Chapter VIII Rural Work

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It was the first time he had heard this interpretation of the separation of powers, and he laughed and said: "Don't sell it if you don't want to sell it, what you said sounds very reasonable, but every time you say these thoughts, I feel very uneasy, but I don't know why." You'd better tell me how you did it. ”

Yang Rui knew that Zhong Guanguan was not a person with much talent in politics, his intelligence was mainly in professional research, and there was also the natural business acumen of Ningbo people, which was also the fundamental reason why Yang Rui let Wang Jitong be the chief housekeeper, and Zhong Guanguan was only responsible for business. Yang Rui said: "It should be said that there are three things, one is to set up a bank and agricultural material company first, let it occupy an advantage in capital and scale within the scope of our control, and then lend to the outside world, especially to farmers, this kind of lending is not necessarily silver, you can make seeds, fertilizers, farm tools, when repaying the loan, you don't have to be silver, you can make beans, wheat or something." Let farmers come to us for loans, and we can buy agricultural products with stable sales channels. Through guò economic relations we hang with the peasants, this is the first step. ”

There is nothing complicated about this first step, Zhong Guanguan nodded and said: "This is not too difficult, the key is to have manpower, especially the kind of people who are familiar with the countryside." ”

Yang Rui nodded, manpower is not only the key to the first step, but also the key to the next few steps, "The second step is to organize farmers to set up a township group and a joint village association. "It's not a difficult step, but it's still important to have people, otherwise you won't be able to convince people to do it. Seeing that Zhong Guanguan said that there was no doubt, Yang Rui continued to say the third step, "The third step is to organize farmers and landlords to negotiate and reduce the land rent according to the local land rent situation." We are mainly mediated, but our position is more peasant. ”

Zhong Guanguan asked, "Reduce land rent?" Negotiation? Is this possible? Those farmers don't negotiate except farming. ”

Yang Rui said: "No, but we can teach." There are more than 40,000 peasants in China, and if these people are still very ignorant, they will not be able to save the country by relying on us scholars. Even if it is saved, it is only a country of more than 10 million people, not a country of 45,000,000 people. In order to strengthen Zhong Guanguan's understanding of the importance of farmers, Yang Rui said, "The Hongyang Rebellion, in fact, in the final analysis, was the mobilization of the power of the farmers by Hongyang. Speaking of this, Yang Rui couldn't help but think of Taizu's words in the "Report on the Investigation of the Hunan Peasant Movement" -- in a very short period of time, tens of thousands of peasants will rise up from the central, southern and northern provinces of China, and their momentum will be like a storm, so rapid and unusually fast that no matter what the great force will not be able to suppress. They will break through the net that binds them and run swiftly on the road to liberation. Imperialism, warlords, corrupt officials, local tyrants and shoddy gentry will all be buried in their graves -- his heart stirred for a moment when he imagined the magnificent and passionate scene.

mentioned that the Hongyang Rebellion made Zhong Guanguan thoroughly understand the power of the peasants, in fact, in the final analysis, the current various associations are also a small part of this force. Thinking of those bandits who were not afraid of death, Zhong Guanguan couldn't sit still, he lowered his head in the room, turned around, and thought about what Yang Rui said.

Yang Rui saw Zhong Guanguan like this, and knew that he really listened to his words. smiled: "What are you doing?" I'm down to business. Also, is the delegation to the United States out now? Yang Rui said that the delegation to the United States to participate in the St. Louis Anna World Expo, because of the importance of the Qing court, this time it was a collective group to participate.

Zhong Guanguan knew about this matter, but after coming to the Northeast, these things were handed over to Wang Jitong to be responsible, "It should be soon, you want to go?" ”

Yang Rui smiled bitterly, took out a list and said, "Me." I didn't go, I just stayed in this ravine. Whether I go or not, there are some things that I have to buy. I've put together a list here, and you're trying to find a way to get out there and get the people we go to pay attention to these things. The most tricky thing is paper-making and money-printing equipment and military equipment. Although he has entrusted others to buy military equipment, he cannot hang himself from a tree. ”

This issue has been discussed earlier, Zhong Guanguan said: "This is difficult, the money printing machine is better, is the military equipment, people look at our skin color, and then look at our braids to know that we are Qing people, don't talk about the problem of selling or not, even selling is expensive and pitiful." ”

Speaking of China, Yang Rui is speechless, in this era, the idea of white supremacy is prevalent, especially in Europe, although Rutte has good manners for his own group of people, but it is nothing more than a demonstration of his self-gentlemanly qualities, not so much that he respects himself, but that he respects himself through guò respect for others. On the contrary, materialistic Americans do not care so much about the color of their skin, and their eyes are only "green". Yang Rui said: "Then let McNeil come out, he is his own person, and let him come forward for important things." As for those who go to the countryside to do work, when will the people from Shanghai come over? The person Yang Rui asked was a teacher arranged by the Education Association in Tonghua and other places, and these people will be responsible for building a school in Tonghua.

