Dreaming back to 1949, the great powers were there to deceive us

As soon as the election announcement came out, all kinds of demons and monsters jumped out.

The landlord Liao Yongxiang became active.

He has no hope of running for county mayor, but he still has hope of running for people's representative.

Anyone who can become a landlord is definitely not stupid.

When Hu Zhenhua was fighting against the local tyrants, Liao Yongxiang decisively donated all his land, took the initiative to forgive the people's debts, and provided them with a lot of food for emergency relief.

Later, during the campaign against organized crime, the people appreciated his good deeds and did not hold him accountable.

Liao Yongxiang thus escaped the disaster.

If a person wants to succeed, he must follow the trend. Liao Yongxiang has done a good job in this regard.

The reason why he wants to run for people's representative is because the answer has already been given in the 5,000-year history of civilization.

Scholars, farmers, industry and commerce!

Officials come first!

Although countries have always advocated that all people are created equal and there is no distinction between high and low jobs.

Classes do not exist subjectively, but they are real objectively.

If you are just a businessman without any background, an ordinary clerk in a government department may cause you to go bankrupt!

The secret to the Liao Yongxiang family's long-lasting prosperity is that he arranges his sons with the highest emotional intelligence to work in government departments. No matter what happens, they can always get first-hand information.

It can be said that public officials are the ballast of the Liao Yongxiang family.

Although the Liao family lost their land, they still had shops and workshops, and their financial resources were still strong.

Landlords and gentry have plenty of ways to gain public support.

Economically, we can provide assistance to the people, such as low-interest loans, building bridges and roads, etc.

Culturally, they build schools, sponsor poor children to go to school, and even organize activities such as opera.

In social circles, they can organize charity events, such as setting up free clinics and distributing cotton clothes in winter. More often, they will mediate neighborhood disputes.

In politics, gentry would plead for the people and secure funding for their hometowns. Many of them would also establish their prestige by conveying government decrees.

Some evil-hearted people would collude with bandits to bankrupt the people, and then the gentry would act as good guys and lend them money to tide them over the difficulties.

Liao Yongxiang chose to run a school, which is a very profitable investment.

In the future, when the students become successful, they will definitely be grateful to the Liao family.

There are two types of people's representatives. The first type is township people's representatives. These representatives mainly live in rural areas and speak for farmers. They are referred to as farmers' representatives.

The second type is representatives of non-agricultural industries, including workers, businessmen, public officials, freelancers, and social elites living in industrial areas and county towns.

In terms of quantity, there are 36 agricultural representatives in total, covering two townships and 16 towns in Chongming County, with two in each township.

This division reflects the care for farmers.

Liao Yongxiang is running for the position of farmer representative.

Rural areas are generally clan societies, with certain large families controlling all major and minor affairs in villages and towns.

Liao Yongxiang's family is a prominent family in Dongping Town and has accumulated power for a long time. Although he experienced a crackdown on local tyrants, the reputation he has accumulated over the years remains. He still has a great chance of winning if he runs for the position of farmers' representative.

Xiaowangzhuang, where Hu Zhenhua's father-in-law, Mr. Wang, lives, is located in Dongping Town, adjacent to the county seat.

According to the requirements of the people's government, each township must have a public primary school and a public middle school, but the construction of private schools is also encouraged, but they must meet certain requirements.

It is difficult to implement compulsory education nationwide, but Hu Zhenhua can still afford it within a county. Besides, there are two people who are willing to pay for it.

There are five people running for farmers' representatives in Dongping Town. The other four are: Lao Hu's brother-in-law Wang Jiawu, militia captain Li Daniu, town mayor Guo Huai, and women's director Yang Guihua.

Among them, Li Daniu and Guo Huai were both appointed by Hu Zhenhua and were considered his men.

When Hu Zhenhua was conducting an opinion poll, he suddenly discovered that Wang Jiawu's approval rating was terrifyingly high, far ahead of the other four.

His campaign slogan was just one sentence: Hu Zhenhua is my brother-in-law. If I become a farmer's representative, Dongping Town can get a lot of investment.

This guy is engaging in nepotism and is not shy about it at all.

Hu Zhenhua almost vomited blood. It's not that there were people who used his name to defraud people, but those people either became the dust of history or fled to the ends of the earth.

The only one who can still be alive and kicking is probably the Wang family.

Neither beating nor scolding is right!

It's like a dog biting a hedgehog, with nowhere to start!

Hu Zhenhua didn't have any good feelings towards that weird family.

Life is so helpless. Even if you can’t stand it, you have to endure it.

Ranked second in the opinion poll is Li Daniu, whose campaign slogan is: The jackal is not dead, the militia is your strong backing.

The people have sharp eyes and they have a scale in their hearts to judge who is truly good to the people.

