"The key issue now is whether our party represents the interests of the peasants or the landlords!" In the hot early summer of Nanjing, several middle-aged men wearing thin long shirts or shirts were sitting around the conference table in a quiet room in the presidential palace in Nanjing.

These middle-aged men are all members of the Political Affairs Bureau and Zhōngyāng of the Central G, and they are also members of the Senate and the Senate of the Federal Council, and several of them are also ministers of the Chang Ruiqing Cabinet, including Minister of Agriculture Chen Duxiu, Minister of Finance Liao Zhongkai, Foreign Minister Wang Jīngwei, Vice Chairman Li Dzhao, President of the Political Council Zhou Elai, Minister of Propaganda Shao Piaoping, Federal Councillors Cai Hesen and Qu Qiubai, and Federal Legislator Chang Ruiyuan, plus Wang Yaqiao, who was elected governor of Anhui Province in 35. Although there is a big gap between the status of these people in the party, the center of gravity of China's current political scene is not within the party, but in the parliament, cabinet, and local provincial governments.

Today's enlarged meeting of the Political Affairs Bureau was about a very sensitive and divisive land issue, so while Chang Ruiqing, Mao Zd, and Song Qingling had not yet arrived, everyone began to argue, and their voices became louder and louder.

Li Dzhao stood up, waved his fists and shouted: "The land issue has been a big issue related to social stability in all dynasties!" The curbing of annexation, the suppression of the powerful and the powerful, and the protection of yeoman peasants are the goals that the emperors of all dynasties and dynasties have tried their best to achieve, and the cause of our party can achieve the current achievements. It is also based on the policy of 'permanent tenant and eternal rest', which curbs land annexation. Therefore, instead of changing our course to support land annexation, we should also implement the policy of having land for the cultivators, and ensure that China's 500 million farmers own 10 acres of land per capita! ”

"That's right! 10 acres of land per capita should become our party's slogan and governance program! ”

"As long as we can do that. The peasants will always be on our side, and no one will try to shake our ruling position! ”

Li Dzhao's words fell, and Cai Hesen and Qu Qiubai stood up loudly to express their support. As they say, the votes of the peasants are now the basis of the ruling power of the Central G, and as long as the peasants are the peasants, they will always like free land. Therefore, the slogan of "10 acres of land per capita" is indeed very attractive, and it will definitely allow Zhongg to sweep all opponents in the 1939 general election. Win more than 50% of the seats in the Federal Parliament and become a party in power alone.

However, Chen Duxiu, who served as the Minister of Agriculture, looked a little melancholy, and heard the slogans shouted by Li Dzhao and others. I couldn't help but sigh. Li Dzhao was stunned for a moment, and looked at him with slanted eyes: "Zhongfu, what's wrong with you?" Don't you support the slogan of '10 acres of land per capita'? ”。

Chen Duxiu shook his head and said lightly: "It's not that I don't support it." I'm just thinking. What is the real socialist road? Is 10 acres of land per capita socialism? Is it socialism to keep shares in public enterprises and not sell them? It doesn't seem to be the same way? ”

Wang Yaqiao, who is also a big man on the same level as Chen Duxiu, Li Dzhao and others in the Zhongg Party, sneered when he heard Chen Duxiu's words, and said: "What socialism is is not for us people to comment, but for the working people, who think that the policies and lines we implement have brought them good things, and this doctrine is socialism!" Otherwise, it's a sheep's head to sell dog meat! For example, that India. The common people can't even eat, and Lu Yi still has to engage in the hereditary rule of the Charia family. What kind of socialism is this? ”

Hearing that Chen Duxiu and Wang Yaqiao had asked the question of what socialism was, no one answered. There has always been a great deal of disagreement within the party on this issue, and if there is a debate, I am afraid that it will not be possible to finish it for three days and three nights, and everyone has now avoided this topic, consciously or unconsciously.

Zhou Elai frowned: "Comrades, let's talk about agricultural issues, let me first talk about the problems that the Far Eastern Republic is encountering now, the land of the Far Eastern Republic of China can be regarded as fertile, especially the land around the east bank of the Ussuri River and Xingkai Lake is the best, the yield per mu is among the best in the entire federation, and the per capita land is also more, but in the past two years, there has been a certain amount of land abandonment and concession, mainly the young and middle-aged people of the Far Eastern Republic of China have either gone to serve as soldiers, or they have gone to the city to do business and work. Because their education is generally higher than that of the Han people, and they are also serious about doing things, they can often get several times the high income of farming in the city, so the good land is abandoned or subleased at a low price. ”

The land of the Far Eastern Republic was uniformly distributed by zhèngfǔ (the land of the original and clansmen was confiscated and redistributed), and at the time of distribution, it was stipulated that it could not be transferred or leased for a period of fifty years. At that time, the starting point was to avoid the emergence of a landlord class in the concentration of land, but now the ruling GCDZHÈNGFǓ of the Far Eastern Republic had to choose between tolerating landlords and tolerating land desolation! Because the act of renting land and collecting land rent is also exploited by the landlords, but if those who have entered the city are not allowed to rent out their own land, then they can only be abandoned. Therefore, the current Prime Minister of the Far Eastern Republic of China, Zhao Shiyan, is also in a dilemma, after all, the seats of the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Association in the Senate and Legislative Chambers of the Far Eastern Republic are very close to those of the GCD, and one who is not careful may lose power in the next general election......

As soon as he said this, Chang Ruiqing's precious brother Chang Ruiyuan, whose constituency was in Shanghai, snorted lightly and said with a smile: "The land in Central Asia and Siberia is made by peasants? Is there no merit for the workers, no merit for the merchants, no merit for the intellectuals and the officers and men of the Wehrmacht? Why was the land distributed only to the peasants? What about those of us councillors whose constituencies are in big cities? How to explain it to voters? ”

He is Chang Ruiqing's younger brother, and sometimes he speaks on behalf of Chang Ruiqing: "In my opinion, the land in Central Asia and Siberia should be divided equally among the whole people, and they should be bought and sold casually after the division is completed...... If you want to go to the west to become a farmer, you can buy some land vouchers, and if you don't want to go so far, you can also consider settling down in the eight metropolises, and if you don't want to go anywhere, you can also collect some land in your hometown. That's right. I think the perpetual tenant perpetual interest method can also be collected, and the perpetual interest coupons in the hands of the landlord will be redeemed with the land for huàn coupons, and the peasants' perpetual interest will no longer have to be paid. Save the local people from always having disputes with the peasants over the matter of collecting permanent interest. ”

Hearing him talk like this, the leaders of China G present were silent, and the land now seemed to have become a knot in the heart of China G, as if the world would be in chaos as soon as it was released, all the land would be concentrated in the hands of a few big landlords, and most of the peasants would become tenants.

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At a time when the top officials of the Central Government were discussing the issue of the "second land reform", Chang Ruiqing, Mao ZD, and Soong Qingling were gathering in the study of the presidential palace to argue about the same issue.

"Prime Minister. The land issue has a bearing on the future and destiny of the party and the country, and you must think twice before acting! ”

It was very hot in Mao's study, and the federal president, who was a little fat, was now wearing a short-sleeved silk shirt. He also held a pu fan in his hand, and while fanning the fan, he used his unique Hunan accent to argue with Chang Ruiqing, and in the end he became excited. also stood up and walked in front of Chang Ruiqing and Song Qingling. Spat and spit, dancing and gesturing.

In short, you can't let the land be bought and sold, and you can't let the land be concentrated in the hands of a few! If you think that the current small-scale peasant land ownership system cannot liberate the rural productive forces, then I should build and develop collective farms or state farms, which is the real way to achieve long-term peace and stability! ”

Chang Ruiqing's brows gradually twisted, and he found that his idea of "second land reform" seemed to have stabbed the hornet's nest of Zhongg, except for some of his most intimate people. The party bigwigs either explicitly expressed their opposition as Mao did or, like Soong Ching-ling, did not openly take a stand -- in fact, they did not approve of it. It's just that I don't want to provoke Chang Ruiqing, who is in power.

