Chapter 362: Drive out the landlords

Although Ningqi's explanations are as easy to understand as possible, most of these naturalized student students come from poor peasant families and generally have a poor cultural foundation. It is probably impossible to expect them to fully understand the spirit.

Thank God if he can understand four or five sentences. Of course, he does not expect that his one or two lectures can correct these people's deep-rooted ideas about land. Even if revolutionaries set up agricultural movement workshops hundreds of years later,

It still took many twists and turns before the land reform policy could be gradually implemented. Fundamentally changing people's understanding of land ownership will not be achieved overnight.

To make these students understand why private ownership of land restricts the development of productivity, Ning Qi may not be able to achieve good results even if he talks about it, but he wants to make them realize that they can live a good life even if they are not dependent on land in the future.

It's not difficult to go down.

Most of these people are from areas outside Sanya. Here they have witnessed with their own eyes how the Haihan Executive Committee turned a barren land into a prosperous commercial port. They themselves are also the beneficiaries of this social system and have always accepted it.

Instilled with the ubiquitous Haihan consciousness, they have no doubt in their hearts about the omnipotence of the Executive Committee. Even if they cannot fully understand the theories mentioned by Ning Qi, they at least understand the area governed by the Executive Committee.

We did not get to where we are today by farming. Today, there are tens of thousands of residents in Sanya, but only half of them are engaged in agriculture, and the proportion of the agricultural population continues to decline.

Such a ratio is simply impossible to exist in other parts of the Ming Dynasty. The existing productivity is destined to require a high proportion of agricultural population to support the food consumption required by society. If Ningqi promotes this system in other places to encourage people to get off the land,

I am afraid that the theory will be directly regarded as a lunatic. Only when Sanya has achieved results and can use examples to show others, can it achieve a certain propaganda effect. This rhetoric may not be effective for the stubborn landlords and gentry, but

As an argument for internal propaganda and brainwashing, it will definitely have great influence.

The students may not understand the huge changes that the transformation of land from private ownership to public ownership will bring to the social system, and they may not completely give up their desire to purchase land on their own one day. However, out of their near-complete trust in the executive committee, they will still choose to implement it.

Implement the orders issued by the Executive Committee. In their view, no matter what the prospects of implementing this policy are, since it is the decision of the Executive Committee, it must be implemented to the letter - this is also the case for a qualified Haihan naturalized citizen.

One of the basic rules that must be followed.

Although the Executive Committee tried to expel and annex some of the more stubborn landowners and gentry in the area in a non-violent manner, in the actual operation process, the emergence of contradictions and conflicts was still unavoidable.

On September 10, two naturalized workers sent by the Ministry of Agriculture to measure land in Fenghuang Town were caught and beaten by local landlord Huang Yuancai. On the 12th, a naturalized agricultural technician was instructing migrant workers to dig.

When the canal was being built, the local people were driven away because they believed that the canal would divert water away from their fields, thereby affecting their field irrigation. As a result, conflicts broke out during the contact, with several people on both sides injured, but fortunately no lives were lost. On the 13th

, thirteen landowners in Fenghuang Town united to block the main roads passing through the town, prohibiting the passage of naturalized residents coming from the direction of Sanya.

These acts of seeking death were reported to the Ministry of Agriculture one by one. After Gao Huan, who was in charge of the collective farm project, received the news, he quickly reported the official document to the Executive Committee. It only took the Executive Committee more than an hour to make the decision.

Response plan.

A joint law enforcement team was formed by the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Military Commission, the Ministry of Justice, and the Daming Yacheng government to conduct an inventory of the Fenghuang Town area. The main targets of this operation were several recent cases of malicious wounding and the omission of land registration.

and tax evasion cases.

Now it is extremely convenient for the executive committee to get official documents stamped with the official seal of the magistrate from Yacheng government. Once a telegram is sent to the Yazhao office, Zhang Guang will copy the contents of the official document without even having to go out in person.

