Anti-Qing: I'm actually an honest person

Chapter 182 Agricultural Company
Labu was captured and Nanchang fell. The news spread across the country like wings, and everyone on the land of China was excited.

In fact, before this, most ordinary people were very pessimistic about Liu Dapao's attempt to reverse the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, and they might even be a little disgusted.

After all, the undefeated myth of the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers is not far away. Although Wu Sangui could be said to be destructive when he raised his troops, in fact, he did not fight many tough battles. After a strange stalemate, there are really not many people who really believe that the Ming army can win the final victory.

Even if they can't win quickly, many people would like Wu Sangui and Liu Dapao to lose quickly, because it will be about ten years before the world is really peaceful, and the common people really can't move anymore.

But now that Liu Dapao has captured Nanchang, defeated the entire front army of the Qing court, and even captured Rabu alive, everything is different. This shows that Liu Dapao's great Ming can really fight!
Can be a Han Chinese, who would like to be a slave?
Especially after Liu Dapao caught La Bu, he also remembered the thing about the investment, great joy!
All these lands will be directly owned by the company.

Liu Dapao immediately wrote a letter to Yu Chenglong asking him to form a land company in Chenghai to go public, with no business, and to confiscate the invested land.

Those tyrants on the land took the initiative to hand over the land to Labu, and they all became nominally his banner slaves to Labu, so are they considered traitors?What kind of politeness is there to treat traitors?Do you still need to worry that other tyrants will die and the fox will be sad?
Besides, these lands are all Labu’s in name. Is there something wrong with confiscating the enemy’s spoils?
Afterwards, the land was leased to tenants at a very low price, and the tenants who cultivated the land did not have to pay taxes, but the corresponding price was that the food or cash crops they grew could only be sold to The company is monopolistically acquired by the company, and the specific purchase price is set by the capitalists of the company.

Hmm... capitalists seldom exhaust their resources when exploiting, and Liu Dapao emphasized that farmers have the right not to sell. In other words, farmers can at least set aside their own rations, and there is no risk of starvation.

Liu Dapao even felt that if possible, this model could even be promoted wantonly. As long as he has enough overseas colonies, he can try to let the company monopolize the land in the country, and then control the market sales price of agricultural products.

If that is the case, can the agricultural tax really be exempted?Is it possible to hype some special fruits, such as 2000 yuan a mango, 1000 yuan a strawberry, 100 million bluefin tuna, etc. The difference between industrial and agricultural scissors is enough to make the country rich and strong.

With such means, he can feed the cities if he wants the rural areas to feed the cities, and he can feed the rural areas if he wants the cities to feed the rural areas. As long as all the people in the country are still wearing clothes and eating, they will almost never be able to escape from capitalism. control.

Such a mediation ability is almost as effective as the central bank in such an era, but the risk is a little higher. If the national agriculture is really handed over to capital, it may affect food security.

But what does that matter?If there is an accident, it is enough to squeeze the colonies with their lives. The whole of Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malays plunder their wealth through food. At worst, bring these food back and let the local aborigines starve to death. The thing is, the more people starve to death, the faster his wealth will accumulate.

So after Liu Dapao entered Nanchang City, his first order was: to check the fields and catch the traitors.

At the same time, common people are encouraged to report and expose each other, and the whistleblower can get one-tenth of the land of the accused person free of charge.

Because the name is to deal with traitors, so this time there is little resistance to his administration, and the common people are particularly cooperative, and everyone is happy when the land is divided.

The capitalists of the company and the people whose land was distributed were very happy, and other ordinary landowners who had nothing to do with the investment did not think there was anything wrong with doing so.

This prestige is soaring, and the enthusiasm of the common people is really high.

What was unexpected and reasonable was that after the official establishment of the agricultural company, the enthusiasm of the shareholders of the company was extremely high, even surpassing that of the Haimao company. The funds raised in these financial markets were used to buy land frantically, so that many big and small tycoons that had nothing to do with investment and investment have joined in with shares made of land.

The amount of land owned by agricultural companies has increased rapidly. Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian have vigorously engaged in land mergers. More and more land has fallen into the hands of agricultural companies. There are also more and more shareholders in this branch company. As the company sent more and more employees to manage the land, Liu Dapao was finally sure.

It seems that I have not established a company, but a brand new administrative department at the level of six departments.

In particular, this administrative department is still rooted in the grassroots, but it just makes up for Liu Dapao's lack of control over the grassroots.

You know, Liu Dapao has not even recognized the county magistrates under the Chaozhou government. There are not many low-level officials in his Nuoda territory. He has no eyes on the situation in the village. In the final analysis, China's control power lies in the control of the city.

but……

It's too fast! !
Haoqiang can use the land directly to become a shareholder of the company, and sign up enthusiastically one by one. Small landlords and self-cultivating farmers can sell the land to the company for a high price, and then rent the land back at an extremely low price. The lease period is as long as 70 or 80 years. No tax yet.

As for the company's monopoly right to purchase, no one actually cared about it. In fact, in this era, it is a very luxurious thing for farmers to leave enough rations to feed the whole family.

Of course, there will be many self-cultivating farmers who will kill them without selling their land. After all, since Liu Dapao took power, the imperial court has actually collected agricultural taxes. No one knows how he plans to collect agricultural taxes.

But ah, but!

The power of the company is absolute within the territory of Ming Dynasty, which cannot be changed even by Liu Dapao himself, so this newly established company has power, money, and roots at the grassroots level, and every small shareholder is essentially from the countryside. One side is powerful.

Shareholders do not mind spending money on problems that can be solved with money, but will they give up when they encounter problems that cannot be solved with money?

You must know that this newly established agricultural company can greatly affect the appointment and dismissal of a county magistrate. Who is not self-taught in such things as coercion, lure, and extortion!

Liu Dapao is also very helpless, so he can only supervise as much as possible. The shareholders, Haoqiang, can really give them some money after buying and selling the land forcibly, and try to ensure that the purchased land can be rented to tenant farmers at a low cost. That's all.

Even in order to alleviate the contradiction between people and land, and create an employment environment for the people in the territory where there are many people and little land, and talents are the real scarce resources, he even half-pushed and half-assessed an eastward movement.

With only 100 taels of silver, you can buy more than [-] acres of land in Qiongzhou and Wanwan.

When these two places are developed, maybe, maybe, it seems that he will have to vigorously develop Southeast Asia, and I don’t know if those Luzon natives will be as miserable as the Indians.

Sometimes he himself felt that he was becoming more and more like a devil.

However, the agricultural company seems to be more enthusiastic about growing commercial crops than food crops, and it is not easy for him to draw a red line for the agricultural company. In this way, the granaries in Southeast Asia alone are not enough to ensure his food security.

Hmm... the plan to split the Mughal dynasty, it's time to start talking to Lao Le after he comes back.

(End of this chapter)