Chapter 644: Truce
On a railway platform in Guizhou, countless people are forming a relatively neat formation under the guidance of the staff and boarding the train parked next to the platform in turn.
For the soldiers, such a queue is definitely unqualified, if it is replaced by a more irritable officer, seeing his subordinates discharge such a queue, it is even very likely to go up and kick it, but for these ordinary people, it is not easy to discharge such a formation...
Even to have such a formation, it was only with a lot of hard work by the staff...
But...
After the accumulation of countless people, the train station became very lively, like a bazaar, full of people shouting, some were talking loudly to their families, some were calling other people's names, and some were even ...
All in all, the whole situation was very chaotic, and at first, the train station staff tried to make them a little quieter, but after a long time, they gave up.
Because they found that no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't maintain order in the entire train station...
So in the end, it can only be a matter of letting things be...
But then again, in the past, without similar experience, they were able to do this, and it was indeed very goodββββββ later generations of railway departments, in the Spring Festival such as the world's strongest population flow there, naturally can often practice. But in such an era, although railways have become widespread in all provinces of the country, as well as some of the more important cities.
But!
In this day and age. Ordinary people are still not accustomed to the concept of leaving their hometowns to work in other places, so ordinary people are usually looking for jobs in their hometowns, as for the Spring Festival or something...
When it comes to the Spring Festival, there will be some people who will take the train back to their hometowns, but the number is not very large, so during the Spring Festival, at most, it will be a little more lively than usual...
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"Whew. This car of people has finally gotten on..."Looking at the train that was already full of people, a sweaty staff member wiped the sweat from his forehead, and then said to his companion with a tired face.
"Alright. Don't waste your energy talking, there are still a lot of people waiting for us to arrange...", his companion said, and then pointed to the still crowded crowd behind him, even though he had already managed a lot of people to get to the train. But at this moment. The flow of people on the platform of the train station still does not mean to decrease...
When many staff members saw such a scene, they all showed desperate looks, and even the police and militia units who ran to maintain order were a little unbearable...
It's just that duty is duty, since their task is to maintain order, and then send people to the train smoothly, no matter how tired. They can only try, too...
On the other side, they are trying to maintain order on the platform. And when I was helping those people to board the train, not far away, a very young-looking female reporter filmed the scene on the platform with her camera, and at the same time recorded it in her notebook with a pencil...
ββ¦β¦β¦ Although Kazakh Province is thousands of miles away from Guizhou, I see in the eyes of these people that in addition to the confusion and fear of the future, there is also a deep hope, and in the same way, although what I see is only a part of the whole plan, I am convinced that in other parts of the country, it will definitely be as enthusiastic as here..."
After recording the last few words, the young female reporter exhaled softly, and then pointed the camera lens at the crowd again...
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The reason why the railway station is so lively is very simple, because after the successful completion of the westward expansion strategy of the national government and the formal division of new theaters and administrative regions, the national government began to mobilize the people to move to Central Asia and Siberia, as it had done in the Outer Northeast...
Of course, if you want the people to go to these two places voluntarily, you must give some benefits. Fortunately, after capturing these two places, Yan Shao already has a large piece of land in his hands that he can promise to go out.
Of course...
Kazakhstan, or indeed Central Asia and Siberia are very different, both in terms of climatic conditions. Because of this, the treatment of the two is also different.
First of all, the Kazakh province and several other provinces in Central Asia, according to the announcement of the Nationalist government, anyone who voluntarily moved to these provinces could get at least five acres of land, just like the outer northeast, five acres per person.
As for Siberia, the situation is even more abundant, and anyone who voluntarily moves there will receive at least ten acres of land, and the same amount per person...
The reason for this distinction is that the plains of Kazakhstan are obviously more suitable for cultivation than Siberia, and the climate in Kazakhstan is much warmer than that of Siberia.
Therefore, in order to win the enthusiasm of the people, Yan Shao could only raise his salary.
The treatment of moving to Siberia will be twice as high as that of Kazakhstan, so that even if the environment in Siberia cannot be compared with that of Kazakhstan, it will attract a lot of people with twice the benefits.
