1932: Playing with the Japanese Communist Party with a doll

Third, the various demands generated by collectivization could fully stimulate local industrial production and lay a more solid foundation for industrialization in Northeast China;

At the same time, agriculture can in turn rely on the industrial base of the Northeast to produce agricultural processing industry, form a complete industrial chain, and improve its added value and market competitiveness.

Fourth, after collectivization, especially large-scale mechanization, the number of people directly involved in agricultural production will inevitably decline significantly, and the time occupied by farmers in production and life will also be greatly reduced. There will no longer be a need to "go out under the stars and return home under the stars";

In this way, the cost of living of farmers will be reduced, and they will have more time to participate in various aspects of learning such as literacy and hospitals, and be willing to send their children to school, thus improving the quality of the population and freeing up more people to engage in industrial production;

Fifth, agricultural collectivization can effectively reduce transaction and communication costs between the state and smallholder farmers, extract surplus from rural areas at low cost and in a relatively equitable manner, support industrialization, and stabilize urban and rural markets.

In the traditional small-scale peasant economy, all farmers struggled on the brink of life and death, and avoiding starvation was considered "great governance." However, if collectivization was done well, it could avoid extracting surpluses while also avoiding undermining rural stability.

Sixth...

Finally, there is one major thing that Fujiwara no Kanezane has been working hard on, but with rather mediocre results: ethnic integration and the formation of national consciousness.

In the past two years, due to the large influx of “foreigners” such as Japanese, Koreans, and Russians, the ethnic composition of Northeast China has become extremely complex.

Especially in rural areas, conflicts and even physical fights have occurred between Chinese and Japanese immigrants due to disputes over water, land and interests (because Japanese immigrants mainly came here to work as farmers).

Although most of the conflicts were suppressed to a small extent due to the personal prestige of Fujiwara no Kanezane and the constraints of the law, in the long run, it would not be a big deal.

Japanese only live in the "Japanese village", Koreans only hang out with Koreans, and Russians only drink with Russians... This cannot be called "integration", it can only be called "gathering".

Therefore, in addition to the method of forcing people to learn Chinese, which is extremely effective but slow and time-consuming, one of the fastest ways is to let a group of people work together and share risks and benefits.

It's still easy to deal with factories, but in rural areas, it can only be "collective farms", turning farmers who used to farm individually into agricultural industry workers who work together.

Thus, from a material and spiritual point of view, the collective farms became similar to the bases that our party had established everywhere, and became a "comfort zone" for everyone;

When everyone's "interests" are firmly tied together, the concepts of "Chinese," "Japanese," and "Koreans" will gradually fade, leaving only the consciousness of "comrades."

Only on that day can the "Five-Star Eastern Republic" be called a "real country" and can we truly say "Long live the great unity of the people of the world."

Regarding the "household contract responsibility system," which was essentially the opposite of "agricultural collectivization" and was later praised as having "saved China's agricultural production," Fujiwara Kanezane and Li Desheng had exactly the same attitude:

strongly oppose.

Because facts have long proven that the so-called "household contract responsibility system" did have some impact on "raising farmers' enthusiasm," but it lacked any real impact on increasing agricultural production in the country as a whole.

Once this policy is implemented, within two years, the country will be divided into classes. On one hand, local officials will "embezzle, accept bribes, annex land, take concubines, and lend money at high interest rates." On the other hand, a large number of lower-class farmers will go bankrupt and lose their land.

what?

There were no large-scale bankruptcies of farmers in the 1980s and 1990s?

That’s because after the reform and opening up, there are more other benefits to be devoured!

Otherwise, do you really think they will suddenly become kind and well-behaved?

In order to promote the collectivization of agriculture in Northeast China and even the people's communes later, Fujiwara Kanezane had a small quarrel with Prime Minister Zhao Ziqi and finally managed to convince the other party.

After all, at the beginning, the Northeast was doing "killing landlords, distributing land to households, and winning the hearts of the people." Now it has almost reversed 180 degrees, which is really a bit hard to accept.

However, these deeper considerations are only for Li Desheng, Wu Hao, Zhao Ziqi, and Chen Kang to know. For executors like Dai Wanling, there's no need to go into such detail (mainly because someone doesn't have that much patience):

"...People like you who are familiar with the countryside and farmers, have a certain level of prestige, and possess strong moral integrity are exactly the talent the country needs to advance agricultural collectivization."

"Please wait a moment, Your Highness..."

Dai Wanling carefully digested the new concept that he felt strangely familiar yet had never heard of before he slowly asked:

"Can I understand this... agricultural collectivization... well, as... a group of people farming together, living together, earning money together, and... my responsibility is to manage them so they can farm better?"

It feels like being a "village head" hired by a "landlord".

