The recovery of the Outer Northeast is certainly a great joy, but after a long time, the enthusiasm for celebration will gradually fade. At present, domestic reports mainly focus on the European battlefield, the establishment of Soviet Russia, and the construction of the Outer Northeast.

In fact, there are only a few things worth reporting about at the moment, and most of the other things are not worth talking about.

Just when the people of the country were planning to live as usual, people who stepped out of their homes were surprised to find that the latest government announcements were posted on the bulletin boards everywhere.

The content of the announcement is simple: in order to speed up the development of the Outer Northeast region, the government encourages people to voluntarily settle in the Outer Northeast, and promises that as long as the people are willing to go to the Outer Northeast, the government will provide shelter, bedding for the winter, and enough food rations for everyone to eat for a year.

In addition, the government also promised that Chinese people between the ages of 6 and 60 can get at least five acres of land as long as they voluntarily settle in the Northeast, and the government will not charge any fees.

The announcement of this policy immediately caused a sensation throughout the country.

What is most important to the peasants, of course, is land, and now that the government has promised to give away land for nothing, how can this not make a sensation among the people. What's more, the government has also promised that people between the ages of 6 and 60 can get land as long as they are willing to settle in the Outer Northeast.

That 60-year-old aside, 6-year-old or something...

As long as ordinary couples have a child, this is equivalent to giving away land for nothing!

What's more, in this era, early marriage and early childbearing are advocated, and it is not uncommon to have children in their 10s, and it is not strange to hold grandchildren at the age of 3 or 40. That's how it goes. It is normal for a family of five or six, seven or eight to have one, and it is possible to get thirty or forty acres of land at one time...

Thirty or forty acres, which seemed to be very common in later generations. After all, ordinary contractors are calculated in hectares when contracting land. However, for the people of this era, thirty or forty acres of land is definitely not a small amount, in some areas, thirty or forty acres of land may only be regarded as a rich peasant (twelve acres of land in Jiangxi during the Republic of China in history is considered a rich peasant), but in some areas, thirty or forty acres of land can already be called a landlord.

Of course. Just a small landlord...

And if it's the kind of kind with only seven or eight brothers and sisters, I'm afraid there will be more land to get. However, this is relatively unlikely, although early birth and early childbearing are favored in this era. But the chance of early death is just as great, as in the afterlife, and the chance of a child dying is very small.

For example, Yan Shao's father's generation was born in the 60s. Brothers and sisters all add up and probably have. Well, do the math, one, two, three, four......... Five, six, about six brothers and sisters.

On his mother's side, there were five of them...

This is mainly because medicine has developed, and the chances of a child surviving are also relatively high.

But now...

Medical care is more difficult to popularize than education, and even education is not universal at the moment, let alone medical care...

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Like I said before. Land is the lifeblood of the people, so after the new policy is announced. It immediately caused a sensation in China, and even abroad there were many media reports that the Chinese really did not plan to go back...

Unlike another time and space, in this time and space, the credibility of the government is very high, so the people did not doubt the government's words, and soon some local people responded to the government's call, and other people were still waiting and watching, but they were also ready to move.

This is not surprising, although since the "Seventh Five-Year Plan" and the "European War", the domestic industry has developed rapidly, almost every year can be greatly increased, and the total number of domestic workers has also risen for this reason.

But even so, China's foundation is still too thin after all.

Take steel as an example, with a population of 30 or 40 million of ordinary powers, the crude steel output of 3 or 4 million is enough. However, China's population is more than ten times larger than that of these countries, and if you want to catch up with the great powers in terms of 'per capita', you need to grow more than ten times―――――― of course, things are not so simple, you produce so much steel, you must always be able to consume it, otherwise you can only produce it and cannot consume it, it is easy to overcapacity, and in the end it will only bring disaster, of course, these are not the point.

The point is that a country with a population of 30 to 40 million has a crude steel output of three to four million, which can be called an industrial country. But for a country with a population of four or five hundred million, with an output of three or four million, how far do you think it can be from the title of industrial country?

This is the case in China today, although the industry has been greatly developed, but think about the population or something, in fact, China is still an out-and-out agricultural country.

Although a large number of factories have consumed a lot of labor, agriculture still accounts for the largest number of laborers. However, although China's territory is large, there are very few places suitable for arable land, and even fewer good arable land...

Coupled with a huge population...

Disaster...

Considering that more than half of the country's arable land is in the hands of landlords, this is another disaster.

Although as early as Anhui, Yan Shao had already abolished the agricultural tax and persuaded the landlords to reduce the rent to 30 percent of Cheng Dù. However, there are landlords who voluntarily reduce rents, but there are also some landlords who do not reduce rents no matter how much they persuade them, and in some places, in order to prevent tenants from running away, they even reach an offensive and defensive alliance with landlords in the same village or even town, and grit their teeth together and do not reduce interest rates...

