Traveling through 1942 with space

Without transactions, Hou Xiaoge is free and has no more time to run around reselling supplies, thus avoiding the risk of exposing the space.

Moreover, as the Dian-Mian forces gradually stabilized, Hou Xiaoge's use of the small world was gradually reduced. Except for the grain produced, which was sold to the domestic market at low prices, other weapons and the like were being accumulated.

Perhaps it was the thoughts from his previous life that were at work, and when he was no longer busy, Hou Xiaoge returned home to enjoy the pastoral life.

The family has had a good harvest of flue-cured tobacco recently, and Hou Xiaoge and his family are currently roasting the tobacco in their own drying room.

The six acres of flue-cured tobacco planted at home have received purchase orders from Tianmen Group, and the value of the output exceeds the price of ten acres of wheat and rice.

If it is roasted, the price can be doubled.

Therefore, farmers built their own drying houses at home, dried their own tobacco leaves, and then sold them.

Although they were exploited by the government's high taxes, the remaining money was still enough to buy food, oil and salt.

However, many people in the village were not happy at this time.

The reason is that the corn chosen to be interplanted on the tobacco ridges has already grown, and the fresh corn can be harvested in half a month at most.

Although many families in the village are now planting wheat, they all look frustrated and envy their neighbors who are intercropping corn.

Although corn is intercropped and the planting density is low, six acres of land can still produce the output of three acres of land. People who choose intercropping do not have to pay taxes, so they are considered to have made a fortune.

"Heiwa, my father didn't listen to you this time when farming. Especially after seeing the acre of corn I planted, he regretted it so much." Yangwa said proudly while helping Hou Xiaoge turn the tobacco leaves.

"Why are you only planting one acre of land?" Hou Xiaoge asked with a smile.

"Hmph! When the land was divided in the village, each person was given one acre and two mu of land. That acre of land is mine, and I want to farm it. My father has no right to interfere." The sheep boy said proudly.

Hou Xiaoge felt a little emotional when he saw that the 13-year-old Yangwa had become a professional farmer.

"There is a free school in the village, why don't you go? There is no future in farming at home. If you really can't make it, you can sell candied haws. It's not a good idea to do this all day." Hou Xiaoge said.

"I learned a little bit of math, but I couldn't read Chinese. I just needed to know my own name.

I farm during the busy farming season, and usually I stay at home and herd cattle.

As for candied haws, there were too many people selling them and I made no money at all. It was too far and my father didn’t let me go, so he went with my brother.

In addition to herding cattle every day, I also have to cut grass for pigs, so it’s quite a lot to do.

"My dad said that after I grow up for three years, he will let me work in Tianmen Group. I heard that Tianmen Group has meat to eat every day. Heiwa, do you think I can go?" Yangwa said with a longing look on his face.

Seeing his childhood friend’s anticipation for Tianmen Group, Hou Xiaoge smiled and nodded.

"So what kind of worker do you want to be? I might be able to help."

"Heiwa, do you think I can be a carpenter? My dad said that if I have a skill, I can always make a living wherever I go." Yangwa looked eager when talking about carpentry.

"Which part of Tianmen Group needs carpenters? Isn't cigarettes their main business? Besides, you don't know how to do carpentry." Hou Xiaoge usually doesn't care about these small companies, so he didn't know at this time.

“Yes, a furniture factory was opened in our town in July, which makes furniture for Dian-Myanmar.

As for whether I can be an apprentice or not, it is not important. I can be an apprentice." The sheep boy looked yearning.

"Yangwa, are there many teenagers in our village now?" Hou Xiaoge asked after thinking for a moment.

"There are more than a dozen kids as old as me. The others are either too young or have gone out." The sheep boy said, counting on his fingers.

"Okay, I got it. I'll pay attention to your affairs." Hou Xiaoge nodded.

……

"Uncle, how many boys who are about my age are idle in the village?" Hou Xiaoge went to his uncle's house in the evening to ask.

"There are more than a dozen of them, but they are all teenagers who can't do anything. They usually help the village to herd cattle." said Hou Yangmin.

"Uncle, it's not a long-term solution to continue like this. How much money do we have in the village's public account? We could open a workshop," Hou Xiaoge suggested.

"There is less than 2,000 yuan left in the village, why open a workshop? Everyone here knows how to make sweet potato candy, but it's not easy to sell.

We are far from the city and sell Tanghulu slowly. Now every household has land and no one wants to go out. "Hou Yangmin said.

"Uncle, we have to look at the long term! Farming won't make you rich, and besides, you don't work in the fields every day.

Look at our families. Except for the busy farming season, we set up stalls to make money at other times.

A few workshops can be opened in the village so that villagers can generate income and won’t envy our families.

In fact, things like sweet potato candy can still be made, but the quality needs to be better. You can add dried fruits and walnuts. Now that conditions are better, you can also make malt sugar.

You can also make noodles, vermicelli, do carpentry, sell melon seeds and peanuts, make snacks, and weave baskets. There are many things you can do.

I also know some snack making skills, and I will teach them to the villagers. Then the village will set up workshops to take the majority of the profits, and the villagers will earn money and share the dividends. "Hou Xiaoge said.

"Aren't these goods a bit too cheap? The recipes you mentioned can be passed down from generation to generation." Hou Yangmin said in shock.

"They are just some small recipes. We now have the recipe for braised pork at home, as well as the recipes for hot and sour noodles, tofu pudding, fried cakes, twisted dough sticks, and cold cakes that I passed on to my eldest sister. They are enough.

