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After returning home in a huff, Hao Chongwen slammed his coat on the table, grabbed the herbal teapot and poured it into his mouth. The son who was lying on the table practicing calligraphy didn't notice that his father's face was wrong, and when he saw that he had torn up the jute paper that was only halfway written, he said distressedly: "Dad, be careful, my paper is broken." ”

Hao Chongwen was full of anger and had no place to send it, so he suddenly stomped on the teapot, ripped the jute paper that was only halfway written, and scolded: "Write and write, you will know how to write!" Our Hao family is running out of food! ”

The child had never seen him so angry, and after he finally completed half of his calligraphy homework, he was suddenly frightened and cried. The crying also alarmed Hao Laohan and the daughter-in-law who was cooking, and when they saw that there were still big square characters on the paper that was torn and thrown all over the ground, they scolded angrily: "You rebel!" If you have fire in your heart, you go outside to send it, why do you come back and spoil the child to see, see! What a good word. Hao Laohan bent down and carefully picked up the broken yellow paper, although he didn't know the words on it, but it was written by his eldest grandson! It is all the hope of the Hao family! It was torn like this, and the hands that picked up the paper were shaking.

Hao Chongwen saw his son's tears, and looked at his father bending down to pick up the paper, and he was a little unbearable in his heart, but he was really angry today, so he stomped his feet and said, "Dad, don't pick it up!" Our Hao family is almost unable to open the pot! ”

"What's wrong? What's wrong? Didn't the imperial court send a minister? The daughter-in-law thought it was going to the Northeast, but as soon as she asked, she was scolded by Hao Chongwen: "You mother-in-law knows a fart!" Chen San Mazi just sent someone to say that the rent will be increased this year! I'm fucking the whole family. If he is not allowed to go to the Northeast, he will change the law to increase the rent, he just wants to retaliate! ”

As soon as he heard that the rent was going to increase, Hao Laohan didn't care about picking up paper. Even his voice trembled a little when he got up: "This, this is true?" "Hao Laohan is really afraid, it's only been a few good days, what if you go back to the old days when you ate bran and drank thin chaff for a year.

"It's true." At this time, shouting also sounded outside the door, Hao Laohan's second son and a large group of Chen family tenants poured into the small courtyard, everyone was angry and said that Hao Laohan was more and more frightened, and said tremblingly: "Chongwen, then don't you care about the Qincha from Nanjing?" ”

"the!" Hao Chongwen's anger came up. told everyone about participating in the city government consultation, and said angrily: "Don't you see, how do those two hairless people look like doing things?" Slowly, it is clear that he is helping Chen San Mazi and those landlords! ”

"Damn, this doesn't give you a way to live!"

"You want me to say. Just walk away! ”

"Yes, everybody's gone! Isn't the sixth child in the next village leaving? I heard that the day before yesterday I sent a telegram back saying that the Fengtian government had really given 20 acres of land. ”

"So what are you waiting for! Let's go together, don't do it for Chen San Mazi! ”

Seeing that the crowd in the small courtyard was excited, the anger was on fire. 24-year-old Cheng Cheng also rode his bicycle in the direction of Hao's house.

Riding a bicycle on the streets of Xuzhou, Cheng Cheng had a depressed and dull feeling, as if the air around him was decayed and declining. A member of the National Society from Ya'an, Sichuan, and an officer of the local YMCA, he joined the National Society in October 1912. And enter the YMCA in the same month. Although he did not catch up with the good times of the first batch of public derivation, he still stood out from the hundreds of thousands of members of the National Youth Association by his own efforts. At the beginning of 1913, he was sent to Harvard University in the United States to study business administration, during which time he also took geography and natural sciences.

The United States is one of the few countries in the Western world that has not been affected by the European War. Therefore, after four years of hard but fun in school, I happened to meet the National Youth Association recruiting teachers to volunteer to go to conservative and remote areas.

I think that in the difficult years at the beginning of the southwest, the chairman resolutely promoted free education, which touched everyone very much. Nine years of free education, factory night schools, rural literacy cram schools, and so on, almost crushed the weak finances of the southwest at that time. But now, a few years later, the southwest has the highest literacy rate in the country. "The southwest should become a role model, the national community should assume the responsibility of revitalizing the country, and young people should become the pioneers of the times!" This speech by the chairman of the YMCA at the beginning of its establishment has become the motto of every YMCA party member, and in this enthusiastic era, he also resolutely chose to come to Xuzhou, a city that is not remote but full of conservative ideas, to become a primary school teacher.

In the eyes of the YMCA, the president is the kind of activist who leads by example and is meticulous, he is not the kind of person who talks about ideals, and at the same time he is well aware of the importance of having a full stomach, so he pushed the government to improve the treatment of teachers who volunteer to teach in remote areas, so that everyone can get a salary of 30 yuan per month, and also distribute a bicycle, and the National Youth Association will also give a volunteer compensation allowance of 2 yuan per month.

