These words were obviously threatening, and they also made everyone present wake up suddenly. Just now, Wang Sheng has been very patient to refute everyone's reasons one by one, which makes people feel that overseas Chinese are very reasonable, so some people are also bold, and their tone is more intense, so someone shouted out the words "just don't hand over the land". And now everyone will come to their senses, Wang Sheng's representative of the overseas Chinese are not good at stubble, they have killed 16 landlords in the Jiaoao area who opposed the so-called land reform, there are rumors that the overseas Chinese in Jiaoao have killed people with their heads and blood flowing. Thinking of this, many people also feel that the cold air is coming from the back of their necks.

But at this time, I only heard a "pop", someone slapped the table, stood up, and said loudly: "Anyway, if you want to take my land, there is no door, which makes me anxious, and I will go to Beijing to sue the emperor." ”

When everyone looked, it turned out to be the table of the flag people, the person who spoke was called Mingxiu, but he looked like five big and three thick, full of meat, he was born with a blue flag, the title of hereditary auxiliary general, and also served as the assistant leader of the eight banners stationed in Shandong, and the ancestors had several members, so they accumulated a huge amount of family property, to his generation, the family has more than 7,000 acres of land, and there are three firewood and grass mountains, although there is no industry in Jinan Mansion, but it is enough to squeeze into the ranks of the first-class squires in Jinan.

Wang Sheng smiled slightly and said: "If you want to go to Beijing to sue the imperial court, you will have to wait a little longer, now that Beijing is controlled by our People's Army, only after we take over Shandong, the imperial court can return to Beijing." However, you can go to Xi'an to sue the emperor, but Xi'an is much farther away than Beijing, so you have to take your foot on the road. ”

Everyone could hear that Wang Sheng's words were not just sarcastic, but told everyone present that now the imperial court also has to look at the faces of overseas Chinese before returning to Beijing, so it is useless to sue the imperial court.

At this time, a young man beside Mingxiu slammed the wine glass, jumped up, pointed at Wang Sheng and scolded: "You overseas barbarians, originally the remnants of the previous dynasty, were allowed to return to the country and settle down by the grace of the imperial court, and now they actually calculate the land of the old man, and tell you that the land of the old man's family is there, but not a single mu will be given to you, see what you can do with our masters." ”

Everyone couldn't help but change color a little, it turned out that the person who spoke was called An Feng, and his father was the deputy commander of the Qing court's Eight Banners Army in Shandong. Shandong's Eight Banners garrison is divided into Qingzhou and Dezhou, and the highest official position is the deputy commander, the original Eight Banners total 2,473 soldiers, but at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were only 650. The deputy capital commander Yamen is located in Qingzhou, and at the same time has jurisdiction over the Dezhou garrison battalion. According to the military system of the Qing court, the local garrison of the Eight Banners and their families were built separately to live in the city, and were not allowed to live in a mixed manner with the local residents, and it was stipulated that the banner people were not allowed to leave the city for 20 miles on weekdays, and they had to ask for leave to register when they were far away, and they had to cancel their leave after returning to the city.

However, with the passage of time, the population of the Eight Banners garrison in each garrison became more and more, and the city could not accommodate it, and in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the flag system was relaxed, so many Manchus moved out of the city to live. The Qing court built a full city in Qingzhou and Dezhou, but Jinan is the capital of Shandong, and its economy and society are far more than Qingzhou, so many wealthy banner people have bought houses in Jinan, and the banner people attending today belong to this type.

Although the Qing court has now weakened, and the flag troops stationed in various places have long been useless, after all, they have accumulated power for more than 200 years, and the flag troops stationed in various places still enjoy a lot of privileges, and because there are many bankrupts among the banner people, many Manchu people, by virtue of their identity as the flag army garrison, have been abducted and deceived in the local area, and they can bully ordinary people without being able to move the big villagers, and they have become a local evil.

Because there is no Eight Banners garrison in Jinan, there are not many banner people, so there is no major trouble, but An Feng is the son of Dutong, and his status is much higher than that of ordinary flag people, and his age is not very old, he has not experienced any world, and he is used to being idle on weekdays, and no one dares to provoke him, so he has developed an arrogant character, and now he sees that the traverser is aggressive, so he speaks disrespectfully and fights with the traverser.

Several guards standing behind Luo Yue and Wang Sheng pressed their hands on the hilt of their guns and glared at An Feng. However, he was stopped by Luo Yue, after all, the other party had not used force yet, and there was no need to show his gun.

Fortunately, the few banner people who were at the same table with An Feng still understood things, and knew that if there was a conflict, it would definitely be An Feng who would suffer, so they all hurriedly got up, pulled An Feng to stop, and said goodbye to Yuan Shikai, and then said something bad and pulled An Feng downstairs. When the other people at the table saw it, they also knew that the land reform of overseas Chinese was inevitable and that there was no point in staying, so they all got up and said goodbye. After a while, everyone was gone, leaving only Wang Sheng, Yuan Shikai and others at the table. Even the two hotel proprietors who accompanied the guests also took the blame and left the table to see off the guests.

