After listening to this passage, everyone was silent for a while, and Yuan Shikai and others were also thoughtful, in fact, there was no shortage of people of insight in Chinese dynasties who pointed out that once the land annexation is serious, it means that the dynasty has entered a dangerous period, but it is often a small number of people who dare to say such things, and only overseas Chinese dare to say such things as "the Great Qing Dynasty pill".

And everyone here can understand this truth, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom may be a little farther away, but the Boxer Rebellion is happening in front of you, once the peasants who lost their land go crazy, the energy emitted is extremely terrifying, but they understand it, but they must harm their own interests in order to avoid these dangers from happening again, no one wants to, everyone thinks in their hearts that everyone is doing this, but why should I expropriate my land.

At this time, some people also reacted and said: "Although the grass people have no land, they can also rent land for farming, don't we rent all our land to them? I have more than 60 tenants at home, how can I say that they have no land to plant and cannot survive?"

Wang Sheng glanced at this person, sneered, and said, "Your family's fields are indeed rented to farmers for cultivation, but you say that they can survive by renting land, which is too deceitful." According to our survey, the rent of peasant households generally accounts for at least 50% of the harvest, and even reaches 70%, and even if it is a year of great disaster, it is not allowed to be reduced or reduced, and the government's field tax and grain should also be paid by tenants, so that tenants have little left every year, if in a normal year, or can be exempted from forced crossing days, and once they encounter a disaster year, a famine year, it is beyond their means. Wasn't last year's Boxer Rebellion launched in Shandong because of the severe drought in Shandong? ”

As he spoke, Wang Sheng looked around at everyone, and as far as his eyes went, everyone lowered their heads and lowered their eyes, not daring to meet Wang Sheng's gaze. After all, everyone still knows how much land rent their families collect, and what Wang Sheng said is indeed the truth, of course they no longer care whether the farmers can survive or not, anyway, some people come to rent land, and it is a big deal to change tenants if they starve to death. It's just that this is not the case on this occasion.

The restaurant was silent for a while, and then someone said angrily: "Our land is not a big wave, it is accumulated by our ancestors from generation to generation, why should it be distributed to those Diao people, and the Diao people want to rebel, what does it matter to us, the government should send troops to suppress it, why expropriate our land, the rebels are justified, and we, the good people, suffer losses, that has such a reason." ”

For a time, the crowd was indignant, and many squires said that it was unreasonable to expropriate their land, and some even strongly stated that they would never hand over their land.

And Wang Sheng also raised his voice and said: "How did you get your land, I think everyone knows it in their hearts, I just want to give a few examples of our land surveys in Jiaozhou, Gaomi, and Jimo counties." ”

In fact, the vast majority of landlords buying peasants' land are unfair transactions, because compared with landlords, peasants are basically in an absolutely inferior position, and landlords can use various means to lower the price of land purchased.

Generally speaking, there are four kinds of means used by landlords: one is to take advantage of the peasants' eagerness to sell land for realization, to lower the price of land acquisition; generally speaking, peasants are not forced to sell their own land, and they will not sell land, so once they sell land, they are eager to exchange it for money and use, and landlords can calmly and unhurriedly lower the price; second, they can take advantage of the famine year to annex land, which is of course a disaster for the peasants, but for the landlords, who are big landlords, it is an excellent opportunity to merge land, because the big landlords generally have a rich family background, have sufficient surplus grain, and have a very strong ability to resist disasters, they can purchase land at extremely low pricesThird, it is even possible to annex the land of some small landlords; third, it is lent to the peasants usurious loans, and when the peasants cannot afford to pay it back, they use the land to offset it. If the first three paragraphs still have to play some tricks, then the fourth is to directly rob.

These methods have examples when the traverser is doing land surveys, so Wang Sheng also found a few to read out, and immediately made everyone speechless again, after all, these methods are indeed used by them, it seems that overseas Chinese have really done enough work, and they can't hide anything from them. However, some people wonder in their hearts how it is clear that overseas Chinese want to forcibly acquire their own land, but now they are making themselves feel like they are at a loss.

