Liu Zongze, Liu Jisheng, Liu Jiping, father and son sat together, Liu Jiping first said: "Dad, have you received a notice from overseas Chinese?"

Before Liu Zongze could speak, Liu Jisheng said: "I received it yesterday, the working group of overseas Chinese will come to our village in three or four days, and I went to the city to discuss this matter with my father." ”

Liu Jiping turned to Liu Zongze again and said, "Dad, what are you going to do?"

Liu Zongze talked about his discussion with everyone in the county government and the suggestions he put forward, and then said: "Jiping, have you heard any news in Qingdao?"

Liu Jiping smiled bitterly and said: "Dad, the overseas Chinese have specially asked me for an interview, and they told me that land reform was originally the national policy of the overseas Chinese to establish a country overseas, and they are willing to carry it out here, telling us not to have any illusions, hoping to avoid handing over the land." But our family usually has a good reputation in the township, and often has good deeds, belongs to the more enlightened landlords, and in addition to the land, our family also operates business and handicrafts, so it is considered to be other components and landlords, I hope that our family can take the lead and take the initiative to hand over the land, so that not only can we give some compensation, but also in other aspects, can also give our family some preferential policies. ”

When Liu Jisheng heard this, he couldn't help but be furious, and said: "It's obviously our family's land, why do they say they will accept it, and they want us to take the initiative to hand over the land, is there any Tianli Wang Law." ”

Liu Zongze waved his hand, stopped his eldest son's speech, and said, "Have overseas Chinese said that they can compensate for it?"

Liu Jiping said: "The overseas Chinese said that they can compensate our family for 1,000 taels of silver, and there are ......."

Before he finished his words, Liu Jisheng couldn't help it, and said: "Our family has more than 1,000 acres of land, how can it be worth tens of thousands of taels of silver, so we can only compensate for 1,000 taels of silver, aren't they just robbing it openly?"

Liu Jiping said: "Overseas Chinese said that this is not a purchase of land, but just compensation. And our family's field is not much, according to their standards, it is only enough to compensate 1,000 taels, and the highest compensation is only 3,000 taels, no matter how many fields, it cannot exceed this number. If there is concealment or obstruction, there will be no compensation; of course, we can also give our family some preferential policies in other aspects. ”

Liu Zongze immediately asked, "What other compensation is there?"

Liu Jiping said: "If our family opens shops and factories in areas ruled by overseas Chinese, we can reduce the tax rate to a certain extent; if there are import and export goods and commodities, we can also reduce some tariffs; in addition, overseas Chinese will immediately open a bank, which can provide our family with low interest rates, and can also help our family's workshop to upgrade technology, set up factories, and introduce Western machinery to manufacture bronze ware, which can improve production efficiency and reduce production costs." After a pause, he said: "Also, if we support their land reform, we can also ask my father to come forward and serve as their CPPCC member and participate in politics." ”

It turned out that during this period of time, although the traverser did not make any big moves, but in fact, he also did a lot of practical things, at least the situation in the area under his control, the composition of personnel, etc., the Liu family is the number one squire in the Jiaozhou area, and it is naturally the object of the traverser's key investigation.

On the whole, the Liu family has a good reputation in the local area, the land rent set for the tenants is not high, and when they encounter tenants who are really in difficulty, they will reduce or exempt a certain amount of land rent, and they have also taken the lead in paving roads and bridges, and giving clothes and medicines in the township, so they do have a reputation for being kind and charitable in the local area. Of course, this is related to the fact that the Liu family does not have much land, but the family's income does not depend on the land, but it cannot be ruled out that the Liu family is still doing a good job in doing good. For such squires, of course, it is better to persuade them to take the initiative to hand over the land.

In addition, the Liu family's commerce and handicraft industry are also quite large-scale, with their own shops and handicraft workshops, not a simple landlord, which is also an important national industry supported by the crossing group, and hopes to guide them to completely transform into national industrial and commercial capitalists through policies, of course, the premise is that they must support the rule of the traverser and support the land reform of the traverser.

This time, Liu Jiping went to Jingdao, in addition to discussing business, he did have the idea of opening a shop in Qingdao, because he had contact with overseas Chinese several times, and went to Qingdao twice, and felt that the management and administration of overseas Chinese was much better than that of the Qing court, and although their rules were formulated in detail, they were very strict in accordance with the rules, because all the regulations and regulations were clear, the merchants should pay those taxes, those procedures should be done, what things can be done, what things cannot be done, all are clear at a glance, there will never be any additional expenditures, and the work management personnel are honest, dedication, work efficiency is very fast, no one dares to extort, and there is no routine respect. Businessmen can also operate in Qingdao with peace of mind, which is unthinkable elsewhere.

