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    After returning home angrily, Hao Chongwen slammed his coat on the table, grabbed the cold teapot and poured it into his mouth.  The son, who was lying on the table practicing calligraphy, did not notice that his father had a strange look on his face. When he saw that he had torn up the jute paper that he had just written in the middle of, he felt distressed and said, "Dad, be careful, my paper is all torn."

    Hao Chongwen was full of anger and had no place to vent his anger. He immediately stamped the teapot and tore the jute paper that was half written on to pieces. He cursed: "Write, write, write, just know how to write! We in the Hao family all know how to write."  We¡¯re almost out of food!¡±

    ¡°Have you ever seen a child get so angry? He was so frightened that he burst into tears after half of his calligraphy homework was torn to pieces.  The crying also alarmed Old Man Hao and his wife who was cooking. When they saw the torn pieces of paper scattered on the floor with large square characters, they yelled angrily: "You traitor! If you are angry in your heart, just go outside and vent it."  Why did you come back to spoil the child Look, look! What beautiful words." Old Man Hao bent down and carefully picked up the broken yellow paper. Although he didn't recognize the words on it, it was his own  It was written by the eldest grandson!  It is all the hope of the Hao family!  It was torn apart like this, and the hand that picked up the paper was shaking.

    When Hao Chongwen saw his son burst into tears, and saw his father bending down to pick up the paper, he felt a little unbearable, but he was really angry today, and stamped his feet: "Dad, please stop picking it up! We, the Hao family, are almost at a loss to open the pot!"

    "What's wrong? What's wrong? Didn't the imperial court send an imperial envoy here?" The daughter-in-law thought she was going to the Northeast, but as soon as she asked, Hao Chongwen scolded her: "You know nothing! Chen San Mazi just sent  For people, the rent is going to be increased this year! **His mother¡¯s whole family. Even if they are not allowed to go to the Northeast, they are trying to increase the rent in a different way. He just wants revenge!"

    Once he heard that the rent was going to be increased, Old Man Hao stopped picking up paper.  Even his voice was trembling when he stood up: "Is this, is this true?" Old Hao was really scared. He had only lived a good life for a few years. What if he went back to the old days of eating chaff and drinking water every year?

    "It's true." At this time, there were shouts outside the door. Old Man Hao's second son and a large group of tenants of the Chen family poured into the courtyard. Everyone shouted at you angrily, making Old Man Hao even more frightened and trembling.  Said: "Chongwen, then you don't care about the imperial envoy coming from Nanjing?"

    "What the hell!" Hao Chongwen was all angry.  He told everyone about his participation in the city government's negotiations, and said angrily: "You haven't seen that those two hairless officials don't look like they are doing anything? It's obvious that they are helping the landlords like Chen San Mazi."  !¡±

    "Damn it, do you still have a way to survive?"

    "If you ask me, just leave!"

    "Yes, everyone is leaving! Didn't Lao Liu from the next village just leave? I heard that he sent a telegram back the day before yesterday saying that the Fengtian government really gave us 20 acres of land."

    "Then what are you waiting for! Let's go together, we won't let Chen San Mazi do anything!"

    Seeing that the people in the small courtyard were excited and angry, it was like a prairie fire.  24-year-old Cheng Cheng also rode his bicycle towards Hao's house.

    While riding a bicycle on the streets of Xuzhou, Cheng Cheng felt a sense of depression and dullness, as if the air around him was filled with decay and decline.  As a member of the National Socialist Party from Ya'an, Sichuan, and an officer of the local Youth Association, he joined the National Socialist Party in October 1912.  And entered the Youth Association that month.  Although he did not catch up with the golden age of the first batch of public students, he still stood out from the hundreds of thousands of National Youth Association members through his own efforts.  In early 1913, he was sent to Harvard University in the United States to study literature and business administration. During this period, he also took elective courses in geography and nature.

    The United States is one of the few countries in the Western world that has not been affected by the European War.  So four years of study were hard but full of fun. After returning to China, I happened to meet the National Youth Association recruiting teachers who volunteered to go to conservative and remote areas.

