Chapter 260 Land System (Part 2)
The Tianjin Provisional Government was very efficient. At around 10 o'clock the next morning, it issued four instructions to the Wangjiazhai Working Group through the Qingdao Command:
1. Wangjiazhai was changed to Wangjiazhai Village, and a temporary village management committee was established, with Wang Sheng as the temporary director, Gao Shize as the deputy director, and other working group members were temporary members, responsible for comprehensively managing village administrative affairs. The top spot novel, at the same time, guard against the attacks of the Wang family's remaining party or the local Qing army.
2. Agree with the Wangjiazhai Village land system proposed by the working group and implement it immediately, but try to be fair, just, meticulous and patient during the implementation process, and make detailed records to facilitate the summary of experience in the future and promote it to other regions.
3. The work group agreed to the establishment of a self-operated farm, officially named Wangjiazhai Village Farm, appointed Gao Shize as the farm manager, and instructed Gao Shize to formulate the farm management team and business plan. At the same time, the Qingdao Command Center was required to do its best to cooperate with the farm work.
4. While distributing land, a peasant training center will be established to improve farmers' ideological awareness, to attract active participants from it, cultivate grassroots cadres, and to achieve self-management of local villagers as soon as possible; and a militia organization will be established to ensure that Wangjiazhai Village has the ability to protect itself, and gradually reduce the garrisons and personnel of Wangjiazhai Village until all evacuated.
After obtaining approval from Tianjin, Wang Sheng immediately took action and first established a village management committee and farm in accordance with the instructions of the Tianjin government. Of course, this was just a formality, just hang a sign. In the afternoon, Wang Sheng recruited all residents of the village and officially announced that Wangjiazhai was renamed Wangjiazhai Village. Each household will be allocated ten acres of land, with an annual tax of 40% of the land, and no other expenses will be borne. However, the allocated land only has the right to use and no ownership. The land can be planted by itself or sublease or transfer; the sublease land shall be borne by the original land user, and the land transfer shall be transferred together with the land tax. It must be filed with the village committee and the land transfer shall be handled with the transfer procedures.
Villagers assigned to the land must participate in public-assigned tasks such as land reclamation and village infrastructure projects, evade public-assigned tasks, or fail to complete the public-assigned tasks as required, the land will be recovered, etc. After the land reclamation is successful, the distribution will be made. In addition, in addition to paying the land tax, the surplus grain of each household will be purchased uniformly by the village committee or relevant institutions designated by the traveler at market prices, and it is strictly prohibited to buy it to private merchants.
The residents of Wangjiazhai were once again sensational. Although at the public trial meeting yesterday, Wang Sheng said that he would allocate land to each household, but he was a little skeptical. Now, not only is it really real, each household can be divided into 10 acres of land, and the annual tax is only 40%, which is much lower than the previous burden. As for land use rights, ownership, etc., no one cares, because it can be planted, rented and sold, this is no different from actually owning land.
In addition, after obtaining the land, you must participate in the government-sponsored mission, and no one has any objection, because in the eyes of farmers, it is normal to participate in the government-sponsored mission, otherwise why would the People's Army distribute the fields to themselves? Moreover, the land after the land was opened. Although the Chinese farmers in this era did not have much cultural knowledge, they could still distinguish what was beneficial to themselves and what was unfavorable to themselves.
Seeing that the villagers' emotions were getting back on, Wang Sheng immediately began to organize farmers to draw numbers to decide on the order of allocating land. Eight families told Wang Sheng that Wang Gui would give up the land.
These eight families have the same mentality as Wang Gui. They are timid and afraid of things, lack confidence in time travelers, and still have a strong sense of fear of the Wang family. They all have their own businesses and can survive without farming, so they dare not accept the allocated land.
Wang Sheng did not force this. Anyway, most of the villagers had accepted the allocation of land. These people could not accept it for the time being and could not hurry, so they could only slowly change their concepts.
Of course, Liu An did not listen to Wang Gui anymore this time, because all the people of the Wang family had been sent away. Liu An thought that the Wang family would not have a chance to turn around. Moreover, although Liu An opened a small restaurant, he was still a farmer at heart. Only by owning his own land could he feel at ease. Moreover, the tax rate set by the People's Army was not high, so of course he would not miss this opportunity. Therefore, Liu An participated in the number draw and also drew the number 26, the top number.
The next work is very complicated, because the traveler adopts the acre system of old time and space, so the land allocated by each villager needs to be remeasured and divided. At the same time, the location of auxiliary facilities such as field roads, water diversion canals and other auxiliary facilities must be considered.
