Chongzhen five years, the sixteenth day of the first month.

Rugao County, Harbor City.

Xu Yuan, who had only finished all the affairs of the modern society in the past two days and returned to the world at the end of the Ming Dynasty, had no intention of stopping to rest, but gathered all the stewards in important positions, the heads of all the collective estates, and the generals of the Xu Jiajun, and a full three or four hundred people gathered in the Harbour City Auditorium, and then held a meeting for three consecutive days to deploy an important matter.

Dilate.

Xujiazhuang Collective Manor is going to start the second round of expansion.

Increase the number of collective estates from 11 to 110.

The area of arable land occupied should be increased from less than 300,000 mu at present to more than 2 million mu.

The population resources under its control have increased from the current 500,000 to more than 1.5 million.

And strive to complete this round of big expansion in about a year.

Speaking of which, how is this expansion time obviously advanced? In the past, Xu Yuan's plan was to expand every three years, using this time to accumulate enough materials, cultivate enough talents, and have enough military strength to defend their own interests, and then start external expansion.

And it has only been two years since the last round of expansion, and Xu Yuan can't wait to expand, why is he so eager?

Did you feel threatened, or did you lose your patience and plan to take a bigger step?

None of these reasons are.

The most fundamental reason is that Xujiazhuang's capacity is almost to a limit, and it is impossible to expand if you don't want to.

If you think about the less than 300,000 mu of cultivated land, it is impossible to feed more than 500,000 people, and the per capita cultivated land area is less than 0.6 mu, to achieve a per capita ration of no less than 500 catties, to make people eat more than 40 kilograms of meat, and to produce a large number of eggs and milk.

There are too many people.

It's too much of a burden.

The only way to transform this population of more than 500,000 into valuable resources and into the powerful strength of Xujiazhuang is to expand.

to occupy more arable land.

Radiate the collective estate to the entire Yangzhou capital.

In addition, it is a little different from the last expansion, because in the process of intervening in the Shandong Rebellion, Xu Jiazhuang smashed millions of taels of silver, resulting in not a lot of silver on hand, only more than 30 million taels left, and it can no longer be squandered wantonly.

Therefore, the price of buying out the people's fields this time will be in line with the market situation, that is, 10 silver dollars per mu for the best fields, 5~6 pieces for the medium fields, and 3 pieces for the lower fields, and no high premiums will be given.

Secondly, for nail fields and nail households, the response measures taken by Xujiazhuang will not be as gentle as the first time, and even if it is the land of the landlords and gentry, as long as it hinders the construction of the collective manor, it will be directly confiscated and disposed of, what compensation and adjustment and the like, don't think about it, it is to directly occupy it, after all, many gentry and landlords have only 100 people, but they occupy thousands of acres of fertile land, and they can't plant it by themselves, so it is better to cede it to the Xu family manor.

Overbearing.

Xu Jiazhuang began to expose his arrogant and domineering side, and the character of the good man and Bodhisattva who had been managed with great difficulty before, did he just smash it, give up, and start to be a bully?

That's right.

Arguably so, it does.

Immediately, there were some stewards and heads of the village, expressing their concerns, if Xu Jiazhuang did this, would it cause a backlash from the gentry of the government, or cause the encirclement and suppression of the imperial court's army, resulting in a showdown with the imperial court, it is better to continue to keep a low profile for a while, develop for a few more years, and wait until the third round of expansion, how about being high-profile and arrogant?

For the voices of these people.

"You guys, you still have the mentality of a weak man, and you don't have the mentality of a strong man."

Xu Yuan shook his head and criticized these high-level personnel: "Two years ago, when our Xujiazhuang was still relatively weak, it was normal, necessary and correct to keep a low profile and be modest, and at that time we did not have the confidence to lift the table. ”

"But now, not only do you have to change the ways and methods of the past, but you also have to adjust your mentality!"