    I think back then, in the difficult years at the beginning of Southwest China, everyone was very moved by the Chairman¡¯s resolute promotion of free education.  Nine years of free education, factory night schools, rural literacy cram schools, etc., almost overwhelmed the then weak Southwest finances.  But today, a few years later, the southwest has become the region with the highest literacy rate in the country.  "The Southwest must become a role model, the national society must assume the responsibility of revitalizing the country, and young people should become the vanguard of the times!" This presidential speech at the beginning of the establishment of the Youth Association has become the motto of every Youth Association member. In this hot-blooded  In the exciting times, he also resolutely chose to come to Xuzhou, a city that is not remote but full of conservative ideas, to become a primary school teacher.

    In the eyes of the Youth Association, the Chairman is the kind of activist who sets an example and is meticulous. He is not the kind of person who talks about ideals. While establishing the idea of ??national society, he also knows the importance of having a full stomach, so he pushes the government to improve  In order to provide treatment for teachers who volunteer to teach in remote areas, each person can receive a monthly salary of 30 yuan and a bicycle. The National Youth Association will also provide a monthly compensation allowance of 2 yuan for volunteers.

    Not to mention that it is equivalent toWith the salary of an official or a factory master, the Youth Association's monthly subsidy of only 2 yuan can buy more than 20 kilograms of rice, which is equivalent to a month's rations for a middle-class family in Xuzhou.  Although his family is not well-off, his brother's life has improved a lot since he joined the Chongqing Industrial Group Steel Factory as a worker. Therefore, in addition to sending 15 yuan to his family every month, most of the rest is spent on eating, buying books or helping poor farmers.  child.

    "Boss Yang the recent turmoil between tenant farmers and landlords in northern Jiangsu has not brought the city to a standstill. On the contrary, Xuzhou City has become lively with the arrival of many reporters and officials. Cheng Cheng parked the car in front of a small shop specializing in the Four Treasures of the Study. The shop owner looked at  Cheng Cheng quickly ran out and bowed in person: "Teacher Cheng, you are here and are you going to deliver calligraphy papers to the students?  "

    "Yes." Cheng Cheng nodded and said, "It's free to study, and paper is not cheap. We people can help as much as we can."

    Cheng Cheng is an old customer of this store, so the boss knows that the paper he buys every time is given to children from poor families.  Although jute paper is always cheap and plentiful, hundreds of students spend several dollars on this expense every month.  So after personally placing a thick bundle of jute paper on the carriage frame, I thought about it and added another stack before saying, "Teacher Cheng, I always make you spend money like this. Don't spend all the money you spent on your wife."

    "You always add an extra stack, aren't you afraid of folding the book and going back to kneel on the bedside?"

    "Haha Teacher Cheng is really good at joking. They are just rough paper. It's a pity that my store is small, otherwise I would open the door and let your students come and use it for free."

    "If everyone in the world supported students and education like Boss Yang, there would be no need to worry about the country not being rich and the people not being strong." After Cheng Cheng handed over the money, he was about to push the cart away, but suddenly stopped and turned around and smiled: "I will take my students.  Thank you."

    "Good man, please add a little more next time." The smile warmed the boss's heart, and he waved his hands to say hello. After Cheng Cheng walked away, he looked at the money in his hand and muttered a few words.  Little did he know that the promise in his heart would never come true.

    Cheng Cheng quickly arrived at Hao¡¯s house by bicycle.  As soon as he arrived at the gate of the courtyard, he saw a crowd of people in the dark. They were getting ready to set off in a fierce manner. He quickly asked: "Mr. Hao, what are youOld Hao quickly squeezed out of the crowd: "Mr. Cheng.  Why are you here?  Lookthis is all a mess, let me clean it up.  "

    "It's okay, it's okay." Cheng Cheng untied the paper bag on the carriage, took out a stack of jute paper and walked inside.  Nowadays, everyone from all over the country knows this good teacher who is short but passionate about helping students, so everyone greets him with his luggage.

