"Fengtian carrier, the emperor said. ※※※※※I ※ I ※ ※

"Mr. Dong, no, there are no eight big characters."

The old scholar with glasses stood at the door of the Kaizhou County Government, just read these words, and suddenly there was a shout behind him, the old scholar hurriedly pushed the glasses, and found that there were really no these eight big characters, and he couldn't help but be happy, and said with a smile: "Hehe, the old man forgot, the old man forgot, this is the government's list, and I used to read the emperor's list to everyone in the past." ”

"Haha."

After the old scholar finished speaking, he immediately attracted laughter all around, and he immediately asked anxiously: "Mr. Dong, don't buy Guan Sa, give Nian Nian." ”

"That's good, that's good." The old scholar nodded hurriedly, leaned a little closer, and read.

"Land Law."

"In today's China, land annexation is becoming more and more serious, rich households are farming, poor peasants are landless, and in the long run, it is not conducive to national production, and in order to alleviate this situation, the land law is hereby promulgated."

After reading a few words, the old pedant exploded all around, and people who didn't care about it in the past also came around, you must know that this is Kaizhou (now Puyang), although the wasteland has been reclaimed a lot, but it is densely populated, and there are no special products, and even the imperial court does not care, until the first telephone line was laid a few years ago.

Eighty percent of the land in the county belonged to the landlord Fang family, nearly 100,000 mu, and the Fang family used the land to run rampant in the township, not to mention, and repeatedly used the excuse that the Yellow River flooded and did not give grain to the tenants, so that many people had to go away from home.

So as soon as I heard that the law was aimed at these rich people in Tuntian, it immediately aroused countless onlookers.

The old scholar did not seem to know that there was already a crowd of people behind him, and he continued slowly: "First, all those who are rich in the fields must pay the tenants every month according to the local standard of living, and must not delay for more than a month, and the wages may also be replaced by grain or other articles of equivalent value, but not with articles of useless use to the common people, and whoever violates this article shall be fined or with hard labor. ”

"Second, all those who are rich in land and those who exceed 1,000 mu of surplus land shall pay land retention tax annually in accordance with the county register, with one-tenth for 1,000 mu, two-tenths for 2,000 mu, three-tenths for 3,000 mu, and so on. If it is less than 1,000 mu, all agricultural miscellaneous taxes and fees will be exempted, and local governments will have to levy other miscellaneous taxes in any form. ”

"Third, those who have more than 1,000 acres can choose to sell the surplus land, and local governments can also use railways, mines and other shares to replace the repurchase, and the repurchased land will be sold to people who have no own land, and they must not hoard it in their hands without authorization."

"Fourth."

The old pedant muttered word by word, not noticing that there was already silence behind him, many people widened their eyes, as if they couldn't believe the list in front of them, and some even hated to squeeze in front of them immediately to take a closer look, only two local tyrants in charge of the Fang family, the more they listened, the more they didn't feel good, so they pushed everyone away and hurriedly ran back.

In the conference room of the Prime Minister's Office, almost all the members rushed here, and Chen Ping, the chief of staff who was busy with the war in Jiangsu and Anhui, also took the time to rush here, and everyone looked at the telephone in the middle of the conference room, and their faces were serious.

Sitting beside Li Enfu, looking at the land law that had just been promulgated, Li Mo also frowned.

In fact, many people are very surprised, why he insisted on implementing the land law, although now the north does not count Shaanxi and Gansu, which have not yet been incorporated, and the population is less than 200 million, and the transition can be completed through internal consumption.

In particular, the three northeastern provinces have a vast land and resources, and if they relocate 20 or 30 million people, they can directly arrange for all the wealthy laborers in the Guanzhong area, and in addition, Hokkaido can also get one or two million to pass, and Luzon is not enough to cram into 5 million, so there is no need to be so nervous at all.

But Li Mo has deep considerations, indeed, according to some of the places he has now, let alone 200 million, even if the south is included, there is no big problem with a population of more than 400 million, once he takes Siberia in his mind and connects it with the three northeastern provinces, I am afraid that it is nothing to directly transfer 100 million people!

But is land policy really just a superficial land annexation problem?

No!