"They arrived with the people from the military academy, and they should be out of the customs on the day, and they will be there soon." Zhong Guanguan said. He and Chen Qubing are also looking forward to these people coming, Tonghua is the first time to run a school, the gentry of the county are very appreciative of this, and the county Lingqiu is even more happy, this is a real political achievement, he was afraid of uneven taxes, but he was thinking about how to rise.

"This is the way and method I write about the work of farmers. You take it and read it first, and then you can teach it to the scholars of the education society, and then let them teach those who are going to the countryside. Yang Rui took out a booklet and said. Although this booklet is thin but it took him a lot of effort, it contains two contents, one is an excerpt from the freshman textbook, and the other is sales skills, especially those health care product sales skills for old ladies, and the combination of the two is the content of this booklet called Farmer Work Instruction. However, Yang Rui is also very worried that those scholars will be able to teach these contents well, "After they teach well, I will bring these people here, and I will teach them myself." He finally emphasized.

It seems that Yang Rui really put this farmer's work in a very important position. Zhong Guanguan flipped through the booklet, and after more than a year of getting along, he was already very accustomed to Yang Rui's simplified Chinese and vernacular Chinese. Yang Rui did not speak, but in his heart he was thinking about the construction of the railway, in his consideration, he must take advantage of the time when the Japanese have not yet completely won the two sections of the railway that will be most difficult in the future, one is the railway extending from the port of Andong to the mainland, and the other is the railway connecting Fushun through Fengtian in Xinmintun. The first section does not need to be too long, mainly from Andong Port out of Jiulian City, which is only 30 kilometers away, and it is easy to repair, just ship the road construction materials to the port; The latter section is troublesome, not counting the section from Xinmintun to Mukden, there are 50 kilometers from Fengtian to Fushun alone, and all the road construction materials can only be transported to Xinmintun through the Guò Guanwai railway, so they have to be transported by earth methods for more than 50 kilometers to get to Fengtian. It would be best to repair this section of the Xinmintun railway.

Yang Rui didn't know who owned the ownership of the railway inside and outside the Guan, and was about to ask Zhong Guanguan, who knew that he slapped the booklet and said: "It's done, you are so poisonous!" ”

What he said was inexplicable, Yang Rui was stunned and said, "Where am I poisoned?" ”

Zhong Guan pointed to the booklet and said, "You're not poisonous?" First of all, he contacted the bank to confiscate the gentry's right to lend, and then through the agricultural material company to confiscate those grain stations and car shops, and finally directly controlled the Lianzhuang Association. Then this gentry not only can't earn money, but even has no power. In the end, Zhuang ...... Peasant, you said that the peasant only lends your money, only buys your seeds, only sells you grain, only listens to you, and you still say that you are not poisonous? ”

Yang Rui immediately laughed when he heard him say this, he is also poisonous, hehe, some people are going to laugh. He asked, "Why listen to me, listen to our Revival Society, and even if it is really the poison you say, is this poison good or bad for the peasants, that is, for the people?" Besides, I just want to use guò banks to lower the interest rate on rural loans, not to completely monopolize rural loans; At the same time, the agricultural materials company raised the price of grain collection, not to collect all the grain, those landlords and gentry can be shareholders of banks and agricultural materials companies, but the interest rate and grain prices as well as the troops of the Lianzhuang Association are all controlled by us, and they only participate in the management, and do not force them to die. ”

He was afraid that Zhong Guanguan would not understand the original intention of doing this, and explained: "According to the survey of the rural situation done in Shanghai, there are three things that affect the livelihood of farmers: one is land rent, many of Shanghai, including the entire Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, are 50% of the land rent, and there are 40% of the less; The second is the price of grain, when the grain is collected every year, the grain price is deliberately suppressed by large households and grain merchants, and the landlord collects rent at this time and does not want grain as long as silver, forcing the peasants to sell grain at a low price; The third is usury, once the natural disaster ** farmers have to borrow, but this debt is profitable, once it is stained, it is difficult to get out, the light is bankrupt, the heavy is to sell children and daughters. We will not mention the land issue for a moment, but first stabilize the price of grain and the interest on loans, and the ultimate goal is to attract the peasants to our side through economic means. ”

