Chapter 104 Loss of Big Because of Small

"I won't!"

After a long period of silence, Chen Moran looked at the person in front of him and said in the most majestic voice possible, and his eyes even showed an unchangeable taste.

"Your Majesty, now is the time to consider this problem!"

Facing His Majesty's gaze, Guan Mingtang said in the same resolute voice, and Zhang Zhidong beside him couldn't help but worry about Lord Guan. In Nanjing, "Lord Guan's leopard gallbladder" is obvious to all, but even if it is a leopard gallbladder, you should have some scruples!

But now the problem is here, and he has no scruples at all.

"At least... not now!"

He said coldly that Chen Moran turned his attention to the newspaper. Looking at the articles in the newspaper, he almost had an impulse to tear the newspaper to pieces. If possible, yes... Maybe he should order the closure of this newspaper, and then order the investigation bureau to arrest the person who wrote this article. A good trial, a trial of the people behind him, a trial... But... The rational voice in his mind repeatedly told Chen Moran that in fact, many people want to do this. They hope to see their behavior and prove their accusations. They may worship God and Buddha all day long and pray for the day to prove their sins.

Silence, silenced again for a long time. When His Majesty was silent, he looked at the change of expression on his face. When almost everyone thought that the next would be a thunderous wrath, the unexpected Chen Moran calmed down and tried to slow down his mood. At the same time, Chen Moran said something slowly. Come on.

"Last year, the Consultative House made a resolution that the jury had heard the evidence and rendered its judgment in the special military court. Our judicial system requires respect for their decisions. From that moment on, pray for them, maybe! But relying on the power granted by the people to pardon them may be possible in the future, but now... they have no right to enjoy the right of amnesty granted to me by the people!"

After cleverly using respect for the judicial system as an excuse to respond to the suggestions of Guan Mingtang and others, Chen Moran looked at them with a smile on their faces. Sometimes it was so simple to block the mouth of all sentient beings in the world. The original decision and the respect of the law. Thinking of this question, Chen Moran couldn't help but be distracted and muttered another question in his heart.

"I am the emperor chosen by the people. The imperial power is the choice of history and the people, isn't it? So, in the future, when the constitution is formulated, can the imperial power be further consolidated?

The actual problem starts with the bud in my heart from wearing this "dragon robe". When anyone's personal, family fate and future are closely related to this country and become the symbol of this country, it is difficult for anyone to resist the ** that has dominated this country for generations.

Well, maybe, maybe no one will object. They chose me at the beginning, didn't they?

It's me! The nation has been restored! It's me! It is guiding this country to become stronger step by step! It's me... or me... Then I... While constantly counting my contributions in my heart, Chen Moran's whole body seemed a little fluttering, and even forgot to sit several ministers sitting opposite his desk. The ministers were still publishing their own watch, but they kept thinking about how to consolidate the imperial power and let the imperial power. Become... Uh-huh! We should further consolidate our influence in the army.

Army, the army is the most fundamental support! As long as officers and soldiers are still loyal to themselves, even if others oppose them, what's the use? No, as long as they can bring the strength of the country and the restoration of national glory, they will certainly not oppose themselves. Chinese people are easy to be satisfied, aren't they?

Yes! The "national interests" should be further enjoyed by the people. Thinking of this, Chen Moran looked up at Guan Mingtang in front of him. He seemed to be saying something.

"...and become a tool for the benefit of the country, then I personally think your majesty should pardon them as soon as possible, so as to break..."

"Break... Uh-huh!"

Hearing from Guan Mingtang's words that he still insisted on his own opinion, Chen Moran decisively interrupted his conversation.

"Maybe, at the right time, when the people can accept it and the Council agrees, maybe I will exercise the right of amnesty granted by the people, but now... Secretary Guan, I think as the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the Empire, what you need to consider should not be that problem, but the real one that affects China. The issue of national economy and people's livelihood!"

