The north wind is blowing and the temperature is dropping. Looking around, it seems that even the white clouds on the horizon have become fluttering.
On the streets of Nanjing, the sweet-scented osmanthus transplanted in the first two years fell off its branches overnight, but the golden chrysanthemums in the street gardens were in full bloom, indicating that the cold winter was coming.
Qilu Study Room, Zhejiang Provincial Chairman Huang Shaohong and Chairman Chiang sat across from each other. Amidst the wisps of fragrance flowing in through the wide open window facing the garden, Huang Shaohong introduced the industrial and agricultural development of Zhejiang Province.
With the relocation of the two lakes in early 1938, the factories and enterprises in the southwest region returned to China. In addition to the later cooperation projects between Nanhua and the National Government and the construction funded by the capitalists themselves, as of June this year, Zhejiang already has 28 cotton spinning mills and silk reeling mills.
One hundred and thirty-six, 64 flour mills, 22 match factories, 64 paper factories, 7 cigarette factories, 15 cement factories, 35 oil mills, and sugar factories
Sixteen, and there are also large coal mining enterprises and coal chemical plants in Changxing and Jiande areas, showing a prosperous situation for both industry and commerce.
Seeing Chiang Kai-shek's satisfied look, Huang Shaohong, who reported good news first and then bad news, began to complain:
"Chairman, although Zhejiang's industry and commerce have developed greatly, and the taxes paid to the central government are increasing every year, agricultural and rural problems have become increasingly prominent. In the past two years, even though our provincial government has made its best efforts,
We are still unable to absorb the steady stream of agricultural bankrupts coming from rural areas across Zhejiang. We have tried every means, such as providing relief for work, building farmland water conservancy projects, increasing urban infrastructure projects, etc. But now cities such as Hangzhou, Ningbo, and Wenzhou
There are still a large number of landless peasants who have moved to the city to look for work. If we don’t find a solution as soon as possible, I’m worried that people with malicious intentions will take advantage of them and lead to large-scale civil unrest.”
Chiang Kai-shek's smile suddenly froze.
He was quite happy at first. After all, Huang Shaohong's political achievements in governing Zhejiang were obvious to all. Every time he returned to Fenghua, Zhejiang to worship his ancestors, he would feel the new changes in Zhejiang and recognized Huang Shaohong's ability. However, he never expected that in Guangming
Behind the appearance, there are such shocking hidden dangers.
Seeing Huang Shaohong's serious expression, Chiang Kai-shek asked in surprise: "Ji Kuan, what is the reason that caused a large number of farmers in the countryside to go bankrupt?"
"The chairman doesn't know about this?"
Huang Shaohong asked in shock, then shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Yes, it is the nature of many people to report good news but not bad news. They are afraid that if something goes wrong, they will be held accountable, so they simply cover up the problem. But can such a big thing be covered up?
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Seeing that Chiang Kai-shek was a little impatient, Huang Shaohong explained in detail:
"Originally, the relationship between rural landlords and tenant farmers who rent land is inseparable. No one can live without the other. The land belongs to the landlord. He hopes that the land will produce more, and the tenant farmers will pay more rent and earn more.
, and farmers who rent land hope to pay less rent, and it is best to keep enough food to keep the family fed and for other expenses. Although the two are opposed, they are not contradictory. They have been living this way for thousands of years.
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"It is human nature to pursue profits. Landowners always want to maximize their own interests. Although tenant farmers pay a high rent ratio, they have to leave part of the grain for their own use every year, which is a huge sum over time. It just so happens that Nanhua
The machinery factory in China has produced planters and harvesters that can save a lot of manpower. Landlords manage hundreds of acres of land. Sowing and harvesting can be easily done in a week. It is enough to hire a few long-term workers to take care of the fields on weekdays.
, so those tenant farmers who rented land from landlords lost the foundation of their survival and were ruthlessly abandoned by the landlords.
"With the input of pesticides, chemical fertilizers, etc. that can increase production in large quantities into agricultural production, and the farmland water conservancy projects built by the government, the income of agricultural products has increased year by year, and large-scale planting has reduced production costs, resulting in a sharp drop in food prices, and those farmers who are homesteaders cannot compete. A large number of large-scale planting landowners went bankrupt, accelerating the annexation of land, and causing conflicts to accumulate and become increasingly acute. This year alone, more than 500 people in Zhejiang have lost the land on which their ancestors have relied for survival. Their influx into society has caused unimaginable harm. !”
