The group of people entered the living room and gave in before the guests and hosts sat down. After serving tea, Yi asked in a casual tone: "The large gold mine was discovered in Jiaodong, and the reserves are indeed 2,000 tons?"

"It should be." Yi Zhizu smiled and said, "But Jiaodong gold mine has low grade, deep burial, and is difficult to mine, and the mining cost is also high. Therefore, there has been no plan to mine after exploration and discovery. This year, it hastily mined and publicly promoted it in order to boost the confidence of the Chinese people in our economy."

What does it mean? This is uncertain? It seems that the gold reserves are quite watery, but no matter how small the mosquitoes are, they are still meat. Sushun immediately tentatively said: "The gold mines in Zhaoyuan, Laizhou and Pingdu are also large-scale mining industries?"

Yi Zhizu smiled, "Yuanqi does not intend to monopolize the gold mine in Jiaodong." Compared with the gold mine in Transva, the reserves of the gold mine in Jiaodong can only be considered a drop in the bucket. He really didn't care about it, nor did he mind the court's share of the money.

Seeing what he said so directly, Su Shun was embarrassed, Yi said quickly: "The northern provinces have established dozens of large and small factories and mining enterprises almost overnight. Brother Guocheng should have planned it long ago?"

"To be precise, the factory and mining enterprises established in various northern provinces are part of the 15th and 25th Five-Year Plans." Yi Zhizu said slowly: "The five-year plan is not only infrastructure construction, but also basic industrial construction. In order to avoid too much impact, this part of industrial infrastructure has not been disclosed."

As expected, Yi? Smiled bitterly, "Brother Guocheng is so hiding."

"This is also a helpless move." Yi Zhizu spread his hands, "If the basic industrial construction plan is launched early in the morning, the government and the people will inevitably oppose it in unison."

This statement obviously refers to the court instigating public opinion in northern provinces some time ago to accuse and criticize Yuan Qi. Yi said with a wry smile: "Northern public opinion accuses and criticize Yuan Qi, because of large-scale immigration and sudden large-scale recruitment of workers, which led to a sudden large-scale loss of population in local prefectures and counties, especially the loss of strong labor, which triggered panic among local gentry.

The imperial court has always ruled the world with gentry. Even after the implementation of constitutionalism, most of the members of the provincial, prefecture-county-level consultative bureaus and the Supervisory House were gentry. They had to consider the interests of gentry carefully. It is reasonable to hesitate and weigh the sudden situation.

If the court had known Brother Guocheng's basic industrial layout plan, he would not have hesitated to weigh the pros and cons, and would have made the right choice and decision as soon as possible."

Although this was an explanation, it pushed the court's responsibility completely, and turned it over and over again, complaining that Yuan Qi had hidden the basic industrial plan.

Without waiting for easy contentment to be broadened, Sushun continued: "A Chinese article "Agricultural Revolution" has put forward the path of agricultural development to promote and popularize agricultural machinery. It can be said that it is timely rain and has stabilized the hearts of the gentry in various northern provinces in time. However, the north is flat and open, which is conducive to large-scale agricultural machinery operations. The southeast, southwest, Nanyang and other provinces are not suitable for large-scale agricultural machinery operations. How should this contradiction be alleviated?"

The two of them sang together and did not give any chance to refute them at all. Yi Zhizu smiled and simply lazily considered it. After all, the court finally chose to support Yuan Qi and had no need to make a verbal dispute. After a pause, he said slowly: "The agricultural machinery currently developed is mainly aimed at several major plains such as Northeast China, North China, Jianghan, and Guanzhong.

The southeastern provinces are subject to the terrain and are indeed not suitable for large-scale agricultural mechanization operations, but they can adapt to local conditions and manufacture small, light and flexible agricultural machinery, which can also alleviate the demand for agriculture for the population."

