Because of the battle with the Foshan militia, the troops also used a large number of flowering shells during the battle, and the Foshan militia of nearly 2,000 people were killed and wounded more than 1,000. The Second Army immediately stopped resting and began to move north to capture various cities in Guangdong. The purpose of the troops was Fenshui Pass, and holding this place would cut off the key points of communication between Fujian and Guangdong.

The First Army sent small units to attack Jiangmen and other places, and the main troops began armed demonstrations in the villages around Guangzhou, while the Guangdong Land Issues Office under the Ministry of Political Affairs looked through the materials to determine the land issue in Guangdong, and at the same time began to establish a tax system.

Of course, there was another unspoken reason for the main force of the First Army to operate in Guangzhou, and the troops wanted to negotiate with the Heaven and Earth Society. One mountain does not tolerate two tigers, and Wei Ze's troops occupied Guangzhou with the posture of a fierce dragon crossing the river, so it was naturally impossible to accept that there were forces in Guangdong that could compete with the Governor's Office of the Restoration of the Metropolitan Government. For the Manchu forces in Guangdong, the Liberation Army could be solved by force. For a snake like the Heaven and Earth Society, you can't do that.

Wei Ze was also a little worried at the meeting to unify thoughts, and the brothers might attach too much importance to friendship, after all, there were many brothers from the Heaven and Earth Society in his team. If they are generally inclined to the Cantonese Tiandi Society, things will inevitably get tricky.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the meeting began, the brothers offered suggestions one by one, proposing how to make the Heaven and Earth Society bow to the Governor's Mansion. Even Luo Outline said that between now and the Heaven and Earth Society, there must be a distinction between who is higher and who is lower.

With such a unified internal opinion, Wei Ze naturally put his mind at ease. "Ladies and gentlemen, we bring up the matter of dividing the fields. Guangxi has a lot of people and little land, and Guangdong is actually the same. If you can't divide the fields, if you can't divide the food, this place in Guangdong will definitely starve to death every day. Heaven and earth will rise up and rebel, also because the people cannot live their lives. I think so, let's not care about the upper echelons of the Heaven and Earth Society, as long as we can come up with a way to let the people live and work in peace and contentment, those who rebel with the Heaven and Earth Society will definitely go home. As long as no one walks with them, let's pinch them to be a circle, and they are a circle. Pinch them is a party, they are a party! ”

"We're new here, and the people here in Guangdong may not listen to us!" Luo Xuan couldn't help but ask.

"Then I'll discuss one thing with my brothers now, what do you think of this land?" Weeser asked.

"Land?" This question was beyond the imagination of the brothers, and everyone looked at each other, very puzzled.

"Do you think that the farmer should eat grain, or the landlord should eat grain?" Weeser put the core of the problem directly on the table.

The core cadres of the Governor's Mansion looked at each other a few times, they were not big landlords, and they were forced to rebel by the world. Everyone said.

At least until now, the fact that these backbones had not slipped directly from the peasant rebel army to the new landlord class made a big stone fall to the ground in Wei Ze's heart. As long as everyone agrees that those who cultivate the land should eat food, the agrarian revolution with the nationalization of land can begin. For Chinese in the 21st century, it is industry that wants to make money.

History has long proven that the basis of industry is land reform. Sheep cannibalism in England, the Revolution in France, not to mention the United States, there are all kinds of laws and regulations on land cultivation, and even Russia has a large number of centralized land management. Different countries have different paths, but the common denominator is that the small-scale peasant economy has been shattered, and the land has been preserved as a means of production, as part of socialized large-scale production.

If there are many Chinese people and few lands, then the core point must be land reform. After the state took control of the countryside through land reform, it forcibly incorporated the countryside into the road of industrialization. In view of the situation that there are many people in Guangdong and there is little land, the land reform has been carried out, and at most the people have something to eat, and in order to make money, they must go to the factories to work in the off-season. If land reform is not carried out, it can only be crushed by the brutal accumulation of early industrialization and full of blood and tears. Weser certainly didn't want to be like this.

