He flicked open the wooden cigar cover on the table. After taking out a cigar, Zhu Xianhai skillfully cut off one end with a cigar cutter, and then lit the cigar.
Taking a slow puff of the cigar, Zhu Xianhai squinted his eyes, seeming to be savoring the fragrance of the Cuban cigar. Its taste is indeed fascinating.
"Land, on the surface, it seems that the land system, the army and the Catholic Church are the three major institutional pillars of Caudillo's ruling order, but what is the basis of the three?"
Exhaling, savoring the aroma of cigar smoke, Zhu Xianhai said slowly while sitting on the soft sofa chair.
"It's land, it's a large-scale real estate system. We destroyed the old order through war and established a new order. As a new political power, we need to grasp the land situation across the country, that is, conduct land registration and surveying. Therefore, I think
, we need to enact a "Land Registration Bill"."
"Land Registration Act?"
Qian Deshan's tone was filled with confusion.
"Yes, all land in the occupied areas must be re-registered. We can set a time limit, such as completing the registration within one month, and the land registered in the future will be state-owned land."
Holding a cigar in his mouth, Zhu Xianhai said in a very relaxed tone, what is state-owned land?
It belongs to the government!
The government can allocate state-owned land to anyone else. Of course Chandershan is very clear about this. When he was in Chile, the confiscated land was also collected as state-owned land and then distributed.
"But what if they complete the registration?"
Qian Deshan looked at the commander in confusion, as if he didn't understand the purpose of this plan. After completing the plan, wouldn't there 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 said to the door.
"Please come over here, Sun Wenshan."
Although he had just moved into this manor, a telephone had already been installed - in this era, telephones were definitely high-tech gadgets, but this telephone only connected the secretary's office to the nearby garrison.
But this also means the beginning of a new era. Nanhua has truly entered the era of electricity and electricity. Maybe it will not be many years before we can have the good days of electric lights and telephones upstairs and downstairs. Of course, this kind of good days will definitely be used to colonize other countries.
There is a human cost, 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 the empire!
"In 1848, after the United States defeated Mexico, it occupied a large area of land in Mexico. At that time, there were many Mexican estate owners there. The U.S. government promulgated the Land Registration Act, requiring residents of the occupied areas to re-register..."
When Sun Wenshan, standing in the study, was introducing the United States' Land Registration Act, Zhu Xianhai, who was smiling, just listened quietly.
“According to the requirements of the bill, farmers with less than 10 acres need to pay a registration fee of US$1, and each 10 acres needs to pay a registration fee of US$2, with a registration fee of US$5 per 10 acres for more than 500 acres, and a US$10 registration fee for every 1,000 acres to 2,000 acres.
USD, and USD 15 for over 2,000 acres.”
Sun Wenshan, who once accompanied Zuo Zongtang on an overseas inspection trip, made a point of learning how the United States dealt with Mexican landowners during his inspection trip to the United States. He simply used the Land Registration Act to deal with all the landowners.
It seems to be from 1 US dollars to 15 US dollars, but for those estate owners who own thousands of acres, spending tens of thousands of dollars at a time is absolutely unbearable and can make them bankrupt. After all, their properties are often land, livestock
, farm tools, you must know that there were only a dozen millionaires in the United States in 1860!
“After the three-month registration period, 80% of farmers with little land completed the registration, but 90% of the manor owners with more than 500 acres of land failed to complete the registration. According to the corresponding laws, their land became state-owned.
Land, many Mexican plantation owners and churches lost their estates, and of course, it also allowed American immigrants to get more land."
"Not bad."
There was a sarcastic tone in Zhu Xianhai's voice.
"They are indeed the descendants of the British. If they had not enacted laws, they would have robbed civilians of their property. But if they had enacted laws? Their actions would have been legal. They had legally taken away the land of those people, those Mexicans.
What can I do? It’s just a few complaints!”
Even if they complain all the time, what's the point? Everything Americans do is to protect the law.
"Many Mexicans chose to leave. They had no other choice. They either paid to re-register, or they watched their land confiscated and redistributed. But as the commander said, because of the law, everything has changed.
It is legal, and I think we should implement similar policies in Argentina in the future and redistribute land by enacting corresponding laws. Only in this way can we destroy their economic foundation."
On the issue of redistributing land, South China has long reached a consensus. There is no way, who can make those "caudiro" a "separatist force" that threatens the regime. But anyone who knows a little bit about the situation in South America has no idea about those manor owners.
Full of vigilance.
If a Bolivar can emerge from among the hacienda owners to overthrow Spain, there may be another Bolivar who overthrows South China in the future. In the eyes of any Chinese who understand history, such armed large hacienda owners are a scourge that must be eliminated.
source of.
"law!"
Zhu Xianhai paused and said.
"The laws we have promulgated must be implemented. If we promulgate the law and re-register the land, we must ensure that it is impossible for the manor owners to complete the registration, even if they borrowed usury, they will not be able to complete the registration.
Complete registration!"
Zhu Xianhai spoke out his inner thoughts without concealment.
"Our goal is to completely destroy the foundations of the existence of the Caudillo."
That is just a high-sounding purpose. What is the real purpose? It is the conqueror's plunder of the conquered, and it is just robbing other people's property.
"Their foundation is land. By re-registering, those large estate owners, including small landowners, face nothing more than two choices - either re-register the land at the risk of bankruptcy, and then become bankrupt and unable to continue operating the farm, or else they can no longer run the farm.
Since the land was nationalized, they had no other choice. Just like Johnson Manor, he owned 12,000 acres of land and needed to pay a registration fee of 180,000 yuan, plus a 10% survey fee, 200,000! This
A huge sum of money is enough to bankrupt them."
Letting those people pay the price of bankruptcy to complete the registration is just the beginning.
Sun Wenshan emphasized his tone and said.
"And even if they complete the registration, we can use tax and other means to make them bankrupt. In the end, they will also get nothing."
"Destroy the county magistrate and exterminate the governor." Anyone who has studied in China does not know this sentence. It is extremely easy for officials to punish some people, especially at this level, there is no law to make laws.
, when there is a law, naturally there is a law to follow.
"And we can also stipulate that all registration fees must be paid in gold and silver coins or South China coupons. Argentine and local banknotes will not be recognized. Those people simply don't have that many gold and silver coins in their homes, even if they have them in the bank.
The deposits cannot be withdrawn now, and the property they own is just a pile of waste paper. How can they complete the registration? "
These are not conspiracy at all, they are just the methods of the rulers.
With a slight nod, Zhu Xianhai looked at Sun Wenshan, thought for a moment, and then said.
"How about it, do you have any idea of going somewhere to exercise?"
Since land reform is going to be carried out, someone must be in charge. Sun Wenshan seems to be a good candidate.
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