Chiang Kai-shek digested the news in his mind for a long time, and then said: "Jianfeng came to see me a few days ago and said that the prices of grain, oil, soybeans, corn, cotton and other materials on the market have dropped sharply. I thought that after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, as supply and demand eased, inflation would It has been effectively controlled, and the economy and people's livelihood will improve significantly in the future. Who would have thought that there would be such a crisis behind it..."
Having said this, the more Chiang Kai-shek thought about it, the more frightened he became. He immediately called Tang Zong, Vice President of the Government Affairs Council Zhang Qun, Minister of Finance Kong Xiangxi, Director of the Third Military Commission Chen Guofu, Minister of Education Chen Lifu, Minister of Economics Weng Wenhao, and Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Shen Hong. Lie, Minister of Social Affairs Gu Zhenggang, Minister of Food Xu Kan and others came to Qilu to hold a meeting to discuss how to resolve the matter.
An hour later, Qilu conference room.
Weng Wenhao, who graduated from the University of Luvain in Belgium and has taught at Peking University, Tsinghua University and other prestigious universities for a long time, and has served in Beiyang and the National Government, is familiar with the agricultural situation at home and abroad, and he can easily quote:
"Land annexation has been around since ancient times, and it has never been effectively solved unless we do something like the Communist Party, confiscating the land of the landlords and redistributing it. But is this possible? It is already the 20th century, and with the mechanical With the popularization of land, land annexation will become inevitable. In fact, from another perspective, such annexation is beneficial to the development of large-scale agricultural production. It can liberate a large number of agricultural people and devote themselves to industrial production, which is beneficial to promoting the industrialization of the country!
"In addition, large-scale agriculture has an overwhelming advantage over small-scale agriculture! Why farmers in Jiangsu and Zhejiang went bankrupt from the early 1930s to the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War is because European and American countries generally use mechanical farming. Due to the small input of labor, rice, wheat , corn, soybeans, etc. are more than half cheaper than ours in the production process. Even if the distribution process is included, their selling prices are far lower than our agricultural products, giving them an inherent advantage in competition!
"This is an example from abroad. If you switch to China, it is obvious who will survive in the end between the landowners with large agriculture and the farmers with small agriculture! In the long run, this should be a good thing that benefits the country and the people. At the beginning, the United Kingdom had In the enclosure movement of sheep eating people, the short-term sacrifice is worth it!"
Brothers Chen Guofu and Chen Lifu looked at each other and frowned. CC department general Gu Zhenggang understood the idea and immediately spoke: "It's completely pedantic! We must pay great attention to this matter. I even doubt that this is an accident." The conspiracy of the Yi Group... Think about it, if millions of landless peasants appear in each province every year, what will happen if there are thoughtful people behind the plan?
"Over the years, we have been paying attention to the war on the front line, and we know very little about what is happening behind us. For example, how did this seeder and harvester become popular in the countryside? We have no idea... I just said I called the party headquarters in various places and asked. Now from the two lakes to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, most landowners in plain areas have begun to use mechanized operations, and the scope is getting wider and wider. As a result, countless farmers have gone bankrupt and flowed into society! However, Anyi Group has started from machinery, pesticides, I made a lot of money from the sales of chemical fertilizers and high-quality seeds.
"It's fine now. Anyi Group has made a fortune, but they let us take the blame. Their intentions are so vicious!"
Gu Zhenggang's words made Kong Xiangxi, who had been smiling all the time, look ugly.
No one else here knows that in fact, the sales of these products are all done by Qianghua Company founded by Kong Xiangxi and Song Ailing. Heng Yisheng Trading Company is in charge. Jiangnan Group and Sichuan Nan Group are not involved, and most of the profits go to Kong.
Gu Zhenggang’s words were undoubtedly a slap in Kong Xiangxi’s face.
Kong Xiangxi cooed at Xu Kan, who was sitting diagonally across from him. Xu Kan, who had always been the vanguard of Kong Xiangxi's sect, was a little confused, but when he saw Kong Xiangxi glare at Gu Zhenggang, he immediately woke up, organized his words a little, and said sarcastically: "Brother Ke Ting, we
You can't just stop eating just because you might burst your stomach, right? Since Americans and British can feed most people with a small agricultural population, why can't we follow suit?
"Agricultural mechanization is an unstoppable trend and an important symbol of the country's progress and civilization! In the past few years, under the leadership of the Chairman, we have not only achieved great victory in the Anti-Japanese War, but also made rapid progress in industry and agriculture. Now prices are stable, government is accessible, and people are convenient.
This fully proves that this direction is correct! As for the extra agricultural population, we can definitely learn from foreigners and lean towards other industries!"
