The people in charge of the land reform in Zhejiang and Fujian, as well as the main generals, only received Xiao Ruxun's orders four days later. Zheng Ying and Xie He were the first to receive the orders, and after receiving them, they all felt an indescribable shock.
At the same time, they realized that they seemed to have forgotten themselves. The long period of success and smoothness seemed to have made them forget their initial cautiousness and began to be unscrupulous.
As a result, Xie He quickly stopped the land reform work and called all the people in charge for an important meeting to pass on Xiao Ruxun's latest orders.
"The most important thing for us, the land reform team, is to keep our heads clear and not go crazy with the farmers. They don't know a single word, but are we the same? What are the marshal's orders? Didn't the marshal tell you? Keep a clear head and control the farmers' association!
What is control? Control and manipulation! Control and control are both important! We, the people in charge of the land reform, can't charge and kill with the farmers! I heard that many people have become muddle-headed recently and are killing and looting with the farmers! What is this? This is completely disregarding the marshal's orders!
This is an extremely wrong behavior! We are educated, we have our own brains! We can distinguish what should be done and what should not be done! Is killing and looting something we should do? Keep a clear head! Keep a clear head! You can't charge at the front like the farmers! You have to stay behind and give orders! I repeat, if there are any similar incidents in the future, you will not be negligent in your punishment! "
Xie He harshly criticized the recent increasingly intense criticism of the land reform. He severely criticized some people who killed for the sake of killing and not for the land reform. He demoted more than ten people on the spot.
Then, he passed on Xiao Ruxun's latest orders.
"The marshal's latest orders. Those who resist maliciously and refuse to obey will be killed. Young women are not allowed to be killed. Those who are willing to hand over their land and all their wealth, regardless of gender or age, will be given 20 mu of land per person and 50 liang of silver. They can keep their ancestral home. The land reform team and the farmers' association are not allowed to harm their lives.
Those whose family assets were less than 20 mu of land per person were not allowed to criticize them. If a family had 10 people and had 200 mu of land, it might seem like a lot, but did they have to criticize them? Recently, I heard that some places are so crazy that as long as a family has land, they will be criticized and persecuted. What is this? This was overcorrection!
Although landless refugees were pitiful, through their own labor, their families owned dozens or even hundreds of acres of land that their families cultivated. That was the kind of people who got rich through hard work, not landlords! Have you forgotten what Marshal has instructed us to do?! "
Xie He harshly criticized the people in charge around her. Her tone was very strong.
The leaders in charge of the land reform work also realized that their behavior was biased. While feeling deeply scared, they also said that they would immediately start to improve their work level in order to meet General Xiao's expectations.
Of course, Xie He was criticized even more harshly by Xiao Ruxun. Xiao Ruxun said that he had lost his mind and did whatever he wanted!
"I want you to distribute land to the peasants so that the imperial court can directly collect taxes and not have the rich and powerful seize the taxes! It's so that the imperial court can better control the places, not kill all the people in the places! This is not asking you to kill for the sake of killing. Killing is a means, a process, not an end. Why kill people who don't need to be killed?
Since ancient times, have those who killed too much had a good ending? Killing them was to instill fear in them, not to kill them all! How can the Xu family, which has an area of nearly 300,000 mu, be compared to the small family, which has an area of 200 mu? Why do you want to kill them all? "
Xiao Ruxun's words were very harsh.
These words made Xie He very uneasy. He realized that he had done these things because of his desire to get Xiao Ruxun's attention. He was the instigator of this increasingly crazy behavior. If he did not reverse it in time, when the situation became more and more intense, he was afraid that something would happen.
So he had to correct it quickly.
But even so, Xie He still understood Xiao Ruxun's protection for them. For example, Li Wenyuan, the commander of the Black Tortoise Camp in Fujian, was driven back to Myanmar by Xiao Ruxun to be a policeman because of the petition. What did this mean? It meant that Xiao Ruxun did not allow anyone to express opposition to his land reform action, let alone allow the military generals to participate.
The military generals could only provide manpower to assist and follow the instructions of the land reform working group, but could not intervene. Li Wenyuan actually intervened and even tried to protect some rich children who were about to be killed. Wasn't he courting death?
Xie He soaked his face with cold water to calm himself down.
Xiao Ruxun not only let the people of Black Water reprimand him, but also gave him a personal letter. It not only told him the necessity of absorbing those who were willing to cooperate to join, but also told him the necessity of establishing a cooperative landlord model to appease the remaining wavering groups.
At present, in most areas of Zhejiang and Fujian, the cruel killings had made many rich landlords scared. As long as there was a chance to survive, they would definitely seize it. They would choose some people to allow them to join and give them a chance to live. Then they would publicize it to the public and use psychological tactics to achieve the effect of subduing the enemy without fighting.
As for these recruited intellectuals, they should also make good use of them. They should be used as the main force to carry out the first stage of killing the most stubborn and powerful rich landlords in the Suzhou Prefecture of Song Jiang Prefecture, so that they would be completely separated from the traditional scholars. With blood on their hands, they would even be more reliable and useful than the farmers.
In short, they should demarcate the area, first kill, then appease, then appease, and finally turn the spearhead. They should let their own people kill their own people and tear up their alliance. This was more conducive to accelerating the disintegration of the large armed rich landlords in the Suzhou Prefecture, such as the Xu Family.
At the same time, they should pay attention to the protection of the normal commercial activities in the city. They should protect the small merchants and peddlers. As for the industries of those stubborn families, they could be directly seized and controlled. However, for the industries in the city of those who voluntarily handed over their property, they should carry out a relatively gentle "redemption policy".
According to the estimated value of 670%, they should be given a sum of money to buy their industries in the city, especially the rice shops. They should be strongly controlled and the local grain prices should be stabilized. As long as the grain prices and sources were stabilized, the local order could be restored in the shortest time.
The army should protect the county. They should not allow the farmers who were blinded by greed to rush into the city and do whatever they wanted. The people in the working group of the land reform should also comprehensively improve their control over the farmers' association. They should control the farmers' association and not be led away by the farmers' association!
In short, Xiao Ruxun's harsh criticism of him hid a strong expectation. There was criticism and guidance, unlike Li Wenyuan who directly drove him away. This proved that Xiao Ruxun had a positive attitude towards his own work.
This gave Xie He a lot of hope.
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