Although the Restoration Society has not been established for a long time, it is the most closely connected revolutionary group in China, and its main members are basically from China, mainly local people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, who have a better understanding of the situation in China, and most of the members of the Liberation Society are often active in Shanghai, so there are many opportunities if they want to contact the East China government.

However, most of the main members of the Liberation Society were local gentry, landlords, Businessmen, such as Xu Xilin, who came to Qingdao to visit on behalf of the Restoration Society, was born in a famous family in Dongpu, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, and his father Xu Fengming Xiucai was born, served as a county official, and his family had more than 100 acres of land, and opened two shops in Shaoxing City, Tiansheng Silk Village and Taisheng Oil Store; Although these people are more open-minded and hope that China will become rich and strong, and they also praise the East China government's actions of resisting the Eight-Nation Coalition and protecting overseas Chinese in Java, they will inevitably be rejected when their own vital interests are touched, so they also deliberately avoid contact with the East China government.

However, after all, the strength of the East China government is there, and now that the Shanghai New Area has been fully operational, and the route from Lushun to Shanghai has been opened, and the Shandong region has been able to provide certain industrial products, even in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions are becoming more and more influential, so the Fuxing Association, as the representative of the local situation in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, can no longer ignore the existence of the East China Government, and this time the Xingzhong Association and the Huaxing Association will be sent to visit Qingdao, and the Fuxing Association will naturally not lag behind. During their visit to Qingdao, Xu Xilin and Qiu Jin had an important task, to figure out the land policy of the East China government.

Of course, due to the lack of information in this era, and the East China government's interpretation and propaganda of land reform is limited to the Shanghai area, there are not many people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang who know the details of the land reform system, and most people are habitually thinking that this is just a means for overseas Chinese to encroach on land, which is also common in history, after the founding of the Qing court, a large-scale Eight Banners enclosure activity was launched in northern China, that is, for the Eight Banners nobles to occupy land.

So many squires in Jiangsu and Zhejiang also think that this matter is easy to do, and can be negotiated with overseas Chinese to solve, if overseas Chinese really become a big deal, then the squire landlords in Jiangsu and Zhejiang can let out part of the land, after all, there are only 5 or 6,000 overseas Chinese, much less than the course of the Manchu Eight Banners, how much land can be occupied, so that everyone will not hurt the peace.

Of course, it is still too early to negotiate the transfer of land, after all, the influence of overseas Chinese has not yet extended to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but it is very important to find out the intentions of overseas Chinese. Xu Qiu and the two of them took on this mission, and Qiu Jin was a woman, so Xu Xilin was mainly responsible for this.

Qin Zheng said: "I want to ask Mr. Xu first, if Mr. Xu is asked to donate all the land in his family because of the needs of the revolution, what will Mr. Xu do?"

Xu Xilin said: "If it is needed by the revolution, it is still not hesitant to give up this life, let alone just a small property!"

Qin Zheng nodded, in fact, Xu Xilin can only answer this question like this, he can't say that it's okay to ask me to do the revolution, but the land property must not be handed over, but Qin Zheng also knows that Xu Xilin's words are indeed from the heart, because in the old time and space, Xu Xilin planned to hold an armed uprising against the Qing Dynasty in Anhui and Zhejiang, and assassinated the governor of Anhui Enming before he succeeded, failed and was arrested, and was generous.

Of course, Qin Zheng had a useful intention in asking this question, that is, to use the highest point of morality to kidnap revolutionaries first, and pave the way for his later words, and Xu Xilin really said these words as Qin Zheng expected, so Qin Zheng immediately said: " I can assure you that we have confiscated tens of millions of acres of land in Shandong, but not a single acre of land has been privately acquired by the more than 6,000 people we have returned from overseas, not even a single acre of land, not even purchased, all land has been confiscated by the state, except for a small part of the farms that have been built, and the rest of the land has also been distributed to the peasants free of charge。 ”

Hearing Qin Zheng's words, not only Xu Xilin and Qiu Jin, but even others were surprised.

Huang Xing and others had also heard about the land reform of the East China government, but they did not care much about these things, because people like Huang Xing and Chen Tianhua were now professional revolutionaries, and they either gave up their family property or donated it to the revolution, so the land reform did not hurt them very much. But Qin Zheng swore that the confiscation of the land was not for the personal interests of the traversers, and all the traversers did not have a single acre of land in their names now, so they couldn't help but be surprised.