Zhong Guanguan just sighed just now, how did such a method come up with Yang Rui's head, the so-called poison was just a sigh. Yang Rui's final explanation was that he remembered the current situation in the countryside, although he had rarely been in the countryside since he entered school, but he still knew the suffering of the people at the bottom of the countryside -- as soon as the loan with interest was touched, the family would be ruined, and the price of grain was low every year when the grain was produced, and the creditors and proprietors forced the peasant households to sell grain -- but although he knew, he didn't know why this was the case, and thought that this was the common sense of the world, and at the same time he was attracted by the national disaster and national humiliation, and he only wanted the motherland to be prosperous and strong and not be bullied. Listening to Yang Rui's analysis today, he really felt that it was necessary to do so, but he was a little worried, "What if the landlords and gentry don't compromise, that is, they don't buy shares?" Zhong Guanguan knows the temperament of those old men, and Yang Rui's approach is equivalent to cutting off the financial path of these people, so he has this question.

"What else?" Yang Rui sneered, "If they are the right way, then we will use the right way to deal with it, it is nothing more than everyone has more money than anyone else, although we don't have much silver, but it is also a lot, and it is safe to deal with them, and the railway is in our hands, they just collect the grain, we have to force them to death if we don't transport it." Of course, if they want to make some wrong ideas, then the guns in our hands are not burning sticks. Yang Rui said murderous, as if it was another Hong Xiuquan.

Zhong Guanguan was stunned for a moment when he heard Yang Rui's murderous words, in his impression of Yang Rui, he had never been so tyrannical. Perhaps it was the trauma left by the fact that his parents were forced to travel to other countries when he was a child -- in the lie made up by Yang Rui, when he was six or seven years old, he fled with his parents and the whole family was sold piglets to the United States, and when he grew up, he went around abroad before returning to China. It was so hard that he hated the landlords and gentry so much today. Zhong Guanguan's conjecture about Yang Rui is completely wrong, Yang Rui is not a farmer, but his experience as a fruit seller makes him very familiar with some things in the countryside, and the resentment of the landlords and gentry comes from decades of education of our party. For the Fuxing Society, which wants to establish a political power, this force must be collected for its own use, and Yang Rui will not be soft on those local tyrants and gentry who dare to destroy.

The room was quiet for a while, Zhong Guanguan was thinking about the impact of Yang Rui's measures on the countryside and how to put it into practice, he understood that Yang Rui's approach was right, although this was detrimental to the interests of the landlords and gentry, but for more people, these are good governance, "a family crying is better than crying all the way", he couldn't help but think of this old saying, of course, it is not to cry a family, just a family to worry. Yang Rui is thinking about the construction of two small sections of the railway, which are not repaired, so the whole railway will not have much value.

"Xianfeng, whose is this railway inside and outside the Guan?" Yang Rui asked after thinking about it.

Zhong Guanguan knew a lot about the railways of the whole country because of the operation of the railway, and replied: "The Qing court." It was taken back by Yuan Shikai last year or the year before last. ”

"Yuan Shikai? He's so capable? Yang Rui was a little surprised, this is the first time I have heard someone around him say this name, and he is a hero in the world.

"Yes, this man is indeed capable, he was the governor of Korea before the First Sino-Japanese War, and he was deeply tabooed by the Japanese." Zhong Guanguan thought that Yang Rui didn't know Yuan Shikai, and explained: "Then Xiaozhan started to train soldiers, and now he is the governor of Zhili and the minister of Beiyang, holding the military power of the three towns of Beiyang, not only a favorite minister, but also a capable minister. ”

Speaking of the history of the late Qing Dynasty, Yuan Shikai can't get around this person, he is completely the opposite of Sun Zhongshan, and he is also the biggest white-faced Cao Cao in history, the only force that can stop the revival in the future. The reason why Yang Rui said that he wanted to train more than 100,000 troops, in addition to controlling the place, another important reason was because of Yuan Shikai's Beiyang New Army. It's really getting more and more interesting, I don't know what the pattern of the end of the Qing Dynasty will be because of my own joining.