Chapter 362: Driving the Landlord Out
Although Ning Qi's explanation was made as easy to understand as possible, most of these naturalized students came from poor peasant families and generally had a poor cultural foundation, and it was probably impossible to expect them to fully comprehend the 'spirit' spirit, and it would be thankful that they could understand four or five sentences out of ten sentences...... For more up-to-date chapters, visit wèn:. Of course, he did not expect that one or two lectures of his own would correct the deep-rooted concept of land in the hearts of these people, and even after a few hundred years, the revolutionaries still had to go through a lot of 'twists' and turns before they could gradually implement the land reform policy, and it was not an overnight achievement to fundamentally change the people's perception of land ownership.
In order to make these students understand why the 'private' ownership of land will limit the development of productive forces, I am afraid that it will be difficult for Ningqi to achieve good results even if he talks dryly, but it is not difficult to make them realize that even if they are not dependent on the land in the future, they can live well.
Most of these people are from areas outside Sanya, where they have witnessed how the Haihan Executive Committee has turned a non-'barren' land into a prosperous commercial port, and they are also the beneficiaries of this social system, and have been instilled by the omnipresent Haihan consciousness, and their hearts have been convinced of the omnipotence of the Executive Committee, even if they can't fully understand the theories that Ning Qi said, but at least they understand that the area governed by the Executive Committee did not rely on farming to get to where it is today. Today, there are tens of thousands of residents in Sanya, but only half of the population is engaged in agriculture, and the proportion of the agricultural population continues to decline.
Such a ratio would not have been possible elsewhere in the Ming Dynasty, and the existing productive forces were destined to require a high proportion of the agricultural population to support the food consumption required by the society, and if Ningqi propagated this theory of encouraging people to leave the land elsewhere, I am afraid that it would be directly regarded as a psychopath. Only where Sanya has made achievements in this way and can be shown with examples can a certain publicity effect be achieved. This rhetoric may not be effective against the stubborn landlords and gentry, but it will certainly have an excellent influence as an argument for internal propaganda and brainwashing.
The trainees may not understand the great changes that the transformation of land from 'private' ownership to public ownership will bring to the social system, and they may not be able to completely let go of the ** purchase of land on their own one day, but out of almost complete trust in the Executive Committee, they will still choose to carry out the orders issued by the Executive Committee. In their view, whatever the prospects for the implementation of this policy, since it is a decision of the Executive Committee, it must be implemented to the letter, which is one of the basic rules that must be observed as a qualified naturalized Haihan citizen.
Although the Executive Committee tried to use non-violent means to expel and annex some of the more stubborn landlords and gentry in its jurisdiction, contradictions and conflicts were still inevitable in the actual process of 'manipulation'.
On 10 September, two naturalized workers sent by the Ministry of Agriculture to Fenghuang Township to measure land were caught and beaten by Huang Yuancai, a local landlord. On the 12th, a naturalized farmer technician was driven away by the local people while instructing the migrant workers to dig and build a canal, because these people believed that the canal would divert water and thus affect the irrigation of their fields. On the 13th, thirteen landlords in Fenghuang Town united to block the main road passing through the town's surroundings and prohibit the passage of naturalized people coming from the direction of Sanya.
These acts were reported to the Ministry of Agriculture, and Gao Huan, who was in charge of the collective farm project, quickly reported the official document to the Executive Committee after receiving the news. Then the Executive Committee only 'spontane' a little more than an hour before coming up with a plan.
The Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Military Commission, the Ministry of Justice, and the Daming Yacheng Government formed a joint law enforcement team to conduct an inventory of the Fenghuang Township area.
Now the executive committee wants to get the official document stamped with the big seal of Zhizhou from the Yacheng official office, it is simply more convenient, a telegram to the Yacheng office, Zhang Guang will transcribe the content of the official document, and he does not even need to go out in person, let the Hai brothers send it to the state government, at most half an hour can complete the formalities and stamp the seal and send it out. The executive committee's way of dealing with this kind of thing is also simple and rude, since the toast does not eat and drink, and does not respect the rules of Haihan, then in the name of the Ming Dynasty to deal with it, if these troublemakers dare to resist, it is a 'chaos'.
The military also cooperated with the operation in the previous stage of land acquisition, and Chen Yixin, the current military director of Wanshan Port, came to the fore at that time because of his excellent performance. Taking into account the actual situation on the ground, the military mobilized two infantry companies from Shengli Port, and one company from the militia currently stationed in Yacheng, and finally selected a company from the recruit camp under training as a reserve to cooperate with the operation, and sent a total of nearly 500 armed forces, which can be described as huge.
Of course, the reason for such a large formation is not because of how powerful the local landlords in Phoenix Town are, but more than half of the reason is to use military action to deter Xiaoxiao and dispel some people's luck psychology.
