Chapter 301 Policy Regulation

Fang Xiaoyu gave so much help to the other four consortia, naturally not only to support domestic industry and commerce, but also to put forward conditions. First of all, Fang Xiaoyu took back many of the privileges of the domestic banking industry, and although the four were still able to open banks, the rights of coinage and the right to issue public bonds were nationalized, and some of their loans and other businesses also needed to be subject to state review.

In addition, it is about the issue of cultivated land, in addition to the Chinese collar itself, as well as the cultivated land collected from the Cheng family, there are still forty percent of the cultivated land in the hands of the landlords in the current Chinese Empire, the three largest of which are the three families of Xia Fangwang, and the cultivated land in their hands has reached more than 90% of the forty percent of the cultivated land, which is what Fang Xiaoyu needs, of course, he will not ask for it in vain, the Chinese consortium will buy the land at a fair price, and sell these lands to the poor in the form of interest-free loans.

Now the agricultural efficiency in the Lanfang Empire is still very low, although there are high-yield seeds provided by Fang Xiaoyu, but the yield is high, the profit is also reduced, the majority of farmers still can't make too much money, and it also occupies a large number of young and strong labor.

In particular, those landlord families with slaves engaged in farming, they only knew how to squeeze the surplus value of slaves, and did not think of improving work efficiency, and this mode of production not only had low work efficiency, but also caused great social hidden dangers.

In order not to touch the interests of those slave owners, Fang Xiaoyu did not directly declare that slaves were illegal, but only announced that they were not allowed to capture and raise new slaves, and at the same time, without sufficient legal proof, slaves were not allowed to be captured, and slaves must have the same living conditions as hired laborers.

Although such a statute did not explicitly require the release of all slaves, it was very vicious, first of all, not allowing new slaves to be captured cut off all slaves, even the children born to slaves would automatically become free people, and in addition, the prohibition of slaves allowed slaves to have hope, as long as they could escape, they had a high possibility of freedom.

And the third point is that in addition to not paying wages, the treatment of slaves is also comparable to that of free civilians, which increases the cost of using slaves, so that the cost of many slave owners increases significantly, and the profit of using slaves is much lower, and the punishment for violating this law is absolutely severe, and anyone who is found to have violated any of them is a punishment for raiding the house.

Of course, Fang Xiaoyu couldn't block the slave owners' path, if that would undoubtedly force them to rebel. The combination of sticks and sweet dates, Fang Xiaoyu has also used it quite skillfully.

Fang Xiaoyu pointed out a clear way for the slave owners, and if a slave is voluntarily released in everything, he can enjoy certain preferential treatment if he enters industry and commerce, which not only prompts them to release slaves, but also attracts the money of these people to industry and commerce.

After digesting most of the annexed land handed over by the three families, and reducing the slave class, the Chinese Empire made another heavy blow and soon issued the "National Land Law", which stipulated that the area of cultivated land owned by individuals should not exceed 300 mu, and the area of forest land and animal husbandry land should not exceed 1,000 mu, and the state would levy a high tax of 95% on any land that exceeded this limit.

As soon as this regulation was promulgated, many landlords in the country immediately made a fuss, but most of the land in the country was divided, and the total number of people who made a fuss was less than 2,000, so it would not have much effect. Seeing that the government was ignoring them and that the tax collection was about to begin, they had to think about how to sell their surplus land.

Fang Xiaoyu easily solved the problem of domestic land annexation, and then he struck while the iron was hot, and took the opportunity to launch a series of laws and regulations such as the "Chinese Constitution", "Civil Law", "Criminal Law", "Commercial Law", "Traffic Law", etc., these laws have been practiced and revised during the period of the Chinese Territory, and are generally very perfect. Let society enter a virtuous circle.

Later, the Imperial Chinese government issued a new policy, and the tax on cultivated land was reduced to 10%, while the tax on industry and commerce was reduced to 10%.

In order to make up for the lack of too scattered land production, the state also announced that it can also register agricultural reclamation companies, once the agricultural reclamation companies are registered, they will be able to enjoy industrial and commercial tax treatment while farming, but there are also requirements for the establishment of companies, first of all, the financial statements must be reviewed frequently, and slaves are not allowed in the company.