Not to mention Li Mo, even Li Enfu and Yan Fu all know that the land issue involves deep reform and the government's foothold!

Although they are all Yan and Huang Suns, Li Mo started from overseas after all, and many people in the Central Plains regard him and Huawei as unorthodox, and those places south of the Yangtze River are now using this slogan to advocate orthodoxy, saying that he is a barbarian from the open sea, and he was slandered by foreigners to destroy the Qing Dynasty.

This is not an era of advanced information, nor is it a year of initial opening during the Republic of China, but the late Qing Dynasty, which was closed under the Manchu Qing Dynasty's policy of closing the country for hundreds of years, and was in the era of feudal slaves, so this kind of remarks are still very marketable!

If a country wants to maintain long-term peace and stability, in addition to having strong armed forces, it needs a large number of supporters who support the government, which is the origin of the saying that the monarch governs the country strictly.

The former, Young Master Li did it, and the latter is exactly what he didn't have, the way he obtained power was to overthrow it from the outside, plus considering that he wanted not to harm the country, so he didn't carry out any deep-seated national movement, except for the three northeastern provinces, there were very few people who supported it.

Some people say that as long as we set up more factories and engage in industry, wouldn't it be enough to turn the peasants into workers? But this is the late Qing Dynasty, this country has no industrial base, even if he is rich, it is impossible to spread factories all over the land of China in just a few years, and even if you do it, all factories will become private or state-owned factories in the future, then the industry will create capacity.

Therefore, if you want to set up an industry and build a factory, you still have to stimulate the people's money in the same way as you did with the Jin merchants, but these years are the masters of the fields, and the rich families would rather bury the silver in their own secret rooms than be reluctant to take it out and invest it in risky industrial factories.

Coupled with the unique loess plot of the Chinese, not to mention the first era of farming, even in the later generations, Young Master Li often thinks that when he retires and returns to his hometown, he will get a pot of tea and three acres of land.

Wealth has always been concentrated in the hands of a few, as has been the case in every age, and now he is faced with a situation in which all wealth is concentrated in the hands of the landlords and gentry who have made their fortunes by land annexation. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

But he also knew that he could not offend all the landlords and gentry like later generations, and confiscate other people's land, which would only make the country more important, not to mention that he had said before that the landlords and gentry were the first people in contact with the outside world in this country, and their younger brothers were the early reformers with Westernization ideas.

When these problems were all put in front of Li Mo one by one, he knew that land reform must be implemented, and the advantage was that by cracking down on those stubborn and conservative big landlords, the land could be recovered through replacement, repurchase and other methods, and handed over to the landless ordinary people, so that the people who got the land would support the government and support him as the emperor!

With their support, all kinds of policies in the future can be carried out smoothly, which is why Emperor Guangxu cannot succeed, because although he is the emperor, there are also people like Tan Si running to shout, but those who should be carrying out the government are resisting one by one, plus he has no military power, and the emperor list of the paper law is estimated to have not even seen the people in many places, let alone them to support the emperor, so Wei can only maintain daydreaming!

Li Mo didn't want his law to be resisted by Yang Fengyin and Yin, the power of the gentry and landlords was very strong, they not only controlled the land, but also because the land gathered a large number of people around them, plus most of them were white in these years, and they only relied on words to transmit news, so they who had the right to speak were the emperors of the soil in the local area, and if they wanted to smoothly push the administration and increase the pace of nationalization, they had to smash the big pot lid that shrouded them over the heads of ordinary people!

However, he could not offend all the landlords and overthrow all the government opposites at once, so after the government officials arrived in the counties and provinces one after another, Li Mo immediately asked them to inquire about a large number of household registration and land sales information, and found that the small landlords who owned 200 to 1,000 mu of land accounted for eighty percent, and the rest were those big landlords with more than 1,000 mu of land, and the more economically weakened Henan and Shandong and other places, the more concentrated the land, and on the land of Guanzhong along the Yellow River, there were not a few people with household assets of more than 10,000 mu. There are even hundreds of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of super big landlords!

Based on this discovery, he immediately thought of the windfall tax levied by many countries in later generations, so he discussed with Li Enfu and others to implement the land law according to the standard of 1,000 acres of land.

