At a time when Stalin and Bukharin, the two leaders of the Soviet "Maoists", quietly left the siege of Moscow and went to join the revisionist enemy. His Excellency Mao Zd, chairman of the Chinese revisionist party and president of the Great China Federation, was traveling on the trans-American railway, and because they wanted to inspect American agriculture, they did not fly all the way to Washington on the Y-7 plane, but took the train to run on the vast plains of the United States. The industrial strength of the United States is beyond doubt, and the factories, chimneys, power lines and oil wells all over the road from the west coast of the United States have left a deep impression on Mao Zd, Chen Duxiu, and Zhou Elai. Especially Mao Zd, this is the first time he has set foot in a truly developed capitalist country. Although he had often visited factories in China before, he also had to admit that compared with the United States, China's industrialization was really just beginning, and there was still a lot of room for development in the future. But does this mean that China's future industrialization will also require more rural labor to move to the cities?

However, the main mission of Mao Zd, Chen Duxiu, Zhou Elai and Zeng Qi was not to inspect American industry, but on the contrary, American agriculture was what they were really interested in...... And that's what really shocked them. If the gap between China's industry and the United States is 100 steps, then the gap between China's agriculture and the United States is about 10,000 steps! After all, in today's China, there are already some signs of industrial modernization, and it is not backward from the United States in terms of production methods and technology, but its scale and R&D strength are not as good as those of the United States. But China's agriculture lags too far behind the United States. Just look at the few smoky villages in the endless wheat fields outside the train cars, and there are really very few farmers in the United States, and their agricultural productivity is by no means comparable to that of China's smallholder farmers. Only then did I know how big the gap between a big agricultural country and an agricultural power is!

Walk with Mao ZD. In addition to a few leading figures in China's GCD, there are also a number of agricultural experts, and now there is Ambassador Gu Weijun to the United States, a number of representatives of overseas Chinese in the United States, and several representatives of American fertilizer, pesticide and agricultural machinery companies -- all of whom have come to sell their products to the Chinese government delegation. Along the way, almost every time they passed through a large and medium-sized city, Mao Zd, Zhou Elai and others would stop for a short time. Visit local farms and farmhouses. What they saw and heard, of course, was something that was refreshing to them. First of all, there are the American farmers. Well, it should be said that the wealth of American farmers. Almost every house has a spacious and tidy bungalow, which is generally only owned by super large landowners and big capitalists in China. Cars are also very popular, and most farmers own at least one car in their homes! When Mao ZD learned that the United States was a country that produced 5.5 million cars of various kinds in 1935. I couldn't help but be surprised. This figure is more than 10 times more than the total automobile production in China in 1935! In the United States, cars are just ordinary everyday items.

In addition, the production method of American agriculture also opened the eyes of him and all the members of the Chinese delegation, and the large-scale use of agricultural machinery, corporatized production organization and sales methods, so that the difference between American agriculture and industry is blurring. The United States no longer seems to have farmers in the traditional sense, only the owners who run agricultural companies. Every farm is actually a small or medium-sized agricultural company! And what Mao ZD and others didn't expect was what. The land in rural America is still being concentrated! Representatives of the U.S. Department of Agriculture told Sù that in the past 10 years, hundreds of thousands of private farms in the United States have closed down, and the number of farms that have survived has become even larger. However, this is not the most surprising thing for Mao Zd, the most surprising thing for him is that the United States actually has a law aimed at reducing agricultural output, the American Agricultural Adjustment Act, according to this law, the U.S. government will provide subsidies to farmers who reduce output, with the aim of reducing the output of U.S. agriculture by about 30% to achieve a balance between supply and demand in the market. However, some people have already filed a lawsuit with the US Supreme Court for the unconstitutionality of this apparently "undermining productivity" law, and it is expected that some adjustments will be made soon......

In the darkness of the night, the train rumbled eastward, and inside the double-glazed train carriage, there was silence, only a slight shaking sensation. Mao ZD, who likes to work at night, turned on his seat and faced the lamp. Buried in writing something, and from time to time flipped through the thick pile of materials on his desk. He was fully engaged in his work - the first draft of the "Survey Report on American Agriculture," which later gave a huge impetus to China's second land reform, was written on a train across the Great Plains of the United States. I don't know how long it took, when Mao Zd put down the brush in his hand and raised his head, he saw Zhou Elai looking at him with a smile: "President, you are already writing an inspection report?" As soon as this masterpiece comes out, it will surely become the guiding text of our second land reform, right? ”

The relationship between their two best partners in history is not particularly close in this time and space, in fact, Zhou Elai's success in the party and China's political arena is due to Chang Ruiqing, and he replaced Mao Zd in charge of the northwest military and politics with the support of Chang Ruiqing. However, on the issue of the second land reform, Zhou Elai and Mao ZD have the same opinion.

