Although the Restoration Association was not established for a long time, it was the closest ties among the revolutionary groups in China. The main members were basically from the country, mainly from local people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. They were well aware of the domestic situation. Moreover, most members of the Restoration Association often operated in Shanghai. If you want to contact the East China government, you will have many opportunities.

However, most of the main members of the Restoration Association are local gentry, landlord, and businessmen. For example, Xu Xilin, who came to Qingdao for this time to visit the Restoration Association, was born in a prominent family in Dongpu, Shaoxing, Zhejiang. His father Xu Fengming was a scholar and worked as a county official. His family had more than 100 acres of land. He opened two shops, Tiansheng Silk Village and Taisheng Oil Store in Shaoxing City. Qiu Jin was also from an official family. His father Qiu Shounan was once the General Office of the Lijin Bureau of Xiangtan, Hunan (equivalent to the Director of Taxation), and his husband's family was also a Hunanese family.

, had a good relationship with the Zeng Guofan family for generations. After Qiu Jin married her husband, she opened a Yiyuan pawnshop in Xiangtan. The [land revolution system] implemented by the East China government did harm the fundamental interests of this group of people. Although these people were relatively open-minded and hoped that China would become prosperous and strong. They also praised the East China government's actions to resist the Eight-Nation Alliance and Java's protection of overseas Chinese, but when it touched their own personal interests, they would inevitably be rejected. Therefore, they also deliberately avoid contact with the East China government.

However, the strength of the East China government is there, and the Shanghai New District is now operating in full swing, and the route from Lushun to Shanghai has been opened. In addition, Shandong can provide certain industrial products, and even the influence in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas is becoming increasingly greater. Therefore, the Revival Association, as a representative of the local situation in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, can no longer ignore the existence of the East China government. This time, the Revival Association will send a visit to Qingdao, so the Revival Association will naturally not fall behind. This time, Xu Xilin and Qiu Jin visited Qingdao, and there is an important task to figure out the land policy of the East China government.

Of course, due to the poor information in this era, and the East China government's explanation and publicity on land reform was limited to Shanghai, there were not many people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang who knew the detailed content of the land reform system. Most people, according to habitual thinking, believed that this was just a means for overseas Chinese to occupy land. This was not uncommon in history. After the founding of the Qing Dynasty, a large-scale Eight Banner land enclosure was launched in northern China, which was to occupy land for the Eight Banner nobles.

Therefore, many gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang also believed that this matter was easy to handle and could be negotiated with overseas Chinese. If overseas Chinese really became a big deal, then the gentry landlords in Jiangsu and Zhejiang could give up some of the land. After all, there were only 5,600 overseas Chinese, which was much less than the Manchu Eight Banners. They could occupy much land, so that everyone would not be jealous.

Of course, it is too early to negotiate the transfer of land. After all, the power of overseas Chinese has not yet expanded to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but it is very important to understand the intentions of overseas Chinese. Xu Qiu and the others are responsible for this mission, and Qiu Jin is a woman, so Xu Xilin is mainly responsible.

Qin Zheng said: "I would like to ask Mr. Xu first, what would Mr. Xu do if he asked Mr. Xu to donate all the land in his family because of the needs of the revolution?"

Xu Xilin said: "If it is a revolutionary need, it is still possible to sacrifice this life, let alone just a mere land!"

Qin Zheng nodded. In fact, Xu Xilin could only answer this question. He could not say that he could do a revolution, but he could never pay the land. However, Qin Zheng also knew that Xu Xilin's words were indeed from the bottom of his heart, because in the old time and space, Xu Xilin planned to hold an anti-Qing armed uprising in Anhui and Zhejiang, and assassinating Anhui Governor Enming, failed, and was arrested for his failure and was executed generously.

Of course, Qin Zheng asked this question with the intention, which was to use the highest moral point to kidnap the revolutionaries and lay the groundwork for his later words. Xu Xilin said this as Qin Zheng expected, so Qin Zheng immediately said: "Well, the land reform we implemented is not for our own selfish interests, but for China's modernization development. I can assure you that we have confiscated tens of millions of acres of land in Shandong, but none of the more than 6,000 people who returned from overseas have obtained a private acre of land, and even purchased it. All the land is state-owned. Except for a small part of the farm, the rest of the land is also distributed to farmers free of charge. All of us who returned from overseas have no acre of land, and the built farm is owned by the state, and not privately owned by some of us."

