Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2388 Financing (23)

It is not an easy task to open up wasteland. No matter how the surrounding and his friends advertise the richness of the land in the Mekong Delta, the reality is that most of the area here was still a barren tropical jungle in the 17th century.

There are developed fields, of course, but the number is limited.Since the 15th century, Ming people have moved to live in this old land of Shuizhenla, but the real big development will come after a large number of immigrants from the Ming Dynasty poured in during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Right now, there are naturally cultivated lands, but the area and output of these cultivated lands are still far from the expectations of the Senate.This involves the input of agricultural materials and land reclamation.

Not to mention agricultural materials, there is not much hope around - it would be good if Tiandihui can send some technicians, chemical fertilizers and pesticides have always been given priority to a very small number of demonstration farms directly under the Agricultural Committee, unless they can be used in Nanqi Occupy the cultivated land with good conditions to set up a directly affiliated farm, otherwise there is no need to consider this area.

In the era without mechanical assistance, the cost of land reclamation was very high, requiring a lot of labor and animal power.It takes more than ten years for a family to open up wasteland, even if there are three or four strong laborers in the family, to open up more than ten acres of wasteland.One can imagine the hardships during the period.

"Weeds are the norm...biggest problem...grassroots..."

"We don't have the ability to weed on a large scale..."

"Also weeding. You don't have a powerful tractor to try those tree roots."

"To open up wasteland, you must use machinery, at least steam machinery..."

"Two generations of people in 30 years have opened up 17 acres of wasteland without machinery or cattle..."

"Zheng Chenggong also wants to develop Taiwan with three golds and one bull..."

"In the early stage, we can only snatch familiar land..."

"The familiar land, how many familiar lands can there be in that place?"

"The captives were originally going to pan for gold in the Phong Myao gold mine belt in Da Nang, but now they can only be used as serfs..."

"Hehe, do you know how many slaves died when Keelung was developed?"

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After all kinds of difficulties, the final conclusion is: 1. To open up wasteland, it is necessary to increase the support level of "modern" technology, in other words, it requires more money. 2. Since economic goals have given way to political goals, it is not appropriate to use product output as a profit assessment. The focus should be on resettling the victims as much as possible, and the focus of benefit return should be on "colonial land ownership."

However, after the second point was brought up, everyone fell silent again—this land policy has not yet come to fruition, and it is really inconvenient to do anything.

"Everyone! Local land policy is actually in the making!" After saying this, the surroundings turned to Liu Xiang and the group of people.When Liu Xiang saw it, he also nodded to confirm what the surroundings said.

Land policy is currently being actively "discussed" in Lingao. In fact, neither Liu Xiang nor his surroundings have much hope for any conclusions from this discussion.

Although the land issue was only discussed two or three times at the Senate Assembly.However, in the internal meetings convened by the Executive Committee and later the Government Council, it has been carried out almost a dozen times.The parties are very controversial.

In general, the only thing that can guarantee a majority is the basic policy of state ownership of land.How to operate under the premise of state ownership of land, how to confirm the rights of old landowners, how to distribute new land, how to tax, how to transfer... almost every detail is controversial.

Of course, there are still some people who firmly demand the recognition of private land ownership. Although their number does not exceed one-third, their activities are very active.

Liu Xiang knew that the Senate's land policy could not be decided in the short term, but this time the Council of Government Affairs made another opening.But he doesn't know exactly what the opening is, because this power is currently only granted to Nanyang Company.If used properly, the specific practices will be extended to Taiwan and Qiongnan.Replace all the current temporary policies on land that has been increased due to land reclamation.

The surroundings received endorsements and continued: "Also, even if no new land policy comes out in the near future...then, our colony under the Nanyang Company can do special things first! Otherwise, what's the use of my red-headed documents? What?" After finishing speaking, he took out a copy of the Nanyang Company's approval document from his briefcase, and began to tell the other veterans about the scope of power of "doing cheap" in the imperial decree at hand...

Specifically, it is to grant "colonization rights" to immigrants.The colonial land occupied by the Nanyang Company was distributed to the immigrants in the name of "colonization rights" by the Nanyang Company.After the immigrants occupy the land, they can obtain a 25-year sharing contract.If the allocated land is wasteland, it will be exempted from sharing for the first five years.From the sixth year, the company will pay dividends to Nanyang Company.The share ratio varies depending on factors such as location and land conditions.In addition to sharing, immigrants do not need to pay agricultural tax.

The reason why the sharing system was chosen was that apart from the intention of encouraging more work, more pay, the main reason was that what the Senate urgently needed now was real goods, not currency.

"We can collect surplus grain through market means. Immigrants will need money in many places. As long as we arrange grain banks in place in time, we can obtain enough surplus grain."

