Everyone hurriedly turned around to look, but they could not see anyone. He asked Tian Meixiu who she saw.
Tian Meixiu said," I can't say their names at the moment. I clearly saw two familiar figures. How did they disappear?"”
Li Shaohua said," Maybe they passed by here and went to the willow forest. It's getting late. Let's go back."”
When they returned home, it was already dusk. There was an oil lamp in the hall. "Did you see the sunset?" Uncle Li asked with a smile. The sunset in winter was not as red as the summer.”
Yao Shunru quickly replied," Yes. The Yangtze River is magnificent. The sun is setting in the west, the north wind is whistling, and the withered reeds are rippling. This is the first time I've seen such a beautiful scenery. It's really worth the trip."”
"It's so cold outside," Auntie Li said with a smile."Come and warm yourself by the fire." I'm sure you're not hungry yet, so I won't cook dinner. Let's have supper together later.”
"Auntie, what we just ate is still in our throats." Zhang Ruilian smiled.”
They warmed themselves around the brazier. Uncle Li was the first generation of scholars in the Li family. After his family became rich, his father sent him to study in a private school for three years and a foreign school for nine years.
When he was young, he also had the ambition to travel across the sea. However, his hands and feet were tied by his parents. He became a family very early and was trapped in this dozen acres of sandy land. Even now, he was still unwilling, but there was nothing he could do.
He saw that his son had just arrived home and had taken his classmates out to visit the tenant farmers. He thought that there must be a reason for this. "Other than playing, do you have any other missions on our island?"”
Yao Shunru then told Uncle Li in detail about the post-war economic revival project proposed by the school, as well as the agricultural revival project that he was responsible for.
" Young people should be concerned about national affairs and the people's livelihood," Uncle Li said with a smile." As for agriculture, farmers, and especially the living conditions of tenant farmers, we should pay attention to them.
My family was also a tenant farmer. For my family to come to this deserted island from a foreign land and start from scratch to reach this point, I don't know how much hardship and blood and sweat they have put in. There are still many poor relatives on the island now. I can deeply understand the hardships of the tenant farmers.”
He took a sip of tea and continued," The problem of agriculture, the problem of farmers, to put it bluntly, is a problem of land ownership and the rational distribution of fruits. When I was young, I heard the government say that to achieve land to the tiller, we have to reduce the taxes of the farmers. However, after decades of shouting, this problem was still not solved. Later, no one cared about it.
In the 15th year of the Republic of China, the National Party reduced the land rent of tenant farmers by 25%. The decision to reduce rent by 25%. The Nanjing government had never given up on the idea of reducing rent. In 1917, the National Government also formulated the "Tenant Farmer Protection Law", which stipulated that the rent paid by the tenant farmers could not exceed 40% of the total harvest of the land rented.
When Zhang Jingjiang was the head of the Zhejiang Province government, the provincial party and government joint meeting passed the Seventeen-Year Tenant Farmer's Regulations and the Temporary Regulations of the Tenancy Council. It was stipulated that 50% of the total income of the main products was the maximum rent, and the tenant farmers would pay 25% of the maximum rent.
However, it was obstructed by many local landowners. Hu Fu, the party committee member of Wuyi County, had been stabbed by a hired killer. Zhu Liangqing, the party committee member of Tiantai County, had also been assassinated. Many other counties had also suffered retaliation, so no one dared to mention it again.
In 1922, after Chen Guofu became the head of the Jiangsu Province government, he decided to first organize the cadastre and passed the method of clearing the land. He rented out the land that had been dredged out of the Huai River to farmers for cultivation and began to levy land price tax in place of land tax.
He is also preparing to set up a trial of land for the tiller in Qidong. He will levy the land of the landlord of Chongming County at a fixed price and let the original tenant farmers pay the rent directly to the government. Six years later, the land will belong to the tenant farmers.
However, due to the outbreak of the war, the 25 percent rent reduction was only in name. Now that the civil war had started again, the agricultural revival plan was probably empty talk.
The big landowners on this island all live in the county or town. Only small landowners like us, who have ten or twenty acres of land, still live in the village. In fact, if the government were to purchase land, as long as the price was reasonable, I would be willing to sell the land and go into the city to do some business. It would be much better than staying in the countryside.
We've been tired of moving mud for generations, so recently I asked my eldest son to set up a southern goods store in the county town. It was not bad to change the environment. Now, no one wanted to buy the land.”
Everyone was enlightened after hearing Li Bo's words. Yao Shunru smiled." Uncle Li's words have made me understand a lot of things. It seems that this land problem has accumulated for a long time." For thousands of years, the peasants had been trampled under the feet of the Celestial Empire.
From Chen Sheng, Wu Guang to Zhu Yuanzhang, from Li Zicheng to Hong Xiuquan, the farmers 'land problem was the catalyst, driven by the demands of the farmers. After every change of dynasty, farmers still could not get land.
