In November, the fog on the plains still looks normal, and the winter sky still has a gray haze. A new round of reforms in the southwest is making waves.
Looking from the past to the future, the most critical historical node is occurring at this moment, but people in reality do not realize how significant the impact that the moment of their existence will have on future generations.
Because the reality itself is undergoing drastic changes at every moment. Since the Jurchens first went south in the thirteenth year of Jinghan, there have been several disasters that could destroy the country, countless massacres, massacres, and disasters that have filled the land with victims.
Most of these drastic changes have appeared one after another on the land, and most of them have negative consequences in the end. People are tired of such changes in such an environment, but they have gradually become accustomed to such changes.
A change in one hundred villages involving more than 200,000 people. Although it is full of descriptions of a glorious future, even optimistic people have difficulty in truly accepting the reality that the ideal of "Datong" of "land to the tiller" may be realized.
.But so what, even if it fails, this is just the bumps experienced by a warlord force in such troubled times. Even though in the past two years, this warlord force has shown incredible strength, but this is
Challenging the great ideal of "land to the tiller", while people were arguing fiercely, what sounded in their hearts was probably a low sigh.
However, just like a scene cut out from the mighty historical tide and looked down upon, the turbid water of the troubled times scattered countless chaotic fluids in the dangerous bends, and some of them staggered forward in the tide.
Some crash into huge waves, some form whirlpools, and some are thrown off the track at any time and rush high into the sky. Some of them will discover the truth first, while others are anxious and hesitate to move forward. Countless thoughts have become chaotic.
This is also the charm that can be shown in the great era.
Out of the one hundred villages, violent or mild confrontations broke out in ninety-three villages, but there were always those very few who, for one reason or another, chose a different path.
Xigu Village in the southeast of Chengdu is one of the few villages where there are large landowners but the land resumption was quickly negotiated. On the second day of November, Qin Weiwen, the propagandist who came here, was troubled by something.
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"Well, it makes sense, it makes sense..."
It was just dark, and the second son of the Qin family, who returned to his temporary residence, heard familiar footsteps outside and voices that seemed to be chewing some delicious food. The pattering footsteps stopped outside the door.
Then there was a rude kick at the door.
"Mr. Qin - it makes sense. Mr. Qin, are you here? It makes sense -"
He opened the door, and outside the door was still the temporary station of the Chinese army with various figures coming and going. The person who appeared outside the door was a country boy of similar age to him. The reason why the other party kicked the door was different.
I saw that he was holding a newspaper in one hand and an oil lamp that seemed to be taken directly from the desk in the other hand. He was holding his eyes close to the newspaper in the dim night, reading it carefully, and smacking while reading.
He smacked his lips, and then kicked Qin Weiwen with his hastily picked up cloth shoes.
"That makes sense, Brother Qin——"
Qin Weiwen was kicked and smiled bitterly: "Brother Nie, what's the matter?"
"The "Three Days Talk" came today! This article has solved my confusion! It makes sense! It makes sense, Mr. Qin——"
The young man didn't seem to realize that he had kicked the other person, and went straight in, holding the newspaper in his hand and still screaming. Qin Weiwen closed the door, and the other person put the oil lamp on the desk aside and poured the oil on his beautiful face.
He wiped it on his clothes a few times and said, "Come and see!"
Xigu Village, which has a favorable environment and a lot of land, is an outlier encountered in this land relocation operation. The specific reason is attributed to Nie Shaotang, the head of the Nie clan here. This man is over fifty years old and has great influence in this area.
Da, in the eyes of ordinary people, can be regarded as a powerful hero. In the process of the Chinese army unifying the southwest, he was forced to surrender by Xigua, Li Shishi's partner, and Zhao'an. Since then, he has been following Li Shishi's line.
Bound together with it.
Different from ordinary political speculators, Nie Shaotang was extremely determined when it came to taking sides, including in this land reform incident. What he showed was this kind of wild and intuitive determination. After visiting
After Li Shishi was attacked twice, he became one of the first large landowners to proactively negotiate land redemption matters with the Chinese Army. Although the land accumulated over several generations during the Jia Tianxia era was exchanged for seemingly generous money and policy compensation that could benefit three generations,
At this point in time, it is actually difficult for any rationalist to figure out the reason why he is so transparent.
From the perspective of later generations, he actually did not have much "progressive" ideological consciousness.
However, several generous and determined bets on the Chinese army naturally brought him many good returns. Regardless of financial matters, Nie Shaotang's sons quickly became involved in the inner circle of Chengdu.