Being scolded like this, Guan Mingtang only felt angry. Why didn't he consider the national economy and people's livelihood? Your Majesty said so, did he blame himself... "Gan Qing, I'm not accusing your family of being incompetent. In fact, Guan Qing has always been my most reliable arm! But..."

With a turn of words, Chen Moran's expression became serious.

"From last year to now, I have been considering a problem, that is, China's land problem, and the realization of "the tiller has his own land, and the inhabiter has his own house", which is the promise of the promise of the people at the beginning, which is also related to the future stability of the empire. Now the empire has been leveled, so the change that the tiller has no land and the inhabiter has no house. It should be considered by the political axe of today's empire!"

In a word, in exchange for the surprise of everyone in the room, what is Your Majesty going to do? Could it be said that... Almost everyone thought of the "land ownership registration plan" carried out by the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce last year, which would face "all official land except for Western law measurement and registration". Those large families who have concealed the land for hundreds of years may be out of fear that the fields would not be used as official land, and they all took out deeds to prove that the land belonged to them. All, the arable land area has increased from 800 million mu to 1.3 billion mu, and the agricultural tax revenue has more than doubled.

Although there are many concealers as in the past, the "ownerless fields" that have been investigated in the country in the end are nearly 100 million mu. Most of those ownerless fields are directly issued by the political axe to the original species, or handed over to the school to enrich the school property.

At that time, almost everyone thought that this was a new move of the "new dynasty". After all, every dynasty had to figure out the actual number of acres of land, and your majesty would say this, but let everyone understand that perhaps, from the original "land ownership calculation", this "cultivator has his own land, and the dweller has his own house" has been launched. "!" I'm thinking about it.

"Your Majesty, the cultivator has his own field, and the inhabitant has his own house... This"

For a moment of meditation, Zhang Zhidong raised his eyes slightly and stroked his beard.

"Although I yearn for it, it is only the hope of saints! Your Majesty, at this age, the empire has 150,000 mu of arable land scattered among tens of thousands of households. The cultivators have their own fields, and the area involved is large..."

"Your Majesty, if you want to grant the field, the empire needs to hold the field. Today, the remaining land is among millions of households. If it is forcibly investigated, it may cause public panic, thus causing the empire to turbulence! If the empire buys it, I'm afraid the country's financial resources can't afford it!"

"...The cost of billions of money is not what the empire's financial resources can afford!"

"Your Majesty, today's empire should focus on the development of industrial and commercial industry. He said that the use of industry and commerce to benefit farmers is also a good government that has never been used in ancient times!"

"Your Majesty, please think twice!"

... In the face of everyone's dissuasion, Chen Moran just smiled. If there was no "land ownership plan", the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce took out a detailed report and even refined the land composition of each county with the chart of the situation. I'm afraid he would really be scared by what they said.

"That's right! What you said is very true. It's really admirable to worry about the country and the people!"

He nodded in agreement. Chen Moran looked at his ministers and turned his eyes to Liu Nengxian, who did not say a word in the dissuasion. This investigation was presided over by him, the minister of agriculture and commerce. Naturally, he had the right to speak more than anyone else.

"I have stressed many times that without investigation, there is no right to speak. Do you have a full understanding of the national land situation?"

This first gave the jujube and then slapped it to make the ministers in the room dumb at the same time. Who has investigated it? People's eyes are on Liu Nengxian. Only this "Liu catfish" has investigated. No wonder he has been calm for a long time... "If you don't know the facts, you can't talk nonsense!"

At this time, they remembered the biggest difference between the imperial officialdom and the old officialdom. In the eyes of the outside world, the remarks of the imperial ministers are directly related to the imperial decision-making and the image of the empire. "Unsolved facts, don't say anything!" It is the most basic "imperial civil servant" rule. If you say something wrong in this room, it is reprimand at most. If you say something wrong in the outside world, you are afraid that losing an official at that time will be small, and it is more important to be held accountable after dismissal.

