Chapter 260 - Land System (II)
The Tianjin Provisional Government was very efficient, and at about 10 o'clock the next morning, it issued a four-point instruction to the Wangjiazhai working group through the Qingdao headquarters:
1. Wangjiazhai was changed to Wangjiazhai Village, and a temporary village management committee was established, with Wang Sheng as the interim director, Gao Shi as the deputy director, and other members of the working group as temporary members, responsible for the overall management of village administrative affairs. At the same time, guard against the attack of the remnants of the Wang family or the local Qing army.
2. Agree that the land system proposed by the working group in Wangjiazhai Village should be implemented immediately, but in the process of implementation, we should try our best to be fair and just, meticulous and patient, and make detailed records, so as to summarize experience in the future and promote it to other regions.
3. Agree to the proposal of the working group to establish a self-operated farm, officially named Wangjiazhai Village Farm, appoint Gao Shize as the director of the farm, and instruct Gao Shize to draw up the management team and business plan of the farm, and at the same time require the Qingdao headquarters to do its best to cooperate with the work of the farm.
Fourth, at the same time as the land distribution is carried out, a peasant training center should be set up to enhance the peasants' ideological consciousness, recruit activists from them, train grassroots cadres, and ensure that the local villagers can manage themselves as soon as possible; and set up a militia organization to ensure that Wangjiazhai Village has the ability to protect itself, and gradually reduce the garrison and personnel of Wangjiazhai Village until all of them are evacuated.
After getting the approval of Tianjin, Wang Sheng immediately took action, first in accordance with the instructions of the Tianjin government, set up a village management committee and a farm, of course, this is just a formality, just hang a sign. In the afternoon, Wang Sheng gathered the residents of the whole village and officially announced that Wangjiazhai would be renamed Wangjiazhai Village, and that each household would be allocated 10 mu of land, and the annual tax would be 40 percent of the land yield, and that it would no longer bear any other expenses, but the allocated land would only have the right to use, but not ownership, and the land could be planted by itself, or it could be subleased or transferred; the subleased land should be borne by the original land user, and the land transfer would be transferred together with the field tax, and the land must be filed with the village committee, and the land should be transferred to the village committee.
Villagers who are assigned land must participate in public assignment tasks such as land reclamation and village infrastructure projects, evade public assignments, or fail to complete public assignments as required, and the land will be recovered. After the land is successfully cleared, the distribution will be carried out. In addition, in addition to paying the land tax, the surplus grain of each household will be purchased by the village committee or the relevant institutions designated by the traverser at the market price, and it is strictly forbidden to buy it to private merchants.
The residents of Wangjiazhai were once again sensational, although yesterday's public trial meeting, Wang Sheng said that he would allocate land to each household, but they were a little skeptical, and now not only is it really realized, each household can be divided into 10 acres of land, and the annual tax is only forty percent, which is much lower than the previous burden. As for the right to use land, ownership and so on, no one cares, because being able to grow, rent and sell is no different from actually owning land.
In addition, after acquiring the land, it is necessary to participate in the public assignment task, and no one has any objection, because in the eyes of the peasants, it is normal to participate in the public assignment task, otherwise why would the People's Army distribute the land to themselves. Moreover, the land after the land is also allocated to oneself. Although the Chinese peasants in this era did not have much cultural knowledge, they could still distinguish what was good for them and what was bad for them.
Seeing that the mood of the villagers rose again, Wang Sheng immediately began to organize the peasants to draw numbers to decide the order of land distribution. And 8 families told Wang Sheng that they would give up their land, including Wang Gui.
These 8 families have the same mentality as Wang Gui, they are timid and afraid, they have little confidence in the traverser, they still have a very strong sense of fear of the Wang family, and they all have their own businesses, and they can survive without farming, so they dare not accept the allocated land.
Wang Sheng was not reluctant to do this, anyway, most of the villagers had already accepted the allocation of land, and these people couldn't accept it for a while and couldn't rush to come, so they could only slowly change their concepts.
Of course, this time Liu An didn't listen to Wang Gui's words anymore, because the people of the Wang family had been sent away, Liu An thought that the Wang family could not have a chance to turn over, and although Liu An opened a small restaurant, he was still a farmer in his bones, and only when he had his own land could he settle down, not to mention that the tax rate set by the People's Army was not high, of course he would not let go of this opportunity, so Liu An participated in the lottery, and also drew the top number of the 26th.
The next work is very complicated, because the traveler uses the mu system of the old time and space, so the land allocated by each villager needs to be remeasured and divided. It is also necessary to consider the location of auxiliary facilities such as field roads and aqueducts.
In addition, in the past, the Wang family did not care about the agricultural production of the land, and after the land was distributed to the tenants, they only managed to collect taxes on time, and the Wang family did not care about how the tenants farmed the land. As a result, there are many unreasonable areas of land planning in Wangjiazhai, and the distribution of field roads and aqueducts is very messy, which greatly reduces the efficiency of agricultural production. Taking advantage of this opportunity to allocate land, it is also a re-planning of the fields in Wangjiazhai Village.
