Chapter 94 Population Migration and Agrarian Reform Plans
ps: Thank you Xinghan for the reward, the two more are completed.
On January 10, 1913, all the officials of the Chinese government in Nanjing, except for those who remained in Nanjing, moved to Beijing, and after a few days of tidying up, they basically resumed their normal work.
Qin Yu wanted to carry out the land reform in Huaxia before the Chinese New Year, but what he now had in his mind was the well-known household contract responsibility system in his previous life, and it was obvious that this set of theories was not suitable now, because the times were different, and the problems encountered were also different. In the previous life, when the household responsibility system was implemented, there was no landlord class, and now the landlord's power is still very strong, and besides, the household responsibility system also has an obvious weakness, that is, the land is dispersed, and large-scale mechanized cultivation cannot be carried out.
The nationalization of land must be done well, otherwise it will not be possible to effectively concentrate resources, and it will lead to a waste of land resources, but how to nationalize must be carefully considered. Another problem is that although the population of China is smaller than that of later generations, more than 80 percent of them are peasants, and it is conceivable that if we do not handle it well, there will still be huge sequelae, and if we do it well, we will be able to win the support of the peasants, so land reform is imperative.
On this day, Qin Yu gathered his core personnel to discuss, so he would not talk about these things with those landlord classes, because they would not agree with Qin Yu's ideas, and would even do everything possible to obstruct land reform, so they could only solve it by thunderous means.
Qin Yu stood up and said in a straight voice: "Now that we have unified the whole country, the next step is to manage all provinces in the country, if we want to manage it well, we must get the support of the people, only in this way can our policies be well implemented." How can we win the support of the people, it is very simple, liberate the labor force of the peasants, let them get land to cultivate, then they will support us, after all, the peasants in our country account for the vast majority of the total population, so land reform is imperative.
Land reform will inevitably offend the interests of many people, and these people are now very powerful, because they control the vast majority of the peasants, they have restrained the peasants' productive forces, they do not allow the peasants to enter the factories, they do not let the peasants own the land, they have affected the normal development of the country, and this will delay the rise of our country.
Looking at the reforms and changes in the countries of Western Europe, they have all liberated the productive forces of the peasants and turned the peasants into workers, although there is a lot of exploitation and oppression in them, it has to be said that they have created powerful countries one by one. At present, our task is to properly handle the contradiction between the peasants and the land, to liberate the productive forces but not to allow the peasants and workers to be severely exploited and oppressed. ”
Chen Fu said with some concern: "How to liberate the productive forces of the peasants? Those people should not give up their land, after all, it is the capital that they are lazy to survive, and will the land be too scattered and difficult to manage when it comes to the hands of the peasants? ”
"To carry out land reform, it is necessary to nationalize land, and nationalization means that the ownership of land is vested in the state, and the people only have the right to use and operate, and the state will give them a period of use, and if the policy can be continued. As for the use of the first phase, it is up to everyone to discuss, and how to deal with the relationship between the peasants and the large landowners should also be discussed.
I am the best at such things as sending the police or even the army to suppress people who dare to do not know each other, and I am the best at such things, and whoever dares to obstruct land reform is obstructing the progress of the country, and this is absolutely not allowed.
All that remains is the question of relocating people to new territories such as Nanhai Province, where a large number of indigenous people have moved away from the fertile land, as well as the retreat of the British, a large amount of land has been left unused, and it is estimated that it can accommodate more than 10 million people, which will play a great role in easing our population pressure and various contradictions. People from the Central Plains and the Loess Plateau will be the first to move there, and the relocation of people from these two regions will be a good way to alleviate local pressures, as well as to allow some people to relocate from the environmentally damaging areas.
Then it's time to discuss, you can all write your ideas on the paper on the desktop, and then someone will unify your opinions and let you choose the most suitable solution. Qin Yu looked at the few people present, some were from his Qin family, and some were from the landlord's family, and many people probably wouldn't agree with their ideas.
After hearing this, the faces of some of the people present changed on the spot, but they calmed down suddenly, because they found that the biggest landlord in the country is the Qin family, and no one can compare to the Qin family's land, and Qin Yu should not give up his land.
"Hmph, I know what you're thinking, no one can stop my decision to nationalize the land, nationalization is just to take back ownership, you can continue to use the land, but I will carry out a progressive taxation method, the more land you have, the more taxes you have to pay. The land policy will be the same as what the East China government did at the beginning, but it is a little different, after all, this time it is nationwide, and some provinces do not have a lot of arable land, and if those people do not hand it over, the distribution of land will not be enough at all, so this time I hope that those people can take out some land. Moreover, the Qin and Huaxing firms were not enough to provide the provinces nationwide, so they had to step up their trade with the United States and other countries, and only their machines could provide so many opportunities. ”
One person asked, "Chairman, how to distribute the land in Nanhai and other provinces, where the land is very fertile, how should the displaced population be settled?" ”
Qin Yu thought for a while and said: "There are still some facilities left by the British, and after they arrive there, they will be simply resettled, and the medical personnel must be sufficient, after all, the people are not familiar with the environment there, and it is easy to have all kinds of discomfort." As for how to distribute it, then it is necessary to buy it, one tael of silver per acre, and the upper limit of one person is 100 mu, and the peasants can pay it on credit, and as for those landlords, it is limited to 500 mu per person, but their price should rise to five taels of silver per mu and they cannot be owed on credit. In order to prevent the possibility of landlords manipulating peasants to buy land, all peasants who have acquired land are not allowed to buy or sell land for 30 years, and after 30 years, large-scale land sales must be approved by the government, and those who already own a large amount of land in the country will not be allowed to buy land there. ”
Qin San said: "Chairman, how do you deal with the contradictions between those indigenous people and the peasants who have migrated there, and do you want to classify those people and let them know their status?" ”
"No, as a big country, we have to accommodate new nations and peoples, so that we can better deal with the national problems in the country, and we must give them the same identity, only in this way can they truly integrate into us. At the beginning, we were biased towards the people in our interior, but if they did not cooperate and harmed the people who relocated there, we would not blame our ruthless justice, just like the westward expansion of the United States was built on the corpses of the Indians, so the process will end in these bloodsheds. Qin Yu shook his head and said.
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After several days of discussion, the preliminary conclusions were reached, but the rationality still needs to be sorted out, and the process will take several days.
On January 20, the Chinese government promulgated the "Interim Measures of the Central Committee on Land Reform" and the policy of relocation in the southwest, the "Interim Measures of the Central Government on Land Reform" stipulated: all land will be uniformly measured and returned to the state, and those large landowners who hand over the land will be partially compensated, and if they do not pay, they will have to pay a huge amount of money to redeem these land, and they will only have the right to use and operate for 70 years. As long as the peasants hand over half of their grain every year for five consecutive years, they will receive the right to use and manage 10 mu of land per person for 70 years. Seventy years is the first phase of this policy, and if it succeeds, it will continue, but if the land is not cultivated for more than three years and for no other reason, it will be repossessed, and the more land there is, the more taxes will be paid, and the vacated land will be managed by the state to establish centralized and large-scale farms.
The southwest relocation policy is due to the fact that there is a large amount of land vacancy in Minghan City, Nanhai Province and Beiheng Province, and in order to alleviate the problem of land shortage in China, the first batch of three million people will be relocated there to live, where the land is one acre and one tael of silver, and the upper limit of one hundred mu per person can be owed; Those who already own a large amount of land in China are five taels of silver per acre, with a maximum of one hundred mu per person, and cannot be owed on credit. Anyone who wants to relocate there will have to apply to the local government, and all those who have been granted land will not be allowed to buy or sell land for 30 years, except for the government, and after 30 years, if there is more than 100 acres of land, the government must agree to buy and sell it. People who have been relocated to the three places must not discriminate against the local people, must not make unwarranted personal attacks, must get along with each other, and obey the government's arrangements when they arrive there, otherwise they will be repatriated.
Qin Yu knows that these policies still need to be optimized, and the grassroots stage will not be perfect, if there are any problems, they will be corrected in the future, and practice can bring true knowledge.
There are both support and opposition to these two policies introduced by the government, and the landlord class is the most opposed, because they feel that this is unfair, why do the peasants have to hand over the land when they can get the land, and if they don't pay it, they have to pay a huge amount of money, and the problem of relocation is also biased in favor of the peasants, which makes them very dissatisfied with the government.
As for the peasants, they were all happy when they learned this, they could finally own the land, although they did not have ownership, but they could also use and operate, and they no longer had to be oppressed and exploited by the landlords, of course they were happy, and there were even a large number of peasants at home who made an immortal tablet for Qin Yu.