The fart sun is full of gold. A new day has begun. At the same time, on a paddle road not far from the city gate building, several black cars drove in from outside the city to the city, due to the construction of several roads through the city, the old Beijing city is now very different from the past, although many old buildings are still preserved, but no one can deny that the modern atmosphere of this ancient city is indeed getting stronger and stronger.

After these pitch-black cars drove into the old city, they drove directly to No. 5 Donghuayuan Hutong, where Li Yuanhong lived, and the passengers in these cars were Li Yuanhong, his attaché and bodyguards.

Last night, he was invited to attend a dinner hosted by the American Federation of Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs, at which Li Yuanhong was in a good mood. I can't help but drink a few more glasses, plus wine to meet confidants. So, Li Yuanhong spent the night at the Xishan villa last night, and when he got up early this morning, he hurried back to Beijing with his attaché and bodyguards, because this morning the National Assembly will hold an important meeting, and as president of the Senate of the National Assembly, Li Yuanhong must attend the meeting and make a speech.

The reason why he didn't go directly to the Congress was because it was still early, and Li Yuanhong planned to go home first to deal with some personal matters, and according to his previous habits, drink a bowl of tofu brain, eat some pancakes and fruits, and if time permitted, he also planned to practice calligraphy as before, and then start a day's work.

When the car rushed back to Loei, it was not yet seven o'clock, seeing that there was plenty of time, Li Yuanhong breathed a sigh of relief, went straight into the study, picked out one from a stack of letters, handed it to the housekeeper, and ordered him to take it to the post office to stamp it and send it, and by the way, buy some more letterheads and envelopes for the lord to come back.

The housekeeper took the order, and after a while, he hurriedly turned back and presented a business card to Li Yuanhong.

"Sir, Mr. Zhou Xuexi, Vice Minister of Industry and Commerce, asks to see you

"What is Zhou Jizhi doing here so early? Please Mr. Zhou sit in the East Wing for a while, and I will go over in a moment. ”

Li Yuanhong did not rush over to see Zhou Xuexi, but first sorted out the stack of letters in the study, and then rushed to the east chamber to see Zhou Xuexi, and at this time, Zhou Xuexi had been waiting for him for almost five minutes.

"Speaker Lai. This letter is written by Mr. Vice President himself, and I am also invited to see Speaker Lai

Zhou Xuexi saw Li Yuanhong, but he didn't beat around the bush, took out a handwritten letter from Vice President Zhang Sai, and handed it to Li Yuanhong.

Li Yuanhong was quite surprised, Zhou Xuexi and Zhang Xiao got close, which he knew, but Zhou Xuexi had never been a postman for Zhang Han before, so speaking of which, this letter is probably very important

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After receiving the letter, Li Yuanhong hurriedly glanced at it, raised his eyebrows, and looked embarrassed.

In this letter, Vice President Zhang interceded on behalf of a fellow Jiangsu countryman and asked Li Yuanhong to mediate and try his best to follow the path of the president and reduce the punishment of the fellow Jiangsu.

The matter was started last year by the "National Land Property Investigation Case." According to the bill put forward by some members of the National Assembly last year, starting from the beginning of last year, a nationwide survey of land ownership began in South and Central China and spread rapidly to the whole country; according to the relevant decrees promulgated by the central government, all citizens have the obligation to cooperate with the central government in carrying out this national land ownership survey, and in the course of the investigation, it is strictly forbidden to engage in deception and collusion between officials and businessmen.

Since ancient times. China is an agrarian society, and as the main tool for wealth creation, land is directly related to the structure of the whole society, as well as the interests of the ruling group. All dynasties and dynasties have also attached great importance to the issue of annexation of this territory, which is not only out of the need to maintain rule, but also out of the need for central fiscal revenue. The more fierce the land annexation, the more the big landlords who own the land have to conceal the amount of land they own, and in ancient times, the big landlords are often also the princes who hold the positions of the imperial court, the combination of power and wealth, this is a strong fortress, it will corrode the foundation of any dynasty from the inside, and the cause of the decline of the dynasty is often the problem of the reduction of the field endowment, in the agricultural society, the land endowment is always the bulk of the financial revenue, in order to maintain the rule of the dynasty, Most dynasties in history have intervened in the issue of land tenure to varying degrees, but never before has such a rigorous survey of land tenure been conducted as it is now.