, ask the Hai brothers to send it to the state government office, and it will take at most half an hour to complete the formalities, stamp it and send it out. The executive committee's idea of ​​​​handling this kind of thing is also simple and crude. Since you don't have to drink a toast, you will have to drink a fine wine, which is disrespectful.

Haihan's rules should be dealt with in the name of the Ming Dynasty official. If these troublemakers dare to resist, they are committing rebellion.

The military also cooperated in the previous stage of land acquisition. Chen Yixin, the current military director of Wanshan Port, came to the fore because of his outstanding performance at that time. The military is quite familiar with such low-intensity military tasks.

Considering the actual situation on the ground, the military mobilized two infantry companies from Shengli Port, another company from the militia currently stationed in Yacheng, and finally selected a company from the new recruit camp that was being trained.

Established as a reserve force to coordinate operations, a total of nearly 500 armed forces were dispatched, which can be described as a huge force.

Of course, the reason for such a large-scale formation was not because of how powerful the local landlords in Fenghuang Town were. The main reason was to use military operations to intimidate Xiaoxiao and dispel some people's luck.

On September 15, the joint law enforcement team set out from Shengli Port and Yacheng respectively, and headed for Fenghuang Town, about fifteen miles northwest of Sanya New City by boat. Although it was said to be joint law enforcement, the main force was definitely the sea.

The Han Militia, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Civil Affairs all only sent symbolic representatives to watch, while the Yacheng government was more trouble-free and directly appointed Wei Ping, who is resident in Shengli Port, as the official representative - because the Executive Committee

The rush was urgent, and the shipping was too slow. The commissioning order was even transmitted back to the base camp by the Cliff Office via radio.

The Executive Committee dispatched a battalion of troops for this minor incident. Although there was no need to fight, a senior officer who could control the situation was still needed. It just so happened that Wang Tom was leading the navy to familiarize themselves with the newly launched ship during this period.

The two warships naturally took over the task of transporting the operating troops back and forth, and served as the field commander of the operation.

The fleet met up with the troops coming from Yacheng on the coast near Fenghuang Town, and then headed inland. Fenghuang Town was not too far from the sea, only two or three miles away, and they arrived in Fenghuang not long after marching.

The town occupies a small area, and most of the residents have moved away in the past two or three months. Therefore, there are only a dozen or so households in the town, and most of them are stubborn households who are unwilling to transfer their land and move out.

However, unlike the poor households that were cleared in the two river basins last time, the households in Fenghuang Town are better off. They almost have tens to hundreds of acres of land under their names, and they will fight for the resistance.

formed an alliance due to Haihan's land policy.

Now that the swords and soldiers have been used, Wang Tom will no longer have any plans to be polite first and then attack. As soon as he arrived at the ground, he ordered the four companies to split up and surrounded Fenghuang Town from the southeast, northwest and four directions, blocking the roads in and out.

.Everyone who comes out of the town will be detained first.

Such a large battle naturally attracted the attention of the residents of the town. Seeing the Haihan militiamen with live ammunition began to set up barracks and pull up iron fences on the road outside the town, the people in the town suddenly became chaotic. These people

I originally thought that joining forces could create some moderate trouble for the Haihan people and make them give up their plan to annex the land, but I didn't expect that the other party would be so bad-tempered. They would not give the young and old men a chance to continue causing trouble, and directly sent troops to clear them out.

Already.

How good is the Haihan militia in fighting? Even if they haven't seen it with their own eyes, they have heard a lot about it. The Annan clean coal, Annan rice sold on the market in Yacheng, and the Annan hard labor in the mountains and plains of Sanya are all said to be from the Haihan militia.

The group captured it back in Annan Kingdom. Even if the landlords and wealthy landlords were aggressive, they did not have enough ability to fight against the Haihan militia, which was armed to the teeth.

In order to complete the armed demonstration without bloodshed, Wang Tom also specifically applied to the Executive Committee to bring a loudspeaker from Victory Port. After the troops set up checkpoints outside the town, someone would climb up a tree and set up the loudspeaker.

Reached the high branch of the tree.

Wang Tom picked up the microphone and began to persuade people to surrender: "People in the town, listen, people in the town, listen, this is the joint law enforcement team composed of Yacheng government and Haihan Executive Committee, you are now surrounded! Everyone

Put down your weapons and surrender immediately! Any resistance will be treated as rebellion! We will only arrest the culprits, and those who follow the law will not be punished as long as they have no serious evil deeds! Now I give you half an hour to leave the town and surrender on your own.

Anyone who remains in the town after half an hour will be treated as a gangster!"

A few minutes later, some people began to walk out of the town and surrendered to the militiamen guarding the perimeter. Although they had the courage to resist the ordinary clerks sent by the Haihan people, they had to fight against this army with live ammunition, as long as their brains were not burned out.

Don't be stupid. Half an hour later, the militiamen divided into four groups and entered Fenghuang Town. They found that the town was indeed empty, and they all chose to surrender.

"They are all people who are greedy for life and afraid of death!" Wang Tom complained disdainfully as he looked at the prisoners who were being inspected one by one by the militiamen.

When the naturalized civil servants were attacked here a few days ago, the people in this town said that they would beat Haihan's people whenever they came here, but now it seems that there is no such thing.

The exceptions were just a bunch of cowards. Nothing happened during the process, which made Tom Wang feel a little boring.

According to the situation known in advance, all those who participated in the previous conflicts among these people will be escorted to Yacheng to be tried by the magistrate. According to the agreement between the two parties, these unruly people will be sentenced to heavy penalties for various crimes - the so-called heavy punishments.

A fine is a punishment severe enough to make them bankrupt. These people either sell their land to pay the fine and leave this place of right and wrong, or they are caught in Yacheng Prison and then transferred to Sanya to do hard labor. As for a very small number

The lucky ones who have not been liquidated in this disaster may not have enough courage to hold on to their land and continue to stay in Phoenix Town. It is better to sell the land and leave here now than to end up like other people until the end.

You get nothing and you get charged.

As for whether these forcibly expelled people will hate Haihan, or even embark on a path of complete opposition to Haihan from now on, the executive committee is not worried at all. If the Crossing Group wants to expand, it will inevitably

A large number of people's interests have been harmed and they have become opponents of the Haihan system, but at the same time, a considerable number of vested interests will be supported in the process, and they will do their best to maintain this new social system.

Nowadays, almost all the areas under the jurisdiction of Yazhou are controlled by Haihan. Those who want to confront Haihan are basically unlikely to succeed in the southern part of Qiongzhou Island. It is not easy to provoke officials from Qiongzhou City in the north to cause trouble, because in Haihan

In addition to the Han people, there is also a shell of Yazhou government, and now the entire Qiongzhou Island knows that Yacheng government has become rich and powerful with the support of the Haihan people, and its overall strength has even surpassed Qiongzhou City. No one is willing to easily

Offend Yacheng.

As for making trouble in the mainland, it is even more unlikely to happen. Haihan is now a righteous businessman who has been named and praised by the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. He organizes militia groups to quell the bandits, provides relief to victims in various parts of the province, and guides bankrupt people to farm overseas for cultivation, one after another.

All of them are righteous deeds that can be mentioned in memorials. Of course, the most important thing is that Haihan donated various types of property to the government, which far exceeded that of ordinary businessmen. Only in the first month after Wang Zunde took office, the Cliff Office

In the name of disaster relief and poverty alleviation, building bridges and paving roads, and condolences to the garrison troops, he donated seven sums of money totaling just over ten thousand taels to the Governor's Mansion, which is not a small gesture.

The Liaison Office in Guangzhou has built Haihan's reputation extremely well in Guangzhou. It has been carrying out various forms of public relations activities almost non-stop, and the public reviews are mostly positive. If a group of bankrupt landowners on Qiongzhou Island go to

If there are riots in Guangzhou, claiming that the Haihan people are harming the town, not only will they not get sympathy, they will most likely be accused of spreading rumors to cause trouble and slander good people.

As long as the Haihan Executive Committee does not show its banner to establish political power, it will be difficult for the Ming Dynasty officials to find a reason to take action against Haihan - could it be said that the Haihan people do too much business and pay too many taxes? At least in the eyes of the current governors of Guangdong and Guangxi

It seems that these people of Han descent are better at handling things than the Portuguese living in Hao Jing'ao.

Speaking of the Portuguese, after several days of repeated discussions, the Macau Council finally sent an envoy to Wanshan Port to inform the local garrison that they had agreed to Haihan’s request to hire military instructors in Macau. Of course, out of

For the sake of fair trade, the Council also required Haihan to open the ports in Sanya to Portuguese merchant ships.

When this news reached the base camp, Enrique, the special envoy who rushed to Port Victory from Macau for the second time, had only arrived in Hong Kong for two days. This resolution of the Macau Council undoubtedly greatly reduced the difficulty of negotiating in-depth cooperation between the two parties, and the Executive Committee was very happy

The local authorities agreed to allow Portuguese merchant ships to enter and exit Sanya New Port starting from October, and they could establish long-term trading stations and warehouses there to trade freely with merchants from all walks of life arriving at the port.

This decision was a blessing in disguise for the Portuguese who had just lost Hoi An, and the various conditions of Sanya New Port were significantly better than those of Hoi An Port. Even an old sea dog like Enrique, who had been to ports around the world, could not

It's hard to find fault with it. Of course, the most important thing is that the port under the rule of the Haihan people has implemented a very favorable free port system. There is no pressure from tariffs. All kinds of goods that can only be purchased in the mainland can actually be purchased in Sanya. Some goods

Because of the place of origin and tariffs, it is even cheaper than the Portuguese purchasing price in Guangzhou.

Of course, there are gains and losses. The Portuguese chose to accept the preferential conditions offered by the Haihan people, which was equivalent to giving up their interests in South Vietnam. After getting the Executive Committee's guarantee that the safety of life and property of all Portuguese people in South Vietnam will be reasonably guaranteed

After promising to take care of him, Enrique asked his servant to board a ship headed south by the Ming Dynasty merchants and go to South Vietnam to send a message to the local Portuguese organization - Portugal gave up its support for the South Vietnamese regime and instead maintained a neutral attitude and stopped all forms of military activities.

Aid and only maintain the most basic trade status with the South Vietnamese court.

As for the South Vietnam issue, the Executive Committee also gave the face-saving Portuguese a step down as appropriate: after North Vietnam unified Annan, the commercial port acquired by Hai Han in the area south of Hue Province must be given to Portuguese merchants and ships.

that power.

Enrique believes that this agreement can allow Portugal to recover the losses caused by the destruction of Hoi An City in the future, but he does not know that the Executive Committee has also laid landmines in this agreement. In the current planning for the east coast of Indochina,

The Executive Committee only planned two large commercial ports, namely Da Nang and Quy Nhon. However, further south of these two ports, the military had already included Cam Ranh Port in its military expansion plan. According to this agreement

, Cam Ranh Port, which is used for military purposes, will not allow the Portuguese to intervene in the future, and Cam Ranh is located further south and can easily cut off Portuguese merchant ships from the shipping routes between Manchuria and Indochina. In other words

, in the future, whenever the executive committee wants to strangle Portugal, it can basically do it at any time.

Enrique had no idea about the hidden malice of the Haihan Executive Committee. Although he had been to various ports on the east coast of Indochina, he simply could not imagine that Haihan would set an uninhabited place as the future

Of course, this is also related to the fact that Enrique’s contact with the Haihan people was too late. If he could have established a relationship with the Haihan people about a year earlier, he would have realized that this group of people’s talent in land reclamation is simply

It is unparalleled that the colonial methods and vision of the old European colonial countries, including Portugal, are still too immature in front of the Haihan people.
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