The country is in turmoil right now, and our company is having unpleasant experiences with the government. We should try to keep our family business stable and not get too involved.

The collective business of the village, with the villagers helping each other, is also a protection for our family." Hou Xiaoge no longer cares about these little things, and helping the villagers is just a matter of convenience.

With Hou Xiaoge's deal, the uncle called together the elders of the clan for discussion the next day, and announced the news on the third day, asking each family to select a laborer to build a workshop in the village.

After the villagers tasted the profits from the workshop, they became naturally enthusiastic.

This time, the village plans to open three workshops at once, a carpentry workshop, a vermicelli workshop, and a snack workshop.

The carpentry workshop was run by an old widower found by Hou Xiaoge at the Tianmen Group. He was paid thirty dollars a month for a year and had the master teach these boys and weave baskets at the same time.

These baskets were ordered by Hou Xiaoge. There are many poultry such as chickens and ducks raised in the space. They lay huge amounts of eggs, so a large number of baskets are needed to store them for a long time.

In this way, the woodworking workshop can train apprentices while producing products, so it will not lose money. When all the children in the village learn how to make furniture, they can make furniture and sell it.

The second is the vermicelli factory. Yunnan Province mainly grows sweet potatoes and potatoes, and also has a tradition of making vermicelli.

However, manual labor is still too slow and costly, so Hou Xiaoge brought some hand-cranked crushing and refining machines to the village, which enabled rapid mass production.

Vermicelli has a long shelf life and can be used as military rations. Hou Xiaoge asked the food factory in the small world to make instant hot and sour noodles, which can be said to have directly conquered the Western livestock that ate pig food.

Therefore, the vermicelli produced by vermicelli processing factories will never have trouble selling.

The remaining snack workshops make small snacks with a relatively long shelf life, such as fried melon seeds, sweet potato candy, and malt sugar.

In an era of material scarcity, these snacks were never a problem to sell.

During this period, Hou Xiaoge's family also found time to harvest a crop of corn. The fresh boiled corn, which was not in season, was sold directly at the price of a sesame seed cake, which allowed the corn-growing farmers in the village to make a small profit.

Moreover, the corn stalks are still green after harvest, making them great for silage. In addition to feeding our livestock, we can also make some money by selling them.

After buying the corn, the soaked wheat seeds were quickly sown. Although it was half a month later than normal wheat, the weather in Yunnan Province was completely acceptable.

Time flies like a little head, and forty-four years have passed in a flash.

On New Year’s Eve, after the villagers finished worshipping their ancestors in the ancestral hall, the village of more than 300 people set up dozens of tables in front of the hall and began to celebrate the dividend distribution.

Don’t ask why the population has increased from over 200 to over 300. Of course it’s because of the increase in imports.

After several years of fleeing in Nanjiagou, except for Hou Xiaoge's family, most of the remaining people are men. Except for those who have wives, the others will naturally have children after settling down.

Just like Hou Xiaoge’s eldest cousin, he got married in early 1943 and his second child is now two months old. It was a seamless transition.

"The village has a good harvest this year, the workshop is making money, and life is pretty good. We'll distribute dividends today and have a feast together after the dividends are distributed." Hou Yangmin and several elders shouted while standing on the stage in festive attire.

"it is good!"

"Dividends!"

Although the workshop has only been running for more than a month, due to the large output, it naturally makes money quickly.

In addition to leaving enough funds, everyone in the village received a dividend of three dollars, regardless of size.

“We worked for a short time this year, and I hope we can do better next year so that every household can get rich.

Let's celebrate today, cheers!" Hou Yangmin raised his glass towards the banquet.

"Haha! Then light a match."

"cheers!"

As a native of Henan Province, if I make money, I will have ten big bowls of food at a banquet, and two dollars will not be enough to stop me from having a banquet.

Hou Xiaoge did not sit on the platform to show off, but sat down with his family and ate happily together.

After lunch, the women stayed behind to wash the dishes while the men and children from each family took the tables provided by each family back home.

In the evening of New Year's Eve, most families in the village still did not set off firecrackers this year, after all, the three-year mourning period had not yet passed.

Not to mention Hou Xiaoge's house, there are yellow couplets posted on the door.

However, even though there were no firecrackers, the house was still very warm. On New Year's Eve, the family sat on the kang, making dumplings and then eating them while cooking.

My younger brother Shuanniu had just put a bite of leek, egg and shrimp dumplings into his mouth when it broke. When he touched it, his mouth was full of blood and his teeth fell out.

"Ah! My tooth fell out." Shuanniu spat out a tooth and a dime.

"Here, rinse your mouth quickly." Hou Xiaoge smiled and handed his brother a cup of warm water, asking him to rinse his bloody mouth.

"Shuanniu has grown up and it's time for him to change his teeth. Throw his lower teeth on the roof and his upper teeth into the ditch." Wang Maimiao said with a smile as he looked at the children.

After rinsing his mouth, as the first blessed person tonight, the little guy received a dime as a reward for the silver he spit out.

……

"Mr. Zhou, you only promised to provide weapons and equipment for our army for 50,000 people, which is far from enough.

Now, as you said, we have recruited a large number of soldiers and are waiting for your rice to cook. "Just after the first month of the lunar year, the contact person in Yanzhou hurried to Tianmen Group to find Hou Xiaoge.