    "What's going on?" Cheng Cheng walked into the low thatched hut and found a pile of scraps of paper on the ground, with small, neat writing on the scraps of paper.  His face suddenly darkened.  He didn't feel bad about the paper. With his income, not to mention supporting hundreds of students, even the whole city's elementary school students could afford to subsidize this kind of jute paper. What he felt bad about was the words on it.  It¡¯s the attitude towards education!  Others don't know it, but he knows it very well, although free education cannot be truly universalized at present.  But even so, the government's annual investment is calculated in the hundreds of millions. If there was no such burden, more than a dozen large steel plants could be built every year!

    If everyone treats learning with this attitude.  When it comes to education, what¡¯s the point of spending this money?  Seeing his dark face, Hao Chongwen also regretted a little. He was afraid that Cheng Cheng would not want to see his children from now on, so he quickly told what happened just now: "Teacher Cheng, don't be angry, it's all my fault, I"  Why!"

    After hearing the explanation, Cheng Cheng¡¯s eyebrows rose again.  Although he went abroad for further study before unification, he was still aware of the movement to reduce rents and interest rates.  Yang Qiu used his military power to forcefully carry out a campaign of rent reduction and interest rate reduction across the country, coupled with the land reform in neighboring Henan, which really frightened the landlords in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui. Although a small number of them were lucky, most of them began to reduce their income.  Rent rate reduction.  It seems that God has also helped. Except for Henan, the weather has been smooth throughout the country in the past few years, and there has not even been an outbreak of insect pests. Therefore, the gentry did not feel much loss after the rent and interest reduction.  However, floods occurred after last year's snowstorm, and agricultural pressure began to increase again. Fortunately, the explosive growth of industry and commerce stimulated by huge war profits made up for the lack of agricultural income.  But now these gentry want to take the opportunity to resume the rent increase, which undoubtedly hurts him, not to mention the rent increase in retaliation!  Moreover, the rent increase will inevitably make farmers' lives more difficult. His students are in a critical period of physical development and are already undernourished. Do they want the next generation to be as short and thin as himself?  Therefore, as a member of the National Socialist Youth Association, he felt that he should step forward to help them.

    "Don't be anxious yet." Cheng Cheng thought about it and said, "Commissioner Dong is my senior. I know him. I will make a decision after I meet him." Everyone did not expect that he actually knew the Nanjing officials, and they nodded repeatedly.  Said to wait for news here.

    After asking Hao Chongwen to distribute the paper to each student's home, Cheng Cheng pushed the cart towards the city hall.  He did know Dong Yongwei. The two often discussed literature together when they were studying in the United States. But how to solve the problem?He had no idea how to resolve the dispute between farmers and landlords in northern Jiangsu.  After all, many sages have failed for thousands of years, so he was thinking of ways to move along very slowly. He even forgot to reply to others' greetings.

    When he arrived at the city hall, the patrolman who guarded the gate also knew him, so he was quickly let in.

    Dong Yongwei and Dai Jitao were both worried about where to start. When they heard that an old classmate was visiting, they had to temporarily put aside their work.  Cheng Cheng couldn't help but exchange a few words after seeing the two of them. The three of them were all members of the Youth Association, and the conversation was particularly speculative. So when he mentioned that the landlords had united to increase rents to retaliate against the tenant farmers, the hot-tempered Dai Jitao slammed the table.  : "You bastard! You are getting bolder and bolder! Although reducing rent and interest rates is not a national policy, it is a good way for the chairman to ensure the interests of farmers. How can we allow them to overthrow it at will!"