Wang Sheng said to Yuan Shikai: "Governor Yuan, I'm really sorry for what happened just now. ”

Yuan Shikai smiled and said: "Don't visit, don't visit, I said it yesterday, and it has nothing to do with me." But after listening to Director Wang's words, I also benefited a lot. ”

At this time, Tang Shaoyi said: "Director Wang, there are a few things that are unclear below, and I hope to ask Director Wang for advice in person." ”

Wang Sheng nodded and said, "Please speak." ”

Tang Shaoyi said: "Director Wang said just now that the land expropriated by the nobles did not occupy a single acre, but was all distributed to the landless peasants. However, according to the [Outline of the Land Reform System] issued by the nobles, what the nobles give to the peasants is only the right to use the land, not all the rights of the land, and all the rights of the land are owned by the power organs of the nobles, that is to say, all the land expropriated is actually owned by the nobles, and then the nobles lease the land to the peasants and collect the rent.

Yuan Shikai, Xu Shichang and others listened to it, and then suddenly realized, in fact, they just listened to Wang Sheng's words, although they couldn't find a reason to oppose it, but they also felt that something was wrong, but they couldn't say that it was wrong, and after listening to Tang Shaoyi's words, they could understand that overseas Chinese are really a deep routine, obviously taking all the land for themselves, but they also made a public selflessness, all just for the appearance of the people.

However, Tang Shaoyi didn't say anything in front of everyone just now, but only said it now when everyone was gone, which also shows that he is standing in Yuan Shikai's position, not helping the squires in Shandong to speak, leaving room for overseas Chinese, but also to let overseas Chinese understand that your set cannot deceive everyone, and there are still people who can see through it.

Wang Sheng nodded, Tang Shaoyi really deserved to be a turtle in the United States, and he was very clear about the concepts of ownership and use rights, and he saw through the essence of the land policy of the traverser at a glance, but the traverser had already responded to it, after all, the traversal group had never expected to deceive everyone by playing word games, so he smiled: " To put it simply, all land is owned by the state, and the state distributes the right to use the land to the peasants and collects land rent and land taxes, so as to ensure that all peasants have land to plant; second, the state directly taxes the peasants, and without the intermediate link of exploitation by the landlords, the state can get more land taxes, and the peasants can also retain more surplus property and benefit from it, thus giving the best of both worlds; third, the peasants only have the ownership of the land, so they cannot sell their land, and land annexation can be avoided。 I wonder what you think?"

Originally, Yuan Shikai and others thought that they had seized the loopholes in the land system of overseas Chinese, but after listening to Wang Sheng's words, they felt that there was actually no such loophole, so whether it was land ownership or land use rights, the land was distributed to farmers anyway, and it was a matter of course for overseas Chinese to grow land and pay for grain.

At this time, Xu Shichang said: "I know that in the past, Wang Mang reformed the Wang Tian system, and also collected all the land for state-owning, and did not allow the land to be sold and bought, similar to the nobles, but as soon as the reform came out, the world was opposed, and the uprisings rose up in various places, and they perished immediately, I don't know how the nobles can pass this system overseas for 200 years." ”

Wang Sheng said with a smile: "There are indeed similarities between the Wang Tian system in Wang Mang's reform and our land system, but not everyone who opposed the Wang Tian system at that time, and all the landlords, although a large number of peasant uprisings also occurred in the last years of the new dynasty, but there is no evidence to prove that it was the Wang Tian system that caused the peasant uprisings. The reasons for the failure of the Wangtian system were: First, Wang Mang did not grasp the people who supported the Wangtian system, and the landlords would certainly oppose the Wangtian system, and those who supported the Wangtian system should be ordinary peasants, but Wang Mang did not fully use the power of the peasants to oppose the landlords; second, Wang Mang did not establish an efficient and authoritative leading body to implement the new policy; and third, Wang Mang did not have enough strength to crack down on the landlords who opposed the Wangtian system, and we have all of these. ”

After hearing this, Xu Shichang basically understood what Wang Sheng meant, to put it bluntly, the overseas Chinese had enough military strength to forcibly expropriate land from the landlords, and ruthlessly suppressed the landlords who resisted the land reform by force.

At this time, Tang Shaoyi said: "However, the nobles forcibly took the land of the squires for no reason, and even did not hesitate to kill people and exterminate the clan, so I always felt that something was wrong. ”

Wang Shengzheng said: "I don't deny that we are indeed using coercive means to expropriate the landlords' land, and even use violent means, but our ultimate goal is to curb land annexation and benefit the vast number of peasants, and is there a better way to do this?" The essence and purpose of government administration is to benefit the broad masses of the people, but if we pursue procedural justice in everything and ignore the results, is it not contrary to the original intention of governance?"