The new policies introduced by the government are very opposed to the landlord class outside of East China, and they all feel that why should they hand over or redeem the land they have accumulated for generations, but those poor peasants can get land, they have done nothing wrong, why should the government suppress them.

The landlords everywhere were ready to unite against the land reform, and many were convinced that they could succeed, just like the previous Qing government, could not help them, and some even did not let the peasants know about this policy, after all, the transmission of news was not very fast, and most of the peasants did not know how to read. Among them, the landlords in Sichuan, Hunan, Shaanxi, and other inland provinces, as well as Guangdong, Fujian, and Shandong, reacted most violently; after receiving the news announced by the government, they immediately blocked the news from their peasants, and a large number of landlords even gathered together to discuss what to do.

In Guangzhou's Governor's Mansion, Chen Jiongming has met with no less than ten large landlords, all of whom have come to ask the governor's opinion, and some of them have come to test it. He didn't know if the central government's land reform could be implemented smoothly, but he knew that once the central government announced something would basically be implemented, otherwise the central government's documents would lose credibility in the future, and the government would lose its authority. He had studied land reform in East China before, and there were many landlords who wanted to resist, but they were all suppressed by the government by violent means, but now it is nationwide, and there are too many landlord classes, and if they are not careful, they will capsize in the gutter, so he is very worried that the whole country will be in turmoil again.

Just as he was thinking, a government official brought a document to his house, "Governor Chen, this is the secret document that the central government just issued, please take a look." ”

Chen Jiongming hurriedly took the text and looked at it, his face changed when he looked at him, he didn't expect the Central Committee to be so ruthless, but he also had to carry it out, "Inform me to hold a meeting tomorrow morning, and I am not allowed to be absent." ”

"Yes, Governor."

"By the way, there is also someone to invite the commander of the military region to me, just say that I have something to talk to him, you can go back first."

"Yes, goodbye, Governor." With that, the government official left.

Chen Jiongming immediately called someone to call a few landlords who had supported him some time ago, he was not an ungrateful person, he wanted to persuade a few landlords, let them use the money to redeem them, and don't make trouble. Soon those landlords came to Chen Jiongming's house, and they felt very strange that Chen Jiongming was looking for them so urgently, after all, there was basically no such thing except for the last time he invested in the Huaxia government, but they still had to go.

When they arrived, Chen Jiongming looked at them and said, "You still try your best to cooperate with the work of the government personnel about the land reform you asked about before, and this time it is estimated that it will be more ferocious than the one in East China, so you should think about it." For the sake of what you have helped, let me make it clear, the central government has made up its mind, this is not something you can contend with, use money to redeem your own land, otherwise the consequences will be very strict, for the rise of China, the central government will not hesitate to implement reforms, I hope you must follow the government's policies in the future. ”

The landlords present were all shocked, they had long been clear about the land reform in East China, they could not have imagined that the government would have such a great determination, did the government oppose the landlords of the whole country, did the Chinese government want to be overturned?

A landlord wiped his sweat and said, "Did the higher authorities give you any orders, and it is still not good for us?" If we really say that to the governor, we should think about it, but we don't know why the country did this? ”

"It's definitely not good, the government has its own thinking about doing this, after all, you also know that our tariffs have been recovered, and the state wants to effectively manage the land in the country, liberate the productivity of farmers, and let farmers own their own land, and the government can get the support of farmers, which is very important for our follow-up plan." You see that East China is not doing very well, those people like you are opening factories or something, and they have all successfully carried out the transformation, and you also have a district to open a factory or something, if it doesn't work, you will go to the farm or something, so you must not resist, just obey, and the government will not treat you badly. Chen Jiongming said slowly.

