The First Warlord of the Republic of China

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It is undeniable that Jiang Yu's food was a bit ugly in terms of land confiscation this time, and he directly offended those big landlords.

However, the traditional big landlords lease their land to tenant farmers and wait for the rent to be collected at home. This is not technical at all, and it is the most lazy way of doing business.

Such big landlords are the moths of the nation.

Of course, Jiang Yu would not care about the criticisms of those big landlords. A revolution is a change of dynasty. Now that there is a revolution, the vested interests of feudalism—the landlord class—must pay a certain price to reduce the current social contradictions.

The concentration of a large amount of land will naturally cause great contradictions, especially in an agricultural society. [

Of course, Jiang Yu will not distribute the land to farmers, because he must have enough workers if he wants to develop industries. If farmers are allowed to use extremely low-efficiency production methods to cultivate, then there will be no manpower to develop industries.

These lands will be collected and handed over to agricultural reclamation companies for management.

As for those landlords, they are already outdated, Jiang Yu doesn't care about them at all, so what if they are offended or not?As for turning those landlords to the opposite side, that is completely superfluous.

Although the land was confiscated, not all of it was confiscated, and the family property and houses were not moved, and the landlords would at most make a fuss.

Of course, the consequences of making a fuss are very serious. Jiang Yu is not a soft-hearted person. Seeing those land masters who are dying and gathering local ruffians, Jiang Yu issued a suppression order without hesitation.

Soon the actions of big landlords everywhere were suppressed by emotion, and those who should be shut down, and those who should be dragged to dig coal mines should be dragged to dig coal mines.

The common people felt nothing about this suppression, and there was no risk of a civil uprising at all.

After the policy was issued, local governments quickly reported the data through the land deed registration data. A total of 3300 million mu of cultivated land was confiscated in Anhui, and 2600 million mu of cultivated land was confiscated in northern Jiangsu, a total of 5900 million mu of land.

The total area of ​​cultivated land in Anhui and northern Jiangsu was 14 billion mu. This policy seized 42% of the cultivated land, which shows the severity of land mergers in the late Qing Dynasty.

The remaining 58% of the land is controlled by the vast number of owner farmers and small landlords, whose land area does not exceed 300 mu.

Jiang Yu began to force these landlords to transform, from rent collection to self-management, and sold the land if they didn't know how to manage it, and let others manage it.Therefore, for rent-collecting landlords, first of all, the mandatory reduction of tenant rent, and then strengthening the collection of agricultural taxes, so that those landlords who live on rent-collecting, not only cannot get money from rent-collecting, but also pour money into it.

According to Jiang Yu’s plan, agriculture in the future will take the route of combining large farms and family farms. The large farms will be built by the East China Group and operated using mechanical farming techniques, while the family farms will be managed by agricultural families and also adopt mechanical farming, but the machines are smaller. At the same time, these family farms can independently manage economic crops and raise various types of livestock independently.

The Huadong Group's large farm is responsible for commodity grain production.

And those landlords who traditionally lived on rent collection will be eliminated within two years.Huadong Bank will provide loans to those landowners, allowing them to purchase agricultural machinery and fertilizers from the Huadong Group's agricultural machinery manufacturing plant, helping them transform into small farms.

It doesn't matter if the transformation fails, the land is mortgaged to the bank, and the bank does not lose money.

In this way, agriculture can keep up with the development of industry, and the labor force required for transformed agriculture will be greatly reduced, which will allow more agricultural population to withdraw from inefficient agricultural production and enter the field of industrial production.

At the same time, this policy route can also bring a large number of orders to Huadong Group for the production of agricultural machinery and chemical fertilizers. In addition, through this enclosure, Huadong Group has also moved towards the beginning of monopolizing food supply.

The war of words in Shanghai was in full swing.

Jiang Yu does not see any disadvantage here, because the largest sales

The Lianghuai Administration did not kill the landlords, it was just a reasonable land regulation, no big deal.As for the Anqing tragedy, it was just a group of hooligans, and the common people did not participate in it.

The distribution channels of the three major newspapers are no longer limited to Tianjin and Shanghai, but most of the first-tier cities in China.

It is thousands of times more influential than the "Minli Daily" nestled in Shanghai.

The three major newspapers opened fire at the same time, and immediately beat the "Minli Daily" as if it was drowned in saliva. "Minli Daily", as the newspaper of the Revolutionary Party, in this public opinion war, many middle and low-level members of the Revolutionary Party did not understand They, in their opinion, the Lianghuai Administration's approach is very correct.

Most of these members of the revolutionary party are enthusiastic students. They saw in this incident that the policies of the Lianghuai Administration only hit the interests of big landlords, and did not affect the interests of ordinary small landlords and ordinary people. supported.

At this time, Yuan Shikai had already left the mountain, and the north and the south fought for a long time without any success. The two sides confronted each other on the front line of Hankou, and the peace talks between the north and the south also started under the mediation of foreigners.

Jiang Yu didn't pay much attention to Nanbei's actions. In his opinion, these were not important.

The most important thing is to gain a firm foothold. As long as you digest the entire Anhui and northern Jiangsu, even if you don't get any post of military governor politically, you will still be able to stand firm.

Jiang Yu is equivalent to directly destroying the local ruling structure and completely replacing it with his own power. At the same time, by gaining the support of the people, the rule is stabilized.

This is different from those warlords in the period of the Republic of China. Those warlords stared at the positions of governors and military governors one by one.

Of course, such an administrative system also cost Jiang Yu a lot of money.

The salaries of administrative personnel and police officers add up to about 100 million yuan per month. In addition to the construction of government hardware facilities, Jiangyu invested nearly 2000 million yuan. Of course, everything can be saved, such as government buildings and the like , are relatively simple, and even the decoration is the cheapest.

Zhou Ziyue came to Huaiyin that day, and Jiang Yu asked him, "How much money do we still have?"

"There are 3 million yuan of overseas funds that can be used, and there are still 1 million domestic funds, but the 1 million yuan cannot be mobilized for industrial production funds. Therefore, the funds we can use are only 3 million yuan. In addition, Chen Guangfu's East China Bank has the most Only 5 million yuan can be borrowed." Zhou Ziyue replied.

"This amount of money is not enough to invest in agriculture!" Jiang Yu couldn't help but have a headache. Now that the land has been enclosed, funding is a big problem.

Of the 14 billion mu of land, 5900 million mu of land has been encircled by myself. Not only the 5900 million mu of land needs investment, but other land also needs funds to improve productivity.

"Boss, I don't think it's suitable for large-scale reform of agricultural productivity. First of all, people have not generally mastered new agricultural technologies. Furthermore, the scale of our agricultural machinery factory is not too large. The same is true for the fertilizer factory. If all of them are directly expanded, don't say Even if we have the funds, we don’t have so much agricultural machinery and fertilizers, so we might as well divide the construction into three years.” Zhou Ziyue suggested to Jiang Yu, “In addition, we can take part of the land under the encirclement and call on businessmen They set up reclamation companies and borrowed private funds to complete agricultural reforms.”

"Well! It seems that this is the only way to go." Jiang Yu nodded and said, three years later happened to be the outbreak of the First World War, which was a good opportunity to make money.

In the past three years, we must seize the time to develop, especially coal mining, steel, and textiles. These three industries will be used to replace Britain's important commodities in the Asian market.

The biggest exports of the British are coal, steel, and textiles, which are not technically technical. Once World War I breaks out, the UK will lose the market share of these three traditional export commodities. redeem. [

At the same time, Japan replaced most of the market share of these three commodities in Asia during the First World War.

The development of these three industries can first earn a lot of capital, and can also contain Japan's industrial development.

In addition, during the First World War, British merchant ships suffered heavy losses in Germany's restricted submarine warfare. At that time, Britain would order merchant ships from all over the world. The shipbuilding industry was also a very profitable industry in World War I.

During the war, the British people's demand for food will also increase greatly, and agriculture will also be a very profitable industry by then.

Needless to say about arms, arms are very profitable, but Jiang Yu does not want to export advanced arms to Britain and France, but hopes to strengthen Germany's strength.

Germany will be defeated in the First World War, because the United States will not sit back and watch their foreign debts become waste paper. Jiang Yu's purpose of strengthening Germany's strength is to prolong the war time, so as to earn more benefits and win more for himself development time.

At present, the funds that can be used are 8 million yuan, of which 5 million is the deposit of Huadong Bank. All the projects of Huadong Group and the money of all workers are stored in Huadong Bank. Bank's highest level.

