

Therefore, large livestock such as cattle were once a very important part of the income for self-cultivated farmers on the east coast, and they were also an important commodity for exchanges with the outside world and maintaining a certain level of life. It was an important part of the three-crop rotation system. However, as a large number of cattle catchers on the east coast flocked into the Pampa Plain and began to gradually import incredible cheap live cattle, corned beef, cowhide and other commodities into the country, this fragile rural economic ecology was immediately broken, and farmers' income dropped to a certain extent almost immediately, and gradually affected the living consumption.

In addition, as grain contractors operating large farms gradually got out of the difficult period in recent years, the huge wasteland development costs in the early stages and labor recruitment costs have been effectively diluted, and the domestic grain prices in the East Coast have always grown weakly, and have been maintained within an activity range and gradually approaching the lower edge of the range, which is also helpless.

The income from grain cultivation cannot rise, and the income from raising livestock has dropped sharply, which is undoubtedly a very difficult period for farmers. Their income has not increased substantially in recent years. The good times that once exceeded workers' income in the early days have long been unknown where they went. Now raising livestock has even seen the risk of losses. So where should they go in the future? The spokesperson of the army, who has always been a peasant class, faces this dilemma, what should they do? The society on the east coast has indeed entered a new stage. As the saying goes, the old revolution has encountered new problems. With the changes in productivity and external environment, some original policies and systems have become less suitable, and it is time to change.

"Is it because I am worried about it, you know it yourself?" Li Ze*min picked up a bottle of Xiangshan Dried Red, poured half a cup for He Yuan and himself, and then said with a smile: "The army has no good comments on you now. Most of the grassroots soldiers and subordinate officers of Qiu Ba are from the countryside, and the reduction in family income is a visible fact. It is already considered that they did not assemble troops and rushed over to arrest you in the First Prison of the Army. Look, there will definitely be someone asking for an increase in the import tariffs of Pampa Bison later. Mayor He Da, how should you deal with it?"

"Isn't this nonsense?" He Yuan was a little nervous when he heard this. After thinking for a while, he looked at Li Ze*min with a suspicious look and asked, "The officials of the Executive Committee will not change their minds so quickly, right? He also said that he supported the cross-border reclamation operation in the Pampa area, and sent the first batch of exiled prisoners to build a state-owned farm. The second batch of exiled prisoners will be exiled later. The third batch of prisoners will come for labor reform. It is impossible for them to recur so quickly, right? The orders are changing every day and are capricious. I don't believe that the guilds of the Executive Committee do such things. Old Li, are you bored and deliberately coming to spend my time here?"

"How dare I spend a political star like you with a promising future." Li Ze*min said with a lazy look on his face: "Tell me honestly, this is what my brother-in-law Guo Handong told me. But don't be nervous. There are only some complaints within the army at present. Although Mr. Mo is over 60 years old, he still firmly controls the army. With him, the army is just complaining, and nothing big happens. However, in their impression, you will definitely not be able to fall into it. This is true."

"Why do I want to leave a good impression on those Qiuba people?" He Yuan sighed lightly and said with a smile: "But I said, although our Niuzhuang exports a large number of live cattle and related products to the country every year, it has indeed impacted the domestic market to some extent, but how to say it, this is a normal business behavior, right? For your own interests, you farmers want to increase the import tariffs of Pampa bison for your own interests, but have you ever thought about the interests of other people in China? If I want to say, there is no system that will never be easy forever, the rural system will be the one that is in the countryside.

The economic system may be appropriate and correct in the early years, but when social productivity develops to this day, it may not be suitable? The rural people in the eastern coastal counties did a good job. Only a part of them was still growing food, while the others soon began to transform. They were no longer pure farmers, but became business farmers serving the city. They also established a cooperative organization to actively carry out mutual production assistance. I think this is great."

