Red Alert 1895 Chapter 134

When Zhou Chen helped Wang Guorui dig a corner for the Beiyang Navy, Wang Guorui was doing a job in Taiwan, and this job was the focus of his future. And this work is to reduce rent and interest rates, and we must start to implement the policy of reducing rent and interest rates to win the hearts of the people.

"Everyone, today's military-political joint meeting is to convene an order on rent reduction and interest rate reduction. We in Taiwan will implement a new policy in the future, which is the policy of 375 rent reduction and interest rate reduction. The core of this policy is That is to say, the ratio of the annual grain distribution between the landlord and the tenant will be based on the fact that the harvest owned by the landlord does not exceed 375 per thousand of the annual harvest, and in common saying it is 37.5% of the land. The annual harvest of the owner does not exceed this, and in the event of a famine, it must be reduced. This is the first policy to benefit the people launched by the Government of Taiwan. The people have been deceived by those landlords!" Wang Guorui said.

Two days later, Wang Guorui's three-seven-five rent reduction and interest rate reduction began to be implemented in Tainan. Because Tainan is mainly based on agriculture, the three-seven-five rent reduction and interest rate reduction was first implemented in Tainan. And this three-seven-five rent reduction and interest rate reduction is actually what Wang Guorui learned from Lao Jiang in later generations. After Lao Jiang retreated to Taiwan, he began to order Chen Chengcheng to reduce rent and interest by 375%, which meant that the annual harvest of landlords could not exceed 37.5%, which was not 37% originally. The agreement at 1.5 cannot continue to increase. And this policy can be said to have caused a sensation in later generations of Taiwan. At that time, the pressure on many farmers was greatly reduced, and the income of the common people was also greatly increased. You must know that the original tenancy agreement between the landlord and the tenant was based on a minimum of 50 to 50 percent, and as much as 60 to 70 percent for the landlord, and only 30 to 40 percent for the tenant. Under such circumstances, many farmers can barely make ends meet. Therefore, if Wang Guorui wants to win the hearts of the people, he must implement rent and interest reductions, and since there is a ready-made method that can be used, it can be used.

"Have you heard? The governor's office has issued an order. In the future, we and Tian Dong's grain share must be reduced. Tian Dong originally changed from 50% to 30%, 70% and 50%. In the future, we can get more than 60%." .” A farmer shouted excitedly.

And other farmers also asked: "Really? Is there such a good thing?"

Hearing that I can get more than 60% of the income, then this is really gratifying. After all, they could only get up to 50% in the past. At least three to four percent, and the landlord can get more. But all people are not reconciled, why can they only get less food harvest after working by themselves, but the landlord can get more without working? Everyone thinks this is unfair. But this is the way it is in this era, what can they do? And now the Taiwan Governor's Office actually ordered to reduce the land share of the landlords, so that ordinary workers can get more income, which really makes them feel very happy.

"What nonsense are you talking about? When did the governor's office issue this order? The order from above was that the tenants should get at least 37% and 50% at least, not us landlords. You made a mistake!" said a landlord. .

And these landlords are usually landowners, and they have cultural rights. They are also the lower class of gentry, and they have the right to interpret policies. In many cases, the government issued orders from above. The following are all implemented by these squires, and these squires help the government to execute orders and have the right to interpret policies, so they can benefit greatly from it. We must know that those ordinary farmers are uneducated in this era, and the common people in this era have not enjoyed any compulsory education, so naturally they cannot understand the government's propaganda. And all of this has to be explained by the landlord. If the landlord deliberately distorts the policy of the imperial court, there is really nothing to do.

And now the landlord hopes to change the statement to replace the original landlord who can only get a maximum of 37.5% with a farmer who can get a minimum of 37.5%. The decree of the Governor's Palace has become a dead letter. After all, if farmers can get at least 37.5%. Then this is no different from ordinary landlords and tenants renting out tenancy, and many landlords also give farmers 50% or even 40%, which is higher than this 37.5%. After such a change of interpretation by the landlord. A policy of benefiting the people has turned into such a meaningless policy. This is the so-called policy at the top and countermeasures at the bottom.

As expected, those farmers were very disappointed when they heard the landlord's explanation. After all, if farmers can earn at least 37.5%, then it is not as good as usual! Maybe even many landlords took the opportunity to reduce the rate to 37.5% for farmers, and then it is reasonable to say that this is an order from the Governor-General of Taiwan. And there are absolutely not many good people among these landlords. They used the power of policy interpretation to gain benefits, and then distorted many good policies into policies that fit their ideas. But now the landlord saw the disappointed expressions of the people, and he also laughed, because he knew that he was still following the old method of distorting the government's policy of benefiting the people to make profits. This method has been tried and tested. But he didn't know that Wang Guorui had already known the so-called cleverness of these landlords, and he already had a solution to this problem.

"Dangdangdangdang..."

Just when everyone was disappointed, there was a sound of beating gongs and drums, and many people in various clothes came to the village. And everyone was extremely surprised, they didn't know what these opera singers were doing. These people knew at a glance that they were opera singers, but what are they doing in the village at this time?

"Fellow folks, we are the second propaganda team under the Propaganda Office of the Governor-General's Mansion in Taiwan. We are now in charge of promoting the policies of the Governor-General's Mansion. And we will use a series of performances to publicize the new policies of the Governor-General's Mansion, and the new policies can What kind of benefits will it bring to everyone? Please come and have a look at the folks and learn about the New Deal together!" said the captain of the second propaganda team.

Soon, the propaganda team began to perform in this village, and they passed some comedy sketches similar to later generations, and then began to perform the so-called new policy. They can effectively integrate those New Deals into the skits, and publicize them in the hearts of the people in a form that everyone likes to hear and see.

"So it turns out that the order of the Governor-General of Taiwan is that landowners can get 30% and 70% and 50% and we can get more than 60%. These tenants can get at least 30% seven cents five percent, which is really abominable. It is unreasonable that the good policies of the Governor's Mansion have been distorted so much by them!" Someone immediately shouted angrily.

"That's right! The Governor's Mansion loves our people, but they deliberately tamper with it. This is simply abhorrent." "The Governor should punish them!"…

Soon, those peasants saw the new policy in these performances, and they all understood the benefits of the new policy, and expressed their disgust towards the landlords who lied and distorted the orders of the Governor's Mansion. And those landlords who distorted the policy just now also feel that they are not human inside and out. After all, they just talked nonsense, but now they have been exposed. This really makes them feel like they have been slapped in the face. Moreover, they distorted the policy of the Governor's Mansion, which had already caused their image to suffer a blow in the hearts of the people below, so they felt their faces were hot.

"Did you see? These are the images of those landlords. They don't think about how to reduce the burden on the people, and they don't want to think about how to implement the policies of our Governor's Mansion. They actually distort the decrees of our Governor's Mansion~www.mtlnovel.com~they Well said, what did we say that our Governor's Mansion guarantees the minimum harvest for farmers, no less than 37.5%. Hmph, is this policy interesting?" Wang Guorui snorted.

And Wang Guorui has long known the virtues of these landlords from later generations, and they will certainly not give up their vested interests, and they will definitely use their own policy interpretation power to secretly change concepts. But they made a wrong calculation, Wang Guorui directly came to promote it directly from the governor's office. The Propaganda Department of the Governor's Mansion has already begun to "incorporate" many non-governmental performance teams, and then let them enter the civil servant system of the Governor's Mansion, and then go down as a propaganda team to promote new policies. In this way, the policies of the Governor's Mansion can be publicized to the hearts of ordinary people in many popular situations.

In the future, Wang Guorui will inevitably master more means of propaganda, and only in this way can he grasp the power of public opinion and propaganda. Didn't those so-called scholars and scholars in ancient times just rely on their power to propagandize public opinion to oppose government policies? They are very good at inciting and confusing the people, turning the court's policy of benefiting the people into a policy of pitting and harming the people. So Wang Guorui naturally wanted to prevent this kind of thing from happening, that is, he started to form a propaganda team. This method is what he learned from the government of later generations, and he directly publicized the government's policies to the hearts of ordinary people, so that they would no longer be deceived by landlords. In this way, those landlords cannot make profits by distorting the meaning of the policy, and the Governor's Office can also control the power of public opinion and propaganda, so that they can twist the people into a single rope in the future. (To be continued.) xh118

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