Xu Jia, the chief of the statistics section, was in a bad mood. When he received the order to go to He Rui's office, Xu Jia had already prepared questions. When he saw He Rui, Xu Jia immediately raised his doubts, "Warlord, why?"

Why don’t we provide some ideological education to the comrades regarding the president’s proclaiming himself emperor?”

"What kind of education do you want to educate Xu Chengfeng and the others? As for other comrades, we have had an emperor above us for generations, and we can't abandon this habitual thinking for a while. We just judge whether this emperor is good or not based on various rumors.

The emperor is not good. Those born in the imperial era have all passed away. Children born under the republic have grown up and have no such ideological foundation."

Hearing what He Rui said so straightforwardly, Xu Jia determined that his focus was the same as He Rui's, and suggested: "Because of this, we need to carry out ideological education. Only through repeated education can we change the attitude of our comrades.

view."

Seeing that He Rui had no intention of agreeing, Xu Jia continued: "Warlord, comrades have read the interview you sent and have realized that Beiyang has fallen apart. But the people don't think so."

He Rui waved his hand and interrupted Xu Jia, "Wait until Yuan Shikai is overthrown before we start promoting the republic again."

"I wonder how long the Overseer thinks the President can last?"

"what you think?"

Xu Jia thought for a while, then suddenly raised his eyebrows, "Why hasn't the warlord made this prediction? There must be a reason, right?"

"Yes, I want everyone to experience this as a bystander and treat it as a mental journey. If I made a prediction, everyone's focus would be different. I'm worried that it will affect everyone's growth."

"...This prediction will be much beyond ordinary people's imagination. Overseer, I think the president can last for one year. I wonder what Overseer thinks?"

He Rui raised four fingers.,

"Four months?" Xu Jia felt unbelievable.

He Rui nodded, "Yes, four months. That's why I made the decision to let the comrades experience this process on their own. The time was very short and passed in the blink of an eye. And everyone will continue their work during the four months,

As soon as the snow melts, it's over. It won't really affect the work."

As He Rui had guessed, Wu Youping had completely put aside the Yuan Shikai matter. Johnson and Wu Youping sat together in front of the bar of the British Business Club. This time, the two of them had Fujian black tea in front of them. Johnson smelled it and felt a little...

Intoxicated, Wu Youping raised his tea cup and took a sip of the tea brought by his Fujian classmate Zhuang Jiaxiong. He felt that the taste was much more elegant than Anhua black tea.

Next to him, Johnson looked even more satisfied. The British love tea, especially the upper class. This Johnson looked a little confused, but his accent really sounded like a London accent.

After drinking the cup of black tea, Johnson complained that there was no white sugar. After complaining for a few words, Johnson asked: "Mayor Wu, there are so many people in Siping, can you get a badge?"

"What kind of collar badge?" Wu Youping replied.

Johnson took out a row of samples from his pocket bag, which were collar badges sewn on the collars of military uniforms. After Wu Youping picked them up and read them, he couldn't help laughing: "This kind of thing can be made anywhere, including Japan, Jiangnan, and Tianjin. How could you do this?"

Thinking of doing it in Siping?"

Johnson didn't give any explanation, he just said in an understatement, "I will provide the fabric, and I will sew five hundred for one silver dollar."

For such a low price, Wu Youping was a little unhappy. He picked up the collar badge and looked at it for a while, then looked at Johnson, and saw that Johnson deliberately avoided eye contact.

"You also have to provide the needle and thread." Wu Youping began to bargain.

Johnson finally turned around and said, "You have to promise to give me 100,000 within a month."

"When does it start?" Wu Youping felt that things were by no means so easy.

"The calculation starts from the time I receive the shipment message from there."

Wu Youping reviewed the quantities and output of the villages and towns participating in the bidding in his mind, and confidently replied: "Deal. Do you need to write a contract?"

Johnson stared at Wu Youping with bright eyes for a moment and said with a smile: "I'm just waiting to read Mayor Wu's contract."

Back in the office, Zhuang Jiaxiong, a classmate in the office next to him, saw Wu Youping passing by the door, got up and followed him out. Wu Youping welcomed his classmates into the office, and then said: "Your political review is still in progress, don't worry."

Zhuang Jiaxiong asked in his northernmost Fujian accent: "Why is the political review work so troublesome?"

"After passing the political review, you will become our comrade. We will hand over the work to you. This matter must be done carefully."

Although Zhuang Jiaxiong was helpless, he was not disappointed, "I know the rules here at the Governor's. They just run errands and give me something to do. Being in the office all day makes me feel sick."

"Let me ask for you."

The so-called questioning naturally has to find the person in charge of the matter. The work of the Statistics Department is to collect data, and human relations are also one of the data. When they arrived at Xu Jia's place, Wu Youping did not ask about Zhuang Jiaxiong's political review process, but asked about Zhuang Jiaxiong.

What jobs can you take on now?

Xu Jia smiled softly, "Mayor Wu, your classmates don't have a very good understanding of land reform. Do you have any ideas?"

Wu Youping knew Zhuang Jiaxiong's origins and couldn't help but defend his classmates, "His family owned twenty or thirty acres of land in Fujian, including a tea garden, which was owned by the local owner. Outside the customs, most people with such land are rich farmers. I think

It is more appropriate to view him according to the standards of a rich peasant."

Xu Jia did not continue the conversation on this issue, but changed the topic, "What kind of job do you want him to do?"

Wu Youping was about to answer, but felt something was wrong, "Chief Xu, please finish talking about the political review first."

"Land reform will not be limited to Siping, but will definitely be extended to the whole country. Fujian has a large population but little land, and the pressure for land reform is greater than that of other provinces. If Zhuang Jiaxiong publicly opposed land reform at that time, or wrote to comrades who advocated land reform, his family would be

Let’s open up the net. What will we do then?”

Wu Youping understood that there must be something wrong with Zhuang Jiaxiong's political attitude towards land reform, so he directly made a request, "Can I access the personnel files as the mayor of Siping and a party member?"

After get off work, Zhuang Jiaxiong was leaving the office with everyone when he was stopped by Wu Youping in the corridor, "Let's go to my house for a meal."

Zhuang Jiaxiong knew that Wu Youping had a very cheerful personality and could not hide anything. Asking for a meal during the conversation meant that the content of the conversation would not be too friendly, so he simply replied: "Let's go to your office to talk."

Wu Youping did not refuse. He sat down in the office, divided the last hot water in the teapot with Zhuang Jiaxiong, and sighed: "It's not easy for your family to accumulate all that land."

When he was in school, Zhuang Jiaxiong felt that foreigners were too bad. After attending the Railway Officer School, he learned more about the gap between China and foreign countries, and understood the country's weakness and backwardness. Zhuang Jiaxiong felt that he had to do things for the country. A good man should be a good man.

Fighting for the country. Unexpectedly, his family's land was mentioned. Zhuang Jiaxiong could only reply: "Yes. In order to protect these lands, people in my family have died."

"If land reform is carried out across the country, do you think you can accept the re-division of land?"

Knowing that the incident could only occur on his family's land, Zhuang Jiaxiong was not overly excited. He just asked with a straight face: "Will our land and tea garden be re-divided?"

"right."

When Zhuang Jiaxiong was a child, he heard his family talk about the difficulty of acquiring these lands. He was also repeatedly told by his family that he should study hard and support his family. When he was sure that he could not pass the political examination because he wanted to keep his family's land, Zhuang Jiaxiong

Jiaxiong replied in confusion: "Youping, I can't answer it now. If the governor really becomes the president and issues a decree to divide the land and tea gardens, how will my family live at that time?"

Wu Youping understood the thoughts of his old classmate, and took out the prepared Siping land reform document from his backpack and handed it to Zhuang Jiaxiong. Zhuang Jiaxiong took it and read it under the oil lamp. Wu Youping lit a candle, and the office suddenly became brighter.

Zhuang Jiaxiong looked at it carefully twice, and when he raised his head, his face was full of surprise, "Is this kind of land reform really going to be implemented?"

"Why can't the execution continue?" Wu Youping changed the oil lamp again.

The impact of the land reform policy on Zhuang Jiaxiong was so great that Zhuang Jiaxiong asked in disbelief: "With so much land under land reform, the people didn't make trouble?"

"Then it depends on what the purpose of land reform is. Jiaxiong, what do you think the purpose of land reform is?"

"... Let everyone have land to farm? Pay less taxes? Live a better life?" Zhuang Jiaxiong recalled the words in the land reform document. After a few words, he felt that he could not express his thoughts, so he went to get the document again.

Wu Youping pressed the report, "The main purpose of land reform is divided into two stages. The first stage is to eliminate social contradictions. In China today, the most intense social contradiction lies in the deprivation of products produced by the agricultural labor population, which has reached the point of dire straits.

. Those who have the power to collect taxes in local areas all regard the agricultural labor population as the biggest target of exploitation. After the land reform, with the changes in land relations and taxation systems, fierce social conflicts were eliminated from the root. The second stage,

We can start building an industrialized China..."
Chapter completed!