After solving the biggest hidden danger, Li Hui can finally breathe a sigh of relief, and it is also good to be interrupted like this, Li Hui can calm down and think carefully, the impression of the blind date is good, but marriage is not the same as love, it is to live together, or need more understanding. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info It happened that Liu Buyun and Yan Fu both attended the meeting, and after the meeting, Li Hui left the two and frankly expressed his attitude.

"Let Lan Xin be your secretary for a while to get to know each other better?" , Liu Buyun knew that Li Hui's proposal was reasonable, but he still frowned slightly.

Li Hui knew what Liu Buyun was worried about, and immediately explained, "At most, after half a year, I will give the Liu family a clear answer, although Sister Lan is a little older, she can still afford to wait for this time, right?" ”

"This ......", Liu Buyun couldn't refuse, but although half a year is not a long time, it is enough to make the purpose of this marriage fail, you must know that the nationwide land reform will soon be launched, of which Fujian except for a few remote mountainous areas, land distribution will be completed before spring sowing.

Yan Fu wanted to be more open, he patted Liu Buyun's shoulder and comforted, "Zixiang, don't get entangled, we don't know Dongyang's personality, even if he marries Lan Xin now, he will not abolish his public because of personal gain." What's more, the times are different, industry is the big profit, why bother to stare at the land? ”

"I don't know about these, but the uncle in the clan has a lot of opinions......", although Liu Buyun has received a new education, but as a Fujianese, his clan concept is still relatively heavy, and in the face of those elders in the clan, he will inevitably be angry like a mouse in the bellows.

Because Li Hui was beside him, Yan Fu couldn't say anything, but he still saw the light of day in just a few words, showing his extraordinary insight, "The elders among the landlords are the elders, and the elders among the poor peasants and tenant farmers are not the elders?" And compared to the dignity of status, how can those local tyrants compare with you Liu Zixiang? ”

Liu Buyun's eyes suddenly lit up, as long as he could mobilize those elders who were poor peasants and tenant farmers to stand firmly on his side, those landlords and gentry who opposed land reform would not be able to use their seniority to suppress him, even if Liu Buyun still couldn't get rid of the clan concept, after all, the status was there, and it was the biggest backer in the clan now.

To be honest, the sudden interruption of the blind date is very annoying, but with Li Hui's identity, such a thing is easy to encounter, and Liu Lanxin After thinking about it repeatedly, she also realized that it was indeed difficult for her to find a more suitable object, and Li Hui did not use power to press, but asked for her own opinion, which also increased her favorability, so after just symbolically reserved for a while, Liu Lanxin agreed with a red face......

The next half a year was given to the two to deepen their understanding, but Li Hui could only do it by the way, and could not put too much energy into it, after all, the work pressure in 1896 was even greater than the year before the seizure of the world, because a series of important measures that would determine the ******** would be implemented in this year. And the most important of these is, of course, land reform......

In fact, long before Li Hui rebelled, he had already let the Flying Tiger Army carry out land reform in the base area, and the latter was able to gain a firm foothold in the border area of the three counties, which was inseparable from the land reform to win the support of the peasants, but the land reform also produced some negative effects that Li Hui did not expect. For example, it is obviously much more difficult to recruit workers in areas that have undergone land reform than in areas that have not been reformed, and once the land is divided, not many people are willing to become workers, especially miners who are not safe enough......

As a result, Li Hui decisively suspended the division of land until the number of workers in the Denglai area exceeded 500,000, and the criteria for determining landlords were raised to the level of a household occupying more than 2 hectares (30 acres) due to previous experience and lessons.

For a family of five, as long as the new agricultural tools vigorously promoted by the government are used (there is so much arable land in Shandong, it can almost be regarded as a small landlord, and it must have its own cattle and horses, and also have enough financial resources to buy farm tools). So much arable land can be planted, and the yield per mu can be maintained at a very high level, and there will be no significant decline like extensive farming, which is almost the best choice for both land productivity and labor productivity at the level of productivity at the end of the nineteenth century.

After the landlord standard was raised, there was not so much land to divide, but this was the second purpose of Li Hui's doing, the land allocated was not enough, and the new government's agricultural tax was really not low (generally 30%), unless there was no land at all, the peasants' lives would not improve much, and those yeoman farmers (excluding small landlords, because they saved the cost of hired labor, at least their income would not decline). Instead, the income has declined.

In this way, peasants are more likely to abandon their farmland to work as workers in the cities, or to emigrate to the frontiers in response to the state's call.

The peasants are not fools, and it is obviously difficult for them to win much support for such a land reform, which is better than that of the former Qing Dynasty, but it is not worth their desperate defense of this new regime. But this does not matter, Li Hui has hundreds of thousands of biochemical troops as the basic plate, the opponent is much weaker, and the military and organizational pressure is not great, which is very different from the situation of a certain party in later generations, and his land reform is mainly to pave the way for agricultural collectivization, and agricultural collectivization is an inevitable requirement for China to quickly complete the basic farmland and water conservancy construction.

Since the Qin and Han dynasties, the organizational power of the successive dynasties has continued to decline, although with the progress of agricultural science such as improved seeds, fertilizers, and farm tools, China's grain yield per mu has continued to grow slowly in the past two thousand years, but the developed water conservancy irrigation system in the Qin and Han dynasties soon left only Dujiangyan, a single seedling, and after two barbarian invasions, the agricultural production of the Qing Dynasty has completely retreated to the primitive state of almost completely relying on the sky for food. and the complexity of the terrain and climate, the manpower, financial and material resources required are beyond imagination.

According to professional estimates, if the government invests in the water, not counting the large-scale water conservancy projects, the construction of a basic farmland water conservancy system alone will require an investment of several hundred, or even hundreds of billions of Chinese yuan, and even if the new regime's tax collection efficiency far exceeds that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, this is absolutely unbearable. Therefore, Li Hui could only learn from the advanced experience of later generations and organize the peasants to complete this great project by themselves through agricultural collectivization, so that the state treasury only needed to contribute a maximum of several hundred million yuan, and it would only take three to five years to initially build it, and the planned economic system had fully demonstrated its superiority in this matter. (To be continued.) )