Chapter 28: Agricultural Monopoly Policy

  "Oh! What results have been achieved?" Jiang Yu immediately stood up, and agricultural machinery was undoubtedly one of his top concerns. To give play to China's population advantage, it is necessary to liberate labor force from agricultural production.

  "Of course! And it's a great achievement. With the new internal combustion engine and tires, all previous designs have been realized. Large agricultural machinery is no longer a dream, one person can complete the work of hundreds of people in a day." Perlin said excitedly.

  Jiang Yu was also very excited and immediately went to the agricultural machinery factory.

  In the agricultural machinery factory, Jiang Yu saw the first technically mature tractor. This tractor was basically no different from tractors of later generations, except that some components were slightly technologically backward, such as the larger body of the internal combustion engine.

  With tractors, agricultural production is very convenient.

  At that time, rural areas were using transportation tools such as flatbed carts and ox carts, but because the common people were generally quite poor, many times animal power could not be afforded, and human power was still being used.

  The efficiency of human transportation is very low. For example, when transporting grain on land, a lot will be consumed along the way. Currently, water transportation has a relatively higher efficiency.

  Moreover, even if it were manpower or animal power, the vehicles they used did not have tires and were very laborious to pull.

  During the busy farming season, due to transportation pressure, it is impossible to plant three-season rice, and at most only two seasons can be planted, and still have to work to death.

  The peasants of this era are the most miserable, every time it's the busy farming season, they sweat and cry, because at that time the grain procurement prices are very low, and they have to rush to sell silver to pay taxes. After a year of hard work, there is little left of their labor fruits.

  At this time, with the advent of tractors, rural transportation capabilities will take a leap forward, whether it's transporting grain or fertilizers and building materials, everything is much more convenient.

  In addition to tractors, there are also large plows.

  Only after the large tractor started, the diesel engine emitted a loud and rough noise. However, its performance was very reliable. The driver pressed down on the plow device and then opened it forward, turning over the clods of earth. Moreover, this tractor used a double-plow system, with the first plow turning over the clods and the second one chopping them up.

  Its efficiency is dozens of times that of animal power!

  There are also harvesters and cotton pickers.

  The reaper is divided into paddy combine harvester and wheat combine harvester.

  The rice combine harvester adopts a crawler design, suitable for operation in paddy fields.

  The successful development of these large-scale agricultural machinery has increased agricultural productivity by hundreds of times. A farmer who can skillfully operate farm machinery can complete the workload of several hundred people, and as the size of the machinery continues to increase, its efficiency will continue to improve.

  The cost of using agricultural machinery for agricultural production is very low, because the cost of agricultural machinery is nothing more than manufacturing costs and fuel consumption.

  No matter how high the cost is, it can't be higher than that, and the fuel cost will be even lower. The cost of oil extraction and refining itself is not high, and the so-called high oil prices in later generations are all caused by government taxes.

  At this time, the Suzhou oil field had drilled more than a dozen oil wells, and the crude oil production continued to increase. After refining, these petroleum products not only guaranteed their own supply but also exported kerosene abroad.

  The reserves in Suzhou Oilfield are sufficient for development needs, and the consumption of oil is not high at this stage, so it can fully support it. Later, other oilfields can be developed.

  Considering China's domestic oil reserves alone, it would be no problem at all to sustain until the end of World War II.

  In addition to these high-end large-scale agricultural machinery, Huadong Agricultural Machinery Factory also built various non-motorized agricultural machinery, such as foot-operated threshers and the like.

  In those days, after harvesting rice, people used to separate the grains from the straw by threshing.

  Rice threshing is done by foot, and the more advanced method uses water power. The efficiency is not high, but the only advantage is that the processed rice tastes better than electrically processed rice.

  At this time, the agricultural technology controlled by Huadong Group has made a huge leap in productivity. What needs to be done now is to promote these advanced productive forces within the jurisdiction.

  Ordinary peasants are unable to replace these most advanced production levels, because peasants cannot afford large-scale agricultural machinery, and their land is not enough, so it's useless to buy them.

  Therefore, support those large-scale agricultural reclamation companies and set up farm machinery teams to provide plowing services for self-cultivating farmers and family farms.

  At the same time, encourage farmers to buy small agricultural machinery such as tractors. If they don't have enough money, they can take out a bank loan to purchase them, of course, they need to use some land as collateral.

  As for land consolidation, Jiang Yu is not lenient. In terms of policy, he dares to touch the interests of large landlords, but he does not dare to touch the interests of self-cultivating farmers.

  But in business and finance, it also merged with the land of self-cultivating farmers.

  Because the land is scattered in the hands of self-cultivating farmers, it is not conducive to the improvement of productivity and will cause waste of human resources. After these lands are merged by Huadong Group, they can use the most advanced productive forces.