In addition, the Wang family was not concerned about agricultural production of fields in the past. After distributing the land to tenants, they just collected taxes on time. As for how each tenant farms, the Wang family didn't care at all. This caused many unreasonable areas for the land planning of Wangjiazhai, and the distribution of the roads and diversion canals was very messy, which greatly reduced the efficiency of agricultural production. Taking advantage of this opportunity to allocate land, the fields in Wangjiazhai Village were also re-planned.
Although in this way, some roads and canals need to be cleared into fields, while some places need to be re-digged or piled up ridges, which adds a lot of things, but after all, they are actually allocated to the land, so no one cares about these small things.
It took five days to allocate all the land clearly. At the same time, the land shape was also drawn into a land certificate and issued to each resident as a proof of obtaining land use rights.
In the end, about 350 acres of land remained, and it became a self-operated farm for travelers. Although this farm is much smaller than the farm run by Gao Shize's family in the old time and space, it is already very good to have such a piece of land under the current conditions, so let's take it slowly.
The Qingdao Command also concentrated on implementing the instructions from Tianjin, and drew 150 people from the German prisoners in Qingdao to Wangjiazhai Village to help the farm build. According to Gao Shize's plan, the farm should have houses dedicated to people's residence, indoor seedling cultivation rooms, places for compost and livestock, and ditches for water diversion. At the same time, a three-meter-high fence wall should be built around the farm to prevent people from entering, but it can also allow people to see the situation in the farm.
When these German prisoners came to Wangjiazhai, they caused a sensation in the whole village. Although it has caused a lot of sensation since the People's Army captured Wangjiazhai, this time the villagers have once again reassessed the strength of the People's Army.
It turns out that the villagers have heard of many of the previous brilliant achievements of the People's Army. They heard them tell us how to defeat foreigners and make a fuss. However, most of the villagers do not believe it. The foreigners are so powerful that the Qing Dynasty has never defeated foreigners in the past few decades. So what about the People's Army? Although they don't think they have to deal with the Wang family, they may be in danger if they meet foreigners.
But now the 150 living foreigners are right in front of you, and they are all honest and work when they come, without saying a word. According to the People's Army, these foreigners are their prisoners. They were all captured by the People's Army in Qingdao and sent to Wangjiazhai to work. There are still thousands of such prisoners in Qingdao, so the villagers can't help but disbelieve it. It turns out that the People's Army has really defeated the foreigners.
It turns out that there are indeed many villagers who lack confidence in the People's Army. They are afraid that the two Wang brothers who missed the net will come back to take revenge, and they are even more worried that the court will send troops to wipe out the People's Army. Although the Qing court had already broken down at this time, the court still had great authority in the hearts of ordinary people. But seeing this group of German prisoners, the villagers were relieved because such a simple conversion formula could still be, that is, the court's army could not defeat the foreigners, and the foreigners could not defeat the People's Army. Then the result of the imperial army compared with the People's Army was naturally self-evident.
The happiest thing in the whole village was Liu An. It turned out that most of the People's Army had withdrawn at this time, leaving only two platoons in Wangjiazhai Village. In addition, Luo Yue's battalion and Chen Rui's company headquarters had less than 100 people. All of them were fired and cooked in the Wang family's mansion, rather than ordering meals in Liu An's restaurant, which also reduced Liu An's income a lot. Now there are 150 people coming at once, and the People's Army is still ordering meals in Liu An's restaurant. Liu An is of course very welcome. It seems that he was correct not to listen to Wang Gui's words, and he doesn't have to worry about the coming of the court's army. As for the two brothers of the Wang family, Liu An has ignored them.
The eight households represented by Wang Gui who did not accept land were also a little regretful at this time. They had known that the People's Army was so powerful, or should have accepted the allocated land. And it would be too late to regret it now. We can't go to the People's Army to ask for land now.
Therefore, in the early morning, Wang Sheng looked at the working German prisoners in the open space of the farm and felt a little ridiculous. If he had known that this group of German prisoners would have formed such a situation in Wangjiazhai Village, he would have brought a few foreigners to the village from the beginning.
But no matter how much I think about it, the work of Wangjiazhai Village has been fully launched and is very smooth. The next step is to form a militia, which requires discussion with Luo Yue and training a few gathering members. In fact, through the lessons in the farmer's workshop these days, Wang Sheng has a few candidates in his mind, but the time is still short and further observation and training is needed. In short, the work of Wangjiazhai Village is very important, and the experience gained is indeed worth summarizing.
Just as Wang Sheng was thinking, a soldier came and said, "Chief Wang, Chief Wang, something happened. Battalion Commander Luo asked you to go to the village committee office as soon as possible."
When Wang Sheng heard this, he was shocked and said, "Do you know what happened?"
The soldier said, "Sun Cheng, who runs a grocery store, was beaten to death on the way to Jiaozhou County. His body was discovered by a patrol team and he was taken back to the village."
Chapter completed!