And Chang Ruiqing also knows that these objections are actually out of public intentions, not for the power struggle, because Chang Ruiqing, who led China to victory in the world war and opened up more than 20 million square kilometers, now has unparalleled prestige, if he now announces the dissolution of parliament and re-election, and at the same time pulls his descendants to withdraw from the Central G and then form a new party with the National Socialist Party and the Co-Prosperity Association, he will almost certainly be able to overwhelm the two parties in the general election. So because of the power struggle and Chang Ruiqing, there is no benefit to these G bigwigs. But it is precisely because they are all out of public interest that Chang Ruiqing is even more embarrassed, he really does not want to cause any huge shocks in China's political arena because of the "second land reform".

"Mrs. Sun, what do you think?" Chang Ruiqing looked at Song Qingling, as if he was asking for her help.

Song Qingling hesitated for a moment and said: "The core idea of the former premier's people's livelihood doctrine is equal land rights, and he also advocates supporting the ...... of yeoman farmers."

Chang Ruiqing suddenly showed a wry smile on his face, he now has a feeling of playing the piano to the cow! The "second land reform" understood by Mao ZD and Song Qingling and Chang Ruiqing's original intention are two different things that are completely unrelated. Or that one side sees the future, while the other side is still looking at the past. If we look to the future, the dangers of the smallholder policy of "10 acres of land per person" are obvious. Because this policy has tied up more than 80 percent of the Chinese population to the land, Yan zhòng has hindered the process of urbanization in China, and because overproduction of grain will inevitably lead to low grain prices, it is actually difficult for farmers to become truly rich, and the only advantage is probably that the food supply will be extremely abundant, coupled with the post-war stability and the substantial improvement of medical standards, China's population may have an explosive growth in the next ten or twenty years. A similar situation occurred after the founding of New China, and in the end, overpopulation and relative lack of resources became a major problem that limited the Chinese people to achieve universal prosperity. Although the land and resources of the current Great China Federation are more than twice as large as those of the historical New China, it does not mean that it can carry the increase in population without limit, and if it really reproduces two or three billion people, it will also be a headache!

Moreover, the Great China Federation, which implements a constitutional government, has no way to do any family planning, and there is only one way to control population growth, which is to speed up the process of urbanization -- even so, Chang Ruiqing estimates that China's population is likely to exceed 1.5 billion at its peak! And it is really difficult to get 1.5 billion people to live a life of affluence by European standards.

Of course, if we look back, Chang Ruiqing's "second land reform" is purely a blind toss -- if we want to farm according to the methods of the Americans and Europeans, tens of millions of peasants in China are enough! What if there are 400 million left? All of them come to the city to work and do business? Can you fit it in the city? Although the eight metropolises have encircled a lot of land, how can people live in just land and no houses? And even if they have a house to live in, how will the work be arranged? At present, there are only 30 or 40 million industrial workers in China, and how can we arrange for a labor force of 100 million or 200 million squeezed in at once? If you take 10,000 steps back, even if you reluctantly arrange it, there are still a lot of problems in education, medical care, social security, urban construction, and social security, which is a headache to think about! The slightest mistake can lead to unimaginable consequences!

Moreover, Chang Ruiqing is now destroying Russia and unifying Greater East Asia, which is definitely worthy of the qualifications of an emperor through the ages, and what Qin Emperor Han Wu, Tang Dynasty and Song Ancestor are all not worth mentioning in front of him. Next, as long as the looted land is divided equally, and then let the farmers and industrialists have their own duties, and then they can whitewash the peace with Tianwen and Wu, and leave a legend of prosperity for future generations. What kind of big farms with concentrated land and what kind of urbanization are just nothing to do......

Just when Chang Ruiqing's second land reform encountered resistance within the Central G, Jiang Jshi and his cadres of the Kuomintang were simply eagerly looking forward to it. The reason is also very simple, according to the information that has been circulated, the "second land reform" will definitely be beneficial to the middle and upper classes in the countryside, these guys have a good chance to be upgraded to become big farmers, and most of the poor middle peasants must eventually go to the city to become proletarians! And the urbanization route of the Federation of Great China is to develop super-metropolises, that is to say, most of the more than 400 million new proletariats will flow into the eight super-metropolises, and most of the areas of the federation will become the world of farmers, and most of these people support the Kuomintang!

In this way, the provinces ruled by the Kuomintang will have a leap forward! This potential change in the political map is probably also an important reason why Chang Ruiqing's policies have been blocked within the party. (To be continued......)