The problem is not only the resoluteness of the National Assembly and the central government, but more importantly, the progress of technology, and the central government has sent personnel to investigate the land holdings in the provinces, relying not only on local officials and rural grassroots organizations, but also on the use of aviation forces to conduct aerial photography through aircraft. Although it is not very accurate, it is possible to roughly estimate the total area of agricultural land in a certain place, and then check it with the number reported by the local government according to this total area, so that if the local officials want to deceive the central government, it is tantamount to asking for their own suffering, and the investigation has been carried out for a year, and there have been hundreds of local officials who have been dismissed because of this incident, and many of them have been severely punished by the law. But it is difficult to guarantee that a few people will not come to their senses.

Obviously, Zhang Xiao's fellow villager is one of the people who are obsessed, and the Jiangsu businessman not only colluded with the officials to tamper with the land deed, but also dispersed the real estate under his name and transferred it to his relatives and clansmen in name, so that he could not only evade tens of thousands of yuan of land every year, but also played an exemplary role, and many local large landowners have followed the same example, so that the whole property is divided into small pieces of real estate, in order to evade the land tax, seriously damaging the local and central financial revenue.

In fact, this situation is not new, as early as a few years ago, since the promulgation and implementation of the "Small Farmland Exemption Law", the landlord divides the land and evades the land has been very common, the center is not unaware, and has also cracked down on this tax evasion, but considering the domestic situation, the center's punishment means are still relatively mild. At most, fines have been imposed, but now, with the strengthening of the central government's control over the localities, the central government will no longer tolerate and accommodate such "criminal acts"; once the situation is ascertained, criminal punishment will be adopted for those cases of a bad nature, and in addition to fines, they must also be imprisoned; from last year to now, hundreds of large landlords have been imprisoned because of this land possession investigation case.

The present is no more than the past. Now immigrants from the three eastern provinces are heating up. Landlords raise land rents, and tenants cannot afford them. It's a big deal to get your heart and go to Kanto. In this way, the landlord's land may face abandonment, but it is impossible for this land endowment to be expropriated because the land is abandoned, which leads to two results. One result is good, many small and medium-sized landowners have begun to imitate American farms, buy modern agricultural machinery, hire agricultural workers, and carry out modern agricultural production, and the center supports this kind of landowners who are actively transforming. It can even provide them with loans for the purchase of agricultural machinery. But not all landlords are willing to do this, as the bad result of land abandonment, some landlords choose to be opportunistic, and the division of the name of the land is one of the main choices, these fields are divided, does not mean that there is no land rent, relying on the more stubborn clan ruling order, the landlords can still collect land rent from the hands of the "landlord", although this method is not foolproof, in recent years, the lawsuit about the "occupation of the land property in the clan" has been continuous, many landlords have indeed lost their wives and soldiers, But for the numb tenants, as long as the rent can be lowered, they don't mind playing cover for the landlords. To be a nominal "landlord", although with the help of the hoe society, more and more tenants began to choose to be the real owners of the land, but this is not enough, it is necessary to let the landlords understand who is the maker of the rules of the game.

For those landlords who choose to cut corners, the center used to be fined, but now, if the case is serious. It is not possible to get away with punishment by paying a few bucks, and some stubborn landlords must go to jail to serve with pride.

Whether you go to jail or not, there is a "red line." "If the land is less than 1,000 acres, the crime is "tax evasion." A fine of five yuan per mu is fined, and if the amount of land reaches more than 1,000 mu, then it is "contempt of the law." "In addition to fines, you also have to go to jail, if you conceal the amount of land more than 10,000 acres, then this bowl of prison rice will have to be eaten for at least five years, and Vice President Zhang's Jiangsu fellow villagers have a total of more than 20,000 acres of land, obviously, once this case is closed, the prison will have to prepare an extra rice bowl for the "tax evasion landlord", and, according to the law, this bowl of prison rice of the landlord will have to be held for ten years.