They can set up a farming company to own the same size of land, but there are problems with setting up a farming company. Since no slaves were allowed to participate in the labor of the agricultural reclamation company, there were only two options for those who wanted to start a farming company, either to free the slaves and make them hired laborers, or to keep the slaves in their own homes and not participate in agricultural farming.

Of course, the land of the agricultural reclamation company is still owned by individuals, and it only concentrates the upper limit of 300 acres of personal land, so that people can concentrate on farming through land shares, which is more labor-efficient and the cost of using agricultural machinery is lower.

With the support of the Chung Hwa Foundation's open supply of high-quality seeds and diversified farming machinery, agricultural output and profits will not be reduced by a large decrease in the agricultural population, but will increase by leaps and bounds.

A large number of agricultural reclamation companies have been established, and a large number of freed laborers will not be idle. Under the support of Fang Xiaoyu's preferential industrial and commercial policies in the interior of the empire, a large number of industrial and commercial people entered the interior of the empire to start businesses, and many factories quickly digested and absorbed excess human resources.

The slave problem has been greatly alleviated by all means and it is believed that it will be completely resolved in the near future. The four families were the first to respond to the government's call to free all slaves, thus freeing up a large number of middle-aged laborers to devote themselves to labor-intensive industrial production.

With the support of hundreds of millions of people in the mainland, low-interest loans from the Bank of China, and the technology export of the Chinese consortium, the Chinese empire's industrial scale expanded rapidly, laying a solid foundation for future sales of goods to other countries.

In addition to land, another big problem is transportation. In the territory of the former Chinese Territory, after ten years of construction, the transportation is still quite developed, whether it is several railway lines as the main line, or dense highway lines everywhere, the coastal port facilities are quite modern, but in the original Lanfang Empire is different.

Most of the roads here are gravel roads, only some cement roads have been built near the capital because of the cement sold by Fang Xiaoyu, and the railway is only a railway from Baishan City to Tubo County through Shannan County, Zhili County, Hudong County, Sichuan East County, and West Sichuan County, and the traffic in other places is still almost blank.

Of course, the railway is a money-making industry, although the speed of making money is relatively slow, but it is safe, so Fang Xiaoyu is not only ready to let the China consortium build roads, but also wants the other three major consortiums to also build roads, for this project, the other three major consortiums are also happy to accept.

The imperial government quickly planned a number of railways, and Fang Xiaoyu left several of them with high profits to the other three major consortia, among which the Fang family built a coastal railway line from Jiaozhi County to Luhai County through Jiuhua County, Jinhua County, Donghai County, and Weidong County, which took the coastal economic zone, where industry and commerce were developed, and transportation was frequent, which was quite profitable.

The Wang family undertook the railway from the Far East Railway in the north to Jiaozhi County through Dongmeng County, Shannan County, Zhili County, Anshun County, Yulin County, which connected the three railway lines from north to south, and connected Dongmeng County, which has developed animal husbandry, and the southwestern counties with developed agriculture, which is convenient for the transportation of a large amount of feed, and saves a lot of freight for the Fang family's livestock farms in Dongmeng County.

The Xia family built an east-west railway, which roughly started from Loulan County, crossed the entire empire, and reached the port of Quanzhou.

The railways built by the three companies basically connected their original roots to economically developed areas or to the sea, and these railways not only made money, but also greatly pulled the economy of their original industries and facilitated transportation.

In addition to building a railway in the far north, the Chinese consortium also built several major arterial railways in the country, all of which were relatively remote roads, and also built a railway line from the Batan region to the border of the Istanbul Empire, which was prepared for the future sale of materials in the Great War.

The Xiahou family's Hairun consortium did not participate in the planning of building the railway, because they did not have much money now, and they did not have much foundation on land, at best they were only a small and medium-sized consortium, so they only concentrated on the development of maritime trade.

The situation of the Boston Empire was similar to that of the Chinese Empire, and although they did not have as much new land for rapid industrial development, government officials were very level-headed.

They also saw the boundless business opportunities brought by the great power wars in the Western Continent to other countries, so under the guarantee of the government, the major banks of the Boston Empire also carried out the business of low-interest loans for industry and commerce, desperately expanding the scale of industry and commerce.

The two major economic powers are immersed in the development of their domestic economies, but the western continent is already at war. The first to do so was the Cossack Empire, which was the first to issue the general mobilization order, and if the speed of mobilization was followed, the slow efficiency of the Cossack Empire could not be compared with the efficient Yaman Empire.