Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 950
Haijia also developed a joint venture with the Australians to develop the Jiazi Coal Mine—since the Australians occupied Qiongshan, he actually invested in and participated in the freight business on the Nandu River and Haikou Port.Money is rolling in.In this case, whether Australians recruit workers or not, it has nothing to do with him.

But since the Australian came to Qiongshan, because of his old relationship with the Australian, and because the Civil Affairs People's Committee has always wanted to win him over as a bridge with the big gentry, Hai Shuzu gradually became the favorite of the big gentry in Qiongshan. As a leader, he came forward to talk to Liu Xiang about many negotiation matters.

Since the big households and gentry regard him as the backbone, it is inconvenient for him to refuse, so he invites everyone to discuss matters at home.

"The food was rented out, and everyone ran away. How can I pay the summer and autumn taxes?" Everyone cried, "There is no one to plant the land after the disaster, so what to pay for the food..."

"I heard that the Australians still need to reform the tax system and ask the big households to pay more. Do the Australians want the foundation of our court? Could it be that they want to share the world with mud legs? The owner is the foundation of the world. If we leave us, who will pay them food——you have to have a good talk with them."

The small flower hall of Haishu's ancestor's house was crowded with wealthy gentry from Qiongshan County, as well as some scholars like local scholars. Although the family didn't have a few acres of land, they shared the same sentiments with the wealthy households— ―I heard that Australians have abolished the two-stone grain that scholars are exempt from paying in Lingao. This is not only an economic issue, but also a matter of face for scholars.Although the news has not been confirmed, the scholars in Qiongshan County are still in panic all day long.

"Master Hai, you can't let the chief executives of Australia mess around. We are all responsible people. The imperial court has always treated property owners and scholars preferentially. Not to mention this dynasty, even the former Yuan Dynasty and the former Song Dynasty were like this. Didn't they claim to be It's a Miao descendant of the Song Dynasty, when did the Song Dynasty make such a fuss?"

Hai Shuzu listened to the quarrels of a group of people very politely. To be honest, he didn't feel much about this set of remarks—since it had nothing to do with his own interests, he naturally didn't have any personal feelings.

But since he wants to "benefit the village", Hai Shuzu is of course inconvenient to just refuse.He knew that what Liu Xiang was most concerned about right now was actually the food problem. As long as the food problem could be solved, "Director Liu" would be much easier to talk to.

The Hai family didn't have a lot of grain in stock - Tiandihui would contract his land, and the land rent paid to him according to the contract was settled with grain circulation coupons.With this kind of circulation coupons, he can buy all kinds of Australian goods in Qiongshan's local "Wanyou" stores and cooperative stores, and then sell them to get more profits, so he has no objection to the acquisition of surplus grain. .

After everyone's speeches came to an end, he said:

"Everyone, it's hard for students to guess what the chief executives think, but from the students' humble opinion, the first priority of Australians is food..."

Now everyone's complexion is ugly again.

Food, of course.Traditional agricultural landowners in China all regard hoarding grain as one of the means of preserving their wealth. On the one hand, this is because grain is not easy to realize in an era when the commodity economy is underdeveloped. On the other hand, grain is actually the main "hard currency" in the countryside.Especially in areas like Hainan Island where the commodity economy is underdeveloped and the scale of circulation is small, grain is not only used as wages for long-term workers, but also plays an important role in rural usury.In times of famine, food became an important tool for stealing land and slaves.

Asking the big households to take out food is tantamount to gouging out their hearts and minds.Moreover, after Qingzhang Tianmu was cleared, the various exemptions brought by the rich and wealthy gentry relying on their privileges and corruption have been cancelled. The originally low burden is bound to increase greatly in the summer and autumn. Food is becoming more and more unacceptable
Everyone faltered and murmured, and some people began to cry poorly again, saying that they had reluctantly provided a lot of food when they were raising relief food, and now the family can only eat porridge and so on.

For a while, there was so much noise in the flower hall that it was almost impossible to speak.

Hai Shuzu waved his hands and said with a wry smile: "Masters, go tell the leaders about these things, what's the use of telling the students? The students don't want a piece of food from you..."

The flower hall suddenly fell silent. The Hai family is easy to talk, but the Australians are very difficult to talk.And they have experienced the methods they used to suppress the bandits and clear the countryside in Qiongshan. They were pervasive and decisive. When it was time to kill, they would never forgive, but they would not kill indiscriminately.

Thinking of the scene when the tenants’ debts were cleared more than ten days ago, many people couldn’t help shrinking their necks again. The arrogance of the people who were originally raging suddenly subsided a lot—most people are still aware of current affairs: as far as the current situation is concerned, at least Within ten years, there is no sign of Ming returning to Qiongzhou, and the Australians are the "emperors" on Hainan Island.

