1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 361 Lectures on Land Issues
The commercial real estate planned by the Ministry of Construction in Sanya New City is far more than just "Sanya Garden".Even if it is the cheapest garden house, one household is equivalent to the price of an eight-family naturalized residential house. Although ordinary people cannot afford it, they will inevitably discuss it.Fortunately, the local naturalized people enjoy a certain level of living security, and are not squeezed to the point where it is difficult to survive. Therefore, there is no hatred of the rich among the people because of this.

In addition to the high-end commercial and residential complexes such as "Sanya Garden", the Ministry of Construction certainly has not forgotten the large number of ordinary migrant workers, as well as some wealthy households who voluntarily moved to Sanya.Most of the migrant workers are subordinates of various maritime merchants and need to be permanently stationed in the Sanya area. According to statistics from the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Commerce, there are currently as many as [-] shopkeepers, managers, etc. stationed locally by foreign merchants. Yu people.There are also quite a few wealthy households from the counties under Yazhou, and even Danzhou in the north, who intend to move to Sanya for various reasons. These people have a certain economic foundation and have certain requirements for the living environment. After all, living in a place like the Shangzhan Inn is not a long-term solution. After all, you still have to buy a house.

The Ministry of Construction has launched business apartments with prices ranging from 500 to 800 yuan per household for the consumer groups who will not take the initiative to join the naturalized people in the short term.However, the quality of this kind of house is actually not much better than the affordable houses purchased by the naturalized people. It is just a tube house with a slightly larger unit area.However, for outsiders who are eager to find a permanent residence in the local area, there is no choice. They can either buy this low-cost business apartment, or continue to live in hotels and shopping malls.

In addition to economic considerations, there are also political reasons for this type of residential area planned for outsiders.Collecting the places of residence of outsiders is a system established by the Executive Committee early on to facilitate registration and supervision by relevant departments.

As early as last year, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has launched a household registration system for naturalized people, registering people and gradually improving the government affairs system.With the increasing prosperity of the Sanya area, the number of foreigners is gradually increasing, and the local laws and regulations for naturalized people are not fully applicable to foreigners, which requires the relevant departments to strengthen the supervision of foreigners. .To achieve this effect, the most efficient way is to limit the scope of activities of outsiders, especially their residence and work place.

After the split of the Military and Police Department, the Police Department was incorporated into the newly established Ministry of Justice, but its establishment has not been greatly increased.The Executive Committee has allocated most of its resources to the military, so that the police are often stretched thin, and they often need to second the militia or members of the militia to help maintain law and order in certain public places.And the Ministry of Construction's plan to concentrate the migrant population is simply a great help to the Police Department.

When Sanya New City gradually became lively due to the rise of real estate, in the upper reaches of the Liangjiang area, in the offshore plain area about ten miles from the coast, the development of large-scale farms organized by the Ministry of Agriculture is also in full swing.

According to the plan of the Ministry of Agriculture, this area rich in water conservancy resources will continue to be developed in the next two to three years, and the planting of food and economic crops will be promoted on a large scale in units of thousands of mu.In the face of this collective farm-style management method, it is some small and medium-sized local landlords who have been hit the hardest.

Because the Haihan people gave higher remuneration and better treatment, many long-term workers and even tenants who used to work for the landlord quit their jobs and joined Haihan.Some farmers with only a small amount of land also chose to sell their land to Haihan, and then entered the naturalization system to work, so that the remuneration they could get far exceeded what they could get from farming the land themselves.This led to labor shortages in many landlords' homes, and large areas of land were abandoned.The Haihan people shipped a large amount of high-quality rice from Annan, which greatly lowered the price of rice in the local market, making it almost impossible for the big local grain farmers to make a profit.The Yazhou government is also putting pressure on the landlords in various ways, hoping that they can "actively" sell the land under their names to the wealthy Haihan people.

However, in this land-based society, there are still many people who are unwilling to sell the land assets accumulated by their ancestors.Regarding this situation, the Executive Committee had expected it a long time ago, and did not implement mandatory acquisitions for these people, but adopted a laissez-faire attitude - if you don't want to sell the land, then hold on to the land and wait for death.

Regardless of whether it is land reclamation or water conservancy construction, the collective farms under the Ministry of Agriculture have advantages that ordinary landlords cannot match. The work efficiency is far better than the scattered work of contemporary farmers.If the landlords planned to grow some food for their own consumption, it would probably be enough, but if they wanted to sell it, they would definitely not be able to sell it to the collective farms with extremely low production costs.Besides food, most of the daily necessities on the ground in Yazhou are directly or indirectly supplied by the Traveling Group. For those who do not cooperate with the Traveling Group, it is difficult to even buy salt.Therefore, although there are still many landlords in the agricultural planning area, their life is not easy at all, and they are trapped on their own land.