It was the same for the Republic of China. Now that the war had broken out again, who knew how long the fight would last? This post-war economic recovery plan might really be wishful thinking.”
They sat around the brazier and chatted. Soon, sister-in-law and Ju Xiang had prepared supper. There were eight plates on the table, filled with local specialties such as potato chips, Qiao fruit, peanuts, and melon seeds. Everyone had a bowl of sweet wine with glutinous rice balls in it. After supper, they chatted for a while before going to bed.
Tian Meixiu, Zhang Ruilian, and Ju Xiang slept in the same room, while Yao Shunru, Shi Guangyao, and Li Shaohua slept in the same room. The weather was cold, so the three of them didn't feel cramped sleeping in one bed.
However, Yao Shunru couldn't fall asleep for a long time. He heard the sound of a loom coming from afar, and his mind was filled with thoughts. Later, he heard Shi Guangyao and Li Shaohua's thunderous sounds, and he also fell asleep.
He dreamed that he had run to the Nanjing government, negotiated with the Civil Affairs Department, and obtained the independent management and development rights of Chongming Island. He used Chongming Island as collateral and borrowed one billion US dollars from the World Bank to establish Chongming International Development Group Co., Ltd.
The company consists of four subsidiary companies, namely Chongming International Co-ordination and Development Co., Ltd., International Investment Co., Ltd., International Industry and Trade Co., Ltd. and International Agriculture Co., Ltd. Li Shaohua, Shi Guangyao, Zhang Ruilian, and Tian Meixiu were the general managers of the four subsidiary companies.
He transformed all the farmlands and huts on the island into oriental garden-style buildings. With the central canal as the hub, all kinds of ships could swim in the water system. He developed Chongming Island into an international metropolis like Venice of the East.
He implemented a free financial and trade system on the island, which was coordinated by the group, managed by the industry, and participated in the management of dividends. It would become a paradise without taxes, police, army, political parties, and government agencies. Civil and criminal disputes are decided according to contracts and company regulations.
He dreamed that Er Huan was holding his grandson's hand and walking over in gorgeous clothes. He smiled at her and said,"Now you are the masters of the land, the masters of this island." This society had eradicated the soil that bred poverty, selfishness, prejudice, jealousy, hatred, sin, and corruption.
We are fair to every newborn. No child has special privileges. Your grandson will no longer be discriminated against. Children of the same age will enjoy the same happy life and education. Morality and honor were more important than money. However, there was one rule. The right to inherit the inheritance on this island was revoked. You could not bring it with you when you were alive or dead.
Suddenly, a hurricane accompanied by a violent storm caused Chongming Island to be in a mess. Er Huan and his grandson's gorgeous clothes suddenly became tattered. Er Huan scolded angrily,""You're lying and playing tricks to deceive people. You're daydreaming. Only a ghost will believe you.”
Er Huan suddenly pushed him into the cold river. He woke up from the nightmare and lay outside the quilt. The morning was bone-chilling and the sky was already bright.
They had planned to continue their investigation in the morning, but now they felt that there was no need to do so. It just so happened that the rich man who was about to take in a wife had an empty car. He had to rush to the county town to pick up the goods in the early morning. They said goodbye to Uncle Li's family and took the car back to the county town.
Li Shaohua decided to travel with his classmates. He wanted to be the host and accompany them to the end of the journey. He was also anxious to see his brother's newly bought Southern goods store. After the car entered the city, he took a shortcut to the South Gate Market.
After they got out of the car, they saw that the Confucius Temple was very close, so they went to the front of the Confucius Temple to admire it. This was a group of ancient buildings built in the Song Dynasty. At the beginning of the Republic of China, the temples here were magnificent, with carved beams and painted buildings, flying horns and flowing eaves, glazed roofs, golden and magnificent, and full of palace characteristics.
During the occupation period, it was occupied by the Japanese army and the original structure was destroyed. Due to the vicissitudes of life and the lack of maintenance, many parts of the memorial archway had collapsed. Now, the gate was tightly shut. It was said that it had been turned into a school and was not open to the public. They could only turn around and climb Jin Ao Mountain.
When they arrived at the Peaceful Life Temple, they saw that the monastery was very quiet. They had no intention of entering in the first place, so they followed the walls of the Peaceful Life Temple and circled around Golden Ao Mountain.
There were no mountains on Chongming Island. Jin Ao Mountain was a man-made rockery. During the Guangxu period, a sea-calming tower was built on the top of Jin Ao Mountain, forming the famous Ao Mountain Eight Scenery,"Ao Peak Overlooking". However, Jin Ao Mountain was desolate in the winter, and the Sea-suppressing Tower was swaying in the whistling north wind. They did not have the courage to go up at all.
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