Chapter 361: Lecture on the Land Question
In fact, the commercial real estate planned by the Ministry of Construction in Sanya New Town is far more than the "Sanya 'Flower' Garden", and the reason why it will attract the general attention of the public is mainly because the "Sanya 'Flower' Garden" is a sky-high sale price for ordinary people. (Baidu search update fastest and most stable dìng). Even if it is the cheapest 'flower' garden house, one household will be the price of eight naturalized people's houses, although ordinary people can't afford it, but it is inevitable that they will talk about it. However, fortunately, the local naturalized people enjoy a certain amount of living security, and they are not squeezed to the point where it is difficult to survive, so the people do not have any hatred for the rich because of this.
In addition to the high-end commercial and residential communities such as "Sanya 'Flower' Garden", the Ministry of Construction has certainly not forgotten the large number of ordinary migrant workers and some wealthy households who have taken the initiative to move into Sanya. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Commerce, there are currently more than 200 foreign businessmen stationed in the local area. And from the subordinate counties of Yazhou, and even Danzhou in the north and other places for various reasons to move to Sanya to settle in the wealthy family is also a lot, these people themselves have a certain economic base, for the living environment also has certain requirements, after all, living in a place like the merchant station inn is not a long-term solution, after all, you still have to buy a house.
The Ministry of Construction has launched a business apartment with a price of 500 to 800 yuan per household for this part of the consumer group that will not take the initiative to join the naturalized nationality in the short term. However, in fact, this kind of house is not much better than the housing purchased by naturalized people, but it is just a slightly larger tube building. However, for outsiders who are anxious to find a permanent place to live in the local area, there is little room to choose, either to buy this business apartment with a low 'sex' price ratio, or to continue to live in hotels and shopping malls.
In addition to economic considerations, there are also political reasons for such planned settlements for outsiders. The system of bringing together the residences of outsiders was a system that had been established by the Executive Committee early on to facilitate the registration and supervision of the relevant departments.
As early as last year, the Ministry of Civil Affairs began to introduce a household registration system for naturalized residents, registering the people and gradually improving the government affairs system. With the increasing prosperity of Sanya, the number of foreigners is gradually increasing, and the local laws and regulations for naturalized people are not fully applicable to foreigners, which requires relevant departments to increase the supervision of foreigners. The most efficient way to achieve this effect is to limit the range of movement of migrants, especially their homes and places of work.
Following the split of the Military Police Department, the Police Division was integrated into the newly established Ministry of Justice, but its strength has not been significantly increased. The Executive Committee allocates most of its resources to the military, so much so that the police are often stretched thin, and often need to seconded militia or militia members to help maintain law and order in certain public settings. The Ministry of Construction's plan to concentrate the migrant population has simply helped the police department a lot.
When Sanya New Town is gradually becoming lively because of the rise of real estate, in the upper reaches of the Liangjiang area, about ten miles from the coast, the development of large-scale farms organized by the Ministry of Agriculture is also in full swing.
According to the plan of the Ministry of Agriculture, this area with very rich water resources will continue to be developed in the next two to three years, and the cultivation of grain and cash crops will be promoted on a large scale in units of 1,000 mu. In the face of this collective farm-style management mode, it is the local small and medium-sized landlord class that has been hit the hardest.
Due to the higher remuneration and better treatment given by the Haihan people, many long-term workers and even tenants who used to work for the landlords quit their jobs and joined the Haihan. Some peasants with only a small amount of land also chose to sell their land to the Haihan and then work in the naturalized system, which was far more than what they would have earned for cultivating their own fields. This leads many landlords to have a shortage of labor and a large area of land is abandoned. The Haihan people brought a large amount of high-quality rice from Annam, which greatly lowered the price of rice in the local market, making it almost unprofitable for the local grain growers. The Yazhou government also put pressure on the landlords in various ways, hoping that they would "take the initiative" to sell their land to the wealthy Haihan people.
However, in this land-based society, there are still many people who are reluctant to sell the land assets they have accumulated over generations. The Executive Committee also anticipated this situation, and did not carry out compulsory 'sexual' takeovers for these people, but adopted a laissez-faire attitude - if you don't want to sell your land, then hold on to your land and wait for death.