Looking at Qin Zheng's appearance, it doesn't look like he's lying, and it's impossible to deceive people about this kind of thing, it's really like what Qin Zheng said, overseas Chinese really gave all the land to the peasants? They didn't even leave a single acre? Some people know that the dynasty established from the war will have a stage of redistributing land at the beginning of the founding of the country, but it is not only the peasants who are allocated land, but also the royal family and princes and ministers will also get a share, and the share is much more than that of the peasants. So all the overseas Chinese are so high-spirited and don't want land!

In fact, of course, the traverser is not high in style, but because of the different concepts, he simply does not look down on this business model of renting land income, even if it is a soy sauce public, he has not thought that after the crossing, he will be the landlord and rely on the collection of rent.

At this time, Qin Zheng said: "Regarding the land reform system we have implemented, there are many contents in it, if you talk about it, I am afraid that I will not be able to finish it in a day today. 5 The lecture is finished, so it is impossible to elaborate on it today, but we have already sorted out all these contents and printed them into a book, and we will give each of you a copy later, the content is very comprehensive, and after you have finished reading it, you should understand our intentions, and in addition to land reform, there are also some ideas for how to govern the country in the future. If we have other ideas after reading them, we can discuss them again. ”

After listening to this, everyone also felt that this way was good, and the three-day visit allowed everyone to have a more intuitive understanding of the East China government, and they could just have a more comprehensive understanding of overseas Chinese by looking at the books written by overseas Chinese.

At this time, Qiu Jin said: "Speaker Qin, I see that there are mostly female workers in the textile factory, there are many women in other factories, and even there are female soldiers in the army, and the male and female students in the school are roughly the same, it seems that the nobles also respect equality between men and women?"

Qin Zheng said with a smile: "Of course, equality between men and women is a sign of social progress, civilization and enlightenment, and our East China government has always advocated equality between men and women. ”

Qiu Jin listened, and immediately her eyes lit up, because in addition to the revolution, advocating the equality of men and women, the concept of women's independence, is another goal of Qiu Jin, because after going abroad, Qiu Jin broadened her horizons and made friends with a group of like-minded female revolutionaries, not only more firmly Qiu Jin's goal, but also began to take action. And now listening to Qin Zheng's confirmation that the East China government is advocating and has implemented equality between men and women, Qiu Jin has a great sense of knowing.

So Qiu Jin immediately asked again: "Don't hide it from Speaker Qin, although I am a woman, I also have the desire to serve the country, and I am more willing to awaken Chinese women to be self-reliant and self-reliant, but the results are very small, I don't know what methods you use to implement equality between men and women." ”

Qin Zheng said: "My government has a special department to do these work, I don't know much about the specific situation, if Ms. Qiu is interested in our women's work, tomorrow I can arrange for Ms. Qiu to go to the relevant departments to inspect and exchange." ”

When Qiu Jin heard this, she couldn't help but be overjoyed, and said, "That's great." ”

Qin Zheng said again: " However, our government has several basic principles for women's work: First, the realization of equality between men and women, not only at the level of law, but more importantly at the level of social concepts, China's concept of male superiority over women for thousands of years has penetrated into all levels of society, so if we want to change this concept, it cannot be accomplished in a short period of time, it will take more than ten years, or even decades of long-term work, and we must not be in a hurry, and we will not dare to change the status of women in the country at once and completely realize the equality between men and women。 ”

"Second, we must pay attention to ways and means in concrete work, not only to strengthen the intensity of propaganda, but also to be patient, not to rush to achieve results, and to focus on persuasion and education, administrative and legal means are only auxiliary, and try not to use radical means. ”

"The third is to improve the status of women, to achieve equality between men and women, the most important thing is to let women receive education, and have a source of income, these two points are complementary to each other, women can be educated to master cultural knowledge, so that they can participate in the work, improve their economic ability, with economic ability, women can really become independent, these days of visit, you have also seen, we have done a lot of substantive work in these two aspects, but it is not enough, by which it can provide limited jobs for women, basically concentrated in the textile industry, and a big reason is that women's cultural level is too low, qualified for limited jobsThis is what we need to address in our next step. ”