Chapter 261: What the People Want(2/2)
The Intelligence Department has continuously promoted the various benefits of Shandong's political axes in various provinces, making the people of all provinces yearn for life under Shandong's political axes.
There is no need to pay various miscellaneous taxes, no need to worry about the officials breaking their families, no need to bear corvee service, and it is free for children to go to school, and it is free for medical treatment. If you are willing to immigrate, you will also give hundreds of acres of land.
What kind of good holiday is that?
The intelligence department’s publicity is very comprehensive, not only relying on intelligence personnel to promote it, but also mobilizing all Shandong personnel in other provinces to carry out publicity.
Especially those engineering teams, under their propaganda, many people who went to the construction site to work were interested in Shandong because Shandong political axes could create a dreamy life for them.
Especially the five provinces that implemented the Agricultural Tax Reform Law, under the propaganda of the government and the administrative style of the government, the people of these provinces supported Shandong's political axe.
No matter how the landlords incite, there are not many people supporting them.
At this time, Shandong political axe was the will of the people. No matter how Chongzhen and the landlords made trouble, they would not have any consequences.
After this incident, there were fewer literati who came to Shandong to work, but all of them were accurate literati who were no longer able to do the Ming Dynasty.
Changes in the world are the general trend, and it is better to adapt than to resist.
Many of these literati have seen changes in the hearts of the people. Those who win the hearts of the people will win the world. At this time, even if Shandong's politics cannot win the hearts of the people, the hearts of the people alone will be invincible.
The reform of agricultural tax in the five provinces is actually a process of changing hands of means of production.
Eighty percent of the land in Sichuan fell into Zhao Yan's hands, but who to allocate this land to is a question that needs to be carefully considered.
It is obviously not possible to distribute dozens of acres to individuals. That is just to create a group of middle-aged peasants, and it cannot create the middle class at all.
There is so much land in the world, what are the benefits of trapping people on dozens of acres of land? But if you give the land, you have to be a good deal. Zhao Yan feels that you cannot give the land to those people with low character.
The land for the first batch of veterans has been demarcated, each of which is 500 acres of land. They all go to the prefectures and counties where the fields are located, and when their farmers go there.
Regarding how to manage the land in your hands, Zhao Yan chose to keep the land in his hands and still cultivated it by the original tenants.
Distribution will be made later.
This kind of distribution requires a threshold. First, certain technical conditions are required in production, which requires training. Secondly, there are requirements for the farmers' morality and character, and it is best to have a high diploma.
This is just like the American farmers in later generations who graduated from college, only farmers with high diplomas know how to better run a farm.
In Huguang and Sichuan, the land that falls into Zhao Yan's hands has exceeded 100 million mu. Together with 5,000 mu of Shaanxi and more than 3,000 mu of land in Shanxi, Zhao Yan is a super landlord.
In the northeast, south of the desert, north of the desert, west of the desert, Nurkandus, Sakhalin Island, and Hokkaido, land is everywhere, and the entire Nanyang is Zhao Yan's belongings, including Taiwan and Jiaozhi.
Colonies have begun to be established in Australia, as well as the Hawaiian Islands, California and other places.
If we talk about who has the most land in the Ming Dynasty, Zhao Yan is well deserved to be the most. However, most of these lands are undeveloped.
The population of 200 million in the Ming Dynasty is enough for each person to divide 20 acres. What is that? With careful cultivation, 10 acres of land will have 10,000 kilograms of grain. Although the land in the north cannot reach it, 15 acres of grain can also have 10,000 kilograms of grain. Can a person eat 10,000 kilograms of grain a year? Eating 1,000 kilograms of grain will be the best.
Generally speaking, in the future, the productivity of the future, by using intensive cultivation, one acre of land can feed two to three people. After all, in the era when rice yields per mu, planting for two seasons can feed many people. However, under the intensive cultivation, not every farmer will plant two seasons, or even three seasons.
With extremely abundant land resources, it is not a problem to feed everyone with meat.
Chapter completed!