After a pause, he continued: "Agriculture and industry are both important components of the national economy. They are not contradictory and opposite. On the contrary, the two are interdependent and complementary. The development of agriculture can promote industry, and industry will in turn promote the development of agriculture. The stagnant development of agriculture will affect industry, and the stagnant development of industry will also affect agriculture.

This global agricultural crisis was triggered by the economic crisis, and the outbreak of the agricultural crisis will further deepen the scale and depth of the economic crisis.

Although our country is a major agricultural country, with the rapid development of industry, as the first priority, agriculture will gradually give way to industry and occupy a secondary position. However, the importance of agriculture cannot be ignored. At any time, we must ensure the food and clothing of 500 million people, otherwise it will shake the root cause."

After pondering for a moment, Yi? He said: "English is the world's industrial overlord, but agriculture is not developed. English has long needed to import a large amount of food..."

"The situation in England is a bit special." Yi Jingzu said without thinking: "English is also known as the British Isles. It has a narrow local area and no large plains, so it cannot promote and popularize large-scale agricultural machinery operations. Moreover, because of its developed trade and vast overseas colonies, its agriculture has been impacted by agricultural powers such as Europe and Russia, India, America, Canada, and Argentina..."

Su Shun asked casually: "Russia and India are both backward countries in industry and agriculture, especially India, why can they still export large amounts of food?"

Yi Zhizu smiled and said, "The reason is very simple. They need to export a large amount of grain to pay interest in foreign debt or repay foreign debt..." He looked up and saw Yi Zhengxing bringing the servant in with a tea tray. He stopped talking and smiled and said, "Tianxinyan Dahongpao, everyone can try it."

Wuyi Mountain Tianxin Rock Jiulongke Dahongpao is a tribute tea, but because Yi Zhizu likes to drink Dahongpao for more than ten years, it is difficult for even the capital to drink the authentic Jiulongke Dahongpao. Yi? He picked up the teacup and sniffed the tea fragrance, tasted it for two sips, and praised: "It is really a rare good tea, and it is rare to see it in the capital now."

After hearing what he said, Yi Zhizu smiled and refused to answer the words. After taking a few sips, he said slowly: "What did the court consider using 30% of the shares of all the large factories and mines invested in this year and in the future to exchange 20% of the shares of the Transvaal Gold Mine?"

Listening to his main topic, Yi? Put down the teacup and said, "Now the court has publicly supported Yuanqi in a clear attitude to vigorously develop industry. Is it necessary to continue the exchange?"

After looking at the three of them, Yi Zhizu said slowly: "The Qing Dynasty has always been a common rule of the world with gentry. After the constitution was established, the members of the provincial, prefecture-county-level advisory bureaus and the Supervisory House were also mainly gentry-oriented, and this situation must be changed.

In terms of class, gentry represents the feudal landlord class. If the gentry class is still the ruling class in our country, then our constitutionalism is just a name. The essence of constitutional monarchy is that the bourgeoisie controls state power through parliament. In short, the members of the Consultative Conference and the Council of the Consultative Conference should be dominated by the emerging bourgeoisie, namely, urban industrial and commercial capitalists, factory and mining enterprise owners, and capitalist farmers in the countryside.”

"Capitalist farmer?" Sushun asked, "What is the difference between it and landlords?"

"Landlords rent land to farmers to collect rent. Capitalist farmers hire agricultural workers to engage in agricultural production." Yi Zhizu said slowly: "We must transform the gentry class into capitalist farmers or urban industrial and commercial capitalists."

"Brother Guocheng means—." Yi? said carefully: "Let the court be an example and encourage the gentry class to undergo independent transformation."

"This is just one of them." Yi Zhizu said: "The second is to promote the gradual integration of Yuanqi and the court through this move. Yuanqi, as a super-large monopoly chaebol, must gradually integrate with the court, otherwise there will be endless troubles.