To put it bluntly, if you don't own more than 1,000 acres of land, then you only need to pay the tenants who depend on you for a monthly salary according to the local standard of living, and maybe pay a little more than now, but because at the same time, you are exempted from all kinds of agricultural miscellaneous taxes that you originally need to pay, but it has increased your income.

And if your land exceeds the standard, then the extra part, you must pay a very strict land retention tax, every additional thousand acres, you must be one-tenth more, according to this calculation, you have 3,000 acres of land, you can still bear, and there is income, if it is 5,000 acres, then after you pay wages, there will be a small profit, if it reaches 10,000 acres, then congratulations, your annual income from farming is only enough to pay taxes, and even your own food has become a problem.

The great advantage of this is that it is possible to directly separate those small landlords from the big landlords, and adopt the method of pulling together a gang and fighting a faction, so as not to break with all the landlords and gentry.

The only way left for those big landlords is to sell land, or exchange shares in railways, industry and mines with government affairs, plus these shares are allowed to be sold immediately, so they are equivalent to getting a lot of cash, but the gold standard and the issuance of paper money mean that they can no longer hide in the cellar and mold as before, and can only be stored in the bank, or used for investment, so that the money is collected again, forced to national construction and investment in industry, which can greatly stimulate the development of industry and commerce.

When the land begins to flow back into the hands of the government, then the government will have enough land to sell at a low price, or distribute it to the landless peasants, so that the peasants will support the government, and the position of Master Li can be regarded as secure!

In addition to the above reasons, there is another big reason that Li Mo only said to a few key members of the internal government, that is, the land issue can also become an excuse and a means for the government to establish its authority!

You know, this year's conservative thinking is not an empty word, and you can't fire all the original officials at once, you must keep them and slowly eliminate them, if you want them to do their best, if you want conservatives to know clearly that the government is doing what it says, you must stand up!

All dynasties and dynasties, at the beginning of the founding of the country, there was this kind of prestige, otherwise there would not be Yangzhou Seven Days, Jiading Three Massacres and other things, there would not be so many founding fathers fell before the country prospered.

In the eyes of Young Master Li, the huge movement under the banner of culture in his previous life was not a prestige?

But he can't adopt this extreme way, and he doesn't like the tyrannical approach of MacArthur in the *** land reform in later generations, so the best way is to use the guys who came out of the land reform to make a statement, and at the same time deter those who are lucky, and tell everyone clearly with blood.

It's a change of dynasty!

This is a good era, because this is the era of the transition from feudalism to capital, and it is also a time when bloodshed is commonplace when the regime is repeated, although cold-blooded is cruel, but it is a necessary means, if Emperor Guangxu had the right to directly raise a machete and chop off thousands of heads, speak with blood, not to mention constitutionalism, even an immediate republic is not empty words!

Therefore, Tan Sitong, who is already a ** official, was the first to praise Zhengwei, because he had already seen through the reason when he changed the law at the beginning, this ** official, who was almost sent to the guillotine and had long hated the old feudal law, did not want to have a confrontation where the second law was violated by yang and yin!

And Li Mo knows better than anyone that he must accelerate, because of his emergence and rise, the world situation has undergone earth-shaking changes, the competition for colonies by European powers is becoming increasingly fierce, and the imminent war is not empty talk at all.

Moreover, in a period of time, the Chinese ship will be built, once this kind of warship is exposed to the public, I am afraid that the whole world will become more and more restless because of its appearance, so he must win over as many supporters as possible in a short time.

This is the experience of the ancestors who have summed up thousands of years of blood and fire, so Young Master Li will care so much about every move in the north, not to mention the whole country, at least in a short period of time, the north will be built into an iron plate first!

Because he doesn't want to, and will never say anything about the idiocy of taoguang and obscurity, and reap the benefits of fishermen, how can he get the respect of others if he doesn't devote himself to entering this torrent of times! He knows better than anyone that there is no empty talk of peaceful rise in this world, especially in this era, how can he stand on top of the world without experiencing the baptism of blood and fire!

"Jingle bells."

