Time spanned 1903, leaving less and less time for Lüliang, and there were still two years to go before the Russo-Japanese War, which was the first excellent opportunity in Lüliang's planning, and the first great test. Before that, a lot of work needs to be prepared, military preparations, a relatively stable domestic situation, logistical preparations, ship construction, etc., which are related to the first step of re-emergence.

According to the plan, before the Russo-Japanese War, the revolutionary government was to expand the scope of liberation to the entire south of the Yangtze River. However, military action was easy, and civilian action after liberation tested the Provisional Government's ability even more.

Fujian Gutian Meng's tulou, thousands of people in the family are gathered here, the youngest son of the head of the family Meng Guangyuan is married, and the lights are colorful in the tulou, and it is very lively. Meng Guangyuan sat on the Taishi chair and watched the busy scene with a smile, and occasionally greeted the clansmen passing by.

Such a scene has been passed down for thousands of years in the clan and has never changed, and the clan patriarch is also the owner of the clan land, and his people are all tenants of the clan chief. The land in Gutian is fertile, and there is no shortage of food and clothing in the family, but since the chaotic party entered Fujian, things have become complicated.

Meng Guangyuan thought of what had happened recently, and his excellent mood became bad. The Gutian County Government issued an announcement that the policy of rent reduction and interest reduction will be implemented within its jurisdiction, and only families who have implemented government decrees can obtain high-yield rice seeds. That's a baby, one acre of land can produce several times more rice! Gutian has several families joined the ranks of rent reduction and interest reduction, all of them are smart people, a simple calculation will find that after planting high-yield rice, even if the rent is low, the income can increase several times, who doesn't do such a business? It can also unite the hearts of the clansmen and tenants.

However, there are a group of people who are rigid in their thinking and unwilling to change, believing that reducing rent and interest rates is a violation of the ancestral system and a great disrespect to tradition. Absolutely not! Meng Guangyuan was one of them, and he joined forces with several authoritative elders in his family to resist the government's decrees, despite the opposition of many of his clansmen.

Since ancient times, the people did not fight with officials, not to mention the strong army of the rebellious party, Meng Guangyuan was also worried. The news from the county town that the government is ready to open a knife to some big families who resolutely resist the decree, isn't it going to be tough? Thinking of this, Meng Guangyuan's heart became firm again, when will it be the turn of the imperial court to have the final say in places outside Gutian County? This tulou is tall and sturdy, there is countless grain in the tulou, and there is a well, not worried about the lack of water, when the Qing army entered the customs, we also had to return in front of our Fujian tulou, I don't believe that the chaotic party can break my tulou!

"Master, there are hundreds of people outside, all wearing what kind of bird Hanfu, eighty percent are from the government, we closed the door and didn't let them in."

The report of the subordinate made Meng Guangyuan sit up suddenly, damn, treat the Meng family as a bird! He shook the braid of the slave on the back of his head and shouted: "The young and strong people in the clan are all assembled, and the marriage is suspended!" Brother Meng, you go and take someone out of our firearms, and then go upstairs! ”

The clansmen responded in unison, and Tulouzi suddenly entered military preparations in an orderly manner. The tulou itself was built to prevent bandit attacks, and the clansmen were experienced in dealing with such emergencies and did not panic. After a while, more than 300 clansmen went up to the outer circle of the tulou, and some people held muskets and distributed them one by one.

Meng Guangyuan looked out at the tulou, it was indeed a person from the government, and the person in front of him was dressed in Han clothes as a new youth, looking at himself with his head held high. Behind are two jeeps, four ten-wheeled trucks, damn it, the people in the government are really rich, these ten-wheeled cards have inquired about themselves, they are expensive to death, but tractors, walk-behind tractors, pumps, seeders and other new things are cheaper, I heard that they are used for cultivating rice. Who used that thing, I have been growing rice like this for thousands of years, and I haven't seen many starvations to death!

What is frightening is that those trucks and jeeps are surrounded by soldiers with rifles on their backs, lined up in a neat and solemn line, and you can tell at a glance that the comers are not good. However, if you want to break through our tulou, don't think about it without artillery!

"Listen, the people of the Meng family, we are the staff of the Land Reform Bureau and the Taxation Bureau of the Gutian County Government, we are here to discuss something this time, please open the door!"