In fact, what He Yuan mentioned is indeed a way, and it is becoming more and more popular in rural areas of the east coast, especially in rural areas of economically developed eastern coastal areas. This kind of cooperative helps farmers buy seeds, rent machines, sell goods, buy insurance, etc. It has a very comprehensive function. It is basically a professional service organization, which helps many farmers solve big problems, and at the same time it has indeed increased their income and is very popular.

Especially for cooperatives in Brazil, thanks to the help of Brazil's rural financial cooperatives, many farmers who have transformed into the nursery, horticulture, aquaculture and other industries have obtained sufficient low-interest loans, which has effectively released their productivity and played a very good demonstration role, allowing more and more farmers to benefit through the cooperative organization.

It can be said that for those farmers who were close to developed regions and were first hit by the market, rural cooperatives were their last amulet and also a booster to help them carry out difficult transformation. Otherwise, it is conceivable that the old continent's lack of bargaining power, which would also happen in the eastern rural areas. Then, due to the decrease in income and rising production costs, they would fall into the debt trap of rural usury merchants (this is very common in the European continent, such as Jewish merchants known as vampires), and eventually fall into their control step by step and be dominated by others.

Of course, there is another situation, that is, after they sold their last bit of property, such as selling houses, furniture, and permanently renting farmland to others (because the East Coast government does not allow a natural person to hold more than 30 acres of arable land), they had nothing to enter the city, providing extremely cheap labor for the city's industrial production, which is undoubtedly what many business owners are willing to see.

Fortunately, all this will not happen on the East Coast for the time being. The existence of arrogance and domineering army forces objectively makes any policies that are full of malicious intentions against farmers carefully consider before they are introduced. The emergence of rural cooperative organizations like mushrooms after a rain has added a life jacket to farmers in the tide of market economy. In fact, recently, many villages, such as the rural cooperatives in Qingdao County, where the economy is the most developed in the East Coast, are still planning mergers to better improve farmers' bargaining power and force agricultural product buyers and agricultural product deep processing business owners to make concessions so as not to be exploited too badly.

Therefore, when He Yuan heard that the Pampa bison had greatly impacted the domestic market on the East Coast and affected a large number of farmers' income, his first reaction was that domestic farmers should actively transform. Establishing rural cooperatives and producing them on their own units based on families, but purchasing means of production, selling goods, and buying insurance is a new way for farmers to increase their income, rather than trying to maintain the old production system. In fact, local rural areas on the East Coast have the basis for establishing cooperatives. The scene of each village jointly investing or more than a dozen households investing in leasing agricultural machinery is still vivid in my mind. Just carry forward this model, and it is not essentially difficult.

"Rural cooperatives are indeed a good way, but factory owners and merchants regard them as thorns. Alas, to put it bluntly, it's all a problem. Traders have to give in to farmers who are getting stronger and stronger bargaining power. Factory owners are almost crazy about farmers who want farmers to become workers. They want to be unprofitable in farming in every rural area, and go to the city to help them work. It's a matter of interest." Li Ze*min shook his wine glass, took a sip, and said comfortably: "Don't talk about those! Tell us here, the bison industry is really popular. When I came here in the morning, I saw firecrackers in the city. When I got closer, I saw that it was a cowhide merchant guild, a meat product merchant guild, and a cattle vendor guild were established at the same time. It's really so grand. I have only been creating such a situation in a few years. Niuzhuang Niuzhuang is really a city born from cows!"

In fact, what Li Ze*min didn't know is that there are more and more downstream merchants who are now entering Niuzhuang Port and investing in and establishing businesses. For example, those who invest in soap workshops (using tallow as raw material) and intend to compete with Baoyi County, a large county of soap production in the East Coast (the soap industry in the county was raised by Zhao Ke a few years ago); for example, those who produce cowhide water bags, now the European market demands are extremely strong, after all, the war is beginning to show signs again; for example, workshops or handicraftsmen who make cowhide shoes and boots, because the price of cowhide dives, there are more and more people wearing leather shoes in the East Coast, so this industry has begun to develop rapidly.
Chapter completed!