Wuhu Military Advisory Branch

Chai Dongliang's desk was piled up with translations of newspapers and telegrams, and all kinds of good and bad news came in one after another. In this turbulent paradox

The great era is full of all kinds of uncertain surnames.

The situation in Wuchang improved greatly, and Baron Feng Guozhang, who was bent on extinguishing the flames of revolution and exchanging the blood of the Kuomintang for a yellow coat, was kicked back to Yanjing by his benefactor Yuan Shikai and became a nominal Chahar commander. Now commanding the front-line Beiyang Army is Yuan Shikai's godson-in-law Duan Qirui.

The tacit understanding between the Kuomintang and the Beiyang Army was stopped, but the fierce slogans of the Kuomintang were never able to recover Hankou and Hanyang, while the earth-shattering sound of the Beiyang Army's artillery bombardment always hit uninhabited areas. Both sides seem to be very satisfied with the current situation and tacitly play with each other.

The Yangtze River Fleet left the cruiser Haichen and three gunboats to support the Kuomintang, and from time to time they sent two guns to the north shore to play music for the Beiyang Army, while the rest of the ships returned to Anqing for repairs under the leadership of Commander Tang Qianming. Paine, the British consul in Hankow, kept shuttling between the banks of the Yangtze River, becoming the de facto mediator between the North and the South. Li Yuanhong, who was blasted out of Wuchang City by Feng Guozhang's cannon, returned in a high-profile manner, and Yuan Shikai had made it clear that he would only regard him as the only negotiation opponent. Li Yuanhong's status was affirmed by the enemy, so he sat more stable, and the first righteous three martial arts of the Wuchang Military Command Department were gradually cut off from their military power!

"Governor!" Master Gao Ming walked in quietly.

When Chai Dongliang saw him coming, he smiled and handed him a piece of paper and said, "Old master, I'm looking for you!" Help me to see if the wording of this message is appropriate! ”

Gao Ming took it and looked at it, first stunned for a moment, and then said with a mysterious smile: "The governor wants to invite Mr. Sun Wen to return to China to take charge?" ”

Chai Dong nodded and said: "Yes, this province has accounted for most of the country's reading power, but it is not the same, and the government decree is not good!" The northern army attacked Wuchang, but the provinces stood by one after another, so it just gave the enemy a chance to break through, so I would like to ask Mr. Sun to return to China to take charge! ”

Chai Dongliang's surname, Gao Ming is still unclear? , the heron leg is fine, and the mosquito scrapes the fat in the belly! It's definitely a thief who sacrifices his life and money! Chai Dongliang's bottom is fine, Master Gao's chicken eats fireflies - the heart eats the belly! His identity as a special envoy is clearly a fake, and now he is ready to electrify the whole country and ask Sun Wen to take charge, but it is just a show to make political capital! Anyway, Anqing and Wuhu have already fallen into his hands, ten battalions of new troops are minions, the Yangtze River fleet is the wings, and the strength is already one of the best among the Kuomintang in the southern provinces.

If Chai Dongliang really cared so much about Sun Wen, when Huang Xing was besieged in Wuchang, he sent telegrams for help three times a day, and he didn't see him send a single soldier!

"This message still needs to be polished, and the students will do it in a while!" Gao Ming said with a smile.

The soldiers brought tea, and Chai Dongliang asked, "Is there anything wrong with the old master?" ”

Gao Ming said flatly: "It's not a big deal, it's just that the members of the Council are going to resign collectively!" ”

Chai Dongliang jumped up from the chair as if he had a spring on his buttocks: "They want to rebel? ”

Gao Ming said with a smile: "It's not that there is a rebellion, it's just that they don't agree with the governor's proposal to exchange the shares of government enterprises for the land under their names, so they protest collectively!" ”

Do you have to eat a penalty wine if you don't eat a toast? Do you have to force Lao Tzu to fight the local tyrants and divide the fields, and the knife is on the neck to be willing to comply?

Chai Dongliang sneered: "Without Butcher Zhang, we still have to eat pigs with hair?" Tell these things that you don't know what to do, and if you want to resign, get out of here! ”

Gao Ming smiled: "Du Du is angry!" These people are candles, and they don't light them! ”

Chai Dongliang saw that he looked calm, and hurriedly asked, "What is the old master's clever plan?" ”

Gao Ming saw the cigarette case on the table, and took out one and lit it himself: "I don't have a clever plan, but the student has an idea!" ”

"Old Master, please speak!"

