Chapter 57: Shanghai New Area (10)
At the time when the cinema of the traverser was achieving unprecedented success, the attacks on the land policy of the traversers in various newspapers in Shanghai suddenly became fierce, and the land reforms carried out by the traversers in Shandong and other places were carried out in great detail, of course, the emphasis was all on the traversers' forcible expropriation of the landlords' land, as well as the iron-blooded suppression and criticism of some landlords, but there was no mention of these landlords' acts of bullying men and women in the township, brutally exploiting, and disregarding human life.
At the same time, more than 20 landlords and squires who claimed to be in Jinan, Gaomi, Jimo and other places published articles in newspapers, or accepted exclusive interviews in newspapers, strongly attacked the traversers, forcibly confiscated their own land, real estate, property, etc., and criticized and killed their own family members.
What "Where is the Reason of Heaven - An Ordinary Shandong People's Accusation of Blood and Tears",
"Overseas Chinese frantically plundered the people of Shandong, and the law is intolerable",
"How did overseas Chinese ruin my family",
"Overseas Chinese plundered the people of Shandong and committed a lot of blood debts",
"Return my land, return my homeland - the people of Shandong are desperate to shout",
Sensational headlines and other sensational headlines also appeared on the pages of major newspapers in Shanghai, and they had a strong incitement motive, but they avoided talking about what incidents these people had done in Shandong. Some newspapers also published editorials strongly criticizing the land policy pursued by overseas Chinese in Shandong.
On the one hand, the traverser himself has a newspaper, so he will naturally fight back for himself, although there are too many big reasons for arguing about land policy, and it is inconvenient to make a long speech in the newspaper, but he firmly grasps one point, that is, how the landlords exploit and oppress the peasants. Those Shandong landlords and squires who published articles in newspapers did not make it up, they did have their own people, which can indeed strengthen the persuasiveness, but this also gave the traversers a way to find a counterattack, and shook out the evil deeds of these people when they were local owners in Shandong, and there were also exaggerations and amplifications, and no one could confirm them anyway.
This is really effective, because the two sides insist on their own words, it will not be one-sided, after all, this is Shanghai, not Shandong, no matter how badly the people in Shandong were killed, it has little to do with Shanghai, in addition, the Shanghai office has been in Shanghai for nearly a year, and I have met some people, and the success of the movie has also added a lot of points to the traverser, and many newspaper writers who have seen the movie also have a good impression of the traverser, so they have also written articles one after another to speak for the traverser.
Although on the whole, the public opinion that attacks the traverser does have some advantages, but it is not a completely one-sided situation like last time, the traverser has a considerable ability to fight back with public opinion, and is no longer completely passive, and this is still in the case that the traverser has not done his best.
On the one hand, the students are relatively simple in their thinking, lack of social experience, often have more than blood, but lack of reason, and their world view and outlook on life are being formed, so they are quite fickle; on the other hand, the time-traveler has always attached importance to the propaganda and influence on students. Therefore, he held a series of seminars with the students, explained in detail the reasons and reasons for the land reform carried out by the traversers, and patiently answered the questions raised by the students, so that most of the students were successfully stabilized.
Of course, there are also a considerable number of students who do not accept the explanation of the time-traveler and stand on the opposite side of the time-traveler due to different concepts, ideas and backgrounds, but this is also an inevitable result, but on the whole, the time-traveler is still a positive image among most students.
Until the end of February, the propaganda feature film [Shandong Land Reform] produced by Qingdao was finally completed, more than 10 days later than the original expected time, mainly because the pressure of public opinion on the Shanghai side was not great, so it was not in a hurry to take the feature film to save the scene, which gave the feature film production team more relaxed time, so that they had enough time to do a good job in this feature film.
However, when the feature film was officially completed and sent to Shanghai along with 10,000 copies of the book that accompanied the feature film, the [Shandong Land Reform Report], the Shanghai office also decided to start fighting back.
On March 1, more than 300 people, including Shanghai gentry, celebrities, industry and commerce, newspapers, famous writers, and students, who were invited by the Shanghai office, gathered in the cinema to watch the official screening of the feature film "Shandong Land Reform".
Among them, there are also people who have attacked the traverser before, and they didn't want to accept the invitation of the traverser, but the attraction of the movie is too great, although these people can basically afford the movie, but after all, it is also very valuable, so as soon as they hear that there are free movies to watch, they don't care about their position.