Li Daniu is the vanguard in the fight against organized crime. Almost all the village bandits and bullies in Dongping Town were arrested by him and his men. Without those hateful flies, the social atmosphere has been renewed.

Ranked third in the opinion poll is women's director Yang Guihua.

As the saying goes, women hold up half the sky, and they also have the right to vote.

If Wang Jiawu and Li Daniu were not so popular, Yang Guihua would definitely be elected because most women support her.

The last person on the list is none other than the former landlord Liao Yongxiang, who has almost no support except from his own clansmen!

The common people are not stupid. If they just bring down the landlord and then push him back up, wouldn’t that just bring trouble to themselves?

A dog will never change its nature! The landlords will never change their bad habits of exploiting the common people.

When Old Hu saw the result, he was a little unhappy. The landlord wanted to build a school, so how could he not help him?

It seems that their garden is quite large, suitable for morning reading for children.

If Liao Yongxiang knew that he would be targeted by unscrupulous capitalists, he would never dare to have any evil thoughts even if he was beaten to death.

Hu Zhenhua was not opposed to the landlord class's participation in politics and decision-making. On the contrary, the more industries that participated in politics and decision-making, the more comprehensive the policies formulated would be.

But it's a bit out of place now.

The landlord class had just been overthrown. If they were allowed to enter government departments at this time, it would give the people a very bad illusion: all crows are black!

If you do something wrong, you have to pay the price. Only when everything is thoroughly settled can landlords, big and small, truly enjoy equal political rights.

Hu Zhenhua called Guo Huai and personally instructed him on the matter.

He wants to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys!

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Half a day later, a rumor spread widely in Dongping Town: In order to revitalize education, the landlord Liao Yongxiang will donate to build a modern primary school, and will contribute his own garden to cultivate the children's sentiments!

The rumor was very detailed, even down to Liao Yongxiang's expression and gestures when he made the promise.

Even who was present and how the seats were arranged were described clearly.

Liao Yongxiang did promise to donate a primary school, but he did not mention the garden.

Baixiang Garden, covering an area of ​​16 acres, has pavilions, towers, bridges and flowing water, and is planted with hundreds of rare flowers and plants.

This was built by Liao Yongxiang's family over a period of hundreds of years.

Every morning, Liao Yongxiang would practice Tai Chi in Baixiang Garden. At noon, he would lie down under a tall and straight fir tree and take a nap for half an hour. After dinner, he would take a walk in the garden.

It can be said that Baixiang Garden has become a part of Liao Yongxiang's life.

"I won't donate!"

When Liao Yongxiang heard the rumors, his first reaction was that someone was plotting against him.

I have to say that the old landlord’s intuition is very accurate.

It cannot be said that all landlords and gentry are bad people. If they were all shot, perhaps some of them were innocent. If they were lined up and every other one was shot, there would definitely be some who slipped through the net.

As the largest landlord in Dongping Town, Hu Zhenhua would never believe Liao Yongxiang if he said he had never used trickery or robbery.

How could a 'good landlord' possibly grow and prosper in troubled times?

Although Liao Yongxiang's reputation is not good, it is not bad either.

Town mayor Guo Huai once investigated him but did not gain much, but the source of his huge wealth was unknown.

There is a type of people who are like rabbits that don't eat grass near their burrows. They do evil things in other places, but they act like kind people in their hometown.

The most treacherous person!

If Hu Zhenhua wants to deal with him, rumors won’t be the only trick he uses!

The county government introduced a policy the next day: property tax.

In rural areas, each person has 110 square meters of tax-free area, and in urban areas, each person has 40 square meters of tax-free area.

The excess amount will be taxed on a progressive basis, with the lowest being two percent and the highest being ten percent.

Although Liao Yongxiang's family had a large population of more than 20 people, more than half of them were concubines and their children.

The laws of the Republic of China do not recognize concubinage, and the people's government will certainly not recognize it.

Therefore, there are only seven people in Liao Yongxiang's family who can be counted as tax-free.

The property tax is calculated by assessing the value of the entire building and ground attachments. In other words, all the precious flowers and plants in Liao Yongxiang’s garden will be taxed!

When the landlord heard about this policy, he burst into tears. He owned half of the buildings and had to pay a 10% tax.

Only then did he realize that the debt he owed would have to be repaid one day.

The government allows you to be rich, but you must contribute more to society.

Following the property tax, the county government also introduced personal income tax, with the starting point being 800 million yuan per year, and the amount exceeding that will be levied in a tiered manner.

The portion not exceeding RMB 5000 will be taxed at 3%.

The maximum tax rate is 45%.

According to this tax threshold, more than 99% of the people do not need to pay taxes.

At the same time, the tax standards for enterprises were also introduced. Overall, the tax burden is not too heavy, at about 20%. Small and micro enterprises, such as those with an annual turnover of less than 1 yuan, as well as street vendors and peddlers who trade chicken feathers for sugar, are exempt from tax.