When Wang Guorui, in the name of the governor of Taiwan, issued an order on the implementation of the 375 rent reduction and interest reduction in Taiwan, those landlords began to connect one after another, and then prepared to discuss how to deal with this 375 rent reduction. And they could have solved it by misinterpreting the policy, but now Wang Guorui actually sent a propaganda team to publicize the policy in a form that the people like to see and deduce, and the people will not be fooled by them, which is really impossible for them to solve. Originally, they had the right to publicize public opinion and the right to explain policies, but now Wang Guorui actually took the initiative to set up a propaganda team to directly publicize among the people, which completely cut off their channels for confronting the government. Now the people know that this 375 rent and interest reduction is for their own good, and naturally they will not listen to the landlord to exploit it.

"Everyone, this Wang Guorui is really ruthless enough, and he actually wants to give more than 10% of our income to the mud legs at once, this is really unreasonable." Someone scolded.

Because of this 375 rent reduction, they have already lost a lot, because they will at least have to reap more than 10% less profit, and if there is more land, then more than 10% per mu of land will be given to the peasants, which is already a very large amount of grain. So they couldn't accept such a "low" percentage of shares, so they discussed together how to deal with these things.

And when everyone has not yet come up with a solution, someone immediately comes with another piece of bad news.

"Ladies and gentlemen, it's not good, the Taiwan Governor's Office has issued an order again, and in the future, our agricultural taxes in Taiwan will be collected according to the tiered system. Where an individual owns less than 20 acres of land, the agricultural tax shall be charged in accordance with the ratio of 15 taxes to 1. If an individual owns 20 to 50 acres of land, it is charged at the rate of 10 taxes. If an individual owns more than 50 acres of land, it will be charged according to the ratio of five taxes and one tax. Moreover, these taxes are borne by the landowner, and the land rent cannot be increased. ”

"What?"

The landlords were shocked. For the Taiwan Governor-General's Office, this order is simply green, and this tax is really "high" enough! Because he limits the amount of land owned by those individuals, first of all, if you own more land, the higher the proportion of taxes you have to pay. And if the land reaches more than 20 acres, it will be charged according to the proportion of five taxes and one tax, which is 20 percent! Twenty percent, no matter which country it is, is considered a heavy tax.

And Wang Guorui also hopes to pass this policy. to force the landlords to divide the land, so that taxes can be reduced. You must know that Wang Guorui has to let the landowner bear this tax, that is to say, those tenants do not have to bear the tax, and the qiē tax is also borne by the landlord. As for the landlords, they were forced to collect only 37.5 percent of the tax, but if the government collected 20 percent of the tax again, it would mean that only 17.5 percent of the year's harvest remained.

What does it mean if you can only earn 17.5 percent a year? There are many landlords, that is, people who do not participate in labor and directly enjoy the share of grain. And many of them are not alone, they are all dragged with their families. First of all, the children must be fed. And as a big landowner, of course, you must have a few wives and concubines, right? And these wives and concubines must have all kinds of rouge, gouache, jewelry and other expenses. And those landlords certainly can't do everything themselves, they have to hire some servants to work long, but these servants also need money. Moreover, many of these servants serve themselves and their families, but they do not actually participate in production, which is equivalent to taking time off work to serve themselves, so they have to spend their own money to support him.

And with all kinds of extravagant expenditures, the annual land income of 17.5 percent is simply not enough! So on the one hand, the government adopted a tiered tax system for landowners, and on the other hand, they also needed more land to sustain their luxurious life. This is also known as frugality and luxury. It's hard to have luxury and simplicity. They have already enjoyed a better life and are naturally reluctant to lower their standard of living again. In this way, it is also the root of human inferiority. Because of this, they are naturally very disgusted by this stepped retraction.