"Well... that's fine if you insist on understanding it that way. It's actually a bit more complicated. If you accept the specifics, I'll arrange for you to talk to Minister Deng Zihui, who's in charge of this matter."

By the way, do we need to elect a new Minister of Urban and Rural Construction?

After Ozaki Hidemi was sent to Taiwan as Governor-General and UMP40 was also transferred there, Deng Zihui, who was in charge of both the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the Ministry of Urban and Rural Construction, must have been under a lot of pressure.

Get another person from the CCP?

Who to choose...

While Fujiwara no Kanezane was pondering, Dai Wanling also pondered for a while and decided to put forward his own opinion:

"Your Highness, I have something to say, but I don't know whether I should say it or not..." "Then just go ahead and say it."

"Uh..."

Lu Xun knocked on the table again in annoyance, and the maid also coughed lightly. Fujiwara Kanezane finally let out his mouth and stopped playing around:

"Well, you said."

Dai Wanling had begun to figure out the character of this "King of the Northeast".

Sometimes, is it okay to just treat him as the naughty kid who can drive the adults in the family crazy?

A little crazy, a little mad.

Got it. No need to be so respectful.

Mr. Dai adjusted his tone:

"Your Highness, although our Dai family is a landlord, we also farm the land and have long been dealing with farmers. Let me be frank: farmers are short-sighted, ignorant, cunning, and petty."

"If they can get benefits today, they won't care about tomorrow. If they can get benefits this year, they won't care about next year. If you want to bring them together to farm, I'm afraid it's basically impossible."

This was a bit harsh to hear, but everyone, including Lu Xun, the young master of a landlord family, agreed with it.

Fujiwara no Kanezane paused and said something very similar:

"I know that farmers appear honest on the surface, but they are actually the best at lying. They always lie, no matter what. Even though the agricultural tax levied by the state is already so low, they still try every possible way to evade taxes and conceal their production..."

As a person of later generations, and having lived through the most chaotic era after the reform and opening up, and having read so many news reports, Fujiwara Kanezane certainly would not forget what the rural areas in various places were like.

Isn't it scary for the police to issue a policy of "killing car thieves and road bullies with rewards"?

But isn't it terrifying that entire villages work together to manufacture and sell drugs, that adults and children work together to kill passing drivers and tourists, that they rape women, and that they help each other cover up their crimes?

If you really think that farmers are all kind and good people, then you are ignorant.

"So-called peasants are often stingy, cunning, cowardly, ignorant, cruel, and hopeless... You ask them for this, they say they don't have it. Ask them for that, they still say they don't have it. But in fact, they have it all, they're just hiding it, right?"

"Uh... Your Highness, you know the peasants very well, so why..." "Who made them like this?"

"Um?"

"Let me ask you, we're all born and raised by our parents. There's no essential difference between us, and no one is superior to anyone else. Why have the peasants become like this? Who made them like this?"

Fujiwara no Kanezane knocked on the table, pointing his finger at each person at the table: "It's obvious that it's you... it's you... it's you... it's us, the high and mighty 'ruling class', and it's you, the 'rentier class', who are cheaply enjoying their labor..."

People in later generations often say, "Farmers have never paid into social security, so the 200 yuan a month the government gives them, with a 10% increase every few years, is a gift from the government and others to farmers."

Um?

What is "Three Promotions and Five Unifications"? What is "Pulling the Glory to the Wall"?

What about those civil servants who are “deemed to have paid”?

They exploited everything from the farmers, made them suffer for decades, and then turned around to slander them and look down on them with a condescending attitude. They are truly worse than pigs and dogs.

"...Especially landlords like you, Mr. Dai. You're the ones who confine them to their small plots of land, keeping their knowledge limited forever...even if you didn't mean to do so."

This was even more offensive, but Dai Wanling's face only darkened for a few seconds before he suddenly realized the true purpose of "agricultural collectivization," at least one of which was:

Cut off the landlord's roots!

As a typical example of someone who could barely be considered "starting from scratch," Dai Wanling, who worked his way up from a small fortune to owning 6000 acres of fertile farmland, understood one thing very well:

No matter if they are tenant farmers, poor farmers, rich farmers or landlords, as long as they have land, they will definitely find ways to get more land!

This can be said to be "nature", and no one can change it.

People like Dai Wanling who are reasonable usually buy things with money, and at most they just try their best to lower the price.

When you encounter those who don't follow the rules, they will use many tricks to rob people, using dirty and smelly means to do things that are dirty and smelly.

Fujiwara no Kanezane risked chaos in Northeast China by forcibly expelling the original landlords, leaving the Northeast countryside practically a blank slate. However, if restrictions were not consolidated, "new landlords" would surely emerge within a few years!

This is how the so-called "land annexation" came about.