Regarding the policies of the executive committee, in fact, quite a few people among the people do not quite understand them. Although most of these people went bankrupt because they were oppressed by the landlord class, they eventually joined the Transmigration Group. They don't quite agree with the land system implemented by the Time Traveling Group and its attitude towards landlords—after all, in the hearts of every poor person in this era, there is or has been a dream of being a landlord.

This kind of backward thinking and understanding is not an individual. When the Executive Committee and the Ministry of Agriculture promoted the land policy, they found that the grassroots staff would resist their own work, because many people did not understand why it was necessary to transfer privately owned The land is under public ownership, and in the future it will not be possible to buy land that is privately owned by the collective.

For this situation, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Propaganda jointly organized a workshop, intending to train some grassroots cadres and help them understand and implement the current land policy.As the chief lecturer in the time-traveling group, Ning Qi would also go to the workshop to give lectures to the students from time to time, to wash their brains, and to answer their strange questions.

"Mr. Ning, I have a question."

After Ning Qi finished his lecture, seeing someone raised his hand, he nodded and said, "Let's talk."

The student then said, "Recently, I went to work at the landlord's house. The landlord said that we planted our own land and have not provoked the Haihan Executive Committee. Why do we have to try to take our land? I don't know how to answer them." That's good, Mr. Ning please teach me."

"I'm afraid you're not alone in this situation. I think most of you here have encountered similar problems at work, right?" Ning Qi saw that most of the students below were nodding slightly, and he knew something in his heart. , Then said: "This sounds like a question of justice. If what we do is lack of justification and morality, then you seem to have no way to be justified in doing it, and you can't even convince yourself to carry out your boss's orders." Order, is that so?"

"Then we might as well spend a little time today talking about the issue of land ownership." Ning Qi turned around and wrote the two characters "Land" on the blackboard: "Whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the previous dynasties, no matter how It is only the upper class of society that changes, that is, those who are qualified to decide land ownership, while the lower class people, including these landlords who question your work, actually do not have any interference with land ownership. They are only those with vested interests in this system, so they must maintain this land system that is beneficial to them and oppose all policies that may deprive them of their rights."

"Let's take a look at the role played by the landlord class in society first." Ning Qi wrote the word "government" on the blackboard, and then wrote "peasant" below it, pointing to the blank space in the middle Dao: "Between the government and the peasants are the landlords and gentry. They act as the middle class between the government and the peasants in this social system, controlling the stability of the society. They rely on the land to collect rent and lend to accumulate personal wealth, and to Wealth is used to gain social status, monopolize rural handicrafts and commerce, manage clan affairs and religious organizations, and constantly grow their own strength. And what about farmers? I think you all have personal experience. If something happens to the family, they can only borrow from the landlords in the same village. If there is a famine, they can only mortgage their land to the landlords in exchange for grain. When the debt is repaid, You lost your family property and became refugees. Many of you must have come to Victory Port this way, right?"

Many of the students in the audience nodded silently. If they hadn't lost their family property, how could they have been living in such a remote place as Shengli Harbor to work? Of course, judging from the current living conditions, it is not easy to settle in this place. It's not a bad thing, and it can even be said to be the great luck in my life.

"What did these landlords do after they oppressed you?" Ning Qi subtly opposed the students and the landlords without knowing it: "Because their knowledge is limited, they can't be like ours." In this way, all kinds of commodities are produced to make money, so the way they can think of to make money is to continue to exploit and squeeze you. They dare not squander and don't want to turn money into capital and invest in industry and commerce, so they can only use it to buy More land, and then squeeze more farmers through land mergers."

"Take the farm we are now reclaiming near Fenghuang Town as an example. You also know that we have organized and built a large number of water diversion irrigation projects locally, covering an area of ​​nearly ten thousand mu. Based on your knowledge, these projects can Can it be achieved by relying on a certain landlord or a certain village?"

