"There are at least 500,000 to 600,000 serfs in the Far East who are tied up in the farms of big landlords, especially in the rice-producing areas along the river plains, and a large number of fertile paddy fields are concentrated in the hands of a very small number of landlords in order to squeeze serfs to obtain excess profits from the land. Considering the grim reality of the Far East's underpopulation and shortage of labor, looking back at the landlords who owned hundreds or thousands of serfs and whose personal freedom was firmly bound to their own land, one can come to the obvious conclusion that the greatest obstacle to the implementation of our New Deal in the Far East was the serfs who were in possession of the landlords, rather than the land they annexed. Fastest update"

Rudolph held the pen and listened thoughtfully to his son's story, and the confusion in his heart gradually dissipated.

"We are not carrying out land reform, as Mr. Lloyd said, to grab meat from the landlord's bowl to eat, but Mr. Yodl has seen this problem very thoroughly, and he has decided to convert his farmland into shares, and hand it over to the state-owned farms to complete the role change from landlord to agricultural investor, so that he will get more income from dividends than he will get from running the farmland, this is the concept that an enlightened landlord should have, and he should ask John Pulit to publicize it in the major newspapers and magazines of the country. The landowners of the Far East, large and small, were called upon to learn from Mr. Jodle. ”

Roland was not unprincipled and hated the landlord class. If the landlords can give full play to the human resources on the land and raise the agricultural labor productivity to a relatively high level, Roland may not interfere with their actions, but in fact these guys occupy a large amount of fertile land but cannot give full play to the planting potential, occupy a large number of labor force but cannot stimulate their production power, the result is that the labor productivity hovers at a very low level for a long time, causing a great waste of farmland and labor.

Roland could tolerate the greed of the landlords, but could not tolerate the incompetence and inefficiency of the landlords in the management of agricultural production. He has already issued a circular to the large landlords who own more than 10,000 acres of land in the country, calling on them to sell their land to large state-controlled farms, or merge them into state-owned farms to exchange them for shares, and those serfs who were originally bound to the land will also be granted personal freedom, and they will be exempted from the debts owed to the landlords at the cost of staying on the state-owned farms for a certain number of years, and this debt will be compensated to the landlords in the form of national debts, so that the serfs will be transformed into "workers" of the industrialized state-owned farms, and the landlords will be transformed into agricultural investors. Shareholders of state-owned farms, so that the Krasbourg authorities can introduce new cropping and management systems on these lands to increase agricultural labor productivity.

Rudolph was slightly moved: "It is really admirable that Yodel can make such a decision, but unfortunately most of those rural landlords are short-sighted, and I am afraid that few of them have the foresight of Yodel, not only do they not see the benefits of taking a stake in a state-owned farm, but they will also treat our government as a robber, and even use violent means to obstruct land reform." ”

Roland also expected that there would be some landowners who did not know the times, believing that the land reform he was promoting hurt their own interests, and tried to obstruct the New Deal in the Far East in various ways. In fact, Roland wished that these guys who occupied the pit and didn't would rise up and resist, and it was just under the pretext that they would take force to suppress it.

"Since ancient times, there has never been a good death without bloodshed in land reform, and if we leave a little more blood now, we will have less trouble in the future of landlord restoration and counterattack." There was murderous intent in Roland's indifferent words.

Taking history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall. Roland's principle of doing things is either not to do it at all, but to do it well from the beginning to the end, and it is best not to leave future troubles. Comparing the agrarian revolution carried out by the Chinese Red Dynasty on the mainland and the land reform based on "redemption" carried out by the Guo Party after its transfer to Yizhou, the latter seems to have shed less blood and been less violent, but the severity of the aftermath has been fully manifested many years later.

Rudolph pondered for a long time, fully digested and absorbed the ideas put forward by his son, and said: "At the cabinet meeting in the morning, Jodel also put forward a similar point of view to you, arguing that the purpose of land reform is not to obtain more arable land, but to liberate hundreds of thousands of serfs from the landlords' fields, but he is also worried that it will be too hasty to implement the land reform now, and will be fiercely resisted by the local tyrants, which will turn into bloody conflicts, and thus arouse the resentment of the people. Speaking of this, Rudolph accentuated his tone: "You must know that the foundation of our regime is still very shallow, and its influence is limited to the surrounding areas of the capital, and in the remote rural areas, the government of Kolas may not speak as well as the local rich and powerful, and the people probably lack foresight, if the landlords of their own country incite them to rise up against the central government far away, most of them may not dare to refuse, and then our enemies will not only be the landlord class!" ”

"Yodel's vision and ability are good, but he is bound by his family, he can't let go of his hands and feet, he is afraid of bloodshed, he is afraid of conflict, we can't blame Yodel's weak position, because this is a common problem of the literati bureaucracy as a social class, they don't understand that land reform is not only out of financial needs, but also out of political needs, and if they miss the current opportunity, they will encounter greater resistance and attract more criticism in the future." Roland changed his words and went to the point, "Indeed, as you feared, the biggest resistance to the implementation of land reform is not actually the landlords, those local tyrants and inferior gentry are a fart, the biggest resistance comes from the vast number of yeoman farmers, not to mention the landlord class in the Far East, even the yeoman farmers feel that the reclamation of wasteland is a matter of course, why should they report to the government?" Without this Koras government, those wastelands existed, so why did you take them over when you gave an order? Even if we break the truth, those countrymen who lack a sense of national consciousness will not pay attention to it, let alone support our land reform policy from the bottom of their hearts, and will even treat our new government as a bandit worse than the empire, as you say. ”

Rudolph sat back in his armchair with tiredness in his eyes: "If you know very well that you will be opposed by the masses, why do you want to force such drastic reforms?" ”

"It's a long question, but let me digress the topic, where do you think the legitimacy of our land reform is?" Roland looked into his father's eyes and asked a question that seemed unrelated to the main idea, "Or further, what is the legitimacy of our newly established regime, is it because we are of noble blood and destiny?" ”