The First Warlord of the Republic of China

Chapter 13: Buying People's Hearts

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SPNs drink heavily, eat meat, distribute large sums of money, and wantonly distribute women. This is often the behavior of a regime after it comes to power, which leads to the rapid corruption of the entire group.

But there was none in the revival army built by Jiang Yu. Before the incident, there were three rules. If the soldiers of the revival army wanted to be promoted, they would not be able to get rich.

After Jiang Yu occupied Northern Jiangsu and Anhui, he didn't give any big rewards or anything like that.However, Jiang Yu steadily guaranteed the income of the soldiers, at least making them worry about food and clothing.

Nepotism is also prohibited. Soldiers cannot place relatives in the army, and the threshold for entering the army is also blocked by Jiang Yu. All personnel are recruited uniformly.But Jiang Yu has actually given them nepotism, and their relatives have been arranged to work in factories. Of course, they are only ordinary workers, but their income is much higher than that of ordinary workers.

For administrative personnel, Jiang Yu has stricter requirements. [

The property of administrative personnel must be made public, and family members cannot engage in business or politics.And set up a Bureau of Letters and Calls, as well as a media supervision system.

The punishment for corrupt officials is also very high. One year for corruption of 1000 yuan, and one year for corruption of more than [-] yuan. At the same time, family members will also be implicated. Family members will not enjoy any social benefits and will not be hired by any government department.

For the people in Anhui and northern Jiangsu, this period of time was undoubtedly a change that shocked them.

In just half a month, Anhui and Northern Jiangsu changed their banners, followed by cutting their braids, and the common people cut off the braids at the back of their heads one after another.

The work of the new local county government has been carried out rapidly, and the new policies one after another are overwhelming.

The tax was abolished, and the common people couldn't help but rejoice.The new government's accommodation of homeless people, orphans and widows has also won praise from the common people.

Then the "Lianghuai Administrative Bureau" began to distribute salt for free, and canceled the salt tax. People in the two provinces were even more excited, and they went to the Civil Affairs Bureau to register their household registration, land deeds, and house deeds.

At the same time, in terms of the army, the revival army did not commit any crimes when they attacked the county seat, and then maintained local order very well, and the ordinary people who encountered difficulties were able to lend a helping hand.The local government is not as rampant as the local government of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Those small officials are all polite to the common people.

This makes the people in Anhui and northern Jiangsu feel that better days are coming.

When carrying out these policies, the Lianghuai Administration also set up many propaganda teams. These propaganda teams continued to explain the various policies of the "Lianghuai Administration" to the common people, and established themselves as "serving the common people." The government', 'the people's soldiers who defend the common people'.

Propaganda teams not only publicize in cities, but also set up propaganda teams in villages and towns one after another. Propaganda personnel have undergone special training, and they have to go back to study regularly to learn new propaganda content.

Under these methods, the people in Anhui and northern Jiangsu quickly surrendered. Where can we find such a good government!

In less than a month, the people in Anhui and northern Jiangsu became only aware of the "General Administration of Lianghuai", only Chairman Jiang, but not the governor of Lianghuai.

At the same time, the grain prices in Anhui and northern Jiangsu are also in an extremely stable state due to the intervention of the Huadong Group, and because of the investment of the Lianghuai Administration and the Huadong Group, many construction sites have been created in various places. Starve to death, go to work to ensure food and clothing, just work harder.

Jiangyu's policy of "local encirclement of the central government" has achieved great success. With the support of the people and the assurance of military, economic and industrial advantages, it has become invincible.

For those revolutionary parties in Anhui and northern Jiangsu who wanted to pick peaches and the new army controlled by them, Jiang Yu gave them some money, and the new army sent them out of the country with some guns and medicine. ’, nominally using the reason of ‘supporting the Wuchang revolution’, which means to let them go to Wuchang to continue the revolution, and Anhui and northern Jiangsu will not need you.

Facing the dominance of the 'Renaissance Army', the Revolutionary Party of the Tongmenghui was very angry. We have also made a revolution. Even if we don't do anything, at least you always ask for some soup, right?The fruits of victory should at least benefit them a little, right?

However, this idea is obviously wishful thinking. Since Jiang Yu wants to follow the route of 'encircling the central government from the local government', he does not allow local forces to join in.

After being angry for a long time, the revolutionary party of the Tongmenghui rushed to Chennai. The revival army was too powerful. The new troops in their hands were unprepared when the revival army rebelled, and they were beaten together as the Qing army. Fortunately, they reacted quickly and turned against each other immediately, otherwise they would be wiped out that day.Thinking back on the battle situation at that time, many of the new army of the Revolutionary Party had lingering fears up and down, and they would not dare to make trouble with the revival army even if they had ten guts. [

The Huadong Group also began to expand to Anhui and northern Jiangsu in an all-round way. Telegraph bureaus and post offices were established one after another. The newspapers of the Huadong Group also entered Anhui and northern Jiangsu, and began to establish a distribution system throughout Anhui and northern Jiangsu, and established local newspapers, controlling public opinion. Power, and at the same time establish a news review system, so that those who plan to do evil will not be given the opportunity to disrupt the situation.

At the same time, the East China Group's power companies, water companies, department stores, and broadcasting companies also began to spread to major cities in northern Jiangsu and Anhui.

Cement factories and iron and steel factories began to produce at full capacity, preparing for large-scale road, railway, water conservancy, and housing construction.

The "Lianghuai Administration" established by Jiang Yu has successfully bought the hearts of the people in Anhui and northern Jiangsu, won the support of the people at the bottom, and has the ability to further reform.

In order to liberate the common people from agricultural production, Jiang Yu decided to use the landlord as a knife. On December 12, Jiang Yu proposed an "Agricultural Tax Reform Bill" in the General Administration.

The bill stipulates that land owners will be charged higher taxes if they contract the land to others instead of engaging in production.

That is, the larger the land area, the higher the agricultural tax.However, if long-term workers are hired to operate independently instead of renting to tenant farmers for rent, then the agricultural tax will be reduced, and the lowest agricultural tax is for family farms with less than 200 mu.

For landlords with more than [-] mu of land, the Lianghuai Administration will confiscate the land and only reserve [-] mu of land for the landlord.

As soon as this policy was promulgated, it caused a general shock.

In the past two months, the local governments have carried out a comprehensive measurement and registration of the local cultivated land in accordance with the requirements of the General Administration.

It is clear at a glance whose land exceeds [-] mu.

The interests of the big landlords in Anhui and northern Jiangsu were obviously the most affected by this policy, and they were also the only ones affected, so they would not be reconciled to seeing their land confiscated.

Some big landlords began to encourage the common people, but with little success. The common people in Anhui and northern Jiangsu chose to stand on the side of the Lianghuai Administration. What does it matter to them if the land is not confiscated?They only know that the Lianghuai Administration has issued a decree exempting self-cultivated farmers with less than 10 mu of land from agricultural tax.

So those big landlords had no choice but to use money to encourage those local ruffians. In some areas, local ruffians even besieged the county government.

However, it was quickly suppressed by the armed police force. During the suppression in Anqing, the armed police force shot and killed [-] hooligans.

However, the news was leaked for some reason, and soon the Shanghai "Minli Daily" attacked the Lianghuai Administration.

The forced confiscation of land by the Lianghuai Administration also made the big landlords in other provinces very indignant.

Jiang Yu's move offended all the big landlords in China, and they all accused him of being ugly.

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