Although there are some roads and canals that need to be cleared into fields, and in some places there are many things that have to be dug again or ridged roads, but after all, the land is actually allocated, so no one cares about these small things.
It took five days to get all the land allocated, and at the same time, the shape of the land was drawn into a land certificate and issued to each household as proof of obtaining the right to use the land.
In the end, about 350 acres of land remained, which became the traverser's own farm. Although this farm is much smaller than the farm run by Gao Shize's family in the old time and space, under the current conditions, it is very good to have such a piece of land, so let's take our time.
The Qingdao headquarters also carried out the instructions of Tianjin very intensively, and transferred 150 people from the German prisoners in Qingdao to Wangjiazhai Village to help the farm build. According to Gao Shize's plan, the farm should have a special house for human habitation, a nursery cultivation room indoors, a place for composting and raising livestock, and a ditch to divert water, and at the same time build a three-meter-high fence wall around the farm, which is not only to prevent people from entering, but also to allow people to see the situation in the farm.
When these German prisoners came to Wangjiazhai, they caused a sensation in the whole village. Although it has caused a lot of sensation since the People's Army captured Wangjiazhai, this time it once again made the villagers reassess the strength of the People's Army.
It turned out that the villagers had heard about many of the glorious achievements of the People's Army in the past, and heard them talk about how to beat the foreigners to the ground. However, most of the villagers did not believe it. How powerful the foreigners are, the Qing Kingdom has never defeated the foreigners in the past few decades, what about the People's Army, don't look at them cleaning up the royal family, but when they meet the foreigners, I am afraid that they are still more than lucky.
But now the 150 living foreigners are right in front of them, and all of them are honest, working when they come, and they don't say a word. According to the People's Army, these foreigners were all their prisoners, and they were all captured by the People's Army in Qingdao and sent to Wangjiazhai to work. And there are thousands of such captives in Qingdao, which can't help but make the villagers not believe it, it turns out that the People's Army has really defeated the foreigners.
It turned out that there were indeed many villagers who lacked confidence in the People's Army, not only for fear that the two brothers of the Wang family who had escaped the net would come back to retaliate, but also because they were more worried that the imperial court would send troops to exterminate the People's Army. Although the Qing court had rotted to the roots at this time, in the hearts of ordinary people, this court still had great authority. But seeing this batch of German prisoners, the villagers were also relieved, because such a simple conversion formula would still be, that is, the imperial court army could not defeat the foreigners, and the foreigners could not defeat the people's army, so the results of the imperial court's army and the people's army were naturally self-evident.
It turned out that at this time, most of the People's Army had withdrawn, leaving only two platoons in Wangjiazhai Village, plus Luo Yue's battalion headquarters and Chen Rui's company headquarters, there were less than 100 people, all of whom were cooking in the Wang family's mansion, and did not order food in Liu An's restaurant, which also reduced Liu An's income. Now there are 150 people all at once, and the People's Army is still ordering food in Liu An's restaurant, of course Liu An is very welcome, it seems that he is correct not to listen to Wang Gui's words, and there is no need to be afraid of the army of the imperial court at all, as for the two brothers of the Wang family, Liu An has ignored them.
And the 8 households represented by Wang Gui who did not accept the land also regretted it a little at this time, knowing that the People's Army was so powerful, or that they should accept the allocated land. And now it's too late to regret it, so you can't go to the People's Army now to ask for land.
Therefore, early in the morning, Wang Sheng looked at this kind of working German prisoners in the open space of the farm, and he also felt a little ridiculous in his heart, if he had known that this group of German prisoners would form such a situation in Wangjiazhai Village, he should have brought a few foreigners to the village from the beginning.
But I want to think about it, but now the work of Wangjiazhai Village has been carried out in an all-round way, very smooth, then the next step is to form a militia, which must be discussed with Luo Yue, and cultivate a few accumulation elements, in fact, through the peasant workshop in the past few days, Wang Sheng has several candidates in his heart, but the time is still short, and further observation and training are needed, in short, the work of Wangjiazhai Village is quite important, and the experience gained is indeed worth summing up.
When Wang Sheng was thinking about it, he saw a soldier come and said: "Chief Wang, Chief Wang, something happened, Battalion Chief Luo asked you to hurry to the village committee office." ”
When Wang Sheng heard this, he couldn't help but be taken aback, and said, "Do you know what's going on?"
The soldier said: "Sun Cheng, who runs a grocery store, was killed on the way to Jiaozhou County, and his body was found by the patrol team before being brought back to the village. ”
Now Wang Sheng already knows most of the villagers, Sun Chengcheng is one of the eight villagers who did not accept the allocation of land, and opened a small grocery store in the market, because he is the only grocery store in the whole village, so the business is not bad, and every ten days and eight days, he will go to Jiaozhou County to buy goods. I really didn't expect to be killed on the road this time.