The meal was extremely reserved, and the refreshments after the meal were quite particular. When the servants took everything away and brought the tea up, a indirect conversation officially began. Those who accompanied Zhu Jiande were Lu Shouye, Lu Shoudao, and Lu Wan's cousin Lu Wan who went to the train station to pick up the person, he took the civil service exam two years ago. After being an official for more than half a year, he felt that he was not an official at all, but a hard labor service, so he couldn't stand the hardship and came back.

Lu Shoudao first politely talked about the supreme achievements of the army in regaining Taiwan, praised Zhu Jiande, and finally talked about the issue that the Lu Mansion really cares about, that is, land reform. He said: "I don't know that the Lu Mansion was just a small family in the early Qing Dynasty. Later, poetry and books were passed down from family members. Some people in their family passed down the Jinshi. This family's business was so prosperous. Official exchanges are always inevitable. I think that most landlords in the world can have more than 1,000 acres of land, most of which are noble. It is said that the most landlords in the country are Li Hefei's family, with more than 50,000 acres of arable land, which is the highest in the country.

But these acres are either legal property in the current dynasty or in the old dynasty. Now the new dynasty will collect them with an order. This is really... it is really a robbery of people's wealth. The Lu Mansion will provide disaster relief, build roads, run schools, ask for rain, and raise money every year. In this way, don't spend thousands or even tens of thousands of taels of silver every year? The tenants have suffered, there are many natural disasters, and they have to pay taxes to resist foreign aggression. We all know that the rent has been reduced from 50% to 20%, but now it's better that you have to collect land after a document. There is no law of kings at all... Throughout history, only the tyrannical Qin Dynasty, which is rampant with cruel officials, has been like this..."

As soon as Lu Shoudao said the tyrannical Qin Dynasty, Lu Shouye immediately coughed. Although he also thought that the dynasty was so cruel, he did not talk about human kindness, and had no kindness, and the tax collectors were extremely cunning, clamoring for "only death and tax payments in a life are inevitable." As long as they abolish a little, they not only had to come to the door to chase, but also collect late payment fees. What is this? This is simply a group of robbers who kill people without blinking and must pay for their lives. In the Qing Dynasty, gentry was treated preferentially; now it is the opposite, gentry was abused, and the people, that is, those mud legs, were treated preferentially. What is this? Shandong is the hometown of Confucius and Confucians, how can gentry not be treated preferentially? In this world, do you really want turbid people to go up and gentry down?

Lu Shouye had complained about the bad things of the Xin Dynasty before, and he didn't see the good things of the Xin Dynasty at all. However, he did not dare to express this in front of outsiders. After interrupting his cousin, he said, "Nephew, a few days ago, some people in the capital said that the land reform edict was about to be delivered. After the posting, the people in the government office were probably going to come to the door. Wan'er was not here. Can the nephew help the Lu family tell the people on his behalf that it would be best to avoid the land collection. If he cannot be avoided, he should not let outsiders bully him. Cough cough..."

Lu Shouye looked sick and coughed again after saying this. After Lu Shoudao and the others looked at Zhu Jiande after he finished speaking, waiting for him to answer.

After hearing his request, Zhu Jiande suddenly felt a little numb on his back. He felt that he had come to Lu Mansion wrongly, and he also understood the foresight of the political commissar of the headquarters. He did not let Lu Wan go home to visit relatives to avoid this matter. However, he did not expect that he would actually be overwhelmed. He said a little embarrassedly: "Uncles, it is logical that Lu Wan's affairs are my Zhu Jiande's affairs, but as a soldier, we have to abide by the laws of the soldiers. The troops and the government belong to two systems, and they are complementary and interfere. Even if there is an intersection, it is just a matter of the military garrison, supplies and other matters. This land reform is a government official business, and I really have no right to interfere."