Whether it is cultivating fields or building water conservancy, the collective farms under the rule of the Ministry of Agriculture have far incomparable advantages over ordinary landlords, and they often mobilize thousands of people to work, and the Ministry of Agriculture uses a large number of manpower, machinery and tools in the process, making the work efficiency far better than the scattered work of the peasants of the same era. If the landlords were going to grow some grain for their own consumption, it would probably be enough, but if they wanted to sell it, they would never be able to sell it on the collective farms, which had very low production costs. Moreover, in addition to food, most of the daily necessities on the ground in Yazhou are now directly or indirectly supplied by the crossing group, and it is difficult for people who do not cooperate with the crossing group to even buy salt. Therefore, although there are still many landlords in the agricultural planning area, their lives are not at all easy, and they are trapped on their own land.
Although most of these people went bankrupt because they were oppressed by the landlord class and eventually joined the Crossing Group, they did not quite agree with the land system implemented by the Crossing Group and the attitude towards the landlords -- after all, every poor person in this era has or has had a landlord dream in their hearts.
When the Executive Committee and the Ministry of Agriculture were promoting the land policy, they found that the grassroots personnel would be resistant to their work, because many people did not understand why it was necessary to take the land owned by the 'private' people into public ownership and not be able to buy the land owned by their own 'private' people from the collectives in the future.
In response to this situation, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Propaganda have jointly organized workshops aimed at training grassroots cadres to help them understand and implement the current land policy. As the chief lecturer of the crossing group, Ning Qi will also come to the workshop from time to time to give lectures to the students, brainwash them, and answer their various strange questions.
"Mr. Ning, I have a question. ”
After Ning Qi finished speaking, when he saw someone raising his hand, he nodded and said, "Say it." ”
The student then spoke: "Recently, I went to the landlord's house to do work, and the landlord said, we have cultivated our own land, and we have not provoked the Haihan Executive Committee, why do we have to think of trying to take our land? I don't know how to answer them, please Mr. Ning teach me." ”
"I'm afraid you're not the only one in this situation, I think most of you here have encountered similar problems at work, right?" Ning Qi looked at most of the students below and nodded lightly, and then said: "This sounds like a question about justice, if what we do lacks a legitimate reason and is not in line with morality, then it seems that you can't be justified in doing it, and you can't even convince yourself to carry out the orders of your boss, right?"
"Then we might as well 'spend' a little time today to talk about the issue of land ownership. Ning Qi turned around and wrote the two big words "land" on the blackboard:" Whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the previous dynasties, no matter how it changes, it is always the upper strata of society that will change, that is, those who are qualified to decide the ownership of land, while the lower strata of the people, including these landlords who question your work, actually have no interference in the land ownership system, they are just vested interests in this system, so they must maintain this land system in their favor and oppose policies that may deprive them of their rights and interests. ”
"Let's take a look at the role of the landlord class in society. Ning Qi wrote the word "government" on the blackboard, and then wrote "peasant" under it, pointing to the blank space in the middle and saying: "Between the government and the peasants, it is the landlord and squire." In this social system, they acted as the middle between the government and the peasants, controlling the stability of society, accumulating personal wealth by collecting rents and lending from land, using wealth to obtain social status, monopolizing the handicrafts and commerce of the villages, managing clan affairs and religious organizations, and constantly increasing their power. As for the peasants? I think you all have personal experience: at the end of a year's hard work, in the end it is only enough to 'mix' and half full, and once something happens to the family, you can only borrow money from the landlords in the same village. If you catch up with the famine year, you can often only mortgage your land to the landlord in exchange for grain, and when you can't repay the debt, you lose your family property and become a homeless person. That's how many of you came to Victory Harbor, right?"
Many of the students in the audience nodded silently, if it wasn't for the loss of their family property, how could they have been displaced to work in such a remote place as Victory Port - of course, judging from the current living situation, it is not a bad thing to be able to settle in this place, and it can even be said that they are extremely lucky in their lives.
"What did these landlords do after they squeezed you?" Ning Qi unconsciously pitted the students against the landlords: "Because they have limited knowledge in their minds, it is impossible for them to produce all kinds of goods to make money like us, so the only way they can think of making money is to continue to exploit and squeeze you, they dare not squander it, and they do not want to turn their money into capital to invest in industry and commerce, so they can only use it to buy more land, and then use it to squeeze more peasants through land annexation." ”
"Take the farm we are cultivating near Fenghuang Town as an example, you also know that we have organized and built a large number of water diversion and irrigation projects in the local area, covering an area of nearly 10,000 acres.
