Haijia also jointly developed the Jiazi Coal Mine with the Australians. After the Australians occupied Qiongshan, he actually invested in the freight business on the Nandu River and the Haikou Port. The money flowed in. In this case, the Australians recruited workers
It doesn't matter whether it doesn't recruit workers or not, it has nothing to do with him.
But since the Australians arrived in Qiongshan, because he had an old relationship with the Australians, and the Civil Affairs People's Committee had always wanted to win over him as a bridge between the wealthy gentry households in Qiongshan, Hai Shuzu gradually became the favorite of the wealthy gentry households in Qiongshan.
As a leader, he came forward to talk to Liu Xiang on many negotiation matters.
Since the wealthy gentry regarded him as their mainstay, it was not convenient for him to refuse, so he invited them to his home to discuss matters.
"The grain is rented out, and everyone has run away. How can we pay the summer and autumn taxes?" Everyone cried, "There has been a disaster and no one is farming. How can we pay for the grain..."
"I heard that Australians want to improve the tax system and ask big households to contribute more food. Do Australians still want us, the foundation of the imperial court? Do they want to share the world with mud-legged people? The owners are the foundation of the world, and they must be destroyed.
If we are killed, who will pay them food? You have to have a good talk with them."
The small flower hall of Haishu's ancestral home was crowded with wealthy gentry from Qiongshan County, as well as some local scholars and other scholars. Although the family did not have a few acres of land, they had some common sentiments with the wealthy families -
―I heard that the Australians in Lingao have abolished the two-stone grain exemption for scholars. This is not only an economic issue, but also a face issue for the scholars. Although the news has not been confirmed, the scholars in Qiongshan County are still panic-stricken.
Get up all day long.
"Master Hai, you can't let the Australian chiefs mess around. We are all decent people. The court always treats property owners and scholars preferentially. Not to mention this dynasty, it was like this in the former Yuan and Song dynasties. They don't call themselves
They are Miao descendants of the Song Dynasty. When did the Song Dynasty cause such a thing?"
Hai Shuzu listened to the quarrels of the group of people in a civilized manner. To be honest, he had no feelings about these remarks - since they had nothing to do with his own interests, he naturally had no personal feelings.
But since he wanted to "benefit the village", Hai Shuzu certainly couldn't just refuse. He knew that what Liu Xiang was most concerned about right now was actually the food problem. As long as the food problem could be solved, "Director Liu" would be much easier to talk to.
The Hai family doesn't have much food in stock - Tiandihui has contracted his land, and the land rent paid to him according to the contract is settled with grain circulation coupons. With this kind of circulation coupons, he can purchase goods from the local "Wanyou" merchants and cooperatives in Qiongshan.
He bought all kinds of Australian goods in the store and then sold them to make more profits, so he had no objection to purchasing surplus grain.
After everyone's speeches came to an end, he said:
"Everyone, it is difficult for students to guess the thoughts of the leaders, but from the students' perspective, the first priority of Australians is food..."
Now everyone's faces looked ugly again.
Of course there is food. China's traditional agricultural landowners use hoarding food as one of the means to preserve wealth - on the one hand, this is because it is not easy to realize food in the era of underdeveloped commodity economy, and on the other hand, food is actually the main "food" in the countryside.
"Hard currency". Especially in areas like Hainan Island where the commodity economy is underdeveloped and the circulation scale is small, grain is not only used as wages for long-term workers, but also plays an important role in rural usury. In the years of famine, grain
It also became an important tool for seizing land and slaves.
Asking the big households to provide food is equivalent to ripping out their heart and soul. Moreover, after clearing the land, all the exemptions brought by the privileges and money of the big households have been wiped out. The originally low burden will inevitably be reduced in the summer and autumn.
Many people were dissatisfied with the increase in demand. Now that they heard that food was needed, they found it increasingly difficult to accept it.
Everyone began to hesitantly, and some began to cry about poverty again, saying that they had reluctantly provided a lot of food during the disaster relief food collection, and now everyone in the family could only eat gruel.
For a while, the flower hall was so noisy that it was almost impossible to talk.
Hai Shuzu waved his hands and smiled bitterly: "Masters, go tell these things to the leaders. What's the point of telling the students? The students don't want any of your food..."
The flower hall suddenly became quiet. Of course the Hai family is easy to talk to, but the Australians are very difficult to talk to. And they have also seen the methods they used to suppress the bandits in Qiongshan. They were all-pervasive and decisive in killing, and they would kill when they should.
Don't forgive, but don't kill indiscriminately either.
Thinking back to the scene when the tenants' debts were cleared more than ten days ago, many people couldn't help but shrink their necks. The originally angry crowd suddenly lost a lot of their arrogance - most people were still aware of current affairs: given the current situation, at least
Within ten years, there is no sign that the Ming Dynasty will return to Qiongzhou, and the Australians will be the "emperors" of Hainan Island.
