There are five days to go before the meeting, and there is another accident in Yulin Bay.

On the morning of that day, a group of retired soldiers, dressed in military uniforms with their ranks hung and their cockades and collar badges removed, and various military merit medals, came to the building of the Military Commission in a neat line. Although the number of people is small, it is uniform.

The sentry on duty in front of the building was a little dumbfounded, what were they going to do.

A corporal greeted him: "Sir, is there something wrong with you?" ”

The lieutenant, who was led by a lieutenant with only one arm left, laboriously took out a letter from his clothes: "This is a collective request from our veterans, please forward it to the Military Commission, we are waiting here for a reply." ”

The lieutenant handed the letter to the sentry, turned and ordered: "All of them, sit down." ”

Nearly 100 soldiers sat in front of the building of the Military Commission, and the corporal took the letter: "Sir, it's not good for you to sit here like this, so please go in, and submit your duties immediately." ”

The lieutenant officer was expressionless: "No need, we are not active soldiers now, so we will not enter the building, you better submit the letter as soon as possible." ”

The corporal had no choice but to run into the military commission building with the letter.

Soon a group of people gathered in front of the building, all talking.

"What's going on, is there something going on?"

"I don't know, how did they sit here."

Someone boldly stepped forward and asked, "Why are you sitting here, aren't you soldiers of the Yulin Army?" ”

Not a single soldier spoke, and everyone stared intently at the door of the Military Commission building.

After a while, Dong Fei ran out of the building: "What's going on, who called you here, what can we discuss, are you here to make trouble?" ”

The lieutenant officer stepped forward and saluted: "Chairman Dong, on behalf of us veterans, the lowly position has already submitted our letter, and also expressed our intentions, and the lowly position asks Chairman Zhang or Chief Jiang to come out to see us." ”

Dong Fei was very angry: "I am now the chairman of the Military Commission, just tell me if you have anything, Chairman Zhang and Chief Jiang are very busy." ”

The lieutenant asked, "Then I wonder how Chairman Dong replied to our request?" ”

"What are your requests?" Dong Fei ran out before he could read the letter from these people after receiving the report, and he didn't know what the letter said.

The lieutenant said, "Please ask Chairman Dong to reply to us after reading the letter, we can wait." ”

"You guys." Dong Fei really can't do anything about them, and Dong Fei also knows that he has no majesty in front of these soldiers.

Han Wantao also received a report at this time and rushed over.

"Wan Tao." Dong Fei shouted as if he had seized hope.

Han Wantao waved his hand and walked straight in front of the lieutenant: "Lieutenant, report your position before you retired from the army." ”

"Yes, sir." The lieutenant officer reflexively stood up to Han Wantao, "Before I was the deputy company commander of the sixth company of the third battalion of the new second regiment of the mixed brigade. ”

"You're a mixed brigade?"

"Yes, old Brigadier. He was wounded and retired after the lowly Goryeo operation. ”

Han Wantao reached out and touched the lieutenant's broken arm: "The people in the mixed brigade are all good, and each of you is a hero." ”

"Thank you, Brigadier." Tears welled up in the lieutenant's eyes.

"Lieutenant." Han Wantao suddenly shouted, "Order all your people to disband, and you come in with me." ”

"Sir." The lieutenant officer called out but did not give the order.

"Disbanded." Han Wantao's voice was not loud but extremely stern.

"Yes, sir." The lieutenant officer turned back, "I order, disband." ”

The lieutenant followed Han Wantao into the building of the Military Commission.

"Why are you here, why are you doing this way?" Han Wantao asked.

"Sir, our request has been submitted, and the chief will know after reading it."

"I don't look at it, I'm going to listen to you now."