After Zhu Jiande said such a long story, Lu Shoudao just sighed. He had disagreed with the fact that he had no soldiers in his hands and had passed by here again, which was not helpful at all. However, if a dead horse was treated as a living horse, it would always be of some benefit to have an adult help him talk about the title. Especially when the officials in the previous dynasty were not useful, a cooperative government could still strengthen his momentum, but he didn't want to.

"Nephew..." Seeing that Zhu Jiande was unwilling, Lu Shouye stood up tremblingly and was about to kneel down at Zhu Jiande, "Nephew, my Lu Mansion has always been eating vegetarian food and chanting Buddha's name, accumulating virtue and doing good deeds. Today, the government has collected the land like this. What should I do after the Lu Mansion's hundred mouthfuls? How can I meet my ancestors in the future..."

Lu Shouye said sadly, he fell before he could kneel down. Lu Zhan and Zhu Jiande hurriedly helped him up, but he didn't expect that he was weak and sad, so he fainted. He only waited for Zhu Jiande to pinch Renzhong before he woke him up, but even when he woke up, his spirit was still depressed. Lu Shoudao had to send him to his inner room to serve him kindly.

"Hey!" Seeing my younger brother like this, Lu Shoudao couldn't help but sigh: "My younger brother is still too obsessed with it. This family business is his life. His ancestors have been passed down for several generations, and he thought that he could not break it in his hands."

When Lu Shoudao said this, Zhu Jiande really didn't know how to evaluate it. He just felt that many birds died for food and people died for money. He didn't expect that Lu Shoudao's words would shock him, thus changing his attitude.

"Twenty years ago, when my son was young, I also had the idea of ​​serving the country. I failed the exam many times. During the 1895 period, I sold 2,000 stones of land and received 20,000 taels of silver. In addition, some of the silver accumulated over the years were all used to serve military expenses for the court. However, in the 1895, Liaodong was defeated like a mountain. What reform did I do after the 1895 Sino-Japanese War? The Zhaoxin stocks issued were approved by the rich gentry. I sold my family property to raise 100,000 taels of silver and bought 100,000 shares. Although I was praised by the court at that time, I really don't know where the money was squandered by those corrupt officials. Later, the dynasty changed, and the 100,000 taels were gone. After these two times, my son and I were both discouraged, and my family business was half-destroyed, and I could no longer afford to make trouble."

Lu Shoudao talked about the experience of the Lu family over the past 20 years and was secretly sad. When Zhu Jiande heard that the Lu family took the initiative to sell land for military expenses during the Sino-Japanese War, he felt a good impression. He was filled with blood and said: "Uncle, no matter whether the new or old dynasties are new or old dynasties, the Lu family is so dedicated to serving the country, Jiande can't stand by. I'd better go to the government's government's land reform. Although I can't stop the government's land reform, I can always help you see what the compensation method is for land reform. The Lu family has many acres, so one more cent is worth one more cent."

I thought Zhu Jiande was unintentional to help, but now I heard that he agreed to go to the government office to help ask. Lu Shoudao immediately grabbed his hand and said, "Nephew, is this serious?"

"Uncle, you can always ask questions. If there are regulations in the government office and everything must be followed, there is nothing we can do." Zhu Jiande said, but he regretted it when he spoke. He had never dealt with the government and didn't know what to do.

He was unsure, but Lu Shoudao was so happy that he immediately bowed deeply and said gratefully: "I am a hard-working nephew. If Wan'er is here, according to his letter, he would only ignore this matter."

Lu Shoudao bowed to Zhu Jiande, and his son Lu Zhanye bowed to Zhu Jiande, which made him unable to help him. He promised to help Lu's mansion, and his original itinerary could only be pushed back. He had to wait until the imperial edict in Beijing to get out before going to the Jinan official office to inquire about the matter. This made him, who had been home at the end of the month, not until the twelfth lunar month to return home. Fortunately, after he sent a telegram to inform his home the next day, he heard firecrackers everywhere and beat drums and gongs and trumpets. When Zhu Jiande thought that someone's family was doing good deeds, Lu Zhan ran into the study in panic and said in a daze: "Come down! Come down!"