In the emperor's view, the mistakes of civilians have little impact on society, but the mistakes of civil servants often mean the mistakes of the imperial political axe. Therefore, for the faults of civil servants, he not only adheres to zero tolerance, but also adheres to the principle of "strictness" for the fault of civil servants.

It is not possible to peel and fill the grass, but for China, it can use the law and auxiliary methods to make people pay for their mistakes.

"Liu Qing's family, since everyone is looking at you, tell everyone what you know!"

"I obey the order!"

Your Majesty spoke, like Liu Nengxian, who seemed to be a "nap", understood that this was not the time for him to play tricks.

"According to the statistics of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, the number of acres of arable land excluding Tibetan areas is 148,6,768.12 million mu, of which large real estate owners account for 3.86% of the total population, whose land accounts for 13.63% of the total amount of arable land, accounting for 13.98% of the total population. 20.44% of the total arable land, the two are more than 17% of the population, the number of acres of cultivated land is about 34%, and the number of middle-sized households is the largest in China, with a proportion of about 59.02%. The land they owns is similar to the average level and the size of their population, about 57.22%, while farmers account for the population. The total amount is about 20.12%, it owns about 8.1% of the land, and there is no land to hire farmers..."

When Liu Nengxian reported these numbers with the memory in his mind, others did not show any surprise in his memory. In fact, this kind of "extraordinary memory" in Chen Moran's view is the "business ability" that many officials are not normal, and they are more concerned about these Liu. These figures reported by Nengxian will lead to the "how much it costs" of the political axe.

Listening to Liu Nengxian's report, Chen Moran had some smiles on his face. In fact, two months ago, when he first heard the preliminary mapping report, he was also very surprised. You should know that in the education received in the past, there was always "3% of the landowners occupying 90% of the land", but now the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce has made it. The survey is far from as serious as I thought. In the countryside, landlords and rich farmers occupy a small area, and their land accounts for a small proportion of the total arable land. Correspondingly, farmers generally have more or less some land, especially the self-cultivated middle peasants, which account for a considerable proportion of the population, accounting for nearly 60% of the country's total population.

"... Generally speaking, the degree of land concentration in rural areas in China is still different between different regions. Generally speaking, the land concentration in the south is higher than that in the north. In the southeast coast with fertile land and relatively developed commodity economy, and some places in central and southern China, landlord land alone accounts for 15%-20% of all arable land, and rich farmers account for 30-40%, or even higher in some areas. In the northwest rural areas where drought is barren and the land productivity is not high, the degree of land concentration is generally much lower than the national average. There are few landlords and rich farmers there, and there is a wide range of small land ownership of farmers and other farmers. In some places, farmers are even the main body.

As soon as Liu Nengxian's voice fell, Guan Mingtang immediately heard the taste of it. How could he not know that many times, many problems were afraid of a "national leveling", and all the problems were covered up. Moreover, hundreds of people seemed that the concentration of land in the south was higher than that of the north. In the Ming Dynasty, it was the same when the Qing Dynasty was colonized. So, it's the same now.

And as far as Guan Mingtang knows, he is afraid that most of the current middle peasants are, and most of them confiscated the flag property, official land and Han anniper field after the restoration. It has nothing to do with the redistribution of up to 15 million mu of real estate. According to the standard of 3.5 mu per capita at that time and the later statistics, this 150 million mu of redistribution , directly benefiting more than 20 million households, 100 million people jumped out of poverty. If calculated according to this value, Guan Mingtang immediately began to re-distribute in his heart. How much money did the political axe need to be invested? Looking at his majesty with a smile, Guan Mingtang directly threw the problem to Liu Nengxian.

"Minister Liu, I don't know how much arable land China needs to re-adjustment according to the calculation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce to achieve the goal of "cultivators have their own fields"!"

" According to the calculation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, the per capita per capita in the south is 2.5 mu to 3 mu, and the per capita per capita in the north is 4 mu to 5 mu. Only in this way can we achieve "cultivator has their own fields, and there are no poor households in the wild", and the land needs to be allocated about..."

