Chapter 1051: New Aristocracy (III.)
Facing his father's questioning, Roland spread his hands and sighed: "I'm not a saint, how can I not think about future generations at all?" But taking care of the clan should also be measured, to provide the princesses with better eating and living conditions than the commoners, and to provide better educational opportunities, which is a reasonable care, but we must not grant large tracts of land, burying the hidden danger of splitting the country, as compensation we can grant the royal family members monetary assets, so that they become capital aristocrats who own money rather than land, so as to not only eliminate the danger of the restoration of the feudal system, but also provide a higher starting point for the royal family than the commoners, if you can't take advantage of this advantage to get ahead, I only blame myself for being too incompetent, and I can't blame my ancestors. ”
"The aristocracy of capital...... This statement is more difficult to understand than the landed aristocracy and the lifelong aristocracy. Rudolph was instilled with a lot of theories of political economy on earth by his son to understand what "capital" was, but he couldn't understand what the "capital aristocracy" was advanced compared with the landed aristocracy.
"You say that the capitalist aristocracy owns money instead of land, and currency is not gold and silver to put it bluntly, so the problem is, these people have a lot of gold and silver money in their hands, and they can buy land with money, but you still can't prevent them from transforming into landed nobles or even feudal lords, isn't this the truth?"
Roland nodded in affirmation of his father's concerns, and then further elaborated on his thoughts: "So we have to interrupt the only way for the capital aristocracy to transform into a landed aristocracy!" ”
Rudolph was taken aback: "Do you want to ...... Prohibition of private sale and purchase of land? ”
"It will not be completely banned, but it must be strictly controlled, the ownership of the vast majority of land resources in the Far East must be firmly in the hands of the state, and the purchase and sale of private land must also be approved by the government, otherwise it will be regarded as an illegal transaction!" Roland cut the railroad.
"Let me think about it, what are you doing this set of...... Agrarian Revolution or Agrarian Reform? Rudolph had heard his son talk about the two concepts, but he couldn't tell the difference.
"It can be regarded as land reform, after all, we have already taken power, there is no need to adopt too drastic and extensive revolutionary measures, and the land system has never been static, and with the changes of the times, land reform will also keep pace with the times."
Roland knew that his father had no patience to listen to his empty theories, so he went straight to the point, talking about the specific policies for implementing land reform.
"First of all, we need to conduct a nationwide resource survey and land clearance to find out how big our country's territory is, what resources it has, and how much farmland has been reclaimed, so that we know in our hearts."
Rudolph nodded, "These jobs are necessary, and then what?" ”
"Then I plan to take the natural village as a unit, organize all the villagers to establish a village commune, and the fields, pastures, mountains and forests and fish ponds of the whole village are also concentrated to build a state-controlled enterprise farm, of which the state holds 50% of the shares, and the remaining 50% of the shares are distributed according to the number of acres of land, cattle, farm tools and other assets brought into the farm by the villagers, so that the government becomes the controlling legal person of the farm, and the farmers only have the equity and management rights of the state-owned enterprise of the farm. No matter how much the equity held by the peasants was traded, it could not shake the controlling position of the government, and the possibility of private individuals annexing a large amount of land and transforming it into large landlords or even feudal lords was eliminated at the root. ”
After listening to his son's story, Rudolph raised two fingers: "There are two loopholes in your plan, one is why do you want the villagers to give up the traditional farming methods and join the collective farm you advocate, and what good will it do to the people?" Second, even if you can convince farmers to join the farm, why should they give up half of their shares to the state on the land they have worked so hard to cultivate? Unless it is enforced by violent means, your land reform plan will not be realized at all. ”
"Not necessarily, there is no need to force the peasants with swords and whips, I can still attract them to join the collective farms on their own initiative, and willingly agree that the state has the right to own fifty percent of the shares in the farms." Roland met his father's questioning gaze and smiled confidently.
"Then tell me what you're going to do." Once again, Rudolph was whipped up by his son.
"In fact, I have mentioned before that collective farms should be implemented at the same time as the rural communes, and the integration of the two is the complete construction of the rural system."
The Kingdom of Kolas is still an agricultural country, with more than 60% of the country's population living in rural areas, and rural governance is the number one administrative problem. Roland has conducted a lot of rural surveys during his travels in the past two years, and has considered this issue very maturely, forming a complete set of rural system reform plans, and at this time, he will briefly report it in front of his father.
"During the period of imperial rule in the Far Eastern provinces, the administrative organs of the government were only at the town and town levels, and they basically adopted a hands-off attitude towards the vast countryside, and only showed a sense of existence when they went to the countryside to collect grain, and the new government we established could not continue to use this backward administrative system, and we must strengthen the governance of the villages, and send Sindra priests, magistrates, and green field druids from the 'Harvest Ring' to the villages as grassroots civil servants, and establish village administrative offices, where sheriffs and priests provide safety, medical care, and Educational and religious services, in the case of druids in villages, which ensured a good crop yield, were to join collective farms if they wished to receive them free of charge, to recognize state control over the farms, and to submit to the leadership of the magistrates, priests, and 'village officials' such as the druids. ”
"Will the villagers accept this kind of deal?" Rudolph was skeptical.
"At first they may hesitate and wait and see, but when they discover the many benefits of joining the commune, they see that the magistrate will help them hunt wild beasts, the priest will pray for them, they will hear their confessions, they will celebrate weddings, they will listen to the confessions of the dying people, they will bless their newborns, and they will teach the children of the village to read and write until they have completed four years of compulsory education; They will also discover that the druid's miraculous skills will make the yield of grain per acre on the collective farm much higher than that of the yeoman farmer, and they will be tempted to join the collective farm. ”
Rudolph listened attentively, raised his pipe, and motioned for Roland to continue.
"If this rural governance plan can be implemented smoothly, there will be a crowding out effect - the grain yield per mu of state-controlled large farms is much higher than that of private farms, and the profits of private land purchase and rent collection as a way of investment will decline, and they will not be able to compete with the state-owned farms in a monopoly position, and the capitalist aristocracy will give up their investment in agriculture and look for other investment projects with higher profits. Industrial and commercial, of course. ”
Finally, Roland concludes with a coherent deduction:
"In this way, we will drive the uncontrolled private capital out of the fields and into the industrial and commercial sectors, where it is most thirsty for capital, and induce private capital to contribute to the industrialization of the Far East."