After all, rent and interest reductions are voluntary, and the government cannot force them, so local governments have no way to deal with this situation, let alone ......... Local government officials have some connection with these people, and even if they have orders from above, they may not be willing to care...

As a result, among the many policies promulgated by the national government, although the exemption from agricultural taxes was the most shocking, it was in fact that the real improvement in the lives of the people was a series of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, such as the centijin, which strictly hindered business practices and thus raised prices.

As for exemption from agricultural taxes? It was fine for the peasants who owned their own land, or who worked under enlightened landlords. But for those who have some iron roosters on the table, Grande, I'm afraid...

However, even so, Yan Shao's actions since the recovery can still make many people die for him...

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Didn't Yan Shao know what was happening on the ground? Of course not. However, there is nothing he can do about it.

After all, rent and interest reductions are voluntary, and the government is not easy to interfere with, not to mention that the national government at that time only controlled half of the provinces, and the other half was in the hands of local warlords.

And those warlords or the officers under the warlords have many connections with the localities, and some of the officers are simply landlords in their families. It is conceivably difficult to forcibly promote rent and interest reductions. Ultimately. When the Nationalist Government was first established, local rule was nominal after all, if rent and interest reductions were enforced. It is easy for a civil war to break out again―――――― Yan Shao is still too young after all, although the Nationalist Army has already controlled half of China at that time, there are still many people who regard Yan Shao as a hairless little white face with first-class lips...

What's more, almost all of the newly recovered Beiyang Army are old-style soldiers. Buy some land at home. It was the old habit of these soldiers, and even within the National Social Army at that time, there were many officers whose families were landlords...

In addition, the European war was getting closer and closer at that time, and in order to catch up with this feast as much as possible, Yan Shao could only act cautiously.

As a result, four years have passed since the establishment of the Nationalist Government in 13 years, except for the initial time when a large number of landlords voluntarily reduced rents and interest rates. In the years that followed, although there were some fluctuations, it was no different from backwater. Some landlords who were originally following the trend saw that there was nothing to reduce rent and interest rates in other places, but they also withdrew with them, which really makes people laugh and cry.

Fortunately, the previous series of new policies brought many benefits to the people, so the people were not dissatisfied with the central government and Yan Shao, and their dissatisfaction was mainly concentrated in the local government and the parliament, as well as the landlords.

It's just that because the lives of ordinary people are much better, this dissatisfaction is not as intense as in another time and space. After all, in another time and space, seventy percent of the rents have become conscientious rents.

In fact, this is another reason why the people support Yan Shao instead of those councilors, after all, these councilors' daily behavior really has no intention of making decisions for them at all.

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Yan Shao didn't think about solving this problem, but at the beginning, the local government was not stable, and it was definitely a death-seeking act to force rent reduction and interest reduction rashly, not to mention that there was a European war waiting.

After the outbreak of the European war, although the prestige of the Nationalist government was once again enhanced, Yan Shao had no time to be busy with this...

At present, the two strategies of northward and westward expansion are being carried out at the same time, and domestic stability is once again in the first place, and it is obviously not the right time to implement rent and interest reductions.

However, in Yan Shao's mind, there is no way to deal with it, which is to replace agriculture with guò industry, and at the same time expand the area of cultivated land and increase the production of grain.

The former was learned by Yan Shao from later generations, and there were fewer simple farmers in later generations, just because the money earned by going to work was more, at least comparable, and there was no need to watch the sky to eat.

Of course, if you can contract N hectares of land, then I didn't say it. Yan Shao's idea is to find a way to send people to work in the factory, and those who have less arable land will not be able to continue to maintain the current high rent compared to those landlords, but after all, this method is too slow to work, and it will not be effective in twenty or thirty years.

As for expanding the area of cultivated land and increasing grain production, it is necessary to have strong industrial and technological capabilities.

The former is not mentioned for the time being, and the latter is ......... No matter what kind of rice (the first two words are written for fear of being harmonized), or the construction of water conservancy projects, it requires a certain amount of industrial and scientific research capabilities.

And now, with the recovery of the Outer Northeast, there is a new road in front of Yan Shao.

The simple way was to give the newly acquired land to the peasants, so that the peasants, who could only rent land from the landlords, would have their own fields. Although the climatic conditions of the Outer Khing'an Mountains may not be suitable for human habitation, the yield may be somewhat ......... But there are so many of them, and with a variety of agricultural products such as potatoes, it's absolutely no problem to eat a full meal.

This is tantamount to solving the land problem of many peasants.