Mao Zd rubbed his wrist, pushed the draft on the table to Zhou Elai, and said with a smile: "Xiangyu, since you can't sleep, let's study it together." Not to mention, there are still certain similarities between the agriculture of China and the United States, with China having the largest amount of arable land in the world after the war, and the United States having the second largest amount of arable land. Moreover, there are conditions for large-scale agriculture in Central Asia and Siberia, and it is easy to emulate the experience of the United States. Now what worries me the most is not that there is no one to farm, but that the big agriculture in Central Asia and Siberia will have a huge impact on the small agriculture in the interior...... This is the case in the United States, where large farms tend to do well and expand in size, while small farms go bankrupt and farmers move into the cities and become proletarians. ”

Zhou Elai smiled: "This is urbanization!" It seems that Premier Chang is on the right side again this time...... American-style mechanized agriculture is significantly more efficient than smallholder farmers, and this efficiency is reflected in lower costs and more competitive products. If we engage in large-scale agriculture in Central Asia and Siberia, then the agricultural products produced there will inevitably be more competitive, and it is also inevitable that we will defeat the small-scale agriculture in the interior. In fact, I already had a little clue of this situation when I was in the northwest, although the agriculture of Outer Xinjiang is not a big agriculture, but it still has more scale advantages than Southern Xinjiang and Northern Xinjiang, so the grain markets in Southern Xinjiang and Northern Xinjiang are all wheat from Outer Xinjiang, if it were not for the fact that the Lanjiang Railway was not opened that year, most of the grain in Outer Xinjiang would have suppressed the grain prices in Gansu and Shaanxi! ”

Mao Zd thought quietly for a while, and nodded slowly: "How many places are there in the outer frontier?" It's just tens of millions of acres, and the whole of Central Asia and Siberia can be reclaimed at least 1.5 billion acres! And there are about the same amount of pastures...... If they are all organized according to the model of American agriculture, it will not take many years to set off a wave of peasant bankruptcies in the interior...... The competitiveness of this kind of large-scale factory agriculture is simply not comparable to that of small agriculture in the hinterland, just like the competition between factories and handicraft workshops, which are not at all on the same level. I think that if we had not seized the vast lands of Central Asia and Siberia, we might have used agricultural mutual aid groups or collectivization to help the peasants in the interior to get rich, but the land in Central Asia and Siberia has given the possibility of large-scale factory agriculture in China, and as long as this more efficient and advanced mode of production appears on a large scale, the backward small-scale peasant economy will inevitably collapse in a very short time...... Neither mutual aid groups nor collectivization can resist it. Unless we can prevent the concentration of land in Central Asia and Siberia in the hands of a few individuals or legal persons, and prevent more advanced factory agriculture from appearing in China. But isn't doing so, like Roosevelt's Agrarian Adjustment Act, hindering the development of productive forces? And without the entry of big capital, it may not be easy for the land of Central Asia and Siberia to be exploited, right? In the past, we were already racking our brains in order to mobilize immigrants to go to other frontiers, and now we want more people to go to Central Asia and Siberia, which is even more farther away, I am afraid it will be ......."

Mao Zd talked eloquently there, and listening to what he said, he obviously accepted most of Chang Ruiqing's views in the second land reform -- since his trip to the United States had proved that a small amount of agricultural labor combined with mechanization could greatly improve the efficiency of agricultural production, and that it was possible to defeat smaller farms in competition, and that the Great Chinese Federation, which had large tracts of abandoned land, should there be any reason not to adopt such an advanced mode of production? How can China's GCD, as a representative of advanced productive forces, oppose it?

Zhou Yilai listened intently, nodding his head in approval from time to time, until Mao Zd finished speaking, he took out a telegram from his pocket and put it in front of Mao Zd: "President, this is a secret telegram sent by Premier Chang, Stalin, the leader of the Soviet GCD who was imprisoned by Trotsky for a long time, has just been rescued by our troops from a concentration camp near Moscow, and both of them have expressed their willingness to work for us...... The general ideal is to assign them to lead the Assam-Naga Republic or the Timorese Republic, and I would like to seek your opinion on this. (To be continued......)