Not to mention the salary equivalent to a non-commissioned officer or a factory master, only the YMCA's monthly allowance of 2 yuan can buy more than 20 catties of rice, which is already equivalent to a month's ration for middle-class families in Xuzhou. Although his own family is not well-off, his brother's life has been much better since he joined the Chongqing Industrial Group Iron and Steel Factory as a worker, so in addition to sending 15 yuan a month to his family, most of the rest is spent on eating, buying books or helping those poor peasant children.

"Boss Yang."

The recent turmoil over tenants and landlords in northern Jiangsu has not brought the city to a halt, on the contrary, it has become lively as many reporters and officials arrive in Xuzhou. Cheng Cheng parked the car at the door of a small shop specializing in the four treasures of the study, and the owner of the small shop saw Cheng Cheng hurriedly ran out and bowed: "Teacher Cheng, you are here, and you are going to give students practice calligraphy?" ”

"yes." Cheng Cheng nodded and said: "You don't need money to study, and the available paper is not cheap, so we can help some people." ”

Cheng Cheng is a regular customer of this store, so the boss knows that every time he buys paper, he gives it to the children of poor families. Although jute paper is cheap and abundant every time, hundreds of students cost several dollars a month just for this expense. So after personally putting a thick bundle of jute paper on the frame, he thought about it and added another stack before saying, "Mr. Cheng, I always let you break the money like this." Don't spend all the money you paid for your daughter-in-law. ”

"You always add an extra stack, aren't you afraid to fold the book and go back to kneel at the head of the bed?"

"Haha, Mr. Cheng is really good at laughing. It's just rough linen paper, but it's a pity that my shop is small, otherwise I'd open the door for your students to pick up for free. ”

"If everyone in the world supports students like Boss Yang. Supporting education, why worry that the country is not rich and the people are not strong. After Cheng Cheng handed over the money, he was just about to push the cart away, but suddenly stopped, turned his head and smiled slightly: "I took my students, thank you." ”

"Good man, add a little more next time." The smile warmed the boss's heart, and he waved his hand again and again to say politely, and only after Cheng Cheng walked away did he look at the money in his hand and muttered a few words. He didn't know that the promise in his heart would never have a chance to be fulfilled.

Cheng Cheng rode to Hao's house quickly. As soon as he arrived at the gate of the courtyard, he saw a crowd of people pressed by the black, and he was about to set off, and hurriedly asked, "Old man Hao, what are you?" ”

Hao Laohan hurriedly squeezed out of the crowd: "Mr. Cheng." How did you get here? You see it's all a mess, wait for me to clean it up. ”

"It's okay, it's okay." Cheng Cheng untied the paper bag on the frame, took out a stack of jute paper, and walked inside. Now no one in Sili and Eight Towns knows this short but enthusiastic good teacher who is eager to sponsor students, so everyone has greeted him with luggage.

"What's going on?" Cheng Cheng walked into the low thatched hut and found a pile of confetti on the ground, and there were neatly written small characters on the confetti. His face suddenly sank. He doesn't feel sorry for the paper, this kind of jute paper uses his income not to mention funding more than 100 students, even if it is funded by all the primary school students in the city, what he feels sorry for is the words on it. It's the attitude towards education! Others don't know him, but they know very well that although free education is not yet truly universal. But even so, the government's annual investment is calculated in hundreds of millions, and if there is no such burden, it can even build more than a dozen large steel plants every year!

If everybody approaches learning with this attitude. What is the meaning of spending this money on education? Seeing his dark face, Hao Chongwen also regretted it a little, afraid that Cheng Cheng would not wait to see his child from now on, so he hurriedly said what happened just now: "Teacher Cheng, don't be angry, it's all my fault, I'm hey!" ”

After listening to the explanation, Cheng Cheng's sword eyebrows rose again. Although he went abroad for further study before reunification, he still knew about the rent and interest reduction movement. Yang Qiu used his military power to forcibly implement the rent and interest reduction movement throughout the country, and the neighboring Henan Province carried out land reform, which really frightened the landlords in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui. In addition to Henan, the whole country has been in good weather in the past few years, and there has been no outbreak of insect plagues, so the gentry did not feel much loss after the rent and interest reduction. However, after the snowstorm last year, there were floods, and the pressure on agriculture began to increase again, but fortunately, the explosive growth of industry and commerce, stimulated by the huge profits from the war, made up for the lack of agricultural income. But now these gentry want to take the opportunity to resume the rent increase, which undoubtedly hurts him, not to mention the rent increase under retaliation! Moreover, the rent increase will inevitably lead to a more difficult life for the peasants, and his students are in a critical period of physical development, and they are already undernourished, so should they let the next generation be as short and thin as himself? So as a member of the National Youth Association, he felt that he should stand up and help them.

"Don't rush just yet." Cheng Cheng thought about it and said: "Commissioner Dong is my senior, I know him, and I will make a decision after I meet him." Everyone didn't expect him to know the Nanjing officer, and immediately nodded again and again and said that he was waiting for news here.

After asking Hao Chongwen to send the paper to each student's home, Cheng Cheng pushed the cart to the city government. He did know Dong Yongwei, and the two often discussed together when they were studying in the United States, but he didn't know how to solve the disputes between farmers and landlords in northern Jiangsu. After all, there have been many sages for thousands of years, so he has been thinking about ways to walk very slowly all the way, and he forgot to reply when others greeted him.