The face was familiar, just like his third son Nie Xinyuan who appeared in front of him. Because of his love of reading, he had a certain friendship with Qin Weiwen, the gentle second son of the Qin family. Of course, there may have been some deliberate friendship in the past.
This time when Qin Weiwen came to Xigu Village to host the course, I discovered that Nie Xinyuan, who was gentle and gentle in Chengdu, actually had such a wild side.
From the first day when the working group came here, Nie Xinyuan came to pester Qin Weiwen, asking about various details of the land allocation matter, and constantly asked countless tricky questions. At first, Qin Weiwen thought he was deliberately
He was trying to make things difficult, but then he discovered that the other party seemed to be a "revolutionary party" similar to Aunt Gua's group. Countless novel ideas seemed to burst out in his mind, and many times Qin Weiwen even stuttered and couldn't answer.
Qin Weiwen is only eighteen years old this year, and his talents in learning and practicing martial arts are average. Naturally, he was assigned to be a preacher for the purpose of training - because he looks honest and honest, Ning Yi said: "You are more suitable to be a preacher than Ning Xi."
"Preacher, because I look friendly." He came here after two months of training - but even though he had heard of the most intense equality theories in the Chinese military, he didn't have a deep understanding.
As long as Nie Xinyuan caught him in the past two days, he would hold him and shake him like a curious baby. Qin Weiwen had to rack his brains to answer questions. He was the leader among the preachers and did not understand all kinds of tricky equality theories. At first
In order to pretend to be knowledgeable, he would ask the senior masters in the group from time to time, and then he was going to send Nie Xinyuan away to annoy others. However, Nie Xinyuan became embarrassed, stared for a while, and then stammered: "No, I'm not familiar with it..."
After that, she still came to bother him.
Now he came again, and I saw him pointing to the news in the "Three Days Talk" and enthusiastically recommending it to Qin Weiwen. Qin Weiwen lay on the table and looked at it, and saw that what Nie Xinyuan favored in this newspaper was a rather simple but also interesting article.
The extremely straightforward political article may have attracted the liking of Nie Xinyuan in front of me because of the unmodified directness of the entire point of view.
"...Brother Qin, look at it, look at it... As soon as this article came out, many of the problems we had in the past will be understood..."
"...Throughout the ages, through all dynasties, a collection of interests has been formed from the beginning. This is the case in your family, and it is also the case in my family...Such a collection of interests must benefit themselves. After two or three hundred years, the tail cannot be lost, and the bottom is
There will inevitably be resentment among the people... So what should we do? Therefore, there will be a dynasty change every two to three hundred years. The essence of this dynasty change is to smash and break up these interest groups that have accumulated for two to three hundred years no matter what..."
"... To achieve this goal, it doesn't matter what means are used. It doesn't matter what reasons the interest groups have, because the fact is that if you don't break up, everyone's life will never be able to go on... Then you
Look at the Wu Dynasty today. After two or three hundred years of changing dynasties, the interest groups that have accumulated for so many generations will definitely be eliminated. If you see the Chinese army today with mild tactics and unwillingness to separate them, they will definitely be forced to do so in the future.
Divide it up, because it must be divided up so that everyone can start over..."
"... Such a simple truth, such a straightforward statement, deafening! Deafening - I suddenly became enlightened -"
Nie Xinyuan's words were also deafening. Qin Weiwen rubbed his forehead: "This "Three Days Talk" usually publishes these eye-catching remarks. This... this is too political conspiracy theory..."
"It makes sense! Brother Qin!" Nie Xinyuan sat down at the side. "There is no need to go into details, and there is no need to show justice in everything. Of course, this is how dynasties change! There are so many big families in the Wu Dynasty, and they have accumulated so many years.
Let them accumulate three hundred years, how can ordinary people live? Ordinary people can't survive, and big families are also massacred. So this article makes it very clear that the Huaxia Army's land reform methods today are very face-saving, not even killing a few people.
Give them back the money, give them so much money. I think these landowners should understand that handing over the land and everyone starting over is the only way to protect themselves for five or ten generations... This truth should be explained to them clearly.
Only by using thunderous means can the heart of a Bodhisattva be revealed."
Qin Weiwen couldn't help but smile: "You are so excited, you can negotiate with them."
"I think so, but... there are so many people that I stutter..." Nie Xinyuan felt depressed for a moment, then raised his head, "But, you have to be vigilant about this matter! Look at the second half of the article, it says that the Huaxia Army will solve this matter.
It is carried out in two directions. First, through land division, part of the accumulation of interests is dispersed, leaving a bottom line for the people. Second, through investigation and business, the overall interests are expanded, the source of living water is increased, and this is buffered...