Seeing the students shaking their heads in the audience, Ning Qi continued: "According to the usual practice, the local government can only organize and implement such a large project, but can the Yacheng government take care of it? Will it take care of it? Obviously, the officials don't This kind of interest and motivation has never existed before, and it is unlikely to exist in the future. Why? Because these lands do not belong to them at all, and the benefits they get have nothing to do with them. The harvest is good, maybe he can add a sum to the memorial for himself If the achievements of a leader with good leadership are bad, it will not affect the official position under the buttocks. So this is a deadlock, people with land have no ability to increase productivity, and those who have the ability do not have enough benefits Push, the root of this contradiction lies in the land system!"

"Many of you feel that there is a problem with the land policy of the Executive Committee. You just think that you may become a landlord one day. Then I can tell you now that being a landlord will not solve the fundamental problem. Landlords The social wealth occupied is not as much as you think."

Ning Qi looked at the dubious expressions of the students, and continued: "Let me take Fenghuang Town as an example to explain. According to the land information provided by the Yacheng government, [-]% of the existing cultivated land in Fenghuang Town is cultivated land. They belong to the self-cultivating farmers, they account for less than one-third of the local residents, and the other half of the land belongs to the local landlords, and their proportion of the population is even lower, less than one-tenth. If the farmers in Fenghuang Town divide up the local area Will all the arable land in the country become rich? No. A few more acres of land will not be enough to change the economic situation of farmers, because under the condition of private land ownership, productivity cannot be greatly improved. Students who have doubts about this question can compare the grain output of Fenghuang Town and the Shengli Port area this summer, and the facts can tell you how powerful the collective farm is."

"I have three questions. I hope that the students will think carefully and find out the root of the problem. First, under the land system of the Ming Dynasty, who is supporting whom between the landlords and the farmers who lease the land? Second, why are the poor poor and why are the rich rich? Third, should farmers pay land rent to landlords?”

Ning Qi wrote down these three questions on the blackboard, and then said to the students: "Many people, including you, think that if there is no land of their own, or if no landlord is willing to rent out the land, then farmers have to Starved to death, so in order to survive, you must try to buy land, or maintain the current land system. But is this really the case? You have been here for a while, you have no land of your own, and you have not been engaged in farming, but you You are not living well now, and I believe that you should live more like a person than before you came to Victory Port! Will the people starve to death if you leave the land? Maybe under the rule of Ming Dynasty, but in Under the rule of the Haihan Executive Committee, this situation will never happen! Because we have a better and more mature social system, which can support more people through social division of labor."

"Someone may ask, since Haihan's system allows the people to live off the land, why buy more land?" Ning Qi took a sip of water to moisten his throat, and looked at the students below whose eyes gradually brightened They went on to describe: "The advantage of the Haihan system is that it can effectively use the labor force and produce output in an efficient way. Whether it is food or other products, our production costs are much lower than those of Daming. Our It is precisely because of this that our products sell well, and in exchange for more wealth, to provide you with a better living environment, the living conditions you are enjoying in Victory Port, have you ever had them in the past?"

The students in the audience shook their heads collectively. It is true that what they have enjoyed after coming here is incomparable before. The comprehensive security of food, clothing, housing and transportation provided by the Executive Committee makes it impossible for these people who could not even keep their own property to be picky. what.This is also the biggest reason why they are willing to stay here and continue to work with the executive committee even if they cannot own their own land.

"But those who can enjoy the treatment of naturalized people are only a very small number of people under the rule of Ming Dynasty, and the ideal of the executive committee is to let as many people as possible live the same life as you now, so that everyone can have clothes. Clothes, houses, food, and books are difficult to realize, because it requires a lot of wealth, which is beyond your comprehension. To get so much wealth, you need to win The existing manpower in Hong Kong is far from enough, so we will continue to introduce immigrants to expand our production capacity."

"When there are too many people, they always have to eat. There are already tens of thousands of people here. With so many mouths to eat, it is impossible to rely on buying food from outside the island. We have to farm by ourselves. The significance of the existence of the Ministry of Agriculture is, It is to use the most efficient farming method to grow as much food as possible with the least manpower and input. To achieve this, we must rely on collective farms. We need a large number of collective farms to feed the growing population , and the existence of the landlord class is a stumbling block to our great cause. On the land they own, we can grow more food with fewer hands, but we still have to endure their existence. It's a ridiculous thing."

Ning Qi pointed to the students in the audience: "And you are the biggest force to change this ridiculous situation! Every mu of land you expropriate from the landlord can produce hundreds of catties of grain every year and feed more people. Naturalized people, create more wealth to change your own living conditions! If you want to live a better life, then first of all, finish the current work well and requisition all the land in the Phoenix Town area as soon as possible .”

(End of this chapter)