Half a month ago, after letting everyone's legitimate sons go to Lingao to "visit and study", they learned more about the true strength of the Australians, which also exerted a subtle "calming" effect on the wealthy and gentry.

Hai Shuzu saw that a group of people stopped talking, so he conveyed to the big households what Liu Xiang wanted him to convey during the conversation with him.A few days ago, Liu Xiang had an appointment with him alone, and had an in-depth discussion with him for several hours on land and food issues. Hai Shuzu fully understood the chief's intentions.

The policy formulated by Liu Xiang is relatively moderate.He knew that if he blindly resisted the policies of the executive committee, it would be difficult to end well.After all, "righteousness" and "national policy" are two huge hats, and he will definitely not be able to bear them.

Fortunately, the main purpose of Secretary of State Ma is two: grain and land intensive.As long as this goal is achieved to a certain extent, I have sufficient room for maneuver - after all, Ma Qianju and Ye Yuming's radical rural policies are also opposed by many people.

After thinking for many days, he came up with a new method.Of course, it depends on whether the local big players are "knowledgeable".Liu Xiang felt that after the previous stage of security warfare and clearing the fields, they should know that the world is different.

"Man, the chiefs have already been transported to Lingao, and it is absolutely impossible to ask them to come back. Besides, the tenants are not your family's servants. Xu Zhaotian is also allowed to quit the tenants. Even the court of the Ming Dynasty is the same, isn't it? "Ancestor Haishu broke everyone's thoughts with a few words.

There was a sigh of regret from the crowd.You are right.In this matter, the Australians are not unreasonable-although there is a sense of force when clearing the debt, everyone knows that there is nothing unfair about the Australians doing this.

An old man interjected in fear: "Then, what about this land... More than half of the land at home has been abandoned!"

For a while, many people shouted again.Hai Shuzu waved his hands unhurriedly and said, "Earth, since everyone is short of human race, you can entrust it to Tian Di Hui to grow it..."

These words were like a piece of ice thrown into a pan of hot oil. There was a moment of silence at first, and then many people scrambled to speak: some questioned, some asked, and some were in a state of panic all day long. Find out why.

Tiandihui’s activities in Qiongshan have already been carried out for a stage. In addition to directly contracting land, Tiandihui also supports small and medium-sized landlords and rich and middle peasants in the countryside. People's interests—especially Hai Shuzu in front of us, is that he has entrusted all the land to the "Tiandihui" for planting. Although there is no harvest yet, the growth of the crops is indeed much stronger than that of ordinary fields. If it is not for the typhoon , will definitely have an excellent harvest.

But it is too bold to entrust the fields to the Australians for planting. They are no more than those small and medium-sized landlords and self-cultivators, who have only a hundred acres of land in their hands-the Hai family is actually at the level of small landlords. Most of the big households here own more than [-] mu of land, and there are a dozen households as many as several thousand mu.Many people are worried that if the land is really contracted to the Tiandihui, what if the Tiandihui is blackmailed?You must know that Tiandihui is not a tenant who is oppressed by others, but a real "Australian government".

Hai Shuzu waited for the chaos to pass for a while, and then said: "Students have only one way. As for the credit of Australians: so far, they have never broken their promises. They act openly and aboveboard. Based on the humble opinion of the students, they would never do things like ignorant people's fields." He glanced at everyone again, and the faces of several gentry suddenly became ugly-using "effectiveness" and dishonesty to blackmail small landlords and self-cultivating farmers It's not that they haven't done anything about the land.

"Furthermore, subscribing to Tiandihui is not selling land. If you want to subscribing for one year, it is fine for three years, five years, or even ten years or eight years." Hai Shuzu said with a smile, "Based on the experience of a student , since the clearing of the land, the Australians have to introduce a new tax, it is better to simply entrust it to the Tiandihui to save worry."

These words of coercion and lure touched the hearts of a group of people, and several people asked Tiandihui about the specific method of contracting the land and the rules for sharing the land between the two parties.

The land service of Tiandihui is divided into two parts, one is similar to Wanjia Brothers in Lingao, which mainly provides improved seeds and technical services, and does not directly participate in the production and management activities of the landlord; the harvest is all owned by the landowner. It is just to pay the technical service fee and material fee to Tiandihui.The land tax is also paid by the landowner himself.

The second is the contracting system, which is generally aimed at large tracts of land, such as Xuetian and Haishuzu in various counties, who are not interested in operating the land themselves.The division is different. Ye Yuming divides this kind of land into different division standards according to the fertile condition of the field, water conservancy facilities and the number of long-term tenants attached to it.It ranges from the lowest [-]% to the highest [-]%
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