In addition to discussing the matter of opening a shop in Qingdao, the two focused on the matter of the land reform, Wang Sheng also patiently explained to Liu Jiping the land policy of the traverser, and knew the reason, and moved it to benefit, one is to let the Liu family dispel the illusion that they can avoid the land reform, and even the Qing court interferes; the other is to hope that the Liu family can take the initiative to donate the land, set up the Liu family as a model, and can play an exemplary effect on other squires.

Liu Jiping is in charge of running the family's business and workshop, so he has more contact with the outside world, knows some things about foreign affairs, and has a broader horizon.

This is not surprising, because after 30 years of Westernization, although it did not make China really rich and strong, but it did play a role in the enlightenment of modern industry, which used machine production instead of manual labor, and some traditional handicraft workshops are also trying to introduce machines, carry out technological upgrades, and change the production model. Liu Jiping also had the idea of introducing some machines to his family's copper workshop, but Liu Jiping didn't know much about machines, so he didn't know how to introduce them. And Wang Sheng's proposed compensation is exactly what Liu Jiping wants, overseas Chinese are proficient in the skills of Western craftsmen, which is already recognized, if they are willing to help, of course it is better.

If the land harvest is inevitable, then it is acceptable for overseas Chinese to help the Liu family's copper-making workshop introduce Western machinery manufacturing, carry out technological upgrades, and set up factories as compensation for the Liu family.

After listening to Liu Jiping's speech, Liu Jisheng said: "What are the CPPCC members, those who participate in politics, what are overseas Chinese going to do, are they going to occupy Shandong and pull the flag to rebel?"

Liu Jiping said: "Big brother, you can't say that, if the overseas Chinese really want to rebel, what can the imperial court do? I have asked the overseas Chinese this way, but he said that they want to imitate the style of other countries, and let the imperial court hand over Shandong to them as a fief, just like the kind of concession, everything is actually the autonomy of overseas Chinese." ”

Liu Zongze's heart was shocked, as if he had realized something. As an old man who has been in officialdom for nearly 20 years, Liu Zongze's attention to the current situation and his insights are naturally much more clever than Zhou Wenhuai, who has only been a county governor. Since the overseas Chinese captured Qingdao, Liu Zongze has been very concerned about the movements of the overseas Chinese, but he does not see through the intentions of the overseas Chinese, saying that they want to rebel and subvert the Qing Dynasty, because they are not like Changmao, who divided one side and became a country of their own, and set up a flag to claim the king, on the contrary, they also resisted the Eight-Nation Alliance, recovered the lost territory, and protected the rights and interests of the Qing Dynasty in diplomatic negotiations.

But to say that overseas Chinese are loyal to the imperial court, it is not necessarily, because since their return, they have been close to the imperial court, ostensibly to help the Qing court, but when it comes to discussing annexation and sealing, they do not seem to be active. In Liu Zongze's view, if overseas Chinese are really loyal to the imperial court, they should immediately ask the imperial court to be attached, and after getting the imperial court's policy seal, it is much easier to act in the name of the imperial court, whether it is to recruit troops or seize cities and land, so what are overseas Chinese planning to do?

Now after listening to Liu Jiping's words, Liu Zongze understands that the overseas Chinese are imitating the foreigners' concessions in school, asking the imperial court to divide a place similar to the concession, although it does not cede the king, but it is also actually independent, and may even be a vassal to the court in name, which is somewhat similar to the situation of the Tang Dynasty's feudal towns.

However, compared with foreigners, overseas Chinese are descendants of Chinese and have a considerable sense of identity with the Chinese, and since the return of overseas Chinese, they have defeated the Eight-Power Alliance several times and recovered lost territory, so they have won a very high prestige in China, and now the imperial court is weak, so if they want to return to Beijing, they must rely on overseas Chinese, and I am afraid they can only accept the conditions put forward by overseas Chinese. The land that overseas Chinese want to obtain is naturally in the area of Jiaoao, so it is no wonder that overseas Chinese dare to risk the world and forcibly take the land of the squire. It seems that I was wrong, I thought that overseas Chinese just wanted some land and money, but they knew that they were not here at all, and this land acquisition was inevitable. I'm afraid that Zhou Zhixian will not have any good results.

And Liu Jisheng and Liu Jiping saw that their father was speechless for a long time, and they seemed to be in a trance, and they didn't dare to disturb, and after a while, Liu Jisheng said: "Dad, what are you thinking?"

Liu Zongze was stunned for a moment, then he came back to his senses, turned to his second son and said, "Jiping, then how do you think we should deal with it?"

Liu Jiping hesitated for a moment before saying, "Dad, I think it's better to hand over the land." ”

Liu Jisheng became anxious again when he heard it, and said: "What you said is light, our family's land, that can be given to overseas Chinese for nothing, I can't swallow anything like this." ”

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