.However, the agricultural problem is far from being as simple as a land...

The emerging Chinese peasant party went deep into the countryside for research and preaching during the war, listened to the people's sentiments, and did a solid job. He was ready to seize the opportunity of Congress to resume the meeting and show his skills. He lost the lead in the land issue, but the ruling alliance created a "fifty acres of tax exemption" plan, so the peasant party would naturally not be willing to give up the disadvantage.

On the one hand, the peasant party members "stayed alive." They all said that "what the cabinet said is not without reason, but there are many farmers in the country, and such distribution cannot be taken into account, so they must be cautious." On the other hand, another proposal was thrown out: agricultural protection.

Peng Hailiang, a member of the Chinese Peasant Party, said: "In the tenth year of the founding of the country, grain prices did not change much. During the Tongguang period of the Qing Dynasty, 100 kilograms of rice were worth two taels of silver. Although it rose during several wars, it fell again. Since five years since China, grain prices have fallen year by year, and although yields have increased, they have also increased. If there were no agricultural taxes for farmers who had no land and little land, they would instead impose taxes on land owners and industrialized farms, restrict land rent and strictly prohibit usury, build farmers' associations, and severely punish the establishment of bureaus to cheat gambling, it would be really difficult for ordinary farmers to make a living."

"In the past wars of the country, my peasant children enthusiastically joined the army, and their direction was unpredictable. The martyrs of Chengren are not aware of the fact that the empire is now based on industry and commerce as the outline of a powerful country, implement various policies to protect industry and commerce, and use the social security system to ensure that workers have no worries. How can we put our poor peasants in such a situation? We are grateful for the achievements of the late emperor. However, the hardship of the poor peasants is also the reality. Although we have doubts about the land policy and the cabinet's discussion, it is okay to implement it. However, such a policy is too slow to treat the symptoms and dissolve the materials, and we still need to observe, but where should the protections that our peasants should enjoy come from?"

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On the other hand, most industrial and commercial representatives and other urban intellectuals disagree: Isn’t this a nonsense? The country’s unified purchase and sales will consume so much manpower and how much oil and water will be needed in the middle! Several consecutive anti-corruption and corruption have been fought against corruption, and the government’s large rats have cleaned up batch after batch, and now we have to make more efforts to do this?

Tang Shaoyi smiled, but his heart was like a mirror.

The peasant party’s idea is nothing more than to cater to rural voters, especially the large number of self-cultivated farmers in the future. This voter base is likely to be the largest number of people in China in the future, or even one of them. Although they may not be confident that they can challenge the status of the Baak Party, it is still very promising to win a certain number of votes from it and thus occupy a certain position in the national political arena.

As for their problems, Tang Shaoyi knew the whole story very well.

At the root, the prices of agricultural products are sluggish, due to the stability of the country, the actual burden of farmers has been greatly reduced, and bankruptcy and escape have basically disappeared. Several important water systems have been maintained effectively, and there has been no large-scale continuous famine. The reclamation of border provinces, the progress of agricultural science and technology, the introduction of a large number of new agricultural tools, especially the development of animal husbandry in the north and the large-scale construction of railway and highways, have promoted the flow of agricultural production means and agricultural products, and have greatly increased grain output.

Due to the limitation of medical standards, the national population mortality rate is still relatively high, and the growth rate of agricultural product output has far exceeded the population growth rate in recent years. In the foreign agricultural product market, Russia, India and the United States are both major grain exporters, especially the United States and European countries vigorously promote agricultural machinery and fertilizers, and grain output has soared. In addition, the rapid growth of agriculture and animal husbandry in Canada, Australia and New Zealand in recent years. The final result is that China's grain prices have remained stable overall. The improvement of farmers' lives mainly depends on the government's exemption from taxes to middle and lower classes, strictly prohibiting the private corruption such as levying the middle and lower classes, clearing up likin cards, usury records and setting up traps to gambling, establishing farmers' associations to check and balance the gentry and clan society, rather than relying mainly on the price increase of agricultural products. Even from 1899 to 1903, there were continuous agricultural product price reductions in the case of continuous bumper harvests and low-price dumping and transfer crises of overseas agricultural products.