"Ouyang, we are here to force the landlord to sell the land. You know, the landlords took possession of too much land, and they used to occupy the land to exploit the people, and every time the government collected taxes, they again passed the taxes to the ordinary tenants. They enjoyed so many benefits. However, there are no obligations. And they pass on all the taxes to the people, but the ordinary tenants do not enjoy any benefits, do you think this is fair? If you enjoy power, you have to bear the responsibilities that come with rights. And if you enjoy a rich life, you must also have responsibility. There is no such thing as enjoyment without responsibility in this world. So they own the land, and they have to make more people able to survive. Next, the landlord model has fallen behind, and what we want to achieve next is to establish an industrial and commercial state. And these landlords will be the biggest people who hinder our development of industry and commerce. They are conservative and do not want to forge ahead, and we must gradually strangle the landlord class. Wang Guorui said to Ouyang Xuan, the executive director.

The reason why Wang Guorui wanted to implement this kind of step-by-step taxation was to limit the amount of land owned by these landlords. In ancient times, landlords controlled the land, then pooled the land, and then recruited tenants to farm for themselves. And in this way, they will inevitably form a landlord-centered core. Therefore, in ancient times, those landlords used this method to control the people, and those tenants rented land for a long time, which caused a very strict personal dependence. They were attached to the landlord, and then even for several generations they worked for the landlord of a family, as if they were slaves. In this case, the landlord has too much strength, which is also the reason why the ancient government could not go to the countryside to manage.

If we cannot dismember the control of these landlords over the people, then Taiwan will not be able to implement the new policy. These landlords will be a strict resistance to change in the new era, and they don't want to change at all, so if Wang Guorui wants to reform society, he must solve the landlords. If you want to solve the problem of landlords, that is, you must solve the personal dependence between them and ordinary peasants, and if you want to solve the personal dependence, you must solve the concentration of land. Therefore, Wang Guorui directly started in terms of land concentration, and directly imposed heavy taxes on those large households who owned too much land, so that they could not afford the heavy taxes brought by owning too much land, so that such a qiē was okay.

"Governor Wang, what if those landlords transfer land to their relatives, relatives of the same family? At that time, they can be regarded as dividing the land, but they have not really divided it! Isn't it nice that they're just trying to avoid our taxes? Ouyang Xuan asked.

But Wang Guorui laughed and said: "You think too highly of the cohesion of those families, the reason why a family can be cohesive is because it has interests and can concentrate all its resources." If a family wants to be cohesive, it must concentrate all the power and wealth in the hands of one main line, so that the major collateral lines can gather around the main line of the family and work together. Because those side branches know that if they leave the main line, they will inevitably not be able to survive and enjoy the noble status, and because of this, they will unite around the main line. ”

But once the main lineage divides the land among the branches, it is tantamount to distributing the wealth of the family equally among everyone. In this way, the land owned by both the main vein and the branch vein is very dispersed, and once the wealth is dispersed, do you think the people of the branch will be willing to return the land to them again? Who is not a person with two shoulders and a head, why can they be the main vein? In the past, because of the concentration of land, a certain main vein was very strong. However, once the land is dispersed, it will inevitably result in almost the same amount of land owned by the major branches, and the people of each line have wealth, that is, there is no need to look at the face of the main vein to act. Therefore, it is better to be the head of the chicken than the cow, once you have the capital of your own independent separation, those branches will not hesitate to leave. Therefore, once the land is dispersed, it will inevitably lead to the disintegration of rural families, and then further promote the emergence of yeoman farmers. ”

Of course, Wang Guorui knew that those landlords would give their wealth to their relatives, but in order to reasonably avoid taxes, it was naturally necessary to divide it very finely. At that time, once these lands are divided, the contradictions of various interests will increase. For example, real estate such as land, they only pay attention to whose name is also whom, so the real estate must be registered, if it is not registered, it does not belong to you. Or whoever is registered is also who's own, so once the land is distributed to those branches, and the people of those branches have the ownership of the land, will they still be willing to be controlled by the main line? In the past, I didn't have land, so I had to rely on the main line, but now that I have it, why can't I make my own decisions?

At that time, an extremely fierce tearing war within a family will definitely break out, and at that time, Wang Guorui only needs to let the wind and waves rise and sit firmly in Diaoyutai. At that time, one family after another was divided, so Wang Guorui did not have to fear that those landlords would have the energy to prevent him from carrying out social changes. (To be continued......)