Among all the big names in South Vietnam, the most difficult person to see is President Ng Diem and Li Weimin, chairman of Industrial Investment Corporation.●⌒,

The reason why Ng Diem is hard to see is that he does not like to show up in public and is accustomed to keeping distance from the people and even senior officials, as high as the emperor, as if he wants to create a sense of mystery that only feudal emperors have, and thus achieve the goal of establishing his authority.

After the assassination of the Bangmeishu Agricultural Products Exhibition and the "Double Eleven Coup", he became more suspicious and almost never left home.

Li Weimin's situation is different from that of Ng Diem. As the chairman of the Industrial Investment Company and the leader of the "Yuehua Literature and Art Research Association", his affairs are extremely busy. He spends half of his time abroad every year, and the remaining half of his time either inspects various industrial villages or visits resettlement villages in Xialiu Provinces, Parrot-billed and Zhensha areas, as well as some close-knit Catholic villages.

For entrepreneurs, chambers of commerce leaders, workers and farmers, he has a high exposure rate and is always present in public almost every day. For Hu Lian, ambassador of the National Government to the Republic of Vietnam, it is more difficult to see him than to meet Ng Diem.

When choosing the "Industrial Investment Department" to officially take over the fourth tactical area, I came to Can Tho at this time, which forced Li Weimin to show up.

Because Hu Lian clearly understood that although the "Industrial Investment and Investment Group" mainly Chinese in Vietnam successfully entered the political stage and took over the Jinou Peninsula in a direction, it also brought them to the forefront. In order to ensure that North Vietnam, South Jie, the Ng Diem brothers and other opposition parties would not make a fuss about ethnic issues, he must pay more attention to avoid suspicion than ever.

As it turns out, his goal has been achieved.

I finally got this opportunity, so I naturally had to explain Taipei's intentions clearly. I talked for more than three hours until late at night without ending the topic.

It was 8 a.m. when I woke up, I walked out of the bedroom. Sun Ningyu had asked the waiter to bring a large table of rich breakfast. On the left side of the dining table, there was another uninvited guest sitting, reading the newspaper while eating fruits and drinking milk.

Li Weimin was happy, sat down and asked with a smile, "Mr. Gu. When did you come?"

Gu Changgeng put down the newspaper, picked up a napkin, wiped his mouth, held the edge of the table and smiled, "I arrived at night, there was a meeting in the afternoon. A few days ago, it rained heavily, breaking a bridge leading to Shengzhi from Dayi. The detour was delayed for more than 6 hours, and I almost couldn't catch up."

“What will?”

Sun Ningyu turned around and reminded: "The rural rent reduction and stable tenancy period meetings of the lower six provinces convened by the US Economic and Technological Mission, all the governors, landlords and tenant farmers participated. Mr. Gu is also a member of the Rural Economic Development Committee of the Special Committee for Land Execution of Boliao and the Nongren Resettlement Site. He is also invited."

"Where do I want me to participate, right?"

"Mr. Consul, the United States Agency for International Development, sent a special representative. Professor Fisher was on the way, and more than a dozen experts on rural issues came. Even Mr. Guo was invited. It doesn't matter if you are not in Can Tho, you must participate."

“So high in specifications?”

"The Land Transfer Act has been promulgated and implemented for more than six years. In order to achieve the goal of land tillers having their own land, the United States has done a lot of work. So many corresponding funds have been arranged, but the results have not been very effective. The northern provinces are in chaos and cannot continue, so they turned their attention to the lower six provinces and planned to build the Golden Owl Peninsula as a rear."

The Americans are sometimes quite cute, and Li Weimin couldn't help laughing and said, "This is a good thing."

“So I came as soon as I received the notification.”

Gu Changgeng smiled and pointed to the next door and asked, "Mr. Li, I heard that Hu Lian defeated Runwei and the others last night."

Li Weimin sighed softly: "All the kings under the world are kings, and all the kings are kings and ministers in the boundaries of the earth are kings. In the minds of some people, as long as the Chinese are subjects under their rule, they should obey their orders. They ran over and pointed at them, and I pushed them back."

"What does Lao Jiang mean?"

"The overall situation of suppressing the rebellion and saving the country and counterattacking the mainland is the most important thing. Let us support Diem in the eradication of the Southern Liberation and regaining the North Vietnam. In this way, BJ will send troops into Vietnam like in the Korean Peninsula War. Even the Third World War may break out, and he can take advantage of the troubled waters."

“The abacus is pretty.”

"But he obviously expected that we would not be so obedient. He found that I was more determined. Hu Lian immediately took out a handwritten letter from Xiao Jiang. He expressed his appreciation for our achievements, concern for our situation, and expressed his guilt for the National Government's inability to shelter overseas expatriates.

Finally, he said earnestly that we overseas expatriates should go wherever we will go in the future and ultimately decide our own decisions. We promise that if conditions permit, we will try our best to provide us with some help within our ability."

Gu Changgeng pondered: "It seems that Saigon must have reached some secret agreement with Taipei."

Li Weimin picked up a salted duck egg and said as if nothing had happened: "I think so too, but the current National Government is not the National Government in 1945, and Vietnam is not the Vietnam in 1954. No matter what agreement they reached, it will not affect our cause."