However, Tang Shaoyi has been at the center for a long time, especially as a secretary for Zheng Ying, so he naturally knows the connection here.

The long-term stability or sluggishness of agricultural product prices has greatly promoted the transformation of agricultural population. Faced with the rapid development of urban industry and commerce, under the government propaganda, school education, and appearance, in the face of poverty in rural life, not only did the second son and third son of the countryside enter the market in large numbers, but many poor farmers gradually entered the city to make a living.

In addition, the stability or low prices of agricultural products have greatly ensured the stable improvement of the actual living standards of urban and rural workers, and ensured that the national industry can take advantage of the low-cost labor force in its infancy. The middle class and many foreign middle and high-level intellectual elites are more willing to settle in China in the face of relatively low living costs.

As for the other party’s suggestions, Tang Shaoyi knew very well that it was the Tianfang Yetan.

The unified purchase and sale of national grain is actually impossible. Although Tang Shaoyi does not know what computers are and does not have much research on advanced operations research, he can probably imagine this difficulty: it is not possible to challenge human resources, transportation infrastructure, warehousing, transportation, organizational strength, coordination, control, and especially the challenges to the moral qualities and self-discipline of government officials.

In addition, this kind of mandatory unified purchase and sale seems to be a bit logical, but in fact it will inevitably cause double dissatisfaction between farmers and urban and rural consumers: the duopoly of grain purchase and sales will inevitably lead to slackness, corruption, inefficiency, rent-seeking, weakness, dissatisfaction, and even various conflicts of various conflicts. In conjunction with this, countless black markets will inevitably appear, and various corresponding rent-seeking will arise, and then there will be collusion between officials and businessmen, corresponding private association organizations, and so on.

Tang Shaoyi and Li Qingwen, who was the Minister of Agriculture, whispered, and then said: "... All the members of the parliamentary understanding of the people's sentiment and sharing the worries of the country. I admire them very much. The Cabinet has proposed a preliminary plan for agricultural development in the previous five-year development outline. There will be detailed specific outlines and specific legislative procedures... Regarding the agricultural countermeasures proposed by Parliament Peng and these members, I believe that they still need to be treated with caution. The state's unified purchase and sales are mandatory for farmers and residents, so here is it

The problems that can be breeded in recent years should be clear, and the effects brought are actually very limited. Grain prices are a waste of time. There are only so many people, the country has occupied such a large amount of land, and it still needs to be reclaimed. Everyone is working hard to improve the level of planting. What is compared is planting technology and the grasp of the market... The government forces purchase at high prices and then sells at higher prices. This thing is indeed difficult to implement in our opinion. Forced operation will inevitably lead to a tiger but not a dog." "The country has always had a food guarantee

Purchase policy, taking rice as an example, the guaranteed purchase price of rice for each year will be announced at the beginning of each year. When the market is not good at harvest, the government will be responsible for the bottom line. We think this policy is still appropriate. The poor harvest will be made. The government's surplus grain sales will stabilize part of the grain price, and the grain price will still rise. A bumper harvest will ensure the bottom line of farmers. The agricultural product tariffs are set at 20%, and the level is really not low. Currently, the British agricultural products are 0 tariffs. If the empire rashly raises tariffs, it will definitely suffer trade retaliation, affecting the empire's agricultural products and industrial products.

Product exports, and industrial sluggishness will inevitably lead to unemployment of workers and a decline in income, which in turn will affect the sales of agricultural products. Is this cost-effective? "There are many international food exporters, including the United States, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Siam, Australia, India, New Zealand... and even before the war. If the empire raises tariffs, it will lead to trade retaliation, which is equivalent to paying attention to its own agricultural products export market..." The peasant party MP looked at the man with a gentle and graceful face, but he wanted to rush up and take a few bites to relieve his anger.