Shen Honglie, a former famous general of the Northeastern Army and former mayor of Qingdao, said:
"The problem is that Brother Ji Kuan said that other industries cannot temporarily accommodate so many people. After all, we are still a backward agricultural country. There are not so many factories and construction projects to satisfy the sudden wave of landless farmers... I think,
If it weren’t for the fact that he couldn’t digest it, Brother Ji Kuan wouldn’t have raised this issue!”
Seeing that Chiang Kai-shek still did not express his position, the Chen brothers did not express their views. For a while, the conference room was silent, and everyone felt helpless.
At this time, Chen Brai, who was on duty at the Military Commission, came in with a telegram. He was a little surprised to see everyone's sad faces. He strode up to Chiang Kai-shek and handed the telegram to him.
Chiang Kai-shek motioned to Chen Brai to sit down on the sofa, picked up the telegram and took a look at it. He felt refreshed, read it quickly, pondered for a moment, and then stood up, with his hands behind his back, pacing back and forth in the study, thinking carefully.
After about five or six minutes, Chiang Kai-shek returned to his seat and handed the telegram to Kong Xiangxi, who was eagerly awaiting it: "Yongzhi, take a look, this is an important telegram from your godson-in-law - there is now a serious conflict in the Far East and the Korean Peninsula.
There is a shortage of people, and he wants the central government to help him immigrate at least 10 million people to solve the population shortage problem there!"
Kong Xiangxi took the telegram, glanced at it briefly, and did not forget to joke:
"It's not like I am my godson-in-law. Isn't An Yi also your godson-in-law, Chairman? Judging from how you and your sister went to Kulun to negotiate this time, An Yi still respects you. Otherwise, how could he give up on Zhangjiakou?"
, Datong and other important places? Also, I heard that Ye Cheng’s troops also evacuated Shanhaiguan a few days ago, and our pressure in North China has been greatly reduced!"
Chiang Kai-shek sighed slightly:
"It's a pity that An Yi and I are not of the same mind. When the Red Army was encircling and suppressing the Soviet area, he was unwilling to fight a civil war and repeatedly shied away from it. It is the same now that he has become the leader of a country! Alas, if he had been a little tougher on the Communist Party, maybe I
The party and the country will be handed over to him. If he is as indecisive as he is now, he will destroy the party and the country!"
Huang Shaohong nodded repeatedly, pretending to be deeply convinced, but he kept complaining in his heart, saying that if An Yi didn't have such a character, I'm afraid you wouldn't be able to sleep anymore.
Your good student performs surgery to eliminate hidden dangers.
After Kong Xiangxi read the telegram, he handed it to Chen Lifu who was sitting next to him with a smile on his face: "This is called sleepiness. Someone will give you pillows. Isn't Ji Kuan afraid that too many landless farmers will cause chaos? It's better now, everyone is thinking about it."
All were sent to the Far East and the Korean Peninsula. Not to mention the vast and sparsely populated Far East, Korea was included in the Chinese territory since the Tang Dynasty and was a Chinese vassal until the end of the Qing Dynasty. In the year of Sino-Japanese War, it broke away from China and fell into the arms of the Japanese.
Now that it is under Chinese control again, it is time!
“Everyone here, although we did not participate in the war to regain the Korean Peninsula, the emigration of Chinese people for immigration and colonization has made great contributions to the present and future. Asia today has formed a pattern in which the Chinese nation is the dominant nation. If our National Government can
If you exert some force among them, you will definitely leave a mark in history!
"Let me make it clear first that I support immigration, and it is best for the central government to send special personnel to organize it, and send away the landless farmers in the two lakes, Jiangnan and other places in one go, take off their burdens, and travel lightly!"
Chen Lifu saw that Kong Xiangxi had spoken, and there was no one of equal weight among the people present who could refute, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and go into battle himself:
"I have a different view. Although immigration can solve temporary problems, in the long run, it will inevitably lead to the suspicion of supporting the enemy! This time An Yi used Lu Yixuan's rebellion to invade the border and was aggressive. If the chairman and his wife had not come to Cullen in person to persuade him, An Yi
, we still don’t know how things will turn out in the end... In a sense, An Yi, Nan Hua and An Jiajun at this time have become extremely threatening opponents to the party and state.
"Recently, my brother and I talked about the rise of the Anyi Group, and we came to the same view - although the founding of Nanhua and its sweep across Central Asia, West Asia, South Asia and other places were inseparable from Anyi's own efforts and enterprising efforts, behind the scenes was our repeated connivance
The result. If we had not helped the immigrants again and again, doubling the number of Chinese people in the land they occupied, and providing proper solutions for their labor force, soldiers, etc., how could their national and military power have increased? If we had not continuously provided coal,
Iron, tungsten, antimony, tin and other strategic materials, how can the South China Army get high-quality steel and alloys?
