Wang Sheng said: "This is because the existence of landlords hinders social development and the development of productive forces, so the landlord class must be eliminated." ”

Qin Zheng nodded and said, "Director Wang, can you be more detailed." ”

Wang Sheng said: " After the landlords in ancient China occupied a large amount of land, they did not use it to manage farming, develop agricultural technology, increase output, or plant cash crops, but leased the land to the peasants for cultivation, relying on the collection of land rent as the main income, and only a very small number of landlords would personally engage in farming, so that the peasants' burdens were increased, because the land rent often accounted for a very large proportion of the field harvest, and second, because the peasants had to rely on the land for survival, this aggravated the peasants' personal dependence on the landlords, and bound the peasants to the land, hindering the development of industry and commerce; third, in this kind of large social environment, most of the industrialists and businessmen made moneyInstead of investing money in expanding reproduction, they bought land and became a landlord, which was not conducive to the development of industrialization in modern society, so only by eliminating the landlord class could China develop in this era. ”

Qin Zheng said: "Director Wang is right, there may be some good landlords among the landlords, but as a class, in the era of modern society, it is a class that hinders social development and the development of productive forces, so this class must be eliminated, which is the main reason for our land reform." ”

Zhang Jiaqi said: "But what about those good landlords? Do they also want to be eliminated? Can we think of a way to get the best of both worlds?" ”

Wang Shengdao: "The Liu family in Menbu Village is a good example, we compensate them for the land they have expropriated and support them to develop into industry and commerce. So we have considerations in those areas. ”

Zhang Jiaqi said: "But what if some landlords don't accept these compensations and still want to keep the land?"

Wang Sheng hesitated for a moment before he said: "There is no room for compromise on land, so if you do not accept these compensation measures and still insist on keeping the land, then you can only enforce it, even if it is a good landlord." ”

After Wang Sheng finished speaking, the faces of some of the traversers were not very comfortable, and someone said: "Isn't that state violence?"

At this time, Qin Zheng's face also became serious, and said: "What we choose in this era is revolution, revolution is not to invite guests to dinner, not to make a fuss, not to paint and embroider, not to be so elegant, so calm, so polite, so gentle and frugal." A revolution is an insurrection, a violent action by one class to overthrow another. Therefore, it must touch the interests of some people, and even sacrifice some people, maybe these people will not die for their crimes, but for the development of the whole of China, it is necessary to sacrifice a group of people who hinder historical development and social progress, if these people themselves do not make changes. Some people may feel that such an approach is too excessive, too inhumane, and even does not talk about human rights, but whether it is humanity or human rights, it must only exist in a peaceful and stable environment; if there is no peace and stability, people's most basic right to life cannot be guaranteed, and the so-called humanity and human rights are all empty talk. ”

"At present, China is far from talking about humanity and human rights, and the first thing to do is to get rid of the semi-feudal and semi-colonial state and realize national independence. And the best of both worlds, there is no way to sacrifice, make yourself stronger, you can save all people, such a result can only appear in movies and books or books, and in reality, you can only make trade-offs, sacrifice a few people, save most people. I'll give you a simple example, there are 100 people in a ship at sea, but the ship can only carry 60 people, otherwise the ship will sink, if there are only 60 people, the ship can reach the shore safely, if you are the captain, what do you choose, do you choose to let the ship sink and all the people are buried at the bottom of the sea, or sacrifice 40 people and save 60 people. ”

After Qin Zheng finished speaking, the venue also fell silent, some people were thoughtful, some people were blank, some people looked gloomy, and some people had gloomy expressions, in short, all kinds of expressions.

After a long while, Zhang Jiaqi said: "Political Commissar Qin, I can understand the necessity of land reform, but I don't think I can do this kind of work, so I ask to quit the land reform team." ”

Qin Zheng nodded and said: "Yes, and you don't have a psychological burden when you quit the land reform team, it's not all your problem, our work is not in place, and we didn't explain the responsibility of cleaning up the working environment of land reform before the land reform, and the executive committee will arrange you to do the right work in the future." ”

Zhang Jiaqi said: "Thank you. ”

After Zhang Jiaqi withdrew, 4 more people submitted a request to quit the land reform team, including 3 women and 2 men, and Qin Zheng also agreed to their request for help. However, there were not many women in the land reform team, only 7 women out of 30 people, and nearly half of the women withdrew at this time, and Gao Jun only had 4 women left.