Seeing that no one answered, Wang Sheng couldn't help but be in high spirits, in fact, when he was in Qingdao, the traverser had already considered to design a set of reasons for the rationality of the land reform system, because although the land reform and the elimination of the landlord class were in line with historical, social and economic development, these truths could only be used as an academic point of view, and the general public did not understand these profound reasons, only from the perspective of reality, the crossing group was indeed forcibly expropriating the landlord's land, which is very important for China's landlord class, This is unacceptable to the industrialists, the national bourgeoisie, and therefore there will certainly be a lot of criticism of land reform after crossing the group, and in order to convince these people, at least to be able to have an open debate with them, it is necessary to come up with a simple and understandable theory.

However, debate is not about who can win if he is reasonable, but to see who can tell a story, that is, to infinitely magnify the conditions that are favorable to oneself, and to avoid talking about the conditions that are unfavorable to oneself. Seize the opponent's weak point and attack desperately.

Wang Sheng first pointed out that the expropriation of land by the traversal group was to be distributed to the peasants, not to be occupied by themselves, and this allowed the traversing clique to occupy the moral high ground, showing the selflessness of the traversers, and the matter of expropriating the landlords' land was not reasonable and was gently brought over; then he used history as a mirror to explain the harmfulness of land annexation, and put forward a plan for your own benefit if I took your land, lest the peasants revolt and demand your life; then he enumerated the exploitation and oppression of the peasants by the landlords, and directly tied the landlords to the moral cross, so that the landlords themselves felt that they had done something wrong and did not do well, and naturally there was no reason to oppose land reform。

Pity these landlords who can withstand such a flicker, and as a result, they are dizzy and unable to distinguish between the southeast and the northwest within three or two strokes. Although some people feel that something is wrong in their hearts, they can't say what is wrong.

After a long silence, an older man stood up and said, "Even if you make such a decision, we have nothing to say, we are willing to give up a part of the land, and also leave half of the land for each of our families, and each of us also has a large family to support, you have taken away all our land, but how can we live? ”

Wang Sheng vaguely remembers that this old man's name is Zeng Fuxiang, he is 66 years old this year, there are three businesses in Jinan City, a pawnshop, a silk village and a jewelry store, he was young and passed the examination, became two teachers, three children were admitted to Xiucai, one has been lifted, because he is older, and rich, and there is fame, so there is quite a lot of weight in Jinan City.

It is precisely because of Zeng Fuxiang's experience that his vision is higher than that of others, and overseas Chinese obviously use land reform as a means to buy the hearts of the people, so it is imperative to reclaim land, and it can also pull out a lot of big truths. It's better to take the initiative to hand over the land, so that you can bargain with the overseas Chinese, since the overseas Chinese want to use the land to buy the hearts of the people, then hand over some, but at least leave some for the squires, so that both sides also have leeway, and leave a line for being a person, so that they can meet in the future. His opening caused some people to respond, but some people showed disdain, feeling unwilling to hand over half of the land, and thinking about whether to ask for more, preferably only paying 30% of the land.

Nazhi Wang Sheng shook his head and said, "Regarding the criteria for land expropriation, see the [Outline of the Land Reform System] There are all in accordance with this regulation, this point is no room for accommodation, our land reform only collects land, does not move other property, you all have your own industry in the city of Jinan, even if there is no land, you can live a rich life, after the division of land, farmers have their own land, naturally will not go to rent seeds, even if you leave half of the land, then I am afraid that no one will cultivate, but also to bear the field tax, so it is better to hand over the land, and we have always attached importance to the development of industry and commerce, so if you can put your energy into the operation of the industry in the future, there will be a great future for development, and why bother for these lands. ”

Many people almost vomited blood when they heard this, and the overseas Chinese wanted to take away all their land, but they also said that they were calculating, so there was such a reason, but Wang Sheng's attitude was very clear, that is, the overseas Chinese did not take the land at all, and it was impossible to keep half of the land. Therefore, many people look at each other, not knowing what to do. And Zeng Fuxiang also sighed and sat down again.

Wang Sheng saw that everyone had nothing to say, and said: "Our land reform must be carried out, this point will never change, as long as we officially take over Shandong, it will be implemented immediately, if you have nothing else to say, I think today's banquet is here, thank you for your warm reception, as for where you go, I hope you can do it yourself." ”