"What did Mr. Prime Minister say?" Roland asked his father curiously. He knows that Lloyd, the "old fritter", generally does not express opinions and appears very low-key in the cabinet, but occasionally stands up and says a word that carries weight and often gets to the point.

"Prime Minister Lloyd pointed out at the cabinet meeting that the implementation of land reform will inevitably offend the local powerful forces that occupy a large amount of fertile land, and if it provokes the resistance of the landlord class, I am afraid that it will turn into a civil strife, considering that our regime has not yet been recognized by the countries of the Holy Light Alliance, and the pressure from the West is increasing day by day, if internal and external troubles break out together, it will plunge our country into disaster, on the other hand, Lloyd also pointed out that the overall situation in the Far East is that there are fewer people and more land, and land annexation is not enough to be governed. There is no need to offend the landlords and the powerful when the political power is not yet stable, and to waste the limited national strength on internal friction. ”

Rudolph lit his pipe and took a puff, looking deeply at his son through the smoke cloud: "At the cabinet meeting, Yodel made some excuses in the face of Lloyd's above-mentioned doubts, but it is really not very convincing, put yourself in your shoes, if I am in Yoddel's position, I am afraid I will not be able to make a strong response, if the person being questioned is you, how do you defend the land reform policy?" ”

"As Mr. Lloyd pointed out, there is actually no shortage of arable land in the Far East, compared to the land area of more than 4 million square kilometers, 5 million people are really not much, and there is still a lot of land to be cultivated, so why rush to fight local tyrants and divide the land?" Roland shook his head and chuckled, and asked himself, "But those who have the above questions, I can responsibly say that their understanding of land reform is still at a superficial level, and they do not realize that the Far East is now in the best time to implement land reform, and if this time period is missed, I am afraid it will be difficult to find the opportunity to carry out major surgery on the land issue in the future." ”

Rudolph raised his eyebrows and looked at his son with blazing eyes, "Let's talk about it, how should we interpret 'land reform' to be comprehensive and thorough?" ”

"Land reform is not just an isolated policy, let alone simply understood as fighting local tyrants and dividing land, land reform is a complete set of system construction, including all aspects, such as the reform of the land tax system, the reform of the land property rights system, the reform of the land use system and so on."

Roland first made the above political economy concepts related to the land system as easy to understand as possible, and after his father nodded his head again and again, indicating that he understood, he made further elaborations.

"Frankly speaking, I don't care about the little land occupied by the local tyrants and landlords, what I care about is the implementation of the 'land property rights system reform' in the Far East, the uncultivated land, forests, grasslands, lakes, rivers, mines and other natural resources on the Far East are nationalized by legislation, and these natural resources are accurately mapped, measured, and statistically classified. So how can we govern the country? ”

Roland's questioning touched Rudolph's heart deeply and made him ponder. Although he was an open-minded monarch and promised more than once in front of his cabinet and even the public that he would soon formulate a "Code of Kolas" and establish a constitutional monarchy in the Far East in line with the fashion of the times, he still had in his heart the common obsession of kings in the world that "the whole world is not the king's land". The constitution forced him to have no monopoly on power as the monarchs of the old days, declaring that "I am the state", but if he could control the land in the name of the government, it would also bring great satisfaction to the vanity of His Majesty.

"It is very necessary to nationalize the natural resources that have not yet been exploited and utilized and reserve them as public wealth for overall planning and unified development." Rudolph first affirmed his son's idea, and then made a request: "But this alone is not enough to convince the cabinet ministers, you need to make some more convincing arguments." ”

"In fact, clarifying the property rights of land is not the most important reason, and another important factor in my eagerness to implement land reform is the liberation of agricultural labor." Roland shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands, "I regret to find that most of the cabinet ministers are not aware of such a crucial reality: there is no one-size-fits-all land system in the world, and what kind of land system a place adopts depends on the local population density. ”

"The land system depends on population density......" Rudolph put down his pipe and picked up his pen, jotting down his son's words in his notebook, like a well-behaved schoolboy, "this argument is very interesting, well, the more I think about it, the more it makes sense...... You elaborate. ”

Roland was amused by his father's careful note-taking, and slowed down his speech and patiently explained: "In places where there is less land and more people, land is a scarcer resource than manpower, so people will adopt intensive cultivation and pursue the production of as many crops as possible per unit of cultivated land; On the other hand, in a vast and sparsely populated place like the Far East, where manpower is more scarce than land, the primary goal of agricultural production is no longer to pursue crop yields per unit of land, but to give full play to the productivity of unit labor. ”

Rudolph nodded frequently as he recorded. In fact, he had the above ideas for a long time, but before his son put them forward, they were still relatively vague and did not form a set of logically rigorous theories. After my son's explanation, I suddenly felt enlightened and had a comprehensive and clear understanding of this issue.

Roland, of course, understood his father's temper. Mr. Rudolph has a grand picture and a broad vision that most people in this era do not have, and he can humbly listen to his son's advice, but he does not like to listen to people show those empty and obscure academic theories, unless a theory can provide a perfect answer to the current situation of society, he will not easily accept.

When talking to his father, Roland always grasped his pragmatic personality and used the most convincing examples and data to present his views from the realities of the Far East.

"Why are at least 80 percent of the natural resources in the Far East still unexploited, and forests, grasslands, rivers and lakes, most of which are 'terra nullius'? The main reason is that there is a shortage of labor, one is not enough manpower to open up wasteland, and the other is that the existing labor force is not fully utilized. ”

This naturally leads Roland to the next question: where is the underutilized workforce?