Chapter 1021, Contracting Responsibility System

“The army expansion is not a small matter,” Ren Xiaosu explained to P5092, “This matter still needs to go through the official process of approval before it can be done, and it has to be agreed upon by Commander Zhang.”

As a result, Big Snub said from the side, “Commander Zhang said that you alone have the final say in the matter of the 144th Barrier Boundary, and he’s not going to ask questions. Even if you approve the documents and send them up, they’ll be called back, now you’re kind of having the power of preemption.”

“Then does Barrier 144 have the money for this?” Ren Xiaosu looked at Zhang Xiaoman.

“Of course there is, once commerce opened, even though the tax rate is very low, Barrier 144 has also become the richest barrier in the Northwest,” Zhang Xiaoman explained, “On the local finances, there is a bit too much money to spend.”

“Can’t spend it all or you guys won’t spend it, or else the food problem should have been started long ago, I’ve been skulking around the food market lately, the food price is almost one day at a time, this is a very bad sign, P5092, the army’s entire construction is just fine for you to be in charge of it, the rest of us still need to solve the big problem of food first,” Ren Xiaosu calmly said.

Zhang Xiaoman screamed, ”It’s not that we don’t work hard, it’s really that there are too many difficulties. If Wang was willing to export grain, where would we have so many things to do, I’ve already sent someone from my side to the Qing Clan to see if the Qing Clan can help in any way.”

“There are difficulties that need to be resolved as well,” Ren Xiaosu said, “Whether it’s the Qing Clan or the Wang Clan, they are ultimately outsiders. Food is the lifeblood of all people, and the lifeblood of the Northwest, how can we rely on outsiders for this kind of thing? Zhou Yingxue, you’ll plant potatoes for me tomorrow, first solve the problem of the food shortage so that everyone doesn’t have to panic before saying anything.”

Zhou Yingxue’s face instantly turned bitter, she knew that if she solved the food shortage problem, she would definitely have to be the one to plant potatoes.

Potato shooter in the hands of Zhou Yingxue, not only the potatoes become bigger in size, but also can produce a hundred in a day, with this thing in, at least it is impossible for the Northwest people to starve to death.

“But, solving the problem of food shortage can’t just rely on potatoes, we can’t let everyone eat potatoes all the time,” Ren Xiaosu said, “First of all, where is the difficulty of the food crisis?”

Zhang Xiaoman said, “It hasn’t been long since our side took over the Zong’s Barrier as well, and we realized that we have to start all over again just to survey the land.”

“What’s so difficult about mapping?” Ren Xiaosu frowned, “There are more talented people in the army who can survey and map, sending your 6th Combat Brigade out, this must be resolved in a hurry. Wang Yun, you lead this, give me the results in a week’s time.”

“Okay Major,” Wang Yun nodded and said.

“What other difficulties are there,” Ren Xiaosu asked again.

Zhang Xiaoman said, “There’s also water conservancy and land, soil erosion is more serious over here, many places can’t grow crops at all, of course there’s also good land, but it’s difficult to build ditches and requires too much labor and material resources.”

“When will Ji Zi’ang arrive,” Ren Xiaosu said, “Don’t let him go to the inspection team yet, let him lead the people to build water conservancy. Big Flip, did you see any other Earth Transcendents when you went to the Central Plains? Abduct them back and together we’ll greatly revitalize the Northwest.”

“There’s no more in the Central Plains, but there’s one in the Northwest,” Big Snooze said, “It’s just that the other party doesn’t want to join the Northwest Army, so we can’t force them.”

Ren Xiaosu froze for a moment, “When did you become so good at talking?”

“Ahem, it’s not that I’m being nice, this is kind of our Northwest’s policy of not forcing people,” said Big Huyao.

As soon as he said this, Wang Yun and the others all silently looked at Big Huyao, thinking that you have not done a few things in the Central Plains, how come you started to say that you don’t force others when you returned to the Northwest?

Ren Xiaosu thought for a moment and said, “Then can we get the people of Barrier 144 to participate in opening up the land together?”

“People don’t have the motivation,” Zhang Xiaoman said, “It’s not just us in the Northwest that has this problem, but all the consortia, and when we hire stragglers and barriers residents to farm the land, people actually don’t have much motivation. In fact, the main root cause of the food crisis is also here, now that the commercial road is open, everyone earns money into their own hands. But planting is not the same, the land is not theirs, planted things do not belong to them, just receive a salary, that’s why there are so many stragglers ran to the river valley area that no one cared about, to open up their own land. If we want to increase their motivation, we must have land reform, but we can’t cede the land to private individuals ah, at that time, if there is a private sale of land that is not planted, it is also a hidden danger.”

Ren Xiaosu thought for a moment and suddenly asked, “Have you guys ever heard of something called the household contract responsibility system? It sounds like it goes well with Daxing Northwest.”

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In fact, Ren Xiaosu didn’t know anything about governance barriers, and Zhang Xiaoman and the others were also rushing into it, so everyone could only feel their way across the river and see what happened as they went along.

After agreeing on a time for tomorrow’s meeting, Ren Xiaosu sent them out the door.

For a while, all the vehicles that suddenly rushed to visit Ren Xiaosu all drove away, and the military division’s family compound on Anning East Road returned to its usual tranquility.

However, after the convoy left, the residents of the family compound all came out, curiously sizing up Ren Xiaosu, wanting to see what the legendary marshal actually looked like.

Hu Xiaobai and Wang Yuexiu hesitated to come up and talk to each other in front of the family home, but they heard Ren Xiaosu laugh and say, “Brother Wang, Sister Hu, what’s the matter?”

Hu Xiaobai coyly said, “That …… marshal sorry ah, recently is I misunderstood you ……”

“It’s okay,” Ren Xiaosu said with a smile, “After all, I did get a bit lazy recently.”

“Which is not the case,” Hu Xiaobai hurriedly corrected, “Young Marshal, you’re on a private visit to check on the people’s sentiments, I get it, I get it!”

Ren Xiaosu cried and laughed, it’s true that the way people look at you depends on what your status is.

To be honest, he did come here to be lazy, but as a result, it has now turned into an investigation of the people’s feelings.

At this time Ren Xiaosu said to Wang Yuexi, “Tomorrow there will be a meeting about the food crisis, you also represent the Policy Research Office to attend.”

Wang Yuexi froze for a moment, then hurriedly nodded his head excitedly, “Okay, okay, no problem!”

After saying that Ren Xiaosu went back to the house, Hu Xiaobai was puzzled beside him, “What does the Major mean by this? Is it to reuse you?”

Wang Yuexiu thought to himself, probably because he got this administrative center integrated office to make the marshal also very satisfied, right?

But his mouth still need to be reserved: “reuse can’t be talked about, you can’t go out and talk about it, by the time it reaches the marshal’s ears, there is no telling what it will be like.”

Ren Xiaosu returned to the house and smiled at Yang Xiaoguan, “Sorry, this quiet life seems to be untenable.”

At this moment, the matter about the Major Marshal’s seclusion on Anning East Road had long been spread all over Barrier 144.

Those neighbors of theirs, as well as the stall owners in the vegetable market were all excited, feverishly telling their friends and relatives the story of the Major’s private visit in microcosm.