Third, this global economic crisis and agricultural crisis will inevitably prompt the Western industrial powers to gradually shift from free competition to monopoly. Once countries have successively formed monopoly capitalism, our country will have no advantage. Therefore, our country must further form a national monopoly economic model, which also requires the integration of Yuanqi and the imperial court.

Fourth, the political and economic systems of Western countries frequently have economic crises, and there are obvious flaws. Naturally, our country cannot copy them and repeat the same mistakes. If we want to maximize the outbreak cycle of the economic crisis and reduce the harm of the economic crisis, we must adopt an economic system that combines state intervention and regulation and market free competition economy."

After saying this, the three of them were both surprised and ashamed. They really didn't expect that the transaction was so wide and large, but they just blindly considered the profits and losses of the court in this transaction.

After pondering for a moment, Su Shun spoke: "Since that is the case, can the court occupy 40%?"

Putting down the teacup, Yi Zhizuo chuckled: "Su Xiang felt that this transaction was not cost-effective? This transaction can be barely passed at the moment. In a few years, Yuanqi's shareholders will definitely not agree.

Over the past 30 years, Yuanqi has been preparing for talent and technology, improving transportation and information networks, and making various preparations for vigorously developing basic industries. Once it is fully invested in basic industrial construction, it is impossible to stop. In the future, at least more than ten large factories and mining enterprises will be invested and built every year.

In ten or eight years, the dividends of these factories and mines will be far beyond your imagination, and will be several times, dozens or even dozens of times the income of the Transvaal gold mine.”

After a pause, he continued: "This transaction is not for you to make the conditions, but for me to make the conditions. The court must ensure that it will take out no less than 10 million yuan of funds every year to acquire the land."

After hearing this, Yi? couldn't help but be stunned, "Why do you want to buy the land?"

Yi Zhizu glanced at Zhao Liewen and said, "Hui Fu told them in detail."

Zhao Liewen said without any haste: "my country's territory is vast and has a large population. It is both a major agricultural country and a large population. Even if it completes industrialization and becomes an industrial country, more than half of the population will still engage in agriculture, which means that our country will still face the problem of land annexation..."

The problem of land annexation is a chronic disease that has been difficult to eradicate in the past dynasties, and the Qing Dynasty was no exception. After the Kangxi period, the situation of land annexation became more and more serious. When it was heard that it involved land annexation, Yi? The few people listened intently.

"The great harm of land annexation and the fundamental reason for land annexation are known to all the officials. There is no need to say anything more. To eradicate land annexation, there is only one way. The court controls a large amount of land and then rents it to landless farmers. In short, it is to make the court the biggest landlord!"

Let the court become the biggest landlord? Yi and the other three couldn't help but look at each other. This method can indeed solve the problem of land annexation once and for all, but how much money does it cost?

After careful consideration, Su said by the way: "Including newly reclaimed, my country's existing arable land is as high as more than 2 billion mu. Even if half of it is purchased, it will consume billions or even hundreds of billions of dollars in national funds..."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Liewen smiled and turned to look at Yi Zhengxing, "When Xing returned to China, he started to preside over the national rural situation investigation, should you just say it."

Yi Zhengxing did not shirk responsibility and immediately said loudly: "According to the comprehensive analysis of the reports of rural investigation teams in various provinces, as of the end of last year, the total number of arable land in my country was more than 1.626 million mu, and the land rented to tenants to cultivate accounted for 35.5% of the total number of arable land. This data does not include newly reclaimed and newly acquired places such as the Northeast, Northwest, and South Oceans.

The agricultural development plan formulated by Yuanqi is to promote large-scale agricultural machinery operations in the plains to accelerate the formation of large-scale intensive agriculture and promote the transformation of gentry into capitalist farmers, so there is no need to buy arable land in the plains.

What needs to be purchased is mainly scattered and sporadic arable land that is not suitable for large-scale mechanical operations. It is estimated that if you can buy it, the arable land that needs to be purchased should only account for 23% of the total arable land in the country."

