Huguang is definitely a hard bone in the reform and is very difficult to chew. The land of Huguang, especially Hunan, has generally been a tough folk custom and has always been a new force in resisting external invasions.&1t;/p>

However, the local landlords were also tough when resisting the reform of agricultural tax. Civil servants who went to the countryside to measure land were beaten to a bruised face, and their work would be difficult to start for a while.&1t;/p>

Agricultural reform is forced to come to a halt.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao's policy came into effect, and Huguang Hanhuang Party officials immediately began to implement it, and soon attracted a large number of landlords who were willing to reform. State-owned enterprises provided funds, technology, landlords unearthed land, and established a joint venture agricultural reclamation company to release the population in the land and adopt the maximum efficiency model of agricultural production.&1t;/p>

At the same time, we will concentrate on cracking down on armed forces and cracking down on a group of anti-French landlords. All of them will be arrested and detained. Those who make a particularly fierce move will be arrested and sentenced.&1t;/p>

There are still a large number of people who are not in charge of the time being.&1t;/p>

In addition, the government has increased its publicity efforts and called on landlords to set up agricultural companies to operate land.&1t;/p>

The reason for establishing agricultural companies is mainly to change the agricultural production model and thus release the population from the land.&1t;/p>

Under the leadership of more than 100,000 troops of the imperial court, the landlords in Huguang did not further develop a rebellion in their resistance to the law. Moreover, under the court's suspended policy, the situation quickly stabilized.&1t;/p>

The imperial court does not need to complete the agricultural tax reform in Huguang area immediately. It can take it step by step and continue to release the population without affecting the goal.&1t;/p>

Every prefecture and county will first concentrate the forces of armed police, first solve the local thorny landlords, and launch activities to kill chickens and warn monkeys.&1t;/p>

At the provincial level, we will concentrate our efforts to solve the problem of landlords resisting the law in a certain prefecture and county.&1t;/p>

At the same time, it won over a group and isolated a group.&1t;/p>

There are really few people who dare to rebel, at most they are resisting France. After all, the imperial court had just conquered Mongolia, and the front-line army was directly transferred to the reform province.&1t;/p>

Only the stupid one will jump out at this time to hold up the banner of rebellion.&1t;/p>

Household registration reform is also underway. The construction funds of the imperial court and the investment of state-owned enterprises have been reached. The construction of urban infrastructure and water conservancy projects in the reform areas have begun.&1t;/p>

People in Huguang and Huaihe River areas immediately obtained a large number of employment opportunities. Because the reform abolished corvee labor, they had to pay for their work on the construction site.&1t;/p>

The unemployed population in urban areas was first solved, and then the agricultural population released from rural areas was also digested by these construction activities.&1t;/p>

The construction of infrastructure such as water conservancy, railways, highways, telegraphs, etc. will immediately improve people's livelihood.&1t;/p>

Huguang is an important commercial grain production area. The commercial grain here can be transported to the south of the Yangtze River through the Yangtze River, and now it can be transported to the north by train on the north bank of the Yangtze River.&1t;/p>

Water conservancy projects are the largest project in the reform of Huguang. At the same time, railways are also an important project. It is planned to build a complete railway network to connect all prefectures and counties.&1t;/p>

The highway system is also under construction, but the scale of construction is not that large. It is more of a local government to carry out highway construction. It is mainly used to improve township transportation.&1t;/p>

Telegrams must naturally be fully laid out, and administrative and other things are inseparable from telegrams.&1t;/p>

In addition, in terms of urban infrastructure construction, urban drainage systems, housing and other things, they all require a large number of workers.&1t;/p>

Banks have relatively abundant money and can lend a lot to local governments and state-owned enterprises, with the lowest interest rates.&1t;/p>

A large amount of state-owned enterprise capital poured into Huguang, on the one hand, it participated in Huguang's agricultural production, and on the other hand, it controlled Huguang's commodity market.&1t;/p>

The banking network was fully launched in all prefectures and counties in Huguang. After the reform began, paper money began to become circulating currencies, while silver and silver dollars were no longer used directly for market transactions.&1t;/p>

A large number of state-owned enterprises' commodities have poured into Huguang, further occupying the Huguang market.&1t;/p>

The industry and commerce in Huguang are not that high, and there are not many commodities in itself, and the market share squeezed out is mainly those in the Jiangnan region.&1t;/p>

This reform can be said to have had a huge impact on the rural natural economy in Huguang area.&1t;/p>

In the past, the commodity economy in Jiangnan was flooded, but it did not flood to the level of commodity in state-owned enterprises. As railways were built in various places, various commodities would reduce transportation costs, which would have a huge impact on the rural natural economy. In addition, the reform of agricultural taxes forced landlords to change their production model, and most of the tenants would leave the land and enter towns to become workers.&1t;/p>

