Chapter 296 He Jin renews his job

At night, there was a lot of laughter and joy in the office of Li Han's temporary office of the Yingcheng Military Government. The guards had just sent some fruits and retreated, leaving only Li Han and his adjutant Chen Tianxiang in the room. Zhang Meisheng was already another young officer. Li Donglai had not come yet. He was waiting for the intelligence in Henan in the Intelligence Department. There was news that the Henan uprising, which had been operating for a long time, was about to take action today. However, so far, seeing that most of the day had passed, he was still waiting for the news from Henan to be sent back.

"He Jin, I have met the Grand Marshal!"

This young officer is He Jin.

"Sit down, it's not as restrained as you are all your own people!"

Li Han raised his head, looked at the young man with a slightly dark face in front of him, nodded with satisfaction, and signaled him to sit down first. He was wearing the official documents sent by Zhang Binggan, the commander of Jingzhou, today. All of them were confiscated from the land materials confiscated from the Manchu and Banners after the military government captured Jingzhou. Due to the huge scale, the military government sent additional personnel one after another, and it took nearly twenty days to complete the statistics.

"One.65 million acres of land! According to the calculation units of later generations, it is almost tens of thousands of hectares!"

When he thought of the land confiscated by the bannerman in this document from more than 10,000 people and the bannerman's hand, he was furious. According to the local government records, the entire Jingzhou Prefecture cares about only 1.44 million mu of land, of which 210,000 mu of the Han people were in the hands of the Han people, and the rest were Manchus, and the Eight Banners property. Not to mention whether the land data in the hands of his 210,000 mu of Han people is true, but only looking at the complacent people in his hands, the land confiscated by the bannerman's hand is far more than the information recorded in Jingzhou Prefecture. Moreover, due to time constraints, some areas are still Those involved in ethnic minorities only hurriedly calculated to wait until the conflict with local indigenous people is resolved in the future before counting. However, this alone is enough for Li Han to be angry. There are more than hundreds of thousands of Han people in Jingzhou Prefecture, but looking at the Manchus and Banners, with less than one percent of the local Han people, occupied eight times the land, as well as forest farms, rivers and canals, etc., the viciousness of the Manchu Tatars' oppression and plunder of the Han people can be seen from it.

However, it is not a complete plan to keep so much land in the hands of the military government. He originally planned to sell it at a low price, but he only showed some meaning. During these days, Zhang Meisheng reacted that many rich gentry and wealthy families from Jingzhou cadastral land and nearby prefectures came to ask. The meaning was obvious, that was, he wanted to buy a batch of land from the military government at a low price. Although from the perspective of comforting the local area, Zhang Meisheng and others suggested that he might as well be a good person and sell some of the rich gentry and the rich gentry, but after thinking about it, he shook his head and refused.

The local land annexation was so serious in the late Qing Dynasty. Once he had freed up his hands, among the local gentry in central Hubei whom he sent to count during this period, there were many people with more than 100 acres of land. The military government was about to launch the large railway industrial construction bill. Once it was connected with the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the German Empire and received its official support, he would start to form a railway construction corps and railway companies, and issue construction bonds and recruit shares in the name of the military government and the railway to be built. For the benefits of the railway, I believe that these old stubborn people who saw changes along the railway had long been envious of the changes. In addition, it was hard for him to think of any other means that a group of gentry who wanted to convert all their money into land and white silver ingots to the ground. The landlords voluntarily contributed money and efforts to turn it into the driving force for the development of large-scale industrial industries.

Therefore, at this level, he has long been eyeing those gentry. He will never allow them to move the wallets of the local rich man. The military government has regarded it as his own wallet, and will no longer let the land be concentrated in their hands. China has the largest population in the world, and more than 90% of the 400 million people are farmers. Once the land is too concentrated in the hands of the landlords and bureaucrats, the farmers will be dissatisfied when they lose their income and the society will become turbulent. Therefore, he not only cannot sell the land to these landlords and gentry, but also finds ways to cut out more land from them and hand it over to the hands of the farmers.