"Brother Lu, what's down?" Zhu Jiande put down Clausewitz's argument of war as he looked at him and asked differently.

"The imperial edict for collecting land! Listen, those mud legs are crazy." Lu Zhan's face turned pale. The imperial court issued an edict in the name of the emperor to collect land, which only made him lose all his resistance.

"Ah..." Zhu Jiande also lost his voice, he was both a little happy and surprised. He thought that when the Tingwei Mansion accused the government of collecting land unconstitutional, it was impossible for the government to order the land to be collected so much, but he did not expect that the imperial edict would arrive today.

"Brother Yujie, what should I do?" Lu Zhan looked at him in a daze. He said this. Lu Shouye and Lu Shoudao were here. They had just heard the news outside that the imperial edict for land collection has arrived.

"Let's go to the Governor's Office to have a look." Zhu Jiande said: "The newspaper said that special land reform yamen will be established in various places. How can we collect this place?"

"Okay, go and ask." Lu Shouye, who was still sick, said. After saying that, he lowered his voice again: "Even if they want to do some things, that's not bad. I'll prepare now."

Lu Shouye was so busy that he was so busy, but the rules of the Qing Dynasty were like this. Imperial edicts were one thing, and implementation was another. The key was to see if he could find the right person and get the right money. With his plan, Zhu Jiande, who had received strict education, said: "Let me ask my uncle to help find a horse and take someone to the governor's land reform office."

"Okay! OK! I'll prepare horses now, I'll prepare horses now!" The sickly Lu Shouye suddenly became excited at this time and ran to the backyard to prepare horses himself.

Half an hour later, Zhu Jiande, dressed in the Revival Marines' school official dress, rode on a Mongolian horse and followed Lu Zhan in a sedan chair to the governor's office. The Marines' military dress was very majestic, and even if Zhu Jiande was not good-looking, he looked extremely heroic. The shiny medals hanging on his left chest and the colorful Nianxun made the people on the road avoid this dress while looking at the eyes intently.

Jinan City is not big. The sedan chairman worked hard to reach the governor's yamen. There were a lot of people around the imperial list here, and the short clothes outside laughed and happy, while the men in the long gowns inside were crying and howling. Zhu Jiande ignored these people and asked where the land reform yamen was located and rode his horse. But there were also a lot of men in the long gowns there. There were a few people in front of the bulletin board crying loudly on the ground, but others didn't have the heart to watch and were all watching the announcement.

After Zhu Jiande dismounted, he saw the specific land reform policies of Shandong Province on the notice on the exterior wall of the land reform yamen. It was different from the legendary 50 acres as the dividing line. The expropriation standards of each prefecture in Shandong were different. First, the arable land that had been cultivated by tenants in the past years since the founding of the country, regardless of the size of the land, were within the scope of the expropriation; the land of the land that was cultivated by themselves was based on thirty acres or seventy-five stones in the middle of Shandong, and in the southeastern Shandong, forty-five acres or seventy-five stones as the expropriation standards.

Although there are two standards, they are not contradictory. Farmers in Jiaodong do not grow grain, but American tobacco leaves. Therefore, it is inappropriate to measure the arable land for these economic crops by how much grain is produced per mu.

After setting the expropriation standards, there will be corresponding supplements. These expropriated lands are divided into four types: tribe land, temple land, common land, and private land. The Lu family is all private land, so Zhu Jiande and Lu Zhan only look at the private land to handle the notice.

There are two compensation coefficients for private land expropriation. One is based on the area: if the compensation regulations are not violated, the compensation can be fully compensated according to the land price; if the amount exceeds this number, less than 180 mu, or less than 150 stones, only 75% of the compensation will be compensated; if the amount exceeds this number, less than 300 mu, or less than 300 stones, only 50% of the compensation will be compensated. Then, if the amount exceeds 180 mu, or less than 300 stones, only 50% of the compensation will be compensated... As the number of mu in the latter part is more and more, the compensation will be less and less. Zhu Jiande's expression is getting worse and worse, while Lu Zhan's face is getting paler and paler. According to the area of ​​the cultivated land in the Lu Mansion, this compensation is probably less than 20%.