A crisp sound of the telephone broke the silence in the conference room, and everyone's hearts hung in their throats, and after Li Enfu took a breath, he grabbed the telephone that had just been laid and connected the emperor, the prime minister's office and various departments.

On the other end of the phone, there was a series of hurried reports, and after a long time, Li Enfu slowly put down the phone under everyone's attention: "Your Majesty, you guessed well, someone came out!" ”

After saying this, not only did not make everyone nervous, but they were all relieved.

Li Mo also smiled slightly, it is better for someone to come out than to fight coldly, so he immediately turned to Yan Fu, Minister of National Defense and Internal Affairs: "Mr. Yan, how are the police and internal affairs forces prepared?" ”

"Your Majesty, don't worry, the police have trained nearly 3,000 people, and they have all been on standby in Tianjin, plus the original government servants from all over the country, it is almost the same as being distributed to five provinces, and the training of the first internal affairs force has also ended, a total of 10,000 people, divided into ten battalions, equipped with old-fashioned Mausers, it is enough to deal with these people!"

After listening to this, Li Mo's heart calmed down a lot, the police is a non-military force that he has been building, and it is temporarily managed by Yan Fu, the Minister of the Interior, and will be handed over to them when the government is free, while the internal affairs force is built, which is specially used for domestic bandits suppression and defense of important departments, and is subordinate to the military.

The family background of this army is based on veterans as the backbone, plus some of the Beiyang Army soldiers who were unwilling to leave their homeland and had to take off their military uniforms were screened out, and some of them were selected because a large number of Qing troops surrendered, a total of 20,000 people, all of whom were trained and reorganized in the northeast, received three months of education and ***, and this time the horses will be the first batch.

In order to distinguish the difference between the internal affairs forces and the main forces, and also to reduce the threat, this unit is not equipped with any heavy firepower, and like the police, it is armed only with revolvers, and captured *** old single-shot Mauser rifles.

Ten battalions, although it doesn't seem like much, but the main forces are still stationed in the provinces at the moment, since someone has come out, let's do it! Li Mo took a deep breath and looked at Li Enfu.

Although he is the emperor and the land law is also advocated by him, this is an internal matter, so he has to wait for Li Enfu to order.

Fortunately, Master Li is at least in the years when he is still a family, and he has a government that never lags behind in profits, and grandma has seized the military power, so many of his ideals can be completed at an accelerated pace, and the country in front of him is still a blank sheet of paper, which can be left to him, even if a problem is found, there is still a chance to correct it.

However, this is also the last time he has participated in internal affairs, and after the land reform is solved and the people are brought to support him by using the land law, he will wholeheartedly pounce on the blue ocean, and there is too much time to look away from it!

In the courtyard of the Fang family in Kaizhou County, this big family that started from the land is now experiencing a crisis, and Master Fang is face is pale, looking at the man sitting below, his eyes are shining.

"Li Ersheng, don't be embarrassed, do you think that if you change your skin, you can scare our Fang family? Government? No matter how big the government is, it has to be reasonable! Our family's field, you can deal with it as you want, and it's not your turn to be a small county official to talk nonsense, get out! Several children of the Fang family jumped out with red faces, and brought a few big men with guns, all pointing their guns at Li Ersheng, who was sitting below.

Li Ersheng was originally a servant of Kaizhou County, although the county magistrate here became a county magistrate, a young man, but most of the old people in the county government still stayed, and today in the name of the county magistrate, he came to invite the Fang family to discuss the land replacement in the past, but he didn't expect to get this treatment, and he couldn't help but be angry, and shouted: "Old man Fang, don't fucking give a shame, the county magistrate asked you to look at you at that time, don't forget, it's Hua now, not the Qing Dynasty!" ”

"So what? Will the government be able to grab people's land? I don't believe it, there is no place for reason in this world! "Although Master Fang is called Master, he is actually only in his forties, and when he is officially in the prime of life, he is naturally unwilling to leave such a big foundation.

"Well, I won't fight with you anymore." Li Ersheng got up, glanced at the big men with guns around him, and suddenly sneered: "Master Fang, I don't care if you buy land or not, but there is something I want to remind you that according to the law, you have guns in private." ”

"That's a capital offense!"