The accumulation of group interests. Because of the second point, we have room to be merciful to the landlords and save everyone's lives..."
"But..." Nie Xinyuan paused, "Are you right about your second point? If... I mean if, all three hundred years of dynasty must go through a thorough baptism before everyone can
Start over and let everyone have another three hundred years... What if the second point is not right? Your soft-hearted approach of not killing people and paying back the money will make this three hundred years... a hundred years shorter.
For decades, everyone has been killed but you don’t. Then the time that has accumulated until everyone can’t stand it must be shortened..."
Qin Weiwen looked at him: "I didn't kill you...you are still not happy..."
"Discuss, discuss, discuss the problem..."
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"..."
The two sat there and looked at each other for a moment, Nie Xinyuan's attitude was sincere, Qin Weiwen was speechless, but after a while, he narrowed his eyes in embarrassment before approaching.
"I'm just telling you privately, Uncle Ning...Mr. Ning is planning to establish a basic national policy, which seems to be called...inheritance tax. For example, for big families like you, when your father dies, the things you inherit will be given to
The country pays 780%, or even 890% of the tax, and the tax will kill you... Moreover, Mr. Ning specifically emphasized that this tax cannot be offset for any reason at any stage of the country.
But...this matter is still under discussion, don't talk nonsense, but if it is to be decided, it must be decided for the founding of the country..."
Nie Xinyuan stood there with his mouth open, and after a while, he subconsciously tapped his fingers on the table, and his eyes lit up.
"It makes sense... it makes sense... this makes sense... it has a clue... Brother Qin, I really believe now that you want to seek peace for all eternity... and start a great cause that has not been seen in thousands of years..." He murmured to himself
, after a moment, he suddenly grabbed Qin Weiwen's hand. Qin Weiwen frowned immediately, but the other party slapped him twice and let go, "No, no, it can't solve the problem. This... Brother Qin, what do you think, for example?
My father has one million taels of silver. If he dies, we will have to pay taxes, but before he dies, he can give it to us... As soon as you issue this order, the big people in the world will definitely give away generously. Don't you think so? It's not.
There is no way to avoid it..."
Qin Weiwen's whole face wrinkled into an ugly bun: "...that method can solve some problems...it's not bad." As a poor student, he rarely thought deeply about these questions, and he was about to be unable to answer them.
"That's true..." Nie Xinyuan nodded, "That's how things are originally. As long as you have an idea, the soldiers will come to cover up the water and the earth... This inheritance tax is a good idea. Brother Qin, I have been thinking about what I will do in the past two days.
To deal with him, I will think of a way to deduce it with you..."
"You, you..."
"Wait a minute, I thought of another thing." Nie Xinyuan said again, "I said before that research and business can be open source, but for example, my father has a family fortune of one million taels. He originally wanted to use this one hundred taels to do business. Now
You have this inheritance law. If he thinks he is old, he will give all the business to us prodigal sons... No, this won't work. Many businesses cannot be done. Then this inheritance law... Yes, if I
Dad has no money. He has a factory worth one million taels. After he dies, you take away 900,000 taels. What will happen to this business? This business will be gone. Brother Qin..."
"I...I just heard from Mr. Ning..."
"In addition, the sky is high and the emperor is far away. How can one calculate so clearly how much money each household has? And...hey, this brings us back to a big problem. After you collect the fields, the official family will
The biggest one in the world, and the ruthless officials are like tigers. Brother Qin, when one day the Chinese army unifies the world, will the superiors really be able to control the distribution of land in the surrounding areas? I always feel that this will be the real big problem in the future...Brother Qin, Ning
How do you usually say this, sir? Please tell me..."
"Uh... this... more meetings?"
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"..."
The lights in the room were quiet for a moment, and after a while, the sound of chirping came out again. After two hours, Qin Weiwen almost wailed: "Go and ask Team Leader Tang..."
"I have this question...how...why bother him? Brother Qin, you, you grew up next to Mr. Ning, you must have something to say, you must have said it...just chat with me..."
After talking like this until late at night, many people fell asleep. Nie Xinyuan held up the oil lamp and clattered the newspaper back, muttering to himself and shaking his head as he walked...
After that, on the third and fourth day of the lunar new year...morning, afternoon and evening...Nie Xinyuan would still come to Qin Weiwen whenever he had time. His words were direct and sometimes even shocking. For example, after listening to a few classes,
After realizing it, he went to Qin Weiwen and said: "I understand! It makes sense - you actually don't care whether everyone can understand your lessons. You mainly want everyone to obey the orders and prohibitions. In the future, when the Huaxia Army speaks, they
Listen... Yes, yes, this is the idea of taking down the landlords. In the past, the imperial power did not go to the county, so how to let the imperial power go to the county? They listened to the deployment, why not go to the county? The core of land distribution is still
It’s not just about dividing the land...it makes sense, Brother Qin..."