But what if there is such a "collective farm"? Then the situation will be different.

The land belongs to the state. Even if the land is annexed, it is only the "right to use" that is annexed. That is, you can get the surface of the land but not the bones of the land.

The land is cultivated by everyone. It is easy for the rich to swallow up the land of individual farmers, but it is much more difficult to take over everyone.

What's more, there are ways to strengthen control over rural areas, such as tying the interests of the people together and appointing farm managers from higher authorities.

In this way, the difficulty of creating a "new landlord" will be greatly increased.

As long as we persist in this for a long time, when all the peasants have joined the collective farms and everyone is accustomed to this way of life, how can there be any "landlords"?

Everyone became "ordinary" farmers together.

This Japanese prince is actually planning such an earth-shaking event? Thinking of this, Dai Wanling's body is shaking, but not because of fear or worry, but excitement.

If you can participate in this unprecedented undertaking and even achieve success, you will definitely leave your name in history!

Fujiwara Kanezane didn't know what Dai Wanling was thinking, so he continued leisurely:

"...But why can't the peasants change? Are the peasants who followed you into war still ordinary peasants? Changing them just requires some opportunities and some methods."

If farmers have always been what everyone thinks they are, and if this cannot be changed, then were all the wheelbarrows during the Liberation War pushed by citizens and workers?

In the final analysis, it all comes down to whether you truly care about them and make them feel it. Feeling the weight of his responsibility, Dai Wanling calmed down and said solemnly:

"Perhaps you can change them, but it is difficult and will take a lot of effort and a long time, Your Highness."

"How old am I? I'm in no hurry."

Everyone suddenly understood.

Because of his highly respected status, his calm demeanor (when doing serious work), and his outstanding achievements, Fujiwara no Kanezane often makes people forget that he is only in his early twenties.

At this moment, Li Yanlu, who had been quietly listening to the conversation, suddenly spoke up: "Your Highness, are you planning to implement collective farms like the Soviet Union?"

This question left the others, who had never had any contact with the Soviets, somewhat bewildered. The Soviet Union?

Did the Soviet Union also have collective farms?

Could it be that the policy Fujiwara no Kanezane wanted to implement was actually copied from the Soviet Union?

That's a communist country that's hostile to Japan. This guy really doesn't care about food or drink!

No, it should be said that he is "broad-minded and seeks truth from facts." Fujiwara Kanezane looked at Li Yanlu:

"Oh? Have you studied it?"

"Yes, Your Highness, I have been studying the Soviet Union's collective farm policy since 1930, and have even discussed this with some Soviet Party members in China..."

"Oh? What was the result of the discussion? What do they think of this collective farm?"

Li Yanlu twitched a little and said euphemistically: "There are more negative opinions."

"Oh, I see. You're worried that I'll also use tough administrative measures to promote collective farms, right?"

"Yes, Your Highness, as Mr. Dai... Mr. Dai said, farmers will not easily accept such things. If we force them, they will just end up like the Soviets..."

"Using methods such as depriving farmers of their land, forcing them to register, imposing criminal penalties, threatening them with force, and withholding essential production materials to intimidate them, leading to riots, famine, large numbers of farmers destroying their production equipment, and a significant reduction in agricultural production efficiency?"

"Yes... yes, I've heard many Soviet people say that."

It seemed as if they had arrived at Japanese territory, or that those Soviet people were "driven" out in the first place, and they cursed Stalin very harshly.

"Young man, although I have a limited fondness for Stalin, this matter is not as simple as the one-sided description you have heard."

Fujiwara Kanezane shook his head:

"I suggest you take a look at Stalin's article in Pravda...Agent, what was the name of that article we mentioned last time?"

“《胜利冲昏头脑》，1930年3月2日，还有4月3日的《斯大林答集体农庄庄园同志们》。”

"Yes, read these two articles carefully and see how Stalin and the Central Committee of the CPSU criticized some party organizations and cadres for violating the principle of voluntariness and threatening farmers to join collective farms during the collectivization movement."

On March 14, 1930, the Central Committee of the CPSU held a special meeting and adopted the "Resolution on Opposing the Distortion of the Current Line in the Collective Farm Movement," severely criticizing the coercive tactics and "rightist in name only" behavior of some individuals.

It looks so familiar, just like "Let's fight with words, not with fists".

They did all the bad things, took all the benefits, and the bad reputation fell on their superiors. "Are you saying that the collective farms in the Soviet Union actually also adopted the principle of voluntariness?"

"That's right, at least that's the policy from the top. And many officials who used coercive and extreme measures were punished afterwards. It's the same for us. We join and leave voluntarily. No means of coercion should be used against the farmers."

"Your Highness, then no peasants will join." "If you can't force us, then bribe us!"

Fujiwara no Kanezane casually gave a few examples: