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In the autumn rain, the guards outside the governor's palace stood with guns, although the rain dripped down the brim of their hats from time to time on the faces of the guards, but the god-like face did not change the slightest expression. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info When an officer passed through the open gate, the guard only glanced at it and stood still.

This former Shengjing General's Mansion has now been renamed the Governor's Palace, in the future planning, the Northeast Governor's Mansion should be located in Dalian, but because Dalian City is still in the planning and construction, the current Governor's Mansion is located in Mukden, and this Governor's Yamen is the heart of the three northeastern provinces. After all, when the three eastern provinces were established as provinces, the three northeastern provinces were different from the mainland, and although the three northeastern provinces had been established as provinces, they did not have governors, but only civil governors, and the governors of the three provinces and the civil affairs chiefs were de facto "subordinate and subordinate relations".

In the construction of the powers of the governors of the three northeastern provinces, from the very beginning, Tang Haoran, as the designer, overrode his power over other governors in the country, and in the governor's powers he designed, except for major diplomatic matters that must be reported to the imperial court after his consent and handed over to the prime minister's yamen and the parliamentary council for "consultation and cooperation", the finances, military power, and all internal governance of the three provinces and the DPRK are all under the responsibility of the governors of the three eastern provinces, so that the governors' principles and policies will never be involved. And that's why. The Governor's Mansion was only established in Dalian. This is due to the need that "the governor will not be stationed in a single province, but will inspect all localities at any time, provide guidance by category, and make unified arrangements."

Of course, now trapped by the reality that Dalian has not been built and the railway has not been opened, the governor's palace of the three eastern provinces is still located in Mukden.

However, such a system design elevated the status of the governors of the three eastern provinces and expanded the power of the governors. To be precise, the powers and responsibilities of the governors of the three eastern provinces are more similar to those of the colonial governors in the west, just like the institutions under the governor's palace, such as the Ministry of General Affairs, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Police, etc., to a certain extent, the governor's office is almost equivalent to the cabinet of the same country.

It is precisely because of the fact that many organs are gathered in the Governor's Palace, so that there are always many civilian officials in and out of the Governor's Palace every day, and the gathering of thousands of officials here only makes the Governor's Palace extremely crowded, and some departments even have to be crowded into one office, and this is the case with the Bureau of Breeding and Production of the Ministry of Agriculture and Industry.

Compared to the industrial and commercial bureau, which is much cared for. To some extent, the Bureau was neglected, intentionally or unintentionally, to the point that more than 30 officials of the Bureau were crammed into only three offices. Even Keiichi Garten, who is the head of the Agricultural Affairs Section, can only be crammed into an open office with his colleagues, without any space for himself.

As one of the few Japanese officials in the Governor's Palace, Garten has always had the reputation of "dedication", and during the period of presiding over the reclamation affairs, he was the same as the reclamation laborers, and it was the month of participating in the reclamation that made him understand the reclamation better than others and its significance to the Northeast.

“…… Nominally, there are 7 million people in Northeast China, but in fact, according to current statistics, the population of the three northeastern provinces does not exceed 6 million, the population of Fengtian should be between 4 million and 4.5 million, and the population of Heilongjiang and Jilin should be about 1.5 million...... Tsk......"

In the sigh, Jia Tengjing raised his voice slightly, looked at Cheng Shiji in front of him and said.

"In this way, it would be strange if the people of Lu Guo did not have ambitions!"

Although Kateng Jingyi speaks Nanjing Mandarin more fluently than Cheng Shiji, he still has Japanese habits in his speech, such as the name of Russia.

"Therefore, immigration is the only choice at present, and the ministry will advocate that immigrants resist the invasion of Tsarist Russia, and they can also rely on the reclamation to increase their income!"

In the past, the side advocating comprehensive reclamation was based on the benefits of the people's reclamation, and in their view, large-scale free reclamation could not only bring huge land endowments to the government, but also tens of millions of "land registration fees", which was exactly what the "debt-ridden" governor's palace needed.

"The ministry is too short-sighted!"

Cheng Shiji was not surprised when a contemptuous word came out of Garten's mouth, these Japanese officials have always been like this, on the one hand, they are obedient to authority, and they can always complete the work assigned by the ministry in a timely manner, but on the other hand, they always like to challenge authority, such as the ridicule of the ministry now.

"Garten-kun, pay attention to the ears on the wall!"

Cheng Shiji reminded him appropriately, and at the same time glanced left and right, at this time, it was quite quiet in the garden of the Governor's Palace.

"Even in front of Minister Xu, I will say the same!"

Garten looked at Cheng Shiji unceremoniously and said.

"Look at Minister Xu, what are they doing? Each migrant in the customs only needs to pay a registration fee of 10 yuan, and can obtain 60 acres of land in the three provinces, and after five years of continuous cultivation, he will become the legal owner of the land. Hmph, sure enough, he is worthy of being a student in the United States, and he copied Lincoln's "Homestead Law" in its entirety. ”

After a sneer, Garten Keiichi continued to mock.

"They completely ignored the "Homestead Law" and moved to the Northeast because they were not adapted, 60 acres of cultivated land, five years of tax exemption, except for the 10 yuan bill, what did the government get? With its plan to immigrate 2 million yuan, the income is only 20 million yuan, the governor's palace is not the presidential palace of the United States, there is no abundant finance, what to talk about rich countries and strong soldiers! ”

Perhaps it was because of the pain of Japan's demise that the Japanese such as Kateng Keichi had a more direct understanding of the "rich country and strong army"; in their view, the interests of the people could and should be sacrificed on the road of pursuing "a rich country and a strong army", and naturally they were not eye-catching for this kind of "wasting wealth" and imitating the "homestead law."

"Do you have any good ideas? The promulgation and implementation of the "Homestead Law" of the three northeastern provinces can attract immigrants to the greatest extent, Minister Xu, didn't they make calculations? They believe that after promulgating this method and informing the whole country, it will attract no less than 2 million households in the next five years, and it is very likely that it will reach 4 million households within 10 years, and that the government shortage in the northeast will be completely ......."

In his opinion, this is the most feasible way, after all, there are now overcrowding in various parts of the Guannai, drought, floods and insect disasters emerge one after another, and every year there are hundreds of thousands of people in Shandong, Hebei and other places to make a living, and now the only thing the Governor's Office needs to do is to pass a decree to give these trespassers protection, and then attract more people in the Guannai to immigrate to the Northeast by law.

"But what about taxes? And how to manage immigration after free reclamation? How is land taxed? How can these problems be solved? ”

After this rhetorical question, Garten continued.

"The Northeast does need a population now, but what the Northeast needs is settlers who can be taxed and conscripted under the government's management, not displaced people scattered all over the country, and the government has no control over them, and the displaced people may reclaim the land, but the displaced people will not pay taxes, and don't forget, if it weren't for the fact that two-thirds of the arable land in the Northeast is beyond the control of the government, why would the land survey be so urgent? What is the significance of a land survey? ”

Cheng Shiji couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and when he didn't know how to answer, he listened to Gaten say.

"Therefore, compared to this kind of free reclamation, I support the unified reclamation method of adults, but now the agricultural reclamation group has only completed the first half, and the second half needs to be further improved!"

The perfection in Garten's mouth is undoubtedly to add some of his own opinions to the current consensus reached in the Governor's Palace, and to the immigration plan with "agricultural immigrants" as the main content, for which he even specially compiled a resettlement plan.

"I believe that once my proposal is submitted to the Governor, it will be approved by the Governor, and if nothing else, they will not oppose it, including Minister Xu."

"Against?"

was stunned for a moment, and then Cheng Shiji immediately retorted.

"No one has ever objected to the introduction of "agricultural immigrants" in the Tohoku in the past, and the reason why there is a disagreement in the prefecture is not so much a disagreement on the issue of immigration, but a disagreement on the land issue, and the ministry and many staff members agree with the free reclamation proposed by the ministry, while the Governor is against free reclamation, and the reason why the Governor opposes it is because of the ......."

Cheng Shiji's voice paused slightly, sometimes some things are well-known, for example, the reason why adults oppose free reclamation, a very important reason is that behind the disorder, the rich are fully involved in reclamation, so that a large amount of wasteland is privatized, after all, free reclamation is based on the premise of "who reclaims, who owns", under this premise, the rich and even some officials can establish reclamation companies, introduce laborers, use fire plows and other methods of large-scale reclamation, so that a large number of government-owned land becomes private.

The Ministry's attitude towards the reclamation companies is also at odds with the adults, who believe that the reclamation companies can speed up the reclamation of the Tohoku and increase government tax revenue, while the adults believe that they will cause land loss, and it is this disagreement that has led to the stagnation on the issue of reclamation.

"Why? Is it because of the fear that the land will fall into private hands? In my opinion, this concern of adults is undoubtedly correct, how much does it cost for the reclamation company to reclaim the land? One yuan per mu? Is it lower or less? ”

Lighting a cigarette, Keiichi Kato, who had worked with the agricultural reclamation group, did not know the cost of reclamation, the cost of wasteland reclamation is low, it is nothing more than setting fire to the wasteland first, and then ploughing deeply, the actual cost of reclamation per mu is only a few cents, and it is precisely because of the profits from large-scale reclamation that the officials in the ministry are inclined to free reclamation, after all, this will bring unimaginable benefits to many people.

"Instead of private reclamation companies leasing the reclaimed land to the settlers in the Kannai area for cultivation, so that the reclamation companies become the operating landlords, why can't the wasteland be completely reclaimed by the reclamation groups as it is now, and then grant it to the immigrants after the land has been reclaimed." (To be continued.) )