Qin Weiwen sighed: "I think it makes sense..."
So on the fifth day of November, he came to arrest Qin Weiwen, and was then led to sit in a classroom. After a while, he saw Ning Yi walking in from the door of the room. This was not the first time that Nie Xinyuan saw
Ning Yi, but this was the first time they met alone. Ning Yi sat down and looked at him with a smile. Nie Xinyuan's eyes were dull and speechless.
"Wei Wen told me a lot of your thoughts. It's very interesting. You see, he wrote down everything he couldn't answer. I took a look..." Ning Yi held a notebook in his hand. It was Qin Weiwen's.
Nie Xinyuan was also familiar with the notebook. The scrawled pile of things on it seemed to indicate the writer's boredom. "This Qin Xiaoer has recorded a lot, but it's really a bit indifferent. Otherwise, Xinyuan, you
What are the questions you want to know most here, let’s discuss them.”
Nie Xinyuan: "Ah... uh... I... that..."
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Ning Yi looked at him for a while and laughed: "Well, although Qin Weiwen's records are a bit trivial, most of the problems actually have some theoretical answers if you think carefully. But I know that there is a
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Nie Xinyuan nodded vigorously. When Ning Yi finished speaking, he was so frightened that he shook his head vigorously, not knowing what to express.
Ning Yi paused.
"That's it... I'm just saying it. I invite you to see something. After reading it, you may think of something. Go back and collect two pieces of clothing. Someone will arrange it for you later."
Seeing the other party's nervousness, Ning Yi stood up, and then nodded approvingly: "You can think of so much. When you think of these, you are not just copying what others say. It is not easy or simple. We need to think more about it in the future. We need to
There are many comrades who can think about problems and solve them."
He stretched out his hand, waited for a moment, and shook hands with Nie Xinyuan.
Nie Xinyuan seemed to be in a dream.
Not long after, he carried a box and, under the arrangement of the staff, got on a carriage heading for Leshan.
The carriage drove for half a day and stopped in the middle of the way. On the next day, he arrived at his destination at a small town that had undergone extensive transformation by the Chinese Army. This was a research institution not far from the Leshan Military Industrial Institute of the Chinese Army.
, since it was already noon, after arranging for him to have lunch, someone took him to a small living room that seemed to be waiting for a visit. There were already more than ten people in this small living room. Nie Xinyuan observed these and saw these
There were people old and young, including young scholars and old Confucians with patches on their bodies. Several of them were still discussing heatedly what seemed to be topics about land reform.
Someone came over to say hello to him. It was a young man who was slightly older than him: "Xu Jing Xu Shiyao of Hanzhou, this brother is..."
"Nie, Nie Hou, named Xinyuan..." Nie Xinyuan thought for a moment, "The Xu family of Hanzhou... is Mr. Rui..."
"Brother Nie is talking about the ancestors of the family." The Xu family in Hanzhou is a big businessman selling goods to the South. The old lady Xu Rui is considered the number one person in the southwest, so Nie Xinyuan also knows. He only heard the other party ask in a low voice: "I don't know Nie
Why are you here, brother?"
Nie Xinyuan hesitated for a moment: "Xu, where is Brother Xu..."
"For this land reform, I boldly wrote a few articles and submitted them, and then I was arranged to come here...I think the people who came here this time were rich and poor. I guess it was not because of their family background that they were called here, but probably because of what they wrote.
thing……"
Nie Xinyuan also scratched his head: "I, I also... also... wrote an article..."
At that time, Yao laughed and said, "One look at my brother, he must be very good at writing."
The two chatted for a few more words, and then a member of the Huaxia Army experiment wearing glasses came over. After roughly confirming his name, he led them out of the room. After passing through several courtyards, they came to a mountain.
In the open space, I could see a river flowing in the distance, and there were several houses with waterwheels beside the river. A straight line extended from a house over there to a house over here.
The back wall of the house.
"Let us show you an experiment. Let's go to the front first." The experimenter wearing glasses led everyone towards the house by the water.
I saw that the house with the waterwheel was quite large. There was a complex machine in the room that could be driven and rotated by the waterwheel. Everyone had never seen anything like this before. There seemed to be a lot of threads wrapped around the inside of the machine. Everyone could tell
At first glance, it was copper wire, and there seemed to be a large piece of iron. The glasses experimenter threw a piece of iron on it and immediately attached it.
