Chapter 1179: Time Strikes, Seize the Day (II.)
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Just as Roland was reflecting, a red ball of light appeared out of thin air, stretched out his hand to shake it, and sure enough, as Lyudmila expected, His Majesty Rudolph personally sent a letter, asking him to rush to the imperial study of the "Friendly Palace" as soon as possible, and the father and son met separately to discuss in depth the issue of "land reform" and the controversies surrounding land reform.
Roland wrote back to his father "Soon" and hurried downstairs to the "Friendship Palace". As soon as I walked out of the gate of the central bank, I saw the Minister of Agriculture coming towards me, and I couldn't help but be stunned.
"Your Highness, can I disturb you for two minutes?"
"Of course, if we weren't in a hurry to be summoned to the palace to meet Your Majesty, we should really find a place to sit down and have a drink or two and have a good chat." Roland replied with a smile.
Yodel nodded knowingly, and his face looked extremely serious: "Your Highness is in a hurry to meet Your Majesty, so I won't talk nonsense, I came to you this time to explain the setback of the land reform bill at the cabinet meeting." ”
"It would be too polite for you to say that, and it is not uncommon for proposals not to be understood by ministers, and it is the opponents in the cabinet who you should convince you, not me." Roland said lukewarmly.
"I have to at least convince myself before convincing the opponents, and I feel guilty that I was not resolute enough in my attitude towards this bill, and that I made a fool of myself at the cabinet meeting and did not respond forcefully to the opposition voices."
Yodel's frank attitude surprised Roland, and he put away his smile and asked him, "It's inconvenient to reveal why you lack confidence in your proposal?" ”
Yodel smiled bitterly and sighed in a low voice: "We live in a crowd, and every step we take forward is always inextricably linked...... To tell you the truth, our Stolypin family owns 28,000 acres of fertile land in the plains along the river in the Great Rapids City, and many of my relatives and friends are big landowners, and since the news of the new government's land reform has spread, those guys have all become nervous, and during this annual vacation, I hardly slept well at home, and I have been dealing with relatives and friends who come to lobby every day, and they are either the owners of the big estates themselves, or they are entrusted by the landlords to lobby me, and there is only one purpose - to obstruct the introduction of the land reform bill. ”
Roland is a time-traveler from Earth, who has no family roots in the world of Vares, and no other immediate family other than his father, so he can do things without caring about blood bonds, but he can fully understand Yodel's distress and empathize with the pressure she is under.
"Thank you, Mr. Yodel, this thing is too powerful, we are all ordinary people, and it is difficult to get rid of the bonds of relatives and friends."
"If only you could understand." Yodel smiled gratefully, "It's just that I was bombarded by the fatigue of those people during my annual leave, and my wife is not worrying, calculating in front of me all day how much damage the land reform will cause to our own interests, and I am reluctant to give up the land inherited by my ancestors." ”
Roland patted him sympathetically on the shoulder. Lobbying from friends and family, and incomprehension from his wife, yodel is terrible this New Year. Considering that he himself was born as a large landowner, if he lost the real estate that his ancestors had worked hard to accumulate for generations, how would he face his ancestors? I'm afraid that it is indispensable to be spit on by the family elders as a "loser". Under pressure from all sides, it is no wonder that he is unable to lift his spirits at cabinet meetings.
"Your Royal Highness, I didn't come to you to complain this time, the right thing about land reform is right, wrong is wrong, you must not go against your conscience and reverse black and white because of the pressure of relatives and friends or involving your own interests, I regret my poor performance in the cabinet meeting in the morning, fortunately, I have woken up in time, and made remedies, I hope it is not too late." Yodel said solemnly.
Roland looked at the Minister of Agriculture in surprise: "Mr. Yodel...... You? ”
"I have just come from Maynard and asked him to sign a notarial deed for me, in accordance with the relevant laws of the Kingdom of Kolas, to make the following commitments: I, Jodel Stolypin, in my personal name, support the government's policy of land reform, and from the date of the official promulgation of the policy, I will join the state-owned farm established in the local area as soon as possible, give up the property rights of the 13,240 acres of farmland under my name, transfer the property rights of the farmland to the state-owned farm, and have the farm legal person manage it on my behalf, correspondingly, I will acquire the shares converted from the above-mentioned farmland from the state-owned farm in accordance with the relevant laws. Yodel handed the notarial deed to Roland with a relieved smile on his face, "In this way, even if my trouble is solved, I can travel lightly and go all out to implement the land reform policy." ”
Roland took the thin few pages from his hand, but it felt like a thousand burdens, and it took a while to adjust his mentality, and said movingly: "I must thank you, Mr. Yodel, for the pressure you have endured and the sacrifice you have made for this country, and you are a model for all the public officials of our Korras government. ”
Yodel smiled embarrassedly: "Your Highness thinks too highly of me when he says this, in fact, I just want to get rid of the shackles from my family and society, and settle down to do some work, maybe some relatives and friends are difficult to understand my choice, and they scold me behind my back for being a 'fan of officials' and a 'loser', but those who have done things in a down-to-earth manner throughout the ages, who can be exempt from people's ridicule and misunderstanding?" As for the sacrifice I made for my country, I forgive you for not agreeing with that! I am more or less a minister of agriculture, and I have been engaged in the study of the rural economy for a long time before joining the cabinet, I am very aware of the social ecology of the rice-growing areas in the Far East, I understand how those big landlords squeeze serfs and run their own share of real estate, I have carried out some agricultural reform experiments on my own land, but the results are not ideal, in contrast, the formation of large state-owned farms proposed by His Royal Highness and the construction of rural communes are the broad road of the agricultural revolution in the Far East, and the reason why I took out my own fields and invested them in farms, It is not only to set an example for the public officials in the agricultural sector, but also not to sacrifice their own interests to gain fame and reputation, because I believe that this can liberate the agricultural production efficiency that has been stagnant for a long time, and can make the agricultural resources that have been wasted in vain to obtain a more optimal allocation, I believe that this more than 10,000 acres of land can be cultivated in the way proposed by Your Highness than the traditional way of cultivation and harvesting more grain, and I can also obtain more income through the shares in the farm than by operating these farms myself, in the final analysis, It's a better thing for all. ”
After listening to Yodel's confession, Roland was deeply ashamed.
"I'm really sorry, Mr. Yodle, I thought you didn't understand the land reform policy well enough, but it turns out that you have a deeper understanding of the essence of the policy than I do."