However, to Qin Zheng's relief, most of the people finally chose to stay and continue the work of land reform, which shows that this symposium has achieved very obvious results, although the remaining travelers may not have completely eliminated the psychological barriers, but at least understand the true meaning of land reform, which is very important in the future work.

After the forum, Qin Zheng and Wang Yunpeng also wanted to return to Qingdao, and before leaving, they had a brief exchange with Wang Sheng and Gao Jun, asking them to fully implement the [Outline of the Land Reform System] and strengthen the ideological education of the local workers. Moreover, after returning to Qingdao, he will take what happened in Menbu Village as an example to carry out ideological education for the land reform personnel who remain in Qingdao, so that they can understand the social significance of land reform and the problems they face, and at the same time, he will also send the land reform personnel who remained in Qingdao to Menbu Village to observe and learn and absorb experience.

After Qin Zheng, Wang Yunpeng and the people who quit left, the work of land reform continued, and the next step was the most important part of land reform - land division.

According to the division of the composition, as well as the results of the previous inventory, according to the number of people in each household, the corresponding fields are allocated, as well as livestock, agricultural implements, and a small number of house supplies. After all, no matter how good the landlord is, he also planted someone else's land, and no matter how little rent is paid, it will account for more than half of the harvest, and now the land is his own, and the taxes paid are much less, and he can leave most of the harvest, and the peasants' hearts are naturally happy.

Due to the deterrent effect of helicopters, the landlords and wealthy households who had lost their land basically gave up their confrontation, and in the process of dividing the land, there were no unexpected incidents. And there is the continuous propaganda of the propaganda team, so the attitude of the peasants towards the land reform team is much better, they meet on the road, they will greet the traverser very warmly, and almost every day someone will send some food, local specialties to the land reform team, even a pair of insoles, a purse, etc., although there are not many things, and they are not worth a few dollars, but this enthusiasm is from the hearts of the farmers. At this time, the land reform team had a feeling that their efforts had finally been rewarded, and the psychological obstacles in the expropriation of land had basically disappeared completely.

After the land was divided, more than half of the land reform work in Menbu Village had been completed, and the important work had basically been completed, and the remaining thing was to issue land certificates to each household, set up a village committee and an agricultural mutual aid association, and also distributed some farm tools to the peasants to guide and help them carry out scientific farming. The other is to organize a militia in the village to maintain daily law and order in the village and surrounding areas.

However, of course, these things do not require so many people, and the land reform work in Menbu Village has indeed allowed the participating travelers to accumulate a lot of practical experience, and they have been quite refined from thought to action, so the time is ripe for comprehensive land reform.

So Wang Sheng and Gao Jun reorganized the land reform team, leaving only 4 traversers and 8 local staff to handle the rest of the work, and dividing the other 24 traversers and the remaining staff into 8 batches, each batch was supplemented with 3-5 traversers and a number of local staff, so that 8 land reform teams were formed, ensuring that the number of each land reform team was more than 20 people, and 1 platoon of troops was assigned to 8 villages around Menbu Village to carry out land reform work. And to add some personnel to Menbu Village, while completing the remaining work, on the other hand, to fully direct the land reform work in each village.

In fact, when the land reform was carried out in Menbu Village, the surrounding villages sent people to watch, and at the most, the number of people who watched exceeded 300 people, and with the deepening of the land reform in Menbu Village, it was carried out to the stage of land division, and the people who watched the land reform were also greatly touched, some people were worried, some people were depressed, but some people were looking forward to it and rejoicing. There have even been people asking the travelers when they would go to their villages for land reform.

After the land reform team was stationed in Menbu Village, Liu Zongze moved to Jiaozhou City to live, but he returned to Menbu Village almost every day to observe the situation of the land reform carried out by the traversers, and when he saw some people crying, Liu Zongze also felt related and felt sad that the rabbit had died and the fox had died; the traverser's helicopter also really frightened Liu Zongze, and he secretly rejoiced that fortunately he had not chosen to confront the overseas Chinese; and in the end, after the fields were divided, the villagers' attitude towards the traversers changed, which once again made Liu Zongze feel a great shock. It even gives rise to a sense that the general trend is gone.