After letting everyone's legitimate sons go to Lingao to "visit and study" half a month ago, I learned more about the true strength of Australians from their mouths, and it also had a subtle "calming" effect on the wealthy gentry.
When Haishu Zu saw that a group of people were silent, he conveyed to the wealthy people what Liu Xiang had asked him to convey when he was talking to him. A few days ago, Liu Xiang had made an appointment with him alone to discuss land and food issues with him.
After several hours of in-depth conversation, Hai Shuzu fully understood the leader's intention.
The policies formulated by Liu Xiang are relatively mild. He knows that if he blindly resists the policies of the Executive Committee, it will be difficult for him to end well. After all, "righteousness" and "national policy" are two huge labels, and he will definitely not be able to bear them.
Fortunately, Secretary Ma’s main goals are twofold: food and land intensification. As long as this goal is achieved to a certain extent, he has ample room for maneuver—after all, Ma Qianzhu and Ye Yuming’s radical rural policies also have many people.
opposing.
After thinking for many days, he came up with a new method. Of course, this depends on whether the local big families "know the situation." Liu Xiang felt that after the previous stage of security war and land clearing work, they should know that the world is different.
"People, the chiefs have been transported to Lingao, and it is absolutely impossible for them to come back. Besides, the tenants are not your slaves. If you recruit tenants, you must give them back. Even the Ming Dynasty's court followed this principle, right?
"Ancestor Haishu put an end to everyone's thoughts with some words.
There was a sigh of regret from the crowd. What he said is absolutely correct. In this matter, the Australians are not unreasonable - although they are a bit forceful when clearing debts, everyone knows that the Australians
There is nothing unfair about doing this.
An old man interjected in fear: "Well, what to do with this land...most of the land at home has been abandoned!"
For a while, many people started shouting again. Hai Shuzu calmly waved his hand and said: "Di, since we are all short of people, can we leave it to the Heaven and Earth Society to do the planting..."
These words were like a piece of ice thrown into a hot pan. There was a moment of silence at first, and then many people rushed to speak: some questioned, some inquired, and some were in panic all day long, simply shouting from heaven and earth, saying no.
Come up with a reason.
Tiandihui's activities in Qiongshan have already begun. In addition to directly contracting land, Tiandihui also supports small and medium-sized landowners and rich peasants in rural areas. Its various actions in using "Australian agricultural methods" to guide farming have indeed attracted the attention of large-scale gentry households.
Their interest - especially Hai Shuzu in front of us, is to contract all the land to the "Heaven and Earth Society" for planting. Although there is no harvest yet, the growth of the crops is indeed much stronger than that of ordinary fields. If it were not for the typhoon
, there will definitely be an excellent harvest.
But it is too bold to completely entrust the land to Australians for farming. They are no better than those small and medium-sized landowners and farmers, who only have a hundred acres of land in their hands - the Hai family is actually at the level of small landowners - gathered together
Most of the large households here own more than 500 acres of land, and there are about a dozen households with as much as several thousand acres. Many people are worried that if the land is really contracted to the Tiandihui, what will happen if the land is given to the Tiandihui? You know
Tiandihui is not a tenant who can be bullied by others, but a genuine "Australian government".
After the chaos had subsided for a while, Hai Shuzu said: "This is the only way the students can do it. As for the credibility of the Australians: so far, they have said what they say, and they have never broken their trust. They do things openly and aboveboard.
With the humble opinion of a student, I would never do something that is outside the realm of others." As he said this, he glanced at everyone again, and the faces of several gentry suddenly turned ugly - they had used "efforts" and not been trustworthy to blackmail small landowners and self-cultivated farmers.
It's not like they haven't done anything about land before.
"Besides, leasing the land to Tiandi Hui does not mean selling the land. If you are willing to rent it, it can be one year, three to five years, or even ten to eight years." Hai Shuzu said and smiled, "With the knowledge of students,
, since the land was cleared, the Australians have to implement new taxes, so it would be easier to just leave it to the Tiandihui."
These words of coercion and inducement touched the hearts of a group of people, and several people asked the Tiandi Society about the specific method of contracting land and the regulations on the sharing of land between the two parties.
Tiandihui's land service is divided into two parts. One is similar to what the Wanjia brothers did in Lingao, which mainly provides fine seeds and technical services and does not directly participate in the production and operation activities of the landlord; the harvest belongs to the landowner.
Only technical service fees and material fees have to be paid to Tiandihui. Land taxes are also paid by the landowners themselves.
The second type is the contracting system, which is generally aimed at large tracts of land, such as Xuetian and Haishuzu in each county, and other landowners who are not interested in personally operating the land. There are differences in the sharing, Ye Yuming said
Such land is divided into different sharing standards based on the fertility of the fields, water conservancy facilities and the number of accompanying tenants. It ranges from the lowest fee of 50% to the highest fee of 73%.