After hearing Qin Zheng's words, not only Xu Xilin and Qiu Jin, but also others were surprised.

Huang Xing and others have also heard of some land reforms in the East China government, but they are not very concerned about these things, because people like Huang Xing and Chen Tianhua are now professional revolutionaries, either giving up their property or donating all their property to the revolution, so land reforms are not painful for them. However, Qin Zheng vowed to say that the confiscation of land was not for the self-interest of time travelers, and that all the time travelers now do not have a mu of land, so they couldn't help but be surprised.

It doesn’t seem like Qin Zheng is lying, and this kind of thing can’t deceive people. It’s so difficult that it’s really like Qin Zheng said that overseas Chinese really distributed all the land to farmers? They didn’t even leave a single acre. Some people know that dynasties established from war will have a stage of reallocating land at the beginning of the founding of the country, but not only farmers, but also royal relatives, princes and ministers will also get a share, and the share is much greater than that of farmers. Then all overseas Chinese are so noble and don’t have land!

In fact, time travelers are not of course high-end style, but because of their different concepts, they do not look down on this business model of land rent income. Even if they are soy sauce, they have never thought that after traveling, they will have to rely on rent to manage the situation.

At this time, Qin Zheng said: "There are a lot of contents about the land reform system we implement. If you talk about it, I would probably not finish it today. When I was giving lectures to students Ren in Shanghai, I took 4 or 5 lectures to finish it, so it is impossible to explain it in detail today. However, we have compiled all these contents and compiled them into books. I will give each of you a book later. The content is very comprehensive. After you finish reading it, you should understand our intention. In addition to land reform, there are some ideas about governing the country in the future. If we have other ideas after reading them, we can discuss it again."

After hearing this, everyone thought this method was good. The three-day visit gave everyone a more intuitive understanding of the East China government. When looking at the books written by overseas Chinese, they just could have a more comprehensive understanding of overseas Chinese.

At this time, Qiu Jin said: "Speaker Qin, I saw that most of the female workers in the textile factory are there, and there are many women in other factories, and there are even female soldiers in the army. Moreover, there are roughly the same male and female students in the school. It seems that the public also advocates equality between men and women?"

Qin Zheng smiled and said, "Of course, equality between men and women is a symbol of social progress, civilization and culturalization. Our East China government has always advocated equality between men and women. For us, it has been legally determined that women have the same social status, rights and obligations as men."

When Qiu Jin heard this, his eyes immediately shone, because in addition to revolution, advocating the concept of equality between men and women and women's independence was another goal of Qiu Jin. After going abroad, Qiu Jin broadened his horizons and made friends with a group of like-minded female revolutionaries. Not only did he strengthen Qiu Jin's goal, but he also began to take action. Now, he heard that Qin Zheng confirmed that the East China government was advocated and that it had implemented equality between men and women, which made Qiu Jin feel a sense of knowing.

So Qiu Jin immediately asked again: "I will not hide it from Speaker Qin, although I am a woman, I have always had the desire to serve the country. I would rather awaken Chinese women to be self-reliant. However, the results are very little. I don't know what methods have been used for the implementation of gender equality."

Qin Zheng said: "My government has a special department to do these tasks. I don't know much about the specific situation. If Ms. Qiu is interested in our women's work, I can arrange for Ms. Qiu to go to the relevant departments to conduct examinations and exchanges tomorrow."

Qiu Jin couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this and said, "That's great."

Qin Zheng also said: "However, our government has several basic principles for women's work. One is the realization of equality between men and women. Not only at the legal level, but more importantly at the social concept. China's concept of respecting women for thousands of years has penetrated into all levels of society. Therefore, if we want to change this concept, it cannot be completed in a short period of time. It will take more than ten years or even decades of long-term work. We must not be impatient. Any idea of ​​changing the status of women in Shenguo at once and fully realizing equality between men and women is afraid."

"The second is to pay attention to methods and methods in specific work. Not only should we strengthen publicity efforts, but we must also be patient and not rush to achieve success. We should focus on persuasion and education. Administrative and legal means are only auxiliary. Try not to use radical means."
Chapter completed!