Presided over the national rural situation investigation? Su Shun glanced at the young Yi Zhengxing, and was secretly surprised and pondered for a moment. Then he said: "Even if it is about 20%, the national treasury needs 20 to 30 billion."

Zhao Liewen took over the conversation and said, "Purchasing land is a long-term investment. The court can rent the purchased land to the people for farming, collect a certain amount of rent, or resell it, obtain high profits, and then use this money to buy the land... It will not cost billions, and 300 million is enough."

Reselling land to obtain high profits? Yi's eyes lit up. He knew clearly that Yuanqi had almost bought all the land from Shanghai to Baoshan as soon as he arrived in Shanghai. With the rise of Shanghai and Baoshan, Yuanqi made a lot of money just by selling land. He immediately asked: "But buy a lot of land around the city?"

"Yes. The land around the city is also the main goal of the imperial court to purchase land." Yi Zhengxing nodded and said: "With the development of industry and the improvement of transportation, urbanization will become an irreversible trend. More and more people will pour into the city, and the scale of the city will continue to expand. The land around the city has huge appreciation potential.

Of course, the imperial court bought the land around the city not only for profit, but also related to the overall planning of urban development. Shanghai is a good example."

Yi Zhizu took over the conversation and said, "Here, I have to remind you that land investment is a long-term investment, and urbanization cannot be achieved overnight. Shanghai has only reached its current scale after thirty years of development."

This is obviously a harsh saying, worried that they will use this to seek personal gain. Yi chuckled: "Although investing in land is safe, the cycle is long and the returns are low. How can we invest in industry and commerce? Brother Guocheng, although we don't have to worry, we have to make money, but we don't have to invest in land."

Wu Changqing hesitated and said, "Will this move be sued for profit with the gentry?"

"Just the opposite." Yi Zhizu smiled and said: "The imperial court invested heavily in arable land, which is conducive to maintaining and stabilizing the price of arable land. For the gentry who owns a large amount of arable land, this is not a bad thing but a good thing.

In addition, the imperial court can give priority to the disaster-stricken prefectures and counties to purchase arable land. China has a vast territory. In recent years, it can be said that there are constant famines. During the famine, the price of arable land will fall to varying degrees. The imperial court can purchase it at a price slightly higher than the market price. It can not only provide relief, but also nationalize the land. It can be said that it kills two birds with one stone."

Seeing Yi, Wu Changqing didn't say anything, Sushun tentatively said: "The court's finances are already short of money, and it will be allocated 10 million yuan to purchase land every year. Where does this money come from?"

"Yuanqi loan." Yi Zhizu said without thinking: "The ten million yuan used to purchase land, Yuanqi borrows additional low-interest loans with an annual interest of five cents. Considering that this move is conducive to disaster relief and stimulates the economy, the scale can be expanded to 20 million yuan in the first two years, but the total loan amount must not exceed 100 million yuan."

Annual interest rate of 5 cents, and a year of 10 million yuan is only 500,000 yuan. This interest is already extremely low. If you rent out the cultivated land, the annual income will be conservatively estimated to reach around one million yuan. For the court, this means an increase of 400,000 yuan in income year by year, which is a good thing that is difficult to find even with a lantern.

Su Shun was secretly happy, but said, "There are common nowadays, and the main reason is that it is difficult to collect rent. If the court purchases arable land and rents it, it may be even more difficult to collect rent. This will inevitably affect the court's income and affect the continued long-term purchase of arable land."

Yi Zhizu smiled and said, "This question is done."

After pondering for a moment, Yi Zhengxing spoke: "Tenancing conflicts are not only very common, but also very prominent social conflicts. We have conducted detailed investigations on the tenancy situation between the north and the south.

There are two main ways to pay rent in my country - divided into land rent and fixed-quota land rent. The former is divided into landlords and tenants according to the annual output of arable land, while the latter is fixed-quota land rent calculated on a mu, commonly known as "iron-plate rent". Regardless of the abundance, the rent is always fixed.