But after all, that person is a fellow villager of Vice President Zhang Xiao, and he is also a distant relative, Vice President Zhang can't see death without help, and he doesn't want to be "a fellow villager." Pointing at the spine and scolding, so. He decided to ask Li Yuanhong to mediate. I want to make a deal with the president and ask the fellow villager to donate half of the land under his name and hand it over to the local government for disposal. In exchange, the president said hello to the Ministry of Justice, and asked the Ministry of Justice to raise his noble hand and let the businessman go is a gesture for the president, and the Ministry of Justice is the thug in front of the president.

But what about Li Yuanhongken's refusal to help? Vice President Zhang has no bottom in his heart at all, because he also understands that a "killing chicken is a monkey." The central government and the president have made up their minds in this national survey of agricultural properties. This is not only to maintain the authority of the central government, but also to further win over the local government, once the investigation is completed, the central government will transfer all land revenue to the "local tax." In other words, in the future, this field will be at the disposal of the local government, so that even if the center is willing to give up this piece of fat, the local government may not be willing to give up this piece of fat.

In order to impress Speaker Le, Vice President Zhang swore in this letter that once the matter was done. He could immediately mobilize the Jiangsu consortium to inject capital into the coal mine co-founded by Speaker Li and Mr. Hannagan, and turn it into the leading coal company in North China. And, if the funds are abundant, the Jiangsu consortium is also interested in cooperating with Speaker Lai's business friends to set up a large steel plant.

It must be admitted. This condition is very tempting, and Li Yuanhong even thought about it for a while, but after careful consideration. He still refused Zhang Sai's commission.

"Please tell Vice President Zhang that as the speaker of the National Assembly, it is inconvenient for me to do judicial affairs, and if Vice President Zhang really can't bear to see my fellow villagers suffering from stubbornness, then Vice President Zhang can go directly to the president to discuss this matter.

It is this land issue that the President is most concerned about right now, and we at the United Front are now focusing on it. If everybody, like the profiteers and landlords, is evading the land endowments, then where will the state revenue come from? Although the industrial exhibition is now over, the central government's annual subsidies to the industry are also a large amount. ”

Li Yuanhong's words are high-sounding, but his true thoughts are only understood by himself. As a high-level figure of the United Front, Li Yuanhong has followed Zhao Bei from the beginning to the present, and he can more or less grasp some traces of Zhao Bei's thoughts, and he knows that Zhao Bei has been mentioning the slogan "The tiller has his land" a long time ago, although many people will take this as such. The slogan is similar to the "equal land rights" of the League, but Li Yuanhong does not see it that way, through the analysis of various signs, he believes that sooner or later Zhao Bei will turn "the cultivator has his land" from an empty slogan into a fierce revolutionary action, so Li Yuanhong is very clever to invest his money in industrial construction, not to buy land, and he has repeatedly warned his relatives to let them also invest the excess money in industrial construction, instead of being a landlord.

This "national land property investigation case" confirmed Li Yuanhong's speculation. Mr. President is really not a bombastic idealist, he has been waiting patiently for a long time for this land question, he is not in a hurry, he is boiling frogs in warm water to gradually force those merchants and landlords who own a lot of land to a fork in the road, this fork in the road has two roads, one reads "big landowner." This is a dead end, and the other says "industrialist" This is a way to live, depending on how the other party chooses.

Li Yuanhong never thinks this. "National Land Property Investigation Case. It is the only means for the president to solve the land problem, and judging by previous experience, the president must still have a way to go, and as for what, he cannot speculate for the time being. But one thing is clear, and that is that at such times, the more it is about the land. The more he has to get rid of himself, he can't mix with him, and he can't go against the president, which is not conducive to his career exhibition, without his career, who will take the initiative to cooperate with him to start an industry?

In the final analysis, it is still a matter of interests.