Again, a large number of peasants moved in. It can also play a role in stabilizing the rule of the Outer Khingan Mountains, and this is the second.

Finally, and most importantly. With a large number of peasants going north, unless those landlords want to cultivate their own land, they can only reduce the rent to attract farmers to stay―――――― of course, these landlords can also consider buying some tractors or something to replace labor, the efficiency may be higher, but the cost of tractors is too high after all, ordinary landlords are difficult to have such courage. Moreover, the vast majority of landlords may not have thought of using tractors for farming.

And as long as this goal can be achieved, then the land rent problem that has always plagued Yan Shao can be solved.

This brings us to the third point. Yan Shao's introduction of this policy can be described as killing three birds with one stone...

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Due to the high credibility of the government, coupled with the fact that the railway has been built in all directions at this time, most of the areas. Except for Tibet, which is too difficult, railways have already been built. So soon, the first batch of peasants dragged their families and took the train from the north to the northeast―――――― although in order to repair these railways, the people from the Ministry of Finance almost sold their kidneys, but fortunately, they had almost repaired it, and the Great Leap Forward of the railways could also come to an end, and the investment in this area could be less in the future, otherwise Liang Shiyi would really have the heart to hang themselves.

Although the government has stated before, the climate in the Outer Northeast region is cold. And ordinary crops can only be harvested once a year, but even this can't stop the enthusiasm of these farmers. After all, owning their own land has always been the wish of farmers for thousands of years.

Even if it is a year of maturity, a family of three has fifteen acres of land, which is enough for them to live, instead of being as tired and tired as in the past, and they have to pay rent to others...

The first group of people who went north was about 8,000 people, all of whom came from all over the country, from all over the world, almost everywhere.

More than 8,000 people, although it does not seem to be a lot, but considering that this is only the first batch, and many others are waiting to see later, it seems acceptable.

During the period when the peasants went north, some landlords were also pondering the possibility of going north, and some even asked the government about the tone of the government, wondering if they could buy some land in the northeast.

Yan Shao is not against land transactions, anyway, the land in the Outer Northeast is as expensive as the domestic one, but he mobilized the people to move north this time, in addition to stabilizing the rule of the Outer Northeast, the most important thing is to solve the domestic land problem, so Yan Shao soon added an order, strictly ordering anyone with more than 50 acres of land at home to only buy land after settling in the Outer Northeast, and not have the right to get free land, and at the same time strictly prohibit farmers who have been allocated land from trading with others, at least not for a short period of time...

Naturally, this provision caused an uproar, and many of the gentry saw it as discriminating against them in favor of the poor.

It's just that they can't do anything about Yan Shao, after all, now that Yan Shao's reputation has reached its peak, even if they do something, they can't shake it.

And...

They also went along the free field, thinking that they would live in the northeast for a while, get some free arable land, and then buy some from the people who had migrated there. Although the land in the Outer Northeast is worse than that in China, at least it is ripe once a year, isn't it?

But now that there is such a targeted clause, they are not interested.

One of the most fundamental reasons is that they are worried.

Just as many Russians believe that the Outer Northeast will still be owned by Russia in the end, the domestic gentry are also a little worried, after all, Russia has accumulated power for many years, and it is difficult for them to believe that the newly rising China can defeat Russia, and they just think that China can take advantage of Russia's internal strife to recover the Outer Northeast.

If it was free arable land, they would have been a little interested, after all, even if it was snatched back by the Russians, it was originally obtained for nothing. But if you only want to buy ......... The more you invest, the more you will lose when the Russians take it back in the future.

This, they can't help but worry about ...

As a result, only a small part of the local gentry chose to go to the northeast to develop, while the vast majority stayed in the country.

At the same time, with the addition of the decree, there was a jubilation in society.

After all, in the eyes of ordinary people, it is really a shameless thing to find a way to deduct benefits from the government and compete with ordinary poor peasants.

Although many people think that it is very unwise and embarrassing for Yan Shao not to win over the real local managers, but to run to please those mud legs, but only Yan Shao knows how terrifying these so-called 'mud legs' will be.

Therefore, Yan Shao did not dare to neglect the peasants' affairs at all, and the same is true of this matter...

Some officials or military officers who have land in the local area are slightly dissatisfied with this, but this time Yan Shao did not force the interest rate and rent reduction after all, but only sought development from another reaction, and it can be regarded as giving enough face, so they don't have much to say.

However, on the other hand, just when the Ocean Fleet was successfully formed and the Indian Ocean Fleet had begun to select ships to set off, on the European side, Soviet Russia and Germany had also signed a formal armistice agreement.

Danger from allies ...

Former allies, perhaps, (to be continued......