When Lu Zhan looked at his legs and could no longer watch it, Zhu Jiande was looking at another supplementary factor: that is, recompensation after discount compensation. The 32nd compensation rule mentioned: If the arable land is indeed the funds accumulated by the landlords and they are purchased in a non-disaster year, the compensation standard can be raised as appropriate, but sufficient evidence must be provided and handed over to the arbitration decision of the land reform yamen in each county.

In the past few days, Zhu Jiande has read the Lu family's old land deeds and learned about the original purchase situation. He knows that a large part of it was bought by the money accumulated by renting. As for whether it was bought in the disaster year, he doesn't know.

"Go in and ask." Looking at Lu Zhan who was at a loss, Zhu Jiande made a decision.

"Ah!" Lu Zhan couldn't figure out why he had to go in and inquire now, so he said, "But we don't have the money we are going to make."

"Believe me, that thing is useless." Zhu Jiande said calmly. "Let's go, I always have to ask."

Turning around the bulletin board, there was a small courtyard, and there were still a large group of long-gown gentry at the door. Unlike the bulletin board, there was a squad of soldiers here holding a whistle. There were piles of sandbags and barbed barricades made of wood wire at the gate of the courtyard, and there was even a Maxim machine gun. The soldiers were fully armed and were armed with guns and live ammunition. Seeing this posture, no wonder the gentry surrounded them from afar and did not dare to go forward at all.

Zhu Jiande knew that this was used to attack the enemy as soon as he saw this. The gun and cannon, the people were most afraid of this. The gentry and landlord were very panicked when they saw this. Others were afraid, but Zhu Jiande felt extremely familiar. He said to Lu Zhan beside him: "Get in."

"Ah!? Go in?" Lu Zhan was so scared that he could not walk anymore. He looked at the barbed wire mesh and was weak, afraid that he would not be able to get out after entering. "Yu... Brother Yujie, this... I'm so anxious, I..."

Lu Zhan was so scared that Zhu Jiande frowned and said, "Then give me those documents."

"Okay...Okay." Lu Zhan felt relieved and was so busy that he asked his servant to give the documents in the box to Zhu Jiande. Then, with the help of his servant, he hid aside as if he was running away.

Lu Zhan is like this, and Zhu Jiande has nothing to say. He staggered the others and entered with the clerk box. The squad leader who was on the patrol was shocked when he saw his dress and immediately shouted: "Salute!"

"Go a little rest." Zhu Jiande felt that he was scattering, his face was red, but now that he had to go in and ask what was going on. He said to the senior scholar in front of him in harmony: "I don't understand some things, I just want to ask."

"Yes, sir!" The sergeant replied loudly according to the military regulations: "Please come with me." After that, he took Zhu Jiande through the gate where the roadblock was removed.

"Is the chief's surname Lu?" The receptionist Zhu Jiande was a young man wearing a green official robe, with a Shandong accent and a left chest sign with three words "receptionist" and "sha Jingqiu".

"No, my surname is Zhu, this is my officer certificate." Zhu Jiande took out his officer certificate to prove his identity. Seeing that the other party was a little puzzled, he explained: "I am Colonel Lu Wan's colleague. This time I was entrusted by his father, Mr. Lu Shouye, to come to understand the additional compensation for arable land."

"Okay, please wait." The receptionist read the officer's certificate, quickly wrote down a name, and then turned around and entered. Perhaps Zhu Jiande dared to come in alone, so the receptionist invited him in after a while.

The consultation place was a cold room. As soon as Zhu Jiande came in, he saw a woman wearing a green official robe. The woman was very young and probably not twenty years old. Just as he was thinking about how this woman became a seventh-rank official so young and how she should talk to her, the woman asked in a cold voice: "Please sit down. I am the arbitrator, number 952, please ask your question!"