After the 25-year period expires, the settler can renew the contract with the company or not. Except for stamp duty, no other taxes and fees are charged.

To put it bluntly, this is still a temporary measure.However, this measure is more standardized than those vague "agricultural tax payment certificates" and "land reclamation tickets".Batch processing is also easy in the future.

"...This plan has been approved so far, but if you have any specific comments and suggestions, you can raise it again. As the implementation party, we can make fine-tuning—of course, we must report to the Government Council for approval." Surrounding said quite modestly.

"Oh, you have a lot of power!" After listening to the introductions around him, Liu Xiang became emotional: "I also said that I should ask myself to be a state shepherd to call back the three counties of Nan. As for the result, let's see now. Looking at your development rights, I want to set up the Annan Protectorate."

The surroundings were shocked when they heard it: Why are you starting to stare at the administrative power of the colony now?But he said with an apologetic smile on his face: "Old Liu, what you said! If you are willing to give me the face to come to Nanyang Company, the whole company will definitely applaud and welcome you!"

Liu Xiang seemed not to have heard it, and waved his hands to the surroundings and said: "Don't talk! How can I go now, the drought will last for two years! In fact, I said, in terms of natural conditions, the Red River Plain is more fertile than the Mekong River estuary. The value of a grain-producing region, after all, is a tropical monsoon climate, and the other is a tropical rainforest climate. However, it is difficult to conquer the Red River Plain, and it is difficult to develop the Mekong Estuary. Conquering a regime requires more and more complicated work, fighting with people! Liu Xiang said slowly: "The direction of your colonization at the mouth of the Mekong River is more about fighting against the sky and the earth. Just treat it as a training session. We will fully support you here. lay the groundwork for development.”

So... set the tone?
"Then let's talk about the deposit and remittance business of Nanyang Company's operation..." Chu He took over the topic without waiting for the surroundings to respond to Liu Xiang.The meeting room is buzzing again...

In the end, the surrounding "Nanyang Company's first colonization plan" was established.

The target location of colonization is the main plain area of ​​Nanqi and suitable grain-producing areas. The long-term goal is the whole territory of Nanqi, and whether to expand outward depends on the military situation.

The colonization process is divided into three stages. In the first stage, in addition to the initial foothold, it also needs to cooperate with Guangdong to alleviate the impact of drought this year and next, and undertake the task of population migration.The second stage is to develop the three main gold mine belts of Pengmiao, Chanan, and Suti to increase the precious metal reserves of the Senate—and consume the captive population as much as possible.The third stage is to open up professional plantations for tropical crops and start exporting products.Of course, there is no strict order for the second and third stages, but it is obvious that the profit cycle of most tropical crops is longer than that of developing gold mines.

The first phase of manpower needed for colonization will be mainly in charge of by Guangzhou City.The general arrangement at present is to crack down on and clean up a large number of clan organizations that do not cooperate in the anti-epidemic operations and land inspection operations, and all clans will be exiled as a unit.At the same time, Liang Xinhu and other veterans of the legal field who came to the meeting later also said that in the sentencing of criminal cases, the death penalty and the sentence of more than seven years in prison for serious criminals can be reduced, and the sentence of exile can be greatly increased.Finally, the survey asked whether retired soldiers and naturalized people were willing to go to Nanqi to colonize. Nanyang Company will treat them as "Chinese people", and if they can bring their families, there will be additional rewards.That's right, in order to cater to Liu Xiang's interests, the surroundings have already started to use words under the Xia, Shang and Zhou feudal systems such as "countryman", "savage", and "slave" to discuss things...

The materials needed for colonization, under the same conditions, are given priority to purchase in Guangzhou.For industries such as agricultural tool casting, Light Industry originally wanted to relocate to the mainland, so Nanyang Company came forward to negotiate the relocation and joint construction, and set up the production base in Guangzhou. If financing expansion is required, the original company and Guangzhou will invest Development Bank and Nanyang Company jointly funded the solution.

For the first phase of the settlement, the Guangzhou Investment and Development Bank was entrusted with the funds needed, and at the same time, the bank was entrusted to be responsible for all the deposit and remittance business of the expansion project.The entrustment was terminated after the first phase of the operation. However, people around knew that the financing could be switched to a new platform, but they were familiar with the deposit and exchange business, so they didn't have the energy to switch. This sentence was just to save some face.

After the surroundings finally let go of the deposit and exchange business and the priority of material procurement and production, Liu Xiang stopped the pressure performance of "calling the messenger to urge the police and the political security system to ask for the interrogation results".After the agreement was finally reached, another correspondent was ushered in the conference room.

(End of this chapter)