He frowned slightly and pondered. He had actually had a vague case about the land. The later Republic regime implemented the "beating the local tyrants and dividing the land" at the beginning of its establishment. It cannot be used directly here because the domestic environment is not as good as in the past ten years in history. At that time, after more than ten years of warlords, the people suffered miserable life. Many landlords and bullies took advantage of the situation to squeeze the farmers and expand their land. Although there are such bullies everywhere, many of the gentry from all over the country who have received Confucian education are local.

Well-known figures have a considerable influence in the local area. The military government must seize land from them, but it is afraid that it will inevitably leave a disaster in the future and drive these powerful figures to their opposing camps. At that time, the Republican regime was also because the leadership class mistakenly understood the national conditions of the country. As a result, it copied the Soviet model and turned itself into an opposing faction in China except for peasants and a few intellectuals, which led to joint suppression by other classes across the country. In the end, the national power was obviously more than a year later.

Shaking his head, compared to the Soviet-style "destroying rich peasants", Chen Cheng's later generations' moderate land policy in Taiwan that borrowed red experience was more suitable for the implementation of the current military government.

With a "bang", he threw the information on the table and said, "The demise of the Qing Dynasty is definitely a fundamental reason. The less than 10,000 bannermen, Manchus occupied the entire Jingzhou land, leaving only less than 20% of the population to rent the Han people a hundred times the population. This public grievance has accumulated, and it has become the situation today. Bingqian did the right thing in Jingzhou. If there are any dirty work and tiring work, it should be handed over to the captured bannermen and nobles, so that they can also feel the hard work of the people they bullied."

Zhang Meisheng said: "Master, it's autumn farming at this time, and this batch of land is abandoned in the hands of the military government. Why not sell it cheaply? Wars have been frequent during this period. Although we have obtained millions of donations with the help of the army's winning streak, we have received ten thousand taels of gold when the cannon fired. In just ten days, there will be a gap of more than one million for civilians from all over the country. It is not counted astronomical figures. Master."

"Don't mention the matter of selling the land." Li Han frowned and waved his hand to give up his proposal. He just listened to him: "We are the revolutionary military government. Who is the revolution revolution for? It's not for the common people in the world, or for our hundreds of millions of compatriots. Didn't the land report of the five governments investigated by the military government? Which of the gentry and rich men really told us the exact number of land in our hands? I'm afraid there is not one! Even so, more than 70% of the land in the five governments under our military government are in their hands. This is a very dangerous number. Ninety-nine% of the compatriots in our country are farmers. If the farmers don't have land, they will not be able to eat enough and wear warm clothes.

There will be opinions and resentment. Isn’t there a single one of the three people of Mr. Sun’s ideology? It is called equalizing the land rights. I am a revolutionary. Now, with the help of many revolutionary comrades, I have achieved initial success in the revolution and defended the security of the military government. Therefore, I propose to pick out a part of this batch of land and distribute it to the families of the fallen soldiers. The land I think is ten acres as the land, and a part of the silver dollar is compensated. The remaining land is sold or rented to the people under the jurisdiction of the military government, and the identity certificate within the jurisdiction of the military government can be subscribed. In addition, the grain crops they grow will be purchased by the military government, and the price shall be subject to the market price!"

He rubbed his chin and said that this was the best way he could think of now, especially to take the opportunity to implement his long-prepared ID card system, which facilitates the management of the military government.

Zhang Meisheng frowned and wanted to make a statement. However, He Jin stood up and saluted Li Han solemnly, "More than 1,100 brothers who died in battle in the battle were asked to thank the general!"

Outsiders don’t know this battle, but the top leaders of the military government are not clear. They only gained a tragic victory. In terms of equipment, the revolutionary army units are equipped with Austro-Hungarian Empire’s standard weapons, but they are still above the Qing army’s single army with firepower, and they still occupy the defensive position. The battle in Yichang should not have been severely injured, but the military government paid the price of five or six thousand casualties, which was only slightly better than the Qing army. The reason is that there are too many new recruits in each unit, and many of them were hurriedly trained and then pulled onto the battlefield. In terms of quality, it is actually a little worse than the patrol battalions in various places of the Qing army. If the soldiers had not dared to serve the death power during the war, it would be impossible to have a defeat in the Gengzi year. The weapons of the defenders stationed in Tianjin and Dagukou were not worse than those of the foreign coalition forces, and in the end, Yichang was defeated.
Chapter completed!