    Cheng Cheng was even more worried because he was afraid that this trend would affect the education field and destroy the hard-won free education achievements, so he unbuttoned his collar and asked solemnly: "Senior Yongwei, the chairman didn't explain it before you came.  What should I do?¡±

    Dong Yongwei shook his head, what would he have to worry about if he was told what to do.  Said: "This matter is not trivial. Now 40 million fellow farmers across the country are looking at Northern Jiangsu. Once it is resolved in Northern Jiangsu, the experience can be promoted nationwide, so the benefits involved are huge! But if we can liberate farmers' productivity  , our country will be able to truly transition from agriculture to industry. Because judging from the experience of the United States and Europe, if you want to industrialize, you must first solve the problems of farmers. That is why the chairman implemented the "Immigration Land Law" this time to dilute the pressure on population and land.  Unexpectedly Cheng Cheng fell silent, his eyes flickering as if he was thinking about something. In fact, they all know that the most important thing for a prosperous country and a strong people is to solve the imbalance of land and population. The vast territory of the northwest and northeast is rich in resources.  Very much like the western United States, the Homestead Act promoted the development of the western United States and increased the national power of the United States several times, while the Immigration Land Act also had the opportunity to greatly improve the strength of the Republic of China. However, these conservatives are afraid that large-scale population migration will lead to  There was no one to help them farm anymore, so they were particularly resistant. So how to solve it? After thinking about it, he came up with a bold solution in his mind: "Can we use industrial and commercial methods to solve it?  "

    "What's the industrial and commercial approach?"

    Dong Yongwei knew that he also majored in business administration, but he did not understand how business and industry could be applied to agriculture.  Cheng Cheng immediately expressed his thoughts: "My idea is to put aside the biggest problem of land distribution rights for the time being, because after the "Immigration Land Law", the land pressure in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui will be much less, and there is no need to directly seize the land of the gentry.  The land will continue to be owned by them, but the current tenant system must be replaced by a labor contract system. A farmers' union should be formed, similar to a workers' union, to bring farmers together to negotiate with the landlords and gentry. Labor contracts should be more transparent and secure.  We should replace old products such as sales contracts and implement the contracting system in industrialization. Let farmers contract land from landlords, and determine the next longer contracting rights in the form of legislation to ensure their interests  This is like Hanyang Group. Hanyang is just the main factory, and there are many branch factories across the country. The branch factories contract some of their work to capable small private factories. Although the products are all branded with Hanyang, the management rights are not  Differentiated. If this is implemented, landlords will only have ownership rights to the land in their hands. Unless they farm their own land, land management and operation rights will be given to farmers, turning rent collection into fixed dividends. Farmers will receive it for a longer period of time.  Once you have the land use rights, you can rest assured that the more output you produce, the higher your income will naturally be.¡±

    The low and clear words made Dong Yongwei and Dai Jitao's eyes light up. Although what he said was a bit messy, his meaning was very clear.  In the most popular terms, it is to take advantage of the "Immigration Land Law" to evacuate the population of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui to a large extent, to directly abolish the tenant farming law that has lasted for thousands of years with landlords as the core, and to replace it with the contract industry dominated by farmers.  Contracting system!  The hearts of the two of them were beating wildly. This was so bold!  Is it possible?  And isn¡¯t it too ideal?  Landowners and gentry hold land, will they agree to contract it to farmers?  The fixed dividend is much lower than rent collection, and the contract period is long. Will they collectively boycott it?

    But Cheng Cheng became more determined as he spoke, and his voice suddenly became louder: "Spring plowing will begin in one month, which is the best time! First, we can take out the state-owned unclaimed wasteland hills to allow development, and follow the "Immigration of Land"  "Law" will belong to individual farmers after farming reaches a certain time limit. Secondly, mobilize the farmers in northern Jiangsu and form a farmers' association to prepare for a strike and force them to bow their heads unless they are willing to let the land be abandoned!"

    "Stop farming The two of them looked at Cheng Cheng in shock, and suddenly thought of a word.

    "Revolutionall the ideas about land are written by Hippo, don't take it seriously. Ignoring YY is nothing more than looking for a way. The method written by Hippo is just a discussion, and it is definitely full of loopholes, so please don't criticize To be continued)  !~!

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