The people below held a strange-looking object in their hands and shouted, and the sound was deafening. It's fucking weird, how can there be so many strange things in this new court?

"Leave him alone, let them shout, as long as they don't come to attack the city, we don't pay attention to them!" Meng Guangyuan said to his subordinates, and with a wave of his hand, a subordinate handed a large cigarette pouch.

"Dad, what are you waiting for? I led people to destroy them all, and the dog's eyes looked at the things that were low, and they all killed them for the people of the court to see! "It was Meng Guangyuan's youngest son who spoke, everyone called him Brother Meng, Meng Guangyuan's only son, and he was very domineering. Today's event is his marriage, and he is holding back the fire.

"Don't be noisy! Wait, I'll let you shoot and shoot again! ”

Seeing that the people of the Meng family did not move, they decided to adopt the second plan after discussing it for a while. The Gutian County Government had expected this situation before, but the armed attack was not in the plan, so it was better not to worsen the situation and intensify the contradictions, so the solution would be too bloody!

"The tenants of the Meng family, the government's rent and interest reduction policy is beneficial to both landlords and tenants, and the tenants' rents are reduced to at least 30 percent, you think about it, which government has been willing to think about the tenants for thousands of years, 30 percent, you will have surplus grain, surplus money, building a house, marrying a daughter-in-law, and having a baby, it is no longer difficult. But your patriarchs do not want to see you tenants raise their incomes and statuses, and they do not want to see themselves no longer riding on your heads! Only pay 30% of the rent, and the government will also distribute high-yield rice seeds, have you heard? High-yielding rice seeds! Gutian has been planted by many families, the yield is several times higher, and the scientific farming guided by the government, you can buy agricultural machinery after government subsidies, and when people plant one acre of land, you can plant three acres with agricultural machinery! Good days are just around the corner, are you willing to continue to follow your patriarch and continue to live a bitter life of hunger and hunger? ”

The more people in the government talked, the more ugly Meng Guangyuan's face became, and he was not afraid of sowing discord, because the authority formed by tradition was not so easy to break. The problem is that what the people below say is the truth, and the advantages and disadvantages are clear, so if you continue to say this, the gods will also be tempted! He couldn't let them talk any longer, and he could feel it out of the corner of his eye that the tenants in the family had unconsciously put down their muskets, and all they lacked was a leader and a little bit of courage.

"Little Brother Meng, knock out that big horn for me! It's noisy, and the neighbors still have to sleep! "Brother Xiao Meng has liked hunting since he was a child, and he has practiced a good marksmanship, and he was excited when he heard his father's words, so he raised his gun and prepared to shoot.

"Bang!" A bullet whistled in, knocking the musket in Xiao Meng's hand away, and the snipers outside the building were already ready, and when they encountered resistance, they resolutely suppressed it! Hitting the musket in Brother Meng's hand can only be said to be lucky.

The nervous mood suddenly permeated, Meng Guangyuan scolded, and rushed over to see if his youngest son was injured, and the frightened little Meng Ge was like a stupid roe deer, squatting on the ground in a daze. Meng Guangyuan felt sorry for his son, and shouted angrily and shot, but he couldn't imagine that no one listened!

"Lao Tzu doesn't want to follow Meng Guangyuan to death, why not have a good life? When Brother Xiao Meng got married, each of our tenants had to get a share, which was more than half a year's rent! Lao Tzu's life can't go on, brothers, let's not listen to Meng Guangyuan's blind shouting, listen to the government's home planting fairy rice seeds! A man in tattered clothes on the tulou said loudly, and immediately won the support of many people, that is, why did he Meng Guangyuan eat and drink spicy food, all of them were from the Meng family, why did he block us from living a good life?

In this way, the situation became delicate, most of the armed young men faintly pointed their guns in the direction of Meng Guangyuan, and there were more than a dozen cronies with guns around him, nervously pointing their muskets around. Meng Guangyuan was furious, but he also knew that he couldn't be hasty, otherwise the Meng family's tulou would be bloody, and his own and his son's lives would not be saved!

"Squeak!" At this time, someone opened the door, and the soldiers and government workers outside the building rushed in, Meng Guangyuan had no power to return to heaven, he could only accept the government's decree, he knew that from now on, the government would become the biggest authority and the backing of the tenants, and the old days were gone!