"If we don't learn lessons and continue to organize immigrants blindly, I'm afraid we're not far from a catastrophe!"
"A catastrophe!? What catastrophe?"
Chiang Kai-shek said displeasedly: "Zu Yan, An Yi is my student. Am I not clear about his character? When he gave up the wealth and honor at his fingertips and took the initiative to go to Annan to expand the living space for the Chinese, he already
It shows that he is unwilling to go against me. Although there have been frequent frictions between our central government and the Nanhua government over the years, generally speaking, the cooperation is happy and we have basically achieved a win-win goal!
"Over the years, in addition to supporting frontline operations, so many major projects and factories have been built, and more than a dozen large and medium-sized military industrial enterprises have complete production capabilities. How did these come about? They are not all obtained through cooperation.
? If this is to support the enemy, then the responsibility can only be borne by my wife and I... Zu Yan, do you want me to send a self-criticism message? "
Speaking later, Chiang Kai-shek's tone was very stern and his voice was loud.
Chen Lifu did not expect Chiang Kai-shek to have such a big reaction. He was so frightened that he stood up quickly: "Yes... I'm sorry, uncle, my nephew realizes his mistake!"
Chiang Kai-shek did not ask him to sit down, but looked at Chen Guofu angrily: "Zu Tao, you are the elder brother, please tell me your opinion!"
Chen Guofu was in a dilemma. In the blink of an eye, he saw Kong Xiangxi's gloating eyes and had to defend himself: "Zu Yan also considered the interests of the party and the country. If the principal thinks it is better to send the safety hazards out as soon as possible, then organize immigration. No matter what, it is better than staying here."
It’s good for the Communist Party to incite riots!”
"right!"
Chiang Kai-shek's face softened, and he nodded and said: "Zu Tao, you are on to the point! We are not competitors with Nanhua! After annexing the Far East and the Korean Peninsula, the territory under the jurisdiction of the Nanhua government does not include the southwest and northeast.
There are also more than 25 million square kilometers. When Yongni (characterized by Weng Wenhao) compared the map and explained to me one by one the territory of Nanhua and its products, I was shocked. Although many of these lands are
Deserts and ice sheets, but there are also major grain-producing areas such as the Indus Plain, Ganges Plain, Red River Plain, and Mekong Plain. Their cultivated land area is actually much more than the cultivated land of our fertile lands such as North China, Jiangnan, and the two lakes combined.
Four or five times!
"Do you know what this means? The territory that An Yi occupies now is enough for him to develop and build. There is no need to interfere with the country anymore. This time when I went to Kulun, An Yi repeatedly told me that he did not want to get involved in domestic affairs.
In my mind, I have also been thinking over and over again during this period. Looking back on all the things I did, I can finally be sure that I, the student, will never betray me, the principal!
"Do you know what I was hesitating about just now? What I was hesitating about was not whether I should send it, but how much to send and how to choose the transmission route! Now, although the Japanese have driven away, North China and Shandong are dyed red.
All over the country, the Communist Party base areas are intertwined. Not only the local people are confused, but even the Lanyin people who migrated from Southeast Asia have accepted red ideas. If not curbed, the red tide will ravage China!
"By sending out the extra people from the Jiangnan and Lianghu areas, we can prevent these people from defecting to the Communist Party and causing trouble in the local areas. This will prevent the Communist Party's influence from penetrating into the south. Only by stabilizing our rear areas can we be free.
Facing the threat of the Communist Party and taking steps to deal with it...this is the real solution once and for all!"
Huang Shaohong praised: "Chairman of the Committee is wise. If we can get rid of the disaster as soon as possible, then the place will calm down and truly achieve long-term peace and prosperity... In a few years, the area under our control will enter the stage of industrialization."
to catch up with Europe and America that were shattered by war, and become a modern great power... All of this is due to the Chairman's skillful leadership!"
Chiang Kai-shek was very helpful and said with a smile on his face: "Ji Kuan is so complimentary, you still have to do the local government affairs for me!"
Kong Xiangxi had a bright smile on his face, but he was thinking about the check of one million US dollars sent by someone assigned by An Yi yesterday. He thought that I had helped. The chairman's decision was just what I wanted. I just didn't know about this Huang Shaohong.
Did you also accept a gift from An Yi? Otherwise, how could such a coincidence happen?