"Will it take our money away, these are the accumulation of our ancestors, if we go to open a factory, will there be any difficulty, after all, we have not done it. And the farm you said feels pretty good, but I'm afraid that there won't be enough people to help by then, and it's not a barren area, and the new policy says that the more land you have, the more taxes you have to pay. ”

Chen Jiongming shook his head and said: "According to my guess, the government is now liberating the peasants just to be able to have enough free labor, and these labor will be part of the people into these factories to work, don't you see that the government has been advocating industry recently, that is, rejuvenating the country through industry, so in the future, it will pay a lot of attention to those factories or something, you must seize these opportunities to develop well." As for the issue of land, you can completely carry out joint farm operations, and you can also buy machines from Huaxing and Qin's firms to cultivate, so that you will not be afraid of lack of people, and you can look at the current life of farmers in East China, so I still build yì You can go to farms. ”

Several people present were deep in thought, and some thought that maybe to get a factory or something like in East China, as long as it is done well, it will definitely be profitable, and then there will be a lot of funds, and as for the land, you can buy it if you have funds; Some people think that land is their root, only land can endure, so they still pay money to redeem their land and then go to the farm, recently I have heard that farmers in East China make a lot of money, so they have this idea. As for resisting, after Chen Jiongming's intimidation, many people did not dare to mention it anymore, after all, no one would be at fault with their own lives, and they would have to persuade their relatives and friends to cooperate with the government's work after they returned.

Such a scene was played out in all provinces, and a large number of landlords gave up resistance under persuasion, because there were many landlords who believed that the government would not use violent means to implement this policy, and they were bent on resisting to the end, especially those who were old and stubborn in their seventies and eighties.

On January 25, 1913, the provincial government officials began the measurement and distribution of the fields by order of the central authorities, while the troops of the provinces were assembled, all armed and ready to deal with emergencies, because the private weapons of the people were not collected, especially those of the landlord families.

Sure enough, in all provinces, a large number of landlord families were unwilling to cooperate with the government's work, and even encouraged those peasants who had not been informed to obstruct the work of the government personnel.

"What, the imperial court wants to allocate land to us? No, where did the imperial court come from? ”

"Just now, the people of the imperial court said that they would confiscate the local land and land and distribute it to us, but I don't know if it's true?"

"It should be true, the current court is not the previous Qing court, but a new court, it seems to be called the Huaxia government, and our braids were cut off by their order before, as well as the abolition of those miscellaneous taxes. I heard that the current imperial court has defeated all the foreign devils in Britain and obtained a lot of new land, and they seem to have done a good job in the northeast, which is a great imperial court. ”

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As for why these peasants still say that the imperial court, in fact, it is still backward in transportation and communication in China, and the transmission of news is very good, and the peasants still like to call the court the power because of the constraints of feudal thinking. In later generations, there was a document that described that in 1913, most of the peasants did not know that there was a Republic of China, nor did they know what the Republic of China was, and what democracy was, so the peasants at that time did not know about the establishment of the Republic of China due to the backwardness of information and their ignorance of current affairs.

After some explanations, the peasants knew that the landlords were deceiving them, and the angry peasants smashed the landlord's house, but the government personnel did not stop it, and many of the landlords who encountered this situation were forced to cooperate.

In other places, some peasants did not believe in the government's policies and the support of the landlords, and those peasants and government personnel were confronted, but soon a large number of police and troops arrived, and a large number of peasants were arrested, and the landlords were also arrested; In some places, when the landlords saw the appearance of the army and the police, they used their privately hidden guns to confront the Chinese government, but the police and the army did not care, and when they saw the landlords showing their guns, they directly killed them. The arrested peasants would be released after a few days of education, and the landlords would basically be put in prison, and some would even sit in prison, and in the end, the Chinese government would let those cases be fined lightly in order to mitigate the impact.

The army and militia from all over the country were dispatched to arrest the rebellious landlords, and the landlords could not be caught, so batch after batch of landlords were paraded through the streets, and the circumstances were vile and the cases were vile, and they were shot in public in the name of colluding with bandits, bandits, and attacking government personnel.

It is not so easy to measure the land of the whole country, which cannot be completed in a few months, and it has to be distributed. But soon there was a problem in front of Qin Yu, that is, the amount of cultivated land in various places was different, and there were a large number of landlords who bought their own land, so the land allocated to the peasants was insufficient in some places, so there would be a large number of peasants who had no land to cultivate. Qin Yu was helpless for this, so he had to let people publicize the benefits of being a worker a lot, and guide the peasants who had no land to go to the city to work, but in order to calm their unfairness, the Huaxia government actively contacted factories for them to work, and some arranged to work on the farm.

Qin Yu knew that this was unfair to a large number of people, but there was no way to do it, compared to the sheep eating movement of the British enclosure movement and the westward movement of the United States, after all, the rise of a strong country will always have some gloom.