Bright Sword's Bloody War of Resistance

Chapter 351 Reasonable Burden Policy, Department of Economic Work
"Agricultural taxation is the most basic financial source of the anti-Japanese base area. Agricultural tax accounts for 90% of the total fiscal revenue of the base area. However, according to the situation in the Tainan base area, with the increase of other taxes, the agricultural tax must account for more than 80% of the total fiscal revenue!"

"Before 1940, Taihang District implemented the "Reasonable Rural Burden Measures in Wartime" of Jin Province. The main points are: the government stipulates the property and wealth standards, villages are divided into 12 levels, households are divided into 19 levels, and the total number of burdens is stipulated by level. Determine the burden of each household, and then submit it to the villagers for public discussion: if you have money, you will pay more, if you have more money, you will pay more, and if you have less money, you will pay less. This method is much more reasonable than the previous household apportionment." Lin Zhen said.

据长治县的统计:该县1937年平均每人负担3.34元法币，1938年每人负担0.85元，1939年约为0.857元。

Zhou Weihan is really a layman in economics. Before that, he was devoted to fighting and his level was not high enough, so he seldom participated in economic related work.

Wang Ying understood a little, but he could only say that he understood a little, not to mention the other people present.

However, what Lin Zhen said was in plain language, and the content of what he said was very simple, and the few people present probably understood it.

Anyway, Zhou Weihan saw Zhao Gang nodding constantly, and he didn't know if he really understood or not.

"Reasonable burdens have already started in other base areas. I have been paying attention to them. Reasonable burdens have abolished the old apportionment system and other collection methods that are not conducive to ordinary farmers. This is a great improvement in taxation work, but there is no unified rule for reasonable burdens. , Each base area implements its own policy, and if our Tainan base area wants to implement it, we must be more cautious and learn from the lessons and experience of other places!" Wang Ying said.

"Comrade Lin Zhen, I heard what you said just now. Grading and grading is a big job, and some people may not disclose their properties so easily. It is still easy for some big families to hide their properties, and it is very likely that they will Transfer some poor land to the common people!" Although Zhou Weihan doesn't know much about the policy, it doesn't prevent him from thinking about the problem from the perspective of a "taxpayer".

According to Zhou Weihan, two situations often occur: First, in areas where the Eighth Route Army has a poor foundation, the reasonable burden is considered to be apportioned equally according to the number of acres of land.

Implement the fair burden based on the amount of land occupied, so as to change the land occupation situation.

Landlords and rich peasants took the initiative to sell part of their subfields in order to reduce their burdens, narrow their goals, and avoid struggles, and the land of poor peasants increased.

With the deepening of the fair burden method and the policy of reducing rent and interest, land transfer continued, and the burden of landlords and rich peasants was gradually passed on to poor peasants.

Since the rich households had more savings and the poor peasant households had no surplus, the poor peasants were gradually placed in a very unfair situation in terms of the burden of resistance against Japan.

Some landlords and rich peasants took the opportunity to deceive, conceal, and evade the burden policy, and the economic situation of some families improved instead.

"The fair burden is not fair!"

In areas where the mass mobilization is more thorough, the middle peasants and poor peasants often "squeeze" the burden to the landlords, rich peasants, and wealthy middle peasants, forming "rich household donations".

Lin Zhen nodded after hearing this, and then said: "Yes, this point has indeed been a painful lesson, but it was corrected later. Taking Zanhuang County where I used to work as an example, it was later determined that "fields are divided, floating wealth In other words, the total value of each household’s land, money, and stored grain is used as the standard to determine the public grain that should be borne, thus forming a new reasonable burden method.”

"And some large households do conceal their property. For the determination of money and food reserves, we can implement the policy of "compare, estimate, fight, squeeze" through mass movements."

"Bi: richer or poorer than the family; Estimate: Estimate the amount of floating wealth and grain; Dou: For those who do not admit it, present facts, reason, and carry out a reasoning struggle; Squeeze: For those who do not admit it, hold a mass meeting to evaluate item by item. Use a critical attitude to force him to admit it."

After Zhou Weihan listened, he looked at Wang Ying and motioned him to share his opinion.

In Zhou Weihan's heart, he is quite satisfied with the current situation of the Tainan base area. According to the situation after the land reform, the contradiction of land occupation in the base area has been greatly eased.

Only relying on the prefectural government to raise food in each county is enough to supply [-] soldiers of the main force, so Zhou Weihan does not really want to change the current financial policy of the base area.

First, the policy of reasonable burden sounds good, but in fact, it is too operable in the dark and relatively incomplete when it is implemented.

The second is that once the policy changes, it is very likely that the supply of the base area will be changed, and it will not even be as good as before the change.

"Wang Ying said, I think we can try it. Blindly raising food has dampened the enthusiasm of the masses for resisting Japan, but we still need to have a unified plan. I think it is possible to set up a separate economic work department and demarcate a separate area in the base area. Practice the policy of reasonable burden, and at the same time, you can train more cadres, and they will be able to work better in the future!" Wang Ying said quite conservatively.

Upon hearing this, Hu Jingyun opened his mouth to say something, but was held back by Lin Zhen who was at the side.

"Chief, I think it's feasible. The main reason is that we don't know the real situation in Tainan. Let's draw a separate area first, just like what Director Wang said, we can practice it first!" Lin Zhen said.

"Then in She County?" Wang Ying said, looking at Zhou Weihan.

"Let's go to Shexian County!"

According to the results of previous discussions by Zhou Weihan and others, the newly established Ministry of Economic Work should be under the jurisdiction of the prefectural government, including the Tainan branch to be established in the future.

After the three of them left, Wang Ying said: "The reasonable burden policy seems reasonable, but in fact there are too many twists and turns. I participated in the meeting of the Northern Bureau some time ago, and the superior is working on formulating a new tax policy, and requires Unified planning for all regions!"

"So the reasonable burden policy won't last long?" Zhao Gang asked.

"That's the case, but our Tainan base area lacks experience and cadres in this field. Other base areas have trained a large number of cadres through previous methods and policies. I think it is in Shexian County, Lidongnan, Ludongnan, and Cixi. and other regions to implement the reasonable burden policy step by step!"

"Not to mention good or bad, at least it's better than blindly raising money on the spot. No matter how bad it is, you can gain some experience. When the new policy comes down, it will be smoother to get started!"

"What do you think?" Wang Ying asked.

Zhou Weihan smiled, Wang Ying is really a master of tricks.

Wuyi and Wu'an have intertwined interests because of the goods business.

As soon as he came up, he aimed at the big households in Wuyi and Wu'an, and it was difficult to start. So Wang Ying aimed at Shexian, Lidongnan, Ludongnan, Cixi and other places.

Either these places have just undergone land reform, or they are the headquarters of the prefectural government, which is much less difficult.

(End of this chapter)