Gu Changgeng nodded: "They are two clay Buddhas that cannot be protected by themselves, and we already have a certain right to speak, so we don't need to be controlled by them."

"That's right, let's talk about the rent reduction in rural areas."

Gu Changgeng has always been responsible for the work of the resettlement sites of the Nong people in the south. With the development of industrial villages and the changes in the situation, he is also fully responsible for coordinating the development of Catholic villages and the "satellite villages" around various industrial villages. He knows the rural situation well and can be regarded as an expert in rural issues.

After drinking his last sip of milk, he introduced as a treasure: "The United States and Saigon jointly formulated a rent reduction and fixed tenancy period plan in 1955 was too ideal. He tried to implement land reform through a special committee composed of landlord representatives and tenant farmers representatives, hoping to establish a democratic and autonomous regime similar to Japan and Taiwan in rural areas.

Seven years have passed, and the results show that these efforts have basically failed.

There are several reasons for this. First, the committee members do not meet frequently, have no full-time staff, and have serious lack of execution. Second, in the vast rural areas, there is no fair coordination between landlords and tenant farmers. The government requires that landlords should not exceed 25% of the harvest. Who can be rented to? Whether to rent or not will be the final decision.

Tenants belong to the vulnerable group. Just like the Labor Law of the later Celestial Empire, which employee dares to assert his own power in front of a strong boss?

Li Weimin thought about it and asked again: "Don't there be public land? After the implementation of the Land Transfer Act, the government redeemed a lot from French landlords and local landlords. Who can own more than 100 hectares of land now?"

These problems do not exist in the coordinated management of the "Yuehua Literature and Art Research Association", the farmers in the resettlement sites of the Nannong people, the resettlement sites of the Parrot Corner and the Zhensha area. Catholic villages enjoy privileges, and farmers in the "satellite villages" around the industrial villages are subject to industrial investment companies, and these problems do not exist.

He rarely goes deep into other rural areas. It is normal for him to not understand the situation.

Gu Changgeng explained with a wry smile: "The government has too many problems in the land redemption process. The market price of cultivated land per hectare is about 6,000 to 7,000 Piast, and the land acquisition in industrial villages reaches 8,000 per hectare. The government did redeem it at the market price, but the redemption payment was not paid according to normal transactions.

In actual transactions, the government redemption only gives 10% cash payment. The remaining 90% gives investment tickets with an annual profit of 3%, which is planned to be paid within 12 years. The landlords obviously will not agree, and very few are truly implemented. And this law does not apply to public land, which means that at least 440,000 hectares of land in the central region are not within the reform."

Sun Ningyu worked in the National Rural Cadre Working Team and has a relatively good understanding of the rural situation.

Looking at the boss's face of confusion, he added in a low voice: "Public fields are fields for worshiping ancestors, including some cemeteries, which are generally mountainous and are not suitable for planting rice. They are shared by the whole village. Each family takes turns to cultivate and harvest is used for the expense of worshiping ancestors. The Land Transfer Law stipulates that each person shall not hold more than 100 hectares of rice fields, but on this basis, 15 hectares of farming for worshiping ancestors can be rotated. However, due to the particularity of farming for worshiping ancestors, it is generally difficult to cut the fields."

The sky is great and the earth is great, and the ancestors are the greatest.

The reason why Wu Diem's ​​"strategic village plan" made people angry is closely related to forcing farmers to stay away from their ancestral graves. Thinking that the land used for worshipping ancestors in Nanyue would not be less than hundreds of thousands of hectares, Li Weimin realized how difficult it is to implement land reform, because it involves tradition and the land nature is special. It is impossible to divide it.

"Mr. Gu, the special economic and technical mission invites Mr. Guo, Professor Fisher and you to attend this meeting. Is there any more to do this?"

"They have a plan, but whether it can be implemented is ultimately up to you."

"I?"

"Um."

Gu Changgeng took out a document from his bag and confirmed with a smile: "Practice over the past seven years has proved that the Special Committee cannot play a role at all, and farmers cannot talk to landlords equally, and their legal rights cannot be guaranteed. The United States hopes that the Industrial Investment Company can provide a sum of funds, and the US aid management team will provide a portion of the corresponding funds to establish a special land management agency.

The land management agency redeems the land from the landlords. Rent it or resell it to farmers in installments, so as to truly achieve the ultimate goal of farmer land and thus achieve the ultimate goal of rural political stability. If you have no objection and can take out this huge sum of money, they plan to reduce the standard of holding up to 100 hectares of rice fields per person directly to 50% hectares."

Sun Ningyu said excitedly: "Chairman, Mr. Guo and Mr. Dong believe that we should assume this obligation. No matter how difficult it is, we must squeeze out this funds. If it really doesn't work, we can borrow money from the bank or issue another $100 million in industrial investment bonds."

Industrial investment companies pay the most, and the future land management institutions must of course be decided by the "Industrial Investment Department". Once this land management institution is established, it means completely overturning the government's administrative institutions in rural areas.

How could Li Weimin not know how good this is for the "Engineering and Investment Department"? He couldn't help but ask with a smile: "What does Mr. Qian think?"

If you want to truly control the six provinces, there is no better way than this.

Gu Changgeng laughed and said, "If you miss this village, you won't have this store. Lao Qian firmly supports it and even plans to open a training class for our own rural cadres and form our own rural cadres work team."
Chapter completed!