The Liberal Party’s seats actually all came from the original Baath Party. From the time of the Baath Party, some current members joined the Liberal Party directly. The next Congress re-election is two years later in 1908.

In October 2019, the Liberal Party was ready to show its strength in this Congress. Seeing the peasants appearing frequently on the scene, they were naturally deeply dissatisfied. The "unified purchase and sales" that the other party incited to advocate free market competition, especially the Liberal Party that focuses on industry and commerce, seems to be a rebellious fallacy.

Liang Dunyan whispered with several Liberal backbones, and Hu Xiaoyi, Ph.D. in economics at the London School of Economics, raised his hand and spoke: "Some of the MPs have proposed unified purchase and sales just now, but brothers dare not share the same. The basis of economic development still depends on market competition and the fittest survival. The most important thing the government should do is to maintain a fair and reasonable market environment and promote sufficient information. The unified purchase and sales association uses human factors to replace free competition, thus directly distorting prices and distorting supply and demand relations, and the result will definitely be counterproductive. Several farmers are admired by the following, but the affairs of the country cannot be handled so roughly and casually. In the following, the current agricultural problems are not too little, but the government intervenes too much. The country is to prevent "hoarding goods," and dumping them with reserve grain.

The market lowers prices, or uses guaranteed prices to interfere with normal market price fluctuations, and uses the franchise system to severely restrict grain wholesale and distribution enterprises. There are also grain price hearings in the Senate. Even the anti-hoarding law for residents' necessities ten years ago is still being revised and is still being implemented, which often interferes with grain merchants' operations. State-owned grain and oil companies use the advantages of credit to compete with the people for profit. This is the main reason for the sluggish grain prices..." "In fact, it is not only agriculture. It is vivid in the eyes of the government's excessive intervention in industry and commerce. The government has had many problems of corrupt rent-seeking and disturbing the people before, which probably stems from this." Hu Xiaoyi changed the topic and brought the topic to industry and commerce. First of all, taxation. Although the empire focuses on industry and commerce, the heavy burden of industry and commerce is rarely matched in the world. Even the proposed tax restructuring, take income tax as an example,

The owners of private enterprises not only have to pay business tax, but also have to pay corporate income tax. The tax rate is the highest in the world. The highest in the United States is currently the highest. Our empire plans to "reduce it to 20%, and also pay personal income tax at the lowest level of 10% and the highest level of 35. The French income tax rate is 2% of income. The British PS list income is paid seven pence income tax, and the British and French name is income tax, which is actually only business tax... Before the tax reform four years ago, there was a repeated collection of income tax..." "Such tax has forced the imperial industry and commerce to rely on the support of the government, strictly control costs, and if you walk on thin ice, the enthusiasm of business owners to reinvest again was suppressed. The strategy that our empire is nothing more than high taxes to transfer payments to the middle and lower levels to provide guarantees while enterprises are under tax burden.

There is really not much extra money to increase wages or hire more high-level professionals. This is also the environment that has made the degree of monopoly of industry and commerce in our empire so high, nor the United States and Germany. The Republican government of the United States, and even the Democratic Party Brian and other knowledgeable people advocate strongly curbing monopoly and even splitting trust enterprises to prevent the national economy from falling into the control of wealth and the country." "At present, the imperial industry and commerce require great development, and should pay attention to market competition, pay attention to the market's own adjustment mechanism to reduce the distortion of price signals, and especially limit the extension of various monopoly enterprises organizations... We should vigorously support general industrial and commercial enterprises, so that the economy can maintain the metabolic firepower, rather than distort it by humans, and rely on the government and monopoly organizations to develop the economy..." Hu Xiaoyi's words came out and even Liang Dunyan frowned.