"You!" As soon as Li Ersheng's words came out, Master Fang's vest suddenly became cold, who is he? The Emperor of the Earth of Kaiju! I don't know the thoughts of these officials, bandits are rampant these years, and the big family doesn't hide a few guns to defend themselves, as long as you don't take it out all day long to show off, the officials won't care about it at all, and at this time to take out this to suppress people, it's obviously not polite.

"Farewell!" After Li Ersheng finished speaking, he knew that he couldn't stay for a long time, so he rushed out of the courtyard without waiting for the other party to react.

Seeing Li Ersheng leaving, Master Fang finally let out a sigh, but when he saw those guns, he frowned again, if the other party really used this as an excuse, then I'm afraid.

"Master, master, it's not good!"

Before he could finish thinking about it, the housekeeper rushed in and cried: "Master, it's not good, there are soldiers outside, all of them are holding foreign guns, and they are rushing in by name!" ”

"What!"

Master Fang panicked now, he originally thought that this Kaizhou is located in a remote area, and most of the land belongs to the Fang family, as long as he doesn't let go, no one can do anything about him, no matter how powerful the government is, it can't deal with him, the head snake, most of them are perfunctory like the Qing Dynasty not long ago, but they didn't expect that people didn't reason with him at all, and directly sent the army!

"Who is Fang Jiazhuo?"

It's Fang Jiazhuo. ”

Trembling to see, there have already been dozens of soldiers of the internal affairs army rushed into the compound, although these soldiers are not regular soldiers, but after receiving a few months of rigorous training, they also have a good look, the first thing after rushing in is to get out of a few guns to protect the courtyard, the squad leader who took the lead slowly took out an official document, and read: "Fang Jiazhuo, for the rich and unkind, rampant in the township, but also privately hidden firearms, trying to rebel and sabotage the government, so the police department specially approved the arrest, the rest of the Fang family stayed at home and were not allowed to go out, except for leaving 3,000 acres of land under his name, The rest are confiscated! ”

"What!"

After Master Fang listened to all the official documents, he was so frightened that he sat on the ground, and his few who were still arrogant shrank into a ball one by one, and under the black muzzle, they didn't even dare to let out a fart.

"Take it away!"

The squad leader didn't seem to see Master Fang, who was paralyzed to the end, waved his hand, and immediately two soldiers took him out like dragging a dead dog, and a dry howl suddenly sounded in the mansion.

When Master Fang was taken out of the compound and outside, the onlookers suddenly exploded, they couldn't believe that the Fang family, who had been here for generations, would really be arrested by the county master.

Three days later, a big news made Kaizhou boil, and the county magistrate issued a list of documents, from today on, all the tenants of the original Fang family can contribute to the purchase of the Fang family's land, which shall not exceed 100 acres, and if the funds are not enough, you can apply for a loan from the ticket number and the bank, and at the same time, the county government will also take out 10,000 acres of land and give it to the difficult families in the county.

As soon as this news came out, the entire county was boiling, and countless people flocked to the county government to inquire about the authenticity, and some of them began to raise money everywhere, or several people partnered together to buy the land that they had been looking forward to for several generations.

But the people cheering in this isolated small county town did not know that at the same moment when the Fang family fell, the original Zhili, Shandong, Henan, and Anhui, which had just been renamed, had just been taken down, and a similar situation occurred throughout the north of the Yangtze River, and nearly 1,000 powerful landlords in Tuntian were all arrested at night, and some people tried to resist with tenants who did not know the truth, and were directly shot on the spot.

It's really a change of dynasty!

Most of the big landlords left 35,000 acres of land, and all the others immediately sold it to others, and some chose to exchange the shares of the railways and the shares of factories and mines in various places with the government, because they all knew that if they did not sell the excess land, then I am afraid that there would be a situation in which the chickens and eggs would be confiscated.

More and more landless peasants began to benefit, and they began to acquire land from the government, and at the same time, they also became supporters of the emperor and the government.

At the same time, the Chinese government officially launched paper money, and at the same time issued an announcement that silver can be exchanged for paper money to bank ticket numbers in various places, but only for three months, but if it is not exchanged within three months, all losses will be borne by individuals.