The whole feature film is divided into two episodes, the first episode is mainly to introduce China's land system, and at the beginning of the film, it is to introduce China's traditional land system. Since the collapse of the wells in the Spring and Autumn Period, China's land has entered the era of private land ownership, except for a small number of land that belongs to the government or the royal family, and the vast majority of land is owned by private individuals, and can be bought and sold, leased, transferred, Mortgage and so on, only between the alternation of the two Han Dynasty, Wang Mang's new dynasty had a brief period of state-owned land, and prohibited buying and selling, but with the temporary demise of the new dynasty, and Wang Mang was also completely nailed to the shame frame of history, no matter how the dynasty was replaced, but the private ownership of land has been preserved, and has never changed, and the history of China's land development has never entered the historical cycle of distribution - annexation.
He then explained the advantages and disadvantages of private ownership of land, the advantage of which is that it can bring into play the peasants' enthusiasm for production, because land is the private property of peasants, and they get more for their work, and after paying the state taxes in full, the rest is owned by the peasants privately, so that the peasants naturally have the motivation to actively produce; while the disadvantage lies in the fact that it is easy to cause the phenomenon of land annexation.
Generally at the beginning of the dynasty, due to the war, social unrest caused by a large reduction in population, so there will be a large number of idle ownerless land, and the emperor of the dynasty will often take the policy of recuperation, the land will be distributed to the people, and reduce taxes, reduce servitude, due to the emergence of a large number of yeoman farmers, the country's tax is guaranteed, and social stability, there will often be a period of rule or prosperity. If you meet an enterprising monarch, you will also create an era of martial arts.
However, with the stability of the dynasty's rule, the development of production, the land annexation became more and more serious, and a large number of yeoman farmers became tenants, resulting in a significant reduction in state tax revenue, social unrest, once the land annexation exceeded a limit, the foundation of the dynasty's rule would begin to waver, if there was another natural disaster, there would be a peasant uprising, leading to the demise of the dynasty, and after the establishment of a new dynasty, it entered a new cycle.
When the film introduces these contents, the picture is constantly changing, sometimes thousands of troops and horses, fighting on the battlefield; sometimes the palace is large, the emperor is the general, the inner courtyard of the deep palace, the cups are staggered, the song and dance are leveled; sometimes the fields are strange, the chickens and dogs smell each other, and the peasants are working hard in the fields; sometimes the peasants have no vitality, fleeing from the famine and begging, and even rise up, killing officials and seizing the city, and the flags on the city are changing, which signifies the rise and fall of the Han, Jin, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and other dynasties. Although the picture flashes quickly, there is no inertia, but it is also very lively.
Among the audience, some people have read history books and know about the change of dynasty, but it is indeed the first time to explain the reason for the change of dynasty from the perspective of land annexation like in the film, but if you think about it carefully, what you say in the film is not unreasonable. Of course, there are also people who just watch the movie and don't understand this, anyway, they can listen to what is said in the film.
Then, the film begins to explain in detail the harm caused by land annexation, first of all, it causes a decrease in national revenue, because a large amount of land is concentrated in the hands of landlords, and landlords generally have strong power in the local area, so it is very easy to escape the land tax, a large number of homesteaders lose their land and become tenant farmers, so that the state also loses a large number of tax objects, and the result is naturally a large reduction in national income.
The second is to increase the burden on the peasants, because of the decrease in the income of the state, in order to make up for the state's expenditure, the amount of taxes can only be increased, or the tenant farmers, landless peasants, and even small handicraftsmen are also taxed, although some landlords will also be taxed, but the landlords can pass on their own taxes to the peasants, which naturally aggravates the peasants. The burden on small craftsmen greatly reduced their ability to resist risks, and once a major natural disaster occurred, it was easy to trigger a large number of displaced people, or even a peasant uprising, thus shaking the foundation of the country's rule.
Finally, it hinders the development of agriculture, industry and commerce, and hinders social progress; because the landlord occupies a large amount of land, he can live a very rich life only by collecting land rent, and naturally he will not develop agricultural technology and develop industry and commerce, while handicraftsmen and businessmen want to develop industry, but they have no capital, thus causing the stagnation of social development and China's backwardness.
On the one hand, it shows that the peasants are not fed, clothed, and impoverished; on the other hand, the landlords and squires live a life of poverty and luxury, and spend all their days drinking and drinking; the officials urge the peasants to pay taxes, and they are vicious, but in front of the landlords and squires they are humble and respectful, and they look low; on the one hand, Chinese society is still a natural economy, with oxen pulling people and plowing people, weaving cloth and spinning threads in their hands, On the other hand, there is a very sharp contrast between the big machines and large industrial production of European society, the giant ship going to the sea, and the tram and car piercing the edges.
I have to say that such a picture does cause a very strong visual impact effect, in fact, many people also know the harm of land annexation, but first, there is no film so clear and comprehensive; second, such a combination of graphics, text, sound and sound expression, but also give people a very deep impression, some people who do not know much about land annexation, after watching these, also understand a lot, consciously increased a lot of knowledge.
And the last episode of the feature film also ends here.