Regardless of north and south, "iron-plate rent" is the most important way to pay rent, and the quota of "iron-plate rent" is basically 50% open. But in fact, "iron-plate rent" that claims to be "fixed rent" and "dead rent" cannot collect rent in full. No matter how rich or bad it is, it is difficult to collect rent in full. The best-quality fields can receive 80% of "iron-plate rent", and the worse ones can only receive 50%. On average, it is only about 60%.

This method of discounting rent is a common phenomenon according to the "iron-plate rent" quota. The reason is that most places have rural contracts and customs. The rural rules restrict the actual collection rate of "iron-plate rent". This is a balance of grassroots economic interests maintained by Confucianism.

Even if the "iron rent" is discounted, there are still various situations such as resisting rent, owing rent, hiring tenant, quitting the tenant, escaping rent, transferring rent, relying on strength, and forming lawsuits. Therefore, gentry urges rent to rent has become the norm.

The root cause is that the land yield is too low. In the time of good harvest, tenants can only barely make a living. In the year of poor harvest, it is difficult to survive. Naturally, they try every means to resist rent."

After a pause, he continued: "If the court rents it out, it will naturally be more preferential than the gentry. Otherwise, the resistance and rent arrears will be more serious, and it will also damage the prestige and reputation of the court. Yuanqi planned a rent payment ratio of 28. Some areas with low production and harsh climates still need to be exempted from rent."

The 28th tenant household, the 2nd court, and the 2nd court, were stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "No, the contradiction between tenant is now common. Once the court does this, it will inevitably cause more intense and sharp tenant conflicts, and all gentry will inevitably strongly oppose it!"

Yi Zhizu looked at him with a smile and said, "How much does Sixth Master think fit?"

"It's not lower than four or six!" Yi? said firmly: "Large-scale immigration and recruitment of workers have led to serious population loss. It's difficult to stabilize people's hearts, so it's not advisable to have any more troubles."

Su Shun said: "The severe drought in the north is expected to last for four or five years. Even if you take this opportunity to acquire land around cities, it is impossible to rent it out for a while. You might as well postpone this matter."

The two people who saw each other insisted on falling 46, while the other was deliberately delaying. Yi Zhizuo lit a cigarette and took a slow breath, and then said slowly: "I just said that expanding the scale of state-owned land is conducive to stimulating the economy and reducing the pressure of disaster relief. Therefore, it is better to be early than late. In addition, the north has been drought in recent years. Who can guarantee the good weather in the southeast in recent years?"

After a pause, he continued: "Maybe we can change the method of paying rent that everyone can accept, firstly share 25% of the land harvest to the tenants as the cost, and then share the remaining harvest with the tenants and the landlords equally."

Yi Mo calculated that the rent payment ratio was 625 to 375, which was just slightly lower than 46. Moreover, this statement seemed to be more accepted by gentry landlords. More importantly, the rent collected by the imperial court should be lower than the existing ones, otherwise the court would not look good.

He smiled and said, "Brother Guocheng has been waiting here for a long time?"

"Just settle for the second best." Yi Zhizu smiled and said, "If you pay the rent in this way, the tenant will pay the rent for 37.5%, which is called 375 public rent."

The public rent of Sanqi5 seems to be easy to settle, but in fact it is the 375 rent reduction in later generations - a relatively successful and mild land reform. In his opinion, this rent payment ratio is enough to attract the people's enthusiasm for public rent.

"Three or seven five public rent, good!" Yi Heshou said: "This rent payment ratio is comprehensive. Even the gentry landlords will not oppose it too much."

Yi Zhengxing glanced at a few people and said, "The 375 public rental may be suitable in the southeastern provinces, but it may not be suitable in some barren and bitter and cold places in the north, because the original rent payment ratio in those areas was less than 30%...."
Chapter completed!