Naturally, in this way, it seems that the situation in the Outer Northeast will become more complicated, after all, the climate conditions in the Outer Northeast are better than those in Siberia, but they are much worse than those in Kazakhstan. If the outer northeast still maintains five acres of chengdΓΉ, then I am afraid that everyone will have to go to Siberia and Kazakhstan, and not many people will be willing to go to the outer northeast...
So on the basis of the original five acres. Yan Shao added two more acres, bringing the land in the outer northeast to seven acres per personββββββ although this condition is not necessarily better than that of Kazakhstan or Siberia, but at least it can attract some people to return.
As for what to do with those who have already been allocated land ...
There's no need to rush. Because the number of Chinese people who moved into the Outer Northeast at this time is not very large, even if it is temporarily filled, there will not be any big problems...
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Kazakh aside, if it is Siberia, then a family of three can get 30 acres of land, and if it is a family of five, it can get 50 acres. If it's more, let's say more than 10 people, you might even get more than 100 acres of land...
More than 100 acres of land. Even those landlords in China are afraid that most of them will not be able to own so much land. With so much land, the attraction for farmers is enormous. It was precisely because of this that the rule of the Communist government in Siberia and Central Asia was not particularly stable at this time. But after the news came out. There were still a large number of people who applied to sign up, and then, just like the scene just now, a large number of people lined up at the train station, waiting for the train to go north.
In addition, considering the new farmland, even if it is cultivated, it is impossible to harvest it immediately, so it is the same as when I was in the outer Tohoku. The government provides a year's worth of food rations, and the government is also responsible for the food along the trainββββββ although it is certainly not particularly good. But for the people, it is already relatively satisfying, after all, the vast majority of Chinese people today are just barely reaching the level of food and clothing...
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Such a large-scale migration naturally caused a great sensation.
In the face of this policy announced by the Kuomintang, Britain, France and other countries, while protesting again and again, also believed that if the Chinese government really gained a firm foothold in those two places, it would not be so easy to drive them back to China...
Therefore, while protesting, Britain and the United States and other countries are also constantly trying to exterminate Soviet Russia.
It's just that...
Despite the great losses of Soviet Russia, the coalition forces were never able to annihilate them...
On the other hand, in the country, such a large-scale migration also caused a great reaction, especially among the landlords...
In the beginning, most landlords didn't pay much attention to it. However, they seem to have forgotten one thing, and that is that for farmers, if they have land at home, who would want to farm for someone else?
Moreover, in the case of pursuing the principle of voluntariness, many landlords still maintain more than 50% of the rent, although the national government has exempted a large number of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, but such a large rent is still very great pressure on the peasants, and the most important point is to ββββββ interest...
Later generations of land reform, rent reduction and interest reduction, in which the rent reduction is naturally the reduction of rent, so what about interest reduction?
In previous years, if the peasants had a bad harvest and were likely to go hungry, they would usually go to the landlord's house to borrow money or grain. There is no doubt that this part of the loan must have interest, and the interest is definitely not a lot ...
Although the government has reduced the taxes and miscellaneous taxes, this does not mean that this part of the interest is also less, so although the burden on the people is much lighter than before the Xinhai Revolution, it is still a heavy burden...
Therefore, if there is a new head, the people will naturally have a new choice.
But when they chose a new path, it brought a great shock to the landlords, because if all the peasants who had rented their land had gone elsewhere to cultivate their own land, then...
Who will give them the land? They can't plow it themselves, can they?
What's more, many of these peasants still owe them money, and if they were allowed to run away to a place tens of thousands of miles away in Siberia...
Who should they ask for their money?
So in the beginning, many landlords came forward to stop the large-scale 'migration' of peasants. It's just that this is the government's policy after all, so they just came forward to stop it, and a large number of police officers rushed to the scene to stop it, especially those landlords who behaved too violently and even beat up the peasants, and they were directly brought into the police station.
In this way, the obstruction of the landlords was eliminated.
Naturally, they did not forget to mobilize parliamentarians either. Especially the MPs, let them speak for themselves. It's just that the so-called Congress is originally a vase, and this is also a matter of benefiting the country and the people. They couldn't say anything at all.