Looking at the students in the audience shaking their heads one after another, Ning Qi continued: "Such a large project, according to the usual practice, can only be organized and implemented by the local government, but can the government of Yacheng manage it? Will it manage it? Obviously, the officials and masters do not have such interest and motivation, they did not have it before, and it is unlikely that they will have it in the future, why? Because these lands are not theirs at all, and the benefits obtained have nothing to do with them. has a bumper harvest, maybe he can add a stroke to the folds, and brush himself up with a well-led political performance, and if the harvest is damaged, it will not affect the official position under the buttocks. Therefore, this is a dead knot, the people who have land do not have the ability to improve their productive forces, and the people who have the ability do not have enough interests to promote, and the root of this contradiction is still in the land system!"
"Many of you feel that there is a problem with the land policy of the Executive Committee now, and you are just thinking that you may one day become a landlord. Then I can sue you right now that being an unrighteous lord does not solve the fundamental problem. The landlords do not occupy as much social wealth as you think. ”
Ning Qi looked at the suspicious expressions of the students, and continued: "I'll take Phoenix Town as an example, according to the land information provided to us by the Yacheng government, fifty percent of the existing cultivated land in Phoenix Town belongs to homesteaders, they account for less than one-third of the local residents, and the other half of the land belongs to local landlords, and their proportion of the population is even lower, less than one-tenth. If the peasants of Phoenix divided all the arable land in the area equally, would they become rich? No, no. A few more acres of land is not enough to change the economic situation of the peasants, because under the condition of 'private' land ownership, there is no way to greatly increase the productive forces. If you have any doubts about this question, you can compare the grain production of this year's summer harvest in Phoenix Town and the Shengli Port area, and the facts can tell you how powerful the collective farm really is. ”
"I have three questions, and I hope that students can think carefully and find out the root cause of the answers. First, under the land system of the Ming Dynasty, between the landlords and the peasants who rented land, who was supporting whom? Second, why were the poor poor and why were the rich rich? Third, should the peasants pay land rent to the landlords?
Ning Qi wrote down all three questions on the blackboard and then said to the students: "Many people, including you, think that if there is no land of their own, or if no landlord is willing to rent it, then the peasants will starve to death, so in order to survive, they must try to buy land or maintain the current land system. But is this really the case? You have been here for some time, you have not had your own land, and you have not been engaged in farming, but you are not living a good life now, and I believe that you will live more like a human being, not a slave of the land, than you did before you came to Victory Port! Will leaving the land make the people starve to death? Under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, perhaps, but under the rule of the Haihan Executive Committee, this situation would never have happened! Because we have a better and more mature social system, which can feed more people in the form of social division of labor. ”
"Some people may ask, since the Haihan system can allow the people to survive from the land, then why do they have to buy more land?" Ning Qi drank a sip of water to moisten his throat, looked at the students below whose eyes gradually lit up, and then said: "The advantage of the Haihan system is that it can effectively use labor and produce in an efficient production mode, whether it is food or other products, our production costs are much lower than those of the Ming Dynasty. It is because of this that our products sell well, and in exchange for more wealth, to provide a better living environment for you here, and you now enjoy the living treatment in Victory Harbor, have you ever had in the past?"
The students in the audience collectively shook their heads, it is true that the one they have enjoyed after coming here is incomparable to before, and the all-round protection of clothing, food, housing and transportation provided by the Executive Committee has made it impossible for these people who could not even keep their own property to find fault with anything before. This is the biggest reason why they are willing to stay here and continue to work with the Executive Committee even if they can't own their own land.
"But after all, only a very small number of people under the Ming Dynasty can enjoy the treatment of naturalized people, and the ideal of the Executive Committee is to let as many Chinese people as possible live the same life as you are now, so that everyone can have clothing, housing, food, and education, and this ideal will be difficult to realize, because it requires a lot of wealth, so much that you may not understand. To get so much wealth, it is not enough to rely on the existing manpower in Victory Port, so we will continue to bring in immigrants and expand our production capacity. "There are many people, they always have to eat, there are already tens of thousands of people here, so many mouths to eat, it is impossible to buy food from outside the island, we have to cultivate it ourselves." The meaning of the Ministry of Agriculture's deposit is to use the most efficient farming methods to grow as much food as possible with the least amount of manpower and input. To achieve this, it is necessary to rely on collective farms. We need a large number of collective farms to feed the growing population, and the survival of the landlord class is a stumbling block to our great cause. It's ridiculous that we can grow more food with fewer hands on the land they own, but we have to endure their savings. Ning Qi pointed his finger at the students in the audience: "And you are the greatest force to change this ridiculous status quo! Every acre of land you expropriate from the landlords, you can produce several hundred catties of grain every year, feed more naturalized people, and create more wealth to change your own living conditions! If you want to live a better life, then first of all, complete your current work and expropriate all the land in the Phoenix Town area as soon as possible." ”