Lin Yuan came to Xi'an, and saw Yang Xiaolin as soon as he got off the train, to Lin Yuan's surprise: Yang Xiaolin was holding two bags in his hands, which seemed to contain something, Lin Yuan was just about to ask when he saw Yang Xiaolin raise the bag in his hand, handed it to him, and then smiled: "Lin Shuai, didn't you eat well on the train?" I bought you two meat buns! ”

Lin Yuan took the bag, opened it and smelled a burst of meat, Lin Yuan smiled: "What? When I came, I didn't invite me to the next big restaurant, so I was sent away with two meat buns? ”

Yang Xiaolin said with a smile: "Boss Zhang specially instructed us to use good steel on the blade, so we can't spend money indiscriminately, and didn't you find anything unusual about this bag?" ”

Lin Yuan heard Yang Xiaolin say this before he noticed the bag wrapped in meat and buns, and when he touched it with his hand, it was not at all like the kind of paper bag of this era, but like the plastic of his own era, Lin Yuan hurriedly asked: "This is made of plastic?" ”

Yang Xiaolin said: "That's right, when we came, we brought a lot of plastic bags as our goods, and our bags were much cheaper than the paper bags they used, so they sold a lot at once." ”

The two got out of the station and got on the bus while talking, and stopped at the corner of the street through the streets, Yang Xiaolin pointed to the houses on the side of the street with his hand, and said: "These houses have been bought by us, and now the whole street belongs to our Zhang's Industrial Company!" ”

Lin Yuan smiled helplessly: "You guys are really generous, isn't this a waste of money?" ”

Yang Xiaolin said with a smile: "Boss Zhang taught us that when we go out, we must have the style of the first company of the Qing Dynasty, and only buy the most expensive things, which is to let people see our dignity!" ”

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "I'm afraid your money has been spent in vain, and we will soon be transferred to Lanzhou." ”

Yang Xiaolin smiled nonchalantly: "Then let's go to Lanzhou to buy it again, anyway, there is money." The two walked into the room while talking, Yang Xiaolin first brought a stack of documents and said, "The reason why I am in a hurry to send you a message is because we bought off an attendant next to Yuan Yulin, and we got Yuan Yulin's plan from his mouth. ”

Yang Xiaolin pointed to the pile of documents in front of him and said, "These are what we sorted out based on the recording, you can take them back and read them slowly." ”

Lin Yuan asked, "First tell me what Yuan Yulin wants to do when he recruits craftsmen, right?" ”

Yang Xiaolin said: "He recruited craftsmen to liquidate the land in Gansu. ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Liquidate the land?" What do you mean? ”

Yang Xiaolin said: "Yuan Yulin wanted to count the cultivated land area in Gansu, and the craftsmen knew more or less about measurement and mathematics, so he found them. ”

Lin Yuan said: "So that's the case, what about after the statistics?" What to do? ”

Yang Xiaolin said: "I called you a comrade and asked him to tell you that he understands these things better. Lin Yuan nodded, Yang Xiaolin stood up, found an attendant, and said, "Invite Wei Anguo, the leader of the land reform task force." ”

Lin Yuan knew that the land reform in Mongolia was Wei Anguo's responsibility, and he was convinced of his ability, so he stood up and shook hands with him, Wei Anguo said: "According to the information we have obtained, Yuan Yulin is not going to distribute it to poor peasants after liquidating the land!" ”

Lin Yuan's heart moved, and he thought, "It seems that Yuan Yulin really didn't have a good heart!" ”

Wei Anguo continued: "Let me first introduce the situation of land, there are two kinds of land in the Qing Dynasty, one is official land, the other is private land, in the term of political economy, official land is land under state ownership, and private land is land under private ownership. ”

"Before the Qing Dynasty, until the late Tang Dynasty - when the Juntian system collapsed, the land has always been in three states, one of them: owned by the state, the main representative is the tuntian, the most of this kind of land is the military tun, which is cultivated by the garrison, and the Caoyun tuntian, which is used to supply the grain of Caoyun; There are also school fields, and the things grown are used by institutions such as schools. ”

"And in the Qing Dynasty, there was a special type of land - flag land, this kind of land was circled by the Manchu rulers at the beginning of the customs, the purpose was very simple, in order to feed the Eight Banner soldiers, but the Eight Banner soldiers did not plant these land, these lands were rented to farmers for cultivation, and then the land rent was charged to the farmers, which was a naked exploitation of the peasants! This time, Yuan Yulin came with an order from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and these flag lands were under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. ”

"The Ministry of Internal Affairs requires Yuan Yulin to occupy about 100,000 mu of fertile land in Gansu as flag land, and all the proceeds from these lands will be supplied to the soldiers of the Eight Banners!"

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "The Qing court must be doing this to improve the living standards of the Eight Banners, what does this mean?" Now China has the strongest military strength with me and Yuan Shikai, Yuan Shikai and I are both Han Chinese, and the rulers of the Qing court attach great importance to the defense of the Manchu and Han dynasties, so they are not at ease with us, so they think of the Eight Banners, but unfortunately, give the Eight Banners a hundred years, and their combat effectiveness cannot catch up with us. ”

At this time, Wei Anguo continued: "The other two land states are owned by big landlords and individual farmers, needless to say individual farmers, and it has nothing to do with Yuan Yulin's trip, Yuan Yulin came this time, and he also brought the entrustment of several high-ranking officials of the Qing court, that is, to buy a large amount of fertile land in Gansu!" It is not new for high-ranking officials in the Qing Dynasty to buy a large amount of land, such as Heshen in the Qianlong period, who once owned up to 8,000 hectares of land, and Qishan, a scholar of Wenyuange in the Daoguang period, and Qishan, the governor of Liangguang, who occupied as much as 2 million mu of land! ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Who are the people who bought the land?" ”

Yang Xiaolin said: "This is very confidential, our informant only knows about the matter of Lu Dao, but does not know the specific officials and the number of land in Lu Dao!" ”

Lin Yuan nodded silently after hearing this, and said, "We must not let Yuan Yulin succeed, we must distribute the land to the local farmers!" ”

Wei Anguo said: "But what can we do to stop Yuan Yulin? You have neither political power nor military power in Gansu now, Yuan Yulin will definitely not let you meddle in the matter of land reform, plus Yuan Yulin and Yuan Shikai are of the same clan and clan, they will definitely collude together! Not only Yuan Shikai and Yuan Yulin, but also Cixi's envoy Xiao Dezhang, who came with Yuan Yulin to spy on you. ”

Lin Yuan frowned and said, "Yes, this matter is indeed tricky. ”

Wei Anguo continued: "Let me tell you one more situation, the Qing court is very dissatisfied with our confiscation of official land in Mongolia, and has sent people to Mongolia to investigate, and now we are sending people to deal with them. ”

"There is also the Northeast, the Qing court's flag land is mainly distributed in two places, one is Zhili, the other is Fengtian in the northeast, we in the process of land reform in the northeast, the flag land was distributed to the local farmers, but still paid the rent and grain, but also concealed the Qing court, and now the Qing court also sent people to the northeast to investigate."

Lin Yuan nodded and said, "Since this is the case, we should be even more careful in our actions here." ”

Wei Anguo and Yang Xiaolin both looked at Lin Yuan with approving eyes, Lin Yuan pondered for a moment and said, "I have a way to meddle in the reform of Gansu." ”