On 15 September, the Joint Enforcement Group set out from Shengli Port and Yacheng respectively and headed by boat to Fenghuang Town, which is located about 15 miles northwest of Sanya New Town. The Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Civil Affairs only symbolically 'sexually' sent representatives to watch, while the Yacheng government was more trouble-free, and directly appointed Wei Ping, who was stationed in Shengli Port, as the official representative -- because the executive committee was in a hurry and the shipping was too slow, the order was even transmitted back to the base camp by radio from the Yacheng office.
The Executive Committee dispatched a battalion of troops for this incident, which was not strict, and although there was no need to fight, it also needed a high-ranking officer who could calm the scene. It happened that Tom Wang was taking the navy to familiarize himself with the two newly launched warships during this time, so it was logical to take over the task of transporting the operation troops back and forth, and served as the field commander of the operation.
The fleet rendezvoused with the forces coming from Cliff City on the coast near Phoenix Town, and then headed inland. Phoenix Town was not too far from the sea, only two or three miles away, and it was not long before the march was there. The area of Fenghuang Town is not large, and most of the residents have moved out of this place in the past two or three months, so there are more than a dozen households in the town, and they are basically nail households who refuse to give up their land to move out of this place. However, unlike the poor nail households that were cleaned up in the Lianghe River basin last time, the nail households in Fenghuang Town are better off, almost all of them have tens to hundreds of acres of land under their names, and they will form alliances to resist Haihan's land policy.
As soon as he arrived on the ground, he ordered the four companies to move separately, surrounding Phoenix Town from the southeast, northwest, and northwest, blocking the road in and out. Anyone who comes out of the town will be detained first.
Such a big battle naturally attracted the attention of the townspeople, who saw that the Haihan militia with loaded guns began to erect horses and pull iron nets on the main road outside the town, and the people in the town suddenly became a mess. These people originally thought that they could unite to create a little trouble for the Haihan people and make them give up their plans to annex the land, but they didn't expect the other party to be so short-tempered and not give the old and young masters a chance to continue to make trouble, so they directly sent troops to clean it up.
How capable are the Haihan militia groups? Even if they haven't seen it with their own eyes, they've heard a lot. Nowadays, the 'fine' coal and rice of Annam sold in Yacheng City, as well as the hard labor of Annam in Sanya, are said to have been snatched back by the Haihan militia in Annam. Even if the landlords and old fortunes were aggressive, they did not have enough ability to fight against the Haihan militia armed to the teeth.
In order to complete the armed demonstration without blood, Wang Tom also specially applied to the Executive Committee to bring a loudspeaker from Victory Harbor. After the troops set up checkpoints outside the town, someone turned over on the tree and raised the horn to the top of the branch.
Tom Wang picked up the microphone and began to persuade him to surrender: "Listen to the people of the town, listen to the people of the town, this is a joint law enforcement group composed of the Yacheng Government and the Haihan Executive Committee, and you are now surrounded! Everyone lays down their arms and surrenders immediately! If there is any act of resistance, it will be regarded as a rebellion and a 'rebellion'! We will only arrest the first evil offender, and as long as the co-followers do not commit major evil deeds, they will not be blamed for the past! Now give you half an hour to go out of the town and surrender on your own, and those who remain in the town after half an hour will be regarded as rogues." Mess with the party!"
A few minutes later, a number of people began to leave the town and surrender to the militia guarding the perimeter. Although they have the courage to resist the ordinary clerks sent by the Haihan people, they will not be stupid if they have to fight against this army with loaded guns, as long as their brains are not burned out. Half an hour later, the militia entered Phoenix Town in four directions, and found that the town was empty, and they all chose to surrender.
"They are all greedy for life and afraid of death!" Wang Tom complained with disdain as he looked at the captives who were being inspected by the militia one by one.
A few days ago, when the naturalized civilian clerks were attacked here, the people in this town let out their words, as long as the people from Haihan came here, they would come and fight once, but now it seems that they are just a group of cowards without exception. Nothing happened in the process, which made Tom Wang feel a little bored.
According to the information known in advance, all those who participated in the previous conflict among these people will be escorted to Yacheng to be tried by Lord Zhizhou. According to the agreement between the two parties, the gangsters were to be sentenced to heavy fines for various crimes - so-called heavy fines, that is, punishments severe enough to bankrupt them. These people either sold their land to pay fines and left this place of right and wrong, or they were arrested and put in Yacheng Prison, and then transferred to Sanya to do hard labor. As for the very few lucky people who were not liquidated in this catastrophe, I am afraid that it will be difficult to have enough courage to continue to stay in Phoenix Town to guard their land, and it is better to sell their land and leave here now than to be charged with nothing in the end like others.
As for whether these forcibly driven people will have hatred for Haihan, and even embark on the road of complete confrontation with Haihan from now on, the Executive Committee is not worried at all. If the crossing group wants to expand outward, it will inevitably have a large number of people's interests damaged and become opponents of the Haihan system, but in the process, it will also support a considerable number of vested interests, and they will do their best to maintain this new social system.