There are some truths about these words, but they are a bit too much. If someone is interested, they can inevitably be regarded as targeting the imperial property and the government's fire. Although Liang Dunyan, as the leader of the Baath Party's industry and commerce, has long been the leader of the Baath Party's industry and commerce, is well aware of the current situation of the country's industry and commerce, and is also optimistic about the efforts of the Republican Republican Theodore and Roosevelt government to crack down on trusts, and advocate the classical economic theory with the free market economy as the core of David, Ricardo and Marshall, he was a senior government official after all, and knew more about the officialdom. The new Liberal Party was established, and it was certainly a sign-up, but if it was too much, it would be counterproductive.

Seeing the many Baaking Party members sarcastically and even angry eyes, Liang Dunyan smiled bitterly.

When Hu Xiaoyi finished, Liang Dunyan raised his hand and spoke: "Dear members of Congress, the office of Congress of Congress was thought-provoking. The market is the main place to transmit price signals. This is what the late emperor has been doing again and again... But my brothers also have their own humble opinions. The rapid economic development of our empire is known to the world, which shows that there are reasons that conform to our Chinese conditions. Whether it is the United States or Germany, most of them have monopoly, but others' economies come from behind, and it is also a fact that surpasses Britain and France.

It can be seen that this monopoly itself is the result of market competition survival of the fittest. The strong stand out and cannot be detrimental to the country..." "I think the meaning of Congressman Hu should be to curb unfair competition from the consortium, such as artificial discriminatory credit, manipulating prices against competitors, bribery of commercial rumor, slandering rumors, seize their suppliers at high prices and cut off the source of raw materials and maliciously poaching their main management and technical teams, etc......." " Congressman Hu, can I be right?" Liang Dunyan smiled at Hu Xiaoyi, and Hu Xiaoyi nodded quickly.

"In fact, in my brother's opinion, on the one hand, we must further strengthen legislation and law enforcement to curb improper competition, and on the other hand, we should indeed reduce taxes. Too high tax burden can certainly increase government financial resources. The government can strengthen the military, promote education, build roads, consolidate municipalities, and issue social security, but it is also a fact that the heavy burden on industrial and commercial enterprises is. In the end, enterprise development is the foundation of national economic growth and the basis of national tax growth..." Xie Zhong, the new Minister of Industry and Commerce, talked happily: "What you say is a true saying, which is not necessary... In my humble opinion, the competitiveness of our empire in the industry and commerce has been recognized by the world. Currently, enterprise business operations

The level of industry tax is consistent with that of Europe and the United States. Although the income tax is high, it is purely derived from profits and does not affect the profit or loss of the company. At the current level, the company still takes most of it? Is it because I only earned 200 yuan and only received 150 instead of 180 yuan, entrepreneurs don’t start businesses and go home to eat bank interest? There is no such reason. There are so many structural reductions and exemptions, and the future opportunities are still broad. I have gained the trust of the late emperor and have been in charge of the imperial industry for some years. I know that the root of this company is still in innovation, technology, management, and fair interests between labor and capital..."

"As for monopoly, since both Liang and Mr. Hu have proposed that market competition is the fundamental, and monopoly is the result of market competition, why should monopoly be equated with immorality and unreasonable? Just as Mr. Liang, unfair competition is harmful because it violates fairness. What needs to be amended in the Empire's anti-unfair competition law, which needs to be kept in line with the times, or it needs to be clear. Members can make proposals, and the Supreme Court can also issue laws.

The legal explanation is this? "As for social security, our imperial government has always adhered to national equality, and it is also a fact that the income of lower-level workers is low. Although this social security is directly for lower-level workers, it is actually for all workers who receive wages, and business owners are also benefiting. If they go bankrupt in the future and are penniless, such protection is not included in the compensation and can still be enjoyed. Isn't this also a measure to protect the interests of industrialists and businessmen?"...
Chapter completed!