"Cooperative?" Li Shen was confused, "Dare you ask, what is this cooperative?"

"This - let's put it this way, for example, except for Tong Qilang's kiln, the person who used to burn porcelain was still there. If these kiln workers worked as they did before, the porcelain could still be burned, sold, or paid for it. Is it true that Punishment Li Tong?"

Li Shen nodded: "It's good to go to the factory, but there must be a supervisor who can burn porcelain, how much to burn, how much to set the price, how to collect money, and how to pay wages. If there is no such person, let alone the kiln workers themselves, even if something happens, the government will not know who to look for. Isn't it a headless case?"

"Not bad, so there must be a place like a cooperative to take on these things."

Xu Ping understood that what Li Shen was most concerned about was not how to organize, produce, and distribute profits in the kiln. What he was most concerned about was who could be responsible for dealing with the government. Tax collection requires finding people to collect taxes, and specific people should be imprisoned if they do not pay taxes, and various taxes and labor service should be distributed normally. As for the others, how could the government worry about that?

This idea was not Xu Ping's whim, but the result of his long-term thinking. He wanted to implement an economic model that mainly focuses on large farms and large businesses. So how should small farmers and small handicraftsmen face the impact under this situation? The answer given by history is a mutual aid cooperative. When Li Shen asked about it today, Xu Ping suddenly came up with this idea.

After working in rural areas for a long time, Xu Ping has dealt with many rural cooperatives, and has also gained a deeper understanding of the history of the cooperatives.

Cooperatives are economic organizations that are organized by small producers and farmers to cope with the impact of commercial capital with the development of capitalist commodity economy. It is precisely for this reason that the earliest cooperatives originated in the place where capitalist production relations are fully developed, in the UK in the mid-19th century. It is precisely because of their effectiveness and universality that they developed rapidly in capitalist countries soon after.

In the era when Xu Ping lived in his previous life, small producers and family farms in developed countries still rely on cooperatives to participate in economic activities, while in China it was just starting.

Of course, China's cooperatives have different processes. They first started as consumer cooperatives like the UK to cope with the impact of the commodity economy. However, due to the specific national conditions, they have been developing rapidly. However, after liberation, they have developed too fast, which has actually become a transition to realizing the public economy, and the development process is not continuous.

The arrival of the commodity economy will inevitably have a huge impact on the scattered small producers and even ordinary workers. The most successful means to deal with this impact in history is cooperative organizations. It can even be said that as long as Xu Ping promotes the commodity economy in this era, the lower class will inevitably develop organizations similar to cooperatives to deal with it. Economic reality will inevitably give birth to such economic organizations and will not be transferred by human will.

Rather than letting such economic organizations spontaneously emerge in a messy form, it is better to guide them in advance.

It is precisely based on this understanding that Xu Ping took the initiative to raise this question in front of Li Guan.

Li Shen could not think of these things and felt confused. The tide of commodity economy is something that has never happened before. Xu Ping just started to promote it. Li Shen was a genius and could not think of it.

Xu Ping sorted out his thoughts and said to Li Shen: "In short, the most important thing about this cooperative is eight words."

"Please wait for clarification, what eight words are there?"

"Officials supervise the private sector, and focus on the people. Don't stretch your hands too long, and don't care what you shouldn't care about."

Speaking of this, Xu Ping stood up, walked a few steps under the ginkgo tree, turned around and said to Li Shen: "As for the specific regulations, please let me think about it carefully at night and talk to you tomorrow. I will tell you some general questions. You can go back and think about how to do things better."

"First, this cooperative is a whole. You treat it as a village-based insurance company, but there is no insurance chief, and the company is the same. Second, the kiln farm is given to this club management. The kiln workers who do not enter the club will work as before, and they will work hard and do not care about the remaining work. Third, those who want to join the club can voluntarily withdraw from the club without wanting to be in the club, and no one can stop the official and private person. Fourth, those who join the club must pay the capital, regardless of how much it costs, only look at how many books the kiln needs to move. All the people who join the club pay the same amount of money, and there must be no difference."

Li Shen looked solemn and tried hard to write down what Xu Ping said and analyze the specific meanings in it.

"Okay, that's it today. The Deputy Envoy of the Group Pastor Li is coming tomorrow and the next two days. I don't go to the Yellow River. If you have any ideas, you can come to talk to me. In the past few days, we will handle the aftermath of Heyin County. I haven't had many days in this county, and I have arrested two large households, which affects the people's livelihood in the county. It's hard to pat my butt and leave. Arrange the aftermath of the aftermath, which is also an explanation."

Li Shen stood up and saluted: "When you are concerned about the people's livelihood and work hard, it is actually a blessing for the people. The subordinates will retire!"

"Ah, okay, okay--" Xu Ping watched Li Shen leave and answered casually in a little confused manner. After so many years in this world, thinking about it, it seems that no official has praised him like this. Not to mention, it feels good to be praised.

It was already dark, and Xu Ping sat in front of the window, read the letter written by Zhao Xu, and gently put it down.

In addition to the usual greetings, Zhao Xu also talked about the use of small iron coins in Ruzhou. After almost half a year, the people have recognized this new convenient coin. Even the trade in bartering in the grass market in the mountains and wilderness has become less and less, and more people have started to buy goods with money. Affected by this, even the tax revenue in Ruzhou has increased a little.

In addition, new goods produced by Sansi began to enter Ruzhou, especially some daily consumer goods, such as mirror soap and enamel products. There are already several stores in Zhoucheng. Zhao even suggested that when Sansi's shop in Luoyang in Xijing stabilized, should it also open a branch in Ruzhou?

Xu Ping looked out the window and saw that the moon had risen, obviously fuller than when he first arrived here. Before he knew it, he had been in this small county of Heyin for almost ten days, and it was the full moon day again.

After all, it is still a small-scale tide. The real commodity economy tide will have to wait until cotton is produced in large quantities. Only then will the commodities greatly impact the small peasant economy. Men farm and women weave, and even if they still produce grain in the fields, once there is less cash source of textile income, and the goods in the outside world need money to buy everything, the lives of ordinary people will be really difficult. After all, grain is not qualified large-scale circulating commodities.

Xu Ping has always been a little worried that one day the commodity economy will destroy the countryside like a flood, which will inevitably cause great social unrest. The cooperative organization will barely be a life jacket for small producers and small farmers in this flood. The tide of business must be coming. This is what he brought to the world. If the flood is introduced, he has to find a way to build a dam.
Chapter completed!