Now almost all the areas under the rule of Yazhou are controlled by the Haihan, and the people who want to work against the Haihan are basically unlikely to succeed in the south of Qiongzhou Island, and it is not easy to provoke the officials of the Qiongzhou Mansion in the north to find trouble, because there is also a shell of the Yazhou Mansion outside of the Haihan, and now the entire Qiongzhou Island knows that the Yacheng Government has become rich and powerful with the support of the Haihan people, and the overall strength has even surpassed that of the Qiongzhou Prefecture, and no one wants to offend Yacheng lightly.
As for the trouble on the mainland, it will be even more impossible, Haihan is now a righteous businessman who has been praised by the governor of Liangguang, organizing militia groups to pacify the liukou, providing relief to disaster victims in various parts of the province, and also guiding bankrupt people to overseas tuntian cultivation. Of course, the most important thing is that Haihan donated various items of property to the government far more than ordinary businessmen. In the first month after Wang Zunde took office, the Cliff Office donated seven sums of silver totaling more than 10,000 taels to the Governor's Mansion in the name of disaster relief and poverty alleviation, building bridges and paving roads, and condolences to the garrison.
The Guangzhou Office has built up Haihan's reputation in Guangzhou, and has been carrying out various forms of public relations activities almost non-stop, and most of the public comments in the society are positive. If a group of bankrupt landlords on Qiongzhou Island go to Guangzhou to make trouble, claiming that the Haihan people are harming the villagers and the like, not only will they not get sympathy, but most of them will be accused of spreading rumors and making trouble, slandering the good.
As long as the Haihan Executive Committee does not raise its banner to establish political power, it will be very difficult for the Ming officials to find a reason to take action against the Haihan -- could it be that the Haihan people are doing too much business and paying too many taxes? At least in the eyes of the current governor of Liangguang, these descendants of the Han people are much more likely to do things than the Portuguese living in Ho Ching-o.
Speaking of the Portuguese, after several days of repeated discussions, the Council of the Australian 'Gate' finally sent an envoy to Wanshan Port to inform the local garrison that they had agreed to the request of Haihan to hire military instructors at the expense of the Australian 'Gate'. Of course, out of the consideration of fair 'trade', the Council also asked the Haihan side to open the port in Sanya to Portuguese merchant ships.
When the news reached the base camp, Enrique, the special envoy who had rushed to Port Victory from Macao's 'Gate' for the second time, had only arrived in Hong Kong for two days. The Executive Committee happily agreed to allow Portuguese merchant ships to enter and leave the new port of Sanya from October, and to establish long-term trading stations and warehouses in the local area, and to freely trade with merchants from all walks of life who arrived in the port.
This decision is like a loss of horses for the Portuguese who have just lost Hoi An, and the conditions of Sanya New Port are significantly better than those of Hoi An Port, even an old fur dog like Enrique, who has been to ports around the world, can hardly find fault with it. Of course, the most important thing is that the ports under the rule of the Haihan people have implemented a very preferential free port system, and there is no pressure of tariffs, and all kinds of goods that can only be purchased on the mainland can actually be bought in Sanya, and some goods are even cheaper than the Portuguese in Guangzhou because of the origin and tariffs.
Of course, there are gains and losses, and the Portuguese chose to accept the preferential terms offered by the Haihan, which would be tantamount to giving up their interests in South Vietnam. After receiving a promise from the Executive Committee that the safety of all Portuguese lives and property in South Vietnam would be properly cared for, Enrique sent his servants to South Vietnam on a ship headed south by the Ming Maritime Merchants to send a message to the local Portuguese organization that Portugal had given up its continued support for the South Vietnamese regime and had instead maintained a neutral attitude, ceasing military aid in the form of qiē and maintaining only the most basic trade with the South Vietnamese court.
On the question of South Vietnam, the Executive Committee also gave the Portuguese who had a good face a step down: after the reunification of Annam by North Vietnam, the commercial ports acquired by Hai Han in the area south of Hue Province had to give Portuguese merchants and ships the right to station. Enrique believed that this agreement would allow Portugal to recover the damage suffered by the destruction of Hoi An in the future, but he did not know that the Executive Committee had also planted landmines in this agreement. In the current planning for the eastern coast of the Indochina Peninsula, the Executive Committee has planned only two large commercial ports, Da Nang and Quy Nhon, and further south of these two ports, the military has included Cam Ranh Port in its military expansion plan early on. According to this agreement, the port of Cam Ranh for military purposes would not allow the Portuguese to intervene in the future, and Cam Ranh was located further south, which could easily cut off the shipping route between Portuguese merchant ships between Manraka and the commercial port of Indochina. In other words, in the future, if the Executive Committee wants to choke Portugal's neck, it can basically do so at any time. Enrique had no idea that the Haihan Executive Committee would have hidden malice, and although he had been to various ports on the east coast of the Indochina Peninsula, he could not imagine that the Haihan would set up a deserted place as a future maritime military base. Of course, this is also related to Enrique's late contact with the Haihan people, if he can establish a relationship with the Haihan people about a year earlier, then he will realize that the talent of these people in land reclamation is simply incomparable, including Portugal, the old European colonial countries, their colonial methods and vision in front of the Haihan people are still too immature.