As for the interest, the Communist government had made a promise and was willing to urge the peasants to pay it back, but it was ......... There is no doubt that the time will definitely be much longer ...
As for how to repay it, you can do it by sending money, and so on...
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The issue of interest is important. But the peasants are running out, and the problem of not being able to find someone to farm for them seems to be just as important. As I said before, if you can have land. Who would want to farm for someone else. Especially if you can get not a small land, but a large piece of land...
In the end, there was no way, in order to avoid farming by themselves, many landlords could only take the initiative to reduce rent and interest. The peasants who were preparing to go north were retainedββββββ they were also forced to do so. Of course. There are also a small number of landlords who choose to buy tractors, etc., but after all, there are still a little less of them, and the price of tractors is too expensive...
Human beings are inherently inert, or they are afraid of the future.
The government's plan for immigration is a good picture, but no one knows what will happen in the end, so if you can get by. These farmers would never be willing to leave their hometowns...
Because of this, the landlords began to reduce rents and interest rates in order to save time. In the end, many people stayed...
Of course, not all landlords will be like this, at least a considerable number of landlords are still getting by. After all, there are always those who are unwilling to go north, no matter how good they are portrayed...
In the end, those who chose to go north either had no land to cultivate, or they had long been unable to be pressed by the landlords...
However, in any case, such a large-scale relocation plan can be regarded as a part of the problem of land rent, which is also a surprise.
And with such a beginning, it seems that it will be much easier to carry out the campaign of rent reduction and interest reduction in the future...
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The emigration movement initiated by the Nationalist government was so great that tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, of people in almost every province chose to go north, and all provinces combined, almost two or three million people.
Although this is not a particularly large number, as long as you consider that Siberia at this time had only a population of 8 million, it is conceivable that it is quite a feat to get so many people who are willing to go north in a short period of time...
Naturally, sending so many people to the north is definitely not a simple matter.
First of all, the problem of transportation along the way, the problem of eating, drinking, and lazing along the way, the problem of law and order brought about by each stop, and finally, after they arrive in the local area, the extremely important problem of organization and management, etc...
These are almost all extremely important questions...
And if two or three million people go north, they will definitely be able to establish many large-scale cities, and these cities must have managers, which is another headache...
In the same way, because of this great 'migration', almost all the eyes of the world and the world have paid attention to this matter, until another thing diverts everyone's attention ββββββ an equally important matter...
Although the Allies were greatly encouraged by the contradictions that had arisen between China and Britain and the United States, when the contradictions between China and Britain and the United States were limited to words, they were not even as effective as a stimulant...
So when the excitement wore off, the Allies had to face a very harsh reality. Germany aside, but Turkey and Austria-Hungary really can't fight anymore...
In the same way, along with the uprisings in the country, the Germans felt a deep exhaustion...
So after a series of considerations, Germany finally took the initiative to propose an armistice...
They were reluctant to fight any further, of course, because they had great illusions about Wilson's 'Wilson Fourteen'...
On the other hand, not only the Germans, but also Britain and France also wanted to end the war as soon as possible, so the two sides simply hit it off, and soon the armistice was signed.
Thereupon...
Although the armistice seemed to take place a little later than in history due to China's relations, the Allies and the Allies finally signed an armistice on December 22, 1918.
As for the other specific processes, we will leave them to the Paris Peace Conference.
It's just that...
At the time of the signing of the agreement, the Germans, who were full of anticipation, could not have imagined what kind of humiliation would await them at the upcoming Paris Peace Conference...
In any case, with the signing of the armistice, the war that had been going on for four years finally came to an end. At the same time, it seems that Britain, France and other countries can also draw more troops to deal with the Soviet Russian forces entrenched in Russia...
Britain and France have even made up their minds that as long as they solve the Soviet Union, they will let Chinese spit out everything they have eaten this timeββββββ with the signing of the armistice agreement, they no longer have to worry about the possibility that China will join the camp of the allies...
It's just that while Britain and the United States and other countries are still rejoicing, they don't notice that another crisis is coming...
In New York, USA, a young man coughed lightly...
There seem to be many people who cough with him... (To be continued......)