Chapter 392 The Road to Rise, Eat the Big Customers First (Third Update, Please Subscribe)
Zhu Xianhai opened the wooden cigar case on the table with a "pop" sound, took out a cigar, skillfully cut off one end with cigar pliers, and then lit the cigar.
Zhu Xianhai took a slow puff of the cigar and squinted his eyes, as if he was savoring the fragrance of the Cuban cigar. Its taste was indeed fascinating.
"Land, on the surface, it seems that large landownership, the army, and the Catholic Church are the three pillars of the Caudillo order, but what is the basis of these three?"
Exhaling a puff of smoke, savoring the aroma of the cigar, Zhu Xianhai spoke slowly while sitting on the sofa chair.
"It's about land, about the large landownership system. We destroyed the old order through war and established a new order. As a new regime, we need to understand the land situation across the country, that is, to register and measure the land. So, I think we need to enact a "Land Registration Act."
"Land Registration Act?"
Qian Deshan's tone was filled with confusion.
"Yes, that is, all the land in the occupied area must be re-registered. We can set a time limit, such as completing the registration within one month. In the future, the registered land will be state-owned land."
Holding a cigar in his mouth, Zhu Xianhai spoke in a very relaxed tone, "What is state-owned land?"
It belongs to the government!
The government can distribute state-owned land to anyone else. Qian Deshan is certainly well aware of this. When he was in Chile, the confiscated land was also made state-owned and then distributed.
"But what if they complete the registration?"
Qian Deshan looked at the Marshal in confusion, as if he didn't understand what the purpose of this registration plan was. If the registration plan was completed, wouldn't that mean there would be no last resort?
“They can’t finish it!”
Putting the cigar in the ashtray, Zhu Xianhai picked up the phone on the table and spoke to the person outside the door.
"Please ask Sun Wenshan to come over here."
Although he had just moved into this manor, a telephone had already been installed - in this era, the telephone was definitely a high-tech gadget. However, this phone only connected the secretary's office and the nearby garrison.
But this also means the beginning of a new era. Nanhua has truly entered the era of electricity and power. Perhaps in a few years, we will realize the beautiful days of electric lights and telephones upstairs and downstairs. Of course, this beautiful life must be at the cost of colonizing and exploiting other people, but what does the life and death of those foreigners have to do with Nanhua?
It is nothing more than the inevitable price of the rise of an empire!
"In 1848, after the United States defeated Mexico, it occupied a large area of land in Mexico. At that time, there were also many Mexican-American plantation owners there. The US government enacted the Land Registration Act, requiring residents of the occupied areas to re-register..."
When Sun Wenshan was standing in the study and introducing the Land Registration Act of the United States, Zhu Xianhai just listened quietly with a smile on his face.
"According to the bill, farmers with less than 10 acres will pay a registration fee of $1, and for every 10 acres they will pay a registration fee of $2. Farmers with more than 500 acres will pay a registration fee of $5 per 10 acres, and those with 1,000 to 2,000 acres will pay a registration fee of $10, and those with more than 2,000 acres will pay a registration fee of $15."
Sun Wenshan, who once went abroad for inspection with Zuo Zongtang, made a special effort to learn how the United States dealt with those Mexican landlords during his inspection in the United States. Just by using the "Land Registration Act", those landlords were dealt with badly.
It seems like it’s from 1 dollar to 15 dollars, but for those landowners who own thousands of acres, taking out tens of thousands of dollars at a time is absolutely an unbearable burden that is enough to make them bankrupt. After all, their properties are often land, livestock, and farm tools. You have to know that there were only a dozen millionaires in the United States in 1860!
"After three months of registration, 80% of farmers with small lands completed the registration, but 90% of landowners with more than 500 acres of land failed to complete the registration. According to the relevant laws, their land became state-owned land. Many Mexican landowners and churches lost their lands. Of course, this also allowed American immigrants to obtain more land."
"Not bad."
There was a sarcastic tone in Zhu Xianhai's voice.
"They are indeed descendants of the British. If they hadn't made laws, they would have been robbing civilians of their property. But if they had made laws, their actions would be legal. They legally took away those people's land. What could the Mexicans do? They could just complain a few words!"
Even if they complain all the time, what good will it do? Everything Americans do is to uphold the law.
"Many Mexicans chose to leave. They had no other choice but to pay to re-register or watch their land being confiscated and redistributed. But as the Marshal said, because there are laws, everything is legal. I think we should implement similar policies in Argentina in the future. By formulating corresponding laws and redistributing land, we can destroy their economic foundations."
On the issue of land redistribution, people in South China had already reached a consensus. There was no other way around it, because those "Caudillos" were "separatist forces" that threatened the regime. Anyone who knew a little about the situation in South America was wary of those landowners.
A Bolivar may emerge among the landowners to overthrow Spain, and perhaps in the future there will be a Hanlivar to overthrow South China. In the eyes of any Chinese who understands history, such large landowners with armed forces are the source of chaos that must be eliminated.
"law!"
Zhu Xianhai paused and said.
"Once we enact the law, we must implement it. If we enact the law to re-register the land, we must ensure one thing - that is, to ensure that those landowners cannot complete the registration, even if they have borrowed high-interest loans, they cannot complete the registration!"
Zhu Xianhai spoke out his inner thoughts without any concealment.
"Our goal is to completely and fundamentally destroy the basis for the existence of those caudillos."
That is just a high-sounding purpose. What is the real purpose? It is the plunder of the conquered by the conquerors, it is just to rob the property of others.
"Their foundation is the land. Through re-registration, those large estate owners, including small landowners, are faced with only two choices - either re-register the land at the risk of bankruptcy and then go bankrupt and unable to continue operating the farm, or let the land be nationalized. Apart from this, they have no other choice, just like the Johnson Estate, which owns 12,000 acres of land and needs to pay a registration fee of 180,000 yuan, plus a 10% survey fee, 200,000! This huge amount of money is enough to bankrupt them."
Making those people pay the price of bankruptcy to complete the registration is just the beginning.
Sun Wenshan said with a stronger tone.
"And even if they complete the registration, we can still bankrupt them through tax and other means, so that in the end, they will also get nothing."
"A county magistrate will destroy a family, and a provincial governor will exterminate an entire clan." Anyone who has studied in China knows this sentence. It is so easy for officials to deal with some people, especially at this level. There is no law to be made, and once there is a law, there is naturally something to follow.
"We can also stipulate that all registration fees must be paid in gold and silver coins or Nanhua coupons. Argentine and local paper money will not be recognized. Those people don't have that much gold and silver coins at home. Even if they have deposits in the bank, they can't withdraw them now. The property they own is just a pile of waste paper. How can they complete the registration?"
These are not conspiracies at all, they are just means used by the rulers.
Zhu Xianhai nodded slightly, looked at Sun Wenshan, thought for a moment, and then said.
"How about it, do you have any idea to go to the local area to exercise?"
Since land reform was to be carried out, someone was definitely needed to preside over it. Sun Wenshan seemed to be a good candidate.
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(End of this chapter)
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