A cold voice, a cold expression, and a bit of mechanized language. If the other party was not a woman and wearing an official robe, Zhu Jiande would have thought that the other party was a veteran on the battlefield. When he saw the other party talking, he took out the documents in the box and asked: "I see the compensation rules mentioned in paragraph 32 that if the arable land is indeed the funds accumulated by the landlords and they are purchased in a non-disaster year, the compensation standard can be raised at the discretion."

Zhu Jiande said here and took out the documents in the box and said: "The Lu family has more than 800 acres of arable land that they have accumulated by themselves..."

"If we talk about Lu Shoudao and Lu Shouye's two families, then they will not apply the 32nd compensation rules," said the female official coldly, without any emotion. She opened a huge record book: "The Lu family became famous after Lu Youwei became a Jinshi in the 44th year of Kangxi. In the 52nd year of Kangxi, they bought 500 stones of land and 1,000 stones of land in the 56th year of Kangxi. Given that the Lu family had no other business, and calculated based on Lu Youwei's official salary, if Lu Youwei was not greedy for bribes, then the Lu family would have no money to buy land.

Although the Lu family relied on their own to accumulate funds to sell land, if Lu Youwei had not had the money he had bribed in the Kangxi period, it would be impossible for the Lu family to buy land by relying on the funds he had accumulated. In addition, the purchase dates on the land deeds in the previous dynasty were the 54th year of Qianlong, the 13th year of Jiaqing, the 3rd year of Tongzhi, and the 4th year of Guangxu period. The prefecture records of the 54th year of Qianlong were drought, the 13th year of Jiaqing was a locust plague, and the 3rd year of Tongzhi was a Nian Army Uprising, and the battlefield was in Shandong. In the first year of Guangxu period, the fourth year of Dao was Dingwu strange desert. In the fourth year of the great desert, more than 10 million people were starved to death in the five northern provinces, and the people were living in poverty, and the land price was extremely cheap.

Even though the Lu family really relies on the silver they have accumulated to purchase land, according to the 33rd compensation rules, all the land purchased in the disaster year will be discounted and no additional supplements are allowed. These more than 800 mu of land can only be compensated at 20% of the land price."

The land deed was changed in the government's hands. According to the date on the old land deed, local prefectures, biography, notes and other documents, the government can fully understand the time and situation of the land purchase. At the same time, big landlords, family trees, clan members, fellow villagers, etc. like the Lu family will remember the old stories of their success. After all, nouveau riche is always envious, and this is the glorious deed of the Lu family proud of outsiders.

Survey statistics show that except for the compradors after opening the trade port, more than 90% of the landlords in inland provinces or before opening the trade ports were official. The pitiful official salary before the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, and even the official salary after the promotion of the integrity, was not enough to allow bureaucrats to have so much arable land.

Therefore, there are only three types of landlords who really get full compensation: one is the small landlord who relies on diligence and thrift. These people save money and work day and night, just thinking about becoming a big landlord one day. People from the same village and clan know very well. The land deeds also record very clearly. They all bought arable land for more than ten acres, but there are no dozens of acres or hundreds of acres of land like this. As long as they purchase land in the disaster year, the compensation will be full;

The second is the inland business gang. These people mainly concentrate on several specific places, including Shanxi merchants, micro-businesses, Shaanxi merchants, Shandong merchants, and Gan merchants. These merchants have traces to be found, and as the saying goes, scholars, farmers, industrial merchants, household registration, Baojia, fish scale book, etc., there are records of their occupations. Most of these people's land is purchased through business income, and as long as the time they purchase the land is not in the year of disaster, they can get full compensation. Moreover, these people are merchants, and they don't have to worry about the problem of silver cellaring when the money comes to their hands;

The third is the compradors of all sizes after the trade. Whether these people’s money is cheated or cheated, it is not the income from bribery, but can only be defined as legal. Since it is legal, as long as it is not a low price for purchasing arable land in the disaster year, it can also be fully compensated. Like the inland merchants, they have no problem of silver cellaring.
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