But Wei Ze didn't think that he could immediately carry out the land reform in history, and he didn't have so many loyal ** soldiers in his hands. Forcibly engaging in some seemingly advanced things may not have good results, Wang Mang is far away, and Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, is near. With Yang Xiuqing's talent, ability, and prestige, he offended a large number of people just by centralizing power. Even after Wei Ze figured out the inevitability of the Tianjing Incident, he ruthlessly abandoned Yang Xiuqing.

As the governor of the Governor's Mansion now, Wei Ze must represent the interests of most of his brothers in order to gain the support of these people. The same is true of the current land question, and Wei Ze must first let his brothers within him become the vested interests of the industrial and commercial class before they become representatives of the interests of the big landlord class. If these people cannot be turned into the spokesmen of industrialization, they are destined to become big landowners. Just as Wei Ze saw that Yang Xiuqing was actually incapable of completing the centralization of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he immediately implemented the de facto independence of his own troops.

"Then how do we divide the land?" Wei Changrong immediately asked.

Wei Ze hurriedly replied: "Let's kill the landlord, the people don't know that we want the farmers to have food, they think we want to seize their land." At that time, as long as there was land, they would play with us. Even if we kill all the people who resist in the end, how many people will be left in Guangdong at that time, I think there will be at most half of them, right? ”

"So what to do?" Wei Changrong didn't expect Wei Ze to oppose the division again.

"Step by step, first suppress the militia. Didn't I already ask the troops to send a letter to the leaders of the militia groups around Guangdong, asking them to come and meet with us? So far, these militia members have been smart enough not to dare to do anything to the people we sent. But there must be those who are not long-sighted, and whoever dares to do something to our messenger will never let it go. Weeser said.

"That's too slow!" Wei Changrong said anxiously.

Wei Ze waved his hand, "Don't be slow, let's send another round of envoys now to tell these guys around Guangzhou, and let them discuss this year's grain payment." Moreover, they must register to form a militia group, and anyone who forms a militia must pay us a militia tax. This matter must not only be known to these guys who are engaged in the militia group, but also to the people in the vicinity. ”

"Wonderful!" Wei Changrong didn't understand Wei Ze's thoughts at all, and Bi Qingshan immediately praised it.

The senior cadres of the Governor's Mansion thought for a while, and sooner or later, everyone began to understand what Wei Ze wanted to do.

Luo Xuan praised: "This is to raise taxes on those who can start a militia group and force them to rebel!" ”

Hu Chenghe, chief of the General Staff, also praised: "Those who want to rebel naturally feel that the knives in their hands are fast and can fight us." If you don't want to rebel, you can't stand this tax if you can't stand it, and even if you can't completely dissolve the militia, it will greatly shrink the scale of the militia. ”

Ruan Xihao praised: "This is aimed at the local big landlords and powerful factions, and if they don't rebel, they will disperse." ”

After everyone's discussion, the purpose and results of the policy have also been roughly understood. Wei Ze emphasized the key point again, "This matter must be fully publicized, and wherever our troops go, they must let the people know about it." The common people are not stupid, they can naturally understand who we are going to deal with. If you don't understand, you must stand with the big landlords and powerful factions, so we don't need to be polite to them! ”

After all, it is the early stage of the organization, and the efficiency and the spirit of daring to fight are full. Wei Ze came up with a solution to the problem, and the Governor's Mansion immediately began to plan. There is not the slightest fear on the part of the troops in the face of the inevitable military conflict. Everyone has fought all the way, and they have just fought a battle with the militia group, so they are naturally full of confidence.

After the work was arranged, the General Staff Headquarters and the Guangdong Land Issues Office held joint discussions. Weeser began another very important matter, and he had formally contacted the British Embassy in Canton to request a meeting to discuss the present issue.

The British side has replied, and the embassy has officially sent representatives to negotiate with Weese.

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