Looking at His Majesty and seeing His Majesty nodding, Liu Nengxian gritted his teeth and spit out a scary number.

"170,000 mu!"

While everyone took a cold breath, Guan Mingtang asked directly.

"How much does it cost?"

"At least 300,000 yuan!"

Anyone who hears this number can be scared and run away, 300,000! No political axe can afford such a huge expense.

"Who will pay this money!"

When Guan Mingtang had this problem, Liu Nengxian finally couldn't say anything. In fact, the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce had already decided on this. It was impossible for the political axe to bear the money, and the people could not afford it.

Zhang Zhidong, who had been silent, quickly got up and saluted his majesty.

"Your Majesty, poor peasants and landless farmers only account for more than 20% of the population. However, if you want 20% of the people to reach the "middle-class family", you need to spend a huge sum of 300,000 yuan. For 20% of the people and affect the future development of the country, please think twice!"

As early as the governor of Huguang, Zhang Zhidong had heard a lot about the concentration of domestic land. In all dynasties, when it came to land concentration, the ministers in the north said that it was "not serious", and the ministers in the south said that it "influenced the national plan". In the end, it was "the customs are big, let it be discussed later!", and then it was over.

"Your Majesty, please think twice!"

Everyone bowed and persuaded at the same time, which made Chen Moran's heart angry.

"80 million people, no warm clothes, no food, I'm uneasy!"

3 billion... This is indeed a huge amount of money that the political axe can't afford. In fact, I have always hesitated whether I should put a heavy burden on the political axe for 80 million people. In the past, many materials have said that "the most fundamental problem in Chinese history is the problem of land", and also concluded that In a word, "The land is smart as soon as you catch it!"

But this "truth" doesn't work for me. Land mergers are far less serious than I thought. It can even be said that the so-called merger phenomenon is not as serious as the problem of poor farmers of 56 yuan and 91 cents in a certain era. If you close your eyes, you can't see this problem.

"Your Majesty, in my opinion, the solution to the problem of the poor is not to rely on the political axe to allocate land, but to large factories to attract the poor in the factory. Your Majesty, now, we must not allocate land. If the labor is trapped in the field, who will mine, who will build the road, and who will enter the factory to work? No farmers are unstable, but the problem in China is that there are too many farmers, and no workers are strong! The problem in China is that there are too few factories! If 10,000 large-scale chemical factories are built, it can attract as many as one million workers. If there is no food and clothing in the countryside, if they are poor, they will naturally enter the factory to work, and the rural fields will be sold. If tens of millions of young people are attracted to work in the city and settle in the city, it can not only solve the factory labor, but also solve the land problem and develop the industry. That's the king's way!"

Seeing that His Majesty seemed to be hesitating, Guan Mingtang immediately said further.

"Your Majesty, a middle-sized farmer, a family of five people, 20 mu of land, that is, in a bumper year, at most 30 or 40 stone meters, 30 or 40 stone meters, but only more than 100 to 200 yuan. If the ordinary year is less than 30 stones, if you go to the city, one person in the family enters the factory to work, you can get 100 yuan a year. If a woman enters the factory, you can get another year. One hundred yuan, if other skilled technicians can earn as much as dozens of yuan a month. Your Majesty, if you equalize the field and cultivate the field, then a small farmer will never be rich! Moreover... In Yu Chen's opinion, His Majesty's award to Juntian, although it is a living plan for soldiers, it also has the use of strengthening the border. However, if retired soldiers are taught to teach the method of work, he can be a skilled worker. Your Majesty is a love for soldiers at the beginning, but in the long run, he is poor and strong in the field..."

In Guan Mingtang's words, Chen Moran found that what he had been proud of had been criticized by Guan Mingtang in an instant. How could he not have a trace of annoyance in his heart?

"Good..."

He answered fiercely and looked directly at Guan Mingtang. Chen Moran almost spit out a sentence word for word.

"Since my method is useless, please ask your family to solve the problem for me!"

(to be continued)