"This is a magnet."
After everyone visited this side, they left the room and walked along the long line to the other side. Xu Shiyao, who was born in a merchant family, came close to the long line and took a look at it: "This thing seems to be lac." He started to pinch it again. The experimenter stopped me loudly: "It's not easy to make, so don't touch it!"
Xu Shiyao smiled and said, "Is this thing lac?"
The other party said: "She used lac and added other things. There are copper wires inside."
Xu Shiyao nodded, and then said to Nie Xinyuan: "Lac is also called shellac. My family often sells southern goods, so I know it. I don't know what they use lac to wrap copper wires for."
At this time, everyone was still confused. When they approached the room on the long line, they saw that after the rope was pulled over, it was just two iron pieces with a simple structure. The experimenter came over and said: "The distance between the two houses is seven Eighteen feet, the water wheel will be connected to the machine later, and a signal will be sent from that side to this side... Alas, this experiment is still a bit simple. It is not easy to make copper wire and magnet. Now I just want to show it to you. , According to Mr. Ning’s idea, there is also a restoration motor here..."
It's almost impossible to understand what he's saying.
The experimenter sent a signal with a flag here, and then explained it to everyone.
"The water wheel is hooked up to the machine, and when the machine rotates, electricity will be generated in the copper wire. You will see soon that the electricity sends signals here."
"What?" Xu Shiyao and others asked with a frown.
"electricity."
"……What?"
"That's lightning! Lightning from thunder and lightning!"
The room was in a mess, and everyone expressed their own doubts, but then they heard a "snap" sound on the two iron plates and flashed silver light.
Then, the sounds of snap, snap, snap, snap... began to sound rhythmically, and they only sounded for a short moment.
"... Use copper wires to conduct lightning. As long as the copper wires are long enough, lightning can arrive instantly. Using the length of time between lightning strikes as a signal, in the future, no matter how far apart the message is, it will be able to send messages... This thing will be with Chengdu in the future With the combination of rail carriages over there, and in any city, even thousands of miles away, the communication can only take a moment..."
The experimenter wearing glasses was talking to everyone about the experiment in a dull manner. Some people gradually understood a little bit, while others were still confused. Lightning? Communication? What... The experimenter saw that everyone was lacking in understanding. , then he sighed again, briefly explained the principle from the beginning, and also discussed certain issues...
"...After defeating the Jurchens, Mr. Ning just led us to start working on this thing. All the ideas and theories were established by Mr. Ning... Frankly speaking, copper wire, magnets, and the shellac We are still slowly studying the wrapping, and we are still a little far away from the mass production of the assembly line mentioned by Mr. Ning. But, now that the prototype has been made, we think..."
Nie Xinyuan gradually understood what he was talking about.
After he understood the meaning of this matter, everything in his eyes and ears seemed to gradually become distant, his mind was buzzing, and his soul seemed to have withdrawn from this body, The sky began to overlook this land, feudalism, Datong, family and world, creating peace for all generations, and the words of countless children who were taught to learn seemed to be ringing...
He didn't even know when he followed the crowd and left here. It was still winter, the weather was cold and gloomy, and seemed to have the unique gray color near the Chengdu Plain. He walked forward among the crowd, and at a certain moment, he knelt down
On the ground, when I reacted, tears poured out of my eyes...
His thoughts, his confusion, and the countless questions he had raised with Qin Weiwen these days all came flooding back at this moment.
Let the tiller have his own land...
Sage Kong, countless saints, the ideal of seekers...
The possibility of breaking the enfeoffment...
The possibility of world unity...
At this moment, a threshold was crossed...
The tide of the times came crashing down, embracing him like a melting stream.
Those problems, in theory, have been rounded up.
…
One day later, he returned to Xigu Village.
Another day later, he took a carriage and entered Chengdu, which was noisy as ever. Countless public opinions were arguing around land reform. He found a guest room to stay, and then, with trembling, he began to write on paper.
My own thoughts "My opinion on land reform".
His ideas were still immature, and his writing was not sophisticated. He wrote the words on the paper, and he scrawled, scrawled, and scrawled again and again... But two days later, Xu Shiyao also came, and then more people came.
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At this time, countless great scholars are still writing heroic articles about the impossibility of land reform.
He remembered Ning Yi's hand reaching out to him that day.
"...We must think more in the future...We need many comrades who can think about problems and solve them."
This is a wave that has stirred up in the era. At the same moment, there are countless waves stirring and churning in the entire world. The tide of history has surged fiercely.