What the court needs is to impact the rural natural economy. If it were the Ming Dynasty in the past, impacting the rural natural economy would be a death-seeking action, because the ruling system of the Ming Dynasty in the past was a model based on the rural natural economy. Once the rural natural economy collapsed and the population that was unable to resettle was unable to resettle the countryside, it would cause huge social risks.&1t;/p>

But now it is different. Those who come from rural areas can find jobs when they go to towns and can even immigrate to various places. The court can allocate land to those immigrants, or arrange jobs and temporary housing for them. They can also give them loans, relief, etc., and have very strong resettlement capabilities.&1t;/p>

Huguang is densely populated, and the production efficiency of most of the population is relatively average. Especially in Huguang, because of its rich agricultural resources, it has never been a place where people will starve to death. Therefore, the pace of life of the people is very slow, not as dangerous as the people in coastal provinces, and not so hardworking in their work.&1t;/p>

A large amount of labor is actually wasted.&1t;/p>

Reform is to release these labor force and gain more industrial population. Therefore, the contradiction of this reform is actually the contradiction between the capital class and the landlord class, so there are so many landlords who violently resist the law.&1t;/p>

Generally speaking, when such contradictions break out, wars will arise. Just as Britain and the United States have both had such wars in history.&1t;/p>

When the Ming Dynasty also reformed the north, the rebellion of King Fu represented the interests of the landlord class.&1t;/p>

If the imperial court had not dispatched more than 100,000 field troops to take over Huguang, the rebellion would have spread throughout Huguang.&1t;/p>

The main reason is that people with no certain heights jump out to rebel, so even if the landlords below are very anxious and want to rebel, they can only suppress their restlessness.&1t;/p>

The court almost did not give any chance to rebel, and various reform projects were carried out in Huguang in an orderly manner.&1t;/p>

Those landlords who were attracted by the imperial court were overjoyed. Anyone could see that they could not twist their arms in this reform.&1t;/p>

However, most landlords are confused about the agricultural company thing. Some are insufficient funds, and some do not know how to manage and operate.&1t;/p>

However, after the reform, agricultural tax was paid as usual.&1t;/p>

With the original production model, except for the small landlords who can support it, the big landlords have to pay money every year. Then there is no other way except for unearthing the land. Many landlords regard land as their lifeblood.&1t;/p>

Joint venture with state-owned enterprises to establish agricultural companies, which means that their interests can be protected. In particular, futures trading appeared on the Beijing Stock Exchange in the 14th year of the Apocalypse.&1t;/p>

Bulk agricultural product futures appear, and rice is also a type in the futures market. This means that after establishing an agricultural company, you can place an order directly in Beijing, and the annual income will be relatively stable.&1t;/p>

At the same time, the government has begun to try to adopt the order production model for commercial grain production. This system will gradually be popularized in Huguang area. Only land with production orders will have to be taxed. However, those idle land will not need to be taxed.&1t;/p>

The production model of these agricultural companies is nothing more than agricultural machinery to improve productivity. State-owned agricultural machinery factories have developed many agricultural machinery for rice cultivation, which have been used in Taiwan and Nanyang. At the same time, many have also entered the southern market, and these agricultural machinery has improved a lot of production efficiency.&1t;/p>

By using agricultural machinery, repairing water conservancy and using fertilizers, we can reduce labor input, increase agricultural output, and release the population from the land.&1t;/p>

This is actually a battle of interests. Whoever controls the population will have interests.&1t;/p>

When the population is controlled by the landlords, the landlords have interests. When the population is controlled by the capitalists, the capitalists have interests.&1t;/p>

However, this reform received support from ordinary people and the small landlord class in Huguang.&1t;/p>

Whether it is urban people, self-cultivating farmers, tenant farmers, or small landlords, they all support this reform. For ordinary urban people, this reform allows them to avoid paying corvee taxes and other messy taxes, while increasing employment opportunities, and the household registration problems can be solved.&1t;/p>

Self-cultivated farmers do not have to pay agricultural taxes if they have less than 30 mu of land, and the tenant rent of tenant farmers has also been reduced to 15%. In the past, tenant rent of tenant farmers generally reached 50% or 60%.&1t;/p>

As for the small landlords, the agricultural tax they need to pay is relatively low, only 10%, and many are only 5%. Although the rent is small, it is easy for them to transfer to a hired farm.&1t;/p>

This made the rebellious actions of those landlords lack a certain level of mass base.&1t;/p>

When ordinary people don’t want to rebel, those big landlords are just helpless. Because they don’t have enough power, they cannot follow the trend. They jump out to rebel, just like sailing against the current.&1t;/p>

Therefore, this agricultural reform only harmed the interests of a few large and medium-sized landlords. Especially those landlords who had members of their families who passed the exam for fame and fortune, the rise and fall of the landlord class in the Ming Dynasty actually depends on fame and fortune.&1t;/p>