Its bank assets have risen rapidly. As long as there are deposits, there is no need to worry about investment projects, and they are all projects with high returns. Therefore, East China Bank has no non-performing assets.

Jiang Yu plans to invest 3 million yuan in the reclamation company first, and plans to enclose 3000 million mu of cultivated land to build a super large grain production base.

The other 5 million yuan will be used to expand the scale of mines, steel plants, machinery manufacturing, shipbuilding and other factories. These funds can double the size of the current heavy industries.

Jiangyu and the Ministry of Industry of the Lianghuai Administrative Administration jointly formulated a so-called "three-year development plan". Generally, a project is completed in a five-year cycle, but the time waits for no one, only three years.

Working day and night, I have to figure out the next plan.

This three-year plan stipulates the development goals of each project, that is, coal mining will grow to 500 million tons per year in three years, steel production will increase to 50 tons, and shipbuilding will grow to 10 tons per year.

The capital of 5 million yuan is enough to build these industrial scales.The only problem is the time, if it is built in shifts day and night, three years is no problem.

There is no such thing as overtime pay or allowances in China these days, so the cost will not increase much.

However, there are still a lot of funding gaps!For example, building railways and military development also require money. Although industrial profits will make up part of it, there is still a gap.

For this reason, Jiang Yu thought of loans again, but now that the Revolution of [-] is in full swing and the current situation is not stable enough, those foreign banks are obviously not willing to make commercial loans to Huadong Group now, so let's wait for a while.

At the end of December, the General Administration of Lianghuai held an agricultural development conference in Anqing, Anhui, and Huai'an, northern Jiangsu. At the conference, landlords and businessmen were invited to discuss the agricultural development of Lianghuai.

At the farmer's meeting, Huadong Group exhibited agricultural machinery such as tractors, as well as agricultural materials such as chemical fertilizers and plastic films, as well as several undesigned cultivators, seeders, harvesters and other machinery. The main problem was the lack of power. Too much.

These machines are very advanced in design. As soon as the internal combustion engine technology passes the test, they will become mature agricultural machines, and then large-scale mechanical farming can be developed.

At the farmers' association this time, the concept of "new agricultural mechanical farming technology" was put forward, and landlords and businessmen were called on to invest in the construction of farms. However, farms that adopted new technologies were given preferential treatment in terms of agricultural tax in the early stage.

This farmer's association invited many well-known ethnic businessmen in China, such as merchants from the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, Jiangsu Chamber of Commerce, and Anhui Chamber of Commerce were invited to participate in large numbers.

After the landlords and businessmen have seen the achievements of the new technology, some of them still seem to be hesitant.

However, many of those landlords were put on the shelves by just ducks, and they cannot be reformed.

The Lianghuai Administration will levy higher agricultural taxes on backward landlords who do not carry out reforms. In addition, the tenant rent will be forcibly reduced by the Lianghuai Administration. At that time, it will be leased to tenant farmers for operation, and they will not be able to collect much rent in a year. .

Another example is the big businessman Zhang Jian. After inspecting the new agricultural technology of the East China Group, he decided to invest 300 million taels, and then raised 300 million taels with other businessmen. Enclosed 600 mu of land and opened a land reclamation company.

The rise of the Huadong Group undoubtedly made Zhang Jian a little depressed, especially after the Huadong Group entered the textile industry, the Huadong Group’s textile industry developed rapidly. The business of the factory was not very good at the moment. If the Huadong Group's weaving factory was not short of cotton yarn, it would still buy from Datong Yarn Mill. I am afraid that his yarn factory would go bankrupt.

However, Zhang Jian also saw an opportunity. Zhang Jian, who advocated monopoly, saw that Huadong Group was developing into a monopoly enterprise, so he actively established a relationship with Huadong Group.

Obviously, this agricultural reform is an opportunity.

Huadong Group has also invested a huge sum of 3 million yuan in agricultural productivity reform. If there is no absolute certainty, Huadong Group obviously would not dare to spend the 3 million silver dollars.

For Huadong Group, the development of agriculture is indeed profitable, and under the condition of using machine farming, the profit is not too low, but there is too much land, and Huadong Group does not have so much money to invest in it.

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