In order to prevent accidents, Li Mo even ordered the suspension of all military operations, and at the same time personally sat in the Ministry of Finance to monitor the exchange of silver in various places, and a steady stream of silver began to pass through the huge Jin merchant ticket number under the momentum of exchange, quietly exported to the southern provinces, under the operation of these ticket numbers, there was even a sky-high price of one tael of gold for twenty taels of silver in the south, such an attractive price suddenly made many people throw gold into silver, The gold was returned to the Ministry of Finance through the ticket number, and the blue coins were put on the market.

Of course, it is impossible for all silver to turn into gold, so there is a steady stream of all kinds of materials that are constantly transported to the north, and the Jin merchants have played an excellent business skill, and they also helped Master Li to launch a wave of buyback mines, and directly acquired several large mines controlled by foreigners.

The huge inflow of silver made the southern provinces suddenly complain, not to mention the soaring prices, and even the cheap rice almost doubled, but they had no gold reserves and could not issue paper money, and Britain, France, Germany and other countries did not want to see paper money also circulated in the south, and in their opinion, they would rather want silver than ask for these rabble paper money in the south!

The Ministry of Intelligence also began to strengthen infiltration, and in the south, which was already suffering from internal and external troubles, a large number of remarks advocating Li Hongzhang and others were reluctant to do anything, relying on foreign countries for self-respect, and not thinking about the country.

Li Mo didn't pay much attention to the chaos in the south, not that he didn't want to take the south immediately, but he had to wait a little longer, as for the chaos, it was not a big deal, and when the news of the prosperity of the north was transmitted to the south, I am afraid that the southeast mutual insurance agreement would become a blank slate.

With a wave of almost cold-blooded land action, the feudal iron curtain shrouded in the north for thousands of years finally began to be torn apart little by little, and the paper money was forcibly pushed away, and at the same time, the government formulated a ten-year immigration plan of 30 million people also began to be implemented, according to the plan at present, the Yellow River Basin in Hanzhong, those people who are extremely poor and unsuitable for human habitation will move to the northeast, and the government will give these people who are willing to leave the settlement allowance and land, and exempt from taxes for three years.

And this wave of land wind and financial wind is less involved in Shanxi, mainly because Shanxi has scarce fields, otherwise the Jin merchants would not have become the first batch of people who did not rely on land to create such a large family business, plus they had already until Young Master Li wanted to implement paper money, so they were also prepared.

However, Shanxi was not idle, and in Shanxi and Henan, together with several generals with considerable family resources, such as Long Guozhang, he set up several forestry companies in the name of private individuals, which were specially used for afforestation in the Yellow River Valley in Hanzhong, and also stipulated by administrative legislation that anyone who indiscriminately cut down and destroyed the forests in the two places would be sentenced to hard labor and huge fines.

According to the documents left by the Manchu Qing Household Department, the state allocates funds for disaster relief every year is a huge expense, so one day earlier to carry out soil and water conservation, one day earlier can fundamentally solve this problem, if it can be implemented, then after a hundred years, the Yellow River may no longer be so annoying.

Railways, coupled with the dredging of the Yellow River, water, roads and other infrastructure, suddenly made the entire northern land seem to have become a car without brakes, but full of oil rampage, all of them fell into the boom of large-scale development, and this time in addition to the 500,000 Nanyang coolies transported, Li Enfu only got 100,000 *** people and did not want it, but recruited nearly a million local craftsmen, plus a large number of farmers who originally had no land to get the land, so that at least in a few years, there will be no major problem of displaced people.

In a few years, when factories will pop up again with government investment, a large number of farmers will slowly turn into workers, and land will no longer be a problem for the country.

Just when all this had just begun, Young Master Li finally received a good news in the midst of several months of complexity, under the joint attack of the two divisions, the Huai army, which the Qing Dynasty had been able to fight again, finally surrendered collectively after holding out for two months, and this was because it was necessary to make way for the implementation of the land law and paper money, otherwise it would have ended early.

On May 3, 1899, Master Li finally breathed a sigh of relief at the map, and his eyes were fixed on the last two targets in the north, Shaanxi, Gansu and Mongolia!

And behind them, the huge ***, *** and the dangerous Tsarist Russia!

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