Nowadays, fame and fortune are no longer useful, and taxes are also required, and privileges are directly deprived.&1t;/p>

Under the reform of the situation in Huguang, although it seems that although it is a bit strange, it is actually very stable and cannot cause any big trouble.&1t;/p>

Those large and medium-sized landlords who should be eliminated and who should be transformed, the imperial court at least left a way for them to take. Although their interests were damaged, they did not have to bet on their lives and wealth to rebel.&1t;/p>

In the Huaihe River Basin, the reform has been much smoother.&1t;/p>

The landlord class here is not that stubborn. Under the general trend of court reform, although violent anti-French incidents have occurred, they are not so many.&1t;/p>

In Fengyang, the court's reforms immediately released the long-term squeezed conflict between officials and the people.&1t;/p>

In the past, there was the ancestral tomb of the Ming Dynasty, and the local people had a heavy tax burden. Although the emperor was born, a large number of people went out to beg for food every year. The local people generally hated the government, and later they cooperated with the thieves to dig up the Zhu family's ancestral tomb, which shows how much conflicts have accumulated.&1t;/p>

This reform abolished corvee labor and all kinds of messy burdens.&1t;/p>

In view of the frequent local disasters, Zhu Youjiao directly exempted Fengyang from the agricultural tax for three years. The people of Fengyang were immediately happy, and the local public grievances were quickly released.&1t;/p>

The reforms in Huguang and Huaihe River Basins quickly released a large number of people.&1t;/p>

The imperial court adopted a policy of reclamation in northern Jiangsu. There were a large number of Lucaotans here, mainly for the fuel used to boil salt.&1t;/p>

So there are a lot of land that has not been reclaimed. Although some refugees sneak in to reclaim the land, most of the areas are still in a barren state.&1t;/p>

Nowadays, salt production methods have become salt drying, concentrated in the Bohai Bay area of ​​Northern Zhili and Shandong provinces. Moreover, with the advancement of technology, the sea smell of salt exposed is no longer so strong, but high-end salt is still green salt and bamboo salt.&1t;/p>

Those Lucaotans were useless. Zhu Youxiao asked a little wetland protection area to be marked below, and all other places were reclaimed, resources were allocated, and prefectures and counties were established to restore administration, and these three unrelated areas were included in management. As for the land that had been reclaimed above, household registration and land deeds were issued for those people.&1t;/p>

In northern Jiangsu, it can be reclaimed into a cotton and grain-producing area.&1t;/p>

The gentry and chaebols in the Jiangnan region were already in panic at this time. The Jiangbei region had been reformed, and it was the Jiangnan region's turn to be the next step.&1t;/p>

News of reforms are everywhere in the newspapers, and the people are looking forward to the arrival of reforms.&1t;/p>

As Zhu Youxiao reformed the north, revitalized the commodity market and people's livelihood in the north, and even personally conquered Mongolia and returned to a great victory, the prestige had risen to a new height. The Jiangnan gentry now wanted to blacken the emperor, but they didn't know where they got black.&1t;/p>

Ordinary people are not fools. The court's reform policies are placed before them. You can know who they are good for just thinking about it.&1t;/p>

They only know that the reforms implemented by the court were beneficial to them.&1t;/p>

Especially in Jiangnan, there are many workers and a high degree of urbanization. There are even a large number of workers looking forward to the court carrying out reforms in Jiangnan.&1t;/p>

In the 14th year of the Apocalypse, Jiangbei will fully build railways.&1t;/p>

In areas where the railway trunk line has been built, railway branch lines have begun to be built on a large scale. In this vigorous railway construction, the economic market structure of the Ming Dynasty has been quickly rewritten, and industry and commerce will become more prosperous due to the emergence of railways.&1t;/p>

In the Jiangnan region, the first railway has also begun to be built.&1t;/p>

This railway is not connected to the Jiangbei Railway, but is transferred through ferry. The Ministry of Industry is currently studying the plan to build the Yangtze River Bridge and will not start construction for the time being.&1t;/p>

The first railway in Jiangnan leads to Suzhou from Nanjing, and then from Suzhou to Hangzhou. In the economical areas, the railway here will have high commercial profits.&1t;/p>

The imperial court built the railway to Jiangnan, and a group of gentry and chaebols were helpless.&1t;/p>

The penetration of state-owned capital consortium into the Jiangnan market has been very serious, and many big businessmen have joined the state-owned capital consortium.&1t;/p>

Capital is a game where big fish eat small fish, and capital is also weak. When the state-owned capital consortium throws out an olive branch, a large number of businessmen will naturally rush up to hug their thighs.&1t;/p>

Now that Zhu Youxiao's state-owned capital consortium has become a strong state. As long as the reform policy is implemented in Jiangnan, the gentry and chaebols in Jiangnan will collapse. (To be continued.)&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!