  Because of the interests of large landowners in the past, and subsequent purchases and mergers, Huadong Group has owned nearly 85 million mu of land in the Two Huai region.

  The land that can be plowed by machine has been fenced off and is temporarily rented to tenant farmers, but after the agricultural machinery and funds are in place, it will be directly operated by the Huadong Group's Reclamation Company.

  Those lands that are not suitable for mechanized farming will be auctioned off to qualified buyers, such as the Huadong Group, which would require the buyer to use a certain level of production technology after purchasing the land, or use it as a family farm, orchard, or vegetable garden to supply cities.

  Although productivity has increased, agricultural development can only be said to have just started. Before the Xinhai Revolution, Jiangsu and Sichuan had no local administrative power.

  It is already quite large in scale in the breeding industry.

  Since Jiang Yu returned to China, he has been vigorously developing the breeding industry. Now, there are hundreds of breeding farms under Huadong Group.

  The broilers, pigs and cattle raised in these farms are sent to their own slaughterhouses and then to specialized markets in various county towns.

  Huadong Group has a monopoly on pork sales, and even monopolizes the sale of agricultural products such as fruit.

  Because there are too many small stalls and vendors, no one can make any money, and it's a waste of labor. It's better to clear them all away and let them go work in factories.

  The monopoly methods are different, pork sales are trusts, all controlled by the Huadong Group. The sale of agricultural products such as fruits is a cartel, that is, under the auspices of the Huadong Group, each fruit shop agrees on distance and price.

  And these cartel merchants with monopolistic nature are all peripheral members of the East China Chamber of Commerce.

  As peripheral members, small businessmen also have to follow the rules of the East China Chamber of Commerce, otherwise their business will not work.

  If they can abide by it and show better management ability and moral level, then there will be people in the East China Chamber of Commerce to pull them, so that their business can be done bigger and higher.

  The Huai River Administrative Office's rectification of the market did not cause much public discontent, as those small vendors who lost their original livelihoods were arranged to work in factories, and individual stubborn households were taken away for labor reform. The Huai River Administrative Office had both a kind and ruthless side when dealing with the common people.

  It is said that in a chaotic world, the law should make people fear you, while in a prosperous world, the law should make the customs of the people more simple and honest. Therefore, Jiangsu and Sichuan did not completely follow the common law system to build their laws.

  In these chaotic times, there's no time to waste on trivial matters. It's better to cut through the nonsense quickly and decisively. Those who refuse to follow the government's policies and cause trouble will be sent away for a few months of labor reform.

  How dare you still make trouble?

  Continue with your labor reform, sorry, this time it's not just a few months, at least you'll have to be reformed for one and a half years.

  Monopoly is the full utilization of labor power, which is beyond doubt. Of course, sometimes monopoly will lose its driving force for progress, but that's not the problem.

  Monopolies can also compete with each other at the same time.

  For example, in an industry monopolized by the Huadong Group, the Huadong Group can set up two to three companies and let them compete with each other, and it is a benign competition.

  At the same time, some challengers will appear in the market, such as those who squeeze into the monopoly industry and can still survive under the competitive advantage of Huadong Group, proving that their business methods are very successful. Huadong Group can acquire them, and under the pressure of black and white, there is no enterprise that does not compromise.

  Of course, being acquired by Huawei has greater benefits. This acquisition is not about selling all the shares. After Huawei takes control, operators can get a lot of funds and connections, and there will be no more malicious competition.

  This pattern is nothing new, and the US multinational corporations have been doing it this way.

  Monopoly in agriculture is also present, while promoting agricultural machinery, Jiang Yu is establishing a syndicate.

  In agriculture, the adoption of trust monopoly is not very visible, while the syndicate monopoly method is more suitable, that is, establishing a unified channel for purchasing and selling raw materials.

  Every member of the syndicate must produce according to the instructions of the Wafangdian Group that controls the syndicate.

  Huadong Group now controlled agricultural machinery and fertilizers, and gradually took control of railways, highways, and even more so oil, making it easy to establish a syndicate.

  Landlords who do not join this group, first of all, the prices of production necessities such as agricultural machinery and fertilizers are more expensive. Secondly, you have produced agricultural products, and you must transport them on highways! The tolls at the toll stations are enough to make you suffer. Moreover, using agricultural machinery requires burning oil, right? Without fuel subsidies, what can you use to compete?

  How can we compete without using agricultural machinery?

  This is an insoluble proposition, and the only way out is to join the agricultural syndicate. The agricultural syndicate is also divided into various syndicates, including rice syndicates, wheat syndicates, soybean syndicates, cotton syndicates, etc., etc., etc.

  With the agricultural machinery, the road for Jiang Yu to establish a thorough syndicate was completely paved.

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