"Yes, sir." The lieutenant said, "These people who are here today have been wounded and discharged from previous battles. Although we received a one-time discharge allowance at the beginning, and now the Military Commission also gives us a monthly subsidy, but sir, the prices of our Yulin Bay have risen a lot in recent years, and our subsidy is not enough to maintain our life. We are all disabled, unable to earn money to support our families, and the land promised to us by the Military Commission has not been fulfilled until now. Those of us who felt that life was getting harder and harder, so we thought of coming here to report it to the chief. ”

"Are you here to report the situation or to put pressure on the Military Commission?" Han Wantao asked sternly, "Do you know that it is still during the martial law period, and I can arrest people if you make such trouble." ”

"Sir, we didn't make trouble." The lieutenant looked aggrieved, "We don't want to make trouble either." We have reported this to the Military Commission several times before, but there has been no response, so we have used this method, and we ask the commander to be considerate. ”

"Is there anyone behind this?"

"No, sir, absolutely not."

"I believe in you." Han Wantao's tone softened, "You bring everyone back first, don't make any more trouble, I will give you an answer within ten days." ”

"But sir."

Han Wantao interrupted the lieutenant's words and saluted him: "You are a veteran of the mixed brigade, and I am the brigade commander of the mixed brigade." I believe what you say, and please believe me, the old brigade commander, I say ten days. ”

"Yes, sir." The lieutenant's words were filled with tears, "My subordinates believe in my superiors. ”

The enlarged meeting of the Military Commission was convened urgently, and no one expected that there would be trouble before the meeting, let alone that the soldiers would make trouble. If this matter is not handled well, there will be great trouble, and all the senior officers at home among the traversers attended this enlarged meeting.

The petition handed in by the lieutenant was passed through the hands of everyone.

"Still there's something wrong." Xu Lang read the petition and said, "I'll do a self-examination first, because I proposed to divide the land for veterans. But I didn't expect that the consequences of not being able to cash in would be like this. ”

"Now is not the time to hold accountable." Jiang Beiming said, "Let's talk about it, what to do, let's agree or not." ”

"I can't say yes." Dong Fei objected, "If they petition once, we will agree, as soon as this opening is opened, it will not be stopped in the future, and anyone can come to petition and meditate." ”

"No, no." Han Wantao said, "There are not many of these people, and agreeing to their request will not add too much burden." Moreover, many of them have participated in the Goryeo operation, and I personally will not refuse it from a close emotional point of view. ”

"Me too." Zeng Guangxian said, "These people are our brothers who share life and death, and we are not comfortable in our hearts when they are living a difficult life now." Besides, we have made promises, and if we don't keep them, it will be chilling. Although less than a hundred people came to petition this time, all the soldiers were watching. ”

"It's easy to say that you will improve their treatment." Zhang Guodong said, "But to give them land, first, we have very little land in our hands, so it is appropriate to give them the right land." Second, I am worried that once the land is really divided, there will be more and more soldiers who apply for discharge, but we still need to expand the army. ”

"I think what Chairman Zhang said makes sense." Wang Hua agreed, "In recent years, the construction of Yulin Bay has been very fast, and the land price and housing price have increased several times. They want land now, and they probably have thought of this. ”

"But we can't do the land reform like Tao Min." Leng Tianbing complained, "If you can land reform, there won't be so much trouble." ”

Leng Tianbing's words caused a cold scene, and the participants were all thinking about this question, can Yulin Bay really not be subject to land reform?

"Maybe we really need land reform." Someone finally spoke, and it was Xu Lang who spoke, "Don't forget one problem, our current population is surging. Last time, I brought back 70,000 or 80,000 immigrants from Shanxi, and this time I brought back some more. They don't have anything in Yulin Bay, and now that we're expanding our army and building roads, they still have a job. But what will happen once the road is completed, these people will have no land, no jobs, and there will be a big mess. ”

"Xu Lang, we are all clear about these problems you said." Leng Tianbing asked, "I also know that it is an agrarian society now, and it is not possible to solve the land problem. But we can't use Tao Min's method, that would go against our original intentions. ”

"I didn't say that we must use Tao Min's method, that method is not land reform, it is robbery." Xu Lang replied, "There are many ways to reform land, but I think we can adopt the Taiwanese way, maybe it can be gentle." ”

"Taiwan, which Taiwan are you talking about?" Dong Fei didn't understand, "Could it be that Zheng Zhilong is also carrying out land reform in Taiwan now?" ”

"Lao Dong, I'm not talking about Taiwan now, I'm talking about Taiwan in the 50s of the 20th century." Xu Lang explained, "In fact, I have been thinking about this issue since Tao Min started to carry out land reform in North Korea. Tao Min grasped the core of the present, and we did not. As a result, Tao Min can develop rapidly in North Korea, but we can only rely on a weak technological advantage to fight him. I also consulted Lu Lao, and I think it may be feasible to adopt the Taiwan model. ”

"Xu Lang, don't be verbose." Everyone expressed their dissatisfaction, "What's going on with Taiwan's land reform, you can talk about it first." ”

"From 1949 to 1953, the Taiwan authorities took three steps to promote land reform." Xu Lang began to tell the people present about Taiwan's land reform, "The first is the 375 rent reduction, the second is the release of public land, and the third is the implementation of the practice of land ownership by the cultivators. The 375 rent reduction is limited to reducing the rent of cultivated land to 37.5% of the annual harvest of the main crops on the land. In order to ensure that most peasants could buy land and not be monopolized by a few wealthy families, the authorities limited each person who bought land to be able to maintain a family of six. Cultivator Ownership of Land requires landlords to sell the portion of land held by them to the government and then sell it to tenant farmers on the basis of public land concessions. Tenant farmers buy land in 10 years, and can cultivate the land at 2.5 times their annual income, repay the land with a loan over a period of more than 10 years, and receive assistance in mechanization and irrigation. The landlords, of course, were not defeated as class enemies, but were compensated by 70 percent of the bonds and 30 percent of the shares of public utilities. ”

Almost no one could understand Xu Lang's tirade, Dong Fei shook his head: "To put it simply, you just say what we should do in Yulin Bay." ”

"That's what I thought." Xu Lang said, "First, haven't we already announced the abolition of agricultural taxes, then we will also announce a rent reduction method, stipulating that the maximum land rent under the regulations cannot exceed 20% of the harvest." ”

"20%, isn't it a bit too low, so who has the money to buy land in the future." Han Wantao shouted again.

"That's exactly what we need." Xu Lang replied, "We just want to create an atmosphere where you can't get rich by buying land, so that the whole society can move towards industry and commerce." Otherwise, if you have money, you will buy land, how to develop industry and commerce. ”

"Where's your second?" Jiang Beiming asked.

"Second, it is the same as the collar of the commons. Let's take an inventory of all the available arable land on Hainan Island, and I remember that the statistics of later generations should be about 10 million mu. It doesn't matter how much it is, as long as it is ownerless wasteland, whether it is mountainous land, forest land or arable land, all of it will be taken into public ownership and then sold to landless peasants. Under the same regulations, each family or person can buy a maximum of how much, the same can be a bank loan, and it can be paid off in ten years. ”

"What about the landlord?" Zhang Guodong asked, "Do they need to forcibly confiscate the extra cultivated land they occupy?" ”

"No, you don't. We can buy it at a price slightly higher than the market price, but we don't confiscate it. You must know that there is a big difference between the current situation and the future generations, there is a lot of wasteland on Hainan Island, which is enough for us, and we have no need to grab land from the hands of the landlords. ”

"Anything else?" Zeng Guangxian asked again.

"No, that's all I can think of now."

"I'll tell you my personal opinion." Jiang Beiming said, "You can't say that your method is bad, but it is also a big problem." First, is it feasible to impose a 20% land rent, and what if a landlord does not enforce it, do we have to rely on coercive force? I remember that Chen Cheng also said when he was in Taiwan's land reform, 'I believe that there are difficulties, and there may be naughty and shameless people, but I believe that there will never be people who don't want to die.' ’”