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Then came the development of the Chinese Empire itself.

Since ancient times, the largest proportion of Chinese are farmers, no matter when, China is a big agricultural country, arable land for the majority of the common people in the country, is their own lifeline, when the people have money in their hands, always want to exchange the money for arable land, arable land is the foundation of life.

According to the data of governments at all levels, the country has a total of 852 million mu of cultivated land, and based on the country's population of 410 million, there are only two mu of cultivated land per capita, which is really pitiful.

With the low-level planting technology at this time, 852 million mu of cultivated land can barely fill the stomachs of the whole country.

At this time, a very serious problem arose: when the Chinese Empire had just unified the whole country, a considerable amount of cultivated land in the country was controlled by a large number of landlords, and countless ordinary people who had lost their land could only become tenants of the landlords and live by renting the landlords' land.

The landlord can oppress the tenants at will, and the tenants dare not resist, so they can only bear the exploitation of the landlords, and when it is serious, the tenants rent the landlord's land, and when the landlord collects the fees for renting the land, the tenants will starve to death because they have no food to eat.

In some remote areas, the landlord is completely the local tyrant, and has the power of life and death over the tenants below.

This must change.

After the unification of the Chinese Empire, governments at all levels began to arrest those who committed the most heinous crimes and oppressed the common people, and a large number of landlords were arrested, sentenced to death, or assigned to work as coolies, resulting in a large amount of arable land being vacant.

Governments at all levels distribute this vacant farmland to the landless people, but this is not free, and the people need to pay one-third of the grain harvest in the next three or five years, after which the farmland can fully belong to the people.

The purpose of governments at all levels is to let the people know that the cultivated land in their hands is not easy to come by, and at the same time to increase some income for governments at all levels, and the future development needs a large amount of funds, and the funds in the hands of governments at all levels are difficult to meet the development of the areas under their jurisdiction, so they can only use various methods to increase income.

In addition to the arrest of some of the guilty landlords, there are still many innocent landlords who still hold a large amount of land in their hands, and this situation also needs to change.

In order to recover the land in the hands of the landlords who were not at fault as soon as possible and not to cause major turmoil, governments at all levels directly adopted the method of cash purchase and bought all the excess land in the hands of the landlords.

Only now it is faced with landlords on a national scale.

Now that the whole country is reunified, sometimes it is possible to adopt strong measures to forcibly confiscate the landlords' land, and governments at all levels do not need to be afraid of the landlords' protests or even rebellions; after all, the landlords are only a minority compared to the vast number of peasants, and the peasants will not make trouble with the landlords, and the landlords alone can accomplish anything.

Soon, governments at all levels issued decrees to expropriate all excess land in the hands of landlords, large and small, without any compensation.

In the face of this situation, the landlords have no way to make any moves, they can only bear it silently, the landlords have no guns in their hands, can they rebel with big knives and spears? I'm afraid that just after the rebellion, it will be suppressed the next moment.

In addition to confiscating the land in the hands of the landlords, it is also possible to reclaim wasteland, there are a large amount of suitable land for cultivation in the northeast and northwest, but these two places are vast and sparsely populated, and in the next stage, the empire will carry out large-scale migration to these two regions, and it is believed that those who do not have land in their hands will be tempted by a large amount of land to embark on the road to the northeast or northwest with their families.

The land in the hands of the landlords is gone, but they still have a lot of money in their hands, if according to the original situation, the landlords will continue to buy land with the funds in their hands, and the land in the hands of the landlords will continue to increase, and the land is the foundation of a family.

This was all the situation before, now the land is not allowed to be bought and sold casually, and the landlord has money in his hands, but he does not know what to do with it.

At this time, the staff of the government at all levels began to visit the landlord from house to house, and the government at all levels wanted to develop the economy and industry in the areas under its jurisdiction, but the funds were seriously insufficient, and the landlord had a large amount of funds in his hands, but there was nowhere to use them, and for the government, the landlord's funds were obviously the objects that could be used.

If the landlord is allowed to use his own funds to build a factory or something, in an area where industry and commerce are slightly barren, the landlord is equivalent to getting a hen that constantly lays golden eggs, and the economy of the land begins to develop because of the landlord's construction of factories, which is obviously a good thing for both sides.

However, after the government staff came to the door, they saw the indifferent face of the landlord, which is normal, after all, the government expropriated the land in the hands of the landlord without compensation, how could the landlord laugh at them?

The government worker told the landlord about his intentions, and the landlord's first reaction was not to believe it, this is simply a good thing that pie in the sky is a good thing, but can pie really fall from the sky? Apparently not.

The reason why the landlord became a landlord also represented the landlord's conservatism, and the landlord was unwilling to easily change his habits, and the government asked the landlord to give up buying land and become a factory owner, which was an unacceptable change for the landlord.

However, the government workers have a way to convince the landlords, after all, there is another example in the front, the landlords of the four provinces have turned into factory owners, and now they rely on their own factories to produce a large number of goods, sell them all over the country, and earn a lot of silver, but with the factories in the four provinces, they cannot meet the needs of the whole country, is this not an opportunity? The sooner you build a factory, the sooner you can make money.

Moreover, the landlords who have no land, with silver in their hands, will only sit and eat empty, which is not something that the landlords want to see.

With the example of Siqi Province, soon there were landlords in other areas who wanted to set up factories with their own funds, but the machinery needed to start factories basically had to be purchased from Siqi Province, and it would take some time to set up factories.

Landlords with a lot of money in their hands directly set up a factory on their own, and if they did not have much money in their hands, some landlords would join forces to set up a factory together.

In most of the light industry, Gan does not want to compete with the people for profit, directly open the simple technology to everyone, as long as the machine is bought back, Yan will send technicians to help the factory owner, and wait until the factory is built, recruit a group of workers, and soon be able to produce qualified products.

The agricultural matter was solved, the common people had their own land, and the landlords took out the money to build factories, that is, developed the industry in the area, and when the factories produced goods, the common people with a little money could buy the goods, and commerce arose, which was the joint development plan of agriculture, commerce and industry.

By 1889, most of the agricultural affairs had been settled, most of the landless people had acquired land, and the landlords, who had no land but had large sums of money in their hands, were trying to buy machinery to build factories, and the "Joint Development Plan of Agriculture, Commerce, and Industry" was proceeding in an orderly manner.