"These people are just worried that the government and enterprises will lose money, and the land will not be stable if the shares are exchanged! After all, there is a problem of making money in trading, and it is not as good as collecting land rent! ”

Chai Dongliang was puzzled: "This is also true, but it is difficult to dispel their concerns!" ”

Gao Ming spit out a smoke ring and said with a smile: "Of course, it is difficult to dispel their concerns, but it is not difficult to make the income from land rent unstable!" ”

Chai Dongliang felt a flash of inspiration, as if he had caught some trick, and said after a moment's silence: "What does the old master mean, is it that they can't collect rent in peace?" ”

Gao Ming slapped his hands and exclaimed: "The governor is really smart, just a little bit!" The students thought that the Governor would be able to come up with a good solution! ”

Chai Dongliang showed a knowing smile: "Thank you for the reminder!" I've got my own way to manipulate them! ”

Gao Ming stood up with the telegram prepared by Chai Dongliang: "Governor, I will polish the telegram and send it to various Huayang newspapers, inform the whole country, and invite Mr. Sun to return to China!" ”

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"The suffering of the Chinese people is the only one that combines the land and the land! The rich are in the clouds, and the poor have no cone! The righteousness of the revolution is only to strengthen the country and enrich the people, not for the honor of one family and one surname! In order to seek the happiness of the people, the progressive law of land tax is specially implemented, where the land is less than 10 mu, the field tax is exempted, 10 mu to 50 mu, the land tax per mu is 5 jiao, 50 mu to 100 mu, the tax is 2 yuan per mu of land..."

The prefectures and counties to which Wuhu and Anqing belong are plastered with notices everywhere, and people who are literate and hyphenated are shaking their heads and reading the notices of the Military Advisory Office. Although the common people don't understand what a progressive tax is, the gist of the notice is still very clear, that is, those who have less land will not pay taxes! And the rich people who have a lot of fields have to pay more taxes!

After the dragon flag of the Qing Dynasty was replaced with the eighteen-star flag, the common people did not feel much, and the officials were still the original group of people, but the governor yamen was renamed the military advisory office. And this notice is earth-shattering, the official gentry do not pay the grain is an old rule, Yongzheng has changed a period, to the end of the Qing Dynasty to abolish again!

And now, the gentry not only have to pay grain, but also pay more, but the mud legs of small families have been exempted from money and food...

In the Qing Dynasty, the land was divided into four grades: "heaven", "earth", "people", and "harmony" according to the richness of the land, and the output of a good paddy field on one mu of "heaven" would not exceed 400 catties, and the average dry land with an ordinary "earth" size would be about 200 catties. In accordance with the standard of money and grain collected by the former Qing Dynasty, the Military Advisory Office uniformly converted the land into "land" standard dry land. Collect a tax of two silver dollars per acre of land, and then deduct the food and drink of long-term workers, if it is a good year, it will be in vain, and then dare to have a flood and drought disaster, the landlord will not only be unable to leave anything but also have to lose money!

After the notice was posted, there were those who praised and scolded the street, and those who praised with big fingers were the kind whose families had two acres of thin land and could not eat enough and starved to death, and those who scolded the street were those who had a lot of land at home!

Just when everyone had not yet recovered from the shock, the second order of the Military Advisory Office came down again. Landlords were called upon to exchange surplus land for shares in the enterprise.

Thirty percent of the land that was replaced was paid for by government and enterprise shares, and seventy percent was exchanged for land bonds, and the military advisory office paid off the land price in 15 years. The land will be distributed to the landless and landless peasants for compensation, and the land allotted to those who will be allocated will also pay off the land price in 15-year instalments.

On the same day, the third order of the Military Advisory Office was issued. Officials in the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Wuhu and Anqing shall declare their land within three days, and all parts exceeding 10 mu per ding shall be replaced according to 30 percent of the shares and 70 percent of the bonds, and those who fail to report within the time limit or fail to replace them according to the regulations will be immediately dismissed from all positions! If there is a deceitful person who conceals the deceit, he will be handed over to the provisional military court for public trial!

A series of land policies have been introduced, which has made the displaced people in the city very excited, owning their own land is their dream for generations, and the officials are complaining bitterly, and they are a little reluctant to change it, God knows if these shares can make money, if they don't change it, they can't stand the progressive tax alone and will be dismissed!

Chai Dongliang was not as polite to officials as he was to the members of the Council, and those who were lucky enough not to declare for three days directly sent soldiers to seize the big seal and drive them out of the yamen.

Looking at China, there is no shortage of people who want to be officials! Alternate officials of the former Qing Dynasty, students studying abroad, and councilors of state and county council bureaus...

Under the thunderbolt method, the luck of the officials was broken, and the people outside the yamen who were staring at the Great Seal made them even more panicked, and the work of the officials' land declaration was successfully completed in a few days.

As soon as the official's mouth was opened, the old councillors of the Consultative Council were also shaken, and some people who were quick to replace the land in advance got the real shortage of official positions, which made others envious. The Legislative Council, which had resisted land replacement in a monolithic manner, also began to divide.

Land reform is being carried out slowly but resolutely!