The patrol officer who went to the city hall to guard the gate also knew him, so he was quickly let in.

Dong Yongwei and Dai Jitao were worried about where to start, and they had to temporarily let go of work when they heard that their old classmates were visiting. Cheng Cheng couldn't help but say a few words of greeting after seeing the two, the three of them were all members of the YMCA, and they were particularly speculative when they chatted, so when he said that the landlords would unite to increase the rent and take revenge on the tenant farmers, the hot-tempered Dai Jitao slapped the table fiercely: "Bastard!" It's getting bolder! Although reducing rents and interest rates is not a national policy, it is a good way for the chairman to ensure the interests of the peasants. ”

Cheng Cheng was even more worried, because he was afraid that this trend would affect the education field and destroy the hard-won achievements of free education, so he unbuttoned his collar and asked solemnly: "Senior Wei, what should you do if the chairman didn't explain before you came?" ”

Dong Yongwei shook his head, what if he confessed, what would he worry about. Said: "This matter is not trivial, now the whole country 40,000 peasant compatriots are looking at northern Jiangsu, and if northern Jiangsu is solved, the experience will be promoted to the whole country, so the benefits touched are very great!" However, if we can liberate the productive forces of the peasants, our country will be able to truly transition from agriculture to industry. Because judging from the experience of the United States and Europe, if you want to industrialize, you must first solve the problem of the peasants, so the chairman only implemented the "Migrant Land Law" this time in order to dilute the population and land pressure, but he did not expect it. ”

Cheng Cheng fell silent, his eyes flashing as if he was thinking about something. In fact, these people all know that the most important thing to make the country rich and the people strong is to solve the problem of imbalance between land and population, the northwest and northeast are vast and rich in resources, very similar to the western United States, the "Homestead Law" has promoted the development of the western United States, so that the national strength of the United States has increased several times, and the "Immigrant Land Law" also has the opportunity to greatly improve the strength of the Republic of China. However, these old-fashioned factions were afraid that there would be no one to help them farm after the mass migration, so they were particularly resistant. So how to solve it? After thinking about it, he had a bold solution in his mind: "Can it be solved by industrial and commercial methods?" ”

"The way of industry and commerce?"

Dong Yongwei knew that he was studying business administration at the same time, but he did not understand how industry and commerce could be applied to agriculture. Cheng Cheng immediately said his thoughts: "My idea is that the biggest trouble of land distribution rights will be put aside for the time being, because the land pressure in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui will be much smaller after the "Immigration Land Law", and there is no need to directly seize the land of the gentry." The land will continue to be in their possession, but the current tenant system must be replaced by a system of hired labour. Peasant unions were formed, similar to workers' unions, to bring the peasants together to negotiate with the landlords and gentry. Replace old products such as deeds of sale with more transparent and secure employment contracts, and promote the contract work system in industrialization. Let the peasants contract the land from the landlords, and determine the next longer contract rights in the form of legislation to ensure their interests. This is like the Hanyang Group, Hanyang is only the main factory, and there are many branches all over the country, and the branch factories contract some of the work in their hands to those small private factories that have the ability. Although the products are all branded with Hanyang, the management is differentiated. If this is implemented, the landlords will only have the right to own the land in their hands, and unless they cultivate the land themselves, the right to manage and manage the land will be handed over to the peasants, so that the rent collection will become a fixed dividend. After obtaining the right to use the land for a longer period of time, farmers can rest assured, and the more they produce, the higher their natural income. ”

The low and clear words made Dong Yongwei and Dai Jitao's eyes light up, although he said something a little messy, but the meaning was very clear. In the most popular words, it is to take the opportunity of the "Migrant Land Law" to evacuate a large number of people in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui, and directly abolish the tenant rental law that has lasted for thousands of years with landlords as the core, and replace it with a peasant-led contract industrial contracting system! The hearts of the two of them were pounding, this is too bold! Is it possible? And isn't it ideal? The landlords and gentry held the land in their hands and would promise to contract it to the peasants? The fixed dividend is much lower than the rent, and the contract life is long, will they collectively resist it?

Cheng Cheng became more and more firm the more he spoke, and his voice suddenly became high-pitched: "There is another month to enter spring ploughing, which is the best time!" First of all, the state-owned unowned wasteland hills can be taken out to allow land reclamation, and in accordance with the "Migrant Land Law", after a certain period of cultivation has been completed, it will be returned to the individual peasants. Secondly, mobilize the peasants in northern Jiangsu, form a peasant association to prepare for a strike, and force them to bow their heads, unless they are willing to let the land go to waste! ”

"Strike"

The two looked at Cheng Cheng in shock, and suddenly thought of a word.

"Revolution!"

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PS: All land ideas are scribbled by hippos, don't take it seriously. Overhead YY is nothing more than looking for a way, the method of hippo writing is just a discussion, and it must be full of loopholes, so don't spray it...... (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )