With the VOC signing the surrender letter, a war that affected the entire island of Java and the Malayan Peninsula was finally over.

Zhao Xin did not intend to return the land of the Sultanate of Vandan that had been occupied, because unifying the entire West Java was his established goal. You should know that the ancient Chinese had already made a insightful explanation of this situation, that is, "Whether you lie on the side of the bed, you can't let others snore?"

In order to achieve the purpose of deterring other sultanate countries, Zhao Xin wrote a big stroke and divided the entire Bandan area into four administrative regions, namely north, south, middle and west according to the administrative divisions of another time and space. The area under the jurisdiction of the Sultanate of Jingliwen was divided into two regions, all of which were included in the rule of Beihai Town.

Then he secretly sent He Xiwen and ordered him to lead his troops into the Sorosowang Palace in Xilang, disband the palace guards of Sultan Aliyudin I, forcing him to abdicate, and sent Zheng Wenxian to exile him and all his family members to Dai Yan in West Borneo, and handed them over to Wu Yuansheng for guarding.

Therefore, the Sultanate of Vandan, which once replaced the Sunda Kingdom and ruled the area across Sumatra and West Java for 241 years, received its final blow.

It is not enough to destroy the country, but religious and economic means must also keep up. For this reason, Zhao Xinrang Huang Zhongtong, who had just returned to Bacheng, went north again to Guangdong and Fujian to recruit monks. He wanted to open a Buddhist temple in Wandan area; the economy was relatively simple, and Wandan's main economic lifeline was pepper, and it was enough to let the Chinese business group in Bacheng be responsible for this matter.

The North Navy, which showed its fangs, made the Tubal princes and princes in Southeast Asia frightened. They finally realized that Beihai Town was an existence that was even more terrifying than the Portuguese and the Dutch. So the Kingdom of Aceh in Sumatra, the Kingdom of Johor on the Malay Peninsula, the Kingdom of Tianmeng, and the Kingdom of Mangunicaran in Central Java all sent their prime ministers to Bacheng with their tributes, requesting to obtain protection from Beihai Town and even becoming a vassal.

The arrival of a large number of envoys filled the two hotels in Bacheng. The envoys of various sultanate countries wrapped in headpairs could be seen everywhere among the people coming and going on the streets. The beautiful Javanese women wearing "sarongs" and shawls and turbans made many people's eyes even more.

The end of the war also promptly restored the sea trade in Bacheng. As of mid-August 1793, more than a dozen merchant ships arrived in Bacheng one after another, bringing a large amount of silk, sugar, tea and porcelain. After the merchants sold the goods, they frantically purchased goods such as cooling oil, whipped oil essence, pepper, cloves, nutmeg, ivory, coral and sandalwood on the market.

Since August 1, 1793, the Chinese "official hall" in Bacheng was changed to the "Public Affairs Office" and was affiliated with the Military Control Commission. Its original public management functions were completely split; the civil and criminal ruling powers belong to the Bacheng Police Station and the court, and the tax rights were transferred to the Bacheng Taxation Administration, which only retained civil affairs functions such as marriage and birth registration, road and bridge public works, and cemetery distribution. In addition, all personnel were paid by the Military Control Commission and bonuses were paid based on quarterly work performance. At this point, the "Karbidan" system, which was founded by everyone in the Netherlands and continued for 174, was towards the end.

In fact, the emergence of the Chinese Kabitan was a buffer zone established by Western colonists between themselves and the Chinese community, and through it, it carried out economic plunder of the colonies to fish. Kabitan's main responsibility is to directly link it with commercial behavior and establish a financial foundation for the colonies to survive through the tax system.

Zhao Xin abolished the "Kabidan" system, which also abolished the "tax-inclusive system", and also broke the standard of Southeast Asia to choose to appoint officials based on its economic status. It was from then on that the prominent Chinese businessmen and large-scale land owners lost their monopoly control over urban public affairs, and replaced them with farmers' associations, trade unions and chambers of commerce.

Let’s talk about the Farmers Association first. After all, in the 18th century, agriculture was the main component of the economy, whether it was Southeast Asia or the inland Central Plains.

Establishing farmers' associations locally and implementing relevant laws is a major event that Zhao Xin, Chen Qingsong and others have been planning for many years. Considering the many differences in land area, number of Chinese people, and personnel structure of Java Island, Bacheng did not completely copy the "Farmers' Association Law" of Beihai Town. Instead, after two years of preliminary investigation, a set of administrative regulations that were completely different from those of the inland areas were formulated. Zhao Xin plans to adopt this system in Southeast Asia where Beihai Town belongs in the future.

Simply put, the main goal of Bacheng Agriculture at this stage is to promote new crops and livestock, handle agricultural technology and breeding technology promotion, agricultural and livestock product supply and marketing, and forced farmers to save everything related to agriculture. The Farmers Association adopts a three-level system in organizational structure, corresponding to the three-level administrative system of Beihai Town in Southeast Asia, the Governor's Office, and the rural areas. At the same time, the legal person of the Farmers Association is the corresponding administrative chief of Beihai Town, which deepens the tentacles of the government management of Beihai Town into plantations and villages.

In the election of representatives, the first is that various plantations hold separate agricultural group meetings, elect one group leader and deputy group leader and member representatives attending the conference, recommend managers and supervisors candidates; then hold a member representative meeting, elect managers and supervisors; finally establish the supervisory board, and the board of supervisors shall be elected by more than two-thirds of the board of directors to elect the director general from the member representatives.

According to the official regulations, only those who directly engage in agricultural and animal husbandry production can become members. All members must pay the membership fee - 10 Beihai yuan, and then 5 yuan per year. Those who cannot pay this money can be paid in advance by the Military Control Commission and then deduct it after the harvest is obtained. Of course, Chinese farmers do not want to pay it, but the problem is that if they do not pay the money, they cannot join the Farmers Association. If they do not join the Farmers Association, they will not be responsible for purchasing and selling the new crops after harvest.

In order to solve the problem of insufficient funds in the early stage, Zhao Xin allocated 500,000 Beihaiyuan at one time through the Military Control Commission and established a credit department in Bacheng that serves members of the Farmers' Association, that is, a financial department that specializes in serving farmers. In addition to providing loans to farmers for purchasing seeds, tools, and fertilizers, he also provided deposits and tax collection services.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! He plans to leave clan management, farmers' cultural education welfare and health protection to the farmers' association. The official of Beihai Town only maintains its presence at the level of the supervisory board at the Governor's level to guide the agricultural crop planting direction in the entire region.

Zhao Xin is busy every minute now and can't wait to spend it, and he never has time to be a straw hat boy at the beach. While carrying out economic, political and economic reforms to Java society, he also frequently contacts Kong Shaoan, who guards Jiaodong, and is always paying attention to the progress of land improvement in Jiaodong.

The four Jiaodong counties have actually been effective in going to the countryside since last year. The military management committees in various places have obtained a large amount of first-hand data, basically grasping the land conditions of each county and township, and also grading the wealth and poverty of each farmer. However, it is not that simple afterwards.

After obtaining the data, Kong Shaoan initially thought about a land reform storm in China in the 18th century, but he soon fell into a tangle. Although the land in Jiaodong area is barren, due to the development of maritime trade and the prosperity of culture and education, most of the landlords are not local bullies, and many people feel that the work team has no idea after contacting it.

Secondly, because they did not suffer from the impact of foreign civilizations, the people's mentality was not dispersed. In this year, the people of Jiaodong were quite simple, and there was no question of how much suffering and deep hatred. Although the countryside was very poor, the Confucian "loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness" was still the mainstream of people's thoughts. In addition, the Northern Navy always had a fierce offensive in wars, the Qing army was about to collapse, and the countryside was not poisoned by the war. So for them, changing the regime in the world was a change of emperor, and they were still farming and paying food.

Well, with advanced military equipment and technology, Beihai Town does not need to mobilize a huge army of millions to defeat the Qing Dynasty, so there is no need to win a large number of soldiers through the land reform storm to win the victory of the military struggle.

Because of this essential difference, it would not work to upgrade the struggle against rural landlords and gentry to subvert the old ruling class, so the landlord class could not become a sin symbol against the new regime. If Kong Shaoan really wanted to come to another time and space to fight against the landlords, it would likely have unexpected serious consequences.

He was numb now, and the actual situation was different from what he thought. What should he do next? So in early July this year, in mid-May lunar calendar, Kong Shaoan returned to Beihai Town with a ship transporting scholars to take the scientific expedition, and made a special trip to Furdan City to find Chen Qingsong for advice.

Chen Qingsong has devoted most of his energy to agriculture over the years and has a deeper understanding of the traditional Chinese rural economy. You should know that whether it is the bankrupt lower-level farmers or the gentry class, there are people in Beihai Town who can ask for advice. He knew a long time ago that Kong Shaoan was facing, and these will be problems that Beihai Town faced after entering the pass. So he took an afternoon to talk to the other party.

"...Xiao Kong, it's been almost a year since you went to Jiaodong. Can you tell me what are the characteristics of China's economic structure in the feudal era?"

"Uh..." Kong Shaoan thought for a while, then said without hesitation: "A self-sufficiency small peasant economy?"

"What else?"

"Close, with family units, and also the land is controlled by landlords and bureaucratic groups."

"Well, all you said are from books."

"Teacher Chen, I studied history very much back then, and I studied in a technical secondary school..."

Chen Qingsong nodded. He is now in charge of the food problems of the million people in Beihai Town, so how could he remember these things?

"What you just said is the answer to the big ones. Let me tell you my own view. The economic structure under the Qing Dynasty had three important characteristics: the combination of small agriculture and family handicrafts of agricultural producers, the combination of landlords of means of production, merchants and usury, and the combination of feudal regimes and industry and commerce. Specifically in the countryside, it is land possession, commercial capital and usury capital."

Kong Shaoan felt that he had returned to his former class, holding a pen and writing in a small book, listening to Chen Qingsong talking with all his attention.

"Our feudal system is essentially different from that of Europe. Look, the territory of the aristocrats cannot be transferred, so they sit in rural estates and exploit cities through agricultural products through feudal privileges and taxes. The merchants and usury in the city have mastered the monetary power and exploited the countryside economically through commercial behavior and usury. This is called the independent development of land rights and monetary rights. The bourgeois revolution in Europe is essentially a struggle between urban monetary rights and rural land rights.

As for us, since the Northern Wei Dynasty implemented the equal-field system, land began to be traded freely. That, the Yongye land in the Tang Dynasty could be traded. Therefore, landlords, merchants and usury people became trinity, controlling both land rights and currency rights, and completing the unity from production to circulation. Therefore, the landlord class is the main ruling class, whether in cities or rural areas."

"Teacher Chen, I checked some data from the Civil Affairs Bureau. In recent years, grain prices have risen sharply, with an increase of as much as five times. Among them, there are factors such as the Qing Dynasty and our wars, is it also related to the rise in land prices?"

"Well. You're right." Chen Qingsong continued: "If you can see this, it means you're using your brain. Yes, the higher the grain prices and the higher the land prices, what does this mean? It means that the more land they own, the more grain they own, and the more social wealth they can occupy. This is the same as hoarding houses in our place. If we compete for land, land annexation will become more intense. In this way, the landlord economy will be consolidated and strengthened."

When Kong Shaoan heard this, he suddenly remembered Heshen. It is said that Hezhongtang has billions of wealth, and this person has 800,000 mu of land under his name. Now a good land acre is at least ten taels of silver, and these alone cost eight or nine million taels. What if the annual rent and output are added? It is chilling to think about it.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Xiao Kong, remember what I said below. The fact that land can be bought and sold has given the landlords a unique growth function."

"Growth function?" Kong Shaoan said with great sincerity that people who have been leaders are different, and they all have a set of words and sentences.

"Yes, although there will always be periodic land crises and social unrest in history, which will cause a heavy blow to the landlord class, as long as the world is stable, they can clone themselves in the same pattern.

You should know for so long in Jiaodong that nowadays, land transactions can split the land bones and land skins, that is, subdividing the use rights, management rights, and perpetual tenancy rights in the west, and then through the "trial-in-one" economic model, the landlord economy will only become stronger and stronger. I just said that Europeans used currency rights, a weapon to destroy land rights and feudal privileges, on our land, have become a weapon to consolidate land rights and feudal privileges.

When I was a child, I often said in books that old China was "three mountains". At first, I didn't understand why it was three instead of four. I always felt that warlords should be counted as one. The ancients said that the knowledge on paper was always shallow, and I had to practice it myself. It was only in the past few years that I understood what was going on."

“How to say it?”
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