"As for why we are arrogant and domineering this time, the reason is very simple, when those officials and gentry deliberately guide the displaced people from Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Henan provinces to our Xujiazhuang; When they released the criminals in prison and let the criminals run to Xujiazhuang, increasing our internal instability; When they restricted the entry of raw materials from other places into Xujiazhuang and raised the price significantly, did those high-ranking people consider our interests and our feelings? When they do these things, aren't they bad guys and bullies to us, aren't they tyrannical bullies? ”

"Now, it's our turn to bully them! Don't think it's cruel and inhumane, the rules of this world are like this, when we are good people, those officials and gentry will not be tolerant to us because we are good people, and repay virtue with virtue, impossible, they will only think that we have different intentions, belong to different kinds, and just want to get rid of us as soon as possible! They just wish we would disappear, wish we died, no matter how good we are, it is useless! ”

"This is not a conflict between good and bad, not a contest between justice and evil, but an irreconcilable class contradiction, we want their land, they want our lives, in the eyes of each other, everyone is not a good person, it is impossible to occupy the moral upper hand, the only thing that can distinguish right from wrong, judge victory and defeat, is only strength and strength, only this can decide everything!"

"So don't have any worries, don't be afraid that the sky will fall, there is a powerful Xu family army, any obstacle in front can be crushed, of course, we must treat ordinary people gently and gently, win their hearts, dispel their concerns, and even make some concessions, after winning the support of the majority of the people, for those gentry and landlords, as long as they are at an absolute disadvantage in numbers, we must let them experience the coldness of the cold winter, and deeply understand the law of the law of the jungle, and there is no need to be afraid of offending them."

Xu Yuan said in a cold and cruel tone.

And the expansion plan he set was essentially quite similar to the westward expansion movement in the history of the beautiful country.

It is naked robbery, blatant robbery, and killing by relying on the strong and bullying! Take the land that should not belong to you as your own, and expand your living space by unscrupulous means.

Of course, the difference is that the expansion of the Xu family's manor, in the territory of Daming, will not kill people in large numbers, will not engage in population extermination, but will find a way to win the support of the majority of the poor people, and the interests will be damaged by the minority landlord class who occupy fifty or sixty percent of the land resources.

And Xujiazhuang also has a moral reason, it was the officials and gentry who targeted Xujiazhuang first, and now Xujiazhuang has fought back, which is justified, right? As long as you stand on a fair standpoint, you can't find anything wrong.

The most fundamental reason, of course, is that today's Xujiazhuang has enough strength to expand externally, 11,500 elite soldiers of the Xujia Army, all equipped with electric fire breech guns + sugar grenades, artillery is currently not available, but the weapons research institute is studying 75mm caliber ship rapid-fire cannons, and 80mm caliber army mortars, of which the mortar is close to success, and it will be finalized and mass-produced within two or three months, and the rapid-fire cannon will take a little more time (but it can be done within two years).

Since there is enough strength, no matter what the strong do, they all have a certain degree of innate rationality, and the guns and cannons in the hands of the strong are more convincing than any moral articles, and the words they say are closer to the truth.

And after Xu Yuan's words.

in the Great Hall.

Except for a very small number of people who do not very agree with the understanding.

Most of them nodded their heads in agreement:

"It's not that we are arrogant and domineering, it's the government gentry who forced us like this, and we should fight back."

"In fact, it's not just criminals who are inferior and difficult to change, the government in a certain place actually sent the deaf and mute, the blind, the elderly, and the children who were picked and cut by human traffickers, all of them, these people are completely incapable of working, the purpose is to increase our burden, and the intentions are extremely vicious!"

"Hehe, if we don't be ruthless, we will really be regarded as good people who do good deeds for free."

"Support the owner, we've endured enough, it's long time to launch a counterattack!"

"We have to give those people a taste of what we're good at this time!"

“……”

For the second round of expansion plan, the top management of Xujiazhuang basically reached an agreement.